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This article has been corrected. Correction in: Oncotarget. 2020; 11:3618-3620.
Co-targeting the MAPK and PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathways in two genetically engineered mouse models of schwann cell tumors reduces tumor grade and multiplicity
Adrienne L. Watson _, Bryant J. Keller, Kyle A. Williams, Namrata N. Damle, Samuel J. Finnerty, Leah K. Anderson, Andrew D. Greeley, Vincent W. Keng, Eric P. Rahrmann, Amanda L. Halfond, Natasha M. Powell, Margaret H. Collins, Tilat Rizvi, Christopher L. Moertel, Nancy Ratner and David A. Largaespada
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Oncotarget. 2014; 5:1502-1514. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.1609
Adrienne L. Watson1,2,3,4,*, Bryant J. Keller1,2,3,4,*, Kyle A. Williams1,2,3,4, Namrata N. Damle1,2,3,4, Samuel J. Finnerty1,2,3,4, Leah K. Anderson1,2, Andrew D. Greeley1,2, Vincent W. Keng1,2,3,4,10, Eric P. Rahrmann1,2,3,4, Amanda L. Halfond5, Natasha M. Powell4, Margaret H. Collins8,Tilat Rizvi8, Christopher L. Moertel6, Nancy Ratner7,9, and David A. Largaespada1,2,3,4,6
1 Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2 Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
3 Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
4 Brain Tumor Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
5 Health and Natural Sciences Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
6 Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
7 Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
8 Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
9 Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
10 Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
David A. Largaespada, email:
Keywords: Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors, plexiform neurofibromas, Schwann cells, neurofibromatosis type 1 syndrome, neurofibromin 1, PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling, MAPK signaling, targeted therapies, genetically engineered mouse models, combination therapy
Received: November 18, 2013 Accepted: January 18, 2014 Published: January 20, 2014
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are soft tissue sarcomas that occur spontaneously, or from benign plexiform neurofibromas, in the context of the genetic disorder Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1). The current standard treatment includes surgical resection, high-dose chemotherapy, and/or radiation. To date, most targeted therapies have failed to demonstrate effectiveness against plexiform neurofibromas and MPNSTs. Recently, several studies suggested that the mTOR and MAPK pathways are involved in the formation and progression of MPNSTs. Everolimus (RAD001) inhibits the mTOR and is currently FDA approved for several types of solid tumors. PD-0325901 (PD-901) inhibits MEK, a component of the MAPK pathway, and is currently in clinical trials. Here, we show in vitro than MPNST cell lines are more sensitive to inhibition of cellular growth by Everolimus and PD-901 than immortalized human Schwann cells. In combination, these drugs synergistically inhibit cell growth and induce apoptosis. In two genetically engineered mouse models of MPNST formation, modeling both sporadic and NF1-associated MPNSTs, Everolimus, or PD-901 treatment alone each transiently reduced tumor burden and size, and extended lifespan. However, prolonged treatment of each single agent resulted in the development of resistance and reactivation of target pathways. Combination therapy using Everolimus and PD-901 had synergistic effects on reducing tumor burden and size, and increased lifespan. Combination therapy allowed persistent and prolonged reduction in signaling through both pathways. These data suggest that co-targeting mTOR and MEK may be effective in patients with sporadic or NF1-associated MPNSTs.
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Subject: BUSH to children: SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 20:54:21 +0300
SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS
By Mary Starrett
President George W. Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health is pushing for nationwide screening based on a similar program created while he was governor of Texas.
One of the main goals of the president's commission is to ensure "early mental health of young children, improve and expand school mental health programs, screen for mental disorders in primary health care, across the life span and connect to treatment and supports."
The Bush administration, long tied in an unholy, generational alliance with the pharmaceutical companies, hopes to pattern this massive effort to get more Americans on drugs after the Texas Medical Algorithm Project (TMAP) in effect since 1995. This summer the British Medical Journal, daring to do what no U.S. publication would do, showed the connection between the pharmaceutical industry and the dangers associated with the TMAP program. Investigators and medical professionals were fired for calling attention to the abuses (including patient deaths) associated with TMAP. Under TMAP it was not unusual for some people to be placed on more than five psychiatric drugs at once.[1]
What will happen under this national push to gain more market share for the drug companies? As with TMAP, people refusing drugs for what are diagnosed as a wide array of "disorders" can expect not only to be forced to take powerful and extremely dangerous neuroleptics, but also to receive shock treatment.
Sound like something out of "Cuckoos Nest"? Electro Convulsive Therapy or ECT is alive and well and sparking fear in the hearts of Americans each and every day. While you might think this Frankenstein-like "treatment" is a relic of the dark, dank asylums of the past, think again. Forced ECT happens here. It is an all too- often- used modality for "severely" depressed people. And get this- virtually every state has loopholes allowing shock therapy and drugs to be administered over the objections of the "patient". (A note here; psychiatric professionals have long railed against the term "person" or "consumer" when referring to those they deem to need their "medical" attention.) Bush policy advisor on the New Freedom Commission, and his appointee on the Center for Mental Health Services National Advisory Council, psychiatrist Sally Satel has stated "coercive treatment" is essential. Satel, never one to oppose giving shrinks the power to do extreme mental makeovers on people, shows just how chilling the climate in this administration is getting by adding there's an "overemphasis" on patient "rights" that "people need to be protected from themselves" and that often "coercion" is essential.[2]
Bush's advisor Satel adds this horrifying hint at her "Me Doctor- You Subject" mentality when she adds: "My capacity as a physician has often been frustrated by laws that prevent me from doing my job". This is the type of influence that makes the president's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health one of his worst civil and human rights abuses to date. And that's saying something. (I wonder whether Satel (or Bush for that matter) ever read that reference in the Bill of Rights to " the right of the people to be secure in their persons…."?)
This plan by the Bush administration to test all Americans for "mental illness"(just imagine all the ways that could be defined!) hasn't gone unnoticed by those whose lives have been made "chemical hell"[3] through forced psychiatric drugging. MindFreedom International, an umbrella group for over 100 advocacy groups says the New Freedom Commission has got to be stopped. They think this is nothing but a plan "cooked up" by the pharmaceutical companies. Group director David Oakes says "we demand President Bush start (the screening) with himself. We will provide the mental health professional to do the screening". As a matter of fact they have secured the professional services of just such a professional. Patch Adams. The real one. The Virginia medical doctor who's life story was made into a popular movie starring Robin Williams said " I'll see him for free".
The president's plan to track down people(especially kids and teens) looking for "emotional" and "mental" problems only gets more terrifying when you add new drug-delivery technologies to the mix.
University of Pensylvania professor and psychiatrist Steven Seigel has developed an implant for time releasing neuroleptic, antipsychotic medications like Haldol. The device, the size of a quarter, if approved and marketed could replace the locked wards of the mental institutions with what has been called a "chemical straitjacket". Imagine, added to the president's mental health screening plan, an inch-wide implant that can deliver- for periods up to a year- powerful mind-numbing drugs that are reported to cause structural brain damage[4] ( Seigel was asked to implant himself with the device and drug Haldol for a year. He reportedly just smiled and turned away). Inherently coercive, these drugs and their time release delivery systems eclipse even the most far-fetched mind control conspiracy theories out there.
The implant is now being pitched to the FDA as a method of delivering the drug Haldol. A few of Haldol's side effects include confusion, disorientation, blurred vision, worsening glaucoma, facial tics, jitters and drug-induced Parkinsonism.[5] It is a drug that has been described by former(forced) users as " torture".
Implant inventor Seigel says his device is intended to "empower patients to relieve them of the burden of having to remember to take their drugs". Why keep this good old American ingenuity all to ourselves? The good Doc Seigel has his sights set on selling the implant to "developing countries worldwide." Another special American gift to the underprivileged of the world, I suppose. And just think of the places it would go! Prisons! Daycare Centers! Nursing Homes!
Yes, indeed, the current administration is hell-bent on funding the ever-expanding use of mind-controlling, mind-numbing drugs. Your money will now go to fund hundreds of millions of dollars MORE for mental health schemes than last year's budget allowed for. [6] The American Psychiatric Association (which, by the way just LOVES what Bush is doing with your money!) boasts of the increase in funding which, of course , translates into more money for them and their pharmaceutical buddies, in their July issue of Advocacy News. The publication also mentions that the Bush administration is "appreciative" of their efforts to quash mass media's coverage of the negative aspects and abuses inherent in the New Freedom Commission.
I'll leave you with the words of psychiatrist-inventor Steven Seigel: "There is still a segment of the population that has a profound mistrust of psychiatry. We need people to understand that we are not trying to do things to them but do things for them".
1, British Medical Journal, Summer/ 2004
2, Sally Satel's First National Advisory Council Meeting/ Chamberlin, September, 2002/mindfreedom.org
3, mindfreedom.org
4, ibid
5, worstpills.org
6, APA Advocacy News, July/ 2004
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Stanford Libraries welcomes Lauren Sorensen
by Hannah Frost
I am delighted and excited to announce that Lauren Sorensen is joining Stanford Libraries as a new staff member of Digital Library Systems and Services. Lauren's first day will be Tuesday, January 18, 2022.
Stanford Digital Repository supports campus Open Access needs
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Stanford Digital Repository
Stanford's Open Access (OA) Policy, approved by the Faculty Senate in November 2020, established the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) as the home for open access articles at Stanford. Over the past year, Stanford Libraries has created and released an improved web application for depositing content into the SDR. With this new application, it's now easier for any Stanford depositor -- faculty, post-docs, and students alike -- to take advantage of open access features such as ORCID iDs and DOIs, and to make your OA articles available under an open license.
Scientific Imaging of Diego Rivera's 'Pan American Unity' Mural
by Benjamin L Albritton
Stanford Libraries is proud to announce a new Spotlight exhibit: Diego Rivera's San Francisco Masterpiece - Virtual Preservation of "Pan American Unity". The exhibit is devoted to rich scientific imaging of Diego Rivera's 1940 mural Unión de la Expresión Artistica del Norte y Sur de este Continente (The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and of the South on this Continent), also known as Pan American Unity. It highlights 3D photgrammetric documentation of the mural created by Cultural Heritage Imaging as part of an arrangement between City College of San Franscisco and SFMOMA to display the mural at SFMOMA from 2021 to 2023. This exhibit takes advantage of both the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and the Mirador viewer to allow users to explore the mural's colors and surface textures, the progress of the work as it was created, and work done by SFMOMA and Site & Studio Conservation to describe the condition of the mural.
Ted Nelson email archive now available
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Stanford Libraries' Department of Special Collections is excited to announce that the email archive of Ted Nelson is now available to researchers. Theodor Holm "Ted" Nelson is an information technology pioneer and systems humanist who began his work in these areas in the 1960s. Nelson founded Project Xanadu, a global hypertext system designed to permanently connect different types of documents. He also coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia. The Ted Nelson email archive contains 236,779 messages related to Nelson's life and work between 2001-2019, covering his more recent work.
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Farmer Boy (Little House Series: Classic Stories #2)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator)Laura Ingalls Wilder
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The second book in the treasured Little House series, Farmer Boy is Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of how her husband, Almanzo, grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where Laura lived. This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.
The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories. The Little House series has captivated millions of readers with its depiction of life on the American frontier.
While Laura Ingalls grows up on the prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Here Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town.
Almanzo wishes for just one thing—his very own horse—and he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) was born in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout America's heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on into the twenty-first century as America's quintessential pioneer story.
Garth Williams is the renowned illustrator of almost one hundred books for children, including the beloved Stuart Little by E. B. White, Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban, and the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
He was born in 1912 in New York City but raised in England. He founded an art school near London and served with the British Red Cross Civilian Defense during World War II. Williams worked as a portrait sculptor, art director, and magazine artist before doing his first book Stuart Little, thus beginning a long and lustrous career illustrating some of the best known children's books.
In addition to illustrating works by White and Wilder, he also illustrated George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square and its sequels (Farrar Straus Giroux). He created the character and pictures for the first book in the Frances series by Russell Hoban (HarperCollins) and the first books in the Miss Bianca series by Margery Sharp (Little, Brown). He collaborated with Margaret Wise Brown on her Little Golden Books titles Home for a Bunny and Little Fur Family, among others, and with Jack Prelutsky on two poetry collections published by Greenwillow: Ride a Purple Pelican and Beneath a Blue Umbrella. He also wrote and illustrated seven books on his own, including Baby Farm Animals (Little Golden Books) and The Rabbits' Wedding (HarperCollins).
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It was January in northern New York State, sixty-seven years ago. Snow lay deep everywhere. It loaded the bare limbs of oaks and maples and beeches, it bent the green boughs of cedars and spruces down into the drifts. Billows of snow covered the fields and the stone fences.
Down a long road through the woods a little boy trudged to school, with his big brother Royal and his two sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice. Royal was thirteen years old, Eliza Jane was twelve, and Alice was ten. Almanzo was the youngest of all, and this was his first going-to-school, because he was not quite nine years old.
He had to walk fast to keep up with the others, and he had to carry the dinner-pail.
"Royal ought to carry it," he said. "He's bigger than I be."
Royal strode ahead, big and manly in boots, and Eliza Jane said:
"No, 'Manzo. It's your turn to carry it now, because you're the littlest."
Eliza Jane was bossy. She always knew what was best to do, and she made Almanzo, and Alice do it.
Almanzo hurried behind Royal, and Alice hurried behind Eliza Jane, in the deep paths made by bobsled runners. On each side the soft snow was piled high. The road went down a long slope, then it crossed a little bridge and went on for a mile through the frozen woods to the schoolhouse.
The cold nipped Almanzo's eyelids and numbed his nose, but inside his good woolen clothes he was warm. They were all made from the wool of his father's sheep. His underwear was creamy white, but Mother had dyed the wool for his outside clothes.
Butternut hulls had dyed the thread for his coat and his long trousers. Then Mother had woven it, andshe had soaked and shrunk the cloth into heavy, thick fullcloth. Not wind nor cold nor even a drenching rain could go through the good fullcloth that Mother made.
For Almanzo's waist she had dyed fine wool as red as a cherry, and she had woven a soft, thin cloth. It was light and warm and beautifully red.
Almanzo's long brown pants buttoned to his red waist with a row of bright brass buttons, all around his middle. The waist's collar buttoned snugly up to his chin, and so did his long coat of brown fullcloth. Mother had made his cap of the same brown fullcloth, with cozy ear-flaps that tied under his chin. And his red mittens were on a string that went up the sleeves of his coat and across the back of his neck. That was so he couldn't lose them.
He wore one pair of socks pulled snug over the legs of his underdrawers, and another pair outside the legs of his long brown pants, and he wore moccasins. They were exactly like the moccasins, that Indians wore.
Girls tied heavy veils over their faces when they went out in winter. But Almanzo was a boy, and his face was out in the frosty air. His cheeks were red as apples and his nose was redder than a cherry, and after he had walked a mile and a half he was glad to see the schoolhouse.
It stood lonely in the frozen woods, at the foot of Hardscrabble Hill. Smoke was rising from the chimney, and the teacher had shoveled a path through the snowdrifts to the door. Five big boys were scuffling in the deep snow by the path.
Almanzo was frightened when he saw them. Royal pretended not to be afraid, but he was. They were the big boys from Hardscrabble Settlement, and everybody was afraid of them.
They smashed little boys' sleds, for fun. They'd catch a little boy and swing him by his legs, then let him go headfirst into the deep snow.
Sometimes they made two little boys fight each other, though the little boys didn't want to fight and begged to be let off.
These big boys were sixteen or seventeen years old and they came to school only in the middle of the winter term. They came to thrash the teacher and break up the school. They boasted that no teacher could finish the winter term in that school, and no teacher ever had.
This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys because they forgot how to spell a word. Almanzo felt sick inside when he thought how the big boys would beat Mr. Corse. Mr. Corse wasn't big enough to fight them.
There was a hush in the schoolhouse and you could hear the noise the big boys were making outside. The other pupils stood whispering together by the big stove in the middle of the room. Mr. Corse sat at his desk. One thin cheek rested on his slim hand and he was reading a book. He looked up and said pleasantly:
"Good morning."
Royal and Eliza Jane and Alice answered him politely, but Almanzo did not say anything. He stood by the desk, looking at Mr. Corse. Mr. Corse smiled at him and said:
"Do you know I'm going home with you tonight?" Almanzo was too troubled to answer. "Yes," Mr. Corse said. "It's your father's turn."
Every family in the district boarded the teacher for two weeks. He went from farm to farm till he had stayed two weeks at each one. Then he closed school for that term.
When he said this, Mr. Corse rapped on his desk with his ruler; it was time for school to begin. All the boys and girls went to their seats. The girls sat on the left side of the room and boys sat on the right side, with the big stove and wood-box in the middle between them. The big ones sat in the back, seats, the middle-sized ones in the middle seats, and the little ones in the front seats. All the seats were the same size. The big boys could hardly get their knees under their desks, and the little boys couldn't rest their feet on the floor.
Farmer Boy. Copyright © by Laura Wilder. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
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Winter Evening 13
Winter Night 30
Filling the Ice-House 65
Saturday Night 75
Breaking the Calves 95
The Turn of the Year 109
Springtime 120
Tin-Peddler 133
The Strange Dog 141
Sheep-Shearing 154
Cold Snap 163
Independence Day 173
Summer-Time 190
Keeping House 203
Early Harvest 228
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Farmer Boy 4.6 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 65 reviews.
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When I was in third grade my teacher read almost all of them I think,I like when the teacher whipped Bill Richy!! I love Laura's books!!!!!
I have read the entire Laura Ingalls Wilder seiris. I don't know if Farmer Boy is my favorite book; but it's a good read full of laughs, belive me! RebekahRater
InTheBookcase More than 1 year ago
Almanzo Wilder is a farmer, who wants to be just as hard a worker as his father is. He helps his family by working with their crops of hay, selling the potatoes, hoeing carrots, planting corn & pumpkins, and picking berries. He learns how to do everything else on the farm too, like dealing with the sheep & pigs, to training the young oxen & horses, to gathering the sap from the trees. Almanzo also does things that other children do, like going to school, or sledding on a winter day, and sometimes he gets in trouble, whether he's in it by himself or with his older brother & sisters. There's usually something exciting going on, like the County Fair, or a holiday like Independence Day. When Mother & Father leave for a few days, what do you think the children do in their absence? He's a hungry growing boy and it seems that the Wilder's table is always overflowing with good home-cooked food, so there's plenty, even for Almanzo's very large appetite. "Farmer Boy" is the third book in the "Little House" series, but since Almanzo's story isn't connected to the other stories in the series, you can read this book at any time, even if you haven't read any of the other books. A few years ago, my family read this book aloud, and I've read it again myself since then. I enjoy reading the "Little House" books, and this one is a definite favorite. I think anyone, boys or girls, would like reading this story.
Mom-in-NY More than 1 year ago
I bought this book to read with my 5 year old son who loves learning about what life was like in the past (especially during 'pioneer' times). We visited the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, NY this past summer and he relates much of what he saw there to Almanzo's life. He has very little difficulty reading this book, but prefers to hear me read it to him. Some parts have been very excting, and others are a little more harsh than I had originally wanted to discuss with him (the death of a past school teacher being beaten to death by an unruly group of students---don't worry this info does not spoil any part of the book ¿), but he is very mature for his five years and has been able to deal with it. We are loving this book so far....I would highly recommend this book to any child interested in learning about life in the late 1800's or agriculture/ growing up on a farm.
MamaFoxHF More than 1 year ago
I have 3 boys ages 8, 9 1/2 and 11 1/2 and last summer we read some of Farmer Boy. We would start our reading time with 3 boys but my youngest was not yet old enough to sit still and listen through a whole chapter and so not everyone heard all of the chapters. Without full participation, my commitment faltered and we ended up not finishing the book. This summer the boys asked if Farmer Boy could be our Summer Bedtime Book again, so I gave it another try. After they are in their PJs, they all bring their pillows, fuzzy blankets and bean bags into the living room and we usually make it through a couple of chapters in an evening. We often stop to talk about vocabulary words to make sure that everyone is learning new words as well as understanding the words in the context that they are used (like "gay" means "happy" in this book.) My boys love their Wii, TV and Nintendo DSs, however this book can keep their attention beautifully! What I love the most are the memories that I am making with my boys. So the other day I came up with the idea of buying them each their own copy of Farmer Boy (the copy that I have been reading out of is my yellowed, tattered paperback copy that was printed in 1971.) With each copy, I will write them each a note to help them remember our fun Farmer Boy reading time during the summer of 2010. I will place the 3 copies with their notes in my hope chest and give the books to them when they each become fathers. Though far from Super Mom, sometimes when I do nurturing or fun things with my boys I tell them, "Promise me that you will do this with your children some day." I do hope that they remember and continue with this great tradition of reading to their kids! Now go read to your kids, grandchildren or even your spouse, it really is a fun way to bond!!
i think this is the best Laura Inglles Wilder EVER wrote. it's become my favorite book i've read for years!
I love this book!! I think that it is the best book in the whole series. I have no idea what my favorite part is. Maybe when their mom and dad are gone and they eat a ton of ice cream and watermelon and cake. And when they are shearing and he finds the kittens. Or when he takes the whole sheep up to the loft.
bratlaw on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
A book by a favorite author. I've reread this series so many times, the books are becoming very worn. Laura and her family, Pa, Ma, Mary, and baby Carrie live in the big words of Wisconsin near Pepin. Laura"s unique style of story telling is appealing to all ages.
megadallion on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Unfortunately, I didn't read this as a little girl. I really wish I had though because it was amazing. I can't believe I learned so much from a children's book - everything from how pioneers had to make houses and furniture to how they concocted cheese and candy. This gives an intimate view of what it was like to grow up in the pioneering days from the vantage point of a little girl, Laura. I'm looking forward to finishing the series.
rainbowdarling on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
The third story in the series is an interesting departure. Instead of telling the next chapter of Laura's life, it tells a bit of Almanzo's. The Wilder family is different than the Ingalls family somewhat. The family at this point of the story is still in New York State and that provides a different picture of life than that of life on the prairie frontier. It gives us a little idea of who this Almanzo Wilder is, too, before he reappears later in the story. Of all the stories, I enjoyed this one, but it was my least favorite because of its departure from the story of Laura's family. It feels like an interjection rather than being a part of a chronological telling of the story. All the same, the characters in it are interesting and I felt like I was actually there thanks to the descriptions within. It's a good story that just doesn't seem like a true part of the book series.
BoundTogetherForGood on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
I read this to Aaron and Marlo in January 2001. I began reading it to Matthew and Elijah sometime while we lived in the UK. Eventually Gigi and I reached the point we were ready to begin this book so I stopped and began it again, for her. We love the whole series of books, as well as the television series.
eesti23 on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Farmer Boy is the third book in the Little House on the Prairie series and focuses on the young Almanzo Wilder. In the future Almanzo and Laura Ingalls will marry but for now the book focuses on Almazo's youth from his education, both in and out of school, and home/family life. I really enjoyed this book in the series, especially because it showed the differences between Almanzo's more luxurious childhood compared to Laura's less luxurious childhood.
sharese on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Summary:The life of Laura Ingalls Wilder's husband as a child is told in the style in which she told about her own childhood. He grew up as a farmer's child in NY with all the responsiblities of a farm. It's a great chapter book meant to be read and understood by children. Always a classic.Review:I really enjoyed this book and all that LIW wrote. I truly loved Almonzo's father's character and he reminded me very much of Laura's Pa in the way he thought about the world and what he wanted for his children. The adventures he had with his sister and brother are great to read and really have great family values behind all the words.
silversurfer on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Charming book about young Almanzo's life growing up on the Wilder farm, in New York in the 1800's. He is only 10 years old, a long way off from becoming Laura's future husband, but this book sets the tone for his personality. The descriptive narrative is amazing. You really fel like you are there, sitting down to Christmas dinner. You can almost smell the aroma of all the varied foods on the table. Farm life was hard and Laura's story about Almanzo's growing up, makes me appreciate the life I live today.
Whisper1 on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
I've never read the Little House on the Prairie books. When I found three of them, including this one, at a neighborhood yard sale, I couldn't resist paying .10 for each.While some who don't understand the appeal of YA works may scoff at this series, I found this book to be delightfully refreshing.The beauty and charm lies in the simplicity of rural farm life in the 19th century. Written from the perspective of ten year old Almanzo Wilder, there is a rhythm and lyrical quality throughout.Nothing earth scattering occurs, and unlike many YA books where there is a coming of age theme, this story veers off the path of that direction and instead, like a babbling brook, quietly pulls the reader into the tale of a young man with a solid, hard-working family who care about each other and do what has to be done to make a living.Harkening back to a time when the items we now call necessities were not available, there were charming descriptions of soft candle light shining through the window on hard crusted icy snow, of sleigh rides to church, of one room school houses, of planting seeds by hand and of sheering sheep, dying wool and sewing clothes.This week was a bear at work and each night I arrived home tired and stressed, this was exactly what I needed to read -- a wonderful tale that provided relaxation and smiles.Recommended
LCoale1 on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
I love this book like no other! I grew up with it, and know half of it word for word, but I still love re-reading it. It's like a book version of comfort food. The descriptions are vivid and wonderful. I really get a picture of what it'd be like to live in the 1800s on a farm, it's great.
EmmanuelDA on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Laura Ingles Wilder probably read alot when she was a kid. I can tell. Farmer boy is my proof. Long and perfect.
Kiwiria on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
It took me quite awhile to read this one the first time around, because I didn't originally think that a book not about Laura could possibly be as good. I don't know why I thought that, seeing as it was the same person writing them, and fortunately my mum talked me into reading it. Now, it's one of my favourite of the series. It has a lot more explaining how they do this or that, but that doesn't bother me at all, since lots of this is completely new to me. I also like the fact that this book spans over almost exactly one year, so you get to see how life on a farm was back in those days.
skier123 on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Alonzo lives on a farm. He faces challenges such as an accident in the pantry and many more. This is a great book.
Zathras86 on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
I came back to this old childhood favorite because I am spending this summer working on a small vegetable farm. These books are every bit as wonderful as they were when I first read them as a child, although I notice different things now.This is certainly an idealized version of 19th-century American farming - the Wilder family farm is wonderfully prosperous and the main hardship of the story is that Almanzo's father does not think he is old enough to help train the horses. I suppose the fact that adults always idealize their own childhood, combined with the fact that this childhood was something Laura Ingalls Wilder heard about secondhand from her husband rather than experienced firsthand, leads to it being even more sugar-coated than the other books. But it's still incredibly charming, and there is something that appeals to me about the view of life and morality presented here - the incredible self-sufficiency of the farm is incredible to read about, and makes me secretly wish I had as many useful skills as any given character in the novel.The book also rivals the Redwall series with endless descriptions of mouth-watering meals. I wish I could eat like that as often as these characters do!
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Chicago Cubs rumors: Jason Heyward will get shot at permanent leadoff spot
Jason Heyward is looking for a spot to hit in the lineup [Image via Dave Herholz/Flickr]
Heyward hasn't been the power hitter they hoped he would be but he's got the tools to be a good top of the order hitter.
by Tobias Richmond (article and video)
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Cubs could turn to Heyward as permanent leadoff hitter - Video
The Chicago Cubs are hoping that Jason Heyward can do something he's never really done in his Major League baseball career. Whisperings around spring training are that the team is going to hope that the right fielder can take over permanent duties at the leadoff spot in 2019. That development is one that no one in the club is willing to paint themselves into a corner on, but the move would make sense, should it remotely work out. It makes sense for the team and the player.
Chicago Cubs enter third straight season without true leadoff hitter
2016 is a season of note for a number of reasons for Cubs fans. There is, of course, the fact that the team won its first World Series in over 100 years. That season is also the last time the club had a true leadoff hitter.
Here is today's #Cubs #SpringTraining Opening Day lineup! https://t.co/rWGlK6IBi5 pic.twitter.com/l8fIE3dHwe
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) February 23, 2019
Back then, the leadoff man was center fielder Dexter Fowler.
He was allowed to depart to St. Louis in that offseason and Theo Epstein and company have been trying to find someone to fill his shoes ever since. 2017 saw the team hope Kyle Schwarber could be a kind of power hitting leadoff hitter who could draw some walks. He didn't do either especially well.
In 2018, the team basically tried the exact same approach when it opened the season with Ian Happ leading off.
After a great spring, and an exciting first week of the year, it became obvious quickly he wasn't going to fit the bill. This year, the Chicago Cubs haven't committed to anyone taking the role permanently.
Jason Heyward's first game at leadoff won't be only one
While Chicago Cubs fans should never read all that much into the lineup, for the first spring training game of the year, (Daniel Descalso batted cleanup) there is reason to believe the right fielder's opening game spot is one he will repeat.
The Chicago Tribune reports that manager Joe Maddon made it clear he thinks the outfielder might be able to do the job long term. "What you'd like to do is get guys at the top of the order, get them in, get them out," Maddon said before his team's first spring training game of the year. "It's something Jason may be able to do during the course of the season."
Heyward isn't brand new to the leadoff spot.
He tried it out a few times in 2017 when it became clear Schwarber wasn't cutting it. He hit just .105 in 22 plate appearances leading off that season. He had just one plate appearance there last year.
Over the course of his career, however, Jason Heyward has 136 plate appearances and has an OBP of .349. That's good enough for the Chicago Cubs to try him out there. With no obvious person there to take that spot, he might have a long enough leash that we'll really see if he can do the job in 2019 as the team looks for ways to improve its offense compared to 2018's horrid finish.
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Time to unlock that elusive Tech skill.
If you hope to pursue a full romantic relationship with Peebee in Mass Effect Andromeda, you'll have to complete her loyalty mission, and the first step is called Secret Project. Unlocking this mission takes a little bit of work on your part, and it requires you to obtain the secret Tech ability on your skill tree.
After recruiting Peebee on Eos, you can talk to her, and she'll tell you that your relationship can only be advanced if you collect Rem-tech for her. Continue with the game as per normal, but be sure to check your email from time to time so you don't miss any notifications from Peebee. Once she emails you, you'll get a new quest that tasks you with collecting technology from Voeld and Eos. After you've done so, meet Peebee at her apartment where she'll reprogram an Observer that can assist you in combat. This is the secret Tech ability on the skill tree, and you'll now get to fight your enemies with a cool sidekick robot.
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Ukraine's Cabinet sets priority for call of ambulances
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In Ukraine, the arrival of ambulances will depend on the patient's condition. This was announced by Prime Minister Denys Shmygal.
"The government has supported the decision to introduce additional criteria for calling an ambulance regarding the priority of medical care. Depending on the patient's condition, calls to the ambulance will be divided into critical, emergency, non-emergency and non-specialized," the statement said.
It is noted that this step will reduce mortality as it sets a priority for patients in critical condition.
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A line in the sand : the Alamo diary of Lucinda Lawrence, Gonzales, Texas, 1835 / by Sherry Garland.
Physical Description: 201 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Strategy videos by Van Creveld,TX Hammes(2nd smartest Marine),Nagl,Baceivch(cant spell)....really good stuff here!!!!
WILF.....listen to Van Creveld on the definition of war!!!!!
Hmmmm.... yeah, heard it all before. I think he's plain wrong. I'm working my way through these.
As I really respect and like Hammes and Hoffman on a personal basis, I'm keen to hear what they say.
Have to say I didn't hear TX say anything new, and I think he's wrong about a lot of stuff.
In fact I didn't hear anything much new or interesting from anyone.
I disagree with a lot, and even some of the Clausewitz stuff was complicated to a point that just wasn't necessary.
Wilf, maybe you know where it is. But Clausewitz says somewhere and I am paraphrasing but Big C says that outside of the nation/state idea there is no moral rightness (hence a proper definition) of war.....which sounds a lot like what Van Creveld said. I will try and find the passage later unless you know where it is.
As for TX I found his comment about cutting all communications to Taiwan by the companies declaring bankruptcy interesting from the stand point of would it or wouldn't it be an act of War?
Does not wring a bell, especially as CvC talks alot about Peoples and Societies. The idea that CvC is limited to "Nation States," as per Westphalia, is utterly fallacious.
Using Cyber and Economics as tools of strategy, may be part of war, but they are not war in themselves.
War is the collective instrumental use of violence for political purposes. As a "Cyber" attack cannot burn down your house or kill your family, it's not warfare. It might be used as a tool of strategy. So what?
The whole problem here is that folks do not know the difference between, Policy, Strategy, War, and Warfare.
Having said that I've just been copied an e-mail from a senior officer who clearly cannot tell the difference between Tactics, Planning and Operations.
From my copy of the 1968 Penguin Classics edited by Anatol Rapoport. On page 101 (my edition) under Chapter 1 What is War by CvC.
"Violence, that is to say,physical force (for there is no moral force without the conception of States and Law), is therefore the means; the compulsory submission of the enemy to our will is the ultimate object. In order to attain this object fully, the enemy must be disarmed, and disarmament becomes therefore the immediate object of hostilities in theory."
Put it in the bin!! It's the worse CvC translation ever. Masses of very bad mistakes!
All good, and I very much agree.
CvC is differentiating Moral Force from Physical Force. He says that Moral Force requires Law and Law requires a "State" - which he also equates with "or a society organised as such."
He is NOT saying you need LAW to make war. - quite the opposite.


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Swansea City 1 Stoke City 2: Relegation confirmed after Swans fail to produce miracle
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The miracle that was needed to keep Swansea City in the Premier League was not forthcoming on Sunday.
Swansea City's seven-year stay in the Premier League came to an end on Sunday with a 2-1 loss against already relegated Stoke City at the Liberty Stadium.
Carlos Carvalhal's side needed a win, a Southampton loss and a 10-goal swing in order to preserve their place among the elite, having netted only twice in their last eight top-flight games.
Faced with that immense challenge, there was still room for sentiment as stalwart Angel Rangel started in his final outing for the hosts, with Leon Britton on the bench at the end of his long Swans career.
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And Swansea – who look set to part company with Carvalhal – were soon celebrating when Andy King stroked home the opener, prompting chants of 'we want 10' from the Stoke end, with former Potters boss Mark Hughes at the Saints helm.
It was the first time the Welsh club had taken the lead in a match since the 4-1 victory over West Ham in March, which came towards the end of a run of 18 points from Carvalhal's opening 10 games in charge.
Having taken over in December with the side rock-bottom on only 13 points, the Portuguese looked to be leading a remarkable revival, but their demise was confirmed amid some signs of protest at the club's hierarchy.
Badou Ndiaye lobbed in the leveller and Peter Crouch scored what proved to be the winner before the break, converting the 1000th Premier League goal of the season, while Xherdan Shaqiri missed a penalty in a drab second half.
The two sides will next meet in the Championship, with Paul Lambert's men having had their fate sealed following last weekend's 2-1 loss at home to Crystal Palace.
It ends in defeat at the Liberty. Our seven-year @premierleague adventure comes to an end… pic.twitter.com/PWpPs81yDA
— Swansea City AFC (@SwansOfficial) May 13, 2018
To Swansea's credit, there was a vibrancy and attacking vigour to their first-half play and Jordan Ayew fired an early free-kick into the wall before an almighty scramble in the box, with Jack Butland standing firm.
But the England goalkeeper was wrong-footed when King collected Andre Ayew's flick-on and side-footed home to break the deadlock 14 minutes in.
GOOOOOAL!!!! @10_kingy puts us in front! pic.twitter.com/FtViF04V5r
An excellent opportunity to double that advantage followed within three minutes, but Wayne Routledge curled an effort wide from inside the box.
However, after Jordan Ayew saw a strike repelled by Butland, the visitors broke away to level through Ndiaye's confident finish following an excellent assist from Shaqiri.
And Lambert's side forged ahead before the interval, Crouch stooping to head in a cross from Lasse Sorenson, the youngest player to start a Premier League game for Stoke at 18 years, 204 days.
Jordan Ayew's fine free-kick had Butland scrambling across his goal, but the ball flashed just past the post to send Swansea in at the break wondering how they were behind.
Lukasz Fabianski prevented further damage with a save from Shaqiri's 54th-minute spot-kick after Mike van der Hoorn had handled in the box.
The remainder of the contest yielded further proof of Swansea's goalscoring troubles, with Tammy Abraham and Andre Ayew denied, while Britton's introduction was a welcome distraction from the pain of the home side's 21st Premier League loss of 2017-18.
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- Stoke secured their first league double over the Swans since 1992-93, when they were in the third tier.
- After saving just one of his first 15 penalties in the Premier League, Lukasz Fabianski has saved three of his last six in the competition.
- Crouch extended his Premier League record for most headed goals in the competition (53).
- Andy King has scored two goals from four shots on target for Swansea in 11 Premier League apps, this after scoring once for Leicester in 11 games this term.
- This is only the second time in Premier League history that two teams beginning with the letter 'S' have been relegated in the same season – also 1993-94 (Swindon and Sheffield United).
- Xherdan Shaqiri has had a hand in more Premier League goals this term than any other Stoke player (15 - 8 goals, 7 assists).
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Moving to lighter and less expensive battery chemistries compared to contemporary lithium-ion requires the control of energy storage mechanisms based on chemical transformations rather than intercalation. Lithium–sulfur (Li/S) has tremendous theoretical specific energy, but contemporary approaches to control this solution-mediated, precipitation–dissolution chemistry require large excesses of electrolyte to fully solubilize the polysulfide intermediates. Achieving reversible electrochemistry under lean electrolyte operation is the most promising path for Li/S to move beyond niche applications to potentially transformational performance. An emerging Li/S research area is the use of sparingly solvating electrolytes and the creation of design rules for discovering new electrolyte systems that fundamentally decouple electrolyte volume from sulfur and polysulfide reaction mechanism.
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Following the termination of contract of boats pilotage monitoring and supervision which the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) had with Intels Nigeria Limited, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman said the organisation has already begun shopping for another company that will take up the job.
The NPA boss however assured that the termination would not lead to job losses as all the staff would be absolved by NPA. According to her, Intels has three months to quit the port as result of the termination of Intels contract.
Usman stated this yesterday in Lagos when she spoke with the media on topical issues in the maritime sector adding that once Intels is declared redundant, the company that will take up the contract from it will definitely absorb the workers.
According to her, the contract remained terminated as directed by government through a letter dated September 27, 2017 and addressed to the office of the Managing Director of the NPA by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mallam Abubakar Malami.
She said that Intels had remained obstinate and had refused to abide by the law of the country guiding such an agreement adding that for the fact that no company is above the law of Nigeria and that the disputed revenue belonged to the Federal Government, NPA reserved the right to cancel the agreement since Intels was not complying.
It would be recalled that Malami in his letter to NPA had said that the agreement, which allowed Intels to receive revenue on behalf of NPA for 17 years, violated the Nigerian Constitution, as it ran foul of the rules guiding the implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy of government.
Usman disclosed that she had raised letters and held several meetings with Intels management with a view to making it comply with the Federal Government's directive on the Treasury Single Account (TSA) since she assumed office 15 months ago adding that the company had however insisted not to make payment to NPA until it deducted 28 percent commission and other costs.
''NPA had insisted that a TSA account has been opened where all revenue relating to the contract must be paid and that at the end of the month, there will be reconciliation of accounts but Intels had bluntly refused to pay into the Account until it deducts 28 per cent commission and other costs.'', she said.
Usman explained that all further attempts by the NPA to get the company to comply with the payment directive was met with various excuses saying that the Authority thus had no other choice than to terminate the contract in order to maintain a level playing field, for the purpose of due diligence and obedience to the constitution of Nigeria.
The contract had been signed for the purpose of ensuring the safety of ships' passage within Nigeria's seaports. Thus the NPA, through Intels as its agent, provided pilotage services to guide ships into and out of the ports. Pilotage is a usual practice in the maritime industry and It is compulsory for all ships of 35 metres overall length or greater unless a valid Pilotage Exemption Certificate is held by the ship's master.
In return for the service, ship owners/companies are required to pay a pilotage fee, which Intels collects on NPA's behalf and retains 28 percent of the revenue as commission for the services rendered.
Drawing the attention of Bala-Usman to the illegality of the agreement, Malami had made it expressly clear that the agreement violates Sections 80(1) and 162(1) and (10) of the constitution, and wondered that the parties – NPA and Intels – did not avert their minds to the relevant provisions when they were negotiating the agreement in 2010.


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This amazing piece of 3D fan art is the work of Moscow-based Alexey Zakharov. A passion project rather than the reveal of a specially commissioned 3D film (we were disappointed too), Zakharov has animated a 30 second short of Futurama's bustling world, starring the show's Planet Express ship.
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Sakar International Recalls Tony Hawk Silver Metallic Multi-Purpose Helmets Due to Risk of Head Injury; Sold Exclusively at Walmart
Tony Hawk Silver Helmets
The recalled helmets do not comply with the positional stability and retention system requirements of the U.S. CPSC federal safety standard for bicycle helmets. The helmets can fail to protect in the event of a crash, posing a risk of head injury.
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This recall involves Tony Hawk Silver Metallic multi-purpose helmets. The helmets are silver with black straps and a black buckle. Tony Hawk's signature is printed on the outside of the helmet. The white warning label on the inside of the helmet contains the Item No. AGE2515STH-SIL on the top right corner. These Tony Hawk Silver Metallic multi-purpose helmets were also provided as replacement helmets for Sarkar Dimensions Bluetooth Speaker Helmets in March 2022 and now themselves are being recalled. Sakar will contact consumers who received the replacement helmet as a remedy.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled helmets and contact Sakar for instructions on receiving a refund in the form of a $40 Walmart gift card. Consumers should not return the helmet to Walmart and should contact Sakar for the gift card and to facilitate returns using prepaid postage packaging. Walmart will contact all known purchasers.
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The First Graduating Class of LITs
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Eleven young adults – each with such unique stories, sets of strengths and challenges, personalities, and character – graduated from the Leaders-In-Training program on March 1st. It was a "waypoint" for all – a monumental marker along their journey. Parents were beaming, siblings and friends were excited, and LITs were incredibly proud of their achievement.
But to us, it was big as well! This was no typical program! It was the first time since Waypoint opened in 2010 that we've put together an intentional, goal-focused, extensive series for a specific population that is "Open Enrollment" style – meaning we formed a team from the public. And it was an incredible success! There are a million good stories or times we can point to and say "THAT was a moment that he/she grew…" but the BIGGEST, most impactful outcome was belonging.
Let me set the stage: The transition from youth to adult is scary for anyone. Even with the most solid support systems, it's easy to lose confidence in yourself, lose sight of your preferences, get confused about what decisions to make, know when to take risks, etc. And it's precisely why transition-age youth with disabilities – who aren't given the same opportunities to step out of their comfort zone and take on leadership roles – have the odds stacked against them.
But our theme addressed this: "Leadership" is actually all about knowing yourself. Knowing who you are deep down. When decision-making opportunities come up or there are relationships to manage, if you know yourself well, you can trust your judgement and your preferences, rely on your strengths, or ask for help. In this LIT program, the curriculum was written around "learning to be leaders," but it turned out to be so much more about knowing yourself and being known by others. This group formed quickly into a "family" and they used this word over and over again to describe the group… "We're a family!"
On March 1st, on the 13th floor of a Boston high-rise at Wilmington Trust, the evening celebration began. With food and drinks, a slideshow, and view of the city, each LIT was given a new name honoring the ways they were "known" within the group. Several LITs shared about what they had taken away from the experience, and all received a certificate and gift. Also in attendance were the new LITs and their families – those that have been accepted into the 2018-2019 crew! The graduating class got to shake hands and welcome in these new and excited young adults.
Check out pictures of this exciting event and some posts we've done along the way: LIT is in Full Swing, The Progress Report, and LIT Backpacking Trip 2017. And a huge thank you to Wilmington Trust for making this program possible!
Lastly, this could be YOU or someone you know! We're still accepting applications for the new LIT team! Apply at www.waypointadventure.org/leadersintraining/!
Ryan Horrigan delivering his speech: How he has felt a sense of belonging in the group.
Shayda Tahmili and Sara Young share about the ways they became friends and what they have in common… The list was extensive!
Sara Frost shares about what she has learned from the LIT program… her biggest takeaway: confidence in herself!
An excerpt from Sara's speech
Robert King receives his certificate. His new name was The Magnifier.
Sara Young receives her certificate. Her new name was The Connector.
Tessa Geomelos receives her certificate. She got the Mirror Award.
Ryan Horrigan and Chris Dunn welcome in new LIT, Daemon Tendler.
Will Haas welcomes in new LIT Anthony Curioso.
Sara Young and Kristina Gillis welcome in new LIT, Emma Ferrick.
A proud group standing together having just graduated!
All the LITs! The graduating class as well as the new class inducted in!
The big group along with Wilmington Trust. Thank you Carl Robinson, Rob Coly, Alycia Joyal, Josh Christian, and Timothy Wade for hosting us!
The rest are pictures from our last few programs. Below is our Outdoor Rock Climbing adventure at Quincy Quarries in October 2017. Everyone was assigned a specific partner that they had to work with for the rest of the day. On this day, friendships in the group really started to go deeper.
Next up was our Indoor Rock Climbing adventure of November 2017. This program started out a bit differently than most. Thanks to the gracious hosts at Central Rock Gym in Watertown, we held a panel discussion and all the LITs' families joined us. On the panel were three young adults with disabilities who had leadership experience and could speak to the adulthood transition process: Melissa Bradley, Kamisha Heriveaux, and Jack Hanke. These three shared about their experiences getting jobs, finding roommates, balancing schedules, navigating relationships with parents, and gave good advice to our LITs who were working on figuring that stuff out! At the end, we all climbed together!
Our planned January "Snowshoeing" adventure turned more into an ice-hike in the 60s…. strange… but wonderful. We spent the day at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge practicing navigation, making decisions, and working together as a team.
Our last adventure was a full weekend up at The Browne Center at UNH. It was a perfect way to celebrate the culmination of hard work and personal growth. This group became a family. And no, that doesn't just mean "they became great friends." That means dragging gear on sleds to a yurt, burrito buffet by headlamps, a NEVER-ENDING, no-mercy Uno game, a chorus of snoring unlike anything you've ever heard, launching through the trees on the Flying Squirrel, trying to balance the entire group on a teeter totter, Robert hoarding the pop tarts, Zach's mad libs, Ryan sampling the roast beef, and a heartfelt, honest, and beautiful bracelet ceremony. There's so many memories to take away from this weekend and this series overall. But it's the connection to purpose and investment in relationship that made weekends like this one stand out.
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Standing at just 143mm tall and 15mm in diameter, it's slim and compact for discrete use. The K2 has a 1.6 Ohm coil pre-installed which is ideal to use with high PG juices for a stronger throat hit, or nicotine salts for a high nicotine dose without compromising on flavour. With an 800mAh battery you get plenty of vaping time before you need to re-charge and the micro-USB port means charging is fuss free too.
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We've investigated why clinical researchers are flocking to Fitbit with its trackers used in over 100 studies and trials according to Clinical Trials.gov. Fitbit trackers have collected over 2 billion minutes worth of data in the name of research.
Now Fitbit has created its own database with its research partner Fitabase made up of 164 published studies which mention using Fitbit wearables. The Fitabase Research Library is designed to be a public one stop-shop resource for published and peer-reviewed studies using Fitbit technology. So, for now, it doesn't include dissertations and masters' thesis submissions.
You can check it out now and see the title, author, year, journal, wearable data used and links to more information for each entry as well as submitting new studies.
There are studies dating back to 2012 and topics range from recovery in the elderly after major surgery to increasing physical activity of young people with autism and self managing Type 2 diabetes. There's also a fair few studies testing the abilities and accuracies of the Fitbit trackers themselves.
Fitbit Group Health has also been publicising a Fitbit sponsored study by Springbuk that found that employers can save money on employees' healthcare costs with a Fitbit corporate wellness scheme. It's Fitbit sponsored so take everything with a pinch of salt but the study of 2,689 people found that businesses saved an average of $1,300 per employee on the scheme.
"These are looking at everyone from 'low-steppers' – around 6,600 steps per day – to those who we consider the 'worried well' and are stepping beyond the recommended 10,000 steps per day, and they are all getting a decreased healthcare cost," said Amy McDonough, VP of Fitbit Group Health, and one of our women to watch in wearable tech.


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The key to a spotless kitchen is a well-organized pantry. These two spaces make a perfect team, with the kitchen doing the heavy lifting in terms of prep and the pantry providing plenty of room to stash tools, ingredients, and serving pieces. While storage is the centerpiece of the pantry and should be the main consideration when it comes to design, the space can do double duty as a bar or a secondary prep area for food and floral arrangements. It can also serve as a showcase for collections of glassware and china, on open shelving, in glass-front cabinets, or even on the wall. See how Steven Gambrel, Barbara Westbrook, Ray Booth, and other designers have created highly organized and beautifully functional pantry spaces.
In the pantry of a Bridgehampton, New York, home designed by Steven Gambrel, a white-oak ladder by Putnam Rolling Ladder Co. makes the tall shelves easily accessible; polished-nickel pendant lamps by Hudson Valley Lighting illuminate the space.
Antique Wedgwood and Coalport china is stored in the pantry of architect Jim Joseph and musical theater composer Scott Frankel's upstate New York home.
The pantry of architect Alison Spear's Hudson Valley, New York, home is outfitted with a 1930s pendant light and heirloom china; the dishwasher is by Miele.
In the Nashville, Tennessee, home he shares with his partner, TV executive John Shea, designer Ray Booth devised a working pantry lined with open shelves for tableware. The sink and fittings are by Kohler.
Designer Barbara Westbrook fashioned a gracious, party-ready home boasting two pantries for longtime clients in South Carolina. In the butler's pantry, diamond-pattern glass door fronts and a crystal chandelier lend a dressed-up look to the cabinetry.
To provide a handsome focal point in the storage pantry, which is visible from the foyer, Westbrook backed open shelving with a slab of Italian marble; the space, off the kitchen, has its own sink and appliances and functions as a secondary prep area.
Shoji-like doors conceal the pantry in the Los Angeles home of actress Jamie Lee Curtis and her husband, actor and director Christopher Guest.
At the Martyn Lawrence Bullard–designed home of Khloé Kardashian, the pantry is meticulously organized.
In the same home, containers of baking supplies are neatly labeled for easy access.
Designers Thomas O'Brien and Dan Fink display their collection of vintage and new copper cookware in the pantry of their Long Island home.


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The ultimate goal of the new campus is to increase workforce capacity for existing companies in the Memphis area, helping to keep their production here.
"This facility will be important for our region because it will allow us to train more students in really high-demand areas, with a focus on medical device, heating and air conditioning, mechatronics, automotive and heavy equipment," Rayner said.
More than 200 jobs are available locally in the medical device industry alone.
The local medical device industry employs an estimated 6,500 people directly and another 10,000 people indirectly in greater Shelby County, with an overall economic impact of $2.7 billion, according to a November 2015 economic impact study by the Greater Memphis Medical Device Council (GMMDC). Medical devices are the largest export from the state of Tennessee, and the majority of those are made in Shelby County.
The GMMDC was a primary driver in helping TCAT get the $16.9 million in funding for the project, including $1 million from the city of Bartlett, $1 million from the Gene HAAS Foundation and roughly $14.9 million from the state of Tennessee.
The new 49,000-square-foot TCAT campus will include a state-of-the-art medical device training center and room to train about 200 students.
"A significant part of the design is to ensure that people are able to see what is going on within the classrooms, so the interior of the facility is going to be glass," said Rayner, who envisions tours with high school students or business/industry professionals.
Companies that partner with TCAT will be able to showcase their latest products and equipment.
"So it's a training facility, but it will also be a showplace," Rayner said.
Braganza design/Group designed the project design, and Nashville-based Hoar Construction will be the general contractor.
"The driving force behind the design concept is to illustrate the technical nature of the programs as a showpiece for the Tennessee Board of Regents, City of Bartlett, TCAT and industry stakeholders," braganza's Chris Norton said.
Visibility and public engagement are essential elements for a suburban campus, according to Norton, so the building is pushed right up to the intersection with parking hidden in the rear.
The building will comply with Tennessee High-Performance Building standards, which encourage cost-effective, energy-efficient design and improved life cycle cost.
Braganza previously completed a renovation for TCAT on its main campus at 550 Alabama Blvd. in Downtown Memphis, as well as a 20,000-square-foot addition there last year. The firm is completing design work on eight TCAT campuses (Jackson, Covington, Memphis Phase 1 & 2, Paris, Newbern, McKenzie, Whiteville and Crump).
Also in Bartlett, TCAT since last year has partnered with Bartlett High School to offer dual enrollment medical device classes during the day and medical device classes at night for adults at the high school. That part of the school's campus is being renovated now as part of its $60 million renovation.
A date for the groundbreaking for the new TCAT facility in Bartlett has not been set, but it will be by mid-April. Rayner hopes the building will open by next spring, but he said it could be next summer or fall if weather doesn't cooperate.


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Q: Error while online manipulation of CM5 in the bioloid kit I am getting the following error after flashing a program on the controller(CM5) and while on-line manipulation of CM5 in the bioloid kit.

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"Web Directions South 2010" – Forum Thread – Discuss – Symphony.
Web Directions South is just a short time away an I know that some of you are going to attend it. Being in Sydney at the moment I'm wondering if there is any interest in an informal meeting on wednesday night somewhere in town.
Yes, definitely. There was a great little do by the harbour thrown by Mozilla last year on the Wednesday night before the conference - if that's on again this year, I'd be keen to catch up with a few fellow Symphonians.
Update: It doesn't look like there's a Mozilla event this year - you can see what's on at http://webweek.com.au/. I've RSVP'd for SydJS at Atlassian's offices, but I'm easy as to when/where we meet up.
Sounds good to me too. I'll be at SydJS, but happy to meet up sometime that evening.
Myself and @buzzomatic will be there as well.
Just RSVP'd for SydJS as well. So see you there and we'll see what the evening brings.