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Obscurin is a ligand for small ankyrin 1 in skeletal muscle
Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, Ellene M. Jones, Damian B. Van Rossum, Robert J. Bloch
Division of Experimental Pathology
The factors that organize the internal membranes of cells are still poorly understood. We have been addressing this question using striated muscle cells, which have regular arrays of membranes that associate with the contractile apparatus in stereotypic patterns. Here we examine links between contractile structures and the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) established by small ankyrin 1 (sAnk1), a ∼17.5-kDa integral protein of network SR. We used yeast two-hybrid to identify obscurin, a giant Rho-GEF protein, as the major cytoplasmic ligand for sAnk1. The binding of obscurin to the cytoplasmic sequence of sAnk1 is mediated by a sequence of obscurin that is C-terminal to its last Ig-like domain. Binding was confirmed in two in vitro assays. In one, GST-obscurin, bound to glutathione-matrix, specifically adsorbed native sAnk1 from muscle homogenates. In the second, MBP-obscurin bound recombinant GST-sAnk1 in nitrocellulose blots. Kinetic studies using surface plasmon resonance yielded a KD = 130 nM. On subcellular fractionation, obscurin was concentrated in the myofibrillar fraction, consistent with its identification as sarcomeric protein. Nevertheless, obscurin, like sAnk1, concentrated around Z-disks and M-lines of striated muscle. Our findings suggest that obscurin binds sAnk1, and are the first to document a specific and direct interaction between proteins of the sarcomere and the SR.
https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E02-07-0411
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Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, A., Jones, E. M., Van Rossum, D. B., & Bloch, R. J. (2003). Obscurin is a ligand for small ankyrin 1 in skeletal muscle. Molecular biology of the cell, 14(3), 1138-1148. https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E02-07-0411
Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, Aikaterini ; Jones, Ellene M. ; Van Rossum, Damian B. ; Bloch, Robert J. / Obscurin is a ligand for small ankyrin 1 in skeletal muscle. In: Molecular biology of the cell. 2003 ; Vol. 14, No. 3. pp. 1138-1148.
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Our Living Tradition
Our Living Tradition: Fourth Series
Edited by Robert L. McDougall
Again Carleton University's important lecture series has produced a stimulating volume in which leading figures in the history of Canadian letters and public affairs are seen in the light of today by a group of distinguished scholars and writers.
Professor J. M. Beck, Royal Military College of Canada, begins the volume with a view of Joseph Howe, the colour and dynamic "tribune of the people" who led the movement for reform and responsible government in Nova Scotia in the 1840's. Professor Pacey, University of New Brunswick, takes a fresh look at the achievement of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and includes in his estimate an evocative description of the university which was the heart of the literary life of Fredericton during the closing decades of the nineteenth century. M. Andre Laurendeau, editor-in-chief of Le Devoir, gives an account of Henri Bourassa, who was the founder and first editor of M. Laurendeau's newspaper and an outstanding political figure in French Canada; it is a perceptive study of a leader too little known in English-speaking Canada whose blend of Canadian and French-Canadian nationalism made him a controversial figure in his day. Professor Stanley R. Mealing, Carleton University, brings John Graves Simcoe into sharp focus in a deft and occasionally ironic treatment of the career-soldier who was lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1792 to 1796. M. Robert Elie, director of L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, and well known as a novelist and critic, presents a moving re-creation of the inner life of Saint-Denys Garneau, whose intensely personal poetry has had a profound influence in French Canada since his tragic death in 1943 at the age of thirty-one. Professor M. S. Donnelly, University of Manitoba, discusses the most emphatic and revered of our journalists, John W. Dafoe, whose editorial campaigns on most o the great issues that have affected Canada in the twentieth century reached a wide audience through the Winnipeg Free Press. Professor Roy Daniells, University of British Columbia, closes the volume with a sensitive and gracefully written essay on Emily Carr which illuminates this artist's discovery of herself, of her west-coast environment, and of how she must paint and write.
The lecture series, of which the fourth is printed in this volume, grew out o fa larger programme at Carleton University for postgraduate studies in the cultural history of Canada, now embodied in the Institute of Canadian Studies, established at Carleton in 1957 to take advantage of the University's proximity to the National Library, the Public Archives of Canada, and the many other sources of information which Ottawa makes available to it. The Director of the Institute, Robert L. McDougall, is also the Editor of the series. The Concern of the sponsors of the Series has been to secure a creative view of the ideas and values of the past from the vantage point of the present through a happy conjunction of speaker and subject. That this has been accomplished will be appreciate by a sampling of the contents.
Publication of the first series of Our Living Tradition in 1957 was warmly received by readers and reviewers, leading to a prompt reprint. The second and third series, published in 1959 in one volume, of even broader scope, also found an interested audience. The fourth series should be equally popular.
Series: Heritage
PUBLISHED DEC 1962
Robert L. McDougall is a professor emeritus of English at Carleton University. He was the founder and for many years the Director of the Institute of Canadian Studies at Carleton.
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This scenic provincial town 80 kilometres west of Bangkok offers a wealth of natural and cultural attractions. It overlooks its neighbour, Myanmar and when visiting this area, it is perfect for going back to nature with stunning mountain ranges, magnificent caves, hot springs, waterfalls, in addition to having what many consider some of the best floating markets in the country.
Ratchaburi has long been a perfect weekend getaway spot for Bangkokians and foreign visitors looking to escape to the countryside.
Ratchaburi's importance to the modern Thai state dates back to the Dvaravati period when it was a pivotal trading centre of the Mon Kingdom. According to legend, it dates back to the mythical Suvarnabhumi Kingdom predating Dvaravati. 'Ratchaburi' loosely translates into 'the land of the king'.
Ratchaburi National Museum
Ratchaburi National Museum brings its amazing history together all under one roof. Its edifice was formerly the town hall, built in 1922. Established as a museum in 1988, it displays art and ancient items found in the Ratchaburi area from different periods. There are also history exhibits of Ratchaburi, as well as its folk arts and geology. The Museum covers the geological and ecological makeup of the province before moving onto its cultural history. There is an impressive display of artefacts from the Stone Age on through each of the different periods of Thai history. Some of the pieces are quite old and really beautiful. From there, move on to some descriptions of each of the different ethnic groups that have settled here, which is pretty interesting.
Nang Yai Museum Wat Khanon
Nang Yai Museum Wat Khanon also gives history buffs insight into the province's unique cultural background. It is a traditional Thai-style house with an exhibition about Nang Yai, its history, and process of making Nang Yai puppets. There are 313 complete Nang Yai puppets and most of them are characters from the Ramayana including show sets of Hanuman Thawai Waen, Sahatsa Kuman, and Phao Krung Longka. The performance set of Suek Intharachit is part of a royal project of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn who realised the value of the Nang Yai performance art or 'grand shadow puppet show', which is considered to be a work of art. All Nang Yai figures are carved.
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Natural attractions around Ratchaburi are both abundant and diverse. Chaloem Phrakiat Thai Prachan National Park and Khao Prathap Chang Wildlife Sanctuary are both outstanding and worthy of a visit. The Natural History Park was also initiated by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, in 1995. It aims to preserve and restore the surrounding forest and serve as a learning centre for disseminating knowledge to children and youth. There is a variety of nature trails, waterfalls, and some rustic accommodation available on site.
Chom Phon Cave
The Chom Phon Cave was originally called Tham Mutchalin but was given a new name by King Rama V the Great during a royal visit in 1895. The new one reflects the shape of the stalactites, which look like the epaulette of a field marshal. The cave also houses a medium-sized reclining Buddha.
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Movie Review – The Polka King (2017)
January 12, 2018 by Shaun Munro Leave a Comment
The Polka King, 2017.
Directed by Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky.
Starring Jack Black, Jenny Slate, Jason Schwartzman, Jacki Weaver, Vanessa Bayer and J.B. Smoove.
Local Pennsylvania polka legend Jan Lewan develops a plan to get rich that shocks his fans and lands him in jail.
Mere weeks after he stole the show in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Jack Black emerges with another reminder of how shrewd directors can funnel his larger-than-life presence into a truly memorable performance, this time from the polar opposite end of the filmmaking spectrum.
The Polka King, based on the scarcely believable true story of Polish-American polka magnate Jan Lewan (Black), follows Lewan's rise from lowly pizza delivery guy to polka superstar and apparent entrepreneur in his own right, even meeting a wife (Jenny Slate) along the way. Sure, he operated a Ponzi scheme in order to amass his fortune, fleecing the elderly and the naive with the promise of improbable financial gains, but that's exactly what the American Dream is all about, right?
This might sound strange to say, but the latest movie from Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky (Infinitely Polar Bear) bears an unexpected resemblance to a Scorsese joint; it's a rags-to-riches-to-rags tale about a plucky hotshot hoping to make it big, and with a few tonal tweaks and some dead bodies strewn about the place, it'd be a potent companion piece to, say, The Wolf of Wall Street.
At its heart, The Polka King is a twisted tragi-comedy, or perhaps more aptly a comedy-of-errors; it's tough to know exactly which because Lewan's precise motivations are never clearly explained. However, the implication seems to be that Lewan didn't intend to defraud the elderly townsfolk he took payments from, and propelled by a fatally optimistic outlook and steadfast belief in the American Dream, truly felt his talent could propel him and his investors to nothing but financial prosperity.
There's a delicious irony to seeing Lewan's peculiar, chintzy empire soar all while he, seemingly unknowingly, pushes himself closer and closer to the edge of a cliff from which he cannot escape. Even more oblivious is Slate's wife Marla, almost to the point of incredulity, all while Jan's bandmate, the self-styled Mickey Pizzazz (a terrific Jason Schwartzman), mostly turns a blind eye in order to ride the gravy train.
It's only Jan's feisty mother-in-law (Jacki Weaver) who manages to see plainly through Jan's deceit, bleating about the implausibility of it all in practically every scene, getting increasingly agitated as Jan's improbable kingdom gets ever closer to crumbing. Weaver, adopting yet another loony hairdo following her hilarious wig in last month's The Disaster Artist, swings for the fences and threatens to steal every scene she's in away from Black.
Ultimately, though, it's Black holding the film together, creating more of Lewan than the mere exotic caricature he could so easily have settled for. Jan's oddball likability, even when he's straight-up scamming people, may be perplexing to audiences and leave them unsure how to feel about both him and the movie entire, but make no mistake that underneath all his smiles, there's a sure layer of sadness.
When the movie veers away from the nuttiness of Lewan's increasingly convoluted scheme, this is a film about the perversity of the big lie sold to Americans, perhaps more so immigrants coming to the "land of opportunity." In more specific terms, it's a cri de coeur about the toils of the starving artist.
Schwartzman's clarinet player Mickey perhaps says it best when he explains to Jan early on that one of his own pals wouldn't even pay a measly $3 to listen to their band play, but gladly paid the same price for some of the venue's overpriced food. If you're not an established act, the value proposition of amateur art is depressingly low, which while not a terribly illuminating revelation, is a heart-rending takeaway all the same.
At just 95 minutes in length, it's definitely arguable that the movie is a little too breezy for its own good and could have benefited from giving certain moments a more time to breathe, but on the flip-side it's absolutely never a film that could be accused of sticking in one place for too long.
There's also the issue that the film probably cuts Lewan far too much slack considering how carelessly he stole tens of thousands of dollars from well-meaning elderly folk. However, the film's near-absurdist tone, relishing the fact that all of this supposedly happened, never skirts around the fact that Lewan's personal bead on reality isn't fixed on the same axis as most, which makes him decidedly harder to hate. Right down to the film's final moments, Lewan can find hope and optimism in even the most dire of scenarios, which again, cements the film as a tragic comedy above all else.
The Polka King doesn't quite deliver the knockout treatment this stranger-than-fiction tale probably deserves, but it's not never not fascinating, rouses its share of gut-laughs, and is always accompanied by a creeping undercurrent of subtle dread and tension beyond the humour. Black hasn't been better in quite some time, and there's even a cracking supporting cast in the bargain.
Flickering Myth Rating – Film: ★ ★ ★ / Movie: ★ ★ ★ ★
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Faculty and housestaff educators. The students comment upon the supportive educational environment that is especially important in learning to care for children. The department has received several teaching awards and has several faculty members involved in the SOM educational efforts.
The use of CLIPP scenarios help to standardize student experience to help balance differences of seasonal illnesses and patient populations of different rotations.
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The reviewers endorse consideration of educational workshops or seminars for offsite faculty, particularly in the case of Bon Secours. Bon Secours- problems were discussed with the local clerkship director, and the attending about which most of the negative comments were made is no longer there. We have not done specific educational workshops with the Bon Secours faculty- but the leadership has attended Joint Clerkship Meetings.
The requirement of observing relevant history taking and examination should be reinforced to faculty both in terms of actual practice and in clarifying to students that said observation is occurring. We have reinforced the importance of direct observation by faculty to our faculty. The EPA pilot will be helpful in this regard.
The newborn nursery experience is an ongoing project.
The website still needs to have the links fixed.
The Cultural Competency learning objectives should be edited to be Pediatric specific.
Clekrship needs to solidify a uniformway to given midclekrship feedback. Suggestions have been reviewed at CD meetings.
Continue to work on smoothing out variations in teaching and experience across sites and on inpatient and outpatient settings. This includes considering adjustments to when and how the CLIPP cases are completed.
Plan for Leadership Transition: Jeremy Middleton will become the Clerkship Director starting with the 2018-19 clerkship year. Dr. Wilson will remain on the leadership team as the Associate Director, and Marlo Meyer will continue as the Coordinator.
Last year there was discussion of removing the 2-week clerkship and turning the content into a "thread" of sorts through the four years of medical school. The final decision arrived upon was that there was not enough time to successfully convert to a geriatrics thread prior to the upcoming clerkship year beginning in March 2017 and DOM as well as SOM leadership still see value in this 2 week clerkship, so it will continue as it stands. The following (in quotes) were provided by Dr. Mo Nadkarni, Division of Geriatrics, as commitments to improve the geriatric clerkship in 2017-2018.
Work to improve the student to patient ratios in clinics. There has been an increase in patient volume at JABA and additional teaching sites will be added this year [Memory & Aging Care Clinic – (Mutter), Charlottesville Health & Rehabilitation – (Cheng), Albemarle Health & Rehabilitation-( Cheng). PACE site will be reactivated (Ombres)].
Commitment to work hard to recruit and hire more geriatric faculty to decrease the burden of teaching on current faculty. 3 new faculty (Drs. Mutter, Tieu, Ombres) have been hired and recruitment efforts continue to secure 2 additional physicians.
Faculty have committed to avoiding last minute cancelations of their clinics, which leave students scrambling for assignments. The division is implementing a central scheduling tool (Qgenda) to better track and plan for faculty absences. There is also a new rule limiting the number of faculty who can be on vacation/conference at the same time. Qgenda is currently being used.
Improve Orientation to help students understand the structure and reasoning behind placements at various sites. Orientation has been condensed to one hour with emphasis on educational value of each site.
Limit, as well as improve on line materials for students on the rotation. Continue to improve the website. There is continued effort in this arena. The additionof an Assistant Director will help accomplish this task.
Improve commitment to faculty- student continuity in preceptor assignments. This will happen with expansion/reactivation of clinical sites & increased number of faculty described above.
Continue ongoing monitoring and feedback regarding success of the clerkship utilizing student evaluations and programmatic evaluation. Ongoing efforts in this area.
With new hires, will work to identify an assistant or co-clerkship director. In process of nominating Justin Mutter, MD.- a former UVA student and resident who is extremely enthusiastic about this educational role.
Work to actively encourage note writing in EPIC and offer feedback on notes. Each student writes and presents a case including submission of EPIC note to clerkship director for review & comment.
Continue faculty recruitment & retention efforts with the intent of having a more stable faculty with a longitudinal interest in teaching.
Define role of Assistant Director and assess contributions.
Improve orientation re clarity of clerkship requirements & expectations (due to a few complaints in the student evaluations).
Incorporation of EPAs over the next year (as for all clerkships). It seems that some headway has already been made with EPA4 & 7.
Final assessment validity – the MCQ assessment should be reviewed and discussed as per the standards of the pre-clerkship MCQ assessments.
LO Reduction/Review – perhaps there needs to be a distinction between LOs that may be covered/needed during the clerkship and those that will definitely be mastered e.g. more specific LOs need to be grouped under general LO subheadings?Dr. Mo Nadkarni was present to hear the review and offered his support and commitment as Division Director to the overall stabilization and improvement of this 2 week Clerkship.
Nomination: Assistant Clerkship Director, Psychiatry – Dr. Meredith Lee. Dr. Anita Clayton, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, submitted her nomination for Dr. Meredith Lee as Assistant Clerkship Director. Dr. Lee is invested in the training and education of residents and students alike and is well qualified for this position.
Vote: The Committee voted unanimously to approve Dr. Meredith Lee as the Assistant Clerkship Director for Psychiatry.
Note: The next Curriculum Committee meeting will be held on Monday, February 12, 2018 in MCBR, #2700.


So, the scent of the product is great, very refreshing. That's why I was all the more disappointed with the performance. It seems to take a lot of product to make a decent lather in my scrub. However, the lather doesn't last very long and it seems to take longer to rinse than other products I have used.


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A Mozambican soldier provide security before the arrival of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a technical school in Maluana, Mozambique, Thursday, July 7, 2016 AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam
Mozambique Is Emerging As The Next Islamic Extremist Hotspot
A terror group affiliated with the Islamic State has been stepping up tactics and claiming bigger targets.
Patrick Tucker
By Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
An Islamist terror group in Mozambique is staging increasingly sophisticated and destructive attacks on oil facilities and government targets this year. Its connections with Islamic State may be growing tighter, according to a report published Monday by data analytics company Babel Street.
The attacks are part of a three-year uprising in the country that has turned markedly more violent this year. Already, 447 people have died in attacks in 2020, a faster pace than last year, which saw 660 deaths in 309 attacks, the Babel Street report said, citing the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project.
Tactics recently used by the terror group, called Al Sunnah wa Jama'ah, suggest a growing relationship with the Islamic State and other terror groups. These include launching small drones for position scouting, displaying Islamic State flags during attacks, beheading victims, and kidnapping girls in the model of Nigeria's Boko Haram, the Babel Street report said.
As well, Islamic State representatives have taken credit for some attacks in the country, as on April 10, when the private security company Dyck Advisor Group lost a helicopter.
In May, Al Sunnah wa Jama'ah captured a Yanjing armored vehicle from Mozambican security forces. On June 27, ISIS took credit for the attack through their Amaq News Agency via Telegram, said Babel Street. "We also saw that the insurgents used some high-powered weapons — 73mm recoilless rifle and 82mm mortars — for the first time, further signs of increasing intensity and expertise within the group," said Eric Swanfeldt, an International Senior Solutions Specialist at Babel Street.
Babel Street draws on a variety of sources, including local media vetted by the IntelCenter database of terrorist activity, message boards, blogs, social media, Telegram channels.
Relatively little is known about Al Sunnah wa Jama'ah, which does not appear to produce, say, video recruiting ads. The group began to claim affiliation with ISIS not long after their 2017 emergence. More recently, Al Qaeda has been taking credit for the group's work — but it's not clear whether they deserve it.
Al Sunnah wa Jama'ah is "not self-promoting so it does make it difficult to report on the situation," Swanfeldt said.
Mark R. Quantock, a retired Army major general who is Babel Street's executive vice president for strategic accounts, said that the terror group's growing prowess could transform Mozambique into a new haven for extremists. "We certainly have, from a global perspective, equities and interests in making sure that the cancer that is Islamic extremism, that is ISIS, doesn't grip any particular place…that would not be helpful to the U.S. or our allies or that portion of Africa," he said.
The United States. currently has no large military presence in Mozambique. But it did deploy nearly 100 U.S. troops from Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa to help the government with relief efforts after Cyclone Idai last year.
"The situation in Mozambique is one that is being monitored," said Col. Christopher Karns, a spokesman for U.S. Africa Command.
"Africa continues to be a place where groups such as the Islamic State and Al Qaeda seek to regenerate and look for opportunity to demonstrate resiliency," Karns said. "The Islamic State-affiliated activity in Mozambique is more visible with increased claims of attacks. The situation and techniques employed are certainly not unique to Mozambique."
Islamic State affiliates often target youth in local communities, particularly those that are impoverished, where the group can offer access to resources. "The signs of the Islamic State seeking to build local legitimacy while undermining government is present as they seek to intimidate and provide alternate options to the government," Karns said.
Russia, too, is present in the region, deploying state-sponsored private military contractors in at least 16 African nations. "Russia is a country that certainly seeks access to Mozambique's natural resources to include oil, natural, gas and coal, as well," Karns said. Russia may be stepping into position to provide more security assistance to countries like Mozambique in exchange for contractual access to raw materials, "which can undermine our partners' capacity for economic development."
He said the Wagner mercenary group has also been active in Mozambique. "Wherever Wagner is employed, Russia seems to want to mask their direct role. Russia's exploitative military and economic partnerships in Africa, often pursued through unofficial actors, remain a concern."
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Unvaccinated vs. Vaccinated Studies
The major problem with truly knowing what effects vaccines are having on the health of our children is that there are no clinical controlled studies comparing vaccinated children to unvaccinated children. For this reason we have no ground to stand on in declaring vaccine safety (see Vaccine Safety Studies). However, there have been several survey studies conducted comparing these two groups, and the common findings amongst these studies give us a pretty good indication of the long term detrimental effects of vaccinations.
Some of the following studies are in German (except the Waldorf study and the Hep B study), so unless you can read in German the links won't be very helpful. J The German studies were found at:
http://www.whale.to/a/children1.html
Note: The links to the following five studies are no longer active. Currently there are only links available to sites referencing these studies. The links will be updated when they can connect to the original studies.
Salzburger Elternstudie (Survey of / by parents) (2001-2005)
— Results: Unvaccinated children -- virtually no asthma; vaccinated 1 in 10; and three to five times less Neurodermatitis - http://www.impf-portal.de/aktuell/fragebo/fraboaus10.doc
— Englische Kohortenstudie (1988 - 1999)
— Results: Vaccinated children are up to 14 times more likely to have asthma than the unvaccinated and up to nine times more likely to have skin problems. http://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/2005/02.htm#06
— Langzeitstudie in Guinea-Bissau
— Results: The death rate for unvaccinated children is about half that of the vaccinated. - http://www.ratio2000.de/gesundheit/news/news0104.htm
— Schwedische Studie an Waldorfschulen
— Results: Unvaccinated kids have a lower risk of Allergies http://www.waldorflibrary.org/journal_articles/rb5103.pdf
— Neuseeländische Umfrage (survey) (1992)
— Results: Unvaccinated kids are five times less likely to have asthma than the vaccinated, 2.5 times less likely to have skin problems and 8 times less likely to be hyperactive. - http://www.ias.org.nz/prelim_survey_results.htm
— Hepatitis B triple series vaccine and developmental disability in U.S. children aged 1-9 years
— Results: Children who receive the entire 3-shot series of Hepatitis B Vaccine have a 9x higher rate of developmental disabilities than unvaccinated children.
Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, September 2008. Carolyn Gallagher and Melody Goodman http://www.fourteenstudies.org/ourstudies.html
KIGGS Study
A German study released in September 2011 of about 8000 unvaccinated children, newborn to 19 years, show vaccinated children have more than twice the diseases and disorders than unvaccinated children, and perhaps five times more of certain disorders.
http://www.vaccineinjury.info/survey/results-unvaccinated/results-illnesses.html
Unvaccinated vs. Vaccinated Observations
In Chicago, Homefirst Medical Services treats thousands of never-vaccinated children whose parents received exemptions through Illinois' relatively permissive immunization policy.
Homefirst's medical director, Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, told us he is not aware of any cases of autism in never-vaccinated children.
"We have a fairly large practice," says Eisenstein. "We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines."
http://whale.to/a/eisenstein_h.html


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Casting Call for "Brian's Battered"
It's time for another update on my upcoming short film.
Well, for one thing, I'm making progress on the script. Currently I'm writing a scene that will take place in an antique shop. I have an idea of which antique shop I should film in, though I'm hoping they'll give me permission first before I film an important scene in their store. Luckily, I've hired a line producer today, so the three to five locations I'll need will hopefully be secured.
As for new actors, I'm pleased to announce some new additions and roles cast. My good friend Kendall Brock, in addition to co-producing the film, will play amateur bowler/wisecracker Jonas Kane. Kylie Gerovac will be playing Becky Preston, the academic rival with a bit of an infamous history with Herman. Casey Van Duyne will be cast as Jamie, a minor character who'll be having a bigger role in the future. Her twin sister, Cory Van Duyne, will be a bowling alley manager in despair. There are no small parts, guys. Not in this film.
Angie (female, ages 15-18): a small-town gangster who may be wanting Herman to sleep with the fishes. May require fedora.
Chip Gabey (male, ages 14-18): goth troublemaker who has found an unlikely friendship with Herman. May require black emo wig.
Hannah (female, ages 17-20): cheerleader girlfriend of Chip. Can be played by the girlfriend of actor playing Chip, if she has her driver's license.
Goons of Angie (two males, ages 16-18): tall, rugged goons of Angie. Will be wearing sunglasses.
That's about it. If you want to discuss the role with me, message me through Facebook.


The vendor has taken the step of testing its own networks for IoT threats. According to Welby, Cisco's CSO introduced malware into the network by using the vendor's own Telepresence unified communications units.
He warned it is "not possible" to stop cyber criminals getting into networks because there are only two types of organisations: one that is aware of its security problem, and the other that is not.
"Many IT managers believe that the IoT consists of new technologies and services," Gartner US research vice president Earl Perkins said in a statement.
"Although the business use cases being identified [for the IoT] are new, the technologies and deliver them seldom are. Each IoT risk profile has specific requirements that may result in the use of old platforms with a new technology 'overlay' to improve performance and control," he said.
According to Perkins, this overlay represents an "interesting challenge" for IT and security managers when delivering secure services for the IoT.
"IT managers will find that devices that use sensors are built with embedded systems and have a means of being identified will appear in [IoT] business use cases. Build on these use case experiences to develop common security deployment scenarios and core architectural foundations," he said.


The premier engagement at the new Sunset Showcase will be Club Disney, the hottest spot in town for kids and characters alike! You can join Mickey and the gang and take to the dance floor in this electric club environment, where a DJ Club Host spins the perfect playlist mix of your favorite Radio Disney Top 40 songs as the floor and walls come alive with vivid images from classic Disney animation.
Club Disney will also feature a cool seating area and snack station, where you can refuel and recharge - both yourself and your electronic devices - before heading out for more adventures in Disney's Hollywood Studios.


What does the pyramining logo represent?
I don't have any sponsor. Where can I find a referral link?
This project is cool, I want to donate BTC, where is the address?
What happens if I send bitcoins to the provided address more than once?
Where can I see progress?
What does it happen if I lose the wallet with my rewards address?
Why are you borrowing mining? Where is your income?
What is a suitable amount to deposit?
Can I partecipate with many accounts?
Why referral links / codes do expire?
Are there any warranties if something goes wrong?
What happens to hardware after my revenue is complete?
It is not. This is a service that allows you to borrow hashing power and integrates a referral system which allows you to increase your rewards. Each member income derives 100% from mining activity. All deposits gets entirely converted to mining infrastructure.
Find a sponsor (searching for referral links), join and deposit the desired amount of bitcoins to the address displayed. The deposit will be converted to mining equipment as soon as possible.
Whoever gave you the referral becomes your sponsor. Referral link must be used before creating the account.
Mined bitcoins will be credited to your account to cover the deposited amount plus a 10% bonus.
When a member joins through your referral, your bonus percentage increases depending on your partecipation amount and the new member's partecipation amount.
Your income is composed by direct bitcoin mining revenues and by bitcoin mining revenues of referral members.
When miners find a block, mined bitcoins less energy costs are split proportionally to the initial amount you sent.
10% of your income will be sent upwards: 5% of your income will be sent to your sponsor. 2.5% to the 2nd grade sponsor and 2.5% to the 3rd grade sponsor.
If any upper grade sponsor's account are complete, the % that would have been credited to him it's credited to the first active upper grade sponsor through the top of the tree. If all upper grade sponsors' accounts have been completed, this amount will be credited to you.
The same happens to your referrals, so you will receive 5% of your first level referrals' income and 2.5% of your second and third level referrals' income.
When account balance exceeds 0.01 BTC, it will be sent to the payout address. If your account is near to be fully paid (less than 0.02 BTC left) payment will be sent upon completion in a single transaction.
All the accounts will receive their payments. Payments smaller than 0.001 can't be made because of too higher transaction fees. Make sure that the sum of deposits will reach at least 0.001 bitcoins.
A 0.5% fee is applied on every payout transaction, it's used to pay for Bitcoin transaction fees and accounting management.
You can partecipate with any amount, but it's advised that the sum of all deposits is at least 0.001 bitcoins to be able to receive the payments.
The more referrals you get, the higher your bonus will be and the faster your payments will be made.
You can just use google, searching for "pyramining investment" or "pyramining referral", and choose one of the many you'll find.
If you want to support us, you can join and deposit there. It will help us buying more infrastructure and increase efficiency, but after some time you will also have your bitcoins back (plus the bonus).
Accounts can have more than one deposit. Each deposit remains active until it has been fully paid. Hashing power is allocated to active deposits only (those that hasn't been fully paid back).
You can view the account status by logging into the site using the address where you sent your bitcoins (deposit) as your login. No need for passwords since everything is read-only.
Your bitcoins will be lost. To increase security and avoid hacking as much as possible, there are not user accounts. Rewards address will be asked for the account creation and can't be changed. If you lose access to your rewards address, you will lose rewards, so please be careful with your wallet and keep several backups of it.
Immediate income for us is the 0.5% transaction fee applied to rewards. This helps us covering costs. The other benefit is that this service helps us buying mining hardware in large volume therefore achieving bigger discounts. This leads to two advantages: covenience for members and less costs for our private mining gear.
You can enter any amount, there are no limits. Notice that if you will insert a large amount, it could take a few weeks for us to increase hashing power accordingly, so your reward rate will be slower at first.
Sure, you can. There is nothing that prevents you to do it. Accounts can also be referrals of other accounts of yours, and you can insert the deposit address of one account into the other, to automatically reinvest your rewards. Build your strategy as you like.
A referral code expire when the total amount of bitcoins deposited in accounts activated through itself is greater than 50% of your account's deposited amount. Every member will always have at least 2 valid referral codes. When one of them will expire, a new referral link / code will be generated. It's done in order to better spread membership access: while (for example) you publish your referral codes on a forum, after new members will join and their deposits exceed the threshold, you will have to take the new referral codes and publish them again. At the same time new members can publish their referrals so that new members will not be connected all to the same (first) account. Notice that posting referral links on a forum is not the best way to recruit members. It's better to communicate the referral link or code directly to interested people.
There are really few things that can go wrong, but you should not consider us responsible. Mining is a risky business and mining difficulty can increase quickly and without control. We take security policies seriously. We use deposits as fast as possible, so it's unlikely that they can be stolen. We send rewards often (as soon as your balance is more than 0.01 bitcoins), in the unlikely event our system will get hacked, you will lose very little. Our technology is very power-efficient, anyway if bitcoin value would drop under the current managing costs threshold, mining will be suspended and accounts will still be valid. Everything will start again when bitcoin value will increase. If the entire bitcoin system will collapse, the service will be interrupted and you will lose your deposits.
Our security policy include a very restrictive firewall, experienced system administrators, experienced programmers, frequent backups. We will really do our best to avoid bad things to happen. Anyway if you join this service it is everything at your own risk.
Currently all our equipment is based on custom ASIC miner clusters, and it mines on P2Pool.
The hardware remains available for other members in order get their revenues faster. You can also re-join with a new account and get advantage from this. This strategy will help compensating the increasing mining difficulty.


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Q: Insert multiple data (List) in MySQL using JDBC I am trying it from last 2 hour i dont know what is going wrong. also let me know how could i test if the connection is successfull or not.. it is for now.. but still i wanted to know..

Error:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '?, ?)'

My code:
static final String JDBC_DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
static final String DB_URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/medicinedb";
static final String USER = "root";
static final String PASS = "";
static final String DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";

public boolean saveMedicine(List<MedicineName> medicineName) throws ClassNotFoundException {
    Connection conn = null;
    Statement stmt = null;

    try {
        Class.forName(DRIVER);

        //STEP 3: Open a connection
        System.out.println("Connecting to database...");

        conn = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL, USER, PASS);

        //STEP 4: Execute a query
        System.out.println("Creating statement...");

        stmt = conn.createStatement();
        for (MedicineName element : medicineName) {

            String sql;
            sql = " insert into medicinename (name, pgurl)" + " values
            ( ?, ?)";
            System.out.println(conn);

            PreparedStatement preparedStmt = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
            preparedStmt.setString(1, element.getName());
            preparedStmt.setString(2, element.getPgurl());
            stmt.executeUpdate(sql);
        }

        stmt.close();
        conn.close();
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return true;
}

A: Why you are using Statement and Prepared statement. You are performing operations with Statement. Thus it does not have value. Remove the Statement
stmt = conn.createStatement();

And do the following
PreparedStatement preparedStmt = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
        preparedStmt.setString(1, element.getName());
        preparedStmt.setString(2, element.getPgurl());
        //stmt.executeUpdate(sql);
        preparedStmt .executeUpdate(sql);

A: *

*You mix between your stm and preparedStmt, you have to execute preparedStmt and not stm.

*Another thing when you want to executing multiple statements as one unit, its good to work with Statement Batching instead for example :

PreparedStatement preparedStmt;
String sql;
conn.setAutoCommit(false);
for (MedicineName element : medicineName) {

    sql = "insert into medicinename (name, pgurl) values (?, ?)";
    System.out.println(conn);

    preparedStmt = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
    preparedStmt.setString(1, element.getName());
    preparedStmt.setString(2, element.getPgurl());
    preparedStmt.addBatch(sql);
}
preparedStmt.executeBatch();
conn.commit();

A: use
 String sql = "insert into medicinename (name, pgurl) values (?, ?)";
                  PreparedStatement preparedStmt = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
                  preparedStmt.setString (1, element.getName());
                  preparedStmt.setString (2, element.getPgurl());
                  preparedStmt.executeUpdate();

you should delete executeUpdate(sql); to executeUpdate();

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NOV Grid for .NET is a high performance Data Grid component for displaying and editing tabular data within your Windows (WinForms and WPF), Mac OS X (MonoMac and Xamarin.Mac) and Silverlight applications.
Currently NOV Grid for .NET includes two grid widgets - Table Grid View and Tree Grid View (ListTreeView) that are built over the same grid core.
NOV Grid for .NET provides support for data-binding to a diverse set of data sources. The Grid displays data from a data source assigned to it's DataSource property.
A data source is an attribute that aggregates a Data Table. Data Tables help you define data in-memory, or bind to different collections of objects. You can work with all types of data tables in a consistent and intuitive manner. The Data Table exposes various operations that help you add/remove fields and rows, get or set cell values as well as perform different queries.
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Selecting the Sort Ascending or Sort Descending command from the Column Context Menu - the user can sort by a specific column by selecting the respective commands in the column context menu.
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Master - Details is a feature of the Table Grid that allows you to display additional information (details) for each record data row.
Master - Details allows you to display other tables data that is related to the master table rows - NTableGridDetail and NTreeGridDetail are master-details that can display a Table Grid or Tree Grid showing information from a slave data source.
Formula Calculated Column - this is a calculated column that is defined as a formula. The value that this column assigns to each row is the result of a formula evaluation, where you can use other column values.
Custom Calculated Column - this is a calculated column that calls a user handled delegate to obtain a row value on-demand.
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The NOV Grid Column Format allows the modification of the visualization of the data cell value.
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Extended Column Formats - these are column formats that the grid does not use by default, but you can manually assign to certain columns.
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Additionally the user can also resize the columns or double-click the column separators to "best fit" the columns.
Reordering Grid columns – allows the user to change the order of the columns by dragging them.
NOV Grid for .NET provides support for Frozen Columns and Frozen Rows.
Frozen Columns can be frozen to the left or right side of the grid window area.
Frozen Rows appear pinned to the column headers and they are controlled by the FrozenRows grid property. It specifies the count of rows from the top of the grid, that are non-scrollable.
Grid protection refer to the set of properties that can help you restrict the user to perform certain actions with the grid in general.
For operations that apply to columns, there is also a respective Column Protection property that can restrict the same operation for a specific column only.
NOV Grid for .NET provides support for Null Values. The Grid also supports editing of null values.
The Grid selection is organized to work around grid rows and to maintain the notion of a Current Row and Current Cell.
The Grid selection is also responsible for performing a variety of navigation commands that can alter the current cell, select/deselect rows and also change the current cell. The selection also exposes properties that control the events that trigger the current cell editing.
The Grid alternating rows are useful when you need to display grids with many columns, since the user can easily follow the values that belong to the same row. Thus alternating rows increase the readability of the grid.
NOV Grid for .NET provides full control over the alternating rows appearance, interval and length.
NOV Grid for .NET features several types of gridlines that are displayed by the Grid cells, Columns and Row Headers.
NOV Grid provides full control over the appearance of the gridlines stroke.
NOV Grid for .NET provides full localization support and right-to-left support.
The NOV Framework Localization support allows you to translate the entire user interface (UI) of your applications.
The architecture of the NOV Framework allows you to host any NOV Widget into other NOV Widget.
This allows you to use NOV widgets to represent the Grid row values, for example Charts, Gauges, Barcodes, or other widgets.


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Do you keep your bits in a bag? I'm not being cheeky! Just asking about your extra die-cuts, offcuts of pretty paper and images you stamped but didn't use.... This card was made entirely from my bits bag.
The Santa was a colour print from a MCS cd and I've added glitter to his fur trim. There were two labels ( I added red edges) and a 'noel' die-cut that I've coloured red. I dry embossed the white label and the red panel. So that's five bits gone from the bits bag. Only another 100 to go!!
Just to recap, I have challenged myself to make a Christmas card every week , and post it here (to make sure I do it!) . If I do this, by the beginning of December I will have 48 Christmas cards. I have also issued an invitation to anyone who would like to join me.
When I saw that this week's CD Sunday challenge is 'quotations', I was stumped initially. None of the quotations that I like seemed to be suitable for a card. But then I remembered this quote from Alice in Wonderland 'I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. ' It gave me an idea for a 12 x 12 scrapbook layout and the person it made me think of was…me! I've noticed that in recent photos I've started to look a bit (shall we say) 'tired'. The quote made me think about how I feel about aging.
I made a collage in Serif Craft Artist, using a photo of me and elements from Night Garden digitkit (not to be confused with 'In the Night Garden', no Iggle Piggle!). I added the quote to the collage and printed it. My background is a sheet of Teresa Collins paper . The two smaller clocks are from My Craft Studio CDs ( Tinkering with Steampunk and Setting the Scene Shop Fronts). The journalling spot, hearts and jar (bottom left) were cut on my Silhouette Cameo.
I've been off work this week, as it's half term, and I've actually managed to get quite a lot of crafting done. Back at work tomorrow so I made the most of it today and got out the melt pot!
I made the flower with die-cut paper scraps, that I sprinkled with mica and then dipped in the melt pot. I made the butterfly in a mold, using the leftover UTEE. The text background at the top, and the woman are old Non-Sequitur stamps and I cut her out and coloured her with Promarkers.
I'm quite pleased with my flower!
All the papers here were free with magazines. The dress is an uncoloured image from MCS CD Fab Glam 50s - it was on a mannequin but I cut it out on two patterned papers and 'hung' it on a miniature coat hanger. The tape measure (top right) was from an embossing folder I got for a pound- after embossing I cut it out and inked it. So, a very cheap card!
I coloured in the fairy and cut it out very closely. I coloured the chipboard using the paler ink and stamped the woodgrain with the darker ink. I glued the fairy image onto the tag and punched a hole. I put glue on the fairy's wings and sprinkled them with ultra-fine glittter. I dabbed the whole tag with clear ink , sprinkled it with clear embossing powder and heated it to melt. This was repeated 3 or four times till the surface was glassy smooth. The dabbing of the clear ink caused particles of glitter to be transferred across the tag, which (although not originally intended!) gives the whole tag a fairy sparkle. I finished it off with some twine, a dragonfly charm and a gem.
Thanks Sami for having me as guest designer.
When my sister gave me a gift set of toiletries, she never suspected that, in fact,she had also given me a new home for my spray inks.
I painted the top and the bottom and added gold ink spray through a honeycomb stencil. I cut the skyline out of vinyl , using the Silhouette Cameo. It's far from perfect but I like it.
Here is number six of the 48 Christmas cards I intend to have made before Christmas 2014.
Chrissie so far has joined me every week. Thanks Chrissie!
This week, my image is a pre-coloured one from a Frou Frou CD and I typed in the sentiment . I hope you can see the glitter on her furry bits!
The problem with scrapping concerts and shows is that they don't usually allow photos during the performance. So when we took my son to see a tribute to 70s/80s band ELO a few weeks ago, this was the only photo we took.
I used a sketch from Skissedilla - where they used a peak of torn paper, I used a triangle and I swapped the photo and the title around. I use papers and sticker etc from Simple Stories 'Say Cheese' collection. The title is after one of the original band's big hits - the 'strange' was made with glittery black thickers. I used lots of ink, stamps, and distressing for a grungy look. Just in case you miss the star of my rubbish photo, I've added a badge pointing to him.
A Song in you Heart - Unfinished stongs - I went with the songs theme and the word magic in the lyrics.
I've just got back from a very short break in a fantastic hotel in a castle in Sussex. Although many of the fields and some of the castle grounds were flooded (which actually looked spectacular) , many spring flowers were shooting up.
This card is for my partner's mother, who enabled us to have our little holiday by having our son to stay.
The main image is from Papermania Wellington CD and I brought it into Silhouette Studio, added the text and cut it out in a label shape. I hand cut out two flowers and the tag and stuck them on with 3d foam. I was inspired by the song 'tulips from Amsterdam' and cut the windmill on the Silhouette. The background paper is from a CD called Sunshine and Laughter, which came free with a magazine.
I used some Prima papers I got free with a magazine. The yellow birds are from a stamp set that came with the paper pack and the birdhouse is from another magazine freebie. I die cut the doily - the cardstock isn't red as it looks in the photo, but a raspberry pink, and stamped 'thinking of you'.
Here's my DT card for this week's Pinspirational Challenge and this week it's everyone's favourite, anything goes.
For my card, I used a digi-stamp called 'Pip', kindly supplied by our sponsor A and T Digital Designs.
We'd love you to come over to Pinspirational and join in.
This week we have a Tic Tac Toe (or bingo) board at Inkspirational Challenges .
You have to choose 3 in a row and I chose pearls, ribbon or lace (both!) amd flowers.
The vintage photo is from Joanna Sheen Fashion CD - my printer is running out of black ink and so it printed with a pink tinge - and I just decided to work with it! The die cut heart and 'cherish' are Docrafts Vintage Love Notes and I stamped the background with a Penny Black floral stamp.
I hope you will pick a line off the board and come over to join us at Inkspirational.
I'm keeping up with my plan to get smug for Christmas 2014.
This week, I made a really traditional card using an image from a Debbi Moore CD. It's a great vintage- style image, so I grunged it up a bit by adding distress inks and ragging up the card etc. The 'naughty' and 'nice' were printed from my computer and I added gems and glitter brads for a bit of sparkle.
Thank you to those who joined me last week with their beautiful cards - especially Chrissie who is keeping up with me.
If you'd like to join me in being well-prepared for Christmas, please link a Christmas card below.
This stamp is by Stamping Bella.
For this card I used random (magazine freebie) patterned papers and a sentiment stamp . The trees, reindeer and snowflake are die cuts and I sprayed everything with white mister. The mist made everything look pale and smudgy but it really wasn't white enough for the snow on the trees, so I sponged white ink as well.
I loved the metal angel wings and the tab-shaped sentiment.
I hope you will join me this week, and get smug for Christmas 2014.
Another Valentine's card. Honestly this doesn't look wonky in real-life, just in the photo.
The images are hybrid - most of them are printed and cut on the Cameo, using the 'fill pattern' feature . The sentiment was from a digikit and I offset it, fill patterned it, added text and printed and cut it. The houses are cut from some leftover scrapbook paper . I cut the bottoms off them so it is clear that the spotty paper is the sky!
I'm proud to say that this week, I'm a guest designer at City Crafter! Please pop over to the City Crafter Challenge Blog to see a photo of me (!) , find out about the challenge and see the work of the talented Design Team.
For my card, I used an Art Journey image of a girl with an umbrella. I coloured parts of the image with a purpley colour and then covered the umbrella in glossy accents. I stamped the background with two different water droplet stamps by Designs by Ryn and a perspective stamp (unknown). The sentiment is a Unity stamp.
For my DT card I used an image kindly provided by our sponsor A Day for Daisies and a fairytale themed paper stack by DCWV . I paper-pieced the dress and the book cover. Are the fairies in the background just her imagination or have they escaped from the book?
What ideas does this photo give you? Please come and join in at Pinspirational challenges.
Sometimes in magazines you see articles on 'ten minute cards'. This card is more like a ten hour card, taking into account the time it took to get my ideas together and then to make them work!
It all started with a challenge at Red Carpet Studio - create a project inspired by the morning. I played with a few ideas then settled on the rooster and the alarm clock. But then I had this old song ' I want to wake up with you..' (Boris Gardiner) going round in my head and decided to make it into a Valentine's card.
I really do think this is a card to give to someone you are already in a relationship with - if you gave it to the handsome guy at the office, he might be quite alarmed!
The papers I used are all from a magazine freebie pack . The rooster was a magazine freebie stamp too and I paper pieced it with two papers. I cut the clock, hearts and tags on the Silhouette Cameo.
This week at Inkspirational we're challenging you to CASE any card on DT member Yvonne's blog .
There are so many fantastic cards on Yvonne's blog, Journey into Artistry ,why not pop over there, choose one and join in? For more ideas, please visit the other DT members' blogs.


Winnipeg police have released a sketch of a man believed to be involved in the disappearance of Thelma Krull more than two years ago.
The 57-year-old grandmother has been missing since July 11, 2015, when she left her Valley Gardens home to go for a walk in the Civic Park area. Her cell phone and glasses were later found on the grounds of the Valley Gardens Community Centre days after her disappearance.
Investigators say they've determined Krull was involved in a physical altercation and removed from the area around Kimberley Avenue and Grey Street while in distress.
The suspect is described as an Indigenous man in this 40s, 5'6″ to 5'8″ in height, weighing approximately 270 lbs. with a large stomach and a chubby face. He had dark hair with a bowl-style cut going straight across the forehead, or possibly wearing a dark coloured skull-cap or beanie on his head.
Police say the suspect may have had immediate access to a residence nearby where Krull was last seen.


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BY BARRY KAUFMAN
IT'S NOT EASY TO MAKE MATH FUN, BUT MICHELLE GORDON MAKES IT LOOK AS EASY AS PI
Do you know which side of the chicken has the most feathers?
If you do, you're either really good at riddles, or you're one of the lucky students in Michelle Gordon's math class at Bluffton High School. The chicken riddle recently was her "joke of the day," one of many ways she likes to lighten the mood when teaching a subject that many students dread.
KATHLEEN WILLIAMS
BLUFFTON IS THRIVING, BUT GROWTH GETS MIXED REVIEWS
It's no secret that the town of Bluffton is experiencing a growth spurt. In the late 1990s, it was a 1-mile hamlet with fewer than 800 residents. Today, it's 54 square miles with a population estimated at more than 23,000.
Its growth is only going to continue. Bluffton is only 44% built out and, when all is said and done, its population might reach 75,000, according to town officials.
ALL SAINTS GARDEN TOUR NAMES GRANT RECIPIENTS
The 2019 All Saints Garden Tour grant recipients included Jasper Backpack Buddies (Antioch Educational Center), Backpack Buddies of Bluffton, Backpack Buddies of Hilton Head Island, St. Stephen's UMC Outreach Food Bank, Hilton Head Safe Harbour and The Literacy Center. This fall, these charities each received their awards of $5,675 from the 2019 Garden Tour.
The 33rd annual All Saints Episcopal Church Garden Tour is scheduled for May 16.
School board OKs construction prices, considers raising impact fees
After Beaufort County voters approved a $344 million bond referendum in November, the Beaufort County Board of Education has set maximum prices for building additions at River Ridge Academy and May River High School. M.B. Kahn Construction of Columbia will build the bond referendum's first two projects for a guaranteed maximum price of $20.9 million. Those projects include River Ridge Academy, which will add four classrooms on each of its two existing wings and add a new eight-classroom wing. May River High will add a new two-story wing containing 23 classrooms.
HHSO conductor nominated for Grammy
John Morris Russell, music director and conductor of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, has been nominated for a Grammy Award. Russell's nomination in the "Best Classical Compendium" category is for the recording "American Originals: 1918," with the famed Cincinnati Pops. It was released under the Pops Fanfare Cincinnati label owned by the Cincinnati Symphony. The 61st annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony will be held on Jan. 26 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
New ban prohibits some beach shovels and deep holes
Shovels longer than 30 inches and holes deeper than 1 foot are now illegal on Hilton Head Island beaches. The Town of Hilton Head Island unanimously approved the ban in November, arguing that holes are dangerous for sea turtles because they can trap turtle hatchlings on their way from the dunes to the sea. All holes on the beach must now be filled in with sand no later than 30 minutes prior to sunset.
Jeffrey Robinowich selected for Town Hall Wall of Honor
Beloved Blufftonian Jeffrey Robinowich, longtime proprietor of Morris Garage and Towing, has been selected to be part of the Bluffton Wall of Honor at Town Hall. His photograph and a short biography will hang on the wall so that visitors can learn what makes Bluffton "a state of mind" — and Robinowich should know, since he moved to the town in 1962.
Traffic signal installed at intersection of Pope Avenue and Lagoon Road
A new traffic signal is now operational at the intersection of Pope Avenue and Lagoon Road. This new traffic signal, which also includes pedestrian signals to help people with crossing all four approaching streets, is part of the Town of Hilton Head Island's transportation improvements in the Coligny area. It also will serve traffic going to the new Lowcountry Celebration Park, which is currently under construction.
Three areas on Hilton Head identified for potential workforce housing
To meet Hilton Head Island's goal of providing housing for workers, a housing consultant said the island needs to build 200 homes and apartment units each year for 10 years and make sure about 30% of those units are affordable. The consultant recommended three sites because they are close to employment centers on the island: Squire Pope area on the northwest side of the island; the Palmetto Bay corridor at the southern base of the Cross Island Parkway; and the Main Street opportunity zone in the north central part of the island. Town staff is researching the possibilities in those neighborhoods and what, if any, zoning or ownership changes the council would have to occur to encourage workforce housing developments.
County remembers educator Bill Evans
William M. "Bill" Evans, former Beaufort County school board chairman and former principal of Hilton Head Island High School, died Dec. 11 at his home on Lady's Island. He was 72. Evans resigned as school board chairman in October 2015. He held a master's degree from Penn State University and an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University, where he played on the golf team. Evans was a volunteer with the RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing golf tournament from 1987 until 2018; president of the Rotary Club of the Lowcountry; a Eucharist minister at St. Frances Catholic Church; and a volunteer at the Beaufort Water Festival. He also volunteered with Neighborhood Outreach Connection, AMIkids Beaufort, and First Tee of the Lowcountry, in addition to work with Port Royal Sound Foundation and numerous other nonprofit groups over the years.
Historic Holidays
JAMES A. MALLORY
CULTURAL TOURISM INCLUDES HILTON HEAD ISLAND'S STORIED PAST
Long before golf courses, tennis courts, sprawling resorts, and rows of beach umbrellas turned Hilton Head Island into a premier vacation destination, something perhaps even more special was woven into the island's fabric: rich history and a unique culture that still endures.
Hilton Head's cultural past has not only survived but has become a valuable asset for an island whose economic lifeblood is tourism. And like other places blessed with colorful history, Hilton Head increasingly looks to "cultural tourism" as a resource important to the island's prosperity.
ANTHONY GARZILLI
LOWCOUNTRY RESIDENTS HELP THE BAHAMAS RECOVER
When Hurricane Dorian ravaged The Bahamas in early September, a pair of Lowcountry residents reacted swiftly and decisively.
The two — Hilton Head Island resident Jane Janiak and state Rep. Bill Herbkersman of Bluffton — had watched uneasily as the devastating storm raked the islands. After seeing what was left behind, they resolved to help the recovery.
Manatee rescued in Palmetto Dunes
SeaWorld Orlando and Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute helped rescue a distressed manatee in Palmetto Dunes Resort on Hilton Head Island in November. The 856-pound manatee had minor skin abrasions and was underweight. She was taken to SeaWorld Orlando for treatment and rehabilitation before being evaluated for return to the wild.
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