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dropbox account.

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<dropbox-file
    key="your-app-key"
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</dropbox-file>
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# <dropbox-dir>

`dropbox-dir` is an element that displays `dropbox-file`s and `dropbox-dir`s
from a directory inside your dropbox account.

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</dropbox-dir>
```

## Options

`auto` attribute can be provided to `fetch` automatically the content of your
element.

`share` method retrieve through `url` attribute, the sharing url of your element.

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Radiological Safety Guidelines Radically relaxed!
Posted on January 23, 2014 by RonMamita — Leave a comment
This report is a reminder from past reports.
Protect yourself and do not rely upon untrustworthy governments.
Help each other, update personal emergency preparedness plans, and share information.
You can send a statement to policy makers expressing your concerns and wishes. ~Ron
Volunteers Crowdsource Radiation Monitoring to Map Potential Risk on Every Street in Japan
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Alert: EPA Trying To Radically Relax Radiation Guidelines!
Gina McCarthy, US President Barack Obama's nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) oversaw the revision of the Protective Action Guide Manual (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2013/04/10/epa-draft-stirs-fears-of-radically-relaxed-radiation-guidelines/
The acting EPA director on Friday signed a revised version of the EPA's Protective Action Guide for radiological incidents, which critics say radically relaxes the safety guidelines agencies follow in the wake of a nuclear-reactor meltdown, dirty-bomb attack, or other unexpected release of radiation.
Although the document is a draft published for public comment, it takes effect as an "interim use" guideline. And according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), that means agencies responding to radiation emergencies may permit many more civilian fatalities.
"In soil, the PAGs allow long-term public exposure to radiation in amounts as high as 2,000 millirems," PEER advocacy director Kirsten Stade said in a press release. "This would, in effect, increase a longstanding 1 in 10,000 person cancer rate to a rate of 1 in 23 persons exposed over a 30-year period."
The non-binding document does not relax EPA's standards, the agency has said in response to the criticism. But it directs agencies responding to radiation releases to standards at other agencies that are less stringent than EPA. Douglas Guarino has the scoop at NextGov, a publication that follows technology and government:
The new version of the guide released Friday does not include such dramatically relaxed guidelines in its text, but directs the reader to similar recommendations made by other federal agencies and international organizations in various documents. It suggests that they might be worth considering in circumstances where complying with [EPA's] own enforceable drinking water regulations is deemed impractical….
For example, the new EPA guide refers to International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines that suggest intervention is not necessary until drinking water is contaminated with radioactive iodine 131 at a concentration of 81,000 picocuries per liter. This is 27,000 times less stringent than the EPA rule of 3 picocuries per liter.
via EPA Relaxes Public Health Guidelines For Radiological Attacks, Accidents – Nextgov.com.
Why Does FDA Tolerate More Radiation Than EPA? Jeff McMahon Contributor
That EPA rule was designed for a lifetime of exposure, the IAEA guideline for short-term exposure.
The document was signed Friday by acting EPA Administrator Bob Perciasepe, but it developed under the Bush Administration and was revised under the supervision of Obama's nominee for the top EPA post, Gina McCarthy, who has headed EPA's Office of Air and Radiation since 2009. McCarthy faces a confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday.
EPA spokeswoman Julia Valentine told the Global Security Newswire that the agency "is not weakening cleanup standards," but "building a bridge between managing the effects of a catastrophe and meeting existing environmental standards." EPA updated the document to bring the science to current standards and to give agencies more guidance and flexibility in the wake of a catastrophe than a reiteration of EPA's standards.
In a notice published Friday, Perciasepe states:
The 2013 PAG Manual is not a legally binding regulation or standard and does not supersede any environmental laws; PAGs are not intended to define "safe" or "unsafe" levels of exposure or contamination. This guidance does not address or impact site cleanups occurring under other statutory authorities such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund program, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) decommissioning program, or other federal or state cleanup programs. As indicated by the use of non-mandatory language such as "may," "should" and "can," the 2013 Manual only provides recommendations and does not confer any legal rights or impose any legally binding requirements upon any member of the public, states, or any other federal agency. Rather, the 2013 PAG Manual recommends projected radiation doses at which specific actions may be warranted in order to reduce or avoid that dose. The 2013 PAG Manual is designed to provide flexibility to be more or less restrictive as deemed appropriate by decision makers based on the unique characteristics of the incident and the local situation.
The full draft "PAG Manual" is available here (pdf).
Click to access pag-manual-interim-public-comment-4-2-2013.pdf
Inspector General Faults EPA Radiation Monitoring
Why Does FDA Tolerate More Radiation Than EPA?
Citizen Monitors Keep A Wary Eye On Radiation And Government
Radiation Found in America's Milk Supply – EPA
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Nuclear Health – Radiation Preparation and Safety Radiation pills, detectors, emergency kits
Milk in California and Washington has tested positive for radioactive iodine, but the EPA assures the trace amounts are harmless
Low-Level Helicopter Flies Over Baltimore To Map Background Radiation
Alex DeMetrick reports it's an operation going on right now in Baltimore. All you have to do is look up.
It flies lower than most helicopters–the better to sniff out radiation. It made a number of passes over the terminals at the Port of Baltimore–just the kind of entry point experts worry a nuclear device or dirty bomb could come in.
Read More: baltimore.cbslocal.com
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HGeom Trig Elev and Dep Notes.notebook 3 March 17, 2016 2. A blimp hovers over a stadium at an altitude of 125m. The pilot sights a tennis court at an 8 degree angle of depression.... 25/02/2015 · Objectives: Use angles of elevation and depression with trigonometry to solve problems.
8-5 Notes DATE PERIOD Angles of Elevation and Depression Two Angles of Elevation or Depression Angles of elevation or depression to two different objects can be used to estimate distance between those objects. The angles from two different positions of observation to the same object can be used to estimate the of the object. Example: To estimate the height of a garage, Jason …... 8.7 Notes Angles of Elevation and Depression Learning Goals: I can solve problems involving angles of elevation and depression. I can use angles of elevation and depression to find the distance between two objects.
Angles of elevation and depression Home > Further Maths > Geometry and Trigonometry > Angles of elevation and depression When the object is below the line of vision, then the angle that the line of sight makes with the horizontal is referred to as the angle of depression.
Angles of Elevation and Depression The angle of elevation of an object as seen by an observer is the angle between the horizontal and the line from the object to the observer's eye (the line of sight).


When AMC's show Mad Men premiered on July 15th 2007, Fullerton's local vintage shop Out of Vogue became involved in helping set decorator Amy Wells procure some of the many props that were needed to make a 1960's period drama about advertising moguls of the decade. The relationship lasted through the 3rd season when Wells left the show and was replaced with Set Decorator Claudette Didul. Despite losing the connection, association with the show continues. Most recently Out of Vogue's co-owner, Mike Atta, was approached by The Tonight Show's Assistant Art Director Justine Mercado in helping the show procure props for a Mad Men Parody. The Fullertonian interviewed Atta on the chronicles of working with these entertainment industry professionals.
According to Atta, Set Decorator Amy Wells started working for Mad Men as a favor to its creator Matthew Weiner. Wells had done movies like Clueless back in the 90's and actually came out of retirement in order to help with the first season. Atta states that those involved with the show originally thought that it would only last one season. The business relationship started after Wells got a suggestion from an unknown vendor at the Rose Bowl Swap Meet. Atta says he still doesn't know who the referral came from exactly, but that he has a reputation to some of the LA based vendors.
Mike and his wife, Pam Atta became good contacts for the show not only for their shop's price point, but also for the knowledge that the Attas had in assisting the show in creating an authentic look.
It would be a very difficult task for Out of Vogue to supply every prop that the show needed, and if it were possible, staying within budget would be the next top priority.
During the relationship with the show, there were sometimes serendipitous moments where things seemed to be timed perfectly.
Atta's shop supplied miscellaneous props like car seats, cribs, and other vintage children's accessories. In addition, he supplied several vintage prop phones and working televisions. Finding more of the props needed for the show became easier once he had a list of things they were looking for. There were some items that Atta couldn't supply however, like working vintage air conditioners. When Out of Vogue couldn't supply the prop, Atta reffered other vendors within the area.
"They used dealers in LA, and Long Beach, so they used it a lot of us. It was good for everybody, especially when they first started setting up because they needed everything. They were buying, not renting, which kind of surprised me, although buy rates on a lot of this stuff is probably cheaper buying it then renting it."
Buying has advantages other than price in comparison to renting. Once done shooting, it's up to the production company on what to do with the props.
"They'll probably do the same thing That 70's Show did when the show's over. That 70's Show had an auction on ebay and they auctioned off all the stuff to be donated to charity," said Atta.
When Atta's contact Amy Wells left Mad Men, so did the business between the show and the shop. Mad Men had moved the set into a new office after Wells left, and with that change came all new props to be used. The time that Atta spent consulting with the show and supplying props got Out of Vogue some recognition from some larger publications such as LA Times, Westways Magazine, Sunset Magazine.


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for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols.
separate document that should address these limitations.
remainder is obsoleted as detailed in Section 1.2 of RFC 4422.
implementation to enforce its security policy.
can be offered or accepted.
if the server does not advertise support for any security layer.
containing the UTF-8 [UTF8] encoded authorization identity.
Kerberos V GSS-API mechanism [KRB5GSS].
Identifier (OID) of the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism [KRB5GSS](*).
Servers MAY use GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL as an acceptor credential handle.
freed by calling the GSS_Release_oid_set.
value differs, SASL authentication MUST be aborted.
name specified in the application protocol's profile.
output_message to the client in a challenge.
byte order), and the remaining octets as the authorization identity.
understood must be negotiated off.
other than the GSS_S_COMPLETE MUST be treated as a fatal error.
determine the corresponding maximum size input_message.
insecure or untrusted directory service.
(to be introduced in a future document).
mechanism can be found in [KRB5GSS] and [KERBEROS].
This document replaces Section 7.2 of RFC 2222 [RFC2222] by John G.
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[RFC2222], which provided the original version of this specification.
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In the latest of his safety books - Disastrous Decisions: The Human and Organisational Causes of the Gulf of Mexico Blowout – leading disaster analyst, Professor Andrew Hopkins, takes the reader into the realm of human and organisational factors that contributed to this disaster, going beyond all previous commentary on this topic. He acknowledges that it is important to know what people did, but even more important to know why they did it.
The production, Macondo Blowout: Human and Organisational Causes, is available on DVD.


The Source How Young is Too Young for Sexual Reassignment Surgery?
The WPATH Symposium: Transgender Health from Global Perspective, held on February 14-18, 2013, offered transgender persons, medical practitioners and advocates a number of symposia on medical and surgical researches and advocacy agenda. As an advocate, naturally, I went to listen to the presentation on the advocacy issues. But, man, they are all too familiar. The same were discussed during the last International Conference on AIDS in the Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP). And I am a person who is not keen on listening to discussions over and over again because, on a personal note, we should have started addressing those already. So I took my WPATH Program Booklet and brushed my fingers into the sessions and, viola! I found an interesting topic which I have heard before but nevertheless promised a presentation from a very unfamiliar perspective.
As uniformly used in our advocacy, it is the issue of the informed consent. It is the question of the legal age range where adolescents can give their consent for medical procedures.
Dr. Christine Mildrod began her presentation by telling her personal experience where a young person, at the age of 14, asked her to perform a sexual reassignment surgery (SRS). In her words, she said that she was like a "chicken with the head cut off". She honestly admitted that she did not know what to do. Is it optimum to grant patient's wishes or withhold them in the name of ethical compliance?
To ease her from this dilemma, she wrote a paper. According to her research, irreversible interventions are not recommended until adolescent has reached the legal age of majority in any given country (referring to Standard of Care V.7). She also cited the research of Mr. Sam Winter, who at that time was sitting beside me at the back of the session room and on the comfort of the fully carpeted floor, about Thai Transgender people taking hormones at a young age and its effects.
As medical practitioners, doctors are bound by the current and existing ethical protocols. She mentioned about the Endocrine Society's Grading, Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) System which is used to rate the strength and quality of recommendations. According to the system, the recommendations of lowering down the age of consent are low and the quality of evidence is weak.
Here comes the most interesting part – the discussion on the Informed Consent and the evidence available corroborating it.
Informed Consent is the legal ability of a person to provide legal consent to direct what happens to his or her body. It ensures that the patient is aware of all the potential risks and costs involved in a treatment or procedure. To give consent, he or she must be considered competent to make the voluntary decision.
The first one is the Rule of Sevens. According to this rule "children under age seven do not have the capacity necessary to make their own decisions; children from seven to fourteen years of age are presumed not to have this capacity until proven otherwise in individual cases, and children over age 14 are presumed to have capacity to make their own decisions and lead their own lives, unless proven otherwise." By saying "proven otherwise", I would assume the requisite of a court decision vesting capacity as it is a legal ability to give legal consent.
Then there is United Kingdom's Gillick Competency. It is part of UK's jurisprudence stating that a child's capacity to give consent will depend on his maturity and understanding and the nature of consent required. He must be able to reasonably assess the advantages and disadvantages of the treatment [or procedure] proposed.
Finally, there is the United States' Mature Minor Doctrine. It says that an unemancipated minor patient has the right choose or reject a health care treatment, sometimes even without the knowledge or agreement of parents, and they should be permitted to do so.
In the end, we were presented with two sets of, not only distinct, but also adversarial ideas clothed in legal, medical and ethical jargons. But who is to decide which among the contesting concepts are applicable? These concepts are recognized landmark decisions written by credible high courts of different countries (at least the later two). If jurisprudence is part of the law as it is the interpretation of the law, does it follow that these concepts be applied as they are construed?
Then again, there is the puzzle of 'applicability'. One concept may be true and correct, but may not be applicable in a given situation. Vice versa.
WPATH manifested the path that I less walk on. From that path, I see many detours and shortcuts, which are inviting depending on my interests. WPATH spotlights that transgender health issues are clearly beyond HIV. These legal and medical doctrines attest to that.
Although it is true that physical health is an immediate element, mental wellbeing is as crucial. I may not be one of the transgender people, but I recognize them.


At Canada Health Support we care about your natural medication needs. If you have symptoms that you believe require medical marijuana, contact our team of specialist to talk about whether you qualify for your medical license.
Thousands of Canadians are federally licensed to possess and use medical marijuana through Health Canada. This section will help you determine if you are eligible for Medical Marijuana.
Michael J. Fox and his journey of how cannabis oil helped him.
Cannabis and the various benefits to our health and well being.


AXA Home Insurance » Customer reviews & ratings in 2019!
Your house is the, or at least one of the, most expensive things you'll ever buy. And because your home also is a place where you need to feel safe and secure and having a home in general is very important, it might be wise to take out a home insurance policy to protect your house. But you might wonder which company you should choose. One of the companies that offers home insurance is AXA Home Insurance. But what kind of cover do they offer? And what premium do they have to pay for it? What kind of customer service do they offer? And will they really pay when your make a claim because your house gets damaged? The first two questions can be answered by looking on their website, but for hones answers to the other questions you can best rely on customers that have dealt with AXA Home Insurance. They can inform you of everything you need to know.
As the name already indicates, AXA Home Insurance is a company that offers home insurance policies. According to the about page on their website. the company has already been in existence for 300 years. The name AXA Home Insurance, however, was not used until 1985, after a couple of mergers. They operate in 64 different countries. In these countries they have 166,000 employees and offer their services to 103 million customers. They offer multiple insurances like car insurance, travel insurance and the home insurance that will be focused on here. This home insurance offers unlimited buildings insurance, a full accidental damage cover for both your home and its content, a £2,500 personal possessions cover, £100,000 contents insurance and a legal expenses insurance policy. You can choose between HomeSmart, HomeSure and HomeSafe policies.
An AXA Home Insurance Ad. Will this be how it works in real life?
You can get a quote or taking out an insurance policy by filling in an online form on their website. Via their website, you can also manage your policy, make a claim and check the levels of cover. And if you need to, you can contact them. They have several phone numbers on their website. Which one you should choose depends on whether you are calling for customer services, claims, legal expenses, home assistance, finance queries of complaints.
Is your home already insured by AXA Home Insurance? Or has it been in the past? In both cases, we want to know all about your experience. What kind of cover does AXA Home Insurance offer? Can you trust them to do as they promise? Do they really pay any claim you make, or did your claim just happened to fall under some fine print that you never even noticed before but gets you into trouble at the time of the claim? And hoe are the people at customer service handling your complaints or problems? Write a review and let us and everyone know your opinion about AXA Home Insurance.
What kind of cover does AXA Home Insurance offer? Read reviews about this company with content insurance, home cover, legal expenses cover and more.
I earlier insured my car FROM axa, they had lot of covers and offers to it. It really made me go for.
I have been with them like for last 4 years, also got my covers for the car when I met with accident. It was so easy with AXA. they help with everthing.
GETTING home insured with them was a good choice.


Encapsulating depth of movement on a canvas as still as it is two dimensional, is not only one of the most vital ingredients in any artist's work, but one that is singularly essential in the authentic portrayal of a living subject.
Perhaps this is especially true with animals. For don't we all share a universal fascination for creatures' instinct, rituals and absence of self awareness? And who isn't in awe of their behaviour, whether manifesting itself in survival or play?
Such curiosity means that only by incorporating their inherent qualities can a representation create an impact which honestly captures the nature of an animal – be it a companion pet or wild creature – enabling the viewer to dip into a world he can never inhabit.
And that brings me to Jake Winkle. The multi coloured images produced by this Dorset artist are charmingly lifelike yet refreshingly unconventional. More importantly, they portray a tangible energy of movement.
This mix of hues is all the more remarkable given that, despite his initial training in oils, he now confines himself to watercolours.
Up to that point Jake confesses he had been a late developer. Having studied Fine Art and Expressive Art, his interests leaned more towards music. A lack of direction didn't help and he even dabbled in teaching until artistic commissions eventually determined his career choice. For a while he produced tourist information maps but, after advertising pet portraits, soon realised he was tapping into a growing market.
"At first I wanted to do people portraits but didn't get much work. So I turned to pets. Over the years I've probably done 1,000." Included in that number is TV presenter and home craft aficionado, Kirstie Allsopp's Border Terrier, Foxy, an adored pet that had been a present from her parents some years earlier.
Jake's creative space is a studio over the family garage, built into the eaves and with vaulted windows. Such proximity to home means he can act upon inspiration whenever it transpires. He begins work by 7.30am and concentrates on all painting aspects until about 2pm. "I like to be fresh while I'm working," he explains.
An admission to chaos is no surprise. Tidiness, after all, rarely accompanies creativity. Nevertheless, Jake assures me he works in an ordered way and with an organised approach.
I can appreciate the motivation of this Blandford artist. He is engaging to talk to; direct and self assured, leaving me in no doubt of his ongoing focus. His work is featured in half a dozen galleries around the country including The Lyndhurst Gallery and Odiham's The Frame. He has also exhibited at The Wykeham Gallery in Stockbridge. In addition, he will be taking part in this summer's Dorset Art Weeks. He has twice won the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society's best in show and reached the finals of the Daily Mail's Not The Turner Prize competition, with one of only 10 watercolours out of 40,000 entries. Yet such accolades haven't compromised his humility.
An eclectic range of tools to transfer paint to canvases is common amongst many painters but Jake is loyal to a couple which are right for him.
It is while admiring the elegant line of these brushes that I begin to sense a bond with the softness of watercolours. Like Jake, I once sidelined the medium for bordering on the bland. Yet there is nothing weak about his images. And I'm not just referring to the animals which continue to fascinate me; there are the magical renditions of Venice, too. These scenes capture an intuitive atmosphere and a strong sense of time due to his knack of depicting light.
Spending time in Jake's company is akin to attending a Master class, and not only in terms of technique. For his professional mindset provides a valuable life lesson. The drive and enthusiasm he has for his art translates into every aspect of his career. And while attitude and talent have launched a flourishing profession, they also ensure the public enjoys an unparalleled opportunity to encounter their favourite animals.


1. The successful completion of an original Torah investigation of a basic environmental issue – the crisis of water usage in Israel and in the world.
2. On the basis of this research the Bet Midrash sent questions with attached sources to a diverse sampling of approximately 80 Rabbis. The questions were focused on the need for a Torah response to the environmental crisis in order to awaken the awareness of the rabbis about the issues and in order to further environmental awareness amongst the students and communities of these Rabbis.
3. The Bet Midrash received important position papers in response to these inquiries, some of which bear the names of Rabbis who are amongst the leaders of Israel's religious communities. We are presently in the process of making these papers public.
4. The Bet Midrash is organizing a conference on the Crisis of Water Usage in Israel and in the International Community. The conference open to the public will include professionals from the area of ecology and Torah authorities. The conference will take place in the center of Jerusalem and will include workshops, lectures and a panel discussion with comments and questions from the audience. February 5, from 2 pm to 9:30pm.
5. Support for the conference has come from the Unna family of Jerusalem. The city of Jerusalem is interested in supporting future conferences.
6. The conference, and the Bet Midrash project, will have wide media coverage.
The Blumenthal Family Foundation is supporting the Judaism and Ecology projects at Bet Av.


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Bang & Olufsen have announced AirPlay 2 will be available to both new and older Bang & Olufsen and B&O PLAY speakers as an over-the-air update during August and September 2018.
"AirPlay 2 is a seamless way to enjoy music from your favourite Apple device and is a natural extension of how people live with music. We are proud to be among the first companies to bring forward the experience of multiroom control in your Apple device and to deliver on the promise that our multiroom speakers connect with all streaming technologies," said Petros Belimpasakis, Director and Head of Sound Category and Platform in Bang & Olufsen.
Thanks to AirPlay 2, Bang & Olufsen and B&O PLAY speakers also work with HomePod, so users can use Siri to play music around the house.
Launched with the recent update to iOS, AirPlay 2 allows Apple customers with an iPhone, iPad or Apple TV to send audio from any app to the multiroom speakers.


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Kristen C. French
Narrative and Longform
Kristen's narrative long-form features have covered a town in Cape Cod where many were convinced a wind turbine was making them sick (New York magazine, print), a community of disabled people thriving in the virtual world (Wired), a pastor throwing his all into building an online church (Wired), an indigenous community in Panama using GPS to defend their forest (Al Jazeera), a battle between haole hippies and Hawaiian natives over geothermal energy in Hawaii (Al Jazeera), a woman coming to terms with her identity after a face transplant (Nautilus), and the potentially violent origins of bog bodies (Nautilus).
Her news coverage has covered a wide range of science subjects, from a protest in New York City over a Romanian gold mine to heated battles over operating room attire.
Can Wind Turbines Make You Sick? Or Crazy?
Some people living in the shadows of wind turbines say they're making them sick.
Almost as upsetting: Their neighbors don't feel a thing.
New York (print)
First They Got Sick, Then They Moved into a Virtual Utopia
Real life Fran was a hiker and a dancer. But when Parkinson's stole her mobility,
she discovered a new home--and a community of others like her--inside Second Life.
Wired
Pastor D.J. Soto is Putting His Faith in a Virtual Reality Church
D.J. Soto believes Christianity can be renewed through worship in virtual space.
His VR mega-church is even attracting atheists.
New Weapons in Old Fight to Save Forests
The Wounaan people of Panama are taking up drones and GPS to protect forest on
their tribal lands from marauding loggers. Their chief was already killed in the fight.
Fiery Dispute Over Hot Rocks in Hawaii
Residents of a hippie enclave on the Big Island say the local geothermal plant is bad for
their health. It's part of a colorful ongoing battle in the nation's most oil-dependent state.
Supercolonies of tiny fire ants are threatening the farms and beaches of Hawaii.
The ants are just one of many invasive species plaguing the islands.
The Curious Case of the Bog Bodies
Why do so many perfectly preserved corpses found in Europe's peat bogs
show signs of violent death?


I have received many calls and emails from parents today about the concert and what the plan is now that this huge storm is looming. Thank you for letting me know about your growing concerns, especially about having elderly grandparents on the road in a storm. My superintendent has given me permission to be proactive and announce the cancellation early.
The original plan was that the K-8 Music Concert would be March 7th at 6:00 pm, with the snow date concert date to be March 8, 2018 at 6 pm. It looks like we will have a regular school day tomorrow, but it is likely that all afterschool activities will be cancelled as the storm is expected to be full blown by 4 pm. The superintendent will make that official announcement some time tomorrow.
It is also likely that we will have a snow day on Thursday, so I am making an executive decision to cancel the K-8 Music Concert for both Wed and Thursday. The superintendent will announce any school closing to occur, so be prepared for his message.
The K-8 Music Concert has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 15th at 6 :00 pm in the gym, (it will follow the 8th grade Science Fair scheduled for 5 to 6 pm in the AP Room).


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Duke Energy in talks to buy municipal stake in power plants
Eddie Fitzgerald, Sun Journal Staff
Feb 4, 2014 at 12:01 AM Feb 4, 2014 at 3:32 PM
Duke Energy is negotiating to buy ownership interest that the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency has in nuclear and coal-burning electric power plants that has caused high electric bills in New Bern and 31 other Eastern North Carolina municipalities.
Duke Energy, which became the nation�s largest electric company after merging with Progress Energy in 2012, said Monday it was negotiating with the NCEMPA to buy power plants it shared with the former Progress Energy, according to ElectriCities, which manages NCEMPA.
NCEMPA has partial ownership interests in the Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant in Wake County, the Brunswick Nuclear Plant in Brunswick County and two coal-burning power plants in Roxboro and Mayo. The agency was formed in 1982 to provide wholesale power to its 32 participants, according to ElectriCities.
New Bern Mayor Dana Outlaw said Tuesday morning it is too early in the negotiations to make a comment.
New Bern Alderman Pat Schaible, an alternate on the NCEMPA board for the city, agreed. She just learned of the negotiations Monday, she said.
Schaible, Alderman Bernard White and Jon Rynne, New Bern utilities director, attended Monday�s NCEMPA meeting in Wilson.
The negotiations were not discussed in open session, but a press release was issued by ElectriCities, Schaible said.
Rynne said he thought the negotiations are a positive step, but it is too early to say how they could affect electric rates.
�It really depends on how the negotiations go,� Rynne said. �Hopefully the end results will be positive. But this is the absolute beginning of negotiations.�
Charles Penny, Rocky Mount city manager, also said it was �a little early to tell� what the negotiations will bring.
Rocky Mount and New Bern teamed up in 2011 to fight the Duke/Progress merger.
�We all have to be cautiously optimistic,� Penny said Tuesday. �We will find out more as we go along. We do have to listen, but the devil�s in the details.�
Rebecca Agner, a spokesperson for ElectriCities, said negotiations to lower power costs actually started in 2010 between ElectriCities and Progress Energy, but at that time it was not feasible for Progress to buy the power plants. The following year, negotiations were stalled with the merger of Duke and Progress, she said.
�After the merger negotiations intensified, it started looking like there might be a solution,� Agner said. �The last several months there have been significant developments.�
But there are numerous approvals that have to take place before a deal is struck, including regulatory issues and approval of all 32 members of NCEMPA. That could take 12 to 24 months, Agner said.
�It�s a long journey for sure,� she said. �If the deal happens, it will immediately make eastern agency cities more cost competitive with their electric rates.�
The debt that eastern municipalities face stems from the cost involved in constructing the power plants. It accounts for 35 percent of the wholesale power costs they are paying, Agner said.
Customers in eastern agency cities are paying 7 percent to 35 percent more for power than other suppliers are charging, she said.
New Bern has been looking for a solution to the high cost of electricity for years. Although it has nothing to do with the current negotiations between Duke Energy and NCEMPA, the city joined with Rocky Mount in the spring of 2011 to hire the Washington, D.C., law firm Duncan and Allen to fight the merger between Duke and Progress.
Both cities contended the merger would not lower power costs and would hamper competition. The cities were able to stall the merger and get concessions through additional power transmission lines.
New Bern and Rocky Mount also accumulated high legal fees that are continuing for New Bern.
Tuesday night, aldermen were scheduled to discuss a budget amendment to appropriate an additional $53,000 for legal fees associated with that intervention, which is currently in appeal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. So far New Bern has spent $343,000 on legal fees, engineering consultants and an economist associated with the merger intervention, Rynne said.
Amy Staton, Rocky Mount finance director, said Rocky Mount has spent $343,420 on legal fees during the intervention.
At the beginning of the intervention in 2011, six cities were involved in hiring legal representation, But all except New Bern and Rocky Mount dropped out. Including that period to date, $737,989 has been spent on legal and associated costs in the intervention, Rynne said.
Eddie Fitzgerald can be reached at 252-635-5675 or at eddie.fitzgerald@newbernsj.com.


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There is two listed on the frag swap thread tell me witch one there both nice. I think i paid $40.00 for mine. how bout 20 for the big and 15 for the small.
I might have to pick one of them up from you. I guess not until Monday?
Picked up some new friends this weekend theres a few of them...enjoy!


It's truly odd, but true: the renowned rock song "Louie Louie" and the history-making book about car safety by Ralph Nader, titled Unsafe At Any Speed, are connected by both a quote and by a date.
"Louie Louie" was written in 1955 by the pioneering American R&B singer and songwriter Richard Berry (1935-1997).
In a nod to the popularity Calypso music was enjoying in the mid-1950s, Berry gave "Louie Louie" a Caribbean flavor by writing the lyrics in an island-style patois.
It's basically a love song.
Berry recorded "Louie Louie" with his group the Pharaohs in 1957. Their version was a modest regional hit in the Northwest, where it became a popular party song covered by many local rock bands.
One of those bands was a group of white kids from Portland, Oregon who called themselves The Kingsmen. They made a raucous, poorly-recorded version of the song in 1963.
It was released in May and entered Billboard's Top 40 singles chart on November 30, 1963.
The fuzziness of the recording and the garbled attempt at Jamaican patois by The Kingsmen's lead singer, Jack Ely, made the lyrics notoriously hard to understand. Nonetheless, their catchy cover version was a huge hit, selling over a million copies.
By 1964, "Louie Louie" was being gleefully sung by teenagers nationwide, often using salacious Mondegreen variations of the words.
The actual lyrics as written by Berry and slightly altered by Ely are not overtly sexual. But many "dirty" versions were made up and spread.
It was soon rumored that the hard-to-understand lyrics on The Kingsmen record were themselves obscene. This caused much moral harrumphing by parents, the press, politicians and bureaucrats.
Indiana Governor Matthew Welsh declared the record to be "pornographic" and banned it from the state's airwaves. (And he was a liberal Democrat!) Some radio stations in other states also banned it.
The FCC and FBI conducted official investigations — at taxpayers' expense — to try to decipher the muffled words on The Kingsmen's hit single to determine if it should be banned nationwide.
Federal investigators grilled Richard Berry and Jack Ely and listened intently to the Kingsmen record played forward and backward at various speeds, including 33 rpm, 45 rpm and 78 rpm.
Around that same time in 1964, lawyer Ralph Nader was working as an advisor to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that was investigating car safety (or, more accurately. the general lack of safety features in cars built at the time).
Armed with the knowledge he gained from that work, Nader wrote a shocking book on the subject. He titled it Unsafe at Any Speed.
It became a bestseller, gave Nader his initial fame as an industry gadfly and led to many improvements in car safety we now take for granted, such as seat belts and anti-lock brakes.
What makes the connection even odder is the fact that Unsafe At Any Sped was published on November 30, 1965, exactly two years to the day after The Kingsmen's recording of "Louie Louie" entered the Billboard Top 40.
Under a federal law passed by Congress in 1942, the date for Thanksgiving in the United States varies from year to year. It's the fourth Thursday of the month.
But the anniversary of the first official Thanksgiving set by federal decree in our country is November 26th.
In 1789, President George Washington issued a proclamation that made November 26, 1789 the first Thanksgiving Day designated as such by our national government.
As Thanksgiving Day approaches nowadays, I often think of one of our family dogs who died unexpectedly before Thanksgiving in 2009, from a genetic autoimmune problem that could not be fixed.
She was a beautiful, sweet-natured Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier.
The bonds I've had with dogs like Boojie and other animals come closest to giving me such feelings.
On this November 26th, I dedicate my post and that quotation to Boojie.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address – and Lord Buckley's "hip translation" . . .
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave a brief speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at the dedication of a cemetery for the Union soldiers who had died in that bloody Civil War battle four months earlier.
It's his best known speech and includes two of his most famous quotes.
As noted by many sources, Lincoln appears to have based his memorable of/by/for the people line on words used in a sermon by the abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker.
During the early months of the Civil War, Lincoln's law partner William Herndon gave the president a book of Parker's sermons and speeches. It included a sermon titled "The Effect of Slavery on the American People," which Parker delivered at the Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts on July 4, 1858.
According to Herndon, Lincoln marked that sentence in pencil in the book before he wrote the Gettysburg Address.
Parker had used similar words in earlier sermons and speeches.
For example, in a speech he gave in Boston on May 29, 1850, he defined democracy as "a government of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people." However, the of/for/by the people formulation was not coined by Parker.
Scholars have found several of/by/for the people quotations that predate Parker's.
My own favorite adaptation of Lincoln's address is the hipster version done by the late, great Richard Buckley, aka Lord Buckley.
Buckley performed as a vaudeville-style comedian from the late 1920s to the late 1940s.
Starting in 1947 and throughout the 1950s, he performed as the character "Lord Buckley," an ultra-cool hepcat who told wild stories and recited poems using the hipster slang of black jazz musicians and beatniks.
In 1956, HIP Records released a recording of Buckley doing his "hip translation" of the Gettysburg Address. It's included on a CD issued by Rhino in 1993 titled His Royal Hipness: Lord Buckley .
As I write this, there's a copy you can listen to on YouTube.
Lord Buckley made it clear in his introductory remarks that, although his version is humorous, he had great respect for Lincoln and he believed Lincoln would have been able to appreciate it.
"Four big hits and seven licks ago, our before-daddies swung forth, upon this sweet groovy land a swingin', stompin', jumpin', blowin', wailin' new nation, hip to the cool groove of liberty and solid sent with the ace lick dat all the studs, chicks, cats and kitties – red, white, or blue – is created level in front. In straight talk, the same, dig what I mean?
Now we are hung with a king-size main-day civil drag, soundin' of whether that nation or any up-there nation, so hip and so solid sent can stay with it all the way.
We are met here on a great battlefield of that war.
We's here to dig this chop-beatin' session on the site of the worst jazz blown in the entire issue – Gettys-mother-burg.
We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
We have stomped out here to turn on a small soil stash of the before-mentioned hassle site, as a final sweet sod pad for those who laid it down and left it there, so that this jumpin' happy beat might blow forevermore.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. And we all dig that this is the straightest lick ever dug.
But in a larger sense we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
But diggin' it harder from afar, we cannot take no wailin' bows, we cannot mellow, we cannot put down the stamp of the Nazz on this sweet sod, 'cause the strong non-stop studs, both diggin' it and dug under it, who hassled here have mellowed it with such a wild mad beat that we can hear it, but we can't touch it.
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. Now the world cats will short dig, you hear what I say, short dig nor long stash in their wigs what we is beatin' our chops around here, but it never can successively shade what they vanced here.
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us.
It is for us, the swingin', to pick up the dues of these fine studs who cut out here and fly it through to Endsville. It is hipper for us to be signifyin' to the glorious gig that we can't miss with all these bulgin' eyes.
***NOTE: There are five written versions of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, with slight wording variations among them. The version above is from the "Hay Copy," stored in The Library of Congress. Some scholars believe it is the version Lincoln used, but this is not known with certainty.
The word almighty, used in connection with God, appears 57 times in the King James Version of the Bible.
The English idiom "the almighty dollar," which is commonly used to mock the worship of wealth and money, does not come from the Bible.
But the more familiar "almighty dollar" first appeared in a travel story Irving wrote about a steamboat trip he took through the Louisiana bayous.
The story, titled "The Creole Village," was originally published in the November 12, 1836 issue of Knickerbocker Magazine.
Irving was impressed by the laid back lifestyle of the Creole people who lived in Louisiana's bayou country and by how unconcerned they seemed (at least to him) about making or having money.
I suspect this romantic vision overestimated how content the locals were to be poor.
Of course, in 1855, when "The Creole Village" was included in a collection of his stories called Wolfert's Roost, Irving made it clear that he had meant no offense — to the almighty dollar, that is.
November 10th is the official birthday of the United States Marines, which were established by the Second Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War, on November 10, 1775.
So, today, I'd like to salute the US Marine Corps by listing the 10 most famous quotations about and by Marines.
Reply when a French colonel ordered him to have the US 5th Marine Division retreat at Belleau Wood on June 1, 1918.
OK, that last one is not exactly a famous quote. But it's a favorite of mine.
I'm a big fan of both the United States Marines and of Space: Above and Beyond, in which future Leathernecks fight to protect Earth from aliens.
If we ever do face a war with aliens, I expect US Marines will be there risking their lives for us on the front lines, as always.
The bridge between the living and the dead . . .
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is the second novel by the great American writer Thornton Wilder (1897- 1975).
The first edition of the book was published by the Albert & Charles Boni company on November 3, 1927.
It's set in Peru in the year 1714.
Early in the novel, on July 20, 1714, five people crossing an old bridge are killed when the bridge suddenly collapses.
If there were any plan in the universe at all, if there were any pattern in a human life, surely it could be discovered mysteriously latent in those lives so suddenly cut off. Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
Brother Juniper spends years compiling facts that might somehow answer his questions.
He talks to family members and friends of the victims, who came from various backgrounds and levels of society. He records what he learns and thinks in a series notebooks.
filling scores of notebooks." These are collected into one huge book.
The middle chapters of the novel tell us about the lives of the five people who were killed when the bridge collapsed.
- Jaime, Camila's son, who was traveling with Pio because Camila asked him to take care of the boy.
In the final part of the novel, we learn that Brother Juniper's book was brought to the attention of Catholic Church officials and they convicted him of heresy for seeming to question or try to justify the mysterious ways of God.
They burn the book – along with Brother Juniper.
In the final pages of the novel, we learn that Camila has come to Lima to help the Abbess take care of sick people at her convent. By coincidence, Doña María's daughter Clara has come to visit the Abbess.
As a snotty young high school kid in the 1960s, I wasn't really moved by The Bridge of San Luis Rey or its famous quotation.
Today, as an older and hopefully wiser married man, father and grandfather, I am.


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"During cancer treatment, there is often a lot of information for patients to remember, keep track of, and act on. For instance, patients need to know when and how to take medication, when to go to appointments, and what to expect after treatment. To manage this flow of information, it is recommended that patients keep a written record of all procedures, treatments, and medications received." (CancerNet , US, American Society of Clinical Oncology)
The LIVESTRONG Guidebook - provides information, resources and organizational tools to help survivors navigate through all phases of the cancer journey eg. understanding how cancer can affect the physical, emotional and day-to-day lives of survivors. They are free of charge, but postage to Australia is charged. Get information at http://www.livestrong.com/center/cancer/ andhttp://www.livestrong.org/Get-Help
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Use this Medicines List to keep an up-to-date record of all your medicines.
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What to include in your personal medical record
A complete medical record of your cancer and treatment should include the following information:
Your diagnosis-the specific cancer type and stage (describes where the cancer is located, whether it has spread to other parts of the body, and if it's affecting the functions of other organs in the body)
Dates of diagnosis and treatments
Copies of pathology reports and diagnostic tests, such as biopsy results, imaging tests (x-rays, MRIs, etc.), and laboratory test reports
Complete treatment information, including drug names and dosages for chemotherapy and sites and dosages for radiation therapy
Treatment results, including any complications or side effects
Information about supportive care, including pain or nausea medications, drugs or procedures to treat other side effects, and other types of care such as occupational therapy or nutritional support
A schedule for and results of follow-up tests
Complete contact information for doctors, clinics, and/or hospitals involved in your diagnosis and treatment
The record should also contain information about other aspects of your health.
Contact information for other doctors, such as your family doctor (past and current)
Dates and details of other major illnesses, chronic health conditions (such as diabetes or heart disease), and hospitalizations
Your family medical history
Details of past physical examinations, including screening tests and immunizations
Information and education about cancer treatment and recovery is available that can help patients manage their health care. The Managing Your Care section of Cancer.Net provides information on organizing your cancer care, including forms to keep track of treatments and helpful hints for scheduling and attending appointments. And, ASCO Treatment Summaries are printable forms that your doctor can complete to help you keep track of what treatment is planned, what treatment was received, and what follow-up care is necessary." (CancerNet , US, American Society of Clinical Oncology)


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Our second Pitt Mobile Science Lab tailgate program was a success! This year's program focused on animal diversity, with Hydractinia as an example of a type of organism that most people probably don't immediately think of when asked to think of an animal. More than 180 football fans ranging from 3 to 80 years old (Note: we only verified the younger limit) came onto the truck to learn what makes Hydractinia an animal. They fed live colonies, observed different stages of their life cycle, touched them to see how they would respond to different stimuli.


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Top-rated safest cars to get in 2022
In a world where it's way safer to travel by air than a car, we need to promote safer ways to drive into road traffic. Sometimes, the problem is the condensed traffic, which increases by the year, despite the number of roads. But sometimes, the cars that we choose also provide a lower or higher level of safety. This is why we're going to recommend a list of the safest cars you can get in 2022 so that you'll have the smoothest drive anywhere.
Even though Audi may not be known as a car made for safety ―but for speed, this particular model has a smooth powertrain and high-tech cabin. It's got quite a good score on the safety tests:
Adult occupant safety: 93%. The car seems incredibly equipped for lateral impacts, whiplash rear impacts and full-width frontal impacts for the driver and the passenger next to him.
Child occupant safety: 85%. Here, the scores are not that good, but they can be improved. The test performance scored 22.9 points out of 24, and the car is yet to be improved for a frontal impact.
Vulnerable road users: 81%. Audi can detect when pedestrians were hit and is also able to identify pedestrians and cyclists.
Safety assist: 76%. The car has a seatbelt reminder, a lane support system and a driver-set speed limit option. But it still performed decently in the emergency lane keeping test and the human-machine interface system.
Audi A6 is a great car that provides a turbocharged 3.0-litre and V-6 engine, balanced handling due to the battery's location and plenty of screens with which you can control absolutely anything inside and outside the car.
Next, we've got the Honda Accord, which is one of the most spacious and driver-friendly cars. Although a new model is coming up in 2023, the 2018 one is almost the same in terms of specs. Based on the IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highways Safety), Honda Accord got top marks in crash prevention and avoidance tests, and it also got good grades regarding:
Crashworthiness, with a great roof strength;
Mitigation, with superior quality in front crash prevention in vehicle-vehicle encounters and vehicle-to-pedestrian.
The seat belts and child restraints have the best scores yet, which makes the Honda Accord an excellent car for families.
Why is it so important for cars to perform safety tests? Road traffic casualties are causing around 1,35 million people to die annually, according to the World Health Organisation. To prevent such unfortunate events, car manufacturers are trying to bring more safety into their machines, partly because, in most cases, accidents happen due to negligence or alcohol intake. The lowest risk of road traffic injury is in the European Region and the United Kingdom.
And if you'll ever experience a road accident, you can make a car accident claim in the UK in order to get compensation to cover the costs of any medical issue and the costs of fixing your car. You're eligible when another road participant has failed to drive safely, and as a result, you may have experienced a severe injury.
Moving on to a different brand, Kia Stinger also got great test results. Still, apparently, it's not actually a good choice for people with kids because the model's LATH function's ease of use was rated marginal by IIHS. But the car excels in:
Adult occupant safety: 93%. The tests indicated good protection of the knees and femurs of the driver and passenger. Although it's got a poor rating for the pelvis' safety, it has maximum points for the side barrier impact.
Pedestrian safety: 78%. Kia Stinger works to identify different sizes of pedestrians over a wider range of speeds. The autonomous emergency braking systems have also performed well in tests of pedestrian detection.
Safety Assist: 82%. The seatbelt reminder, lane assistance and speed assistance systems have all performed well in the tests.
Toyota is already known for manufacturing high-quality cars, vans and trucks, setting the standard for durability. Still, this model is among the best of them all. All Camry models are provided with a driver-assistance technology that can enable various levels of autonomous driving and detect nearby obstacles and driver errors.
On the IIHS website, you can find that Toyota Camry has:
Superior scores on front crash prevention;
Great scores regarding crashworthiness, although the side test was rated as poor because the dummy was greatly injured at the torso and pelvis, while the head protection has been found inadequate.
Great result in roof strength, with a strength-to-weight ratio of 5,67 points.
Good scores in head restraints and seats.
With good average scores, Toyota Camry is a spacious and comfortable car, it delivers excellent fuel economy and is well-equipped for any kind of trip.
With an impressive score of 96% for both adult and child occupant protection, Volvo V60 has been awarded an overall five-star rating, which makes it one of the safest cars in terms of crashworthiness and crash avoidance and mitigation. It's got superior results in front crash preventions for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-pedestrian tests, with a great strength-to-weight ratio of the roof of 5,73.
Its best features include:
Google Maps built in, with real-traffic information and automatic retouring;
Google Assistant and Google Play;
An air purifier that prevents up to 95% of hazardous particles from entering the cabin;
Remote apps that include locking and unlocking the car, cabin pre-cleaning and cabin heating or cooling;
Assisted safety that helps you park, cross oncoming traffic, avoid collisions and ease stress in busy traffic;
360° parking view with flank sensors to increase awareness of objects at the side of the car;
When choosing a new car, you should ensure that it can provide safety for you and your family because sometimes you can't be cautious enough. We believe these cars are a great guideline to help you get something that'll fit your lifestyle and will keep you away from accidents.
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Little documentation exists of colonial-period African American music, when kinds, songs, and instruments from across West Africa commingled with European types and devices in the melting pot of slavery. By the mid-nineteenth century, a distinctly African American people tradition was well-identified and widespread, and African American musical methods, devices, and images grew to become part of mainstream American music by way of spirituals, minstrel reveals, and slave songs.
Slaves and their descendants created the blues by adapting the sphere shouts and hollers, turning them into passionate solo songs. When combined with the Christian religious songs of African American churches and revival meetings, blues grew to become the idea of gospel music. Modern gospel started in African American church buildings in the Twenties, in the form of worshipers proclaiming their faith in an improvised, often musical method (testifying). Composers like Thomas A. Dorsey composed gospel works that used parts of blues … Read More
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Popular success was very restricted, though a small demand spurred some industrial recording. After World War II, there was increased curiosity in specialty kinds like country music, producing a couple of major pop stars. The most influential nation musician of the period was Hank Williams, a bluesy country singer from Alabama. He stays famend as one of nation music's best songwriters and performers, viewed as a "people poet" with a "honky-tonk swagger" and "working-class sympathies".
Jazz influenced many performers of all the most important kinds of later well-liked music, although jazz itself by no means once more turned such a significant a part of American in style music as during the swing era. The later twentieth-century American jazz scene did, however, produce some in style crossover stars, such as Miles Davis. In the middle of the 20th century, jazz advanced into quite a lot of subgenres, starting with bebop.
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The Nineteen Fifties recordings of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, and James Brown are generally thought-about the beginnings of soul. Charles' Modern Sounds information featured a fusion of soul and country music, nation soul, and crossed racial barriers in music on the time. One of Cooke's most well-recognized songs "A Change Is Gonna Come" became accepted as a classic and an anthem of the American Civil Rights Movement in the course of the 1960s. The roots of business country music are usually traced to 1927, when music expertise scout Ralph Peer recorded Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family.
One of the most influential albums ever recorded, Sly & the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On has been thought-about among the first and greatest examples of the matured version of funk music, after prototypical instances of the sound within the group's earlier work. Artists corresponding to Gil Scott-Heron and The Last … Read More
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The Billboard Hot a hundred is the top pop music chart for singles, a recording consisting of a handful of songs; longer pop recordings are albums, and are tracked by the Billboard 200. Though recorded music is commonplace in American properties, lots of the music industry's revenue comes from a small variety of devotees; for instance, sixty two% of album sales come from lower than 25% of the music-buying viewers. Total CD sales in the United States topped 705 million models bought in 2005, and singles sales just below three million.
There are additionally many songs emphasising love and different social points. Music is an artwork kind, and cultural exercise, whose medium is sound. Different kinds or types of music might emphasize, de-emphasize or omit some of these elements.
Until the later 20th century, the division between "excessive" and "low" musical types was widely accepted as a sound distinction that … Read More
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The Native American tribes every play their very own varieties of folk music, most of it non secular in nature. African American music includes blues and gospel, descendants of West African music brought to the Americas by slaves and mixed with Western European music. During the colonial period, English, French and Spanish kinds and devices were brought to the Americas. By the early 20th century, the United States had turn into a major heart for folk music from around the world, including polka, Ukrainian and Polish fiddling, Ashkenazi, Klezmer, and several other sorts of Latin music. Economic and social lessons separates American music through the creation and consumption of music, such as the upper-class patronage of symphony-goers, and the commonly poor performers of rural and ethnic folk musics.
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Balance of Power in Virginia State Senate Still Unclear
By Kyle Trygstad
Posted November 8, 2011 at 11:33pm
Updated: 12:41 a.m.
The Virginia state Senate majority was hanging by a thread early today, as votes were still trickling in from a few districts.
Republicans needed to net just two seats to win control of the chamber. The two seats would bring both parties to 20 seats each, with the Republican lieutenant governor breaking the tie in the GOP's favor.
With Democrats losing one and holding on in three other close races, the majority was hinging on the Fredericksburg-area 17th district. A recount could be necessary there, as Bryce Reeves (R) led by just 86 votes over state Sen. Edward Houck (D) with all precincts reporting. Although Pat Mullins, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, declared Reeves the winner in a statement, an unknown number of provisional ballots will be counted today, the Washington Post reported.
The GOP already holds the governorship and easily held its majority in the state House. Insiders from both parties said a Republican-controlled state Senate would immediately restart a stalemated Congressional redistricting process and likely solidify the delegation's current 8-3 GOP majority for the next 10 years.
No matter who wins the state Senate majority, the state will be a battleground at the presidential and U.S. Senate levels in 2012, with President Barack Obama hoping to win the state for a second time and former Govs. Tim Kaine (D) and George Allen (R) engaging in a battle of the titans for the open Senate seat.
Kaine and Allen crisscrossed the state for the past several months on behalf of state and local candidates, a process that allowed them to support their state parties and gave them face time with voters more than a year before their own election. They spent election night at official party events in Fairfax.
Both campaigns saw the process as beneficial for next year, and they'll likely begin poring over the returns for clues about the 2012 landscape.


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THE TRUE CIRCUMFERENCE OF LOVE – an excerpt from "…and Love Rages On!" by Richard Gannaway
We can start to fathom our roll in nature by embracing the greater scope of its most enigmatic principle, Love. We'll explore this essence outside the illusion of duality consciousness, which is the hallmark of human adventure through the immensely beautiful, but illusionary projection of time and space. Love doesn't begin inside this illusion where we feel the sensations of what we think Love is. It is the immeasurable force behind every expression within the whole of Life at any conceivable frequency. Using our best imagination to zoom back on creation, we still don't see the circumference of Love, which has no definition, only motion. It is forever blooming outward and inward, constructing, creating, evolving and breathing through every medium. It is the deepest and most pervasive abstraction behind all that is taking place in this moment. Love is simply the only true nature of anything. This inclusive scope of Love may not be what some believe is possible or initially feel very comfortable with, given the context in which Love is usually perceived. It might require one to become outrageous in their thinking, and that would be a good start; because Love is not at all logical, any more than Life, beauty or eternity. Each of these principles implies the other in an honest engagement with nature. Let's continue exploring nature through its most unpredictable and primary cause, which as Rumi reminds us, needs no cause.
Both light and shadow
are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause;
Love as a force in nature, is reflected in a design—a template for harmonic resonance that oscillates on endless octaves of frequency. As a great overriding force inside the circumference of Life itself, it remains directly unexplainable—yet by noticing a harmonic pattern behind the components of beauty, and how it connects every realm of nature, what is implied becomes obvious. Nature's template for design, which is deeply fascinating and easier to comprehend, bears all the evidence of its presence. Every tenant of beauty suggests something we cannot begin to define. Sound, color, shape, movement, orientation, fragrance, freshness, etc lure us in to a realm more rich and vital; romancing us in captive wonder and ecstasy. Imagine this window of sensory transcendence, widened to include almost everything we perceive around us; revealing a synchronicity and weave behind all time-space phenomena. This is where illumination blooms in humanity—through a realization that nothing in its own motion isn't beautiful within the symphony.
Zooming into a single expression of Life, on any event horizon, in any timeline of existence, and you witness Love—always in motion, becoming and expanding. The movement of Love is what is important to understand; because it can never be defined in a snapshot, anymore than a single day in one's life could tell their whole story, or a single measure of a song could render the complete message. Attempting to corral the whole principle of Love into a fragrant aesthetic that fits neatly into our comfort zones, completely reduces the unfathomable dynamic of its true scope. Imagine that Love requires a complete range of expression as its landscape for movement in this adventure through time and space. Imagine that, in this framework, it cannot be identified or captured, only enabled, which allows every circumstance and experience to be embraced exactly as it is—a continuum of change. Joy, sorrow, pleasure and pain are only the emotional register of its force, but Love itself is an actual design, permeating every spec of existence. It is the eternal promise of growth and new Life.
The true nature of Love is not a warranty for bliss and comfort. It is designed for evolution and its motion doesn't rest. It is easily the most insistent, intoxicating and inconvenient force in creation. When owned or boxed in, Love reaches out like a scorpion to sting our most hidden vulnerabilities until all pain and fear is spent. Resist love or hold it away and the whole organism begins to fade like a fallen leaf, disconnected from its source. As will become apparent on these pages in the literal sense, Love, like the Golden Mean, is a naturally occurring constant in all that exists; because it is the life in the motion of everything imaginable. The golden ratios, which are universal constructs for how beauty displays before us, apprehends our senses, and bridges one dimension to the another, are direct physical reflections of Love; which needs only to be surrendered to.
Increasing numbers of children actually seem to arrive here with direct memory of our true context, eager to remind us that Love has always been here in abundance and we needn't keep fearing it has, or could ever, escape us—which is quite impossible. Life in any presentation is a motion of Love, raging forward. Like every other force in the natural world, human nature is a dynamic process, where every spike of rebellion is absorbed into a rich harmonic chord of evolution, steadily, patiently and consciously—a true pageant of light. As fear recedes we naturally express unconditional Love, because it is the most naked display of our existence. Unlike fear, Love is not a reaction to something, but the original ground state of our being. It is something we don't need to manufacture or reach for, just unveil.
"Love does not have to be generated, for it is all that remains when there is no fear.."
Gregg Braden 'Awakening to Zero Point'
The time-space universe is defined by our own depth of perception, and is a mere reflection of something vast, beyond human comprehension. In this dimension, what we think we perceive around us is actually an illusion of opacity—a projection. How does one defy those limits and actually step into a reality, based on principles of light? We must enter the rabbit hole, the still point, the present—which has no dimensional boundary. We do this by surrendering all resistance to an ever-present force that naturally occurs. As stated, the scope of Love is immeasurable and all-inclusive. It moves, displays and manifests as a non-dualistic principle. Nothing we can perceive or feel is outside of its motion, unimaginable as that seems. Love's design is in the shape of growth and evolution—an eternal principle of Life in bloom, with an infinite range of expression. Love is not something that fits easily under our security blankets, where growth and evolution rarely occur. Love is the motion and the mean of constructive force behind the only miracle that has ever or will ever occur—Life. It is creation itself.
"Easy for you to say", says the ragged figure, staring quietly from a filthy doorway, trying not to move until the sun rises high enough to thaw his bones. He wouldn't be as gloriously authentic if he was polite. It can often seem inappropriate, unrealistic or inconsiderate to mention Love as a primary force in creation with so much homelessness, corruption and atrocity in our populations. The point here is to expand perspective on Love to include every dynamic in the wholeness of Life, which is energy (light) at its core, and consciousness, which is simply Life, aware of itself.
This an excerpt taken from the book "…and Love Rages on!", by Richard Layton Gannaway, published by Arcturian Gate.
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Microsoft launches Destination Brazil for Xbox One
By Pete Hayman 2014-06-03T14:41:15Z
Xbox One users can get closer to the action during this summer's World Cup with range of new footballing features
Not every football fan will be able to get out to this summer's World Cup over in Brazil, but Xbox One users can get themselves a little closer to the action thanks to Destination Brazil.
If you access Destination Brazil through your Xbox One dashboard, you'll be able to access the new Brazil Now app packed with footballing features that will enhance your World Cup.
MORE: How to watch the 2014 FIFA World Cup on TV and online
The app snaps next to live TV to add another level to your match-viewing experience, play FIFA 14 Ultimate Team: FIFA World Cup; and read about your favourite teams from Copa90.
However, you'll need a copy of the EA FIFA 14 game to play FIFA 14 Ultimate Team.
And from June 15th, Xbox One owners can tune into a new interactive reality show, Every Street United, to follow Thierry Henry and Edgar Davids scouting undiscovered street footballers.
So, what do you need to get Brazil Now on your Xbox One? Well, you don't need Xbox Live Gold membership but you will need "advanced TV hardware" and a broadband connection.
Microsoft also says you will need a "subscription from an affiliated service provider" and that "certain other restrictions apply" – you can find out more by clicking here.
And don't forget that you can find out how you to watch the 2014 FIFA World Cup on TV and online with our handy guide, including a list of fixtures and the channels you need to be reaching for during the tournament.
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Terror and courage: Man who jumped from window sentenced
By Frank Schultz
JANESVILLE– Tens of thousands have been entertained by a video showing Quantrell D. Schwartzlow jumping out a window at the Rock County Sheriff's Office.
But the reason he was in that room was an ugly, horrible story.
He choked a young woman until she passed out and then sexually assaulted her, saying he was trying to make her feel better, Deputy District Attorney Perry Folts said at Schwartzlow's sentencing in Rock County Court on Wednesday.
The victim read a statement that many victims of domestic abuse will recognize. Judge Karl Hanson told her it was the most courageous act he ever witnessed, including during his service in the Iraq war.
She described a relationship full of such abuse and threats.
"I believed I was going to die the day I was strangled," she said.
"The way he grabbed my throat, the way his eyes darkened and the noises I heard as I fell unconscious will forever be ingrained in my brain. …
"I will never forget him telling me right before I blacked out he was going to take me somewhere, where no one could hear me scream so he could kill me. Words like this were said to me so often that I knew better than to not obey. …
"Whenever I tried to convince myself that the abuse I was enduring was not normal, he degraded me into believing that the trauma he put me through was what I deserved, and if that wasn't enough to shut me up, he would threaten my life or the lives of my family members.
"I wish I could have mustered the strength to report his acts of violence sooner. But those threats hung over my head and made me feel as though I could not scream, even though I desperately wanted to. Even when his hands were not around my throat, I had no voice," she said.
"Part of me wishes that every mark, cut, bruise, scrape, busted lip and black eye could all come back at once so the court could truly see the extent of the physical damage done to me over the course of the relationship, if my body would even be recognizable. What is even more detrimental to my daily life is the psychological trauma …
"Nearly every night of sleep is interrupted with me waking up, shaking in a cold sweat from nightmares as I have continued living the assault that used to be my reality."
She said she is in constant fear.
"If one day I show up dead, I guess you know who to look for," she concluded.
Folts said Schwartzlow was adopted by the Schwartzlow family, but he later got in contact with his biological father, and Schwartzlow described how he loved hanging out with a man he called "a big drug dealer."
Folts noted the state Department of Corrections recommended two years in prison and two years of extended supervision for two charges, escape and strangulation. Folts recommended doubling that sentence.
Defense Attorney Michael Murphy said Schwartzlow's biological father came into his life when the boy was 16, and the man's money, power and the fact that "girls like him" had great influence on the boy.
He learned his negative behaviors from his biological father, not his adoptive family, Murphy said.


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Infrastructure Investment for National Special Olympics in Antigonish
Haligonia Editors March 20, 2017	News
The province is providing support for the Special Olympics Canada 2018 Summer Games by providing a $1 million contribution for one of the main venues at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish.
Finance and Treasury Board Minister Randy Delorey, on behalf of Communities, Culture and Heritage Minister Tony Ince, announced today, March 20, the funding for seating improvements at the university's Oland Centre. The upgrade will provide greater accessibility for athletes and their families.
"We want to create the best national games experience ever for the athletes and their families when they arrive in Antigonish," said Mr. Delorey. "Through this investment we are helping to provide the most modern facilities that will also have a long-lasting impact on the community and the university when it comes to hosting provincial and national events."
The existing bleachers, which were built in the 1960s, will be replaced by a new high-standard seating area for 1,500 people.
"This investment will have a positive impact on the games for both athletes and their families and reflect positively on the university, our organization and our province," said Michael Greek, president and CEO, Special Olympics Nova Scotia.
"We are honoured to host the 2018 National Special Olympic Games," said Kent MacDonald, president of St. Francis Xavier University. "This $1 million investment by the province will help us prepare our campus facilities for hosting this national event that will draw thousands of Olympians and spectators from across Canada to our campus and the surrounding community. This funding will also help in upgrading our facilities in support of our varsity and recreational athletic programs and give us the ability to compete to host more national sporting events."
Organizers estimate the economic impact on the area of the summer games and the 4,000 participants to be more than $5 million dollars.
Investment in community and cultural organizations and advancing cultural diversity are vital parts of the province's recently unveiled culture strategy, Nova Scotia's Culture Action Plan. The full plan is online at novascotia.ca/culture/.
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By Joh Henschel, SAEON Arid Lands Node
The dean of South African ornithology, Dr W. Richard J. Dean, reached further heights by revealing the depths of his knowledge in his book: "Warriors, dilettantes and businessmen - bird collectors during the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries in southern Africa", published in March 2017 by the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, Jacana Press.
The book is dedicated "To Sue [Milton], my colleagues and contemporary ornithologists. We reached the top of our mountain".
We know Richard Dean, a SAEON Research Associate, to have immense experience and to be very thorough with everything he undertakes. This book is an excellent example, as it is something like the background of the background of ornithology, natural history museum collections, long-term records, and citizen science in South Africa, let alone a sprinkling of Richard's own background infused between the lines, recognisable by those who know him.
This book is only the latest addition to over 200 previous publications by him, which include at least five previous books.
Tour-de-force
Warriors, dilettantes and businessmen is a tour-de-force through that period of history, 1850-1950, which brought natural history institutions, projects and scientists in southern Africa to the threshold of the modern age. Before 1850, collections and records were still scattered and localities often not precise; after 1950, collecting became institutionalised, moving into the realm of museums, and time was ripe for ecology and environmental sciences to develop on the foundation of these previous records and knowledge.
As historian, Richard illustrates the accounts of the collectors and collections as part of the fabric of history to be valued as enrichment of our understanding. Early colonial explorers kept detailed records and collected specimens. Later, the demand for natural history specimens for public and illustrious private collections opened the path for numerous professional collectors, whose trade became finding new species, remarkable specimens or special sets or suites of specimens. Increasing militarisation brought in soldiers with guns, time and the means to follow their interest in observing, recording and collecting specimens to meet the growing demand.
Museums gradually developed across southern Africa in the wake of the growing collections, eventually incorporating many private collections of birds and eggs and their records. Furthermore, many southern African collections were kept in museums in Europe and the USA. The accumulated experience and knowledge laid the foundation for ornithology as a mainstay of ecology, animal behaviour and biodiversity research, as well as the mainstay of citizen science in South Africa today.
Richard casts a slight shadow across the trail left behind by citizen scientists - amateur collectors who were either inexperienced or had vested interests for misreporting rarities - and the unknown levels of discrepancy between the advantages of numerous data collectors and problems with verification of historic data. Fortunately, this shadow appears to be quite light due to the contexts and nature of many consistent collections and records, reasonably safe for interpretation by cautious minds, as Richard points out.
As scientist, Richard takes the reader a step back to look at collections from a bird's eye view, from where we can continue to learn. The records document the decrease or increase of some bird populations and changes in distribution ranges. The accounts also document environmental changes of the habitats birds lived in.
Richard makes a strong case for museums as keepers of environmental archives. New data are constantly being derived from old collections using new techniques, such as DNA analyses, conservation genetics, and taxonomic revisions.
Likewise, new insights derived from old records can be critical for understanding modern environments. His plea for South African institutions to ensure curation of past data in order to enable understanding of today's status and to predict future changes speaks volumes.
Although Richard's book is only one volume, it packs a fair amount of human history, natural history, and personal professional history of the author into only 12 chapters in 196 pages, well worth reading.