Bringing a new puppy home is an exciting event for humans, but for cats it can seem as if their world has just been torn apart. Even if your cat has been used to living with a dog, the new puppy is nothing like their old, established friend, and can seriously disrupt the household order! Here are some tips on introducing your puppy and cat.
Most cats are highly territorial, and routine-oriented. The inner sanctum of their home is an important part of their security, and feeling that it has been 'invaded' in any way can be enough to trigger off a whole gamut of stress-related behaviours – including spraying urine on your furniture, leaving deposits in your shoes, or the dog's bed, or – at worst – leaving home altogether.
Preparing your home for the arrival of a new puppy is very important, but even more so if you have a cat (or cats) and want to make the arrival as calm and harmonious as possible. Simply bringing your puppy home, popping him on the floor, and allowing him to chase (or be chased!) across the carpet is not the best first introduction! Indeed, in one fell swoop it can create anxiety and a mistrust that can last for life.
Introducing a new puppy to an established cat really requires you to think about the world from your cat's point of view. Cats see the world in very different ways to humans – and to dogs! While our world is full of vision and colour, cats tend to gain much of their information from scent, which is why even a new piece of furniture in your home can be enough to upset a sensitive feline disposition! For this reason, accustoming your cat to the smell of your new dog, long before he or she even comes home, can be ideal. This can be done by taking a cloth with you when you visit your new puppy at the breeder's and stroking the puppy with it. You can then take this home and wipe it on your furniture, door frames, even your own hands, before stroking your cat. This way the smell of the new puppy will be transferred to all these areas and will be familiar to your cat before she ever lays eyes on the newcomer. Perhaps this is the cat version of seeing photographs of someone before you meet them – giving a much-needed sense of recognition in advance.
Once your pup is home, spend lots of time stroking your cat before immediately stroking your pup – he or she will then smell familiar and will be recognised as a part of your cat's family.
With the imminent arrival in mind, think too about the practical areas of your cat's life that may be disrupted by the presence of a new puppy. If you currently feed your cat from dishes on the floor, you may choose to start getting her into the new habit of eating up on a high surface. This is for two reasons. The first is obvious – a dish left down with food in it will be eaten by your dog! Cat food is not good news for puppies for many reasons, and it certainly won't help with house training if your new pup has a stomach upset in the first few days. The second reason is that your cat's emotional security needs to be protected and she may well feel vulnerable eating on the floor with the possibility of a bouncy puppy suddenly appearing next to her (or on top of her!) while she eats.
Have a think too about the positioning and type of litter tray that your cat uses. If this is in a place where the puppy can access, you need to be aware that cat poo is a doggie delicacy! This might be a perfectly 'normal' canine behaviour, but clearly it is unhygienic, and pretty revolting! However, far worse from your cat's point of view is the fear that she might be ambushed by the puppy whilst using the tray! Even if your puppy does this in play, this has got to be top of the list of feline nightmares, and can lead to all kinds of messy behaviour problems in the future if your cat no longer wants to use the tray. Of course, no one likes the thought of being surprised by the door suddenly opening whilst we are at our most vulnerable in the loo – and the same goes for cats too. To avoid this, you may need to re-position the tray somewhere that only your cat can access, whether via a cat flap or the judicious use of a baby gate or barrier that your cat can get through or jump over, but your puppy cannot. Various types of litter tray can also help to prevent canine interest in the contents – the type that are covered with a domed lid, and are accessed by a cat flap can be ideal, but you need to accustom your cat to using a new tray before the arrival of your new puppy, not after!
On the whole, cats are wily creatures that work out very quickly that where they can go, puppies cannot always follow. However, in order to feel safe and secure it's important that they have high places that they can go to sit and look down on the new puppy in a superior, feline kind of way. For this reason, make sure that your cat has access to window sills, units, even bookcases, where you won't be worried about ornaments getting knocked or your cat struggling to climb up or down. How much your cat will need to use these 'safety platforms' will depend largely on his or her basic confidence, but even if you think that your cat is usually a big, bossy bruiser, it's best to provide some of these high-rise hides in advance.
Without doubt, one of the main contributors to a harmonious cat and dog household is to ensure that your puppy never gets a chance to chase your cat, either in the house or the garden. The easiest way to do this is to create barriers in your home that your cat can traverse but your puppy can't. Baby gates (where the cat can slip through the bars, but your puppy can't) or low barriers positioned at doors or the bottom of the stairs where the cat can easily jump over, leaving your pup on the other side, are simple and practical. Keeping your pup on a lead or trailing line is also recommended when you are there to supervise interactions. Combining this with training a 'settle down' on command can work wonders to keep everyone calm and happy.
My experience of keeping dogs and cats together has been a wonderful joy. Whilst there is little doubt who rules the roost in my house, (as all those who are 'owned' by cats will know,) to see all my animals lounging together on the sofa, or lining up for a spot of clicker training en masse, has been a huge privilege – and, quite simply – great fun.
There are some cases where despite your best efforts, your cat and dog still aren't getting on. This might be because your cat is very anxious or fearful, and is hiding the whole time, or it may be because your new dog shows an inherent desire to be 'predatory' around your cat. This is normally seen in older dogs, rather than puppies, but tends to be characterised by the dog being obsessed with your cat, sniffing her out and hunting for her continually, or shaking with arousal and being completely fixed and focused when he sees her. Don't delay. These kinds of symptoms indicate that you need some professional help with assessment and possible intervention, as the welfare of both animals is at stake – as well as your stress levels!


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Tromsø murder suspect in custody
Police in Tromsø have arrested a man and charged him with the murder of another man found dead in his home on Tuesday. On Thursday they weren't ruling out that other arrests may be made as well.
The victim, 48-year-old Hermod Magne Stensund, was found shot in the publicly owned housing complex where he lived on the island of Kvaløya. Eight people live in the complex, known for attracting "a lot of traffic and noise," according to newspaper Aftenposten. Neighbours reported that they had heard death threats directed at the victim.
Police said the victim, who had a police record himself, was killed sometime between Monday afternoon and early Tuesday morning. National crime investigators have been sent from Oslo to assist Tromsø police in the murder investigation. The man in custody is suspected of "having carried out the murder or contributing to it," Einar Sparboe Lysnes, acting police chief for the Troms Police District, told state broadcaster NRK. "We cannot rule out that there will be more arrests."
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This quinoa salad is light and lemony and a great side dish. It's perfect for spring or summer barbecues when you need some good vegetable side dishes. Roasting the cauliflower brings out the nutty flavor which complements the quinoa and the toasted pine nuts. I use white quinoa for this recipe because I like how it blends in color with the cauliflower and artichokes; the red onion and parsley offer the hints of color and flavor. The lemony dressing brings the flavors together with a nice acidic punch.
To roast the cauliflower, slice it very thin and season then roast it with olive oil and some salt and pepper. While the cauliflower is roasting, cook the quinoa and slice the artichokes, onion and parsley and add them to a large bowl big enough to hold the rest of the ingredients. Add lemon juice, remaining oil and vinegar and seasoning to the artichokes. Add the cooked quinoa, cauliflower and toasted pine nuts. Mix all ingredients through. Chill for at least 2 hours so the flavors mesh.
Thinly slice the cauliflower, slice it very thin and into small pieces and season it with salt, pepper and 3 tablespoons of olive oil and roast on a foil-lined pan for 25 minutes in a 400° oven. While the cauliflower is roasting, cook the quinoa in water in a covered pot for about 15 minutes, until cooked through. Add the artichokes, onion and parsley to a large bowl big enough to hold the rest of the ingredients. Add lemon juice and zest, remaining oil, vinegar, 1 teaspoon of salt, pepper and cumin to the bowl and mix through. When the quinoa is cooked add it to the bowl, then add the cauliflower, cutting the pieces as needed. Add the remaining teaspoon of salt and mix all ingredients through. Toast the pine nuts then mix them through. Chill at least 2 hours so the flavors mesh.
This entry was posted in Blog, Recipes and tagged Artichokes, gluten free, Lemon Dressing, Quinoa, Roasted Cauliflower on April 27, 2014 by Leslie.
When I think of a stuffed artichoke, the first image that comes to mind is one that is stuffed with breadcrumbs flavored with oregano, garlic, olive oil, lemon juice and parmesan cheese, like those served in restaurants in Little Italy in New York, and at New York's annual Feast of San Gennaro. My mother made her own version without the cheese, and it was a real treat when she made them.
While artichoke hearts (often added to various recipes) are more common for the home cook and much easier to eat, I prefer to eat this savory vegetable in its whole state – picking each leaf off and eating them one by one. While they are messy to eat, require an extra bowl for the mounds of waste, offer just a bit of "meat' on each petal and require a cleaning of the "hairy" choke before getting to the heart, which is the real "prize" in this vegetable, they are well worth all the work. Stuffing adds great flavor and more "meat" to each petal making it worth it even more. Besides flavor (and, yes, I also find them fun to eat), artichokes are also very nutritious, providing high amounts of potassium, antioxidants, and fiber.
As I look to have less gluten in my diet, I look for alternative, healthier ways to eat them rather than the breadcrumb stuffing that I have come to know and love. Sometimes I steam them in lemon juice, water and garlic and dip the leaves in a vinaigrette. But there is something about a stuffed artichoke that seems quite decadent and, well, exciting to eat. This recipe for vegetable stuffed artichokes, uses colorful diced vegetables to offer the right balance of taste and decadence and cooked in a lemony broth. The key to making the vegetable stuffing, is to dice the vegetables into small pieces about 1/8". I use carrots, red bell pepper, string beans, zucchini, lima beans (frozen or canned is fine), but you can use any other vegetables that you like. This stuffing recipe will yield more than you need.
To prep the artichokes for stuffing, slice the top off using a serrated knife and cut off the bottom stem so that you have a flat bottom and the artichoke stands upright. Then cut each outer leaf with a scissor to remove the hard pointy tips. Then remove the center leaves and all the white pithy parts. If you can, scrape the choke out at this point, it'll make eating a neater experience. If not, no worries, as it removes easy with a fork or spoon when eating them. Artichokes turn brown rather quickly once they have been cut into, so drizzle the cores with lemon juice as you're finishing the prep for this dish.
I cook these vegetable stuffed artichokes on the stovetop. Once the artichokes are stuffed, place them in a pot on the stove and add the lemon juice, garlic, bay leaf and salt to the pot, then fill the pot with water about 1-1½ inches high – but no more than halfway up the artichokes Cover the pot and simmer the artichokes for about an hour, until they are tender. To test the doneness, pick a leaf off and eat it. If it is hard, then keep cooking. You may have to add a bit more water to the pot to add a bit more water to the pot if the liquid evaporates before the artichokes are done.
Make stuffing by cutting the zucchini, string beans, pepper, carrot into 1/8" pieces and add to a bowl. Cut lima beans in half and add to bowl along with parsley and 1 teaspoon of salt. Mix the stiffing mixture through.
Prepare artichokes by cutting the top off and the bottom stem, using a serrated knife, so that you have a flat bottom and the artichoke stands upright. Then cut each outer leaf with a scissor to remove the hard pointy tips. Then remove the center leaves and all the white pithy parts. Drizzle the core of the artichokes with lemon juice.
Stuff the vegetables into the core of the artichokes and stand them up in a pot (I use a Dutch oven). Add the lemon juice, garlic cloves, bay leaf, 1 teaspoon of salt to the post and add enough water to cover about 1"-1 ½" of the artichokes but no more than halfway up the artichokes. Cover the pot and simmer the artichokes for about an hour, until they are tender. To test the doneness, pick a leaf off and eat it. If it is hard, then keep cooking. You may have to add a bit more water to the pot if the liquid evaporates before the artichokes are done.
This entry was posted in Blog, Recipes and tagged Artichokes, Stuffed Artichokes, vegetable stuffed artichokes on March 1, 2014 by Leslie.


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Environment: Waukegan's Toxic Waits
The endless battle over PCBs in Waukegan Harbor is poisoning the city's plans to become the "Coho Coast."
by Paul Botts
Sometime, the folks in Waukegan hope, the day will come when they won't have to answer questions for articles like this one.
Some big plans are being made in Waukegan, plans to put a new economic face on northern Lake County, plans to redevelop the lakefront and unlock the tourist potential of the "Coho Coast." But there's this nasty little problem--actually billions of little problems, resting at the bottom of Waukegan's prized Lake Michigan harbor: PCBs.
Those PCBs may constitute a serious health problem. They have certainly created legal, political, and public policy problems. All that adds up to a major image problem, and in the redevelopment game, image is everything.
In the 1880s, the city fathers of Waukegan, the seat of Lake County, convinced Congress to fund the creation of Waukegan Harbor as a frankly commercial enterprise. It turned out to be a fine investment. About 40 miles up the lakeshore from downtown Chicago, Waukegan became the only deep-water port between here and Milwaukee; as industry settled there, a town of fewer than 10,000 souls grew to a bustling manufacturing city of better than 50,000.
The forerunner (several mergers ago) of the Outboard Marine Corporation was one of those manufacturers, and by the 1960s it dominated the booming pleasure-boating industry in this country, employing up to 5,000 people at two plants on the harbor.
In due course, Waukegan became a charter member of the Rust Belt: plants began closing and moving south and west, taking jobs with them. OMC is a case in point; though the company maintains its corporate headquarters and some manufacturing operations next to the harbor, it has in the past decade moved 3,000 jobs to plants in the south, seeking cheaper labor.
"Reality in Waukegan and its neighboring industrial cities [North Chicago, Deerfield, Libertyville] is that 20,000 jobs in and related to heavy industry have been lost in recent years," says Warren Wood, a senior planner with the Lake County Department of Planning, Zoning, and Environmental Quality.
To bring some of those jobs back, people like Wood and Don Freeborn, director of the Waukegan Port District, are trying to recast the city's economic mold.
"I think there is a great desire here to see Waukegan experience a rebirth," Wood says, "to create a new image and a new reality."
The cornerstone of that new reality, as Wood sees it, will be tourism drawn by the lakefront. Promoting that goal, he says, will require expansion of the harbor and other planned infrastructure projects, for example a lakefront parkway and a "beltway" around Waukegan and North Chicago.
Expansion of the harbor is well under way, under Don Freeborn's stewardship. In the past four years, the number of pleasure-boat slips in the harbor has been increased from about 200 to 1,046. Every one of those is already filled for the coming summer, and the waiting list is 800 names long. The demand represented by that waiting list will be met, Freeborn and Wood hope, by a proposed Harbor Authority project to build two new marinas south of the new harbor, bringing the total to 3,400 slips. "When the South Marina is built, we will be the largest marina on the west side of the lake," Freeborn noted.
Also in the works, according to Freeborn, is a retail-office-restaurant development on the shore of the new harbor, which Wood calls an example of just the sort of "public-private partnership" needed to revitalize downtown Waukegan. Other projects are in progress or planned: the Commercial Club of Chicago estimated last spring that more than $500 million in private and public funds are being pumped into the area.
Wood is a man who has truly found his calling; he fairly bursts with ideas for Waukegan's future. Wind him up, and he'll start talking about a "Historic Main Street" in downtown Waukegan, or a network of walkways and bike paths and "linear botanical gardens" in the town's ravines. He'll also make sure you recall that those ravines were immortalized in the works of Ray Bradbury.
Perhaps Wood's most successful brainstorm to date has been the "Lake Michigan Circle Tour," an updating of Daniel Burnham's 1909 proposal for a trail around the rim of the lake. You may have spotted the Circle Tour signs on Sheridan Road in Evanston, or along the dunes highways in Indiana.
The tour consists of a marked route for a drive around the lake, with each of four states--Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin--contributing promotion and providing a guidebook for its portion of the route. The tour, needless to say, goes right through Waukegan.
"Already I've heard stories about people coming up from Missouri and Iowa to take the tour," Wood beams.
Wood is also pushing to get Lake County municipalities to participate in the Lake Michigan Corridor Council. The council, one of many established under a state program, is a sort of local tourism and promotion agency, with municipalities contributing funds that are matched by the state.
Of course, none of the many reporters who have visited Waukegan over the last decade have come to ask about the Lake Michigan Corridor Council, or the Circle Tour, or the Coho Coast. What brings the media to Waukegan is the PCB problem.
"If there is a 'the problem' to be solved," Wood says with a sigh, "it's an image problem: the Rust Belt. The PCBs are both a reality and a symbol, and part of that image problem."
PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, first created in Germany in 1881, were manufactured by Monsanto between 1929 and 1977. They are, as DePaul chemistry professor Tom Murphy explains, "very useful compounds for industry because they are thermally stable, don't conduct electricity, and can store electrical charges. In electrical capacitors in motors, they're safer than, say, mineral oil, because they're not a fire hazard."
At OMC they were used as hydraulic fluids, Murphy says, and hydraulic systems are highly susceptible to leaks. Evidently the stuff simply leaked onto the plant floor, and OMC "just seemed to hose down the building at night," Murphy says--"into the drains, then the pipes, then the harbor . . ."
This was before the dangers of PCBs had been established. Besides, as Murphy puts it, "This was the 50s and 60s: out of sight, out of mind. It's a big lake out there, right?"
In 1966, a Swedish chemist discovered PCBs in the environment--including his own family's hair--while monitoring for DDT, a dangerous pesticide similar to PCBs. In 1968, more than 1,000 people in Kitakyushu, Japan, came down with skin lesions, swollen limbs, abdominal cramps, and other problems; mothers in the area gave birth to undersized, sickly infants. Five people died before the problem was traced to PCBs accidentally mixed into rice oil in a local rice-milling plant.
In 1976 and '77, as part of efforts to locate deposits of PCBs loose in the environment, the federal Environmental Protection Agency discovered huge concentrations of them virtually surrounding the OMC plant: at the bottom of the north end of the harbor, in a ditch and pond to the north and west of the plant, and eventually under OMC's parking lot.
Of course, nobody in Waukegan is ingesting those PCBs directly, as the Japanese victims did. "The problem," Tom Murphy explains, "is that they don't break down, and they're bioaccumulative." Meaning that once they get into a living organism, they tend to stay put, building up to higher and higher concentrations with each link of the food chain. There might be a tiny number of PCB molecules--call it x--in a microscopic water organism. A bigger organism eats enough of the smaller fry to accumulate 10x of PCBs. Then a small fish eats enough of those to accumulate 100x. Then comes a medium size fish, then a trout, then a trout fisherman, with the amount of PCBs ingested multiplying each time.
Soon after the PCBs were discovered, OMC, EPA, and the Illinois EPA initiated talks about cleaning them up. More than a decade later, after a series of epic legal battles going right up to the Supreme Court, and political wrangles reaching to Springfield and Washington, and too many cleanup proposals to describe here, they're still talking about it. The New York Times and national TV reporters have come and gone, the story has long since faded from the Tribune and Sun-Times news pages--and they're still talking about it. A columnist for the Waukegan News-Sun complained:
"Over the past several years, the U.S. EPA has given the same answer to the following question: When will the PCBs be removed from Waukegan Harbor?
"The answer: Next summer.
"It doesn't seem to matter which year the question is asked. The answer stays the same."
That was written in 1981.
There are several good reasons why the EPA is no closer to cleaning up the PCBs now than it was in 1977. Chief among them has been OMC's no-holds-barred, dig-in-the-heels legal battle to avoid paying for taking out of the harbor what they put into it. But EPA has not been blameless. At one point, for example, the agency proposed a cleanup plan that would have simply done away with Larsen's Marine, a family-owned marina that had the bad luck to be located right next to the OMC outfall. The howl of protest reached all the way to the Illinois legislature, which passed a resolution against the plan. EPA quickly went back to the drawing board, and not for the first time. Such blunders have earned EPA the scorn of many Waukeganites.
Residents of the area, naturally reluctant to believe that their harbor is full of deadly toxins, also wonder about the health hazards represented by Waukegan's PCBs. Many point out that the Illinois Conservation Department still stocks the harbor with a third of a million trout and salmon each year, and that Waukegan's drinking water is still drawn from an intake located about 6,000 feet straight out from the mouth of the harbor. Environmental authorities have no objection to these practices, the locals say, so how dangerous can the stuff be? Mayor Robert Sabonjian is not the only Waukeganite who asked me pointedly, "Who's died?"
(The drinking water is not a concern, explains DePaul chemist Tom Murphy, for the same reason that the PCBs are mostly in the bottom sediments: they're heavier than water, and therefore sink. Six thousand feet out in the lake, PCBs are in concentrations of parts per trillion, and "there's no problem" drinking the water, he says. As for the fish, they are released in the new harbor, away from the heavy PCB concentrations. A joint advisory by the four Lake Michigan states warns fishermen not to eat several classes of Great Lakes fish, including bottom feeders like carp and catfish and any fish caught in the old harbor. Pregnant and nursing mothers, and even female children, are advised to be especially careful because PCBs have been linked to fertility problems and shown up in mother's milk.
(As for the contention that no one has died or even got sick from Lake Michigan PCBs, EPA project manager Dan Caplice answers, "It's similar to cigarette smoking. There are very few chemicals about which you can say, 'If you take this, you will get that.' But if you smoke, you have a lot better chance of getting cancer. Not everybody who ingests PCBs will get sick; but some will. The whole Superfund process [EPA's national toxics cleanup program] is based on potential hazards.")
For some time after PCBs were found in Waukegan Harbor, OMC challenged the EPA to prove that PCBs were truly dangerous. The original federal Superfund law, passed in 1980, was not well designed to resolve such controversies, and OMC successfully blocked the cleanup in federal court. In 1986 Congress passed a new Superfund bill, expanding EPA's power in clear language aimed specifically at the Waukegan situation. Finally, with the legal tide clearly running against it, OMC caved in. Spokesman Laurin Baker says, "There was a decision that it was in the best interests of everybody that we get this matter resolved." So OMC proposed their own cleanup plan and set aside $15 million to pay for it. Of course their plan wasn't quite the same as the EPA's, so now the two are . . . well, talking.
EPA's latest cleanup plan, estimated to cost around $30 million, is what the agency's Waukegan project manager, Dan Caplice, calls the "most reasonable" option.
The "Cadillac" cleanup, Caplice says, would be "to take everything out of there and totally destroy it." PCBs can be destroyed, by being incinerated at high temperatures, but that process is tremendously expensive: Caplice said it would cost "hundreds of millions, maybe a billion dollars."
The "Honda" cleanup, by contrast, would be to simply dig up the material and truck it all to a landfill. "But we don't like that," Caplice says. "It's simply moving the problem."
Besides, Caplice says, whether the material is going to a landfill or an incinerator, the sheer volume of it causes another, possibly bigger headache. Simply getting it all to a landfill in Zion, 15 miles away, would require about half a million truck-miles. The trucks, no matter how well built, would inevitably leak, and when you're hauling that volume of material, it doesn't take much leakage to cause big problems.
So the EPA has settled on a mostly "on-site" solution--probably a Buick on Dan Caplice's scale. The most heavily contaminated sediments are to be dredged and taken to a "batch plant." There, they will be "solidified" into "a non-flowable state" by being combined with cement or ash. The solids would then be dumped at a federally approved toxics landfill.
Several acres of vacant OMC-owned land on the east side of the old harbor are to be appropriated for a large "de-watering lagoon." The sediments with lower concentrations are to be dredged and dumped into the lagoon to dry out, a process taking about two years. The most contaminated of that will then head for the batch plant.
The east half of the OMC parking lot, which has hard glacial bedrock 12 to 15 feet below it, is slated to become a permanent containment cell with clay walls down to the bedrock. With the addition of the dried material from the lagoon, and a clay roof, the cell would become a new parking lot atop a 15-foot-high ridge.
Before a cleanup actually began, Caplice says, EPA would "reevaluate" various other techniques proposed for getting rid of PCBs. Over the past few years, those have included a claim that a certain type of bacteria would eat the PCBs, and a proposal to turn the PCBs into salt by adding sodium. Caplice says that none of these has yet been proved effective, but if one does emerge in the future, the Waukegan PCBs could be dug up and eliminated.
What does OMC think of this plan? The company and EPA have agreed not to discuss the specifics of their negotiations, but Laurin Baker does say that OMC's counterproposal is based on "a number of concerns" about the EPA plan.
"[The EPA plan] appears to us to be economically not viable, and environmentally could cause more problems than doing nothing at all," Baker says. "It would cause tremendous disruption of lakefront activities, and would cost more than what we would call a cost-effective remedy."
Dan Caplice says the question of who will pay for the cleanup "is a point of negotiation. We're hoping to work something out." Baker says: "We are hoping to make some progress in the next few months." It is still EPA policy to force the "responsible party" in such cases to pay for the cleanup, Caplice says.
Of course, if an agreement is reached, and it is significantly different from the EPA plan, then the government's approval process would have to be reopened, with public hearings, likely further revisions, and so forth. Then comes design work, engineering, and other planning. It would be, Caplice says, "two to three years, from the time of an agreement," before the PCBs are dredged.
The folks in Waukegan aren't holding their breath. Nor are they holding back on their plans any longer. Gerry Larsen, owner of Larsen's Marine, says he had some improvement plans in mind for the marina when the PCB problem surfaced. "We delayed for two or three years, waiting to see what would happen, but finally went ahead with some," he says. "Basically, we've had to put it out of our minds and go about our business."
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Tom Herzberg.
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Dubcharo wrote: We are at our fourth year with cameras and we cannot live without them anymore!
Also a curse. I find myself GLUED to them. Even all hours of the night. I am so sleep deprived, my coffee needs coffee. My husband gives me a hard time about it but I can't turn away when one is calving.
That as my question. Who watches calving when you're asleep??? Seems it would require 24/7 monitoring or it would be worthless.
There is no need to monitor it 24/7. It is one of those...work smarter, not harder....deals. With the camera, our cows actually get checked more often than when we went out and did it in person. Especially at night. Whenever someone wakes up to go to the washroom, you just check the camera. No need to get dressed, and if there's nothing to worry about, 10 min later you're back in bed asleep. Plus, the camera in the barn makes things a lot less stressful for any cows calving. Just check them remotely, they don't even notice. If you were to walk up to the barn to check, you interrupt things, probably takes 20 min for some cows to settle back down.
When one wakes us.....keyword.....sleep 10 minutes longer and you may lose a calf. Sounds like it's more of a convenience than more effective system.
Supa Dexta wrote: And I don't mean wifi cameras, but rather how to connect to the system from the house.
The ones we have are wireless. They are wired to a sending unit on the outside of the barn, then transmit wirelessly to the receiver in the house. Ours transmit 500-600 feet. They are rated to transmit up to 2 miles, I believe. But you have to have line of sight. And you can get an antenna that will transmit further than that. Trees will interfere with the signal, and that is a problem we have once the end of April rolls around and the trees leaf out.
TexasBred wrote: That as my question. Who watches calving when you're asleep??? Seems it would require 24/7 monitoring or it would be worthless.
I suppose it would be a convenience. But a convenience, that I know has saved calves. At least 2 or 3 last spring (sac over their nose) And definitely a convenience that saves a LOT of sleep. More sleep = happier people= less arguments and less error.
Is it more effective than going out and checking in person? Yes, and no. There really is NO replacement for going out and checking in person. The camera doesn't give you a 'feel' for what is going on. When a cow walks away from you, that normally would not even move unless you step on her. And I've gone out a few times because I thought maybe there was something going on that didn't seem 'right', only to get out there are find no problem. BUT, I've watched a calf born on the camera, saw that the sac didn't break, and been able to get there in time to save the calf, same thing for a calf that was dropped upside down. Most will wiggle themselves out, but we've had to go out and help a couple.
If we have a cow that we know is calving, we will check on her in, at most, an hour (usually 1/2 hour), and I don't have to go out and aggravate her to do it. That, is where I think it is really more effective. Not having to disturb a calving cow. I can sit there and watch her calve, 20 minutes....I've tried the same thing in the pasture, and had to finally walk away, because they won't settle down and have the calf.
To me the ability to WATCH without disturbing the cow is a huge advantage.
My cameras are set up to my TV in my bedroom (strictly used as a monitor). I wake up, peak at what's going on & roll over. I am a light sleeper and wake every few hours, but don't get cold!!!!
My old block barn has hard wire connection - barn is super close to house. Super clarity, can zoom in, 4 cameras.
My arch steel building is wireless and is "iffy". I have SecurityMan which only has two cameras. I have them mounted on the door frame & leave the steel door open a foot. I have a stronger antenna being shipped to me right now for (hopefully) better reception. The two stationary cameras do not give me enough good view. I have a splitter for the two systems to be switched to the TV.
I love Randi's camera. I have decided I need to designate a heifer sale to be used for that purchase.
Jeanne - Simme Valley wrote: To me the ability to WATCH without disturbing the cow is a huge advantage.
We had them in the dairy barn but it was to watch the milkers not the cattle.
So do all of these systems have to have hardwired electricity or is there something out there that is good enough to run on solar?
Jake, I don't know of any, but in this day & age, might be.
Read back on Randi's posts and check out her link.
Jeanne - Simme Valley wrote: Jake, I don't know of any, but in this day & age, might be.
I read through that and have gone scoured the net. Doesn't seem like the solar units that are out there have the range or are so expensive it pays to run the power the 1000 ft. Cows may have to survive the old fashioned way.
Thought I'd share this tidbit with anyone who has an IP camera.
I was trying to mirror my iPhone to my TV, with no success. So I googled more on how to circumvent that (apple doesn't want you to mirror without Apple TV)... and discovered my Roku device could do it. So I downloaded the "IP Camera" to my roku channel and am now streaming my camera on my bedroom tv. I can't toggle on my roku app but I can use my iPhone app to move camera just as I would on my phone.
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The Test Is Upon Us. Will You Fail or Will You Prevail?
By Tom Gilson Published on April 1, 2021 •
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Multiple shootings. Joe Biden talking about an executive order on gun control. Jack Phillips in Colorado being repeatedly harassed by LGBT people. New York issuing COVID passports.
I'm not the only who looks at this and wonders when the showdown is coming. Last summer's street violence may have been a preview. Whether that will repeat itself under a Democratic administration is murky to me. This time it's conservatives being pushed into a corner. I can't imagine us committing the same nonsense that BLM and the Woke crowd did last year. I can easily see them pushing against American liberties until we have little choice but to stand and defend.
We can all expect that, even while hoping and praying against it. I am sure of this, though: We are heading into a time of testing. Tests show what we're made of: Who's ready, who isn't. Some of us will make it, some of us won't. Will you prevail or will you fail?
Conservative principles alone aren't going to cut it this time; not in this conflict. You won't reach the right ending unless you choose the right ending. Some of us are going to get that wrong, and fail. You don't have to, though. You can still prevail.
"America's Founding Principles" Won't Get You There
Maybe you've got this battle staked entirely on America's founding principles. Sorry, but you're going to fail. Your problem isn't that you're on the wrong track. We need to do battle for what's best in America. I'll stand for that all day long; it's one of the chief reasons I'm with The Stream.
As of 2010, less than half of Americans knew that Easter was about Jesus' resurrection, and you can be sure they know even less of what the Bible says about human worth, human equality, human sin, or godly right and wrong.
On their own, though, our founding principles aren't enough. On their own, I emphasize. They've already demonstrated their rhetorical and political vulnerabilities. Consider the "1619 Project," and its strange claim that America was founded on principles far more evil than good. It's a pile of nonsense, but they've got a huge audience for it, and statues are falling everywhere.
On their own, our American principles are a founding without a foundation, which is what allows the opposition to co-opt them so easily for wrong purposes. They can make equality mean "equal marriage" and "equal bathroom access." They can twist liberty into a woman's "freedom" to abort her child, or the "freedom" to attend church when the state grants you its sovereign permission. Or they can make "justice" mean "defunding the police."
And just look how simple it is! All they have to do is decapitate these words from the context where they were born. It's easy, and it's working. They're steamrolling us with it.
Can We Re-Educate America?
So how do we defend ourselves against that? Ideally the answer would be to re-educate America, to teach everyone the deep historic values and reasoning our documents rest upon. It would mean a return to Locke, to Burke, to the Magna Carta, and ultimately to the source from which they all got their best work, the Jewish and Christian scriptures.
Through these scriptures, and these alone, we know what equality really means: that all persons are equally created by God, equal before Him at the foot of the Cross, equally loved by God, and therefore equal in worth or value. This is how we know all deserve an equal share in government, and why we elect others to represent us in it.
Also through these scriptures and the history of thought flowing from them, our predecessors knew the truth of human sin, the universal failing that puts everyone at risk when one person or group holds too much power. Thus they developed our intricate system of checks and balances.
Through these scriptures (and again, through centuries of great thinking built upon them), they knew that laws must not be arbitrary; that there is good law and bad law, right law and wrong law; and that the governing class is subject to right and wrong, the same as the rest of us.
Severed From Our Roots
People tussle over whether our Founders were Christians. I have little need for that debate. Whether this Founder or that was a believer or not, their way of thinking was still completely soaked in a biblical view of reality. They couldn't help it; the entire Western world was saturated with it.
Cut America off from Jesus Christ, and we lose the very foundation we're founded upon. That's how the country will fail, and that's how you will fail, if you go that route.
But we're cut off from that now. As of 2010, less than half of Americans knew that Easter was about Jesus' resurrection, and you can be sure they know even less of what the Bible says about human worth, human equality, human sin, or godly right and wrong. As for Locke and Burke and the Magna Carta — ?
Hopeless? No!
But let me interrupt that question, please. A moment ago I said something about re-educating America. I know what you thought at that point: "Fat chance of that. You'll never get today's student's caught up with that. And you'll really never get our leftist educators cooperating with it." And the feeling you feel right there has a name: Hopelessness.
We're in a difficult place, with no easy answers; none, really, apart from God Himself. That's why it's more important now than ever to connect ourselves to our true Foundation, Jesus Christ. Apart from Him there really is no hope. You and I would be destined to shrivel and die.
It's true of individuals, and it's true of nations as well. Cut America off from Jesus Christ, and we lose the very foundation we're founded upon. That's how the country will fail, and that's how you will fail, if you go that route.
Prevail Through Jesus Alone
You may ask what this has to do with strategies for cultural or political victory. It's a fair question: I'm all for good strategy. But good strategy knows where to stand as it engages in battle, and there is no other sure place for that but our Rock, Jesus Christ.
These things are hardly just political, anyway. Your entire future depends on Him. This is Holy Week, a memorial of that one great week when hopelessness turned astonishingly into the joy of resurrection.
Victory begins with Christ. By His grace, connected deeply to Him in faith, you can and will prevail.
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Q: Cron job log reads 'No MTA installed', does that prevent the CRON job from finishing? I have a cron job that is just running rsync on a particular directory.
When I run the rsync command itself sudo rsync -av --delete /directory1 /directory2, it runs without issue and does exactly as intended.
When the Cron job runs - I see it in /var/log/syslog.1 and it says this (summarized):
Mar  12 11:38:01 ip-xx-xx-xx-xxx CRON[4970]: (root) CMD (rsync --delete /my/directory /backup/directory)
Mar  12 11:38:01 ip-xx-xx-xx-xxx CRON[4970]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)

But the files are not in the backup directory (so it's not completing).
Does that second statement about 'No MTA installed' prevent the completion of the cron job? What is the best way to get that cron job to complete and get rid of the MTA error?
I found this answer but it doesn't say if that prevents the job from finishing.

A: No, it does not prevent the CRON job from finishing.
Normally, you shouldn't let your CRON job generate output without telling it where to write it. If you do, like in this case, CRON tries to mail it somewhere (also specified in the crontab file). If it doesn't succeed, it discards the output, as it says in the log file, and goes on.
In your case, you don't have a "Message Transfer Agent" installed. This is  a generic name for packages, like postfix and ssmtp, that provide a mail command.
I recommend redirecting SYSOUT and SYSERR from the rsync command using > and 2>, respectively. If you're not interested at all, redirect output to /dev/null.

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Tesco still has to roll out its 'new look' card department.
Supermarkets are viewed as the biggest competitive threat to an independent greeting card retailer's business, beating Card Factory, Paperchase and print-on-demand operators hands down as retailers they fear the most.
Supermarkets topped the poll in the Progressive Greetings/Cardgains Retail Barometer annual research survey into the health and wealth of the independent greeting card retailer when asked what retailers they see as the biggest threat to their business, due to their enviable footfall, invariably free parking as well as improvements in their greeting card selection and display.
Sainsbury's is scoring well with its improved card selection.
Card Factory is still up there on the threat front, but it is almost as though indies have become more confident in the co-existence with the UK's largest card retailer. "It is interesting how almost half of the indies respondents now feel neutral about Card Factory – and 4% seeing them as a boon to business, seemingly confident that their selection and customer service differentiates their independent store with the value giant," commented Warren Lomax, joint owner of Progressive Greetings, which runs the annual research programme with buying group Cardgains.
According to the survey, Moonpig, Funky Pigeon, Thortful (and other print-on-demand operators) are now viewed as more of a threat to an indie's business than multiples retailers Paperchase and Clintons.
How do you view the supermarkets' expansion on the greeting card front?
How do you currently view Card Factory?
How do you currently view Clintons?
How do you view Moonpig, Funky Pigeon and other print-on-demand operators?
The quick service and enormous number of permutations make print-on-demand operators, such as Moonpig a threat to an indie's business.
How do you currently view Paperchase?
*Fuller results from the PG/Cardgains Barometer will be revealed in the February edition of Progressive Greetings.


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Latest Scottish bus operator supports drive to make public transport more accessible to those with sight loss.
Stagecoach North Scotland employees have become the latest to take part in a vital training session as part of the bus operator's pledge to make its services more accessible to blind and partially sighted people.
The company which operates throughout Aberdeenshire, Buchan, Moray and the Highlands will today hold a 'swap-with-me' event with drivers and passengers.
Stagecoach North Scotland previously signed a charter from sight loss charity RNIB that commits it to meeting the needs of passengers with a visual impairment.
This includes approaching bus stops more slowly so people have time to make out the number and route, not pulling away from stops before passengers with sight loss have found a seat, and letting them know when they arrive at their destination.
At today's event at Aberdeen Bus Station, drivers will don special 'sim specs' that simulate different eye conditions and experience first-hand the barriers that blind and partially sighted passengers face when travelling, while people with sight loss will get a chance to sit upfront in the cab and engage with those boarding the bus from the driver's perspective.
Stagecoach North Scotland has 343 buses servicing 252 routes across North Scotland.
Mark Whitelocks, managing director for Stagecoach North Scotland, said: "We want to make it as easy and safe as possible for people who are blind and partially sighted to use our services here in North Scotland.
"Things that we may all take for granted, such as buying a bus ticket and getting on and off at the right stop can be a challenging and nerve-racking experience for somebody who has lost or partially lost their sight.
"Our employees play an important part in ensuring that blind and partially sighted people receive the assistance they require to make public transport an easy and pleasant experience.
"We are delighted to participate in the 'Swap with me' event at Aberdeen Bus Station so that our employees can experience first-hand the practical issues faced by blind and partially sighted people."
James Adams, deputy director of RNIB Scotland, said: "It's great news that Stagecoach North Scotland has embraced our campaign. Bus travel can be a life-line for blind and partially sighted people, who rely on buses more than most because they are unable to drive and taxis are too expensive for everyday journeys. But many of our members say they sometimes have difficulty in using some services.
"We think if drivers are more aware of the problems people with sight loss face they will take that extra bit of time to ensure they can make their journey confidently."
There are around 170,000 people in Scotland with significant sight loss, a number likely to increase in the next two decades due to our ageing population.


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Mark is the RBC Financial Group Professor for the Commercialisation of Innovations. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Small Business Management. He holds a visiting professorship in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Lancaster University Management School. His research is concerned with the role of entrepreneurship in economic and business development and is funded by funding councils and governments. Two themes dominate his work: innovation and entrepreneurial finance. His principal interest is in understanding how firms (increasingly of all sizes) create and capture value, and how the mechanisms employed variably impact upon performance. Mark works directly with businesses to refine his research projects and to exchange ideas.
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Robson, P.J., Chamberlin, T. and Freel, M. Built to grow? Exploring the drivers of initial capitalization. In Smallbone, D., Sauka, A. and Virtanen, M.. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development . London, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2017.
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Rostamkalaei, A. and Freel, M. 2016. The cost of growth: Small firm and the pricing of bank loans. Small Business Economics, 46(2): 255-272.
Berchicci, L., de Jong, J.P. and Freel, M. 2016. Remote collaboration and innovative performance: the moderating role of R&D intensity. Industrial and Corporate Change, 25(3): 429-446.
Wang, J., Robson, P.J. and Freel, M. 2015. The Financing of Small Firms in Beijing, China: Exploring the Extent of Credit Constraints. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 22(3): 397-416.
Freel, M., Robson, P.J. and Jack, S. 2014. Risk capital constraints to innovation in services. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 29(6): 476-486.
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Our common ground, other than a fondness for cafés and bars and writing about the weather, would, I like to think, have been a love of adventure. Hemingway was the sort of man who made things happen. He was always making plans and going off to places and coming back and making more plans, and not just for himself but for everyone around him. It was a great ride and very few people managed to hang on all the way. And when it ceased to be an adventure, when he could no longer play the Pied Piper, when other people started to make the plans, he lost interest and quit, in the way he wanted to.
When we started our filming we couldn't believe our luck. An entire collection of Hemingway memorabilia, 275 items from the man's life, including unpublished letters and poems, signed wine-bottles, his Remington typewriter, even one of Ava Gardner's brassières, was to be auctioned in England in the first-ever sale of its kind in the world.
The night before we were to film, we received word that the sale was off. The entire collection had been deemed a forgery.
The sale itself was testimony enough to the enduring interest in all things Hemingway but that it should have been worth someone's time to forge the entire contents is surely confirmation of god-like status.


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Honestly, I have no feelings of prejudice towards neologisms. Terrible as some may sound at first, I have come to like these made-up words that combine different concepts or activities.
The bLeisure buzzword is a bit on the horrendous side but people have been using it to describe a new type of business traveller: one who fits in leisure travel while 'on the road'. Even some companies are realizing that helping their traveling executives to tag on some me-time to work trips is a good way to retain talent and provide some work-life balance.
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Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani on writing a romcom based on their lives
[R]Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani co-wrote the Judd Apatow produced romantic comedy The Big Sick. It's a sweet, hilarious and truthful story about how the two of them fell in love, tossing all of the classic romantic comedy tropes out of the window. Kumail and Emily come from really different backgrounds; Kumail's from Pakistan. Emily: North Carolina. The film tells their story of finding each other after navigating Kumail's family's traditional views on marriage and an illness that almost breaks them apart.
Before Emily Gordon was writing screenplays and making films, she was a therapist, working with mentally challenged individuals. After over 5 years working as a therapist, she realized that she needed to change careers, moving on to writing full time, and contributing to online and print magazines.
Most people know Kumail Nanjiani as Dinesh on Mike Judge's HBO hit, Silicon Valley. He's also been on Broad City, Newsreaders, and voices characters on Adventure Time. He has been a stand-up comic for a long time and in 2013, got a Comedy Central stand up special called Beta Male.
Jesse, Kumail, and Emily talk about what it was like making a movie about their real life relationship, and about the changes that were made from the first draft to the one that we see in cinemas. They also talk about learning to let go of their story to other people in the creative group, and the first time they showed the movie to their parents.
Emily also wrote a self-help book for superheroes called Super You: Release Your Inner Super Hero. Also, don't forget to watch Kumail's Beta Male for a solid 40 minutes of laughter.
Click here to listen to Jesse's interview with Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani!
This segment originally aired in July of 2017
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The Song That Changed my Life: Director Michel Gondry
There's a certain kind of feeling to the director Michel Gondry's films. A little bit of happiness mixed with sadness. Nostalgia for something that you experienced, or maybe something you wish you had experienced. You may have felt it watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, or Mood Indigo.
For "The Song That Changed My Life", Gondry describes the feeling of saudade and how he felt watching Nico Ferrer perform the song "Le Sud" on a Saturday night.
Michel's currently working on a big new project - it's a TV series called Kidding and it's set to star Catherine Keener, Jim Carrey, Frank Langella and more. It'll be on Showtime later this year.
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Allison Janney on her career from Loose Cannon Sitcom 'Mom' to Intimate Drama in 'Masters of Sex'
If you've seen Allison Janney on television lately, it's been in one of two very different roles. On the Showtime series Masters of Sex, Janney played as a somewhat naive, vulnerable 1950s housewife who experiences a breakthrough after many years in a sexless (but not loveless) marriage. Her story is both heartbreaking and hopeful. In the CBS sitcom Mom, she plays Bonnie, a recovering alcoholic who's outrageous, biting, and very funny. Bonnie's been down, but she's making peace with her estranged daughter and getting her life back together. Janney's characterizations are versatile; they allow her to be warm, steely, confident, and thin-skinned by turns. Janney has won Emmys for both roles. She's just been nominated for her first Academy Award ever for her role in I, Tonya, the Tonya Harding biopic.
She spoke to us in 2014 about her early acting days (including auditioning for an intimidatingly handsome Paul Newman), getting comfortable with the inevitable nude scenes for Masters of Sex, and the ways that her mom's background and brother's struggle with addiction gave her insight and empathy for her current roles.
Click here to listen to Allison Janney's interview on YouTube!
The Outshot: Orson Welles and 'Touch of Evil'
Jesse explains why the last Hollywood picture Orson Welles directed, Touch of Evil, tells us so much about Welles as an artist.
Click here to listen to Jesse's Outshot on YouTube!
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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: Allison Janney & Ishmael Butler
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Ishmael Butler on the Short Life of Digable Planets and the Cosmic Hip Hop of Shabazz Palaces
In the early 1990s, the hip hop group Digable Planets broke through with their single "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)". The single was jazzy and laid-back, and became a crossover hit. The trio were pegged by some as a counterpoint to gangsta rap, but they didn't love the efforts to categorize their sound. They went further on their next boundary-pushing release, the classic record Blowout Comb. The album was critically acclaimed, but didn't sell well, and the group drifted apart shortly afterward.
Founding member Ishmael Butler was only in his mid-20s when Digable Planets broke up. And so he tried other things, like filmmaking. He still made music, but the releases were few and far between. About six years ago, he teamed up with Tendai Maraire to form a new group, called Shabazz Palaces.
Shabazz Palaces' latest release is called Lese Majesty, and it expands on their interstellar sound.
Butler spoke to us about his days as a indie label gopher, the awkward audition Digable Planets had to endure for a record company executive, and the the transformative sounds of Shabazz Palaces.
Digable Planets will be teaming up for a reunion show in Seattle this December.
Todd Martens on Young Love and Defying Expectations
Beyond interesting conversations with people in culture, we like to tell you about interesting cultural stuff. There's so much stuff out there, you don't have time to listen to everything. That's why we've brought in Todd Martens, who writes about music for the LA Times, to tell you about two albums you can dive into without hesitation.
Martens recommends Material Issue's 1991 album, International Pop Overthrow, a combination of cynicism and idealism.
He also recommends Summerteeth by Wilco, an album which explores a different side of Wilco.
You can find Todd's writing in the LA Times and on their blog, Pop and Hiss.
"The Song That Changed my Life": Director Michel Gondry Gets Nostalgic for "Le Sud" by Nico Ferrer
There's a certain kind of feeling to the director Michel Gondry's films. A little bit of happiness mixed with sadness. Nostalgia for something that you experienced, or maybe something you wish you had experienced. You may have felt it watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, or his new film Mood Indigo.
Allison Janney, from Loose Cannon Sitcom 'Mom' to Intimate Drama in 'Masters of Sex'
If you've seen Allison Janney on television lately, it's been in one of two very different roles. On the Showtime series Masters of Sex, Janney guest stars as a somewhat naive, vulnerable 1950s housewife who experiences a breakthrough after many years in a sexless (but not loveless) marriage. Her story is both heartbreaking and hopeful. In the CBS sitcom Mom, she plays Bonnie, a recovering alcoholic who's outrageous, biting, and very funny. Bonnie's been down, but she's making peace with her estranged daughter and getting her life back together. Janney's characterizations are versatile; they allow her to be warm, steely, confident, and thin-skinned by turns. Janney has won Emmys for both roles.
She spoke to us about her early acting days (including auditioning for an intimidatingly handsome Paul Newman), getting comfortable with the inevitable nude scenes for Masters of Sex, and the ways that her mom's background and brother's struggle with addiction gave her insight and empathy for her current roles.
Mom is in its third season on CBS. You can see it Thursdays at 9/8c.
This episode originally aired in August 2014.
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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: Judy Greer & Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces
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Judy Greer on Always Being the Co-Star and Midwestern Modesty
Judy Greer engages in fan-profiling. It sounds kind of sketchy, but before you get upset -- know that it's nothing bad. It's just a useful tool. Strangers stop her in the street, or at the airport, or in coffee shops all the time. It's always a variation on the same question... "What do I know you from?" And they won't let her go until she can help them solve the riddle.
She's an actress, so they probably know her from one of her many roles as "the best friend", in a movie like The Wedding Planner or Thirteen Going on Thirty. Or maybe they recognize her from her role as the slightly unhinged secretary Kitty Sanchez in Arrested Development. It could be any number of things, since Greer has almost a hundred credits on her IMDb page.
She rarely plays the lead, however, and so people often don't know her name.
Greer joins us this week to talk about love for the animated series Archer, the modest Midwestern roots that never allow her to turn down a role, and the freedom she finds in not being the leading lady -- and of course, she'll fan-profile our host, Jesse. Her book I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star is available now in paperback.
Greer co-stars in the FX series Married, which begins its second season this week.
This interview originally aired in May 2014.
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Founding member Ishmael Butler was only in his mid 20s when Digable Planets broke up. And so he tried other things, like filmmaking. He still made music, but the releases were few and far between. A few years ago, he teamed up with Tendai Maraire to form a new group called Shabazz Palaces.
Shabazz Palaces' most recent release is called Lese Majesty, and it expands on their interstellar sound. Shabazz Palaces is playing shows and festivals across the U.S. this summer and fall.
This interview originally aired in August 2014.
This segment originally aired in August 2014.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: Ishmael Butler, Allison Janney & Michel Gondry
Founding member Ishmael Butler was only in his mid 20s when Digable Planets broke up. And so he tried other things, like filmmaking. He still made music, but the releases were few and far between. About five years ago, he teamed up with Tendai Maraire to form a new group called Shabazz Palaces.
Shabazz Palaces' new release is called Lese Majesty, and it expands on their interstellar sound.
Todd Martens Recommends Pop-Punk and Garage Rock: the Muffs and Twin Peaks
Is there still good pop-punk out there? What's the musical equivalent of a drunk text? Music critic Todd Martens of the Los Angeles Times stops by to answer both of those questions!
He recommends a listen to two new albums: the Muffs' first release in ten years, Whoop Dee Doo, and a new record from Chicago garage rockers Twin Peaks called Wild Onion.
Gondry's new film Mood Indigo is a fantastical story of love and loss, starring Audrey Tatou and Romain Duris. You can find it in theaters now.
If you've seen Allison Janney on television lately, it's been in one of two very different roles. On the Showtime series Masters of Sex, Janney guest stars as a somewhat naive, vulnerable 1950s housewife who experiences a breakthrough after many years in a sexless (but not loveless) marriage. Her story is both heartbreaking and hopeful. In the CBS sitcom Mom, she plays Bonnie, a recovering alcoholic who's outrageous, biting, and very funny. Bonnie's been down, but she's making peace with her estranged daughter and getting her life back together. Janney's characterizations are versatile; they allow her to be warm, steely, confident, and thin-skinned by turns. Janney is currently nominated for Emmys for both roles; 'Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama' for Masters of Sex, and 'Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy' for Mom.
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Q: Burning a transformer and replacing it from 110V to 220V Today I received a preheat bed AOYUE-AO853A. I was really eager to plug it in an test it, ignoring the voltage input rating. It worked for a second making a strange noise, but then some smoke started coming out.
I turned it off, unplugged, I left the capacitors to drain and finally I attempted opening it after it cooled. It turned out the transformer was rated for 110V 60Hz.

I have two questions:

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*Is there any chance that the components beyond the transformer have fried? From a visual inspection, everything looked ok on the single PCB this device has.

*What transformer should I use to replace this one to be able to power the device with standard European 220V?
Update:
I noticed that the board is not only hooked to DC (from the transformer), but also to AC.
Here's a picture:

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*1 is the heating element

*2 is the AC in

*3 is the DC in

Note that the capacitor at the right of the DC in is rated at 25V and all the other capacitors are rated 16V

As required by a top user, I posted a picture of the wiring for the heating element. It seems it's wired in series already.

A: *

*Yes, it might be damaged because as there was double the voltage into the transformer, there was double the voltage out from the transformer too.

*With a transformer that has identical output rating but has 240V 50Hz input. Note that the transformer rating reads on the label: 8 Watts, 9 Volts. Just as a disclaimer: if you don't know how to work with mains voltage circuits safely, leave the modifying to a competent service technician.

A: This device is basically a temperature controller with a sensor (thermocouple or thermistor most likely), a control circuit, and a triac-controlled mains heater. The unit is powered from a control transformer.
Such a transformer will output considerably less than double output voltage if the input voltage is doubled, because they're run fairly close to saturation. That's why the transformer failed, because it saturated. Given the nature of the other components and ratings, there's a fairly good chance that the rest of the circuitry is okay. So replacing the transformer with a 110VAC:9VAC 8VA or more transformer could well restore it to functionality, but it would still be a 110VAC unit.  Which doesn't solve your problem unless you intend to use a voltage converter to power the unit.

As far as converting the unit- the transformer can be substituted for one with a 220VAC primary voltage. However, the heater(s), as @Andrew noted, are a more serious problem. At 4x the rated power they will burn out in short order. If there is only one pair of wires to the heater itself you're probably scuppered unless you want to try to wait for a 220VAC spare part to come.
The BTA20 triac and (probably) MOCxx opto-triac drive circuit may or may not be appropriate for 240VAC. I would guess they are okay, but I would also check them carefully.

A: when a 110V transformer converts to 9V, we can assume if you connect 220V, it has produced 18V...
So it's upon you to check what was after the transformer and if there was a rectifier, capacitor and stuff which was rated eg. 16 or 25V.
Hard to tell if, but I suppose possibilities are high you fried more than the transformer

A: The windings ratio would be approx 2:1 so the output AC from the secondary winding was likely to have been 18V before the transformer expired. If you didn't blow any electrolytic caps i.e. a big mess, discharge and smoke and you can't see any obvious damage you may have got away with it. Bear in mind that even if you do replace the transformer the PSU board may have devices with ratings consistent with a 120V supply e.g. smoothing caps.
If you're very lucky you might get away with just changing the transformer. It's worth a try. As mentioned you'll need a 240V transformer with a 9V secondary rated >8W.


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Which Will Help Me Slim Down—6 Mini Meals or 3 Squares?
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EatingWell January 23, 2012
Which will help me slim down-6 mini meals or 3 squares? I get this question a lot, especially from people who are trying to slim down, because I'm a registered dietitian and nutrition editor of EatingWell Magazine. It's a common question, especially among dieters looking to get an extra edge on their weight loss.
Related: 10 Tricks to Make Losing Weight Easier
Many experts say it's best to eat mini meals every few hours. The idea behind it is this: eating frequently may help curb your appetite and stabilize your blood sugar-preventing the dips that leave you feeling hungry-which makes slimming down more doable.
But recent research, published in the journal Obesity, suggests that grazing on multiple mini meals won't promote weight loss any more than sticking to three squares. When overweight or obese dieters spread a very-low-calorie diet over six meals, their appetite and hunger were no different than when they ate the same diet in three daily meals. And, truth be told, these findings support older, similar research.
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So what's that mean for you? How much you eat is more important than how often you eat. (Find out how many calories you should be eating here.) If eating more often causes you to overeat-say multiple meals turn into all-day grazing-try eating fewer meals. But if you're a three-meal-a-day person who gorges each time you sit down because you're so famished, adding in a snack or two, even three, might help.
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Whatever you choose, including fiber-fruits, vegetables and whole grains-and lean protein in your meals and snacks is essential when you're dieting, as both nutrients provide staying power to keep you feeling full until you eat next.
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SMSF WEEK: SMSFs may be even cheaper to manage than Rice Warner Report suggests
The Rice Warner report into the SMSF sector this week shattered theories that SMSFs were more expensive to run than retail and industry superannuation funds. On closer examination, SMSFs may be even more affordable than other APRA options because they by-and-large dodge significant investment management charges.
Independent financial services experts Rice Warner prepared a report for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in May 2013 on the costs of operating SMSFs. Now, seven years later and as part of SMSF Week 2020, The SMSF Association has commissioned an update - sponsored by SuperConcepts - entitled Cost of Operating SMSFs 2020.
There were several key takeaways from the report, most notably that SMSFs became cost comparable to retail and industry funds at a balance of $200,000 and became a cheaper option when balances reach $500,000.
This table updates an ASIC fact sheet released in October 2019 which 'urged consumers to think carefully about setting up self-managed funds because it claimed they cost an average $13,900 and take 100 hours a year to run'.
A major difference between this year's Rice Warner report and the one commissioned back in 2013 is that the 2020 version includes expenses and transactional data of 100,000 SMSFs which were not available for analysis the first time around. The new report shows the cost of operating an SMSF has come down and $200,000 is the break-even point - or cheaper if a fund uses a low-service provider.
But what the report doesn't include in the operating costs is investment management charges and there have been questions around why the table above does not make allowances for these charges.
SuperConcepts Executive Manager - SMSF Technical & Strategic Solutions Philip La Greca was part of a webinar with the SMSFA as part of SMSF Week and he said that only strengthened the case that SMSFs are cheaper when they have a balance beyond $200,000 because investment management charges are seldom an issue.
"The first thing that you've got to remember is pretty much every APRA regulated fund actually has a cost to just hold assets, they all have a custodian, to begin with," Mr La Greca said.
"Automatically just holding an asset, irrespective of buying or selling, there is an ongoing cost. That is something that most SMSFs don't bear.
"Very few SMSFs use structured products like managed funds, we know it is only about 20 per cent of the money that is in the SMSF space is in those sort of products."
That means that retail and industry fund fees are likely to be even higher than the Rice Warner figures in the report, for funds that incur these investment management charges that SMSFs are rarely exposed to. The telling point with the investment costs question is that acquisition, disposal and holding cost are clearly related to the asset class and the structure used to hold it.


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Шевлін () — місто () в США, в окрузі Клірвотер штату Міннесота. Населення — 176 осіб (2010).

Географія
Шевлін розташований за координатами  (47.530277, -95.259597).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 2,07 км², уся площа — суходіл.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало 176 осіб у 71 домогосподарстві у складі 44 родин. Густота населення становила 85 осіб/км².  Було 82 помешкання (40/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 5,1 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 2,8 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 27,3 % — особи молодші 18 років, 63,0 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 9,7 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 39,0 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 112,0 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 106,5 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  долар США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). За межею бідності перебувало 13,9 % осіб, у тому числі 30,3 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 0,0 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 65 осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: транспорт — 23,1 %, будівництво — 15,4 %, освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 13,8 %, науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 12,3 %.

Джерела

Міста Міннесоти
Населені пункти округу Клірвотер (Міннесота)

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We pride ourselves on having some of the best volunteers around and we know that they are totally awesome and add some fierce competition when nominated. For that reason we allow nominations for any of our volunteers except from our founder, Vickie, and we work hard to ensure that they are not involved in the judging process in any way, and that the only person who handles the nominations is Vickie.
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Mohd Zin, Asmahani (2007) College Student Allocation System / Asmahani Mohd Zin. Degree thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
This research project is about developing College Student Allocation System using Wampserver and web application framework in UiTM. The objectives of this research are to identify all the requirement specification of College Student Allocation System (CSAS), to model the design of College Student Allocation System (CSAS) based on requirement specification and to develop the prototype of the College Student Allocation System adopting web application framework that is Mamboserver. The researcher gets the data collection from tfie interview and questionnaire to gather all the requirement that are needed in this research said prove the findings at the end of the reseeu'ch. In the end of research project period, researcher found that the result is complying with the objectives and therefore all the objectives in this research project have been achieved.


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Q: Django add inlines to CreateView I have the following admin.py
class AInlineAdmin(admin.TabularInline):
    model = A

class BAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ['name']
    list_display = ['name']
    ordering = ['name']
    inlines = [AInlineAdmin]

admin.site.register(B, BAdmin)

class AAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ['identifier']
    list_display = ['identifier']
    ordering = ['identifier']

admin.site.register(A, AAdmin)

And the following models.py:
class B(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    def get_A(self):
        return "\n".join([i.identifier for i in self.a.all()])

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name

class A(models.Model):
    identifier = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=False, default="")
    c = models.ForeignKey(B, related_name='a', default=0)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.identifier

And the following views.py:
class BCreate(CreateView):
    model = B
    fields = ['name', 'a']

But it is not working with 'a' inside "fields = ['name', 'a']", as 'a' is not found.
How can I get inlines into the view so I could edit/delete/create A inside B view?

A: The CreateView does not support this. You could use django-extra-views, which comes with CreateWithInlinesView and UpdateWithInlinesView views.


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22 The Tetrarchic Renaissance
Professor Kleiner characterizes third-century Rome as an "architectural wasteland" due to the rapid change of emperors, continuous civil war, and a crumbling economy. There was no time to build and the only major architectural commission was a new defensive wall. The crisis came to an end with the rise of Diocletian, who created a new form of government called the Tetrarchy, or four-man rule, with two leaders in the East and two in the West. Diocletian and his colleagues instituted a major public and private building campaign in Rome and the provinces, which reflected the Empire's renewed stability. Professor Kleiner begins with Diocletian's commissions in Rome--a five-column monument dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the formation of the Tetrarchy, the restoration of the Curia or Senate House, and the monumental Baths of Diocletian. She then presents Diocletian's Palace at Split, designed as a military camp and including the emperor's octagonal mausoleum, followed by an overview of the palaces and villas of other tetrarchs in Greece and Sicily. Professor Kleiner concludes with the villa on the Via Appia in Rome belonging to Maxentius, son of a tetrarch, and the main rival of another tetrarch's son, Constantine the Great.