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Abigail Stevens's Profile
Pathway: History by Abigail Stevens
My pathway engages the theme of history in both the novel and the film. The four centuries through which Orlando lives provide an evocative and symbolic background for the story.
It was this introduction that first made me consider the importance of history to the story of Orlando, and in particular, the importance of English history. The "quintessentially English way" in which Woolf writes the novel serves to highlight it's 'Englishness' and to emphasise the important historical events that Orlando lives through. It is also interesting to consider how this historical transcendence is explored in the novel and in the film, and here we are shown a glimpse of how Sally Potter envisaged conveying this on screen: "It is the dream-like pace and structure of ORLANDO which makes English history visible in new ways. Each era is characterised by intense climactic changes and a sensual, visual feel." Potter writes of the underlying themes of the book and how they "are all manifested visually and symbolically in a feast of imagery and ideas that are grounded both in action and recognisable historical facts." I feel that the four centuries of English history presented in 'Orlando' provide a perfect background rich in perfect visual and symbolic imagery, and I love the idea that the underlying themes of the novel are both highlighted by this yet at the same time, like the character of Orlando, transcend it.
Video file, Digital, Selected Scene Commentary by Sally Potter
Here Sally Potter comments on selected scenes of the film. She says the film was "never intended as a historical documentary but rather the exploding of a nostalgic myth; England's imagined history of itself, exploding it from within, looking at it ironically. Visually that was done by taking an imagined essence of each period, with clues from paintings and artefacts from that time, and blowing it up." This somewhat nonchalant approach to historical accuracy ensures that the history that surrounds the character of Orlando remains just as a backdrop for the story; the themes of the narrative are deliberately foregrounded. Also, the manner in which Potter approaches this (aiming to "explode a nostalgic myth") is "quintessentially English" - just as Potter herself described the way Woolf wrote the novel (see the Introduction to Presentation Book - above): the film itself is fittingly "rich in self-irony and allegory." The first scene in the film, in which Orlando appears under an oak tree (which Potter comments on here), obviously foregrounds the 'Englishness' of the film and the history it presents. This is not the first scene of the novel, though the words of the voice-over are taken from the first page - merely the setting is changed. This is obvious evidence of the process of adaptation - the essence is perfectly conveyed though not through strict fidelity to the text; and the change to perhaps a more visually engaging setting speaks of the differences in medium of novel and film. Potter also comments of Swinton's direct address to camera. As well as this acting as a device for transferring Woolf's direct address of the reader to film, it also brings the viewer "right out of the historical period into the present." This is another interesting comment on how such universal themes as that of the novel/film can transcend history.
1 x colour slide in transparent plastic hanging sheet, Digital, Film Stills - Scene 4 - 's Father (John Bott), Queen Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp) and 's Mother (Elaine Banham) in the film
This picture shows Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth. The elaborate banquet setting is evidence of what Potter described (in her commentary - above) as historical "paintings and artefacts" that make up the visual imagery of each particular period. At the banquet in this scene of the film the assembly eat flowers - this was (as Potter explains in her commentary) a particular Elizabethan affectation; which is also an example of how historical fact is used to visual effect, and how history is somewhat used as an aesthetic base for the themes and story of 'Orlando'. In her Introduction for the Presentation Book (above) Potter writes that "major historical figures appear as incidental characters in Orlando's life"; which is a feature that is apparent in the novel and the film. Crisp's Queen Elizabeth is an example of such a character, though it could perhaps be argued that The Queen has slightly more influence on Orlando's life than many. Though the character and her role remain the same in both novel and film, casting a man to play such a female role is something which obviously could only occur in the film; though the possibilities and connotations of gender transcendence that it comments on highlights the theme of androgyny that helps characterise the novel. Hence Potter's film not only transfers the story to the screen, but recognises the spirit of the novel and takes it further; it takes the underlying themes and builds upon them. Crisp's Elizabeth is further evidence of the transcendence of both history and gender that pervade both novel and film.
1 x colour slide in transparent plastic hanging sheet, Slides, Photographic Slides of Hatfield House location recces, interior and exterior
This is a picture of an interior of Hatfield House, where some of the film was shot. It is both historically accurate (or appears to be) and aesthetically pleasing. It successfully evokes the historical period depicted in the novel while foregrounding its aesthetic qualities to achieve the dream-like feel of the film that Potter aims for (as written in her Presentation Book Introduction).
Watercolour mounted on black card, with b/w photocopy, Paper, Painting of tents on frozen Thames
This is an artist's impression of the setting of fair on the frozen Thames, where Orlando meets Sasha. The picture shows how visually stunning this setting could be, and how suitably dreamlike to suit the tone of the film. It is as it appears in the novel, so here we see what could be considered an in-between of the adaptation process, between novel and film. The Great Freeze is evidence of historical fact, though it's choice as a setting by Woolf in the novel demonstrates a leaning towards more aesthetic and evocative features, so as to perfectly depict and highlight the story of Orlando and not to detract from it; something which is echoed in Potter and her film. These aesthetic choices also have symbolic qualities that can also be shown to highlight the themes of the story; and above all aid the ideas of transcendence that characterise 'Orlando'.
Video file, Digital, Unedited video rushes of location scouting at Hatfield house -- Sally Potter with Alexei Rodionov operating camera
This unedited footage of Potter running through the labyrinth maze of Hatfield House acts as a perfect summary of the ideas I have tried to present. The scene in the film where Tilda Swinton as Orlando runs through this maze acts as a device for transporting her one hundred years into the future - she enters in around 1750 and emerges in the Victorian period. The change in her costume denotes this passing of time, and the scene itself is evidence of Orlando transcending history. The use of the maze and chasing camera work denotes the difference between the mediums of film and novel; they both have the same conclusion - a passing of time and change in historical period - but use entirely different devices to convey this transition. Both, however, manage successfully.


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The Benefits of Middle Age
January 4, 2017 By DivSciComm
Almost all our cells harbor a sensory organelle called the primary cilium, homologous to the better known flagella found in protists. Some of these cilia can beat and allow the cell to move (eg. in sperm), or move fluid (eg. cerebrospinal fluid) around them. However, other specialized cilia such as those found in photoreceptor cells and in our olfactory neurons function solely as sensory organelles, providing the primary site for signal reception and transduction. The vast majority of our somatic cells display a short and simple rod-like cilium that plays crucial roles during development and in adulthood. For instance, during development, they are essential for transducing critical secreted developmental signals such as Sonic hedgehog that is required for the elaboration of cell types in almost every tissue (eg. in brain, bones, muscles, skin). In adults, cilia are required for normal functioning of our kidneys, and primary cilia in hypothalamic neurons have been shown to regulate hunger and satiety.
Given their importance, it is not surprising that defects in cilia structure and function lead to a whole host of diseases ranging from severe developmental disorders and embryonic lethality to hydrocephalus (fluid accumulation in the brain), infertility, obesity, blindness, and polycystic kidney among others. Often these diseases manifest early in development resulting in prenatal death or severe disability, but milder ciliary dysfunction leads to disease phenotypes later in life.
Much is now known about how cilia are formed and how they function during development. However, surprisingly, how aging affects cilia, and possibly the severity of cilia-related diseases, is not well studied. A new study by postdocs Astrid Cornils and Ashish Maurya, and graduate student Lauren Tereshko from Piali Sengupta's laboratory, and collaborators at University College Dublin and University of Iowa, begins to address this question using the microscopic roundworm C. elegans (pictured below). These worms display cilia on a set of sensory neurons; these cilia are built by mechanisms that are similar to those in other animals including in humans. Worms have a life span of about 2-3 weeks, thereby making the study of how aging affects cilia function quite feasible.
They find that cilia structure is somewhat altered in extreme old age in control animals. However, unexpectedly, when they looked at animals carrying mutations that lead to human ciliary diseases, the severely defective cilia seen in larvae and young adults displayed a partial but significant recovery during middle-age, a period associated with declining reproductive function. They went on to show that the heat-shock response and the ubiquitin-proteasome system, two major pathways required for alleviating protein misfolding stress in aging and neurodegenerative diseases, are essential for this age-dependent cilia recovery in mutant animals. This restoration of cilia function is transient; cilia structure becomes defective again in extreme old age. These results suggest that increased function of protein quality control mechanisms during middle age can transiently suppress the effects of some mutations in cilia genes, and raise the possibility that these findings may help guide the design of therapeutic strategies to target specific ciliary diseases. Some things can improve with aging!
Filed Under: grad students, labs, postdocs Tagged With: C. elegans, cilia, grad students, molecular and cell biology, research, Sengupta Lab
Deep inside a worm's nose
March 29, 2014 By division-of-science
In a new paper in eLIFE, a team spearheaded by Brandeis postdocs David Doroquez and Cristina Berciu provide a strikingly detailed look at key structures called cilia on neurons involved in sensory perception in the nematode C. elegans. Primary cilia are the antenna-like structures onsensory neurons that gather information about the animal's environment, such as chemicals, temperature, humidity, and touch. The genetic tools available to manipulate individual, identifiable neurons in C. elegans make worms an excellent model organism to study the assembly and function of cilia. This study requires a description of the structure of the cilia and their immediate surrounding glial support cells, and this new paper, a collaboration of the Sengupta and Nicastro labs, provides high-resolution 3D models showing how diverse and specialized these structures are.
A bouquet of sensory antennae. The 3D ultrastructure of all sensory cilia
and other neuronal projections in the head of the soil roundworm C.
elegans have been reconstructed using serial section transmission electron
microscopy. Shown are 3D isosurface-rendering models emerging from a
transmission electron microscopic cross-section of the worm.
The key techniques in this study were serial section transmission electron microscopy and electron tomography, with structures well-preserved by high-pressure freezing and freeze-substitution. With these techniques, the authors achieved the first high-resolution 3D reconstructions of 50/60 cilia from C. elegans. They describe several previously uncharacterized features — for example, there are distinct types of branching patterns – in one, the two cilia originate from independent basal bodies (as previously seen in Chlamydomonas). In the second, the cilia branch after the basal transition zone, the ciliary gatekeeper region. In the latter case, this basically means that whatever is needed for the cilia to branch has to be transported through the transition zone, suggest there might be novel mechanisms of ciliary protein trafficking. In a third pattern, the branching occurs proximally before the transition zone, and represent therefore dendritic microvilli, rather than ciliary branching. The study also showed different organizations of microtubules in different cilia types and vesicles in regions of the cilia which have never been seen before, again pointing to new mechanisms of protein transport. They also describe new cilia-glial interactions, which might suggest that cilia and glia talk to each other.
For more about these structures (with lots of pretty pictures and movies), see:
Doroquez DB, Berciu C, Anderson JR, Sengupta P, Nicastro D. A high-resolution morphological and ultrastructural map of anterior sensory cilia and glia in Caenorhabditis elegans. eLife. 2014;3(0):e01948-e.
"Electron microscopy: Tomography gives a new dimension to an ancient organelle" (Silva & Barr, eLIFE)
story at BrandeisNOW
Filed Under: Biology, Neuroscience Tagged With: C. elegans, cilia, electron microscopy, microtubules, neuroscience research, Nicastro lab, postdocs, Sengupta Lab, sensory neurons, structural biology
How does a hard-wired simple circuit generate multiple behaviors?
August 30, 2012 By sjneal
In a paper appearing in last week's issue of Neuron, members of the Sengupta Lab and their collaborators from the Bargmann Lab describe how a fixed neural circuit produces multiple behaviors in a context-dependent manner. The study was led by former Brandeis post-doctoral fellow Kyuhyung Kim in the Sengupta Lab (currently Assistant Professor at DGIST, Korea) and Rockefeller student Heeun Jang in the Bargmann Lab. Also involved in the study were current Brandeis MCB students Scott Neal and Danna Zeiger, and Dongshin Kim, the head of the Brandeis Microfluidics Facility.
For this study the researchers used the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The nervous system of C. elegans consists of only 302 neurons (in the adult hermaphrodite) whose anatomical connectivities are well-mapped. Despite its relatively small nervous system, C. elegans exhibits a wide range of behaviors in response to environmental stimuli. For instance, C. elegans exhibits varied responses to pheromones – small chemical substances used for intra-specific communication. Some pheromones are repulsive to adult hermaphrodite C. elegans but neutral to male C. elegans. However, reducing the function of the neuropeptide Y-like receptor NPR-1 results in hermaphrodites now exhibiting neutral pheromone responses and males becoming strongly attracted. The researchers asked how the sex and neuromodulatory state of the animal allows it to interpret the pheromone stimulus differently to generate distinct behavioral responses.
To answer this question, the researchers used behavioral assays, genetic manipulations of neuronal output, and in vivo measurements of pheromone-induced neuronal activity (using genetically encoded calcium sensors and customized microfluidics devices designed by the Brandeis Microfluidics Facility). They found that flexible output of a neuronal 'hub-and-spoke' circuit motif was responsible for generating these distinct pheromone responses under different conditions.
In this circuit, pheromone-sensing neurons ASK and ADL are connected to the central RMG motor/interneuron by gap junctions (see Figure). Jang et al. showed that in hermaphrodites with high levels of NPR-1 activity, the ADL sensory neurons respond strongly to a specific pheromone component and drive avoidance behavior via their chemical synapses to command interneurons for locomotion. However, sexual dimorphism in the circuit results in males having reduced ADL pheromone responses. Moreover, Jang et al. showed that ADL synaptic output in males is further decreased via RMG and ASK-mediated antagonism (see Figure). As a result, males are indifferent to this pheromone.
The next issue the authors addressed is the role of NPR-1 activity in regulating pheromone responses. The Bargmann Lab had previously shown that high NPR-1 activity inhibits RMG, and under these conditions, pheromone responses of the ASK sensory neurons are low. Conversely, when NPR-1 activity is reduced or absent, ASK pheromone responses are enhanced. Jang et al. found that in the absence of NPR-1 activity, ADL chemical synaptic output in response to pheromones is antagonized by the RMG-ASK gap junction circuit. In other words, avoidance mediated by ADL chemical synaptic output is balanced by attraction mediated by the RMG-ASK gap junction circuit, resulting in hermaphrodites being neither attracted to nor avoiding this pheromone. In males with reduced NPR-1 activity the same effects are observed, however, since the ADL pheromone response is already lower in males, the RMG-ASK attraction-mediating arm "wins" resulting in attraction to pheromones. The authors refer to these as overlapping 'push-pull' circuits in analogy with electronic circuits.
These results begin to explain how a small fixed circuit can generate a remarkable range of behaviors via alteration of sensory response properties as well as choice of specific synaptic output pathway as a function of neuromodulatory state and sex. The general theme of a circuit functioning differently under different neuromodulatory conditions has been extensively studied in the Marder Lab in the crustacean nervous system, and is an important principle to be kept in mind when interpreting functionality from structurally described connectomes.
Jang H(*), Kim K(*), Neal SJ, Macosko E, Kim D, Butcher RA, Zeiger DM, Bargmann CI, Sengupta P. Neuromodulatory State and Sex Specify Alternative Behaviors through Antagonistic Synaptic Pathways in C. elegans. Neuron. 2012;75(4):585-92.
Filed Under: Biology, grad students, labs, postdocs Tagged With: C. elegans, grad students, microfluidics, molecular and cell biology, neural circuits, neuroscience, pheromones, postdocs, research, Sengupta Lab
Koushika (PhD '99) gains HHMI International Early Career Scientist award
January 24, 2012 By division-of-science
Sandhya P. Koushika, a gradute of Brandeis's Molecular and Cell Biology program (PhD, 1999), and currently running a lab at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, has been named an HHMI International Early Career Scientist. This pilot program of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute seeks to identify scientists working abroad with the potential to become scientific leaders, and awards each with $650,000 over five years to help establish independent research programs. Of 28 scientists from 12 countries so named, Koushika was the only recipient in India. While at Brandeis, Koushika worked in Kalpana White's lab on the role of ELAV in neural develeopment in Drosophila. In her postdoc, Koushika switched systems to work in the worm C. elegans, and her lab is currently focused on genetic techniques to study axonal transport, a key feature of nerve cells, in the worm model.
Filed Under: awards, Biology, grad students Tagged With: alumni, C. elegans, grad students, HHMI, molecular and cell biology, neurodevelopment, White lab
How many neurons does it take to stay cool?
August 17, 2011 By division-of-science
The worm (nematode) C. elegans is a nice model system for studying neuroscience, combining
genetic tools that allow genes to be turned on or off, often on a per cell basis, in the whole organism,
tools like laser or genetic ablation that allow individual, identified cells to be selectively eliminated,
robust behaviors that can be readily measured, and
a well defined nervous system consisting of 302 neurons, each of which can be identified, and whoseanatomical connectivity has been established.
In a paper appearing this month in Journal of Neuroscience, Molecular and Cell Biology grad student Matthew Beverly, undergrad Sriram Anbil, and Professor of Biology Piali Sengupta examined the contribution of sensory neurons to controlling thermotaxis in C. elegans. Worms develop a memory of the temperature at which they have been cultivated, and display a robust behavior in which worms placed on a temperature gradient at temperatures higher than their cultivation temperature will crawl back towards colder temperature (negative thermotaxis – see movie). The behavior depends on TAX-4, a channel protein expressed in a subset of the sensory neurons. In this study, the Brandeis researchers asked the question "how many and which of the sensory neurons are required for the worms to perform negative thermotaxis, and are the required sensory neurons the same regardless of the temperature range examined?" (or, in my paraphrase, "how many and which neurons does it take to stay cool?")
Worm head, showing expression of the calcim indicator GCaMP in ASI and AWA neurons (used in calcium imaging experiments)
As it turns out, the answer is complicated (and readers are encouraged to read the paper). The researchers found that in addition to the previously known thermosensory neurons AFD and AWC, the ASI neurons previously known to be involved in chemosensation play a significant role in regulating negative thermotaxis. Interestingly, the circuits used seem to be degenerate; under one condition, for example, a particular combination of AFD, AWC or ASI is necessary to generate the behavior, although at other conditions, a different combination is required to generate the same behavior.. And only a couple of degrees Celsius makes a difference — the circuit required for negative thermotaxis on a gradient centered at 8oC above the cultivation temperature is different from a gradient centered at 6oC above.
These and other results taken together suggest that even in the worm, a complex circuit has evolved to control crawling behaviors to cope with temperature changes, and that having degeneracy in the underlying circuits may be a common feature that ensures that behaviors crucial to survival are maintained in a variety of environmental conditions..
Beverly M, Anbil S, Sengupta P. Degeneracy and Neuromodulation among Thermosensory Neurons Contribute to Robust Thermosensory Behaviors in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Neurosci. 2011;31(32):11718-27.
Filed Under: Biology, grad students, labs, Neuroscience Tagged With: behavior, C. elegans, grad students, molecular and cell biology, neural circuits, neuroscience, Sengupta Lab, thermotaxis, worm
What we can learn about aging from worms
March 2, 2011 By division-of-science
Coleen Murphy from the Dept of Molecular Biology at Princeton will tell us about "Slowing the Ticking Clock: What we can learn about aging and memory from C. elegans" at the first Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Science Forum on Wednesday, March 9 at 4:00 pm in Gerstenzang 121. The focus of her research is on understanding the genes that regulate longevity, using C. elegans as a model system. Coleen performed her Ph.D. thesis research with Jim Spudich at Stanford where she studied myosin motors and then went on to a post doctoral fellowship with Cynthia Kenyon at UCSF where she began studying aging. Since starting her own lab at Princeton, Coleen has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including a Pew Scholar Award, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar Award, and an NIH Director's Innovator Award. Her lab's most recent work showed that TGF-β and insulin signaling regulates reproductive aging. In addition, her lab has also recently been looking into the connection between longevity mutants and memory in C. elegans
About the Forum: Ruth Ann Perlmutter has been a longtime friend of Brandeis University. In 1969, Nathan Perlmutter became vice president of development at Brandeis during the presidency of Morris Abrams. Perlmutter left Brandeis to become the National Director of the Anti Defamation League. Together the Perlmutters were leaders in the interfaith movement and civil rights debates for which activities Nathan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom shortly before his death in 1987.Mrs. Perlmutter earned her B.A. from the University of Denver and her masters degree in sociology from Wayne State University in Detroit. She is a sculptor and painter in her own right and currently lives in Prescott, Arizona.
Filed Under: seminars Tagged With: aging, C. elegans, memory, molecular biology, neuroscience

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The monumental heritage of the 1928 Olympic Games is, since the stadium's reopening, owned by two organisations: Stichting Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam and Bouwinvest.
Together they form an association of owners of the heritage monument Olympic Stadium.
Two very different organisations with a common goal: to create a vibrant icon of Dutch sport and Amsterdam.
Stichting Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam has Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling ("ANBI" general benefit providing organisation) status. Our ANBI annual report (dutch only).
Stichting Exploitatie Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam (SESAM) is responsible for the management, programming and operations of the sports and entertainment aspect.
The Olympic Stadium Foundation daily team consists of eight employees and is supported by volunteers, on-call workers and self-employed.
Stichting Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam (SOSA) is the owner of the real estate and in that role responsible for the maintainance and supervision of the real estate.
Both foundations (SESAM and SOSA) have a Supervisory Board.
The business premises (offices) and the parking garage are the property of investor Bouwinvest. The offices are leased to approximately thirty independent companies that are, to a large extent, united in the Stichting Olympisch Stadion Huurdersoverleg (Olympic Stadium Foundation Tenants Consultation). Read more information about office space at Olympic Stadium here.


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We offer a programme of outreach to suit all ages ranging from our valise full of Franklin at Craven Street-related objects to engaging talks.
All schools that visit the House are offered a free follow-up visit from the Education Manager; there are a range of activities to choose from, however, if, for whatever reason you can't visit the House you can still book a free outreach visit. Free talks for adult and community groups can also be booked on a range of topics relating to the House and Franklin's life.
Become an Inventor
Become an Inventor explores the process of invention - some discoveries come about accidentally; others are the result of many years of research and experimentation. This workshop delves into some of Franklin's key inventions and allows students to become inventors for the day.
Look At Me! introduces children to the concept of portraiture as practised in Georgian times. Children discover how to look for clues in a person's portrait as to their profession or role in society and apply their learning to create their own self-portrait collage.
Franklin's Fables
Ben Franklin was a brilliant writer, who created famous aphorisms and wrote an autobiography which is widely studied today. Franklin's Fables uses illustrations created by the House's Illustrator in Residence, Kremena Dimitrova, and real life objects to inspire storytelling. Children write stories about Benjamin Franklin and his time at 36 Craven Street.
Sister Schools is a Benjamin Franklin House programme linking schools in London with their counterparts in the United States. Sister Schools allows children to participate in a fun and collaborative curriculum based on the amazing life of Benjamin Franklin – particularly his years in London and his efforts to strengthen Anglo-American relations. Themes include our shared heritage, citizenship, and science and innovation.
Our Constitution helps develop pupils' understanding of the arguments for and against a codified British Constitution, taking the US Constitution which Franklin helped craft, as both inspiration and challenge. To encourage political interest and democratic participation, pupils are challenged to choose five key principles they would like to see enshrined in a hypothetical, codified British Constitution.
One of my favourite parts was seeing how the different conductors and insulators work for the lightning rod, and how metal is better than plastic.
Year 5 pupil
What I liked about today's visit was that the activities were very fun and educating.
Great session, loved the replicas and the links to both female and male inventors, very inspiring.
Children's Christmas Party
Saturday 8th December, 10.30am-12noon
Children will discover the magic of the holiday – 18th century style – with crafts and treats.
Free School Visits
Our award-winning education days take place every Tuesday in our Student Science Centre at the House.
Based on the London work and life of Benjamin Franklin our unique offer provides a range of engaging activities which have links right across the National Curriculum.


CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. Siegel believes AT&T Wireless' new plans "make things a lot clearer.". Any AT&T Wireless subscriber can choose any plan, Siegel said. That's a "dramatic change" from the days when the carrier offered one family of plans for Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) phones and another for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) phones. The plans cost between $20 to $300 a month. Each includes a limited amount of daytime calling minutes plus free weekend and nighttime calling. The mLife Local plans are the most basic and charge for long distance and roaming.
You can't put music or videos onto the JooJoo's internal storage, but we were told that you'll be able to access media on storage devices via the tablet's USB port, Fusion Garage tells us that it's aiming to release a JooJoo with 3G connectivity this summer, with the help of a network subsidy, Until then, it's Wi-Fi-only -- and this is a device that needs the Web to live, Without a signal, it's the world's biggest make-up mirror, The JooJoo is strictly for Web addicts, but there are plenty of us around, protective case with reinforced corners for iphone xs and we think it's likely that the iPad will cost more once it comes to the UK..
Even though 4G LTE is not offered where you live now, it may be coming in the next year or so. Since you didn't mention where you live I can't say for certain. But AT&T is expanding its network. So there is a chance that you may get the 4G LTE coverage before your new cell phone contract expires. And finally, you are able to keep your unlimited data plan if you upgrade to an iPhone 5. It doesn't matter which device you upgrade to. So long as you have not made any changes to your plan like adding a tethering service, you will be able to keep the unlimited data.
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During the World Cup, for example, soccer fans have turned to their phones or tablets to follow games kicking off at times when they're at work or out of the house. EE, the UK's first 4G network, saw record traffic generated by streaming online video. The biggest spikes involved coverage of England's ill-fated game against Uruguay and replays of Australian superstar Tim Cahill's stunning volleyed goal against Holland. Despite these figures on tablet use, other analysts have suggested that tablet sales could be impacted by phablets, as consumers plump for a smartphone with a video-friendly larger screen rather than buying a phone and tablet separately.


I am officially in love with the Roberto Cavalli Spring/Summer 2013 Man. Very elegant, self confident, classic and chic. Very Cannes-like with brilliant elements, but with out this Bonjour, I am from Mars Burberry Prorsum - effect created by the electric trench coat colors. I loved above all the phthalo green suede jacket. A Just Perfect Cavalli Collection. I am a perfection lover because imperefction hurts so much.. Gucci was awesome as well. Prada and Jil Sander were very simple and simplicity was never the object of my desire, but there are at least two kinds of simplicity: this cold, quiet icy with strict cuts, thus absolutely acceptable and this simplicity that D&G presented. Why did they?
In this Men Fashion Fever, I was able to compose a very special Where is my jacht-outfit.. Result: fashion comes and fashion goes, only elegance and class is eternal. Milan has spoken, so it is time for Paris to come up on stage.
In the end, I wanna do it like we did it in Vegas..
In a Better World is a touching movie which raises so many psychological and social aspects just a women like the Danish film director Susanne Bier can be sensitive about. After a swimming-pool day and a short trip to Austria, I wasn't prepared for such an emotional dose.
In a world terrorized by the media and credit rating agencies, where the race after profits breaks every rule by taking advantages of moments when people's minds are hypnotized by a small black and white ball or a colorful hat parade, following the destiny is the only answer to all that babel.
Thus, God save Fashion, Beauty and the VIP Room..
,,What is essential is invisible to the eye".. By writing these words Monsieur de Saint-Exupéry initiated the issue of invisibility that became a new leitmotif in art. In life maybe as well..
''Invisible: Art of Unseen 1957-2012" is a current exhibition at the Southbank Centre in London that should absolutely be seen. Hence, WYSIWYG seems to be antique, because to see the unseen is the modern challenge of modern art and a modern life.
From the invisible art in London to the most amazing dinner held in New York tonight where cinema met fashion met politics. Parker-Wintour-Obama: a combination of names showing clearly that impossible is nothing if you just don't be late. The Empress of Fashion spoke and she is right.
But after all, in this world caught in a cobweb of globalization, there is nothing more essential than just being yourself.. Visibly.


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Joseph R. Konchar, 91; Retired Farmer Owned Elm Inn In Heyday
04/22/2019	AllOTSEGO, Breaking News, In Memoriam
IN MEMORIAM: Joseph R. Konchar, 91;
Retired Farmer Owned Elm Inn In Heyday
MILFORD – Joseph R. Konchar, 91, a retired farmer who owned the Elm Inn in its heyday, died Saturday, April 20, 2019, at Cooperstown Center.
Born March 19, 1928, Joe was the youngest and last surviving of the 13 children of August and Antoinette (Ocaker) Konchar.
At an early age, his family moved from the family's Christian Hill farm in the Town of Otsego where he was born, to Milford where his parents had purchased another farm where they would continue the family tradition of dairy farming.
Joe attended Milford Central School.
On May 29, 1958, Joe married his lifelong love, Dorothy Kanzler. Joe and Dorothy purchased the farm on Route 28, just north of Milford, and continued to engage in dairy farming at that location. In the late 1970s, Joe and Dorothy sold the farm and purchased the Elm Inn in Milford.
The Inn quickly became known as the place to go for great "home cooked" food at a reasonable price as well as for its hospitality. Joe and Dorothy hosted many local organizations at the Inn such as Rotary, various school functions as well as numerous other events. They also hosted hunters every year during hunting season. Joe and Dorothy operated the Inn for more than 22 years before retiring in the late 1990s.
Throughout their lives together Joe and Dorothy traveled extensively. They visited nearly every state, many of them several times.
Joe was an accomplished bowler. He was also known, as most successful farmers are, for his ability to patch and fix all manner of things.
Joe was proud of his Slovenian heritage and loved to sing traditional songs in Slovenian whenever a microphone was at hand. He especially enjoyed entertaining people by telling stories and reminiscing about his youth and growing up on the family farm.
He was a member of the Farmers Benevolent Society (The Cornfield) on County Route 26 in Fly Creek and was a faithful communicant at St. Mary's "Our Lady of the Lake" Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown.
Joseph is survived by his wife, Dorothy, with whom he celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last May 29.
He was predeceased by his brothers, August, Stanley, Edward, Bill, Albin and Tony; half-brother, Frank; sisters, Anna Svet, Pauline Kralj, Mary Kukenberger, Frances Linich; and half-sister, Antonia.
Visiting hours will be 4 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 24, at the Tillapaugh Funeral Home, 28 Pioneer St., Cooperstown.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m., Thursday morning April 25, also at the funeral home. Burial in St. Mary's Cemetery, Index will be later in the spring.
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A Dog's Way Home is a mostly family-friendly film about man's best friend. But liberal dogmas drag down this otherwise sweet story.
If Bella the pit bull (voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard) is captured a second time on the streets of Denver, city ordinances dictate that she be euthanized. A dogged animal control officer (John Cassini) is obsessed with making that happen. So, Bella's owner—sorry, Bella's human—Lucas (Jonah Hauer-King), sends his beloved pet to stay with relatives of his girlfriend Olivia (Alexandra Shipp) in northern New Mexico until he can relocate outside of city limits.
Needless to say, Bella escapes and begins the 400-mile journey home. Along the way, she makes friends and faces obstacles. (Young children may find a few scenes a bit intense.) Bella evades a wolf pack, teams up with a (computer-animated) cougar, and is nearly buried in an avalanche. She crosses a busy highway, gets temporarily adopted by a gay couple, and winds up chained to a homeless veteran named Axel (Edward James Olmos). Positive interactions with American war veterans make up a significant portion of the film. When Axel dies, Bella declares that "he is no longer sad." I knew dogs possessed a keen sense of hearing, but of the hereafter, too? Wow!
A Dog's Way Home (rated PG for some peril and mild language) is full of beautiful scenery. Colorado's rugged mountains, rushing streams, and rich forests make the state a great place to shoot a movie about an outdoor trek in Colorado, right? Colorado towns are even identified along the way: Durango, Gunnison, etc. But the entire film was shot in Canada.
Another curiosity: Megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes is listed as one of the film's executive producers. Sure, the movie is mostly about cute (and remarkably well-trained) animals doing cute things: dogs rassling blankets, nuzzling cats, and "hunting" for food in trash cans. But a secular worldview becomes evident in the second half of the film. Parents, take note: Young viewers will see the gay domestic arrangement and unmarried Lucas and Olivia lying in bed together.
I think John Erickson made a great point when he wrote, "Animal movies can be a stealth vehicle for secular preachers because the audience doesnt go to the theater expecting indoctrination."
Thanks for giving this cautionary review.
Skip the indoctrination, I mean , movie and watch the trailer. It even shows the happy ending.


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spasm from the body's deeper tissue to the surface of the skin.


Abandoned female spaniel mix needs home ADOPTED!
Meet Carrie. This cute dog is a symbol of the cruel Bulgarian reality. Till yesterday Carrie warmed someone's bed, licked someone's face, wagged her tail while meeting her owner. Today she is unwanted. Thrown out there on the street corner. Pushed out of the front seat of the car because there was no place for her in someone's heart of stone. With a heavy heart Carrie runs after each vehicle because she is hoping that her owner will return for her. But he will not, and it's better. Because somewhere out there her people are waiting for her. The people who will give her all the love she deserves.
Carrie is a female dog, very kind and social. Let me say that she is an absolute cutie. One of her relatives may have been a spaniel. She has a slight overbite but are all people perfect? Heart is most important, and Carrie has a huge heart full of love that she can not wait to give to somebody.
Carrie is looking for temporary home to be neutered and vaccinated. Now she is living in an abandoned yard where she is not completely safe. Carrie is looking for a new home and responsible owners to make us believe that there are still true people among us. Any ideas and suggestions are welcome.
Carrie is still looking for a new home. She is 2 or 3 years old female, full of energy, kind and social. Spaniel mix. Great with people and dogs. Carrie is internally and externally DEWARMED, VACCINATED, NEUTERED AND MICROCHIPED.
Zur Adoption. Carrie sucht ein neues Zuhause.
Geschichte: Auf der Straße gefunden!Braucht dringend ein zu Hause!
Carrie is adopted. She found her forever home and is now a german citizen Thanks to all who shared her story. Good luck, Carrie!


Finally exploiting the fact that it's really easy to rhyme in Hebrew, Israelis took to Rabin Square wielding protest signs and chanting on Saturday night.
"One, two, three, four — they were on a break!" shouted the mass of around a hundred young Israelis.
"Friends" is an unlikely staple of Israeli culture due to relentless syndication by Israeli networks. Amir Barkol told The Jerusalem Post that the protest germinated in a thread on the popular Israeli Facebook page Am;lek (the Hebrew version of the internet phrase "too long; didn't read/TL;DR") and caught on through social media.
COULD I BE MORE INSISTENT THAT ONE FEMALE PRIME MINISTER IN 69 YEARS IS NOT ENOUGH?
This story "Israelis Protest Ross and Rachel from "Friends"" was written by Jenny Singer.


MANILA – The decline in the number of poor Filipinos today is a testament to the country's sustained economic growth, as investments continue to come in, creating more jobs, according to an official of National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported the poverty incidence among Filipino families declined to 21 percent during the first half of 2018 from the adjusted 27.6 percent during the first half of 2015.
This is referred to as the proportion of the population living below the poverty line to the total population.
"Overall, it is encouraging to see poverty continuing to decline as lives of Filipinos continue to improve," NEDA officer-in-charge undersecretary Adoracion Navarro said.
Navarro highlighted the growth in per capita income of the bottom 30 percent of households which picked up significantly to 29.2 percent in the 2015-2018 period, from only 20.6 percent in the 2012-2015 period.
This implies an increase in real incomes of the poor, which has helped in reducing poverty among Filipinos, she said.
Navarro identified higher wages and salary incomes as the top contributor to the strong income growth for the poorest 30 percent of households, followed by domestic cash receipts/support including from government, and entrepreneurial activities.
"In particular, the growing contribution of industry, particularly construction and manufacturing, to output and employment, are creating more income-earning opportunities that are accessible to the poor," she added.
Navarro said the implementation, expansion and enhancement of government's social programs, such as the Conditional Cash Transfer Program and Unconditional Cash Transfers, have also helped augment incomes of the poor.
To speed up poverty reduction, the NEDA official further said the government hopes to bring about policies that will help stabilize prices, such as the Rice Liberalization Law, while giving farmers technical support through the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF).
"We are also calling for more opportunities for entrepreneurship, job creation, and sustainable livelihoods for our low-skilled labor force," she said.
Navarro said they are also continuing the push for reforms that facilitate the creation of new businesses and boost the outputs of firms, which will eventually translate to high-productivity jobs.


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Tag: Water
Theresa Curtis/ 23rd November 2018 23rd November 2018 / Issue35
by Theresa Curtis
...now, in our time, these three rivers —anguish for our world, scientific
breakthroughs, and ancestral teachings— flow together. From the confluence
of these rivers we drink. We awaken to what we once knew: we are alive in a
living Earth, the source of all we are and can achieve. Despite our
conditioning by the industrial society of the last two centuries, we want to name, once again, this world as holy.
(Macy, J., & Young Brown, M., 2014)
For millennia our bodies have responded to the waxing and waning of Grandmother Moon orbiting our flesh and enticing our blood and birth waters outward to life. This unending dance between women, water, and moon is a fluid interaction between the cosmos and we, and it is this primordial magic that first conceived earth's creatures from both tide pools and time.
Continue reading "Wisdom of the Water Goddess"
Articles,Water
The Waters of Life
Hannah Spencer/ 14th April 2015 6th March 2018 / issue25
by Hannah Spencer
Clouties hanging from a tree near Madron's Well, Cornwall - photo by Jim Champion
From the waters of Nu, the primeval ocean of Egyptian myth, to the river Styx, which deceased souls cross on their final journey, from the world-encircling oceanic serpent known as Oceanus or Jormungand, to the celestial river of The Milky Way which flows to the land of the soul, water has always denoted the confines of earthly existence, both at its beginning and at its end, and in both a physical and spiritual sense.
This belief evolved because water is the life force of Mother Earth. Just as blood flows through the veins of our bodies, so water flows through the rivers and oceans of the Earth, in a lovely demonstration of the macrocosm-microcosm relationship: "as above, so below." No living thing can survive without water, and as birth is heralded by the breaking of the waters, so it was believed that the soul was also carried out of this world by a celestial river. Therefore it is no surprise that water has always held such importance in belief and tradition.
Like all boundaries, those defined by water can be breached. Oceans, rivers, lakes and springs have all been traditionally considered liminal zones - places where the metaphysical boundaries between our world and the spirit world are weak. Crossing of water was often associated with physical and spiritual journeys to other worlds. The Irish folk heroes, Oisin and Bran and also the Japanese hero Urashima all sailed across the ocean to reach a paradisiacal land, and Gawain in the 14th century saga, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, had to cross water to reach the Green Knight's castle, an allusion to the spiritual initiation or test that he was undergoing. "Beyond the seventh wave" was a Celtic metaphor synonymous with the land of the spirit. Continue reading "The Waters of Life"


The Times of India Film Awards is a global IPR envisioned to be the definitive awards platform felicitating the Bollywood fraternity.
The Times of India Film Awards will be held at international destinations, thus taking the charm of Bollywood to global destinations and engaging with the global Indian, south Asian communities and fans of Bollywood across the world.
The Times of India Film Awards will serve to connect with the global film communities and further popularize Bollywood in international destinations and communities.
The Times of India Film Awards is envisioned to be popular choice awards where Bollywood fans across the world vote on the nomination categories to determine the winners of the popular choice categories.
The nominations for popular choice categories would be derived from popular films during the calendar year, the process would be driven by TOIFA Honorary Advisory Board Members (comprising of Bollywood industry veterans and other eminent personalities).
The Times of India Film Awards will be an all encompassing awards function, where technical awards are also awarded. The technical awards would be determined by the TOIFA Honorary Advisory Board Members in conjunction with audit partners.
The Times of India Film Awards will be held over 3-4 days (typically a weekend), where there are certain engaging activities preceding the main awards ceremony. There would also be other activities/events taking place prior to the awards weekend to promote the awards in India and at the destination/host country.
Online/Digital: Timesofindia.indiatimes.com, Indiatimes.com, TOIFA website, TOIFA social networking pages, other digital/online properties with The Times of India.
In addition, other promotional avenues with media houses in the host destination country, global media and other Indian media would be utilised to promote the event.


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Let's Defend The Climate Change Bill
Massive coal lobby threatens nation's chance for a clean energy future
By Trip Van Noppen | July 16, 2009
The Senate, perhaps inadvertently, has given the American public a chance to help counter a massive assault by the fossil fuel industry on our nation's best hope to fight climate change and forge a clean energy future—the American Climate and Energy Security Act.
The mission of ACES is historic and essential: drive the transition to a clean energy economy with millions of new jobs and dramatically reduce carbon emissions to avert the worst impacts of climate change. It could enable the United States to play a powerful leadership role in global climate negotiations later this year.
But, though well intentioned, the legislation suffered at the hands of fossil fuel lobbyists in its passage through the House of Representatives, and even its champions acknowledge that some of the concessions in the bill may hamper its effectiveness. Now, in the Senate, it faces even more attacks on its integrity from lobbyists led by coal.
Fortunately, though, the Senate has postponed until September its consideration of ACES, giving time for citizens, the environmental community and President Barack Obama to join in the effort to defend and strengthen this legislation.
The stakes could not be higher. President Obama describes ACES as "a good start," but given the political realities it may be all we can expect on climate change for many years to come. That puts tremendous pressure on the president—and the environmental community—to get it right this time.
Earthjustice's biggest concern is a loophole that exempts coal-burning utilities from changing their ways for at least 15 years. This means that the nation's biggest single contributor to greenhouse gas emissions can keep on polluting—and expanding—even as other industries are forced to clamp down. As engineered by massive coal industry lobbying, the loophole "grandfathers" in the existing, dirtiest coal plants, making them exempt from C02 limits under the Clean Air Act. Forty-three new coal plants planned or being built in the next five years would escape the bill's performance standards.
The enormous giveaways extracted by the coal industry's well-heeled lobby will allow dirty coal plants to supply nearly half of our electricity through at least 2025 according to EPA. Yet to achieve the carbon reductions that are needed by mid-century, we must start building a new clean energy infrastructure now. With old coal dominating the power market for decades to come, we will not see the investment in renewable energy that is critical both to the creation of a vibrant green economy and preservation of the planet as we know it.
Coal knows that its historical role as king of electricity generation is at stake because it is the major driver of climate change. Its leaders understand that effective legislation must put us on a path to replacing coal. Given that, it's understandable why the industry is fighting so hard to gut ACES.
With a massive lobbying effort, coal has outspent, outhustled and outmuscled its environmental and clean energy competition. In the first two quarters this year, the coal mining industry spent $6.8 million on lobbying. Another $71 million was spent by utilities that mostly use coal. Natural gas—the second biggest electricity generator—spent only a fraction of coal's expenditure in the first quarter, and suddenly awoke last week, vowing to pour money into lobbying efforts to carve out its own concessions in the Senate bill.
All of this means that we in the environmental community must speak up and convince our senators that effective legislation cannot give coal a free pass and put the bill's effectiveness in jeopardy. Old coal plants should have a deadline to clean up or shut down, allowing our energy needs to be met by cleaner, prosperity-creating alternatives. This is the message that you can send now by going to a special action alert page Earthjustice has set up. I encourage you to take this action now.
But, President Obama also must act. He must use his bully pulpit to bring the nation and this planet into the debate. Now is the time for the strongest possible support from the White House and the strongest message from all of us. Nothing less is likely to offset the steady drumbeat of fossil fuel interests fighting to keep the status quo.
Tags: Clean Air Act, Coal, Congress, Environmental Protection Agency, Obama administration
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Trip Van Noppen served as Earthjustice's president from 2008 until he retired in 2018. A North Carolina native, Trip said of his experience: "Serving as the steward of Earthjustice for the last decade has been the greatest honor of my life."
Earthjustice holds those who break our nation's laws accountable for their actions. Join us to receive important action alerts and learn why the earth needs a good lawyer.
Fireflies' Glow Could Soon Be Extinguished by Human Actions
A Fight for the Right to Breathe Begins in South Africa
Estamos Demandando Con el Fin de Prevenir El Próximo Derrame de Crudo Como el de Deepwater Horizon
We're Suing to Prevent the Next BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
La Energía Limpia Está Arrasando el País, Estado Por Estado
Get these "forever chemicals" out of our food and water


Concrete repairs consist of joint or crack resealing, partial depth milling or chipping, full depth removal, or overall removal and replacement, plus special repairs and planning. This Form template collects data for surveying any type of repairs related to concrete work. Use this template to track the progress of your works, and ensure the stability and quality of your repairs on site.
Guarantee all your repair procedures are of quality and up to standards, and prevent any kind of rework. This template, in conjunction with other available quality-focused templates, can be a part of your quality management system in true compliance to ISO 9001 standards.


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<link rel="import" href="../../bower_components/polymer/polymer.html">
<link rel="import" href="../../bower_components/paper-styles/typography.html">
<link rel="import" href="../../bower_components/paper-button/paper-button.html">
<link rel="import" href="../../bower_components/iron-icon/iron-icon.html">

<dom-module id="tuto-bootstrap">
    <template>

        <paper-material>

1. Bootstrapping

 Let's get started building the app. In this step, we will:

Setup Meteor and create the app

Add polyteor package to connect polymer front end

Run the app in the browser

        </paper-material>

        <paper-material>

Meteor setup

First of all - let's install Meteor!

 Open your command line and paste this command :

            <marked-element>

            </marked-element>

                If you are on a Windows machine, go here to
                install Meteor.

                Now let's create our app — write this in the command line :

            <marked-element>

            </marked-element>

Go into the folder and run the app.

            <marked-element>

            </marked-element>

                Now go to http://localhost:3000 to enjoy your app
                running on your computer.

               This is a fully functional app including server and client codes.

                It contains three files, one js, one html and one css file. The names of these files
                are the name of your application in the create command above, in our case, socially.

                We will build an app from scratch. Delete the three files. Create a directory called client. This
                is a special folder. Files inside this folder are run on client only. Make sure to name it so. More about
                that later.

        </paper-material>

        <paper-material>

Adding polymer

In the command line add the package polyteor.

            <marked-element>

            </marked-element>

After that, start your app with:

            <marked-element>

            </marked-element>

 You will get an error similar to that:

            <marked-element>

            </marked-element>

                This is because polyteor adds a package to compile html files
                which is in conflict with meteor default templating build plugin.
                Don't worry, we are gonna solve it. In console, type this:

            <marked-element>

            </marked-element>

                    If you see an error about an missing .bowerrc, you can
                    safely ignore it. So let's see what we've got:

static-htm compiler

polyteor-element

vulcanize build plugin

                    Elements are inside public folder.

        </paper-material>
        <paper-material>

Adding index file

 Inside client folder, create an index.html file. Put this inside :

            <marked-element markdown="[[indexHtml1]]">

            </marked-element>

                 Run your app and see Polyteor rocks! in your browser.
                 static-html compiler concatenate all html. Files inside public folder are skipped.

        </paper-material>

        <paper-material>

Adding Webcomponents

                Polyteor package install a vulcanize build plugin for polymer elements imports. In the
                    root of your app folder, create a config.vulcanize file wih the following content :

            <marked-element >

            </marked-element>

                Inside public folder, create a folder named elements and a file
                elements.html inside it with the following content :

            <marked-element markdown="[[polymerImport]]">

            </marked-element>

Then, edit config.vulcanize file to obtain this :

            <marked-element >

            </marked-element>

                Now edit index.html file inside client folder
                to obtain this :

            <marked-element markdown="[[indexHtml2]]">

            </marked-element>

                  Run the app, type anything in the input and see it displaying on top. Remember to

                     disable cache on browser

                  if the page does not get updated.
                  Polymer binds the content  of the div to the value of the input.

                  In the next step, we will bind meteor mongo data to polymer elements.

        </paper-material>

    </template>

</dom-module>

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ABT9A01 Automotive Battery Tester is the 12V/24V Digital Battery Electronic Analyzer. ABT9A01 Battery Analyzer Suitable for 12/24V automotive batteries(Ordinary, AGM, GEL), Automotive start system and charging system test.
1. Quickly test the battery's main specifications: Internal Resistance, CCA, Voltage, Electric quantity, Life-span.
4. Printer and clock inside, can print out testing results anytime.
Applications: Suitable for 12/24V automotive batteries(Ordinary, AGM, GEL), Automotive start system and charging system test. Suitable for CCA, DIN, IEC, EN, JIS Standard batteries and unknown standard batteries.


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El vuelo 1008 de Dan Air fue un vuelo de pasajeros accidentado el 25 de abril de 1980. El avión, un Boeing 727 de la compañía inglesa Dan Air procedente de Mánchester con destino Tenerife, cayó a unos 20 kilómetros del aeropuerto tinerfeño de Los Rodeos durante las maniobras de aproximación para el aterrizaje. Fallecieron los 146 ocupantes de la aeronave. Se produjo sólo 3 años después del grave accidente de Los Rodeos, que se saldó con 583 fallecidos.

La aeronave

El Boeing 727-46 con número de serie 19279/288 fue construido en junio de 1966 y entregado a Japan Air Lines. Posteriormente pasó a manos de la japonesa TOA Domestic, que lo vendería a Dan Air en agosto de 1974. Tenía 13 años y 10 meses en el momento del accidente.

El accidente
Eran las 13:21 cuando la aeronave, que estaba a unos 20 kilómetros de distancia del aeropuerto de los Rodeos en Tenerife, se estrelló contra la montaña de El Diablillo en el municipio de El Rosario, provocando la muerte de todos los pasajeros y tripulantes del avión.

Con todo ello, el accidente del DA1008 resultó ser en aquel entonces el tercero más grave del aeropuerto de los Rodeos.

Las causas

El informe oficial
El informe oficial, elaborado por las autoridades españolas, establece lo siguiente:

"El capitán, sin tener en cuenta la altitud a la que estaba volando, llevó el avión a un área de terreno elevado, lo que le hizo no mantener la distancia de seguridad adecuada respecto al suelo, como era su obligación".

Además, señala como factores contribuyentes:
 Llevar a cabo una maniobra sin tenerla claramente definida.
 Navegación imprecisa por parte del capitán.
 Ausencia de trabajo en equipo entre el capitán y el copiloto.
 El corto espacio de tiempo entre la información dada por el controlador para efectuar la espera y el punto donde debía iniciarla.
 El hecho de que la espera indicada no estuviera publicada en ninguna carta de navegación aeronáutica.

Por su parte, las autoridades británicas, que estaban de acuerdo en líneas generales con el informe, añadieron las siguientes observaciones:
 La información referida a la espera, que fue transmitida por el controlador, era ambigua y contribuyó directamente a la desorientación de la tripulación.
 No se indicó una altura mínima para la espera.
 La orientación de la espera era irreal, pues no concordaba con el rumbo de la pista de aterrizaje.

Navegación imprecisa

La aeronave debía llegar al VOR TFN por su radial 010 y abandonarlo por el 255 para incorporarse a FP, donde el controlador había establecido un patrón de espera improvisado, que sería en rumbo de aproximación a FP por el radial 150 y virajes a la izquierda.

Sin embargo, el avión pasó TFN a más de una milla al Este, y lo comunicó con 33 segundos de retraso, dando al controlador una percepción equivocada de su ubicación.

A partir de ahí, el avión en ningún momento procedió a tomar rumbo hacia FP (de hecho, el comandante parece haber pensado que debía tomarlo en rumbo 150 en alejamiento, tal y como se aprecia en las grabaciones de cabina).

Información ambigua del controlador

El controlador dio instrucciones al DA1008 para proceder a la espera. Esa espera no estaba publicada en ninguna carta de navegación aeronáutica y su rumbo no guardaba relación con el de la pista de aterrizaje, lo que suscitó dudas en la tripulación, durante una fase tan crítica como la de aproximación.

Por otra parte, al indicar la espera dice turns to the left (virajes a la izquierda), pero en las grabaciones se aprecia turn to the left (gire a la izquierda). Esto fue interpretado por las autoridades británicas como un posible elemento de ambigüedad que pudo haber obligado al comandante a girar a la izquierda al llegar a FP para tomarlo en rumbo 150.

Últimos segundos del impacto

En los últimos segundos de vuelo del avión nunca llegó a FP, sino que lo sobrepasó varias millas al sur. Poco después efectuó un viraje a la izquierda, probablemente debido a la confusión que le había producido el mensaje del controlador.

Sin embargo, ese viraje fue interrumpido por un aviso de proximidad al terreno, que fue corregido con un viraje hacia la derecha. Tras esta maniobra cesaron los avisos porque el avión entró en un valle, pero cuatro segundos después impactaría contra la montaña a poco menos de dos mil metros de altitud.

Véase también
 Accidente de aviación
 Anexo:Accidentes de aviación en España
 Anexo:Accidentes más graves de aviación (1953-presente)
 Anexo:Accidentes e incidentes notables en la aviación civil
 Anexo:Accidentes aéreos por número de víctimas mortales

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Accidente del Vuelo 1008 de Dan Air
 Imagen de la aeronave siniestrada
 Last seconds of the fligh Dan Air 1008 - Reconstrucción de los últimos segundos en la cabina del avión conversaciones incluidas

Dan Air
Dan Air
España en 1980
Dan Air
Desastres en Canarias

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This is the third solo album from Paradox, who currently resides in Denver, CO, after a recent move from Austin, TX, and is produced entirely by DJ Sean P, who lives in Dallas, TX.
Mending stays true to the basics, with multi-layered boom-bap beats and scratches galore, but brings something fresh to the table with innovative rhyme patterns and well thought-out song structures. The album is guest spot-heavy, but retains a sense of cohesiveness throughout that serves to highlight, rather than distract from, the talents of both Paradox and DJ Sean P.


After someone decides to get help for their addiction, they have a few options for treatment. Most addiction clinics offer their patients several different types of therapy: individual, group, skills-focused, relapse-prevention. You might also find some less traditional, more innovative therapies, like art therapy.
Art therapy helps people express thoughts and feelings that they cannot express with words. It's especially helpful for those with a history of abuse, who have trouble talking about their experiences. There are several methods for achieving this. The patient may be asked to explain their art, or to work together with the therapist, conversing important emotional matters as they go. Either way, the goal is discussion—discussion with as little anxiety as possible for the patient.
When you're doing some form of art, you're opening your creative mind, and that's the best time to be in the presence of a helping energy, to learn important coping skills. In a group setting, it's even better. Many people find it easier to express themselves through art, because it doesn't feel as revealing as divulging information outright. It's not a replacement for traditional therapy, but it helps ease people into more intensive introspection. Most people are passionate about art in some form or another. Those who have entered treatment against their own desires are often relieved to learn that such a therapy exists; they assumed rehab to be a chore, but rehab shouldn't feel that way.
Working through the experiences, emotions, and issues that have led to and worsened addiction can feel like a lot to handle. Art therapy offers us a safe place to communicate ideas and feelings in a personalized, non-standard way–a refreshing change for many people.


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Interview: Lloyd Jones, 2019 NFFD Judge
Michelle Elvy in conversation with National Flash Fiction Day 2019 judge Lloyd Jones
This month, we bring interviews with this year's NFFD judges. James Norcliffe sat down to talk to Siobhan Harvey, and Michelle Elvy talks with Lloyd Jones. We also bring you a discussion between the two youth judges, Gail Ingram and Eirlys Hunter.
The NFFD competition opens February 15 and runs through April 15. More information is available on National Flash Fiction Day website.
On place and memory
Michelle Elvy: Your work seems to capture place – specifically, sensually, deeply. There's Lower Hutt of Splinter (1988) – a 'town of modest achievement'. Your award-winning 2007 novel Mr Pip comes to mind, too – as does your memoir, A History of Silence. Three different kinds of writing, with strong characters, yet place occupies centre stage. Does the landscape of a place matter as much as its people?
Lloyd Jones: With Splinter I think that was the case. I was fresh from studying 'place in literature' at a night class at New York University, and primed by the novels of Doctorow and William Kennedy. What Kennedy did with Albany and what Doctorow manages with Upstate New York (Loon Lake, etc.) I hoped to do with the Hutt. The narrator of that novel slips and comes to grief after a floor splinter pierces his finger – the splinter is also the history of place.
But that was then… I've changed my views about what story is, and where it comes from. Primacy of voice is what it is all about for me. A story is seldom born on the back of a view out the window. A voice has to be found to convey what is seen and what is felt. I never think 'oh, that would make a good story.' Well maybe I do, but it won't be a story that I will write. For me, story begins with finding a voice I didn't know I had in me. If I can stay with it, and hold my nerve, a world will grow around it.
ME: "Water has a memory." You say this in a conversation with Peter Wells at the 2014 Auckland Writers Festival. What a fascinating connection. Can you elaborate on this theme?
LJ: It is a reference to the failure of the city-builders to completely drain the swamps on which the pre-earthquake city of Christchurch sat. To all appearances they were successful – for what met the naked eye were buildings, asphalt, parks, houses, power lines, etc. But it was cosmetic. The city foundations everyone assumed to be robust turned to water once the earth began to shake (a process called liquefaction). The past cannot be deleted or erased. It awaits its moment to sit and declare: Here I am. Where I always was.
ME: Can you share more about the title of your memoir: A History of Silence?
LJ: I grew up in a household where the past was barely ever referred to. I never once heard my father mention his mother or father. For that matter I never asked about them. Mum didn't mention her father (she never met him) and said very little about her mother. Mum's adopted parents were the only 'grandparents' spoken of, but then not often – both were dead by the time I came along. An ancestral past simply didn't exist. We behaved as if we had been shipwrecked. No point dwelling on the ship lying on the bottom of the sea. Better to focus on the future and start building a life to get us there. It was a wilful silence – one I suspect is experienced by many Pākehā families – and that silence effectively stalled any proper understanding of our colonial history.
On writing inside and outside New Zealand
ME: You have also seen successes from your passion for sport: The Book of Fame was staged in 2003 by Wellington's Downstage Theatre. Downstage director Murray Lynch said: 'The Book of Fame is not just a play for lovers of rugby but a play essentially about friendship and loyalty. I believe it is set to enter the canon of New Zealand theatre where, like the All Blacks' tour in 1905, it will form a landmark in our shared consciousness' (quoted here). Can you talk a bit about that 'shared consciousness' and how it plays a role for you, as an author – whether novelist, memoirist or journalist?
LJ: By today's standards it will seem a bit presumptuous of me to talk about 'us' as if the nation sprang from the same nervous system. But in 1905 we were more homogenous… suffered the usual colonial confusions about where 'home' might be. I like to think we came into our own consciousness during that All Black tour of 1905. It began with a journeying back to 'home' and then turned into a swerve away from. I think it is a better far healthier founding myth than the Gallipoli one we have pinched off the Australians. 'We' in the 'Book of Fame' narrative refers to both the team and the country. I would be reluctant to use the collective first person now. We're a different population, more diverse, and cosmopolitan. When we look back to our origins we find ourselves gazing off in different directions – South East Asia, the Pacific, the UK, Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Argentina… Auckland's population has something like 160 ethnicities… I have no idea what a 'shared consciousness' might look like now.
ME: You have spent time abroad: in France and in the US, and Germany, for example. Do you think travel and the experience of other places has influenced the way you examine your life as a New Zealand author? And what can you share about the line between the specific and the universal? Is there something specifically New Zealand about writers from here?
LJ: What has made me the writer I am? Other writers, writers from all over the world. All writers are cosmopolitan in that regard. We make our writer selves up from our reading. And, reading will make me the writer I will become in the future.
Writers create their own identity on the back of whoever they read and hold to be indispensable, however fleetingly (since writer crushes are notoriously fickle) – from Camus to Borges to Murnane to Beckett to Coetzee, Sherman Alexei, Kafka, to Chinua Achebe and Gao Xingjian, and Calvino, and Janet Frame and to all the marvellous mind -expanding translations of work around the world. Our reading creates the 'writer part' of us, our spine, if you like. Then we build from what is around us, what lies to hand. In which case, inevitably, the 'sounds' and the 'view' of NZ slips in… the piled driftwood on beaches, the stark hills, the shabby small towns, the shabby cities… all of that is us. The sea bounding in, the skies racing away. A healthy willingness to help a neighbour out – that's us as well. Along with our sly prejudices and our tinny nationalism.
Were more of us to write in te reo Māori then, yes, I would be inclined to say there is something indisputably unique about our writing. But few of us do. Most of us write in English. For most writers, our first allegiance is to the form, and place grows out of voice.
ME: What other writers or thinkers have influenced your writing?
LJ: Too many to mention. But for a brief sample, see above
On short fiction and current reading
ME: You have written short stories as well as novels – Swimming to Australia and other stories, a collection from 1991, for example. Can you address the differences between short story writing and novel writing?
LJ: Different architecture, different ambitions. A short story is as tight as a drum.
ME: Short fiction allows fragmented telling. Which allows us to make connections or create disconnections in a manner that is not always tidy. What appeals about this kind of writing?
LJ: It frees writer and reader from the straight-lining of narrative which tends to close things down. You might think of narrative as whittling a log into shape – say that of a kiwi. The final thing betrays its origins; conventional narrative will not admit those shavings into the story of how it came to be. Discontinuous narrative claims those shavings… it just puts some space between them. It all belongs, in other words. The onus is placed on the reader to find the thread, and so a narrative is at work, but it is less hewn and more obviously a work in progress… It encourages inclusiveness and digression, and that always feels more real, more in keeping with true consciousness.
ME: And, following from that: What do you hope to see in this year's NFFD competition entries? What do you think can be said in 300 words?
LJ: Anything at all. Anything is possible. Word length is obviously the constraint. But such constraints tend to make us more imaginative.
ME: Are there books you reach for time and again – are you an individual who re-reads, or are you always seeking something new?
LJ: I must admit I do tend to seek out the new and, in particular, translated literature. But, yes, there are certain authors I go back to. And sometimes if I am stuck in some way with what I am working on, I may go back to a writer who I remember having found a way forward on some particular thing. Sorry, that sounds a bit vague, but I wouldn't want to be any more specific.
ME: What are you reading this year, and what do you recommend?
LJ: Like everyone else I know, I've read and enjoyed Lisa Halliday's novel Asymmetry. I'm currently reading a critical work (one of the few, perhaps the only one) on John Berger whose novel G feels as groundbreaking now as it did when it won the Booker back in 1970. I like to read contemporary poetry. There's a lot of good stuff coming out from a much younger generation in the US right now. But, I've gone back to an old hand, Robert Hass. Eileen Myles is another.
For a recommendation, Exploded View by Australian writer Carrie Tiffany (Text), due out in March.
More locally, I thought James Brown's most recent collection Floods another chamber (VUP) was terrific. In fact, I would recommend writers considering the flash fiction format to take a look at Floods another chamber. They might also check out 'The Fish' by Elizabeth Bishop which is as much story as it is poem. For 'storyish-poems' I would add Jenny Bornholdt, Vincent O'Sullivan, Bill Manhire and Tusiata Avia to that list. A final point – story does not have to be 'made up'. Flash fiction writers might benefit from taking a look at Damien Wilkins's True Stories. Also, but for different reasons, Janet Frame's story 'Reservoir,' specifically the section which wraps up a reservoir of the young narrator's fears.
ME: Do you have a favourite colour?
LJ: Blue
ME: Would you favour an entry that had 'blue' in the title?
LJ: I like to think I wouldn't, but, on reflection, yes, I probably would.
ME: Have you ever fallen off a horse?
LJ: Yes. Many times. Writers have to get used to that.
Thank you, Lloyd!
Lloyd Jones is a Wellington-based writer. His books include: This House has three walls (Victoria University Press, 1997), The Book of Fame (Penguin, 2014), Hand me down world (Penguin, 2011), the Man Booker shortlisted novel and winner of the Commonwealth Writers prize, Mr Pip (Penguin, 2007), and a memoir, A History of Silence (Penguin, 2013). His most recent book is a novel, The Cage (Penguin RandomHouse, 2018).
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A Giant Sucking Sound: Say Buh-Bye
September 25th, 2007 @ 11:07 PM Giants
The Giants bullpen blew a two-run lead Tuesday night, victimizing hard-luck starter Matt Cain once again and giving the slumping Padres — who had lost five straight and almost given up the wild card lead — reason to hope.
Of course, the Giants still had their at-bats in the 9th inning, and since it had already been firmly announced that Barry Bonds would be in the starting lineup the next night in his last home game ever as a Giant, you might think he would be available to pinch-hit. With one out and one on, he would have been the tying run at the plate.
But Bonds, who had earlier been seen pacing in the dugout and playfully taking over a TV cameraman's post at one point, was not available for a pinch-hit role in the 9th inning. Why? Because he had already changed out of his uniform. As reported after the game by KNBR, Bonds was already in his street clothes as the Giants folded in the 9th.
But he will start tomorrow. And he'll probably say he's doing it for the fans. He couldn't possibly care about his teammates.


Generally, Cain said gators will avoid humans, even those thrashing around in the water.
"We're a lot bigger than what they might typically eat, like raccoons or young deer in the water," Cain said.
He said boaters or kayakers have little to fear from the animals.
He said lake-dwellers should be more cautious of one of the region's more dangerous reptiles – water moccasins.
Cain said water moccasins can be found near any body of water, but typically hide in brush or cover near the water.
Cain said the lake rarely has incidents with either animals, but it's best to be cautious.
I have lived and fished the lower half of Lake Marion for over 50 years and have seen only 2 Cottonmouth snakes. Both were in the islands of the Cuddo NWR. Cottonmouths are not comfortable in large open bodies of water. They usually tend to be associated with creeks and swamps. I have however seen thousands of harmless water snakes that are persicuted by people for no good reason other than they are too lazy or dumb to tell the difference.
I lived near the I-95 bridge from 1971 to 2011. I've seen 3 Cottonmouths, a young one in my yard that bit one of my hounds in 2009, a HUGE one at Pine Island near the ponds at the sluice gate around 2007, and one sunning near a boat ramp back around 1980. Seriously, that's been it.
I've seen more pygmy rattlesnakes and copperheads than cottonmouths and IMHO a copperhead is a far more dangerous and aggressive snake than it is given credit for being.
Alligators, are more common than people think. Didn't someone get attacked by a 10 or 11 foot gator down near Moncks Corner around 2008? I seem to remember hearing that the person died from the wounds and it was supposed to be SC's first alligator related death since they started keeping records.


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Tyllinjärvi är en sjö i Finland. Den ligger i kommunen Miehikkälä i landskapet Kymmenedalen, i den södra delen av landet,  km öster om huvudstaden Helsingfors. Tyllinjärvi ligger  meter över havet. Arean är  kvadratkilometer och strandlinjen är  kilometer lång. Sjön   I omgivningarna runt Tyllinjärvi växer i huvudsak blandskog.

I övrigt finns följande i Tyllinjärvi:
 Kaislaluoto (en ö)
 Järvensaari (en ö)
 Pajuluoto (en ö)

I övrigt finns följande vid Tyllinjärvi:
 Häkälänjärvi (en sjö)
 Olkalampi (en sjö)
 Vaalimaanjoki (ett vattendrag)
 Välijärvi (en sjö)

Källor

Insjöar i Kymmenedalen
Insjöar i Finland större än 2 kvadratkilometer
Miehikkälä


DEFINITION: Number of undernourished people in 2001-2003. Figures are in millions. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
"Countries Compared by Health > Malnutrition > Number of Undernourished > Million per million. International Statistics at NationMaster.com, Various sources compiled into Wikipedia's Malnutrition. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database. Aggregates compiled by NationMaster." 2003. <http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Health/Malnutrition/Number-of-Undernourished/Million-per-million>.
"Countries Compared by Health > Malnutrition > Number of Undernourished > Million per million. International Statistics at NationMaster.com", Various sources compiled into Wikipedia's Malnutrition. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database. Aggregates compiled by NationMaster. [Internet]. 2003. Avaliable from: <http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Health/Malnutrition/Number-of-Undernourished/Million-per-million>.
"Countries Compared by Health > Malnutrition > Number of Undernourished > Million per million. International Statistics at NationMaster.com", Various sources compiled into Wikipedia's Malnutrition. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database. Aggregates compiled by NationMaster. Avaliable at: nationmaster.com. Assessed 2003.


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Peter Hines (born 31 October 1948) is  a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Markets are showing extreme volatility. Specially in stocks, we find a particular stock suddenly going down by 10% in the opening trade or some other stock going up by 6% in the opening trade.
In this kind of stock market scenario, how shall one invest. Although in long term , Indian markets seem to be quite bullish , but we all do not know , how much long can be this long term ?
It really pinches to see the capital erosion (at time its pretty fast) in thestocks one has purchased , whereas overall stock market may be going up. The only remedy to such a situation is , we must take benefit of hedging our positions through options. Basically , Options are created for the purpose of hedging the position.
So , isn't it a better idea that whenever we buy a future of a stock or a stock in cash , on which we are bullish, why not buy a lower put so that in case the stock falls sharply because of known or unknown reasons, unknown events and unknown announcements by management and government, at least my risk is limited.
Similarly , whenever I am bearish on particular scrip and trying to sell its future, better to cover the upside risk by buying a call. This again ensures that I am not trading with unlimited risk.
Yes, with these hedging techniques there will be a small reduction in theprofit, but ultimately I am able to cut any substantial loss in my portfolio. In case you are able to apply different combinations as we explain in master strategy , it further improves the risk reward ratio, considerably. So always better to trade hedged positions rather than trading naked positions and risking all the capital. Hedging the position is just like buying insurance for the position, which in present times is a MUST.


With the right care, your gold will hold its glitter for a long, long time. Diamonds in particular need some maintenance, and ideally should be cleaned everyday. Here are a few pointers that will help you keep your jewellery at their gorgeous best.
Different pieces require different methods of cleaning and maintenance. Do not subject them all to one common way of cleaning.Choose a place where you're least likely to lose a piece. By the side of the sink is a bad idea, for a piece could slip down the drain.
Do not expose gemstones to saltwater or harsh chemicals like chlorine or detergents.
Hair spray, lotion and perfumes could dull down the shine of your jewellery. Ideally, wear your jewellery last, while getting ready.When taking them off, wipe with a clean soft cloth to remove oil and perspiration.Never wear them while doing household chores.
Get your jewellery cleaned and checked professionally for worn mountings, loose prongs, etc. every once in a while. Have white-gold re-plated and platinum repolished to keep them in their originalcondition.
Use a toothpick to remove the dirt between the prongs. Make a solution of 4 parts cold-water and 1 part very mild dishwashing detergent. Soak the pieces for several minutes. Lift out and tap gently around all sides of the mounting with a soft brush. Rinse the pieces in the solution once more and drain on tissue paper.
Heat up an appropriately sized container of water and dissolve a large amount of table salt into the water. Use enough salt such that it takes at least a minute to dissolve in the hot water with constant stirring. Shape a liner for the container from aluminium foil and place the foil in the container of hot water. Place silver that has been previously cleaned with soap into the bath for several minutes. Tarnish should dissolve away. For stubborn spots, remove and clean with soap and a damp rag before re-immersing in the bath.
Use only cloth to clean pearls. Never use anything abrasive like brushes and the like. Also it's recommended that you get your pearl necklaces re-strung once every five years.
Be sure to store your jewellery carefully in fabric pouches or cases with soft, well-lined interiors. Store pieces individually.
Use tarnish-resistant cloth and cases to store silver.


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