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There were some fantastically inspiring stories at the Skoll World Forum Awards in Oxford.
Based on three broad categories - peace and human security, access to education, and healthcare knowledge and access - six individuals were honoured for their tireless contribution to tackling global social injustices. The audience was treated to Malian music by musicians in exile, as well as a passionate address from Annie Lennox about her SING campaign and vehement disdain for the Kardashian family. Sadly she didn't perform Why or Sweet Dreams.
Jeff Skoll's final 'Global Treasure' tribute was awarded to Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank, for his extraordinary achievements. I've been an admirer of Yunus for years but could not have predicted the power of his message during the acceptance speech. It was met with enormous enthusiasm, in fact at one point the chap next to me turned wide-eyed in disbelief; "What an amazing guy!"
For 20 minutes Yunus spoke of many things and one thread in particular really resonated. He made an enlightening paradox; that while the unimaginable developments in science and technology have kept pace with an imagined science fiction (even if the visions have played out slightly different in reality), advancements to society have been decidedly slower. What about futuristic visions of society, a "social fiction"? Yunus urged the social entrepreneurs in the auditorium to imagine the possibilities.
He raised some very pertinent questions: What does your social fiction look like? What if we re-imagined many of the societal structures and norms that we take for granted? What possibilities could be achieved for the society to come?
It's a fascinating thought. I reflected on how timely Nesta's forthcoming FutureFest will be; the opportunity to create stories, images, and visions of possible worlds in which we might live in generations to come, and to encourage people to think about how they can shape a future society rather than being shaped by it.
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As it has with many other outdoor projects and activities, the summer’s continuous rainfall has created more than its fair share of challenges for gardeners as well. Sheryl Nunnikhoven with Dutch Meadows Garden Center in Pella says while it has been hard to get out and do much work in gardens this summer, and ability to remove weeds before they begin dropping seeds will eliminate a lot of headaches this year and next year for gardeners. Nunnikhoven recommends placing a large piece of cardboard on the ground to allow gardeners to get in and remove as many weeds now as they can.
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Dear Car Talk:
I have a well-maintained, 2008 Ford Fusion with 256,000 miles. Sometimes, the car does not start on first, second, third or more turn of the ignition key. I’ll pump the brake and keep at it, and finally it starts. There’s no signs of life during these failed attempts (no sound at all).
I had the battery replaced a couple of months ago, but it's still happening. Is it the starter? Loose connections? I'm getting ready for a long road trip and don't want to be stranded. I'd like to give the dealership some hints about what to look for in case the car starts fine when I take it in. What should they check? – Christie
RAY: Well, with 256,000 miles on the car, it could be a lot things. It's like when a 96-year-old comes into the doctor's office, and the doctor asks "Is anything OK?"
I’m going to guess it’s not the battery, since that was just replaced. And I’m also going to guess that when they changed out the battery a few months ago, they cleaned and tightened all the cables. So it’s probably not that, either.
It could be the starter motor. This is classic behavior of a failing starter. It could also be the ignition switch. The ignition switch is what you stick your key into. And after a few million uses, it can wear out, and fail intermittently.
In addition, there are a couple of safety features that prevent you from starting the car and immediately plowing through your garage door. One is called the neutral safety switch. That’s a switch that prevents the car from starting if the shifter is in anything other than Park or Neutral.
As an experiment, next time the car won’t start, with the transmission in Park, try forcefully jiggling the shifter with one hand while holding the key in the crank position with the other. If nothing else, it’s good aerobic exercise.
If you can get the car to start that way in Park or Neutral, that points to a bad Neutral Safety Switch.
Your Fusion also has a brake-starter interlock, which prevents the car from starting unless your foot is on the brake. If that switch is out of position, or worn out, that could also cause intermittent starting issues.
So this is good news for your mechanic, Christie. He’ll have plenty to choose from, in terms of where to get the money for next month’s boat payment.
And you’re right to get it addressed before your upcoming road trip. These “intermittent” problems tend to become more “mittent” over time, and then permanent. So it certainly could strand you.
If you’re not able to confirm it’s the neutral safety switch by using the experiment I describe, ask your mechanic to take his best guess and try replacing something.
You’ll have to hope that he guesses right, or that if he guesses wrong, it fails again before your bon voyage party.
If it were me, I’d probably start with the brake interlock switch first, since that’s the cheapest thing to try. If that doesn’t fix it, I’d try a new starter motor. I’d try the ignition switch last.
And each time you’re in there for one of these repairs, don’t stop yourself from perusing the new car showroom. Good luck, Christie.
Husband under pressure to keep tire warning light satisfied
Dear Car Talk:
My question has to do with the air pressure in my tires. In the winter, the low tire pressure warning light in my wife’s car tends to come on when it gets very cold. As I’m sure you’re well aware, this is due to the impact of the cold on the density of the air in the tire.
I live in Colorado, and it can be 14 degrees in the morning, and in the 60s by the afternoon. When I check the pressure early, it’s naturally low. When I check it in the afternoon, it’s back up to normal.
My question is this: What pressure should I set the tires at so that I can assure my wife that she is safe to drive, and will also prevent her sensor from sending her into a panic, and me having to check her air pressure to convince her that she does not have a flat tire? Thanks. My frozen fingers thank you as well. – Dave
RAY: Good question, Dave.
Keep in mind that, generally speaking, tire pressure that’s too low is more dangerous than tire pressure that’s too high. So the answer is to fill the tires so that that they’re at the correct pressure at the colder part of the day.
We know that tire pressure drops about one pound-per-square-inch (PSI) for every 10 degrees the temperature drops. So, if your recommended tire pressure is 30 PSI, and you set them at 30 PSI in the afternoon when it’s 65 degrees, by the next morning, when it’s 50 degrees colder, your tire pressure will be 25 PSI.
That’s more than 10% below the recommended pressure, so it’ll set off your tire pressure warning light, panicking your wife, and setting you on a path to frostbite.
So, instead, set the tires at 30 PSI in the morning. By the afternoon, the tire pressure will be 35 PSI, and that will be of absolutely no consequence in terms of safety.
If your wife is very sensitive, she may notice that the ride is slightly firmer. And if she’s an engineer, she may notice that she gets better gas mileage in the afternoon with her firmer tires than she does in the morning. Realistically, she probably won’t notice either (and neither would any of us).
As long as you stay below the tire’s maximum safe pressure (which is printed on the sidewall of every tire, and is considerably higher than the recommended pressure), your wife will be perfectly safe. At 35 PSI on a passenger car tire, you shouldn’t be anywhere near the tire’s maximum allowable pressure.
So in circumstances like yours, where the temperature varies wildly, set the correct pressure during the colder part of the cycle, Dave. Then you can both live like normal adults and stop thinking about your tires.
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Several weeks ago, as the Lenten season drew near, I began considering what I might give up – and then how I would replace that time or activity, etc… with devotional time or service. Immediately, I was struck by the idea of giving up not eating meat (double negative intentionally used!).
For a year I have been a pescatarian meaning that I eat only seafood in addition to vegetables, dairy, etc… Lauren had done this for many years and I wanted to have my diet be in solidarity with hers. It just gets complicated to have a household divided by dietary needs, and with a new little one, I just thought it would be best.
I didn’t regret my decision at all, nor did I miss meat all that much. (I should clarify that by meat I mean poultry. Lauren and I haven’t eaten beef or pork, except in situations where kindness and hospitality dictated that we do so, in many, many years.) But while I felt good about not eating meat, both ethically and physically, I also hated how complicated my diet made life for others. Those who wanted to cook for us, or have us over for dinner, seemed often stuck scratching their heads over what to cook.
While I might feel strongly about a dietary decision, I hate it that that decision makes the basic hospitality of others overly complicated and even tenuous. I hated that I was often stuck explaining my diet, along with all the why’s and why not’s. I hated the self-righteousness that it would often instill in me, as I, essentially, explained to everyone else how I was “better” or “more sensitive” than they were.
Now, of course, this was not my intention at all. It is, however, often how life played out. I also found myself often complaining about the lack of options I had at certain restaurants, again, somehow making the situation more about me than about fellowship or community.
So I considered giving up not eating meat for Lent. But in the end, I didn’t.
Then, a dietary concern that Lauren had (she has to be very careful, as she needs food not just for herself but for Lily too!), caused her to suggest that she (she didn’t ask me to do it) needed to once again eat poultry, at least temporarily. After a brief discussion I agreed with her and said I wanted to join her (for the same reasons listed above). That was about two weeks ago. Since that time, we’ve been trying to navigate the world of careful meat eating – trying not to overindulge in meat, and trying to still eat a primarily vegetable and seafood diet, but with poultry sprinkled in.
My report: it’s been pretty good. I think in the end, this will allow hospitality to reign much more supremely in our life together. For me, especially, I think this will help to prevent so many situations from being driven back to me and my choices and beliefs. (I need all the help I can get with pride and my ego…) Instead, we can just be.
I think that our ultimate position will be this: when at home, we will still eat a, for-the-most-part, vegetarian diet, but we will eat poultry at times, and definitely seafood. In public, and especially when joining others for a meal, we will gladly eat poultry, seafood, and vegetables. We will continue to refrain from beef and pork, unless our host does not know that we don’t eat these things and prepares a beef or pork dish for us. In that case, we will gladly eat the meal that is prepared for us, enjoy it, and we will be grateful for the hospitality and sustenance.
Well those are my thoughts about this recent development in our lives this Lenten season.
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A book talk with authors Nader Hashemi, Director, Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics, Josef Korbel School of Int'l Studies, University of Denver, Danny Postel, Assistant Director, Middle East and North African Studies Program, Northwestern University Paul Gabriel Hilu Pinto, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil... Read more about Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East
In an October 14 article in the Independent, journalist Robert Fisk writes about the Turkish city of Gaziantep and the "Liberation" mosque as a milestone on the journey between one great crime of the 20th century, and another seen during the Second World War. He talks with CMES visiting postdoctoral fellow Ümit Kurt, whom Fisk calls "perhaps the greatest font of knowledge on this period."
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Racemic phenylethyl halohydrins acetates containing several groups attached to the aromatic ring were resolved via hydrolysis reaction in the presence of lipase B from Candida antarctica (Novozym® 435). In all cases, the kinetic resolution was highly selective (E > 200) leading to the corresponding (S)-β-halohydrin with ee > 99 %. However, the time required for an ideal 50 % conversion ranged from 15 min for 2,4-dichlorophenyl chlorohydrin acetate to 216 h for 2-chlorophenyl bromohydrin acetate. Six chlorohydrins and five bromohydrins were evaluated, the latter being less reactive. For the β-brominated substrates, steric hindrance on the aromatic ring played a crucial role, which was not observed for the β-chlorinated derivatives. To shed light on the different reaction rates, docking studies were carried out with all the substrates using MD simulations. The computational data obtained for the β-brominated substrates, based on the parameters analysed such as NAC (near attack conformation), distance between Ser-O and carbonyl-C and oxyanion site stabilization were in agreement with the experimental results. On the other hand, the data obtained for β-chlorinated substrates suggested that physical aspects such as high hydrophobicity or induced change in the conformation of the enzymatic active site are more relevant aspects when compared to steric hindrance effects.
Lipase mediated enzymatic kinetic resolution of phenylethyl halohydrins acetates: A case of study and rationalization / T.d.S. Fonseca, K.B. Vega, M.R. da Silva, M.d.C.F. de Oliveira, T.L.G. de Lemos, M.L. Contente, F. Molinari, M. Cespugli, S. Fortuna, L. Gardossi, M.C. de Mattos. - In: MOLECULAR CATALYSIS. - ISSN 2468-8231. - 485(2020 Apr).
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The sheriffs races in Ada and Canyon counties are remarkably similar. In both counties, voters can choose between experience and ideology.
Incumbent Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney and Canyon County Chief Deputy Kieran Donahue are seasoned law enforcement veterans facing opposition from outsiders who embrace the constitutional sheriff concept. The central thesis of this movement is that individual rights are under siege, and that only a county sheriff is best positioned to stand up to overreaching federal agencies.
Says Robert Muse, the independent candidate opposing Donahue, The sheriff is the supreme law of the land within the county.
This kind of rhetoric may have some appeal to voters who dislike or distrust Uncle Sam. But county sheriff is a complicated job and law enforcement and administrative experience is crucial. Raney and Donahue have this experience, and deserve voters support on Nov. 6.
On Oct. 1, the Ada County sheriffs department assumed a new responsibility: misdemeanor probation services, which had been handled by a private contractor. The stakes are high, for offenders and taxpayers alike. Effective probation services can reduce reoffense rates and ease the pressure on the county jail. This is more likely to happen with an experienced administrator on the job.
Ultimately, this is an administrative job, as the sheriff oversees 652 employees and a $57 million budget. The sheriff administers the county jail and, citing inmate numbers that have held steady since 2005, Raney believes the county wont need an expensive expansion in the near future. Being sheriff is also a contract-management job, as the sheriffs office provides police services in Eagle, Star and Kuna.
Libertarian challenger Ted Dunlap is a perennial candidate, having run for everything from Kuna City Council to governor. Raney is a 29-year department veteran with eight years in the top job. There is no reason for voters to make a change here.
With Canyon County Sheriff Chris Smith stepping down, Donahue is the de facto incumbent and Smiths heir apparent.
Donahues law enforcement experience is solid including detective work in the drug unit and work on a regional task force on gangs. Just as important, he understands the administrative challenges facing a department that is weathering nearly $500,000 in budget cuts for 2012-13.
He recognizes, rightly, that the county cannot afford to lose experienced officers to higher-paying jobs elsewhere in the Valley. And on the departments big-ticket crisis an aging and overcrowded jail he advocates working with smaller, neighboring counties. This is a promising idea; a regional jail could defray costs and reduce the size of a county jail bond issue.
After three failed bond issues, the jail looms as a law enforcement and political challenge for the countys next sheriff. Donahue is better qualified to address this situation from Day 1.
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Russian engineers have developed a unique device capable of jamming torpedoes’ target-seeking heads and blinding the sonar equipment used by submarines; the device is due to add significantly to the combat capability of the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet.
The Russian newspaper Izvestia reported that a miniature device, which is capable of jamming torpedoes’ target-seeking heads and submarine sonars has been put into service at the Russian Navy.
“The Small-Size Hydroacoustic Countermeasure Device Vist-2” is launched from a submarine or surface ship and creates a powerful acoustic hindrance, which silences the homing heads of enemy torpedoes or enemy submarine sonars.
“Additionally, the 80-centimeter device, Vist-2, which weighs just 13.5 kilograms, can be transformed into a ‘false target’ thanks to the emission of a special signal that simulates a ship or a submarine,” Izvestia said.
According to experts, the Vist-2 substantially increases the Russian submarine fleet’s combat capabilities.
The device’s operated time is more than five minutes, a period of time during which a Russian warship or submarine will be able to evade an enemy torpedo or sonar array, according to Izvestia.
In an interview with Izvestia, Russian military expert Mikhail Barabanov said that “until recently, the Russian Navy was inferior to foreign naval forces in terms of creating jamming systems and protecting submarines and warships.”
He referred to the MG-34 devices which he said have been used by the Russian Navy since the 1960s and which are already unable to tackle modern self-guided torpedoes.
“As for the Vist-2, it is launched from a small-sized 123mm launcher. The device is on par with Western analogues in terms of performance characteristics,” Barabanov said.
Thanks to an electronic unit and the emitter, the device creates hydroacoustic noise in the specified frequency ranges at a certain distance from an enemy submarine.
According to the Russian state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport’s website, “as a result, the receiving tracts of [enemy’s] torpedo homing system lose the ability to detect submarines.”
“Also, the Vist-2 protects submarines “by creating a simulated radiation, in which the torpedo is directed to the drifting Vist-2 device,” the website said.
Izvestia, for its part, quoted Russian Pacific Fleet officials as saying that the first batch of the Vist-2 devices was supplied to the fleet late last year.


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Raffaella Carrà dies at the age of 78
ESC Bubble are sad to report the news that Raffaella Carrà has died today at the age of 78.
The singer, actress, dancer and TV host had been ill for some time.
Carrà was a huge fan of Eurovision, presenting a number of Eurovision shows in Spain, aswell as having several Eurovision contestants sing on her hit Saturday night show Carràmba! Che fortuna. They included Dima Bilan, Ani Lorak, Simon Mathew and Pirates of the Sea.
Carrà performed at San Remo in 1983, aswell as hosting the show in 2001. Carrà read out the Italian points when the country came back to Eurovision in 2011. She had also been rumoured to be one of the hosts of next years Eurovision Song Contest.
Carrà had a number of hits around Europe, including Far L’Amore, which you can see below, with the English version reaching number 9 in the UK charts in 1978. Carrà also starred in the film Von Ryan’s Express alongside Frank Sinatra.
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2010 SCVMTFC Model T Speedster Endurance Run
2010 Santa Clara Valley Model T Ford Club Endurance Run and Lowland Tour
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Juanita Cheramie has been appointed to the Grand Isle Port Commission. The appointment was announced by Gov. Bobby Jindal's office Friday (Aug. 14).
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by James Shores
On that last weekend of October it was snowing outside, a newly blanched world, while I sat inside a tiny hospital room, painted bone-white, waiting for my wife to die. Her birthday had been just a week prior, and I did my best to distract myself from asking the questions that I did not want answers to.
She was hooked up and plugged in to nearly every machine that technological medicine could offer: the heartbeat monitor, watching for irregularities; the IV drip controls, doling out her medicine, fluids, drugs—anything they needed to push through her; the temperature readout attached to her forefinger, tracking her body heat; the oxygen tubes, feeding air from a large tank up through the lines around her nose, their soft hiss a persistent ambiance to the sullen enclosure. All of this fed into her, either by temporary ports at her elbow crevice running up to her hand, taped and protected, or by a tube that dumped directly into her aortic artery through three aqueducts, surgically implanted near her right collarbone several months earlier. When you pull and push as much as they did from my wife, a more permanent solution is welcome.
Nurses worked in eight-hour shifts (or maybe it was twelve—it soon didn’t seem to matter), each with the same responsibilities but often enacted with varying considerations. Some of them came to know my wife and me by our first names, while many stuck to Mr. and Mrs. A few never addressed us at all.
Little of this left a mark on Chris; she was sleeping, for both of us.
I often look for meaning in my surroundings—I imagine most folks do. While I went on my second year of academic hiatus from Brigham Young University’s film program, the stream of life’s inevitabilities had grown into a tidal wave, and I began to wonder if there would be anything left to hold onto. Dealing with my wife, finances, and our little girl, I made small efforts here and there to be self-taught. I read about writing and wrote out ideas or even short scripts. Mostly I watched a lot of movies. It was difficult to plan beyond two-hour increments some days. Maybe I wanted to have a means of escape, a way to forget. But often the films behaved more like a polished mirror, and the reflection was hard to watch.
For some reason my first memory of any movie is The NeverEnding Story. I was only three when I first saw it. All I could remember from it was a dying horse, Artax, drowning in the Swamp of Sorrows. Being so young, I thought the horse had actually died right in front of me.
Once while my family lived in Oregon, Dad took my two brothers and me to the local theater to see Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, with Steve Martin and Michael Caine. While I understood some jokes, laughing when others did, it didn’t all make sense. How was it that people lying to other people was so funny?
I was eight when Tim Burton’s Batman came out, and again I went with my family. Batman was so dark he could have been a villain, but I latched on and saw in him a hero. Batman never could forget the death of his parents—it’s what drove him.
While living in Colorado, I saw Jurassic Park in the theater with my family, and while I knew the dinosaurs were not real, I was scared by them nonetheless. Perhaps it was the idea of how science could go wrong, or the possibility of creating monsters—or maybe I was like any kid and just didn’t want to be eaten alive while on a toilet. The syntax and symbolism of a film may be more apparent to me now, yet the simple truth of not wanting to die in the middle of the mundane still lingers.
The happy films are the ones with a cliché in them, like “happily ever after.” The loose ends wrap up, the hero wins, the villain lies vanquished. How often does the camera roll after the couple rides off into the sunset? Where is the orchestral swell for the two souls stuck in a corner room, joined in rhythm by the faint beep of a heartbeat monitor and their own shallow breathing?
I had wanted to dress Madi in some superhero costume for Halloween, but Chris had already picked out a giraffe costume months prior, one where the animal head extends beyond the cap of the suit. It was all the same to a little girl, only nine months in the world. She did look pretty cute; that, and it’s hard to argue with a woman in the middle of a bone marrow transplant.
I dressed Madi as the giraffe, ready to make the hour trip from our house to the hospital in Salt Lake. My little girl didn’t care about her outfit; she was just excited to see her mom. She had a difficult time understanding the “rules” about Mom: why she couldn’t lie in bed with her all day, why Mom didn’t live in the same house, why cold sterilizer was constantly applied to her little hands.
Most days the rules mattered to Chris and the nurses, but there were times when the rules didn’t get a say—a little girl in a giraffe costume was hard to say no to. She crawled and climbed over Chris, wanting to touch all the buttons, the bed a new playground. I did my best not to micromanage.
Eventually Madi lay down next to Mom, me at the recliner next to the bed, and we watched a movie on that tiny mounted hospital television. I don’t remember what it was.
It’s difficult for others to understand our actions, to see behind the scenes. How could they know? Like the lady outside the Outback Steakhouse who glared at my wife and me as we exited my lifted truck—it looked ridiculous parked in that handicap spot, the temporary placard hanging from the rear-view mirror. That was before all of Chris’s hair fell out, while she was still pregnant with Madi and undergoing several rounds of chemotherapy. She looked too normal to be sick.
The first day I met my wife’s grandma—Grandma Jan when she isn’t listening—she quickly sized me up, grabbing my hand with a firmness that conveyed the intent of her brevity.
“Are you the one dating my granddaughter?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Well, what are you doing with your life?”
“I plan on going to film school.”
“And what are you going to do when that doesn’t work out?”
I would leave the room, often under the guise of getting food—because, yes, hospital food really is that bad. Usually I’d go to buy snacks for her, sometimes dinner if we had the money. But more often than not, I went just to escape. I began forming a terrible metaphor for what was happening. Time was a runaway train, barreling forward, unstoppable, tearing up all in its path, my wife the bound hostage tied to the tracks, like in a bad Spaghetti Western.
But I was no Clint Eastwood. I was a helpless man, perched from a view to watch it all unfold, but too far to make a difference, to save her. The outside world became a machine, and I no longer wanted to plug in.
When driving to the store or back and forth from the hospital, if I was cut off on the freeway, or on any street for that matter, I wanted to set the perpetrating vehicle ablaze, slash its tires. While waiting in lines at the grocery store, the gas station, the hospital cafeteria, conversations leaked out behind me, in front of me—a comment from the person at the cash register, over-dramatizations of personal relationships, irrational complaints of car trouble, neighbor trouble, a statistics professor that was too difficult, a coffee maker that wasn’t brand new. The sighs and beleaguered moans and drawn-out hums of an indifferent people, wasting their breath. It grew inside of me, a cancer of my own, eating, gnawing.
As I waited in a Smith’s grocery self-checkout with a handful of items Chris had asked for—chips, salsa, and fruit snacks, food she wouldn’t eat much of because it just made her sick—a group of three college girls cut me in line. One offered a smile and a wink.
“I’m cute, don’t you think? Sure you don’t mind,” her eyes said as her lips asked, “Oh, were you in line?”
“What the —— does it look like to you?” It was all that could come out.
The threesome of girls was taken aback—their loud “look at me” manner of talking gone, the awkward silence unavoidable—and they quickly moved their items through the self-checkout line.
My eyes burned into the backs of their skulls. I wanted their world to hemorrhage, their carefree smiles to droop into early old age, while all of their anchors drop out the bottom, until they only knew anguish. I intended no physical harm, for I wanted to unload a mental burden that far exceeded any tangible pain I had known. I wanted to drag people, one by one, into that encapsulating hospital room, force them to watch their loved one whither until bone presses out against the cheek, hands, and feet—repeat the same story to every person you know because it’s all they know to discuss, hearing their “advice,” watching them return to their life while you rot in yours. I would take the car trouble, the jerk professor, the tedious nothing that life can dole out.
Actually, I said nothing to the three girls. I shook my head and waited.
So much of me wanted to look back, to return somehow to life before it bore to me its unforgiving momentum; there was nothing to outrun, but I tried. I watched Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves again, a favorite growing up. What a bad film. Then I watched Stephen King’s It, which many years ago caused my brothers and me to refuse to bathe or shower for weeks—now, there’s just a silly clown.
And what about The NeverEnding Story? If I watch it now, it will be different. What of the old memory, of how it was? A part of me wants to hold on, to keep it nostalgic and not revisit it—but only a part.
Nothing about these films has changed, but we are just meeting on different terms, and somewhere the child has left behind the childish things.
I don’t know if it was the next day, or right when I got back from Smith’s, but as I returned to the cancer wing there was a man exiting the door directly across from my wife’s room. He was visibly exhausted, the rings under his eyes seemingly filled with helium, the only thing keeping his head up. We crossed paths without a word, and I pretended to keep stride until I heard his footsteps round the corner. The door he left from, just across from mine—ours—had several crayon drawings taped against it. One said “Momy git bettr.” A nurse exited the room, briefly smiling at me, and turned into another room.
I counted for the first time. There were ten rooms. I knew how everyone in this wing of the hospital came to be here, but I still didn’t understand why. I didn’t know any of their names, I didn’t know how old or young they were or if someone was there to care for them, and I didn’t know if their cancer was stage 3 or 4. But I knew “Momy git bettr.”
However long I stood there, Chris must have begun to wonder if I were coming back because she called me.
“I’m just outside the door. I got your snacks,” I said. “And I rented a movie for us to watch.”


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Five Things We Learned from the Patriots Day Press Conference
Less than a day after the film’s star-studded red carpet, a press conference for Mark Wahlberg’s Patriots Day was held at the Intercontinental Boston on Thursday morning.
The 40-minute event featured a discussion about the Marathon bombing movie with Wahlberg, along with director Peter Berg and several of the project’s producers. Many of the survivors and law enforcement members who are portrayed in Patriots Day also spoke at the press conference, including Police Commissioner William Evans, former Police Commissioner Ed Davis, former FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers, carjacking survivor Dun “Danny” Meng, as well as Marathon survivors Patrick and Jessica Downes.
Ahead, here are five things we learned about the making of Patriots Day from Thursday’s event.
1. The filmmakers struggled with how to portray the Tsarnaev brothers.
“The amount of screen time that we gave the Tsarnaev brothers is something we talked about quite a bit,” Berg said.
The director revealed that he felt it was necessary to include the Tsarnaev brothers due to their unique story. Rather than being terrorists who were foreign nationals like the 9/11 attackers, these were immigrants who assimilated in American culture. Although their inclusion was integral to the film, Berg and the rest of the crew made sure not to portray them in a positive or sympathetic light.
“We were very conscious of not wanting to portray them in any way to be righteous men,” Berg said. “We don’t consider their behavior to be righteous. We don’t consider them to be good Muslims. We don’t really actually consider them to be Muslims at all.We found their behavior to be cowardly, hypocritical.”
He added, “These were hypocritical, confused, narcissistic, psychopaths, as far as we were concerned.”
2. Why Wahlberg played a composite character created for the film.
The filmmakers tried to be as accurate as the could with the movie, but one aspect that was a bit fictionalized is Wahlberg’s Tommy Saunders, a composite character based on Boston police officers. Berg explained that they didn’t want to assign any character “stolen valor,” or rather, giving a person credit for an heroic act in a story when they weren’t really involved in real life.
Instead, Patriots Day tried to honor the different officers who responded by creating a character to represent all of them. Wahlberg did admit, though, that one of the real life law enforcement members who inspired his character was Danny Keller.
3. One Marathon survivor said that the film ‘is never going to feel right.’
Wahlberg, Berg, and the rest of the team behind Patriots Day have made a point to express their commitment to getting it right with the film. While it was a noble goal, Jessica Downes explained why she feels the movie will never really feel right to the survivors, despite all of the respect that the filmmakers showed.
“Hearing everyone today, the theme is did they get it right? I think that’s an impossible question for a survivor,” Downes said. “I think that’s what I realized last night, that this movie is never going to feel right to them. It can feel OK, and it can feel respected, and you can feel proud and be happy that it was done, but right is so hard, because what happened to us was just anything but right.”
“I don’t think it was anyone’s error or mistake. I just think it’s the nature of this,” she added. “This was really traumatic. This permanently changed lives. This permanently ended lives. And so ‘right’ isn’t something you can achieve with survivors, but ‘respect’ is. And I do think that the gentlemen sitting behind us ensured that that happened.”
4. Katherine Russell refused to participate in the project.
The Patriots Day team sought the counsel of many people who were involved in the incident, including Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife Katherine Russell. Despite their best attempts, she refused to participate in the film or answer any of the director’s questions.
“I asked to meet with her. She wouldn’t meet with me,” Berg said. “Her attorney asked if I would submit questions to her in writing, which I did. Those questions went unanswered.”
Berg went to say how there are many “unresolved” issues regarding her involvement in the attack and its aftermath.
5. Will there ever be an autobiographical Mark Wahlberg movie?
Due to the themes of hope and reconciliation that Patriots Day champions, one reporter asked Wahlberg if he’d consider making a movie with similar themes, but centered around his own life trajectory. Alluding to Wahlberg’s violent past when he assaulted two Asian men as a teen, the reporter wanted to know if he would make and star in an “autobiographical” film about “racial healing in Boston.”
“I’d have to figure out who was going to play me in the movie first. That would be the toughest task,” Wahlberg said. “Growing up in Boston in the ’70s and ’80s, there was a huge racial divide. It was pretty much all we knew growing up.”
The actor went on to talk about the pride he feels in seeing how far the city has come in terms of breaking down racial barriers. He also praised the everyday citizens who helped out during the Marathon attack, saying that they inspire him to continue bettering himself as a person.
“”One of the things that I continue to go back to is again now seeing how far our city’s come, how much people have grown, and how people from all walks of life ran towards the problem, went to help people, because it was the right thing to do,” Wahlberg said. “I found that to be the biggest inspiration and what made me the most proud to be a Bostonian. As far as telling my own story, I work hard every day to become a better person, a better father, a better husband, and a better Bostonian. The last act of my story has yet to be written, so we’ll figure that out.”
Patriots Day opens in Boston on December 21.


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C# From Java
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These notes should help you convert a program from Java to C#. It is assumed that the reader is an experienced Java programmer. This is based on the author's original journey from Java to C#. If you want to find out what C# is all about you might find this text useful.
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Author promotes object-oriented design using C# and illustrates the use of the object-oriented design patterns. The book shows how these patterns are used to create good software designs. Written for second- and third-year students.
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This book is intended to be a value adding reading material for beginner to intermediate C# programmers. It may also be used for accelerating the learning about new features in C#, and also to get an introduction about new libraries in .NET.
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A motorbike stunt rider is hoping to be the youngest star of a daring circus act.
Pedro Pavlov was only a tiny tot when he first showed an interest in stunt riding and could balance and lift his feet up by the time he was two-and-a-half.
The three-year-old, part of the Lincolnshire-based Pavlov family who perform with Planet Circus, is heading to East Yorkshire next month.
He began taking practice lessons in the Globe of Speed when he turned three and has now set his sights on becoming the youngest stunt rider to appear in the Globe in the UK, by the time he is four next year.
If he is successful, the mini petrol-head will have beaten his uncle Peter Pavlov, who was the youngest ever rider in the Globe of Speed when he was eight-years-old.
Pedro, known as Petrol Pedro on his Instagram account, is not yet part of the circus act proper, but he does have his own set of ramps on which he performs jumps and entertains the crowds leaving the Planet Circus big top with his own impromptu “shows”.
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Pedro’s mum, Emilia Pavlov, said: “I know other mums’ hearts would be in their mouths if they saw their child doing what Pedro does – mine is too, but to me it’s normal.
“Since the day he was born he has been coming into the circus tent with me and as soon as he saw my brother on his motorbike, that was it.
"We had to get him a balance bike and a couple of months after, when we realised how good he was, we got him a little electric bike.”
Emilia said Pedro was kitted out in helmet and all the necessary padding to make him as safe as possible while enjoying his biking.
“He is on it every chance he gets, it’s the only time he is happy,” said Emilia, whose part in the circus stunt act is to stand in the middle of the speeding riders.
“He wakes up at 6am and the first thing he asks for is his bike.”
So smitten with the biking bug was Pedro that his uncle, who he loves to imitate, took him into the Globe of Speed to help him develop his skills
Peter Pavlov, who has performed on Britain’s Got Talent and at the London Palladium, adores the adrenaline rush of his Globe of Speed act, which can see as many as ten motorbike riders hurtling round the inside of a huge steel ball.
When he was eight, Peter, whose parents Tanya and Pavel launched Planet Circus in 2010, performed for the first time in a family circus show.
Peter himself had a quad bike from being three years old and his passion grew from there until performing his edge-of-your-seat show for audiences around the country, at the same inspiring his little nephew Pedro.
Emilia said: “When Pedro turned three he started asking if he could go in the globe and he started to practise with his uncle, but we’ve changed globes now and it’s a bit too dangerous for him and we are keeping him out until he gets a bit bigger.
“There’s no one appearing in the Globe of Speed at the moment who is under the age of about 17 or 18.”
Emilia said: “We don’t want to push him into it at all, he will only do it if he wants to and if he wants to watch Peppa Pig, then that’s what he can do.”
Planet Circus is heading for Bilton where it will be staging performances from Wednesday to Sunday, September 8 to 12. The show then moves to West Park, Goole, from Tuesday to Sunday, September 14 to 19.
“People are bound to see Pedro riding around,” said Emilia. “His little brother, Tiago, who is two, is already on his bike as well.”


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- DeAnna Burt-Nanna has been appointed to serve as Monroe Community College's next president.
Burt-Nanna is currently vice president of student and academic affairs for South Central College in Minnesota. A news release from MCC stated that she has more than 20 years of experience in higher education and described her as “a staunch advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, educational access and attainment, philanthropy, and workforce development at local, state, and national levels.”
MCC Board of Trustees Chair Barbara Lovenheim said that’s an important emphasis for the college.
“We have particularly our downtown campus, which is 40percent minority, and we wanted to really concentrate on those issues, Lovenheim said. "And of course Rochester, as you know, has had issues, and we really want to make sure that we face those issues at the college”
The SUNY Board of Trustees appointed Burt-Nanna to the position Tuesday, acting at the recommendation of MCC's Board of Trustees.
“Monroe Community College is a beacon of educational excellence and opportunity that is nationally known for its commitment to student success, innovation, and its significant impact on Rochester, Monroe County, and the Finger Lakes Region,” said Burt-Nanna. “I am honored to be selected as MCC’s next president and will work with MCC faculty, staff, and stakeholders to extend MCC’s legacy of educational excellence, innovation, and strong community partnerships.”
Burt-Nanna succeeds interim president Katherine Douglas who has been in that role since last February. Douglas stepped to fill a vacancy left by the departure of Anne Kress, who announced in October 2019 she was leaving to lead Northern Virginia Community College. Kress led MCC for a decade.
“With her student-centric focus, her advocacy for diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as her keen business sense from both her academic and industry experience, Dr. Burt-Nanna will bring MCC to new heights,” SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras said in a news release.


text: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of the United Kingdom was passed in 1990, leading to the formation of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the first statutory body to regulate and control assisted conception anywhere in the world. The principal function of the HFEA is to license and monitor clinics that carry out in vitro fertilization (IVF), donor insemination (DI), and embryo research. Information on over 135,000 treatment cycles, 20,000 pregnancies, and 25,000 babies following IVF has now been collected as part of the regulatory process, and these data have permitted unbiased and accurate evaluation of treatment efficacy using pregnancy and live-birth rates. The treating clinics are required by law to provide information on the outcome of all births, including neonatal mortality and congenital malformations, but there is no systematic validation of these data using medical records or any follow-up of treated women, or babies, over time. In addition, the strict confidentiality of data supplied to the HFEA means that outside researchers have been unable to access the database for research projects. Thus, at the present time, it is not possible to evaluate the long-term safety of assisted conception procedures using HFEA data. There is reasonable scientific evidence to justify full investigation of the health of both treated women and resulting children. Particular health outcomes requiring evaluation include obstetric complications, preterm births, cerebral palsy, and cancer. The HFEA has recognized the need for follow-up studies and is currently investigating ways of enabling research projects using HFEA data to be undertaken.

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What Happens After Your First Testosterone Injection?
If you have decided to begin testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), you may be wondering what to expect after your first injection. Some of the side effects of testosterone injections include body odour, excessive sweating, and a deeper baritone voice, this article tells you all you need to know. Some men may also experience peach fuzz on the face or an Adam's apple.
Side effects of testosterone injections
Side effects of testosterone injections can include increased physical energy, increased muscle size and a reduction in overall body fat. They can also increase sex drive and reduce the symptoms of erectile dysfunction. However, there are several risks involved with testosterone injections, including high blood pressure, liver problems and acne.
Testosterone injections can also cause chest pain and shortness of breath. These side effects may be more severe in some people. However, testosterone injections are safe for most people. However, they may lead to serious side effects, such as high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, and increased risk of stroke or heart attack. To minimize the potential for these side effects, you should talk with your physician prior to beginning testosterone therapy.
Testosterone is a naturally occurring steroid hormone that is produced in the testicles and contributes to the normal functioning of male reproductive organs. It is responsible for facial hair and muscle mass in men and is normally present in the blood in quantities of between 300 and 1,000 nanograms per decilitre. It also contributes to sex drive and bone density.
Preparation for testosterone injections
Before giving testosterone injections, it is important to prepare the injection site. You should clean the injection site with an alcohol swab. You should also have your syringe with a small amount of air in it. Next, you should shake the syringe to mix the liquid. Next, place the needle against the injection site. Then, insert it into the muscle. Once the injection has been completed, remove the needle.
When preparing for testosterone injections, you should wash your hands thoroughly with soap. You should also clean the vial and the injection site with an alcohol swab. Make sure that the area is clean and sterile. Don't use reused needles, and make sure you follow all instructions to the letter.
Before getting testosterone injections, make sure that your doctor has checked your blood count. The injection can raise your red blood cell count, which can be dangerous. You should schedule an appointment with an oncologist to make sure that the injection is safe for your health.
Pain associated with testosterone injections
In a recent study, researchers found that 80% of men experience post-injection pain. The pain peaked immediately after the injection, lasted for two to four days, and then returned to its baseline level. The pain was mild or moderate, and caused little to no interference with daily activities. The time course of pain scores was reproducible between men who underwent two injections. The pain was greater in men who had previously received painful injections, and less so in older and obese men. However, experienced nurses reported that pain levels returned to their pre-injection levels by day four after the injection.
Another side effect of testosterone injections is joint pain. While joint pain is common among men, it may be more pronounced in men who suffer from osteoarthritis. Low levels of testosterone can increase the risk of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Both conditions are caused by damage to the cartilage that covers the ends of the bones in the joints. This causes bone grinding, inflammation, and pain.
Long-term effects of testosterone injections
Long-term effects of testosterone injections on health are poorly understood. While short-term studies are adequate to make informed decisions, large-scale randomized trials of testosterone are required to establish a cause-and-effect relationship. These studies are expensive and time-consuming. They have also been limited by relatively small numbers of participants and brief follow-up periods.
One of the most serious side effects of testosterone therapy is an increased risk of cardiovascular problems, including heart attacks, strokes, and deaths from heart disease. The 2010 Testosterone in Older Men study, for example, had to halt its study due to heart risks. In addition, testosterone can cause problems with the heart and liver. If used in excess, it can cause heart failure, a dangerous condition that could lead to sudden death. If you have any medical conditions, such as a history of heart disease or kidney disease, testosterone injections should be administered only by a healthcare professional. It is also important to use effective birth control while on testosterone.
In one study of 111 men, testosterone therapy led to a statistically significant increase in hematocrit, a reduction in urea nitrogen-to-creatinine ratio, and an increase in prostate-specific antigen levels. However, one third of the subjects developed polycythemia, which required phlebotomy and temporary withdrawal of testosterone.


text: This past summer I went on a service trip to the Galapagos Islands, but also spent a few days in Ecuador immersing oursleves in the city’s culture and daily routines. Primarily throughout this trip we focused on climate conservation and contributing what we could to missions devoted to helping endangered animals. In a group of 20 students, coming together from places all around America, we traveled between many of the Galapagos Islands: Santa Cruz, Isabella, San Cristobal, and Baltra. While we were in Isabella, our group worked with a few locals, Gustavo and Angel, clearing our enclosures for the endangered tourtise. For 3 days, we worked for around 5 hours uprooting weeds and harmful plants to the tourtise. Once we had successfully cleared the plants from those enclosures, we began work on the top of a hill cutting down bigger trees. We were clearing these trees so we were able to plant trees that would better contribute to the environment. Afer Isabella, we went to San Cristobal and worked to fix up a school for a day. While we were there we painted and cleaned their entire school, and we able to spend some times with the children. This experience was very heart warming for me because were only 7 children in the entire school, and they have very simple days. So being there and seeing them enjoy them selves just by playing a soccer game for example, was very rewarding.

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A press release passed through our email today that really caught our eye, Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan, the first anime style 2D real-time action role playing game set in an African-themed mythological universe. With it’s unique setting, mechanics inspired by the “Tales of” series and the title being little known, we felt compelled to give it some coverage.
You play as Prince Enzo and his wife Erine, who have been victims of a coup d’état in the Kingdom of Zama, and want to get their throne back. Explore six continents as you jump, dash and fight in fast-paced combat while experiencing a deep story, and a relationship rooted in the reality of married life.
Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan is available on PC now through Steam.


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Do you love reading travel books? Well, we’ve listed here ten of the best travel books to spark your inner wanderlust.
Books have this ability to transport you to places without moving your feet, to experience and feel thousands of emotions just by reading.
Before travel, books were my key to the world outside my safe little bubble. It was like my peephole to foreign places, countries, and cultures that I can’t physically visit as a child.
Now that I can travel and see this world with my own two feet and two eyes, certain novels never failed to sway me to travel again. Rereading them ignites my wanderlust again and again and again.
If you are looking for some great reads, here is my current list of the best travel books to inspire you to pack up and go.
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist follows the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, who travels from Spain to Egypt in search of a treasure. However, on his adventure, he learns about the meaning of life and finds himself instead.
One of the most read books in recent history, the Alchemist teaches valuable lessons behind the entertaining stories. It inspires courage, chasing your dreams, and finding yourself.
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
The Art of Travel is a philosophical look at the ubiquitous but peculiar activity of traveling for pleasure with thoughts on airports, landscapes, museums, holiday romances, photographs, and exotic carpets. It dares to ask what the point of travel might be and suggests how we could be less miserable on our journeys.
This book serves as a reminder of the how and why of travel, to never lose sight of the purpose of travel. Bringing the book of The Art of Travel is like having a travel companion that pokes you and tells you to open your eyes and see.
The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers
Follow one of the most traveled felines, Norton, and the cat-hater Peter Gethers as their adventures to Paris, Fire Island, and in the subways of Manhattan took on the color of legend and mutual love.
This book proves that sometimes all it takes is personality and paws to survive many common travel situations. And if you need a bit of convincing of the life-changing world of travel, then this book is undoubtedly for you.
Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
Rolf spent ten years on the road and documents it in his book, Vagabonding. He gives the readers a thoughtful and interesting look at long term travel based on his personal experiences. He provides the necessary information on travel essentials like financing travel time and adjusting to life on the road.
Vagabonding refers to the act of taking time off from your normal life for an extended time to discover and experience the world on your terms. For people who are interested in traveling long-time but thinks they don’t have enough money or time, grab this book. It might change your mindset towards money and travel as it did for us.
Travel as Transformation by Gregory V. Diehl
Travel as Transformation takes you with Diehl on his journey from living in a van on the streets of San Diego, to growing chocolate with indigenous tribes in Central America, to teaching in the Middle East and volunteering in Africa.
Learn how travel can influence your perception of yourself through Diehl’s worldly and unconventional travels. Dive into this book if you are looking for inspiration on finding yourself through travel.
How Not to Travel the World by Lauren Juliff
Before traveling, Lauren Juliff has no life experience, no common sense, and had never eaten rice. In other words, she lived a somewhat sheltered life. Follow her adventures in the book How Not to Travel the World as she documents how over the space of a year, she was scammed and assaulted, lost teeth, and swallowed a cockroach – the fears of every first-time traveler.
Learn how to overcome your fear and anxiety and experience the world of travel through Lauren’s misadventures on How Not to Travel the World.
Finding Gobi by Dion Leonard
Finding Gobi follows Dion Leonard as he participates in a 150-mile race across China’s Gobi Desert where he found a stray dog who kept up with him step for step. Over the course of the race, Dion becomes very attached to the stray and ends up calling her Gobi.
People who love their felines and travel will surely relate to this book. It represents the incredible connection between a human and a dog, the resilience whatever come both your ways and proving once again, that dog really is man’s best friend.
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
In this autobiography, Elizabeth Gilbert writes about her travels around the world after an existential crisis, a nasty divorce, and a love affair that didn’t end well. First, she went to Italy for the food (eat), to India for meditation and yoga (pray), and last to Indonesia where she meets someone (love).
Travel can be seen as stepping out of your comfort zone, taking a chance, or discovering what you want in life. These are what this book is all about –traveling, healing, and all the in-betweens.
How to Travel the World on $50 a Day by Matt Kepnes
How to Travel the World on $50 a Day reveals how to travel without breaking your bank. In his book, Matt Kepnes aka Nomadic Matt reveals his tips, tricks, and secrets to comfortable budget travel based on his experiences traveling the world without giving up the comforts he enjoys.
For those thinking of traveling to a foreign land on a limited budget, grab this book and find out how far $50 can take you.
Love With a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche
A book written by travel blogger Torre DeRoche, Love with a Chance of Drowning is about her adventures with her boyfriend across the Pacific Ocean despite her morbid fear of deep water. Think joy, love, courage, dolphins, whale, islands and the most beautiful scenery.
Read this, and surely you want to experience the magic of the sea and go on an adventure yourself.
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If you have kept dogs for quite some time, you may have noted that it has the tendency to bury their bones anyhow. Is this behavior normal? Could it signify a deeper problem? Are there ways to mitigate it? Or could it be that there is nothing absolutely wrong with it?
Well, we commend you first and foremost for being in the right place. Here, we shall seek to answer all these questions and provide a nice way forward. In our discussions below, we shall highlight and explain the things that push dogs to bury bones and whether it is a good thing to do or not.
For one, there is no unifying explanation as to why dogs dig and bury their bones. A number of factors may trigger this ghastly behavior. Knowing more about them will certainly go a long way in preparing you to cope with them. Dogs generally bury bones for the following reasons:
13 Common Dogs Bury Bones Reasons
When dogs are anxious, they will usually respond by burying the bones. Such an act calms them and makes them less angry as they naturally are. It evokes a soothing feeling that tends to reduce the level of tension and anxiety they have at that time. Also, they become more comfortable in the process. You should attempt to soothe your dog well to stem this issue.
Closely related to anxiety is the issue of stress. When dogs are stressed, they also tend to develop weird and irrational behaviors. One of the ways they manifest this behavior is to bury the bones. This gives them a false sense of relief. It does not take away all the pain though. You might need to take your dog through some kind of therapy as a way of relieving stress.
Boredom is yet another reason why many dogs choose to bury their bones. To counter this menace of boredom, dogs will usually resort to engaging in activities that can add some thrill to them. One of these is to bury the bones in the ground. It provides some temporary relief to them. Keep your dogs engaged all the while to prevent them from having to get too bored.
Some breeds of dogs are naturally predisposed to this menace of burying bones than others. Examples of these include the Miniature Schnauzers, Basset Hounds, Beagles, Dachshunds, and the Terriers. Even if they are healthy and sound, they will just go ahead and bury the bones anyway! There is nothing much you can do about this. You just have to cope with the dog as it is.
5. Natural Instincts
To some extent, this behavior arises as a way of manifesting natural instincts. Simply put: they bury bones as a way of responding to external stimuli. If yours is of this kind, you will note that it does that mainly when there is no food or if it has sustained an injury of some sort. Similarly, you have no choice but to cope with your dog as it is since there is nothing much you can do about nature.
6. For Preservation
Modern dogs to some extent are more intelligent than the dogs of yesteryears. If they find surplus food today, they will usually preserve it by way of burying it in the ground and retrieving it later. This behavior is not limited to food alone. It also extends to valuable items that dogs cherish. Feeding your dog consistently and regularly will prevent this from happening.
7. Unscrupulous Hoarding
Other than purely due to survival, the dogs may also do this act of burying purely as a matter of hoarding. When there are many dogs around, they will want to safeguard their catches and prevent others to access the same. Burying the bones deep in the ground is one sure way of achieving this end. Train your dog to love and share the rest to prevent them from hoarding what they have.
Aging has an impact on triggering this activity. As dog’s age, they become less active and hence in need of less food. If and when that happens, they tend to bury the food they need not at the moment but are likely to need later. The younger ones are less prone to this activity hence.
Some dogs may do this as a way of seeking the attention of those who are around it. In this regard, they tend to seek more attention from you, its owner. Try to find out what the dog is attempting to communicate if you notice this peculiarity.
Younger dogs like the pups will often imitate their elderly counterparts. They too will end up burying things not really out of necessity but just as a way of emulating the elderly ones. This behavior is absolutely normal and should hence not be a cause for alarm.
Just like humans, dogs are also possessive in the sense that they are jealous of the wellbeing of their fellow dogs. One way of expressing this possessiveness is to bury their items in the soil and to keep them away from the others. Many dogs do it as a way of responding to sibling rivalry.
Burying bones may be a sign of over-feeding. Put differently: you give your dog too much food that it is not able to ingest fully at that time. Instead of sharing the same with the others in need, it defers the same by way of burying it in the soil.
The opposite may also hold true. When a dog is nauseated or lacks appetite at the time, it may decide to bury the bone and retrieve it at a later date. If it buries the bone under this circumstance, you will often notice that it exhibits signs of diarrhea, vomiting, and behavioral anomalies.
We bring an end to our look into why dogs bury their bones there. Having done that, we are now confident that you have the preparedness necessary to take on your dog the next time it exhibits this strange behavior. That may require a careful study and analysis of your dog.
Is it not awesome now to follow it up by sharing the information far and wide? You will in doing so, aid the others who may also be in need of the insight you have received. Take your dog to a veterinarian as well to help you identify the issues and work on it before things get out hand.

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Ethan will appear in More Than Me - 5/15 at Joe’s Pub - Click Here For More Info.
Ethan will direct HJT’s production of Meredith Willson’s classic The Music Man - Performances begin June 26
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Directs the NY premiere of Danielle Mohlman’s Stopgap starring Annie Golden at the Snapple Theatre Center (Playbill)
Mama and Her Boys enjoys it’s second successful Off-Broadway Run (Playbill)
Appears in Ocean State Theatre Company’s production of The Diary of Anne Frank (BroadwayWorld)
Co-conceives and directs Christina Sajous’ 54Below Debut (Playbill)
Appears in Arkansas Rep’s production of The Compleat Wks of Wllm Shkspr ABRIDGED
Appears in Alhambra’s production of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps
Directs NY Reading of Brooke Ciardelli and Oscar Blustin’s new comedy Castle in the Air at the Westside Theatre
Appears in 54 Sings Kiss of the Spider Woman at 54Below (Playbill)
Appears in the title role in Elf at Arkansas Rep
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Ethan was honored to be invited to sing on the fabulous Lisa Howard's debut album Songs of Innocence and Experience.


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Limited energy is the most critical factor that restricts the persistent presence of underwater vehicles in the oceans; thus, harvesting the ocean’s thermal energy that is stored in the water column between the sea surface and deep water is a particularly promising solution for the current power shortage. This paper has designed a new ocean thermal energy conversion system which using phase change material as energy storage medium, and proposed a novel maximum efficiency point tracking (MEPT) method for energy conversion. This new method, which is integrated with a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN), particle swarm optimization (PSO) and the proportion integration differentiation (PID) control method, could effectively improve the efficiency of energy conversion. Compared with the power generation system that does not use the MEPT method, experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the efficiency of the power generation from less than 19.05% to more than 34.3% and has higher stability (using this method: the efficiency changes from 34.3%‐34.7%; without using this method: the efficiency changes from 13.56% ‐19.05%) when the load changes. This novel method can be used in many conditions, especially when the mathematical model of the generation system is unknown or researchers want to use fewer sensors for maximum efficiency point tracking.


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Oglethorpe Day is an annual event geld annually on 12 February, celebrating the anniversary of the landing of British General James Oglethorpe, near what is now known as Savannah, GA on February 12th, 1733. He named the colony Georgia in honor of England’s King George II. He served as the first governor of the new colony and was Savannah’s founder he also founded Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia.
PAUL BUNYAN DAY
Paul Bunyan day also takes place annually on 12 February. Paul Bunyan, was a giant lumberjack in American folklore. His exploits revolve around the tall tales of his superhuman labours, he often battled absurdly severe weather and fearsome critters. He is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox. The character originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers, and was later popularized by freelance writer William B. Laughead (1882–1958) in a 1916 promotional pamphlet for the Red River Lumber Company. He has been the subject of various literary compositions, musical pieces, commercial works, and theatrical productions. His likeness is displayed in several oversized statues across North America
NAACP Day takes place annually on 12 February to commemorate the founding of the The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People civil rights organization in the United States on 12 February 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey. 2019 marks the 110 year anniversary since the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The purpose of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is:
To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.” The headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of colored people are in Baltimore, Maryland, US, the current Chairman is Leon W. Russell and the President and CEO is Derrick Johnson.
The mission of the NAACP in the 21st century is “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.” National NAACP initiatives include political lobbying, publicity efforts and litigation strategies developed by its legal team. The group enlarged its mission in the late 20th century by considering issues such as police misconduct, the status of black foreign refugees and questions of economic development. Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people, referring to those with some African ancestry. The NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland bestow annual awards to people of color in two categories: Image Awards are for achievement in the arts and entertainment, and Spingarn Medals are for outstanding achievement of any kind.


Here is a look at the Toledo Mud Hens roster. Toledo is the Triple-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. The roster contains 15 former Erie SeaWolves, including Detroit’s top prospects in Nick Castellanos and Bruce Rondon.
Pitchers: Jose Alvarez, Duane Below, Casey Crosby, Kenny Faulk, Shawn Hill, Matt Hoffman, Luis Marte, Pat Misch, Jose Ortega, Luke Putkonen, Bruce Rondon, Jesse Todd, Robert Waite
Catchers: Brad Davis, Bryan Holaday
Infielders: Argenis Diaz, Jordan Lennerton, John Lindsey, Gustavo Nunez, Kevin Russo, Danny Worth
Outfielders: Quintin Berry, Nick Castellanos, Danny Dorn, Ben Guez


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4 in1 Baby Walker Rocker Formula Racing Car And Push Handle-Red
- 4 in 1 Features – including option as walker or rocker
- The option of being used as a walker or a push car with handle
- Sit, jump and play (suitable from 4-9months).
- Sit and Step (suitable for 9-24 months).
- Stand and Push along (suitable for 12-24 months).
- Fun and Play – Record your or baby voice and play to hear it
- Interactive Gear Button – Up, Down, Left and Right
- Include Racing Sound and Nursery Music
- Three adjustable height levels with security lock
- Stop falling system with 5 anti-skidding pads
- Removable musical toy with snack tray below
- Foldable for easy storage.
- Musical toy buttons – (Batteries not included)
- Base Mat is included
- Adjustable handle at the back of the walker mode position
- Keeps baby smiling and hapyy with the mic, and interactive musical sound buttons
- Suitable age : 6 months plus
- Recommended Max load capacity: 12Kg
- Tested can hold up to 14kg
- Stand and Walk Transformation is suitable for baby who can walk up to 18 months or Up depending on the baby size
- Made from sturdy materials
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