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Place the cranberries, lemon zest and juice and sugar in a small pan and cook over a medium-low heat until the cranberries pop and mash down. Remove from the heat then press the mixture through a sieve into a small bowl. Dice the butter into small pieces and add it to the bowl.
Put the bowl over hot water in a pan so that the water comes up the sides of the bowl but doesn't come in, and the bowl is not touching the bottom of the pan.
Stir regularly as the butter melts then add the egg and egg yolk. Mix well so the eggs break up and mix through then stir constantly as the mixture starts to thicken.
It's ready when thick enough to stick to the back of a spoon, around 5min. Set aside with cling wrap/film over the surface as it cools so that a skin doesn't form.
Meanwhile, pulse the pecans in a food processor to fine breadcrumb texture. Melt the 1tbsp butter and mix this in with the ground pecans along with the ground almonds and sugar.
Press the mixture into two small tartlet moulds (I used 2 ¾-3in diameter but you can use smaller and have a slightly thicker base & topping) - it will be pretty thin but try to make it cover the base and come up slightly at the sides.
Once the curd is cool, spoon it in to the moulds on top of the nut-crumb base. They will keep chilled and covered overnight, if needed but the curd will dry out a bit if kept longer.


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I’ve been doing this for years, and it still amazes me. Maybe I’m just easily amused, or maybe it’s really as fascinating as I think it is. Less than a month ago, we soaked the Sunday Times, ripped it up and threw it in a bin with a bunch of lowly worms. Every couple days, I added some worthless kitchen scraps to feed the worms. Now, just a few weeks later, it’s completely broken down and nearly totally converted to nutrient-rich compost, in the form of worm castings (waste, refuse, poop). Several pounds of soil, sand and worm castings, ready and waiting to enrich the earth in an organic conversion that happened right before our eyes.
In a vermicomposting system, waste materials such as paper, cardboard, leaves, sticks, vegetable scraps, string, organic matter and even dryer lint are upcycled into a new material of better quality and higher environmental value than the original material. The environmental benefits are numerous: (1) Waste material is reduced in bulk up to 75%, (2) Every pound of waste thrown into the bin and converted to compost is garbage that never entered our sewers via the garbage disposal or into our landfill, (3) Use these no-cost, supercharged, organic worm castings instead of expensive commercially available fertilizers in and around your home’s garden spaces.
LIFE CYCLE OF A WORM BIN
EACH WEEK, WE’LL JOURNAL THE PROGRESS OF A WORM BIN, FROM DAY 1 UNTIL THE DAY WE HARVEST THE NUTRIENT-RICH WORM CASTINGS. (Disclaimer: No worms were harmed in the making of this story)
Added 3 pounds of kitchen waste to the bin:
4 egg shells
2 coffee grind dumps
3 discarded corn cobs
1/2 lb. artichoke leaves and chokes
1 handful of onion peels, lettuce and some tomato scraps
Odor and Appearance
The scraps were added at the beginning of the week. The picture was taken at the end of the week. Notice the distinct absence of recognizable food scraps. Last week, the food scraps were in the picture, but buried; this week there are no scraps left whatsoever. As for the odor, it smells like damp earth. No coffee aroma, newspaper or anything unpleasant.
I saw signs of red wiggler cocoons (eggs) in the bin and for the first time, there were immature worms in the mix. For some reason, both cocoons and baby worms are often found in and near broken egg shells. These are good signs that the worm bin’s micro-climate is functioning as it should.
As usual, there are a few gnats and fruit flies hovering beneath the lid and under the cardboard. Nothing to worry about.
Now that the bacterial activity and chemistry is active inside the worm bin, things happen fast. Don’t let it fool you though. It is easy to think you can load the bin with more-and-more kitchen scraps each week, but the truth is, you can’t. Not just yet.
Next week, in the last of our series, we will look at how to harvest the rich bounty of worm castings and re-establish a new bed for the growing universe of worms.
INVESTMENT in TIME
Week 3: Care and maintenance – 10 minutes
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How will your students answer when an interviewer asks,
“What social media networks are you on, and what will I learn about you if I go there?”
Equipping students for their future begins by helping them become digital leaders now. In our networked society, students need to learn how to leverage social media to connect to people, passions, and opportunities to grow and make a difference.
When people think of kids and their devices, it is often with dismay. But technology is here to stay, which means we must educate, empower, and inspire our students to use social media to …
- learn and share learning
- address societal inequality
- share their voices
- be a more positive influence in others’ lives
Social LEADia addresses the need to shift our conversations at school and at home from digital citizenship to digital leadership. Inside, you’ll read about some amazing kids who are leveraging social media in positive and powerful ways. They are passionate and empathetic leaders online and offline, and they model the reality that students don't need to wait for tomorrow to lead—they can be world-changers today.
“Casa-Todd does a masterful job addressing the ‘Yeah, buts ... ,’ while moving the social media conversation from compliance to leadership. Social LEADia is a brilliant read and a needed tool for your educator toolkit.”
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The RDA Outstanding Soloist program is an educational opportunity for dancers to receive personalized, constructive feedback on a solo performance from RDA’s world-class adjudicators.
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The confidence of California consumers in the economy has increased somewhat, as businesses in portions of the state reopened in the wake of the pandemic. Yet, uncertainty as to the future trajectory of Covid-19 and the availability and timing of a vaccine is the wild card moving forward.
According to a recent survey of Californians, consumer confidence rose 5%, the first gain since the onset of the pandemic. This is promising news given that consumer confidence drives buying power and consumption accounts, on average, for 70% of all U.S. economic activity.
The California Consumer Index, released in October by Claremont McKenna College’s Lowe Institute of Political Economy and Chapman University, indicates that the uptick in consumers’ confidence in the third quarter follows in the wake of the devastating lack of confidence evidenced since year end 2019, through the current pandemic, to the present.
“The increase in consumer sentiment is good news and is felt in most demographic groups of Californians,” said Cameron Shelton, Director of the Lowe Institute of Political Economy.
Although the survey found a decline in household income across the board, confidence in the economy rose among most income categories. Those earning more than $100,000 annually experienced an average loss of 15 % of income, yet confidence increased by 5%. Those earning less than $50,000 bore larger relative losses of income – 34 %; however, confidence rose by 2%.
Large increases in sentiment among specific groups of consumers are important, positive indicators during this time of economic distress. Rebounds in sentiment among the self-employed, rising 36%, and part-time workers, increasing by 8 %, indicate some movement in the job market. Further, consumer confidence among those in the middle-income range, from $50 K – $100 K, rose 3 %. “These results seem to track the return of work as partial reopening was allowed and businesses discovered new ways to reach customers,” said Shelton.
Consumer sentiment rose 8 % among respondents 18-24 years old – those most likely to have been laid off or furloughed as a result of the shut-down – partially reversing the large downward collapse in confidence of this age group. And, the confidence of senior citizens increased by 13%.
The 2,000-person survey asked Californians several questions about future economic and financial conditions. When queried about their perceived financial situation next year, confidence shot up by 9 %.
When asked to assess U.S. business conditions next year, there was a positive increase -13 % – in confidence. Respondents also had a more positive outlook as to the effect of business conditions on their household this year and next.
The bad news. Californians surveyed continue to be concerned about the labor market, with overall sentiment regarding employment up a mere 0.4% between the second and third quarters of this year. A recent U.S. Labor Department report indicates fewer people applying for first-time unemployment benefits compared to a week ago. However, according to a Los Angeles Times story, “The most recent figure is still more than three times the average in recent weeks prior to the coronavirus outbreak and lockdowns in March, reflecting continued large-scale layoffs and distress in the labor market.”
Will the confidence of California consumers in the economy continue to edge upward? Or is this a blip? With job growth slowing down, when will there be a return to full employment? And, what are the prospects of advancing economic growth moving forward? Questions with no easy answers, given that the tragic impact of the virus on people’s lives continues, with hope for a vaccine and economic recovery yet unfulfilled.
However, there are some bright signs. According to a recent, national survey conducted by McKinsey & Company, “Even though 80 % of consumers report still feeling somewhat unsafe, out-of-home activity is picking up with one-third of consumers resuming “normal” out-of-home activities with Americans most eager to return to indoor dining and gatherings with family and friends.”
Yet, uncertainty reigns. In the words of business leader Mindy Grossman, “There are three things that are never good for a consumer mindset: uncertainty certainly, concern and discordance.” Not sure I’m going to sleep well tonight.
Billie Greer, among other activities, is a Trustee of the Lowe Institute of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College. She regularly reports on the Consumer Sentiment Index which is released quarterly.

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To balance energy, the focus is on symptoms a person is experiencing: stress, anxiousness, fear, worry,etc.; pain or discomfort in the body; inability to change behavior or achieve a goal.
While some issues may be resolved in a single session, deep-seated ones often take longer. If something has been an issue for many years, it's likely to take more than one session to experience change.
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Sophocles: the plays and fragments with critical notes, commentary and translation in english prose volume 1: the oedipus tyrannus edited by richard claverhouse jebb sophocles. Sophocles' tragic vision of human existence origins of drama: religious festivals and the antigone, oedipus tyrannus, oedipus at colonus 1 the story (oedipus, jocasta reasoning, claiming to find a comprehensive rationalist moral meaning for the play 5 others insist on the very crucial,. In the greek play, king oedipus written by sophocles, certain characteristics, which determine the traits of a tragic hero, reveal themselves as the play unfolds these traits enable readers to enjoy a more that king oedipus has a strong passion for the truth and high moral standards as the play progresses further, king. Concludes that the play oedipus rex demonstrates the fundamental human struggle is a spiritual struggle 2 mary whitlock blundell's interesting book on ancient greek morality, helping friends and harming the general view of sophocles' oedipus rex holds that the protagonist is a victim of fate.
Denouncing a view that he discovered in some undergraduate essays on the modern critical interpretations: sophocles'oedipus rex(new york 1988) 35-47 or reading the play our sympathies are with oedipus: we feel terror and pity at his plight and this makes us want him to be innocent and his persecutor, apollo, to. Sophocles, one of the most noted playwrights of the ancient world, wrote the tragedy oedipus rex in the first half of the decade 430–420 bc a lethal plague is described in this drama we adopted a critical approach to oedipus rex in analyzing the literary description of the disease, unraveling its clinical. Did you hear the one about the guy who killed his dad and married his mom yeah, that's not a joke, it's oedipus' life this video summarizes the greek tragedy oedipus the king as oedipus investigates who murdered the old king (spoiler alert: he did) the moral of the story don't investigate something. Oedipus rex (oedipus the king) study guide contains a biography of sophocles, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full darkness and light are tightly wound up with the theme of sight and blindness in sophocles' play morals are difficult in epic stories like oedipus.
In both the current era and the time of the ancient greeks sophocles' play oedipus tyrannus is seen as the quintessential model of greek tragedy this is due to the intricate questions of morality that are masterfully woven into the literature and the fact that “perhaps no classical greek play that has stimulated as much. The play and ignoring key elements and conventions that compose the intentions of the tragedy using aristotelian support in my argument, i provide readers and viewers of the oedipus tyrannos with a perspective that will consider sophocles' intentions for the tragedy within the context of the fifth century bc, so we can. Oedipus rex is the first, chronologically, of these three plays a good deal of the action, however, happens before the play even begins sophocles' audience would have known the whole oedipus myth, from start to finish as a result, sophocles does not write about the very beginning of the story he just.
Sophocles' “oedipus rex,” considered to be among the greatest surviving examples of classical greek drama, maintains an enduring hold on scholars, readers, and audiences alike nearly these questions surround the nature of fate, the illusion of control, the importance of truth, and moral guilt today. This very play, sophocles's oedipus the king, some have argued, is making precisely that point (i'll come back to this idea later) the hero if we grasp something about does an acknowledgement of a fatal divine presence impose any moral obligations on me relative to my fellow believers and so on moses gives us a. Oedipus is hailed as the 'greatest of men' in the play oedipus tyrannos or oedipus the king moral error is associated with failure to consult the form of the good, by which means one ensures that an action is globally moral — and does not merely seem correct from the limited viewpoint of a particular.
And rejects the simple moral plot, in which a bad man succumbs to hardship, as utterly untragic arguably of the tragic hero, this article will analyze the second stasimon of sophocles' oedipus rex in an attempt to in fact, numerous scholars, including bernard knox, have noted the ambiguous play, in this stanza, on the.
Daniel mcinerny writes that if we replace moral law with mere preference, tragedy becomes farce, and oedipus marries his mom as the chorus laments at the end of sophocles' great play, oedipus the king: behold this oedipus— him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful. Everything you ever wanted to know about quotes about oedipus the king, written by experts with you in mind. Philosophers such as socrates opened rational debate on the nature of moral choices and the role of the gods in human affairs slowly judging from his plays, sophocles took a conservative view on augury and prophecy the oracles in the oedipus trilogy speak truly — although obliquely — as an unassailable authority.


The fatigue life of mini or small-diameter dental implants is of particular interest because these implants are used to retain and support fixed and removable dental prostheses. The fatigue life of an implant depends on both the implant itself as well as on the physical properties of the bone. However, the capability to predict the fatigue life of a newly placed implant is currently inexistent. This pilot study represents the first step in developing such a methodology and focuses on the design of a cost-effective device to measure the fatigue life of a dental implant. In our measurements, the implant has been mounted in an essentially rigid support, but test specimens can also be bone mounted in vitro. Furthermore, we developed a finite element-based computer model capable of predicting the corresponding fatigue life. The finite element analysis was performed in ABAQUS, and the results predicted by the model correlated fairly well with our initial experimental results. Most of the 2-mm diameter implants fractured after more than a million cycles.
Very small diameter or mini dental implants have been used to support fixed and removable prostheses. The fatigue life expectancy of these implants is of particular interest because of their popular use by dentists to retain and/or support fixed and removable dental prostheses.1,–5 Most dental implant sites have a paucity of presenting bone volume. An atrophic edentulous ridge may be too narrow to place a standard-diameter (3.75–4.1 mm) implant. Some clinicians have reported successful treatment with 2.0-mm diameter implants supporting fixed prostheses in atrophic or compromised osseous sites. Proprietary data of implant manufacturers suggest that there may be sufficient durability and resistance to cyclic loading forces at 200 N for these very small diameter implants to be used to support fixed dental prostheses (Figure 1) (MDL, Intra-Lock, Boca Raton, Fla). Proprietary research has used bidirectional cyclic loads to test for metal fatigue of the implants embedded in acrylic resin (GC Pattern Resin, GC America, Alsip, Ill); however, there has been no extramural cyclic load testing of these implants (data from Intra-Lock).
Knowledge of the fatigue life of an implant may prove to be an important therapeutic parameter. To accurately and confidently predict how long one of these very small diameter implants will function properly, fatigue tests are needed to find the fatigue life of the implant. With the information on how many cycles the implant functions until failure, the life expectancy of the implant can be predicted more accurately, which is important for prosthetic longevity.
The fatigue life of an implant depends on both the implant itself as well as on the physical properties of the bone. However, the capability to predict the fatigue life of a newly placed implant does not currently exist. In this study, we take the first steps toward developing such a capability by creating a cost-effective device that can accurately measure the fatigue life of a dental implant and a computer model whose predictions correlate well with our measurements. The purpose of this study was to test 2.0-mm diameter, 1-piece dental implants for 200 N unidirectional cyclic loads while embedded in a rigid base and to find an appropriate mode of testing for future research. We have also developed a finite element-based computer model capable of predicting the corresponding fatigue life. The finite element analysis was performed in ABAQUS (SIMULIA, Warwick, RI) and the results, as predicted by the model, correlated fairly well with experimental results. Consequently, such a computer model can be used to predict the fatigue life of other implants without requiring additional physical testing.
Materials and Methods
The implant analyzed in this project is a 2.0-mm diameter Mini-Drive Lock (MDL) implant (Intra-Lock) (Figure 1). Determining the fatigue life of this implant was the focus of this experiment.
Testing consisted of 9 cyclic fatigue tests on 9 titanium alloy implants (Ti-6Al-4V) (Table 1). Even though such a small test sample is not statistically significant, the results can be used to understand and to plan more efficient and more significant further testing.
To test these implants, a loading device and a data acquisition system were designed. The loading device imparted a cyclic load onto the titanium implant until the titanium implant failed (Figures 2 through 5). The device was designed to generate a force in the range of 200 to 300 N on the implant, the average force in the anterior section of the human jaw. The load cycle was delivered at a rate of 6 cycles per second. The stress cycle is not a reversed cycle, so the force applied was only in one direction. LabVIEW (National Instruments, Austin, Tex) was used to acquire all the necessary data. A load cell was used to record the force data and the cycle data.
The fatigue testing machine was built and calibrated. Six titanium implants were tested until failure (Figure 6). The implant on the far right is discolored, perhaps because of thermal damage from autoclaving. Thermal metallic changes may have caused the implant to fail far sooner than implants that were not autoclaved. Note that all failures occurred at the junction of the implant collar and screw threads as predicted by the computer simulation. This correlates well with the prediction of the finite element model.
A graph of the data collected from the load cell was made (Figure 7). The load average remains constant until the implant failed catastrophically. Once this happens the load range decreases significantly. At this point the computer outputs a signal to the relay network to shut off the motor. The number of cycles until failure is tabulated in Table 2.
As evident from the data, the implants failed at a wide variety of cycles. The 2 implants that failed the earliest, implants 3 and 4, were visibly changed from autoclaving. These implants were a purplish color, indicating that heat and pressure may have weakened them, which probably caused earlier failures. All implants failed at the junction of the implant collar and at the beginning of the threads where the collet was holding the implant. The rigid retention may have contributed to the failure site and lowered the number of cycles to fail. Intra-Lock company data results gave a higher number of cycles to failure, but the testing conditions were different than ours. First, their implant specimens were retained in an acrylic base that may have allowed some movement of the implant or absorption or dissipation of some of the applied force into the acrylic base. Second, their testing setup applied a bidirectional cyclic force on the implant.
A macroscopic view of the failed region of the implant is shown (Figure 8). The entire surface of the failed cross section is typically referred to as a rapid fracture area.6 In fatigue testing, the fractured surface may exhibit a pattern of rings or undulations called beach marks, which indicate an advancement of a failing crack front. However, the implants tested do not exhibit this phenomenon, indicating a catastrophic, rapid failure due to the cyclic stress.
One study has shown that full-dentition adults can apply a maximum force on their teeth ranging from 244 to 1243 N, with an average of 720 N.7 This force vector applied to the tooth is in both the axial direction and the lateral direction. The force vector important to the current study is the predominant force in the fatiguing of the dental implant, that is, the lateral force. Lateral, off-axial forces, applied in a cyclic fashion from masticatory patterns and parafunction, may fatigue the implant, causing it to fracture. Studies have also shown that a young adult man applies a level-3 force (a force that is three fourths the magnitude of the subject's maximum biting force), an average of 314 times. A young adult man will apply this level-3 force on his teeth an average of 325 times a day, including during sleep. This means that a young adult man will chew with a moderate amount of force an average of 325 times a day, mostly during meal times. These numbers for an adult woman were found to be 439 times during meal times and 453 times a day.8 Men apply greater maximum biting forces than women, meaning an implant should have a better chance of failing in a male patient.9 With knowledge of the magnitude of the applied forces and the numbers of chewing cycles a human applies each day, the fatigue test may allow a prediction for the life of an implant or the number of years until failure.
Before testing, however, an understanding of fatigue and fracture mechanics is needed. Most engineering materials will fail sooner when the applied stresses are cyclic rather than static. This failure also tends to occur at a much lower stress level than the tensile strength of the material. This failure is attributable to fatiguing, a phenomena caused by cyclic loading.10 Cyclic loading is defined as a load that varies between a maximum stress, σmax, and a minimum stress, σmin. The amplitude of the stress, σa, is defined as half the difference between the maximum stress and minimum stress.
Another property of the cyclic load that is important to the fatigue life of the sample is the mean stress, σm, where
The cycling between constant maximum and minimum stress is called constant amplitude stressing. This stressing cycle will be applied to the implant to test the fatigue life of the sample. Figure 4 shows the cyclic stresses as a function of time. Here, the amplitude, minimum stress, maximum stress, and mean stresses are shown. In a fatigue analysis, the effect of cyclic loading is approached from several different directions. When the stress levels are significantly below the yield stress of the material, one uses the stress-based approach to fatigue. Using the definition given in Equations 1 and 2, an equivalent static stress can be approximated as follows:
where Kf is the fatigue stress concentration factor, Sy is the yield strength of the material, and Se is the modified value of the endurance limit. The value of Kf and Se depend heavily on geometry, surface condition, and material variation.11 The corrected endurance limit must account for these imperfections through the use of correction factors. For types of steels, the endurance limit is approximately half the ultimate strength of the material. The value of the equivalent stress allows for a static analysis of a cyclic problem.
The failure attributable to fatigue is attributable to the propagation of microscopic cracks in the material. The field of fracture mechanics analyzes the rate and manner of crack propagation. When a material is initially subjected to fatigue loading, small cracks begin to form. As the fatiguing continues these cracks begin to get larger or propagate. The rate at which these cracks propagate has a direct influence on the fatigue life of the material. The faster the crack propagates, the sooner the part will fail. Unlike static loading failure, where small scratches or tool marks have little effect, cyclic loading failure is influenced greatly by these small imperfections.
Cracks initiate because of the imperfections and nonuniform characteristics of real materials. When these imperfect materials are stressed in the elastic range, small, irreversible changes and dislocation movement occur. These changes are too small to be detected. However, when many cycles of this stress occur, these changes become noticeable and harmful to the material.13 These irreversible changes eventually lead to the initiation of a small crack. Once a crack is formed, it initially propagates very slowly along crystallographic planes of high stress and subsequently fails.6,13,14
The fatigue-testing machine was designed and built to apply a cyclic horizontal force to measure the number of cycles to failure of dental implants. It can apply a cyclic load from 0 to 200 N at a rate of 6 Hz and can be used to measure the fatigue life of a variety of dental implants. A finite element analysis analysis was performed on the implant geometry to numerically predict the fatigue life. The Goodman method of S-N curves closely approximated the average life expectancy of the experimental data.
Although we did not test a statistically significant number of samples, the 9 failed implants show the typical range of fatigue life values that can be obtained even for implants having identical nominal geometry. The fatigue life of the tested implants varied significantly, as expected. The maximum fatigue life exceeded 1.6 million cycles, and the minimum fatigue life (of possibly heat-damaged implants) just passed 10 000 cycles. Thermal damage and prestressed implants can account for some, but not all, of the low fatigue life of some of the tested implants. Broadly speaking, a number of other factors can contribute to such a variation, including material defects and internal stresses induced by the implant manufacturing process. Our results agree with the other fatigue life testing for mechanical systems in that this study indicated clearly indicated that more implants should be tested to provide a statistically significant sample. Furthermore, additional testing and simulation of implants secured in natural or artificial bone, as well as rigid mounting, should be considered.
The predictions of our finite element-based model correlated fairly well to the experimental results obtained for the implants that had not been heat damaged, and they consistently predicted the location of the failure for the implants. This suggests that finite element models can be used as reasonable predictors of fatigue life for implants. This implies that finite element models can enhance our understanding of how different design variables of these implants influence their fatigue life.
Dennis Flanagan, DDS, is in private practice in Willimantic, Conn. Address correspondence to Dr Flanagan, 1671 West Main St, Willimantic, CT 06226. (firstname.lastname@example.org)
Horea Ilies, PhD, Paul McCullough, and Scott McQuoid are with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs.


A Champion for the Chicano Community: Anita N. Martínez and Her Contributions to the City of Dallas, 1969-1973
Description: Much has been published in Chicano studies over the past thirty to forty years; lacking in the historiography are the roles that Chicanas have played, specifically concerning politics in Dallas, Texas. How were Chicanas able to advance El Movimiento (the Mexican American civil rights movement)? Anita Martínez was the first woman to serve on the Dallas City Council and the first Mexican American woman to be elected to the city council in any major U.S. city. She served on the council from 1969 to 1973 and remained active on various state and local boards until 1984. Although the political system of Dallas has systematically marginalized Mexican American political voices and eradicated Mexican American barrios, some Mexican Americans fought the status quo and actively sought out the improvement of Mexican barrios and an increase in Mexican American political representation, Anita N. Martínez was one of these advocates. Long before she was elected to office, she began her activism with efforts to improve her children’s access to education and efforts to improve the safety of her community. Martinez was a champion for the Chicano community, especially for the youth. Her work for and with young Chicanos has earned her the moniker, “Defender of Dreams.” She created a chicano recreation center in Dallas, as well as various poverty programs and neighborhood beautification projects. Although she has remained relatively unknown, during her tenure on the Dallas City Council, between the years 1969 and 1973, Anita Martínez made invaluable, lasting contributions to the Chicano community in Dallas.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Cloer, Katherine Reguero
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Hi everyone! I'm fairly new to this site and completely new to creating mods for Sims 3, so I'd appreciate any help.
So, I tried to create a career mod for a teenager in my Sims 3, using this tutorial, except I made a few changes mentioned in this one to make it a part-time job for a teenager.
Everything was going fine until I actually put it in the game. So, according to the manual, I put the package in the folder and run the game to see the career numbers to replace them by the hash of its name. So I do replace it, but then after restarting the game, the career still shows the "JoinCareer6482936629blahblah". Okay, no big deal. I join it. And, well, my sim can join the career, go to work, get paid and everything, but the message boxes for all of this stuff appear blank. Even the drop-down with work tones shows empty lines but you can choose between them. I'm pretty sure there's no syntax errors in my mod files and everything should work, but it doesn't.
Another thing happens on "Replacing the Blank String files" section. I have my string files named as in the template like "Strings Blank English" and "Strings Blank UnhashedKeys" and the tutorial doesn't tell me to change it. If I replace them via S3PE according to the manual, the "Blank" names remain. If I leave it as is, the above situation happens. If I try to rename the instances and update their FNV64, the mod just doesn't show up in the game at all. Like, if it's not changed, I get the message box with the list of found scripts after loading the main menu, and I get that Join Career option in-game. If it's changed, then the mod is not in the script list in main menu and the rabbithole has no option to join.
Finally, I got a mod that is similar to what I want but basically has different tones from what I want, different rabbithole, different strings etc. And if I try to change it the slightest (even a single letter in the Strings file that is not referred to by anything), the mod also stops showing in the game.
So my suggestion is that something goes wrong on the last two steps - creating an STBL for strings and registering the career name in the game, but I don't know what else to do, tried to debug it for quite a while but the solution keeps slipping away.
I have the latest S3PE version, Steam version of Sims 3 with 1.67 patch, and Nraas Master Controller which, I believe, includes Nraas career manager (although I tried to install the career manager separately too and it didn't change anything).
The most up-to-date career creation modding tutorial is by @MissyHissy over here (it was updated last year, in 2020):
1) "the career still shows the "JoinCareer6482936629blahblah"..." : there is a section in the tutorial thread above dedicated to this specific part of the career modding process, called "The First Test" here . You should be able to go back to your game and to see "Join [YourCareerName]" and no longer have the random letters visible.
2) " the message boxes for all of this stuff appear blank" : can you make sure that your English Strings file Instance number starts with 0x00 if you are launching the game in english? See the methodology explained at the bottom of the post here and its application to remaining game languages in this post .
I highly recommend you start over the creation process following all the steps of the 2020 Mega Tutorial, it was a game-changer for me when it comes to modding career, no more headaches!
Hey, thanks for your reply. I'm pretty sure this manual is not too different from the one I referred to, but I'll try it over.
1)Yes, I did that, as I said, the "blahblah" part was still appearing after I replaced it in s3pe.
2)Also yes, it was done.
Anyway, what concerns me the most is that if I take someone else's perfectly working mod built according to that tutorial and replace one character in the string value, like, IDK, change "Work Hard" to "Wok Hard", the mod completely disappears from the game.
However, I'll try to start it over and follow the MissyHissy's tutorial, and if it still goes wrong, I'll come back here. Thanks again.
I definitely hear your frustration - in my experience, the career modding process is indeed slow and frustrating. I had to start over several times to get my first career to show up properly in game, and having access to multiple tutorials to look at, helped a lot. Also @MissyHissy is still active in the community, so being able to reach out to her for help was invaluable.
Regarding what you said here:
"change "Work Hard" to "Wok Hard", the mod completely disappears from the game.
Unfortunately yes, career modding is case sensitive and demands combing the code meticulously to spot typos, extra spacing and inconsistencies.
You seem to be almost there! Definitely report back and don't hesitate to drop your file if you want extra eyes on your progress.

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Sunday, June 2, 2013
Send us your violent bigots ... yearning to butcher our citizens
by Ann Coulter
It’s been a bad few weeks for cultural assimilation. Last month, two welfare-receiving immigrants in the United States, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, set off bombs at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds. By the end of the week, they had murdered a cop and engaged in a wild shoot-out and bomb-throwing melee with the police.
Last week, a couple of ethnic Nigerians butchered a British soldier with meat cleavers in broad daylight on a bustling street in a London suburb, then boasted about the murder in video interviews with bystanders. (On the bright side, they did not claim to be princes and ask for your life savings.)
Also last week, immigrants, mostly Muslims, began rioting in peaceful Sweden — burning schools to the ground, torching cars and throwing rocks at the police. (Who among us hasn’t lost his temper trying to assemble an Ikea china cabinet?)
Supporters of the West’s current immigration policies can’t keep ducking reality. So they try to shut down debate by calling their opponents racists, xenophobes, know-nothings and fascists.
The English Defense League (EDL), for example, is portrayed in the media as a bunch of racist football hooligans. So I was surprised to learn that the EDL has not only a Jewish division, but a gay division. (Harvey Fierstein could be their president!) They expressly support Israel against Muslim terror and burn Nazi flags at their rallies.
Apparently it is considered “fascist” to oppose actual fascists immigrating to your country.
A few years ago, an opinion piece in The New York Times denounced the pro-gay positions of anti-immigration groups such as the EDL for “co-opting” gays. The co-opting is so thoroughgoing that the anti-immigration Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was himself gay. He was assassinated by a vegan animal rights activist upset at criticism of Muslims.
But surely members of the EDL oppose Britain’s immigration policies out of ignorance?
It briefly seemed so. A month ago, the head of the EDL, Tommy Robinson, provoked a round of liberal sneering when he tweeted: “welcome to twitter homepage has a picture of a mosque. what a joke.” Various media outlets leapt to point out that the photo was, actually, the Taj Mahal.
The liberal Guardian mocked: “It’s worth pointing out that the ‘mosque’ that started this ... was in fact the Taj Mahal, the marble mausoleum in India. It’s almost as if the very existence of the EDL is based on false information, suspicion and idiocy.”
Except — oops — it wasn’t the Taj Mahal. It was a mosque — the Grand Mosque in Muscat, Oman, to be precise — as The Guardian quietly admitted in an altered photo caption after stealthily removing the comment about the EDL’s “idiocy” for imagining it was a mosque. It’s almost as if the very existence of The Guardian is based on false information, suspicion and idiocy.
Britain, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain have recently enacted, or are considering enacting, further restrictions on immigration, alarming immigration enthusiasts. The New York Times reported this week that the “right-wing Swiss People’s Party” is requesting a referendum on immigration.
Wait a second! A referendum doesn’t sound fascist at all. In fact and to the contrary, it’s always the advocates of unrestricted immigration who try to avoid letting the people vote. Marco Rubio and the rest of the pro-amnesty “Gang of Eight” don’t even want the country to know they’re about to vote on a mass immigration scheme.
Liberals say, “Basic human rights are not subject to a vote!” — and then define “basic human rights” as “the right of people who don’t live in your country to move there.”
Manifestly, opponents of open immigration are not fascists, anti-Semitic, anti-gay, intolerant or idiots. But as long as we’re on the subject, may we inquire into the tolerance and other Western values of the potential immigrants themselves?
Last week, U.S. law enforcement officials reported that Muslim immigrant Ibragim Todashev admitted that he and Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev had murdered three Jewish men in a Boston suburb on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attack. (Which also, I believe, was the work of immigrants.) The victims’ throats were cut from ear to ear, nearly decapitating them. One was Tamerlan’s best friend.
Searching The New York Times’ webpage for “English Defense League,” turns up this multicultural story out of Saudi Arabia: “Online Campaign Draws Attention to Case of Saudi Father Accused of Rape and Torture.” The father, Fayhan al-Ghamdi, a prominent Islamic cleric, served only a few months in a Saudi Arabian prison for allegedly raping, burning and fatally beating his own 5-year-old daughter.
It’s not just Muslims who aren’t warming to Western values. Polls by the Anti-Defamation League going back decades have shown a steady decline of anti-Semitism in the U.S. But a 2002 poll showed a surprising upsurge.
While 17 percent of all Americans were said to hold “strongly anti-Semitic” views, 35 percent of Hispanics did — as did 44 percent of foreign-born Hispanics.
(Note to Sheldon Adelson: It may be time to give your Hispanic employees a raise.)
Liberals get a kick out of accusing their opponents of what they themselves are guilty of. But this may be the most audacious reverse-guilt play yet. For objecting to the importation of primitive, violent, child-rape-forgiving bigots, the opponents of mass immigration are accused of bigotry.
Revealed: The British charity that uses taxpayer cash to campaign for migrant benefits and protect a foreign rapist
Tacpayer’ money funded a team of lawyers fighting European Court of Human Rights cases on behalf of foreign criminals and illegal immigrants.
The human rights quango the Equality and Human Rights Commission quietly gave nearly £200,000 to a pressure group so it could take controversial human rights cases to the court in Strasbourg.
The group, the AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe), used the money to fight and win a series of cases and represented among others a Nigerian rapist and two Somali criminals who won the right to stay in Britain.
The cases were picked as part of a policy of ‘strategic litigation’ designed to overturn ministerial decisions and rulings made in British courts, and to extend equality and human rights laws in favour of immigrants and criminals.
The centre – a registered charity – was in the news yesterday as the source of the legal complaint against Britain for restricting access to our benefits system.
It brought test cases arguing for the right of EU immigrants not to have to undergo a residency test before they can claim a host of benefits.
The European Commission has now referred Britain to the EU’s European Court of Justice in Luxembourg over the right to reside test.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith accused the European Commission of a power grab and has vowed to ‘fight every step of the way’ to retain the residency test. But yesterday the Mail revealed that the group was handed around half a million pounds over five years by the Foreign Office.
Now an investigation has revealed further funding, by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. Over three years, from April 2009 to April 2012, the AIRE Centre received £185,906.
The money was for a project designed to get around a ban on Government legal aid funding for cases at the European Court of Human Rights. The centre used the money to hire staff and recruit lawyers to bring cases before the court.
One major case it won involved two Somali criminals who won the right to stay in Britain and, crucially, led to a ruling which shackled ministers in their efforts to send home dozens of other Somali criminals living here.
Another involved a Nigerian rapist whose deportation was blocked by Strasbourg because of his right to a ‘private and family life’ under the European Convention on Human Rights.
The centre also lobbied Parliament for prisoners to be given the vote and supported cases involving prisoner voting rights before the Strasbourg court.
In its project application documents to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, the AIRE Centre said the project would ‘improve the response to systemic human rights and equality failures that exist in Great Britain by offering a strategic response’. It said: ‘The AIRE Centre targeted litigation... will maximise the impact of the European Court’s jurisprudence in specific areas.’
The money was spent on a team of human rights lawyers together with staff, administrative, training, building, and travel costs, legal and professional fees and a hotline for applicants to register their cases.
The centre’s funding application, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, said it was unable to take on cases even if it considered them ‘viable’. It said: ‘We have only been able to adopt an ad hoc rather than strategic approach to our ECtHR litigation due to our limited resources.’
The charity – set up in 1993 by human rights lawyer Nuala Mole – has also received funding from the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and Comic Relief.
Tory MP Priti Patel said: ‘It is outrageous that taxpayers’ money is being used and abused in this way. It is particularly outrageous that money is being used to undermine benefit rules when the British public are crying out for benefit reform.’
A spokesman for the equalities commission said: ‘The commission provided funding to support the centre’s work on issues including human trafficking, domestic violence and protecting the human rights of those at risk of torture.’
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Most of all for the maintenance of houses and adjoining areas paid by inhabitants of Kiev.
Utility tariffs in different cities of Ukraine differ. In September, the largest average expense for maintenance of houses and adjoining areas were received by the residents of Kiev.
Owners of two-bedroom apartments, area of which is 60 sq m, had paid on average for services to more than 351 UAH. This amount is one and a half times the bills in Ternopil and Chernihiv. Compared to Lviv, and Kharkiv Kropiwnicki accrued utility rates more than twice.
Statistics show that the smallest sum for the maintenance of houses and adjoining areas, residents pay one-bedroom apartments in Poltava. Residents pay for the service 46,2 USD per month. A bit more pay in Kherson and Severodonetsk. They receive bills with the amounts 57,6 and 67.8, respectively hryvnia.
For example, in Uzhgorod fees for the services set by the managers of homes. So prices are constantly changing.
The list of services that are required to provide communal organizations within the specified rates, approved clearly. The list includes cleaning the local area, stairwells, basements, technical floors and roof. For anymore 2.11 UAH per sq. m. the Tariff for maintenance of elevators is 1.27 hryvnia per square. m of housing.
Separately account for the amounts for the repair of intrahouse systems for hot and cold water, heating, sewage, various technical devices and elements of the external landscaping. The rate is set at 0.46 UAH per sq. m.
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Soups: Tom Yum Soup
Slight hiccup - forgot to include the chicken stock needed to finish off the soup.
The ingredients should include:
4 to 5 cups hot chicken stockMethod:
After adding the Udon Noodles, the recipe should read:
Add the Udon noodles, combine, and then add enough hot chicken stock to make up the desired amount of liquid you like in your soup. Bring the soup to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer gently for 5 mins or until the vetegables are cooked to your taste. If using prawns, don’t add them until the last couple of minutes, just to heat through.
Breakfast: Bubble & Squeak
Addition of egg in Method:Mash and mix together as best you can the cooked, cold vegetables, add the egg and then the cooked bacon, then shape into patties.
Pies & Slices: Easy Quiche
Addition of measurement in Ingredients:
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WARRENTON, Va., 2021-Mar-02 — /IMNN/ —
The songwriter and producer of modern piano and new-age music known as David R Villegas has released his latest official EP album, “Out of Nowhere.” It contains four original David R Villegas tracks for an approximate total listening time of 20 mins. It has been proudly published as an independent release without the involvement of the corporate music industry. Light as air, bright as a full moon, and exuding a fresh, unadorned beauty, “Out of Nowhere” introduces David R Villegas as a natural talent likely to appeal to anyone.
Warrenton, Virginia’s David R Villegas cites as main artistic influences Yanni, Hans Zimmer, Claude Debussy, and Chopin. With an emphasis on wholesome chord progressions and arpeggiated melody lines, “Out of Nowhere” by David R Villegas has a little something for every fan of piano music.
Asked to describe the overall theme of “Out of Nowhere,” David R Villegas writes, “My EP is about life’s surprises and revelations; from behind one veiled moment emerges another. Distortion and obscuration often accompany the full moon’s rise but are magically replaced by a brilliant cover of the beautiful, crystal-clear night sky.”
Villegas may be a new name to many fans of independent music today, but he’s an old hand at crafting original works.
“I’ve been writing for some time,” he writes, “and have built a catalogue of unrecorded compositions. My involvement in music was choral for many years, but my passion is sitting down at the piano and composing. Just now publishing some of my work.”
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