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Most of us have already heard the adage “when you do good, good comes back to you,” and, for the most part, we know it to be true. Besides, we’ve seen numerous heartwarming, faith-in-humanity-restoring stories go viral on the internet and we couldn’t help but feel inspired.
There are, however, certain instances when doing a good deed leads a person to unimaginable trouble. Take it from these 14 netizens who took the time to share their first-hand experiences when they found out for themselves that showing kindness can sometimes go terribly wrong.
Read on and see for yourself:
1. She donated a kidney and ended up with a massive hospital bill.
Reddit user dendaddy’s kindhearted wife donated an organ to a stranger but things took an unexpected turn when they later discovered that the recipient’s insurance did not pay the hospital bill in full. A collection agency has since been chasing them for the amount of $10,000.
2. Apples for the homeless.
Judith Ré, founder of the Judith Ré Academie shared:
“I was purchasing fruit at a truck where several homeless men were congregating. As I purchased my fruits, I bought apples to give to each of the men.”
Sounds like a good idea, right? Well not exactly after one of the men told Judith “I’m sorry but we can’t eat these because our teeth aren’t strong enough.”
3. A good gesture taken the wrong way.
Scott Deuty, author of Secrets of an Over 50 Fat Man, once went out to work out on the steps of an ampitheather. While there, he spotted a woman with her daughter. They were also working out.
He was inspired by the pair and so he approached them and gave a copy of his book. The daughter, however, got mad and threw the book down the stairs.
4. Smoking and pregnancy.
Veonne Anderson of Veonne Speaks, LLC recalled:
“I saw a pregnant woman smoking, and I wanted to give her an encouraging word about quitting smoking for her baby’s sake. I started by telling her how pretty she looked. Then I asked her how many months she was.”
“How many…? What?” the woman replied. She later clarified she was “just fat” and not pregnant.
5. The case of the flat tire.
One Reddit user saw a vehicle with a flat tire and offered to help take the driver to the nearest convenience store so they can buy what they need.
Much to his surprise, they took advantage of him instead.
“Not only did they ride in my car silently, offering no thanks, but they also stole my wallet out of my console when I wasn’t looking.”
6. He’s never giving ice pops ever again.
Reddit netizen whomwhom was walking in a city park one really hot day when he saw a bunch of kids, fighting over ice pops. So he went out of his way to do something good for them but ended up regretting it.
“Since these things are like 30 cents apiece, I bought 20 of them and handed them out to all the kids.”
An onlooker, however, took it the wrong way and reported him.
“Two cop cars tracked me down and questioned me for three hours,” he continued.
7. Must be a bit of misunderstanding.
New Jersey resident Mark Bierman said:
“A snowplow plowed into my car. Because the driver barely spoke English, I didn’t call the police to the scene. Instead, we exchanged information, I contacted the insurance company, and I figured it was all taken care of. Instead, I got a visit from the police.”
Apparently, the driver’s boss claimed Mark drove under the influence of alcohol (which is untrue). It took 2 years and 6 months before the confusion was cleared.
8. Choosy beggars.
Blake Snow spotted a few homeless men while he was in Brazil.
“They asked me for money to help them buy food, but I felt I could do better. I bought them sandwiches and water.”
As he was leaving, one of the beggars shouted “Hey, can’t you at least give us money to buy Cokes?”
We hope he means the caffeinated drink.
9. A picky eater.
Redditor hourmc was approached by a homeless man and asked him for money. He didn’t have any at the time and so he offered his chicken salad sandwich instead.
The beggar replied “Ain’t nobody gonna eat that,” leaving hourmc feeling “strangely rejected.”
10. Fixing a flat tire.
Ez-Duzit, another Reddit user, decided to lend a hand to a woman who had a flat tire. He ended up causing more harm than good.
He said he accidentally snapped off “the lug nut and bolt which was then lodged in the tire iron, rendering it useless.”
He tried using his own tool kit but still failed to fix the problem. “Those things were way too rusty. Eventually, her friends showed up, and I left,” he further shared.
11. That stings – like literally!
Reddit user Thundernut found a fallen tree in his path as he was trail running one day. He thought he’d move it off the path and then he felt something painful on his knee, followed by another.
It was already too late when he realized a swarm of bees was attacking him. He probably disturbed their nest as he moved the tree. He spent three days in a hospital bed for anaphylaxis.
12. Unexpected rage from a fellow bus passenger.
Phantommunky, another Reddit netizen, recalled:
“On a trip to Taiwan, my brother was on a bus and offered his seat to a woman who was standing.
“Next thing he knows, this woman is screaming at him in Mandarin. He only found out later that Taiwanese culture dictates you only offer your seat to the elderly. And this woman had a problem with his offering her a seat because she wasn’t elderly.”
13. Game over.
Grand Theft Auto player Jeremy 813 wanted to help another gamer who kept getting killed so he sent him a message to ask if he needed any help.
“He said he did, so I drove my tank down to the docks and told him he could use it to even the score with the high-level guy that killed him a bunch. I get out of the tank and let him in.”
“He immediately blew me up.”
14. Saving a woman from an abusive husband.
Reddit user capatiller helped a female friend leave her abusive husband. He even allowed her to stay in a spare bedroom in the house.
Unexpectedly, the woman began an affair with his fiance and capatiller later ended up getting kicked out of the home instead. He lamented:
“They now live there together. Looks like I got the short end of that good deed.”
Tibetan Girl’s Unconventional Beauty Shakes the Modeling World
Her look is so different, “out of this world” is a more fitting description for her.
Right now, when you say "supermodel," you immediately think of Kendall Jenner or the Hadid sisters, Gigi and Bella. They may differ when it comes to looks, but they are still considered conventional by modeling standards. Now a new model comes in and her look is so different, and some say "out of this world" is a more fitting description for her.
Tsunaina, who hails from Tibet and is currently living in the UK, has beautiful slanted eyes, gorgeous pouty lips, chiseled jawline, and lots of beauty marks scattered all over her lower face....
American Mom Raises Her Three Boys In The Philippines As True Filipinos
The kids talk, behave, and eat like Filipinos!
She grew up in California and lived for a few years in Seattle. Now, Amber Folkman is raising her kids in another part of the globe - in Manila, a heavy populated city in the Philippines.
High temperatures, sweet mangoes, and crazy modes of transportation are what greeted them when they moved to the country back in 2009. The Philippines is where these little kids learned priceless life lessons that can serve as a compass throughout their lives....
Kat Von D Sparks Controversy After Saying She’ll Raise Her Child Vegan – And Without Vaccinations!
“This is my body. This is our child. And this is our pregnancy journey.”
Known to many as a tattoo artist, a reality TV star and a cosmetics entrepreneur, Kat Von D has recently announced her pregnancy and then proceeded to share how she plans to raise her unborn child. Apparently, she’s looking forward to raising a vegan – and she doesn’t want any vaccinations for her baby.
Netizens have since been divided about the subject but one mommy blogger stood out from the rest as she shared her own tragic experience. According to her, her son had a really tough battle with mumps....


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The censor screening of Allari Naresh and Nageshwar Reddy’s ‘Intlo Deyyam Nakem Bhayyam’ will take place on Tuesday. The movie is gearing up for a release this weekend and Naresh is going to be seen with Kruthika Jayakumar in this horror comedy.
The film is carrying a good buzz and Naresh is banking on this film to turn around his disappointing run at the Box Office. Veteran actor Rajendra Prasad is also playing a crucial role in the film.
Intlo Deyyam Nakem Bhayyam is being produced by BVSN Prasad and Sai Karthik has composed the music.
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Kala Cotton Wild Sleeves Flared Top and Bhujodi Scarf - Blue and White
A feminine silhouette with a surprising sleeve detail - flares with unexpected slits for easy movement. This is a fun wardrobe addition in a lightweight fabric that makes you feel fluid, with the freedom to go anywhere, just like the sun and rain in Mary Oliver's Wild Geese poem-
"Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
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over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
This top is made from "Kala Cotton", a fabric that is indigenous to the region of Kutch in Gujarat, India. The farmers growing this cotton do not use any pesticides and synthetic fertilisers. As a purely rain fed crop, with a high tolerance for disease and pests, requiring little investment, Kala Cotton is a resilient crop. The fabric formed is not considered to be the finest to the touch, but in slightly cooler times of the year, the heavier weight of the weave, keeps the body feeling cozy and comfortable.
The accompanying scarf, also made of Kala Cotton, has been woven in the Bhujodi style of weaving, a 500-year old weaving tradition in the Kutch region. The signature element of the Bhujodi technique is the use of yarn dyed in natural colours, woven with simple geometric motifs.
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Meet French startup Reminiz, a computer vision company that can index any type of video — it’s a sort of Googlebot, but for video content. Reminiz can add tags of people, logos or emotions on live streams and on-demand videos.
“The web is designed so that you can search for text — not video. We are making it possible to search within videos,” co-founder and CEO Jack Habra told me.
There are a few different use cases for Reminiz. First, the company works with broadcasters and telecom companies. For instance, Reminiz has a partnership with Orange so that you can learn more about who’s on the screen right now. It could potentially be leveraged for recommendations or contextual ads for external content.
Reminiz streams live channels on its servers directly, scans images and adds tags. Users then download metadata from the servers.
Second, you can use Reminiz to promote your brand on relevant videos. For instance, Hyundai sponsors Lyon’s soccer team. It wants to distribute Hyundai ads before soccer footage with the team playing. But YouTube keywords aren’t that good when it comes to targeting such a specific audience — a video might talk about the soccer team without showing any actual footage.
Brands can then whitelist videos to distribute ads on those videos in particular. You get charged based on minutes of video footage processed by Reminiz.
The company competes with AWS Rekognition and other generic video analysis APIs from cloud providers. What makes Reminiz stand out is that the company builds its own database of faces, people, brands and tags. It’s also probably easier to implement Reminiz compared to a more generic solution.
“With GDPR, everybody is contacting us to focus more on contextual data instead of personal data,” Habra said.


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Global warming, a growing population, supply shortages and a seriously overstretched water supply, could see the UK's water resources running dangerously low, Britain's Environment Agency has warned.
"There is strong evidence that action must continue to reduce demand, increase supply and minimise wasting of water to prevent future shortages and limit environmental damage," the government's water agency said.
"We need to change our attitudes to water use.” Our Chair @emmahowardboyd has called for action from water companies, business and the public to prevent water shortages in future. https://t.co/Lr5a1OKrn9 #water #environment pic.twitter.com/YBQeqCUdZe— Environment Agency (@EnvAgency) May 23, 2018
Report, the state of the environment: water resource is published by the Environment Agency reveals over 3,000 million litres of water a day are lost thanks to leaks and households are also to blame, wasting a third of all the water they use — around 140 litres a day.
Groundwater resources, for example lakes and reservoirs are already at unsustainable levels because so much water has been abstracted by people and industry.
— Frank in Huddersfield. (@FrankCarrUK) May 18, 2018
By 2026, Britain's population will have increased to 58.5 million, the majority of people living in areas where according to the Environment Agency, "water supplies are already stressed."
By 2050, supply will not meet demand thanks to greenhouse gas emissions and a growing population, the South East of England being the most affected area.

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The agri-food industry and EU farmers are calling for clarity and science-based solutions to meet their objectives as part of the EU’s recently announced European Green Deal. The new plans, combined with the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy and a reformed...
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CAMARILLO, Calif. — The Los Angeles television engineer who won Emmy Awards for helicopter news coverage in 1958 has died in Southern California of pneumonia complications at 92.
Silva was the chief engineer for KTLA-TV when he outfitted a rented Bell helicopter with a TV camera to create a flying TV studio. The station broadcast live aerial coverage of major news events, including earthquakes, fires and freeway calamities.
Silva had to persuade KTLA executives to spend $40,000 on broadcast equipment that might not have worked. Then, he had to get the equipment down to 368 pounds for the helicopter.


How to wash knee sleeves? Always pay attention to your knee sleeve washing instructions. If you want to learn the step-by-step guide to washing them properly, this article is for you.
How do knee sleeves work? Knee sleeves provide joint compression and support, as well as reduce swelling and strain on the knees, preventing damage while lifting and participating in high-impact sports.


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Beautifully located within the county of Berkshire in the South East of England lies Chauntry Road. Towards the end of Chauntry Road sits Westlands, a striking period property with all the convenience of contemporary updates. Just a short walk to the river, and convenient for both road and rail commute makes this area a residential refurbishment companies dream!
Revo were delighted to be awarded this residential fit out project and were trusted with making the vision of the owners wonderfully come to life. This £1 million project summoned Revo’s residential property developer’s mindset calling on not only the brilliant residential construction services we provide, but our fine eye to detail when it comes to our residential interior design services.
The brief was quite simply to transform the run-down, dated property into a stunning 7-bedroom mansion perfect for the family to spend time together and host and entertain guests.
With the help of Revo’s trusted residential fit out contractors we transformed Westlands into a beautiful 7-bedroom house the owners had envisioned. Once again, like any residential fit out this was not straightforward. The full refurbishment and modernisation of the property involved the roof being raised, extension of 3 elevations, a new garage, swimming pool, entrance wall gates and extensive landscaping. In addition to the 7 bedrooms, the design and construction of this property included 6 bathrooms, a gymnasium, music room and an inside/outside kitchen breakfast bar area.
The hard work that went into this residential fit out more than paid off with the stunning photographs seen on this case studies and the joy of happiness of the owners once seeing their dream home come to life.


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Pets are great fun. There are so many different ones to choose from. No matter what kind of domestic set up people have there is a pet that can fit into their lives. Tropical fish are great low maintenance pets for example. It’s so relaxing to sit and watch and them swimming up and down in their tank. At the other end of the scale dogs really do become like one of the family, but they need plenty of exercise, love, care and attention. It’s a much more intensive experience for an owner.
No what matter kind of animal someone chooses as a pet they need to take good care of it. It’s all about being responsible. People should think seriously before they take this sort of commitment on, otherwise it’s not fair on the animal. They need to be looked after properly.
Getting diet right is one of the most important things a good pet owner can do. Nutrition is at the heart of a happy and healthy life for any animal. Good pet care revolves around getting meal time right. There are huge number of different foods to choose from for each and every animal. It can be a little bewildering, especially to the novice owner. Knowing where to start can be hard.
At the pet store staff are on hand to help. They’re only too happy to help and advise. They help owners make sense of the different pet food options and work out what’s right for their particular animal. It’s a very different experience to shopping at the supermarket. Here prices might be cheap, but there’s little choice and no one to turn to for help. Diet matters. Responsible owners understand this and take the trouble to work out what’s best for their pet at every stage of its life.

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Smart growth planning consultant (and mayor of the city of Ventura, California) Bill Fulton somewhat backhandedly acknowledged the economic relationship between more restrictive land use regulation and higher house prices (this for the second time).
In two recent blog posts, Fulton admits that more restrictive land use regulation leads to higher prices. In November, responding to our Demographia Residential Land & Regulation Cost Index, Fulton acknowledged that urban growth boundaries raise house prices “at least a bit.”. In his more recent post, Fulton places the potential regulatory addition to house prices at between zero and 20 percent.
Fulton reaches 20 percent maximum figure by comparing information from our Demographia Residential Land & Regulation Cost Index to income figures from a our recent post Personal Income in the 2000s: Top and Bottom Ten Metropolitan Areas. Fulton’s point was that house prices are higher where incomes are higher. But there was no reason for Fulton to make these tortuous calculations, since our 7th Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey had already provided the income adjusted data (see note). The Demographia Survey reports the Median Multiple (median house price divided by median household income) for each of the metropolitan areas.
Among the 11 metropolitan areas Fulton considers, Atlanta was the most affordable, with a Median Multiple of 2.3 as of the third quarter of 2010. Dallas-Fort Worth had a Median Multiple of 2.7. The most unaffordable metropolitan area was San Diego, with a Median Multiple of 6.2. Applying Fulton’s methodology to the income adjusted data (Median Multiple) would raise the top of his range for regulation induced house price increases to 170 percent (rather than 20 percent).
Fulton is far too conservative.
Note: Fulton’s estimate is based upon our average new house price on the urban fringe of 11 metropolitan areas as reported in the Demographia Residential Land & Regulation Cost Index. He uses our average income per capita to make his house price to income calculations. In contrast, our 7th Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey uses the median price for existing houses sold, all of which are included in each metropolitan area. This median house price is then divided by themedian household income.


An indigenous (?) prostrate herb grows among grass in light shade of the Northern dry and intermediate regions.
*An addition to the flora of Sri Lanka by J. &J. de Vlas, 2008
*** With the J. & J. deVlas, 2019 this plant was re-identified as endemic Dicliptera neesii. So that Peristrophe japonica is no longer a plant species occurs in Sri Lanka.
An introduced grass species with uncertain origin but surely native to the Old World. Common in weedy grassy areas with at least partial shade and in lawns and flower beds from 500 to 800 m elevations (As per Flora of Ceylon Vol 8. But it is now spread to much lower elevations)
Common native shrub or tree found in dry zone forests, open scrub lands, sand dunes, secondary sub montane forests, coconut plantations, mangrove swamp margins and gallery forests along sandy river banks from sea level to 1500m elevations. Fruits edible.


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There is a detailed description of the archaeology of the King’s Ditch as uncovered during the Grand Arcade excavations: The King’s Ditch: from Anarchy to alleyway by Craig Cessford in ‘Medieval to modern suburban material culture and sequence at Grand Arcade, Cambridge‘ 2019.
In 1267 Henry III was at Cambridge actively fortifying the town during a period of war against the Barons.
Hist. Univ. Camb by T Fuller, ed. Prickett and Wright, pp. 40:
Only the south and east of the town lay open, which the King intended to fortify. In order whereunto he built two gates, Trumpington Gate by St Peter’s Church, now ruined, on the south; Barnwell Gate by St Andrew’s Church now decayed on the east. And because gates without walls are but compliments in matters of strength, he intended to wall the town about, if time permitted him. Meantime he drew a deep ditch (called King’s Ditch at this day) round about the south and east parts of Cambridge. Presently news is brought to him, that Gilbert, earl of Clare, had seized on the chief city of the realm. No policy for the King to keep Cambridge and lose London the while. Thither marched he in all haste with his army, and may be said to carry the walls of Cambridge away with him, the design thereof sinking at his departure.
See Defending Cambridge, Mike Osborne, (2013) for a detailed description of the importance of the King’s Ditch and its origins being possibly pre-Norman Conquest and built at the direction of King Edward together with the tower of St Bene’t’s church.
According to the 1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge, the King’s Ditch was the original boundary and defensive ditch to the S and E of the old town, possibly pre-Conquest and remodelled in the 13th century.
Little visible remains; in Richard Lyne’s street map of 1574 the ditch is shown and can be traced along the line of the modern roads starting at the Cam with Mill Lane, running along Pembroke Street, across the site of the old Botanic Gardens, along St Tibb’s Row and Hobson Street, across the fellow’s garden of Sidney Sussex College and along Park Street to rejoin the river nearly opposite the Pepys Building of Magdalene College.
The only surface remains are near the squash court in the Fellows’ garden, Sidney Sussex College.
There was a ditch north of the Cam of which no surface remains survive. It was possibly a stream that had been canalised.
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The Cooper Discoverer SRXLE tire, which is made at Cooper’s plant in Tupelo, has been selected by Mercedes-Benz as original equipment on the new Mercedes-Benz GLS, the automaker’s next generation full-size SUV.
The Cooper Discoverer SRXLE is a premium all-season SUV and CUV tire that the company says has earned acclaim for superior innovation, technical achievement, quality and workmanship. Discoverer SRXLE fitments on the Mercedes-Benz GLS include the 275/50R20 and 275/55R19.
“The Cooper Discoverer SRXLE features advanced performance construction to deliver maximum steering response, stability in handling maneuvers, and a smooth, comfortable ride. With leading edge tread technology, the SRXLE provides confidence in vehicle control by delivering superior traction in all weather conditions and helps improve fuel efficiency.”
Cooper also said the tire’s profile shape includes a footprint that enhances vehicle control, in addition to groove in the tread that improve resistance to hydroplaning and provide more control and grip in heavy rain.
“This is the second Mercedes-Benz vehicle announced within the past 18 months to feature Cooper tires as original equipment,” said Glenn Arbaugh, Executive Director, Global Light Vehicle OE Business & Strategy for Cooper. “We are already OE on the Mercedes-Benz GLE, and are excited about this next opportunity on the Mercedes-Benz GLS.”
Last year the German automaker chose Cooper’s Discoverer SRXLE to be original equipment on its GLE in sizes 255/50R19XL and 275/50R20.
Cooper Tire opened its Tupelo plant in 1984 and employs about 1,300 people. The facility has produced nearly 400 million tires.
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NEW YORK (AVAFIN) -- Institutional trading of Intel Corporation shares yielded a bought/sold volume ratio of 2.95.
A total of 110 block trades crossed the tape, resulting in 2,538,033
shares on the buy side vs. 861,317 shares on the sell side. From a cash flow perspective,
this implies that there was a cash inflow of $60,149,240 and a cash outflow of $20,416,096.
The net cash flow for INTC is $39,733,144, demonstrating that institutions may
have positive outlook on the stock.
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A closer look at option trading reveals that a total of 127,045 call and 37,801 put contracts
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Intel Corporation is a semiconductor chip maker, which develops advanced integrated digital technology products, mainly integrated circuits, for industries such as computing and communications.
Intel Corporation (INTC) opened today at $24.07 and is currently trading at $23.58, down $0.61 (2.54%) during
last trading session. Performance indicators show that the stock has gained 14.53% within the last quarter.
The daily low is $23.41 and the high is $24.22. The trading volume
of 48M is above the average volume of 44M shares. INTC is trading below the 50
day moving average and higher than the 200 day moving average. The stock's 52 week low is $19.23 and 52 week high is $29.27. The stock has a P/E ratio of 12.09 and a dividend yield of 3.66%.

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- Below is WWE SummerSlam 2005 in 60 seconds:
- Friday's episode of WWE SmackDown scored 76,177 in social activity, compared to 77,716 last week. The episode ranked #2 on cable TV, trailing Tigers vs. Yankees MLB baseball according to according to Trendrr.TV.


US Spanish-American War M1892 Krag bayonet dated 1897; all original parts are intact; this specimen is in great overall condition, considering the age.
Original Spanish-American War era M1892 “Krag” bayonet that was issued for the short-served US M1892 Krag-Jörgensen rifle. The bayonet is only slightly used and it’s in great overall condition – all parts are original and intact; made by Springfield Arsenal in 1897. The blade is in great shape; the edge has not been re-sharpened; the tip is intact; some minor pitting near the tip and light surface rust on the handle is noted for accuracy (cleanable). The pommel is perfect with no typical contact marks; bayonet release mechanism is excellent and 100% functional. Original walnut handle scales and pins; all handle parts are tight with zero play. Ricasso is date-stamped 1897 on one side and US on the other. The bayonet is about 16-1/4″ / 41.3 cm overall; the blade is about 11-3/8″ / 29.5 cm long; it is in 100% serviceable condition even now. There is no scabbard.
This original US Spanish-American War M1892 Krag bayonet is in excellent 100% serviceable condition still. Not cleaned or tampered with in any way, 100% original “as is” condition. These are the actual photos. I have a few more vintage bayonets, as well as several scarce WW1 and WW2 American and European fighting daggers, bayonets and trench knives available for sale – please take a look in our Militaria section.
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|Trade name:||Oso Easy Strawberry Crush|
Spring Meadow Nursery, Inc.
12601 120th Avenue
Grand Haven, Michigan
United States of America
Colin Peter Horner, Stransted, Essex, United Kingdom
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38723 Fingal Line
St. Thomas, Ontario
|Grant of Rights Date:||2009-08-25|
|Date rights surrendered:||2014-07-11|
Variety used for comparison: 'Noatraum' (Flower Carpet Pink)
Summary: 'Hormeteoric' is a compact shrub type while 'Noatraum' is a ground cover type rose. The stem of 'Hormeteoric' has more prickles than 'Noatraum'. The upper side of the leaf of 'Hormeteoric' has weaker glossiness than 'Noatraum'. The flower petal margin of 'Hormeteoric' has stronger reflexing than 'Noatraum'. The flower petal of 'Hormeteoric' is a dark pink red to a red pink with light yellow at the base while in 'Noatraum' it is purple red with white at the base. 'Hormeteoric' has a light yellow colour to the outer side of the flower petal while it is purple red in 'Noatraum'.
PLANT: compact shrub type, moderately spreading growth habit
YOUNG SHOOT ANTHOCYANIN: medium intensity
PRICKLES/THORNS: reddish, many on the stem
LEAF: light to medium green on upper side, medium glossiness on upper side, anthocyanin colouration at margin edge fading with age, very weak to weak undulation of margin
TERMINAL LEAFLET: ovate shape, rounded base, acuminate apex
FLOWERING SHOOT: few flowering laterals, few to medium number of flowers per lateral
FLOWER BUD: medium ovate shape in longitudinal section
SEPAL: absent to very weak extensions
FLOWER: semi-double type, medium petal density, irregularly rounded when viewed from above, flat on upper part when viewed from the side, concave on lower part when viewed from the side, pink blend American Rose Society colour group, medium fragrance
PETAL: obovate shape, absent to very weak incisions, two colours, dark pink red to red pink with light yellow at the base on inner side, light yellow on outer side, medium reflexing of the margin, weak to medium undulation of the margin
BASAL PETAL SPOT: small, light yellow on inner side
OUTER STAMEN: medium yellow filament
Origin & Breeding History: 'Hormeteoric' originated from the cross made in 1994 between the female parent, 'Anna Ford' and the male parent, 'Euphorbia' in Stanstead, Essex, UK. In 1995, a single plant was selected from the progeny based on flower colour and abundance, attractive foliage, growth habit and good black spot resistance.
Tests & Trials: Field trials were conducted during the summer of 2008 in St. Thomas, Ontario. There were 8 plants of each variety planted in May 2007 in rows with plants spaced 2 feet apart and rows spaced 3 feet apart. All colour measurements were made using the Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart 2001.
Comparison table for 'Hormeteoric' with reference variety 'Noatraum'
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In Moscow unknown persons have fired at the bus of youthful شت " command; the Locomotive “
On Monday morning around the Shchelkovo highway unknown persons have fired at the bus, in which football players of the youthful command Moscow « the Locomotive » went to the airport, the trainer of juniors Nikolay Kochetov has informed.
« Today early in the morning, U command - 17 has gone on tournament in Krymsk. On the way to the airport unknown persons have fired at the bus from a pneumatic... » - he has written in the microblog in Twitter.
« the Bullet has punched a window!!! By miracle without having touched the player, it has cast away a back of a seat and lay, otherwise would get precisely to a head... » - the trainer has noted.
Also has added: « I Think, simple hooliganism. It is a lot of idiots! »
it is necessary to notice that it is far not the first case in Moscow when hooligans fire at buses, Trolley buses and other transport from the pneumatic weapon. On Sunday, for example, the unknown person has some times shot from an air rifle on the car « First aid » which carried the patient in hospital. Bullets have punched a windshield. Fortunately, people have not suffered.


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Satchmode offer up a different perspective on a perennial songwriting muse with their debut full-length album, Love Hz.
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The next morning one of the staff notice my room key number and said; ‘Oh you have Michael Collins room.”
‘Excuse me?’ ‘Oh Michael Collins used to stay at the hotel regularly and later was hiding in a room from the British Soldiers. The last time he was in Dublin, he was shooting at the soldiers our of the window, and had to escape through the back of the hotel!’ I wanted to believe it, yet the Irish are renown for telling stories – so I checked it out on the internet and the tourism offices…….just to make sure. The story was legit!
Quote – from Discover Ireland: After the 1916 Easter Rising one of Ireland’s greatest patriots, Michael Collins, was surrounded by the British army; he shot at soldiers from a window above the hotel reception now one of the guest bedrooms. Apparently he escaped via the back of the hotel to travel back to Cork.’
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|Author||: Alexandra Kitty|
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The director of 2004’s smash hit documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism teams with journalist Alexandra Kitty in an even more detailed and updated examination of how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news. They examine media consolidation by focusing on the Fox News Channel: How did Fox gain prominence? How did the Fox News Channel gain audiences and influence public debate? How does Fox report reality? Is the network merely interpreting events or is it pushing propaganda? Who are the main players and how do they treat their friends and enemies? Why should readers care about how Fox takes liberties with its facts? Each chapter blends interviews from Greenwald’s documentary, transcripts from Fox programs, and other research pertaining to Fox News not only to illustrate the Fox “mentality,” but also to show the factual, ethical and structural problems with the news channel. Interviews and transcripts are analyzed to give readers a strong sense of what Fox is actually telling its audiences.
|Author||: Rita Mae Brown|
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In a mystery set in the high-class and tradition-bound world of Virginia foxhunting, the murder of a candidate for the coveted "joint-master" leaves many suspects among the social climbers vying for the position. Reprint.
|Author||: R.J. Blain|
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Death is a way of life outside of the safety of Inner Tulsa, and Jade means to keep flipping Mother Nature off until old age claims her. With one eye always on the sky, the last thing she needs is a pack of bounty hunters out for her living head. With no idea of why anyone would want her, her wits might keep her free, assuming she can resist the charming lures of Sandro, one of the men out to claim her as his own. Left with the choice of being the evening snack of a tornado or taking shelter with the bounty hunter, she does what she does best: she lives on the edge. Striking a bargain with the handsome bounty hunter buys her another day of life, but it also dumps her into the heart of a sinister plot, one meant to enslave the residents of the storm-tossed city—and the others brave and foolish enough to call the Alley home.
|Author||: Rita Mae Brown|
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From the bestselling author of the landmark work Rubyfruit Jungle comes an engaging, original new novel that only Rita Mae Brown could have written. In the pristine world of Virginia foxhunting, hunters, horses, hounds, and foxes form a lively community of conflicting loyalties, where the thrill of the chase and the intricacies of human-animal relationships are experienced firsthand--and murder exposes a proud Southern community's unsavory secrets. . . . As Master of the prestigious Jefferson Hunt Club, Jane Arnold, known as Sister, is the most revered citizen in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountain town where a rigid code of social conduct and deep-seated tradition carry more weight than money. Nearing seventy, Sister now must select a joint master to ensure a smooth transition of leadership after her death. It is an honor of the highest order--and one that any serious social climber would covet like the Holy Grail. Virginian to the bone with a solid foxhunting history, Fontaine Buruss is an obvious candidate, but his penchant for philandering and squandering money has earned him a less than sparkling reputation. And not even Sister knows about his latest tawdry scandal. Then there is Crawford Howard, a Yankee in a small town where Rebel bloodlines are sacred. Still, Crawford has money--lots of it--and as Sister is well aware, maintaining a first-class hunt club is far from cheap. With the competition flaring up, Southern gentility flies out the window. Fontaine and Crawford will stop at nothing to discredit each other. Soon the entire town is pulled into a rivalry that is spiraling dangerously out of control. Even the animals have strong opinions, and only Sister is able to maintain objectivity. But when opening hunt day ends in murder, she, too, is stunned. Who was bold and skilled enough to commit murder on the field? It could only be someone who knew both the territory and the complex nature of the hunt inside out. Sister knows of three people who qualify--and only she, with the help of a few clever foxes and hounds, can lay the trap to catch the killer. A colorful foray into an intriguing world, Outfoxed features a captivating cast of Southerners and their unforgettable animal counterparts. Rita Mae Brown has written a masterful novel that surprises, delights, and enchants.
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Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the Tara Foundation has rescued to make them more adoptable, benefiting both the dogs and the prisoners. One of the prisoners Andy has been working with is Brian Atkins, who has 18 months left on a 5-year term for fraud. Brian has been helping to train Boomer, an adorable fox terrier the Tara Foundation rescued from a neglectful owner. Brian and Boomer are clearly a terrific match. In fact, Andy hopes that Brian will adopt Boomer himself, once his sentence is up. But one day, Andy arrives at the prison to discover that Brian has used Boomer to make an ingenious escape, and man and dog are both in the wind. The next day, the man on whose testimony Brian was convicted is found murdered. Brian is caught and arrested for the crime, though he forcefully protests his innocence. Suddenly, Andy finds himself with a new client in Brian and a new dog in Boomer. And as he starts to dig deeper into the murder and the events leading up to it, Andy realizes he might be putting them all in far more danger than anyone had realized.
|Author||: Keira Blackwood,Eva Knight|
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Fight or flight, she’ll choose flight every time. Ravens are supposed to be intelligent, secretive, and high in creep-factor. Not to mention the whole loving shiny objects thing. Madison didn’t get her PhD based on physical prowess. She can’t speak much for the rest. She likes quiet. She likes order. She likes everything he’s not. But when he runs into the darkness, she follows. She can’t turn away. Maybe she's lost her mind. Or maybe finding your mate means sometimes you can’t turn tail and fly away. For love, you have to fight. Quick Bites are stand alone stories you can devour in a flash. Expect short, steamy shifter romance, edge-of-your-seat action, scorching love scenes, and a happily ever after. Additional Keywords: shifter, shapeshifter, paranormal romance, pnr, alpha, suspense romance, magic
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|Editor||: Simon and Schuster|
“A ‘quacker-jack’ addition to a duck- or fox-themed storytime.” —BCCB “Large word bubbles make reading easy…Don’t be outfoxed. Get quacking and buy this book.” —School Library Journal Quack, quack—woof? A quick-thinking duck keeps a fox on his toes in this witty romp from a New Yorker cartoonist. One dark night in the henhouse, a hungry fox in search of his dinner gets more than he bargains for. Instead of a chicken, Fox grabs a duck. A very smart duck. A duck so sly, he plans to convince Fox that he isn’t a duck but a—dog! Yes, a dog. This clever story and its accompanying visual narrative will delight readers young and old—because if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it HAS to be a duck…right?
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The must-read summary of Alexandra Kitty's book: “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism”. This complete summary of "Outfoxed" by Alexandra Kitty presents the author's argument that the press, due to manipulation of public opinion, censorship and propaganda, is now no longer a cornerstone of the American democratic process, despite the Constitution. She analyses the Fox News Channel, how they gained popularity and standing, and how they actually interpret and report reality. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand the American press and media bias • Expand your knowledge of American politics and culture To learn more, read "Outfoxed" and discover how the American press is no longer at the forefront of democracy, and why this is the case.
|Author||: Eve Langlais|
|Editor||: Eve Langlais|
A USA Today Bestseller featuring a Hero with Antlers A bullheaded moose doesn’t stand a chance when a fox decides to make him her mate. Boris left to defend his country still a boy. He came back a changed man. A damaged man. But Jan still wants him. A man of few words, Boris has a firm way of saying No, but a determined vixen knows he’s her mate. Jan has not had much success in getting her bullheaded moose to notice her, but all that changes when her life is put in danger. Suddenly the damaged soldier keeps finding excuses to come to her rescue, but as far as Jan is concerned, her mate is the one in need of saving. It will take some subtle maneuvering to outfox her moose into admitting he loves her, but this wily vixen is more than ready for the challenge. And if that doesn’t work, momma’s offered to loan her the shot gun used for her own engagement. Welcome to Kodiak Point, where the wildlife might wear clothes, but animal instinct rules the heart. # 1 Kodiak's Claim , #2 Outfoxed by Love, #3 Polar Bared , #3.5 Caribou's Gift, #4 Wolf's Capture, #5 Grizzly Love Genre: paranormal romance, werewolf romance, shapeshifter romance, fantasy romance, alpha male, bear romance, military romance, humorous romance, comedy romance, Alaska romance
|Author||: Rita Mae Brown|
|Editor||: Foxhunting Mysteries (Paperbac|
In a mystery set in the high-class and tradition-bound world of Virginia foxhunting, the murder of a candidate for the coveted position of master of the hunt club leaves many suspects among the social climbers vying for the position. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
|Author||: Alex Ben Block|
|Editor||: St Martins Press|
A behind-the-scenes account of the creation of the Fox Broadcasting Network tells a story of money, power, glitter, and betrayal in modern Hollywood, as the face of television is changed
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|Editor||: Two Lions|
In this Japanese tale based on a traditional kyogen, a proud old fox scorns a youngster's simple plan for stopping the hunter who has grown skillful at killing foxes, until he runs into trouble!
|Author||: Sandra Brown|
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From the #1 NYT bestselling author: After a thirty-year search for a serial killer, FBI agent Drex Easton becomes a suspect's next-door neighbor -- but can he navigate a shocking series of twists and turns to track down the truth? FBI agent Drex Easton is relentlessly driven by a single goal: to outmaneuver the conman once known as Weston Graham. Over the past thirty years, Weston has assumed many names and countless disguises, enabling him to lure eight wealthy women out of their fortunes before they disappeared without a trace, their families left without answers and the authorities without clues. The only common trait among the victims: a new man in their life who also vanished, leaving behind no evidence of his existence . . . except for one signature custom. Drex is convinced that these women have been murdered, and that the man he knows as Weston Graham is the sociopath responsible. But each time Drex gets close to catching him, Weston trades one persona for another and disappears again. Now, for the first time in their long game of cat and mouse, Drex has a suspect in sight. Attractive and charming, Jasper Ford is recently married to a successful businesswoman many years his junior, Talia Shafer. Drex insinuates himself into their lives, posing as a new neighbor and setting up surveillance on their house. The closer he gets to the couple, the more convinced he becomes that Jasper is the clever, merciless predator he's sought--and that his own attraction to Talia threatens to compromise his purpose and integrity. This is Drex's one chance to outfox his cunning nemesis before he murders again and eludes justice forever. But first he must determine if the desirable Talia is a heartless accomplice . . . or the next victim.
|Author||: Chris Camillo|
|Editor||: St. Martin's Press|
$20,000 to $2 million in only three years— the greatest stock-picker you never heard of tells you how you can do it too Chris Camillo is not a stockbroker, financial analyst, or hedge fund manager. He is an ordinary person with a knack for identifying trends and discovering great investments hidden in everyday life. In early 2007, he invested $20,000 in the stock market, and in three years it grew to just over $2 million. With Laughing at Wall Street, you'll see: •How Facebook friends helped a young parent invest in the wildly successful children's show, Chuggington—and saw her stock values climb 50% •How an everyday trip to 7-Eleven alerted a teenager to short Snapple stock—and tripled his money in seven days •How $1000 invested consecutively in Uggs, True Religion jeans, and Crocs over five years grew to $750,000 •How Michelle Obama caused J. Crew's stock to soar 186%, and Wall Street only caught up four months later! Engaging, narratively-driven, and without complicated financial analysis, Camillo's stock picking methodology proves that you do not need large sums of money or fancy market data to become a successful investor.
|Author||: Sarah Skilton|
|Editor||: Grand Central Publishing|
Take this "fun, entertaining read with a sweet romance" to the beach! Can anything go wrong with a former child star's quest to set the record straight, her cross-country road trip with a handsome yet infuriatingly level-headed co-pilot, and an awkward confrontation with famous ex-friends? (HelloGiggles) Holly Danner has a complicated relationship with fame. It's not easy being the only cast member of a 1990s song-and-dance show who didn't become famous. When she was eleven, she used to do anything for a laugh (or at least a laugh-track) on "Diego and the Lion's Den." If she talked about it--which she almost never does--Holly might explain how her childhood best friends came to dominate the worlds of pop music, film, and TV while she was relegated to a few near-misses and a nanny gig for her niece. She'd even be telling the truth about making peace with the whole thing years ago. But when she finds out there's a 25th anniversary for the show planned--a televised reunion, clip show, and panel--and she wasn't invited, it's time for an impromptu road trip to crash the event and set the record straight. Three problems: she's currently in Internet Rehab (perhaps she's not quite as well-adjusted as she believes...), she has no cash, and the only person who can get her across the country in time is Thom Parker, a handsome, infuriatingly level-headed patient who doesn't think she should confront her famous ex-friends. FAME ADJACENT is a contemporary, realistic, and humorous look at love, friendship, and fame, as seen through the eyes of a girl who lived it--from the sidelines.
|Author||: Greg Spotts|
|Editor||: Red Wheel Weiser|
Spotts takes you behind the scenes for the planning of a truly unprecedented campaign. He shows how individuals and groups can force even the largest corporations to change to better serve the interests of the countries and communities in which they do business.
|Editor||: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers|
Fox breaks into a henhouse to steal a chicken for dinner but grabs Duck, instead--a clever fowl that pretends to be a dog.

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University of Bergen, Norway
Time : 09:30-10:05
Bjørn Kvamme obtained his MSc in Chemical Engineering (1981) and PhD in Chemical Engineering (1984) from the Norwegian University of Technology and Natural Sciences. After a short period with SINTEF and two years at Bergen University College, he was appointed to full Professor in 1987 and started education of MSc and PhD in Process Technology in Telemark. He entered a position as Professor in Gas Processing at Department of Physics, University of Bergen in March 2000. He is the author/co-author of 373 publications, of which 140 are in high quality journals.
Hydrocarbons being transported in pipelines will always contain some dissolved water. High pressures and low temperature involves a risk of hydrate (ice-like crystals contain up to 14% CH4) formation. The traditional way to calculate the risk of hydrate formation and the corresponding level of water content that can be permitted before transport has been to calculate water dew-point and the checking if presence of liquid water would lead to hydrate formation at the conditions of temperatures and pressures at these conditions. Pipelines being used for hydrocarbon are, however, normally covered by rust even before they are placed out. One of the most stable iron oxide in rust is Fe2O3. This mineral is a very good adsorption material for water and will as such represent another route for the water to drop out from hydrocarbon mixtures. The chemical potential of water adsorbed on rust can be 3.4 kJ/mole lower than chemical potential of liquid water at relevant conditions. In this study we have examined maximum water content which can be permitted in mixtures of CH4 and C2H6 when considering adsorption drop out versus drop out as liquid water. For CH4 contacting water the tolerance limit based on liquid water drop out is found to be in the order of 26 times higher than corresponding limit based on rust adsorption, for temperature 275 K and pressures between 50 and 250 bars. Similar ratios are also found for pure C2H6 and a mixture of CH4 with 20% C2H6. As a consequence the hydrate risk analysis needs to be revised in order to reflect the most preferred routes for water drop out from gas.
Institute of Combustion Problems–Ministry of Education and Science, Kazakhstan
Time : 10:05-10:40
Mansurov Z A is a General Director of the Institute of Combustion Problems of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. His scientific activity includes study and investigations of kinetics and mechanisms of hydrocarbon combustion and structure of cool soothing flames. In 2002, group of scientists headed by him had received Diploma for discovery of phenomenon of low-temperature cool-flame soot formation awarded by Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Her professional career includes longstanding activity in INTAS. He is Editor-in-Chief of Combustion and Plasmochemistry and Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journals indexed at Scopus.
Emergency oil spills during transportation of them by water way, from offshore oil drilling rigs and other sources can rapidly result in harm to the ecosystem and leads to negative and social impact. The development of effective methods on oil spill elimination is a task of singular importance. Burning can be used where other methods are not effective spill response, and can be done in parallel with other methods of spill after determining an appropriate method for a particular site or geographic region. The paper provides an overview of the current state of the problem, and research results on combustion of Karazhanbas and Tengiz oil on water surface were carried out. It has been established that minimum thickness of oil blanket, allowing to initiate and support combustion process, lie in the range of 3-5 mm. For ignition and maintenance of stable combustion of oil on water surface, the synthetic sorbent was suggested. It is found that, the synthetic sorbent accelerates the combustion process of oil on water surface threefold in comparison with combustion process of oil without sorbent. It is shown that the remaining mass of oil on water surface after combustion process termination, presents the bitumen substance, having a good adherence and strong adhesion that allows taking it with high efficiency by mechanical method.
Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India
Time : 10:40-11:15
Akkihebbal K Suresh completed his PhD from Monash University. After a brief stint with Hindustan Lever Research Centre (a Unilever company), he joined the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1988 and has been with the Institute ever since. He currently holds an Institute Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He served as the Head of the department from 2005-2008, and as the Dean of Faculty Affairs of IIT Bombay during 2009-2014. Apart from an abiding interest in liquid phase hydrocarbon oxidations, his work encompasses other themes in transport and reaction engineering. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
There are many processes in the general petrochemicals and petroleum processing arena which are characterized by a complex network of reactions, and hence a complex reaction mixture which presents challenges for product workup. While in principle, catalysis presents a possible solution to reduce the complexity of such reactions via a selective promotion of the desired steps in the network, development of appropriate catalysts remains very much an art to this day, if one that is informed by a wealth of experience and some theoretical developments. In this task, we shall discuss some case studies from the petrochemicals and related areas such as biodiesel and automotive catalysis, to illustrate both the possibilities as well as the challenges. Each case study illustrates a separate set of issues. Among the challenges illustrated will be (a) that of selectivity (b) the role of catalyst support (c) synergistic behaviour when catalysts are combined, (d) catalyst activation and deactivation.
Coffee Break: 11:15-11:30 @Foyer

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My first good camera was a gift from a neighbor who was a friend of my mother. It was a Voightlander Vitessa L that she had replaced with a Kodak Retina Reflex and wasn't using any more. I used that camera a lot during my last two years in high school along with a Graflex Century 23 that I later bought. Prior to the Voightlander my only camera was an Ansco ReadyFlash. Amazingly I still own all three of those cameras but only the Voighlander is currently functioning. The Ansco used 620 film which isn't made any more. I could re-spool 120 for it but the camera isn't worth the bother. The shutter on the Graflex sticks and needs cleaning. The Voightlander was in disrepair too but I had it fixed and CLD'd (Cleaned, Lubricaded and Adjusted) by Classic Camera Workshop in Huntingdon Valley, PA in 2007 and ran a roll of film through it after getting it back to verify that all was working as it should. I hadn't done anything with these two photos from that roll until yesterday when I decided to combine them into a diptych. I may have been thinking in those terms when I shot them but didn't get around to it at the time. They are certainly aligned as if I intended to use them together.
If I'm to be pigeon-holed as anything I'd have to say "I'm a photographer". I didn't make my living that way (retired from a civil service job in the Dept. of Labor) but photography is the thing I have done the longest (56 years and counting) and most passionately. My degree is in fine art ceramics and I continue to have an interest in art and crafts. On a political scale I'm in the same neighborhood with Mahatma Gandhi according to politicalcompass.org but mostly politics annoy me. It seems to be about pushing your views on others. I wish we could find a way to live without politics. I am a student of religion but not a church-goer. I like being out in nature either hiking or in my canoe.
About the photos: They are all copyrighted. If you click them (most of them anyway) you will open a window with a larger version. If you want to capture it and use it on your computer desktop, that's okay but any other use, posting to other websites, etc. without express permission from me is prohibited. If you wish to share them with others, please give them the URL so that they can look at them here.


Finally, The Brooklyn Paper reports that the city is moving forward with plans to make Kent Avenue in Williamsburg slightly less treacherous for cyclists and unpleasant for pedestrians. Work begins today on phase one of an ambitious plan to transform the road — which runs from Greenpoint to Clinton Hill — into a one-way street for cars with two-way protected bike lanes and more parking spaces. The first phase will transform the stretch between Broadway and Clymer into something resembling the cross-section below, with future plans to the North and South aimed at creating a continuous protected bike lane from North 12th Street all the way to Flushing Avenue (which, oddly, covers about 2/3 of several L Mag staffers’ daily commutes).
The bike lane has been a contentious issue for a while now, with local residents claiming the new plan represents too extreme a reduction in parking spaces, and companies making deliveries to the Brooklyn Navy Yard complaining that trucks will have to make difficult and time-consuming detours (likely along Wythe Avenue) as a result. I guess we’ll have to see what happens at the end of the week.


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St. Paul, MN
Clarinetist Pat O'Keefe is a multifaceted performer who is endlessly active and in high demand in a wide variety of musical styles and genres. He has performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras and wind ensembles, played for belly dancers, and rocked samba in the streets (even in his hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota where he is also a member of Zeitgeist new music ensemble). He draws upon this multiplicity of experiences and interests in his new music performances, which employ a "superb control of extended techniques," and have been described as "passionate," "explosive," and "breath-stoppingly exquisite." All of these characteristics and more are featured in this, his first solo CD of compositions for clarinet and bass clarinet, written expressly for him by Minnesota composers with whom he has had long creative relationships.
This collection includes both unaccompanied works and pairings with piano and electronics. Jeff Lambert’s Dissonant Grooves is a fast and furious rhythmic romp with angular lines bouncing throughout all registers of the instrument, while Brett Wartchow’s Unbound begins with monolithic, Varese-like textures that constantly “unbind” to reveal new facets of the initial musical building blocks. Ann Millikan’s Dendrite is a work that contrasts blasts of intensity with long stretches of quiet stillness that make full use of the bass clarinet’s many voices. O’Keefe’s own Silent Snow finds the clarinet and piano interacting in an off-kilter, semi-improvisational duet that progresses from nearly inaudible to earthshaking. Scott Miller’s Contents May Differ envelops bass clarinet multiphonics in a rich sonic landscape of sine tones and broken clocks, while Paul Cantrell’s The Broken Mirror of Memory is an epic duo that traverses many musical landscapes, at times sounding like the greatest late 19th Century sonata for bass clarinet and piano that was never written.


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Initially rumored in mid-March, the Air Jordan 13 in "Black" and "University Blue" has finally emerged via official images ahead of its December 23rd launch.
Set to drop for adults and kids, the unreleased pair maintains a color-blocking with which the silhouette debuted 25 years ago. Leather and mesh construction comes together across most of the upper, but panels along the profiles and at the medial collar deviate in both color scheme and material, introducing a vibrant blue suede into the mix. Jumpman logos on the top of the tongue also sport the University of North Carolina Tar Heel-appropriate hue, adding yet anther tally to the roster of Air Jordan releases that’ve borrowed the tone since Michael Jordan signed to NIKE, Inc. in 1984. The panther eye-inspired accents at the lateral heel maintains its standard holographic finish, while sole units underfoot round out the look in the titular "Black" and "University Blue" colors.
Enjoy official images of the retro and expect the shoes to hit Nike SNKRS and other retailers on Friday, December 23rd


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By The Tribune 31-Aug-2019
In a joint statement issued on Friday, Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, Harpal Singh Cheema, Deputy Leader of Opposition Sarabjit Kaur Manuke, core committee chairman Budh Ram, Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Prof Baljinder Kaur, Rupinder Kaur Ruby, Jai Krishan Singh Rori, Manjit Singh Bilaspur and Kulwant Singh Pandori (all MLAs), said successive governments had miserably failed to assuage the hurt sentiments of people.
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Cheema and other leaders of the party demanded that officials posing roadblocks in the investigations should be shown the door and the probe be made time-bound. They said if Capt Amarinder Singh failed to do so, it would be presumed that he was delaying the delivery of justice to save the Badals.
क्या संतोष गंगवार के बयान का असर महाराष्ट्र चुनाव में होगा ?
Suffering From Problem In Your Area ? Now Its Time To Raise Your Voice And Make Everyone Know


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ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) is a laboratory test for measuring small amounts of a substance in body fluids. It is a well understood and widely used technique which uses antibodies specific for the substance to be detected. Arquer has designed, manufactured and CE-marked an ELISA kit for Mcm5 for use in hospital path labs.
Arquer’s test detects and measures levels of Mcm5 in patients’ urine. The antibodies used in the test, and all operating parameters, have been derived to give the optimum balance of analytical sensitivity, ease of use and speed of operation.
In addition to the laboratory Mcm5 ELISA, Arquer is in the early stages of developing a point of care test for rapid diagnosis. The Company has recently developed a proprietary sample processing device and is currently evaluating a number of quantitative point of care platforms.
Arquer’s point of care system will comprise a robust reader instrument and disposable cartridges. A small volume of urine is placed in the device and a quantitative result appears within minutes. The reader is already developed and on the market for other critical diagnostic applications. The test is designed to be used in the urology clinic and the GP’s surgery.
Benefits of Point-of-Care Testing
There are clear advantages to both patient and clinician in avoiding the one or two-day wait for results from a central laboratory. Urine samples can be tested for Mcm5 along with other parameters when the patient arrives at the clinic so that all results are available to the clinician when the patient is examined. A worrying wait for the patient is eliminated. This also fits with the concept of the time and cost-efficient one-stop clinic. The concept of point of care, or near-patient testing, is gaining increasing acceptance. Most hospitals now have point-of-care co-ordinators who ensure that instruments are maintained and that users are appropriately trained. The robustness, accuracy and ease of use of Arquer’s point of care system have already been proved in exacting conditions in the field.
Established in 2007, Arquer Diagnostics Ltd (formerly UroSens Ltd) is based at the North East Business and Innovation Centre, Sunderland, UK. The management team and board of directors have extensive experience in the diagnostic market and the company is focussing on developing and commercialising urine-based immunoassay tests for cancers of the urinogenitary tract.

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October 30, 2017
The Triple M Show with Aine Cahill
The Triple M Show is a weekly magazine show hosted by Matt Williams and Max Levine.
This week the guys were joined by singer/songwriter/ Aine Cahill, who called to discuss her latest single ‘Blood Diamonds’ and chat about her career so far.
We also discussed Stranger Things 2, Thor Raganork, Kim Cattrall’s interview about Sex & The City 3 and her opinion on her co-stars and Max brought us the latest trending topics.
Tunes from Blessed, St Vincent, Aine Cahill, Chloe Howl, CamelPhat, Marilyn Manson + more…


text: Each time we gather for worship in All Saints Chapel, we wonder about how to put God’s gift of love at work in our lives. Every month, we focus on a specific virtue and how when we live it out, we reflect God’s love toward all. We begin the year wondering about the virtue of honesty. Noel Coward once said, “It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” Have we become so used to dishonesty that we can’t hear or speak truth? The temptation to speak dishonestly if it gives us more power over someone else, if it means winning the argument, if it means hurting someone’s feelings are real for all of us. Honesty take courage. Honesty takes commitment. Honesty reflects our integrity.

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Peter De Vries once observed that “comedy deals with that portion of our suffering that is exempt from tragedy.” Few writers have understood literary comedy as well as De Vries, and few comic novelists have had his grasp of tragedy. The determination and artistry with which he approached these subjects made him hard to categorize, which may be why, little more than a decade after his death, he is pretty much forgotten—a sad note on which to begin.
De Vries was certainly a very funny man, consistently and inventively; a number of his coinages long ago found their uncredited way into the language, among them “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be” and “Deep down, he’s shallow.” A half century ago, his first acknowledged novel, “The Tunnel of Love,” which became a Broadway play and a movie with Doris Day and Gig Young, made him moderately famous. On the basis of that and his next novel, a suburban comedy called “Comfort Me with Apples,” Kingsley Amis, in the Times, called De Vries “the funniest serious writer to be found either side of the Atlantic.” Soon enough, reviewers were comparing him to Amis, Evelyn Waugh, Ring Lardner, and Max Beerbohm—immensely gratifying judgments and helpful publisher’s blurbs, but somehow less than apt. Looking back at De Vries’s work (during nearly fifty years, he wrote some two dozen novels, along with parodies, poetry, short stories, and essays), one can see more clearly that his writing was informed as much by sorrow as by wit, and by the idea, as he put it, that “the rarer human sensibility becomes, the closer it gets to the logic of insanity.” And sometimes sorrow won out.
On the dust jacket of “Comfort Me with Apples” (1956) is a photograph of a smiling man with dark hair who appears to be in his mid-forties (De Vries was born in 1910), his arms crossed in a fashionable authorial pose. He’s wearing a dark tie and a checked tweed jacket, with a handkerchief poking out of his breast pocket. At the lower left is a blond girl, his daughter Emily, who was then about six, looking pleased with herself, as if she had just sneaked into the picture. It’s the only dust-jacket photograph of the author in the company of someone else, and what is unsettling about this familial portrait is our knowledge that four years later Emily would be dead, of leukemia.
If it is difficult to think about Peter De Vries without his puns and wisecracks, it is impossible to do so apart from this central event, or from “The Blood of the Lamb” (1961), his sixth novel, which deals with the death of a child; the descriptions of her sickness and dying are as unbearable as anything in modern literature. There were still bursts of laughter, although darker than in any other De Vries book. (At one point, the narrator’s father rants, “Black light! Antimatter! It’s all around us. We’re all headed for it!” and adds, “The only thing that keeps me from killing myself is the will to live.”) But after that his fiction had another kind of mirthfulness. He remained a master of loopy plots and malapropisms—“I’ve been married seventeen years and never had an organism,” one character tells an advice columnist—and an observer of spoiled middle-class white America, a place populated by comfortable yet perpetually ill-at-ease heroes. But the word “humorist” no longer seemed exactly right.
I’ve recently immersed myself in De Vries’s books, and the temptation is to stop here for a bit and start repeating De Vriesisms, the written equivalent of nudging a companion as prelude to reading something aloud: “ ‘Ah, Tanglewood,’ I said, hunched over my plate. ‘The soft summer nights, the lovers strolling, the Brahms bursting in air.’ ” Or “ ‘So you’re the new personnel manager,’ I said, ogling her. ‘I trust you have a little opening for me.’ ” Then, there are the epigrams, such as “How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?” or “What I hate about writing is the paperwork.”
In the early books, one was carried along by De Vries’s unstoppable gags, his gift for spotting cant, fatuousness, and snobbery, and his grandly silly dialogue. When a woman at a party refers to a “real sou’wester,” the narrator replies, “I’m from the Mi’est. . . . I went to Nor’estern.” And, later, “Have you ever been to We’inster A’ey?” His best sentences were dazzling, and his ear for bad prose was infallible. In “The Tents of Wickedness” (1959), his narrator falls into parodic reveries; in a Dreiser mood, for instance, he thinks, “Now it swept over him in a rushing billow of raw emotion that caused him to thrash on his seat what he wanted to do”; and, “He had not possessed her in the orthodoxly carnal sense, only lent his flesh objectively to her special purpose.” Because many of the writers parodied—John P. Marquand, for instance—are no longer much read, some of this today may seem a little puzzling. But it is hard to regard William Faulkner in quite the same way after you read about “locking her forever in that cloistral dream from which that sex who alone must waken her must by the same token be the one most powerless to deliver her.”
If humor is perishable—boy, is it perishable!—much of what De Vries wrote has a feeling of permanence; his antennae for absurdity and his verbal intelligence (like Nabokov, De Vries was reared listening to another language, the Dutch that his parents spoke) have outlasted the jokes. In many of his novels, he went over the territory explored by, among others, John Updike, John Cheever, and Richard Yates—marriage and sex, work and family, and all the agonies and pleasures of suburban life in the twentieth century. He wrote about admen and furniture movers, writers, clergymen, and academics. De Vries’s men and women were not always perfectly drawn, but they were just as sad and baffled as, say, Cheever’s Neddy and Lucinda Merrill or Yates’s Frank and April Wheeler; the difference was that De Vries almost always made you laugh.


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Hello, Renee from thediyday here to share an easy way to decorate gifts with fringe! Sometimes I don’t have the right gift wrap or gift bags on hand, so instead of making a pit stop to the store, I will often upcycle materials around the house. This is where my papercrafting skills come to good use. See how I transform a plain and ordinary gift box, into a decorative one with fringe!
- Decorative Paper
- Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue
- Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen
- Gift Tag
First, trim the decorative paper into strips, 0.75″ wide. If the area needs a large amount of fringe, consider making the paper strips wider. Then, with fringe scissors or regular scissors, cut approximately 3/4 up the pieces of paper from end to end.
Second, trim the strips to the size needed to cover the box. Then, glue the strips, starting at the bottom and working to the top. I am using the MONO Aqua Liquid Glue because the pen tip is great for fine areas but also because it’s permanent and dries clear – perfect for embellishments.
Since the base of the box is complete, it’s time to work on the lid. I decided to leave the lid fairly basic. I cut and glued leftover pieces of the decorative paper for the top and sides of the box.
Next, with my Fudenosuke Brush Pen I lettered ‘thank you’ onto the gift tag. I noticed the gift tag was a bit too plain. So, I added a piece of leftover fringe.
Last, with my ribbon I made a basic shoelace bow and glued it onto the tag. I was debating whether or not I should fan out the fringe to give it added dimension or leave it as is, I chose to leave it.
It’s so fun to decorate gifts with fringe. Next, I will try this technique on a gift bag! What else should be fringe-dazzled?


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Many new studies display that school learners are flocking to on-line gambling internet sites in report numbers. The research display a twelve% enhance in college pupils that take part in on the web gambling from two years ago. The unlawful Net gambling enforcement act (UIGEA) was passed and grew to become law in Oct 2006 by the authorities to curb the on the web gambling. But the UIGEA not deterred online gambling, but in truth has really enhanced the Web gambling action.
The US is regarded the top Net gambling market place in the world and now substantial college and college age students ages 14 to 22 are obtaining into the act. 1 of the studies was conducted by the Annenberg adolescent communication Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. This telephone review identified that in university aged males 16% admitted to gambling on the web that determine is up from 4.four% in 2008. Large faculty students who gamble on-line on a monthly foundation have been up from 2.seven% to 6.two%. Of the members virtually none admitted to weekly on the internet gambling.
The female in the research confirmed a considerable leap in on the internet gambling participation with high university ladies that gamble on the web month-to-month leaping from .5% to 1.five%. Women have been the driving pressure behind the explosion in poker in the US.
On the internet poker players have been lobbying the US Congress to repeal the present UIGEA legislation. The new monthly bill handed the Home Economic Companies Committee, but isn’t going to appear like it will be voted on by the full 메이저사이트 home ahead of the conclude of the year. With no vote this yr a new monthly bill have to be launched in 2011. The idea of regulating online casinos and poker rooms has numerous politicians which includes it in their strategies. Hoping that this will assist several states improve tax revenue and help balance the state’s price range.
As a consequence of these research it is projected that four hundred,000 school aged people and five hundred,000 large university students gamble on the internet at least when a thirty day period.