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Clam Juice: The Insta-Stock You Should Keep in Stock
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When I was growing up, in a landlocked city where no fresh clams could be found within a 50-mile radius, my mother made us a questionable version of pasta with clam sauce at least once every other week. It amounted to a bowl of spaghetti swimming in a mixture of garlic, chili, black pepper, bottled clam juice, and chopped clams out of a can.
It took a long time before I really became aware of fresh clams, and, though I've since fallen hard for the good stuff—whether baked, in miso soup, or in true pasta alle vongole—that spaghetti dish of my youth has maintained an undeniable hold on me. So every now and then, I give in to the urge to make it. It helps that it's incredibly quick and easy, and that I always have the necessary ingredients lying around: the spaghetti, the black pepper, pickled chilies, garlic, and, of course, bottles and bottles of clam juice.
My early and repeated exposure to bottled clam juice—usually made from the liquid used to steam fresh clams, strained and mixed with salt—is probably why I've always been surprised by people who express an aversion to it. Okay, so I can see how the name may be unappetizing to some people (given my love for clams, it sounds manifestly delicious to me). And sure, its sallow color may remind you of earwax or used dishwater or other...vaguely unpleasant things. But trust me—it's a versatile staple that's well worth keeping in your pantry.
Straight from the bottle, clam juice is a perfectly suitable replacement for fish stock, or fumet, in any recipe. It adds a marine baseline to soups, stews, and braises, similar to what fish stock would provide, and, because clams are naturally rich in glutamates, it has an inherent flavor-enhancing quality. Both Kenji and Daniel have recommended using clam juice in a number of recipes—as a liquid base for salmon chowder or clam chowder, as part of the poaching liquid for fish cooked à la nage, or to add extra shellfish flavor to shrimp fra diavolo.
Clam juice can also add flavor to the steaming liquid used for mussels, no matter what else you might want to spike the recipe with. (Of course, it's equally appropriate as a liquid for steaming clams.) It's effective at adding flavor in large part because it's relatively pure; as Kenji says, "Unlike most boxed broths and stocks, which often contain very little actual broth [especially beef broths], clam juice is literally just clam juice, water, and salt."
That added salt is one reason you have to be cautious when using the stuff. If you're using clam juice as stock, you'll want to take into account the extra salinity and either dilute with water or adjust your seasoning to accommodate it. The easiest way to judge the juice's saltiness? Set aside any qualms you may have, and take a quick nip from the bottle.
Which brings us to clam juice's other, equally interesting application: drinks. You may be familiar with Clamato, the spicy beverage of tomato juice concentrate spiked with clam juice, but you don't have to rely on a brand name to give your sangritas or Bloody Marys a savory boost. Instead, make your own blend of clam juice, tomato juice, and spices, or try adding clam juice directly to your michelada as part of the umami-bomb component.
It can be helpful to think of clam juice as similar to dashi or fish sauce. No need to stop at seafood applications, since, in small amounts, it can add flavor without contributing any discernible fishiness at all. You might use it as part of the cooking liquid for polenta, as I sometimes do in place of plain water if I don't feel like making dashi (this is a particularly appropriate move if you're serving the polenta with clams). But don't limit yourself to our suggestions; once you start maintaining your own supply of clam juice and exploring what it can do, you're bound to find plenty of uses.
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Brown v. Fowler
Watson v. First Nat. Bank
The undisputed evidence of Mizell, the president of the appellee bank, shows that the indorsers requested an…
Phillips v. Frey
Kewanee Oil, 416 U.S. at 475, 94 S.Ct. at 1883. See Carson Products Co. v. Califano, 594 F.2d 453, 461 (5th…
Full title:E. Y. BROWN et al., Appellants, v. A. W. FOWLER, Appellee.
Court:Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth
316 S.W.2d 111 (Tex. Civ. App. 1958)
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth
316 S.W.2d 111 (Tex.Civ.App. —Fort Worth 1958) E. Y. BROWN et al., Appellants, v. A. W. FOWLER, Appellee. No. 15896. Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth July 11, 1958
Rehearing Denied Sept. 19, 1958.
Jerome H. Parker, Jr., McDonald, Sanders, Nichols, Wynns&sGinsburg, and Atwood McDonald, Fort Worth, for appellants.
Biddle, Hights&sThompson, and Eugene d. Biddle, Fort Worth, for appellee.
BOYD, Justice.
Appellee A. W. Fowler secured a judgment against appellants E. Y. Brown and the Jill Gym Company, Inc., for $648.83, for royalties and for perpetual injunction restraining appellants from manufacturing or selling a pedal actuated merry-go-round device which appellee alleged he conceived and invented, and from making use of appellee's plans, models, and data concerning said device.
According to appellee's allegations, he disclosed his process to appellant Brown, in confidence, during negotiations for a license agreement; he and Brown entered into a license agreement whereby Brown was to manufacture and sell the device, and was to pay appellee a royalty of 5% of the manufacturer's wholesale selling price; Brown paid royalties on some of the devices which he manufactured and sold, but finally refused to pay appellee anything, although he continued to manufacture and sell the machines.
Appellants alleged that Brown and appellee developed the merry-go-round jointly; that the device is not unique or secret and contains no secret mechanism, process or design, and can be duplicated by any reasonably experienced mechanic who might see one for the first time. There were pleas of no consideration and failure of consideration for the license agreement, and allegations that the agreement never became enforceable because a patent application for the device was rejected.
The agreement entered into by appellee and Brown is as follows:
'Know all men by These Presents: that this Agreement is entered into by and between A. W. Fowler, Licensor, and E. Y. Brown, Licensee, both of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.
'Witnesseth:
'That Whereas Licensor and Licensee have invented certain new improvements in a Pedal Operated Merry-Go-Round for children, and have had prepared and filed an application for letters patent in the United States Patent Office, and 'Whereas, Licensee is desirous of acquiring an exclusive license to manufacture, sell and otherwise exploit the said Merry-Go-Round, in recognition of Licensor's rights in said invention and patent application.
'Now, Therefore, for and in consideration of the sum of Ten ($10.00) Dollars, and other good and valuable considerations, each paid to the other, and acknowledged by each, the parties agree as follows:
'I.
'Licensee agrees to make said Merry-Go-Round in suitable quantities to supply the trade requirements, and to sell and distribute the same throughout the United States, and elsewhere, according to his ability to do so, and agrees to put forth his best efforts in behalf of the device.
'II.
'Licensor agrees to develop said invention and improve the same wherever posible and shall disclose such improvements to Licensee as they are conceived and developed by Licensor, and such improvements shall belong to both parties hereto; either in joint application for patent, or by this license, and the parties hereto shall mutually agree as to whether or not such improvements will merit manufacture and sale by Licensee, and Licensee agrees that any improvements in said device he may conceive and develop shall be included under the license herein granted and agrees to pay to Licensor the same royalties thereon as herein provided for.
'III.
'Licensee agrees to pay to Licensor a royalty on all sales of said Merry-Go-Round a sum equal to five (5%) per cent of the manufacture wholesale selling price thereof, and said royalties are to be paid quarterly, or every three months, and not later than thirty (30) days after the expiration of each quarter period for which said royalties are payable, and Licensee agrees to furnish to Licensor, with such royalty payments, a detailed report of the sales covered by said period.
'IV.
'Licensor and Licensee agree that all necessary expenses arising from any litigation involving the infringement of the patents or patent applications, or the devices covered thereby, belonging to Licensor, or in any suits or threatened suits against Licensor or Licensee, shall be borne equally by the parties hereto, share and share alike.
'V.
'This agreement shall be for the life of any patent or patents, which may be granted to Licensor and Licensee jointly or to either separately, or such license shall continue in force until mutually terminated, or unless breached by either party hereto.'
The application for a mechanical patent on the device was rejected; but appellee secured a design patent after the events arose which appellee claims amounted to a repudiation of the license agreement by Brown.
In answer to the following numbered Special Issues, the jury found that: (No. 1) the merry-go-round in question was conceived by appellee; (No. 2) appellee disclosed the design of the mechanism to Brown; (No. 3) the disclosure was made in confidence; (No. 4) appellants used the design to appellee's damage; (No. 7) appellee and Brown did not believe, at the time they entered into the license agreement, that their joint application for a mechanical patent on the merry-go-round would be granted.
Appellants' first point of error is that the injunction was improper because the secret was published in appellee's design patent and the device is no longer a secret. Appellants' original brief was filed before the determination of Hyde Corporation v. Huffines, 314 S.W.2d 763, and K.s&sG. Oil Tools&sService Co. v. G.s&sG. Fishing
Tool Service, 314 S.W.2d 782, both by the Supreme Court of Texas. On the authority of the cited cases, this point is overruled.
Appellant's second point is that the jury's answers to Issues Nos. 3 and 7 were without support in and were contrary to all of the evidence. The third point is that it was error to refuse to submit a definition of 'in confidence' in connection with Issue No. 3.
Brown testified that nothing was said about keeping the matter confidential and all appellee said about it was 'Well, certainly, I meant for him to keep it confidential unless we could make a deal.'
If the disclosure was made because Brown represented to appellee that he was interested in a contract to manufacture and sell the device, there need be no express stipulation that the disclosure was made 'in confidence.' Hyde Corporation v. Huffines, Tex.Civ.App., 303 S.W.2d 865, and authorities there cited. We, therefore, think that appellants' contentions that the answer of the jury that the disclosure was made in confidence was without support in the evidence and that the words 'in confidence' should have been defined, are without merit.
The answer to Issue No. 7 that appellee and Brown did not expect the mechanism to be patented is, in our view, immaterial and the point that the court erred in rendering judgment for appellee because such answer was without support in the evidence, is overruled.
Point 4 is that the court erred in failing to submit a special issue inquiring whether the device was a trade secret, and the last point is that it was error to render judgment against appellants in the absence of a jury finding that the device constituted a trade secret.
We are unable to find a comprehensive definition of a trade secret. It 'may consist of any formula, pattern, device or compilation of information which is used in one's business, and which gives him an opportunity to obtain an advantage over competitors who do not know or use it.' Restatement of the Law, Torts, sec. 757, Comment b; Harris Manufacturing Company v. Williams, D.C., 157 F.Supp. 779.
In Germo Mfg. Co. v. Combs, 209 Mo.App. 651, 240 S.W. 872, 881, it is said: 'In other words, must the formula be shown to be in truth and in fact a trade secret, in the strict sense of that term, before any relief can be granted? We think not, for even if the formula is not a strict trade secret, in the sense of being a new discovery no one had ever used before, still it was not generally known to and used by the world, * * *.'
Appellee's suit is based upon an alleged breach of contract and wrongful disregard of confidential relationships. Processes which are not patentable may be trade secrets. To be patentable, the process must be an invention, resulting from genius or imagination beyond the reach of mere artisanship. A trade secret may be a discovery rather than an invention, and may result from industry or application, or may be merely fortuitous. It may be any secret of a party important to his interest. The means by which the discovery is made may be obvious, and the experimentation leading from known factors to presently unknown results may be simple and lying in the public domain. But these facts do not destroy the value of the discovery and will not advantage a competitor who by unfair means obtains the knowledge without paying the price expended by the discoverer. The secret may have been anticipated by prior art and may be merely a mechanical improvement which any good mechanic can make. The fact that it may be discovered by fair means does not deprive the owner of his right to protection from one who secures the knowledge by unfair means. The question is not, 'How could he have secured the knowledge?' but, 'How did he?' K.s&s G. Oil Tools&sService Co. v. G.s&sG. Fishing Tool Service, supra; A. O. Smith Corp. v. Petroleum Iron Works Co., 6 Cir., 73 F.2d 531; Smith v. Dravo Corp., 7 Cir., 203 F.2d 369; E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Powder Co. v. Masland, 244 U.S. 100, 37 S.Ct. 575, 61 L.Ed. 1016; Tabor v. Hoffman, 118 N.Y. 30, 23 N.E. 12; Chadwick v. Covell, 151 Mass. 190, 23 N.E. 1068, 6 L.R.A. 839; 2 Story's Eq.Jur., 14th ed., sec. 1283, p. 630.
The rule to be deduced from the authorities seems to be that one who has a secret formula or process has a property right therein, which, though it may be lost should one rightfully acquire knowledge of it, will be protected as against those who, through breach of trust or violated confidence, attempt to apply the secret to their own use.
In E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Powder Co. v. Masland, 244 U.S. 100, 37 S.Ct. 575, 576, 61 L.Ed. 1016, the court said:
'The word 'property' as applied to trademarks and trade secrets is an unanalyzed expression of certain secondary consequences of the primary fact that the law makes some rudimentary requirements of good faith. Whether the plaintiffs have any valuable secret or not the defendant knows the facts, whatever they are, through a special confidence that he accepted. The property may be denied, but the confidence cannot be. Therefore the starting point for the present matter is not property or due process of law, but that the defendant stood in confidential relations with the plaintiffs, or one of them. These have given place to hostility, and the first thing to be made sure of is that the defendant shall not fraudulently abuse the trust reposed in him. It is the usual incident of confidential relations. If there is any disadvantage in the fact that he knew the plaintiffs' secrets, he must take the burden with the good.'
Under the prevailing rule and especially the holdings in Hyde Corporation v. Huffines, supra, and K.s&sG. Oil Tools&s Service Co. v. G.s&sG. Fishing Tool Service, supra, we think appellee had a property right in his process and that the appellants were properly enjoined from manufacturing or selling it. We, therefore, overrule all of appellants' points of error and affirm the judgment.


Born July 4, 1935, in Oxford Junction, son of Harold and Norma Hall. Graduated from Oxford Junction High School, 1952. Two years in U.S. Army and two years in Iowa National Guard. Engineer for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., 33 years. Now retired from Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. and presently farming. Member, Marion City Council, nine years. Married Madelyne Celania of Ottumwa, 1958. Children: Todd, Tracy and Trisha. Member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Marion and Marion Democratic Club. Past member of Communication Workers of America, Local 7101; and past chairman, Marion Planning and Zoning Commission. Two terms Iowa House. Second term Senate.
Born July 4, 1935, in Oxford Junction, son of Harold and Norma Hall. Graduated from Oxford Junction High School, 1952. Two years in U. S. Army and two years in Iowa National Guard. Engineer for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. 31 years. Member, Marion City Council, nine years. Married Madelyne Celania of Ottumwa, 1958. Children: Todd, Tracy and Trisha. Member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Marion and Marion Democratic Club. Past member of Communication Workers of America, Local 7101; and past chairman, Marion Planning and Zoning Commission. Two terms Iowa House. Second term Senate.
Born July 4, 1935, in Oxford Junction, son of Harold and Norma Hall. Graduated from Oxford Junction High School, 1952. Two years in U.S. Army and two years in Iowa National Guard. Engineer for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. 29 years. Member, Marion City Council, eight years. Married Madelyne Celania of Ottumwa, 1958. Children: Todd, Tracy and Trisha. Member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Marion and Marion Democratic Club. Past member of Communication Workers of America, Local 7101; and past chairman, Marion Planning and Zoning Commission. Two terms Iowa House. First term Senate.
Born July 4,1935, in Oxford Junction, son of Harold and Norma Hall. Graduated from Oxford Junction High School, 1952. Two years in U. S. Army and two years in Iowa National Guard. Engineer for Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, 28 years. Member, Marion City Council, eight years. Married Madelyne Celania of Ottumwa, 1958. Children: Todd, Tracy and Trisha. Member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Marion and Marion Democratic Club. Past member of Communication Workers of America, Local 7101; and past chairman, Marion Planning and Zoning Commission. Second term.
Marion District 29 Democrat Born July 4, 1935 in Oxford Junction, son of Harold and Norma Hall. Graduated from Oxford Junction High School 1952. Two years in United States Army and two years in Iowa National Guard. Engineer for Northwestern Bell Telephone Company where employed for 24 years. Marion City Councilman 8 years. Married Madelyne Celania of Ottumwa 1958. Children: Todd, Tracy, Trisha. Member of Saint Joseph's Catholic Church of Marion and Marion Democratic Club. Past member of Communication Workers of America (Local 7101) and past Chairman Marion Planning and Zoning Commission. First term.


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Robert Littell (ur. 8 stycznia 1935 w Nowym Jorku) – amerykański pisarz, autor powieści kryminalnych i sensacyjnych. Ojciec Jonathana.

Urodził się na Brooklynie w żydowskiej rodzinie polskiego pochodzenia. W 1956 ukończył studia na Alfred University, służył w U.S. Navy. Przez wiele lat był dziennikarzem, pracował w Newsweeku, specjalizował się w tematyce rosyjskiej i bliskowschodniej. Jako prozaik debiutował w 1973. Jest autorem kilkunastu powieści szpiegowskich, rozgrywających się w latach zimnej wojny, ale i później. Często wykorzystuje w nich doświadczenia zdobyte podczas kariery korespondenta.

Jego utwory były kilkakrotnie filmowane. Obecnie mieszka we Francji.

Polskie przekłady
 Zdrada Lewintera 1992 (The Defection of A.J. Lewinter 1973)
 Amator (The Amateur 1981)
 Operacja "Ironweed" (An Agent in Place 1991)
 W gąszczu luster: Powieść o CIA (The Company: A Novel of the CIA 2002)
 Legendy czyli Maski szpiega (Legends. A Novel of Dissimulation 2005)

Linki zewnętrzne

Amerykańscy autorzy powieści kryminalnych i sensacyjnych
Pisarze związani z Nowym Jorkiem
Ludzie urodzeni w Brooklynie
Urodzeni w 1935

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Army research into nanotechnology and quantum mechanics similar to what's now being put into "vaccines"
The United States Army is spending millions upon millions of your tax dollars on a variety of weapons including nanotechnology and quantum mechanics, which just so happens to be a key component of Big Pharma's latest "vaccines."
Carbon nanotubes are being investigated as a replacement for traditional silicon-based semiconductors, according to Joe Qiu, who is affiliated with the One Army Research Office. This new technology, Qiu said, is especially useful at very high frequencies in the 30-plus gigahertz range, as well as in very short wavelengths such as millimeter wave, which are used in the naked body scanners at American airports.
We know that carbon nanotubes are a key component in the 5G networks that Donald Trump helped roll out at warp speed with billions of dollars stolen from American taxpayers.
The mass implementation of 5G technology is not just about cell phones and computers, just to be clear. There is strong evidence to suggest that it is also about connecting humans to the internet of things, also known as transhumanism, which fake "president" Joe Biden is helping to fast-track as well with Executive Order (EO) 14081, as well as others.
Former Pfizer employee Karen Kingston explains all of this in much further detail in an interview she participated in with Dr. Steven Hotze, which is available at Brighteon.tv.
"Biden's executive order on Sept. 12 is about transhumanism," Kingston told Hotze. "In the EO, he clearly states that it is important to fund the development of technologies that can program cells to reprogram our biology, the same way that you program a computer program."
"It's disheartening that there hasn't been more movement to stop unleashing these bioweapons, neuroweapons and artificial intelligence, advanced device technologies on the American population and our children."
They want quantum dot tattoos on every person to connect them to the 5G "and beyond" grid of globalist control
The Army says that at the moment, 5G deployment is largely limited to ranges lower than six gigahertz. There are plans, though, to "improve" these frequencies to 28 GHz and higher.
"It's not just 5G," Qiu says. "It's beyond 5G."
Within the next five years, he added, commercial use of nanotube-based integrated circuits could become a reality, though this is just an estimate. The Army has been funding such research for at least the past 10 years.
The Army is also working with quantum dot technology, the same technology that billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates talked about incorporating into Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) "vaccines."
Quantum dots are even smaller that carbon nanotubes, it turns out, and are capable of fitting inside them. They are designed to emit very specific wavelengths, allowing them to communicate with nearby towers when embedded as a "tattoo" onto or into the human body.
They are not easy to produce, but with a seemingly endless supply of taxpayer cash, the Army is working hard to make them a common feature in American society, including in medicine.
"Congress and good-government watchdogs often wonder, with good reason, about oddball research projects that slip into the Pentagon budget with no clear connection to any military purpose," writes Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. for Breaking Defense about the technology, referring to the secretive nature of this creepy research taking place right underneath our noses.
Kingston also spoked to Dr. Eric Nepute, by the way, about covid injections in children and the threat these injectable biological weapons pose to current and future generations. You can check out that interview at Brighteon.tv.
The latest news about the U.S. Army's work with carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, and more can be found at Transhumanism.news.
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Cleantech News
New Device Purifies and Remediates Arsenic-Contaminated Water in Single Step
The process of collecting, purifying, and disposing of polluted water requires a lot of energy. Certain pollutants, such as arsenic, occur in low concentrations, reinforcing the need for much more energy-intensive selective removal processes.
Distant Wildfires Contribute to Increased Pollution Concentration in New York City
According to a new study, air pollutants resulting from the smoke of fires, that occurred as far as the southeastern United States and Canada, traveled many days and hundreds of miles to reach New York City and Connecticut, where it led to increased concentrations of pollution.
Mission to Space to Reveal the 'Truth' Behind Climate Change
Led by the UK, future space missions, known as Truths, will help reveal the true effects of climate change.
By David J. Cross, M.A 22 Jan 2020
Artificial Photosynthesis Helps Address Environmental Pollution and Global Warming
Scientists at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), have developed a novel method to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into pure carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen (O2) by simply harvesting sunlight.
Social Tipping Interventions can Help Meet Climate Agreement Targets
Reducing global warming to much less than 2 °C will, at the least, need a decarbonized world by 2050 and an equivalent universal transformation of the land use and energy systems of different communities in the world.
Addressing Global Warming Using Sunlight and New Nanoparticles
A team of researchers has established a new method of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into oxygen (O2) and pure carbon monoxide (CO) without producing hydrogen gas (H2) and methane (CH4) as by-products.
By Sarah Moore 21 Jan 2020
Platypus on Brink of Extinction
Australia's devastating drought is having a critical impact on the iconic platypus, a globally unique mammal, with increasing reports of rivers drying up and platypuses becoming stranded.
Accelerating the Development of More Efficient Carbon Capture Technologies
A research team at the University of Alberta has come up with several methods that can save a great deal of time when producing highly efficient carbon capture technologies.
China's Vow to Phase Out Single-use Plastics
GE Renewable Energy's Grid Solutions business has been awarded a multi-million dollar project for the design, supply, construction and commissioning of onshore and offshore wind substations for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm, 12 miles off the Fife coast in Scotland.
From GE Renewable Energy 20 Jan 2020
New Tool for Sugarcane Farmers to Help the Great Barrier Reef
In a world first, sugarcane farmers in far north Queensland have a new app by Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, that will help them manage fertiliser use and reduce nitrogen runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef.
Focusing on Decarbonization to Avoid Consequences of Climate Change
To avoid the most destructive consequences of climate change, the world's electric energy systems must stop producing carbon by 2050. It seems like an overwhelming technological, political, and economic challenge — but not to Nestor Sepulveda.
Missing Link in Palaeognath Evolution
Flinders researchers have studied the giant cassowary's eating, breathing and vocal structures and found a surprising missing link between two vastly different birds thought to be each other's closest relative, the small flights South American tinamou, and the New Zealand moa.
Exodus Travels Commits to Fight Climate Change
Global adventure travel company, Exodus Travels has today announced they are one of the founding signatories of the 'Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency' pledge, in an effort to fight climate change and significantly reduce the growing environmental footprint of the tourism industry.
Study Suggests Marine Heatwave Killed One Million Seabirds During 2015 and 2016
A record-breaking area of unusually warm water known as 'the blob' is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of around one million seabirds. Between the years 2013 and 2016, this patch of water lurke...
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Python goes to rehab: Meth addicted snake ready to re-enter society after 'drying out'
11 Apr, 2017 17:03
© Luke MacGregor © Reuters
A meth-addicted snake is ready to re-enter society after 'drying out' in a prison rehab facility in Australia.
The 2-meter-long (6.5ft) jungle python has spent seven months at the Corrective Services Wildlife Care Centre in Windsor, New South Wales after it was seized during a raid on a drug lab.
READ MORE: Serpent sins: Man fined $200 for not keeping snakes on a leash
The cold blooded reptile reportedly developed a habit after absorbing fumes and particles from the manufacturing of 'ice' in the lab through its skin. The exposure to the highly-addictive stimulant methamphetamine transformed the usually sedate python into an erratic and aggressive creature.
"He was totally on edge, jittery, slithering and wanting to strike," Ian Mitchell, a senior overseer at the John Morony Correctional Complex told the Daily Telegraph.
Mitchell described the snake as one of the worst animals to enter the facility due to its highly aggressive behavior.
However, after a seven-month struggle to kick the habit, the python has returned to normal and is set to leave the facility. A ballot will be held to rehome the creature with another wildlife organization or an owner with the required licences.
READ MORE: Mass death of zoo reptiles leaves officials baffled (PHOTOS)
Fourteen convicted criminals help rehabilitate the animals at the wildlife correction center which also caters for injured and abandoned animals and those associated with criminal cases.


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Company: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
The mission of the AI Software Architectures & Algorithms Group is to lead the nation in exploring and applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to meet critical national security needs. Our focus areas include counter terrorism, counter human-trafficking, humanitarian assistance and disaster response, and protection of the global commons and our homeland. In collaboration with industry and academia, we develop prototypes at the frontiers of AI for the land, sea, air, and space domains.
Our technology applications range from using AI to augment human capability to enabling autonomous operations. Close-knit research teams, enabled by access to large amounts of data, work collaboratively to expand our understanding of relevant operational data sets and workflows. Our objective is to make a positive difference for analysts, military commanders, and boots-on-the-ground responders. Access to on-premise supercomputing and public/private clouds provides ample opportunities to do research and development at scale.
The candidate will assist staff in development activities supporting engineers and scientists in day to day tasks, including research, and implementation, and work as part of a larger team to learn and assist with AI applications development, debugging, and integration in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tool chains.
Candidates must be detail oriented, able to multi-task, work with minimal supervision and work well with staff and management. Strong problem solving skills will be required to come up with innovative solutions to challenging problems.
Must be a student currently enrolled in the pursuit of an undergraduate (BA/BS/BE) degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or similar scientific discipline
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Why Kids Bully: Because They're Popular
By Belinda Luscombe on Time
Mean kids, mothers tell their wounded young, behave that way because they have unhappy home lives, or feel inadequate, or don't have enough friends or because they somehow lack empathy. But a new study suggests some mean kids actually behave that way simply because they can.
Contrary to accepted ruffian-scholarship, the more popular a middle- or high-school kid becomes, the more central to the social network of the school, the more aggressive the behavior he or she engages in. At least, that was the case in North Carolina, where students from 19 middle and high schools were studied for 4.5 years by researchers at the University of California-Davis.
Authors Robert Faris and Diane Felmlee interviewed public-school kids seven times over the course of their study, starting when the students were in grades 6, 7 and 8. They asked the students to name their friends and used the data to create friendship maps. They then asked the kids who was unkind to them and whom they picked on, and mapped out the pathways of aggression.
What they found was that only one-third of the students engaged in any bullying at all — physical force, taunts or gossip-spreading — but those who were moving up the school popularity chain bullied more as they went higher. Only when kids reached the very top 2% of the school's social hierarchy or fell into the bottom 2% did their behavior change; these kids were the least aggressive.
"Seemingly normal well-adjusted kids can be aggressive," says Faris, whose results are published in the new issue of the American Sociological Review. "We found that status increases aggression."
While the authors are not ruling out psychological or background influences as underlying causes of the bullying, they believe that popularity is at least as important. "It's one of the few times I can recall in social sciences where race and family background seem to make very little difference," says Faris. "Those demographic and socioeconomic factors don't seem to matter as much as where the kids are in the school hierarchy."
Faris also found that the more kids cared about popularity, the more aggressive they were. Ironically, that's pointless; hostile behavior did not cause rises in status. "The evidence suggests that overall aggression does not increase status," he says. Then again, it's not whether it works that's important. It's whether the kids believe it works.
Another stereotype the study jabbed at was that males and females bully differently. Boys spread gossip only marginally less often than girls did. And girls were negligibly less physically violent to each other than boys were. Gender-on-gender bullying was more prevalent among girls than boys, but boys were more likely to be hostile toward girls than the other way around.
Gender wasn't entirely a neutral factor, however. If a girl knew a lot of boys, or a boy knew a lot of girls at a school where there wasn't much intermingling of the sexes, those kids' status would go up, presumably because they provided a bridge to contact with potential dates. And, yep, the "gender-bridge" kids, as the study called them, seemed to be more aggressive than others.
If bullying is actually more of a result of hierarchy than of psychology, Faris believes there might be a more effective solution than trying to change the behavior of the bullies. "The majority of kids who witness this, either give it tacit approval or outright encouragement," says Faris. "Those are the ones who give these kids their status. We need to change their minds."
Five Questions to Determine if You Have an Eating Disorder
Aspen Note ** February is Eating Disorders Awareness Month
Published by Dr. Mark Borigini, M.D. In Overcoming Pain
Recently, I wrote about gluten sensitivity as a "cover" for an eating disorder. But that begs the question: How does one diagnose an eating disorder?
While the health care profession in this country acts as warmonger in the ongoing battle against obesity, it is important to not forget that about one-half of adult Americans already are on a diet on any given day. Unfortunately, according to the National Eating Disorders Association, approximately one-quarter of these adults will develop some degree of eating disorder.
The physical appearance and complaints of someone with an eating disorder will vary, depending on the severity. It is not unusual for patients with anorexia or bulimia to suffer dizziness, headache, fatigue, abdominal pain, constipation, menstrual irregularities, and cold intolerance. Physical examination might show muscle wasting and weakness.
However, it is quite difficult to diagnose eating disorders, particularly when one considers that many patients shift between binge eating and anorexia.
One answer to this diagnostic dilemma is actually a series of questions, developed by British researchers over a decade ago, and known as the SCOFF Questionnaire. To use this diagnostic tool, score one point for each "yes;" a score of 2 or more indicates a likely case of anorexia nervosa or bulimia. Below are the five questions:
1. Do you make yourself Sick because you feel uncomfortably full?
2. Do you worry you have lost Control over how much you eat?
3. Have you recently lost more than One stone (14 pounds) in a 3-month period?
4. Do you believe yourself to be Fat when others say you are too thin?
5. Would you say that Food dominates your life?
The risks for developing an eating disorder are protean and pervasive. Groups at risk include adolescents with chronic illness, patients with a family history of eating disorders, obese patients who have chronically failed at weight loss—including those who have had wide fluctuations in their weight, and elite athletes. Pre-existing psychiatric disorders also increase the risk: depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive conditions all can serve as fertile ground for the growth of an eating disorder.
Medical and psychological health care providers need to cooperate in the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorder patients. Of course, when considering therapy, the patient must first be medically stabilized, through nutritional interventions and medications if necessary (although for anorexics there does not appear to be very effective medications). Next, comes the psychological intervention, the talking and the listening.
But the talking and the listening should really be ongoing for all patients, as this is the best way to diagnose the eating disorder in the first place. Anorexics in particular may be evasive when answering questions about their health, as they appear most threatened by the discovery of the condition. It is for this reason that health care workers who suspect an eating disorder should be persistent, and take the few minutes to use tools such as the SCOFF questionnaire.
Ultimately, the patient whose secret is revealed may be the patient most grateful.
Positive Family Relationships Linked to Healthy Marriages
Published on Medical Xpress
Researchers, who began studying 265 individuals in the 1990s, found that nurturing parents contributed to the future success of their children's young adult romantic relationships.
"Our results indicate that when parenting behaviors are high in warmth and supportiveness, high in levels of child monitoring and positive child management and low in levels of harsh and inconsistent discipline in adolescence, early adult children are more likely to endorse the belief that marriage requires emotional investment," researchers said. "In turn, these emotional investments were associated with more positive romantic relationship interactions with a partner."
The study, "Romantic relationships in early adulthood: Influences of family, personality, and relationship cognitions," was written by April S. Masarik and Rand D. Conger. Masarik is a doctoral student researcher in the UC Davis School of Human and Community Development, and the primary author of the study, and Conger is a distinguished professor of human and community development and psychology.
The study is one in a series of UC Davis studies led by Conger and other researchers looking at early adult relationships.
Participants were recruited from 34 public and private schools from eight counties in North Central Iowa in 1989, and they were followed from adolescence into adulthood. The authors caution that the research was conducted mostly on Caucasians in two-parent households with heterosexual romantic relationships, and that further studies on more diverse populations might yield different results.
The study has practical implications for the importance of premarital and marital counseling that emphasizes the positive aspects of parenting, commitment in marriage and romantic relationships, sharing of relationship beliefs and expectations, and other aspects that can prepare people for romantic partnerships, the authors said.
"Intervention programs should also continue to focus on enhancing the quality of parent-adolescent and other family relationships inasmuch as these earlier experiences may have an influence on the development of stable and satisfying relationships during the early adult years," Masarik said.
A Valentine's Day Musing
By Melissa Kirk at Psychology Today
It's that day. The day when single people who think about such things, or even some who pretend we don't, grumble and gripe and pretend to be cynical about love, and those of us in relationships that aren't perfect do the same. I wonder if there are more fights between couples than normal on this day, as we take turns disappointing one another by not giving gifts or the right gifts, but not taking our lover to the right restaurants, by not proclaiming our love enough or in the right ways. Boy, what a ridiculous day! And most of us understand that Valentine's Day is merely an economic tool designed to make money for card companies, candy makers, and flower sellers, but even when we pretend not to care, many of us do. In my neighborhood, every street corner has sprung up with makeshift booths offering gigantic plush teddy bears in pink, white, and red, bouquets of carnations and roses shipped from Mexico, and piles of pink, white and red heart tchotchkes. I suppose the booths are there for the men who forgot to buy their lady something for the day and are now terrified of her wrath should they come home empty-handed.
But, as we all know, a day is what we make of it. I've always loved the heart symbol. I collect them. I have a bag full of heart-shaped rocks that I've found. I even have a string of mardi gras beads that are heart-shaped that I found in New Orleans a couple of years ago. Today is the day of the heart symbol. It's everywhere. Yes, it may be, as one blogger pointed out, also the shape of the engorged hindquarters of a lady baboon in heat (he's not bitter about Valentine's Day, though!), but it's a day - regardless of why it came to be or who benefits financially - where we celebrate love.
Love, as we also all know, is wider than the love between a couple of people who have sex together. We also feel love for our families, friends, pets, plants, the planet. Love is everywhere. It's in the art we see around us, the music we listen to, and the books we read. No act of creativity comes without love. No act of kindness does, either. So today, can those of us who can see beyond the media and retail hype of this day use the ubiquitous heart symbols to remember to appreciate and generate love of all kinds? Try a smile at a stranger. Try forgiving someone something, just for today. You can pick a fight with them tomorrow. Try letting go of bitterness about yet another "how I met the love of my life" commercial on TV. Try laughter. Try calling someone you've been meaning to call for ages, and just asking them how they are (and meaning it.) Create something and dedicate it to love. Just find ways to generate love today. And possibly, that love will last until tomorrow, and the next day, and to the ends of time. But start today.
Can You Be Mentally Healthy and Hurting?
Rethinking Mental Health
By: Dr. Eric R. Maisel, Ph.D. on Psychology Today
Let's say that you've done a lot of personality work, growth work, and healing work on yourself and you feel that emotionally you're in pretty good shape. Then something unfortunate happens. You're hit with an episode of sadness, an incident of anxiety, a period of overwhelm, a stint of confusion, a bout of malaise, a meaning crisis, a week of upset. As much work as we do on ourselves, these events still do happen.
These emotional changes make themselves felt in very powerful and painful ways, just as a broken leg or a severe rash would. But with emotional upheavals of this sort we typically do a funny thing. We let the incident define us. We don't "have a bout of sadness," we "are depressed." We completely identify with the problem. With a rash we say, "I have a rash," not "I am a rash." With an episode of sadness we do the exact opposite. We say, "I am depressed" instead of "I have sadness." This is a huge difference and a huge problem.
Our current model of mental health and mental illness prevents us from speaking subtly or correctly about human emotional states. It misleads us on purpose into believing that when we experience emotional pain we have become "mentally ill." The truth is quite different. We may be essentially mentally healthy but dealing with a profound emotional problem, just as we may be essentially physically healthy but dealing with a broken leg or a severe rash. "I am mentally healthy but currently experiencing emotional pain" is a very different reality from "I have the mental disorder of depression."
It is certainly the case that the itchy rash may be the only thing on our mind. Still we do not choose to have it define us. We know that it would be a fundamental mistake and misunderstanding to say, "I am rash." The sadness may likewise be the only thing on our mind and yet here we find it easy, and maybe even convenient, to say, "I am depressed." It is almost as if we want to distance ourselves from the possibility that this sadness is caused by something that we might need to address.
Consider the following example. Picture someone who is deeply upset in an ongoing way because the actions of her youth have resulted in her inability to have children. She continues to grieve that loss, she continues to feel guilty about her part in the situation, and she continues to feel angry about how society and the people around her, including family members, contributed to her current reality. She is very strong and very healthy in many ways but this particular pain is never-ending.
In a real way this grief colors her days and makes her sadder (called "depression" in the inaccurate parlance of the medical model mental health industry) than she otherwise would be. At the same time she manifests emotional strength in all sorts of ways and actually feels good, except for this sadness. As it turns out, and really strangely enough, we do not have a way to talk about emotional situations of this sort. With physical problems we use language to make exactly these sorts of distinctions and with emotional problems we do not.
With physical problems we say, "I'm feeling just fine except that I'm dealing with a broken arm." We say, "My health has never been better but this allergy season is killing me!" We say, "I am bothered by a chronic neck ache from sitting at the computer for so many hours each day and I'm doing exercises to help with that but otherwise I feel just fine." That is, with physical ailments we have a way of distinguishing a particular problem from our general state of being. With emotional states we don't.
We are not accustomed to saying and don't seem to want to say, "I am feeling emotionally very well except that I am currently sad." We are not accustomed to saying and don't seem to want to say, "I am feeling emotionally very well but I still get anxious when I think about flying." In the first instance we say "I'm depressed" and in the second instance we say "I'm phobic," perhaps not quite realizing what a disservice we are doing ourselves by characterizing ourselves in such globally disabled ways.
By saying "I'm depressed," "I'm attention deficit disordered," "I'm phobic," "I'm anxious," and so on, we not only do a poor job of honoring our wellness but we may completely forget about that wellness and begin to see ourselves as essentially not well, as opposed to essentially well but burdened by issues that need attention. Yes, it is odd and cumbersome to say "I am sad but essentially well" or "I am anxious but essentially well" but if that is the truth, if in fact we are emotionally in pretty good shape except for some current sadness or some current anxiety, then it pays us to honor that reality and remind ourselves of the well part as well as the current difficulty.
This odd, cumbersome but truthful way of speaking to yourself will help remind you that this is quite likely a passing event (though of course it may be very painful and though of course it may reoccur) and that, as a real but passing event like a broken arm or a case of poison ivy it must be addressed. If, for example, this episode of sadness is being caused by your sense that neither you nor your efforts matter, if, that is, you are experiencing a meaning crisis and an episode of existential sadness, then that must be addressed. It will not pay you to just mouth the words, "I am depressed."
It is possible to envision many varieties of mental health that mirror more closely how people actually live and actually feel. The one I've just described, of a woman plagued by regrets and sadness about her infertility but who is also emotionally healthy and strong, we might call "healthy but in recurring emotional pain." This is as much a state of health as it is of illness. Her basic emotional strength must be honored just as her enduring pain must be addressed. She is not "mentally ill," she is a healthy person in real pain. There is a difference!
There are many such varieties of mental health, where a person is essentially healthy but also really troubled. For example there is the following one: "Sad and not sad at the same time." Let's look at that variety of mental health in our next installment.


Garrison Treehouse looks like an aptly named (at least partially) play fort. The 350 square-foot space outfitted with nets and slides is the perfect kid's playground, fort, and a treehouse, all in one. It's an every kid's dream come true with a climbing net as entry and a roof deck for spotting adults. By the way, it's not the first treehouse not built on a tree but its charm isn't lost because of the fact.
Beside the obvious cool features like slides the fort has trap doors, ladders, and a balcony. There is a big window that opens to the meadow. The roof deck is also furnished with a mahogany desk, which makes it great not only for play but also study or creative activities.
The materials used to build this fun house include polycarbonate, reclaimed white cedar, and stainless steel.


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Q: Jquery mobile search and pagination I am using jQuery mobile for one web application, i am bit confused about the listing with pagination and search filter.
Could find anything after several hours of search on the internet.
Is there any plugin for this or do I need to do custom coding...?

A: Have you checked this: http://filamentgroup.com/lab/jquery-mobile-pagination-plugin.html
About the search filter, i think you will have to first think the kind of filter you want to provide (i.e. text-boxes, drop down lists, radio buttons, etc.) You would have to design your filter and then just apply it to the query. I don't think you can just plug in a filter from somewhere on the internet.

A: Custom coding is recomended. Plugins you can find but only if you load everything when the page loads. ex: http://www.sitepoint.com/10-jquery-pagination-plugins/  or http://flaviusmatis.github.io/simplePagination.js/

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possible combination of the variable values?
and export 27 different stl files?
some time, so it unlikely it will be automated in the GUI.
Stupid question: What is customizer?
I hear people talk about it. And I know it is related to OpenSCAD. But is it an online version of OpenSCAD, or a slightly different application?
> and export 27 different stl files?
I had a similar case where I needed 36 STL Files from one SCAD file.
tmp="openscad -o leg$i.stl leg.scad -D ang=$i"
can be overwritten using multiple -D options for calling openscad.
Offcourse, you could use any scripting/programming language you like.
them using -D to the design.
It's a mechanism for automatically putting a user interface in front of an OpenSCAD program, by including stylized declarations and comments at the top of the file.
The best-known one is https://www.thingiverse.com/customizer and there's one built into bleeding edge versions of OpenSCAD.
looks much better, generating the variables is not a problem.
>> and export 27 different stl files?
> I had a similar case where I needed 36 STL Files from one SCAD file.
> tmp="openscad -o leg$i.stl leg.scad -D ang=$i"
> can be overwritten using multiple -D options for calling openscad.
> Offcourse, you could use any scripting/programming language you like.
> them using -D to the design.
This is fantastic, with some small changes to my php file that I was using to generate a separate scad file I was able to change it to one script file and pass in the different variable variations and generate all the stl files. It never ceases to amaze me what can be done with OpenSCAD.


Water resources constitute mainly surface and groundwater, with rainfall being the basic source. The environmental concerns pertaining to water resources centre around water resource management, specifically relate to both quantity and quality issues. The main issues of concern are conservation of existing water resources and prevention of further degradation and depletion. The associated issues include rejuvenation of degraded traditional surface water bodies, enhancing the availability of water through water harvesting measures, and recharge of ground water resources. More important is the judicious and economic use of both ground and surface water for agricultural, industrial and domestic purposes. Karnataka is subjected to repetitive droughts. The National Irrigation Commission has identified 12 districts and 88 taluks in the state as chronically drought affected.
The mean annual rainfall in the state is 1355 millimeters with more than 73 per cent of it being received from the South-West monsoon. In the period between 1970-2003, deficit rainfall was recorded on 22 occasions and the highest deficit of 55 percent was observed in 1983. Annual rainfall variations across agro-climatic zones in the state are too wide, ranging from 585 millimeters in the northern dry zone to 3893 millimeters in the coastal zone. More than 75 percent of the land in majority of the districts in the state is rainfed.
It is estimated that poor quality and inadequate quantity of water accounts for about 10 percent of the total burden of disease in the state. Waterborne diseases occur mainly due to lack of safe drinking water and sanitation facilities. In india every year large number of deaths of children under the age of five is attributed to poor quality of drinking water. Apart from health effects, inadequate quantity of water supply and sanitation services leave adverse impacts on the environment mainly leading to contamination of soil and water due to stagnation of sewage (Government of Karnataka, Task Force on Health, 2001). A recently published World Health Organisation report places diarrhoel diseases at sixth place in the list of global killers and third in the list of morbidity.
According to the World Health Organisation and United Nations Children's Education Fund (2000) estimates globally, 1.1 billion people lack access to any form of improved water supply within 1 kilometer of their home and 2.4 billion people lack access to some form of improved disposal of excreta.
Groundwater is the major source of drinking water in the state and in rural areas over 90 percent of the drinking water supply schemes are based on ground water. Of the 208 urban local bodies under the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board, 151 depend on river water whereas 47 depend on ground water.
Groundwater levels are fast declining in the state with 34 taluks considered as critical due to over exploitation. Besides, lacunae associated with operation, maintenance and poor distribution systems, also add to the problem. All these pressures limit the availability of safe drinking water.
Bellary, Bangalore, Bijapur, Tumkur, Kolar and Chitradurga are considered as hotspots for drinking water supply as they show all the three problems of inadequate water supply, declining groundwater level and poor water quality. Dharwad has problem of both inadequate water supply and declining groundwater level. Chamarajnagar and Haveri have been listed as hotspots for inadequate water supply and poor water quality.


2015 - Author, scholar and political activist Dr. Angela Davis gave a lecture discussing ways to combat oppression and the need for gender equity and prison reform. Poet and professor Dr. Rowan Ricardo Phillips, demonstrated how he creates art through language during an interactive poetry reading. Gospelfest wrapped up the month's celebration with performances from Anthony Brown and Group Therapy, and the largest selling female gospel group of all time, The Clark Sisters.
2014 - Grammy and Oscar Award winning hip hop artist and actor Common, performed at the Bob Hope Theatre and spoke about how each individual can make impactful change in the world. Poet Claudia Rankine, shared poems during an evening of poetry readings at Wendell Phillips Center and shared insights with Pacific students about the process of creative writing. The month ended with the spirit-filled performance from the #1 gospel recording artist in America, Tye Tribbett, at Gospelfest.
2013 - NBA's all time leading scorer Kareem Abdul Jabbar lectured about his love of history and how it has impacted him. He also discussed the value of team work and how we can all make a difference in our community. Grammy Award Winner Anthony Hamilton discussed his career and work with CASA(Court Appointed Special Advocates) and performed. Grammy Nominee Anita Wilson and Stellar Award winner JJ Hairston and Youthful Praise performed at the Gospelfest.
2012 - Grammy Award winner India Arie gave a lecture and performance in her songversation . Gospel Artists James Fortune and Deon Kipping participated in the Gospelfest. Poet Tyhembia Jess did a lecture and poetry reading.
2011 - Author and actor Hill Harper gave a lecture. Harper's known for his New York Times best-selling books aimed at inspiring black youth, and his role on the television series "CSI: New York." The celebration's first Apollo Night competition was also held.
2010 - CNN Journalist Soledad O' Brien, correspondent of the "Black in America" documentary series, participated in a moderated discussion/interview. The documentaries (part 1 and 2), which explored issues impacting African-Americans, were shown as part of the celebration's film series.
2009 - Actor and human rights activist Danny Glover performed "An Evening with Langston and Martin" with friend and fellow actor Felix Justice. The two-man play consists of dramatic readings from the works of poet Langston Hughes and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2008 - Rapper and activist Chuck D of the politically conscious rap group Public Enemy spoke. "The Meeting," a critically acclaimed play about the lives and philosophies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, was performed.
2007 - Cartoonist Aaron McGruder, creator of the "The Boondocks" comic strip and animated television series gave a lecture. World-renowned African ballet troupe Le Ballet performed.
2006 - Scholar Dr. Michael Eric Dyson gave a lecture. Dyson has written numerous books, including Holler if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right? and I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. The Kennedy Center also put on the play "Color Me Dark".
2005 - Scholar Dr. Cornel West, author of the best-selling book Race Matters, gave a lecture. His writings have been credited with helping change the course of American dialogue on race, justice and democracy.
2004 - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker gave a lecture. Walker is best known for her novel Color Purple, which was made into a motion picture of the same name.
2003 - Influential film director Spike Lee, known for such films as "Malcolm X" and "Do The Right Thing" spoke. His films often capture various aspects of the Black experience and address controversial issues.
2002 - Author Terry McMillian, who penned the best-selling novel Waiting to Exhale, spoke on campus. Other speakers included painter Faith Ringgold and Civil Rights attorney and activist Benjamin Hooks.
2001 - Singer, comedian and television host Wayne Brady performed during two shows for Pacific's Black History Month celebration.


An expressive photograph is the ultimate blend of vision, passion and craft. The secret to creating one is not in the tools or technology you use, but in knowing how to see, interpret and express.
In this hands-on inspiring workshop—open to photographers at all levels—the emphasis will be on mastering those photographic concepts and techniques essential to the creation of an image that more effectively expresses your vision.
Under the guidance of long-time Ansel Adams assistant Alan Ross, you will learn how to isolate the evaluate the elements of a scene, translate the literal to the expressive, and use optics and exposure to best effect.
Visits to a few of St. Louis' most picturesque locations will provide inspiration and opportunity, with demonstrations, practice sessions and gentle critique laying the foundation for individual photographic advancement.
You will refine your skills and explore various techniques with Alan at your side to provide input and instruction specific to your individual needs. By the end of the workshop, you will have a better grasp of the tools and methodologies needed to respond to your vision with confidence.
Alan Ross is a renowned photographer whose unique vision combines traditional photographic methods with today's technology.
He honed his vision and technique while working side-by- side with Ansel Adams as his full-time photographic assistant and was integrally involved with Adams' books, teaching in Yosemite and production of fine prints. Alan was personally selected by Adams to be the exclusive printer of the Yosemite Special Edition Photograph negatives, an assignment he has enjoyed for nearly 40 years.


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Uvaria scheffleri är en kirimojaväxtart som beskrevs av Friedrich Ludwig Diels. Uvaria scheffleri ingår i släktet Uvaria och familjen kirimojaväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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In Memoriam: Lenwood G. Davis, 1939-2020
Filed in Uncategorized on May 29, 2020
Lenwood Davis, professor emeritus of history at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, died on May 18, 2020, at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. He was 81 years old.
Dr. Davis grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees at North Carolina Central University in Durham. After serving in the United States Army he earned a Ph.D. at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Dr. Davis did postgraduate research at the University of Ghana in Africa and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Dr. Davis began his career as an instructor of history at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. After teaching at Portland State University in Oregon, in 1978, Dr. Davis joined the history department faculty at Winston-Salem State University. He retired from teaching in 2015.
Professor Davis authored or edited many books, most of which were biographies of individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Joe Louis, and Marcus Garvey. Other published works included a history of Winston-Salem State University (Arcadia, 2000) and African Americans in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County: A Pictorial History (Walsworth Publihing, 1999).
Related: Carnegie Mellon University • Livingstone College • North Carolina Central University • Northwestern University • Portland State University • Winston-Salem State Univeraity
Sherry Sherrod DuPree says:
Dr. Linwood Davis was a North Carolina Central University "Eagle" who developed his skills unto a recognized professional who wrote and shared our history. His writings and love of mankind will be remembered.
Al-Tony Gilmore says:
Lenwood Davis was a gentlemen and a prolific scholar. History was his life and he spent his entire professional life teaching, researching, promoting and writing it. Few historians published more than Dr. Lenwood Davis. Over the past several years, we spoke once a month. I knew he had serious health issues –he told me – but he "never" complained. I'll miss his energy and love for History and for his beloved alma mater, North Carolina Central University.
He was a very good man, friend and fellow Eagle alumnus.
James Robinson says:
Dr. Lenwood Davis's scholarship and publications offered other scholars a body of materials that may take years to mine for all their richness. The bibliographer's bibliographer; a master. His contribution to the life of the mind may live for generations. I only knew him through his work and am indebted to him for his contribution. Condolences to his family. May he rest in grace.


The UK's largest examination board has called for an end to coursework counting towards pupils' GCSE grades in England, labelling it as cumbersome, open to abuse and "disliked by many teachers and loathed in some subjects".
The report by the OCR exam board comes as the Department for Education and the exams regulator Ofqual mull proposals to revise GCSEs, including the role of coursework, known as "controlled assessment".
Mark Dawe, the board's chief executive, said: "OCR recognises that the way coursework is currently assessed in the classroom fails to give reliable results. It's time for a major rethink on coursework so that everyone can have full confidence in the exam system."
Michael Gove, the education secretary, said this year that internal assessment such as coursework "should be kept to a minimum and used only where there is a compelling case to do so", making grades dependent on a final examination at the end of two years' study.
Controlled assessment – work done in the classroom, supervised by teachers under exam conditions – was introduced in 2009. The amount of coursework currently used towards final grades for each subject varies, with up to 60% of marks in GCSE English coming from coursework, compared with 25% in science.
The OCR report says internally assessed coursework is vulnerable to being abused by schools. Although it stops short of accusing schools of cheating, the report makes reference to schools using coursework to "optimise students' grades", and "upward-tilted marking" caused by "potential leniency".
"[Teachers] are torn between needing to continually improve their exam results and yet also to be impartial assessors of their pupils' coursework," said Dawe.
Among the alternatives to teacher-led assessment, the report suggests exam boards conduct assessments through school visits, but notes that this would be "frighteningly expensive, and complex to organise".
Some educationalists argue that removing coursework could disproportionately hurt girls' results. For 25 years girls have outperformed boys in most subjects at GCSE level, while some research suggests boys tend to perform more confidently in exams alone.
In a separate submission to Ofqual, OCR said the regulator's plan to replace GCSE letter grades with a numerical grading system of 1 to 8 points would not show a clean break with past exams because it was too close to the old system.
"Where the old and new grades can be readily equated, there are huge pressures and disadvantages both for pupils on the old system and pupils who are exposed to the first five or so years of the new system," OCR wrote.
OCR also objected to Ofqual's statement that GCSE performance should be used to hold schools accountable. "Exam results are only one indicator by which a school should be held accountable, and not the only one. There are a wide range of factors such as teaching quality, access for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, pastoral care, leadership which need to be accounted for, and focusing too heavily on examination results can have detrimental effects on the others," OCR said.
The Department for Education said: "We agree that unnecessary coursework undermines the reliability of assessment. That is why we want to cut back on coursework, modules and controlled assessment. These reforms will restore confidence in GCSEs and tackle grade inflation.
"We have asked Ofqual to review how we might limit coursework and controlled assessment. Ofqual's consultation ended this week."


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Q: Running akka on windows 10 universal app (arm) Does anyone have an experience running actor system on windows10 (arm) as an universal app? Need to have some background job and akka looks like a go for that.

A: the situation was solved quickly by nuget :
Akka 1.1.1 is not compatible with UAP,Version=v10.0

so need to wait for that :)


Alpha Educational Society was established in the year 1967. The society strongly believes in providing children, holistic education with quality. Alpha Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Sembakkam, a proud member institution of this society, lays strong emphasis to kindle and foster the academic, non-academic and artistically creative abilities and talents of students to help them develop as individuals with character, vision and resourcefulness.
Alpha Matriculation Higher Secondary School, located in a scenic environment on the Velachery – Tambaram Bypass road, comprises Grades III to XII. The school began functioning on the 16th of June 2004 with around 100 students and 10 teachers. The Higher Secondary section was introduced in the academic year 2011-12.
The Institution has also won many awards and accolades for providing quality education beyond the limitations of Matriculation syllabus and for introducing International dimensions to school curriculum. In the academic year 2017-18, middle school students of Alpha Matriculation Higher Secondary School will have an opportunity to join the CBSE stream offered by Alpha.
The campus looks forward to a future where it will cater to the National (CBSE), International (CIE) and Higher Secondary Matriculation syllabus (for Grades XI & XII).
Special education care for learners with difficulty, mobilisation of resources to cater to their individual needs as well as special coaching for high achievers cumulatively has resulted in successes year after year. Students with learning difficulties are identified by teachers and are helped by our in-house special educator and if needed, referred to specialists. Students with various problems are given individual counselling by a specialist in the School, twice a week.
Beyond the framework and requisition of the Tamil Nadu state curriculum, we extend ourselves, to ensure global learning. Our committed teachers prepare our students through various partnership projects, and encourage them to interact with students from other parts of the globe.
The school follows the curriculum and syllabus prescribed by the Matriculation Board of Tamil Nadu Government and prepares the pupil for the Matriculation Board Examinations at Grades X and XII.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome the new students to the Alpha family. At Alpha, we believe that schooling is a comprehensive process, aimed at grooming every child into a sensitive, self-reliant, disciplined and responsible individual, by providing a variety of opportunities to experiment, recognize and nurture talents.
Good infrastructural facilities, modern instructional techniques and innovative practices in classroom management combined with the best teaching skills and methodology, updated periodically through orientation and workshops ensure learning at school is an enjoyable experience for the children.
As we travel together, I would like parents, students and staff to keep our eyes focused on the road to achieve our vision.
I invite you into the fold of Alpha, to experience the joy of Schooling!


Melodic and relaxing, with a flowing landscape of piano and keyboards, these four long tunes brings you into a world of profound tranquility. All music is originally made to meditations and is made in the "now". One of the tracks was made for a doctor who works with patients with pain problems. The meditation takes them down some stairs and open a door into a fantastic place where there is a lake. The meditation takes the listener into the water, which has a cleansing effect.
This was the first CD of 11 and this is the only album without human voice, just piano and keyboards.
Perfect for massage, meditation, visualization, healing, all kinds of theraphy and superior to unwind.
It was originally released by Fønix Musik in Denmark as "Music for Relaxation" and sold all over the world.
Melodic and relaxing. With a flowing landscape of piano and keyboards, take these four long tunes you into a world of profound tranquility. Perfect for massage, meditation and visualization, and superior to unwind. Total Playing time 79:19 Piano end keyboards.
Melodic and relaxing. With a flowing landscape of piano and keyboards, take these four long tunes you into a world of profound tranquility. Perfect for massage, meditation and visualization, and superior to unwind.


A bright strong yellow blossom with red tips on its petals that along with its full star shaped bloom sets this floret apart and makes it unique. The Konfetti Rose is an attention-grabbing and exciting bi-color bud.
Globalrose.com produces year round in the best climate available in the world. All our products are grown in greenhouses, using the latest technology offered, so we can guarantee quality every single day. Your orders are shipped absolutely fresh, direct from the greenhouses to you via FedEx. Globalrose sells Konfetti Roses at prices that are usually lower than most local wholesalers. All our products are cut specially for you, your loved one or special event (wedding, party, fundraising event, birthday or holiday), 3 days before they are delivered to your door.


Is Snap Backup open source?
Yes, it's license under the GPLv3. Everyone is free to use Snap Backup and even hack on the code .
Does Snap Backup perform "incremental" backups or "full" backups?
Full. Incremental backups are good for many needs, like backing up an entire hard drive, but such an approach adds complexity to the backup process. Snap Backup is intended for people who just want to backup their data files not their entire hard drives.
Does Snap Backup use the archive bit?
Does Snap Backup have a restore feature?
No, that's not really necessary. Just double-click a ".zip" backup file, and your OS will expand the contents for you. Hopefully, you will find restoring to be an infrequent activity.
Can Snap Backup be used to backup up a hard drive?
No. The vast majority of files on your hard drive are operating system files and application program files that do not need to be backed up. Snap Backup is intended for frequent use in backing up just your valuable data not your entire hard drive.
Which files and folders do I need to backup on macOS?
Can Snap Backup save my data to a portable USB drive?
Yes. One of the simplest external data devices you can use with Snap Backup is a portable USB drive. Just insert the drive into one of your USB ports and specify the USB drive's location in Snap Backup's "Copy Backup To:" option. On Apple macOS, USB drives show up in the "Volumes" folder with the name of the drive, such as "/Volumes/MyData". On Windows, the USB Drive will show up as a drive letter, such as E:\.
Can Snap Backup copy files instead of compressing them into a zip file?
No. Simply copying files instead of zipping them up into a single file is certainly useful, but that capability is better suited to a copy utility instead of a backup utility. Additionally, Snap Backup is designed to be very easy to use, and adding a copy feature could undesirably complicate the user interface.
Does Snap Backup support multiple profiles?
Yes. A typical use of multiple profiles is to backup your work files separately from your personal files. On the "File" menu, go to the "Multiple Profiles" item and select "On".
Does Snap Backup have filters?
Yes. Filters give you more control over exactly which folders and files to backup. The filters support wildcards ("*") and can also exclude files based on their size.
Can Snap Backup schedule backups to happen automatically?
Yes, with some scripting. To facilitate launching backups from scripts and schedulers, Snap Backup can be run from the command-line. Use the scheduler included with for your operating system (for example, "cron" on Linux and "Scheduled Tasks" on Windows) to automate your backups. For instructions, see the "Command-Line Option" section in the Snap Backup User Guide.
What languages does Snap Backup support?
Snap Backup supports Albanian (Shqip), Dutch (Nederlands), English, Esperanto, German (Deutsch), Indonesian (Bahasa), Italian (Italiano), Korean (한국어), Portuguese (Português), Romanian (Română), Russian (Русский), Spanish (Español), and Slovene (Slovenščina). Snap Backup will attempt to detect your default language and use that if available.
Why does my zip utility launch whenever I try to run Snap Backup?
Some ill-behaved zip utilities for Microsoft Windows take over the file association for files ending in ".jar". The ".jar" file extension is the standard extension for a Java program (an executable Java ARchive) and indicates the file should be opened by Java — not by a zip utility. The easiest way to fix this annoying problem is to just reinstall Java, which automatically resets the ".jar" file association back to Java. If that does not work, look to see if your zip utility has an option in its preferences to release the ".jar" file association.
Snap Backup freezes on me. Why?
Snap Backup may have trouble completing the backup process if it encounters a problematic file, such as a file that is locked by another application or a file that is too huge to process. In such a situation, it is important to pinpoint which file is causing the problem. The last file listed in the Message Log section is likely the problematic file.
Enable Snap Backup's filtering feature. → In the File menu, choose the Backup Filters option and then select On.
Create a filter to skip over the folder containing the file you believe is most likely to be the problematic file. → Click the Edit Filter button, and in the "Skip folders matching:" field, enter the folder name. Then click the Ok button.
Save the filter. → Click the Save Settings button.
Test. → Click the Do Backup Now button to kick off the backup.
If the backup hangs again, repeat the steps for a different folder. Note that the Cancel button is only able to abort in between processing files (it does not abort in the middle of processing a file). Sometimes this results in the Cancel button not being very responsive.
How do I get past the "unidentified developer" security warning?
<control-click> the .pkg installer file. When attempting to install an open source Mac application, such as Snap Backup, you might encounter a message stating that the install file "can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer".
Macs provide a simple way to allow you to run such files – just <control-click> on the file and select "Open".
How do I upgrade to a new version of Snap Backup?
To upgrade your version of Snap Backup, simply install the new version. The new version will cleanly replace the old version, and all your backup settings will automatically be preserved.