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Background: Emergence of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caught the world off guard and unprepared, initiating a global pandemic. In the absence of evidence, individual communities had to take timely action to reduce the rate of disease spread and avoid overburdening their health care systems. Although a few predictive models have been published to guide these decisions, most have not taken into account spatial differences and have included assumptions that do not match the local realities. Access to reliable information that is adapted to local context is critical for policy makers to make informed decisions during a rapidly evolving pandemic.
Objective: The goal of this study was to develop an adapted susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) model to predict the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in North Carolina and the Charlotte Metropolitan Region, and to incorporate the effect of a public health intervention to reduce disease spread while accounting for unique regional features and imperfect detection.
Methods: Three SIR models were fit to infection prevalence data from North Carolina and the greater Charlotte Region and then rigorously compared. One of these models (SIR-int) accounted for a stay-at-home intervention and imperfect detection of COVID-19 cases. We computed longitudinal total estimates of the susceptible, infected, and removed compartments of both populations, along with other pandemic characteristics such as the basic reproduction number.
Results: Prior to March 26, disease spread was rapid at the pandemic onset with the Charlotte Region doubling time of 2.56 days (95% CI 2.11-3.25) and in North Carolina 2.94 days (95% CI 2.33-4.00). Subsequently, disease spread significantly slowed with doubling times increased in the Charlotte Region to 4.70 days (95% CI 3.77-6.22) and in North Carolina to 4.01 days (95% CI 3.43-4.83). Reflecting spatial differences, this deceleration favored the greater Charlotte Region compared to North Carolina as a whole. A comparison of the efficacy of intervention, defined as 1 - the hazard ratio of infection, gave 0.25 for North Carolina and 0.43 for the Charlotte Region. In addition, early in the pandemic, the initial basic SIR model had good fit to the data; however, as the pandemic and local conditions evolved, the SIR-int model emerged as the model with better fit.
Conclusions: Using local data and continuous attention to model adaptation, our findings have enabled policy makers, public health officials, and health systems to proactively plan capacity and evaluate the impact of a public health intervention. Our SIR-int model for estimated latent prevalence was reasonably flexible, highly accurate, and demonstrated efficacy of a stay-at-home order at both the state and regional level. Our results highlight the importance of incorporating local context into pandemic forecast modeling, as well as the need to remain vigilant and informed by the data as we enter into a critical period of the outbreak.
Keywords: COVID-19; SIR model; detection probability; forecasting; latent prevalence; novel coronavirus 2019; pandemic; public health surveillance.
©Philip J Turk, Shih-Hsiung Chou, Marc A Kowalkowski, Pooja P Palmer, Jennifer S Priem, Melanie D Spencer, Yhenneko J Taylor, Andrew D McWilliams. Originally published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (http://publichealth.jmir.org), 19.06.2020.


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More than 80 percent of the island is preserved as Mackinac Island State Park.Like many historic places in the Great Lakes region, Mackinac Island's name derives from a Native American language. For the city of the same name, see Mackinac Island, Michigan.For the state park, see Mackinac Island State Park.Only two of the local natives escaped by hiding in one of the natural caves at the island. published his history, entitled Mackinac formerly Michilimackinac, describing some of the first recorded presence on Mackinac of French traders.To commemorate the losses of this allied tribe, the Ottawa named what is now Mackinac Island, as "Mi-shi-ne-macki-nong." In 1895 Fort Mackinac's John R. They arrived in 1654 with a large party of Huron and Ottawa heading to Three Rivers; another visitor was an adventurer making a canoe voyage in 1665.
This led to the establishment of Fort Mackinac on the island by the British during the American Revolutionary War.
The island is a sacred place in the tradition of some of its earliest known inhabitants, the Anishinaabe, who consider it to be home to the Gitche Manitou, or the "Great Spirit".
According to legend, Mackinac Island was created by the Great Hare, Michabou and was the first land to appear after the recession of the Great Flood.
its fisheries, its phenomena of wind and tide, and the tribes who, now and in the past, have made it their abode.
A favorite resort for all the Algonkin tribes, many are returning to it since the peace with the Iroquois.
Native Americans in the Straits of Mackinac region likened the shape of the island to that of a turtle so they named it "Mitchimakinak" (Ojibwe: Michillimackinac is also spelled as Mishinimakinago, Mǐshǐma‛kǐnung, Mi-shi-ne-macki naw-go, Missilimakinak, Teiodondoraghie.

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On August 26, 2014, the Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO) submitted updated integrated resource plans to the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC). The resource plans for Hawaii Electric Light, Hawaiian Electric Power, and Maui Electric call for a resource mix by 2030 with nearly triple the current rooftop solar capacity and an overall generation mix of more than 65% energy from renewable resources. HECO anticipates the plans will reduce customer bills by 20%.
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Article I, Section 8, ConstitutionBold emphasis are the sections added, or changed, after the debates on the original Constitution draft in the 1787 Convention.
The Congress¹ shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
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Bold Items from the original draft of the Constitution deleted or significantly changed after debate:
- The Legislature¹ shall...
- To appoint a Treasurer by ballot;
- To subdue a rebellion in any State, on the application of its legislature;
I previously posted/linked the details of the survey of the western lands which ownership by the new federal Union was a major part of the Treaty of Paris which ended the Revolutionary War - the surveys being necessary before the sections of lands could be sold to investors/settlers in order to pay down the debts incurred by the individual States, and by the Continental Congress under the Articles of Federation. The States had taxing authority to redeem their debts but the federal Continental Congress did not!
The enormity of the debts is best seen by converting the value into today's terms:
- $11.7 million owed by congress to foreign bankers, primarily in France and Holland, is $2.4 trillion in today's dollars.
- $25.1 million owed by states to individual citizens and continental bankers would be $5.1 trillion today.
- $42.4 million owed by congress to individual citizens and continental bankers would be $8.7 trillion today.
- $200 million "fiat" Continental Currency issued by congress under the Articles of Federation would be $41 trillion today.
Already there were armed tax "rebellions" bordering on revolution in local areas of some of the states, as they taxed their residents to redeem their war debts (Shay's Rebellion in Massachesetts had erupted before the debates on the proposed new Constitution were begun).
The "worthless as a Continental" currency was rapidly losing value in the marketplaces in the new states (and later in 1790 devaluated by Congress for redemption at 1/40th of face value!); and the state and federal debts were being bought up by speculators for as little as 10¢ on the dollar!
That is the economic situation post-Revolutionary War, and is the underpinnings which explain the various positions of the debates, whose links I've been posting.
That is the economic situation which mandated the constitutional provisions in the new federal government to be involved in every aspect of regulating "the economy"; collecting taxes, duties, imposts, excises to pay the trillions of dollars (today's computation) of debts while providing for the common defence and general Welfare.
And going into debt for the same purposes; common defence with armies and navies, and general welfare.
And regulating commerce domestic and foreign.
And coining and establishing the value of money, and regulating bankrupcies to insure that the value is retained - likewise defending against counterfeiting.
And building roads and promoting science and arts.
Also it is most important to recall that the arguments about suffrage - who will be empowered to vote for whom in state and federal elections - come from the mouths of the elites of that time. Only 4% of the U.S. population of 4,000,000+ ended up voting for/against the ratification of the Constitution once it was finalized and amended during the 1787 debates; and less than 25% of the adult white males in the states voted - the remainder of them excluded because they didn't own property.
The confederation under the Articles was in dire financial straits, and only a strong central federal government's financial policies and actions could solve the problem while simultaneously supporting and stimulating the private sector economies.
Once the Revolution was over the "ad hoc" confederation that fought the Brits and won could easily have reverted to the individual States - some of which had already redeemed their debts, but at the expense of the workers and farmers who didn't have a vote in taxing policy.
The need to solve the economic problems was the greatest pressure to form a Union or United States.

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text: Yesterday it was a record low 5 Year yield, today it is the 7 Year. Tim Geithner just issued a fresh $29 billion in 7 Year bonds at a new all time low yield of 1.203%, on top of the When Issued 1.200%,and paying a cash interest of 1.125%. Those concerned that the belly of the curve may not enjoy the benefits of Twist can put those fears at rest. The internals were non-eventful, with a 2.80 B/C, just shy of the 12 TTM average of 2.81, Directs taking down 15.70%, Indirects 42.73% and Dealers left with 41.57% of the auction, an improvement from yesterday when they were stuck with over 50% of the takedown. And so, with this final weekly auction, total US debt rises to $15.75 trillion.

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Reefs and People at Risk
Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere put shallow, warm-water coral reef ecosystems, and the people who depend upon them at risk from two key global environmental stresses: 1) elevated sea surface temperature (that can cause coral bleaching and related mortality), and 2) ocean acidification. These global stressors: cannot be avoided by local management, compound local stressors, and hasten the loss of ecosystem services. Impacts to people will be most grave where a) human dependence on coral reef ecosystems is high, b) sea surface temperature reaches critical levels soonest, and c) ocean acidification levels are most severe. Where these elements align, swift action will be needed to protect people’s lives and livelihoods, but such action must be informed by data and science.
An Indicator Approach
Designing policies to offset potential harm to coral reef ecosystems and people requires a better understanding of where CO2-related global environmental stresses could cause the most severe impacts. Mapping indicators has been proposed as a way of combining natural and social science data to identify policy actions even when the needed science is relatively nascent. To identify where people are at risk and where more science is needed, we map indicators of biological, physical and social science factors to understand how human dependence on coral reef ecosystems will be affected by globally-driven threats to corals expected in a high-CO2 world. Western Mexico, Micronesia, Indonesia and parts of Australia have high human dependence and will likely face severe combined threats. As a region, Southeast Asia is particularly at risk. Many of the countries most dependent upon coral reef ecosystems are places for which we have the least robust data on ocean acidification. These areas require new data and interdisciplinary scientific research to help coral reef-dependent human communities better prepare for a high CO2 world.
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Thursday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Bill Hemmer Reports,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is locked in a tough reelection bid with Democratic senatorial nominee Cal Cunningham, called on Cunningham to offer a “fuller explanation” than he has provided for reports of an affair and a possible second affair, details of which were made public last week.
“Your opponent, Cal Cunningham, last night went out and apologized for recent behavior,” host Bill Hemmer said. “And you, in fact, in the last 24 hours called on him to explain that. In your view, was it satisfactory, the apology he made last night to the people of North Carolina and his own family?”
“Well, I don’t think that it is,” Tillis replied. “I think he needs a fuller explanation. But more important than that, Bill, his entire campaign has been premised on the concept that the truth matters – duty

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Dispersal order issued for Millennium, Teal and Apex Lakes, North Hykeham
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Following several reports of anti-social behaviour around the Millennium, Teal and Apex Lakes area of North Hykeham, a dispersal order has been put in place from now until 5pm on 29 May.
Officers will be making patrols of the area throughout the bank holiday weekend and, and anyone engaging in anti-social behaviour will be made to leave the vicinity immediately.
We are asking parents and carers to know where their children are over the bank holiday and during the half term, and ensure that we won’t be bringing their child home if we get called to a disturbance.
We would also like to remind people about the message from the National Fire Chief's Council about how to #BeWaterAware: the water may look inviting but even on a warm day the water will be cold. It doesn’t matter if you are a strong swimmer, there is still a danger.
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6 edition of Groom, I Presume? (Daughters Of Texas) found in the catalog.
Groom, I Presume? (Daughters Of Texas)
March 1, 1996
Written in English
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Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) has scaled down its engineering division from a major third-party maintenance repair and overhaul service provider to a purely self-supporting unit. MAB Engineering (MABE)—previously known as MAS Aerospace Engineering—became a world-renowned player in the MRO market, serving more than 100 airline customers at the peak of its operations with several certifications, including from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
According to MAB CEO Izham Ismail, the reason for the transformation centered on stabilizing the company's core business as part of a wider restructuring exercise. The move resulted in a shrinking of MAB’s engineering workforce in tandem with the airline’s fleet and operations.
“There is tremendous potential in being an MRO service provider, but we had to fix the engineering and make it more efficient to support the carrier moving forward,” Izham said.
Built over four decades from scratch, when the then-Malaysia Airlines System started operations in October 1972, MAB grew to encompass six hangars and carry a huge inventory of parts.
Four hangars, including one dedicated for stripping and painting at the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, located 16 miles outside Kuala Lumpur, have ceased operations. MAB has moved its maintenance operations to the other two hangars located at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Izham said the ability of MABE to support newer technology aircraft would require heavy investment in tooling, equipment, capabilities, and resource training Malaysia Airlines was not prepared to commit.
“This would hinder the turning around of our core business,” he pointed out.
MABE now holds FAA and EASA certifications to support the ATR 72, Boeing 737NG, Airbus A330, and Airbus A380. It stands as one of the few A380 airline operators capable of conducting heavy maintenance checks on the superjumbo. It has completed heavy checks on two of its fleet of six A380s.
Izham acknowledged that although MABE would take any opportunity to provide third-party maintenance when it carries available capacity, the immediate focus centers on building its current capabilities given existing tooling and equipment. Still, Izham has not given up hope that MABE will penetrate the third-party MRO market again.
“It will, however, be only when we are ready,” Izham noted.
MAB operates a fleet of six Airbus A350s, 21 A330-200/300s, and 23 Boeing 737-800s.


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My crochet journey actually started in Bible School when I was 24 years old. A friend taught me the single crochet & I made a blanket. My favorite colors back then where burgundy, pink & white. Pink?! Yikes.... lol
It was another 20 or so years before I would crochet again. Not sure why I didn't keep it up. Maybe because everyone I knew knitted. Knitting wasn't/isn't for me. (My grandma tried to teach me to knit when I was young. The tension was too tight and I kept loosing stitches on the ends and would have a small triangle as my finished item lol.)
One day while picking up the mail at the local post office I was chatting with one of the people who worked there. She knew that I crocheted and mentioned that she started to crochet as well. Whenever she found some really inexpensive yarn she would crochet a scarf and donate it to a homeless shelter in the city. It was something for her to do while watching tv with her husband in the evenings.
What an awesome idea!!! I can do that! Watching tv isn't always my cup of tea..... it's hard for me to sit in one spot and stare at the tv lol. So I bought a 5mm crochet hook, some cheap yarn & went to youtube for a refresher course on stitches. It didn't take long for me to pick it up, seems I have a knack for crochet. Who knew? Scarves started to get boring, so I moved on to hat patterns I could find for free. Let me tell you..... the first top down hat I made was scary! Trying to figure out how to make a circle bigger, then make it look like a hat?
After crocheting for a few years and "fixing" or changing the patterns I purchased or found for free, I figured I could probably design a pattern. I was right :) Truthfully I don't remember how I decided on the stitches I used. But the Crystal Ridge Hat turned out pretty good I think :)
Since then I have purchased many crochet stitch books, taught myself to read stitch diagrams, & have gone crazy designing (at least that's what my husband thinks lol). You can read about some of the stitch books I have in these Blog Posts. I need to write a few more reviews for the other books I have, will put that on my "to-do" list.
If you don't read stitch diagrams I strongly suggest learning! It opens a whole new world in crochet. All my crochet stitch books have diagrams so I don't have to read the instructions. Not a fan of how other people write patterns.
I hope you enjoyed reading a little bit about me!
Next week I will do a post on my design process.

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Welcome to my maiden voyage for a new series on my blog I’m calling Monday Mentions!
There’s a lot more I love than books and I wanted to be able to share some recommendations on things like podcasts, TV shows, movies, and other articles & blog posts my friends are publishing.
I want this to be a weekly or at least bi-weekly post where I can help spotlight other bloggers and other creators I love. And maybe even get some recommendations from you guys, too. Think of this as like a weekly wrap of all things bookish and then some.
Let’s jump in!
Podcasts are total comfort listens for me. I first discovered podcasts back in 2017 while my husband and I were making the drive from Texas to our hometown in Pennsylvania. I don’t usually listen to podcasts that are… educational; I mostly stick towards true crime and paranormal, but history podcasts (mainly dark history) are also my jam.
Since podcasts are such a big part of my life (I listen to podcasts every single day), I wanted to share some new and old favorites!
Scared to Death
Okay so I love both podcasts and ghost stories, and when I find something that combines the two I obsess over it!
I’ve been listening to Scared to Death for about a week now, and I love love love it! It’s hosted by Dan Cummins (who also does Timesuck) and his wife, Lynze. They basically just tell each other ghost stories and other spooky stories and it’s both really creepy and really fun! Dan has such a great voice for telling stories and it’s damn near like listening to an audiobook about urban legends, ghosts, and spooky happenings. If you’re like me and enjoy good storytelling and creepy stories in general, you’ll really like this.
Monsters Among Us
Another new favorite of mine is Derek Hayes’s podcast Monsters Among Us. Another relatively spooky podcast, MAU shares first-person stories of supernatural and paranormal encounters that listeners call in themselves.
Every now and then Derek with throw in some news reports and other stories he researched himself or that tie into a story shared, and it really adds to the listening experience. Derek is a superb storyteller and I love listening to MAU while I grocery shop or do housework. It’s not always scary, per say, but some stories are downright chilling.
Small Town Murder
Hands down my favorite podcast, Small Town Murder is a staple in my podcast arsenal. I’ve been listening to them since they launched in 2017 (this was my first ever podcast) and I’ve listened to every single episode, most more than once.
James and Jimmy are hilarious and can tell a damn good story. True crime comedy podcasts aren’t for everyone, but now that I’ve discovered it I’ll never turn back!
Episode Rec: Episode #60 A Triangle of Tragedy in Phillips, Oklahoma – Possibly one of their funniest episodes, this involves lots of bigamy and not a lot of bathrooms. I laugh so hard every time I listen to this episode.
With all that is happening in the world, there’s never been a better time to watch this movie. And it’s free to rent on platforms like Amazon Prime. There’s no excuse not to watch.
Not only is this an incredible movie in terms of acting/composition, but the story is so thought provoking and horrendous at the same time. The concept of wrongful convictions, particularly those of people serving life or death sentences, has really interested me from both a true crime and social work perspective. It’s really hard for me to grasp the idea that one in nine people on death row are innocent and that sometimes, they never get the courts to believe them.
Seriously, watch this movie. And while you’re at it, read Actual Innocence, the novel written by the creators of the Innocence Project.
Brit Box via Amazon Prime
So after Netflix took down both Father Brown and Rosemary & Thyme (boo Netflix, you whore), I finally broke down and got a Brit Box subscription through Prime and I couldn’t be happier about it!
I started the newest season of Father Brown and it’s just as good and cozy as I remember it. If you love cozy mysteries or just murder mysteries in general, I cannot recommend Father Brown and Rosemary & Thyme enough! There’s nothing I needed more than a trip to the cozy English countryside to help two gardeners or a priest solve a perplexing mystery.
I think Brit Box is like $6 or $7 a month (could be wrong) but if you love British time pieces or British mysteries like I do it’s a completely life changing purchase!
The new season of Queer Eye just dropped and if you’re not watching it I don’t know what you’re doing with your life.
I cannot thank the Fab 5 enough for sharing tips with both those on the show and me. Every time I watch I feel like I just left a session with a therapy team and feel ready to kick some ass and be the best version of me.
I don’t know about you, but there was nothing more I needed than a little fun, some positivity , and the sharing of self-love.
I wanted to take some time here to share some of the posts from fellow bloggers that I’ve been loving this week! I don’t get on my “reader” portion of WordPress as much as I’d like to, but I want to promote some of the bloggers I adore and share some of their recent (at the time of writing this, anyway) posts!
In no particular order:
- Anti-Racism Reading List by Beth’s Bookish Backpacking
- Let’s Educate Ourselves: 10 Books by Black Authors by Books, Baking and Blogging
- Black Lives Matter – Your TBR by Life With Books
- The Hate U Give Review by Audio Killed the Bookmark
- Support the Fight Against Inequality: Resources and Ways to Act by Destiny Kanno
- My Bullet Journals – May Spreads by Hawthorn Book Reviews
I think I can speak for everyone when I say that I spend a lot of time on the internet researching things or just shopping, so I wanted to take a moment to share some articles I’ve been reading and think are enjoyable or important.
- 22 Black-Owned Bookstores to Shop Right Now (and Always)
- Thousands Protest Across 3 Continents to Honor George Floyd and Support the Black Lives Matter Movement
- Why you should stop saying “all lives matter,” explained in 9 different ways
There you have it! A short list of some of the things I’ve been loving recently that aren’t books. There’s so much more to me than just the novels I read and I wanted to take a moment to showcase some of the other creators and content I enjoy when I’m not busy with my nose buried in a book.
I also want to thank everyone for sticking with me the last week while I participated in the Amplify Melanated Voices movement on Instagram and here. I haven’t posted any original content on any of my platforms but have been sharing other articles, posts, and resources throughout the last week. I did lose some followers but I don’t give a flying fig because my platform is not around for my or anyone else’s comfort, not when it comes to racism and oppression. Some may not know this, but I have both a bachelor and masters degree in social work and so challenging those structural pillars of systemic racism and oppression is my duty.
So many others have put out great book recommendations for the current social issues/climate so I won’t be making my own post on the matter, but please reach out to me if you would like to be pointed in that direction, but also check out the links listed under the ‘Blog Posts’ portion for help!


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12/01 - Lego CLub is for children aged 6 and up and is held every first Thursday of the month at the Dillsburg Library. We will provide Legos for this event. This program is free and no registration is required.
12/02 - Light Up Night (7:00 pm) Join us at the Dillsburg Square for the annual lighting of the Christmas Tree and after the tree is lit, you are welcome to join Santa & Mrs. Claus for some music and refreshments at the Old Monaghan Church (behind the post office).
12/6, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27- Preschool Storytime at the Dillsburg Library is every Tuesday from 10:30-11:30am. It's geared towards ages 3-5, but all are welcomed. Children will enjoy stories and a craft.
12/8 - Crafting for Adults program: Zendoodle Gifts - Apply zendoodle technique to one of a variety of crafts projects for a special homemade gift to give this season. Please call the Library at 432-5613 to register for this free program.
12/10 - The annual Colonial Candlelight Service, hosted at Historical Monaghan, ( located on 15 E. Church Street in Dillsburg), will take place on Saturday, December 10th at 7:00 p.m. The service will include the reading of traditional Christmas Scripture and music by the Dillsburg Brass. This warm and inviting service has become part of many Dillsburg families' Christmas rituals. After the program, all are invited to follow the Colonial Lamp Carriers to Dill's Tavern, where refreshments will be provided. For more information please contact Jay Young at 432-4409
12/15 - Block Party at the Dillsburg Library from 6-7pm. Come ready to build! If you are too young for Lego Club, then this is for you! This is for children aged 3-5 with a parent or caregiver. No registration is required, but appreciated by calling 717-432-5613 or visit www.YorkLibraries.org/dillsburg.
12/21 - Christmas Story Time at the Library from 6-7 pm. All ages are welcome. Library volunteer, Fred Soulier will do a costumed reading of "The Polar Express". A craft will also be provided. Join us for a fun evening. No registration required.


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PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ADSORBENT CARBON FROM ACACIA FARNESIANA FOR DEFLUORIDATION
|Y.Hanumantharao1, Medikondu Kishore2*, K.Ravindhranath3
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Batch adsorption dynamics and equilibrium studies for the removal of Fluoride ions from aqueous solution using indigenously prepared Acacia farnesiana carbon (AFC), has been carried out under various experimental conditions at room temperature (30±10C). Results found that percentage removal of Fluoride (F-) ions is increased with the decrease in initial concentration and is increased with increase in contact time initially and after 40-45 minutes, the % removal is found to be almost constant. Adsorption is highly pH sensitive and optimum pH range for appreciable or maximum adsorption of F- ion is found to be 6.5-7, with maximum absorption around 6.9. Adsorption data are modeled with isotherms and the different kinetic equations. Kinetics of adsorption is observed to be second order with intraparticle diffusion as one of the rate determining steps. The interactions of the adsorbent with Fluoride samples are characterized by making surface studies using X-ray Photo Electron Spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Energy Dispersive Spectrum (EDS) techniques. XPS and SEM-EDS data show evidence for Fluoride sorption on the AFC surface via inner-sphere complexation accompanying increased hydrogen bonding and surface oxidation. Removal of F- ions by indigenously prepared activated carbon, AFC, is found to be effective and hence AFC could be employed as an alternative adsorbent to the Commercial Activated Carbon (CAC) for water treatment for the removal of Fluoride ions.

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Paton, Joseph Noel, Sir, RSA
1821 – 1901
Son of Joseph Neil (1797-1874) a damask designer from whom he received his early training. Spent a period in a muslin factory at Paisley as a youth. Spent a short period in London where he enrolled at the Royal Academy and became friends with John Everett Millais but returned to Scotland by 1844. Became close friends with David Octavius Hill who married Paton's elder sister the sculptor Amelia Paton in 1862. Exhibited at the RSA Annual Exhibitions between 1844 and 1885. Became an Associate Member in 1846 and became an Academician in 1850. He became the Queen's Limner in Scotland in 1866 and was knighted in 1867. Paton designed the RSA President's medal in 1853-55 and the Maclaine-Watters medal. He also designed the covers of two of the RSA Annual Exhibitions and the ticket for a soiree held in March 1860 for the Edinburgh Artillery Volunteers of which he was an active member. He also designed their uniform and examples of three related badges are held in the RSA Collections. He was offered but declined the opportunity to be put forward as President of the RSA His younger brother was the landscape artist Waller Hugh Paton who also became an RSA in 1865.

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One of the emerging areas of innovation that will help Ireland to recover from the recent global recession is the Green Economy. The Irish economy was one of the hardest hit by the recession. With unemployment figures reaching 15% in 2012 and the austerity cuts, there are still serious doubts that the presently recumbent Celtic Tiger will be able to bite back in the next ten years or so.
Despite the undoubted challenges, an attempt to meet the need for growth head on is being taken seriously by the Irish government, looking to innovation as the main driver in developing the economy again. Key strategies are being developed to focus on the economy in areas the government see as critical in transforming the business sector over the next years of recovery.
The Green Economy
The Green Economy encompasses activities across many sectors that have a common objective of providing services and goods sustainably, which in turn reduces impact on the environment. These sectors include energy efficient products, renewable energy, efficient production methods, recovery, recycling, and re-use of waste, low carbon vehicles and water management. The Green Economy estimated to be worth around €5 trillion is expected to employ 36 million people worldwide by 2015. It makes perfect sense then that Ireland is focusing on this growth area.
How will Ireland Capture some of the Green Sector?
There are clues to be found in the recent policy statement by the Government “Delivering Our Green Potential” the subject that is employment and growth in the Green Economy. The document lays out how Ireland is best positioned to capture a small but nevertheless significant slice of this growing and important sector.
The document defines Ireland as having significant advantages and strengths to be used to exploit Green Economy business opportunities. Ireland has plenty of renewable energy resources opening up the prospect of Ireland exporting clean energy resources to the UK. There is also a strong base of research, which is highly relevant to be tapped for new opportunities in the sector.
The natural resources that Ireland has are excellent. Clean water, land, and air support sustainable economic development within a natural environment second to none. This rich bio-diversity will help to develop green tourism and related activities. There are already a number of organisations and companies that have international credibility and proven record of accomplishment in the Green Economy.
The Government’s commitment to real action means green policies will be pushed forward. The Government already has an established renewable energy policy to develop further ocean, wind, and transport energy, research and development, bio energy and energy infrastructure. The objective is to reduce public sector energy usage by 33% by 2020.
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The fact that the green economy can be applied across all sectors means the Government has engaged in growing a green financial services industry that supports the financing, development, and promotion of a low-carbon economy as a key niche.
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Commitment to supporting green innovation through facilitating and encouraging collaboration between the business sector and university sector by prioritising research in areas such as smart grids and smart cities, sustainable food production, marine renewable energy and smart cities and smart grids.
For example, the Irish Maritime and Energy Resource Cluster (IMERC), is collaboration between government departments, state agencies, government departments, industry partners and higher education institutions led by University College Cork. IMERC aims to use the experience of teachers, researchers, and naval personnel in the development of an ‘ecosystem of innovation’ in the maritime sector underpinning Ireland’s leading position in the ocean energy sector.
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Demand for skills is increasing and within the sector, there are jobs with specialist skill sets but also for support staff in more general areas. Expertise is required in mathematics, engineering, science, and technology. As a result of this policy, there is opportunity for jobs growth and further education colleges and universities are being encouraged to align courses and teaching with the requirements of companies in the green sector.
This policy statement should give plenty of encouragement to those seeking work and those looking for a long-term career in a growth industry. There are many ways to achieve this objective. Foundation courses at a further education level could be the platform from which to step onto a ‘green career’.
While Ireland has a long way to go to become the Celtic Tiger again, at least there is a strategy to grow the economy in a globally important sector over the coming years.


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Cost of living in Zadar, Croatia compared to Almaty, Kazakhstan
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The Past and Likely Future of an Educational Form: A Textbook Case
At a time when it is seen as increasingly “obsolete,” this article analyzes the textbook as an evolving pedagogical form, as a changing medium comprised of smaller media components. These components include images, diagrams and also oral prompts, which have changed not so much through technical innovation as in synchrony with larger cultural and epistemological developments. This article investigates the increasingly sophisticated structuring of this textual and visual content, and the gradually sublimated “oral” interaction simulated through cues and interrogatives. These components have become highly conventionalized and elaborate, characteristics generally ignored to the detriment of publically-funded “open” e-textbook projects. Following Thomas Kuhn’s famous analyses of knowledge “paradigms,” this article concludes that the textbook’s features provide an indispensable animating didactic function.
Friesen, Norm. (2013). "The Past and Likely Future of an Educational Form: A Textbook Case". Education & Educational Research, 42(9), 498-508.


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Hamilton's Choice: A Gripping Novel of America's Foremost Founding Father
Date: May 2020
Duration: 12 hours 44 minutes
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the founding era of a new nation, Hamilton's Choice chronicles the life and times of one of America's 'first men' and architect of a new country, Alexander Hamilton.
A poor, bastard orphan from the Caribbean, Hamilton rose to be one of the foremost leaders of a fledgling democratic republic. As one of the 'first men' of a new nation, Hamilton had many friends - and many more enemies, none more virulent than Vice President Aaron Burr.
The death of Hamilton's eldest son, Phillip, at the hands of Burr's political allies, sets Hamilton on an inescapable and tragic course, one that will shock the nation.
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Joshua Pocius is an early-career researcher and lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne. With a scholarly background in sociology, gender studies, cultural studies and screen studies, his current research critically examines the biopolitics of health and illness, pharmaceuticalisation of everyday life and the somatechnics of drugs.
His doctoral thesis was awarded in 2017 and examined the screen-mediation of HIV/AIDS in the “post-AIDS” era in AIDS nostalgia films, global event media, edutainment media and gay pornographic media in North America, China, Nigeria and Kenya.
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- Oxygen Uptake/Capnometry
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
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Your blood pressure measurement gives insight into the health of your heart and circulatory system. We assess for both hypotension (low blood pressure) and hypertension (high blood pressure).
Blood pressure is a critical measurement that tells you how hard the heart is working. Blood pressure levels may be normal, high or low. High blood pressure or hypertension has been called the “silent killer” as it doesn’t present symptoms and can cause serious problems such as heart attack or stroke with little or no warning. What does your blood pressure reading mean?
Blood pressure is the measurement of the force of blood against the walls of the arteries in the heart and is measured in millimetres of mercury. The heart pumps blood around the body through the arteries, by contracting and relaxing. The pressure of blood flowing through the arteries varies at different times in the heartbeat cycle. Hence, there are two numbers recorded during a blood pressure reading, systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The systolic blood pressure refers to the measurement when the heart muscles are contracting, forcing blood out of the heart and around the body. The diastolic blood pressure is when the heart muscles are relaxed, and the chambers are filling with blood.
This can be applied to one’s psycho-mental and psycho-emotional state. The anxiety-sufferer is rarely relaxed, and we see this reflected in their diastolic pressures when compared to their systolic pressures. People living life by force will often have a raised systolic blood pressure. Research clearly demonstrates the correlation between the ‘driven’ and high achieving ‘type A’ personality and heart disease (for which high blood pressure is a major risk factor). It also demonstrates the association between anger and heart disease, either outwardly exhibiting anger traits regularly (hostility), or the suppression of anger. Anger results from the suppression of fear (we push our fear away and we get angry). Hence the real link between heart disease and emotion is likely fear, which is the foundation of anxiety – which we know affects blood pressure.
Blood Glucose Sugar Levels
Blood glucose measurements give insight into how effective your body is in dealing with sugars from your food. Glucose is the body’s preferred source of energy. The highest energy demands come from your muscles and brain. When there is excess glucose it is stored away in tissues to be used at a later time with the help of the hormone, insulin. Insulin acts as a key that enables glucose transportation into the cells, allowing its use for energy production. A high blood glucose reading can indicate insulin resistance, which describes the cells’ ineffective responses to insulin, so there is less fuel (glucose) in the cells for energy production. This is a precursor to Type 2 diabetes mellitus. High blood sugar levels over a prolonged time can cause damage to your nerves, eyes, kidneys and heart in particular. Due to the inefficient hormone regulation of this condition, low blood sugar levels are a problem too, causing dizziness, weakness and fainting. It is essential to have healthy blood sugar levels to maintain optimum health and vitality.
What happens when we’re stressed? Our blood sugar levels increase as our body ensures that there is ample to deal with the increased demands. Stress can come in the form of psycho-mental or psycho-emotional stress but also physical stress through lack of sleep or toxicity. Research tells us in particular that lack of sleep is highly associated with diabetes mellitus. Sleep is one of the most important lifestyle factors determining health outcomes. It is during sleep that the body carries out its most important functions of cleaning up (detoxifying), repairing damaged cells, and restoring physiological balance. The body is under great stress when we get insufficient sleep as these processes cannot be completed and we degenerate quickly. Most people these days are running on a 1.5-hour sleep deficit on average. It is an important part of our population’s health decline. Caffeine, alcohol, sweet and refined starchy foods also significantly impact on blood sugar stability.
Our bodies need a specific balance of acidity and alkalinity within tissues to maintain optimum health. The modern western lifestyle, with an excess of coffee, alcohol, sugar, processed and artificial food and drinks, stress, sleep deprivation, and indoor, sedentary living, can cause the tissues of the body to become too acidic. The consequences of this include depression of the immune system, inflammation, mouth ulcers, dental caries, heart disease, fatigue, poor gut health, and an acidic environment is favoured by cancers too. High alkalinity can be a compensatory mechanism and can also cause problems, which is why it is important to maintain a healthy pH level of around 7.5.
Heart rate Variability (HRV)
The degree to which the interval between each heartbeat varies describes your heart rate variability (HRV). When this varies sufficiently, we have the flexibility needed to adapt to certain environmental stimuli and challenges – such as reacting to stressful situations.
Heart rate variability (HRV) is an ideal parameter to detect states of stress within the body and mind. By using HRV we can accurately track our progress in the resolution of stress and other emotional issues when following one of our health programmes. HRV allows for stress analysis to be performed on four levels consisting of 13 parameters.
These parameters are grouped as follows:
- The relationship between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system (the Autonomic Nervous System) and overall energy levels;
- The regulatory ability of the systems with acute and chronic stress parameters;
- The combined view of heart rate variability (HRV) plus additional ventricular contractions showing the stress-state of a person using six parameters and their correlation to the Psycho-Neurological-Endocrine-Immune system (mind, nerves, hormones, immune system).
Heart rate variability is directly related to the body’s interdependent regulatory systems and ultimately, their efficiency and health.
Generally speaking, the greater the HRV, the better, however it is possible to have too much variability, or instability, such as in the case of arrhythmias or nervous system chaos, which is detrimental to efficient physiological functioning and energy utilisation. Too little variability, however, indicates age-related system depletion, chronic stress, pathology, or inadequate functioning in various levels of self-regulatory control systems.
It has been five decades since scientists began to alter their long-held belief that the human body’s cells, tissues and organs – particularly the heart – strive to maintain a constant static or steady state. There has been a lot of heart rate variability research since 1965, when HRV began to be recognised for its importance in indicating or predicting various risk factors. Among these are foetal distress, autonomic nervous system dysfunction, heart disease, anxiety, depression and asthma – among other health conditions.
Many studies correlate an optimal level of HRV (HRV coherence) and coherence training to a variety of health benefits to include enhanced cognitive function, improved short and long-term memory, ability to focus, improvements in blood pressure, total cholesterol and fasting glucose levels and reduced overall stress and fatigue.
In summary, reduced heart rate variability commonly relates to poor health outcomes, but through coherence training through breathwork, health can be significantly improved.
Breathing is known to be an essential physiological regulator of our acid-base (acid-alkaline) balance. When we have learned to breathe too quickly or in a shallow manner, we end up with low blood carbon dioxide levels, a condition known as behavioural hypocapnia. Hypocapnia results in a respiratory alkalosis (an excessively alkaline state of our body tissues). This can have profound immediate and long-term effects that may trigger, exacerbate, and/or cause a wide variety of emotional (anxiety, anger), cognitive (attention, learning), behavioural (public speaking, test taking), and physical (pain, asthma) changes that may seriously impact health and performance. Behavioural hypocapnia reduces respiratory fitness and disturbs acid-base chemistry affecting whole body function. Symptoms and deficits triggered, exacerbated, caused or perpetuated by hypocapnia include:
- RESPIRATION: shortness of breath, breathlessness, bronchial constriction and spasm, airway resistance, reduced lung compliance, asthma symptoms such as chest tightness, pressure, and pain;
- PERIPHERAL CHANGES: trembling, twitching, shivering, sweatiness, coldness, tingling, and numbness;
- HEART: palpitations, increased rate, angina symptoms, arrhythmias, nonspecific pain, ECG abnormalities;
- EMOTION: anxiety, anger, panic, apprehension, worry, crying, low mood, frustration, performance anxiety, phobia, generalized anxiety;
- STRESS: tension, acute fatigue, chronic fatigue, weakness, headache, burnout;
- SENSES: blurred vision, dry mouth, changes in hearing, reduced pain threshold;
- NERVOUS SYSTEM: dizziness, loss of balance, fainting, black-out, confusion, disorientation, disconnectedness, hallucinations, traumatic memories, self-esteem and personality shifts;
- COGNITION: attention deficit, inability to think, poor memory, learning deficits;
- MUSCLES: tetany, hyperreflexia, spasm, weakness, fatigue, pain;
- ABDOMEN: nausea, cramping, and bloating;
- MOVEMENT: co-ordination, reaction time, balance;
- VASCULAR: hypertension, migraine, arterial spasm, ischaemia;
- BLOOD: red blood cell rigidity, thrombosis;
- SLEEP: apnoea;
- PERFORMANCE: endurance, altitude sickness.
You will receive a basic interpretation of all the test results on the same day. To receive a full interpretation of your results from our in-house doctor, it is advisable to follow the Orassy Wellness Assessment with the Orassy Ultimate Health consultation and programme, in which you will also be given personalised recommendations based on your results.
Human mentality is such that we often wait until a problem fully manifests, rather than trying to prevent it in the first place. Once a health problem arises, a great deal more energy, effort and time is required to reverse the process – compared to preventing it in the first place. Prevention really is far easier to achieve than a cure.


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At a total of seven projects from Europe, South America and Asia received prizes, which totalled € 34 000. The Brick Award was presented in the five following categories: “Feeling at home”, “Living together”, “Working together”, “Sharing Public Spaces” and “Building outside the box”. Two of these projects were also awarded a grand prize. In addition, two special prizes were presented for projects with a particular aspect that convinced the jurors.
“The Brick Award projects show how clay bricks can be used in many different ways as contemporary building material”, says jury member Jonathan Sergison from Sergison Bates architects based in London and Zurich.
Grand prizes go to Antwerp and Basel
The Westkaai 5 & 6 residential towers in Antwerp designed by Tony Fretton Architects impressed in the “Living together” category and were awarded one of the two grand prizes. The towers are part of a larger residential project within a new developed mixed-use quarter. The detail-rich brick façades of the two towers echoe the characteristic mix of monumental warehouses and mundane harbour buildings.
The win in the “Sharing public spaces” category and the second grand prize went to the extension of Basel Art Museum designed by Christ & Gantenbein. The newbuild complements the listed main building dating from 1936 and is connected to this through an underground hall. The project shows how clay bricks can be used in diverse ways.
Bold and creative architectural concepts
In the “Feeling at home” category, the jury selected the Atlas House in Eindhoven designed by Monadnock. The detached house has been erected on a small plot and organized on three floors. Both the material and execution have been thought through carefully to get the best out of every element.
The Terra Cotta Studio in Dien Phuong (Vietnam) designed by Tropical Space is the work and living space of a well-known ceramic artist and won in the “Working together” category. The unusual cube on the shore of the Thu-Bon river impresses with its perforated brick façade. It allows the wind to blow through and cool the workspace naturally.
In Stockholm is the winner in the “Building outside the box”, the Värtan Bioenergy CHP Plant designed by U.D. Urban Design and Gottlieb Paludan Architects. The V-shaped ceramic elements arranged on top of each other clad the biggest urban biomass CHP plant in the world. As a result, the architects succeeded in appropriately embedding the industrial plant in its environment.
Sacred buildings awarded special prizes
The first special prize winner, the San Bernardo Chapel in La Playosa (Argentina) designed by Nicolás Campodonico Estudio, is a little masterpiece. As neither running water nor electricity is available at the location of the project in the “Sharing public spaces” category, only sunlight and nature influence the atmosphere. Once a day, the sun, together with two wooden poles, projects a Christian cross on the eastern wall.
The Old Church of Vilanova de la Barca in Lleida (Spain), a project in the “Building outside the box” category, was awarded the second special prize. For the revitalization of the church, which was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War, AleaOlea architecture & landscape combined the secured and refurbished ruins of the walls with a new envelop of double-leaf brickwork. The designers created a unique dialogue between present and history.
600 projects submitted from 44 countries
Around 600 projects were submitted from 44 countries, including many from Europe. Even though Wienerberger awards the prize as the world’s largest producer of clay bricks and roofing tiles, the jury makes its decisions independently – also in respect of the bricks used.


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Part Number: CR5224, CR5224T
Function: Off-line Switching Power Supply IC
Package: DIP-8L Type
Manufacturer: Chip-Rail ( www.chiprail.com )
The CR5224 is used for off-line switching power supply IC within 24W, the IC contains high-voltage power MOSFET, with optimized totem drive power And current-mode PWM controllers. The PWM controller consists of a 50 kHz fixed frequency oscillating generator and various protections. By oscillating electricity Frequency jitter generated by the circuit, can improve EMI characteristics. In order to obtain good efficiency and standby power consumption, CR522X in heavy or medium load, the work in PWM mode, the frequency of 50KHz.
1. Built-in 650V power switching MOSFET (CR5224 built-in 630V MOSFET)
2. Over-temperature protection.
3. Low starting current: 3uA (Typ)
4. Low operating current: 2mA (Typ)
5. Built-in soft-start to reduce MOSFET stress
6. Built-in frequency jitter to improve EMI characteristics.
7. Built-in ramp compensation circuit
8. 50KHz switching frequency
9. Hiccup Mode & PFM operating mode designed to improve efficiency and minimize standby power consumption
10. VDD undervoltage protection (UVLO), over-voltage protection (OVP) and VDD voltage clamping function, OLP and other self-recovery protection
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Newcomb Pottery exhibit opens on campus
October 2, 2013 11:00 AM
The largest, most comprehensive collection of Newcomb Pottery to tour the country in nearly three decades opens Thursday (Oct. 3) atNewcomb Art Gallery on the Tulane University uptown campus. In conjunction with the exhibit is the release of a stunning coffee table book that examines the full range of artwork and the pioneering women behind it.
A coffee table book that accompanies the exhibit examines the artwork and the pioneering women behind it. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano)
The 330-page book, The Arts & Crafts of Newcomb Pottery, features photographs of 250 objects created between 1890 and 1940 as part of the Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, an H. Sophie Newcomb College program that gave Southern women an opportunity to design and exhibit utilitarian works of art.
In addition to the celebrated pottery, the book features photos of lesser known textiles, jewelry, metalwork, bookbinding and graphics.
The book includes text by Newcomb Art Gallery senior curator Sally Main and decorative arts scholars from across the country. It concludes with biographical notes on 60 Newcomb Pottery decorators.
“Like the historic college itself, Newcomb College’s arts and crafts enterprise changed the lives of women,” Sally J. Kenney, director of the Newcomb College Institute, writes in the book’s preface.
In addition to using their talents to become professional artists, “they used their training to become draftswomen, designers, art teachers, graphic designers, city planners and experts in a host of other fields,” Kenney said.
Approximately 140 items featured in the book will be part of the exhibition, “Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise.” Co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, the show will be on display in the Newcomb Art Gallery through March 9, when it will go on a national tour.
The book, published by Rizzoli of New York, is available for purchase at the Newcomb Art Gallery or through the publisher. The softcover cost is $45 ($36 for gallery members), and the hardcover cost is $70 ($56 for members). To order through the gallery, call 504-865-5328.


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Toronto native Dean Mayrand defeated Mike Sgroi of Windsor, Ontario in front of about 2,000 spectators huddled in the CN Centre in Prince George, British Columbia and an unknown number of pay-per-view customers in the first "Battle of the Hockey Enforcers". The contest was promoted as a gladiator type of event that would see hockey goons
go toe-to-toe on the ice, in full equipment. The event also featured ex-NHLers Link Gaetz and Lydon Byers. Gaetz was favoured to win the event, but went down twice early on and didn't make it past his first fight.
The people in the stands also seemed to have gotten into the mix of things. In the end, a few fights erupted in the stands among highly stoked fans and police were called in at one point to quell the rowdy fans. Many fans that made it out to the event felt that the event got repetitive fast. It was clear that the fans missed the actual hockey that is usually the majority of the customer experience with the in-context fights thrown in the mix. Promoter Darryl Wolski has indicated that a follow on event would take place in May 2006 and he plans to make this a twice per year event held every May and August.

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When the two men take positions opposite each other at the bar, somebody in the crowd shouts, “Take him out, Greg.” The crowd laughs raucously, and a few people applaud the heckler.
Fister just beams back at the crowd, so sure of himself that he pays no mind to the haters in the crowd. He will win them over, he’s sure.
Lynch plants his elbow on top of the bar, his bicep bulging and the veins of his forearm fat and swollen. Fister grins, wiping the sweat off his torso with a small towel, the better to shine in the spotlight focused on the two fighters. He dries his hand and fixes it up against Lynch’s.
Lynch puts on his deadpan fight face, but Fister’s eyes dart out to the audience, as if wondering how they like him, a fake fast-frozen smile on his face.
“Let’s get on with this, Feister.”
“Let the crowd get off on the show a little.” Fister whispers hoarsely. “They couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the competition. It’s just another meat market to them. Lighten up. It’s entertainment, not the friggin Olympics. Wrestling’s just an excuse to show our gunz off.”
Lynch winces. He knows Fister is about 70% right. The owner of The Dump cares jack shit about sports. His number one concern is money, his number two concern is money, and his number three concern is to keep the customers with money drunk and distracted enough that they leave a fat wad of that money behind at The Dump.
The ref puts both his hands on either sides of the opponents’ hands, holding them steady and at dead center.
The ref pulls his hands away and yells, “Start.” The two arms strain against the other, motionless at first, then they begin to quiver with the strain.
Lynch got a clear advantage much earlier in his other match-ups, even in the touch-and-go struggle with Lucas. He has to admit to himself now that, for all his showboating, Fister is sturdy, tough competition.
Beads of sweat collect on both men’s foreheads. The veins at Fister’s temples begin to bulge, his face going bright pink. Lynch concentrates on the back of his own hand, willing it to push forward, confident that, if he were so determined, it can bend steel.
Just as Lynch begins to feel Tom’s arm give, Fister jerks his hand away, breaking the grip.
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Plummer and Williams excel in a film that, despite the casting controversies, will go down in history as another unremarkable Ridley Scott production.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Plummer
Runtime: 132 mins
Release date: 5 January 2018
When the allegations began circling Kevin Spacey, Ridley Scott and his producers must have found themselves caught in a Catch-22. Release the film as originally shot, and face a public backlash; or recast Spacey and risk an audience distracted by speculations as to what was left on the cutting room floor. But, like the men of the fighting 256th squadron, All the Money in the World had to fly, with Christopher Plummer (retconned as Scott’s first choice) replacing Spacey in what, after all the controversy, turns out to be rather unremarkable film.
All the Money in the World centres around billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty (Spacey, then Plummer), and specifically the kidnap of his grandson John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer, no relation) in 1973. Young Paul is grabbed on the streets of Rome (first shown to us in Fellini-esque black and white, before flowing into full colour) and ransomed for $17 million. Getty, despite his vast wealth, refuses to pay, justifying himself by claiming that acquiescence would only create a market for Getty grandchildren kidnappings.
Whatever the reasons, Paul’s mother Gail (Michelle Williams) is understandably angry. She finds herself stuck between a rock and a hard place, dealing with desperate kidnappers on one side, and her stubborn, miserly father-in-law on the other. Getty’s only concession is offering the assistance of his security chief, ex-CIA operative Fletcher Chace (Mark Wahlberg), in Abigail’s negotiations.
Anyone going to see All the Money in the World in the hopes of watching a film fall apart before their eyes will be sorely disappointed. Scott is a superlative cinematic craftsman; in just a scant few weeks he recast the role of Getty and reshot a sizeable portion of the film (Getty is no minor character, but forms the backbone of the film), and you won’t see a crack, seam, or join anywhere.
As for Christopher Plummer, while it’s easy to get distracted by thoughts of Kevin Spacey in prosthetic make-up, he is an outstanding Getty. This is a man for whom money and material wealth are ends in themselves. A man who refuses to pay for the return of his own grandson, but will happily pay for a painting of uncertain provenance. A man who will only negotiate with kidnappers when he can find a tax deductible way to do so. When Plummer’s Getty looks around, we can tell that he sees, not people, but investments.
If Plummer’s Getty is the backbone of All the Money in the World, then Michelle Williams’ Gail is the heart. Williams’ excels as the mother who is an outsider in the Getty family. She soon learns to play Getty at his own game, developing a poise and cunning in her fight to find her child. Next to Plummer and Williams, Mark Wahlberg looks a little out of his depth.
Unfortunately, these performances are wasted in a film that squanders its thematically fertile soil. Lip service is paid to the ethics of placing value on human beings (“An oil well in the desert or a human life, it’s all the same,” Chace tells Abigail), but lip service is all that’s paid. Scott, working from a script by David Scarpa (itself based on a book by John Pearson), is too concerned with narrative particulars, with the rather rote thriller aspects of the story, to pay any heed to the big questions the story raises.
Scott’s reluctance to deal with the issues inherent in his subject is highlighted in the film’s final scenes. There is a revelation of sorts, in which it is revealed that Getty’s vast fortune was tied up in a “charitable trust” (no actually charity was committed), the terms of which dictated that Getty couldn’t actually spend any of it. He could only invest his money, in, for example, priceless works of art. It’s a late game reveal, tossed off like a punchline, which sheds light on Getty’s refusal to cough up the cash to free his grandson. But wouldn’t it have been better to tell us this early on, to use these bizarre financial acrobatics to explore the culture of acquisitiveness that treats human beings like investments, or commodities to be traded?
It’s a real shame, because Scott needed a win after the disastrous Alien: Covenant. Instead of making a great film, to make up for that train wreck, he’s opted for the quieter approach: making a mediocre film so as not to rock the boat and draw attention to himself. All the Money in the World is a lavishly mounted period piece, full of the kind of fastidious attention to detail we’ve come to expect from Ridley Scott. As is so often the case with Scott’s films, though, he’s too focused on the details to see the bigger picture. He can’t see the forest for the meticulously costumed trees.
For a time, All the Money in the World will be known as the film Kevin Spacey wasn’t in. A thriller plot which too often steals the spotlight from a damning character study ensures that, given a few years, All the Money in the World will be known as just another unremarkable Ridley Scott production.

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Slides in Plate Tectonics
A research team analyzes satellite photos and discovers that a new mountain is being formed. What type of plate boundary could this indicate?
What is true about the layers of the earth starting from the crust and moving to the inner core?
List slow changes to the earth's surface.
What evidence was used to support that continents drifted apart?


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New NYS Director General appointed
The new Director General replaces Richard Ndubai who is facing corruption charges.
State House confirmed the appointment but stated that a statement would be issued by the Public Service, Youth and Gender Ministry later.
Mr Ndubai is among 47 suspects facing charges of looting millions at the NYS.
Ndubai took over the helm of NYS on January 19, 2016.
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New National WWII Museum exhibit looks at fight on homefront
NEW ORLEANS - The newest permanent exhibit at the National World War II Museum tells the story of the homefront from the 1920s to the development of the atomic bomb.
"Salute to the Home Front" opens to the public Saturday at the museum in New Orleans. Technological innovation and racial discrimination are among the complex topics explored in nine galleries covering nearly 10,000 square feet (930 sq. meters).
Museum President and CEO Nick Mueller says most of the 6-acre museum campus shows how the war was won on the battlefield. He says the new exhibit explains "why it was fought and how it was won on the homefront."
The exhibit includes a rusted fragment of a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor and videotaped histories from survivors of the attack.
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Do you have to get both doses of a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine to be effective? Yes! Find out why from our Chief Pharmacy Officer, Jocy.
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