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Goddard Space Flight Center's Jill McGuire, the project manager for the Robotic Refueling Mission and Charles Bacon, Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office Systems Engineer explains the Robotic Refueling Mission. This is the weekly Payload Operations Integration Center segment from Marshall Space Flight Center and aired during Space Station Live on March 19, 2014.
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It has long been suspected that unusual patterns of cerebral lateralisation (i.e. the 'division of labour' between left and right hemispheres of the brain) may have some connection with dyslexia. Early researchers noticed an apparent excess of left-handedness in children with specific reading difficulties (and their relatives). However, most dyslexic people are in fact right-handed, and most left-handed people are not dyslexic. Nonetheless, large-scale analyses of the research find
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'Smart' prosthetic ankle takes fear out of rough terrain, stairs
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Assessing your skills
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Professor David Miller inaugural lecture: Disembedded elites?
In his inaugural lecture, titled 'Disembedded elites? Policy communications and the transformation of elite networks', Professor David Miller reviewed the main writing on 'power elites' in the tradition of power structure research and asked what's changed with the advent of neoliberalism?
Virtual Maths - Numbers, 2D Elipse simulation tool
Interactive simulation tool demonstrating formula for calculating the area of an elipse
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The Nervous System Simplified
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Economic Progress and the Primacy of the Individual
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The Fortress fiasco gets buried, with no autopsy
Neil Gross
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Published September 23, 2020 Updated September 28, 2020
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One of the biggest imbroglios to hit Canada's investment business is coming to an abrupt end, thanks to a financial sector regulator. But anyone who thinks this is an example of effective regulation should think again.
The fracas arose from the activities of two Ontario-based companies, Fortress Real Properties Inc. and Fortress Real Developments Inc. Between 2009 and 2017, they enticed 14,000 retail investors to pour nearly $1-billion into syndicated mortgages arranged for the purpose of financing construction on Fortress-promoted commercial real estate projects.
Many investors say they were led to believe these investments would be safe and secure. However, several of the construction projects never made it to completion. They were hobbled by huge fees and high commissions that Fortress extracted as part of its financing scheme.
And when the stricken projects were liquidated, their land value often proved insufficient to cover syndicated mortgage holders after higher-ranking lenders were paid. Consequently, thousands of Fortress investors were badly stung or wiped out entirely – losing perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in total.
Fortress has repeatedly denied allegations that it misled investors. Regardless, what's incredible is that the regulator responsible for supervising syndicated mortgage investments stood by and let all this unfold even though Fortress's chief executive officer and controlling shareholder previously had been heavily sanctioned by other regulatory agencies. In 2005, he was banned for life by the Mutual Fund Dealers Association; and in 2011, on different charges, the Ontario Securities Commission barred him from the province's capital markets for 15 years.
The mortgage overseer was the Financial Services Commission of Ontario. It was a shambles – a regulator that ultimately had to be abolished and replaced by a brand-new entity, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority, which took over in 2019.
Yet, even this changeover went awry. FSRA wasn't intended or built to scrutinize complex syndicated commercial mortgages. That was supposed to be assigned to the more experienced and better-resourced OSC. But the handover has been mired in intricacies and hasn't happened yet.
By default, therefore, FSRA has been conducting all syndicated mortgage regulation in Ontario, whether or not it has all the necessary expertise. So it fell to FSRA to prosecute Fortress for dealing in mortgages without a licence.
Multiple adjournments have stalled the case for years. Then, out of the blue this month, FSRA announced that everything's been settled by Fortress agreeing to pay an administrative penalty of $250,000 – an astonishingly low amount in comparison to the estimated $320-million that Fortress pocketed in fees and paid its agents.
And just like that, the regulatory file was closed. Moreover, everything seems to have been wrapped up without an admission being required or an adjudicative finding being made about how much harm Fortress caused.
It's hard to see this feeble administrative outcome as something that's in the public interest. FSRA hasn't provided a rationale for the low penalty, or an explanation about why Fortress was given such a settlement deal without first compensating its investors.
FSRA also hasn't explained why it let the degree of harm remain obscure – thereby depriving the public of a yardstick to measure whether the result is reasonable in all the circumstances, and whether the penalty is adequate to deter others from engaging in similar misconduct.
Furthermore, the public has been left without a thorough examination of what happened in this case, and why. Were Ontario's investment watchdogs simply asleep, under-resourced, out of their depth, or all three? Or was there a gap in what our regulatory fabric covers, and is that hole still there?
These unanswered questions make evident three long-standing shortcomings in our regulatory system.
First, when a financial regulator determines that someone lacks integrity, there is no mechanism in place to ensure they cannot sell a different type of investment overseen by another regulator. Canada needs such a mechanism – all the more so because we have such a fragmented regulatory structure.
Second, Canadian financial regulators often lack tools, or the inclination to use them, to secure compensation for harmed investors. Victims usually are left to seek remedies on their own. In that sense, regulators aren't protecting them.
Thirdly, we don't have a process allowing members of the public to intervene and raise objections when proposals for settling regulatory proceedings are being considered for approval. Typically the negotiated terms aren't made public unless, and until, a settlement's been approved by the regulator and it's all a done deal.
But as the Fortress debacle shows, shielding things from public view can produce bad results. Sometimes, nothing short of a full and open autopsy, driven by public outrage, will ensure that the public interest is truly served.
Editor's note: This column has been updated to clarify that while the Financial Services Regulatory Authority was formed in 2016, it officially replaced the Financial Services Commission of Ontario in 2019.
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Joseph Jackson (Joseph James William Jackson; * 11. November 1904 in Maisons-Laffitte; † 13. Juni 1981 in Versailles) war ein französischer Sprinter.

Bei den Olympischen Spielen 1924 in Paris erreichte er über 200 m das Viertelfinale.

1928 wurde er bei den Olympischen Spielen in Amsterdam Sechster in der 4-mal-400-Meter-Staffel und schied über 400 m im Viertelfinale aus.

1930 siegte er bei den Internationalen Universitätsspielen über 400 m.

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 200 m: 22,0 s, 22. Juni 1924, Colombes
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Do you remember amazing cinemagraphs by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg that we've shown you some time ago? After a small period of time this creative team produced some more cinemagraphs. The same beautiful and life-like animated images. So if you liked the previous selection of artworks of Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg then you will surely like these extra new cinemagraphs. Have fun!


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1 Digital simulation and prediction of water levels in the Magothy aquifer in southern Maryland 1977
2 Evaluation of the geohydrology and water-supply potential of the Lower Patapsco and Patuxent aquifers in the Indian Head-Bryans Road Area, Charles County, Maryland : initial findings / 1998
3 Evaluation of the Magothy aquifer in the Annapolis area, Maryland 1974
4 Evaluation of the water-supply potential of aquifers in the Potomac Group of Anne Arundel County, Maryland 1986
5 Geohydrologic data for the coastal plain sediments underlying Broadneck Peninsula, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 1991
6 Geohydrology of channel-fill deposits near Salisbury, Maryland 1972
7 Geology and hydrology of the West Milton area, Saratoga County, New York, 1964
8 Ground water in Prince Georges County, 1966
9 Ground-water supplies for industrial and urban development in Anne Arundel County with a section on the chemical character of the water 1962
10 Potentiometric surface of the Aquia aquifer in southern Maryland during the fall of 1987 1989
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Институт прикладной математики им. М.В. Келдыша РАН, 2017.
Алексеева С. В., Слюсарь Н. А. Вопросы психолингвистики. 2017. Т. 32. С. 12-27.
Kirill Maslinsky. In bk.: TALN-RECITAL 2014 Workshop TALAf 2014 : Traitement Automatique des Langues Africaines (TALAf 2014: African Language Processing). Marseille: Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues, 2014. P. 114-122.
This article provides a brief overview of Daba software package created in the course of building corpora for Manding languages. Key software features are motivated by the tasks and problems characteristic of many African languages. The corpus-building model proposed here was initially developed for Bambara Reference Corpus which is available online and is freely accessible. The morphological analysis procedure and corpus annotation scheme are discussed in detail. Daba uses a morpheme-based morphological annotation scheme inspired by the interlinear glossed form of presentation of linguistic examples. A scheme mapping Daba's morpheme-based morphological information onto traditional word-based corpus annotation is provided. Since Bambara is characterized by a low level of written language standardization special attention is paid to the issues of representing variability in corpus annotation.
Ravishankar V., Tyers F. M., Gatt A. Procedia Computer Science. 2017. Vol. 117. P. 175-182.
This article describes the development of a free/open-source morphological description of Maltese, originally created as the analysis component in a rule-based machine translation system for Maltese to Arabic and later applied to other tasks. The lexicon formalism we use is lttoolbox, part of the Apertium machine translation platform. An evaluation of the analyser shows that the coverage is adequate, at 84.90%, while precision is 92.5% on a large automatically annotated test set and 96.2% on a smaller hand-validated set.
Kuzmenko E., Mustakimova E. In bk.: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии. По материалам ежегодной Международной конференции "Диалог" (2015). M.: 2015. P. 388-398.
The problem of morphological ambiguity is widely addressed in the modern NLP. Mostly ambiguity is resolved with the use of large manually-annotated corpora and machine learning. However, such methods are not always available, as good training data is not accessible for all languages. In this paper we present a method of disambiguation without gold standard corpora using several statistical models, namely, Brill algorithm (Brill 1995) and unambiguous n-grams from the automatically annotated corpus. All the methods were tested on the Corpus of Modern Greek and on the Corpus of Modern Yiddish. As a result, more than a half of words with ambiguous analyses were disambiguated in both corpora, demonstrating high precision (>80%). Our method of morphological disambiguation demonstrates that it is possible to eliminate some of the ambiguous analyses in the corpus without specific linguistic resources, only with the use of raw data, where all possible morphological analyses for every word are indicated.
Романов Д. А. Современные технологии делопроизводства и документооборота. 2014. № 9. С. 21-30.


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someone really should invent a gauge that would be even more important than the one that currently exists to show where you stand with your gasoline level – to best support the greater good, and in order to maintain a level of personal and world peace, and to get things done, it is imperative to create a low-carb gauge asap! perhaps if cinnamon raisin bagels and pringles and ranch flavored doritos had been invented in time, many wars and crazy decisions would have never happened and many very important things never forgotten.
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But … but … how would all those meter fit on the dash of a car? I mean, along with the Carb-o-meter, I'd want a Caffeine -gauge and a Choco Fluid Level warning light. Maybe even 2 Choco warning lights nod nods.


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Q: How to execute query formed by python-sql query builder? I am using the python-sql query builder to build queries. Below is the link:
https://pypi.org/project/python-sql/
How do I execute queries from this query builder? Below is an example:
user = Table('user')

select = user.select()

tuple(select)

('SELECT * FROM "user" AS "a"', ())

How to execute this in python?

A: It seems that python-sql only returns a tuple with the SQL string and a list of parameters. It does not execute anything. You can execute the generated code using pyodbc or other library, for example, for SQL Server:
import pyodbc
from sql import *

conn = pyodbc.connect("Driver={SQL Server Native Client 11.0};"
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                      "Database=Your database;"
                      "Trusted_Connection=yes;")

cursor = conn.cursor()

user = Table('user')

select = user.select()

cursor.execute(select[0], select[1])

for row in cursor:
    print('row = %r' % (row,))

For other database system just change the driver name, etc...

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On November 15th, a contentious Bitcoin Cash fork will see the network split as Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV implementations veer away from each other. For now, the wider BCH ecosystem braces for the impact of the differing technical roadmaps.
With competing proposals locked and loaded for the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network's planned November 15th upgrades, a contentious fork looks imminent.
At the heart of the technical dispute is a protocol shift to canonical transaction ordering, or CTOR, from the network's current reliance on topological transaction ordering, or TTOR. CTOR is set to allow faster bitcoin cash transactions.
Bitcoin ABC, the development team behind the most popular Bitcoin Cash implementation to date, has scheduled CTOR for inclusion in the coming upgrade.
Bitcoin SV ("Satoshi's Vision"), which is backed by development company nChain and Calvin Ayre's CoinGeek, has been set up to mitigate "unnecessary" changes to BCH. Accordingly, the nChain-CoinGeek alliance are side-stepping CTOR with their SV implementation. nChain published their release candidate for an SV client v0.1 in mid-October 2018.
As such, two general factions have formed. Deep-pocketed Ayre is backing up nChain CEO Jimmy Nguyen and nChain CTO Dr. Craig S. Wright on the SV side, while Bitcoin ABC lead developer Amaury Sechet, Bitmain CEO Jihan Wu, and Bitcoin.com owner Roger Ver are some of the more high-profile faces on the ABC side.
Ver, who had been previously aligned with Dr. Wright within the wider BCH community but had maintained neutrality for a time during the recent ABC-SV debates, has conceded in a November 8th video he may have been "fooled" all along by Dr. Wright.
In that video, Ver declared he and his enterprises would be siding with Bitcoin ABC in the now seemingly unavoidable ABC-SV schism.
Some, like Bitcoin.org administrator Cøbra, had recently speculated the Bitcoin.com operator was ultimately going to side with the SV faction, but in his new remarks, a reflective and at times subtly distraught Ver pointed to Bitcoin ABC as the best way forward for BCH.
"I support ABC because I think it has a better team, I think it has people who are easier to get along with, I think it has people who are more competent in general," Ver said.
Earlier in the video, the Bitcoin.com owner displayed the contents of a fiery November 3rd email from nChain's Dr. Wright.
"Side with ABC, you hate bitcoin, you are my enemy," Dr. Wright wrote therein.
The nChain CTO has since pushed back on Twitter in the wake of Ver's new video, contending the ABC faction is trying to steer bitcoin cash toward illegal use cases.
"We believe the responsible thing to do in this case is remain neutral and allow the community to decide which chain to support," the exchange declared.
Bitcoin Unlimited Chief Scientist Peter Rizun announced this week that BU users will be able to approach the November 15th Bitcoin Cash fork however they like.
Accordingly, BU users can choose to follow ABC, SV, or neither.
At press time, ABC and BU nodes significantly outnumbered SV nodes on the Bitcoin Cash network.
What's your take? Which Bitcoin Cash fork will win out? Let us know in the comments section below.


Spanish artist, Escif, recently painted this social-environmental-political charged piece on the streets of Valencia, Spain. The work depicts a soldier in a crouched firing position, armed with a gas pump as the weapon. The artist's use of muted colors and simple lines helps him communicate messages and ideas, and not just decorate walls with shapes. Escif's narrative on the state of the world is clear in his always-inviting imagery. Through his painting, he holds a mirror up to society, using his work as social commentary. Another simple, yet poignant piece by the talented, Escif!


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75% of an average person's weight gain is between Halloween and New Year's! DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT'S Too LATE……….Get your head on straight now because Halloween is FAST UPON US.
FOR PEOPLE WATCHING THEIR WEIGHT HALLOWEEN CAN BE GHOULISH! THIS HOLIDAY IS COMPLETELY BASED ON FOOD!
OBVIOUSLY, IT IS BEST NOT TO OVERINDULGE, BUT YOU DO NOT NEED TO REFRAIN FROM INDULGING ENTIRELY- PRACTICE MODERATION.
IF YOU CHOSE TO HAVE CANDY, TRY TO REDUCE YOUR CALORIES FROM ANOTHER MEAL OR SNACK THAT DAY, BUT DO NOT SKIP YOUR MEALS TO ALLOT FOR A CANDY BINGE. YOU SHOULD MAKE SURE YOU AND YOUR KIDS EAT A PROPER MEAL BEFORE HEADING OUT TO TRICK-OR-TREAT SO YOU WILL BE LESS LIKELY TO OVERREAT THE "BAD" STUFF. IF IT ISN'T MEAL TIME THEN HAVE A BROTH BASED SOUP, SALAD OR FRUIT SNACK.
IF YOU ARE BUYING CANDY FOR TRICK OR TREATERS TRY CHOOSING HEALTHIER OPTIONS OR PURCHASE CANDY THAT YOU DO NOT LIKE. YOU WILL BE LESS LIKELY TO EAT IT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT.
BUY YOUR CANDY AT THE VERY LAST MINUTE, DO NOT OVERBUY AND GET RID OF THE LEFTOVERS AS SOON AS THE TRICK OR TREATERS ARE GONE.
LOLLIPOPS ARE SATISFYING, TAKE A LONG TIME TO EAT AND HAVE NO FAT!
FOR CHOCOLATE CRAVINGS, TRY TOOTSIE ROLLS AS A GOOD LOW-FAT OPTION. (12 MIDGETS HAVE ONLY 130 CALORIES) OR PEPPERMINT PATTIES WITH ONLY 50 CALORIES.
TWIZZLERS HAVE ONLY 75 CALORIES FOR 2. BUY THEM INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED.
RICE KRISPIE TREATS COME IN A MINI SIZE FOR HALLOWEEN. 2 BARS HAVE ONLY 90 CALORIES.
NERDS CONTAIN ONLY 60 CALORIES PER TABLESPOON.
AVOID EXCESS! ONE BUTTERFINGER BAR ISN'T SO BAD. IT IS WHEN WE EAT TOO MANY THAT OUR WAISTLINE STARTS TO EXPAND! MAKE CHOICES YOU CAN WAKE UP TO THE NEXT DAY & NOT FEEL AS IF THIS HOLIDAY WAS A SET BACK.


Let us move on and now I would like to address you on another issue and this concerns your evidence from yesterday. I would like you to direct your mind to the second visit that you made to Mosquito. Now, you stated yesterday in your evidence that Mosquito put a satellite phone to his ear, said, "Yes okay, sir, yes, sir", and then he announced that he had to go on a trip to Liberia. I put it to you that the first time you mentioned this aspect of the second visit was in your proofing session with Mr Bangura. That is right, isn't it?


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from axelrod import Player, Actions
from math import sqrt, pi, e

class CotoDeRatio(Player):
    """The player will always aim to bring the ratio of co-operations to
    defections closer to the ratio as given in a sub class"""

    classifier = {
        'stochastic': False,
        'memory_depth': float('inf'),  # Long memory
        'inspects_source': False,
        'manipulates_source': False,
        'manipulates_state': False
    }

    def strategy(self, opponent):

        # Initially cooperate
        if len(opponent.history) == 0:
            return Actions.C

        # Avoid initial division by zero
        if not opponent.defections:
            return Actions.D

        # Otherwise compare ratio to golden mean
        cooperations = opponent.cooperations + self.cooperations
        defections = float(opponent.defections + self.defections)
        if cooperations / defections > self.ratio:
            return Actions.D
        return Actions.C

class Golden(CotoDeRatio):
    """The player will always aim to bring the ratio of co-operations to defections closer to the golden mean"""

    name = '$\phi$'
    ratio = (1 + sqrt(5)) / 2

class Pi(CotoDeRatio):
    """The player will always aim to bring the ratio of co-operations to defections closer to the pi"""

    name = '$\pi$'
    ratio = pi

class e(CotoDeRatio):
    """The player will always aim to bring the ratio of co-operations to defections closer to the e"""

    name = '$e$'
    ratio = e

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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After voicing frustration with Alabama fan expectations, Nick Saban offers a pep talk
Michael Casagrande | mcasagrande@al.com
Alabama Football G06 at Arkansas 2014
Alabama coach Nick Saban smiles after Alabama's 14-13 win at Arkansas.
(Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com)
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- On Monday, Nick Saban was unhappy with the public response he heard following Alabama's 14-13 win over Arkansas.
There was a tone of negativity outside the program after a narrow win peppered with mistakes. By Thursday night, he was offering a pep talk to those who'll be in Bryant-Denny Stadium for the 2:30 p.m. Saturday visit from Texas A&M.
"We had a great stadium when we played Florida," Saban said on his Thursday night radio show. "I think it really ignited and helped our players emotionally and I think it's going to be very, very important that we have the same kind of atmosphere in this game. I think they're going to use hand signals as much as they can, but the more we can make it difficult for their offense to communicate, the better it's going to help our defensive players.
"Actually, we're ready for you because we practiced noise today with the defense, not the offense, the defense. So you yell when they have the ball and our defensive players practiced noise today so they can communicate so we affect them."
Without getting quite as passionate as he got Monday, Saban touched on expectations once again.
"I tell you what, I'm really excited about the team that we have," Saban said. "You know, when we started this year, I think people need to understand ... We came here to start a program, we stayed here to restart a program and rebuild the program based on all the principles and values that made us successful in the past. This team has worked very, very hard to develop.
"And I know sometimes the reality hasn't met everybody's expectations, but that doesn't mean they haven't worked hard. It doesn't mean they aren't really good young men who need your support. They need your help. They don't need to be criticized. They need to play with confidence, and what did I say earlier? You've got to let them run and they grow up for you're going to be proud of them, but you have to give them a chance to grow up."


Grove City police are investigating a new report of a man impersonating a police officer.
At 8:49 p.m. Oct. 21, a resident of the 1600 block of Otter Court reported she answered a knock at her door to find a man dressed in black tactical clothing with a jacket that had "Agent" written on it in yellow lettering. The man told her he was a police officer doing some skip tracing and was looking for someone, later determined to be the previous resident of the address who had not lived there for six months.
The resident, speaking through her front window, asked for identification, and the man quickly flashed some kind of badge, according to reports. She told him the person he was looking for did not live there, and he got in a Honda car of unknown model and color and left.
The suspect is described a muscular, white man, between 5-feet-8 to 6-feet-tall and bald.
In a separate Grove City case of man impersonating an officer, to solicit funds from local businesses, a suspect was arrested last week in the Toledo area.
* The owner of a business in the 3000 block of Southwest Boulevard reported an employee stole a tool chest valued at nearly $800 and containing $4,000 worth of equipment about 6 p.m. Oct. 22. The business' closing manager reportedly saw the employee clock out at the end of his shift and roll the tool chest to a tow truck. When another employee told the suspect he shouldn't do that, the suspect replied, "I don't care."
The tow truck company was contacted, and a manager with the tow truck company said the tool chest had been taken to another business in the 1500 block of Harrisburg Pike. The manager of the Harrisburg Pike business told police they had just hired the suspect and Oct. 23 was his first day. The manager confirmed the tool chest had been delivered there and allowed the police to search and positively identify it. Attempts to contact the suspect were unsuccessful. No charges have been filed and no arrests made.
* Someone stole a cellphone valued at $400 from a vehicle parked in the 3000 block of Southwest Boulevard between 9:15 and 9:30 a.m. Oct. 23.
* Grove City police officers and Jackson Township paramedics responded to a residence in the 1800 block of Zuber Road on reports of possible domestic violence between 5 and 5:20 p.m. Oct. 21. According to reports, a pregnant resident told police she and the father of the baby were arguing when she reached into his pocket to grab her keys, and he snatched her hand, squeezing it and causing bruising and swelling. Then, he pushed her against a pantry door by the neck, letting go when he learned of the injured hand and punching a hole through the pantry door. She was taken to the hospital, where it was determined she had a broken pinky. Police issued warrants for domestic violence and assault for the suspect, a 24-year-old Columbus man.
* At 8:27 p.m. Oct. 21, officers responded to a disturbance in the 3000 block of Mulberry Court and arrested a 25-year-old Orient woman for persistent disorderly conduct and safekeeping. The woman was making threats to harm herself when police arrived, but when she yelled threats against a neighbor despite officers' orders to stop, they arrested her.
* A Columbus man told police that his mother, a 92-year-old resident of the 3200 block of Parkview Circle, told him that $2,500 worth of jewelry was discovered missing between Oct. 13 and 20. Police spoke with the resident, who suspects a cleaning lady who was alone inside the house a couple of times during the time the jewelry went missing.
* Returning home after being away from 10:30 a.m. to 3:20 p.m. Oct. 21, a resident of the 3800 block of Meadow Lane discovered someone had stolen a satellite dish valued at $200 from her front yard.
* On Oct. 22, between noon and 3 p.m., someone entered an unlocked residence in the 3300 block of Devin Road and stole a television valued at $160.
* About $1,000 worth of copper piping was stolen between Oct. 12 and 23, from a vacant residence's basement in the 3100 block of Barbee Avenue. Someone broke the knob off a side door to get inside.
* Another vacant home in the 3300 block of Castlon Drive was broken into between 9 a.m. and 7:04 p.m. Oct. 22. An unlisted amount of copper piping was stolen.
* No entry appeared to have been made, but between noon and 5:30 p.m. Oct. 23, someone attempted to break into a residence in the 3800 block of Larosa Drive, damaging the blinds and curtains in the process.
* Among the items in a wallet stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked in the 3700 block of Larchmere Drive between 6 p.m. Oct. 21 and 6:30 a.m. Oct. 22, were the owner's driver's license, bank cards and $5 in change.
* One blank check was the only thing stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked in the 3500 block of Gateway Lakes Drive that was entered by someone between 3 a.m. and 4:42 p.m. Oct. 22.
* Between 2 and 11 a.m. Oct. 21, someone flattened the tires of a vehicle belonging to a resident of the 3400 block of Richard Avenue, causing $400 worth of damage. The resident told police she didn't know who did it but that she had recently obtained a civil protection order against an ex-boyfriend, who already had violated it by sending her text messages.


Is It Time To Get Defensive As Ray Dalio Suggests?
How much gold should investors hold as economy slows?
The economy is showing signs of slower growth, and now is the right time to switch to a defensive portfolio stance, this according to Frank Holmes, CEO of U.S. Global Investors.
"Global PMIs have turned negative...and historically, that means the economy's going to be weaker in exports in the next six months," Holmes told Kitco News.
Holmes noted that gold is still an important asset to add to a defensive portfolio.
Quoting Ray Dalio, founder and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, Holmes said investors are at "risk" if they don't own gold in their portfolio. On his own personal strategy, Holmes adheres to the "golden" rule of keeping at least 10% of his portfolio in gold.
He added that in today's environment short duration fixed income instruments, like short-term municipal bonds, are very attractive as defensive plays.


Several studies have observed that an increase in adipose tissue or fatty tissue is linked to increased risk for metabolic diseases such as Type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
There is a strong link between obesity and diabetes. Obesity has been linked to many medical, psychological, and social conditions, including type 2 diabetes. The number of people with type 2 diabetes is expected to increase to 360 million by 2030. Various experts have also pointed out a link between belly fat or higher waist circumference and diabetes. A study has found that people who have belly fat or are genetically inclined to storing belly fat may be at an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease. One of the authors of the study, Sekar Kathiresan, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, says that genetic predisposition to abdominal adiposity was associated with the risk for Type 2 diabetes. Your genetic disposition to belly fat specifically leads to an increase in blood lipids, blood glucose and systolic blood pressure.
Another study observed that insulin sensitivity differs completely in lean individuals because of differences in body fat distribution. Individuals whose fat distribution is more peripheral have more insulin sensitivity than do individuals whose fat distribution is more central (ie, in the abdomen and chest area). One of the factors insulin sensitivity is determined by is body fat distribution. The study notes that 'abdominal fat does not respond easily to the antilipolytic action of insulin, which makes intra-abdominal fat more important in causing insulin resistance, and thus diabetes.
Several studies thus confirm that clinicians can actually use the simple measure of abdominal obesity in everyday practice to help identify patients at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Abdominal fat increases the risk of diabetes and reduction in waist circumference is associated with an improvement in the circulating levels of adipose tissue secreted factors. Thus, it has been found that reducing waist circumference may lead to a lower risk of progression to diabetes.
Freemantle N, Holmes J, Hockey A, Kumar S. How strong is the association between abdominal obesity and the incidence of type 2 diabetes?. Int J Clin Pract. 2008;62(9):1391-6.
Follow these 5 diet tips to rock that Christmas dress.


Pisces Charters is conveniently located in Treasure Island Marina, a full service marina with plenty of parking. If using a GPS, enter 3605 Thomas Dr, Panama City Beach, FL 32408. Fishing license, bait, ice and tackle are included. We provide everything needed for the trip except what you want to eat and drink, so bring your cooler and don't forget the sunscreen. Our boat, the Turbo Snail, is a 27' OAL Custom Ocean Master built in South Florida--excellent stability in the Bay or Gulf. Kids love him -- fish fear him! Capt. Michael L. Smeby is a USCG Certified Historical Captain, A Panama City, Florida, native of Viking descent, Capt. Mike spent his childhood on fishing boats with his Norwegian grandfather. A lifetime of experience fishing St Andrews Bay and the Gulf of Mexico enabled him to obtain the designation of "Historical Captain" through the US Coast Guard. Capt. Mike's 40+ year safety record is impeccable.
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Helicobacter trogontum is a bacterium in the Helicobacteraceae family, Campylobacterales order. It was first isolated from rat intestine. It is Gram-negative, its cells  are rod-shaped with pointed ends, and its protoplasmic cylinder is entwined with periplasmic fibers. It is microaerophilic. The type strain is LRB 8581 (= ATCC 700114).

References

Further reading

Moura, S. B., et al. "Hepatic changes in mice chronically infected with Helicobacter trogontum." Brazilian journal of medical and biological research 36.9 (2003): 1209–1213.

External links

LPSN
Type strain of Helicobacter trogontum at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Campylobacterota
Bacteria described in 1996


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A gumós tuskógomba (Armillaria lutea) a Physalacriaceae családba tartozó, Eurázsiában és Észak-Amerikában honos, lomberdőkben élő, nyersen nem ehető gombafaj.

Megjelenése
A gumós tuskógomba kalapja 3-10 cm széles, fiatalon alakja domború, majd széles domborúvá, közel lapossá kiterül, a közepe bemélyedhet. Színe sárgás, sárgásbarna, rozsdabarna. Felülete közepén letörölhető, sötétebb, szálas pikkelyekkel díszített. Széle fiatalon begöngyölt, később hullámos.

Húsa vékony, rugalmas; színe sárgásfehér, sérülésre nem változik. Szaga nem jellegzetes vagy édeskés, íze kissé fanyar.

Vékony lemezei a tönkre kissé lefutók. Színük krémszínűek, rozsdabarnán foltosodnak.

Tönkje 5-10 cm magas és 1-2,5 cm vastag. Alakja bunkószerű, töve megvastagodik. Sárgás vagy barnás színű, fehéres vagy sárgás gallérzónája (vagy néha kis gallérja) alatt felülete szálas, pikkelyes.

Spórapora fehér. Spórája ellipszoid, sima, mérete 7-8,5 x 5-6 µm.

Hasonló fajok
Hasonlít hozzá a fán növő, ehető gyűrűs tuskógomba, a hagymatönkű tuskógomba, a sötétpikkelyes tuskógomba, valamint a gallér nélküli csoportos tuskógomba.

Elterjedése és termőhelye
Eurázsiában és Észak-Amerikában honos, Dél-Afrikába feltehetően behurcolták. Magyarországon gyakori.

Lomberdőkben fordul elő egyesével vagy kisebb csoportokban, a talajban lévő fakorhadékot, szerves anyagot bontja. Esetenként meggyengült fák gyökerein élősködhet. Szeptembertől novemberig terem.

A gumós tuskógomba föld alatti gombaszövedéke igen nagy területre kiterjedhet és hosszú ideig fennmaradhat. Az USA Michigan államában molekuláris biológiai módszerekkel kimutattak egy 75 hektáros területen elterjedt, a becslések szerint 400 tonnát nyomó és legalább 2500 éves gombát. Mutációs rátája eddig ismeretlen okból igen alacsony.

Nyersen enyhén mérgező és gyomorpanaszokat okozhat ezért hosszú (legalább 20 perces) főzése és sütése javasolt.

Kapcsolódó cikkek
Magyarország nagygombafajainak listája

Források
Gumós tuskógomba - Armillaria lutea Miskolci Gombász Egyesület
Armillaria gallica MushroomExpert
Armillaria gallica Marxm. & Romagn. - Bulbous Honey Fungus First Nature
This Humongous Fungus Has Been Around Since the Birth of Socrates LiveScience

Gombafajok
Európa gombái
Ázsia gombái
Észak-Amerika gombái
Afrika gombái
Magyarország gombái


The Panama Papers, the vast cache of leaked emails and documents that exposes the offshore accounting of some of the world's richest and most powerful, has shed light on the clandestine financial arrangements of some noted Mexican public figures.
Mexican government contractor Juan Armando Hinojosa Cantu is named in the documents, along with Mexico's fourth richest man, TV Azteca boss Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
The leak of around 11.5 million records relates to Mossack Fonseca – a Panamanian law firm that is reportedly one of the world's biggest creators of shell, or fake companies.
The documents were provided by an anonymous source. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a Washington-based anti-corruption group spent a year sorting through the data, in collaboration with around 100 other international news organizations including Proceso and Aristegui Noticias from Mexico.
Proceso reports the documents show Hinojosa began transferring around US$100 million offshore in March of 2015, a week after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto ordered an investigation into his finances. Peña Nieto bowed to public pressure in 2014 and ordered the investigation after it was discovered that he and his wife Angelica Rivera own a mansion provided by one of Hinojosa's companies.
A potential "conflict of interest" was detected, given that Hinojosa had won multimillion-dollar contracts from the State of Mexico when Peña Nieto was its governor.
While Peña Nieto's investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing by the president or his wife, Hinojosa gradually shuffled his fortune abroad through a series of shell companies set up in the name of family members.
The story thrusts the mysterious Hinojosa back into the spotlight and further taints Peña Nieto's image as a man with links to corrupt businessmen.
Yet government spokesperson Paulo Careño King said the "story was a little old," as the president and his wife had already been exonerated.
Fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was also named in the leak. After his arrest in Costa Rica in 1985 for the torture and murder of a US drug agent, Caro Quintero's wealth was confiscated – including a property that belonged to an offshore company set up by Mossack Fonseca. In 2005, the Costa Rican government asked Mossack Fonseca to help them obtain undisputed title to the property.
Yet Mossack Fonseca refused to help, apparently because the firm was afraid of Caro Quintero.
Many of Mexico's opposition party politicians have called on the Tax Administration Service (SAT) to punish those named.
The SAT has announced that it is open to allowing funds to return to Mexico, even if that meant the origins of the money were not investigated. However, the tax authority said that it would review the data to determine whether there was evidence of criminal activity.


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Saving Rare Breeds
The Livestock Conservancy ensures agriculture's future by protecting heritage stock and poultry from extinction
By Carol Davis
Photography by Mark Mosrie
The Lamona chicken was supposed to be the chicken of the future.
It took 16 years to develop a prolific egg-layer and good meat bird, and by 1921, the Lamona was ready to out-produce the competition.
But it never happened.
"Commercialization happened," says Jeannette Beranger, research and technical programs manager for The Livestock Conservancy, a nonprofit membership organization working to protect nearly 200 breeds of livestock and poultry from extinction.
Large-scale agriculture that began after the end of World War II chose a few breeds specifically selected for intensive production. The old breeds didn't fit into this approach and fell out of favor.
Some, like the Leicester Longwool sheep, Choctaw pig, and Dutch Belted cattle are in danger of slipping away into extinction. They are on the conservancy's "Critical" list, which means that there are fewer than 200 annual registrations in the United States and an estimated global population of less than 2,000.
Others, like the Lamona chicken, were lost before the conservancy ever had a chance to intervene.
Jeannette and The Livestock Conservancy are determined to keep other breeds from going the way of the Lamona chicken.
Losing Their Jobs
The idea that a livestock breed could become extinct may be puzzling, but it's an unfortunate circumstance.
"They basically lose their jobs, is the bottom line," Jeannette explains.
"Every breed was developed for a specific job, but we left diversity behind for large-scale commercial production," she says. "After World War II, we had all the Baby Boomers and we needed a lot of food in short order for a lot of people, and that's why we turned to commercial production — to meet needs of a growing population."
Such commercialization resulted in an unintended consequence.
"Animals designed for very specific niches had to compete with those that grow faster and bigger, and that was the end of a lot of these breeds," Jeannette says.
A classic example? The Rhode Island Red chicken.
"It was a really great dual-purpose bird and fairly common. It was a good homestead fowl and was all over the place," she says.
But in the mid-1940s, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company — better known as the A&P supermarket chain — sponsored the "Chicken of Tomorrow" contest to develop a superior meat chicken with a broader breast, plumper thighs, and larger drumsticks.
"They had people try and raise birds that would grow faster and bigger than anything else," Jeannette says. "It led to a commercial hybrid cross that now dominates poultry production."
And as these new-and-improved chickens made it to market, the once-dominant Rhode Island Red lost its job and its marketplace, she says.
"Today, the real old-fashioned Rhode Island Red is quite rare and hard to come by," Jeannette says.
Those available from hatcheries are commercial hybrid birds and not the true heritage breed, she says. "Some originals are out there … but there's just a handful of truly dedicated breeders who have the real deal anymore."
And how do you know if you have the real deal?
"It goes back to the Standard of Perfection from the American Poultry Association, a book from the 1800s which outlines in great detail what these chickens are supposed to look like," she says. "You can very quickly figure out if you have a Rhode Island Red by checking the standards."
If a particular breed doesn't have published standards, then it's imperative to do the research.
"When people want to get involved with a breed, I always tell them to do their homework, ask a lot of questions, and," she says, "don't take as gospel what animals are unless you see the paperwork and they fit the standards."
"I know what to look for, but it's a skill that took years to acquire," she continues. "That's challenging for newcomers when they try to buy the real deal. They don't know what they're looking for and end up buying a hybrid."
Passion For Pineywoods
As Bruce and Marge Petesch neared retirement, they planned to move from Raleigh, N.C., to a farm they had bought in Silk Hope, N.C., but they weren't sure what animals to raise.
They learned about the conservancy, conveniently located in Pittsboro, just 20 minutes from their farm.
When Bruce explained to Jeannette what he was looking for, the discussion narrowed to Pineywoods cattle, one of the oldest cattle breeds in the United States. The small, but rugged, Pineywoods breed is descended from Spanish cattle brought to the Americas in the early 1500s.
The breed is heat tolerant, resistant to diseases and parasites, and long-lived. It also has a gentle temperament, which was important to the Petesches.
Jeannette put him in touch with two Pineywoods breeders in Mississippi and the couple traveled there to see the animals and learn more about them.
Bruce decided on Pineywoods cattle because they best fit his goals.
"I was attracted to their history, their size, their durability … and to the fact that they were Southern cattle that fit our climate so well," he says.
Though their principle business is selling breeding stock, the Petesches figure they'll eventually sell their cattle for meat. But for now, the emphasis is on increasing the Pineywoods' numbers.
"This is not a breed to be played with or to cross-breed," he says. "Every one of these animals is significant from a genetic standpoint."
That was one reason why the Petesches chose to raise Pineywoods cattle.
"Part of our interest is to help others start herds because we would like the animal to get into a much more secure position with regard to its viability," Bruce says.
'People Depend On Us'
In 2006, Jeannette left a career in zookeeping, managing a Rhode Island zoo's heritage breeds farm, to work with the conservancy.
She found herself at an organization with a stellar reputation, 40 years of valuable networking, and a strong membership. She also was surrounded by colleagues who valued the heritage breeds as much as she did.
"I was blown away at the caliber of people who were doing this work and how committed they were, and are," she says. "There's nothing else out there that comes close to what we do."
As research and technical programs manager, much of Jeannette's time is spent in the field performing such work as: tracking down specific endangered breeds; collecting DNA from wild turkeys to compare with domestic turkeys so that, in the event of a deadly virus, domestic turkeys can be recreated; and assessing feral goat populations in British Columbia to see if they're related to American heritage goats.
But for all the work that the conservancy does, the real heroes of saving heritage breeds are those, such as the Petesches, who are actually breeding, raising, and managing rare breeds, Jeannette says.
"We've got a lot of fans and devotees, and we're fortunate with the network of people we have," she says.
Still, saving endangered breeds can be heartbreaking, exhilarating, frustrating, and gratifying, all at the same time, she says.
More than anything, it's important work.
"It's meaningful," Jeannette says. "And it's not just about the animals; it's the people, too. We care about our members. They depend on us."
On the Critical List
Crevecoeur chicken
One of the oldest of the standard-bred fowls of France, the Crevecoeur once was a premier meat bird there, until the exotic-looking chicken became a popular show bird.
"They were show birds for so long that people neglected to select them for meat," she says. "I want them back on the table; I want to give them a job."
Once the conservancy began investigating the Crevecoeur, locating a good purebred flock took 8-10 months, Jeannette says.
"I talked with the leadership of the America Poultry Association and I started a Facebook page to find people and posted on social media, but I found very, very few," she says.
She found a flock of purebreds, and an owner willing to share, but the chickens were smaller than the original breed. Jeannette is managing a five-year breeding program to bring the Crevecoeur back to what it once was.
Santa Cruz horse
One of the rarest strains of colonial Spanish horses, the Santa Cruz horse is named for Santa Cruz Island, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of California, where it had been since the 1830s, when a group of Spanish horses were brought up from Mexico.
The National Park Service purchased Santa Cruz Island from a private owner in 1997 and removed the horses because they were non-native and were impacting the island's environment.
Fortunately, horse rescuer Christina Nooner adopted as many as possible and contacted the conservancy, Jeannette says.
"I've been working little by little to find breeders for this breed," she says. "If we could get a foothold in the horse market in California, we'd have a nice niche market. These horses have a story associated with California that no other breed has."
Hog Island sheep
This rare breed is the only representative of sheep that early British colonists would have brought over during the colonial period, Jeannette says. A feral sheep population thrived on Hog Island, off the Virginia coast, after a series of hurricanes and storms in the 1930s caused residents to leave in the next decade.
When the Nature Conservancy bought the island in 1974, the sheep were removed from Hog Island, studied, and placed at historical sites, such as George Washington's Birthplace National Monument, Plymouth Plantation, and Mount Vernon, as well as with private stewards.
The breed, which has tasty meat, is becoming more popular with chefs, and with people involved in grass farming and silvopasturing, in which a farmer combines livestock, pasture, and trees on the same unit of land.
"This breed is a great sheep choice if someone has a mixed wooded area," Jeannette says.


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What is the importance of "Little Shirley Beans"?
How does Holden react to children?
How does Holden remember his own childhood?
Holden changes the wording of the song from "If a body meet a body coming through the rye…" to "If a body catch a body coming through the rye…" What characteristics does Holden find desirable in the child singing?
The record, "Little Shirley Beans", is symbolic of childhood and the sense of innocence of which Holden is afraid to let go. Fittingly, the song is "about a little kid that wouldn't go out of the house because two of her front teeth were out and she was ashamed to". Like Holden, the little girl in the song is afraid of the changes that accompany growing older, in her case, the loss of her baby teeth. Holden pays five dollars for the record, which is a lot of money. Symbolically, he would pay dearly to be able to avoid the reality of growing up.
The first child that Holden meets presents the idea of being the "catcher in the rye", even though he heard the lyrics of the song incorrectly. He takes this upon him because he wants to be this "catcher" because it will be the way that he keeps children from turning into phoney men and women. This once again shows his desire to keep away from phonies and keep children from turning into such.
The second child is a peer of Phoebe, who sends Holden off to the museum in search of his sister. Instead, Holden finds a flash from his past. In doing so, he remembers how nothing in the museum has changed, but he has. This puts emphasis on his desire to be the "catcher in the rye" because he knows he has started to turn into everything that he hates and he wants children to keep their innocence and stay the same like the museum.
The children intrigue Holden because they still have their childhood innocence, which is something he deems vital and the opposite of what he hates. The innocence of children is the only human factor that he loves about the world (with the only person he really cares for anymore is Phoebe because she fits this life style).
"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole […]. Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that exactly. You'd just be different, that's all. You'd have an overcoat on this time. Or that kid that was your partner in line last time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you'd have a substitute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrific fight in the bathroom. Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way – I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it. (16.24)". Holden likes the Natural History museum because, no matter what else changed in his life, it was always the same: it was like a little freeze-frame picture of his own childhood, a safe spot he could always come back to.
Before meeting Sally Hayes, Holden goes to find a record called "Little Shirley Beans" for Phoebe by Estelle Fletcher. As he walks through the city, he hears a poor kid playing with his parents, singing the song . Kid "swell" because he goes his own way. The parents are on the sidewalk, but the kid marches along the street, next to the curb, singing, "If a body catch a body coming through the rye." He has a pretty voice and is just singing "for the hell of it." Cars zoom by, some apparently having to screech their brakes to miss the boy, but he is not perturbed. For Holden, this is pure, innocent, and real, a living example of art for art's sake although he does not state it that way. The performance is the better because neither the kid nor Holden, his only audience, takes it very seriously. The event brightens Holden's day. The scene is even more significant because it foreshadows Salinger's revelation of the central metaphor of the novel, the source of the novel's title, in Chapter 22.


William "Bill" Wetzel Sr., of Port Washington, formerly of Grafton, passed away in the evening hours of Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, at Muskego Health Care Center in Muskego. He was 74 years old.
Bill was born in Milwaukee on March 3, 1941, son of William Wetzel and Edna Binder Wetzel. After high school, Bill served his country in the U.S. Army. On Aug. 25, 1966, he married Mabel Ann Sevarence in Milwaukee.
She preceded him in death in 1996. Bill worked as a union carpenter for over 20 years for Carpenter Local 2283. He also worked part time for the Milwaukee Journal and A. Fillinger Ace Hardware for many years. He was a member of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Grafton and the Ozaukee County Bowling Association. Bill loved to bowl, bowling in leagues three to four nights a week.
He also enjoyed doing puzzle books and crossword puzzles. Bill loved dogs, and always had one for a pet.
He is survived by his three children, William (Dawn) Wetzel Jr. of Port Washington, Thomas Wetzel of the state of Oregon and Christine (Sean) Isaacson of Sheboygan. He is further survived by five grandchildren, other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, at 6 p.m. at the Eernisse Funeral Home, 1600 W. Grand Ave., Port Washington. Pastor Mark Wagner of Our Savior Lutheran Church will preside over the service.
Bill will be laid to rest with military honors in Woodlawn Cemetery in Grafton. Visitation will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 29 at the funeral home from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Eernisse Funeral Home, Port Washington is honored to serve the family. Online condolences may be left at www.eernissefuneralhome.com.


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Nutriforce is one of those company names you more or less have to have heard off. They got that way because they created pretty good products. The Nutriforce Natural Amino Supplement is no different. We're dealing with a brand that has existed for years based upon the quality into their products. In this case, we're talking about an amino acid supplement. I'll spend a fairly big portion of this review talking about why amino acids are good for you when you're working out, but also a sizable portion working through how I think the Nutriforce Natural Amino Supplement performs. I hope by the end of this review you will feel better prepared to making a decision about which amino acid supplement you should buy.
Amino acids are great for fitness in so many ways. It is truly almost a wonder product. It does a couple of things really, really well.
It reduces the recovery time your muscles go though.
It increases your ability to absorb protein.
It reduces the time you feel soreness in your muscles.
It helps you burn fat.
If you're a bodybuilder or another kind of heavy-duty gym enthusiast, you will know those 4 points are more or less the holy grail of fitness. These are the things you need to get a strong, lean and fit body. I'm not saying you don't have to do any workout, but these things make sure you get better results from your workout. There are different amino acid products in the market, and you're probably wondering how this one performs.
As I purchased the Nutriforce Natural Amino Supplement, I knew I was about to test a well-known brand. I had pretty high expectations. Being a fairly experienced bodybuilder, I knew that results wouldn't come straight away, but I was as impatient as anybody else waiting to see results.
It happened a lot faster than I thought it would. It became noticeable within a week, and I started to feel stronger and less fatigued even sooner than that. That for me is what I'm looking for in a product.
There are many great amino acid supplements on the market, but I can say that Nutriforce Natural Amino Supplement did not disappoint me. I got the results I hoped for and could see a clear and visible improvement in my fitness.
The key to building muscle mass is to absorb as much protein into your system as possible. That is what the amino acids help you do. Your muscles are quite literally built on proteins, and therefore, the importance cannot be overstated. After training you needs your muscles to recover. That's where the actual building process takes place, and that's another area where you should be happy to use an amino acid product.
I certainly feel the Nutriforce Natural Amino Supplement performed well. I have tested numerous amino acid supplements, and I can say that Nutriforce Natural Amino Supplement did not do any worse than its competition. I would definitely rate it among the best supplements I have tested.


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A neuroscientist explains what tech does to the reading brain
Submitted by Blake on August 31, 2018 - 7:55am
Why is it zero-sum, though? Surely it's good to be able to skim when needed. Why does one take away from the other? This is a question that requires a very careful attempt at explanation. It's not zero-sum, but we have grown used to skimming. People like you and me who spend six to 12 hours a day on a screen are led to use the skimming mode even when we know we should use a more concentrated, focused mode of reading. It's an idea I call "cognitive patience." I believe we are all becoming unable to take the time to be patient because skimming has bled over into most of our reading.
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The written word is losing its power and will continue to
Submitted by Bibliofuture on February 25, 2018 - 12:13am
If there were a futures market in literacy, it would be dropping. It is a sad fact that the value of written words, in relation to spoken words and still and moving pictures, is sinking like a stone. Changes like this happen for structural reasons.
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8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year
Submitted by Blake on May 8, 2017 - 9:22am
Centralize reading in your home. Make a public commitment. Find a few trusted, curated lists. Change your mindset about quitting. Take a "news fast" and channel your reading dollars. ....
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Does Reading a Single Passage of Literary Fiction Really Improve Theory of Mind? (NO)
Submitted by Blake on October 5, 2016 - 1:40pm
Fiction simulates the social world and invites us into the minds of characters. This has led various researchers to suggest that reading fiction improves our understanding of others' cognitive and emotional states. Kidd and Castano (2013) received a great deal of attention by providing support for this claim. Their article reported that reading segments of literary fiction (but not popular fiction or nonfiction) immediately and significantly improved performance on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), an advanced theory-of-mind test. Here we report a replication attempt by 3 independent research groups, with 792 participants randomly assigned to 1 of 4 conditions (literary fiction, popular fiction, nonfiction, and no reading). In contrast to Kidd and Castano (2013), we found no significant advantage in RMET scores for literary fiction compared to any of the other conditions. However, as in Kidd and Castano and previous research, the Author Recognition Test, a measure of lifetime exposure to fiction, consistently predicted RMET scores across conditions. We conclude that the most plausible link between reading fiction and theory of mind is either that individuals with strong theory of mind are drawn to fiction and/or that a lifetime of reading gradually strengthens theory of mind, but other variables, such as verbal ability, may also be at play. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Once your kids can read easy books, start reading them hard ones, says reading expert Doug Lemov
Submitted by Blake on September 14, 2016 - 12:21pm
There are multiple benefits to reading kids hard books, he argues. Some are obvious, like exposing them to more complex vocabulary. Some are less so, such as exposing them to more complicated sentences and more elaborate plot lines, which better prepares them for when they encounter those on their own further down the road.
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Majority of Americans are still reading print books | Pew Research Center
Submitted by Blake on September 2, 2016 - 8:18am
A growing share of Americans are reading e-books on tablets and smartphones rather than dedicated e-readers, but print books remain much more popular than books in digital formats
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Reading Project - Take My Books Please
Submitted by Blake on March 30, 2016 - 8:41am
Piles of books were left in high-traffic locations around NYC which were all taken and have now travelled to more than 30 countries as part of The Reading Project. Part-commentary on the way we live today and part-experiment, the project saw stacks of books accompanied only by a simple note that encouraged passers-by to take a book for free, read it and on completing the book, email me.
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Do You Read Differently Online and in Print?
Submitted by Blake on January 13, 2016 - 9:58am
Comprehension matters, but so does pleasure. In Proust and the Squid, Wolf, director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, observes that the brain's limbic system, the seat of our emotions, comes into play as we learn to read fluently; our feelings of pleasure, disgust, horror and excitement guide our attention to the stories we can't put down. Novelists have known this for a long time, and digital writers know it, too. It's no coincidence that many of the best early digital narratives took the form of games, in which the reader traverses an imaginary world while solving puzzles, sometimes fiendishly difficult ones. Considered in terms of cognitive load, these texts are head-bangingly difficult; considered in terms of pleasure, they're hard to beat.
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Our (Bare) Book Shelves, Our Selves
Submitted by Blake on December 6, 2015 - 8:03am
Although the study did not account for e-books, as they're not yet available in enough countries, Dr. Evans said in theory they could be just as effective as print books in encouraging literacy.
"But what about the casual atmosphere of living in a bookish world, and being intrigued to pull something off the shelf to see what it's like?" she asked. "I think that will depend partly on the seamless integration of our electronic devices in the future."
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Language, Policed: The Monster of Bad Spelling
Submitted by Blake on December 2, 2015 - 1:30pm
And what is good spelling worth lately? A few years ago, the New York Times ran an op-ed by Virginia Heffernan that fetishized typos in the digital age because when spell-check fails because "curious readers…get regular glimpses of raw and frank and interesting mistakes that give us access to unedited minds." That may be true, but even in the age of emoji and spellcheck, the ability to privilege bad spelling—both as a reader and as a writer—leans in part on being a fluent speller in the first place, certified as worthy to receive, judge, and transmit culture and knowledge. Spelling well is still classy today because it's still a display of class.
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I have often wondered why fish will strike at one fisherman's bait, fly, or spinner while ignoring that offered by another. Some time ago, the family was fishing at Black Canyon. I am a slow fisherman, so all of the sons and grandsons were ahead of me. I had caught quite a few cutthroat and brown trout, and had freed most of them. I came to a spot where the water raced narrowly and violently over some rocks, then swirled up against the far bank and then flowed peacefully into a quite pool.
I was fishing with night crawlers, with one small sinker about a foot and one half above the hook. I dropped the crawler into the water where it flowed rapidly over the rocks, and let it drift down into the pool. Wham, I tied into a 22-inch cutthroat. The fish and I were on even terms as long as he stayed in the pool, but suddenly he chose to bull his way downstream into swifter water. I found that I could hold him, even in the swift water, but I couldn't bring him up to me.
Trees, willows, and rose bushes lined the banks and the water was too deep and swift to wade, so I couldn't work my way down to the fish. Then just below me, my oldest son, LaVarr, poked his head out of the willows, saw me, and asked how I was doing. I yelled, "Help me! I've a big one on, and I can't land him."
LaVarr came up, worked his way through the brush to the edge of the stream, reached out and pulled the tired fish in. He took it off the hook, and brought it flipping and flapping up to me. Then he, with a disgusted look on his face, said,"
"Dad, I don't know how you do it. Ten guys have fished that hole without catching a thing, and you walk up and immediately tie into one like this."
And I must admit, I don't know either. He was not the first to make that observation. Years ago, I was fishing with my old fishing buddy, Jake. We were on Chalk Creek, working up stream, and Jake was ahead of me. Then I caught up with him. He was fishing in a pool just below my favorite hole. He was disgusted. He hadn't caught many fish, and I nearly had my limit. When I walked up, he said, "You can have this hole. I'm going up to the big one." He started to walk away. I dropped my Mormon Girl fly gently into the water at the head of the pool, and immediately tied into a fish. I yelled at Jake, and he turned around, and said something like, "To hell with you!"
He went up to the big hole, and fished there for a few minutes. Again, I caught up with him. He was distinctly unhappy, and he said, "There's nothing in here, I'm going back to camp." While he was bringing in his line and fly, I flipped my beautiful girl up to the top of the hole. Again, I caught a fish. Jake didn't say a word, he just turned and walked off.
I cast the fly in again, and I had a battle on my hands. I had a big one, and I didn't think my tapered leader would hold him. He headed for the lower end of the pool and swift water, and I turned him. He dove for some brush dangling in the water at the top of the pool, and again I turned him. We fought back and forth like that for several minutes while I cried, "Jake, Jake, come and help me. I've got a big one." But he ignored me, and trudged on.
Finally, the fish tired, and I worked him up and over the bank, then I fell on him. I wasn't going to lose him because he was, by far, the largest fish I had ever caught. I straddled him, and held him down with the weight of my body, and yelled, again, for Jake. He was so big, ten pounds, that there was no way that I could kill him, so all I could do was hold him.
I kept screaming at Jake, and telling him that I had a granddaddy, but he didn't believe me. Then, recognizing the urgency in my voice, I guess, he turned around and came back, and as he found a club, and whacked the fish over the head, he, like LaVarr, said, "I don't know how you do it."