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Immigration advocates welcome new ‘tone’ but urge Biden admin for more...
Despite the Biden administration’s new “tone,” continued deportations of vulnerable people demonstrate “a continuation of the same practices that happened under President Trump and previously under Obama.”
Documents reveal ICE using driver location data from local police for...
Over 80 local law enforcement agencies, from over a dozen states, have agreed to share license plate location information with ICE.
‘They used the kids to get to parents like me’: How...
That new policy is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed in Virginia that says the Trump administration is using migrant children as bait to arrest their undocumented family members.
How a small town in Iowa freed local workers from ICE...
It was the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in the state since 2008.
Root causes of America’s immigration dilemma: And the necessary, viable solution
If the root cause of this problem, the law-breaking companies, is not addressed then the problem will continue to plague America.
Who polices the immigration police?
Claims of unjust arrests by ICE agents and cops often disappear into an overwhelmed immigration court system.
Making sense of the deportation debate
How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama laid the groundwork for Trump’s immigration policies.
Welcome to the police state of America for immigrants
The bottom line of his orders is to give permission to ICE and local cops around the country to use their own judgment in enforcing this vague law.
Obama, deporter in chief, should pardon the undocumented
Noam Chomsky says Obama “should proceed to what is in fact an urgent necessity: to grant a general pardon to 11 million people who are living and working here, productive citizens in all but name.”
Bernie Sanders Opposes New Round of Deportation Raids
By defending undocumented women and children from another round of deportation raids, Sanders continues to stand up for those who cannot defend themselves within our current system.
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Menendez Lends Support to Joint Base
Though the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst has not been listed on the list of potential base closures, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has joined the growing list of officials voicing their support for the military instillation.
The joint base is the state's second largest employer and contributes $3 billion to the state's economy annually according to a study from Rutgers University.
Menendez said the base is a powerful economic driver for the government and private sectors.
"In terms of tax proceeds that go to municipalities and the state of New Jersey, in terms of the ripple effect the base has with private contractors - it's huge."
Menendez said keeping the base vital for military operations keeps it safe from budget cuts and Base Realignment And Closure lists.
"I think the more that you can enhance the mission at one of your bases the more that you can ensure the infrastructure and other challenges are met early on."
The Joint Base is the only tri-service base in the nation.

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Is there a “law of Christ”?
- Galatians 6:2, “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Are we under law toward Christ?
- First Corinthians 9:20-21, “and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; to those who are without law [the Gentiles], as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law;”
Should we serve this law?
- Romans 7:25, “I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
- Romans 8:1-2, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.”
- Romans 8:7, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.”
What kind of law is the law of Christ?
- Romans 3:27, “Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.”
- James 1:25, “But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”
- James 2:12, “So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.”
How is the Gospel described?
- Isaiah 2:3, “Many people shall come and say, ‘Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”
Should God’s laws be written on our hearts?
- Hebrews 10:16, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” (Jeremiah 31:33).
Should we be lawless?
- Romans 6:19, “I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.”
- Second Corinthians 6:14, “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?”
- First John 3:4, “Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.”
Why all the confusion? These verses are taken out of Biblical context confusing the Law of Moses with the Law of Christ.
- Romans 6:14, “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”
- Galatians 2:16, “knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.”
- Romans 7:4-7, “Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another — to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, ‘You shall not covet.’“
- Romans 9:30-32, “What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith; but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.”
I recently had and indepth conversation on this topic at another blog. You would be suprised at how many people believe it is impossible to cease from sin, even with the power of god dwelling in us. With God all things are possible, and we cannot continue in sin that grace may abound. Your thoughts?
Thank you, Scott. I did get a little long, didn’t I?
I certainly agree. You’re comment is a post. Put it up. You expanded where I should have.
The “Law of Moses” could not free anyone from the power of sin or compel us to be righteous through coercion or threats. Paul says that particular Law actually stirred up more sin.
So, if the “Law of Christ” can free us from another law, it means it is much stronger than the old law. Which reminds me of Christ speaking about “plundering” the strong man, but only after overcoming and binding him (Mark 3:27). Some take this to mean that sin literally no longer has power over us and we “cannot sin” in the truest sense of the word, according to their interpretation of 1 John 3:9 and Paul’s declaration in Romans 6.
But, we are also told that the Law of Christ sets us free from condemnation AND the law of sin and death. The “law of sin and death” IS the Law of Moses, correct? Isn’t that what Paul was emphasizing in Romans 7?
So, we are no longer under the condemnation that comes as a result of breaking Moses’ Law, our natural inclination, but the law of Christ is the OT law fulfilled for us in Christ and we are freed from it’s implied punishments. Which means we are released from spiritual death, because, obviously, no one is freed from physical death.
So, when we do sin, does that imply we are temporarily “slaves” of the flesh? I struggle with where the line is drawn in Paul’s statement that says “Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? ” (Romans 6:16 ESV)
When do we cease being slaves of Christ and bcome slaves of sin? Is there a specific tally or type of sin that causes us to switch masters? Or are we truly “free” and simply trapped in bodies that want to sin? I believe that is the case, especially when we consider Paul’s conclusions at the end of Romans 7, “So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.” and again “And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” (Romans 8:23 ESV)
It was a great enlightenment to me to see that Paul emphasizes that what counts, and is evidence of our salvation, is whether or not we are spiritually MINDED. The emphasis is no longer on what we do, but on what we honestly WANT to do, don’t you think? A carnal and unregenerate sinner doesn’t want to be righteous and doesn’t care if he sins, as long as he can postpone any consequences. Those who are in Christ DO want to be righteous and hate and detest it when they sin through their flesh.
The attitude of our hearts (out true mindset and interests) is what Paul says is what counts as righteousness, because only the Spirit of God can affect such a change of mind. This change of the mind is the effect of the Law of Christ.
Do you agree?

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In October, NHS England launched a consultation on radiotherapy services. The consultation is seeking feedback on a new specification for adult radiotherapy services.
Due to the level of interest in the consultation, we have increased the time for people to respond, the consultation will now close at 11:59pm on Wednesday 24 January 2018.
The development of the proposed service specification sits alongside NHS England’s £130 million investment in radiotherapy equipment, which was announced last year and is aimed at delivering the vision for radiotherapy services.
Our aim is to encourage radiotherapy providers to work together in Networks to concentrate expertise and improve pathways for patients requiring radical radiotherapy for the less common and rarer cancers. This will help to increase access to more innovative radiotherapy treatments, increase clinical trial recruitment and make sure radiotherapy equipment is fully utilised, securing greater value for money. There is no intention to reduce the number of radiotherapy providers, nor is it considered to be a likely outcome of these proposals.
The specification has been developed by talking to doctors, nurses, radiographers and public and patient engagement groups and was informed by a period of stakeholder engagement in 2016. A report of this work is available.
Through the consultation, NHS England will be seeking more views on these proposals from patients, carers, members of the public, clinicians and anyone else who may have an interest in radiotherapy services. Read the Radiotherapy Service Specification and Consultation Guide.
How people can give their views
NHS England is keen to receive feedback and answer questions on the proposals for the vision of radiotherapy services across England. Feedback will help NHS England to further shape and refine proposals for the delivery of safe and effective high quality radiotherapy services that are easy for people to access and meets their needs. The consultation period, runs from 18 October 2017 to 24 January 2018.
- Complete the online survey
- Email us: email@example.com
- Write to us: Radiotherapy Consultation, NHS England, Floor 3B, Skipton House, 80 London Road, London, SE1 6LH
- Join a webinar (online meeting): details will be posted on NHS England’s upcoming webinar’s page
Staying informed about developments in radiotherapy
If you would like to stay informed about NHS England’s work on radiotherapy, you can register as a stakeholder of the Radiotherapy Clinical Reference Group.
If you have any questions or comments about the consultation, please get in touch via firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Blanching tomatoes to remove their skins makes a roasted tomato sauce velvety smooth. Piment d’Espelette is a fine grind of mild red chiles grown in the Espelette region of France’s Basque country. If you can’t find this specialty spice, substitute a pinch of cayenne.
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What I used to make my DIY Solar Lights
- Four lantern style solar lights (Amazon Affiliate link)
- Kids wooden blocks
- Glue (wood and muti-purpose)
- Wood stain or paint
I am using the wooden blocks from an old Jenga style game that the kids played with when they were little. As you can see in the photo, some of them still have the kid’s scribbles on them. Handily, three of these blocks fit together to make a square.

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At times, Keeble forgot details such as relatives’ names. Still, she recited Scripture easily while discussing her commitment to Jesus Christ.
“God wants you to preach the Bible, in season and out, reprove and rebuke, with all long suffering,” she said in the 2003 AP interview.
She could tell you all about her grandmother, who was born before the Civil War, and she really shined when she talked about her late husband, Marshall Keeble, who was already a well-known minister when they met.
“Ain’t he a dandy?” she said, holding a black-and-white photograph of her husband of 34 years. “He loved to dress and go preach. He’d say, ‘Come on, Mama, let’s go to church.’ “
In the 2003 interview, she chuckled as she recalled their drawn-out honeymoon: a three-month tent revival that he preached in California.
Born Aug. 6, 1898, Laura Catherine Johnson was one of seven girls and three boys in her family. Her father, Luke, worked in an iron foundry. Her mother, Susan, was a nurse.
When Marshall Keeble came along, Laura was 35 and wondering if she might die an “old maid.”
Keeble, the son of slaves, was a recent widower and 20 years older than Laura. His first wife, Minnie, a Fisk University graduate, helped teach Keeble how to read and write. In 36 years of marriage, they had five children, two of whom died in infancy.
“Some of you ought to find me a good wife,” Keeble told friends after Minnie died from an illness. “I can’t live single the rest of my life as young as I am.”
Percy Ricks, husband of Laura’s older sister Willie, suggested his sister-in-law.
Marshall Keeble initiated the courtship with letters. To see a preacher “flirting around with a woman” disgusted him, he said, so he never spent more than five minutes alone with her before they married.
Keeble later said, “Ricks told me I’d get the best rose in the Johnson flower garden, and I think I did.”
While the minister spent weeks and even months on the road, Sister Keeble stayed home.
“There was plenty to do at home to keep her occupied,” author Willie Cato wrote in the book His Hand and His Heart … The Wit and Wisdom of Marshall Keeble.
“She became a very loving mother to his three children and also to the grandchildren. … Laura knew that Keeble was doing what he loved to do and what he did best _ preaching the Gospel.
“She loved him dearly and always supported him in his efforts to evangelize the world.”
Later, when Keeble served as president of the Nashville Christian Institute, a school for black children, his wife kept up to a dozen girls at a time in her home. She never gave birth to a child, but she became “Mama” to many.
After Keeble’s daughter, Beatrice, died after a lengthy illness in 1935, Sister Keeble raised her two young daughters.
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Molecular karyotyping of chromosomal anomalies and copy number variations (CNVs) in idiopathic forms of intellectual disability and epilepsy
Background: Genetic factors play an important role in the etiology of idiopathic intellectual disability and epilepsy. The intensive introduction of molecular cytogenetic technologies in medical practice has made it possible to reveal genomic rearrangements at a previously unachievable level of resolution. However, in spite of profound progress in learning genetic causes of intellectual disability, it is necessary to use bioinformatic (interpretational) technologies for correct interpretation of the personal data during the examination of a genome. The aim of the study: To determine genomic (chromosomal) variations, including CNVs, and their possible clinical consequences in children with idiopathic intellectual disability and epilepsy. Materials and methods: We examined blood cells and DNA samples of 294 children with idiopathic intellectual disability and epilepsy, congenital malformations and/or microanomalies. We used methods of high-resolution molecular karyotyping (SNP array), and an original bioinformatic technology for modeling consequences of genomic pathologies. Results: We examined 294 children with genomic anomalies and different phenotypic manifestations. In 20.8% of cases they had epilepsy, besides idiopathic intellectual disability, congenital malformations and/or microanomalies. Cytogenetic studies of these children revealed structural and numerical anomalies of chromosomes in 8% of cases. Molecular karyotyping revealed 192 genome anomalies with pathogenic or possibly pathogenic effect in 61 children and 23 regions of segmental loss of heterozygosity (segmental uniparental disomy) in 25% of cases. Combined genome anomalies were found in 87% of cases. Genomic anomalies were revealed in all chromosomes, except chromosomes 20 and 21. Among 192 genome anomalies we found deletions, duplications, triplications and mosaic genome aberrations, usually in combination with regular rearrangements. Using original bioinformatic analysis with gene prioritization, we defined more than 800 genes; recurrently affected genes were FMR1 [OMIM:309550] (this gene is associated with fragile X mental retardation), DAZ2 [OMIM:400026], DAZ3 [OMIM:400027] (both are associated with intellectual disability and autism), BTRC [OMIM:603482] (the gene is involved in signal pathway of circadian rhythm, associated with epileptic manifestations); less frequently – AFF2 (FMR2) [OMIM:300806], SLC1A1 [OMIM:133550], SCN2A [OMIM:182390], SCN3A [OMIM:182391], GABRB3 [OMIM:137192], NECAP1 [OMIM:615833], SHANK3 [OMIM:606230]. The variability of obtained data hinders exact phenotypic correlations of genomic disbalances and idiopathic intellectual disability with epilepsy. Nevertheless, the results of the studies show a need to accumulate whole-genome data for definition of genome sites or even genes, associated with this pathology. Conclusion: Our data and analysis highlight the applicability of the approach for identification of molecular mechanisms of idiopathic intellectual disability and epilepsy.


What needs does solar thermal energy cover?
- ACS Sanitary Hot Water (properties, sports centers, hospitals, etc.)
- Industrial hot water.
- Conventional or underfloor heating.
- Pool heating.
What are solar thermos or thermosiphonic equipment?
What is forced-circulation solar thermal equipment?
When it is necessary to separate solar collectors from the accumulator (like in community buildings) or to support both domestic hot water and heating or swimming pool systems, we use forced circulation equipment.
In these systems the water circulation is not done by natural convection, so they incorporate a water pump that will work by external energy.


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UPDATE: Man charged with murder in connection to shooting death of Warner Robins teen
A man has been charged in connection to the June shooting.
UPDATE (8/02): 21-Year-old Leonard Jimmy Forrest of Warner Robins is charged with Murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jontel Williams.
The Warner Robins Police Department says Forrest is already incarcerated on Aggravated Assault charges stemming from a shooting on Tinker Blvd. shortly before Williams was killed on Thomas Blvd. Forrest is being kept at the Houston County Detention Facility.
UPDATE (6/27): A 17-year-old boy is dead after a shooting Sunday night.
Police say the victim died at the hospital Monday morning.
ORIGINAL STORY (6/26):
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – One person is in critical condition at the hospital after being shot Sunday night.
It happened in the 400 block of Thomas Boulevard, according to a Warner Robins Police Department news release, which said officers found a male victim lying along the side of the road with a gunshot wound.
EMS took the victim to Houston Medical Center. He was later transferred to Atrium Health Navicent in Macon.
The release said detectives are still “very early” in their investigation.
Contact Detective Trent VanLannen at (478) 302-5380 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have additional information.


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Ride the high of WQXR's preview concert of John Adams' opera Nixon in China (January 19 at 7 p.m.) with a presentation of his one oratorio, El Niño, and music from all four of his operas, each weeknight at 7 p.m. continuing through Friday, January 28 on Q2.
- Monday, January 17 (and 24) at 7 p.m.: A Flowering Tree
- Tuesday, January 18 (and 25) at 7 p.m.: El Niño
- Wednesday, January 19 (and 26) at 7 p.m.: Doctor Atomic Symphony (and City Noir)
- Thursday, January 20 (and 27) at 7 p.m.: Nixon in China
- Friday, January 21 (and 28) at 7 p.m.: The Death of Klinghoffer
Enjoy these five contemporary masterpieces which move from topics as diverse as an Indian princess with magical, transformative abilities (his 2006 opera, A Flowering Tree) to the first atomic bomb and Manhattan Project director, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (his 2005-2005 Doctor Atomic) to President Nixon's 1972 era-defining trip to China (his first opera, begun in 1985, Nixon in China, with librettist Alice Goodman, director Peter Sellars and choreographer Mark Morris).
WQXR's Wednesday, January 19 preview concert of Nixon in China from the Jerome L. Greene Performance is hosted by WQXR's Terrance McKnight and includes conversation with director Peter Sellars and Adams himself. Tune into 105.9 FM WQXR to hear the event live or watch the live video webcast at WQXR.org. This concert anticipates Nixon's Metropolitan Opera premiere February 2-19, 2011.
Monday night's All Ears with Terrance McKnight and Tuesday night's Cued Up will begin immediately following the John Adams presentation.

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You most likely have a few different sales outlets and streams of income coming into your market garden. That is awesome! Keep up the great work!
How do you keep all your sales invoices organized so you are getting paid for the products leaving your market garden?
In this article, I provide some useful office organization tips to help you find the most efficient way of processing your sales paper trail.
Much of the information provided is from the highly recommended book by Richard Wiswall called The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Keep this phrase at heart when you are setting up and organizing your farm office.
In my last article, I mentioned using labeled paper holders to house your paperwork until you have had a chance to process it and file it away.
The same goes for sales invoices, create a holding area for cheques and invoices until you have time to process them.
Tackling your paper trail should be done at a designated time once a week so you don’t get too behind in your farm paperwork.
How Do You Process Sales Papers?
When you receive a cheque (or cash) upon delivery for an invoice of farm products, write “paid check #____” or “paid cash” and place the payment and invoice together in a holding area for payments.
If payment is not paid upon delivery, write “Not Paid” on the invoice and put it in an alphabetical accordion folder of unpaid invoices, also in plain view.
Farmer’s market sales money and CSA payments go directly to the upright paper holder for payments along with a piece of paper explaining the payment.
Just to clarify, Richard uses an upright paper holder for payments (with a corresponding paid invoice or paper attached) and an accordion folder for unpaid invoices.
When a cheque does come in for an unpaid invoice, place the cheque in the upright paper holder with other payments.
When you are ready to make a deposit to the bank (usually once a week), first retrieve all the cheques and cash from your upright folder.
Next, take a blank piece of paper as a cover sheet for the deposit.
Write FARM DEPOSIT and the day’s date at the top and list all the cheques and cash payments below the title. Include account names followed by the amount of the cheque.
Farmer’s market and CSA payments each have their own heading.
Small accounts or those sold to infrequently are listed under the heading MISCELLANEOUS SALES, each with an accompanying explanation.
Now match up each payment with the paper trail used to track all sales from the farm.
This ensures that every product is paid for. Some parts of the sales paper trail are attached to the payments in the upright folder, like invoices that were paid at the time of delivery, or the inventory sheet with sales from the farmer’s market.
Some payments, like cheques that come in the mail, still need their paper trail companion.
These are found in your alphabetized accordion file where all your unpaid invoices are stored temporarily until matched up with the payments of the appropriate invoice(s).
Your invoices now have a record of payment and are placed under the farm deposit title page.
If payment is a regular cheque without a separate listing, just staple the corresponding invoices together and write on the top invoice ‘paid check #___, $____,” and add the date.
All the invoices with a record of payment are placed under the deposit title page.
Also placed under the title page are the farmer’s market inventory sheet that lists the total cash and total cheques collected, and something explaining CSA payments (a form, invoice, or note).
Miscellaneous sales have invoices or a note on the title page explaining the transaction.
Staple or rubber band the papers together.
The bundled deposit with a title page is now done and placed in chronological order with other deposits in your desk drawer (or where you choose to keep them).
Now for the money.
Take all your cheques and stamp them with a FOR DEPOSIT ONLY rubber stamp from your bank and list them on a bank deposit slip.
Add in cash and calculate the total for the deposit slip.
This total must be identical to your bundled deposit with the title page. If not, redo your math until the two totals match.
All that’s left to do is take a trip to the bank and make a deposit. By far the best part of this process!
Organizing sales invoices for deposit is a very manual process. You better break out your pencil and calculator for this one!
That being said, there is bookkeeping software available to help with this task if you prefer the clickety-click of a computer as opposed to the crunchety-crunch of the calculator.
Do what works for you.
I focused on manually organizing your deposits because that is what we will be doing this year. I don’t know too much about bookkeeping software, so I cannot recommend any in good conscience.
If you know of some good software, feel free to leave a recommendation in the comments down below.
Potential Sales Leaks
Financial leaks drain money from your market garden business, often without you knowing it’s even happening.
You don’t want that now do you?
Plugging up any financial leaks will keep your hard-earned money in your possession, where it belongs.
There are many ways financial leaks can creep onto your farm. Let’s examine some.
The biggest potential for financial leaks with a CSA is not payment collection, but rather giving away too much product for the money you receive. This can seriously erode your profit potential.
To avoid this, make sure you are giving the amount you stated in your initial CSA sign-up, and no more. You don’t want to give away your produce for free.
As I just mentioned, giving away too much produce is a major sales leak. Rounding produce weights with a hanging scale (1 ⅛ pound to 1 pound, for example) adds up over the course of a market, especially with a high price per pound items.
A way to avoid this is to use self-calculating digital platform scales for easier math calculations over the hanging scales.
Using digital scales helps make purchases a win-win for your customers and your farm.
Both you and your customer can each see the weight and dollar amount on the scale’s display, and the customer is assured that human error has been eliminated.
These scales are a little pricey at around $300 each but will pay for themselves in time since you won’t be losing any more money on erring to the side of the customer.
You get the exact weights that are fair for you and your clientele.
Surprisingly, sales that have invoices can pose more of a financial leak to your market farm business than the CSA or farmer’s market, despite the reliable paper trail associated with invoices.
Why is this, you ask?
First off, invoiced sales can represent a large portion of a farm’s total sales. These sales are often delivered while on the road and away from your desk and are more likely to be forgotten, altered, or lost.
As well, math errors are more likely if you are in a hurry when making invoices at the point of delivery.
In contrast, CSA and farmer’s market lists are usually calculated at the calm of your office desk.
It’s a good idea to get in the habit of writing out invoices for any sale that has a possibility of slipping through your financial cracks.
For example, a customer comes to the farm and casually buys a bag of carrots. Record it on whatever is handy and put in your PAYMENT FOR DEPOSIT folder on your desk before you forget.
Using duplicate or even triplicate invoices can help reduce the chance of an invoice getting lost and you not getting paid.
Any invoices left over in your accordion file after you make your deposits should be looked into to see if they are past due or not.
Any customer with an invoice overdue requires a friendly call to remind them to pay up.
At the end of the day, it’s up to you to follow your paper trail and ensure all payments make their way into your bank account.
It’s easy to make mistakes when totaling your invoices. This can happen to the best of us.
Often miscalculations are not even caught by the buyer because they are paying what is totaled on the bottom line.
Bad math can easily go unnoticed. However, there are two procedures you can put in place to help minimize it.
First, double-check your math or have someone else do it.
The second way is to input your invoices into bookkeeping software on your computer.
The bookkeeping software will alert you to any math errors so you can correct them.
We’re talking taxes here. Taxes can take quite a bit out of your earnings. It’s important to offset your farm income with every true farm expense, otherwise, you will be paying more in taxes.
Neglecting to record all farm expenses is an unnecessary leak.
Luckily it’s an easy fix – Document all farm expenses!
Sidenote: If you are using a personal vehicle for transporting farm products, keep track of the mileage and you should get a tax deduction for the miles you put on your car.
The more organized and diligent you are at keeping track of all the sales paperwork, the more money you will end up with in your bank account.
This is probably your least favourite part about owning your own market farm, but by putting aside a specific amount of time on a specific day, your office management tasks will be a little less painful.
Start off by organizing your office, labeling file folders, and having a home for everything so your desk is not a cluttered mess.
Remember, you need to make sure you are getting paid the right amount of money at the right time.
Nobody is going to do a better job at looking after your bottom line than you.
How do you track your sales invoices? Let us know in the comments below
Kathy & Jon
your friendly neighbourhood growers

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The Festival has become the essential opening salvo of the new season, and no year would be complete without such longstanding and welcome resident companies as those of Alvin Ailey and Paul Taylor. And although it is only in its third year of existence, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company has become a highly anticipated annual offering, with its adventurous and forward-looking ballet repertory and world-class dancers.
But alongside these regulars, an eclectic array of unfamiliar offerings will represent everything from tango to Brazilian contemporary dance to classical ballet: the latter in the form of a highly-anticipated U.S. debut: the new Spanish company directed by American Ballet Theatre virtuoso Angel Corella. Also new: in terms of its participants, if not its name: is Kings of the Dance, the program that celebrates today's leading male ballet artists. Its 2007 incarnation featured four dancers, but the February performances will include seven men with impeccable credentials.
The special gala evenings offered by Career Transitions for Dancers and Youth America Grand Prix have also become staples of City Center's calendar. The former, always a swiftly-paced smorgasbord with a stellar line-up, takes place November 2 and celebrates dance on Broadway, film and television, with a roster that includes New York City Ballet's Ashley Bouder and Andrew Veyette, performers from "Dancing with the Stars" and a tribute to Duke Ellington. Youth America Grand Prix, a worldwide ballet competition scheduled for March 25 _27, juxtaposes its talented array of young international ballet dancers with the "stars of today."
For several weeks this fall, the focus will be on South America. Tanguera: The Tango Musical (October 7 _18) tells a story of unrequited love in turn-of-the-20th-century Buenos Aires through music, song and dance. A book musical with a cast of more than 30, this production opened in Buenos Aires in 2002, and has since been seen in Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Mexico City as well as in China and Japan. The following week (October 22 _25) brings Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker, a 15-year old Rio de Janeiro _based company last seen in New York in 2000. Colker, a Brazilian choreographer who creates works marked by physical daring and exciting visual design, is known for pushing boundaries and challenging notions of space and gravity in her contemporary dances. In addition to creating full-evening works for her troupe, she has worked in theater, and was the director/choreographer of the recent Cirque du Soleil show Ovo. In 4 POR 4, the work she is bringing to City Center, Colker has based each of four sections on a work by a Brazilian visual artist, transforming their imagery into movement.
While Morphoses, formed in 2007, is the primary vehicle for new works by Christopher Wheeldon, who has proven to be one of the most accomplished and sophisticated choreographers of his generation, it increasingly includes works by other choreographers in its repertory. This season's two programs (October 29 _November 1) offer a particularly wide range of works. Wheeldon will be represented by a new ballet set to Rachmaninoff's Suite for Two Pianos, as well as two earlier works. Morphoses has commissioned a ballet from Australia's Tim Harbour, and will also perform Alexei Ratmansky's version of Ravel's Bolero, created in 2004 for the Bolshoi Ballet, and Softly As I Leave You, a duet by the husband-and-wife team of Paul Lightfoot and Sol León. The Morphoses roster of dancers includes original members Wendy Whelan and Edwaard Liang and an intriguing, international mix of returning members and newcomers. As always, live musical accompaniment is a company priority; this season, it will be provided by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, conducted on opening night by the orchestra's founder and music director, Alondra de la Parra.
The expanded 2010 Kings of the Dance (February 19 _21) boasts a glamorous, international line-up: ABT's José Manuel Carreño, Marcelo Gomes and David Hallberg; NYCB's Joaquin De Luz; Dennis Matvienko; Guillaume Coté of the National Ballet of Canada, and the Bolshoi Ballet's Nikolai Tsiskaridze: the sole holdover from the original edition. They will dance in works representing many eras and styles, by Frederick Ashton, José Limón, Nacho Duato, Roland Petit, Anton Dolin, and Boris Eifman, as well as Wheeldon.
Angel Corella was one of the original "Kings," and he continues to thrill audiences as an ABT principal. But somehow he also has the time to direct Corella Ballet Castilla y León, a 60-member classical company that will make its U.S. debut March 17 _20. Corella has choreographed String Sextet (set to Tchaikovsky) to the repertory. He is also a principal dancer, along with another ABT luminary, Herman Cornejo, and former ABT soloist Carmen Corella.
A very different aspect of Spain's rich dance traditions will be represented by the tenth annual New York Flamenco Festival (February 11 _14). In addition to the opening gala, the 15-member Compania Maria Pagés will perform her Self-Portrait, and Rocio Molina, an exciting young flamenco artist who is an alumna of that company, and her troupe will offer Oro Viejo.
No City Center dance season would be complete without two of the nation's most venerable, acclaimed and beloved companies. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns (December 2 _January 3) to celebrate Judith Jamison's 20th year as Artistic Director with a world premiere by Ronald K. Brown, Dancing Spirit: with music by Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis and War: that pays tribute to her influence. Jamison will also contribute a new work, and a highlights program will recognize the major works she has brought into the repertory over the past two decades.
And when the Paul Taylor Dance Company takes the stage (February 24 _March 14), it will celebrate not only Taylor's amazing and unpredictable creativity: with a new dance that pays comic tribute to vaudeville as well as another set to Debussy: but also his 80th birthday.
Visit New York City Center for ticket information.
Susan Reiter covers dance for New York Press and con- tributes articles on the performing arts to the Los Angeles Times and other publications.


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text: The inhibitory effect of 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole on relaxation induced by hydroxylamine and sodium azide but not hydrogen peroxide or glyceryl trinitrate in rat aorta. Author: Mian KB; Martin W Source: Br J Pharmacol 1995 Dec; 116(8):3302-8 Abstract: 1. In this study we investigated the role of catalase in relaxation induced by hydroxylamine, sodium azide, glyceryl trinitrate and hydrogen peroxide in isolated rings of rat aorta. 2. Hydrogen peroxide (1 microM-1 mM)-induced concentration- dependent relaxation of phenylephrine (PE)-induced tone in endothelium-containing rings. In endothelium-denuded rings, however, higher concentrations (30 microM-1 mM) of hydrogen peroxide were required to produce relaxation. The endothelium- dependent component of hydrogen peroxide-induced relaxation was abolished following pretreatment with N(O)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 30 microM). L-NAME (30 microM) had no effect, however, on hydrogen peroxide-induced relaxation in endothelium- denuded rings. 3. Pretreatment of endothelium-denuded rings with catalase (1000 u ml-1) blocked relaxation induced by hydrogen peroxide (10 microM-1 mM). The ability of catalase to inhibit hydrogen peroxide-induced relaxation was partially blocked following incubation with 3-amino-1,2, 4-triazole (AT, 50 mM) for 30 min and completely blocked at 90 min. 4. Pretreatment of endothelium-denuded rings with methylene blue (MeB, 30 microM) inhibited relaxation induced by hydrogen peroxide (10 microM-1 mM), sodium azide (1-300 nM), hydroxylamine (1-300 nM) and glyceryl trinitrate (1-100 nM) suggesting that each acted by stimulation of soluble guanylate cyclase. 5. Pretreatment of endothelium-denuded rings with AT (1-50 mM, 90 min) to inhibit endogenous catalase blocked relaxation induced by sodium azide (1-300 nM) and hydroxylamine (1-300 nM) but had no effect on relaxation induced by hydrogen peroxide (10 microM-1 mM) or glyceryl trinitrate (1-100 nM). 6. In a cell-free system, incubation of sodium azide (10 microM-3 mM) and hydroxylamine (10 microM-30 mM) but not glyceryl trinitrate (10 microM-1 mM) with catalase (1000 u ml-1) in the presence of hydrogen peroxide (1 mM) led to production of nitrite, a major breakdown product of nitric oxide. AT (1-100 mM) inhibited, in a concentration- dependent manner, the formation of nitrite from azide in the presence of hydrogen peroxide. 7. These data suggest that metabolism by catalase plays an important role in the relaxation induced by hydroxylamine and sodium azide in isolated rings of rat aorta. Relaxation appears to be due to formation of nitric oxide and activation of soluble guanylate cyclase. In contrast, metabolism by catalase does not appear to be involved in the relaxant actions of hydrogen peroxide or glyceryl trinitrate.

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Google to Officially Introduce their newly designed Pixel 6 and 6 Pro with its new 'Tensor' Processor on October 19th
With Apple and Microsoft events out of the way, Google has announced that their Pixel Fall Launch 2021 will take place on October 19th at 10 am PT. At this event Google will introduce their redesigned Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro that is illustrated below. The new Pixel phones will be powered by their own 'Tensor' processor this year, following Apple's path for more power and security and away from using Qualcomm processors.
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The Pixel 6 will come with 50MP main camera is joined by a 12MP ultra-wide, and 48MP telephoto on their Pro model. Considering the world already knows the new Pixel phone form factor, the new processor and camera specs, you have to wonder if there will be any surprises at the event.
Pricing rumors put the base Pixel 6 pricing in the US$700-800 range and the Pro model in the US$1,000 range.
Will the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro finally deliver a phone that could crack Samsung's grip on the Android world in at least the U.S. market? Only time will tell.


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Below are The Star’s recommendations:
AMENDMENT 1: This proposes to renew the successful wilderness protection program Forever Wild for another 20 years. Yes.
AMENDMENT 2: Proponents say this measure will allow the state to refinance general obligation bonds in order to get a better rate, something supporters say will ultimately aid in recruiting new industry to the state. Yes.
AMENDMENT 4: Is there nothing the state Legislature can’t complicate? This measure has a noble aim — removing segregationist language from the state’s 1901 Constitution. Yet, getting that before the voters required lawmakers to cave to extremists fearing an amendment that also guarantees public education as a right. It’s a shame we can’t do both — erase the racist language and send a message to the world that Alabama promises education to its residents. We’ll take one and urge the Legislature to follow up on the right to education next session. Yes.
AMENDMENT 6: We could call it the anti-Obamacare/nullification amendment. It wishes to remove the state out from under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, a law certified as constitutional by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and four other justices earlier this year. It’s nothing but an empty gesture allowing Alabamians to shake their fists at the promise of universal health care. No.
AMENDMENT 7: Under ballot-integrity language, this amendment seeks to make it harder for unions to organize in Alabama, a measure that seems a lot like meddling into the affairs of labor unions in a state that is already a so-called right-to-work state. No.
AMENDMENT 8: This measure would reduce the compensation of state lawmakers to Alabama’s income. In today’s terms, that would mean a pay cut of approximately $8,000 annually. Yes.
AMENDMENTS 9 AND 10: Both proposals seek to update archaic constitutional language, Amendment 9 on corporation articles and Amendment 10 on banking regulations. Yes on both.
AMENDMENTS 3, 5 AND 11: All three are one more reason why Alabama needs greater home rule. These measures on a statewide ballot deal exclusively with matters in Baldwin County, Pritchard and Lawrence County. They are the best evidence for why Amendments 9 and 10, while a good idea, are a mere half-measure. The state’s operating manual should not allow an entire voting population to have a say on something so purely local as whether a piece of property in Baldwin County should be exempt from annexation, for example. Unless theses amendments pertain to your home, our recommendation is to not vote on these issues.
LOCAL AMENDMENT 1: This measure proposes to strip the Calhoun County circuit clerk of responsibility for processing absentee ballots. If passed, the chore would fall to the Calhoun County Commission.
At the heart of this issue is money. Under current law, the county circuit clerk is entitled to collect $175 for each day he or she handles absentee ballot applications. That works out to an extra $8,000 paid to the clerk during each election. Ken Joiner, the Calhoun County government’s administrator and a proponent of this measure, has estimated these fees add up to $300,000 the state must pay during each election.
It’s a reminder of how much state government operates on the antiquated fee-for-service basis. Sheriffs in most Alabama counties — though not in Calhoun County — are allowed to pocket the unspent portion of meal money intended for their prisoners. It dates back to a time when the state couldn’t pay its officials enough, and so it found other ways to increase compensation, like prisoner meal money, allowing judges to pocket money for each name placed on the voter rolls, and extra fees for chores like processing absentee ballots.
Our preference would be to keep the absentee-ballots duty within the office of the circuit clerk. However, we’d like to see the state end the practice of paying officials a la carte.
Two candidates are running Tuesday to replace Ted Hooks, the incumbent circuit clerk. Both have spoken in favor of passing this amendment. One, Eli Henderson, told The Star if elected he would not collect the extra money for handling absentee ballots. Missy Hall, the other candidate, said she’ll accept the money only if she can use it to hire workers to do the job, taking the workload off the clerk’s staff. In effect, Hall says she would take the money, but only to pass it along.
Our preference would be for both of them to reject pocketing any or even some of this extra money.
Further, we’d like to see the state Legislature come back next session with a statewide amendment to keep this chore within the office of each county’s circuit clerk and also remove the fee-for-service portion of it.
The Star recommends a no vote and also suggests the state offer a statewide amendment removing the fee-for-service portion of processing absentee ballots.
PRESIDENT OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION: Incumbent Lucy Baxley has a long record of public service, including time as state treasurer and lieutenant governor. She is now seeking another term as PSC president. The Star’s editorial board recommends Lucy Baxley.


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JAMES CITY — Twice this week the James City County board of supervisors will take up the proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Supervisors are scheduled to meet today at 3 p.m. for their second brainstorming session on the $159.8 million spending plan. The board will again mull the proposal Thursday at 7 p.m. Both meetings will be held in Building F of the County Government Complex, 101 Mounts Bay Road.
The meetings are the last two work session scheduled before adoption of the budget May 11.
County Administrator Sandy Wanner released the proposed fiscal year 2011 budget April 16. The budget came in at $159.8 million. That's $3.5 million - or 2.2 percent - lower than the budget for the current fiscal year.
The budget retains the current real estate tax rate of 77 cents per $100 valuation.
The proposal calls for 41 positions to be eliminated, almost entirely through attrition, for a savings of $1.2 million. Two part-time employees will be laid off, according to the document.
Proposed fee increases include a $15 increase for an annual youth pass, to $70, and a $100 increase, to $500, for a family pass to the county's two community centers; and a $5 increase, to $55 per week, to attend the Before and After School Program. A new fee is also proposed for participants of organized sports leagues that use county facilities. The fee would be $10 for county residents and $20 for nonresidents.


Two recent events underscored the importance of utilizing digital tools to inspire students and demonstrated the intersection between technology and education.
On March 5th, AT&T's Hispanic/Latino Association, HACEMOS, held the 15th annual High Tech Day in 31 cities across the country. The event encourages students at risk of dropping out of high school to consider careers in science and technology, fields where Latinos and other minorities traditionally have been underrepresented.
This year about 1,800 teens from 70 different schools participated in hands-on technical activities and interactive workshops designed to help students succeed in our technology-rich future. I volunteered at the Washington, D.C. event and witnessed firsthand the excitement on students' faces as they learned about the inner workings of smartphones and participated in a live videoconference with students from across the nation. I've never heard the word "cool" so many times in one morning.
The same week, the Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report that revealed how teachers are using technology in their classrooms to enhance learning and engage students.


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Power consumption grows 12.6% in 1st week of June
New Delhi Power consumption in the country grew at 12.6 per cent in the first week of June to 25.36 billion units (BU), indicating a slow recovery in commercial and industrial electricity demand, as per the government data.
Power consumption was recorded at 22.53 BU in the first week of June last year, the power ministry data showed. According to experts, the recovery in power consumption and demand was slow in the first week of June due to the low base of last year. In the entire June last year, power consumption slumped by nearly 11 per cent to 105.08 BU from 117.98 BU in the same month in 2019, mainly due to fewer economic activities amid lockdown restrictions.
In the first week of May this year, the power consumption was 26.24 BU despite lockdown restrictions imposed by many States amid the second wave of Covid-19. Thus the month-on-month comparison indicates that power consumption has dipped by 3.35 per cent in the first week of June compared to the same period in May 2021. Peak power demand met or the highest supply in a day witnessed a growth of over 15 per cent in the first week of June at 168.72 GW (recorded on June 7), compared to 146.53 GW on June 6 last year.
Peak power demand met in the first week of June 2019 was 181.52 (recorded on June 4). The peak demand in the entire June (2020) slumped to 164.98 GW from 182.45 GW in the same month last year. Therefore, the recovery in industrial power consumption and demand is slow in the first week of June despite recording double-digit growth on the back of a low base a year ago. The experts hope that the commercial and industrial power consumption as well as demand would rise again from June onwards as many States are easing local restrictions imposed to curb the second wave of coronavirus, as the number of daily new positive cases of Covid-19 is in decline.


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L’équipe de recherche en physique de l’information quantique, EPIQ (Physics of Quantum Information Research Team), is a research centre of the Université de Sherbrooke. Its research aims at exploiting quantum mechanical effects for information processing purposes. The team comprises both experimental and theoretical research components. The EPIQ currently counts four Faculty members, as well as Doctorate, Masters and Bachelor students and postdoctoral researchers, all members of the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences.
The main objective of the Centre is to bring together various scientists within IISc working on the subject of Quantum Information and Quantum Computation. Such a nucleation is expected to lead to exchange of information, collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas, leading to consolidation of effort in this interdisciplinary and rapidly developing field.


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When you visit for a check up, your dentist will use a small inspection mirror to assess the surface of your teeth, looking for signs of decay or little cracks and fissures. They will let you know as soon as they see anything that might require treatment, and a small filling is a lasting preventative solution that far outweighs a root canal treatment, which can be the result of extensive decay. By closing up the gap, your dentist is preventing bacteria from getting in and preserving your tooth in the least invasive way.
The process is straightforward and often only requires one or two appointments at your local Rainham practice. Once your dentist has assessed the area that requires treatment, they will clear out any decay before filling the clean cavity with a material of your choice.
There are a number of different materials that can be used to fill a hole in your tooth. Indirect fillings are those that require a couple of visits to Rainham Dental & Implant Clinic as the tooth is treated with a tailormade filling that has to be crafted to your needs in a dental laboratory before fitting. Direct fillings are those that can be applied in one sitting, or chairside. White or tooth coloured options prove to be the most popular of these options as they remain the quickest and most natural-looking of the options – no one can tell that you’ve had a filling.
Should you require a filling, your dentist will discuss with you the different options available and best advise on the most suitable for you and your teeth.
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We're here in Denver, settling in to HQ and getting ready for the convention kickoff tomorrow. No official business for us today.
The photo above has the Colorado Convention Center in the upper foreground, with the Denver skyline in the background. The Convention Center is where most of the daytime official convention business will take place.
The tentative plan of the day for tomorrow is 1) check in and pick up credentials (first priority), 2) a convention kickoff press briefing with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, and 3) the Credentials Committee meeting.
A few more photos from this afternoon after the jump...
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Hamsters are real lumps of joy.
They are amusing, funny and contrary to beliefs, very clean.
Buying a hamster is a responsibility, you must understand that this animal is completely in your power and therefore caring for it is your first task.
Hamsters are kept in an aquarium or cage. Both can be bought at a pet store. There you can also buy sawdust and special fillers. Cell development is an important point. If you want your pet to be comfortable & nbsp- take care of the water bowl, the feeder and a sufficient number of all kinds of straw, from which the hamster will build a nest. Today, pet stores offer ready-made & laquo-houses & raquo- for hamsters, but practice shows that animals rarely want to live in them. Much more often they dismantle them for spare parts and build themselves a laquo-housing & raquo- themselves.
Hamster & ndash- the animal is disciplined andTo take care of a hamster is also necessary in a certain order. Your pet will conditionally divide the whole territory of the cell into zones. In one corner there will be a toilet, it will have to be cleaned every day, otherwise the smell will be amazing. In the other corner there will be a nest, and next to the mountain of sawdust will be a pantry. Pantry, this is a very important place. In no case can you get food out of the pantry and take it. You run the risk of causing stress to the animal.
The cage needs to be cleaned once in three to five days. The toilet, as already said, every day. During cleaning, move the hamster to a jar or a walking ball. Restoring the sawdust is not completely necessary, leave a third of the old flooring and add two thirds of the fresh floor. You can wash the cage by specialized means, or water with salt, soda. Once a week, you should definitely wash the drinker. Drink a toilet with water simply, otherwise you risk poisoning a hamster. Change the drinker every month, this is the guarantee of your hamster's health.
Concerning feeding, the question is ambiguous. The hamster will ask to eat all the time, it is inherent in its nature. You need to develop a plan and in accordance with it to feed the hamster. In addition to feed, you can give raw vegetables and special & laquo-kozinaki & raquo- from cereals.
The hamster you need to bathe rarely. These animals themselves cope with cleaning their skins. However, for prevention, you can put a hamster bath with sand, which will cause delight. In addition, there are special means for caring for hamsters, however, reviews about them are not unambiguous.
In general, you just need to look after a hamster,Follow his activity and weight, for how he eats and drinks. Soon you will get used to his habits and start to notice if something will bother your pet.

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Alberta’s NDP government appears to be cool to the idea of ending public funding of private schools in the province.
On Thursday, a coalition of 14 groups, including the Alberta Teachers’ Association , backed a call from Public Interest Alberta to phase out funding for private schools — excluding schools for students with special needs — by reducing provincial dollars by a third for each of the next three years.
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That prompted the Wildrose Party to demand the NDP disavow any intent to end funding for the 186 private schools potentially affected by the proposal.
Education Minister David Eggen was not made available to comment Friday, but his office in an email threw cold water on the notion of removing the money.
“The funding model for all schools has not changed since our government was elected and there are no plans to make any changes to the funding model at this time,” said Eggen in a statement.
In opposition, the NDP often raised concerns about Alberta’s level of funding to private schools under the Progressive Conservative government, but on taking office in 2015 the party said it was committed to maintaining the status quo.
“Ideologically, we believe in a public model that allows each person to get the best education possible, regardless of their ability to pay and, in fact, we know through economies of scale that is a logical way to go,” Eggen said shortly after becoming minister.
“(But) I’ve inherited an education system that has other models that delivers education,” he said. “For the sake of security, for the sake of stability in our education at this point, I have no plans to change that landscape here in the province of Alberta.”
Eggen did say in the Friday statement that he understood the concerns raised by the groups calling for the end of funding for private schools.
Private schools in Alberta receive 70 per cent of the per-pupil funding of public schools, about $5,200 per student.
Advocates say ending that could free up $100 million per year in educational funding that could be used to support programs in public, separate and francophone schools that serve 93 per cent of students in Alberta.
The issue isn’t a new one, with the Alberta School Boards Association in 2013 passing a motion supported by the Calgary Board of Education calling on the government to end funding for private schools.
CBE chair Joy Bowen-Eyre said in an interview Friday that the government needs to make public education a priority as it develops a new funding model, though she stopped short of calling for private school funding to be ended.
“That’s a question for the education minister and the premier to answer. Ideally for us we would look for a better-funded public education system,” said Bowen-Eyre.
“Our call to action would be a review of the funding framework.”
Wildrose said the current system saves money because private schools are funded on a reduced basis. The Opposition cites a study from the advocacy group Parents for Choice in Education that says if all students in private schools enrolled in the public system it would cost taxpayers another $168 million in 2014-15.
“Alberta is a beautifully diverse province,” Leela Aheer, Wildrose MLA for Chestermere-Rocky View, said in a statement. “Respecting that diversity means offering Alberta families a wide variety of educational choice.”
The groups making the call to end private school funding include the Public School Boards Association of Alberta, the Edmonton Public School Board, Progress Alberta, Support our Students (SOS) Alberta and a number of public sector unions and labour groups.
The Progressive Conservatives also took aim at the proposal, with Calgary-Lougheed MLA Dave Rodney calling it “threatening and self-serving,” and Tory leadership front-runner Jason Kenney describing it on Twitter as an “attack by NDP front groups on school choice.”
Joel French, executive director of Public Interest Alberta, scoffed at Kenney’s assertion, as well as the idea that ending private school funding would lead to an unaffordable influx of students into the public system.
French said taking away funding from private schools would free up dollars in a time of tight budgets to allow the NDP to keep promises in areas such as reducing class sizes and school fees and introducing a school lunch program and new classroom supports.
“I don’t know if, in the upcoming budget, the government’s going to change anything — we certainly haven’t seen any signal that they will,” he said.
“The reason we are doing this at this point is … Albertans need to be more aware of how we are doing things.”

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Opinion Article - Journal of Pharmacology and Therapeutic Research (2022) Volume 6, Issue 5
The impacts of phosphodiesterase inhibitors on growth rot factor-? and leukotriene B4 in human
Department of Pharmacology, University of Merck Frosst, Kirkland, Quebec, Canada
- Corresponding Author:
- Christine Brideau
Department of Pharmacology
University of Merck Frosst, Kirkland
Received: 01-Sep-2022, Manuscript No. aajptr-22-78391; Editor assigned: 05-Sep-2022, PreQC No. aajptr-22-78391(PQ); Reviewed: 19-Sep-2022, QC No. aajptr-22-78391; Revised: 21-Sep-2022, Manuscript No. aajptr-22-78391(R); Published: 27-Sep-2022, DOI:10.35841/aajptr-6.5.124
Citation: Brideau C. The impacts of phosphodiesterase inhibitors on growth rot factor-α and leukotriene B4 in human. J Pharmacol & Ther Res. 2022;6(5):124
The point of this study was to evaluate the inhibitory exercises of phosphodiesterase type 4 (PDE4) inhibitors on cancer putrefaction factor-α (TNF-α) and leukotriene B4 (LTB4) creation in a clever human entire blood examine. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) feeling of human entire blood caused a period subordinate expansion in TNF-α and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) plasma levels. Restraint of LPSincited TNF-α by the specific PDE4 inhibitor RP73401 was relatively upgraded with endogenous PGE2 (maximal after 24 h). Conversely, impeding endogenous PGE2 creation with indomethacin in blood animated with LPS for 24 h diminished the strength of RP73401 to that saw with 4 h LPS brooding. Non-specific and particular PDE4 inhibitors showed more prominent restraint of LPS-initiated TNF-α after 24 h contrasted with 4 h. Stereoselectivity was just accomplished in the 24 h technique. LPS-excitement of entire blood for either 30 min or 24 h followed by N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe (fMLP) enactment brought about low plasma LTB4 levels. Mix of the two medicines came about in a more prominent than 7 overlay expansion in plasma LTB4 levels .
Restraint of the twofold LPS and fMLP-enacted LTB4 creation was seen with non-specific and PDE4-particular inhibitors. Their LTB4 inhibitory potencies were like that seeing in the 24 h LPS-prompted TNF-α examine. In this manner, feeling of human entire blood with two LPS excitements followed by fMLP brings about both TNF-α and LTB4 and their hindrance by different mixtures can be evaluated in a similar blood test. Calcium ionophore (A23187) excitement of entire blood brought about plasma LTB4 levels like the twofold LPS and fMLP technique. Restraint of A23187-initiated LTB4 biosynthesis was accomplished by PDE4-specific inhibitors as well as the immediate 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) inhibitor L-739,010 .
These outcomes affirm the mitigating properties of PDE4 inhibitors. Hence, this original human entire blood can be utilized to evaluate the biochemical viability of PDE4 inhibitors in human subjects.
Phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4), an individual from the phosphodiesterase group of something like nine known particular sorts (PDE1 to PDE9), is a cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP)- explicit catalyst and is liable for the hydrolysis of intracellular cyclic AMP to 5-AMP.
Hindrance of this chemical prompts expansions in intracellular cyclic AMP which can consequently enact protein kinase A (PKA) . It has been displayed with different PDE4- explicit inhibitors that an expansion in intracellular cyclic AMP can hinder the articulation and arrival of a few provocative middle people, forestall superoxide anion development in neutrophils, restrain eosinophil chemotaxis and degranulation as well as lymphocyte multiplication, and causes unwinding of bronchial smooth muscles bringing about Broncho dilatation. PDE4 is prevalently communicated in monocytes, neutrophils and eosinophils and its restraint could be gainful in treating the hidden irritation related with asthma .
Utilizing the entire blood examines, apparently monocytes are especially delicate to PGE2 and isoproteronol contrasted with neutrophils since the two specialists were exceptionally powerful inhibitors of TNF-α however affected LTB4. On the other hand, cholera poison, a trigger of Gαs protein, had a similar action on both TNF-α and LTB4 though forskolin and dibutyryl cyclic AMP showed powerless movement. The different inhibitory exercises of PGE2 and isoproteronol in contrast with cholera poison include receptor restricting and actuation. The prostanoid receptor subtype (EP1) conveyance on human leukocytes is at this point unclear. Further examinations are important to clarify the components engaged with neutrophil-inferred LTB4 tweak by cyclic AMP-hoisting specialists and PDE4 hindrance. Regardless, it is realized that expansions in cyclic AMP lead to a decrease in cytosolic free calcium and it was shown that rolipram was a powerful inhibitor of both LTB4 combination and intracellular calcium rise in human PMNs. Different examinations have demonstrated the way that expansions in cyclic AMP can manage PLA2 action and repress the capacity of enacted cells to activate arachidonic corrosive .
- Banner K.H, Moriggi E, Da Ros B, et al. The effect of selective phosphodiesterase 3 and 4 isoenzyme inhibitors and established anti-asthma drugs on inflammatory cell activation. Br J Pharmacol. 1996;119:1255-61.
- Torphy T.J, Undem B.J. Phosphodiesterase inhibitors: New opportunities for the treatment of asthma. Thorax. 1991;46:512–523.
- Davidson E.M, Rae S.A, Smith M.J. Leukotriene B4, a mediator of inflammation present in synovial fluid in rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 1983;42:677-9.
- Dinarello C.A, Cannon J.G, Wolff S.M, et al. Tumor necrosis factor (cachectin) is an endogenous pyrogen and induces production of interleukin 1. J Exp Med. 1986;163:1433-50.
- Torphy T.J, Undem B.J. Phosphodiesterase inhibitors: New opportunities for the treatment of asthma. Thorax. 1991;46:512-23.

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CLIVE DENNIS-BROWN (FOUNDER)
AKA Fawda Don
This project is the culmination of a journey which started at a very young age while living in Jamaica. At age 4 years old my great passion for music began while watching the elders (my uncle Dennis, a music lover and collector) playing vinyl on the old time gram.
Watching him stacking them and as they dropped one by one they played.
The pleasure that came from this experience, the dancing and joy it brought started a lifetime interest that became a way of life.
Not least the fact that living close to a record pressing plant encouraged my interest even more. Visits to the plant, collecting discarded records and canter cut out using this to mimic the elders and creating a sound system similar to theirs.
A prophecy from grandmother Mabel said “one day you will make it big in music because music is your love” At age 12 my return to the UK saw the start of this career. Practice started on mother’s old Garrad turntable in the home. Age 17 began my official start playing music at parties of friends and families.
The sound system Young Warriors was born, collaboration with Lennox Johnson. Associated with the sound were Taliman, Conrad, Mutley, Boaz Boaz. The sound system evolved as new members joined.
The passion grew further and led me into radio presenting. First experience on radio was presenting alongside Boaz Boaz at Time FM in 1985. This arose a new passion in me and quickly led me to stints at Traffic Jam Radio, Street FM (DJ P).
Following a meeting with Lepke of DBC (“the god father”/founder of pirates radio stations in the UK). I joined DBC Radio in 1987. I was introduced to Wilf Walker, Music Promoter, Ranking Ms P and others. This led to other ventures including writing and performing my own songs, live performance on stage, recording deal, Tours covering Japan, Ireland, Italy and other European cities as well as performance in many concerts, at venues including London Astoria.
My journey continued: 1988 Continent Radio (Danny), Skyline then city sound 1988-1991. Revive FM 1996 – 2006, Riddim FM 2006 – 2009, Metrolove Radio 2009 – Now a project of my very own YawdVybzradio876 July 2011-present.
My passion is music, my aim to spread love globally through this medium. I invite you to join me on this journey.


We just read a nice story about residents and a community group working to revitalize the Stockyards neighborhood in Cleveland, which has recently had homes going for as low as $1,500, an increasing supply of empty parcels and no viable plans for redevelopment.
Writing in Communities and Banking (pdf) (the magazine of the Federal Reserve of Boston), Matt Martin and Zachariah Starnik of the Stockyard Redevelopment Organization describe a number of initiatives to stop the downward spiral, from gardens/plantings on city Land Bank parcels with grants and other financial assistance; a collaborative effort between Stockyard and the Ohio State University extension to conduct phyto-remediation (using different types of plant life to cleanse soil) on lots with soil contamination; and a plan that calls for a neglected urban street and adjacent vacant parcels to be developed into a viable green space and corridor. (Stockyard developed a plan that shaped these efforts earlier.)
Most of the article, however, is about a group of citizens in the 48th Street Block Club that led the creation of several gardens on private lots. First, the group pressured the city to tear down abandoned and troublesome buildings and then, without city approval or denial, it started planting gardens on the properties, giving the empty areas an aesthetic turnaround and growing some food for locals in the process. As the article notes:
Revitalization of the lots has improved their appearance and removed a number of former safety risks. The lots have become not only a valuable food resource but also a wellspring of pride. They have united the neighborhood in a single cause, becoming a visible symbol of the neighborhood’s collective power. “We’ve done a lot with a little,” says one club member…….
While no one would claim that merely planting gardens will save a neighborhood, in an area hit by multiple foreclosures every little bit helps. As Art Ledger says, “It’s progress. You’re going to have things that go backwards, too. But we’re ready.”
Just stopping the downward spiral (or “cumulative causation” in economic terms) is in itself a start on the path to revitalization. It is not at all impossible that demand may increase again in this centrally located, historic and “old urbanist” neighborhood in a metro area of 2.3 million people.


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Inside a single file you can save and display many different data types such as sequences, alignments, plots, tables, protein and DNA/RNA structures. Each data element can be linked to one another and annotated and then shared via the web, MS Office tools or in the free ICM-Browser. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies use ActiveICM to share data between scientists in different disciplines. Academic laboratories such as the SGC publish their data to the world using ActiveICM in a web browser.

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Organically raising pork in a natural environment produces a leaner, healthier animal because the pigs can move around all day long without any confinement issues. Because pigs are not ruminant animals, we supplement their diet with a soy free organically grown grain that contains beneficial nutrition and produces more omega-3 fatty acids. Our pigs also enjoy fresh whey from a neighboring farm. Pasture-raised pork also have fewer health problems than in a confined operation, so antibiotics and drugs are not needed.
At Bendy Brook Farm, we raise Berkshire cross pigs, so that they do not suffer from the genetic traits of pure breeding, but still boast the rich flavor and darker colored meat for which Berkshire pigs are famous. Our pigs are also GMO free and handled with humane care.
- 70-100 pounds
- Vacuum sealed in culinary friendly portions.
- Cuts include Baby Back Ribs, Spare Ribs, Pork Chops, Bacon, Pork Loin, Ground Pork, Breakfast Sausage, Ham Roasts (about 3 pounds), and a Boston Butt (about 6 pounds).
- Contact us to reserve your Pork Bundle.
- Custom butchering for whole pigs available – call to inquire.
Individual variety cuts are available, see our Order Form for details.
At Bendy Brook Farm, we serve a customer who is dedicated to humanely raised 100% grass fed beef. We take pride on the quality of our meat and ensure that our beef is dry aged for 3 weeks in the meat locker at our butcher for the very best flavor – this is about a week longer than most other farms. We take extra care and time for tender cuts! There are a few ways to buy bulk beef from us, so that you can stock up and save.
Beef Quarters and Halves
Save Big & Stock Up. Your Cow, Your Way.
By ordering a beef quarter or half, you can save big and stock up on grass fed beef for your whole family. Because you order in advance, you get to choose how the butcher cuts your beef, and totally customize your order between steaks, roasts, ground, chipped and other great cuts. As usual, our meat is 100% grass fed and grass finished on our chemical free property, with sustainable values where we honor quality of life for all of our animals. Order between July and December for custom butchering orders.
- Each quarter is about 110 lbs. of butchered beef (varies)
- You can order your beef any way you want it – you can order your steaks and cuts bone-in or bone-out – and ground beef, chipped steak, roasts, or other special cuts.
- Each cut is individually vacuum sealed at its peak of freshness.
- Contact us to reserve your beef & get a cutting order form.
Quarter Cow Too Big?
Try An 1/8 or a Sampler & Save!
Is a quarter or half cow just too big for your household? You can try a sampler value pack or a 1/8 cow package and use your regular freezer, but still save a bundle. It is also a fast and easy way to order, since there’s no custom butchering instructions. This is a great way to stock up on grass fed beef with Farmer Nevin’s favorite cuts.
Value Pack Sampler:
- 12-13 lbs. of grass feed beef
- Includes 3 assorted steaks (approximately 12 oz. each), a roast (approximately 3 lbs.), 5 lbs. of ground beef, and a pound each of beef cubes and chipped steak.
1/8 Cow Bundle:
- 46-48 pounds of grass feed beef. Includes a little bit of everything! Get the experience of a custom cut beef side with less commitment.
- 12 steaks! 3 NY Strip, 3 Delmonico, 1 Sirloin & 4-5 additional farmer’s choice steaks
- 4 Roasts (about 3 lbs. each) and a London Broil
- 18 lb. ground beef in 1 lb. packs
- 3 lb. each beef cubes and chipped steak
- 2-3 grab bag items such as short rib, osso bucco and more.
We organically raise our chickens & turkeys outside on pasture. The flocks are raised in moveable pens that are rolled down the pasture daily, always offering access to grass, bugs, and plenty of fresh air. They have overhead cover available for shade, and are protected from predators. Raising poultry outdoors and with plenty of fresh grass for pecking and room to spread their wings, produces a healthy and nutritious product.
We butcher chickens on the farm about 4 times per season. When we are butchering, we offer our customers the option to pick up fresh chickens (chilled, but not frozen) in bulk at a discount. Stock up and save when you get fresh chickens!
6+ chickens. Pick up on farm. Call Nevin to reserve your chickens. 610.698.1086
- We take orders for Thanksgiving turkeys starting in September and require a small deposit to hold your bird.
- Thanksgiving Turkeys are fresh, and can be frozen for Christmas.
- All of our ground turkey and turkey products are packaged in November, and frozen with a vacuum seal for freshness and a 1 year shelf life.
We offer CBD oil from organically grown hemp, cultivated right here at Bendy Brook Farm! Full Spectrum Hemp Oil has many health benefits including pain relief, reducing anxiety, acne, and reducing inflammation. This site does not give medical advice, consult your doctor.
We offer locally fermented foods from Cottage Kitchen. The benefits of lacto-fermentation are too great to list, but here are a few: Promotes strong gut health to improve digestion and increase nutrient absorption, detoxifying powers and reduction of sugar cravings. Fermentation also creates good bacteria (probiotics) within the body’s ecosystem to fight the bad bacteria of our society’s proclivity for fast food. One cannot hope to eat healthy 100% of the time, but the 80/20 rule will certainly increase longevity of life and quality of life!
These products are only available via the Collegeville Delivery
The word Kvass in Russian means “sour beverage” and is still the drink of choice on the street corners of the Ukraine, Poland and Russia. Kvass made from beets contain natural occurring nitrates which helps dilate blood vessels, improving blood flow and lowering blood pressure overall.
Ginger Beet Kvass
Ginger contains Gingerol, a substance with powerful medicinal properties. Ginger can treat many forms of nausea, especially morning sickness. Ginger may reduce muscle pain and soreness and the anti-inflammatory effects can help with Osteoarthritis. Ginger can drastically lower blood sugars and improve heart disease risk factors also aiding in chronic indigestion. Ginger may significantly reduce menstrual pain as well as slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Turmeric Beet Kvass
Turmeric contains Bioactive compounds with powerful medicinal properties. Curcumin is a natural anti-inflammatory compound that aids people with arthritis and joint soreness. Turmeric dramatically increases the antioxidant capacity of the body and boosts brain derived Neurotrophic factors linked to improving brain function. Curcumin may be useful in preventing and treating the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease. Curcumin has been proven in lab results to fight depression and delay aging and age related chronic diseases.
The Cottage Kitchen uses only certified organic vegetables in all of its products sourced locally. Organic Cabbage, Celtic Sea Salt. Sauerkraut is made by a process called lactic acid fermentation. The cabbage is finely shredded, layered with salt, and left to ferment from 4-6 weeks depending on the season and climate temperature during fermentation.
The Cottage Kitchen uses only certified organic vegetables in all of its products. Organic Cabbage, Organic Jalapenos, Organic Red Onions, Organic Carrots, Mexican Oregano, Red Pepper Flake, Celtic Sea Salt. It is typical in El Salvador and that of other Central American countries. Great served with breakfast burritos, eggs, sausage, pupusas, tacos or over salads.
The Cottage Kitchen uses only organic vegetables for all of its products. Organic Cabbage, Organic Daikon Radish, Organic Onion, Organic Carrots, Organic Ginger, Celtic Sea Salt. A spicy fermented mixture containing cabbage, onions, variously seasoned, as with garlic, red peppers, and ginger.


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