Boeing Batteries Are Back on Board
"We're back in business, baby!" tweeted the Washington Aerospace Partnership, a group of business, labor and local government leaders supportive of The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), according to Reuters.
The exuberance was inspired by a Federal Aviation Administration announcement Friday that it had approved Boeing’s revamped battery system on its 787 Dreamliner. The planes should return to service within weeks
The FAA said it would tell airlines next week what changes are required. The agency said it would publish a directive that "will allow the 787 to return to service with the battery system modifications."
According to the FAA, before the planes can fly, they must be fitted with a "containment and venting" system for both lithium-ion batteries on the 787. This includes a stainless-steel enclosure to prevent heat, fumes or fire from spreading in the event a battery overheats during flight.
Under FAA guidance, Boeing will issue a service bulletin and make repairs to the fleet of 50 planes currently in service around the world. Other global regulators will need to approve Boeing's new design, but the company expects most to act quickly now that the FAA has given its blessing.
One exception to the “all on board” movement might be Japan, a critical market for Boeing, according to The New York Times. About half of all 787s in service are operated by two Japanese airlines — all Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines.
Japanese transportation minister, Akihiro Ota, said Friday that Japan’s assessment of the safety of Boeing’s battery changes was “in its final stages.”
The concern is that Japanese regulators could ask for additional safeguards, including devices to transmit vital data to controllers on the ground so the batteries could be routinely monitored.
Japan could also require test flights of each plane after it is fitted with the altered battery, along with more frequent battery checks and even replacement of batteries after a set period, regardless of condition.
Both ANA and United Airlines (NYSE: UAL) included the 787 on domestic and international routes in flight schedules that start May 31, conditioned on whether or not aviation authorities lifted the plane’s grounding.
Another operator, Qatar Airlines, suggested it would seek an even more aggressive schedule. Qatar wants to get its planes back in the air before the end of April.
The FAA approval comes before National Transportation Safety Board hearings next week on why a battery caught fire in a plane parked in Boston on January 7. The board is also examining how Boeing and the FAA underestimated any risks in approving the original battery design in 2007.
By approving the fixes ahead of the safety board’s hearings, the FAA likely hopes to deflect any criticism about how it originally certified the plane.
Boeing shares closed Friday at $87.96, up $1.84 or just over two percent on the day, and bumped up an additional 13 cents to $88.09 in after-hours trading.
As of this writing, Jim Probasco had no position in any of the mentioned securities.
© 2017 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.


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Choosing the Right Recipe (What to Avoid)
Many families treasure various recipes handed down through the generations--but K-State Research and Extension food safety specialist Karen Blakeslee says that when it comes to home canning and preserving, newer recipes are safer.
The Science Behind Home Canning
You might think that you can take just any vegetable and can it in any jar you choose--but K-State Research and Extension food safety specialist Karen Blakeslee explains some of the science behind safe home canning and preserving.
Preventing Botulism in Home Canning
One of the greatest food safety risks of home canning is botulism (BAH-chew-liz-im), a food-borne illness cause by a bacteria frequently found in improperly canned/preserved food. K-State Research and Extension food safety specialist Karen Blakeslee explains how this potentially-fatal illness can be avoided.

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We Are Analogue: Chris Petit on post-cinema and the Museum of Loneliness
Writer, director and artist, Chris Petit brings his post-cinematic multi-platform project, Museum of Loneliness to GFF14. We catch up with Chris to find out what exactly is post-cinema and what it means for viewers in our post-modern age.
The Skinny: What is post-cinema how does it relate to the Museum of Loneliness? How did the idea come about?
Chris Petit: With the technological revolution that’s been going on over the last 15 years, the whole image bank has exploded. We've moved into a different kind of way of thinking about visual images, it’s a kind of second stage, and there are two parallel movements. There is one that breaks images down into fragments like YouTube and then there are these marathon events from the art world where everything is made incredibly long, like Christian Marclay’s exhibition, The Clock, which was a 24 hour montage film set to real time. As far as the Museum of Loneliness is concerned, it’s kind of a conceit, it is not a real thing. It's founded on the principle that today our primary relationship is with the screen, it's not really with each other anymore, it's with different kinds of screens; both the psychological screen and the real screen of the computer screen. Somewhere in all of that comes the idea of post-cinema. The other phenomenon that is happening now is the progression to the next stage: the idea of cinema’s memory. It is how cinema is remembered. What certain writers have been pointing out for quite a long time is that you don’t remember films in the way that you see them, you only remember fragments. These fragments build up into what could be called cinema’s memory. So somewhere within that the concept of post-cinema lies. I would say it was, it is, more an idea than a theory.
What was your creative process in making the Museum of Loneliness? You have previously written cinema as prose in Robinson, how different is it to work with cinema as sound and music?
Well, I think it goes back to the films I have been making for the past 15 years, particularly those with Iain Sinclair, where really for practical reasons we started to split sound and image. We stopped relying on synchronised sound and we started to create our own soundtracks separate from the image. In a way this completely frees you; you can show what you like and say something completely different over what you are showing. And I think, beyond that, when we came to do these Museum of Loneliness projects, it was really about applying that principle and, in terms of the soundtracks, we had worked in the past with a lot of good musicians including Bruce Gilbert and learnt from them and, rather like the idea of cinema’s memory, we composed the soundtracks on the lines of stuff from the memory bank, lines one's remembered from films. And also why do you remember one bit of a film and not another? What is that and how does that build up? So I think it was this idea of making these sounds quilts from what one remembered of pieces of cinema, which is quite difficult to do. You think that this will only take ten minutes! [laughs]
The idea of post-cinema seems inherently post-modern, de-centralised: fragments, gaps, subliminal places and transitory states. How do you feel about the label of post-modernism and were there any particular post-modernist artists or schools of thought that influenced your work?
I think, yeah, in the period that I was starting to think about the whole thing, I was impressed by three particular exhibitions I saw. One was Gerhard Richter's Atlas exhibition, which was really not his paintings, but his background works. It was essentially a form of cataloguing rather than a conventional show. The other two artists who were working in the same way were Francis Alÿs and Walid Raard, again cataloguing – and quite a lot of Raard’s cataloguing was bogus. And beyond that, there were writers like, well I suppose Marc Augé, who wrote Non-places, I thought that was pretty kind of obvious but good, and also there was Paul Virilio’s City of Panic. I think that was the kind of perimeters that helped with the whole thinking behind the project.
In the film there is talk of "decommission, non-commission." Is the Museum of Loneliness a reaction to the failure of 21st century ideologies and institutions to support the arts?
Yes, by extension. I think the thing that really surprised me over the last 15 years, since this enormous proliferation of material, is that newspapers started getting fat, especially at the weekends and the Saturday paper over took the Sunday paper as the day of choice to produce a big newspaper. I remember thinking, naively, “Oh great! There will be more to write about, there will be more opportunities, there will be more to say,” and in fact the opposite happened. Everyone started producing just more of the same. Print journalism is in a state of complete crisis and practically all media that I have dealt with, from newspapers to television, is too. Part of the problem is that the whole concept of the freelance has disappeared, which is an honourable tradition and so everything has become standardised and, in a way, the arts is just as much to blame as anyone else. In a way the Museum of Loneliness was founded as an anti-institution, as legitimate institutions themselves seem incapable of confronting or really dealing with this change in a way that is meaningful or exciting. Also, in art, we’ve had Cubism and we’ve had Jazz, yet you look at everything that's on TV and even most movies and most of it is in the stone age, so there is this odd kind of pull between this fantastic technology, which is as huge as Caxton’s printing press, and yet we seem to be living in a very reactionary time.
It reminds me of what you've said about daytime television being a final frontier, and how watching something like daytime television or the news is sort of naturalised, we are not supposed to interact with it in any other or different way.
I think, even though in a lot of ways things are really stuck, it’s still a pretty interesting time that we're living through, but no-one ever addresses this. I just started watching daytime TV because you’re not supposed to, unless you’re a junkie, and thinking “Well, you know, what is it?” I suppose the other thing about it, like the Museum of Loneliness, is that there is so much stuff now. Is anyone ever going to catalogue youtube? Is it worth cataloguing? And, with the proliferation of everything, how in 200 years time do you sort this stuff out? What’s interesting and not interesting? Stuff is going on but it’s just harder and harder to locate it. I think it’s not accidental that the most powerful people at the moment are not the artists but the curators. We are in an age of curation and I suppose the Museum of Loneliness is a kind of joke at its expense.
Post-cinema explores this idea that films are not just something that happens in a cinema; it’s our memories, it’s what we forget, it’s the fragments taken out of context and re-constructed. Do you think in a world increasingly mediated by screens and the corporations that control those screens that post cinema is empowering to an individual spectator?
The reason we decided to show Negative Space (1999) as part of the programme is that it’s essentially a piece about Manny Farber, who is an American painter and critic who was writing throughout the 40s and 50s, really paying attention to the kind of movies that no-one else paid attention too. He was so quick on the B-movie before the French picked up on all that stuff. I started reading Farber in the 70s simply because I was in a bookshop and saw this book which had the title Negative Space and I thought “I don’t care what’s it about, I’m going to buy it,” and then it turned out to be Farber writing on cinema. The thing I liked about it immediately is he never told you what the story was. The problem we always had at the time, because I was writing for Time Out, was all film reviews had to be 150 words, and in that space you can’t really tell the story. So we looked at other ways of trying to explain what a particular film might be about and, while trying to deal with this problem, I stumbled across Farber who said that actually narrative was not the important part of film, it's space. He listed various kinds of space and when we made the film we added to that list by saying there’s also the space between the screen and the viewer and what goes into that space. That was really the start of thinking in terms of the next stage of cinema, which does lead to post-cinema, which is basically the movie that's inside your head: you become the accumulation of all the films that you have seen. I think that everything is so controlled now in terms of screens, I don’t see many types of American movies these days, but they seemed to be entirely controlled by, I don’t know, a kind of amnesia? I don’t know! Anyway, a slightly rambling answer!
“Today our primary relationship is with the screen, it's not really with each other anymore” – Chris Petit
In your article for Sight and Sound, 'Post Mortem', you spoke about how the Lumiere brothers would have recognised the creative process in filming and editing Radio On (1979), but not in Content (2010). Is this because of the fall of analogue technologies and the rise of the digital?
Yes, I think there was a move away from an industrial mechanical process. When I started working on film, it was celluloid, it was mechanical. You had to actually physically cut it and join it together and the reel that you started off cutting was the reel that became the film. I think the Lumiere brothers would have understood that. Then, with the coming of memory stick, everything completely changed. I think with non-linear editing it all started to change as well. The whole transition from celluloid to memory stick is, I think, what it’s about.
In Museum we hear ‘we are analogue rather than digital’, this line really struck me because both analogue and digital can be profoundly post-modern and yet you differentiate them, quite rightly, as two different technologies of cinema. Could you elaborate on that idea and what it is to be human and analogue in a digital age?
I think we are made up of waves, rather than squares! It’s quite interesting, now that we have gone digital there is a kind of aversion to analogue technology. I remember when CDs came out, everyone said you can smear marmalade on it and it will still work, and actually one is discovering the limitations of this technology. I suspect things will become more digital, I suspect people will become more digital, and this is a transformation that will have advantages and disadvantages, but things will change. Even the silly thing that happens on Amazon, “you bought this book, maybe you would like to buy this one.” It's quite scary how they get it right most of the time! And they chuck up stuff at you that is quite interesting, but they never come up with anything really original, it kind of ends up making you look quite boring and then they throw in something and you think “No, absolutely not!” I think it is a shock to realise one is just an accumulation of one’s pin numbers. In terms of the argument, I’m not against these changes, but I think that because change is so rapid there has been very little time to catch up. Like the other day, I was looking at a box of VHS. One is getting to the point that in ten years time you would quite like to see what a VHS looks like.
Yeah, it's this movement towards something you can actually hold rather than something you have just downloaded.
That’s the other thing [we did] when Museum of Loneliness started; again it wasn’t a Luddite thing, we thought it should be the opposite end of dot com, which is why we started producing these very, very limited pamphlets. People are terribly grateful if you give them something to hold. Test Centre, who I’ve been working with, are also very good at saying “actually, we will produce 300 of these and once they are gone they are gone, you can’t have anymore.” It’s the opposite of endless downloading.
Are there any new projects you are working on? Can we expect more post-cinema at the GFT?
Well, we have been asked to do something for the Oberhausen Film Festival, which is an exercise in post-cinema. We're not allowed to have images. We're doing this project called Lee Harvey Oswald's Last Dream. Oswald was arrested in the cinema after the assassination of Kennedy, he was watching a double bill of War is Hell and Cry of Battle and I thought we'd produce some kind of sound montage based around that idea and the fact that Oswald was arrested in the cinema. At a certain point in time, I want to spin the audience using an infra-red technique, preferably a camera that gives off the witnesses' body heat as well. At the end we'll have police burst in and arrest Oswald.

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This is really unbelievable.
Nancy Pelosi just blatantly lied, even when corrected by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos who pressed her on Schiff’s outrageous “parody” re-telling of how the Trump-Ukraine call went down – you know, the one Schiff totally made up to make Trump look like the presidential equivalent of a mafia boss?
According to Pelosi, Schiff was “using the president’s own words.”
According to reality, this is completely untrue!
When Pelosi said Schiff used President Trump’s words verbatim in his dramatization of the phone call before Congress, Stephanopolous stepped in during the interview to correct her, pointing out that Schiff, did, in fact make up his “interpretation” of the phone call.
In response to this, Pelosi again insisted,
“He did not make it up.”
Watch Pelosi flat out lie during her interview on Good Morning America here:
Here's a longer clip from Pelosi's interview:
This is the Speaker of the House we are talking about, defending a colleague who lied to Congress about the contents of a phone call to get the President of the USA impeached, and doing it by piling on more lies!
The only silver lining in this is the reply tweets to Pelosi:
This Twitter user questioned if this is yet another "parody" by Dems...
Another hilariously commented on Schiff, along with child climate activist Greta Thunberg, who have both given dramatic performances at the expense of facts before governments in recent days...
America isn't buying it, Nancy Pelosi and House Dems!
ABC News has more to say on Pelosi's interview on the network:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is “scared” of the impeachment inquiry she launched last week centered on a whistleblower complaint alleging he pressuredUkraine to help investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
“I think the president knows the argument that can be made against him, and he’s scared,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview in her ceremonial office in the U.S. Capitol, which aired Thursday morning on "Good Morning America."
“And so he’s trying to divert attention from that to where [he’s] standing in the way of legislation,” she said.
Shortly before Pelosi sat for the interview with Stephanopoulos, the president dismissed the inquiry with an expletive and tweeted advice to Democrats to choose “a better candidate” than Hillary Clinton in 2020.
"The Do Nothing Democrats should be focused on building up our Country, not wasting everyone’s time and energy on [B***S***], which is what they have been doing ever since I got overwhelmingly elected in 2016, 223-306," Trump tweeted, referring to the electoral vote. "Get a better candidate this time, you’ll need it!"
Fox News had the following to say about Pelosi's defense of Schiff and the lies she had to say on TV about it:
After Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was criticized for reading a "parody" of President Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended his actions Thursday and claimed he did not embellish any of the facts.
Schiff, who read the dramatization of Trump's call during acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire's hearing, improvised parts of the transcript for effect, and later tried to frame it as satire.
"I want the American people to know what that phone call was about. I want them to hear, it. So yeah [the parody's] fair," Pelosi told "Good Morning America" on Thursday. "It’s sad, but it's using the president’s own words."
"Those weren't the president's words, it was an interpretation of the president's words. They're saying he made this up," ABC News' George Stephanopoulos countered.
"He did not make it up," she replied.
"Look, I want to tell you something -- when I took the oath of office to support and defend the Constitution as my colleagues have done as well, I did not say, I will do this as long as the Republicans can understand the Constitution.
The Daily Caller also noted:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi falsely claimed that Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff’s “dramatic interpretation” of President Donald Trump’s transcript with Ukraine was “the president’s own words” in an interview on ABC News Thursday.
Pelosi spoke to ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America” Thursday and discussed the now-released July 25 transcript of a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which sparked a formal impeachment inquiry into the president. Schiff received pushback after reading a fabricated version of the transcript during a House hearing last week.
Despite the reading being a “dramatic interpretation” of the actual transcript, as Stephanopoulos noted, Pelosi claimed Thursday that Schiff’s reading was the same as what Trump had said to the Ukrainian president.
“I want the American people to know what that phone call was about,” Pelosi said. “I want them to hear it. So, yeah, it’s fair. It’s sad but he was using the president’s own words.”

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The problem with telling people not to generalize is that, well, you’re generalizing. You may very well find that some generalizations fit (e.g. all MIT students have excelled in previous schooling) although seemingly similar ones don’t (e.g. all MIT students have excelled at prior science). Instead of telling you to eschew all stereotypes as you acclimate to the Institute, this article will better enable you discriminate between the precise prejudices and the merely accurate ones. Such is journalism.
First off, there’s the misconception that MIT is an engineering school and thus devoid of anything artsy or emotional. This is wrong on two fronts. Many students, faculty, and administrators are either dedicated entirely to the arts or dabble in it on the side, a fact perhaps most evident in the array of a cappela groups on campus. All this is not to suggest that they are very good in their pursuits, a fact perhaps most evident in the comedy troupes on campus.
Secondly, the School of Engineering is but one of six here, and while some other schools arguably produce engineers as well (such as the School of Architecture and Planning), any attempt to consider, say, members of the Sloan School of Management “engineers” would be a semantic stretch. Furthermore, as these “Sloanies” have grown in number and post-graduation salary over the years, their peers in other departments have come to disparage them out of nothing but jealousy. Management is decried as fluff and the Sloan school perceived as not really part of MIT; even their classes are seemingly sequestered on the far east end of campus. In actuality, a Sloanie’s core curriculum consists of extensive number crunching, with classes required from the econ, math, and EECS departments.
Now comparative media studies, that’s a fluffy major. Having evolved out of a film studies program, CMS classes involve a lot of cartoon watching, web surfing, and music listening under the pretense of academic critique. In a way it’s sort of like going to Harvard.
While Harvard jokes are good for a laugh, Boston University jokes are just elitist and cruel. Many capable individuals attend BU, thanks to their generous scholarships and faux-NYU location. The same holds for BC if you substitute “Catholicism” for “faux-NYU.” Undergrads from either can go on to MIT grad school, so the D-I jock you mock today may be your TA tomorrow. Jokes about Tufts are fine, especially involving Larry Bacow.*
Although not quite neighboring students, time-honored tradition and free busing make Wellesley students a frequent target for blanket statements -- nudge nudge -- as well. Put quite bluntly: Wellesley women are not sluts and should not be treated as such. They only come to MIT to have good time because, well, have you ever tried to have fun around Wellesley? It’s like playing Sims Online. McCormick women, however, are indeed frigid.
Dormitory stereotypes should stop there. The Fantastic Four Freak Dorms (Senior Haus, East Campus, Bexley, Random Hall) would have you believe they are weird, eccentric, and all in all a marked contrast to the “West Campus” dorms. Actually, at MIT there are weirdos and well-adjusted folks all over.
Some dorms -- and their components -- just like to make a bigger deal about their supposed oddity than others. If there is any difference of note between the FFFD and West Campus, it’s that the FFFD seem to have fewer residents of Asian descent than they statistically should. Remember: despite what the Office of Minority Education thinks, Asians are oppressed minorities.
You may be asking: What of the Fraternities? Then people will turn around and look at you, wondering why you’re talking to a newspaper. They’re so far off campus, you might as well be asking about the Cambridge-MIT Institute, or Next House. Why bother when MIT campus itself is so interesting? Some may say it’s not much of a campus, but it has its choice spots. From the aesthetically pleasing, but acoustically counterintuitive Barker Library, down to the massive lobbies within Technology Square, the insides of buildings have many a sight to behold. Judging buildings by their covers just gets you in a crowded quad-turned-quint in Baker, while those that braved Bexley get their own kitchen.** One glaring exception is William H. Gates Building; the name alone should have told us it was going to suck.
**No, it’s true; Bexley has the best rooms on campus. Don’t you feel stupid now?


Kuwait has to address a significant increase in power and water consumption to meet economic growth.
As there is low availability of natural fresh water and a real need to preserve fresh water reserves, re-using cooling water from power plants is one of the solutions to this challenging situation.
The final stage is a recarbonation unit designed by OTV SA comprising a carbon dioxide generation and dosing system, carbon dioxide absorption system and limestone dissolution filters to remineralize the product water to potable standards.
The product water of the RO is then mixed with the one from the already existing Az Zour South Desalination MSF facilities.
Due to the re-use of cooling water from a power plant, a complete intake facilities is not necessary. Only a pit and a pumping station are needed.
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As per the Indian Dairy Association (IDA) projections, there are about 200,000 tonnes of SMP inventory in the country with domestic prices hovering at around ₹220 a kg. Industry insiders noted that while the price difference isn’t attractive for SMP, there is a lucrative proposition to export butter and fat. The GDT butter auctions quoted at $4,735 a tonne, which works out to about ₹346 a kg, whereas in India, the domestic butter prices hover at around ₹299-300 a kg. “The SMP prices haven’t hardened much. But international butter prices are more than ₹40 a kg than the domestic price. That may have some impact on domestic butter prices. There is also a possibility of export of fat because the prices are attractive abroad,” RG Chandramogan of Hatsun Agro told BusinessLine highlighting the export prospects for Indian dairy products. At the GDT auctions, prices of Anhydrous Milk Fat, Butter, SMP Lactose, Whole Milk Powder have reported a surge in the range of 2 percent to 17 percent. Experts noted that in the international market, China and the Middle East nations have opened up with large orders which is believed to have triggered hardening of prices. RS Sodhi, Managing Director, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) said that higher international prices will be much beneficial for the local farmers. ‘No cheap imports’
“There is no chance of cheap imports to India. We see demand for SMP, white butter and butter oil in the international market. The price difference in butter and butter oils is about ₹40 a kg, a good incentive to export,” he said, adding that the SMP prices that works out at ₹230-240 will restrict any possible decline in the SMP prices in the domestic market. IDA has also represented the Finance Ministry to encourage dairy products exports at a time when India can enjoy price advantage for local farmers. GS Rajorhia, President, IDA, said that the industry will need export support from the government to ship the extra SMP stocks when the prices are higher in the international market. “The SMP prices are higher now but that doesn’t matter because even now there is not much difference,” he added.

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Le Ménagier de Paris or The Goodman of Paris as it is often translated, is not going to be for everyone. It's intended for a rather specialized audience, but has a number of features which might of interest to a larger audience than one might initially suspect.
The book is a practical guideline to behavior, household management and cooking written by an old and relatively wealthy bourgousie for his young wife. In the French it would be what is called a primary research source, that is to say an actual medieval document. A 1928 translation by Eileen Power has recently been re-released, and is technically a secondary source since the translator has had to make certain choices in the process of translating. For those of us who do not speak Medieval French well enough to read the original, though, it will have to do as a research source.
It is also a remarkably readable book in it's own right, one that may appeal even to those who are not interested in the minutiae of medieval scholarship. The book is broken down into two sections. The first section, in nine articles, covers proper behaviour of a wife, especially a young one. The second, in five articles, treats of household management and cooking.
The first section is a fascinating window into daily life in a fourteenth century metropolis. The instructions remind the reader of how alien life was in that time, how restricted a woman's place was in middle-class medieval society. They also drive home how religion permeated every facet of life, a thing which is also alien to even the most devout Twentieth Century USAian. It provides a glimpe of a time and culture which is one of the roots of ours today, but which is, for all that, very strange to us.
The second section is a strange mix of the most useful and the most useless informaton, at least to most modern readers. The cooking section is remarkably accessible. A competent modern cook should be able to adapt ("redact," in the jargon) most of the recipes without too much effort, and may find much to spark their own culinary imagination. Mixed in with the recipes, though, are instructions on where to purchase ingredients and how much to pay for them. While this may have been a great boon in 1393 in Paris, it is not so useful these days to know that one should pay 12 pence for ten chickens or that the Porte-de-Paris has nineteen butchers who process 1,900 sheep, 400 oxen, 400 pigs and 200 calves weekly. (Although that may be interesting, it's not usefull in very many situations.)
For those with an interest in medieval daily life, the place of women in medieval Paris, medieval household management or medieval cooking it's a fabulous resource. For everyone else, it's probably not going to be your cup of tea.
Overall Rating: Not Rated

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The primary election results were certified in all Nevada counties last Friday evening– ten days after Election Day. Esmerelda County hand-counted 317 votes after numerous complaints from the public about the voting process. However, Esmerelda County was not the only county to receive complaints.
As reported by The Globe, Joey Gilbert has indicated he may legally challenge the results in the GOP primary for Governor, alleging nine various election violations. Alleging widespread fraud, Gilbert is refusing to concede the primary election after vote counts show he lost the nomination to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo in the race for Nevada governor. Gilbert received 27.6 percent of the vote and swept the majority of rural counties. Lombardo received 38.4 percent of the vote, winning both Washoe and Clark Counties. Those two counties comprise more than 87 percent of the state’s active registered voters.
Gilbert’s supporters, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal, “spewed vitriolic insults” at county registrar Joe Gloria during the election certification meeting of the Clark County commissioners:
The Clark County Commission certified its primary election results ahead of Friday’s deadline to canvass the votes after a tense meeting that saw election deniers spew vitriolic insults at the county’s top election official.
Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria told the commission that his department’s review showed there were no tabulation errors in the count and that “no discrepancies were identified.” The commission voted unanimously to certify the results.
The meeting lasted more than two-and-a-half hours after dozens of people, many of whom were wearing Gilbert campaign T-shirts, complained ahead of the canvass and repeated many of the claims made by Gilbert during the public comment period.
The group also heckled Gloria multiple times during his presentation, and several from the crowd approached Gloria after the vote and screamed profanities and insults at him and the commissioners.
Washoe County also certified the election results by Friday’s deadline. As reported by The Globe, the last person to vote on primary election day in Nevada was in Incline Village, an unincorporated area of the county. The average wait time to vote was over an hour due to the size of the voting location, inadequate parking, voter turn out, few poll workers, and a malfunctioning voting machine. After the Washoe County registrars office referred The Globe to call 311 to inquire about the numerous complaints we had received from Incline Village residents, The Globe has since been assured by the county’s media manager that the county will add additional voting locations for the general election.
The Las Vegas Review Journal reports:
In Washoe County, the board of commissioners held a special meeting Friday to certify election results. After almost two hours of public comment, the board certified the results by a vote of 4-1. Jeanne Herman, the one commissioner who voted against certification, did not provide comment with her vote.
Washoe County’s audit of its own results found no errors in vote counts. The audit consisted of randomly selecting 20 voting machines and hand-checking some ballots from each machine.
The results of the primary election trended with the polling data as many incumbents retained their seat and the candidates who led in the polls will now head to the general election. The biggest surprise was likely the ouster of Republican incumbent Bob Lucey by Mike Clark in the Washoe County Commissioner race. Clark received 57 percent of the 11,665 votes cast.
Although a red wave has been predicted in Nevada and throughout the country, the latest Supreme Court ruling which overturned Roe V Wade is now a political weapon used by Democratic campaigns against their Republican challengers. However, with inflation hitting Nevada households the hardest, and abortion codified into Nevada law, this recycled rhetoric may work on a few, but when voters are polled, the economy continues to lead their concerns going into the midterms.
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Despite what our parents (and the American Academy of Dermatology) drilled into your head about the importance of wearing sunscreen every day (and how it should be applied before heading outdoors and then re-applied every couple of hours), there are those who still neglect to slather on the UV ray-shielding stuff. And according to new research, they’re paying for it — literally.
The report, published in the JAMA Dermatol, found that people with sunburn-related conditions led to more than 33,000 visits (33,826, to be exact) to emergency departments in the U.S. in 2013, which added up to a whopping $11.2 million in costs.
For the study, researchers studied the demographics and characteristics of 200 patients seen at emergency departments and urgent care clinics for sunburn treatment (blistering, constitutional symptoms, and secondary infection) at two major hospitals in Massachusetts — Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital — over a 15-year period.
During that time, the researchers not only discovered that a significant amount of people visited the centers for sunburn relief, but that psychiatric illness (9.3 percent), alcohol use (6.4 percent), and homelessness (6.4 percent) also contributed to the reasoning behind their sunburn-related visits.
Alcohol impairs our judgment, and according to these findings, can also negatively affect our sunscreen game, says Joshua Zeichner, the director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. “In this study, alcohol was shown to be a predisposing factor a sunburn bad enough that it required a visit to the emergency room,” he tells Allure. “Even without a drink, most people do not apply as much sunscreen as they should and do not reapply. This is much less likely to occur in the setting of drinking when outdoors.”
Back to the sunburns: Zeichner is hopeful we’ll soon see a decrease in the number of people with sunburns. “With the continued efforts of organizations, like the American Academy of Dermatology and the Skin Cancer Foundation, sunburn rates will go down over time, followed by a decrease in skin cancers,” he says. “Even one blistering sunburn can double your risk of developing skin cancer.”
The most trusted form of sunburn prevention is with a hefty dose of sunscreen slathered onto skin — from head to toe — about 30 minutes before you head outdoors, and then every couple of hours afterward, says the American Academy of Dermatology. However, if you somehow manage to skimp on that whole reapplying thing, your chances of burning are obviously significantly higher.


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One of my favorite at-home foods is this appetizer/snack, which I love to munch on while I’m cooking out in my backyard. These are great with cocktails and addictive as hell. They’re easy to throw together and put in the smoker alongside whatever else you may already be cooking in there.
- serves 4 to 6 as an appetizer
- 8 ounces sliced bacon
- 1 pound chicken livers
- 1 cup Jack’s Old South Huney Muney Cluck Rub, or 1 recipe Basic Chicken Rub (page 20)
- 1 1/2 cups Jack’s Old South Hickory Sauce, or 1 recipe Basic Hickory Sauce (page 22)
- Heat a smoker to 325°F.
- Cut each bacon slice in half crosswise. Set the slices aside.
- Rinse the chicken livers and pat them dry. Lightly prick each one with a fork to prevent popping. Sprinkle the livers with the chicken rub. Wrap each liver in a bacon strip, and secure it with a toothpick. Place the wrapped chicken livers in a medium-size aluminum pan.
- Place the pan in the smoker and cook for approximately 10 minutes, or until the bacon is thoroughly cooked.
- Remove the pan from the smoker and glaze the livers thoroughly with the hickory sauce. Munch.
Reprinted with permission from Smokin' with Myron Mixon by Myron Dixon with Kelly Alexander, © 2011 Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Myron Mixon was quite literally born to barbecue. His father, Jack, owned a barbecue take-out business in Vienna, Georgia, which Myron helped run. His parents started selling Jack's Old South Barbecue Sauce, and after his father died in 1996, Myron thought that by entering competitions he could sell some sauce. He was hooked. He has appeared on the Today show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Kelly Alexander is a former editor at Saveur and Food & Wine magazines, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Gourmet , and Newsweek , among others. She also teaches food writing at Duke University and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) – If you heard or felt what you thought was a loud explosion Tuesday night, you're not alone.
The New Hanover County Sheriff's Department was holding a citizen's academy where they teach and explain law enforcement tactics to the public.
Sgt. Brewer with the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office said the department was setting off ordinances with gasoline and C4 explosives.
Brewer said they always let 911 dispatchers know of their plans beforehand, but that a miscommunication with the department caused them to dispatch emergency units to investigate multiple calls of an explosion.
The citizen's academy was held at the NHCSO firing range located off of HWY 421 near the Battleship North Carolina.
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Last weekend we went to Gettysburg to visit the Gettysburg Museum. The gift shop was awesome and we went to the theatre and saw the cyclorama. If you ever get a chance to see the museum I highly recommend the theatre and cyclorama.
The Cyclorama as quoted from the museum website " a breathtaking oil painting that measures 377 feet in circumference and 42 feet high. Longer than a football field and as tall as a four-story structure, the Gettysburg Cyclorama painting immerses visitors in the fury of Pickett’s Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg." What we loved about the painting was the floor around it was built to go into the painting.

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No team wanted to pay the remaining $8 million on his contract.
"His status does not change for us," Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. insisted Wednesday at Bright House Field.
He said the Phillies put Gonzalez on waivers simply because they wanted to make room on the 40-man roster. The Phillies have 37 players on their 40-man roster.
"That doesn't mean he's not part of our plans," Amaro said.
The Phillies thought so much of Gonzalez in the summer of 2013 that they offered him a six-year, $48 million contract. But the deal dropped to $12 million following his physical. Gonzalez's health became an issue in Spring Training '14 and continued early in the '14 season, when he pitched in the Phillies' farm system.
Amaro said Gonzalez's velocity is a tick lower than when they scouted him in 2013. His breaking pitches are not as crisp.
"He's just not as sharp," he said.
Gonzalez had an unbelievable opportunity to be the team's No. 5 starter this season following Cliff Lee's elbow injury, but he instead went 0-3 with a 7.53 ERA in five Grapefruit League appearances. He allowed 25 hits, 12 runs, five home runs and one walk with seven strikeouts in 14 1/3 innings.
"When we evaluate the player and we see how he throws, and we saw he was not effective," Amaro said, "other teams see the same thing."
Asked if another team claiming Gonzalez would have been welcome, considering the Phillies would have saved $8 million, Amaro said: "This is not about money. It never has been. This whole rebuild stuff and the things that we're going through, it's not about money. It's about making sure that we acquire and keep the assets that are necessary for us to move the organization forward in the future."
Surgery likely for Hollands
Amaro said left-hander Mario Hollands, who has a torn common flexor tendon in his left elbow, remains likely to have season-ending surgery. Hollands recently received a second opinion from Dr. James Andrews. "We haven't made any final decisions on that," Amaro said. Hollands, Domonic Brown (left Achilles tendinitis), Cliff Lee (torn left common flexor tendon), Jonathan Pettibone (right shoulder) and Chad Billingsley (right elbow) will open the season on the disabled list.


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Washington -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) announced that it will honor longtime ally and LGBTQ advocate Betty DeGeneres with an Upstander Award at the organization’s fifth annual Time to THRIVE Conference on February 16-18 at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek in Orlando. The announcement comes on the day her daughter, Ellen DeGeneres, who came out publicly two decades ago on her groundbreaking sitcom Ellen, celebrates her 60th birthday.
“Betty has been a tireless, fearless advocate for the LGBTQ community, and we have been proud to call her not only a member of the HRC family for more than two decades, but a true friend,” said Vincent Pompei, Director of HRC's Youth Well-Being Project and Time to THRIVE conference chair. “Betty is the kind of mother all children deserve, and I am so excited to have our conference attendees hear her inspiring message about being a true supporter and ally of LGBTQ youth and the broader LGBTQ community.”
Here are five times Betty DeGeneres has set the standard for #MomGoals during her years as an LGBTQ advocate and ally:
HRC previously announced that it will also honor transgender advocate Gavin Grimm with an Upstander Award during the Time to THRIVE conference. Grimm made history after suing his school district over its discriminatory policy that barred him from using the boy’s restroom, alleging that the district violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. DeGeneres will also join fellow parent-advocates Judy and Dennis Shepard of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. HRC National Press Secretary Sarah McBride, along with HRC’s Parents for Transgender Equality Council, Youth Ambassadors and Welcoming Schools Program will also be featured at the conference.
The event brings together a wide range of youth-serving professionals to discuss best practices for working with and caring for LGBTQ youth and their families in schools, community centers, health care settings and beyond. It is co-presented by the National Education Association and the American Counseling Association. Toyota, BBVA Compass and AT&T are presenting sponsors of the event.
To register, visit www.TimeToThrive.org.
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is education arm of America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.
To make a general inquiry, please visit our contact page. Members of the media can reach our press office at: (202) 572-8968 or email email@example.com.

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I love to take something my child loves to play with and use it in lots of different ways. This can encourage them to try different ways to play, and lets them learn important skills by doing something they love. If you know a child who loves trucks and cars, try these super transport activities.
New reads and schoolroom progress! I've been seeing the beautiful leather couches that @article makes and knew I wanted one for this space. But right at checkout, I quickly changed my mind. Because, #greenvelvet, and also because this space is as much theirs as it is mine and we want this to be a fun, creative space! So glad I went with this choice. It's soft, comfy, and the kids love it!!
Yesterday I was tagged by the lovely @sethandberties #widn so this is me today just off out for a manicure and pedicure and thought I would show this picture to my lovely friend @kristywicks who is renovating her new home and thinking about bold dark colo


Friday Night SmackDown is almost upon us once more! On last week’s show, Triple H announced that there will be a draft “in a few weeks” and that “everybody” is eligible. Therefore, we can expect the SmackDown landscape to be flipped upside down very soon… at least for a few months, by which time WWE creative will have become bored with the brand split once again. Yes, WWE’s lack of commitment to the draft is largely why the announcement – which would have been well-received a decade ago – was largely met with the lukewarm sound of sleeping crickets. Enough about that, though – let’s dive in to this week’s SmackDown card preview!
Xavier Woods Vs. LA Knight
LA Knight has become embroiled in something resembling a feud with the New Day (Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston) in recent weeks. Knight has been very unfortunate during his SmackDown run – having been defeated by a possibly departed Bray Wyatt in the Mountain Dew “Lights Out” match at Royal Rumble (the less said about that, the better), before being whooped by a not messing around Rey Mysterio a few short weeks ago, right before ending up in this storyline with the New Day. Knight is desperate for some big wins and, this week, he might just get one over multi-time tag team champion and former King of the Ring winner, Xavier Woods.
The Return of Shinsuke Nakamura
Oh King of Strong Style, where have you been?! Shinsuke Nakamura has not been seen since a landmark victory over recent WWE Hall of Fame inductee Great Muta at NOAH The New Year 2023 on January 1st – and you would have to go back much further to find his last SmackDown TV appearance. Against Muta in Japan, Nakamura was treated like the bonified, certified star that he is; now that he has been away for so long, can we get the same Shinsuke in the WWE? Nakamura is one of the most gifted, legendary superstars in all of WWE and, indeed, professional wrestling, and all we want is one WWE run where he is treated as such by creative. Let this be a reboot and let the King reign once more. You can see Shinsuke Nakamura and all of the WWE SmackDown card this Friday at 8/7c on FOX!
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Photo Credits: WWE. Stay tuned to the Last Word on Pro Wrestling for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the WWE Network and Peacock.


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Top White House applicant Joe Biden has denied treating a lady gravely when she blamed a Supreme Court chosen one for badgering before Congress in 1991.
Anita Hill had affirmed against Clarence Thomas to a board of trustees led by Mr Biden. His treatment of her proof has for quite some time been censured.
Talking on ABC’s the View on Friday, Mr Biden additionally said that he was “upset for the manner in which she got treated”.
Ms Hill on Thursday told the New York Times she would not underwrite Mr Biden.
The previous US VP under Barack Obama attempted to pack down the discussion daily after formally propelling his White House offer.
Mr Biden has shot to the tip of a packed field of 20 contenders who are competing to turned into the Democratic leading figure in one year from now’s decision against Republican President Donald Trump.


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09 Jun Bruce Clark
Speaker: Bruce Clark
America’s foremost visionaries and authorities on the business and marketing implications of the new consumer, Co-founder of Age Wave and Impact Presentations Group
- A “New” Consumer Marketplace
- 80 million “New” Mature Consumers
- Redefining Healthcare in Post-Reform America
- It’s About “Health Purpose” not “Health Policy”
- The Demise of the Patriarchal System — The Healthcare Cost, Insurance and Benefits Crisis Continues Post Reform
Dr. Bruce Clark has emerged as one of America’s foremost visionaries and authorities on the business and marketing implications of an aging population. In 1986, he co-founded Age Wave LLC., the leading marketing communication firm specializing in baby boomers and mature consumers. He also co-founded IPG, a firm created to guide organizations in advertising, customer service and alternative futures.
Many of his groundbreaking business initiatives in financial services, healthcare and consumer products, among other industries, have significantly defined this emerging market niche. He works extensively with the boards and management teams of leading companies world-wide implementing IPG’s proprietary LifeChange/LifeChoice consumer segmentation model to maximize sales and marketing results.
A nationally acclaimed speaker, Dr. Clark’s presentations are uniquely enriched by his research-based consumer knowledge and his award winning concept of “Experiential Learning”. By combining the best in modern presentation technology and 20 years of cutting edge research, he creates an “experience” in learning that is insightful, entertaining, and sets a new standard for keynote presentations and corporate education. He has published extensively and is called on frequently by the national media for his candid observations and strikingly accurate predictions.
Among Dr. Clark’s most prominent accomplishments has been the production of the 20-part PBS series Caring for an Aging Society which won Business TV Magazine’s award for the “Most Important Social Contribution Made Through Business Television”. He recently helped launch the Mature Market Study, an ongoing research panel of 3,500 boomers and seniors in 20 major U.S. markets. In addition, he is currently managing a national study focused exclusively on quantifying the consumer dreams and aspirations of “the new mature consumer”.
A “New” Consumer Marketplace
What recent research reveals about the perspectives of providers, employers and consumers on the future of healthcare, what consumers want from their healthcare provider, and strategies for successfully segmenting this emerging market. What this “new mature consumer” wants from healthcare and the business opportunities that are about to emerge.
80 million “New” Mature Consumers
80 million baby boomers are entering their high utilization years with unprecedented service demands, a redefinition of quality and little in common with the previous generations “reverential” approach to their healthcare providers. This will be the most demanding and skeptical consumer to ever inhabit a “waiting room”. What are the service and quality demands of this new mature consumer?
Redefining Healthcare in Post-Reform America
In this program, Dr. Bruce Clark delivers 6 trends that will redefine our future in healthcare.
It’s About “Health Purpose” not “Health Policy”
What matters most for your constituents in post-reform America is to stay laser-focused on how customer/patient needs and concerns are evolving vs. getting to mired in the details of reform. For them, it is about “health purpose” vs. “health policy”. You want attendees leaving your meetings thinking about the opportunity they have to make a real difference in the lives of millions of mature consumers who are uncertain at this transformative moment in American HC.
The Demise of the Patriarchal System — The Healthcare Cost, Insurance and Benefits Crisis Continues Post Reform
As consumers enter their high utilization years, “faith in” healthcare is being replaced by “fear of” healthcare. Healthcare costs and the loss of insurance and benefits consistently rank at the top of lists of what consumers fear most. Just as Americans have had to assume the burden of financing their retirement, they are now confronted with the additional burden of financing their families’ healthcare. The defining characteristics of patients in a post healthcare reform world

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An increasing number of qualitative and quantitative research papers in health economics and genomics have been published in recent years. To keep track of these publications, and to have a useful summary of available publications at hand, researchers at HERC have set up a database of health economics and genomics studies. I have helped to set up this database, as has Sarah Wordsworth, but a first-year PhD student, Patrick Fahr, has undertaken most of the hard work and should receive the lion’s share of the credit!
Briefly, the publications included in this database were identified using a scoping review. This review did not address a specific research question, nor did it encompass the quality assessment of selected papers. Each of the included papers has been categorised by “Type” of publication. We distinguish between papers that focus on methods, (systematic) reviews, economic evaluations, other applied works, and commentaries. In addition, authors that have been particularly active in the field of health economics and genomics are integrated into the database in a way that simplifies the search for author-specific publications (the profile and affiliation of each author can be found at the bottom of the table).
In total the database includes 413 publications from 56+ authors. You can read more about the database and download version 1.0 here. If you use this database as a data source for a published paper or report, please cite the database as follows:
Fahr P, Buchanan J, Wordsworth S. 2018. HERC database of health economics and genomics studies, Version 1.0 (Last updated 30.04.2018). Available at www.herc.ox.ac.uk
As the included papers were identified using a scoping review, the database may not include every paper in health economics and genomics. If a relevant paper is missing from the database, please do pass this information on to Patrick Fahr (firstname.lastname@example.org). The current version (1.0) is based on a search conducted in April 2018 and the database will be updated quarterly.

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Thanks to the archived pages of JET magazine, we'll get to take another trip on the way back machine and check out a little trans history with soul.
This time we're going to travel back to November 1995 and the North Carolina campus of Fayetteville State University. We're going to tell the story of transwoman Sharon Franklin Brown's brush with job discrimination.
Sharon grew up in a southern African-American community, feeling the usual angst about her gender issues and sensing her family's shame about them. After telling her parents she was going to make the physical changes to complete her transition, they disowned her for 18 years.
Fast forward to the Fayetteville State campus. The then 29 year old Sharon had been transitioning for seven years at the time was on hormones and working toward getting SRS.
She was attempting to switch from a part time position as a resident adviser in a women's dorm on this HBCU campus to a full time position.
Her supervisor, the late Iris Hunt-Smith said at the time in a Jet interview she was the best residence director she'd ever had.
But when Sharon's old male name popped up while checking her Social Security number, the administrators learned that she was a transwoman.
So what did they do? Bounced her out the door, citing misrepresentation on her application.
Sharon begs to differ. She said at time, "If I wasn't performing up to par I could understand. But the only decision was made according to gender. My being let go had nothing to do with performance. I would still be there today had they not found out."
That was cosigned by her boss Hunt-Smith, the then director of student housing. "She was an excellent residence director. She was doing a good job so I was very sad to see her go."
That experience galvanized her to become an activist and speak to GLBT organizations and groups at various North Carolina universities about her situation such as Duke and the University of North Carolina.
She's still an activist on GLBT employment issues, but now lives in Los Angeles and works for the LA Gay and Lesbian Center there.
You can check out this footage of Sharon speaking at a USC School of Social Work's All School Day on February 7, 2008.
Sharon Franklin Brown continues to remind us why ENDA is vitally important and needs to pressed far more aggressively to final passage than the community is currently doing.
I'm also happy to see that Sharon is still fighting for and representing the African descended trans community as well.


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Researchers noted in a Fertility and Sterility journal that sitting for 90 minutes in a heated car seat may not be as luxurious as expected. Because sperm are dependent on a constant temperature lower than that of body temperature, direct heat from seat heaters may have long-term effects on male fertility.
Ideally, sperm production occurs at around 93.2 F (34 C). This is 5.4 F (3 C) below normal body temperature of 98.6 F (37 C ). But your testicles can get too cold for good sperm production, too.
Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire
The above is an expression, and part of the lyrics of a Jerry Lee Lewis song popularized in a 1957 record release, which is actually an old Southern saying, meaning “OMG” or “Holy Cow.” But if you are at all athletically inclined or able to work up a sweat, you might experience a sensation whereby your testicles seem to be abandoning your body – lowering to escape spermicide caused by too much body heat.
Next time you hear a guy address another, “How’re they hangin’?” you might be reminded that nature has imbued testicles with the ability to sense variations in body and outside-of-body temperatures. They rise to the occasion of a lower outside air thermometer reading, and descend when the opposite happens within the body.
This actually is also the case with mammals in general. Sperm production is intrinsically dependent on the temperature of the testicles. Sperm is best produced when testicles are below body temperature. The scrotum, you know, that pouch of skin containing the testicles is the regulator. Kind of the mechanism to protect the species survival, you might be inclined to think.
Expansion and contraction allow heat transfers between blood that flows into the testes via spermatic cord arteries. Blood also flows out via veins in the same cord. Results? The blood is cooled or heated before entering the testes. There are, of course, limits to temperature control.
In extreme heat, this natural cooling mechanism may not be sufficient to prevent testicular temperature rise that can cause the quality and quantity of sperm produced. Most unsafe heat exposure occurs in occupational situations.
“A number of studies have demonstrated an association between sperm quality and heat exposure. A large case control study found that men exposed to heat because of their occupation were 1.8 times more likely to have morphologically abnormal sperm. They were also 1.8 times more likely to have been trying unsuccessfully to conceive for more than one year, than men who had not been occupationally exposed to heat.
Studies have also demonstrated that the following occupational groups have a higher risk of infertility, which is thought to be related (at least in part) to testicular heat exposure.”*
Another study, from the ASRM (American Society for Reproductive Medicine), discussed the influence of a heated versus an unheated car seat on scrotal temperature. This study suggests that the frequent use of a heated car seat represents an additional scrotal, and consequently, testicular heat stress factor to that which is present by merely sitting for long periods.
“It is too early to (make) any conclusions concerning the influence of heating car seats on semen quality,” researchers told Reuters Health.**
Another more recent comprehensive evaluation (of relevant articles published between 1970 and 2017) cited “Hypogonadism and erectile dysfunction can be associated with sports with high rates of head injuries, such as American football. Although early reports linked other sports, such as bicycling, to erectile dysfunction, subsequent studies isolated these associations to sports cycling rather than recreational cycling. Certain sports (football, basketball, handball, and volleyball) were linked to increasing prevalence and severity of varicocele, offering a potential link to male infertility. In addition, recreational activities such as sauna, hot tubs, Jacuzzis, heated car seats, and laptop use were associated with high testicular temperature, which can impair spermatogenesis. Radio frequency electromagnetic waves from cell phones and laptops have also been shown to have deleterious effects on sperm viability and motility.” ***
The Boston Medical Centers & Your General Health
Having treated hundreds of thousands of men worldwide, Boston Medical Group Telemedicine physicians understand both the physical and psychological effects of sexual dysfunction. With that in mind, all of Boston Medical Group Telemedicine medical centers are built with individual waiting rooms to create comfortable and private patient experience.
All visits are by appointment only to limit the number of patients in the office at any given time. Further, The Boston Method® is designed so that all testing and treatment is completed right there in the office without the need for any off-site travel. http://www.bostonmedicalgroup.com/the-boston-method


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Last week, Apple has provided an in-depth update on its progress towards becoming completely carbon neutral in its supply chain by 2030. Now the company has announcement a new partnership with Climate Asset Management to expand its “Innovative Carbon Removal Restoration Fund”.
In a press release, Apple revealed that the expansion will double its “total commitment to advancing high-quality, nature-based carbon removal projects.” The Restore Fund was first introduced in 2021 with “a commitment of up to $200 million with Conservation International and Goldman Sachs.”
In today’s announcement, Apple said it would invest up to an additional $200 million in the fund. It will be managed by Climate Asset Management, a joint venture between HSBC Asset Management and Pollination.
The new fund will support high-impact carbon removal projects for Apple’s supply chain and a “new portfolio of carbon removal projects.”
Apple created the Restore Fund to encourage global investments to protect and restore critical ecosystems and scale natural carbon removal solutions. This approach also helps address residual emissions that companies cannot yet avoid or reduce with existing technology.
As part of the expansion, Apple will invest up to an additional $200 million in the new fund, which Climate Asset Management — a joint venture of HSBC Asset Management and Pollination — will manage. The new portfolio also aims to eliminate 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year at its peak while generating a financial return for investors. For Apple suppliers who become partners in the fund, it will also offer them a new way to integrate high-impact carbon removal projects as they decarbonize.
Apple’s goals through its initial investments with Conservation International and Goldman Sachs include restoring 150,000 acres of “Certified Sustainable Working Forests” and protecting an additional 100,000 acres of native forests, grasslands and wetlands.
“Together, these projects are expected to remove 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually by 2025,” says Apple. “Carbon removal is essential to combat climate change and achieve global climate goals, as highlighted by leading scientific bodies like the IPCC.”
Finally, Apple announced that it was “deploying innovative remote sensing technologies” to help it better monitor and measure the results of Restore Fund projects. It also “explores the use of the LiDAR scanner on the iPhone to improve field surveillance capabilities.”
You can find the full press release at Apple on its website.
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Yesterday I went out for a walk and I was mesmerised by the colours of Autumn. Although the leaves are falling and the lush green seems to have disappeared – Autumn and her vibrant array of colours left me breathless. I just had to capture what I was seeing and feeling. As it goes I am in love with some of the amazing photographs you see on Instagram of warm autumnal sets ups.
Burnt oranges, browns, creams and whites all in beautiful chorus with each other. Autumns harmony is sweet and we cannot get enough of it.
So here is a collection of some of our street photography. We will create another post with more shots… we still have to go Pumpkin Picking.
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I thought I didn't have anything to say yesterday but today's post may be even shorter. All I did yesterday was a bock of errands--bank, library, grocery, birdseed store--then I filled the bird feeders, loaded the dishwasher, baked a pizza for supper, and ripped an audiobook on CDs into iTunes so I could put it on my iPod Touch to listen to on the go. Written out like that it sounds like a pretty full, productive day but not one bit of it was photogenic.
I didn't knit. The only yarn-y thing I did was try to figure out a crocheted snowball pattern I've been battling since August. I finally messaged the designer on Ravelry to see if she can help me. I hoped for a tutorial video but she didn't make one because she said that then people wouldn't buy her pattern. That makes sense; I'd really like a video, but it makes sense. So here's the "cage", now I just need to figure out the spiral parts that make it look and throw like a snowball. Don't ask me why I'm doing this, besides to make myself frustrated. You know I like to make oddball things. I crocheted a tea set over the last few weeks and I sewed a stove on Sunday, didn't I? *shrugs* See? Oddball stuff.
There are just a few remaining tufts of gorgeous red leaves on the maple tree. I look around at all the still-green maple trees in the neighborhood and it makes me sad, but ours sure is pretty in the morning sunlight.
October 14--Mark Duran, BT-1003 V. The sunset made the clouds look like there was an explosion behind them, but there was no sound, no wind. The bay lay like a blanket as the daylight drifted west. Olivia sat on her porch, a mug of tea in her hand. It was herbal tea, some concoction of leaves and stems. She'd have preferred a glass of wine but wine was a thing of her past, just like Jeremy was.
Okay, another story start that trickled off into scrawls and scribbles as I fell asleep at the switch. It's a sunny, cool day here in beautiful Green Bay, the kind of day I wish would last all year long. Have a good one.


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Despite the highest Labor Day gas prices since 2014, AAA is predicting a large number of Coloradans will hit the road over the weekend.
The AAA Colorado’s projection is for 640,000 residents to drive 50 or more miles away from home, the most Labor Day travel since 2005.
Gas prices will be between $2.80 and $2.95 a gallon, with Vail having the priciest gas at $3.24 a gallon. Boulder-Longmont has the cheapest gas at $2.71, and Denver is at $2.77, six cents lower than the national average.
“Coloradans just aren’t worried about what they pay at the pump, given our high consumer confidence and low unemployment rate,” AAA Colorado spokesman Skyler McKinley said.
AAA Colorado anticipates helping about 7,000 motorists over the holiday weekend for a variety of reasons: dead batteries, locksmith help, flat tires and empty gas tanks. All told, 49 percent will involve a tow.


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It's been said breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but according to one biochemist, forcing kids to eat breakfast is a form of child abuse.
Oxford Professor Terence Kealey suggests parents shouldn't force their little ones to eat breakfast. "I would let the kids decide for themselves if they want breakfast," said Kealey. "Lots of kids don't want to eat breakfast. If you're worried, give them an apple or something, but the idea that you should force them to eat breakfast is a form of child abuse."
Kealey has type 2 diabetes, so he thinks forcing your child to eat when they don't want to could put them at risk for the condition.
Raven's take: Asking a kid to eat some oatmeal hardly seems abusive. Plus, kids might not be ready to eat when they head out the door at 7 a.m., but when their tummy starts rumbling at 9 a.m., they don't have the luxury of eating in class. Go ahead, coax your kids into eating breakfast if you think it's best.
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#1 According to The New York Post, nearly all of the major Wall Street banks are planning huge layoffs….
“Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley currently are among those financial institutions either weighing staff cuts or actually paring payroll”
#2 A new CNBC article claims that a “negative feedback loop” has “taken control” on Wall Street. Essentially what is happening is that bad economic news is creating an “environment of pessimism” which creates even more bad economic news, etc. etc.
#3 OPEC has announced that oil production levels will not be raised. This is likely to spook the financial markets and cause the price of oil to go up even higher in the coming weeks. The last time U.S. energy expenditures were over 9 percent of GDP was back in 2008 and at that point the economy rapidly plunged into a very deep recession. For the first time since 2008 we have reached the 9 percent figure again, and many on Wall Street fear that this could lead to bad things.
#4 QE2 will be wrapping up at the end of June, and many on Wall Street had been counting on yet another round of quantitative easing. Over the past couple of days, however, it has started to become clear that is just not going to happen – at least for now. In fact, Pimco’s co-chief investment officer, Bill Gross, is telling investors that for the Fed it will “be difficult to initiate a QE3“. But without artificial stimulation the U.S. economy may start really struggling again, and Wall Street knows this.
#5 Moody’s recently warned that it may downgrade the debt ratings of Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. Bank stocks were on the cutting edge of the financial collapse of 2008, and it looks like that may happen again this time.
#6 Faith in the U.S. dollar continues to decline. Back on April 18th, Standard & Poor’s changed its outlook on U.S. government debt from “stable” to “negative” and warned that the U.S. could soon lose its AAA rating. China has been very busy dumping short-term U.S. government debt and there does not seem to be a lot of people (other than the Federal Reserve) that are eager to buy U.S. Treasuries right now.
#7 U.S. consumer confidence is already lower than it was back in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed. Consumer spending makes up approximately 70 percent of the U.S. economy and Wall Street is watching this number closely.
#8 A whole slew of bad economic news has been pouring in lately. Mike Riddell, a fund manager at M&G Investments in London, recently pointed out to CNBC some of the data points that have been particularly alarming….
“US house prices have fallen by more than 5 percent year on year, pending home sales have collapsed and existing home sales disappointed, the trend of improving jobless claims has arrested, first quarter GDP wasn’t revised upwards by the 0.4 percent forecast, durables goods orders shrank, manufacturing surveys from Philadelphia Fed, Richmond Fed and Chicago Fed were all very disappointing.”
“I think right now we’re on the tipping point of a market correction. Data from the U.S., from Europe, from Japan, from China are suggesting an economic slowdown.”
#10 According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, 48% of Americans believe that it is either “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that the United States will experience a “depression” within the next 12 months. Needless to say, Wall Street is highly influenced by the overall mood of the nation.
Once again, let’s hope that financial disaster can be averted for as long as possible. The last thing the United States needs right now is another major crisis.
But America has been hit by a whole series of natural disasters in 2011. We have seen unprecedented tornadoes, historic flooding along the Mississippi River, and horrible wildfires in Texas and in Arizona.