We are wondering about Berlin .. I hear the paper mill makes it a bit smelly ?
what are the neighboring towns?
It depends on what you do for work. There isn't a whole lot up there.
The paper mill has shut down. There are lots of folks without jobs and the economy is quite depressed up there right at the moment. Apparently the State is building a new prison up there which promises to help with the job situation.
what is the actual town like ?
how many schools are there ?
we are thinking of a career change and hear that you can teach in norhern NH towns that have teacher shortages while you are working on your teaching certification.. any one have any experience with that?
If you already hold a degree in something related to education, it will be much easier to go through alternative certification (check on the state of NH dept of ed site for options). You will be in high demand in many districts if you have a degree in math or science.
I was born and lived in Berlin until i was 18. Been in FL for 14 years and i'm heading back next summer. Honestly, I'm not moving back because of the town but because i want to be closer with my family. The town is really old run down. We were just up there in August and i couldn't belive how bad it looks. There are no jobs. The mill is shut down and in fact the stacks were recently shut down. Growing up when the mill was open, the whole town did have a stinky smell to it. it was horrible. There really are no jobs other than grocery stores, walmart and banks. There is a prison there already that just opened, i think it's state prison but they are also building a federal prison currently. (it could be the other way around, the federal prison is already there and they are building a state prison but either way 2 prisons will be there eventually) There is a 72 bed hospital right in town though. Shopping such as malls is usually 1 hour away. There is a JcPenny in town and a Sears that sells just appliances but the majority of your shopping such as clothes and things are usually done in North Conway area an hour away. There was a library in town when i was growing up. I think it's still there and open. Basically everything you need in life is right in town. As far as the schools, i went to all of them, there is 1 elementary, 1 middle and 1 high school. I turned out ok. My daughter will be doing all 4 years of high school when we go back next year and some of the same teachers i had are still there. Though she will be in the ESE classes which i know they need special ed teachers if that's your specialty. Get this, in high school, the guidance counselor was my PRESCHOOL teacher and she's still the guidance counselor. I think the schools pay more up there too. As far as the people there, everyone is very friendly with each other. If you like doing things outdoors like boating, fishing, hiking, ATV riding, snowmobile riding, hunting, etc then this is the area for you. Taxes are high in Berlin but if you move to Milan you'll save on taxes. Milan is just 5 miles outside of Berlin and is kind of country setting where in Berlin a lot of homes are crammed in together so you really have no property. Sorry it's so long but in a nutshell i would only move there if i were a teacher, some kind of medical staff or someone who could work for the prison. That's the only GOOD jobs up there. Thankfully i work at home so jobs are not an issue for me when i move back.
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Here's a great link someone did on UTUBE.
Is shows everything you could possibly need to see about Berlin. A lot of history in Berlin and the surrounding areas.
I forgot to mention Gorham is the other bordering town to Berlin. It's the touristy town especially during the foliage season because it has the main access roads to get to Maine and 2 routes to get to southern N.H on either side of Mt. Washington. In gorham, you'll find more restaurants, the super Walmart, some gift shops, automotive dealerships and much nicer homes but if i had to choose a place to live, i would choose Milan overall.


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Procreative Ethics addresses questions at the beginning of life from a point of view that is alternatively philosophical and Christian. The author seeks to defend philosophically some positions taken partly on Christian grounds while also trying to make the implications of Christian convictions intelligible to those who do not necessarily share those convictions. The author positions himself neither as a "moral friend" nor "moral stranger," preferring instead the role of "moral acquaintance" to his audience. From that position, the goal is to find areas of fruitful agreement while clarifying differences that may lead to truer reconciliations further on in the conversation. The book opens with an attempted natural law defense of artificial contraception; devotes four chapters to criticism of current defenses of abortion; and then takes up, in six remaining chapters, such matters as genetic enhancement of children, the justice or injustice of genetic revision, the harm conundrum or non-identity problem, designing for disability, and reproductive cloning.
"Fritz Oehlschlaeger has written a remarkable book that needs to be read by everyone with a stake in moral questions at life's beginning. Displaying theological and philosophical sophistication as well as a profound wisdom, these arguments must be taken seriously by those who agree with Oeschlaeger as well as those who do not."
"Writing with a modesty that betrays the depth of argument that characterizes Procreative Ethics, Fritz Oehlschlaeger has written the most important book in bioethics in recent memory. Bioethics has long suffered from a stale imagination. Oehlschlaeger, an acknowledged outsider to the field, brings to his work a fresh imagination shaped by literary texts and a profound humanity. Hopefully many will want to emulate his work in other areas of bioethics."
"In this new book Fritz Oehlschlaeger has made masterful and persuasive arguments about the moral challenges looming at the beginning of human life. And he does this as a highly informed non-specialist--an English professor no less!"
Fritz Oehlschlaeger is Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is co-author of Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters (1992) and Love and Good Reasons: Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature (2003).


The film goes for kitsch and ignores everything interesting about Freddie Mercury.
Disgrace comes from the refusal of Bohemian Rhapsody's filmmakers to recognize the class distinction of Myers's coup. In the middle of a serious-tragic bio-pic about Freddie Mercury, front man for the rock group Queen who recorded the title song, the movie turns insultingly campy. As if the Millennial audience even remembers Wayne's World, that ersatz ode to public-access TV subculture, the film replaces historical recollection with sarcasm. Myers's cameo performance is a jest that contributes to the amnesia and ignorance typical of today's diminished pop culture.
By encouraging Millennial filmgoers to think that they are different — smarter — than earlier crass businessmen, Bohemian Rhapsody falsifies pop-music history. The objection of the Myers character to the song ("Kids will never bang their heads to this") points out its length and its musical and lyrical oddity but ignores that mid-'70s pop radio was replete with lengthy, guitar-heavy anthems (from "Hey Jude" to "American Pie"). It also leads the audience to misunderstand "Bohemian Rhapsody" as an extravagant novelty tune, part of that period's British art-rock boom, which eventually laid the foundation for retreat by America's post-Reagan teens who were settling into the complacency and self-satisfaction of the Clinton era.
What was "Bohemian Rhapsody"? A kitsch alternative to the Beatles' pop-classic, high-art "A Day in the Life" but taken to the furthest reaches of art-rock pomposity, then mixing those ambitions with the comical and absurd. All that kitsch was driven by Mercury's thrilling, quasi-operatic high notes and Streisand-style excess. Appreciating this gives a clue to Freddie Mercury's aspirations as an Asian who was so deeply assimilated into British rock culture that he, ironically, became one of its avatars.
Bohemian Rhapsody doesn't help us understand these essential, pop-culture ironies, so we fall victim to the unenlightening Hollywood commercialism — overlooking how the blue-collar nerds of Wayne's World complemented Mercury's own lower-middle-class background.
That migration should motivate a filmmaker who was politically and culturally curious, but director Bryan Singer (best known for the awful X-Men comic-book movies) ignores everything that is interesting about Mercury: His vocal power, stage flamboyance, Parsi ethnicity, the family's Zoroastrian teachings, plus his pre-AIDS-era sexual activity should make for fascinating political and cultural fare. His ethnicity and sexuality should be more than simple tokens of diversity.
As in the X-Men movies, Singer can't do people; which means he can't do artistry. Mercury leads a struggling rock band to stardom through his desire to escape the limits of his ethnic heritage, a history that one nonetheless hears in the atavistic quality of his voice — the surprising subharmonics of his singing (think Robert Plant, plus intensity). Perhaps it would take a radical film artist to explore this essence, yet Singer's hackneyed approach lacks the necessary daring. When Mercury finally moves past his bisexual refuge into libertinage, Singer can't do Ken Russell–style orgiastic cinema, either.
Rami Malek impersonates Mercury without the leonine torso that gave the star his androgynous swagger; instead, Malek's runty performance is half Diana Ross, half Mick Jagger but without charisma. Given to pouting, he's called "an angry lizard," which is sufficient for Singer's slithering approach to sexual decadence.
Centered around Queen's reunion at the 1985 Live Aid charity concert, Bohemian Rhapsody pities the compulsive egotism that tempted Mercury to split from his bandmates and trust devious influence (a gay villain who pities himself as "a poor Irish Catholic boy from Belfast"). It then turns laughably PC (a gay savior who advises Mercury, "Come see me when you like yourself").
In traditional musical bio-pics, a star composes a personal tune that shows his virtue and wins audience approval: George Cohan's "Mary," a valentine to his wife, in Yankee Doodle Dandy, or George Gershwin's eponymous ethnic-hybrid concerto in Rhapsody in Blue. In Bohemian Rhapsody, Mercury writes the forgettable "Love of My Life" for his conventional white British girlfriend (played by Lucy Boynton), whose wise quip "we are family" provides the film's ultimate PC confirmation.
As a backstage story, Bohemian Rhapsody doesn't live up to its bohemian, post-glam-rock promise. Because of Queen's enjoyable discography, it is more watchable than the recent A Star Is Born, which fabricates silly showbiz legend for viewers of American Idol, The Voice, and The X Factor. But when the Live Aid audience sings along to Mercury's nonsense anthem "Radio Ga Ga," a better filmmaker than Singer would vanquish the competition.


Our bookends pining for the outdoors. However, Jet's interest flags first, and hassles his sister Diamond.
Several things in this picture.
The Japanese themed plate is for the twin's dry food (that pink sack to the right) which is up here to keep it away from from Peanut who is convinced its manna from heaven. But, instead, its the sure way to get a plugged uretha and a $700 vet bill to unplug him for the 3rd time. At his age we'll probably tell the doc to "off 'em" and set aside the $700 for "other" cat care.
Diamond (to the right with the blue collar) in particular has it down pat to leap and catch both fore claws on the top edge of any drawer, push with the hind legs, causing the drawer to extend, allowing her to scramble up and over into the drawer. Jet makes standing leap into the same drawer, thereby expending less effort!
On occasion they will disappear into the back of the drawer and over the end into the "cave" behind the drawers. That is liable to lead to mewling later after the drawers getting perfunctorily shut. "Where's that sound coming from?"
This shows the flowers sent by Elspeth, Rob, and Tanya for Carol's 70th birthday August 1st (which we celebrated by Carol's first restaurant outing since early June when her leg broke). Black cats are hard to see.. in photographs and in real life. That table sits here so Carol can more conveniently move through the room with the wheelchair or with the walker.
OK! The twins get to try the outdoors. We didn't want them pulling Carol over, hence the dining room chair. You know its Jet thanks to the red collar. Difficult to see, but Diamond is leashed. Note her distinctly focused stare at a "song bird" in the jungle canopy. It is quite bright outside. Could Diamond further narrow her irises? In the "big picture" version you can make out Jet on the other side of Carol. That foot rest if for Carol's still sort right left if she should flex it to either 0 or 90 degrees. Rehabilitation help for that continues.


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A boat once got towed around by a fish on the Fraser for almost an hour
They needed a bigger boat
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Tony Nootebos from BC Sportfishing Group and publisher Bob Kronbauer with a 150-pound sturgeonFILE
A couple of people fishing in a boat on the Fraser River were once towed around for almost an hour by a gigantic white sturgeon which had up to 100 pounds of caviar in it, and that fish finally ended up at UBC.
It happened in 1977, back when you were allowed to keep sturgeon and eat them. In 1994 the government realized the species had been decimated and initiated a retention ban, meaning you're not allowed to keep them.
A fisher named Garnet and his wife were fishing on the river when they hooked into a 700-pound river monster, whose species happens to be the largest and longest-lived freshwater fish in North America.
To give you an idea of the size, the fish in the photo here is a 150 pound one that I caught and released. Theirs weighed more than four times that. And it was eleven feet long.
It dragged their boat around for 45 minutes then finally gave up, and for some reason instead of letting it go or keeping it to eat they kept it alive, tethered it up in the river and let it stew there for three days.
In the meantime Garnet took a trip to the Vancouver Aquarium, told them they could have it, so they sent a truck out to retrieve it.
The Aquarium built a temporary holding unit for the ancient beast, but as you can imagine the fish was under a lot of stress for days. It died not long after it got there.
It was then donated to UBC's zoology department, who performed a number of tests on it.
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Q: BLoC: listen callback called multiple times I have a Stateful Widget which obtains a bloc from its parent:
class Page extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  State<StatefulWidget> createState() =>
  _PageState();
}

class _PageState extends State<Page> {
  final TextEditingController mnemonicController = TextEditingController();
  final _scaffoldKey = GlobalKey<ScaffoldState>();

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {

final MnemonicLogicBloc mnemonicLogicBloc =
BlocProvider.of<MnemonicLogicBloc>(context);

mnemonicLogicBloc.outCheckMnemonic.listen((isCorrect){
  if (!isCorrect) {
    SnackBar copySnack = SnackBar(content: Text('Wrong Mnemonic!'));
    _scaffoldKey.currentState.showSnackBar(copySnack);
  }
});

return Scaffold(
    key: _scaffoldKey,
    body: Container(
      width: double.infinity,
      child: Column(
        crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.center,
        children: <Widget>[
          Container(
            child: TextField(
              controller: mnemonicController,
            ),
          ),
          RaisedButton(
            onPressed: () {
              mnemonicLogicBloc.isMnemonicCorrect(mnemonicController.text);
            },
            child: Text('Check', style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white)),
          )
        ],
      ),
    ));
}
}

What I want to do is to check, when user press the button, if the string inserted is correct. The method I call in the bloc is:
void isMnemonicCorrect(String typedMnemonic){
if(typedMnemonic == _lastGeneratedMnemonic)
  _inCheckMnemonic.add(true);
else
  _inCheckMnemonic.add(false);
 }

_inCheckMnemonic is the Sink of my Subject (I'm using rxDart), while outCheckMnemonic is my Stream. The problem is that, even though the bloc's 'isCorrect' method is called once, the listen callback is called twice (The SnackBar is shown twice). Why does this happen?
EDIT: I navigate to Page() simply using Navigator.push:
Navigator.of(context).push(MaterialPageRoute(
                            builder: (BuildContext context) {
                return Page();
}));

I'm able to retrieve the bloc because, when my app start I initialized the bloc:
return runApp(BlocProvider<ApplicationBloc>(
bloc: ApplicationBloc(),
child: BlocProvider<MnemonicLogicBloc>(
  bloc: MnemonicLogicBloc(),
  child: BlocProvider<HomePageBloc>(
    bloc: HomePageBloc(),
    child: App(),
  ),
)

));

A: When you add a new Widget in your Navigator avoid creating that widget inside the builder, instead declare a variable outside and reuse that variable in your builder, like this:
final page = Page();
Navigator.of(context).push(MaterialPageRoute(
                            builder: (BuildContext context) => page ), );

With this change we avoid that our widget is recreated many times in an unexpected way.

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This is why the Disney x Coach collaboration makes perfect sense
Published: July 1, 2016 at 1:20 p.m. ET
Tonya Garcia
A leather jacket and handbag from the Disney x Coach collection.
Mickey Mouse toothbrushes. Minnie Mouse watches. Toys, T-shirts and trinkets. No matter what it is, there's a Walt Disney Co. character that can seemingly be included in it, on it, or molded into the shape of it.
Is there a brand or product that simply shouldn't be Disneyfied? Incredibly, the answer might be no.
"Grandmas and kids alike like Mickey Mouse," said Brien Rowe, managing director of investment banking in D.A. Davidson's active lifestyle group. "You're almost guaranteed success when you collaborate with Disney on one product line or another."
A Disney x Coach wristlet, priced $250
Disney DIS, -1.78% recently joined with Coach Inc. US:COH , the clothing and accessories brand, on a collection that includes a $250 wristlet with oversize Mickey Mouse ears, a $1,995 leather motorcycle jacket with a studded Mickey Mouse silhouette on the back, and $245 Mickey Mouse sneakers.
Coach has sold out of the $1,500 Mickey beanbag chair, the $200 leather Mickey book cover, and the black leather Mickey Mouse doll, according to the Coach website. The doll comes in three sizes, the priciest of which is $1,500. The Disney x Coach line launched online and in stores June 17.
See also:Not even 'Tarzan' can save the holiday weekend box office
"I've always seen Mickey as a playful rebel at heart and a timeless symbol of joy and creativity," said Coach's creative director Stuart Vevers in a statement. "That spirit reinforces the new youthful perspective we are bringing to luxury at Coach."
The new brand approach is one that could help Coach stand apart in a crowded luxury handbag space.
"Coach is tired of being an almost-luxury brand, tired of pricing itself below where luxury European brands are priced," said Rowe. He believes this is a partnership that puts Coach in a "place that it can own."
See also:People waited in line 5 hours for Disney's 5-minute 'Frozen' ride
"They're celebrating their 75th anniversary, and partnering with Disney really helps set Coach apart," he said. "It takes a deep dive into, 'We're going to be playful, youthful and proudly stand as an American brand.'"
So far, the collaboration seems to be paying off. Piper Jaffray reported on channel checks analysts conducted in a June 21 note that reaffirmed its overweight rating. They say conversations with in-store and online representatives were "positive" and "the Mickey launch is besting expectations." The collection is also (literally) well-liked on social media.
"[W]e believe the Disney x Coach collaboration can move the needle from a comp perspective," Piper Jaffray wrote.
The bank has a Coach price target of $47.
At first blush, the Disney x Coach collaboration would seem odd given what's happening in the luxury space. Companies like Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. US:KORS and Ralph Lauren Corp. RL, -0.78% have taken steps to protect their identities by refocusing on their core brands to enhance their high-end status. It seems like Coach is going more mainstream to plant its flag on an unoccupied patch of the luxury landscape.
See also:Michael Kors is waging war on discounting
"It's interesting because they're taking a mass appeal thing with high-end product," said Rowe.
Romney Jacob, North American director of mind-set at WGSN, a trend forecasting and analytics firm, believes this is a new take on brand collaborations.
The large Mickey doll in the Disney x Coach collection, priced at $1,500, is sold out on the website
"This is actually not a move to make the brand more mass," said Jacob. "This is the new high-low collaboration. Five to 10 years ago, it was about luxury designers doing capsule collections for fast-fashion stores. What we see replacing that high-low excitement is luxury brands embracing youth culture."
See also:Nordstrom stores are scrapping Michael Kors handbags
And it's not just Coach that's undergoing a brand transformation. Disney has also changed over the years.
"Disney is one of the most-loved brands in the world," said Jacob. "That's not new, but what is new is that it's no longer associated strictly with childhood. It's a brand for adults to love too."
The attachment that consumers of all ages feel for Disney is something that Coach – and many other brands – can draw upon.
"A Coach and Disney partnership is about leveraging the power of two well-known brands to create a differentiated product," said Jared Wiesel, partner at Revenue Analytics. "If executed correctly, this unique offering should be relatively insulated from direct competitive threats and create a reason for new and existing customers to engage with the Coach brand."
Finding those pockets of exclusivity is important, even for a brand that excites as much passion as Disney.
"At this stage (after the height of the Star Wars licensing mania), Disney could probably collaborate with any brand they wanted," said Jacob. "It's important that they don't oversaturate the market and choose their collaborations wisely. The most successful partnerships will be with brands that evoke the same sentiments as Disney. Coach is a great choice because both are quintessential American brands."
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Tonya Garcia is a MarketWatch reporter covering retail and consumer-oriented companies. You can follow her on Twitter @tgarcianyc. She is based in New York. Tonya joined MarketWatch from Moguldom Media, where she was business editor for MadameNoire, a website targeting African-American women with a range of content from personal finance to economics, politics, education and lifestyle and entertainment. She also worked at Mediabistro, and previously handled media relations for MSLGroup's consumer practice.


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RICHARD Winterton Auctioneers' first quarterly auction of Fine & Decorative Arts for 2019 was a wonderful way to step into spring, writes Sarah Leedham, with a 93.7 per cent selling rate, 1,116 online bidders, three busy viewing days and record sale total.
The jewellery, silver and wines and spirits accounted for half of the 778 lots in the catalogue and made up the first day of the auction, with day two including ceramics, glass, works of art, taxidermy firearms, pictures and furniture.
The first 75 lots of the sale were a single owner collection of loose gemstones, which included diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, garnets and many other gem, mineral and crystal specimens. The top selling lot from this section was a collection of blue sapphires (pictured below) of mixed hues and shapes, after a two-way battle between a room bidder and an internet bidder the hammer fell at £2,600.
A single owner collection of over forty lots of Scandinavian silver and enamelled jewellery was a sell-out, totalling over £4,600, once again jewellery from the second half of the 20th Century proving its worth as wearable art.
The more traditional jewellery section of the sale saw pre-estimates being smashed. The top lot being an 18ct gold single stone diamond ring, the diamond being 3.30ct, after a fierce bidding battle it sold to a commission bidder for £3,000. Finding a delighted new owner was a modern 18 carat gold collar set with Tanzanite and diamonds, it flew above the £1,000-1,500 and realised £2,900.
Another strong result was seen in the watches section when a well-worn gents stainless steel Tudor Prince Oyster Submariner wristwatch (pictured above) with heavily scratched glass made £4,600, the serial number rather than the condition being key in its success. Another gent's stainless-steel Rolex watch, an Oyster Perpetual Air King Precision, made £1,500, doubling its estimate and a collection of pocket watch keys mounted on a display board made £1,450.
The silver section comprised 174 lots ranging in date from the beginning of the 18th Century to very recent times, with 99 per cent of lots sold. The top two hammer prices achieved in the large silver section were a 92-piece matched canteen of Rat Tail cutlery selling for £1,700 and a Victorian silver seal case fetching £1,450.
Another single owner collection in the sale was a 49-lot section of vinaigrettes, nutmeg graters, snuff boxes and scent flasks, all 49 lots sold with the top price of £520 for a George III vinaigrette in the shape of a padlock, weighing only 7.7 grams and 3.2cm in height; rarity was the key to its popularity.
To end the first day of auctions were 130 lots of wines, whisky, port and other spirits. Whisky was the main attraction of the section with investors happy to buy rare malts, the top price paid was £2,700 for a bottle of The Macallan 25th Anniversary Malt, distilled in 1966 and bottled in 1992, housed in a wooden case. Four other bottles of whisky sold for sums between £700 and £760 each.
Day two commenced with the ceramics and glass, a mixture of antiques, high value limited editions and modern pieces with an emphasis on design. The top three selling lots in this section covered this cross section with an 18th Century Chinese blue and white jar (pictured above) selling to a telephone bidder for £4,200, a Royal Worcester part tea set painted with fruit studies realising £2,300 and a limited edition figure of Queen Elizabeth I on horseback, produced by the Royal Worcester factory in 1988 in a limited edition of 100 pieces, which proved a real hit with collectors when it soared past its estimate to a winning bid of £1,450.
The works of art section always provides some highlights and this sale was no exception with a Japanese black lacquered cigarette case overlaid with exotic birds in a flowering branch selling to a bidder in Asia for £1,900, rare woodworking tools proved as popular as ever when an unusual Stanley no 52 chute board and no 51 smoothing plane took £640 and a Victorian wooden policeman (pictured above) with a rather cheeky surprise hiding under his coat made £620.
Modern art dominated the paintings section this time with the works of contemporary artist Fabian Perez performing well, with six of his original oil paintings selling, the most popular two depicted people toasting with glasses of red and white wine, the hammer fell at £4,000 and £3,600 respectively. Victorian paintings were not to be outdone with an oil portrait of a champion Highland cow and her calf by Gourlay Steell (pictured below) taking £7,500.
A small section of the auction was devoted to antique and sporting guns, rifles and accessories. Three of the antique weapons produced the highest prices with an antique Spanish 25 bore miquelet military design single barrel pistol at £800, an 18th Century antique .30" percussion Urwin & Rogers "Knife" pistol (below, top) at £800 and a late Victorian .32" extra short calibre "lemon squeezer" (pictured below) at £750.
The sale ended with antique and modern furniture, recent years have seen the modern pieces catching up with the prices of good quality Georgian and Victorian pieces and this auction was no exception. The top price for a furniture lot was £980 when a room bidder secured a George III oak dresser base after a three-way battle between competition on the internet and telephone, a George III longcase clock with an automaton ship to the arch made £800 and a Victorian bookcase in amboyna and rosewood at £600.
Tom Winterton, who catalogued and auctioned the furniture, commented after the sale how pleased he was - especially with a Gerrit Thomas Rietveld for Cassina geometric black, red and white ground centre table at £580 and a G Plan teak sideboard designed by IB Kofod Larsen at £440.
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I found in one of my occasional trips to Ploiesti last summer, a well preserved house dating from the 1900s in a style halfway between neo-baroque and neoclassical, which was also embellished with a splendid wrought iron doorway that displayed some interesting Art Nouveau motifs. The area endowed with the amplest such design was the upper window of the doorway, presented in the second photograph bellow. It shows a flowing, whiplash shape, flower motif typical of the Art Nouveau decorative panoply. The house is illustrative for the urban architecture of the first decade of the c2oth Romania, when the historicist style buildings also encompassed and often seamlessly integrated fashionable Art Nouveau elements, as is the case with this doorway assembly.


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After two scrubs, Elon Musk says he will visit SpaceX launch sites in Florida
The countdown clock ticked steadily on Friday evening for a Falcon 9 rocket and reached T-2 seconds earlier than the launch of a precious International Positioning System satellite tv for pc was aborted. That was the second consecutive time, in simply two days, {that a} Falcon 9 launch was known as off with mere seconds left within the countdown.
An "surprising ground-sensor studying" triggered an automated abort of a Starlink launch on Thursday at T-18 seconds. And on Friday night, in line with SpaceX founder Elon Musk, "an surprising stress rise within the turbomachinery fuel generator" brought about the scrub. The turbomachinery on this occasion pressurizes fuel coming into the "fuel generator," which in flip is a small engine that powers the bigger Merlin rocket engine.
So what's going on? SpaceX has now launched its Falcon 9 rocket greater than 90 instances, and earlier than this week, latest delays have virtually solely been on account of climate somewhat than technical issues with the rocket or its floor programs.
Musk apparently needs to know as effectively. After the back-to-back scrubs, he took to Twitter to announce that he would go to the corporate's two launch websites in Florida: one at Cape Canaveral Air Power Station (the location of Friday evening's scrub) and one at Kennedy House Middle (the place the Starlink mission awaits a second launch try).
Visiting subsequent week
Musk would really like SpaceX to extend its cadence such that it could actually attain 48 launches in 2021, which might greater than double the corporate's earlier file for whole variety of missions in a single 12 months. Technical scrubs like those this week would stop this. Reaching frequent launches would require clean operations.
"We're doing a broad evaluate of launch website, propulsion, constructions, avionics, vary & regulatory constraints this weekend," Musk tweeted. "I can even be on the Cape subsequent week to evaluate {hardware} in particular person."
This go to is notable, as a result of Musk is now spending most of his time in Boca Chica, Texas, engaged on the corporate's next-generation launch system, Starship. Now, he shall be returning his focus to the Falcon 9 for a time.
This may matter, as a result of Musk actually serves as each the chief government of SpaceX in addition to its chief engineer. He leads the dialogue in any respect senior technical conferences, whether or not in his government convention room on the SpaceX manufacturing unit in Hawthorne, California, or a bigger room in Boca Chica.
He has at all times been, and stays, the animating drive behind SpaceX's technical excellence. When Musk is someplace, issues get performed. He's continuously pushing ahead, asking why issues can't be performed quicker, or higher, or cheaper. He's good at motivating workers to fulfill seemingly inconceivable deadlines. So by coming to Florida, Musk is not-so-subtly reminding his launch group of his expectations in addition to lending his technical experience to the myriad challenges of launching rockets on time.
SpaceX ought to have its subsequent alternative quickly. The corporate's Starlink-12 mission, now delayed twice (as soon as for poor climate and as soon as as a result of floor programs situation) is scheduled to launch on Monday, October 5, at 7:46am EDT (11:46 UTC). We are going to watch—with nice curiosity.
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Tip: How to Look Like You Lift
It doesn't matter how heavy you can go. If you're missing THIS in your training you're not going to build much muscle.
by Clay Hyght, DC | 07/06/16
The Pump vs. The Grind
Those people in the gym who like to "feel the burn" and get a pump tend to neglect heavy, low-rep sets. That's a mistake. But the reverse is true too. There's been renewed interest in training to get strong, which is great, but if you want to look like you lift, you need to also go light and crank out the reps.
Volumization Work
Do an endurance/volumization exercise for each body part you're wanting to build. Sure doing sets of more than 10 or 12 reps is great for increasing endurance, but you probably don't care about that. What you DO care about is the visual effect that occurs as a result of doing higher rep, burning and aching sets.
Training in this higher rep range obviously prolongs the time under tension (TUT), and it's this longer TUT that stimulates muscle growth. Since this hypertrophy resulting from high-rep sets isn't primarily coming from an increase in the size of the contractile component of the muscle (actin and myosin filaments), it's often called non-functional hypertrophy, but that's a very misleading term.
Semantics aside, when we're talking specifically about the enlargement of a muscle think of it as "volumization" – an increase in the cross-sectional area of a muscle via an increase in size and/or number of mitochondria, capillaries, enlargement of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, etc.
So How Many Reps?
Generally speaking, doing sets of 12-20 reps is perfect for stimulating muscle volumization. The cosmetic result tends to be rounder, fuller-looking muscles. Keep in mind, when your goal is larger muscles, you want to enlarge ALL components of the muscle. Failing to do so is like leaving money on the table.
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Clay Hyght, DC, is a training and strength coach, sports nutritionist, and doctor of chiropractic. Dr. Hyght specializes in helping others build physiques that not only look good, but are also functional, healthy, and pain free.
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O Açude da Comissão é um açude público situado em Palmácia, município do estado do Ceará, Brasil.

Localizado no centro do município, foi edificado a mando do Imperador D. Pedro II do Brasil,  pela então Comissão Científica do Nordeste. As obras foram iniciadas ainda na época do Império, em 1878. Nesse ano, a província do Ceará havia sido atingida por uma grande seca de três consecutivos. O Imperador ordenou que se abrissem frentes de trabalho para livrar o povo da fome. Palmácia, município na época chamado Palmeiras, distrito de Maranguape, foi, portanto, visitado pela citada comissão que estudou a possibilidade de construção do açude. O mesmo foi de fato edificado, durante três anos, e, após sua inauguração, passou a ser chamado de Açude da Comissão.

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2. Peel the potatoes and onion, and cut into large chunks. Place the potatoes, onions, and eggs in the base of a food processor fitted with a steel blade.
3. Process with quick pulses of the on and off button, until the potato and onions are chopped up small, about 30 seconds.
4. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper. Process for a couple of seconds longer until all is well combined.
5. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Using an ice cream scooper (you know I like to make sure they are all the same size!), scoop the mixture and drop into the hot oil. Do four latkes at a time so you don't overcrowd the pan. Once the edges appear browned, carefully flip the latke over and cook the other side.
6. Remove the latkes from the skillet, and drain on paper towels. Transfer onto a cookie sheet. At this point, I like to stick the latkes into a hot oven for 3-5 minutes just to give them a final crispiness (totally optional, though).
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How Marketers Can Start Adopting Artificial Intelligence Tomorrow
Hal Conick
A third of companies (33%) are AI "investigators" that are in the pilot stage and know a bit about AI, while 16% are "experimenters" that are piloting AI without fully understanding it. The rest (34%) are "passives," or organizations that haven't adopted and barely understand AI.
As 2019 begins, marketers can move beyond passivity and into being AI pioneers.
Marketers should also be asking a lot of questions. Redmond believes that businesses should learn by digging into possibilities and seeing what AI tools are available on the market.
Paul Roetzer couldn't stop watching. It was 2011 and Watson, a then-new IBM supercomputer, faced off against 74-time "Jeopardy!" champion Ken Jennings and the show's all-time money leader, Brad Rutter. Watson, a question-answering artificial intelligence system, would buzz in within a second of host Alex Trebek asking a question, giving what the AI determined to be the most probable answer. By the end of the game, Watson had dominated the show's all-time greats by more than $50,000.
By late 2016, Roetzer had become so obsessed by AI's potential in marketing that he founded the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute, a group with the mission of making AI approachable and actionable for modern marketers. Roetzer still runs his company, PR 20/20, but he says that his AI group now takes nearly all his time. He badly wants to figure out how organizations can pilot and scale AI tools to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
So far, he has nearly the entire marketing industry to work with.
Hal Conick is a freelance writer for the AMA's magazines and e-newsletters. He can be reached at halconick@gmail.com or on Twitter at @HalConick.


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Amsterdam schools go virtual until after holiday break | The Daily Gazette
Amsterdam schools go virtual until after holiday break
By Zachary Matson | December 13, 2020
Amsterdam High School is pictured earlier this year. (Gazette file photo)
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Greater Amsterdam School District students won't return to school for in-person learning until Jan. 4 at the earliest after district officials on Sunday announced they were shifting students to online learning until after the holiday break.
Officials cited rising COVID-19 cases in Amsterdam and across Montgomery County and said the decision was made jointly with the Montgomery County health department.
Amsterdam Superintendent Richard Ruberti in an interview Sunday said more than 50 district staff members were in quarantine as of this weekend, complicating the district's ability to operate schools for in-person instruction.
District and county officials met Sunday and made the decision together, according to an announcement the district posted Sunday to its website. The announcement said Montgomery County has recorded 70 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, and the county's seven-day rolling average of positive tests was at 8 percent and growing.
District officials highlighted that schools have not been identified as contributing to the virus' spread but that broader cases in the community were causing staffing challenges.
"The reality is we are not spreading cases in the schools," Ruberti said. "It's a matter of the number of quarantines we've had."
Ruberti said the decision to extend the all-virtual break through the holiday break also enables families to plan without responding to day-to-day changes, as they have had to throughout the school year.
"We are trying to keep the schools open, but it's hard for families to plan when we go day-by-day," Ruberti said.
As caseloads have climbed around the Capital Region, health departments have faced growing backlogs of people to trace for potential exposure, forcing some districts to ask students and staff to stay home even before health officials can make a formal request for a quarantine. Ruberti also said the amount of time it takes to receive test results for staff in quarantine has increased in recent weeks.
"We have taken it upon ourselves as a district to quarantine students and staff without Montgomery County," Ruberti said.
Ruberti said the district should be ready to transition to a fully-virtual model. While the district is still waiting for the delivery of a 700-device computer order, officials were able to purchase over 100 computers directly from the Gloversville school district.
District officials in the message to families also warned that more closures could be possible as the year continues.
"Please remember that moves like these may become necessary at any time if a significant number of GASD faculty are placed in mandatory quarantine, and a staffing shortage requires that we temporarily shift a class, school building or the entire district to a fully remote model," according to the district message.
Districts across the region are grappling with similar challenges keeping schools staffed as COVID-19 cases continue to lead to staff who have to quarantine.
The Northville school district last weekend announced it will close to in-person instruction until mid-January, with Superintendent Leslie Ford citing staffing challenges and the rising caseload as leading to the decision.
North Colonie, Guilderland and Niskayuna school districts will all return to school Monday with at least some students unable to attend school for in-person instruction. In Niskayuna, all high school students are set to learn remotely Monday as county health officials continue to contact-trace positive cases, waiting on Monday for word about whether in-person school will resume Tuesday.
North Colonie's students are learning remotely through Dec. 17, while Guilderland's secondary students are set to learn all-virtually until at least Dec. 16.


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Nearly 9 mln USD donated ahead of War Invalids & Martyrs Day
More than 197 billion VND (8.7 million USD) has been donated to the Gratitude Fund, which is an outcome of a movement beginning in late April to call on all people to express gratitude to revolutionary contributors.
VNA Monday, July 24, 2017 20:59
Vietnam News Agency marks Day of Invalids, Martyrs
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Deputy PMs visit revolutionary contributors ahead of martyrs' day
NA leader presents gifts to Heroic Mothers in Quang Nam
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Film week celebrates War Invalids and Martyrs Day
President of the VFF Central Committee Tran Thanh Man speaks at the meeting on July 24 to review the movement of calling for the public to express gratitude to revolutionary contributors (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – More than 197 billion VND (8.7 million USD) has been donated to the Gratitude Fund, which is an outcome of a movement beginning in late April to call on all people to express gratitude to revolutionary contributors.
The movement is to mark 70 years of the War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27, 1947).
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee said on July 24 that 18,958 houses have been built or repaired for contributors to the revolution at a total cost of 736 billion VND (32.4 million USD).
About 207,980 gift packages worth over 121 billion VND (5.3 million USD) have also been presented to policy beneficiary families and revolutionary contributors nationwide.
The VFF and its member organisations have actively coordinated with other agencies and organisations to carry out gratitude activities which have also received strong support from the public, the VFF Central Committee noted.
Addressing the meeting to review the movement, President of the VFF Central Committee Tran Thanh Man said the drive is to show latter generations' sentiment and responsibility towards revolutionary contributors. It is also an occasion to promote patriotism, national pride and the gratitude-showing tradition.
He asked ministries, sectors, organisations and VFF committees at all levels to continue with the movement and consider it a regular task.
He also urged them to push ahead with fine-tuning and implementing relevant policies, ensure all revolutionary contributors receive regulated benefits, and encourage war invalids, martyrs' relatives and contributors to take part in social and economic activities.-VNA
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The Ministry of National Defence on January 28 handed over the President's decisions to seven officers who will be sent to the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), a mission established by the UN Security Council in 2011 for peacekeeping in Sudan.
Spring COVID-19 vaccination campaign to start on January 29
Bribery case at foreign ministry's consular department prosecuted
The Investigation Security Agency under the Ministry of Public Security has prosecuted a case of taking bribes at the Consular Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs while licensing the firms that conducted repatriation flights for Vietnamese people.
President reduces death penalties to life sentences for four prisoners
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 28 decided to reduce death penalties to life sentences for four prisoners, on the occasion of the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.
Programme on socio-economic recovery, development set to be issued before Tet
A programme on socio-economic recovery and development is set to be issued before the Tet (Lunar New Year), which falls on February 1 this year, according to Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Duy Dong.
President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum to open on lunar year's last day
The Mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh will be open to the public on January 31 (the last day of the lunar year), the Management Board of the site has announced.


How To Use A Support Vector Machine (SVM) In Daily Trading?
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What are the guidelines for foreigners to start a business in Singapore?
If you are looking for a country that is heavenly from the point of view of the entrepreneurs out there, then Singapore will be the one. In just 4 to 5 decades, this country has managed to become one of the main business attractions in the world and the main reasons for this happening are related to the fact that the entire system of laws is meant to protect businesses the way many other countries don't.
Of course, the list of benefits when it comes to starting a business in Singapore is very long and what you will definitely want to know is the fact that you will have the same rights as a foreign business owner as any of the Singaporean residents and citizen will have, which makes this place truly great when it comes to the legislation the government of this country has granted to all the business owners who incorporate their business there.
Foreigners will find it quite easy to go through the online registration process and, as you will see further on, other than basic documents and certain easy-to-follow requirements, there will be not much effort involved from your behalf. If you want to acquire more information on how to make this great step in your career as an entrepreneur, then you should definitely read on.
A Basic Guide to Opening a Business in Singapore as a Foreigner put very shortly, there are 2 main options if you decide that Singapore should be the place where your business is located and ran.
The first option does not involve you acquiring any kind of permit and this means that you will run your business from overseas. In this case, you can only visit Singapore when your business needs your physical presence there, but you cannot actually move to Singapore. Also, you should know the fact that you cannot have your company registered without the help of a professional agency offering this kind of service. Also, if you go for this option, you will have to know as well the fact that your company will have to have at least one of the directors, one of the shareholders and one secretary that are local citizens of Singapore and who can run the business while you are not in the country.
If this option is not appealing for you, then you should know the fact that there are 2 main types of passes that will help you gain rights that are almost equal to those of the Singaporean citizens (although you should also know that neither of these passes are not actual citizenship, nor are they permanent residence permits). These two passes are the EntrePass (or the Entrepreneur Pass) and the Employment Pass.
The first one will grant you the right to become a full owner of a company in Singapore (and to employ other people), while the second one will grant you the right to work in Singapore. The applications are similar in both of the cases and in both of the cases you will have to apply via a web form (available at the official government site).
Furthermore, you will most likely need to call for the services of a professional agency in this case as well, because this way you will make sure that your application will receive approval as soon as possible and as hassle-free as possible too.
Once you have received your permit, you can proceed with registering the business itself. This will be an even more straightforward process and it will also be done online as well. You will have to provide contact information about the directors, shareholders, an address of your business (which, bear in mind, cannot be a P.O. box but an address proper) and banking details (which involves that you will have to open up an account in Singapore – one of the few actions where you may have to be there yourself – and deposit all the capital of your new company there, to prove that you have it). Other than that, you will have to make sure that you know what should be done every tax year and all the forms that have to be submitted in order to run a legal business in this country. Regarding this, you can receive financial consultation from one of the many professionals available in Singapore.
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Basically, you will have the very same rights and duties as a local business owner has once you open your company here. You will be able to receive financial support from the government through one of the many schemes that have come up with and you will also have to respect the tax laws the same ways as locals do. All in all, running your business from Singapore can bring you a tremendous number of benefits and it is worth at least informing yourself about them before you make a move in any direction.
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When Does Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 11 Start? Bravo Premiere Date
The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 11
Was The Real Housewives of Atlanta cancelled or renewed for season 11? When does it start on Bravo? Who will be returning for the new season? In this post, we have summarized everything we know so far about the next season.
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Bravo Media is spicing up Sunday nights when "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" returns for an unforgettable eleventh season on Sunday, November 4 at 8pm ET/PT. Favorite Southern sophisticates Cynthia Bailey, Kandi Burruss, NeNe Leakes and Porsha Williams are all back and will be joined by newest housewives Eva Marcille and Shamari DeVoe. Marlo Hampton and Tanya Sam join the season as friends. For a sneak peek at this season, visit
Fresh off her stand-up comedy tour, NeNe is busier than ever with the opening of a new location for Swagg Boutique. Business as usual comes to a halt however, as Gregg faces a cancer diagnosis. Cynthia struggles with the idea of becoming an empty nester, but is excited about the new man in her life. Kandi decides to launch a risqué burlesque show while she and Todd explore the idea of expanding their family yet again. Porsha is over-the-moon excited to welcome her first bundle of joy and finally have the family of her dreams. Meanwhile, Eva and her fiancé Michael welcome a beautiful baby boy and are busy planning a fairytale wedding. Shamari DeVoe, known from the multi-platinum R&B group Blaque, is new to the mix and is planning to launch new music with her husband Ronnie DeVoe, formerly of New Edition. Marlo Hampton is back on the scene, joined by newcomer Tanya Sam, a tech savvy business woman who enjoys the finer things in life.
"The Real Housewives of Atlanta" is produced by Truly Original with Steven Weinstock, Glenda Hersh, Lauren Eskelin, Lorraine Haughton-Lawson, Ken Martinez, Anne Swan and Glenda Cox serving as Executive Producers. Erika Bryant and Kenny Loeliger-Myers serve as Co-Executive Producers. Anthony Sylvester serves as Consulting Executive Producer. Andy Cohen also serves as an Executive Producer.
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Breakingviews - Trump lands pre-emptive blow in digital tax fight
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U.S President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron at the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy, France, June 6, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Donald Trump has landed a pre-emptive blow in a brewing fight over how to tax technology giants like Facebook. The U.S. president on Wednesday initiated a probe into whether France's digital levy unfairly targets American companies. The move gives him more leverage in talks about how to revamp international corporate tax but also means there's more riding on the success of those discussions.
France's plan to impose a 3% tax on the worldwide revenue of digital groups that generate at least 750 million euros of sales globally and 25 million euros in France aims to fix what Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire calls a "fiscal injustice": tech giants paying little tax in large European countries. Trump and other U.S. politicians, including Democrats, suspect the levy, which was approved on Thursday by the French Senate, is a cynical raid on the likes of Google parent Alphabet.
The U.S. probe means there's a risk of U.S. tariffs on French goods. Yet shares of companies like LVMH, Pernod Ricard, Kering and Airbus, whose products are imported to the United States, were little changed on Thursday. That's probably because investors view the move as classic Trumpian posturing.
The problem is, both sides have a point and may not want to give ground. Le Maire's tax would raise about 500 million euros from 30 companies. Only one is French – advertising-technology group Criteo – and most of the rest are American, such as Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. To the United States, that looks like discrimination, not least because European competition regulators have targeted many of the same companies with multibillion-dollar antitrust fines.
At the same time, Le Maire is right to want a level playing field. International digital companies pay corporate tax in Europe at less than half the average rate of non-digital companies, according to the European Commission. And while France was in Trump's sights on Wednesday, Britain, Austria, Spain and Italy have moved forward with digital taxes of their own.
These European governments are effectively using national digital taxes as a way to press their case at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, where plans are afoot to rewrite global tax rules so that digital companies pay more tax in countries where users are based, rather than in low-tax countries like Ireland. Trump has just produced a bargaining chip of his own. But with both sides now brandishing threats, there's a risk of a harmful spiral if the OECD talks break down.
—Additional reporting by Gina Chon in San Francisco.
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The world is now witnessing a pandemic of N-STEMI heart attacks caused by blood clots
Posted byrightsfreedoms October 10, 2021 October 8, 2021 Posted inUncategorizedTags:adverse reaction, blood clots, coronavirus, covid, heart attack, pandemic, peter mccullough, plandemic, sars, side effects, vaccine
A certain type of heart attack is on the rise around the world. Healthcare professionals in Scotland have seen a sharp uptick in a potentially fatal type of heart attack called an N-STEMI attack. This condition is the result of partially blocked arteries that cut off the blood supply to the heart. It presents less tissue damage than a regular STEMI attack but can be equally fatal. Stents are put into the person's arteries to save their life. While cases of STEMI attacks have remained stable for years, at about 750 cases per year, cases of N-STEMI have spiked recently. Doctors from Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank recorded a consistent 25 percent rise in N-STEMI heart attacks over the summer. This hospital typically receives 240 N-STEMI patients a month, but during the months of May, June and July, the number of N-STEMI heart attack patients climbed to over 300 people per month.
Locking populations down and stripping their livelihoods causes severe side effects
Cardiac patients have been pouring into the Golden Jubilee National Hospital from all over the National Health Services grid, from NHS Greater Glasgow, to Clyde, Dumfries and Galloway, to Ayrshire and Arran, Forth Valley and the Highlands. Over the summer, the hospital had to increase its number of cardiology beds by 44 percent, as front line healthcare workers dealt with an increased demand of heart attack patients.
Doctors are trying to determine why there is such a sharp uptick for N-STEMI attacks. During the lockdowns, people had less access to health checks and were more likely to stay away from hospitals if they didn't have respiratory symptoms. Mitchell Lindsay, a lead consultant cardiologist at Golden Jubilee National, said they can't find "any evidence" that the rise in N-STEMI attacks "is a consequence of any delayed care or missed opportunity."
There was not a similar rise in heart attacks during the first two waves of lock down. The doctors believe that people became more sedentary during the past two years of lock down and were unable to cope with all the new stressors imposed by the lockdowns. They also believe many patients ignored heart attack symptoms during the lockdowns because they did not want to show up at a hospital and risk being infected and separated from their family. "There are probably five to ten causes, all linked," said Lindsay.
The inflammatory, blood clotting covid vaccines are contributing to the influx of cardiac emergencies
The doctors did not mention the role of covid-19 vaccines in this medical fallout. These vaccines are causing verifiable blood clots and imposing inflammatory conditions on the cardiovascular system of inoculated patients. According to research, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein disrupts human cardiac pericytes function and contributes to micro-vascular disease through CD147-receptor-mediated signaling.
There has been a surge in seriously ill patients in the summer of 2021, as cardiovascular health plummets across the country, and the globe. This pandemic of heart attack patients has caused a shortage of hospital beds and led to long delays at emergency rooms. Due to all these new, vaccine-induced public health problems, ambulances have reportedly been stuck in Que at the hospital's front doors. Locking populations down for blood-clotting, spike protein injections comes with serious (intended) consequences.
Due to the psychological stress, physiological stress, and inflammation being imposed on people's lives, the hospital has had to perform a record number of angioplasty procedures in 2021. Patients are coming in with partially-blocked arteries that require stents. The stents are needed to prop open blood vessels to maintain blood flow to the heart. In the past, many of these patients could recover at a hospital closer to home; however, many patients are now kept at Jubilee because smaller hospitals are already full of cardiac patients who are still trying to recover.
To hold on to the position of denying compassionate care to patients, and to create fear, suffering, hospitalization, and death is immoral. It's unethical and in civil court, it's illegal. And all of you will be hunted. Every single one of you listening right now will be hunted and justice will be served. These are considered crimes against humanity
@PeterMcCullough
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The company is included in a key stock grouping.
Railroad operator CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) has switched to a new track, and is motoring ahead -- at least, in terms of its inclusion on a key index. On Monday, the company became the newest component of the Nasdaq-100 index -- the exchange's grouping of its largest nonfinancial companies in terms of market capitalization.
CSX takes the place of KLA-Tenor, a company that makes equipment for semiconductor manufacturers. KLA-Tenor is being acquired by Lam Research in a deal worth nearly $11 billion that was agreed to last October.
Late last year, CSX transferred its stock listing to the Nasdaq, from its former home on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Nasdaq-100 is comprised of a variety of well-capitalized stocks from the exchange. Many are very prominent, such as Apple, Costco Wholesale, and Kraft Heinz.
Inclusion on a well-known index is a boon for any stock. After all, a great many exchange-traded funds are mandated to build their portfolios strictly from these issuers. Also, other types of funds regularly trawl the indexes for goodies. The resulting increased demand will be a positive factor supporting CSX's share price.
It could use the help. The stock has lost more than 30% of its value over the past year, significantly underperforming major indexes such as the Dow, the S&P 500, and -- yes -- the Nasdaq-100.
So inclusion on the latter is a good thing for CSX. But it'll need to improve its fundamentals in order to help its new index move north. For example, the company posted year-over-year revenue declines in three of the four quarters in its fiscal 2015.


Today we get word that the GM eBay store is closing. The site was primarily used to auction off new cars through California dealers.
Now the program will focus on more national marketing programs.
The program was initially slated to end Sept 30. Lack of participation was not cited as a reason for the program being terminated.


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An election without rallies or baby-kissing: New Brunswick vote a pandemic first
FREDERICTON — Voters in New Brunswick head to the polls Monday in the country's first provincial election since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and lessons learned may provide a template for future campaigns. "Campaigning was very different.
Sep 13, 2020 8:10 AM By: Canadian Press
FREDERICTON — Voters in New Brunswick head to the polls Monday in the country's first provincial election since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and lessons learned may provide a template for future campaigns.
"Campaigning was very different. There was no kissing babies, no pressing flesh, no barbecues, no rallies, no balloons," said Donald Wright, a political scientist at the University of New Brunswick. "It really was a low-key campaign conducted with signs, pamphlets and social media."
Public health restrictions prevented large rallies and prompted some of the parties to forego door-knocking.
Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs called the election in August after he was unable to get opposition parties to sign an agreement not to bring down his minority government until September 2022 — or until 30 days after public health officials declared the pandemic over.
The snap election call sent parties scrambling to find new ways to get their message out in an era of physical distancing.
"We live in a wired world, and that certainly has helped their cause," Wright said, noting the parties have concentrated much of their campaign efforts on social media.
Higgs said the province can't put everything on hold because of the virus.
"We have to keep moving," he said in an interview. "Social media has become more important. When I go to events, it's not big crowds like we used to have. We make sure that is the case, so we don't violate public health issues."
Higgs said the novel coronavirus has forced all parties to do things differently, and it has meant candidates picking up the phone more to speak directly to voters about the issues.
Green Leader David Coon, a veteran of multiple campaigns, said even the simplest activities were affected by COVID-19 concerns.
That included going to a street corner with signs and waving to motorists driving by. "One of the organizers said 'Now we have to sanitize the signs'," Coon said. "They had to be sanitized before the next group of volunteers went out."
In other cases, Coon said his party would put candidates in the back of a truck in a busy area and encourage people to approach to discuss the issues, but getting the message across wasn't always easy.
"When you're trying to talk to people and you're wearing a mask, they're wearing a mask, and you're distanced apart, it's not as comfortable as a normal conversation," Coon said. "It's harder for people to hear because of the mask."
Mackenzie Thomason, the 23-year-old interim leader of the New Democrats, is running in his third election. While his party is using social media, he also felt it was important to go door-to-door.
"I am wearing a mask, gloves and standing back the length of a metre stick plus my arm," he said, joking that he's gone though "eight million bottles of sanitizer."
Thomason said most people were willing to talk, but he had a few who refused to come to the door or engage in conversation because of health concerns.
Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers said he's also experienced difficulty getting the message out to voters during the pandemic.
"The traditional signs are up, we're using social media, we're getting out in the public when we can. There's no question, this has been a challenge," he said.
Liberal candidate Steven Burns is new to politics and felt he had no choice but to campaign door-to-door in order to introduce himself to voters and get their input.
"I put my mask on before I get to a door. I use a pen or something to hit the doorbell and I step back about 10 feet and I wait for the person to come to the door," Burns said. "I leave my mask on until they open the door and ask them if it is OK with me being there, and if I could pass them some literature."
He said he has been to about 2,000 doors. "I've only had two people ask about the COVID restrictions or if I should be there," he said.
Kim Poffenroth, the province's chief electoral officer, said Friday she believes the election has gone well. Her office launched a campaign urging voters to use advance polls and mail-in ballots in an effort to reduce lines at polling stations on election day.
The agency says 133,000 people voted at advance polls, an increase of 45,000 from the 2018 provincial election and about one third the total turnout that year.
Poffenroth said her office has learned a lot, right down to how much sanitizer and personal protective equipment are required at each polling station. She said counterparts across the country are watching closely.
"They've been in contact with me, particularly those that have elections scheduled, such as Saskatchewan in October," she said. "We've been exchanging information about what we've done and what they are planning. There really was no playbook for how to do this."
Wright said the province's relatively low COVID-19 case count made the election easier.
"I think New Brunswick can be pretty proud of what it has accomplished," he said. "I think the key message is that it can be done and that it has to be done. It is the price of democracy that we have to hold elections, even in a global pandemic."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2020.
Kevin Bissett, The Canadian Press
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We all think we are safe when using the internet, but with over 2 billion users on the net at the same time as you, how safe can your privacy and security on the Internet really be? It's about time you start protecting yourself from potential threats. Today we will talk about different methods you can use to help stay protected.
When online you might be fortunate enough to meet some very loyal friends, or unfortunate enough to have your identity stolen. Keeping your information private from unknown users is of the utmost importance when surfing the net. There have been many cases of frauds attempting to befriend users to ease information out of them. Never give out private details of your personal life or location to online users.
Keep your email clean and filtered of all unsolicited mail. Email phishing is a very simple and effective way to fool someone into thinking they are sending information to a bank or business. By keeping things filtered you allow the system to separate your email and keep you from harm. Here are a few simple things you can do to keep your email system ready for battle.
It's really simple keeping your privacy when it comes to emails, just follow these simple rules.
Periodically changing the passwords to websites that hold personal information of yours can help prevent leakage. Take the time to change passwords and create something complex that only you can remember. If you have to save them do it on a private cloud system, usually clouds are very well protected and are trusted for such reasons.
It really irks me when social media sites do this, they try publishing your current location to the public without asking when posting. Be careful of this feature for privacy reasons, why would you want strangers knowing where you like to go for dinner or even live? Giving this type of personal information out is horrible and makes it easier for someone to become you if they wanted to. Do not leave yourself open to the public, if you want to let your friends know where you are, why not just call them?
It is highly recommended you only attempt to connect to securely encrypt public networks. Did you know the person eating the donut across the room could easily watch what you are doing without you noticing? This can happen because of so many users being connected to an open and unsafe network, these types of frauds or hackers can easily be stopped. Try using a virtual private network so you can stay anonymous in a café full of users. You can allow for all traffic going in and out of your computer or smartphone to be encrypted and basically scramble the information so others cannot see what you do on your own time.
Avoid your curiosity when it comes to getting "free tablets" or other goodies on unprotected websites. There are many ads that allow you to get free items for exchange of your name and address. You will never receive the item and you also just gave a totally random person your personal information. Email inboxes can also start to be over flooded by unsolicited mail or spam content from these sites.
The market is full of really well made anti-virus programs, while some are cheaper than others its best to review them all and find one of your liking. These can catch most malicious bugs that enter your system prior to them getting to work on your files. Some viruses can leak private photos, texts, and details of your location such as an ip number. It is best to catch them early before they become too much for even a good anti-virus to handle.
Attempting to avoid privacy intrusion can be an exhausting job, but in the end it can be well worth it. Take the time to look over and study the information and protect yourself to the fullest. Keeping yourself updated with the newest software and gadgets can keep you one step ahead of the common hacker. The internet is a great place, you just can't ever let your guard down.


One of the NWS's spotter reports said that a 107-mph wind gust was measured at a weather station in the area -- quite likely the gustnado passed over this sensor, I'd wager. Although I couldn't find the 107-mph reading online, amateur weather stations in the area from the Weather Underground network showed winds as high as 70 mph. It's possible it was a station owned by WeatherBug (which often supplies weather stations to schools) but they no longer show their weather station data online, so I can't be sure.
High winds from the storm also literally blew sand from the White Sands, New Mexico, monument into Minneapolis. Some dust made the trip all the way from Mexico to Canada!
That all took place on Wednesday. On Thursday, the storm system was so intense that it dropped two Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in areas where heavy snow was falling and it was 29 degrees. The warnings were issued for hail (confirmed by spotters) and there was also lightning with each storm.
In fact, the low pressure area dropped over 31,000 lightning strikes, many of which were in the cold sector of the storm (shaded blue below), where it was snowing or freezing rain. I don't think I've ever seen that many strikes in a winter storm.
But was it a bomb cyclone? The official definition is very simple: "Bombogenesis… occurs when a midlatitude cyclone rapidly intensifies, dropping at least 24 millibars over 24 hours." This storm did not meet that definition according to the WPC surface maps, showing only a 20 millibar drop, at best.
Why did some people say that it did qualify? While it may be technically dependent on latitude, according to a research paper from 1980, latitude is not part of the official definition, and until it is, we can't use other measures. I think the official definition may have left that nuance out because it makes labeling a storm a "bomb" more confusing. For example, what if the storm changes latitude during the intensification process?
The real problem, however, is that the official definition doesn't specify how you determine the "central pressure" or lowest pressure of the storm.
I believe that using individual official weather station readings, as Dr. Roth suggested, is problematic because the airports that transmit can be widely spaced (the central pressure could occur in between them), and I don't believe the observations are always accurate.
Pressure is dependent on elevation, but an equation is used to convert it to "sea-level pressure" which meteorologists use. Because pressure is the only meteorological variable that's elevation dependent, it's difficult to properly maintain pressure equipment calibration. It's also more likely that stations go uncalibrated because the public doesn't really care about pressure, compared to something like temperature, which is probably calibrated more often.
Because of all those potential errors, I choose to trust the NOAA WPC's Surface Pressure Analysis map, which shows their estimated central pressure of the storm. I assume their analysis takes into account multiple stations and perhaps other data, and estimates pressure between stations.
The WPC maps (shown above) analyzed three low pressure systems in the Rockies Tuesday morning, their central pressures measuring between 1005 and 1010 millibars. 24 hours later, the low pressures were between 990 and 994. While there is some question of which low pressure system Tuesday matched which one Wednesday, even the most extreme difference (1010-990) still fell short of the definition of 24 mb in 24 hours, and looking at maps before and after this time, the number is no higher.
In any case, this was a strong and interesting storm, at 983 mb pressure, even when compared to the 968 mb storm in March.
In case you don't want to wait, then here is a raw time series* of Northern Hemisphere bombs up to date thru last week.