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With the passing of Steve Jobs, one o the great innovators of our time, we need to take a look at what he has accomplished. Everyone knows about the iPad, iPhone, iPod etc, but did you know?:
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak helped to invent the game Breakout for Atari
Using LSD and consulting a Buddhist priest in India was one of the highlights of his life
He got the Mac interface in 1984 from Xerox when they were giving it away. Xerox said they couldn't figure out how to market it.
Mac OS X was the operating system Apple bought from Jobs NEXT computer corporation after he was hired back in 1997.
The NEXT OS was the computer used to host the first website on the internet.
Jobs left a 4 year plan of products to be rolled out after his death.
The iPhone 4S was revealed the day before Job's death. Besides it's increased speed and better quality camera, it has incorporate Siri into the OS. Siri is a company Apple bought, and it allows the user to ask it questions, such as "how do I find a Greek restaurant in Portland?" This goes one step beyond Google's speech to text app, as Siri will answer back instead of just showing you text results. Sprint will also get a 4S phone. 1 million 4s phones were ordered in the first 24 hours.
AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint are all launching the iPhone 4S next Friday, but AT&T is doing its best to ensure consumers know that not all iPhones are created equal. The presence of HSPA 14.4 gives the iPhone 4S a theoretical download speed ceiling of 14.4Mbps, but only if you're on an HSPA network. Here in the U.S., Verizon Wireless and Sprint both employ EV-DO 3G networks while AT&T customers will enjoy speeds over HSPA that are twice as fast, the company says. "We can't wait for our customers to experience the incredible new iPhone 4S on our 4G network and enjoy download speeds of up to twice as fast," said AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega in a statement.
Sprint announced that it will move away from Clear as it's 4G product. Sprint has owned a large share of Clearwire and the wimax product, but now Sprint is going to use exclusively the LTE product in the near future. Clearwire's stock sunk after that announcement. Clearwire shot back that it's not dead yet, and it has an integration program that will woo Sprint back, but Sprint says it's probably too late.
Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday it had delayed the launch of a new smartphone based on Google's latest version of Android operating system while the world paid tribute following the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The delay also comes as intensifying legal battle between Apple and Samsung is set to reach the most crucial moment this week, with the two technology giants set to meet in courtrooms in the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea and Japan. Samsung had planned to introduce the new product based on the Ice Cream Sandwich system, which will unite the Android software used in tablets and smartphones, at its Mobile Unpack event in San Diego on Tuesday. "We decided it was not the right time to announce a new product while the world was expressing tribute to Steve Jobs's passing," a Samsung spokesman said.
Netflix Inc. (NFLX) on Monday reversed course on separating its movie-streaming and DVD-by-mail businesses into two different websites, easing customer outrage but raising more questions about Chief Executive Reed Hastings' recent moves. Hastings in a statement on Netflix's blog acknowledged that the planned split would make "things more difficult" for many of its members. Users had expressed anger about plans for the new site, which had been dubbed Qwikster. And customers also have been upset about recent price increases, which Hastings on Monday defended as necessary. "Consumers value the simplicity Netflix has always offered, and we respect that," Hastings said in a press release. "There is a difference between moving quickly--which Netflix has done very well for years--and moving too fast, which is what we did in this case."
All of the upcoming devices supporting Microsoft's Windows Phone Mango operating system will sport single-core CPUs, but Microsoft says dual-core devices are on the horizon, as well as those sporting fast LTE 4G support, reports All Things Digital. And the single-core CPUs don't mean the new crop of Windows Phones will be slouches. "…I suspect that they will be faster in usage than any dual-core phone that you put against it, and that's the point," Windows Phone head Andy Lees said in an interview with All Things Digital. He added that Microsoft is waiting to make sure its software is ready to take advantage of multiple cores.
Research in Motion said Monday morning that customers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia may be experiencing service problems, which carriers referred to as total outages. Separately, RIM announced an NFC-based technology, called BlackBerry Tap, that will allow Blackberry users to share contacts and other data just by tapping the latest Blackberry phones together. BlackBerry's help account acknowledged the issues beginning at 8 AM Monday morning. "RT @BlackBerryHelp Some users in EMEA are experiencing issues. We're investigating, and we apologise for any inconvenience."
The U.S. government obtained secret court orders to force Google Inc and a small Internet provider to hand over information from email accounts of a WikiLeaks volunteer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The U.S. request included email addresses of people that Jacob Appelbaum, a volunteer for the campaigning website, had corresponded with in the past two years, but not the full emails, the newspaper said, citing documents it had reviewed. Internet provider Sonic said it fought the government order legally and lost, and was forced to turn over information, the company's chief executive, Dane Jasper, told the newspaper. Appelbaum, 28, has not been charged with any wrongdoing, the daily said.
A steam-powered car, billed as the oldest car in the world that still runs, was sold at a Hershey, Pa. auction late Friday for $4.6 million. The auction company, RM Auctions, had estimated that the car would sell for about half that much. It represents the highest price ever paid for an early automobile at auction. The price includes a 10% "buyer's premium" which goes to the auction company. The car was built in France in 1884, about a year before Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz of Germany, who went on to found the carmakers that would become Daimler (DDAIF), maker of Mercedes-Benz luxury cars, built their first experimental gasoline-powered cars.
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I’d like to start this discussion with data released by the AAP 2 days ago. To look at the granular data you must download the full reports, linked at the URL above as pdfs.
Having dealt with US Covid data for over a year, the most germane message I have come away with is that US data are seriously screwed up. And I finally concluded it was all deliberate. It seems that one purpose of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to generate bizarre statistics in order to make it impossible for ordinary citizens to use them in a methodologically appropriate way.
Here is one way this is done. Each state collects data in a unique or idiosyncratic manner. So how could you expect CDC to get the numbers right? But CDC gives huge grants to the state public health agencies, which bend over backwards to give CDC what it wants, when they are paid to do so. In January, the CDC announced it would be doling out $22 Billion dollars to the states and territories for activities related to Covid, especially track-trace, testing and vaccinations. Do you think some cohesive data collecting could be thrown in for a sum like that?
From my perspective, which could be incorrect, this confusion is how the CDC wants it. Keep the public stupefied. After all, that has proven to be the M.O. for all things Covid so far.
Tonight’s example has to do with child mortality from Covid. The American Association of Pediatrics has been posting detailed statistics about child cases, hospitalizations and deaths on a regular basis. But they don’t have data for all the states. Instead, they provide pediatric data for 43 states, New York City, Puerto Rico and Guam. And they also list 11 states which have just made a change in how they report their data. Nebraska took its Covid dashboard offline on June 30, 2021. Really?
It gets better. The AAP posts hospitalization data for 23 states and New York City. And testing data comes from 11 states. And states or territories or cities can revise their case counts at any time. [A county in California recently reduced their reported Covid deaths by about 30%.
It gets even better. The definition of the pediatric age group varies by state. Some states use 0-17 years. Some use 0-18 years, some 0-19 years and some 0-20 years.
Surely the CDC has better data than this? Here is what CDC had to say in an MMWR report on 121 deaths during the first 6 months of the pandemic, in those under 21, published last September. BTW, 78% of those deaths were in Black, Hispanic or Native populations. Seventy-five percent of the children who died had pre-existing conditions.
Fifty states, New York City, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands were asked to submit information on SARS-CoV-2–associated deaths among persons aged <21 years, including COVID-19 or MIS-C case status (as determined by each jurisdiction), demographics, dates of illness onset and hospitalization, underlying medical conditions, and location of death. Number of days from illness onset to hospitalization, days from hospitalization until date of death, and days from onset to date of death were calculated for decedents with available data…
Among the 55 health jurisdictions invited to submit information on SARS-CoV-2–associated deaths among persons aged <21 years, 47 responded…
So, if you try to generalize, you cannot, because each state collects its data uniquely. Not all appear to provide CDC with the “requested” data. CDC blames the states. And only the central government probably knows what is going on, but they make it very hard to catch them out.Using the AAP data (released 2 days ago) there were 344 pediatric Covid deaths reported (which include some people up to age 21, but omit some states and include some territories.)
If you go to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics there have been 335 deaths in the US in the age 0 through 17 age group from Covid since the start of the pandemic. The NCHS further tells us that these deaths account for 0.7% of all pediatric deaths during the pandemic period.
If you want to search NCHS for adult deaths, CDC has thrown a few curve balls there, too. Most adult age groups listed span 10 years. But one age group, 50-64, spans 15 years.
There are 74 million children in the US. They makes up 22% of the population, but only 0.05% of the Covid deaths. Only 1/4 of the children who died were perfectly healthy. Let me repeat that. Only about 85 healthy US children (roughly one in a million kids) have died of Covid since the start of the pandemic, according to the CDC.
Is Covid an emergency for children? Are the risks from the vaccines (myocarditis, blood clots, Guillain Barre syndrome and others not yet defined) outweighed by the benefits?

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Reynolds America Inc., maker of Camel and Newport cigarettes, is going after JUUL’s share of the vape market with inexpensive vapes, designer vape skins, and a marketing campaign that uses young adult models and musicians that appeal to young adults, the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s a similar practice that got vape giant JUUL in hot water with federal regulators for targeting teens and creating a new generation of nicotine addicts.
Reynold’s Vuse vape devices are flying off store shelves in recent months. The tobacco giant has enticed vapers by selling its vaporizers for as little as 99 cents each, and launching television ads, buying billboard space, and flooding the social media market with ads. Now, the company is hiring musicians and artists for videos that show them designing special skins for their Vuse devices.
Reynolds claims the jump in sales of the Vuse is due to its quality, wide availability, and pricing. The brand has become second only to JUUL in vape sales after scoring an 83% spike in sales in the four weeks ending July 25 compared to the same four weeks last July when Reynolds first dropped the price of its vape pens to less than a dollar. Meanwhile, during the four weekends ending July 25, JUUL sales fell 29%.
JUUL still has about 22% of the vape market share, a drop from its heyday. But the company has struggled under pressure from federal regulators and lawsuits that have criticized the company for its use of flavored e-liquids and its advertisements using social media influencers popular with teens. Thanks to JUUL, teen vaping has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S.
Last year, JUUL agreed to cease all print, broadcast and digital advertisements of its vapes. And in September, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, called on Reynolds and other vape companies to fall in step with JUUL in an effort to curb the rise in teen vaping. Reynolds obviously refused to comply. The company’s marketing tactics are also being investigated by the committee.
Beasley Allen lawyers Joseph VanZandt and Sydney Everett, together with Mass Torts Section Head Andy Birchfield, are currently representing several individuals who are suing the top U.S. vape maker JUUL for the negative impact its products have had on their lives.
Recognizing the critical threat to young people ensnared by nicotine addiction, and its effect on our nation’s educational system, our firm has also joined other nationally recognized law firms to represent school districts and public entities across the country in the fight to stop the school vaping crisis.


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Meddit, specialist in veterinary equipment, shone at the XXII Congress of the World Poultry Association (WVPAC) in Verona, Italy, from 4 to 8 September 2023.
Its products dedicated to poultry health have seduced professionals in the sector, confirming the quality of its equipment.
EPART, an electronic machine for poultry, and qDispenser for laboratories made a particular impression.
This success reflects Meddit's ongoing commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction. The company warmly thanks all congress attendees and continues its mission to improve poultry health around the world through its superior quality products."


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Have you noticed how popular buffalo checks and gingham checks are right now? Lisa, from Fresh Vintage By Lisas, has shared her clever idea to paint a buffalo check design on a few mason jars for Easter and/or spring. I can picture these on a mantel, filled with springtime flowers. And these cute and colorful bunnies look quite adorable with them.
April showers bring May flowers! Jennifer, from Celebrating Everyday Life, had spring showers on her mind as she created this unusual, yet gorgeous spring wreath! The best part of all is it only takes a few minutes to put together. I love quick and easy projects!
Every Easter dinner or buffet needs a luscious and great tasting cake to end your meal with. This lemon chiffon layer cake by Rose Bakes looks so light and delicious, and I think most people really love the fresh taste of lemon.

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Recognized for five decades of invaluable contributions to her field, Ms. White parlays her knowledge into her position as medical system manager for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
CONCORD, MA, July 10, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Jan Soltis Tuttle White has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Recognized for five decades of invaluable contributions to her field, Ms. White parlays her knowledge into her position as medical system manager for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she has been since 1990. Prior to obtaining her first professional role, she earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Bates College. Upon graduating, she started as a member of the corporate staff at IBM Corp, and subsequently took on a role as systems engineer for the company. She began in the systems engineer role the same year she earned an MBA in marketing and operations research from Columbia University, where she had the honor of delivering a 50th anniversary speech. She stated, "As a computer scientist, I have seen my horizon of a more peaceful world evolve. I pushed to do the impossible/implausible at IBM and Digital, Harvard and MIT and most of the world's institutions, large and small, NASA to nano, genome to geriatric...Could any less be expected of a Sputnik-era scientist who just happened to be a girl?" She also notes that, "the idea of 'retirement' has never really seemed wise policy or philosophy to me," so throughout her career, she has worked in a plethora of different positions that have set examples for others in the field. After leaving IBM, she worked for MIT as an assistant to the director of information processing services and as a program manager, and for Digital Equipment Corp. in a variety of managerial and marketing roles.
In order to keep abreast of the many changes in the field of computer science and information technology, Ms. White affiliates herself with the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, the Institute for Management Sciences, and the Operations Research Society of America. Throughout her notable career, she has contributed her knowledge into such creative works as the Disney Channel documentary film, "Silver Men." She has also contributed to books like "An Olde Concord Christmas," "Boston Symphony Orchestra Cookbook," and "In Commemoration of the Technicolor Centennial 1915-2015." As a testament to her success, she has been recognized many times for her work by Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in Finance and Business, as well as through the 10th Anniversary Certificate of Appreciation from the VAX Systems Special Interest Group's U.S. Chapter of Digital Equipment Corp.
During her spare time, Ms. White prides herself on giving back to the community and helping others reach their highest potential. Over the years, she has served with such organizations as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, the Garden Club of Concord, the Hannah Duston Garrison House Association, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as well as many others. She hopes to leave the world, "a better one for having been here."
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text: Potcake Project is proudly sponsored by SAVEDOG Project, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit dog welfare organization founded in 2014 by John Thomas. At Potcake Project, our mission is very simple – we strive to give homeless Potcake dogs the opportunity to live in the home of a lifetime. We view Potcakes as our clients, and we’ll do whatever it takes to exceed our client’s expectations, one wagging tail at a time. We intend to help support the efforts of other potcake rescue organizations, with a common goal of uniting adoptable potcakes with loving forever homes. We also intend to support intelligently implemented spay & neutering programs, the critical “other half of a solution” to the proliferation of homeless, unwanted Potcakes in the Turks & Caicos Islands and Bahamas.

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Jul 14, 2019, 7:41 am61 ptsEmbed from Getty Images Serena Williams lost in the Wimbledon final for the second year in a row. This year, she was beaten by Romanian Simona Halep, who is known as one of the nicest players on the tour. Props to Simona – she was unfazed and bold, and Serena was fazed and flat. Simona is the…
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Prenatal and early life bacterial colonisation is thought to play a major role in shaping the immune system. Furthermore, accumulating evidence links early life exposures to the risk of developing IBD later in life. We aimed to assess the effect of maternal IBD on the composition of the microbiome during pregnancy and on the offspring’s microbiome.
We prospectively examined the diversity and taxonomy of the microbiome of pregnant women with and without IBD and their babies at multiple time points. We evaluated the role of maternal IBD diagnosis, the mode of delivery, antibiotic use and feeding behaviour on the microbiome composition during early life. To assess the effects of IBD-associated maternal and infant microbiota on the enteric immune system, we inoculated germ-free mice (GFM) with the respective stool and profiled adaptive and innate immune cell populations in the murine intestines.
Pregnant women with IBD and their offspring presented with lower bacterial diversity and altered bacterial composition compared with control women and their babies. Maternal IBD was the main predictor of the microbiota diversity in the infant gut at 7, 14, 30, 60 and 90 days of life. Babies born to mothers with IBD demonstrated enrichment in Gammaproteobacteria and depletion in Bifidobacteria.
Finally, GFM inoculated with third trimester IBD mother and 90-day infant stools showed significantly reduced microbial diversity and fewer class-switched memory B cells and regulatory T cells in the colon. Aberrant gut microbiota composition persists during pregnancy with IBD and alters the bacterial diversity and abundance in the infant stool. The dysbiotic microbiota triggered abnormal imprinting of the intestinal immune system in GFM.
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“Wendy” is an offbeat, yet charming little movie of childhood imaginations and not wanting to grow up. If that sounds familiar, then think of a different view of “Peter Pan”. What if that were told from perspective of Wendy? Now you are catching on! Written and directed by the same person who created “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, it blows a gale wind into a stuffy old fairy tale of the “Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up”. Here, the location is changed from creaky old Victorian London to the Deep-Down South. This is where freight trains run next to little diners, and little homes are built over those little diners. It replaces Tea and Crumpets with Sweet Tea and Chitlins…
In an unnamed place, but very much in the Deep South, there is a diner with customers. The Owner has a little girl, and two older twin brothers. The little toddler sees a young boy named Thomas in the diner. Thomas sees something or someone on that train, so he gets up and goes out to the passing train. He grabs on and is taken to a place far, far away. When the young girl gets a bit older Wendy (Devin France) see a mysterious figure on the train again. She makes a jump for it and calls for her two brothers to join her. Douglas (Gage Naquin) joins her on the train, as does the other brother James (Gavin Naquin). They meet up with a much younger boy who goes by the name of Peter (Yashua Mack). He leads them to the end of the tracks, and then into the bayou and onto a rickety rowboat.
Peter takes them to an island with a very active and scary volcano. This place is where all the other kids believe in Peter, and they never grow up. Peter knows that a great underwater beast lives under the island. It brings special powers to the kids, so that they are never hungry or thirsty, and they will never age. Peter calls this huge whale-beast ‘Mother’, and his belief gives him eternal youth. There are other people on the island, and they once believed like Peter does. But they stopped believing, and now they are all old. Wendy explores an old fishing boat with her brothers, but Douglas goes missing. James starts to lose his faith in Peter and in the island. His whole body does not age, but his right hand turns into the hand of an old man…
Peter decides that “Hey – it’s all fun and games until somebody loses a hand”, and that somebody is James. James runs away into the outcast side of the island. This is the place where the ‘Lost Boys’ are sent. Wendy goes after him, but she is shunned by the all the old people. She gives the old folks the wrong idea, and they decide to kidnap Peter and all his young followers. They will use all the kids as bait to try and lure ‘Mother’ out of her underwater cave. After all, if they can capture Mother, they can use her special power to be young again. But it is bad idea, and the much-aged James, once Wendy’s brother, is now a bitter old man. He creates a hook to replace his missing right hand. You got it – now you have Peter versus Captain Hook.
Wendy and Peter are the rightful leaders of the ageless island. But Wendy is missing her own mother, so she and Douglas leave to find their way back home. They grow up – and that’s a horrible thing according to Peter. Once day Wendy might have a young daughter of her own. Then should there be a train passing in the night, and if by chance there is a young boy riding on that train calling and beckoning to Wendy’s little girl… Then who can blame her for running off and making her way to the Neverland Island? When you are a child and you want to stay that way – there is no better place to go – right?
“Wendy” is another interesting movie from Benh Zeitlin. The first movie he made was “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, which was very well-received. It got four Oscar nominations back in 2012. Since that point, he has been working on this movie, writing it along with his sister. The entire retelling of the Peter Pan story, but with a different main focus on Wendy is a brilliant movie. Devin France is very talented young kid, and she has a great performance win this movie. But many of the other people in the movie are less than great – from the other kid actors to the older adult actors.
“Wendy” is a worthwhile effort, and it enjoyable to watch. But it is uneven in parts, and it never quite fleshes out the story in a way that makes it Oscar- worthy (again).
Opens on Friday March 7 – in Phoenix area – will play exclusively at the Harkins Camelview.
Directed by: Benh Zeitlin
Screenplay by: Benh Zeitlin, Eliza Zeitlin
Based on “Peter Pan” (by J. M. Barrie)
Starring: Devin France, Yashua Mack, Gage Naquin, Gavin Naquin
Length: 112 minutes
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expensive and just average, bland food. Went for lunch, tuna melt wasn't that good.
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I visited the Atlantis Resort in December 2011 and my friends and I ate at Murray’s Deli a couple times. Each visit we were pleased with our meals and the service. Prices at Atlantis are always a bit of a shocker, but the portions at...More
This was the best value at the resort. The food was good and sandwiches were very tasty. I would pick this place most nights at Atlantis
We dined here for dinner on New Years Eve. We were seated promptly & attended to by our server promptly. Our waitress was Denice and if you do visit ask if she is available because she was very good. I admit that throughout our visit...More
Very crowded, and long waits for seating. Good for lite meals(Burgers, BLTs, Chicken Etc). Burgers were okay ($12.00) The reubens were filled with fatty corned beef, and loaded with sauerkraut filler. If you want a beer with your meal;$6.50 for a bottle of Bud Lite!
This was by far our best meal! The servings were huge, the place was fun for the kids. We could enjoy our meal without worrying that we would have to take out a second mortgage to pay for dinner! Leftovers for lunch were awesome! Try...More
Everything we had here was good, though several items such as the gravy on our meatloaf were far too salty for my taste. We ate three meals here as there are few places around Atlantis that are as good of value. Service was pretty quick....More
Standard American Cafe fare. Well prepared and cooked to order. When all else doesn't fit your schedule go to Murry's

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Free agent reliever Joel Peralta has finalized a $6 million, two-year contract to remain with the Tampa Bay Rays.
Peralta gets $3 million in each of the next two seasons. The Rays have $2.5 million annual options for 2015-17.
The 36-year-old right-hander went 2-6 with a 3.63 ERA in 76 appearances last season. He was second in the AL in appearances in 2012 and his 147 appearances over the past two seasons are the most in the league. He's coming off a season in which he had a career-best 84 strikeouts while limiting opponents to a .200 batting average and .254 on-base percentage in 67 innings.
Peralta has also pitched for the Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals over an eight-year career.


Here is the new dashboard. A walnut look dash board. I have cut out all the instruments and switches that I am going to install for now.
Just ignore the rivets that hold the aluminium sheet behind the vinyl. It’s sort of obvious from here but when in the pilot seat you hardly see it.
Also have a look at the fuel gauge on the right 🙂 A bit hard to see, but the clear tube in the fuel gauge has a label behind it with diagonal black and red lines. This will clearly show you the difference between “fuel” and “no fuel”.
The switches are for the anti collision light, two for the magneto’s and on the far right the key switch.
Also I put some “3M Safety Walk” on the foot step.
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- With Martin Luther King Jr., Day coming up on Monday, this would be an excellent time to visit NEA’s Human Rights Lesson Plan Library online.
- Consider applying (or encouraging a colleague to apply!) for CTA’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Scholarship Program. This scholarship encourages ethnic minority students to become educators, school nurses, school counselors or school therapists and to promote professional growth for ethnic minority teachers and ESP members. Deadline for applications is February 15, 2019.
- Get inspired by your fellow educators! Check out the latest California Educator Innovation Issue. This edition features inspiring and brilliant educators in California bringing innovative ideas and lesson plans to their classrooms.
- New must read report from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation: LGBTQ Youth Report. The report finds that many students are not receiving adequate support in their schools. The report also includes resources and guidelines for educators and administrators.

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When hair is thinning you may find hair falling out onto clothing or notice extra hairs on a comb or brush. Your normally lose around 100 hairs each day, but these typically grow back. If they’re not, it can be hard to know why, so we’ve outlined some reasons your hair may be thinning below.
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Prep Football Roundup: East Lincoln 2-0; Stuart Cramer loses first game of year
DENVER — Chazz Surratt completed 20 of 35 passes for 278 yards and directed a 397-yard offensive attack as East Lincoln beat Q Foundation, 33-16, on Friday at Clark Stadium.
The win improved the Mustangs to 2-0 on the season and increased their winning streak to 18 games entering next Friday’s home game against rival North Lincoln.
Surratt threw two touchdown passes to Cameron Dollar and one to Nick Quigley and Coleton Banks scored on a TD run as East Lincoln led 26-0 before allowing two fourth-quarter touchdowns.
West Lincoln 13, North Lincoln 6 — The Rebels held off the host Knights but lost quarterback Noah Marsh (broken thumb) and receiver Blake Brown (broken leg) to serious injuries.
Hunter Church led West Lincoln with 12 carries for 106 yards and a touchdowns and Dalton Brooks returned a fumble for a touchdown.
R-S Central 28, Stuart Cramer 21 — Visiting Stuart Cramer gave the host Hilltoppers a challenge but fell when the home team rallied in the fourth quarter.
Corey Stowe got things started for Stuart Cramer (1-1) with a 52-yard touchdown run less than four minutes into the contest, with R-S answering later in the quarter thanks to a 17-yard touchdown pass from Keith Ervin to Tyrese Tate.
Central Tech 49, Highland Tech 0 — Coming off a tough loss last week against Newton-Conover, Highland Tech was hoping for better preparation this week.
“We always talk about getting better,” Highland coach Jerry Jordan said. “It’s not about what this team (Central Academy) is going to come in here and do, but it’s what we’re going to do.”
Central Academy came out clicking on all cylinders, scoring on all six of their first half possessions. Junior quarterback Cameron Allen lead the Cougars offense to a 49-0 victory.
Chase 47, Cherryville 6 — The Ironmen (0-2) lost their home opener and visit West Lincoln next week.

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The current account was at a surplus of $6.5 billion or 0.9% of GDP in the June quarter from a deficit of $8.1 billion in March quarter, aided by a narrowing trade deficit.
Brokerage houses and institutional reports however predicted current account to GDP ratio to be back to a deficit of 0.9-1.1% in FY22.
“We see a gradual recovery and elevated commodity prices pressurizing the import bill. We expect import growth exceeding export growth, while higher losses in oil-led terms of trade imply that the current account-to-GDP will be back to a deficit in FY22,” said Madhavi Arora, lead-economists at Emkay Global Financial Services said.
Analysts at Kotak Institutional Equities expect the external sector to face risks from further widening of the trade deficit amid normalizing economic activity, escalating energy prices, and reversal of accommodative policies across major developed markets.
“Pickup in domestic demand amid improving vaccination drive and plateauing global demand is expected to widen the trade deficit further in 2HFY22. With Brent now averaging $71.5 per barrel vs $66 per barrel earlier, we raise our FY22 CAD/GDP estimate to 1.1%. However, healthy capital flows will ensure FY22E balance of payments (BoP) remains in a surplus of $48 billion,” they said.
The BoP surplus would help Reserve Bank of India boost its foreign exchange reserves which currently stands at nearly $639 billion, said Barclays, though liquidity considerations could force the central bank to divert some of the spot flows into its forward book.
The rupee is likely to be in the range of 73-75 in the near term, Kotak said in its report as it sees the risks from a strong dollar and higher energy prices be partly offset by the robust capital flows based on improved investor sentiments ahead of expected inclusion of India in global bond indices. Besides, RBI’s record high FX reserves would cap sharp volatility emanating from higher dollar and US treasury yields.
As India’s economic recovery strengthens its appeal among South Asian economies, foreign portfolio and direct investment inflows are expected to continue strong, said Kshitij Purohit, lead international & commodities at CapitalVia Global Research. “If the rupee breaks through the 74.50 support level, RBI intervention is likely, although it may not be forceful because the central bank’s major focus and effort is on managing excess rupee liquidity in the system.
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Mumbai: In a series of Instagram stories, national award-winning actress Kangana Ranaut on Sunday said that she was informed by her fans that some people were using her name to hack into some accounts and requested the Mumbai cyber cell to take action.
One screenshot showed the scammer posing as her manager. “I have nothing to do with this person and have no such online managers,” she wrote.
Kangana alleged that people behind it were part of the “film mafia.” She also accused two Bollywood stars of criminal activities, including hacking her social media accounts, buying fake bulk tickets, and manipulating box office collections.
“Film mafia has always indulged in criminal activities. This superstar who I dated later claimed that I was dating his imposter. He used to use different numbers and accounts to chat with me, he also hacked my account and operated in a shady way…. they buy fake bulk tickets and manipulate collections…. They also spy and buy Whatsapp data I always see information about my contracts and personal life being exploited….”
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On the front is a rather striking female figure with what appears to be a snake entwined about her. After doing some research I traced a Hindu serpentine deity known as Ma Manusa Devi, who is the snake goddess. I might be wrong – do tell me if I am –but this brooch would seem to depict that goddess.
I’ve seen all sorts of brooches as detecting finds but never one like this. The silver is nicely toned and all in all it is an attractive and highly unusual find. Should Andre wish it, the restoration of the catch and addition of a new fastening pin would not cost much and the brooch would then be wearable.
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The South Asian Bar Association of Northern California (SABA-NC) applauds Governor Jerry Brown's appointment of Somnath Raj Chatterjee to the Alameda County Superior Court. Judge Chatterjee will be the first South Asian to serve as judge in Alameda County.
Judge Chatterjee has been practicing law at Morrison Forster since 1994 where he was a partner at the San Francisco office since 2006. He most recently has been a partner at Antolin, Agarwal and Chatterjee LLP, a boutique law firm he co-founded in 2017. He
has been a trial lawyer focusing on business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and arbitration. Previously, he served as a deputy public defender at the Contra Costa County Public Defender's Office from 1999 to 2000 and was an associate at Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal from 1995 to 1996.
Judge Chatterjee also served as a law clerk for the Honorable A. Andrew Hauk at the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, from 1994 to 1995. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1994 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1990.
Judge Chatterjee has been an active member of SABA-NC and previously served as president of the organization. SABA-NC endorsed Judge Chatterjee in 2015 and has supported him throughout the process of becoming a judge. "In addition to his long history of supporting SABA-NC and South Asian initiatives, Judge Chatterjee is a remarkably intelligent and thoughtful individual who has served as a positive role model and mentor for young attorneys," said SABA-NC President, Anant Pradhan. "We thank Judge Chatterjee for his work and congratulate him on this appointment."
SABA-NC also thanks Governor Jerry Brown and commends his administration for their continued commitment to ensuring that our Judiciary reflects our state's diversity. Judge Chatterjee's deep commitment to the rule of law makes him a perfect addition to Alameda's judiciary.


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Is Britain the Next Greece?
Economist Richard Wolff compares economic forecasting to palm reading, before predicting himself that Britain will be the next victim of the global recession, citing that the average British family currently faces a debt amounting to 170% of its annual income.
The full video is more about capitalism in its current brand, the fascinating thing is that Wolff is neither an Austrian nor a Keynesian, he isn’t freshwater or saltwater, he thinks that both Hoover and FDR didn’t find the right solution, that WW2 was the answer (albeit a terrible one). This is a video that is absolutely worth watching.
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This is an interesting look at the deficit being run by the USA. Even with all of the hard work and good intentions in the world Obama will have his work cut out for him to remedy the situation.
Auction Rate Bond Market feels the pinch
There has been unforseen intervention by the US Fed in the American markets, however there is still a domino effect, today we saw that there was a problem with the Auction Rate Bond Market and it has culminated in an investigation by nine state regulators.
It was said in the past that the Auction Rate market was dead after Wall Street banks ceased to purchase their own unwanted bonds, Auction Rate Securities are not liquid and this has resulted in the above case which broke in the news today. Investors were lead to believe that the bonds were a ‘cash equivalent’ however they are not, and the regulator is pushing to over rule the bonds because if money was to be seen as cash going in it has to be treated as cash on the way out (i.e.: it can’t be tied into conditions).
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Yves here. As much as John Weeks covers important ground in explaining how the Eurozone’s fiscal orthodoxy produces right wing policies, he overstates the commitment of the ruling Italian coalition’s interest in leaving the Eurozone. The first candidate for finance minster, Paolo Savona, walked back a great deal of his firebrand talk even after he was muscled out of the role. His replacement, Giovanni Tria, has gone to some lengths to tell Mr. Market that the Italian government has no plans to ditch the Euro.
By John Weeks, Professor Emeritus of the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies and author of Economics of the 1%: How Mainstream Economics Serves the Rich, Obscures Reality and Distorts Policy. Originally published at Triple Crisis
There seems some disagreement as to whether Nero played the violin or the harp as Rome burned in AD 64. Whatever happened 1554 years ago, there was considerable complacent fiddling in Brussels after the 4 March Italian election. To replace the centrist government of neoliberal Matteo Renzi Italian voters cast 60% of their ballots for two anti-EU parties, the aggressively xenophobic coalition of Lega neo-fascists and the anti-immigrant 5 Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle, M5S).
Confounding the hope and expectation of the EU elite, this pair formed their misbegotten government in Rome in April. The anti-EU rhetoric of these two parties, plus their promise to breech EU budget rules – end fiscal austerity – ended the fiddling and set off alarm bells.
The EU elite quickly moved to prevent this anti-establishment government from rocking the Brussels neoliberal consensus. The nominally neutral Italian president refused to acceptthe first proposed coalition government of the Lega-M5S. The refusal did refer to thee proposed racist immigration policies, nor to its aggressively anti-Roma policies. Unacceptable to the president that the person nominated for finance minister, who had long standing opposition to the euro (see commentary by Yanis Varoufakis).
Should anyone miss the implied priories of the Italian establishment, the president sought to form an interim government that would continue Brussels-designed austerity policies. To lead that government the president chose a former functionary of the International Monetary Fund. This affront to the electoral process proved short-lived. Soon the far right Lega and eclectic right M5S were back in government with a different, but no less anti-austerity, finance minister.
The partners have quite separate origins. Since its founding in 1991 as the Lega Nord (Northern League) firmly established its position on the far-right of Italian politics. Beginning as a separatist moment, it rapidly achieved regional success even in cities long held by the Italian Communist Party. Using a racist immigration message, the party made the leap from region to nations, dropping “Nord” to become the largest right wing party in Italy, The only group further right is the tiny, explicitly fascist CasaPound, a Lega ally named after the American poet Ezra Pound who lived in Italy and supported the Mussolini dictatorship.
The aggressive and explicit racism of Lega contrasts with M5S eclecticism and internal inconsistency. The M5S advocates policies also found in the programs of European progressive parties, such as a mild version of a basic income. However, its consistently defining political focus is anti-immigration, which provides the basis for a coalition between these unlikely partners. The M5S endorsement of extreme anti-immigration policies was shown by its leadership accepting hard line racist Natteo Salvini, leader of Lega, as minister in charge of immigration. The two parties share a demonizing of the Roma ethnic group(“Gypsies”), with concrete plans to drive them from Italy.
Neoliberalism Run Its Italian Course
How these parties became the largest in Italy reveals much about the consequences of neoliberalism in the European Union. The Italian financial elite pressed hard for governments in the 1990s to achieve the pre-conditions to be an initial member of the euro zone. To meet those conditions Italian governments borrowed heavily in financial markets, much of it from German banks. There followed one of the many little noted ironies of EU economic policy. The large Italian public debt that prompted a series of austerity conditions after 2010 from the European Commission in Brussels, accumulated well before the global crisis, to maintain the Lire stability required for euro membership.
Combined with the borrowing was home-grown fiscal austerity to meet the EU 3% deficit pre-condition for euro membership. The deficit pre-condition is defined for the overall fiscal balance, which includes interest payments on the public debt. Because governments borrowed massively to stabilize the Lire,interest payments approach 5% of GDP, As a result 1995-2006 Italy had the only government in the European Union with a continuous fiscal surplus net of interest payment (the “primary deficit”).
As a result of the substantial fiscal surpluses, the Italian economy grew slower than any other in the EU from the mid-1990s to the present. Polls showthat the consequent stagnation of employment and household incomes generated deep skepticism about EU membership. For twenty years the center-right and center-left Italian governments ignored the growing anti-EU sentiment. The racists and xenophobes of Lega and M5S reaped what the neoliberals had sowed.
European Integration: Sublime to Neoliberal
As the Italian politic turmoil unfolds as across Europe, we find authoritarians in power in Hungary and Poland, and Austria ruled by a coalition of rightists and neo-fascists. In the midst of spreading malaise we can reflect on how Europe came to this degeneration of democracy. By the middle of the 19thcentury the major powers of Western Europe had established themselves or were in the process of doing so, Great Britain and France, followed by the consolidation of Germany and Italy. During the subsequent one hundred years the governments of these powers led their citizens into war after war, each more barbarous than the one before.
After WWII European economic and political integration seemed the apparent solution to this alarming tendency of European governments to launch wars against each other. In the wake of that war the commitment of the leaders of the major European powers to peace was profound and deep. Important to that commitment was the US military occupation of Germany and Italy, and the putative threat of Soviet aggression. While it would be misleading to view integration as the political companion to NATO, we should not ignore the effect of US political and military hegemony over post-war Western Europe.
Placing the origins of European integration in the context of Cold War rivalry helps explain the rapid integration steps after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Discussions of a common currency began early as the 1960s (notably the 1969 Werner Plan), formalized in the 1972 Pompidou-Brandt Agreement. However, substantial progress awaited the most important European change derivative from the collapse of the USSR – the unification of Germany.
In a breathtakingly short period, the dominant force in Europe changed from ancien regimeof the United States and the Soviet Union to newly unified Germany. This shift of power paralleled another fundamental change, the transubstantiation of the European Union from cooperation across governments for peace to a neoliberal economic project. This change occurred with stunning success via a series of treaties severely constraining national governments. Beginning with Maastricht, these treaties allowed less and less policy flexibility, constraining national governments from implementing progressive economic policies. These constrains are by their nature anti-democratic as well as reactionary.
Because governments make the decisions that lead to war, agreements among governments are the appropriate and perhaps only practical way to establish non-aggression pacts, mutual assistance commitments and formal alliances. Depending on the specific laws and institutions of countries, these top-down treaties may or may not require approval by national legislatures. To be effective, such treaties should be irreversible. People from different countries do not go to war unless their governments order them to do so. Constraining governments from making war is a singularly appropriate constraint on the democratic process among civilized countries.
The two principle EU Treaties, On European Union and On the Functioning of the European Union, are anti-democratic for an obvious reason. They are the de factoconstitution of the Union. Unlike the constitutions of all other countries, they specify in detail the nature of the economic system that every member state must implement. These details, such as the infamous fiscal deficit rule of 3% of GDP and the ECB’s inflation target of 2%, cannot be changed by national legislatures or the European Parliament. The treaties constrain EU governments and citizens ad infinitum.
This permanent constraint is rendered irreversible by the near-insurmountable difficulty of changing the treaties, which requires unanimous consent of all member governments (and the case of Belgium by the provincial governments as well); or by a new treaty that overrides the previous, which also requires unanimous agreement. The extreme difficulty in altering any provision of the de factoEU constitution means in practice that EU citizens are denied the democratic right to alter the basic economic policies that govern their livelihoods.
These anti-democratic treaties came as the result of bargaining and compromise among governments of the centre-right and the centre-left, Christian democrats and social democrats under various country-specific party names. Having agreed to the treaty-enshrined dysfunctional constraints on national governments, over the next 20 years these parties faithfully applied them when in government.
In the new millennium each successive national economic crisis became increasingly intractable because the treaties prevented the rational policies that would have solved or prevented them. With each passing year and the centrists further discredited themselves before the electorates with their devotion to austerity. Obvious metaphors come to mind — lemmings racing for the cliff edge and 18thcentury doctors bleeding patients to cure their illnesses.
No metaphor is really necessary because policies speak for themselves. These governments, Holland in France, Renzi in Italy, or almost any other during 1990-2018, acted in the narrow self-interest of financial capital. Despite the manifest failure of German-via-Brussels austerity policies to generate a sustained recovery; despite the appalling human const of these policies, especially but not only in Greece; despite the repeated voter rejection of politicians advocating these policies; neoliberal centrists dutifully defended and implemented contractionary fiscal policies.
It is tempting to explain the political myopia of centre-right and centre-left by “complacency” from too long in government, “detachment” from the electorate, and/or ideological belief in the “TINA” principle (there-is-no-alternative). More promising than these subjective assessments is to pursue the approach in criminal investigations – cui bono, Latin for “to whom does it benefit?”
Inspect of trade and growth statistics since 2000 across the euro zone and the prime suspect jumps off the page – German industrial and finance capital. While cui bonoexplains the behavior of the German government, what about the apparent losers in the rest of the EU and especially the euro zone where austerity policies bite the deepest?
Why did and do the governments of other euro zone countries follow the German lead? The simple answer is that until the recent Italian election and Spanish change of government 15 of the 18 other euro zone states had governments of the political right. Several of these 15 governments would and have pursued reactionary fiscal policies with no encouragement from Brussels or Berlin.
That leaves Greece, Italy itself, and Portugal. Greece is the exception that proves the rule, a nominally leftist government enforcing austerity policies imposed upon it. In Italy the Renzi government purposefully pursued austerity without external pressure. Until the change in Spain only in Portugal did we find an established left party attempting to reject austerity policies (and strongly criticized by EU officials). Whether the Spanish Socialist government will join Portugal in fiscal rebellion remains to be seen.
For two decades centre left parties in Europe have connived, accommodated and embraced the fiscal ideology of the right, differentiating themselves only by the limp promise to implement those dysfunctional policies in a moderate manner. That is how we come to this sorry state in which only one euro zone country has a government of the centre left with a progressive economic policy.
After enduring almost twenty years of economic stagnation with the euro, the Italian electorate had enough and elected parties promising to defy the EU rules of fiscal behavior. The farce of the Italian centre-left implementing reactionary fiscal policies is followed by the tragedy of a frontal challenge to those rules by a coalition of xenophobes, chauvinists and proto-fascists.
The apparent response in Brussels and Berlinto the Italian electorate’s demand for change was to encourage the Italian president to patch together yet another austerity government. That ineffective response represented the continuation of the EU policy so infamously stated by the erratic president of the European Commission. During the Greek crisisin 2015 the ever-quotable Mr Juncker said, “Il ne peut y avoir de choix démocratique contre les traités européens” (there is no democratic choice about the EU treaties).
In the Bible Proverbs 29:11 tells us “whoever troubles his own household shall inherit the wind”. The Renzi government did indeed “trouble its own household [aka Italy]” and with its devotion to EU fiscal rules stirred a wind not south-by-southeast but right-by-far-right. The M5S/Lega government turns that Italian wind to gale force perhaps to sweep Europe.

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Remove the meat from the fridge and discard the marinade. Thread meat, onion, and peppers onto the skewers, alternating meat and vegetables. There should be about 2 to 3 pieces of meat per skewer.
Cook kabobs on the grill over medium-high, about 6-8 minutes each (turning to make sure they cook evenly). Serve warm and enjoy!


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The 1 hour timeframe of the GBPCAD is shown in this analysis from July 31 to current date.
A symmetrical triangle (tentative) is identified as the most recent chart pattern in the GBPCAD from October 2, 2018 onwards.
Further bearish action is anticipated to successfully hold support around ~1.66683 and 1.65933.
Lack of bearish momentum on the other hand, and a close above 1.72551 implies resumption of the current bullish price swing from October 30. 2018.
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2020 Newton Prize Finalist, Professor Stephen Devereux, made the cut on the list of the world’s most impactful researchers.
This is according to a study, A standardised citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field, led by Stanford University researcher John P. Ioannidis and published in PLOS Biology.
The publicly accessible database uses a variety of metrics to allow for a more transparent, comparable, and less error-prone approach to citation metrics. They introduced a new way of ranking scientists according to citations and other metrics, but steered away from practices such as self-citations and citation farms where groups of authors cited each other’s papers.
The list, which among others, features seventeen researchers from University of the Western Cape (UWC), places Professor Devereux among the world’s top 1% of most-cited scientists.
Watch Prof Devereux speak about his research below
Devereux, who holds the SA/UK Bilateral Research Chair in Social Protection for Food Security (SARChI), was a finalist for the coveted 2020 Newton Prize, which recognises excellent research and innovation. Through the SARChI, funded by the Newton Fund and National Research Foundation, Professor Devereux has made considerable progress towards improving social protection strategies and influencing public policy.
Despite a comprehensive social protection system, many South Africans experience poverty & food insecurity.
Says Devereux: “My research aims to ensure that South Africa’s social protection system is better equipped to respond to the persistent inequalities evident in the country; as well as to help policymakers respond to crises such as COVID-19, to enable citizens to adapt and mitigate threats to their livelihoods.”
*This is an amended version of the article originally published by UWC
The country will take years to recover economically. Ziyaad Douglas/Gallo Images via Getty Images The national state of disaster…


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In this fun, interactive cooking experience, you will learn the basics of preparing classic American donuts. Your world-class chef will guide you as you prepare the dough for both traditional yeast and cake donuts. Once they are cooked, you’ll learn how to fill and glaze your donuts with iconic flavors. Take your treats home to share or even better, keep them for yourself!
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Builders FirstSource Inc. (NYSE: BLDR) sales increased 14.2% to $22.7 billion for the year driven by acquisitions, core organic growth and commodity inflation, partially offset by two fewer selling days.
Net income increased 59.3% to $2.7 billion.
Core organic sales in value-added products increased by 20.9% in 2022. Core organic growth for Single-Family increased 4.9%, Repair and Remodel/Other increased 14.2%, and Multi-Family increased 9.5%.
Sales in the fourth quarter were $4.4 billion, a 6% decrease amid a weaker housing environment, as well as fewer selling days and commodity deflation. Acquisitions contributed 7.9% growth. Organic sales were down by 7.7%.
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Lake Irwin is a popular destination with campers and fishermen, but few people know about the waterfalls. Lake Irwin has two waterfalls/cascades just below the spillway on an unmarked trail (directions below).
The lady at the visitor center had simple directions for us – drive across the spillway, park in the small parking lot on the other side and take the trail below the spillway. Now, a spillway waterfall doesn’t sound very impressive, but she said while the falls are below the spillway, they are not part of the spillway. She also had one more piece of advice — she warned us the trail is a bit steep.
We crossed the spillway, found the small parking lot and found an unmarked dirt trail leading right out of the center of the parking lot into the trees. There wasn’t much water coming over the spillway, so we weren’t expecting much. We saw the water cascading down a creek-like bed and weren’t impressed. But just a few more steps away, we changed our mind.
The first waterfall is very pretty. It’s a drop of about 10 feet over a dark, rocky cliff. Depending on when you visit, the water will hopefully be flowing over the edge in more than one spot. We took a couple photos from the top of the falls and headed down the trail a little more. Suddenly we spotted a social trail to the bottom of the falls. Don’t take the first social trail, it looks dangerous. Look closely and hopefully you’ll find a trail that is not too steep and leads to the bottom. It was quite fun being so close to the falls. We took photos from the front of the falls and the side of the falls. Look closely at the falls and you should see lots of green moss. This is a nice spot to spend a few minutes enjoying the sounds of the falls and all the different ways the water flows and bounces over the rocks.
When you’re done exploring, return to the main trail and continue walking down the path to a second waterfall. The second waterfall has a 15-foot drop, then several cascades. I highly recommend NOT climbing down to the bottom of this waterfall. All of the trails here are very steep, slippery and dangerous. However, you should be able to get nice shots of the falls from the main trail.
While there are lots of social trails in the area, we turned around after the second falls and hiked back up the hill to our vehicle.

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Fathers of the Church
Epistle LXVI: to Edilbert, King of the Angli
by Gregory the Great in 590-604 | translated by James Barmby, D.d
Gregory to Edilbert, &c.
On this account Almighty God advances good men to the government of peoples, that through them He may bestow the gifts of His loving-kindness on all over whom they are preferred. This we have found to be the case in the nation of the Angli, which your Glory has been put over to the intent that through the good things granted to you, heavenly benefits might be conferred on the nation subject to you. And so, glorious son, keep guard with anxious mind over the grace which thou hast received from above. Make haste to extend the Christian faith among the peoples under thy sway, redouble the zeal of thy rectitude in their conversion, put down the worship of idols, overturn the edifices of their temples , build up the manners of thy subjects in great purity of life by exhorting, by terrifying, by enticing, by correcting, by shewing examples of well-doing; that so you may find Him your recompenser in heaven Whose name and knowledge you shall have spread abroad on earth. For He Himself will make the name of your glory even more glorious to posterity, if you seek and maintain I His honour among the nations. For so Constantine, the once most pious Emperor, recalling the Roman republic from perverse worshippings of idols, subjected it with himself to our Almighty Lord God Jesus Christ, and turned himself with his subject peoples with all his heart to Him. Hence it came to pass that that man surpassed in praise the name of ancient princes, and excelled his predecessors as much in renown as in well-doing. And now, therefore, let your Glory make haste to infuse into the kings and peoples subject to you the knowledge of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, that you may both surpass the ancient kings of your race in renown and in deserts, and the more you shall have wiped away the sins of others among your subjects, the more secure you may become with regard to your own sins before the terrible scrutiny of Almighty God.
Moreover, you have with you our most reverend brother, Augustine the bishop, learned in monastic rule, replete with knowledge of holy Scripture, endowed by the grace of God with good works. Listen gladly to his admonitions, follow them devoutly, keep them studiously in remembrance: for, if you listen to him in what he speaks in behalf of Almighty God, the same Almighty God will the sooner listen to him when he prays for you. For, if (which God forbid) you disregard his words, when will it be possible for Almighty God to hear him for you, whom you neglect to hear for God? With all your heart, therefore, bind ye yourselves in fervour of faith to him, and aid his endeavours by the power which he gives you from above, that He Whose faith you cause to be received and kept in your kingdom may Himself make you partakers' of His own Kingdom.
Furthermore, we would have your Glory know that, as we learn from the words of the Almighty Lord in holy Scripture, the end of the present world is already close at hand, and the reign of the saints is coming, which can have no end. And, now that this end of the world is approaching, many things are at hand which previously have not been; to wit, changes of the air, terrors from heaven, and seasons contrary to the accustomed order of times, wars, famine, pestilences, earthquakes in divers places. Yet these things will not come in our days, but after our days they will all ensue. You therefore, if you observe any of these things occurring in your land, by no means let your mind be troubled, since these signs of the end of the world are sent beforehand for this purpose, that we should be solicitous about our souls, suspectful of the hour of death, and in our good deeds be found prepared for the coming Judge. These things, glorious son, we have now briefly spoken of, that, when the Christian faith shall have been extended in your kingdom, our speech to you may also extend itself to greater length, and that we may be pleased to speak so much the more fully as joy multiplies itself in our heart for the perfected conversion of your nation.
I have sent you some small presents, which to you will not be small, when received by you as of the benediction of the blessed Apostle Peter. And so may Almighty God guard and perfect in you the grace which He has begun, and extend your life here through courses of many years, and after a long life receive you in the congregation of the heavenly country. May heavenly grace keep your Excellency safe, sir son (domine fili). Given this 10th day of the Kalends of July, the 19th year of the empire of our most pious lord Mauricius Tiberius Augustus, the 18th year after the consulship of the same our lord, Indiction .
Taken from "The Early Church Fathers and Other Works" originally published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. in English in Edinburgh, Scotland, beginning in 1867. (LNPF II/XIII, Schaff and Wace). The digital version is by The Electronic Bible Society, P.O. Box 701356, Dallas, TX 75370, 214-407-WORD.

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This should be the best of times for John McCain. After all, the presumptive Republican nominee has pretty much gotten a free ride from the news media while Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have duked it out, but the septuagenarian's campaign is sprouting problems like zits on the face of a 15-year-old.
* His biggest liability is Mister Twenty-Seven Percent, yet George Bush keeps stepping on his lines.
* His best chance against Obama is to sell himself as a straight-talking maverick, but the record shows that he has been anything but.
* The organization of his campaign has been so slipshod that he is bleeding top advisors because of their embarrassingly unsavory past and present associations.
* He has big money problems, as in not having nearly enough himself and his wife's "f*ck you" refusal to release her financial records.
* His recent flip-flop on troop withdrawals from Iraq shows how vulnerable he is on this increasingly unpopular war.
* He keeps undermining himself because of his inability or unwillingness to master the finer points of policy, including the economy and foreign affairs.
* He is being pressured to enlist in the right-wing's sputtering culture war, including blasting the California same-sex marriage decision, and risks further alienating the GOP's lunatic fringe if he does not.
* He could be seriously hurt by an increasingly likely third-party presidential bid.
* He has no coattails, meaning that the many vulnerable Republicans up for re-election are more or less on their own. Then again, that might not be a bad thing considering how problematic this candidacy is.

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Tonic Arts is our award-winning Arts in Health Programme. In partnership with NHS Lothian, specialist arts organisations and cross-sector partners, Tonic Arts has developed programmes of art and design commissions, art collection provision, changing exhibitions, artist residencies, participatory arts activities and performances across Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Established international evidence confirms the role creativity plays within the healthcare context in enriching the healthcare experience for all; saving resources and improving patient experience by reducing the need for pain medication, shortening length of stay, reducing anxiety and depression and improving patient and staff morale.
Here are some of the highlights from our Tonic Arts Programme:
Letters to a Future NHS
“Letters to a Future NHS” was created by NHS Lothian staff as part of our Tonic Arts 360 Visions programme. This short film is centred around a series of letters written by staff from NHS Lothians Equalities Networks exploring what they would say to NHS colleagues 50 years from now.
Watch our amazing staff reading extracts from their letters here: Letters to a Future NHS
My Story Is Your Story
“My Story Is Your Story” shares interviews with NHS Lothian BME staff talking about their experiences during COVID-19, the challenges they faced and the changes they want to see happen. It is part of a series of creative engagements to develop a range of equalities, diversity and inclusion resources in partnership with the Equalities Networks to celebrate the diversity of NHS Lothian. Watch the interviews on our Vimeo Channel.
Common Thread – NHS Voices in A Time of Crisis
Common Thread is a documentary filmmaking project that invited NHS Lothian staff the chance to tell their stories of COVID-19 2020 in a creative and engaging way. Working with PoliFilm Media, a series of nine short films have been created by NHS Lothian staff, including a pharmacist involved in the C-19 vaccine trials, a BSL interpreter, a GP and a staff nurse from the Western General Hospital. Watch these amazing videos on our Vimeo Channel.
Life Under Lockdown
This amazing exhibition brings together Scottish artists across seven generations who created artworks inspired by their observations, experiences, reflections and insights of living through the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. The exhibition is currently open to staff and visitors in the Anne Ferguson Gallery at the Western General Hospital, before moving to other NHS Lothian sites. You can also take a virtual walk through and hear the artists talk about their work.
Art and Therapeutic Design in the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and the Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Over 20 projects, involving 30 different artists, were commissioned to enhance the interior and exterior spaces throughout the building, finding innovative and creative ways to improve arrival and wayfinding, enliven the hospital environment and tailor the design of spaces to reduce anxiety. The programme includes bespoke sculpture, illustration, film, animation, furniture and interior design. Read more…
This series of tutorials been created both by artists with work in our art collection and partners in our Tonic Arts, Arts in Health and Wellbeing programme for you to try at home.
Our Engagement Programme brings the transformative power of the arts to patients, caregivers and staff in healthcare settings across NHS Lothian. It inspires individuals, helping them to connect and communicate, encouraging them to become more involved and enhancing personal development and wellbeing across NHS Lothian. The Programme encourages creativity, reducing exclusion and assisting social and personal development. Find out more…
We support and manage arts, design and selected greenspace commissioning programmes, developed with patient and staff engagement and collaboration.
Visit our Tonic Arts microsite to find out more about these amazing commissions.
Our exhibitions programme runs across our four main hospital sites – the Western General, St John’s, Royal Edinburgh and the Royal Infirmary – with the Dott Gallery opening this year at the new Royal Hospital for Children & Young People/ Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Little France.
Visit our Tonic Arts microsite to have a look at our featured exhibitions
The Art Collection plays an important role in the improved health and wellbeing of staff, patients and visitors with over 2,750 artworks displayed across over 40 NHS Lothian sites.
Visit our Tonic Arts microsite to see some of the highlights from our collection.
Visit our dedicated microsite for more information on all the amazing projects that we are supporting: www.elhf-tonicarts.co.uk


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