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South Alabama flat lander here curious how deer use mountainous terrain. I am used to hill county and the tactics that apply to that terrain. Do deer use mountainous terrain similarly to hill country just on a larger scale? Thanks.
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There are several threads about this starting on page 5. Very useful threads about different attributes of hunting mountains.


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|The Poppy on England jacket|
After a wave of media reportage on the issue, British Prime Minister David Cameron has also issued a scathing attack on FIFA after the world football governing body remained steadfast in its decision to prohibit the English national team from wearing poppies on their shirts for the upcoming game against Spain.
“This seems outrageous. The idea that wearing a poppy to remember those who have given their lives for our freedom is a political act is absurd. Wearing a poppy is an act of huge respect and national pride. I hope that FIFA will reconsider.”
Wow. What rhetorical nonsense. Cameron fails to see the irony of a politician playing down the political symbolism of the poppy. Downplaying politics in international sport is in itself futile, since international sport is inherently political, nations representing states and whatnot.
Wearing the poppy might be an act of respect to some, but it also glorifies war in an overtly triumphalist manner. Creating such a bluster over the manner is unneccessary and counterproductive. A cynic might say it demonstrates the obstinacy of the English FA.
Calm down lads, it’s only a poppy. You can pay your respects in other, less ostentatious ways.
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We are all aware of how balding can be a problem among the masses. Many people around us tend to face this problem, and many different aspects of life become problematic for them. Firstly they start losing their self-worth in this case. Hair is connected to our overall appearance in public places, and if it is not fine, it can impact our overall impressions. So balding is a detrimental factor here to reckon with. Secondly, balding can also lead to an overall reduction in confidence of an individual in life because he or she might feel that they are not worthy anymore.
Now you must think there should be a respite from all these things. Fortunately, there is an option here to reckon with. It is to opt for a hair transplant process as India’s overall hair transplant cost is very affordable. Many people tend to opt for this process due to the numerous benefits it offers. But there are many things that people do not know about the hair transplant process. We shall explore these here.
Understanding a hair transplant
Natural hair follicles when losing their growing capacity, and balding occurs. As we have already explored, this becomes a huge concern in the long run. So a hair transplant is a medical option to deal with this problem. It will be a permanent solution for those who opt for it on time, so they do not face the vagaries of balding. Growth of hair will be fostered naturally with the help of this procedure. The minimal side effects make it all the more appealing to the masses. You need to know many ideas about it, like how to sleep after hair transplant. So let us then discuss those now.
A permanent solution
If you research the hair transplant process, you will find that most doctors say it is a permanent solution at large. Thus it is not at all a half-hearted attempt to deal with a massive problem in this case. The solution, when properly implemented, leads to permanent hair growth, which will make you acceptable in society again. You will regain your self-worth in the process and then eliminate all the different types of insecurities that you might have felt when balding affected your life. The new-found confidence in life will greatly benefit you and propel you to thrive in your personal and professional lives. Hence it is very much recommended to opt for it.
Overall the hair transplant cost in India is very affordable. You do not need to spend much to get this process done. It is imperative to understand that such a cost framework helps many people decide soon. The more affordable a surgery, the greater the acceptance rate. Moreover, here success rates are almost cent percent. So it does not disappoint people at all. The reason they go for this surgery is fulfilled in the process. Hence many people always opt for a hair transplant when faced with the different challenges of balding.
There are minimal side effects in the case of a hair transplant process. Often many surgical processes are accompanied by their set of side effects to reckon with. Fortunately, that is not the case with a hair transplant process. There are occasional signs like reddening of the area where the process has been done. Well, this is due to blood reaching their faster and in greater amounts to improve the healing process soon. So these are some natural processes imbibed in the hair transplant procedure. Hence people need not fear at all and, without any hesitation whatsoever, must opt for this process. They will not be disappointed with the end results here.
Many people tend to wonder how to sleep after hair transplant process. So we shall discuss that now.
- Firstly use a recliner and sleep with your head reclined properly. The position is very important these days for your entire sleeping pattern. In this manner, you can keep the swelling under control.
- You should avoid tossing and turning in your bed during this time. Allow the region to heal properly at its own pace.
- Ensure that your sleeping apparatus starting from the bed to the pillows, is cleaned properly as well as regularly. Emphasizing hygiene during this time is very imperative at large.
- If possible, cover your pillow with a soft towel during this time. It will make you comfortable while sleeping as well as facilitate the overall healing process.
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Ireland Will Be Just Fine Without Allergan and Pfizerby
Corporate inversions bring little extra tax gain to Dublin
Inversions can damage nation's international reputation
Allergan Plc shareholders are the biggest losers from the U.S. crackdown on corporate inversions. Another victim is Ireland, which loses out on a tax bonanza, right? Wrong.
Pfizer Inc. and Allergan staked out the low-cost tax base on the edge of Western Europe as its new home before abandoning their mooted merger on Wednesday amid U.S. Treasury Department proposals to deter inversions. Ireland is the globe’s largest recipient of inversions by value, according to a study last year.
At first glance, the proposals look like bad news for Ireland, a certain loss of tax dollars in what remains one of the most indebted nations in the euro region. Yet, in reality, inversions tend to generate little extra revenue for Ireland, bring few jobs and can actually cost taxpayers money. Moreover, such maneuvers add to the nation’s international image as a colder, damper version of tax havens in sunnier climes.
“In relation to any transactions that may not involve real substance in terms of jobs and investment in the Irish economy, Ireland does not encourage such transactions,” the finance ministry said in response to questions on Wednesday. “The Irish government has made clear that we would welcome any changes made by the U.S. administration to address this problem.”
No Tax Windfall
Companies with assets overseas of 523 billion euros ($595 billion) were headquartered in Ireland in 2014, up from 391 billion euros in 2013, according to the country’s statistics office. Among companies that have inverted to Ireland, mostly through acquisitions, are Perrigo Co. and Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc.
Many conduct little manufacturing or service activity in Ireland, the office said, and the idea that these inversions create a tax windfall for Ireland is questionable, said Seamus Coffey, an economics lecturer at University College Cork.
The U.S. applies 35 percent tax to companies’ worldwide income. So, if Pfizer pays 20 percent to London on its U.K. profit, it owes an extra 15 percent in the U.S.
Had Pfizer shifted its tax address to Dublin, where the tax rate is 12.5 percent, it would owe nothing extra to Irish authorities on its U.K. income, Coffey said. So Pfizer would have reduced its tax bill, the U.S. would have lost out and Ireland would have gained nothing.
The small positive impact the country might have had in terms of more business generated for local accounting firms or additional traffic at its airports from executives flying in for board meetings is outweighed by the harm such transactions do.
Inversions carry two downsides for the country. First, there is the damage to Ireland’s reputation. Senator John McCain has labeled Ireland a tax haven, while Donald Trump called the plan to base the combined Pfizer and Allergan in the country “disgusting.” European antitrust officials are already probing Apple Inc. ’s tax dealings in Ireland.
Second, tax inversions artificially inflate the size of Ireland’s economy. When the headquarters of a group of companies becomes resident in Ireland, all of its global profits may be counted as part of the nation’s gross national income, the finance ministry said.
Since 2008, corporate relocations, without accompanying substance or employment have boosted Ireland’s Gross National Income by about 7 billion euros , the ministry said. This in turn drives up the nation’s contribution to the European Union budget, which is based on the size of the economy.
Halting inversions may create a truer picture of the Irish economy, said Coffey, who carried out a study on effective corporation tax rates for the finance ministry in 2014.
“Inversions represent a reputational risk, sometimes for very little tax gain and at the cost of higher contributions to the EU,” said Coffey. Curbing inversions is “not negative in any serious way for us.”


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(KGTV) — An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy in the care of U.S. Customs and Border Protection died shortly after midnight Tuesday in New Mexico, officials say.
The child was in CBP custody when an agent noticed him showing signs of illness Monday. The child and his father were transferred to Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in New Mexico, where staff diagnosed the boy with a common cold and fever.
The boy was released with prescriptions for Ibuprofen and amoxicillin later that day, officials said.
Monday night, officials said the boy began vomiting and was taken back to the medical center, where officials say he died shortly after midnight Tuesday. The cause of the child's death is not known and officials did not release his identity.
CBP officials said in a release that a review will be conducted, as is procedure, and the Guatemalan government has been notified. Officials said more information would be released shortly.
The boy's death is the second death of a child in CBP care this month.
Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7, died on Dec. 8, less than 48 hours after Border Patrol agents detained her and more than 100 other migrants at a remote New Mexico border crossing.


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Illustrated by Pete Von Sholly
Introduction by S.T.
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Rajasthan becomes first to pass titling law
Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to pass a legislation that provides statutory backing to land records, thereby, providing a guarantee to land and property ownership. The Vasundra Raj-led BJP government in Rajasthan passed the Rajasthan Urban Land (Certification Of Titles) Bill, 2016 through a voice vote. The legislation will improve transparency in land dealings and enhance the confidence of landowners.
The current scenario
A land title is an official record of who owns a piece of land. India does not guarantee land titles. The proof of transactions between the buyer and the seller or the property tax receipt are the only proof of land ownership. This often leads to a large number of litigations, thereby, blocking the land and affecting housing, development, and industrial projects.
Titling reform to accelerate industrial development
By providing statutory backing to land records the law will reduce litigations over land and smoothen the process of land acquisition. It will accelerate industrial development and is both consumer and industry friendly, and at the same time empowers the small and marginal farmers by providing security of land ownership. The bill, like the Rajasthan labour reforms, may set a precedent for other states.
Opposition slams land reforms
The opposition Congress party has tagged the land reforms as pro-rich and pro-corporate which will lead to an increase in land prices and corruption.
Land Pooling Bill to improve land use
Rajasthan government also passed the Rajasthan Land Pooling Schemes Bill which will help consolidate small land holdings and will complement the Special Investment Regions (SIR) Bill. Land holdings in Rajasthan are small and irregular, which hinders economic development. The land pooling bill aims to correct this by consolidating the land and providing the land-owners with an equivalent share of the developed land.
Special investment regions bill
The Special Investment Regions (SIR) Bill which replaces the Rajasthan Industrial Area Development Authority Act, 1995, provides impetus to the economic sectors in the state by setting large investment regions.
Land reforms to push economic development
The land reforms come at a time when Rajasthan government in Nov'15 had invited investment proposals worth Rs.3.2 lakh crores during the Resurgent Rajasthan summit. Further, they will complement the central government schemes such as the smart cities project and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and housing for all. The reforms will facilitate urbanisation and industrialisation of the state.


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Cresta Bella, a master-planned community in Northwest San Antonio, will be the site of the 2010 Parade of Homes. The parade will begin on Sept. 4 and run through September. A landmark event of the Greater San Antonio Builders Association (GSABA), the Parade of Homes nets an average of 20,000 to 30,000 guests each year.
Cresta Bella spans a total of 426 acres along the west side of Interstate Highway 10 and Camp Bullis Road, in Northwest San Antonio.
“Cresta Bella is a fabulous neighborhood,” says GSABA Executive Director Becky Oliver of this year’s parade site.
“The views go on forever,” adds Deborah Bauer, owner and president of locally based real estate firm Drake Commercial Group. Deborah and her son Travis, who also serves as the vice president of Drake, are marketing the Cresta Bella development.
There are eight homes to be highlighted at Cresta Bella, notes Oliver. One home will be featured in the Villas at Cresta Bella, which is priced from the $300,000s; two in the Enclave at Cresta Bella, where homes start at the mid $400,000s; and another five homes will be featured in the most exclusive area of the community: The Reserve at Cresta Bella, where prices start in the $1 million range. All five of those homes have already been sold, Bauer notes.
Five local builders created homes in The Reserve: Uptmore Custom Homes, Mike Hollaway Custom Homes, Stadler Custom Homes, L. Nunez Signature Homes and Matter & FitzGerald Custom Homes.
All told, about 242 acres of the 426 that make up Cresta Bella has been dedicated to residential development — including a new high-end multifamily community. Bauer is marketing the remaining 184 acres for commercial development. Entities being targeted include high-quality medical and retail projects and office users, she adds.
For more information on the Parade of Homes, log on to www.sabuilders.com.
— Tricia Lynn Silva
Brighton Center campaign
Brighton Center (www.brightonsa.org), that serves children with developmental disabilities, has raised more than $4,600 with its Quarters for Kids campaign.
The campaign was designed to help support its programs and to provide funding for attendance to its child development center called Bright Beginnings.
At the beginning of the campaign (on June 1), the center passed out 100 coin banks and left donation boxes at 10 area companies.
To supplement the campaign, it also held fundraisers at local restaurants: Orderup, Fuddruckers and Fish City Grill.
The initial goal was to raise around $2,500.
— Tamarind Phinisee

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Jun 4, 2012
Jimmy Durante was born in New York City in 1893, and he played
ragtime piano in honky-tonks when he was still in junior
His 1934 record Inka Dinka Doo propelled him to national prominence, and he was a radio regular from then on.
He got his own radio show in 1943, and this episode, from October 29, 1947, featured guest star Lucille Ball.
P.S. The Petrillo joke at the beginning of the show refers to the musicians union boss who forbid union musicians to record music in the mid-1940s (in a bid for higher royalties for musicians).


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Residents of a village in East Java’s Situbondo regency were caught on film destroying the coffin of a deceased COVID-19 patient, the video of which has widely circulated in Indonesia.
The clip showed dozens of villagers crashing the coffin onto the ground and smashing it with logs and other tools. People widely assumed to be family members of the deceased can be heard crying in another clip, with one of them fainting and later seen carried away by the villagers.
“We have actually held them back and forbade the villagers from opening the coffin. But because there were so many people, the incident couldn’t be stopped,” Budiono, who heads the COVID-19 task force in Panji district, said today.
An unidentified village resident told local media outlets that the incident was sparked by the family of the deceased and some residents of the village wanting to ensure that the body was bathed according to Islamic funeral rites. According to reports, they were troubled by rumors claiming that deceased COVID-19 patients were wrapped with a shroud while still clothed as they were at the time of their death before they were placed inside the coffin.
The people involved then forcibly seized the coffin, removed the body and opened the shroud, before bathing it again and conducting a funeral prayer.
Agus Widodo, who heads Situbondo Police’s Crime Investigation Unit, said they will start to question witnesses, including the people in charge of the funeral and the deceased’s family members. Under Indonesian law, suspects in the case could potentially be charged with violation of articles on hindering the implementation of epidemic control and threatening violence against officials on duty. They carry a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison.
Additionally, Situbondo COVID-19 Task Force Chief Dadang Bintoro has since refuted the rumor, saying that the handling of all deceased COVID-19 patients have been carried out in accordance with standard operating procedures and religious laws.
This incident adds to a long list of people going against the law by forcibly taking their loved ones who succumbed to COVID-19 from authorities and holding funeral processions on their own without health protocols.
Last weekend, a similar incident occurred in Bondowoso regency, East Java where dozens of people burned the coffin after burying the deceased on their own. Residents were reportedly triggered by a hoax about body parts and organs being taken from COVID-19 patients for medical purposes without prior consent.


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“Before focusing on Smart City project, the government should first focus on mitigating the drinking problems of people. Women in villages need money for their basic survival,” Thackeray said while addressing a gathering in Jalgaon. Shiv Sena is the partner in both the government at the Centre and in Maharashtra. Referring to the incident where a 16-year-old daughter of a farmer in drought-hit Latur district of Marathwada allegedly committed suicide by consuming pesticide as her debt-pressed parents could not buy her a monthly state transport ‘bus pass’ to commute to college, Thackeray said that a minister who has no time to listen to the woes of the people, has no place in his party.
He further said that his party is focusing on improving the conditions of farmers in the state and that it will live up to the aspirations of the people. “A minister who has no time to listen to the problems of people has no place in the Sena. We do not oppose the government for the sake of opposing but have the courage to oppose what is not beneficial for people. We will live up to the expectations of people,” the Sena chief said.

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uniqFEED Partners With ESporsa Group to Enhance Virtual Advertising Offering in the Middle East
uniqFEED and sports marketing agency ESporsa, based in the United Arab Emirates, announce their partnership to extend the provision of virtual advertising technology in the Middle East.
The agreement sees ESporsa become a sales and marketing partner of uniqFEED, promoting uniqFEED’s software-based virtual advertising solution to potential customers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.
ESporsa is a full-service agency that provides marketing solutions for sports rights holders, brands, media platforms and fans, including advisory in the areas of marketing, business strategy and planning, as well as marketing and partnership activations. ESporsa is now including virtual advertising services as part of its solution portfolio, to enhance its offering to sports rights holders in the region.
uniqFEED’s virtual advertising solution, AdApt, has already been deployed commercially around the world; in Europe, North America and Asia, and this partnership will provide the company with a footprint in the Middle East.
uniqFEED’s Tom Huston says the following about the partnership:
“We are delighted to be partnering with ESporsa. As we continue to develop more virtual advertising solutions for different sports, and with the release of our full football solution earlier this year, it is more important than ever that we increase our presence globally and promote virtual advertising within new markets. ESporsa is the perfect partner to elevate our solution within the Middle East, with its wide network of trusted clients and knowledge of the industry across the region.”
With over 30 years of experience, ESporsa is ideally placed to advise rights holders, brands and sponsors looking to capitalize on the value offered by technologies like virtual advertising. ESporsa’s CEO Chucri Rizk states:
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There are emerging revenue opportunities in Middle Eastern sports for leagues, teams, and federations who are able to communicate with their supporters using the interactive features of virtual advertising. For sponsors, advertisers and rights holders, using this technology for live sports broadcasts and reaching fans has become easier and more effective. Our goal is to boost sports revenue by revamping fundamental sponsorship models that have been mostly unchanged for a long time.”


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June 21st, 2002
|05:23 pm - Travelling Blind|
My parents took us to the boundary waters. We had made arrangements with a good outfitter, so all we needed to bring was clothing.
The boundary waters are very cool. I knew little about them, so I'll regurgitate what I know, although there is probably a better description in the search link above. The boundary waters are a regulated preserve of wilderness, stretching from Northern Minnesota into Canada. It is comprised of over 1000 lakes, mostly interconnected. Regulations cover the basics: permits required to go in, with very limited numbers of entrances and entrance traffic. There are no motors permitted. And you must "leave no trace".
We had two canoes (four people, five bags (~30-60 lbs each)) and we went for three days, two nights, and about 15 miles (upstream). There were about 12 "portages": places where we had to land, and trek out bags and canoes across land rather than rapids, that ranged in length from five to eighty rods. A rod is approximately 16.5 feet. There were a lot of large flies on land (clocking out around 8pm to be relieved by mosquitos), such that morning and portage activities were minimized.
My father stepped on my glasses the second afternoon. This meant that the third day of canoeing (I'm generally in the rear of the canoe, "driving") was interesting. I saw an Impression-ist view of the wilderness. My glasses were patched back in civilization, though I'll have to get new ones soon. These now have a nice eccentric style (one of the ear bits is from a completely different style of glasses) that I kind of like... but they are not quite right and cause mild eyestrain -- and have some pretty neat scratches.
It was very nice to be 10-20 miles from the nearest source of the electric grid or car. Very quiet, except for the loons. Lots of wild life observed. A complete and total disconnect. It seems like I keep arriving in these situations when I am least overwhelmed by modern society (Vermont, etc). It is when the computers scare me that I want to run away -- and that can not be scheduled.
Perhaps, with a car and a flexible job, it will be. I could just hop in the car and hide in VT.
Neat idea. If you would like help planning something, lemme know.
Are you thinking car camping, or somewhere you have to hike into?
Or in conjucnction with an activity like canoeing?
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Of course I would. I dunno -- probably not canoe, as that adds a bit much to the logistics (and cost). Probably keep it simple and car-based... concentration on good friends/good times, not the wilderness. I know you do this *alot*... but most of us don't. And I think it would be nice to keep it simple.
Simple is good.
I miss the smell of campfires.


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It was actually journalist Ella Winter — not native North Carolina son Thomas Wolfe — who said we can’t go home again. Wolfe, it has been written, was so enamored with Winter’s turn of the …
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It was actually journalist Ella Winter — not native North Carolina son Thomas Wolfe — who said we can’t go home again. Wolfe, it has been written, was so enamored with Winter’s turn of the phrase in a conversation the two had that he asked Winter, a British-Australian author and activist, for permission to use it as the title of a book he was writing.
“You Can’t Go Home Again,” that book, was published posthumously in 1940, nearly two years after Wolfe died from tuberculosis and after heavy editing by Wolfe’s editor from a longer, unpublished manuscript. I’ve not read it, but like me, if you’ve lived in more than one place, you’re probably familiar with the words and likely explored what Wolfe may have meant when he wrote them.
That was on my mind during a quick two-night visit to Kansas this past weekend. My wife Lee Ann and I flew to spend time with Darrell Spain, one of my best friends, and go to a concert (Riders in the Sky, performing with the Quebe Sisters in a beautifully-restored old theater in downtown Salina) with him and visit other friends in Darrell’s hometown of Waterville and my old hometown of Blue Rapids, four miles down the road, in northeast Kansas.
By my count, this was my eighth trip back to Kansas in the last 40 months. I’m no stranger to “going home.” Each visit, though, there are the curious simultaneous sensations of the old and the unfamiliar. It really is like déjà vu all over again — driving past the vacant lot where the mobile home in which we lived once stood, the old house we subsequently moved into, my high school, the golf course where I learned the game I came to love, my first girlfriend’s house, our unusual round “town square,” the mill, the abandoned “Daisy Cream” burger joint where entertainer Red Skelton once ate, and more.
The best word I can think of to describe the feeling of being “back home” is surreal. And even surreal doesn’t come close to capturing it.
My life is delineated by two major events: first, my parents’ divorce and our (my mom, my older sister Belinda and me) subsequent move from Sanford to Kansas when I was an 8-year-old in 1972; and second, my graduation from college in Kansas and my move back to Sanford when I was 21. It was during those 13 in-between years in Kansas that I grew up, and since I remember curiously little about my life before that first move, the memories from those days in the Sunflower State are at the same time brilliantly intense and foggily dreamlike —like scenes from a movie I saw a long time ago, and liked, but not real life.
Ultimately, when I go, I always ask myself: Did I really live here, in this tiny farming community where there’s just a single stoplight within a 30-mile radius? Did those thousand vivid recollections really happen, or did I imagine it all?
The flood of memories isn’t so overwhelming, nor are the emotions. What’s so palpable is the weird nostalgia and the disbelief, the odd connection/disconnection that tugs unsatisfyingly on my psyche when I’m there. There’s the elation of being back home and a strange sadness that emanates from a source I can’t quite pinpoint.
Ours was a whirlwind trip, about 50 “feet on the ground” hours in total. And in those hours, I had only about 30 minutes to myself. On Friday afternoon, we’d returned to our dear friends Terre and Bev Carter’s house, where we always stay in Blue Rapids (they live across the street from the elementary school I attended for three years) from short visits in two nearby towns. While Lee Ann was napping, I drove our rental car out to Irving, a ghost town whose 101-year history came to a close with a forced government relocation of its inhabitants back in 1960. It’s famous — and I’ve written here about it before — for being struck by two tornadoes hours apart on May 30, 1879.
There’s not much there now except a large stone marker on a small grassy lot with “IRVING” emblazoned on it and a mailbox with a spiral notebook inside where tornado chasers, the curious and other visitors come to scrawl their names and impressions. A six-mile drive down a gravel road got me there. It was sunny and gorgeous out, and after arriving I stood there, just listening.
Six miles out in the country, under a yawning blue sky in rural post-harvest Kansas, there’s a deeper level of quiet than you can imagine. You have to not hear it to believe it.
For a minute or two, I drank in the beauty and the solitude. Earlier in our visit, Darrell had kidded me about my yearly summer trips from Kansas to North Carolina back in those days, visits which allowed me to see my dad, work at The Sanford Herald and, in Darrell’s words, “recharge your Southern accent.” Now I stood in old Irving and got another kind of charge, a refilling of crisp Kansas air mixed with familiar melancholy.
Suddenly, in the midst of my existential processing, my cellphone rang. It was my daughter, Karis, calling just to chat.
We talked all the way back to town, her call reminding me where my heart is.
Dorothy, who was whisked from Kansas to Oz by a tornado, said it: There’s no place like home.
Some of us are lucky enough to have two of them.


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Rituximab versus cyclophosphamide in ANCA-associated renal vasculitis.
Jones RB., Tervaert JWC., Hauser T., Luqmani R., Morgan MD., Peh CA., Savage CO., Segelmark M., Tesar V., van Paassen P., Walsh D., Walsh M., Westman K., Jayne DRW., European Vasculitis Study Group None.
BACKGROUND: Cyclophosphamide induction regimens for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis are effective in 70 to 90% of patients, but they are associated with high rates of death and adverse events. Treatment with rituximab has led to remission rates of 80 to 90% among patients with refractory ANCA-associated vasculitis and may be safer than cyclophosphamide regimens. METHODS: We compared rituximab with cyclophosphamide as induction therapy in ANCA-associated vasculitis. We randomly assigned, in a 3:1 ratio, 44 patients with newly diagnosed ANCA-associated vasculitis and renal involvement to a standard glucocorticoid regimen plus either rituximab at a dose of 375 mg per square meter of body-surface area per week for 4 weeks, with two intravenous cyclophosphamide pulses (33 patients, the rituximab group), or intravenous cyclophosphamide for 3 to 6 months followed by azathioprine (11 patients, the control group). Primary end points were sustained remission rates at 12 months and severe adverse events. RESULTS: The median age was 68 years, and the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was 18 ml per minute per 1.73 m(2) of body-surface area. A total of 25 patients in the rituximab group (76%) and 9 patients in the control group (82%) had a sustained remission (P=0.68). Severe adverse events occurred in 14 patients in the rituximab group (42%) and 4 patients in the control group (36%) (P=0.77). Six of the 33 patients in the rituximab group (18%) and 2 of the 11 patients in the control group (18%) died (P=1.00). The median increase in the GFR between 0 and 12 months was 19 ml per minute in the rituximab group and 15 ml per minute in the control group (P=0.14). CONCLUSIONS: A rituximab-based regimen was not superior to standard intravenous cyclophosphamide for severe ANCA-associated vasculitis. Sustained-remission rates were high in both groups, and the rituximab-based regimen was not associated with reductions in early severe adverse events. (Funded by Cambridge University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust and F. Hoffmann-La Roche; Current Controlled Trials number, ISRCTN28528813.)


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It’s time to ask, now that the IPO attempt failed and the CEO has been deposed: Does anyone still believe that WeWork is really a “tech company”? Please. Point to any technology that the company invented.
Of course WeWork used modern digital technology to operate its business. And it proudly marketed to and housed many companies that were in fact “tech.” Yes, the investors from SoftBank to Goldman put the company in their tech ‘bucket’. And WeWork’s (now former) flamboyant chief certainly epitomized the new cool of a t-shirt-wearing ‘tech’ CEO whose attire and style screams “I’m not a ‘suit’.”
But it stretches credulity to label a commercial real estate business as a tech company. There is in fact a conga line of similarly mislabeled ‘tech’ companies on the lists of “unicorns” (private companies worth over a billion dollars) awaiting an IPO.
If clever design, well-executed services and slick marketing gambits targeting Millennial office-space renters constitutes “tech,” then what’s next? Pig farming? Well….
It turns out the second biggest digital gaming company in China (think Nintendo) is building a huge pig farm, and they’re not alone. Given the demand for pork in China, a tech company can certainly bring to bear the power of analytics including artificial intelligence to make raising pigs “more efficient.” But it’s still a livestock farm that sends swine to the slaughterhouse. One could say the same about, say, office rentals, ride-hailing or food delivery, or banking.
Of course the idea that is inherent in the frenzied naming of anything and everything as either “tech” or “digital” or “e-something” is, at some level, a reasonable proposition: those companies that are skilled in using modern digital tools can have a real market advantage over the sloths who don’t. So the word “tech” is short form for signaling digital skills to customers and investors. But at some point the Internet and computing become so ubiquitous as to render that a distinction without a difference.
There was a time when a company using the magic of electricity to power its factories had enormous advantage over its belt-and-steam competitors. It’s electric! Before long, however, electricity (at least in our economy) became as ubiquitous as water. Or, similarly, in the early days of the automobile era more than four hundred companies appeared – and in due course, disappeared or were acquired – that built cars. They were the tech companies of that day. But the new business that the automobile enabled – from drive-in movies and restaurants, to the invention of the suburbs – didn’t inspire theater companies, paving contractors and homebuilders of that day to call themselves “car” companies.
Words matter because, until mind reading is practical, it’s one of just two ways we have for conveying ideas. (The other: pictures.) Radically new technologies appropriately inspire excitement precisely because of their power to change things. Intel is a tech company. They invented the microprocessor.
It was useful for the more innovative retail, real estate, farming and banking companies to use the “tech” label in the early days. Up to a point. But does the WeWork collapse signal we’ve finally “jumped the shark” with the tech label?
Digital tools are now ubiquitous, accessible nearly everywhere, at any time. Supercomputing is inexpensive and “elastic,” i.e., easy to purchase at any scale by-the-drink. The theory up until now is that some people – usually part of the Millennial generation – are just better at recognizing and using digital stuff because they grew up with it. That theory is a new version of the old adage that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Except you can. Especially as the tricks become ever easier to learn.
The real advantage for many Silicon Valley firms -- “tech” companies -- is their access to oodles of money, not so much technology. And that’s a huge advantage. But access to that capital depends on investors’ faith that tech firms’ familiarity with the magic of digital tools gives them enormous advantages in capturing market share in all the old stuff that comprises 90% of the economy, from selling pizzas to office space rentals. So far, that faith remains intact. But when investors conclude that engineers have finally made digital tools so easy to use that no special skills are required – say, like driving a car – then the game changes. We are almost there.
The advantage the “digital natives” (companies and people who have grown up with tech) have over “digital immigrants” (older firms and people who merely adopt it) is a familiar trope for tech cognoscenti: just Google it. But those advantages eventually evaporate with technology’s inevitable progression. Indeed, it is possible that the advantages reverse.
When access to intuitively easy-to-use digital tools becomes ubiquitous, the defining advantages of a business increasingly revert to understanding the immutable factors that constrain all things, from the laws of human behavior to those of physics.
The point? It’s not that the digital infrastructure isn’t a big deal. It is a huge deal precisely because the power that it unleashes to improve any all kinds of activities is becoming available to everyone. Such grand transformations of critical infrastructures have happened before, but not often: water, roads, fuel, electricity and telephony.
Why does it matter whether investors and policymakers fail to distinguish between quotidian business activities and genuinely revolutionary “tech” companies? Sloppy thinking not only devalues the concept of “revolutionary” but also makes it difficult to identify those inventions and companies that truly comprise the leading edge of the next disruption.
While there are still plenty of Silicon Valley firms that deserve the “tech” label, from Amazon (which almost single-handedly invented cloud computing) to chip-maker Nvidia, the hard truth for many Silicon Valley firms is that they are now no more “revolutionary” or “tech” than is any old-school technology-centric company like Baker Hughes, GM or Caterpillar.
Where might the next tech disruption lay? One example, despite early hype that has since abated, is the imminent maturation of truly useful robots.
With companies like the well-known Boston Dynamics (bots for construction sites) and the lesser known Houston Mechatronics (bots for the subsea), we are on cusp of having robots that will, just as mainframe computers did, find applications in business and industrial environments. If patterns hold, that too will be followed by the age of personal robots. It won’t matter if that revolution is pioneered by CEOs wearing suits or t-shirts, the impacts will be obvious and the “tech” label deserved. <>


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The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was developed to assess symptomatology in inpatients with schizophrenia. We examined its reliability and validity among outpatients with schizophrenia (N = 75) and mood disorders (N = 61). Because the hypothesized three-scale structure of the PANSS has not been supported by existing research, we also examined its factor structure. Interrater reliability for individual items and the positive and negative scales was demonstrated. Evidence supported the internal consistency of each scale in the overall sample and the schizophrenia group but was mixed among those with mood disorders. PANSS scores were higher in the schizophrenia group. These scores, in turn, were lower than those generally reported among inpatients with schizophrenia, providing known-groups validity evidence. Four of five factors were similar to those reported among inpatients with schizophrenia. Together, these results support the use of the PANSS among outpatients and reinforce existing support for assessing positive and negative symptoms in mood disorders.
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David Byrne, who began his American Utopia arena tour of the UK and Ireland at the First Direct Arena in Leeds last night, was a guest on BBC Newsnight on BBC Two last Friday. He spoke with Kirsty Wark about the American Utopia album and tour, the forthcoming release of the complete True Stories soundtrack ("the soundtrack to me is as I imagined it in my dreams"), and his work with St. Vincent and his collaboration with Fatboy Slim on the musical Here Lies Love. You can watch the interview below.
"We owe it to an audience to give them something more than just get up there and regurgitate the songs," Byrne tells Wark of the American Utopia tour. And of the album track "Everybody's Coming To My House," he says: "It's a kind of welcoming song—about inclusiveness, welcoming people in—and it seem like a time when that kind of inclusiveness instead of division is something that's kind of needed. We kind of represent that onstage by the sheer diversity and size of the band. We're a small town, a small community on our own."
And of his work with other artists, he says: "I love collaborating ... It gets me out of myself. It lets me see how another person works. It's a challenge. And sometime when it really works, one plus one equals three, you really get something better than the sum of its parts. You end up with something you never would have come up with on your own."
He also strongly encourages voters in the United States to turn out for the upcoming midterm elections on November 6!
The American Utopia tour continues at Hydro in Glasgow tonight. For details and tickets, see below or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. "Byrne’s brilliant and endlessly inventive current live show certainly indicates an artist at the peak of his creative powers as he enters his fifth decade in music," said the Yorkshire Evening Post of last night's tour-launching performance in Leeds. "Byrne and his exceptional cast of collaborators are surely redefining the possibilities of what an arena concert can be. And we are all the better for that."
To pick up a copy of the album American Utopia, head to your local music store, iTunes, Amazon, and the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout. You can also listen to the album on Spotify and Apple Music.
DAVID BYRNE ON TOUR
Oct 22 Hydro* Glasgow, UK
Oct 24 3Arena* Dublin, IRELAND
Oct 27 Motorpoint Arena* Cardiff, UK
Oct 29 O2 Arena* London, UK
Oct 30 Brighton Centre* - Sold Out Brighton, UK
Nov 1 Motorpoint Arena Nottingham* Nottingham, UK
Nov 2 Manchester Arena* Manchester, UK
Nov 4 AFAS Live - Sold Out Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Nov 5 Zénith Paris, FRANCE
Nov 10 Clockenflap Festival Hong Kong, CHINA
Nov 13 TBS Bank Arena** - Sold Out Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Nov 15 Horncastle Arena** Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND
Nov 17 Spark Arena** Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Nov 20 ICC Sydney Theatre Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Nov 21 Convention Centre Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA
Nov 24 Margaret Court Arena - Sold Out Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Nov 25 AEC Theatre Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
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Milk's leap toward immortality
I've been toying with the idea of trying a cheese a week. I don't know a whole lot about different types of cheese, so I figured this would be a good way to try a variety of things and keep track of my likes and dislikes.
What you see here is a sheep and cow's milk camembert from Old Chatham Sheepherding Company in Old Chatham, New York. For now, my cheese vocabulary is lacking. I'll have to read up on some other cheese reviews to see what the best way to describe common cheese characteristics is. I know that this is a "soft-ripened camembert-style cheese." It was quite soft, even right out of the fridge. The texture was smooth, and there was only a slight tang, almost like buttermilk, but with a more aged or developed depth to it. Once it softened up to room temperature, the texture was more like clotted cream (surprise). Overall, a pleasant cheese. More tasting notes to follow, hopefully.
On another cheese-related note, I picked up some Junket rennet tablets so that I might try some cheesemaking at home. Have a look at what this guy is doing.


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After a very confusing few months of oh-they-might-be-dating and actually-wait-they-broke-up, it looks like Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin might actually be a thing. Meaning we have permission to start using their ingenious couple name Martin Lawrence. We made it up. A sneaky fan who clearly does not care for people’s privacy spotted Jennifer and Chris eating some sushi in Studio City, and took a quick snap. He then posted it to Tumblr, where it spread all over the internet. Here it is in all of its actual photographic evidence glory:. Either way, despite their unexpected food choice, it’s clear that Jennifer and Chris are firmly back ON. Or just chatting as friends.
Chris Martin is still texting Jennifer Lawrence despite new relationship with Annabelle
By Kayla Caldwell for MailOnline. That same day the year-old musician was seen by himself looking contemplative as he walked through a parking lot in Los Angeles. Scroll down for video. Is it back on? Keeping it under wraps: The year-old Hunger Games star, pictured in mid October, was seen visiting Chris’ Malibu house after Halloween, according to a source.
And the source said that despite rumors, Jennifer, 24, is not worried about Chris’s relationship with his ex Gwyneth Paltrow,
Jennifer Lawrence isn’t shy about opening up about her past relationships. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has a long and meaningful history she’s still a celebrity, which can make the dating game all the more complex.
And a couple who officially broke up , Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin are still seeing a lot of each other. On Oct. She returned three nights later, on Thursday. Since their romance began this summer, she dating often gone the extra mile to meet Martin on turf. If you have opted in for our browser push notifications, and you would like to opt-out, please refer to the following instructions depending on your device and browser.
For turning notifications are or off are Google click the following article and Android click here , for Firefox click here , for Safari click here and for Microsoft’s Jennifer click here. Image zoom. Want more stories martin this? Sign chris for our newsletter and other special offers: By Michelle Tauber michelletauber.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Dating History: Chris Martin, Nicholas Hoult, Cooke Maroney and More!
If Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin have split up, they are staying on friendly terms. On the same day that sources confirmed the couple had gone their separate ways — 27 October — Jennifer was seen visiting Chris’ Malibu home for several hours. And she’s been back since.
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin have enjoyed another hot date, Let’s not forget that Chris is still technically married to ex Gwyneth.
News confirmed Wednesday that the year-old Oscar winner and year-old mother! The exes mingled at the Governors Awards in L. Lawrence began dating the auteur in the fall of , after sparks flew on the set of Paramount’s mother! As the actress recently revealed in The Hollywood Reporter ‘s “Awards Chatter” podcast, she actually ” had a crush on him ” a year before they started rehearsing for the psychological horror film.
We just kind of formed a friendship. He knew how I felt; he never told me how he felt. I mean, I assumed,” she said. By the time filming ended, Lawrence said, “I was like, ‘Alright, you’re my boyfriend. Lawrence had long admired Aronofsky’s work, but even she had concerns about the polarizing film. News’ Catt Sadler in September That’s why I’ve always wanted to work with him.
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin went on a sushi date
Makes no bones about it: This Hollywood A-lister is as honest as they come. Jennifer Lawrence fell in love with Darren Aronofsky quickly. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has a long and meaningful history with ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow. Five months after Paltrow filed for divorce, Martin started seeing Lawrence in August The final straw? Well, Martin wanted to be free to have time with his family, of which Lawrence was very understanding.
Chris Martin and Jennifer Lawrence have been spotted together for the And by “together” we mean “in the same room”, but that’s definitely still.
Sorry, don’t believe this one. You could feasibly count the amount of red carpets Chris Martin has tread upon during his marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow More importantly, do they really think we’d believe that?! The year-old reportedly split with the Oscar-winning actress last month , but it now appears their romance may be back on, with the Coldplay singer set to attend the event in London – “although he will not appear on the red carpet.
So there’s no way of knowing whether he’s going to be there or not, but the film gets a mention anyway. A source close to the situation says Chris will do his “usual, fly-under-the-radar thing that he used to do with Gwyneth Paltrow. The source told MailOnline : “They’ve mostly been holed up stop at Chris’ house, and there were rumors that they were at one of Jen’s regular haunts, Chateau Marmont , earlier in the week. Jennifer hasn’t been talking about it – she’s been uncharacteristically quiet about the whole thing.
Chris is meant to be going with her to London to the Hunger Games world premiere. But he won’t make a public appearance. What breakup?! JenniferLawrence visits ChrisMartin for the second time in three days!
Here’s the Real Reason Why Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin Split
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is apparently still in contact with his ex Jennifer Lawrence, despite now dating Annabelle Wallis. Since splitting with his former wife Gwyneth Paltrow in March , in a move they dubbed “conscious uncoupling”, Chris has barely been seen without a lady on his arm. The year-old was linked to Hunger Games star Jennifer, 25, on and off for a year until August Since then he’s been spotted getting friendly with Peaky Blinders star Annabelle.
However, sources close to the rocker say the things that plagued his romance with Jennifer are still present. Now he’s with someone new it’s as if history is repeating itself, and he keeps checking in with Jen.
Chris Martin is still “crazy” about ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence and hopes to But friends believe the pair, who first started dating last August, could rekindle.
Search Search. Menu Sections. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is apparently still in contact with his ex Jennifer Lawrence, despite now dating Annabelle Wallis. S ince splitting with his former wife Gwyneth in March , in a move they dubbed “conscious uncoupling”, Chris has barely been seen without a lady on his arm. The year-old was linked to Hunger Games star Jennifer, 25, on and off for a year until August.
Since then he’s been spotted getting friendly with Peaky Blinders star Annabelle. However, sources close to the rocker say the things that plagued his romance with Jennifer are still present. Now he’s with someone new it’s as if history is repeating itself, and he keeps checking in with Jen. Privately, she’s told friends that he seems to have a problem gaining closure from relationships.
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin Reportedly Dating
By Emily Smith. We are told Jennifer, who turned 24 on Friday, and Chris, 37, have known each other for a while, but started seeing each other in recent weeks. They spent a lot of time together. News that the couple was dating was first reported by E!
The Academy Award winning actor started dating shortly after she split from her longtime boyfriend, actor Nicholas Hoult. Martin and his wife of 10 years.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Best Looks. Jennifer actress dating to the magazine months after her split chris Chris Martin. She secretly began dating the Coldplay musician in July , months lawrence his ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow filed for divorce as part of their ” conscious uncoupling. Martin at the time, ” Gwyneth is very still for Still, still he lawrence moved on martin found someone else.
Their split has been remarkably amiable and they both just want the best for one another. I respect him as the father of my children…[and] chris wouldn’t be with someone who isn’t great. After four months of dating, Still and Martin broke up in October. They rekindled the flame in December and continued to see each other until August. During their time together, they never walked a still carpet chris, nor did they ever discuss dating relationship. He’s crazy about Chris but wants to keep his own schedule dating be able to do what he wants when he wants to lawrence it,” a Jennifer source told People.
However, a Lawrence pal insisted that the actress was all in: ” She was tired of him being so noncommittal. Similar to are happened with Aronofsky, Lawrence’s first high-profile romance began on set. Dating they became world famous actors—Lawrence arguably and so than Hoult—they tried their best to stay grounded. Enjoy the good times, but don’t get swept away with it.
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If you signed off the Internet early this past Friday and were off sipping some fruity cocktail and enjoying the waning days of summer, you may have missed E! Coldplay and your celebrity best friend are a couple. Was that report an incentive for Team Chris Martin to comply here? Interestingly, this is E! There are no other additional details nor does any other site have a denial.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is apparently still in contact with his ex Jennifer Lawrence, despite now dating Annabelle Wallis.
Fill out the form below, or call us at Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence is engaged to boyfriend Cooke Maroney , so what a perfect moment to look back at the lost loves of The Hunger Games star. It is time to chronicle those who came before Maroney. Lawrence has been in the public eye for years now. Send us scoop form close button. Input your name. Input your email. Input your phone number. Enter scoop message here.
Who’s romanced the Mockingjay? The two got pretty serious quickly, but they split for a brief period in the middle of their romantic run. So, Lawrence and Hoult dated continually from to , broke up briefly, then got back together. But the two seem to have parted ways on good terms, and they were seen having a nice chat at the Golden Globes, as reported by PopSugar. During an appearance on the Andy Cohen hosted Watch What Happens Live when she was promoting The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 , she admitted to the talk show host that she and her costar had locked lips on more than one occasion while shooting the film series.
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin’s relationship still going strong!
By Joanna Crawley For Mailonline. They’ve been enjoying a hot new romance on and off for the past year. But according to sources speaking to People , Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin have called time on their rocky romance yet again. The Coldplay singer and Hunger Games actress have reportedly been trying to make their relationship work, but Jennifer has allegedly grown tired of the soon-to-be divorced dad’s refusal to commit.
Scroll down for video. Chris, 38, and Jennifer, who turned 25 this month, were first linked last summer but multiple sources have told People that the pair recently decided to end their romance, partly due to their busy schedules.
Chris Martin and Jennifer Lawrence are probably back together. There’s photo evidence of them heading out for a sushi date.
Gwyneth Paltrow recently told that she treats ex-husband and Jennifer Lawrence’s ex-boyfriend Chris Martin as her “brother. The award-winning actress, who has two kids with the Coldplay frontman, said in an interview that she sees him as her sibling, following their divorce in The Oscar-winner actress also added that she oftentimes sleeps with Chris Martin together with their kids. We’ll have a weekend altogether; holidays, we’re together. Paltrow divorced the musician after nine years of being in married.
She dubbed their separation as “consciously uncoupling. The Coldplay front man started dating Jennifer Lawrence a year after but eventually called it quits last year. The singer is currently “on break” with his relationship with British actress Annabelle Wallis whom he started dating last year. The actress also said that she is not yet ready to take the married life again but added that it will take time. Share with Facebook Share with Twitter.

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My Latest Score: The J. Crew Rollneck Sweater
If you read my latest sale sweep post, you’ll know I cleaned up at J. Crew over Labor Day. I’m mainly excited about my “millennial pink” rollneck sweater, shown below on the always-with-her-finger-on-the-pulse Eva Chen, head of fashion for Instagram. (Incidentally, this would fit in rather nicely with my roundup of my favorite fall finds in blush!)
You’re Sooooo Popular: Elizabeth Arden 8-Hour Cream
The most popular items on Le Blog this week:
+Some of my very favorite earrings (under $50)!
#Turbothot: MTV Video Music Awards
OK, this is two weeks late, but Mr. Magpie and I look forward to tuning into the MTV Video Music Awards every year, partly out of nostalgia — the channel is a vestige of our youthful pasts (remember when MTV actually played music videos and was the coolest channel around?); partly in the hopes of discovering new music; and partly to gape with amusement and confusion at the spectacle of our music culture. This year’s awards made us feel very, very old and very, very out of touch. The tl;dr version: Kendrick Lamar is the god of the music industry right now, Katy Perry trying to be a comedian is cringe-inducingly mortifying, the wardrobe decisions of nearly every performer except for — against all odds — Ludacris, who looked sharp in a well-cut suit — were highly suspect, and the entire show needs much more editorial oversight. On this last point: how is it that we transitioned from an extremely serious, unexpectedly important moment where the great great grandson of Robert E. Lee stood and spoke out against the horror of the recent events in Charlottesville, and then went straight into Kate Perry’s bafflingly inane music performance of “Swish Swish”? It was horrific. It felt like someone was laughing at a funeral. I’ve always appreciated that MTV addresses serious topics — in the 90s, they were adamant about discouraging smoking and promoting sexual health! — and this year’s awards created space to not only discuss racism but also mental health and gender norms. But there was something way, way off about the framing of these topics, sandwiched between tone-deaf “comedic” (quotation marks intended) routines and truly stupid songs. If they’d only had someone with a bit more gravitas to properly position these interludes, the show would have been that much more impactful and digestible. What a waste of a platform.
AND WHAT IS WITH THE FASHION AT THIS EVENT. It felt like everyone was either in terrible costume (Pink wearing something I swear The Joker wore in the 1989 Batman, Noah Cyrus — apparently a burgeoning name in modeling?! — looking like she was dressed up as Yoko Ono for Halloween, Jared Leto in some sort of flashy Liberace version of Robin from Batman + Robin with that strange sequined cape) or had forgotten the show was on and rolled out of bed thoughtlessly (Ed Sheeran looked like he was wearing the same sweats he’d worn at home for the past five nights). Seriously weird and disappointing. (Also, Demi Lovato was wearing these weird plastic chaps during her performance. Plastic chaps. Chaps. Chaps, people.) I kept gaping at Mr. Magpie in disbelief. Did every Hollywood stylist convene and collude? “Who can make their client look the ugliest? GO.”
If these awards are a harbinger of youth culture nowadays…no thank you.
#Shopaholic: Laura Mercier’s Illuminator
+I recently read a rave review of Laura Mercier’s Illuminator in the Devotion color. Added to my Sephora basket!
+Random, but for anyone who likes fresh blooms in her home as much as I do, these flower scissors are a MUST. My mother in law gifted me a pair in my stocking last year and I LOVE them — so much easier to trim woody stalks!
+Love this denim dress for fall. (Under $125!)
+This tennis skirt is very Gucci.
+Love the balloon sleeves on this red sweater (under $100)!
+Chic statement top ($77) for a night out.
+Cute monogrammed ornament to pre-order for friends!


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South Africa keeps on getting a charge out of the enormous generosity of holidaymakers around the world. While travel to most whole deal goals declined in 2003, this nation encountered a fortunate 6.5% development, as per the World The travel industry Association. The development was kicked off by the change proclaimed by the destruction of politically-sanctioned racial segregation and beginning of law based principle in 1994. Politically-sanctioned racial segregation polices of racial separation secured by law extraordinarily irritated edified assessment in numerous pieces of the world. What’s more, the adversaries of these arrangements propelled an extremely compelling effort against visiting South Africa. So it came to be that South Africa, a really predominant goal by any principles, stayed covered up to numerous until the foreboding shadow of politically-sanctioned racial segregation blew over.
The untamed life safari is a key thing on the South Africa visitor menu. The individuals who saw Africa’s natural life here won’t be frustrated. The diversion seeing background is phenomenal at the top of the line Kruger National Park and at other all around respected amusement stops in the nation. Untamed life is secured in more than 300 open and private amusement and nature saves. SANParks (South African National Parks) oversees 20 national parks spread all through the nation.
Kruger is the spot to see major game especially the “enormous five” – bison, elephant, lion, panther and rhinoceros. A large portion of alternate parks have spent significant time in rationing specific species or are related to explicit creatures. The More noteworthy Addo National Park, for instance, is the main spot you discover elephants in the Cape locale. A portion of the parks along the 3000 km coastline have whales and dolphins.
South Africa’s untamed life preservation approaches are progressed and very effective. An activity focusing on natural life asylums slicing crosswise over universal limits would like to repeat this achievement somewhere else. This is in acknowledgment of the way that natural life is no respecter of regional lines covenanted between men. Transfrontier protection zones have been recognized in six districts along the limits with Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique.
In South Africa, the best places to see natural life is at private diversion stores and national parks. Private amusement holds are not as far reaching as the freely claimed national parks. Their key selling point is the prevalent settlement and officer escorted customized visits. The national stops then again are famous with self-drive sightseers. They offer settlement in a predetermined number of encased rest-camps, in covered rondavels, lodges and chalets. Visit organizations likewise offer South Africa safari bundles, incorporating transport and guide in the national parks.
South Africa is home to various types of land creatures, including the celebrated “enormous five” – rhino, wild ox, lion, panther and elephant. Most individuals from the huge five alliance are without a doubt magnetic. In any case, this isn’t the reason they are so named – else I would request of that the wild ox be launched out. The reason is that these are the creatures the early safari seekers found generally difficult. Viewing amusement without executing had not increased across the board acknowledgment at that point. The presumptuous routine with regards to killing creatures as a game is exceptionally disagreeable today with the individuals who esteem the privilege to life and pride of creatures as full individuals from our planet.
Notwithstanding the unpalatable style, chasing achieves a terrible connection among man and the creatures. I will outline this with an occurrence described to me by a guide on an ongoing visit to a nation that permits chasing. The guide reviewed an event when he was shocked to see an elephant charging at his vehicle. This was in opposition to his involvement with elephants in that district. This irregular conduct emerged on the grounds that seekers had injured the elephant. The elephant henceforth managed vehicles and people as foes. It is deplorable that South Africa’s generally outstanding protection arrangements, permit the act of chasing in specific zones.
Amusement seeing is normally done from the solace of a vehicle yet strolling, horseback, camel and paddling safaris are progressively getting to be well known. On the off chance that you wish to see diversion in any of these modes, it is necessitated that you be joined by an equipped officer. Full blood experience types believe that watching diversion on board a vehicle is for weaklings. Strolling safaris are intended for such tough spirits. What’s more, the reason the astute people at SANParks keep up a system of wild trails in the parks. The common strolling safari will have a limit of eight people with ages extending from 12 to 60 years and keep going for 2 evenings and 3 days. Members should clearly be physically fit.
Without uncertainty, the best spot to see natural life, particularly the “enormous five” is Kruger National Park. This is the leader of South Africa’s national parks. The Kruger was made in 1898 and owes its reality to the vision of Paul Kruger at one time leader of the Transvaal Republic that later turned out to be a piece of the Association of South Africa. He was comparatively radical in perceiving the need to make an asylum to safeguard and secure natural life. Indeed, even around then unmistakably the seeker with his rifle would before long obliterate every one of the creatures.
Kruger offers a decent variety of creatures unrivaled anyplace else in South Africa. Notwithstanding the huge five, a portion of the intriguing amusement you find here incorporate – hippo, jackal, giraffe, zebra, bison, warthog, various eland species, cheetah, wild puppy and spotted hyena. The recreation center is home to in excess of 140 vertebrate and 500 feathered creature species. Kruger spreads over almost 20, 000 sq km of untainted scrubland punctuated by acacia and mopane trees. The botanic biodiversity is huge and more than 336 tree species are found here.
Settlement inside Kruger is given at self-providing food rest camps that offer great yet fundamental hotel. There are likewise some littler bramble lodges and bushveld camps offering increasingly lavish remain. Convenience ranges from rondavel cabins and safari tents to family lodges and bungalows and extravagance guesthouses. Likewise, there are band and tent campgrounds at probably the rest camps. The majority of the camps are provided with electric power and phone. Different offices incorporate shops, kitchen offices, eateries and oil stations.
Kruger has 3,000 kilometers of a very much kept up street organize and is perfect for those looking for a self-drive involvement. The recreation center is generally modest and effectively open. It is along these lines enormously well known and draws more than 600,000 guests every year. It specifically becomes busy over the school occasions in July and December. Since there are a greatest number of vehicles permitted into the recreation center day by day, you are all around encouraged to make advance courses of action on the off chance that you intend to visit, at that point. Diversion seeing is great all year, however the best time will be from April to September when the shrubbery is meager.
Kruger is found 330 km toward the upper east of Johannesburg. On the off chance that you have no stomach for a lengthy drive, take one of the day by day flights from Johannesburg to Phalaborwa Airplane terminal, Hoedspruit Air terminal or Kruger/Mpumalanga Global Air terminal. Towards the western and southern sides of Kruger National Park, there are various exceedingly evaluated private amusement saves. This incorporates Sabi Sand, Mala, Londolozi and Timbavati amusement holds. Here you will discover the absolute best amusement stops in Africa.
The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is another exceptional amusement haven. This gigantic park is a mix of the two parks – the previous Gemsbok National Park in Botswana and Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa. Covering more than 36,000 sq km, it is one of the greatest natural life preservation territories anyplace on the planet. The scene is set apart by red sand ridges and inadequate thornbush vegetation. Nature of this park gives extraordinary chances to exceptional untamed life photographs.
This park is host to the popular dark maned Kalahari lions. You will likewise observe gemsbok, springbok, eland, blue wildebeest, cheetahs, wild puppies, jackals, bat-eared foxes and panthers. Birding is likewise astounding and of 297 species recorded, 96 are inhabitant. The Kgalagadi isn’t for the timid – it is a long way from anyplace and arriving is a trudge. It is found 904 km toward the west of Johannesburg. All settlement in the recreation center is overseen by SANParks. You will get the best understanding whether you visit among June and July when the climate is coolest.
On a South Africa safari, make sure to convey a couple of binoculars to enable you to spot creatures. Likewise convey a camera and other gear as a methods for chronicle your safari. It is the best way to quiets down the individuals who question the account of your experience with the African untamed life. Convey along an average pair shades to shield you from glare, particularly on the off chance that you travel to the semi desert Kgalagadi. Dressing great methods cool apparel, (for example, light cottons and material) for summer and warm for winter.


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We finish our evaluation by characterizing the gradual shift in direction of proportionality and the tradition of justification as a shift in the direction of an administrative model of constitutional law, which we term the “administrization” of constitutional regulation. Discussion of the emergence of worldwide administrative legislation is centred across the query ‘Is it law? This is a narrow perspective which ignores the autonomy of administrative ‘inside law’ generated by administrative agencies themselves. The extent to which domestic administrative legislation is a product of courts or legislators is way much less important than has hitherto been taken without any consideration. For global administrative law the entanglement of administrative follow and normativity is essential. The creation of administrative legislation by way of an experimental community of decisions and public-private cooperation, and as a consequence its ongoing self-transformation, must be considered a necessity. This is why it mustn’t come as a surprise that the instruments and forms of global administrative regulation are generated by transnational administrative networks of agencies.
Employing an agent recognized to be deadly relates the physician to the patient in one of the ways that somebody who commits a premeditated homicide relates to the one who’s killed, specifically, as one who fatally injures them with lethal means. The restraint against utilizing means incompatible with the life of another human being must be overcome.
In situation of energetic euthanasia, article 81 of the same legislation sets forth that any person who carries out this act shall be judged and punished for all times imprisonment just like a simple homicide. Passive euthanasia was deemed legal after a landmark court ruling in 2010. That means a health care professional can legally stop life assist upon request from a patient if they understand the implications acknowledged by their health care provider, and administering a deadly substance can also be illegal. Active euthanasia within the Polish Criminal Code is defined as all the time showing beneath the affect of sympathy for the suffering person and at their request. It is forbidden; it is handled as a kind of homicide punishable in a milder way.
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This immediately undermines the usual inhibitions towards killing that usually govern the human relations. Throughout the Nation, Americans are engaged in an earnest and profound debate concerning the morality, legality, and practicality of doctor-assisted suicide. Our holding permits this debate to continue, because it should in a democratic society. Other ailments can now be controlled for years, if not many years; such as, diabetes, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, heart problems, and sure types of cancer. As a results of medical know-how, Americans are living longer, and when individuals lastly succumb to an sickness, they linger longer and infrequently in great ache. The Ninth Circuit concluded that the benefits of guaranteeing a terminally sick, competent adult the final word determination within the manner and timing of his demise outweigh the potential harm.
A person’s final months of life should not be consumed suffering from severe physical ache; dependent upon others for nutrition, hydration, and bodily hygiene; with physical and mental deterioration; and experiencing declining imaginative and prescient, listening to, and mobility. Family members, relatives, and pals should not should witness the deterioration and suffering of a loved one. Our final impressions of a loved one ought to be filled with joy and respect. When physicians assist in a suicide or engage in euthanasia, they introduce into the physician/patient relation a lethal agent.
While it’s famous that significant circumstances on human rights have been litigated earlier than the courts since independence, the Ghanaian courts have had a scanty report of invoking international and regional human rights norms in deciding human rights instances. As a end result, the courts’ human rights jurisprudence has not been enriched by worldwide human rights requirements. The chapter undertakes a historical evaluate of the role of the courts in relying on worldwide human rights norms in litigation cases involving human rights from 1957 so far. It also examines the elements accounting for the lack of dedication by each the bench and the bar to resort to worldwide human rights norms. The chapter then takes the following step of discussing the relevance of, and the justification for, resort to international human rights law. A physician’s consent to assist a affected person to commit suicide implies to the affected person that the act is ethical and acceptable. This affirmation of such an act by a person in power can be overwhelming for terminally ill patients, and lead them to consent to such a process with out enough reflection and understanding.


A special meeting of town council to adopt the terms of reference for the promised trail use committee turned into a heated exchange this morning between councillors and members of the ATV community.
“You don’t get anywhere with raised voices,” said Mayor Frank Armitage, at the meeting’s end.
Council adopted the terms of reference, and will advertise for members of the public to sit on the committee.
The committee will consist of the mayor or his designate, two councillors, four community members from Princeton and three community members from the regional district’s Area H.
Area H director Bob Coyne is also invited to sit on the committee.
The committee terms of reference was the only item on the meeting agenda, but the discussion quickly devolved to a debate about bylaw 925, which will enforce the four year old motorized vehicle ban on the KVR.
About 15 people crowded into the small boardroom at town hall.
“There is not a hold on the bylaw,” said Armitage. “The bylaw will go through.”
ATV enthusiast Tom Guerster accused council of “ramming this down our throats.”
Osprey Lake resident Rob Miller said he’s “suspicious” of the committee and council’s goals.
“You could select people who are leaning towards your own agenda,” said Miller. “I’m not saying it’s going to happen but it’s a possibility.”
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Success in Math and the Relationship with Household Math in One Elementary School
The present study investigated the relationship of student, parent, and household math anxiety and attitudes on a student’s math progress on two assessments, the Houghton Mifflin Math Inventory (MI) which gives a quantile score letting the instructor know what a child is ready to learn, and the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), at one elementary school. A student survey was given to 71 fifth-grade students, 57 of whom had a parent also participate in the parent survey. From the survey a score was given with higher scores indicating higher levels of math anxiety. Once the survey was taken and scored students were placed in groups by survey score, parent survey score, student and parent or household survey score, and finally by quantile proficiency level. The results showed that when anxiety levels were raised whether it was the student’s, parent’s, or household anxiety, the mean scores on the MI and CAASPP decreased as survey scores increased. When students were grouped by quantile proficiency levels there was higher levels of anxiety as well. The study also looked at how often parents help with math finding that as anxiety levels rose, parents helped more often and student progress and performance decreased. Finally, it was discovered some of the lowest performing students had parents with a negative attitude toward the Common Core math standards and overwhelmingly the parents of the school believe there are people who are naturally good at math.


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As A Peace-Loving Global Citizen: Episode 55
As A Peace-Loving Global Citizen: An Autobiography by Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Chapter 6: Love Will Bring UnificationNot by Guns or Swords, but by True Love, pg 199-202
Not by Guns or Swords, but by True Love
It is not just the ceasefire line that divides our people. The Youngnam and Honam regions are also divided by an invisible line. Also, Koreans who live in Japan are divided between the Korean Residents Union in Japan, or Mindan, who are pro-South Korea, and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, who are pro-North Korea. The conflict between the two organizations in Japan is based on the hometowns of their respective members. Second and third-generation Korean residents in Japan, who have never been to their parents’ hometowns, still live in conflict with each other, as they live within the lines drawn by their parents. The members of the two organizations use slightly different language, send their children to different schools, and do not intermarry.
In 2005, I put into effect my long-cherished plan to create oneness among Koreans in Japan, as well as among Koreans in the Youngnam (southeastern) and Honam (southwestern) regions. I invited one thousand members of Mindan and one thousand members of Chongryon to Seoul, and matched them in sisterhood and brotherhood relationships to one thousand people from Youngnam region and one thousand from Honam.
It is next to impossible for Chongryon and Mindan to sit down together in Japan and talk about the peaceful unification of North and South. The task of gathering these people in one place was difficult, but it was deeply moving for me to see them sitting together and embracing each other.
One Chongryon official at the event was visiting Seoul for the first time. He spoke in tears as he commented that he deeply regretted the many years he had spent fighting a war that was not his own, particularly as he was not even certain which part of the peninsula his father actually came from. He said he felt immeasurably ashamed for having lived his life with a meaningless line of division drawn in his heart.
To fully understand the division of the Korean peninsula and the conflict between the two sides, we must look comprehensively at the past, present, and future. Every incident has a root cause. The division of the Korean peninsula was created by the history of struggle between good and evil. When the Korean War broke out, the Soviet Union, China, and other communist countries came to the aid of North Korea.
In a similar way, sixteen countries, led by the United States, sent armed forces to the aid of South Korea. Also, five countries sent medical teams, and twenty nations provided war supplies. What other war in history involved so many countries in the fighting? The reason that the entire world became involved in a war that took place in the tiny country of Korea is that this was a proxy war between the forces of communism and the forces of freedom. It could be said that Korea came to represent the world, and that good and evil fought fiercely on its soil.
Retired general and former U.S. Secretary of State the late Alexander Haig made an unexpected statement in his congratulatory remarks at the tenth anniversary of The Washington Times, celebrated in 1992.
“I am a veteran of the Korean War,” he said. “As a commander, I was in charge of the attack against Heungnam, and we staged the strongest attack we could. I am deeply moved to hear that Reverend Moon, who was being held by the communists, was set free by that day’s attack. It seems I was sent there to free Reverend Moon. Now, Reverend Moon is here to save America. The Washington Times is a newspaper that will save the American people by providing a balanced view of history that is neither right nor left and show us the way forward. As we see, there is no such thing as coincidence in history.”
A few years ago in Korea, there were people making the argument that the statue of the famous Gen. Douglas MacArthur in an Incheon park should be removed. They believed that if United Nations forces had not joined the war effort, the country would not be divided between North and South, as it is today. I was shocked to hear this and spoke strongly against it. Such an argument can only be made from the position of the Communist Party of North Korea.
Great sacrifices were made on a global level, and yet the peninsula remains divided. We do not know the exact date when unification will come, but it is clear that we are making strong strides in that direction. There are many obstacles to be overcome on the road to unification. As we come face to face with each obstacle, we need to work to tear it down and then move on. Though it may take a long time and prove difficult, unification will absolutely come if we work with the same desperation we would have if we were swimming across the Yalu River.
Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Romania resisted change the longest among the communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Then, at the end of 1989, Romania experienced a bloody uprising by its people. As soon as the regime was toppled, Nicolae Ceaușescu, who had ruled the country for twenty-four years, was executed, along with his wife. He was a brutal dictator who mercilessly massacred those who opposed his policies. In any country, one reason a dictator will tend to tighten his grip is that he fears for his life in the event he may lose power. I think that if a dictator can be certain that his own life will not be placed in danger, he will not go headlong down a dead-end street in the manner of Ceauceșcu.
Our country, too, will be unified before long, by one means or another. So politicians and economists need to make the necessary preparations in their own fields of expertise. As a religious person, I will work hard to prepare to greet the unified Korea in which we can embrace North Korean people with love and share in a common peace.
I have studied the unification of Germany for a long time. I have listened to the experiences of those who were involved with regard to how it was that unification could come without a single bullet being fired or a single drop of blood being spilled. In so doing, my hope has been to find a way that is appropriate for Korea. I have learned that the main reason Germany could be unified peacefully was that East German leaders were made to understand that their lives would not be in danger following unification. If East German leaders had not believed this would be so, they would not have allowed unification to occur so easily.
I came to believe we need to have a similar understanding toward rulers of North Korea. A novel based on North Korea was published in Japan not long ago. In this book of fiction, the rulers of North Korea repeatedly watch a video of Ceausescu’s execution and cry out, “That is what will happen to us if we lose power. Under no circumstances can we lose our hold on power!”
Of course, that is only a novel published in Japan. We should, however, devote our attention to this real problem and find a solution for North Korean leaders, to bring about Korea’s speedy unification.
Building a world of peace on the Korean peninsula is not as difficult as we may think. When South Korea lives fully for the sake of North Korea, North Korea will not try to fight the South, and peace will come naturally to the peninsula.
The power that can move a rebellious child is not the fist or brute power. It is the power of love that wells up naturally from within the heart. More than rice or fertilizer, it is important for us to give love to North Korea. We must never forget that it is only when we consider North Korea’s situation and live for its sake with a loving and sincere heart that the North will open its heart to us and the world.

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