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With third film, 'Rings' saga becomes a classic
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (**** out of four) is the jewel in the crown of the masterful trilogy.
The three-part story of courage, friendship, honor and duty — spanning The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King, which comes to theaters tonight — is ideally suited to epic filmmaking. It is steeped in fast-paced action and grand adventure, yet still grounded in humanity — a rare combination among large-scale film extravaganzas.
It isn't until now that director Peter Jackson's efforts can be fully and fairly judged, notwithstanding the monumental box office success of the first two films, which have grossed $1.8 billion worldwide. As good as each individual movie is, the third film vaults the work into the stratosphere of classic movies. Key characters are enhanced, new civilizations visited and battles fought more intensely, while feelings and motivations are plumbed more deeply and movingly.
After the release of the first and second films, one wondered how the trilogy, as a nine-hour film fest, might compare with other cinematic watermarks. In its entirety, The Lord of the Rings surpasses other multi-part sagas such as Star Wars or even The Godfather. Both Star Wars and The Godfather had weak links, whole movies that didn't work as well as the best of the series. Rings maintains the same standard of excellence with each film and grows more assured with each installment. Of course, some of that escalating power is attributable to the storytelling prowess of J.R.R. Tolkien, upon whose classic novels the trilogy is based.
The books depict the odyssey of the humble hobbit Frodo, whose quest is to destroy a powerful ring that could enslave all the inhabitants of the fictional land of Middle-earth. Helping him accomplish his mission is a heroic cadre of creatures: Gandalf the wizard; Legolas the elf; Gimli the dwarf; Aragorn and Boromir, both men; and three other hobbits, Sam, Merry and Pippin. This unlikely alliance comes together in a spirit of acceptance and tolerance to fight the satanic Sauron and his devilish henchmen.
Those of us who do not consider ourselves fans of fantasy initially may have thought to dismiss the movies as far-fetched, overblown silliness. It was hard to imagine the films as relevant or transcending their genre.
But many of us have come around to another point of view: The films tell a classic story that espouses the virtues of love, hard work and compassion and decries greed, deceit and abuse of power in a mighty struggle against temptation and the corrupting forces of power. The story's message about conserving natural resources has profound significance for our times, as does the notion of taking up arms against an evil tyrant and the importance of overcoming prejudice to work toward a common goal of peace.
Ironically, these simple messages were massively complicated to pull off, requiring a budget of nearly $300 million, a crew of 26,000 extras and a production team of 2,400, which included medieval weapons designers, stone sculptors, linguists, blacksmiths and model builders. Bringing to life such a wide-ranging story with technical proficiency and visual dazzle is an unprecedented achievement, one that likely will define Jackson, much as George Lucas is forever linked to the Star Wars movies he directed.
Though the acting ensemble is strong, the movie does not belong to any one of them. While Elijah Wood capably carries off Frodo's transition from boy to man, his is not the most indelible performance.
Gollum, voiced by and physically patterned after the movements of British actor Andy Serkis, is the most realistic other-worldly character since E.T. and similarly will remain etched in moviegoers' collective memories.
Ian McKellen's Gandalf has a larger role in the third film, morphing from wizard/prophet to army general, and one cannot imagine the role played by anyone else. Viggo Mortensen's principled Aragorn is the king to whom the third film's title refers.
A key character is the landscape of Middle-earth. The movies feel mythical but look historical. In the third installment, for example, Minas Tirith, a seven-tiered city of kings, looks European, Byzantine and fantastical at the same time.
There is a bittersweet quality in the trilogy's coming to an end — even if The Return of the King seems ready to conclude at least three times before the movie finally comes to a rather anticlimactic close. Many moviegoers, like Jackson and the cast — who grew quite close during filming — may understand, and even appreciate, the lingering goodbye. And while scores of filmgoers clamor to see the final installment, no one is eager for the journey to end.
Jackson's masterpiece will no doubt have a long life on DVD and be the subject of countless revivals over the years. The director's next project is a remake of King Kong, which seems a bit like hiring Michelangelo to paint an office building. Though if anyone can make something out of that tired vehicle, Jackson can.
Should Jackson sign on to make The Hobbit, the Rings finale might feel more like a temporary "till we meet again" than a formal goodbye.


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Starring: B.J. Novak, Boyd Holbrook, Ashton Kutcher, Issa Rae, J. Smith-Cameron, Eli Bickel, Dove Cameron, and Isabella Amara
Director: B.J. Novak
Who'd have thought a film that starts off so shallowly could be so insightful? B.J. Novak's directorial debut has a lot to say about relationships and the climate of our world, and in true 21st century fashion, it does so through a podcaster. When the film is a grounded, quasi-family story, it’s great. There are some very funny jokes and solid character growth. However, it falls apart in the final act. It relies on a few film clichés and undoes its good work by trying to be bigger than it needs to be. Still, an entertaining watch and solid launching pad for Novak.
B.J. Novak’s Vengeance may not revolutionize murder mysteries or offbeat comedies, but it remains one of the smartest movies 2022 has to offer and a stellar debut for Novak in the director’s chair. While it doesn’t quite succeed at everything it sets out to do, Novak’s ingenious script offers three-dimensionality to characters most other Texas-set comedies would only poke fun at, confronting stereotypes head-on from both sides of the aisle in nuanced and often unexpected ways. The entire cast turns in excellent work too, but it’s Boyd Holbrook and Ashton Kutcher that end up stealing the show.
In his directorial debut, B.J. Novak has a lot on his mind about the current state of America, touching on everything from aspirational fame, hook-up culture, small town bureaucracy, the exploitative true crime genre, and the Red State v. Blue State divide. It’s admittedly a lot, and while the commentary is sharper on some points than others, the gist of what he is saying in the less clever moments still is enough to get you thinking. That’s hardly a complaint though, as Vengeance remains darkly funny with an engaging mystery, not to mention the excellent performances from Boyd Holbrook and, of all people, Ashton Kutcher.

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Kernersville EMS responds to fatal head-on collision with railroad equipment
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. – Police and EMS crews were dispatched after receiving reports that a vehicle had collided with railroad equipment.
According to police at approximately 2 p.m., a 92-year-old woman attempted to drive across the railroad tracks at the intersection of N.C. 66 and East Mountain Street when she collided with maintenance equipment that was working on the tracks.
Police reported that all railroad safety equipment was operating at the time of the accident.
The driver was transported to Baptist Hospital where she was pronounced deceased.
No other injuries were reported.
Police are investigating the crash.


in the late 1800s, lazaro gallardo, a tavern owner and tequila producer, named his specially produced tequila gran centenario to mark the beginning of the new century and also the beginning of tequila sales at his tavern.inspired by the french art deco, the exquisite bottle deserved a new campaign to show the outstanding quality and the grand heritage of the product.
the centenario angel calls an outstanding angel party with its powerful trumpet.a diners place in a evening scenery is the target of its call.
from a calm, normal, evening atmosphere and beginning with the sounds of the trumpet, everything becomes a big blast, evoking complete destruction of the diner. the pressure of the powerful sound makes tables, lamps and chairs, objects and also people start to tremble and shake and finally, fly in the air, drawn horizontally outside against all laws of gravity.
only two characters - a man and a woman, stay calm and resist the power.
they seem to recognize each others as different beings. now alone, they move closer, transforming into dark angels with huge wings, flying off to their meeting point, still following the conspirative music.
it is the centenario angel statue calling all angels to a secret meeting. a wonderful, gentle angel made out of stone, becoming alive.
after weeks of precise planning, an intense shooting of the destruction took place in a huge film studio in prague, leaving a taste of caducity behind. the final scene mansion was found on the outskirts of the city. theactual wings were built just for the main actors and the centenario angel. all other angel wings were done in CGI. in a massive period of postproduction, the integrity of effects were naturally implemented.
made differently is the claim of the gran centenario and this is exactly what the surprising plot of the commercial tells: one glass of this tequila can evoke an impressive impact, not only for the liver.
the magical look, like eternal paintings drawn by the director matthias zentner, teases the perception of the audience and remains strongly in their minds.


Ntsiki Mazwai’s ex threatens to leak pictures.
Ntsiki shared that her ex-s.e.x-partner was the one who threatened to leak the pictures, and according to Ntsiki, the man was willing to go to those extreme measured beside him being married!
SA TV host and poet, Ntsiki Mazwai says ex-lover has threatened to leak her pictures. As always, Ntsiki took to Twitter to engage with her followers about one night stands, catching feelings and being threatened with a picture expose!
The poet says the guy caught feelings and wasn’t happy with how things played out at the end. Ntsiki also shared that she did not know during the ordeal that the man was married. As much as fans wanted a name so bad!
Ntsiki kept it vague and gave little details. Ntsiki jokingly shared that she has learned many lessons from the situations and guys now sign non-disclosure agreements!
Meanwhile, Latoya Makhene, who is famously known as Tshidi Phakade on the hit soapie Generations –the legacy is reported to be leaving the soapie as of June 2019. The new mother who has been on the soapie since its reboot has now called it quits and it is a result of micromanagement issues.
5 Things You Probably DIDN’T KNOW About Nyasha Mushekwi’s Ex-Wife
Meet the lady of the hour, Luminitsa Dumbisa Jemwa, ex-wife to Warriors footballer Nyasha Mushekwi.
Luminitsa has not only made waves for her curvaceous body which leaves most men drooling but she has been making waves for her relationship with former first lady Grace Mugabe’s son….more here


Ayala North Point
Ayala North Point (ANP) is the first Ayala subdivision in Western Visayas in the tradition of Ayala’s fully integrated communities in Makati, Muntinlupa, cavite, laguna and cebu.
Ayala North Point’s development masterplan envisions a fully integrated community following the village concept where the residential neighborhood has its own transit facilities and mixed-use core: retail strip with specialty shops, school, gasoline station and other amenities.
It is also the only subdivision in the region with an existing village management program which ensures customer satisfaction, comfort and security. Positioned as the premier residential address in Negros, Ayala North Point offers first class amenities and facilities.
The project site is located in the northern part of Bacolod City, approximately five (5) kilometers from the city proper. It falls within the jurisdiction of the City of Talisay, negros occidental.
Through the National Highway linking Bacolod City to the Northern towns of Negros Occidental.
Features / Amenities
- 30-meter wide main road
- Underground utilities for power, cable and telephone lines
- Well-secured community
- Adequate water supply and excellent drainage facilities
- Landscaped entrance with guard house
- Exclusive village clubhouse
- Swimming pools
- Tree-lined walkways
- Indoor multi-purpose court for basketball, volleyball and badminton games
- Kite flying station
- Tennis courts
- Mini soccer field
- Landscaped parks and playgrounds
- Comfortable quiet and meditation garden known as the Sadhana Garden
- 9-Hole putting green
- Additional developments: newly opened gasoline station with convenience store and St. John’s Institute Nursery School with Sports Stadium
For site tours and inquiries, please contact: Sasha Raisa N. Pellano - Property Specialist
Mobile #: (63)9276996189
Email: email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.org
Address: Ayala North Point Village National Highway, Talisay City, Negros Occidental 6115
Office Tel. Nos. 63 (34) 7088900-02 Fax No. 63 (34) 7088880


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AUGUST 19, 2015 12:15 PM ET // BY DANNY CLEMENS
NBARR VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS South Carolinians had quite a surprise earlier this week, when a strange, rainbow-like cloud was painted across the sky over Isle of Palms:
Without clarity. So beautiful
A photo posted by Carole Rich Williams (@icrw70) on Aug 16, 2015 at 2:00pm PDT The striking phenomenon is colloquially referred to as a fire rainbow, although it has nothing to do with fire and isn't technically a rainbow.
Scientifically known as a circumhorizontal arc, the optical phenomenon occurs when sunlight refracts through plate-shaped ice crystals, according to weather.com. The Sun must also be at least 58 degrees above the horizon in order for the fire rainbow to be visible.
"To produce the rainbow colors, the sun's rays must enter the ice crystals at a precise angle to give the prism effect of the color spectrum," meteorologist Justin Lock told local news station WYFF. "Again, it has to do with getting the precise angle."
Because such a specific angle is necessary for the fire rainbow to be visible, the phenomenon is most common at middle latitudes.
This post originally appeared on DSCOVRD.

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Accrisoft Freedom has the capability of accepting and sending eChecks payments to a payment gateway.
To allow eCheck payments to process through a gateway, a form must be set up with specific fields. Below is a list of requirements and configurations that need to be done to process eChecks with a gateway.
The form needs fields with the Field Type "eCheck," which you can select using the Field Type drop-down list when adding a new field.
The following eCheck fields must be added:
*If only eChecks are accepted, then this can be hidden. However, the value must say eCheck regardless:
**The aba_code is the same at the account's rounting number.
***The account type must use specific values for savings and checking:

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Madyson B.|Peoria, AZ
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Young, Part-time Caregiver Available For Summer
Growing up, my mother was a nanny and I often helper her, learning how to care for children ages 6 months to 3 years old. I have 6 month volunteer experience which works on playing with, teaching, and mentoring elementary students in after school programs. I have 1 year volunteer experience with Kids as a lead mentor. I worked with special needs children, ages 5-19 and usually 2-5 at a time. teaching them songs and dances for the musical, assisting them in their chores and duties, and making sure they were clean and comfortable. I have grown up with many pets, mostly cats and dogs, of various breeds and sizes. I currently have two dogs, a very old yorkie and a very young, wild maltese-poodle mix and often check on pets for family friends, so I am very comfortable watching multiple animals and caring for their needs.

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Our Zero Waste Initiative has been one of our core values since the start. For every project, big or small, we painstakingly sort and save every bit of scrap to be used in the next project. Everything down to small cubes to make into jewelry or even thin slivers to make exotic plywood.
After three years, multiple workshops and endless truckloads; it has become a burden, but we still don’t want to throw away of these rare woods. It’s beauty can still be turned into cool things so we thought about giving others the same opportunity to do their own crafts!
We offer $15 small and $30 medium sized flat rate shipping boxes on our website with FREE priority shipping. The more we clean the shop, the more good scraps become available. Check it out on our online store front here!
Don’t forget to follow our Quest! More stories about our adventures are soon to come!

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Using the Traffic Noise Model to Mitigate Highway Noise Impacts on Communities
Highway traffic noise and air pollution can have harmful effects on surrounding communities and neighborhoods. FHWA’s Traffic Noise Model (TNM) helps states determine when highway barriers can feasibly and reasonably be used to help mitigate the impacts of traffic noise.
Since the tool was originally launched in 1998, FHWA has released TNM six additional times to include critical updates and enhance analytical capabilities.
FHWA released TNM version 3.0 in February 2020, replacing TNM 2.5 that was released in 2004. This updated version includes significant changes to the user interface and provides improvements to the acoustics algorithms. These enhancements provide users with more flexibility and accuracy during the data entry process, as well as better visual representations when conducting noise analysis.
The U.S. Volpe Center has been involved with data collection and development of TNM since its inception, and the Center continues to improve TNM and related tools and provide technical support to the TNM user community.
TNM 3.0 helps highway agencies optimize noise barrier design, resulting in cost savings and noise reductions that will benefit the impacted communities. TNM 3.0 allows highway agencies to use base maps to more easily add objects to the study that are not already included, for example, in highway construction plans. This information provides a human-readable input format that others can write to in order to develop new methods for adding data to a TNM study. This capability provides long-term benefits to states by making workflows more efficient and keeping TNM current with the latest data formats.
U.S. DOT Volpe Center staff made significant improvements to TNM 3.0, including updates to the acoustical formulae, modernization of the acoustics code, and release of an enhanced graphical user interface. Accompanying the release of TNM 3.0, U.S. DOT Volpe Center experts also developed a number of documents and manuals including the model validation report, a technical manual, and a guide to help users get started with TNM 3.0. To assist FHWA in TNM 3.0 deployment, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center hosted two roll-out webinars, developed and published six instructional YouTube videos, and conducted user group virtual meetings.
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center continues to provide effective and comprehensive technical support to FHWA to address project-specific issues related to the implementation of TNM 3.0. Since its release in February 2020, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center has addressed 150 technical support issues, with roughly 10 percent involving detailed analysis utilizing the more maintainable programming code in TNM 3.0.
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center continues to assist FHWA in improving TNM. Based on feedback from the TNM user community, FHWA released TNM version 3.1 in January 2022. This new version features improvements to the analytical workflows, while the acoustic algorithms remain the same.
*This story originally appeared in the January 2021 publication: The U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s 2020 Annual Project Accomplishments, with updates to incorporate the recent release of TNM 3.1.
Celebrating more than 50 years of federal service to the nation, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s mission is to transform transportation for all.


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On September 22nd, 2016, N.C. State legislators and other guests gathered for a discussion on “The Intersections of Child Welfare and Substance Abuse: Strategies for Supporting Families.” This was the 10th in a series of Family Impact Seminars designed to provide objective, non-advocacy, solution-oriented research on timely issues selected by policymakers. The seminars encourage policymakers to consider the impact of policies on families, just as they regularly consider the impact of policies on the economy and the environment.
Seminar materials are available here.
To view a recording of the seminar, watch here.
Special thanks to Susan Foosness (Public Consulting Group) for her leadership role in planning the 2016 N.C. Family Impact Seminar.

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|Author||Huff, Robert W.|
|Source||ACM Digital Library|
|Publisher||Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)|
|Subject Domain (in DDC)||Computer science, information & general works ♦ Data processing & computer science|
|Abstract||The complexities of Retail Business Systems today require a thorough understanding of how functional requirements impact desired system performance. It is no longer feasible to discretely test and evaluate individual system components without considering their inter-relationship. The techniques described in this presentation will define the method of system characterization of products prior to customer delivery. Three techniques are utilized to characterize system performance - simulation, stimulation, and performance measurement. Simulation involves writing a mathematical model which is enhanced from a product feasibility model to a system configuration tool as a result of stimulation and measurement activities. Stimulation consists of using emulators to load the system component under test as if the actual system is inter-connected. The emulators are programmed to produce a processing volume which can exceed the peak benchmark of the potential user. Performance measurement is accomplished during the stimulation activity using hardware/ software probes to monitor specific system parameters. These monitors provide vital information to determine total system capacity and the expected system performance for a given configuration. The information derived from system characterization is invaluable in providing the customer with a realistic expectation of system capability to perform its present functions and in projecting future growth potential.|
|Description||Affiliation: NCR Corporation (Huff, Robert W.)|
|Age Range||18 to 22 years ♦ above 22 year|
|Education Level||UG and PG|
|Learning Resource Type||Article|
|Publisher Place||New York|
|Journal||ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest (SIML)|
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find out the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDLI is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for leading vernacular languages, (currently Hindi, Bengali and several other languages are available). It is designed to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular forms of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is being developed to help students to prepare for entrance and competitive examinations, to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. It is being developed at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
NDLI is a conglomeration of freely available or institutionally contributed or donated or publisher managed contents. Almost all these contents are hosted and accessed from respective sources. The responsibility for authenticity, relevance, completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability of these contents rests with the respective organization and NDLI has no responsibility or liability for these. Every effort is made to keep the NDLI portal up and running smoothly unless there are some unavoidable technical issues.
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), has sponsored and funded the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) project.
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Navy to try first carrier launch of X-47B
The Navy says it will make its first attempt on Tuesday to launch Northrop Grumman's futuristic X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System drone from an aircraft carrier. The vehicle, which was developed at Northrop's San Diego County plants, is scheduled to undergo a catapult launch from the carrier George H.W. Bush, on the East Coast. If successful, the launch could represent an important step toward eventually making drones part of a carrier's air wing.
Rear Adm. Mat Winter, the Navy's program officer for the X-47B, said online Monday that, "Controlled by a mission operator aboard the ship, the X-47B will execute several carrier approaches demonstrating its ability to operate seamlessly within the carrier environment before it flies over the Eastern Shore and lands back at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., where two demonstration aircraft have resided for the past year ...
"Over the coming years, we will heavily leverage the technology maturation, networking advances and precision navigation algorithms developed from the X-47B demonstration program to pursue the introduction of the first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft. This future system will provide 24/7, carrier-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and targeting capability, which will operate together with manned aviation assets allowing the opportunity to shape a more efficient carrier air wing."


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About Slit Tapestry
Tapestry is the most magical form of cloth: graphic and narrative, technically complex, often opulent and decorative, and always immensely labor intensive. The tapestry weaver patiently weaves, day by week by month, steadily building up and manipulating colored threads, row by row, into what will become a unique and original piece of textile art.
A tapestry is characterized by the use of a non-continuous weft. Weft is the fiber that moves horizontally across the vertical warp threads, the filler. The term non-continuous indicates that many different lengths, colors, or types of fiber make up a row of weaving, sometimes hundreds of changes in a single row.
There are as many different tapestry weaving styles and techniques as there are traditions of ethnic weavers. The twisting, turning and intersecting of colored yarns into aesthetic form is a precise and exacting art. The physical laws are learned only through applied study, and much trial and error at the loom. I often use the technique of slit tapestry, a weaving style often found in kilim rugs, in my work
I weave on two, state-of-the-art, horizontal looms: an 8 foot Cranbrook and a 6 foot Macomber. Both are superb pieces of equipment for transforming simple yarns into complex tapestries and rugs. All of my pieces are made with 2-ply Crown Colony wool weft yarn from Henry’s Attic on 8/3 linen rug warp from Rio Grande Weavers Supply. The weft yarns are then hand-dyed to specification, in my Omaha studio, using Pro-Wash Fast Acid Dyes from Pro Chemical.
Without an inspired design or conceptual plan, a tapestry is nothing more than an organized collection of yarn. The Art is born from a moment of passion or insight that manifests into graphic/intellectual/emotional/spiritual excitement and innovation. Tapestry is no exception. The world needs yet not another purposeless object. What it does need, are objects that speak to us so personally that we are deeply uplifted in our daily rituals and journeys.


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“One of Arizona’s best trails is in a city park.” The notion is counterintuitive. Yet, despite its urban coordinates, everything about the Tom’s Thumb Trail measures up. The surrounding landscape is like a painting by Charles Russell, the easy-to-follow route is meticulously marked, there’s enough incline to burn off the lingering effects of that second helping of Christmas pudding, and the trail itself is so well groomed that your eyes can wander instead of watching every step. By almost any measure, this hike is hard to beat.
It begins at one of the many impressive trailheads in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. From there, it begins a slight ascent through a mix of desert vegetation that includes teddy bear chollas, buckhorn chollas, mesquites, jojobas and turpentine bushes. And up ahead, past a hillside covered with thousands of scattered boulders — ancient marbles in a giant’s game of jacks — you’ll see the ridge to which you’re headed. What you won’t see are a lot of saguaros. They prefer south-facing slopes.
After a few minutes of easy climbing, you’ll come to an intersection with the Feldspar Trail, which leads to a network of other trails. At this point, the grade shifts upward and you’ll start feeling the burn in your quads. The trail starts winding, too, but not in the traditional way of switchbacks. That will come a few minutes later. But first, you’ll arrive at an intersection with a spur that leads to Harris’s Hawk Vista. It’s one of many viewpoints along the way.
Beyond the spur, the switchbacks move in to help mitigate the climb — this is the steepest part of the hike. Continuing up, the trail passes another scenic viewpoint (Raven Roost) and arrives at a “rock climbing access route.” Long before there were multimillion-dollar homes in every direction, the McDowell Mountains were the distant domain of hardcore rock climbers, including members of the Arizona Mountaineering Club. In 1965, Tom Kreuser, the rock star of that group, pioneered what is now the standard route to the summit of the thumb. Originally known as “The Dork,” the 140-foot plug of granite was renamed Tom’s Thumb in honor of the man who conquered it.
Back on the trail, the huffing and puffing continues for another 10 minutes until the route arrives at a saddle and yet another scenic viewpoint (Vulture View). The elevation is 3,670 feet, which accounts for most of what you’ll accumulate on this strenuous day hike. From the saddle, the trail levels off and leads to the Prairie Falcon Overlook, which is followed by a short descent — about 100 feet in elevation. The next stop is an intersection with the East End Trail, an extremely steep and rugged route that will test even the most aggressive hikers. Add it to your list. Or don’t.
From there, it’s a half-mile of gentle ups and downs to the top, where Tom’s Thumb sticks out like a cliché. But it’s not the only payoff. The summit also offers distant views of downtown Phoenix.
It would be better if there weren’t any signs of civilization, but this trail is an urban trail in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, which protects thousands of acres of lush desert landscape. The preserve got its start in 1991, when a small group of Scottsdale citizens formed the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy. Their goal was to advocate for the land and persuade the city to protect it. When the first parcel was acquired in 1994, the conservancy became its steward.
Today, the preserve measures 30,580 acres, making it the third-largest city park in the United States. And within its boundaries are 417 plant species and 600 animal species, including desert tortoises, coyotes and mule deer. Rare birds are on the list, too: bald eagles, golden eagles, peregrine falcons, purple martins and gilded flickers. You might see any of those natural wonders on this trail, or on one of the many other routes in the preserve — in all, there are 225 miles of hiking trails.
Tom’s Thumb accounts for just a few, but in that short distance, it covers more ground than most. And by almost any measure, it’s a hike that’s hard to beat. One of the best in Arizona.
Length: 4.25 miles round-trip
Elevation: 2,820 to 3,848 feet
Trailhead GPS: N 33˚69.395', W 111˚80.218'
Directions: From Exit 36 on State Route 101 (Loop 101) in North Scottsdale, go north on Pima Road for 4.6 miles to Happy Valley Road. Turn right onto Happy Valley Road and continue 4.2 miles to Ranch Gate Road. Turn right onto Ranch Gate Road and continue 1.2 miles to 128th Street. Turn right onto 128th Street and continue 1 mile to the trailhead entrance. From there, continue 0.3 miles to the parking lot.
Vehicle Requirements: None
Dogs Allowed: Yes (on a leash)
Horses Allowed: Yes
USGS Map: McDowell Peak
Information: McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, 480-998-7971 or mcdowellsonoran.org

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In 1994 William Ritter's adult son committed suicide, sending Ritter and his family on a journey no family wants to take. Part of Ritter's own process of healing the loss of his son was to preach about it occasionally from the pulpit. This book is a collection of the sermons he preached, the first one just three weeks after his son's death, and the final one nine years later. Through them, we get a glimpse of a father and a family struggling honestly with their pain and graduallyover the yearscoming to grips with their loss. Take the Dimness of My Soul Away will be a welcome companion to anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide, as well as to pastors and counselors who work with those who are grieving. Ritter offers no easy solutions, no rosy pictures, and no silver linings, but speaks honestly instead about the difficult emotions and confusion of this kind of loss, and ultimately, about a sense of hopefulness for the survivors of suicide. William Ritter is the senior pastor of a large United Methodist church in Birmingham, Michigan. Since the suicide of his son he has counseled many others, and spoken to groups of people who have all survived this kind of loss.
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Paula Rymer5 Stars Out Of 5May 15, 2010Paula RymerThis book touches the very heart of a parent that has lost a child to suicide. I have heard Rev. Ritter speak and he has penned the same emotional truths in this manuscript. Moving and very thought provoking and comforting. I have found more answers and comfort in this short book than in any other that I have read since my daughters death.
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Graham Boynton joins the party as country music salutes its heroes in Nashville
Nashville has been strutting its stuff this week, celebrating the musical genre that began as hillbilly music in the 1930s and is now a $2 billion business with fans around the world. Building up to the annual Country Music Awards, they've been partying with a vengeance.
Down in the honky-tonks along Lower Broadway, wannabe bands have been playing their socks off, hoping some record industry big-wigs will fall into their bar and realise they're listening to the new Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson or Dolly Parton.
At the other end of town, those who have already made it were dressed up in country haute couture - Stetsons, $1,000 boots and rhinestones - hugging, pumping each other's hands, and congratulating themselves on their achievements of the past year.
There has been a run of big parties: the Songwriters' Hall of Fame dinner on Sunday; two black-tie dinners on Monday honouring the industry's writers and publishers; and finally the big event, the 38th Annual CMA (Country Music Association) Awards show at the Grand Ole Opry, televised live and watched by about 40 million Americans.
Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter who is now in her seventies, arrived looking like something out of Gone With the Wind. Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country", smiled demurely, while the likes of Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Phil Everly and Emmylou Harris mingled with their young successors, such as Shania Twain and Alan Jackson.
What the superstars and the shabby honky-tonkers have in common, of course, is the beautiful noise that some call "white man's soul music", with its lyrical thread the tends to include infidelity, heavy drinking in bars, and impending doom. Someone once described it as "three chords and the truth", and it has been at the centre of American pop for more than half a century.
The awards show itself was as terrific as American network TV advertising breaks allow. Despite a pause for commercials every 10 minutes, the three-hour show, which featured 22 acts and 11 award presentations, was slick and hi-tech, and there were some rousing performances. Not bad for a bunch of hillbillies.
The stand-out songs came from people who are virtually unknown in Britain. Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss's Whiskey Lullaby (in Paisley's own words a "double suicide drinking song") deservedly won the award for Musical Event of the Year. Big and
Rich performed The Ballad of Big and Rich with a black rapper, Cowboy Troy, and a midget called Two-Foot Fred, which brought the house down. Gretchen Wilson, whose raucous, redneck songs have turned her into the hottest new act of the year, won the Horizon Award for Best New Artist.
Martina McBride, another award winner (Best Female Vocalist), sang a sentimental song called God's Will with gusto. The biggest star of the night, Shania Twain, who has sold 65 million albums, was disappointing, performing a cheesy duet with Billy Currington.
Dolly Parton finished the evening off by announcing the Entertainer of the Year, another unknown in Britain named Kenny Chesney, and then suggesting that New York's "Mayor Bloomingdale" start making preparations for next year's awards show at Madison Square Garden.
Parton's swipe went down well with the crowd; as they filed out into the night I overheard muttering about the cheek of holding country's big night anywhere but Nashville.
What do those Yankees know about holding a downhome country party?
- 'The CMA Awards' is on BBC2, Sat at 8.30pm.

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The state Senate quietly ignored one of the big items in Gov. Bev Perdue's proposed budget for 2010-11: $94.6 million for a new Mobility Fund that would help fix the I-85 Yadkin River bridge-and-bottleneck now and fix other unspecified transportation problems later.
Perdue had proposed to divert $22 million this year, and more in future years, from the dwindling yearly transfer from the Highway Trust Fund to the General Fund. And she wanted to produce another $74.6 million a year in new money by hiking some DMV fees -- mostly by increasing everybody's car registration fee from $28 to $35.
None of this was included in the budget moving through the state Senate this week.
Some transportation and urban advocates had cheered the idea, arguing that any increase in transportation spending was welcome.
But the Mobility Fund was vaguely explained from the start, and the ideas for how to spend it varied widely from one side of the capital to the other. Stephen Jackson offered a skeptical take on Perdue's Mobility Fund in a post on The Progressive Pulse, the NC Policy Watch blog:
Grandiose names aside, lets call this fund what it is. Its an ad hoc response to get the I-85 bridge over the Yadkin River built because the hoped-for federal stimulus money never came through. It is policy-making on-the-run and the executive’s creation of it reveals more about the deep problems with road and bridge funding in this state than anything else.
Actually, NCDOT is moving ahead now with other money to build the Yadkin River replacement bridge itself. But Perdue and her NCDOT were looking for money to double the width of I-85 for six miles near and mostly north of the Yadkin.
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DE BEQUE – Many people pass by and marvel at its size. At 14 feet high and 546 feet long, the Grand River Diversion Dam is one of the biggest roller dams in the world, and it just turned 100 years old.
“You know you see it with those orange towers and maybe a lot of people don’t know the significance of the dam,” said Palisade Historical District’s Charlene Weidner.
“I feel like this is a great opportunity to educate people and let them know it’s an important dam.”
The six 70-foot rollers move up and down depending on the amount of water to be let through. The water is siphoned off into the Highline Canal, sending water to 33,000 acres of farms, fields, and wineries.
“We know we live in a high desert it would just be too hot to live here, because it also waters trees, so we really wouldn’t exist without it, said Weidner.
Water first turned into the canal in 1915, and a caretaker has watched after the dam day and night ever since, KKCO-TV reported.
“I love it,” said current caretaker Alfonzo Gallegos. “The sound of the waterfall, the water sloshing up against the wall here, it is a great place to be.”
Gary Hines has a special relationship with the roller dam – his grandfather was the dam’s caretaker for 33 years.
“You walk up on the catwalk above the rollers and it still gives you that massive same impression that I had 55 years ago,” said Hines. “It’s incredibly special. I was about ten years old when my grandfather unexpectedly passed away and we kind of lost our passport to this magical land.”
A unique German design, it is one of four roller dams in the country. It is too fragile and hard to access for public tours.
Information from: KKCO-TV, http://www.nbc11news.com


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Information Foraging Theory in Software NavigationSpeaker: Margaret Burnett – Corvallis, OR, United States
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AbstractIn this talk, we reconsider the notion of how people go about navigation-intensive tasks like debugging, by exploring a theory that is consistent today's large collections of source code and modern programming environments. The theory we are exploring is called information foraging theory. Information foraging theory has become very influential in the field of human-computer interaction, and we are working to bring its benefits to the software engineering community. For example, in recent years, the software engineering community has begun to study program navigation and tools to support it. Some of these navigation tools are very useful, but they lack a human-oriented theoretical basis that could reduce the need for ad hoc tool building approaches by shedding light on what is fundamentally necessary to the people using such tools.
Thus, in this talk, we present our work on the PFIS family of models (Programmer Flow by Information Scent), which are behavior models and algorithms, based by information foraging theory, of programmer navigation during software maintenance. We also describe strengths, weaknesses, and open questions we have found in our empirical studies applying these models to expert programmers debugging real bugs described in real bug reports for real Java applications. Our results have been very encouraging, and also point out interesting differences between how information foraging theory applies to the web browsing versus information foraging theory's application to software development activities like debugging.
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If you're a fan of all things Aussie rock, you have to head to HOTA this December 8-February 17 to check out the Let There Be Rock! exhibition!
For three decades between the 1970s to 1999, the Gold Coast was a hotspot on the bucket list of Australia's music touring circuit! We're talking The Ramones and Cold Chisel at The Playroom, INXS and The Go-Betweens at Bombay Rock and Nirvana and The Violent Femmes at Fisho's.
The exhibition will have all the memorabilia, photos, footage and more to take you back to the good days and even better music!
Dates: Saturday, December 8-Sunday, February 17
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Monod classified sugars into class "A" or "B". Class A sugars (mannose, fructose, mannitol) do not give rise to diauxic growth when present in the medium with glucose. By contrast, class B sugars (arabinose, maltose, rhamnose, lactose, xylose, galactose) do give rise to diauxic growth when present with glucose.
Note, due to the large number of secondary (class B) carbon sources that have to be tested, it is reccomended that the experiment be split up either temporally or between multiple individuals.
The experiment will generate OD and fluoresence data which can be converted in Specific Promoter Units (SPUs) by a calculator found on the Registry of Standard Biological Parts.
- 96 well plates
- Miniprep reagents
- Ligation reagents
- Transformation reagents
M9 Minimal Media
Disodium Phosphate (12.0g)
Potassium dihydrogen phosphate (6.0g)
Sodium Chloride (1.0g)
Ammonium Chloride (2.0g)
Magnesium Sulphate (0.75g)
M9 Minimal Media Background:
Minimal M9 media is a defined minimal growth media suited to optical density based studies on account of its low absorbance and autofluoresence.
MgSO4 solution precipitates when heated and therefore cannot be autoclaved. To maintain sterility, MgSO4 solution should be filter sterilised (Minisart® 0.20µm syringe filter) and added after the other chemicals had been dissolved, mixed and autoclaved. To support bacterial growth, M9 medium requires the addition of a carbon source.
M9 Minimal Media Preparation:
- Measure out the following reagents and dissolve them in 1000ml of sterile H20:
Disodium Phosphate = 6.0g
Potassium dihydrogen phosphate = 3.0g
Sodium Chloride = 0.5g
Ammonium Chloride = 1.0g
- Repeat the step above such that a total of 2000ml of M9 minimal media is prepared.
- Label 15 conical flasks as shown below:
1) Glucose (Transformed)
2) Galactose (Transformed)
3) Maltose (Transformed)
4) Arabinose (Transformed)
5) Xylose (Transformed)
6) Rhamnose (Transformed)
7) No-carbon source (Transformed)
8) Glucose (Un-transformed)
9) Galactose (Un-transformed)
10) Maltose (Un-transformed)
11) Arabinose (Un-transformed)
12) Xylose (Un-transformed)
13) Rhamnose (Un-transformed)
14) No-carbon source (Un-transformed)
15) No-carbon source (Falcon Stock Solution)
- Decant 100ml of M9 minimal media into each of the 15 conical flasks
- Measure out and add 0.4 grams of each carbon source and add it to the conical flask with the corresponding label.
- Autoclave the M9 media to ensure sterility.
- Measure out and dissolve 0.75g of Magnesium Sulphate in 30 ml of H20.
- Using a Minisart® 0.20µm syringe filter, add 2 ml of Magnesium Sulphate solution to each conical flask.
Other Protocols Needed
1. Prepare the test promoter by miniprep of colonies containing promoter test construct followed by restriction digest with Xbal and PstI.(see miniprep protocol)
2. Prepare the GFP reporter device (BBa_E0240) by miniprep of miniprep of colonies containing E0240 followed by restriction digest with Xbal and PstI.
3. Prepare backbone plasmid (pSB3K3) by preparative PCR of pSB3K3-P1010 using primers BBa_G1000 and BBa_G1001 followed by restriction digest with EcoRI and PstI.
4. Combine the test promoter, GFP reporter device, and backbone plasmid in a 3-way ligation to build the promoter test construct. (see ligation protocol)
5. Transform the promoter test construct into TOP10 cells. Select for transformants on Kanamycin plates. Optimum DNA for each component could be approximately 10ng per microlitre.(see transformation protocol)
6. Measure the activity of the test promoter using the measurement instructions.
Promoter Measurement Protocol
Note: This test will be carried out for each secondary carbon source. The supplemented M9 minimal media will be prepared for each carbon source (as stated above) and the required one used for each test.
1. Inoculate single colonies of E. coli cells containing the promoter test construct on the vector backbone, into three 17 mm test tubes containing 5 ml of the selected pre-warmed (37°C) supplemented M9 medium with kanamycin (20 ug/ml). Note: The M9 media previously prepared will contain different carbon sources. Select the appropriate one for the carbon source you wish to test).
2. Grow the cultures in the 17 mm test tubes for approximately 20 hrs at 37°C with spinning at 70 rpm.
3. Dilute the cultures 1:100 into 5 ml of pre-warmed fresh media and grow the cultures for approximately 4 hours under the previous conditions (17 mm tubes, 37°C, spinning at 70 rpm).
4. After 4 hours, measure the OD600 of a 500 ul aliquot from each culture on a WPA Biowave Spectrophotometer. This will tell you how many cells you have.
5. Based on this OD measurement, dilute the cultures to the same OD (0.07) in 5 ml of pre-warmed fresh media and grow for one hour at 37°C. Here we try to make sure everything is at the same OD.
6. Transfer three 200 ul aliquots from each culture into a flat-bottomed 96 well plate (Cellstar Uclear bottom, Greiner). For ease of measurement.
7. Incubate the plate in a multi-well fluorimeter (Perkin Elmer) at 37°C and assay with an automatically repeating protocol of absorbance measurements (600 nm absorbance filter, 0.1 second counting time through 5 mm of fluid), fluorescence measurements (485 nm excitation filter, 525 nm emission filter, 0.1 seconds, CW lamp energy 12901 units), and shaking (3 mm, linear, normal speed, 15 seconds). (Just measures GFP – fluorescence over time).
8. Determine background absorbance by measuring wells containing only media. This should be subtracted from subsequent absorbance readings.(Blank).
9. Determine background fluorescence at different ODs from the fluorescence of control cells without a GFP expressing vector. (This is from the culture containing the untransformed cells). (Control)
10. Measurements were taken from an approximately 30 min period in mid-exponential growth.

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NVizcaya approves P1 million for agri-modernization program
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (19 October) -- "The provincial government will provide a P1 million counterpart intended for the purchase of a hand tractor for farmers here.
In a resolution on Wednesday (October 18), the provincial board authorized governor Luisa Cuaresma to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Agriculture - Regional Field Unit (DA-RFU) in Tuguegarao City for the purchase of a hand tractor worth P2.5 million.
The move, board member Glen Afan said is anchored on the provincial government's pursuit on agricultural modernization and enhancement of agricultural production in the province.
The amount would augment the fund of the DA which earlier pledged P1.5 million through regional director Gumersindo Lasam.
The P1 million counterpart fund of the provincial government will come from the capital outlay of provincial agriculturist Felipe Panganiban who made initial talks with Lasam regarding the project.
According to board member Patricio Dumlao, the hand tractor would also complement the P8 million corn planter which was earlier purchased by the provincial government through the Economic Development committee (ECODEV) of the Provincial Development Council (PDC).
"This will be a big help since the corn planter, to be fully operational needs the hand tractor," Dumlao said. (PIA NVizcaya) [top]

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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) --Harvest season is well underway. Fresh strawberries have been in season for the last month and now we're getting a look at this seasons peaches and apricots.
Berries and stone fruits come into season
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Moderna announced today it plans to seek emergency use authorization for its pediatric COVID-19 vaccine, citing preliminary data showing the two-dose regimen was safe for children under age 6, including toddlers and infants.
Moderna also said the vaccine, when administered at a smaller dose, produced an immune response in the younger age group similar to the response produced by its vaccine authorized for adolescents and young adults, ages 12 to 17.
Moderna released partial results from its two pediatric clinical trials in 6,900 children showing the mRNA shots were only about 44% effective at preventing symptomatic infection in children 6 months to 2 years old, and only 37% effective in children aged 2 to 5.
However, Moderna said its pediatric trials were designed to study safety and the immune response, not effectiveness.
“We believe these latest results from the KidCOVE study are good news for parents of children under 6 years of age,” Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, said in a statement.
“We now have clinical data on the performance of our vaccine from infants six months of age through older adults. Given the need for a vaccine against COVID-19 in infants and young children, we are working with the U.S. FDA and regulators globally to submit these data as soon as possible.”Moderna’s pediatric clinical trials were conducted using two 25-microgram doses each — a fourth of the adult dose — and during a time period when the Omicron variant was the predominant strain.
Moderna said the safety profile of two pediatric doses was generally “consistent with that observed in children age 6 to under 12, in adolescents age 12 to 17 and in adults.”
Adverse events were mild or moderate and were more frequently reported after the second dose. No cases of myocarditis — a potentially fatal type of heart inflammation linked to mRNA vaccines — were reported, the company said.
Moderna did not report any details on types of side effects except for data on children who experienced fevers. The company said about 15% of children had fevers higher than 100.4 degrees, and 1 in 500 experienced a fever higher than 104 degrees.
Moderna did not disclose whether children required hospitalization as a result of the fevers or other side effects.
The company said the majority of COVID cases observed were mild and no severe disease, hospitalizations or deaths were reported among any of the children who participated in the trial, making it impossible to detect the vaccine’s protective effect against the worst outcomes.
“The absence of any severe disease, hospitalization or death in the study precludes the assessment of vaccine efficacy against these endpoints,” the company said.
Yet, Moderna said its efficacy results were statistically significant, and lower efficacy against COVID-19 infection due to Omicron was anticipated based on how the vaccine performs in adults.
According to The Washington Post, the company said its statistical analysis showed vaccine efficacy was “above zero.”
“We’re optimistic that we can bring the vaccine forward, hopefully reasonably quickly,” Jacqueline Miller, Moderna’s senior vice president of infectious diseases, told the Post.
Miller said the company plans to test a booster dose in children and is submitting a proposal to regulators to test a third vaccine dose to be administered four months after children complete their initial series of two shots.
Moderna’s clinical trial failed to show vaccine benefits children
In an article on Substack, Alex Berenson, former New York Times reporter and author of “Pandemia,” said, “Moderna claimed in its press release that it believes the shots might reduce the risks of COVID in young children, but the trial showed nothing of the sort.”
“No children in it had severe COVID, so the company could not evaluate whether the shots actually will have meaningful benefit against serious illness. The shots reduced the risk of COVID from the Omicron variant in children by only about 40%, below the 50% level that regulators had generally called the minimum level for approval in 2020.
“Recall that the major adult trials from Moderna and Pfizer showed a 95% reduction in infections against the original coronavirus variant — a finding that far overstated their real-world effectiveness after a few months. A similar decline from the 40% trial figure Moderna reported would suggest the potential for negative real-world efficacy — or increased infection risk after vaccination — in months.”
“Given the weakness of these results and the fact COVID poses almost no risk to kids who are not profoundly ill or morbidly obese, it is not entirely clear why Moderna would try to convince regulators to move ahead,” Berenson said. “Parents have already been very reluctant to have kids aged 5 to 12 take Pfizer’s mRNA jab, and surveys suggest even more resistance for younger kids.”
Moderna has made it clear it plans to go ahead, Berenson added.
Data lacking to justify COVID vaccines for kids
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo on March 7 issued new guidance formally recommending against COVID vaccines for healthy children, making Florida the first state to break with official guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
According to The Wall Street Journal, children are at an “exceedingly low likelihood of severe illness or death” from COVID.
A recent study in The Lancet estimated the infection fatality rate of children under 18 at between 0.0023% and 0.0085% — meaning 2.3 to 8.5 of every 100,000 kids who get infected will die, with rates lowest among children 5 to 11.
Between Oct. 3, 2020, and Oct. 2, 2021, the CDC attributed only 66 deaths to COVID among children 5 to 11. By comparison, the same number of children died in 2019 from suicide — an “exceedingly rare” event among this age group.
In 2019, there were 969 deaths in the 5 to 11 age group from unintentional injury and 207 from homicide, both of which surpassed the number of deaths attributed to COVID.
Polio paralyzes 1 in 200 children infected with the virus, and the fatality rate for measles ranges between 0.1% and 0.3%, while the risk of hospitalization from the flu for children 5 to 11 is 50% higher than from COVID and a related condition called multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) combined.
Hospitalizations among children increased while the Omircron variant was the dominant strain in comparison to previous strains, but still remained significantly low — 80% lower than among young adults.
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical advisor, many children who tested positive for COVID and were admitted to the hospital were actually hospitalized for other unrelated conditions such as broken bones.
As The Vault Project reported on March 15, the CDC removed from its data tracker website tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID, including nearly a quarter of the deaths the agency said had occurred among children.
The CDC said it made adjustments to the mortality data because the website’s algorithm was “accidentally counting deaths that were not COVID-19-related.”
The change resulted in the removal of 72,277 deaths previously reported across 26 states, including 416 pediatric deaths — a reduction of 24% to 1,341, the agency said.
The CDC’s COVID statistics were used to justify which age groups should receive vaccines and were used by U.S. health agencies to support the authorization of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky referred to the tracker’s death total in November 2021, while pushing for an expert panel to advise her agency to recommend vaccination for all children 5 to 11 years old.
It is unknown whether Moderna will use the CDC’s most recent COVID numbers in its risk-benefit analysis presented to U.S. health agencies to determine whether the risks of COVID outweigh the potential risks of its COVID vaccine in children.
The Moderna shot is currently authorized for people 18 and older in the U.S., while the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been authorized for children as young as 5 years old.
Moderna has faced delays with pediatric vaccines and filed for authorization in adolescents last June, but a regulatory decision was delayed due to concerns Moderna’s higher dose may increase the risk of heart inflammation in that age group.


I am aware of your organization’s greatest contribution in the field of fire prevention and fire protection. The work of your association in behalf of the members of the fire service of the Nation has been outstanding. The improvements that have been made for the members of the fire service are the direct result of the work of your association.
The President of the United States is probably more familiar with our organization than many attending this conference, and it is for that reason I mention that our organization is unique as a labor organization, in that strikes are not permitted. You, and every other citizen, have been reading about strikes. We all deplore the necessity for strikes. You have never read where members of the International Association of Fire Fighters were on strike and I am sure you never will. [Applause.]
Back in 1936 our association expelled a local in Canada merely because the members took a vote on whether or not to strike.
The financial conditions of many municipalities and the arbitrary attitude of city officials in some cities have been the cause for some strikes among some public employees. Our members have had the same conditions to contend with and yet, out of loyalty to the public, they stayed on the job and worked long hours at low wages until changes took place in the city administration, or until financial conditions improved.
A few years ago, in a city in Texas, the city officials issued an ultimatum to all members of the fire department stating that they would be fired if they refused to withdraw from our organization. Our association withdrew the charter issued to the members rather than permit the city to remove the fire protection to which the citizens were entitled. I have often wondered who would be to blame if the city had dismissed every member of the fire department and left the citizens to the mercy of any fire that might occur.
Congress today is considering legislation which will regulate certain activities of labor organizations. No matter what action Congress may take, our members will never strike. Our association does not have to worry about any action Congress may take, as our members will not strike. Our organization activities have been above reproach. Our association has never had to employ organizers to go out among the members of the different fire departments to organize them into our association. The 14 vice presidents who are all members of fire departments, as well as the president and secretary-treasurer, act as our representatives to assist the city officials and members of the fire departments in solving the fire service problems of any city. The growth of the organization has been wholly the result of a desire on the part of the members of the fire service to unite their efforts in one organization representative of the fire service. Our organization has met that need as 65,000 members can testify.
The deliberation of this Conference can well point to the manner in which the United States Government, the State governments and all in the field of fire prevention and fire protection can best assist in providing an improved plan of fire prevention. The loss of life due to fire and the


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BackgroundGestational age is often used as a proxy for developmental maturity by clinicians and researchers alike. DNA methylation has previously been shown to be associated with age and has been used to accurately estimate chronological age in children and adults. In the current study, we examine whether DNA methylation in cord blood can be used to estimate gestational age at birth.
ResultsWe find that gestational age can be accurately estimated from DNA methylation of neonatal cord blood and blood spot samples. We calculate a DNA methylation gestational age using 148 CpG sites selected through elastic net regression in six training datasets. We evaluate predictive accuracy in nine testing datasets and find that the accuracy of the DNA methylation gestational age is consistent with that of gestational age estimates based on established methods, such as ultrasound. We also find that an increased DNA methylation gestational age relative to clinical gestational age is associated with birthweight independent of gestational age, sex, and ancestry.
ConclusionsDNA methylation can be used to accurately estimate gestational age at or near birth and may provide additional information relevant to developmental stage. Further studies of this predictor are warranted to determine its utility in clinical settings and for research purposes. When clinical estimates are available this measure may increase accuracy in the testing of hypotheses related to developmental age and other early life circumstances.


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Lavishing interior of the Lešić Dimitri Relais & Chateaux and a unique vision of the esteemed SmartWay company, have proved as a perfect blend for an interesting collaboration. The result is a specially designed lamp in the yard of one of the residencies of the renovated palace nested in the centre of the old town of Korčula. The lamp design is signed by Marina Perić, the creator of the famous fashion brand Štraca T-Shirt and as of recently a collaborator of the SmartWay company, that has developed numerous successful projects across the EU and provides full programming service of various smart house systems based on KNX technology, supplies 4Dx cinemas and Screen X system, supports e-mobility as well as workmanship of the designer lighting.


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Following on from his sprint race win, George Russell wins his first GP leading home Lewis in a Merc 1-2. Not often you get a dull Brazilian GP and this was no exception.
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Company Overview of Safe Auto Insurance Group, Inc.
Safe Auto Insurance Group, Inc. offers direct-to-consumer auto insurance services in the United States. It offers car insurance to customers in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, and Virginia. The company markets its insurance products directly through television, radio, billboard, and print advertisings. The company was formerly known as Safe Auto Group Inc. and changed its name to Safe Auto Insurance Group, Inc. in December 2004. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.
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The 2022 Women in Industry Conference is taking place Thursday at Moody Gardens in Galveston. It features a number of petrochemical plants.
The video above is from a previous job fair.
The oil and gas companies want to introduce women to jobs. Right now, less than 5% of those jobs are filled by women.
If you can’t attend the conference, ABC13 has a way for you to learn more. At 10:00 am, we’re partnering with Workforce Solutions to host a virtual job fair.
During the half-hour event, participants can apply for jobs. There are dozens of positions from companies looking to hire quickly.
Some of the jobs pay $24 an hour. In addition to applying for jobs, there’s an ABC13 hotline, where participants can call and talk to a recruiter and get free help for items including adult education, jobs and child care assistance.
The number is 713-243-6663.
To preview the positions, visit Workforce Solutions’ website, and look for the “as seen on ABC13” section.
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