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Finding information is as easy as pointing your phone's camera at a house. The user will instantly get relevant information about the house, plus available county health rankings. The user can drill down in the health ranking data to find more granular information. The application runs on Layar - one of the most popular Augmented Reality browsers.
Using the recently released County Health Rankings, develop a tool to help people factor community health information into decision-making processes.
how to best target resources, services and philanthropic support.
how to manage particularly tough budget times.
where to locate a business or make an investment, or even where to live.
Currently, when families are moving to a new area, they inquire about the quality of the school system and look at data on average student achievement scores or teacher-student ratios. When businesses are seeking to identify a new location, they assess community characteristics, transportation patterns and the quality of the workforce. How can people, when making these important decisions, factor in the health of a community?
The County Health Rankings are intended to motivate communities to become healthier places for people to live, learn, work and play. To date, we've seen communities use the Rankings to bring new partners to the table, to initiate community needs assessments and to raise awareness about health and prevention with the public and policymakers.
In February 2010, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released the inaugural County Health Rankings, the first project to rank the overall health of nearly every county in all 50 states. The Rankings provide county-level data on both health outcomes (measures of length and quality of life) and health factors (measures of factors that influence health, such as individual behaviors, social and economic factors and quality of clinical care).
In this challenge, we are looking for innovative approaches that bring the County Health Rankings to the places where people go to get information and data to inform their decisions – decisions that would be better informed by considering a community's health status.
We invite teams to approach this challenge by creating whatever tools necessary-- widgets, apps or other novel approaches to integrate the Rankings data into smart phone, tablet or web platforms that people already use to inform their decisions. Teams can create a new tool or use an existing one and the tool can target one or multiple decision-makers as long as the final product integrates the Rankings data.
Staff from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Public Health Team and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute will serve on the judging panel.
The "tool" appropriately integrates the County Health Rankings into its functionality.
The "tool" successfully helps people and communities use the County Health Rankings to inform real-world decisions.
The "tool" is user-friendly and visually engaging.
The "tool" is launch-ready and could potentially be promoted with the next release of the County Health Rankings in spring 2011.
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The following terms and conditions govern the Health Factor Developer Challenge (the "Challenge") sponsored by the Public Health Team of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (the "Sponsor").
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Easter is a time for chocolate eggs and ruining childhoods. If these photos are any indication, the tradition of pairing frightening bunnies with reluctant children goes back centuries.
Gaze in horror at the ways mankind has morphed the harmless bunny into grotesque creatures best left alone. Plus, these poor kids look like they've been completely traumatized. Maybe someday we'll learn, but until then, here are the photos.
The gaze of this Easter bunny looks as if it wants to climb through the picture and eat your soul.
Sure, Easter bunnies are cute and fluffy, but how about one bigger than you that also appears to be losing half its fur? Cool? Cool.
Why is one of the bunny's eyes completely black while the other isn't? Why do its ears bend together like antennas? Has this person ever seen a real rabbit?
At first, this seems happy. The poor kid seems unaware that the bunny is never going to let him go. Never. Not ever.
This creature looks like a remorseless, soulless egg-laying machine. It will never stop hunting. Never stop chasing. Who knows how many children it's gone through.
Somehow, a realistic Easter bunny is just downright terrifying. Something about a huge rabbit head turns it threatening in a hurry.
The two rabbits have their prey surrounded in a vice grip. Those eyes show they have no use for mercy.
An almost life-like rubber mask combined with the corpse of some kind of (possibly stuffed) fish is the stuff of Lovecraftian nightmares.
Why do Easter Bunnies need curly black mustaches, and why did the bunny kidnap a girl from what was clearly a Christmas party?
Who knows what's in that mouth. The child sitting on the bunny's lap seems to be planning to make a break for it. We hope he made it.
Those massive teeth and grin say that if the child is already in its arms, it's too late. This bunny's already won.
The creature's tight grip on the child as he desperately reaches for someone...anyone, to take him to safety is heartbreaking.
Perhaps it's the flash of a camera, or perhaps it's a monster's red eyes burning with a hatred of a million Easters. Who's to say.
The child's frantic attempt at escape combined with the bunny's almost sorry grin leads to some grim conclusions about what Easter's really about.
This would just be a weird bunny costume if the person hadn't sought out those gigantic teeth to call their own.
While one child sits unknowingly in harm's way, the other isn't fooled for a second and is frantically trying to run from what they see as a very clear threat. We aren't arguing.
What a wide mouth that rabbit has. Very wide indeed. Seems pretty unnecessary for something that claims to only eat grass.
Why do these bunnies seem hell-bent on taking these children?
The half-cocked red eyes and giant pink bowtie showcase a monster. Perhaps the original Easter Bunny?


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Member News > August 2017 > How many ag experts does it take to build a house?
How many ag experts does it take to build a house?
Five Land O'Lakes Member co-ops volunteer to change lives
It's nothing new to tell you our member-owners, individual farmers and member co-ops, are very passionate about giving back to their local communities. But what might be surprising is that some of our member-cooperatives are working together to combine their time and resources for good causes. And by partnering with the Land O'Lakes Foundation, they can make their impact even greater.
In early August, five of our member-cooperatives from across Indiana teamed up to sponsor a day of the Habitat for Humanity Ag Build at the Indiana State Fair. Their employees showed up bright and early on August 10 to help build houses for families in need.
The first time our ag coops volunteered for the Habitat build was in 2016. And it's likely that this year won't be the last.
"We would love to make the Build an annual thing for our co-op," says Scott Logue, CEO of Harvest Land Cooperative. "I feel like it's our obligation to be supportive in our communities and help people who are in need. As a farmer-owned company, we should give back."
Building the partnership
It started with an idea brought forth by Mike Hirt from Land O'Lakes' Ag Customer Team, Drew Garretson, Winfield United regional technology manager and Beth Archer, executive director of AgriInstitute. AgriInstitute is a 501c3 nonprofit in Indiana that develops leaders in agriculture. Many of our member co-op leaders in Indiana are members of AgriInstitute, including Scott.
"Mike Hirt, Drew Garretson and Beth Archer brought this idea to us – to have co-ops work together. I think that this is a pretty unique situation - the idea of working with the other co-ops," says Scott. "But that's the special part of this; it's a really great situation to be able to work alongside so many other major co-ops in the state."
Each year, in partnership with the Indiana State Fair, Habitat for Humanity builds two houses during the two weeks of the State Fair, all on the fairgrounds. For a day of home building, sponsors are asked to make a $10,000 donation to Habitat for Humanity. This is not a small donation so it makes a big difference that member cooperatives Ceres Solutions, North Central, Harvest Land, Co-Alliance and Premier Companies were able to work together to share in the cost.
"We're all in agriculture together, and we can work together to give back. I think it goes back to our co-op members' humble approach. They're able to show their passion and story of agriculture through volunteering," says Drew.
Volunteerism runs deep
The build brought together passionate employees from across each of the co-ops. "Each co-op just asks for volunteers. We had more volunteers than we had spots available. There are lots of people volunteering from different areas, from agronomy to energy to credit to HR," says Scott.
That was true for the first year and was true this last year. The co-ops are seeing strong engagement from their employees and staff. Jeff Troike, CEO of Ceres Solutions, was part of the build last year and stepped out of the spotlight this year so other employees would have the chance to volunteer.
"In 2016, everyone seemed so thankful to be there," says Jeff. "Working this type of activity is just enjoyable; we get to see so many people come together for this project. This is a great volunteer opportunity, and like most charitable involvement, you get more out of it than you give."
Giving back, the Land O'Lakes way
Land O'Lakes also sponsors a lunch for all of the volunteers after the Build in the morning, and both Scott and Jeff participated last year. This year, Scott and other leaders spoke in a panel on how local co-ops how give back to their communities and how they share the work they do.
The Member Co-op Match program through the Land O'Lakes Foundation matches dollar for dollar in charitable contributions to eligible hometown projects. The Land O'Lakes Foundation has matched over $350,000 in donations in Indiana in total since 2015. For the Build, to date, three of the five co-ops have requested matches for the event, totaling $4,000.
Not all of our co-ops used their member matches for the build, instead choosing to use matches for other volunteer opportunities.
"The Ceres employee group is, by nature, very giving—and we focus our efforts primarily on making impact through gifts to 4H, FFA, and local Foodbanks. But I give a lot of credit to the Land O'Lakes Matching program to continue to inspire us," says Jeff. "When you give a dollar, and a partner comes along and turns that dollar into two, it makes a difference. Land O'Lakes helps us double our positive impact in the communities we serve."

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Live televised Debate : Israel & The Church : Replacement or fulfilment ?
Opposing this and giving a different Biblical view on Israel and the Church will be Stephen Sizer who is vicar of Christ Church Virginia Water Surrey UK and founding member of the Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism .
E mails and texts will be intermittently read out and tallied to ascertain which position garners most support from the public .
Note : Viewers in USA with a ROKU BOX can now watch Revelation TV and so view the debate through this medium .
Dr Calvin L Smith is principal of Kings Evangelical Divinity School , editor of the evangelical review of society and politics , author of numerous books including The Jews modern Israel and the new supercessionism . He lectures in theology and hermeneutics . He is an academic researcher conference and Church speaker .
the USA , Africa , Europe and the Middle East .
Stephen Sizer is an antisemite who never met an Israel-hater he didn't love.
P.S. How come no new posts lately?
Sorry Brian 🙂 back now!


Although Teton Heritage Builders sourced their ceilings from TinCeiling .com, we always turn to our buddy Milan over at Decorative Ceiling Tiles for the latest and greatest in ceiling decor. We did a quick search to see if he offered any red tin ceiling tiles or whether we would need to paint them ourselves. Lo and behold there is an entire page of red ceiling tiles including both aluminum and red faux tin tiles.
For some reason we had never before noticed this rosewood wood grain look available in faux tin. This rosewood tile would not only give a kitchen a pop of color but could add warmth to a room which can sometimes get a bit cold with lots of stainless steel appliances and cool cement, marble, quartz, ceramic, and granite counters.


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Carbon Health acquires Steady Health and its diabetes platform
June 4, 2021 By Sean Whooley
Carbon Health announced today that it acquired Steady Health and its platform for using continuous glucose monitoring to personalize diabetes care.
San Francisco–based Carbon Health said in a news release that the acquisition accelerates its rollout of a new primary care model designed to integrate its clinic footprint with virtual and hardware-enabled capabilities to create high-quality, accessible healthcare.
"From day one, our mission has been to increase the accessibility of high-quality care, which means continuing to increase access points and improve communication between patients and healthcare providers," Carbon Health co-founder & CEO Eren Bali said in the release. "Devices like CGMs create an opportunity to connect a patient with their provider in a way not possible before, to drive better outcomes. Diabetes is one of the most pervasive and expensive health conditions in the U.S., and we are excited to partner with Henrik Berggren and his team at Steady Health to help elevate the management of diabetes.
"The Steady Health care platform is also one that Carbon intends to leverage to expand into the management of other chronic conditions in the future."
Steady Health's diabetes platform connects patients with experts and uses data from CGM devices to provide personalized insights and improve the management of diabetes.
"With top endocrinologists and our care platform, we're delivering unmatched medical care through a dramatically improved connected patient-provider experience," Steady Health founder and CEO Henrik Berggren said. "Becoming part of Carbon Health will enable us to provide end-to-end care for our patients, including in-person visits at a Carbon clinic when needed. We're super excited to carry on our mission of empowering people with diabetes to live the life they want."
In addition to the announcement of the acquisition, Carbon said it appointed former Apple Health executive Myoung Cha as its chief strategy officer and former Honor president Nita Sommers as its chief growth officer.
Cha's responsibilities center around growing the company's device-enabled home care options. At the same time, Sommers will expand Carbon Health's services into areas including mental health and pediatrics while also building out its value-based offerings for employers and payers.
"Myoung and Nita are two incredible powerhouses with deep, strategic healthcare experience that will enable Carbon to get even closer to our vision of healthcare accessibility," Bali said. "As we continue to expand our services and omnichannel care model — with a goal of expanding to 1,500 clinics across the U.S. by the end of 2025 — home- and value-based care offerings will be critical components that will enable patients to get everything they need for their health where and when they need it most."
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Remanufacturing and direct reuse are considered important measures for promoting the circular economy and improving resource efficiency. Automotive production is a typical resource- and energy-intensive industrial sector, and is a prime market for remanufacturing and direct reuse. Assessing the effect of remanufacturing and direct reuse on the automotive production industry from the perspective of resource efficiency will provide an important reference for improving understandings of remanufacturing and guiding relevant policies in a broader context. A literature review reveals few studies focusing on the resource efficiency of remanufacturing and direct reuse, and the relative lack of a generally accepted indicator to assess the resource efficiency of industrial processes. This paper promotes a new indicator, resource productivity of industrial process, and constructs a material flow model to calculate the resource productivity of China's automotive industry. Results suggest that the indicator and its analytical model are effective tools to assess resource efficiency. Results also suggest that compared to a case where remanufacturing and direct reuse are not employed, adding these processes in China's automotive supply chain would increase resource productivity of industrial process by 7.1% in a high efficiency scenario. Based on these findings, policy recommendations for applying the indicator at industry level and encouraging remanufacturing and direct reuse are provided.
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So what if remanufacturing cannibalizes my new product sales?
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Liu, B., Chen, D., Zhou, W., Nasr, N., Wang, T., Hu, S., & Zhu, B. (2018). The effect of remanufacturing and direct reuse on resource productivity of China's automotive production. Journal of Cleaner Production, 194, 309-317.
Liu, Bomin, Dingjiang Chen, Wenji Zhou, Nabil Nasr, Tao Wang, Shanying Hu, and Bing Zhu. "The effect of remanufacturing and direct reuse on resource productivity of China's automotive production." Journal of Cleaner Production 194 (2018): 309-317.


The Barakat Trust has supported 600 projects over the past 30 years. In 2018, for example, we funded Wajeeha Arshad to pursue an MA in the conservation of historic buildings at the University of York, and Nayra Zaghloul for her 2nd year of M.Phil in Islamic Art and Archaeology at Oxford. Our funding also enabled Alya Karame to do postdoctoral studies on Quranic Manuscripts from the Eastern Islamic World between the 10th and 12th Centuries and Dr Ruba Kana'an, a senior scholar, to undertake a study entitled The City and its Mosques, both at Oxford. Barakat Trust funding also enabled Peter Nagy to undertake his study of Sultans' Paradise: The Archaeology of Shālla in the Islamic Periods and for Funerary Architecture in Fourteenth-Century Tlemsen, Algeria, and enabled Muhammad Shaaban to attend the School of Mamluk Studies 2018 Conference.
The major projects we supported in 2018 were the documentation and cataloguing of Widad Kawar's personal archive of traditional Palestinian costumes; understanding and presenting Khirbat al-Mafjar, Jordan through architectural reassessment, virtual reconstruction and presentation to the visitor; The Metropolitan Museum of Art's project on The History of Muhammad al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat Prayer book from West Africa to South East Asia, (15th – 20th centuries); The British Museum's International Training Programme; A Study of The Ottoman Imperial Scroll; archaeological work in Walila, Morocco: spanning the period from the Awraba to the Merinids; restoring, recording and inventorying the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the M'Hamid Oasis, Morocco; a conference entitled: Protecting the Past: From Digital Documentation to Heritage Management in the MENA Region; Funding for the part-time librarian at the Kenyon Institute (Council for British Research in the Levant), East Jerusalem; research to reconstruct Ottoman legitimacy in the wake of Wahhabi challenge, looking at architecture and beyond; The Islamic Bayda Project; and an analysis of rock crystal and other hard-stone craftsmanship in medieval and early Muslim societies– from raw material to the final product.
Our funding also enabled the digitisation of the historic photos of KAC Creswell at the Victoria and Albert Museum and in other international collections.
Wooden Medallion in Storage at Manial Palace Museum, Cairo; and Sacred Spatialities in Transition: Mapping Muslim Architecture In The Littorals of South Asia.
Sinem Erdogan Iskorkutan: Recent Perspectives of Ceremonies, Rituals & Festivals in the Ottoman World.
Margaret Graves: Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament and Architecture in Medieval Islam.
Atefeh Seyed Mousavi: Narrative Illustration on Qajar Tilework in Shiraz.
Ünver Rustem: Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul.
All of the above projects were made possible through generous donations received from The Barakat Trust. Please continue to support us to enable other great projects and initiatives that preserve the heritage of the Islamic World and educated current and future generations of professional. Even a small donation helps.
Codicology, Palaeography and History," Supported by The Barakat Trust, The National Library of Tunisia, 2017.
The Barakat Trust cannot continue its essential preservation of Islamic art, heritage and culture for future generations without your support. If you are impressed by our work and willing to help us preserve the heritage of the Islamic world, please consider making a one-off donation and support our work.
The Barakat Trust cannot continue its essential preservation of Islamic art, heritage and culture for future generations without your support. Many of our grants are ongoing, and continued support of even a small sum of money can have a huge impact in the long run. If you like what we do, please consider making a recurring donation in support of our work.
Ambassadors – promote the work of the Barakat Trust and attract more members and supporters!
Sponsor a Barakat event or project and access a diverse and global network of students, professionals and art collectors from across Europe, The Middle East, North Africa & South Asia! Enhance your media profile and meet your CSR objectives. We can host a talk, event or curate an exhibition with all proceeds supporting the Barakat Trust.
We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic fundraisers and 'mumbassadors' to organise creative workshops, lectures, performances, sponsored events, cake sales, sponsored school events or an innovative fundraising campaign.
Ever wanted to explore your creative talent and develop an innovative project, curate an exhibition working with the creative energy of artists to fundraise for charity?
Contact us to organise a lecture, talk, exhibition or explore ideas for other projects with us.


The future of geotourism: Where to from here?
Geotourism is on the rise the world over. Governments, tourism businesses, geological organizations, community groups, conservationists, NGOs, and individuals are seeking a future for the protection of our geological heritage and community advancement through sustainable tourism development. Countries as far apart as New Zealand and Iceland, USA and China, are getting involved and lifting our knowledge on geology and landscape, through interpretation and education. The future is exciting for geotourism as evidenced by the increased interest in geological awareness, the phenomenal rise of the Gebpark Movement, and the rising interest in geotourism as a tool for conservation of our geoheritage.


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I. Proto-Slavonic (Proto-Sl.) half vowels ŭ and ĭ have disappeared as such: ŭ (ъ), though still written at the ends of words, is mute; it serves but to show that the foregoing consonant is "hard." See V. below for "hard" and "soft" (denoted by ′) consonants, not the "hard" = surd, tenuis, "soft" = sonant, media of Eng. usage. Where a vowel was indispensable to help out a group of consonants, ŭ has been replaced by o or e, but these vowels sometimes appear without such justification (e.g. ogonĭ, Lat. ignis); ĭ when so needed becomes e, otherwise it disappears or else leaves a trace in the "softness" of the preceding consonant, in which case it is still written: Old Slavonic (O.S.), sŭnŭ, "sleep"; dĭnĭ, "day"; R. sonŭ (ŭ mute), denĭ(d′en′).
II. Proto-Sl. y survives in R. and Polish. The sound is a "high-mixed-narrow i," pronounced with the lips as for i and the tongue as for u, not unlike Eng. y in "rhythm." After labials there is a distinct w sound before the vowel. After gutturals it has become i.
III. Treatment of Liquids: retention of r′ instead of the ř of N.W. Slav.; retention as in Polish of hard l (between l and w, not unlike Eng. l in "milk," "people"); helping out of sonant r and l by a vowel put in before the r or l; especially the so-called full vocalism by which, e.g. Proto-Sl. gordŭ, "town," became R. gorodŭ, O.S. gradŭ, Polish, gród; Proto-Sl. melko, "milk," R. moloko, O.S. mlĕko, Polish, mleko.
IV. Proto-Sl. nasals: ą. (Fr. on), became R. u; ę (Fr. in), R. ′a, ja: O.S. pątĭ, "way"; pętĭ, "five," R. putĭ, p′atĭ.
V. Softening (Palatalization, &c): Proto-Sl. tj, dj gave R. č, ž, Proto-Sl. svĕtja, "candle"; medja, "boundary"; R. svěča, m′eža. Proto-Sl. pj, bj, vj, mj gave R. and S. Slav. pl, bl, vl, ml, e.g. R. z′ eml′a; Polish, ziemia, "land." Before Proto-Sl. soft vowels e, ě, ę, i, ĭ consonants were affected, the tongue being raised in anticipation of the narrow vowel, and so not making so clean a contact with the palate. Then what amounted to a new j developed in R., as ĭ became practically j; e and ě (orig. ē) came to sound as je, ę as ja at the beginning of a syllable, and all together with i began very much to soften the preceding consonant in literary R.; however, this new j never broke down the consonant into a palatalized sibilant or affricate, though it had this effect in White Russian (Wh. R.) and Polish.
The result is that almost every consonant in Russian can be pronounced "hard" or, "soft," a distinction which is very difficult for a foreigner to make, as his tendency is to overdo the softness and pronounce a full j after the consonant instead of the palatal element melting into it. This is encouraged by the alphabetic system by which the letters е (ъ̌), ю, я, stand for je, ju, ja at the beginning of a syllable, but after a consonant merely indicate that the consonant is soft, the vowel being the same as in з, у, а (e, u, a), e.g. т я stands for t′-a rather than for t-ja. A soft consonant in its turn narrows the vowel before it, e.g. the vowel in jelĭ, "fir," is like a in "Yale"; that in jělŭ, "ate," like e in "yell": e and ъ̌ (ě) are now indistinguishable, except that accented e before a hard consonant 'has a tendency to be pronounced jo, e.g. s′ elŭ, "of villages," is pronounced s′ ol, but sělŭ, "sat," s′ el: е = jo is sometimes denoted by ё.
VI. Great Russian has kept g where Little Russian (Lit. R.) and Wh. R., like Čech and High Sorb, now have h.
VII. A specially Russian point is that Proto-Sl. je and ju beginning a word, appear in R. as o and u; O.S. jedinǔ, "one," jutro, "morning," R. odinŭ, utro.
VIII. Russian has lost the distinctions of quantity which survive in Čech and S. Slav., but its accent is free as in S. Slav. The accent is extremely capricious, often falling differently in different cases of the same noun, or persons of the same tense, also it is an expiratory accent, so strong that the unaccented syllables are much slurred over and their vowels dulled. In learning Russian it is therefore most important to pay great attention to the accent, and at first to read accented texts.
The above phonetic peculiarities have marked Russian as far back as we can trace it. In the earliest documents it appears with an apparatus of grammatical forms practically identical with that ascribed to primitive Slavonic. The history of the language is not so much that of its phonetic decay as that of its morphological simplification and syntactic development. The tracing of this process is rendered difficult by the fact that O.S. was the ecclesiastical and literary language until the 17th century, and though in the end the O.S. texts suffer modifications, producing the Russian form of Church Slavonic, it is only by accident that the Russian forms appear in them. Russian is better represented in additions made by the scribe, as in the colophon of the Ostromir gospel (A.D. 1056/57), the oldest dated O.S. MS. In a certain number of legal documents dating from the 12th century onwards Russian forms definitely predominate, but the subject-matter is too limited to offer much material.
Borrowings.—The effect of the Church language upon Russian has been very strong, comparable to that of Latin upon French or English: O.S. forms of words and suffixes, betrayed by their phonetic peculiarities though pronounced more or less à la russe, have in some cases ousted the native forms, in other cases the two exist side by side; the Slav. form generally has the more dignified or metaphorical, the Russian the simpler and more direct sense: even some of the grammatical terminations (e.g. pres. part. act.; certain forms of the adj., &c.) are Slavonic; but speakers are quite unconscious of using anything that is not Russian (see S. Bulič, Church Slavonic Elements in Modern Russian, St P., 1893), and not till the 18th century did even grammarians understand the difference. Less important elements have been the Tatar which gave names for many Oriental things such as weapons, jewels, stuffs, garments and some terms concerned with government, and the Polish, which during the 17th century supplied many terms needed to express European things and ideas. In the 18th century such importations were made from Latin and all the Western European languages, in Peter's time mostly from German and Dutch (for nautical terms, English supplied some), in Catherine's rather from French, which had become the language of the aristocracy. During the first quarter of the 19th century modern Russian found itself and discarded superfluous Slavonic and European borrowings alike. Since then fresh loan-words have mostly belonged to the international quasi-Greek terminology, though like German R. sometimes prefers analogous compounds made from its own roots.
Literary Russian as spoken by educated people throughout the empire is the Moscow dialect (see below) modified by these influences. It is still a highly inflected language, comparable in that respect rather to Latin and Greek than to the languages of western Europe, though during historic time it has lost many of the grammatical forms whose full development we can study in O.S., and whose presence we can assert in the scanty remains of Old R. This process has relieved it of the dual number, save for certain survivals; in the nouns, of the vocative case (save for certain ecclesiastical forms), and many of the distinctions between the declensions, especially in the plural, the oblique cases of the simple, and the more cumbrous forms of the compound, adjective; in the verbs, of the supine, the imperfect, the aorist and the conditional (now reduced to a particle); but this simplification leaves it with six cases, Nom., Acc., Gen., Dat., Instrumental and Locative, three genders, three substantial declensions, -a, -o, -i, and traces of -u and consonantal stems, a special pronominal declension with many tricky forms, an adjective which takes its place between them, and a system of numerals in which a compromise between grammar and logic has produced a kind of maze. The forms of the verb are easier, as only the present indic. has three persons, the imperat. has but the and, and the past is a participle, which, having discarded the copula, distinguishes only gender and number. The infinitive and four participles offer no special difficulty, but the gerundives or verbal adverbs, from the old masc. nom. sing., are troublesome. The curious mechanism by which these few verbal forms are by means of the aspects made to express most of our tenses and other shades of meaning of which even English is incapable, is briefly explained under Slavs. On the whole the syntax is simple, the periods which imitation of Latin and German once brought into fashion having given place to the shorter sentences of French and English models.
Such a language, though less difficult than it is generally supposed, is learned much better if some preliminary study is devoted to the accidence, before the student launches out into conversation, as otherwise the habit may be acquired of disregarding the terminations and speaking very incorrectly.
Dialects.—Russian dialects fall into two main divisions—Great (Velikorusskij), including White (Bělorusskij) Russian, and Little Russian (Malorusskij). The latter is spoken in a belt reaching from Galicia and the Northern Carpathians (see Ruthenians) through Podolia and Volhynia and the governments of Kíev, Chernígov, Poltáva, Khárkov and the southern part of Vorónezh to the Don and the Kubán upon which the Dněpr Cossacks were settled. To the south of this belt in "New Russia" the population is much mixed, but Little Russians on the whole predominate. In all there must be about 30,000,000 Little Russians.
The Great Russian division includes all other Russian speakers—the main body to the N. and E. of the Little Russians, the settlers in Siberia, the Caucasus and along the southern coast, the educated classes, officials and many townsmen throughout the empire, probably not less than 70,000,000 speakers exclusive of White Russians. On the whole it is very conservative, and therefore, in spite of its vast extent, is wonderfully uniform. It falls into two main dialect groups—the northern or o group and the southern or a group. The line between them runs roughly E.S.E. from Pskov to the Oka and then eastwards to the Urals. The northern group is the more conservative and pronounces very nearly according to the spelling, unaccented o remaining o, but o is in general rather like u, while e before hard consonants is apt to be jo and before soft consonants i. The southern part of this group, comprising most of the governments of Vladímir and Yaroslávl with adjoining parts of Tver and Kostromá, are alone free from a further peculiarity, a tendency to mix up c and č which can be traced in the ancient documents of Nóvgorod and has spread with the Nóvgorod colonists across the whole of N. Russia to the Urals and Siberia. These distant dialects have adopted many words from the Ugro-Finnish natives. The southern or a group of dialects pronounces unaccented o, e and even i as a or ja; with this goes a tendency to pronounce g as h, and to mix up u and v. The Moscow dialect, which is the foundation of the literary language, and White Russian, are both best classed with the a dialect.
The Moscow dialect really covers a very small area, not even the whole of the government of Moscow, but political causes have made it the language of the governing classes and hence of literature. It is a border dialect, having the southern pronunciation of unaccented o as a, but in the jo for accented e before a hard consonant it is akin to the North and it has also kept the northern pronunciation of g instead of the southern h. So too unaccented e sounds like i or ji.
On the boundary between Wh. R. and the Novgorod dialect the former has the latter's confusion of c and č.
The best account of Wh. R. is E. Karskij, Sketch of the Sounds and Forms of Wh. R. Speech (Moscow, 1886); there is a dictionary by Nosovič (St P., 1875). Bezsonov, Wh. R. Songs (Moscow, 1871), and P. V. Schein in a whole series of publications give good specimens of the dialect.
The Little Russian dialect claims to be a literary language; it has established this claim in Galicia (see Ruthenians), but its use as such is much restricted in Russia. The Little Russians differ from the Great Russians not only in language but in physical type, customs, domestic architecture and folk-lore; but though Russophobes have tried to prove that this is due to the Finnish element in the Great Russians, it cannot be substantiated, and the Little Russians, especially the descendants of the Cossacks, have no small Tatar element in them. For the last three centuries they have been under strong Polish influence, and this has had great effect upon the vocabulary but not much on phonetics or morphology Little Russian is divided into three main groups of dialects; those of Hungary, which show an approximation to Slovak; those of Galicia, which rather recall Polish; and those of the Ukrain and other districts in Russia, which gradually shade into South Great Russian and White R., though the love of the sound a is noticeably absent. Little Russian is rather characterized by itacism; for original y and original i have coincided in a sound between i and y not unlike the Eng. short i, and original ě, also e and even o after having been lengthened in compensation for lost semi-vowels are now represented by i.
Further, Little Russian has reduced the common Russian softening, only keeping it before a and o and i for ě and o, and hardening the consonant before e and original i. In common with Wh. R. it has h for g, a vocative case, gutturals made sibilant before i (for ě) in oblique cases, 3rd sing. without the t, 1st plur. in -mo and -me instead of mŭ, nn for nj, ll for lj, tt for tj, w for u, v and hard l, but all these occur more or less throughout S. Russian and only tend to a superficial resemblance.
These phonetic peculiarities are not universal, but the presence of the narrowed ě, e and o is sufficient to mark a dialect as Little Russian. The Russian alphabet is modified for Little Russian use as г = h and hence ґ = g; є is used for the e which does not soften the preceding vowel, и for the thick and i for the pure i.
Bibliography.—Dictionaries: Dict. of the R. Language, published by the Second Section of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (4 vols., St Petersburg, 1847; new ed., 1891———); V. I. Dahl, Explanatory D. of Living Great R. Language (Moscow, 1880), re-ed. by J. Baudouin de Courtenay (1906); I. I. Sreznevskij, Materials for a Dict. of Old R. Language (to T.) (St P., 1902; Attempt (Opytŭ) at a Great R. Provincial Dict. (Supplement to the old Dict. of the Acad.) (St P., 1852); A. Alexandrow, R.-Eng. and Eng.-R. Dict. (2 vols., St P.); J. Pawlowsky, R.-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Riga, 1900).
Little Russian Dictionary: Eug. Zelechowski, Ruthenisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Lemberg, 1886).
Grammars: Th. Buslaev, Historical Grammar of the R. Language (Moscow, 1875); A. Sobolevskij, Lectures on the History of the R. Language (St P., 1891); id., Attempt at R. Dialectology, pt. i. (Gt. and Wh. R.) (St P., 1897); W. R. Morfill, R. Grammar (Oxford, 1887); P. Motti, R. Conversation Grammar (London, 1890); C. R. Reiff, R. Grammar (London, 1883); O. Ásbóth, Kurze R. Grammatik Leipzig, 1900); R. Abicht, Die Hauptschwierigkeiten der R. Sprache Leipzig, 1897); P. Boyer, M. Speranski and S. Harper, Russian Reader (Chicago, 1906).
Little Russian Grammar: St. Smal'-Stockyi and Fed. Gartner, Ruska Grammatyka (Lemberg, 1893); see also Miklosich, Vergl. Gram. d. Slav. Sprachen, passim (Vienna, 1875-83).
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Posted on November 28, 2015 by Xenia Gazette
Dalton has added a running game
Joe Kay - AP Sports Writer
CINCINNATI — Andy Dalton has been on the run more than ever, one of the easy-to-overlook developments in his breakthrough season.
Not only has the Bengals quarterback been among the NFL's passing leaders all season, he's gotten a better knack for taking off to avoid a heavy rush. Dalton tied his career high with eight runs during a 34-31 loss at Arizona on Sunday night.
The Bengals (8-2) will need him to be mobile again on Sunday when they host the St. Louis Rams (4-6), who are fourth in the league with 30 sacks.
"I think it's just part of it," Dalton said. "I've made some big plays when I've gotten out of the pocket. I've been able to run for some first downs and different things. It's not always going to happen exactly how you draw it up.
"It's kind of backyard football at that point. If I can scramble and get good yardage, I will."
He's doing it more than ever. Dalton has run 51 times this season, only 10 shy of his career high for a season with six games left.
Some of the runs are by design. Others are improvised. Either way, it's given the Bengals' balanced offense another threat.
"I think he's gotten more comfortable with that and gotten better at it," left tackle Andrew Whitworth said. "I think it's a trait that will really help him go the next level if he can continue to get better at it.
"I think he does all the other things so well. If he has the ability to extend plays like he did the other night, that makes us pretty special."
Dalton has been good at avoiding hits while extending plays. The Bengals would like to do better at completing passes off Dalton's scrambles instead of having him tuck it in so often. Bengals coaches said the receivers could have done a better job of getting open while Dalton scrambled on Sunday night.
"There are times every now and then when guys think the quarterback is looking in a different spot," offensive coordinator Hue Jackson said. "All of a sudden maybe you don't run as fast as you can. I think our players understand it, and we talk about it all the time. Anybody can get the ball on any given play."
Whitworth noted that the NFL's elite quarterbacks all have a skill for making something happen when a play breaks down, and Dalton has done that more in his fifth season.
"All the great ones have to have that ability eventually," Whitworth said. "So that's really huge for us. The more he can do that, the better we will be."
NOTES: Offensive tackle Cedric Ogbuehi was activated Friday. The Bengals drafted him in the first round out of Texas A&M even though he was recovering from reconstructive knee surgery suffered in a bowl game. Ogbuehi started the season on an injury list. He gets to practice with the team daily now to help his development and would be available in case of injuries to other linemen. … CB Darqueze Dennard was placed on injured reserve with a shoulder separation suffered during the loss on Sunday night.
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Hi y'all! I'm so excited to kick off this fun new monthly challenge that all of my Cricut loving friends and I have begun! What better kick off than a Cricut Christmas Challenge?! A huge thank you to Jeanie and Michelle who had the great idea to get us all together!
-If your flowers don't come with tiny pearls in the center, get those too.
-Unicorn SPiT in Purple Hill Majesty and I also used a touch of Spakling SPiT* in Dove's Cry.
One day ahead of time, roll out your air dry polymer clay into two thin, approximately 1 1/2in cylinders. intertwine them to form your unicorn horn. make sure to flatten out the bottom so it will lie flat once glued onto your ornament.
When you are ready for your vinyl, cut out your eyelashes using your Cricut Air2, weed out, and transfer using transfer tape.
Using the epoxy glue, add the uni-horn and ears, as well as all of your flowers which will serve as the unicorn's mane, onto the top of the ornament. You might have to hold the uni-horn on there until the glue begins to dry so that it stays where you want it to and doesn't tip.
Top it off with your ribbon to hang your adorable Unicorn Ornament!
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial, and please share your thoughts in the comments!
Don't forget to check out all of the other awesomely talented bloggers and THEIR Cricut Christmas Challenge projects!
Excited to see what everyone else has made! Stay tuned to next month's challenge, as well!
I should have known! Haha! I love this adorable unicorn! Thanks so much for being part of our blog hop sweet lady!
OMG this unicorn is so extra in the best possible way! We are obsessed with unicorns at the office I work at. I love that you used the air dry clay too I never would have thought of that. Thank you so much for being a part of the challenge. I hope you craft with us next month too. Happy Holidays!


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The Latest On What's Ahead at COTERIE and MAGIC
by Eddie Roche May 21, 2021
written by Eddie Roche May 21, 2021
COTERIE (Courtesy)
Informa Markets Fashion has announced more details about fashion trade events COTERIE, MAGIC, PROJECT, and SOURCING at Magic. The COTERIE floor returns with a full scale show, taking place September 19-21 at the Jacob Javits Center, with plans for a more product-forward experience. Collectively located upstairs on "Level 3," apparel will be cohesively showcased with footwear and accessories for what the show is calling a "complete look" approach.
Retailers will also find an updated assortment of harmoniously merchandised apparel categories, such as Elevated Contemporary Collections, Vintage, Footwear, Accessories, and Beauty along with the return of destination – COTERIE's swimwear and resortwear community and EDIT, COTERIE's elevated and advanced international collections. Another new change for the New York show is the addition of "curations," which will feature minority-owned and sustainable brands woven throughout the floor.
Courtney Bradarich, VP of Events Contemporary Women's for COTERIE and PROJECT and Jordan Rudow, VP of Events for MAGIC fill us in on what's ahead!
What are you most looking forward to with everything coming up? What have you missed about the live events?
Bradarich: I think what I'm looking forward to—both personally and professionally—is what all of us in the industry are all looking forward to, getting back together! With cities across the U.S. reopening to full capacity, the energy following our country's extended pause is palpable. While this past year was a lesson in diversification, nimbleness, and the importance of a future-forward mindset, it will be exciting to see everyone return with a renewed sense of creativity and innovation. I am personally very excited to see what incredible new ideas are birthed after the industry reconvenes at our events and compare notes. This is where the alchemy happens! While we've been hearing the phrase "Roaring '20s" being thrown, I think there is some real truth to this in that there is a collective aliveness and growth that we will likely see in the coming years as a result.
Why was it important, and even necessary, for you to do in-person events again?
Bradarich: Fundamentally, fashion is a tactile experience and a very social industry. From seeing craftsmanship and design details up close to running into an old business colleague on the show floor—these are the organic elements of live events that are so essential to how we connect and conduct business. While there are new considerations, such as added safety measures, which we all must keep in mind in a post-pandemic world, the real focus for everyone is on getting back together, face-to-face, with the community. As the connector of the industry, providing these meaningful opportunities is part of our promise and ongoing commitment to the community.
What's in the works for Miami?
Bradarich: Kicking off our 2021 calendar return, destination: miami by COTERIE will take place on July 9-12 during Swim Week. Returning with our resortwear and swimwear market event, the Eden Roc Hotel is the perfect location. This stunning beachfront property has incredible outdoor spaces overlooking the ocean and the interior décor is a wonderful mix of modern and old Hollywood glamour, not to mention the incredible dining of Malibu Farms and world renowned Nobu—the entire experience sets the perfect "vacation mode" vibe. As this might be the first time many of our guests are traveling and returning to live events, we will be utilizing the stunning outdoor space with a themed focus on mindfulness and wellness for many of the unique onsite experiences we'll host for our guests. Think: morning meditation and yoga sessions overlooking the ocean, along with experiential networking opportunities and evening cocktail hours for our guests to mix and mingle.
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MAGIC recently announced a return to Vegas. What kind of feedback have you received from retailers and buyers? Will the show be scaled down or do you anticipate it will look similar to previous years in terms of attendance?
Rudow: Yes, we did, and we couldn't be more excited about our return to Las Vegas with our three co-located events— MAGIC, PROJECT, and SOURCING at MAGIC! We're receiving a lot of very positive and excited feedback from our communities to reconnect and do business in-person at our flagship events in Las Vegas. It's a testament to how much the live experience was missed. A little over a month after our announcement return, we are already over-pacing in both participating brands who have signed on as well as with registration. To date, we have thousands of registered retailers and hundreds of brands signed on across apparel, footwear, and accessories. Planning is also well underway to present a full slate of unique onsite activations and memorable photo op moments, plus trend displays highlighting new brands, exclusive networking opportunities, and a wide array of educational content featuring fresh industry voices along with returning speakers from Create & Cultivate, The McCord List, and Highsnobiety, to name a few. We also excited to be bringing back Cash & Carry on the last day of our three-day event, which is a great opportunity for retailers to shop samples right from the show floor.
We all live in a digital world, but there's really nothing like feeling clothes in person and seeing them with your own eyes. Do you think our timeout has given us all a new appreciation for things we took for granted in the past like a live show and person to person interaction?
Bradarich: Yes completely. Overall, I think there's a real sense of increased appreciation for many things we only now realize were so fundamental to our lives – both personally and professionally. Conducting business and involvement in our live events is no exception: from touching fabrics and spotting new talent, to making connections with new customers and dinners out with longstanding partners. With a general sense of renewed enthusiasm, these are the things our community is excited to get back to, and we're so happy to provide these environments and facilitate this return.
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Program helping moms with postpartum depression get a fresh start
MCPAP for Moms is state-funded program
Updated: 11:45 PM EDT Apr 29, 2015
Emily Riemer
Anchor/Medical Reporter
The birth of a baby should be the happiest time in a mom's life, but for some, postpartum depression can take over.Watch the reportA local program is now helping doctors give these patients a fresh start.Amanda Martin, who loves being a mom to her 4-month-old daughter, Ella, said she felt anxious while pregnant and was unsure of what to do.When the feelings got worse after Ella was born, Martin knew something was wrong."I was sitting there, and I -- just like, I don't want to do it anymore, I don't want to be a mom," said Martin. "I was just completely overwhelmed."Martin called her OB, who put her in touch with a psychiatrist through a state-funded program called MCPAP for Moms.Dr. Nancy Byatt, a psychiatrist at UMass Medical School, started the program."The system can be very difficult to navigate," said Byatt.Postpartum depression is under-diagnosed, according to Byatt.One in eight women will experience it, and sometimes doctors don't know the best way to treat these patients. That's where MCPAP for Moms comes in."The first thing we do is we go to a practice and we provide training. We teach them about the screening tools, we teach them about how to manage depression," said Byatt.Doctors can reach out to three call centers across the state for real-time advice, and MCPAP will handle the appointment logistics for moms like Amanda, busy adjusting to life with a newborn."There was definitely the reassurance the whole time that you're OK, this is normal," said Martin.Today, she is seeing a therapist and feels great and ready to handle whatever little Ella throws her way.MCPAP works with about 20 percent of the OB practices in Massachusetts. They've helped 400 women since launching last July.
The birth of a baby should be the happiest time in a mom's life, but for some, postpartum depression can take over.
A local program is now helping doctors give these patients a fresh start.
Amanda Martin, who loves being a mom to her 4-month-old daughter, Ella, said she felt anxious while pregnant and was unsure of what to do.
When the feelings got worse after Ella was born, Martin knew something was wrong.
"I was sitting there, and I -- just like, I don't want to do it anymore, I don't want to be a mom," said Martin. "I was just completely overwhelmed."
Martin called her OB, who put her in touch with a psychiatrist through a state-funded program called MCPAP for Moms.
Dr. Nancy Byatt, a psychiatrist at UMass Medical School, started the program.
"The system can be very difficult to navigate," said Byatt.
Postpartum depression is under-diagnosed, according to Byatt.
One in eight women will experience it, and sometimes doctors don't know the best way to treat these patients.
That's where MCPAP for Moms comes in.
"The first thing we do is we go to a practice and we provide training. We teach them about the screening tools, we teach them about how to manage depression," said Byatt.
Doctors can reach out to three call centers across the state for real-time advice, and MCPAP will handle the appointment logistics for moms like Amanda, busy adjusting to life with a newborn.
"There was definitely the reassurance the whole time that you're OK, this is normal," said Martin.
Today, she is seeing a therapist and feels great and ready to handle whatever little Ella throws her way.
MCPAP works with about 20 percent of the OB practices in Massachusetts. They've helped 400 women since launching last July.


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With the exception of an occasional watering, I had almost nothing to do with the planting and growing of these potatoes. That credit is bestowed upon my spouse. BUT, on Saturday afternoon, my husband and I dug them up. And can I tell you that it was one of the most enjoyable pursuits, ever! My friend Jason, an excellent gardener in his own right, and the one who gave us the seed potatoes to begin with, has always said (correctly) that it's like a fabulous treasure hunt trying to find the tubers in the dark soil. Last night, in celebration of our modest bounty, we cooked the smaller ones for dinner. We were duly rewarded for the many weeks of waiting. My gosh, they were delicious. But, before cooking them, I singled out what I consider to be the world's smallest potato. And, take notice of that gnarled one in the bottom left portion of the first photograph. It reminds me ever so slightly of Rodin's The Thinker.
food and farming, moi, simply fabulous, sustainability, things we eat
Moi.
Elle Décoration, the 25 year old French design publication, just launched their first issue of a new magazine called Elle Deco Lab. And, to my delight, they decided to include Mrs. Easton in a round up of design blogs that "will get you hooked!" The website packs in a lot of information and highlights many designs and designers that aren't necessarily part of the familiar roster here in the United States. Well worth a look. I assume that the print publication will be available here in October. Usually arrives a month after it's released in Europe. Oh, and in France, "je suis une blogueuse." Merci Elle Deco Lab!
france, moi, reading material
Stacked Stuff
I like stacks of stuff. No matter what or where.
many, moi, photography, unintended charm, urban landscape
The Last Meringue
"WHAT, you don't know about the meringue?!!" screeched my brother and H. "HOW could you have missed it?" "It's been in H's freezer since that New Year's Eve party we had back in 1979!" "Haven't you ever seen it on the door?" John, my brother's partner, gives us a sideways look. I sense that he is questioning our mental stability.
"Okay, okay…yes I have a vague memory of it." I think to myself that they are referring to that teacup-size thing, enshrouded in plastic, sitting alone on the shelf of the freezer door. The thing I've often been tempted to throw in the trash. I admit to myself that I never really thought much about it and, in a slightly ashamed tone, confess my obliviousness.
How COULD I have missed its significance? Jeez, it's been there for a good 33 years and counting. It now officially qualifies as an antique.
I ask if I can borrow it to take photographs, but dodge an immediate round of outrage spit at me from both sides of the dinner table. "Are you crazy?!" "You absolutely cannot remove it, much less unwrap it!" "No way." They are united in their defense of this frostbitten wad of sugar, cream of tartar, vanilla and egg whites. My brother adds that it is PERFECT. He reminds me of that pre-party madness long ago when he made the meringues for a crowd of 25. He conjures up images of a sixteen year old self, hunched over his cookie sheet, pastry bag in hand, piping out the glossy swirled receptacles that will later hold chocolate mousse, orange segments macerated in grand-marnier, all crowned with lightly sweetened whipped cream. He recalls throwing out two thirds of his creations, only keeping those that met his highest standards of perfection. I finally convince them that it's worth a look. My brother concedes that it's probably ossified, and that taking the cling wrap off will unlikely compromise its integrity. We rush back to the apartment before dark in order to rig up a quick photo shoot. This is the one meringue that is preserved for posterity. And it is indeed perfect.
just plain odd, moi, simply fabulous, the truly obsessed, things we eat
L.L. Bean Boot
Thursday 06.14.12
Have you ever really looked at this thing? It is UGLY. Really really ugly. At least to my eye. But in a good way…I think. We moved from Philadelphia to Maine when I was 11, and I have distinct memories of going to the original L.L. Bean store in Freeport, in the dead of night — they have always been open 24 hours, 365 days a year — to go shoe shopping. Specifically boot shopping. The Classic Bean Hunting Shoe is almost a wardrobe requirement in that state. Coming from Pennsylvania though, I had never before seen such a hideous piece of footwear. And while I never ever came around to appreciating its aesthetic merits, there was something in its utility that made me a convert. (It's important to note that Mainers, as they refer to themselves, take great pride in their common sense and practicality.) Yes, your feet froze in winter. And they didn't do much to save you on the ice. But they were great in the mud (of which there is an abundance) and in the rain, which is near constant at times. If your soles wore out, or the stitching gave way, all you had to do was send in your boots and they would fix them for free. The shoes pictured above are from the catalog itself. And they look a little different from the ones I grew up with. These are a reissue/redesign in honor of the boots' 100 year anniversary. Oh, and one other thing, these are still made in Maine, one pair at a time.
common sense, fashion, moi, things we wear


This page describes how to configure IPsec to connect pfSense and a Cisco IOS router with IPsec capabilities.
This diagram shows the specifics of the network where this VPN is being configured. For the sake of this documentation, both hosts were on private subnets, but functionally equivalent to two hosts across the Internet.
First, configure the phase 1 settings with a crypto isakmp policy. The following sets it for 3DES, SHA and group 2 to match the pfSense configuration shown later.
Next, configure the pre-shared key. The key in this example is ABCDEFG, but be sure to use something random and secure for any production deployments. 10.0.66.22 is the WAN IP of the pfSense system being used.
Next configure the transform set for phase 2. This uses ESP, 3DES and SHA. The transform set is named 3DES-SHA, which is how it will be referred to later.
Now configure an access list that will match the local and remote subnets on the pfSense end. This is configured as access-list 100, which will be used in the next step. Remember this uses wildcard masks, so a /24 network (255.255.255.0 mask) is represented as 0.0.0.255.
The configuration is then finished on the Cisco side.
This screenshot shows the pfSense configuration matching the above Cisco configuration.
If the connection doesn't come up, there is a mismatch somewhere in the configuration. Depending on specifics, more useful information may be obtained from pfSense or the Cisco. Checking logs on both ends is recommended. For pfSense, browse to Status > System Logs on the IPsec tab. For Cisco, run debug crypto isakmp and term mon (if not connected via serial console) to make the debug messages appear in a session. The output can be verbose, but will usually tell specifically what was mismatched.
This will direct the router to prevent NAT if the traffic is going from the subnet behind the Cisco router to the subnet behind the pfSense router, but allow it in all other cases.


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package org.codehaus.griffon.runtime.javafx;

import griffon.annotations.core.Nonnull;
import griffon.core.GriffonApplication;
import griffon.exceptions.InstanceNotFoundException;
import griffon.javafx.JavaFXWindowDisplayHandler;
import javafx.stage.Window;
import org.codehaus.griffon.runtime.core.view.ConfigurableWindowDisplayHandler;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Named;

import static griffon.util.AnnotationUtils.named;

/**
 * @author Andres Almiray
 * @since 2.0.0
 */
public class ConfigurableJavaFXWindowDisplayHandler extends ConfigurableWindowDisplayHandler<Window> implements JavaFXWindowDisplayHandler {
    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ConfigurableJavaFXWindowDisplayHandler.class);

    @Inject
    public ConfigurableJavaFXWindowDisplayHandler(@Nonnull GriffonApplication application, @Nonnull @Named("defaultWindowDisplayHandler") JavaFXWindowDisplayHandler delegateWindowsDisplayHandler) {
        super(application, delegateWindowsDisplayHandler);
    }

    @Nonnull
    @Override
    protected JavaFXWindowDisplayHandler fetchDefaultWindowDisplayHandler() {
        Object handler = windowManagerBlock().get("defaultHandler");
        return (JavaFXWindowDisplayHandler) (handler instanceof JavaFXWindowDisplayHandler ? handler : getDelegateWindowsDisplayHandler());
    }

    @Override
    protected boolean handleShowByInjectedHandler(@Nonnull String name, @Nonnull Window window) {
        try {
            JavaFXWindowDisplayHandler handler = getApplication().getInjector()
                .getInstance(JavaFXWindowDisplayHandler.class, named(name));
            LOG.trace("Showing {} with injected handler", name);
            handler.show(name, window);
            return true;
        } catch (InstanceNotFoundException infe) {
            return super.handleShowByInjectedHandler(name, window);
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected boolean handleHideByInjectedHandler(@Nonnull String name, @Nonnull Window window) {
        try {
            JavaFXWindowDisplayHandler handler = getApplication().getInjector()
                .getInstance(JavaFXWindowDisplayHandler.class, named(name));
            LOG.trace("Hiding {} with injected handler", name);
            handler.hide(name, window);
            return true;
        } catch (InstanceNotFoundException infe) {
            return super.handleHideByInjectedHandler(name, window);
        }
    }
}


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In a medium nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, warm the oil. Add the bacon and cook until crisp. Transfer the bacon to a small plate and crumble.
Return the pan to medium heat. Add the spinach and cook, stirring often, until wilted, 3 to 5 minutes.
Spread each slice of bread with 1 tablespoon cream cheese. Top the bread with the spinach, bacon, and a slice of tomato.
Place the sandwiches on a baking sheet and bake for about 10 minutes, or until browned and warmed through.


If you don't have a lot of time left, like I didn't. These potholders did not take me very long.
Two coordinating fabrics for front and back.
Small scraps for leaf appliqués and the stem loop. Bias binding.
I made these mug rugs last year.
These potholders and last year's mug rugs are adorable! Nice work.


From Dala Horses to Tonttu Christmas Frost Elf earrings, our Scandinavian jewelry is a must for anyone who adores wearing earrings and wants to be a little different from their loved ones. Our Scandinavian jewelry is an homage to our love of the Nordic countries. When you wear our Sweden Flat Sterling Silver earrings or the Dala Horse ones, you'll be representing the countries in the north of Europe. From showing off homemade earrings from Finland to the flags of Norway, our earrings will demonstrate your admiration for the north of Europe. Whether you want something more traditional or a little more contemporary, our Scandinavian earrings are a must for those who love to adorn accessories.
Our Scandinavian jewelry is made of a variety of different materials. Some are made of sterling silver while others have blue enamel. What you can expect with our Scandinavian earrings is that each one is crafted to be perfect and comfortable for the person wearing the jewelry. Whether you want something a little more low key with studs or you want dangling earrings to show off your best features, our selection is versatile, unique, and beautiful.
What you can expect with our Scandinavian jewelry are a few things. Each set of earrings are high quality. They are made from top quality materials and will fit comfortably in your ears. You can also expect them to be strong and hold up through the years. What's neat about these earrings are that they each represent something a little different. For example, the Dala Horse, which we offer in many forms of Scandinavian jewelry, is a sign of good luck and strength. Another great quality of these earrings are that they are handmade in the Nordic countries. In addition, these earrings are perfect as a Scandinavian gift. From birthdays to Valentine's Day, our Scandinavian jewelry will make your loved one smile when they see these top-quality earrings.
When you shop at the Scandinavians Shoppe, you can expect to find an array of different trinkets for yourself or your loved ones. No matter what time of the year it is, we are a great shop to find all of your Scandinavian gifts for your loved ones. Show your love all year round when you purchase Scandinavian earrings and other gifts to make your loved ones smile with glee. Whether your loved one enjoys studs or dangling earrings, we have a wide selection of Scandinavian jewelry that looks phenomenal on anyone.


Businesses hardly leave any opportunity to promote their services, irrespective their size. Before the inception of the World Wide Web, the marketing techniques were restricted to electronic and print media. But the trend of having a website gradually gained more prominence, owning to the current demand. However, this is no longer a fertile ground because all businesses now have websites to reach out their virtual customers. So now what? It's time to explore other strategies, which calls for Business Listings. This is just the online version of the printed form of the Yellow Pages. Promotion through this method is simple yet important.
1. Every business listing site has a search option which works similarly as a search engine. You need to enter the details of the business or service you are looking for along with the area, a list will appear as per the keywords mentioned. All you need to do is choose the option that suits your need. So, if you have listed your business in these directories, the chance of getting recognized in your locality is more. The onlookers can narrow down their search on the basis of the appropriate category and minimize their time while looking for your business.
2. Online business directory is considered as an internet marketing strategy that helps you to reach a large audience without any restriction of location. Listings can help you to target customers and reach those who are interested in your products and services. Some listings even act like websites providing details to the viewers about the services available, its cost and even about the company as well. So, if you do not have a website then getting listed in a directory is an advantage your business can enjoy.
3. Advertisement is a part and parcel of every business promotion. But this involves a lot of money, especially if you go for print or electronic media. Online business listings will not cost you huge. These, on the other hand, are one-time payment structure and the list continues to show your business for a considerable period of time. So your business gets visibility for a larger span than rest of the advertising tools.
4. Small businesses especially need to understand the advantages that listing can offer. It may not be possible for them to spend on creating a website because that involves an entire development process. But if you just register with a directory and enter the details, it act similarly as a website. So, even if you do not have a business website, your online presence can be covered by these listings.


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Integrated Control Centre Opens
Network Rail and 'one' Railway control staff are now working together under one roof at London Liverpool Street. The Anglia Integrated Control Centre (ICC) officially opened Wednesday 23 February; it is the sixth integrated control centre to be opened in the UK. Control staff are positioned according to the train lines they manage, to allow for the efficient sharing of operational information and expertise, and for the quick resolution of operational incidents to keep delays to a minimum. In addition, a Duty Network Manager, a so-called 'fat controller' provides a single point of authority to speed up decision-making.
Secretary of State for Transport Alistair Darling said: "Having Network Rail working side by side with the train operating company enables any incident to be handled far more effectively and efficiently – meaning that passengers benefit, with reduced delays."
John Armitt, Network Rail Chief Executive said: "Integrated control centres speed incident response, streamline decision-making and deliver benefits to passengers. We look forward to delivering the same benefits to passengers using the lines out of Liverpool Street that others are already experiencing around the country."
Tim Clarke, 'one' Railway Managing Director added "I am delighted that the new control centre is now up and running and look forward to the positive impact that a closer working relationship with Network Rail will have on performance and therefore, passengers."
Delays are down significanlty in the Wessex area since an integrated control centre was opened at Waterloo a year ago 23 February 2004. Overall delays are down 30% over the last eight months; delays per incident went down 35% over the last eight months, and there has been a significant and on-going reduction in the number of major delays above 1500 minutes.
Previous RPC to Survey Passengers at Ipswich Station
Next Improvements at Beccles Station


Dedicated to bringing sound healing to youth in underserved communities.
There is a light in all of us that often dims as we grow. The conditioning and constructs of society can lead to destructive behaviors. What if we could catch this early? The Resonant People Project is committed to facilitating and researching the effects of sound and vibration to bring greater awareness and acceptance of this powerful modality.
The Resonant People Project organizes sound baths for different groups such as at risk youth, first responders and people diagnosed with autism. Sound practitioners use a variety of instruments such as quartz crystal bowls or gongs to help facilitate relaxation in a calm environment. The sound bath creates a deep cellular massage encouraging the body to come back into a tuned state and switch on our own natural healing abilities.
Through published research we hope to encourage more funding to create a community of sound practitioners offering sound therapy programs that are free for participants from under-served communities. The intention is to create formalized rituals around sound healing in every classroom, hospital, workplace and in our homes.
Sound healing has been used by ancient cultures such as the Egyptians and Greeks for thousands of years. Pythagoras is credited with being the "Father of Mathematics" and he also discovered the musical intervals and taught that you could heal using sound and harmonic frequencies. He was the first person to prescribe music as medicine. He is considered the "Father of Harmonics". It's time to remind everyone of the healing potential of sound.
Our mission is to raise funds to create a team of sound practitioners and equip them each with a set of Quartz Crystal Singing bowls. Each practitioner will be trained and paid to facilitate sound baths on a regular basis. This will enable the communities that need this the most to have access to free and regular sound healing and it also provides a fair and consistent income to sound practitioners who are often undervalued and underpaid. We also intend to support the project with quantitative research to help understand why the sound healing is so beneficial.
Quantitative research - monitoring brain and heart activity during the sound bath sessions to understand what is actually happening. Through the use of high-tech monitoring equipment, Emotiv for EEG and HeartMath for VHR, we intend to see what is happening to volunteers during the sound bath.
The hope is that with this research paper, sound healing will become more widely accepted and funding can easily be raised to support free programs for teens and other populations in need.
The aggregated feedback from the teens suggests that the sound healing sessions greatly help with the following: reduced anxiety, induces restful sleep during and after the session, clear blocks to allow access to suppressed trauma, creates peaceful emotions, sometimes elicit euphoria and often allow vivid insights and deeper understanding of themselves. It can also help with pain management, most notably headaches.
Traditionally teens are treated with talk therapy and medication which has its value, but on it's own isn't always capable of getting to the root of the issue. Pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest in the amount of medication prescribed to teens. To use an analogy, medication is like a safety net for someone jumping off a roof. It will break their fall but will not address why they were on the roof in the first place.
Sound healing is a powerful complimentary medicine which elicits the relaxation response through well document sound techniques such as binaural beats and entrainment. During this relaxed meditative state stuck energy can be unblocked by the vibration, brainwaves lower in frequency, sleep is often induced due to melatonin release, lowering of blood pressure and heart rate, stimulation of the vagus nerve and sometimes accessing blocked trauma.


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5 Super PACs to Watch in the 2016 Presidential Race
Independent Expenditure Committees Will Spend Nearly $1 Billion on Elections
by Tom Murse
Tom Murse is a former political reporter and current Managing Editor of daily paper "LNP," and weekly political paper "The Caucus," both published by LNP Media in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The 2012 presidential election was the first White House contest to feature super PACs, which are allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money from corporations, unions, individuals and associations.
And boy did they spend. And spend. And spend.
All told, super PACs spent $600 million trying to influence the outcome of elections across the United States. They included big-time super PACs supporting Republican candidates and big-time super PACs supporting Democrats.
It's not unreasonably to believe that, given the rise of super PACs and other committees that peddle in dark money, such groups will spend nearly $1 billion on the 2016 presidential race.
So which super PACs will have the biggest impact on the election? Here's a look at the five biggest super PACs for election 2016.
Karl Rove served as deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to President George W. Bush. Win McNamee/Getty Images News/Getty Images
The American Crossroads super PAC was a formidable player in the 2012 presidential election. It raised millions of dollars to oppose President Barack Obama's bid for a second term against Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Founded in part by Republican strategist Karl Rove, the former deputy chief of staff and senior policy adviser to President George W. Bush, American Crossroads will certainly be a player again in 2016. The super PAC, in fact, spent in excess of $20 million in the 2014 midterm election cycle.
Ready for Hillary
Former U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton. Getty Images
The super PAC Ready for Hillary was up and running even though the candidate it exists to support, for U.S. Sen. and onetime Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had not announced whether she would run for the White House in 2016.
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Ready for Hillary raked in more than $4 million in 2013. While that doesn't sound like much compared to what American Crossroads is spending, keep in mind it was in the first year of the group's existence and, technically, without a candidate in the running.
Ready for Hillary Executive Director Adam Parkhomenko said at the time: "This movement is unprecedented – not because of our staff but because of our supporters – and we will continue to build capacity across the country to put Hillary in the strongest position possible should she decide to run."
Failed 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Getty Images
Yes, you read that correctly. Restore Our Future Inc. is a super PAC that raised $142 million in 2011 to support the presidential candidacy of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. So why would that matter in 2016? Well, because there's lots of speculation that Romney might run again.
But even if he doesn't run again, you can expect the conservative super PAC to support the Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees in 2016.
Either way, Restore Our Future will be a powerful force.
Priorities USA Action
President Barack Obama. Pool / Getty Images News
If the name sounds familiar, that's because it is. Priorities USA Action is a super PAC that helped Obama win re-election in 2012. "Having played a critical role in 2012, Priorities USA Action has very clearly demonstrated its ability to help elect a Democratic president," said Jim Messina, the super PAC's co-chairman.
Messina was Obama's campaign manager in 2012.
Keep an eye on this super PAC, particularly if Hillary Clinton decides to run for president.
Sheldon Adelson. Ben Gabbe/Getty Images
Winning Our Future helped keep former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign afloat in 2012. What's important to note here is that the super PAC received $10 million from casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife.
What's important to note here is that Adelson, a multibillionaire businessman and prolific contributor to Republican candidates, is among the key supporters of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. While Adelson hasn't been quoted on the record as supporting Jeb Bush for president, he has thrown at least one VIP dinner for Bush.
So if Bush decides to run, as many believe he will, expect this super PAC to play a big role in the election.
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Is it normal to cry so much during a long distance relationship? My boyfriend makes me really happy but I find myself crying every other day. Sometimes over the phone and sometimes alone. It usually happens when he does not call or when he calls and tells me he has to go, so during the goodbyes.
Is this long distance thing is a new arrangement for you guys? If that's the case – sure. You're getting your head around not having him around, which is a big adjustment. But if your relationship has always been a long-distance one, and you've never found it anything but angst-inducing, you're not alone. So many people aren't cut out for long distance relationships because they're bloody hard. Whether or not you're 100 percent secure in yourself, your partner and the relationship, the distance can totally mess with your head.
And, because you probably have such little face-to-face time together, try to view your phone or Skype conversations as your quality time together. Share funny things that have happened to you, and make a pact – over email, maybe – not to talk about anything heavy when you do chat. Letting your phone calls descend into weepy downers every time you talk will just leave you BOTH feeling frustrated, because hey, you can't reach into the phone and get the hug you need, right?
If you try all that and it's not getting any better, I'd hit up your GP for a full assessment, because – and I'm totally speculating here – you may have some low-level anxiety or be suffering from mild depression, and getting some treatment, if you need it, could make all the difference. Good luck and let us know how it all goes.