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Several years ago we were involved in travel to southern Africa. This is a painting from one of those visits. Early morning was so peaceful and I was stunned as the morning sun slipped up and behind the hill near our residence. To purchase a copy: http://www.lacountanderson.com (mixed media gallary).
From our recent visit to Cuba. You can view in my gallery and purchase: www.lacountanderson.com
We had opportunity to visit Dallas Texas this week. A part of that visit was a day trip to Waco and we visited Magnolia Market the home of HGTV’s Fixer Upper. While there I ran across this cool vehicle.
Last month my wife and I had the opportunity to visit the country of Cuba with colleagues from the NC Baptist Singers and Orchestra. We enjoyed our time with the lovely people who made us feel as if we were “rock stars.” A beautiful country of mountains and sea; nothing like I anticipated. Thanks to interpreters we were able to communicate, enjoy home cooked food, and make friends with the kind people of Cuba.
One evening at Sunset a large thunder storm moved into the area. This is from a roof top viewing the beautiful sky as the storm arrived.
One day we visited a retirement home for Christian workers. This is the lovely chapel at the retirement home near Santiago City.
I saw this guy enjoying lunch on the side of the road.
In March I created this watercolor of the handbells I have the privilege to ring. If you are a musician or know a musician this is a wonderful opportunity to have this print. If you desire to frame and or mat we are able to provide this to you too. Go to www.lacountanderson.com and choose from the gallery.
Yesterday was a beautiful day and we found ourselves in one of our favorite cities, Raleigh, NC. It is home to us in that we, for the past 13 years, have lived just north about 90 miles from the Capital City. We were introduced to a quaint little shop located near the downtown area of the city. We find ourselves returning often when we visit Raleigh. The Flourish Market, located at 713 Tucker St. is a boutique for ladies accessories and fashion, but it is so much more. When you enter the store you are greeted by a sincere and warm greeting usually accompanied by a hug and an offer of something to drink while you shop. ( I do like their apple cider). In addition to the love spread about to customers, there is also love spread about the world through the activity of The Flourish Market. The boutique partners with 40 brands that work all over the world, providing dignified jobs and fair wages to inspiring artisans and makers in vulnerable communities. Most of these artisans are women. When you purchase something at The Flourish Market you are partnering to help women from across the world provide for their families as they make the clothing and accessories found in this quaint store. Now, isn’t that a great idea? I hope you will find your way to Tucker street and see for yourself creativity that abounds in helping others.
I was inspired to make this water color sketch for my #momentsketchers group this weekend. I hope you enjoy it. You can view my paintings and drawings at my gallery : www.lacountanderson.com and I would be honored if you would be inspired to make a purchase.
Saturday afternoon shopping at The Flourish Market
“Give Me Jesus” is a negro Spiritual that I have been thinking about lately. We had participated in a lecture series a few weeks ago at our church, and the speaker used the Spiritual as a part of his presentation to us. We are now challenged by our pastor to think about the Spiritual with fresh eyes and allow the words this Lenten season to enter our hearts anew; readying ourselves for Easter.
As we enter this season I thought it important to my spiritual development to look at the text of this great song. My drawing , inserted below, is from my reflection of the words of “Give Me Jesus.”
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus.
Give me Jesus
On the first weekend of every month I participate with a group of artists from all over the world. Our weekend project is called #momentsketchers. About 100 artists from all over the world produce sketches, wherever they are, doing whatever they happen to be doing, on that particular weekend. We submit our artwork on social media and enjoy viewing one another’s work; admiring and giving loving feedback to each other. This is my second year in participating and I honestly must say I have developed a network of people who encourage me as I pursue one of my passions…producing art.
A second passion is producing music. Back in 1975 while pursuing my Bachelor of Arts degree in Church Music at Gardner-Webb University, I picked up my first handbell. Back then handbell ringing was new in the circles I traveled and I instantly fell in love. I have been ringing bells, off and on over the years, wherever we landed to work in a church.
It is our joy to ring in the Lakeside Ringers at Lakeside Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, NC. This is an excellent group of ringers and as with my artist friends all over the world, my handbell friends are full of encouragement.
I am thankful for the opportunity to participate and am thankful for whatever I can bring to the table in giving praise to God through the arts.
This sketch was a part of Moment Sketchers this weekend. We also rang bells at church today.
Today I am thinking about our friends in Swaziland; a small country in southern Africa. For eight visits of the last twenty years, I traveled to this small country to help with poverty relief and other tasks. During my time in Swaziland I encountered beautiful people who love me and love their lives in this poverty stricken country. I had the opportunity to meet some of my friends in 2016 when they visited our country for the first time in their lives. It was a wonderful reunion. We enjoyed a meal together and reminisced of times past.
The game parks I have visited have always been a treat as a part of our visit to southern Africa. The picture below is a Zentangle representation of Africa. I hope you enjoy it and if you are interested, a print is available on my web site: www.lacountanderson.com
I will always feel a sense of kinship with our friends in Swaziland. Life is about relationships with others. I appreciate the relationship I have with individuals in Swaziland and hope to one day return to our friends many miles away.


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In this game, your task is to control a red ball with a smiley face to perform exciting adventures. By using left and right arrow keys, you can navigate that red ball moving left or right. Besides, the up arrow key button can also help the red ball jump higher. In addition to the adventure quest, you must collect stars in that place as much as possible to open the door to space. When the space door is open, you and your red ball can move to other locations to continue your exploration. Red Ball Adventure For Kids is a fun game perfect for all players, especially kids. Take part in the game and enjoy your own exciting moments.

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Despite the warmer temperatures, fall is here. You have probably noticed the Halloween candy displays at every entrance and exit to most stores and you can’t walk by any grocery store aisle without spotting some type of pumpkin spice flavored item: coffee, muffin mix, cereal, even hummus. I really love the flavors that come with fall, but unfortunately it is easy to overdo it, especially in an unhealthy ways. Many of the apple or pumpkin spice-flavored food items are just packaged and processed foods that contain more sugar that most people need on a daily basis per one serving!
Let’s get back to the basic foods and flavors of fall – apple and pumpkin. These are both healthy foods on their own in their natural forms. Apples are a seasonal sweet treat. Apples contain many healthful nutrients such as: potassium, fiber, vitamin C and vitamin B6. Apples are relatively low in calories per servings, 65 calories per one tennis ball sized apple. Apples are available in numerous varieties. Here is a guide to apple varieties and their flavor profiles. My favorite varieties are pink lady and honey crisp because I prefer a sweet and crisp apple. Since these varieties are naturally very sweet, I find if I use them in baking or to make homemade applesauce I tend to add less sugar to the recipe to encourage the natural sweetness from the apples. I invite you to try some different varieties this year!
Photo c/o BBCGoodFood
Pumpkins are fun to carve and use as decorations during the fall season, but they can also be fun to eat! Pumpkins are a little intimidating for me to cook with because it takes quite a bit of effort to clean and cut into pumpkins, but fresh pumpkin is a nice treat that is worth the effort. Here is a helpful tutorial for using fresh pumpkin in recipes, particularly pureed, which can be added to soups, bread, muffins or even substituted as a side dish for mashed potatoes! Pumpkin contains high amounts of the carotenoid, beta carotene (hint: pumpkins are orange). Beta carotene has been shown to be helpful in preventing diseases like cancer and heart disease, it can also keep our skin looking fresh and young, and helps decrease inflammation in our bodies. Pumpkin seeds can be roasted in the oven for a high protein treat. You can eat the seeds plain or add a little cinnamon for some extra flavor. We used to roast our pumpkin seeds while carving our Halloween pumpkins on the kitchen floor with our dad as children. They were a fun treat to enjoy after we completed our jack-o-lantern masterpieces. Pumpkin seeds are a good source of fiber as well as zinc, manganese, phosphorus and copper. Pumpkins are much more than just pretty decorations!
Cinnamon and ginger are some popular spices typically paired along with pumpkins and apples this time of year. They are also full of health benefits all on their own. Both of these spices have been shown to alleviate inflammation in the body and cinnamon is helpful in controlling blood glucose in diabetes. They also provide a delightful flavor without adding extra sugar to recipes particularly in baking.
Even though pumpkin, apple, cinnamon and ginger influence certain seasonal flavored foods this time of year, let’s enjoy the real ingredients and some of their health benefits too! Fresh baked muffins and warm chili are great staples this time of year. These recipes include those natural fall flavors to give them added texture and flavor. I have made this Sally’s Baking Addiction apple muffin recipe in the past for a potluck and I was delighted by the simple, but added texture the fresh apples added to the muffins. I also felt like these muffins were a little more filling and satisfying than other recipes I had made in the past that did not call for the fresh grated apples. My sister has made a similar pumpkin chili recipe for a fall weekend get together and at first I thought, “pumpkin in chili?” She assured me that I would like it and she was right! The pumpkin adds a hint of sweetness to the chili that is not overpowering and I am a fan of adding more texture to recipes, so certainly the soft cooked pumpkin won me over.
Yield: about 15 muffins
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour (includes cooling)
Hearty, healthy, and satisfying whole wheat muffins filled with sweet apples and plenty of cinnamon spice! These muffins are not intended to be super sweet, so keep that in mind.
- 2 cups (226g) whole wheat flour1 (spoon & leveled)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (64g) chopped pecans
- 3 large eggs
- 2/3 cup (160ml) pure maple syrup (not breakfast syrup, the real stuff)
- 1/3 cup (80ml) vegetable, canola oil, or melted coconut oil
- 1/3 cup (60g) smooth unsweetened applesauce
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups (240g) shredded/grated apple (about 2 apples)
- Preheat oven to 425°F (218°C). Spray a 12-count muffin pan with nonstick spray or use cupcake liners. This recipe makes 15 muffins, so prepare a second muffin pan in the same manner.
- In a large bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, salt, and pecans together until combined. Set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs, maple syrup, oil, applesauce, and vanilla together until combined. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, stir a few times, and then add the grated apple. Fold everything together gently just until combined and no flour pockets remain.
- Spoon the batter into liners, filling them all the way to the top. Bake for 5 minutes at 425 then, keeping the muffins in the oven, reduce the oven temperature to 350°F (177°C). Bake for an additional 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. The total time these muffins take in the oven is about 23-24 minutes, give or take. (For mini muffins, bake 11-13 minutes at 350°F (177°C).) Allow the muffins to cool for 10 minutes in the muffin sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool until ready to eat.
- Make ahead tip: Muffins stay soft, fresh, and moist in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Muffins freeze well for up to 2 months. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator and heat up (if desired) before enjoying.
Recipe makes 8-10 servings.
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour and 10 minutes
Ready In: 1 hour and 30 minutes
- 1 (3-pound) pie pumpkin, or other orange-fleshed squash such as butternut, Red Kuri, or Golden Hubbard
- 8 tablespoons (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup finely ground cornmeal
- 2 medium turnips (about 12 ounces total)
- 2 medium red bell peppers, chopped
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 4 cups low-sodium vegetable broth
- 2 (10-ounce) cans diced tomatoes with green chilies, such as Rotel
- 2 (16-ounce) cans chili beans, drained
- 2 cups frozen corn kernels
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
Several dashes of: vegetarian Worcestershire sauce
Freshly ground black pepper
For serving: chopped green onions, shredded cheddar cheese, sour cream
- Peel the pumpkin or squash and cut into 1-inch pieces. (To make it easier to peel the pumpkin, cut in half, remove the seeds — and set aside for roasting! — and then microwave each half cut-side down in a shallow dish of water for 5 minutes, or roast the halves at 450°F for about 15 minutes.
- When the pumpkin is cool enough to handle, shave off the skin with a sharp knife.)
- In a 6-quart or larger Dutch oven or soup pot, heat the butter and olive oil over medium heat. When melted, whisk in the cornmeal until smooth, then stir in the pumpkin, turnip, bell peppers, onion, garlic, and tomato paste. Cook, stirring frequently, for about 10 minutes.
- Add the broth, diced tomatoes and their juices, beans, and corn. Stir in the chili powder, cinnamon, cumin, and Worcestershire sauce. Bring back to a simmer. Reduce the heat and simmer for at least 1 hour, or until the pumpkin and turnip are tender. (It gets even better if simmered longer — a whole afternoon, if you have the time.)
- Before serving, taste and season with salt and pepper and a dash of balsamic vinegar. Serve hot with green onions, shredded cheddar cheese, and sour cream if desired.
Pumpkin chili recipe and photo c/o The Kitchn
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Feminism has not always been a word that sits easily with our female pop superstars, but the last few years have seen a clear turnaround as female artists resoundingly speak up about issues of power and inequality. Among those getting behind movements like #metoo and #timesup, is it true that Taylor Swift – perhaps the biggest star of all – has been noticeably absent? Or is it time we reappraised where she stands, without the media’s all-consuming obsession with her personal life standing in the way?
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Pop music is many things to many people: escapist, euphoric, erotic. A few lyrics strung together with an infectious melody can perfectly encapsulate a sentiment or trigger a memory. The songs that stay with us have an uncanny way of capturing some commonality of the human condition. That’s the beauty of pop: we can take from it whatever we hear, and whatever speaks to us.
Yet for some reason we expect more than catchy tunes from our idols. We like to imagine pop can change the world. Music is an undeniably powerful platform for women: think of Aretha Franklin demanding R.E.S.P.E.C.T. in the ’60s and Loretta Lynn celebrating contraceptive liberation with ‘The Pill’ in 1975. Then came Madonna and ‘Express Yourself’ in 1989, and the Spice Girls championing “girl power” in the ’90s, and ever since it’s become de rigueur for female artists to coat their careers in a veneer of sisterhood. Until recently, however, most stopped short of using that most controversial of f-words: feminism.
Denying feminism was once almost a rite of passage for mainstream female pop artists with an eye on the big time. Distancing themselves seemed compulsory to secure a continued rise on the charts, a kind of insurance policy that the public demanded to keep buying their records and admiring them, and to make it safe for men to desire them. For women trading on sex appeal to strive for mass-market domination, even the merest suggestion of a strident, man-hating stereotype – however improbable– had to be avoided.

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This is an extract from the Bureau’s report, Naming The Dead, published in April 2018, written by Jack Serle
The phenomenal assassination tool that is the attack drone was born of frustration – the inability of the US to kill Osama bin Laden.
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Apocalypse Not: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About End Times
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Repeatedly throughout the past five decades, the imminent advent of a new pandemic has been foretold. The 1976 swine flu panic was an early case. Following the death of a single recruit at Fort Dix, the Ford administration vaccinated more than 40 million Americans, but more people probably died from adverse reactions to the vaccine than died of swine flu.
A few years later, a fatal virus did begin to spread at an alarming rate, initially through the homosexual community. AIDS was soon, rightly, the focus of serious alarm. But not all the dire predictions proved correct. “Research studies now project that one in five—listen to me, hard to believe—one in five heterosexuals could be dead from AIDS at the end of the next three years. That’s by 1990. One in five,” Oprah Winfrey warned in 1987.
Bad as AIDS was, the broad-based epidemic in the Americas, Europe, and Asia never materialized as feared, though it did in Africa. In 2000 the US National Intelligence Council predicted that HIV/AIDS would worsen in the developing world for at least 10 years and was “likely to aggravate and, in some cases, may even provoke economic decay, social fragmentation and political destabilization in the hardest hit countries in the developing and former communist worlds.”
Yet the peak of the epidemic had already passed in the late 1990s, and today AIDS is in slow retreat throughout the world. New infections were 20 percent lower in 2010 than in 1997, and the lives of more than 2.5 million people have been saved since 1995 by antiretroviral treatment. “Just a few years ago, talking about ending the AIDS epidemic in the near term seemed impossible, but science, political support, and community responses are starting to deliver clear and tangible results,” UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibé wrote last year.
The emergence of AIDS led to a theory that other viruses would spring from tropical rain forests to wreak revenge on humankind for its ecological sins. That, at least, was the implication of Laurie Garrett’s 1994 book, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. The most prominent candidate was Ebola, the hemorrhagic fever that starred in Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone, published the same year. Writer Stephen King called the book “one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever read.” Right on cue, Ebola appeared again in the Congo in 1995, but it soon disappeared. Far from being a harbinger, HIV was the only new tropical virus to go pandemic in 50 years.
In the 1980s British cattle began dying from mad cow disease, caused by an infectious agent in feed that was derived from the remains of other cows. When people, too, began to catch this disease, predictions of the scale of the epidemic quickly turned terrifying: Up to 136,000 would die, according to one study. A pathologist warned that the British “have to prepare for perhaps thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, of cases of vCJD [new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human manifestation of mad cow] coming down the line.” Yet the total number of deaths so far in the UK has been 176, with just five occurring in 2011 and none so far in 2012.
In 2003 it was SARS, a virus from civet cats, that ineffectively but inconveniently led to quarantines in Beijing and Toronto amid predictions of global Armageddon. SARS subsided within a year, after killing just 774 people. In 2005 it was bird flu, described at the time by a United Nations official as being “like a combination of global warming and HIV/AIDS 10 times faster than it’s running at the moment.” The World Health Organization’s official forecast was 2 million to 7.4 million dead. In fact, by late 2007, when the disease petered out, the death toll was roughly 200. In 2009 it was Mexican swine flu. WHO director general Margaret Chan said: “It really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.” The outbreak proved to be a normal flu episode.
The truth is, a new global pandemic is growing less likely, not more. Mass migration to cities means the opportunity for viruses to jump from wildlife to the human species has not risen and has possibly even declined, despite media hype to the contrary. Water- and insect-borne infections—generally the most lethal—are declining as living standards slowly improve. It’s true that casual-contact infections such as colds are thriving—but only by being mild enough that their victims can soldier on with work and social engagements, thereby allowing the virus to spread. Even if a lethal virus does go global, the ability of medical science to sequence its genome and devise a vaccine or cure is getting better all the time.
Of all the cataclysmic threats to human civilization envisaged in the past 50 years, none has drawn such hyperbolic language as people themselves. “Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet,” says Agent Smith in the film The Matrix. Such rhetoric echoes real-life activists like Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society: “We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion … Curing a body of cancer requires radical and invasive therapy, and therefore, curing the biosphere of the human virus will also require a radical and invasive approach.”
On a “stinking hot” evening in a taxi in Delhi in 1966, as Paul Ehrlich wrote in his best seller, The Population Bomb, “the streets seemed alive with people. People eating, people washing, people sleeping. People visiting, arguing, and screaming. People thrusting their hands through the taxi window, begging. People defecating and urinating. People clinging to buses. People herding animals. People, people, people, people.” Ehrlich’s conclusion was bleak: “The train of events leading to the dissolution of India as a viable nation” was already in progress. And other experts agreed. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” said Denis Hayes, organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970. Sending food to India was a mistake and only postponed the inevitable, William and Paul Paddock wrote in their best seller, Famine—1975!
What actually happened was quite different. The death rate fell. Famine became rarer. The population growth rate was cut in half, thanks chiefly to the fact that as babies stop dying, people stop having so many of them. Over the past 50 years, worldwide food production per capita has risen, even as the global population has doubled. Indeed, so successful have farmers been at increasing production that food prices fell to record lows in the early 2000s and large parts of western Europe and North America have been reclaimed by forest. (A policy of turning some of the world’s grain into motor fuel has reversed some of that decline and driven prices back up.)
Meanwhile, family size continues to shrink on every continent. The world population will probably never double again, whereas it quadrupled in the 20th century. With improvements in seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, transport, and irrigation still spreading across Africa, the world may well feed 9 billion inhabitants in 2050—and from fewer acres than it now uses to feed 7 billion.


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Helena Public Schools will not prohibit students from walking out of class on March 14 to protest gun violence, but the usual consequences for unexcused absences will remain.
The protest at Helena's two high schools was organized by Helena Youth Against Gun Violence in solidarity with survivors in Parkland, Florida, after a former student killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day. Students who choose to participate will walk out at 10 a.m. regardless of their time zone for 17 minutes to honor the 17 people killed. Afterward, students will return to class.
As of March 8, more than 2,250 schools and colleges across the nation planned to participate in the walkout, according to the Women’s March Youth Empower website. The organization helped Parkland students plan the walkout as well as a March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. on March 24.
Students across the country are facing varying levels of support or threats of discipline from their school administration.
Capital High Principal Brett Zanto and Helena High Principal Steve Thennis sent the same email on Thursday morning recognizing the event and advising parents on possible consequences.
“While we would prefer that students find a different way to express their views rather than missing school, we are not going to prohibit this demonstration,” the email said.
Helena students who walk out of class will receive an unexcused absence unless excused by a parent. According to the high school handbooks, the consequences for an unexcused absence depend on how many a student has received. For a first unexcused absence, a parent will be notified by telephone or letter and no credit is allowed in the class the absence occurred. If a student receives a third unexcused absence, the student will lose credit “in all classes for the semester.”
The email said school will operate as normal during the 17 minute walkout and students are expected to follow school rules and not violate the rights of other students.
“We want to ensure that all students feel safe and respected, no matter what they choose to do,” the email said.
Students will hear an announcement over the intercom on March 13 reminding them to be safe, civil and respectful. The email encourages parents to speak with their students about the protest and their level of involvement.
Teachers will not participate in the walkout, Thennis said.
"Teachers need to fulfill their contract obligations, which is to teach their classes," he said.
Teachers that have a prep period can assist with supervision but nothing beyond that.
Carroll College is hosting its own walkout on March 14 on the steps of St. Charles Hall.
Helena Youth Against Gun Violence is also organizing a local March for Our Lives event. The national march taking place in Washington, D.C. is organized by the students from Parkland as well. The Helena event will take place at Memorial Park from noon to 2 p.m.
On the same day as March for Our Lives, a locally organized event called March for Our Guns will take place at the Capitol from noon to 1 p.m. to support the rights of gun owners.

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Health and Safety Week returned to Winthrop Avenue School from Oct. 23 to 27 and contained a multitude of lessons from community partners on how students can lead a happy, healthy and positive life.
Bullying prevention, an important theme of the week, was the topic of conversation for Winning Star Leaders during assemblies led by Bellmore social worker Christine Davison. Mrs. Davison discussed the three roles involved in bullying – the bully, the victim and the bystander – and how anyone can step in to make a difference. Box out Bullying was also an entertaining show that celebrated unity and acceptance. Additionally, students were visited by servicemembers from the New York Police Department’s canine unit and from the Bellmore Fire Department, while the Bfit Show by BOCES showed Winning Star Leaders how to lead an active lifestyle.

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Brennan Sweet, violin
Born in New York City, Brennan Sweet began violin studies at two years of age in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1977 he studied violin at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. Beginning his college education as an engineering student at Washington University in St. Louis, Mr. Sweet transferred and earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University, eventually serving for three years as teaching assistant to Distinguished Professor Emeritus Josef Gingold before joining the faculty for another two years as a Lecturer. Concertmaster of several orchestras during his time at Indiana University, including the Evansville Philharmonic and Owensboro Symphony Orchestras, Brennan was also a founding member of the Evansville String Quartet. He performed as Assistant Concertmaster of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder under Maestro Giora Bernstein, and in 1994 he won the position of Associate Concertmaster with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, subsequently leading the orchestra for three seasons as Acting Concertmaster under Maestro Zdenek Macal. Mr. Sweet was a founding member of the Mostly Mozart at Monteux Festival in Hancock, Maine, and has served as coach and performer at the Raphael Trio Chamber Music workshop in New Hampshire and ASTA-NJ’s Chamber Music Institute. After holding the position of Concert Artist faculty member at Kean University for several years, Mr. Sweet began teaching at the Mason Gross Extension Division at Rutgers University in 2013, and in 2016 he was invited to join the collegiate faculty at the Mason Gross School of the Arts as Violin Instructor. Recently he joined forces with pianist Allison Brewster-Franzetti to form a duo performing a wide selection of repertoire in various venues in northern New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area.


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Mineral Binders for Compound Feeds
Animal Feed Additives
Sepiolita E-562 is used as a binding agent because it improves pellet quality, optimizes granulated feed manufacturing, reduces production cost and improves pellet mill performances.
The use of sepiolite E-562 guarantees excellent pellet quality in feeds, as these are not affected by a variety of factors such as raw material composition, addition of liquid additives, temperature, humidity, pellet machine compression and conditioning times.
Sepiolite is added to the mixer in amounts of 1-2%, ensuring perfect homogeneity of the formula and allowing the addition of a greater range of raw materials.
Sepiolite is easy to handle and it improves maintenance of the manufacturing facilities due to its low abrasiveness.
Effect of adding Sepiolite <100 in pellet durability
- Enhances particle adhesion and compaction when passing through the pellet machine.
- Prevents clumping of pellets in the distribution mechanisms.
- Sepiolite <100 improves feed durability within the levels of quality without requiring significant changes to the pelleting process.
- It allows the addition of a higher proportion of high-energy ingredients such as fats and molasses, thereby reducing the cost of the diet.
- Facilitates the addition of large amounts of liquids in the mixer.
- structure enhances the effects of the inclusion of fats and other liquids in the formula.
Nutritional effects of adding Sepiolite <100 in granulated feed.
- Improves digestion and absorption of nutrients in animals with positive yield results.
- Slows intestinal transit of the feed, improving digestion of nutrients and reducing digestive disorders.
- A lower number of cases of diarrhoea results in cleaner eggs and lower rate of animal ulcers.
Environmental effects of adding Sepiolite <100 in granulated feed
- Improves the environmental quality of farms.
- Facilitates handling of faeces due to their greater consistency and the lower rate of diarrhoeas.
- Menor incidencia de diarreas.
- The high absorption capacity of sepiolite atmospheric ammonium reduces the presence of bad odours.
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This product complies with EC Regulation 1831/2003 on additives for animal feed and is included in the technological additive category with the number E-562.

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FDA APPROVES TEVA'S POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL
The U.S. FDA has approved Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical's generic version of a treatment for occasional constipation, which will be marketed and distributed in the U.S.
The product, polyethylene glycol 3350 NF for oral solution, is the AB-rated generic equivalent of Braintree's Miralax for oral solution. According to Teva, total annual sales of the product are approximately $153 million.
Teva also recently announced that Copaxone, the company's treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, posted record sales of $329 million in the first quarter ended March 31, 2006. According to the company, Copaxone was the fastest growing multiple sclerosis therapy worldwide, with a growth of 29 percent in sales over the comparable quarter of 2005.


A Win2k3 SP2 server running MS SQL Server 2k SP4 was converting at about 25Gb/Hr. The system drive is local, and the other drives are on an MSA1000 connected by fiber channel. What might be causing this slow performance? Will old NIC drivers cause slow speeds, or should I be looking elsewhere?
There could be many factors. The speed of your drives,networking or even backups on the network could cause long migration times. Are you doing Volume based or Disk based cloning? Do some trace routes from your target to the source and make sure it not doing something funky. I've had some migrations myself take 15 hours or more. It just depends on the environment and how much data you are trying to copy.
What speed are your nics connecting at?
It turns out that there was not a battery cache on the controller of the ESX box in question. A battery cache was used from another server, and the tranfer rate almost quadrupled. Before doing this, the ESX box had no buffer to write the converted VM.


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Russia Will Not Set Export Limits for Grain, Wheat Tumbles
The Russian Ministry of Agriculture met with grain traders and exporters yesterday and shortly after announced that they see no need to enact export taxes or take any other measures to reduce exports out of Russia. Russian officials at the Ministry of Agriculture state that the domestic “grain market is stable” and due to a smaller crop, they do not anticipate much growth in exports for this year. Russia is the world’s largest exporter of wheat. Following this news, Chicago SRW fell over 15 cents, KC HRW down 16.75 cents, and Minneapolis HRS was down 13.75 cents.
Speculators See Net Shorts Grow for Soybeans, Corn; Remain Optimistic for Wheat
Managed money was selling corn for the week ending on Aug 28, increasing their net short position by 42,133 to 56,957 contracts. This is based on the sentiment that the USDA may be underestimating the size of the US corn crop. Money managers also increased their net shorts for soybeans by 13,593 to 53,642 contracts. This level is about 23,000 more short positions than this time last year. Speculators remain net long for wheat, but pulled back on their positions slightly. Chicago SRW net longs fell 9,632 to 51,180 contracts. KC HRW’s net long dropped 2,913 to 61,460 contracts and MN HRS net longs were reduced by 3,131 to 2,565 contracts.
Flash Floods May Affect Low Lying Areas Across Central Corn Belt
Flash flood warnings and watches are in effect from parts of central Kansas all the way to N Wisconsin. Areas near creeks or rivers may be threatened by heavy rains over the first half of this week. Central Kansas and SE Nebraska are expecting 1-3 inches of rain today, which will total around 5 inches since Sunday. Forecasts from the NWS also call for up to 6 inches of rain in areas of N Iowa, S Minnesota, and central and N Wisconsin. Wisconsin has been in and out of flood watch over the past week and these new rains may make matters worse.
The risk of trading futures, hedging, and speculating can be substantial. FBN BR LLC (NFA ID: 0508695)


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Major 4D theatre opens in China
Attraktion! of Austria has developed and installed one of the largest 4D theatres in the world in Xi’an, central China.
This 4D immersive experience at Lewa Wonderland comes complete with 600 seats and highly elaborate specials effects.
The theatre includes 4K 3D projection and a range of other special effects, including water floods, explosions, waterfalls and water guns.
Markus Beyr, CEO of Attraktion!, said: “We consulted the full Lewa Wonderland theme park project in several disciplines, and are happy to see the completion of our 4D theatre project in Xi’an as another successful step in establishing our group in China.”


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English Harbour, NewfoundlandPosted: December 11, 2013 Filed under: Newfoundland, Water | Tags: Bonavista Peninsula, English Harbour, Newfoundland, ocean Leave a comment
English Harbour is a tiny village in Newfoundland on the ocean. It’s on the Bonavista Peninsula not far from the town of Trinity. While driving toward Port Union this past August, I noticed a sign pointing to the English Harbour Arts Centre. I decided to turn off the main road to the village, which we found to be a lovely surprise and yet another very beautiful place. I’ll post some photos later of the Arts Centre itself, either on this blog or my art blog.

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Hyderabad: Increasing Dengue cases from twin cities in Hyderabad are being reported with the city recording maximum dengue cases between the January 1 and February 14.
In just a span of one week, two dengue deaths are recorded in Mahboob Colony, Hyderabad, Hans reported.
According to the statistics from the state’s health department as part of the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), as many as 51 cases of dengue are confirmed in Hyderabad while another 154 cases are suspected to be suffering from dengue cases.
Following Hyderabad, Khammam has confirmed 21 cases while Mehboobnagar confirmed 14 dengue cases. The data also reveals 71 cases of dengue are suspected in Khammam whereas 32 cases are suspected in Mehboobnagar district.


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Other books that might interest you
The Permanent Stiletto
W. C. Morrow
William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American author famed for his short stories of horror and suspense.'The Permanent Stiletto' is the story of a young man who has been stabbed close to the heart with a stiletto. The blade has pierced the aorta and come out the other side.To withdraw the blade would mean the man would bleed to death...but so long as the blade is in place, it is blocking off the wound. The only solution is to leave the blade in place...after which the young man will live his life on a knife edge. Any excitement, sudden movement or emotion could cause the blade to slip and kill him instantly.Show book
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Mowgli, the wolf-child, is famous around the world, read Kipling's original story and meet beloved characters such as Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Shere Khan the tiger. Follow Mowgli as he tries to discover where he belongs. Plus, become immersed in Kipling's other jungle stories; meet Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the heroic mongoose and Toomai, the elephant handler.Show book
The Grasshopper Trap
Often compared to Garrison Keillor and Mark Twain, Patrick F. McManus maintains just the right balance between baffled innocence and conspiratorial confidence. Since 1979, this humorist has been delighting readers with hilarious stories recounting his childhood in rural Idaho and relating his misadventures in the great outdoors. Whether you’re a sportsman or a couch potato, he will have you laughing out loud at his escapades. In this collection of 30 tall tales, McManus introduces you to the perils of Trailer Trials and Mean Tents. Like Hemingway, McManus hunts the big fish in Down and Way Out in Brazil. The title tale, The Grasshopper Trap, unveils an ingenious invention for catching fish bait in motion. And in Hunting Camp Etiquette, McManus becomes a rustic Miss Manners. Narrator Norman Dietz adds additional spice to each impish line. You won’t want to miss the other audio productions of McManus’ works, including Never Sniff a Gift Fish and The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw.Show book
Classic Short Stories with a Twist
O. Henry, Kate Chopin, Ambrose...
A collection of wonderful short stories which delight the reader with the unexpected.Show book
Strange Wine - Stories
From “one of the great . . . American short story writers,” comes a collection of dark fantastical fiction (The Washington Post). In the Locus Award–winning “Croatoan,” a man descends into the sewers of New York City to confront the detritus of his irresponsibility. An “Emissary from Hamelin” presents humanity with an ultimatum, or everyone on Earth will have a dear price to pay the piper. And in the title story—famously written by the author in the storefront window of a Santa Monica bookshop—Willis Kaw is convinced that he is an alien trapped inside an Earthman’s body, only to discover his suffering serves a purpose. Strange Wine includes these three stories and a dozen more unique visions from the writer the Washington Post hails as a “lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd psychological corners, and purveyor of pure horror and black comedy.” Includes: “Croatoan,” “Working With the Little People,” “Killing Bernstein,” “Mom,” “In Fear of K,” “Hitler Painted Roses,” “The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat,” “From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet,” “Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time,” “Emissary from Hamelin,” “The New York Review of Bird Seeing,” “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Strange Wine,” “The Diagnosis of Dr. D’arqueAngel”Show book
Other People's Love Affairs -...
D. Wystan Owen
In the classic tradition of fiction by James Joyce, William Trevor, and Elizabeth Strout, these interconnected stories will strike a deep and resounding emotional chord. In the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen's Other People's Love Affairs, the people of Glass, a picturesque village on the rugged English coast, are haunted by longings and deeply held secrets, captive to pasts that remain as alive as the present. Each story takes us into the lives of characters reaching earnestly and often courageously for connection to the people they have loved. Owen observes their heartbreaks, their small triumphs, and their generous capacity for grace. A young nurse, reeling from the disappearance of her mother, forges an unlikely friendship with a local vagrant who might know why her mother vanished. A young boy is by turns dazzled and disillusioned by a trip to the circus with a family friend. A widower revisits the cinema where, as a teenager, he and an older woman had secret trysts that both thrilled and baffled him. A woman is offered fragile, uneasy forgiveness for a cruel act from years ago. And in the title story, a shopkeeper's vision of the woman she loved is upended by the startling revelation of a secret life. Surprising and powerful, these stories mark the debut of a remarkable new talent.Show book

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Prince Harry says he has no regrets about leaving his royal life behind and moving to the US, it is claimed.
The Duke of Sussex has settled in California after leaving the UK for Canada with wife Meghan Markle and son Archie in late 2019.
They made the decision to leave royal duties behind, officially confiming the move earlier this year.
But following the explosive interview with Oprah, a source said the prince didn't regret moving and instead feels "liberated" by his new life.
The unnamed insider told US Weekly : "Harry finds the situation with his family regrettable.
"But he says [they have] no regrets about moving ... and that things are just getting started for them.
"[He] feels liberated and excited about starting this new chapter."
Harry has recenty taken on an executive role at a mental health business, BetterUp.
Harry is now a chief impact officer for the firm.
The couple have also signed deals with Netflix and Spotify.
A royal biographer has discussed the idea of a Meghan Markle US Presidential bid with Good Morning Britain.
Ranvir Singh grilled Tom Bower over the potential of the Duchess of Sussex launching a bid for the White House.
Tom said the Duchess of Sussex was "clearly someone who is very interested in politics and I do think she would like to influence the world".
He also said her friendships with [Barack] Obama and ex-President [Bill] Clinton would put her in good stead to get on the democratic ticket in California.

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A set of five Kama-hen Cups by Iga artist Banura Shiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Exquisitely formed, with a wide stable base featuring four slight arches rising slightly from the table, creating a sense of light weight despite the wide bottom. There are small cuts of clay taken from the sides and the entire is covered in white slip revealing highlights of the underlying clay at the ridges. Each is 3-1/2 inches (9 cm) diameter, roughly 2-1/2 inches (6.5 cm) tall and all are in excellent condition.
Shiro was born the fourth son of Living National Treasure for Lacquerware. His sensitivity to textures may stem from that exacting influence. Although his older brother succeeded the family tradition (another branching into paper arts), Shiro, after graduating the Kyoto University of Fine Art, apprenticed in the plastic arts under Kawamura Kitaro (1899-1966). He has an impressive list of exhibitions, including a private exhibition at the Umeda Kindai Bijutsu-Ten as well as the Niponbashi Mitsukoshi, Takashimaya, and Ikebukuro Tobu, the equivalent of being displayed on New Yorks Fifth Avenue or other cities most Trendy streets, as well as many international exhibitions. Like most Iga-area artists, his output is low, but quality and originality high, making his work very much in demand.


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Dept Sponsors Alumni Party
May 19, 2022 Professor Andrew (Andrzej) Wojtanowicz retired from the LSU Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering in spring 2021, and we celebrated his achievement with friends and family on Thursday, April 28, this year at Mike Anderson's, once the threat of COVID had diminished greatly. Wojtanowicz leaves of legacy of education and research after more than 55 years of service-as a university faculty in Krakow, Poland (10 years); international industry and UN expert (6 years); faculty of New Mexico Tech (1 year); and the last 38 years at LSU, where he was tenured (1988), promoted to professor (1993), and awarded the Texaco - Endowed Environmental Chair position in 1998 until retirement.
PetE Faculty and ExxonMobil URC Study Gas Migration
Sharma Works to Detect Oil Leaks Early
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CITN Port Harcourt MPTP 2023: Stay Ahead of the Curve in Tax Compliance
The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) will be holding a Mandatory Professional Training Programme (MPTP) event in Port Harcourt on July 13, 2023. The event will be held in a virtual format at the CITN Hall, 20 Azikiwe Road, Port Harcourt.
CITN Port Harcourt MPTP 2023
The event will cover a variety of tax-related topics, including:
- Petroleum Industry Act 2021: Redefining Nigeria’s Petroleum Fiscal Regime
- Transfer Pricing and Tax Planning
- Tax Returns: Errors, Prevention and Correction Strategies
- Blockchain Technologies and Their Implications for Tax Administration
The event is open to all tax professionals, including CITN members, students, and non-members.
To register for the event HERE, or please visit the CITN website or contact the CITN office in Port Harcourt.

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- 1 How much does it cost to own a radio station?
- 2 How do I get radio frequency?
- 3 Can I start my own radio show?
- 4 Is owning a radio station profitable?
- 5 How do I start my own FM radio station at home?
- 6 Do radio stations get paid to play songs?
- 7 Can I buy radio frequency?
- 8 How does a radio station make money?
- 9 What equipment do I need to start a radio station?
- 10 How can I host a radio show for free?
- 11 What software do radio stations use?
- 12 What makes a successful radio station?
- 13 How do radio stations know you’re listening?
- 14 How do I start a FM radio station?
How much does it cost to own a radio station?
Many stations get on the air for under $15,000 and can stay on the air for less than $1,000 per month. The main start -up expenses for a radio station are engineering fees, studio equipment for producing radio shows, and transmitting equipment for sending your signals out to the world.
How do I get radio frequency?
In order to use a frequency for any purpose, the use of the frequency must be purchased or leased from the FCC. Contact an official Frequency Coordinator. There is a list of these available on the FCC’s website. Fill out the application provided by the Frequency Coordinator.
Can I start my own radio show?
In order to host your own radio show, you’ll need to have an Internet station. We’ll assume you already have a computer and internet connection, but to get started you’ll also need a few more basic items, like a microphone and a pair of headphones.
Is owning a radio station profitable?
How much profit can a radio station make? The exact profit of your radio station will obviously depend on factors ranging from audience size to programming cost to the amount of advertisers. However, the most popular local radio stations in the country are able to make over $60 million in ad revenue each year.
How do I start my own FM radio station at home?
Here’s how to start a non-internet radio station.
- Apply for a frequency. It may take a long time before you’re assigned a frequency [source FCC].
- Apply for a license. It’s illegal to operate an unlicensed radio station, even at extremely low power [source: FCC].
- Establish a source of funding.
Do radio stations get paid to play songs?
As we’ve mentioned earlier, in most markets, both songwriters and recording artists are typically paid royalties any time their music is played on the radio. So, for the American-based music industry, only songwriters and their publishers (owners of the composition copyright) are paid performance royalties for airplay.
Can I buy radio frequency?
Geographic Licence – “YOUR OWN DEDICATED FREQUENCY ” The cost of the licence varies from fairly cheap in most areas of the UK (around £100 per year), with the cost rising in major cities, especially London, where there is very high demand for radio frequencies ( can be more than £500 per year).
How does a radio station make money?
Terrestrial radio stations do not charge their listeners for the product they create and distribute. Instead, they make a profit from the ads they sell, the special events they hold, the syndication of their most popular shows and in some cases the special services they can provide to other radio stations.
What equipment do I need to start a radio station?
Radio stations require a large variety of equipment, including microphones, transmitters, audio mixers, and headphones — to name a few. Your best bet is to contact a professional radio broadcast equipment seller who can assist you in determining what equipment will best suit your needs.
How can I host a radio show for free?
Free Internet Radio Platforms If you want to start broadcasting online as fast as possible, registering for an account on a Web-based streaming service is definitely the easiest way to create your Internet radio show. Some streaming sites charge businesses $200 or more per month to host and stream an online radio show.
What software do radio stations use?
Best Audio Streaming Software for Your Radio Station
- AltaCast: Simple Windows Encoder.
- Traktor: A DJ’s Delight.
- SAM Broadcaster Pro: Rock Solid Media Management.
- Audio Hijack: An Easy Encoder that Works with All Apps.
- Winamp: The Old Familiar.
- Radio.co Broadcaster: Simple Solution.
What makes a successful radio station?
Quality sound, quality content, quality DJs, and quality branding (e.g. the content on your station profile page) are what make up a quality station. It doesn’t take a lot to get an internet radio station up and running. Also, as a DJ, ensure that you interact with your audience on social media as well as on-air.
How do radio stations know you’re listening?
Most people think that their listening habits determine which radio stations are the most popular. They ‘ re partially correct. It listens for hidden audio streams embedded in radio station (or network) signals that tell Nielsen Audio what you ‘ re listening to – or at least what you ‘ re in range of “hearing.”
How do I start a FM radio station?
To start, visit www.spreaker.com and sign up for a Spreaker account. When you do that, you can also follow the most popular users. Once you’ve signed up, you need to record a short introduction of yourself, and then just click publish to start your station. Once that’s done, you need to start creating broadcasts.


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Dimensions: 4.75"D x 6.5"H (sm.); 6.25"D x 8"H (med.); 7"D x 9"H (lg.)
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You'll love the look of your kitchen counters with the Star Vine Canisters! They are hand sponge-painted in a crackled wheat background, and the contrasting bold black lids are airtight. Each canister is accented with an embossed black star & berry vine motif. Functional and pretty!

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A Dutch columnist has come under flak for urging readers to sell their bitcoins because they’re “dangerous”. In a widely shared op-ed, the writer asserts that “bitcrash” is dangerous because it has no financial institution to monitor it and is a menace to the economy. The article has sparked intense debate as to whether it is satire or merely the latest case of bitcoin scaremongering.
Blame it on Bitcoin
According to Poe’s law, it is impossible to tell, without the author’s intent clearly stated, whether a piece of work is a parody or a sincere expression of its creator’s views. This adage certainly applies to “Bitcrash, or why you should sell [bitcoin] now” by Sandra Phlippen, the chief economist at Holland’s AD.nl news site. In a venomous column, she takes aim at bitcoin for a host of perceived ills, including the usual canards about money laundering and tax avoidance. The economist also throws-in the latest attack vector which the anti-bitcoin brigade have stumbled upon – energy consumption, speaking of “heavily environmentally harmful computer power” (and not mentioning the fact that the banking industry consumes a lot more).
A slew of similar articles now surface on a weekly basis, likening bitcoin’s energy consumption to that of an entire country. Aside from these figures being overstated, exponents of bitcoin mining are missing the point. The value of having a fully decentralized currency that is independent of governmental meddling cannot be overstated. As news.Bitcoin.com recently noted, “Bitcoin…adds measurable value, providing verifiable truth in exchange for energy – a price worth paying for the millions who use the digital currency.”
Not Sure if Serious or Satire
Phlippen finishes her harangue by railing against ICOs, where investors purchase nothing but “hot air”. While there are valid criticisms that can be leveled against ICOs, and indeed against bitcoin as a whole, tirades from supposed economic experts do little to advance the debate. If Phlippen is trolling, it is softly enough to fool many of her readers, especially those who are unfamiliar with bitcoin and may be deterred from investigating it further.
Ill-informed media hit pieces are nothing new, and bitcoin enthusiasts have been gleefully picking them apart for years. Some publications get it, while others either struggle, or produce bitcoin coverage which varies greatly depending on the writer. On Sunday, for example, the Guardian asserted that it was possible for bitcoin miners to invest “huge amounts of energy and time for no return”. Apparently, mining calls for “computer power and code-cracking know-how”, which is only half correct.
Often there is a kernel of truth to these articles, but the facts are distorted so as to blame bitcoin. In the last 24 hours, the British media has ran several stories about drug dealers using bitcoin ATMs to launder cash. They warn:
Detectives say they have seen an explosion in the use of digital currency by criminals who are strolling into cafes, newsagents and corner shops to dump their ill-gotten gains in virtual currency ATMs.
Such reports overlook the fact that the actual crime – the purchase of illegal drugs – was conducted entirely in fiat currency. On a web awash with exaggerated news, fake news, and pseudo-satire, balanced bitcoin reporting is becoming as scarce as the coins themselves.
Do you think mainstream media columnists are guilty of misrepresenting bitcoin? Let us know in the comments section below.
Images courtesy of Shutterstock, and AD.nl.
Tired of those other forums on the subject of Bitcoin? Check forum.Bitcoin.com.


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Prediction and analysis of structure, stability and unfolding of thermolysin-like proteases
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- Vriend, G. & Eijsink, V. J Computer-Aided Mol Des (1993) 7: 367. doi:10.1007/BF02337558
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Bacillus neutral proteases (NPs) form a group of well-characterized homologous enzymes, that exhibit large differences in thermostability. The three-dimensional (3D) structures of several of these enzymes have been modelled on the basis of the crystal structures of the NPs ofB. thermoproteolyticus (thermolysin) andB. cercus. Several new techniques have been developed to improve the model-building procedures. Also a model-building by mutagenesis' strategy was used, in which mutants were designed just to shed light on parts of the structures that were particularly hard to model.
The NP models have been used for the prediction of site-directed mutations aimed at improving the thermostability of the enzymes. Predictions were made using several novel computational techniques, such as position-specific rotamer searching, packing quality analysis and property-profile database searches. Many stabilizing mutations were predicted and produced: improvement of hydrogen bonding, exclusion of buried water molecules, capping helices, improvement of hydrophobic interactions and entropic stabilization have been applied successfully.
At elevated temperatures NPs are irreversibly inactivated as a result of autolysis. It has been shown that this denaturation process is independent of the protease activity and concentration and that the inactivation follows first-order kinetics. From this it has been conjectured that local unfolding of (surface) loops, which renders the protein susceptible to autolysis, is the rate-limiting step. Despite the particular nature of the thermal denaturation process, normal rules for protein stability can be applied to NPs. However, rather than stabilizing the whole protein against global unfolding, only a small region has to be protected against local unfolding. In contrast to proteins in general, mutational effects in proteases are not additive and their magnitude is strongly dependent on the location of the mutation. Mutations that alter the stability of the NP by a large amount are located in a relatively weak region (or more precisely, they affect a local unfolding pathway with a relatively low free energy of activation).
One weak region, that is supposedly important in the early steps of NP unfolding, has been determined in the NP ofB. stearothermophilus. After eliminating this weakest link a drastic increase in thermostability was observed and the search for the second-weakest link, or the second-lowest energy local unfolding pathway is now in progress. Hopefully, this approach can be used to unravel the entire early phase of unfolding.

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The singer says ableism wasn't at the heart of her decision to cast a longtime collaborator, who is not autistic, as the autistic teen at the center of “Music."
The pop star attempted to clarify her reaction to criticism she was getting about her upcoming film, “Music.” But some say she’s making matters worse.
The pop star’s directorial debut, “Music,” centers on a nonverbal autistic teenager played by the neurotypical dancer Maddie Ziegler.
The singer claimed in an interview that she prevented the dancer from getting on a plane that the now-incarcerated film executive attempted to put her on.
Ziegler, now 15, was 11 when she and Sia started collaborating.
"Sia’s the funniest and goofiest person I’ve met in my entire life."
So much suspense! 😱


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Today I've been working hard on the program. This morning I met with Mrs. Haynes to seriously discuss which books I will use. I am glad to say that I have it narrowed down to 9 books combining both cultures.
Two of the books Mrs. Haynes has in the library, so she checked them out for me to look at. So tonight, mom and I spent some time looking for the other 7 books. I really hope to find them in store(or library), so that I do not have to order them. We checked at Borders first. They did not have any. Then, we went to Encore. They had had one of the books in store....4 years ago! So they did not have any either. The man there was very helpful though. He suggested that we look at the Howe Library. I was also given the opportunity to introduce my program to him and ask about any discount they could give me if I ordered through them. Since the WRS has an account with them, I will be able to order through that. Thus, recieving 20% off of the order.
So, we went to the Howe Library. The woman at the desk was very nice. She looked up all 7 books and they had 2 of them. I was glad to be able to see these two, since they were two I really wanted to see. I also found 2 more books that I wanted to take more time to look through. So, we asked about checking out. However, for an out-of-town resident to get a card it is $50 for 3 months or $120 for a year. Mom and I decided that we wouldn't get enough use out of the card. So, I got the titles and authors to look for the books elsewhere.
It was a bit discouraging, but I feel like we did make some progress.
I will try to get an updated list of books that I am looking further into tonight.


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Virga?.... it was a new word to me too... while looking around at weather sites on the web, I discovered virga: or wispy clouds which begin their fall to earth with moisture but due to dry air below, evaporate before hitting the ground. Can be quite beautiful......
...but, they are not too useful if accompanying lightening. This is what classifies the lightening as "dry lightening" which is much more of a hazard for creation of wildfires, with no precipitation to help control/ extinguish the strikes when they hit the ground.
Dry lightening happens far more frequently in the western part of the continent .
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Such thunderstorms are most common in the western portion of the United States during the summer. They occur when the rain produced by thunderstorms falls through a substantial layer of very dry air which evaporates the precipitation before it reaches the ground. For fire weather purposes, a thunderstorm does not have to be completely dry to be considered dry; in many areas, a tenth of an inch of rain is the threshold between a "wet" and "dry" thunderstorm.
Dry thunderstorms are notable for two other reasons: they are the most common natural origin of wildland fires, and they can produce strong gusty surface winds that can fan flames.
More on the "gusty wind" part, soon.


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LAS VEGAS _ Latinos may be getting on the ballot, but that is no guarantee that Latino voters will turn out, a former Nevada Assemblywoman who lost a statewide race in the 2014 midterms acknowledged Wednesday at a conference of Latino officeholders.
Latinos are exerting their political power around the country and the state of Nevada has become more pro-Democrat as the Latino population has grown and voted for the party's candidates.
Lucy Flores, who lost a race for lieutenant governor to Republican Mark Hutchison, said Latinos are moving through the pipeline but she said her presence on the ballot last year didn't necessarily mobilize Latino voters.
"Just because you have that representation on the ballot doesn't mean the Latino vote is going to turn out," said Flores, who now faces Rep. Ruben Kihuen, also Latino, in a race for a Nevada House seat.
Flores and Kihuen are among 1,200 lawmakers expected to attend this week's National Association of Elected and Appointed Officials conference that will feature speeches from Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Republican candidate Ben Carso


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Shepherd's pie is a traditional British recipe. This is my version (not traditional).
mince per person
potato per person
oil or fat for frying
knife and board for chopping
spoon for stirring
time in oven: half an hour
peeling and boiling potatoes
preparing and frying vegetables and mince
Like most casseroles, the amounts of ingredients are up to you.
This is a minimal recipe. At the end, I suggest some additional or substitute ingredients.
- Peel the and cut them into small pieces, chip-sized (but bigger than fries-sized). Put them in a pan, cover with water, and boil for ten minutes.
- Put a little oil in the frying pan for frying. Peel and chop the and fry it for a bit.
- From its name, you would assume that lamb mince is used for this recipe, but most people use beef mince. Add the mince to the pan with the onions, and fry for a bit. You may wish to add some other ingredients for extra flavour(see below). When cooked, add a little water to make it all rather sloppy.
- When the potatoes have cooked, add a lump of butter, and mash roughly with a fork (or other implement if you have it). It doesn't matter if there are still lumps in it.
- Put the mince mixture in the casserole and the mashed potato on top. You will find it easier if you put spoonfuls of mash in different places on top, rather than putting it all in one place and trying to spread it. Leave it rough and lumpy on top. If you want, you can grate some cheese on top.
- Put the contents of the frying pan into your casserole, and put the casserole dish in the oven. Do not put a lid on the casserole. Cook for about half an hour, or until the top is browned.
- At the end of cooking time, it's ready to eat. With potato and vegetables in the pie, it should be enough by itself, but if you didn't have vegetables in it, you may want to prepare some to have with it.
Mince and onions can be dull by themselves. Here are some suggestions for flavourings.
- The mince part of the pie must have some liquid to form a gravy round the meat. You can have water if there is enough other flavouring. You can also use or some form of alcohol (wine, beer, sherry), if you want.
- You can add some vegetables to the mince mix, such as . Remember that the pie is only going to cook for half an hour, so hard vegetables risk being under-cooked. Perhaps the carrots could be grated, or boiled beforehand.
- You can add if you want.
- You can add some herbs. Rosemary is supposed to go with lamb. Thyme or parsley are used in British cooking. Or you can just use Mixed herbs.
- You can also add tomato paste (not very traditional!) or any sauce that you like, such as Worcester sauce or brown sauce or tomato ketchup.
- Some people add milk to the potato. You can have mashed potato without butter or milk, and leave out the cheese as well, if you have lactose intolerance or other objections to milk products.
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Reggae gig opens up Ivory Coast's "Rasta Village"
By Tim Cocks
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - With its wooden shacks on a beach shaded by palm trees, Ivory Coast's "Rasta Village" could be anywhere in West Africa -- if it wasn't for all the dreadlocks, Ethiopian flags and murals of the Lion of Judah.
This weekend the villagers in Ivory Coast's Rastafarian colony, near the port of Abidjan, made a rare opening to the outside world with a four-day reggae festival that culminates in the anniversary of Bob Marley's death on Tuesday.
Reggae bands pumped out loud bass lines. Devoted Rastafarians with big dreadlocks sipped beers at tables painted in the red, yellow and green of their adopted Ethiopian flag, each named after one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
With its curious blend of Old Testament Christianity and pan-African nationalism, Rastafarianism -- Rastafari as its followers prefer to call it -- is usually more associated with its birth place in Jamaica than the continent it yearns for.
But Africa's Rastafarians, whose tell-tale dreadlocks can be spotted across the continent from the beaches of Zanzibar to the streets of Johannesburg, insist they're the real thing.
"It's all the same culture," reggae singer and resident Ras Kaloudja told Reuters at the festival.
"For us, it originates in Africa, then it went to the Caribbean, then it came back here. It's the same spirit everywhere, although there are musical differences."
LIBERTY AND RESPECT Continued...


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Posted: Jan 15, 2013 5:54 PM
Updated: Jan 15, 2013 6:21 PM
HOUSTON - Roger Clemens will once again be at Astros Spring Training Camp this year, but this time he'll be on the field sharing his knowledge as opposed to facing young batters.
Clemens met for five hours Monday morning at Minute Maid Park with general manager Jeff Luhnow, pitching coach Doug Brocail, roving pitching instructor Craig Bjornson and director of player development Quinton McCracken to map out a plan for his involvement in Spring Training.
He is set to make a pair of trips to Osceola County Stadium, the first will be to work with the Big League Pitchers, then another in March to work with all the pitchers.
Clemens is a seven-time Cy Young Award winner and has won 354-games in his Major League Career.
He did make several appearances around the back fields at Osceola County Stadium following his retirement in 2007, but since has kept a lower profile. Clemens told Astros Writer Brian McTaggart that he plans to be hands-on this year and will even be in uniform.
Courtesy: Brian McTaggart for article
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CORINTH – Annual heritage programs for fifth-graders in Alcorn County and Corinth schools will include for the first time this year living history presentations at the Corinth Contraband Camp.
Volunteers with the nonprofit LINK organization – the Healthy Communities-Healthy Youth Initiative – again will offer students a chance to view life in earlier times.
“We try to coordinate with the schools and offer something that will tie in with the curriculum,” said LINK president Laura Gilham. “We met with teachers and got input from them as to what they would like to see us do. This is a new project we came up with, to incorporate the Contraband Camp for grade five, and we hope the students will enjoy and learn something about their history in the area.”
On Friday the students will participate in tours and living history at both the Corinth Contraband Camp and the Verandah-Curlee House.
The Heritage Festival at the Verandah-Curlee House is an annual event that begins Friday and continues Saturday with demonstrations of traditional skills such as weaving, pottery-making, candle-making, basket weaving, musicians, storytellers, arts and crafts and numerous other vendors.
“We’re glad to add another element this year at the Contraband Camp,” said LINK board member Rebecca Spence. “We did the living history there for the first time last week when the board of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History visited.”
The camp features half a dozen life-size statues depicting former slaves who lived on the grounds off North Parkway Street after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in September 1862.
The statues help tell the story of a thriving community of about 6,000 people – referred to in historical literature as a model camp – as they began post-slavery life.
“Throughout the day we’ll have a lot of visuals,” Spence said. “I think the children will learn a lot more from what they see than from what we say.”
The contraband, or freedman’s, camp residents cultivated 400 acres at the site – 300 acres cotton and the rest vegetables – so farm life will be among the demonstrations, as well as the laundry they operated, blacksmithing, education and soldiers guarding the camp.
“We want to impress on the children that we should all be so proud of the heritage those earlier generations passed on to us – of the importance of education, their industriousness, their cooperative spirit and their work ethic,” Spence said.
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Labour leader Ed Miliband has condemned the “Victorian conditions” that people are subjected to under the use of zero-hour contracts, promising to cut down their use if Labour wins the next election.
Miliband says that there is a “massive problem” in the UK, with as many as one million people working for companies on zero-hours contracts.
With no guarantee of hours, shifts cancelled at short notice with no compensation given, and sometimes clauses telling workers they could not work for any other company, Miliband said the contracts were providing “frankly, Victorian conditions at work”.
“Zero-hour contracts have spread like an epidemic across our economy.”
“The government’s own figures say they have increased three-fold since 2010 and some estimates suggest there are one million people on these contracts across the UK including at least 90,000 here in Scotland.”
Although he acknowledged that they provided “short-term flexibility for employers and employees” but said that some workers he had spoken to were left unable to feed their families with no wages coming in one week to the next.
He also said that their use was “incompatible with building a loyal, skilled and productive workforce”, condemning the Tories for refusing to act on the abuse of workers in this way.
Business secretary Vince Cable attacked zero-hour contracts at the Lib Dem party conference last year, saying that the use of these contracts were “abuses in the system”. However, formal action is yet to be taken by his department to crack down on these abuses.


Manage suppliers, company assets, and service levels to maximize ROI for monitor arms, wire accessories, back supports, privacy filters, etc.
- Manage supplier relationships.
- Set up new suppliers and keep contact information current.
Place POs and ensure the POs are acknowledged by suppliers within 48 hours.
- Maintain supplier profiles.
- Assimilate quotes for analysis. Send completed quotes to Product Data.
- Identify and document cost saving opportunities for management. Participate in negotiations.
- Manage defective product returns and ensure appropriate chargeback.
- Meet or exceed all corporate S&P objectives for:
- service levels – AAO and LOTC
- inventory turns
- cost savings
- Manage daily MRP/ ASCP output to identify requirements to order, expedite, and de-expedite materials.
- Establish and maintain vital Oracle system information such as lot size, vendor and buyer codes, lead-time, costing, and attributes.
- Execute discontinued inventory process and work to minimize scrap, discontinued, and slow moving inventory.
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- Ensure all S&P activities are executed to meet timelines.
Acquire and maintain understanding of all relevant aspects of the Oracle system. Work with Oracle system on a day-to-day basis to ensure accurate information flow:
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- Review and analyze forecast information where needed. Work inconsistencies and issues with Supply Chain Manager.
- Coordinate revision level changes with Distribution and Customer Service.
Support inventory management:
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- Transfer material between distribution centers on a global basis where necessary.
- Organize data for excess and discontinued inventory reviews; execute actions.
Support efficient logistics including tracking/expediting shipments from port to distribution center.
Manage purchase orders:
- Execute MRP/ASCP planning and procurement process. Establish appropriate planning parameters.
- Initiate/issue POs.
- Open POs manually or release from the workbench.
- Open non-inventory POs.
- Place POs or discrete jobs for replenishment based on MRP/ASCP.
- Place POs for direct shipment to all distribution centers when possible.
- Maintain POs to ensure accurate ATP.
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- Pull vendor performance data and determine violations and actions.
Contribute to effective financial management:
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- Resolve receiving discrepancies, invoice discrepancies, and supplier payment issues.
- Issue debit memos to ship/return goods.
- Track and formally document cost increases for accurate margin analysis.
Use independent judgment to research detail and arrive at a recommended solution.