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Colorado and its politicos have been in the national spotlight over the past week, from our congressional delegation’s take on the U.S.-North Korea summit to marijuana and more fallout from last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.
Two of the Trump administration’s top officials — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt — came to Denver on an “I President Donald Trump tour” (not actually, it was the Western Conservative Summit) and Colorado’s Republican congressman from Aurora is a central figure in the GOP’s U.S. House immigration battle.
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At home, big development is on the horizon for downtown Denver and another sales tax increase could be on the city’s November ballot, while homelessness has become an issue in Parker.
In the governor’s race, two polls are showing some front-runners. And if this election cycle hasn’t been crazy enough for you already, a Democrat running for a chance to unseat U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman released a video of himself being willingly pepper sprayed in an effort to introduce a policy to halt school shootings.
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Marijuana advocates and state lawmakers are blasting Gov. Hickenlooper over his veto of three cannabis bills.
Part of Colorado’s campaign finance complaint process is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled.
The oil and gas industry is worried a statewide ballot initiative to widen the buffer between drilling and development could cost $180 billion in lost petroleum production and $26 billion in lost royalties, according to a study.
A severe anti-growth measure — one that would limit new construction to 1 percent of current housing stock throughout the metro area — appears to be all but lifeless for the 2018 election.
In Colorado, death is sometimes just the beginning of the story. (Trust me, you’re going to want to read this one.)
A look at the intersection of blockchain technology and regulation in Colorado.
A novel CBD pharmaceutical drug — if approved by the FDA — will have a path to pharmacies in Colorado.
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Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner:
Boxing in the Shadow of the
Global Color Line
A global history of race, gender, and empire
in the early 20th century, through the prism of
"the most famous and most notorious African American on earth."
Be it the mixed reaction to Colin Kaepernick's decision to kneel for the national anthem or the varied media response to NBA players' vocal support for #BlackLivesMatter, even today competitive sport has a knack for forcing society to confront some of its deepest divides. Over one hundred years ago in Jack Johnson's day the lines drawn in the sand were even starker.
Johnson's diverse and tumultuous life, both in and outside the ring, has become one of the most important historic benchmarks for any discussion of Americans' complicated relationship with race. Yet Johnson was more than just an American cause célèbre. The first African American world heavyweight champion also touched hearts–and quite a few raw nerves–around the globe.
Although historians in print and film have plumbed Johnson's fights in the rings and courthouses of the U.S. to tell larger narratives about the ugliness of life under Jim Crow, in Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner, Theresa Runstedtler focuses her gaze across the Atlantic and Pacific.
Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner, provides the first in-depth exploration of Johnson's battles against racism in places as far-flung as Sydney, London, Cape Town, Paris, Havana, and Mexico City. Runstedtler uses Johnson's overseas travels as a springboard to examine his unasked-for starring role in the global debate over the future of imperialism, the color line, and the "white man's burden."
Drawing extensively from foreign newspapers, Runstedtler illustrates a world divided in its reaction to Johnson. Many scoffed at America's fierce negrophobia (particularly their conviction of Johnson under the Mann Act) and embraced the exiled fighter to buttress their claims of moral superiority to the U.S. Others viewed Johnson's ascent in the States as a ready rationale for suppressing nonwhites in their own nations and colonies.
While white Americans like Jack London held their breath for one "Great White Hope" after another to defeat Johnson, Runstedtler shows that Johnson's successes were just as threatening to the white establishment abroad, particularly at a time of great imperial expansion and rising colonial unrest.
Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner won the 2013 Phillis Wheatley Award from the Northeast Black Studies Association.
Praise for Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner
"Theresa Runstedtler traces Jack Johnson's fabulous, furious, iconic life across five continents and through four paradigms (race, masculinity, imperialism, and popular culture), setting a formidably high bar in the emerging genre of transnational biography. Jack Johnson: Rebel Sojourner is a groundbreaking achievement. --David Levering Lewis, author of W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race
"This is a brilliantly researched and original study of the transnational career of the black American boxer Jack Johnson. In lucid and engaging prose, Theresa Runstedtler traces Johnsons travels across multiple continents, showing how Johnsons life serves as a cultural compass for the intersecting worlds of American, British, and French empire and ideas of race at the turn of the last century. This marvelous contribution to the burgeoning literature on the popular culture of imperialism and transnationalism will find a wide and appreciative audience among scholars of empire, American history, and African American studies." --Kevin Gaines, author of American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates in the Civil Rights Era
"Theresa Runstetler's Jack Johnson: Rebel Sojourner is one of the two or three most important books on race and sports I have read in the last ten years. It shows that Jack Johnson's impact on black-white relations, during the years of his exile, was at least as great in countries outside the United States as it was domestically. When he fought outside the US, Johnson became a model of power and agency for colonial peoples seeking liberation, and an object of exotic fascination and aversion for whites trying to maintain their power in a changing world. It is a brilliantly researched and innovative work that forces the reader to look at race in countries like France and Mexico in a completely different way." --Mark Naison, Professor of African American Studies and History, Fordham University
"Theresa Runstedtler has created a wonderfully thoughtful and sophisticated exploration of the impact of Jack Johnson's storied boxing career in the context of Western imperialism of the early twentieth century. The author provides a fascinating and broad picture of the international implications of Johnson's success as the world's first black heavyweight champ. His fame inspired colonized people from Fiji to Jamaica to India. Western imperialists conversely grew alarmed at Johnson's popularity and success. Ultimately, this book is a welcome addition to the study of how itinerant black workers who left the U.S. contributed to transnational resistive politics in Europe, Latin America, Australia, Asia, and Africa. None was as popular as Jack Johnson, who reigned not only as heavyweight champ, but was the most salient example of the intersection of defiance to global white supremacy in the space of sport and entertainment. --Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, author of Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
"This book is a must-have addition to any boxing fan's library." -- Glenn Wilson, Boxing News
"Runstedtler brings new perspectives to bear in Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner. . . it's well worth the read." --Thomas Hauser, The Ring
"Runstedtler presents an unexpected yet wholly authentic take on the great African American boxer, Jack Johnson." --Alan Moores, Booklist
"A fascinating must-read for students of African American or American studies covering the early 1900s." -- Jim Burns, Library Journal
"A thoroughly researched, scholarly study, meant to be read slowly and considered deeply. . . . Highly recommended for all readers." --R. W. Roberts, Purdue University, Choice

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By Jinqi Ling
This booklet rereads 5 significant works by way of John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston as a way to reconceptualize the connection among the previous and current of post-WWII Asian American literary historical past. Drawing on paintings in cultural stories, postmodern and poststructuralist thought, social historical past, and neo-pragmatism, Ling bargains clean views at the cultural politics and formal ideas of texts too usually obvious in contemporary feedback as with out complexities and fraught with totalizing implications. In not easy uncritical adoption of posthumanist perspectives of background, enterprise, and id in Asian American cultural feedback, this pioneering publication opens an method of Asian American literary texts that at the same time registers their wealthy specificity and relatedness to works earlier than and after.
By Gary Scharnhorst, Tom Quirk
Realism and Regionalism: 1865-1914 covers American literature from the second one half the nineteenth century as much as the beginning of global struggle I. Informative research courses supply valuable heritage details in this period of time, recommend useful components of study, and checklist the simplest secondary resources.
By Louisa May Alcott
Louisa might Alcott’s little-known novella is an inventive examine of deception, betrayal, and the ruthless strength of a lady scorned.
When demure Scottish governess Jean Muir arrives at a prosperous loved ones, the kinfolk couldn’t be extra overjoyed with their younger new resident and locate themselves beguiled by way of her grace and wonder. yet this hand over to her innocent’ charms quickly units the boys quarreling for her cognizance, with the ladies beside themselves with jealousy. extremely joyful along with her luck, pass over Muir units her points of interest at the maximum prizebut she has merely 3 days to assert victory earlier than the reality, in the back of her masks, can be exposed.
American novelist Louisa may perhaps Alcott is healthier remembered for the perennially renowned Little Women.
By Priscilla Wald, Michael A. Elliott
Witnessing the top of a conflict that almost terminated the kingdom, the abolition of racial slavery and upward thrust of criminal segregation, the increase of Modernism and Hollywood, the ultimate of the frontier and international Wars, the literary ancient interval represented during this quantity constitutes the crucible of yank literary background. right here, 35 essays by means of most sensible researchers within the box element how concerns of race and citizenship; immigration and assimilation; gender and sexuality; nationalism and empire; all reverberate all through novels written within the usa among 1870 and 1940. individuals talk about the professionalization of literary creation after the Civil warfare along criminal and political debates over segregation and citizenship; whereas chapters on journalism, geography, faith, and immigration supply discussions on every little thing from the lasting position of literary realism in American fiction to the Spanish-American War's influence on constructing theories of aesthetics and pop culture. the amount deals thorough assurance of the emergence of serial fiction, kid's fiction, crime and detective fiction, technological know-how fiction, or even cinema and comics, as new media and creative revolutions just like the Harlem Renaissance helped herald the recent overseas aesthetic circulation of Modernism. the ultimate chapters within the quantity discover the connection of the unconventional to the emergence of "American literature" as a class within the academy, in public feedback and journalism, and in mass tradition.
By John Hollander
“Perfection is a unprecedented accomplishment, rather in American poetry, and the perfection of a lot of Hollander’s paintings makes it crucial examining for a person who surely cares for the craft of poetry. yet in our fallen global we appear fated to price strength of perfection, and John Hollander’s poetry has proven a visionary strength simply usually sufficient to safe him a spot as one of many significant figures of our moment.”
Vernon Shetley, The New Republic
By Linda C. Stanley
This bibliography extends the paintings of Stanley's first quantity, The overseas serious attractiveness of F. Scott Fitzgerald: An research and Annotated Bibliography, to the ultimate twenty years of the twentieth century. It comprises literature from the previous international locations of the USSR, Romania, India, and Canada, in addition to international locations that have been coated within the first quantity, comparable to Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan. one of many significant findings that emerges is that Fitzgerald's poetic prose is intensely tough to translate, yet new translations proceed to appear.The creation to this quantity offers a synthesis of Fitzgerald scholarship in a foreign country on the flip of the twenty first century and issues to new instructions already instructed which could symbolize demanding situations to present scholarship. a longer research introduces each one bankruptcy. every one bankruptcy additionally features a chronological record of translations and variants of Fitzgerald's paintings from his earliest appearances in print to these showing in 2000. the main huge component of every one bankruptcy positive factors particularly targeted annotations of monographs, collections, e-book chapters, essays, convention papers, articles, stories, and faculty versions. This compilation will intrigue an individual the paintings of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Critical Companion to William Faulkner: A Literary Reference by Vice-President of the James Joyce Society and Professor of
By Vice-President of the James Joyce Society and Professor of Theology and English A Nicholas Fargnoli, Michael Golay, Robert W Hamblin
Serious better half to William Faulkner - an enormous revision and growth of ''William Faulkner A to Z'' - gains greater than 80,000 extra phrases. personality entries and significant observation sections on Faulkner's significant works were considerably extended, and fully new sections supplying excerpts from modern studies were extra. different new beneficial properties comprise additional examining lists for Faulkner's significant novels and brief tales in addition to an in depth chronology of 1 of Faulkner's maximum and most intricate works, ''As I Lay Dying''. This name covers such subject matters as: descriptions of characters in Faulkner's fiction, equivalent to Benjy and Quentin from ''The Sound and the Fury''; information about Faulkner's relations, acquaintances, colleagues, and critics; actual and fictional areas vital to Faulkner's existence and literary improvement, from Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi to Hollywood; interviews and speeches given by means of Faulkner; and, principles and occasions that prompted his existence and works, together with slavery, the Civil battle, global warfare I, and civil rights.
By C. Billitteri
This publication takes up the utopian hope for an ideal language of phrases giving direct expression to the genuine, identified in Western suggestion as Cratylism, and its influence at the social visions and poetic tasks of 3 of the main intellectually formidable of yankee writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson. A coda seems to be on the paintings of the Language writers, who hold ahead this custom in outstanding methods. in response to shut readings of theoretical and poetic texts, and drawing on archival examine, this booklet makes uncomplicated claims: that trust in an intrinsic courting among phrases and issues is associated in American poetry to utopian social initiatives; and that poets with a deep knowing of the way language operates are still drawn to this belief—despite spotting its extraordinary elements—because it permits them to articulate a social mandate for poetry.
By Henry James
Una esposa enferma, su más íntima amiga y una joven vecina ocasional forman parte del círculo que rodea al banquero Tony Bream cuando, in extremis, se ve obligado a pronunciar un juramento difícil de aceptar y de cumplir. En virtud de éste, no sólo su futuro queda hipotecado, sino también el de otras personas que quizá desearían no verlo tan comprometido y cuyos actos desembocan, en medio de una densa atmósfera de culpabilidad colectiva, «en una serie de acontecimientos oscuros e infelices... en sufrimientos, peligro y muerte». La otra casa (1896) fue los angeles primera novela que escribió Henry James después de sus infortunados años dedicados al teatro, y de hecho parte de un guión para una obra dramática. Es una de sus piezas menos conocidas, y en muchos sentidos extraordinaria, «un estallido de rabia primitiva que parece irracional e incontrolado», según su biógrafo Leon Edel, pero que el escritor consideraría hasta el fin de su carrera «un precedente, una lucecita divina que alumbra mi paso». En esta historia escalofriante de abismos abiertos bajo los angeles delicadeza de las formas, se cumple una técnica que el mismo texto anuncia: «Lo cierto es que los elementos del drama surgen cuando se comprimen con fuerza y, en algunas circunstancias, parecen invitar más al microscopio que a los gemelos del teatro».
By Nicholas Coles, Janet Zandy
America's employees were making a song, reciting, appearing, telling tales, writing, and publishing for greater than 3 centuries. starting from early colonial instances to the current, American Working-Class Literature provides greater than three hundred literary texts that exemplify this practice. It demonstrates how American operating humans stay, exertions, fight, show themselves, and provides intending to their studies either in and out of the office. the single e-book of its style, this groundbreaking anthology contains paintings not just through the economic proletariat but in addition by means of slaves and unskilled staff, by means of those that paintings unpaid at domestic, and through employees in modern provider industries. As diversified in race, gender, tradition, and quarter as America's operating category itself, the choices characterize quite a lot of genres together with fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, oratory, journalism, letters, oral historical past, and songs. Works by way of little-known or nameless authors are integrated along texts from such acclaimed writers as Frederick Douglass, Upton Sinclair, Tillie Olsen, Philip Levine, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Leslie Marmon Silko. A wealthy choice of modern writing contains Martin Espada's poem "Alabanza" in regards to the September eleven, 2001, assault at the international alternate Center.
American Working-Class Literature is prepared chronologically into seven sections that spotlight key historic and cultural advancements in working-class existence. The e-book is greater through an editors' creation, part introductions, and person head notes for every choice that supply biographical and ancient context. A timeline of working-class heritage, wealthy illustrations, sidebars, analyzing lists, and a bibliography of serious remark also are incorporated. This specified quantity is perfect for classes in American literature, cultural and working-class stories, and exertions background.

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12 Days of Spain
If I only have 12 days to tour around Spain, what are the places I should not miss going to? My name is Erik Matti. Me and my partner are going to Spain this March 30, 2012. I will be travelling from March 30 to April 21. My first stop will be Spain and then my last leg of trip will be in France. We were thinking of going around Spain for 12 days. We're landing in Barcelona and maybe spend 4 days there. I am looking at going to San Sebastian and then Madrid. From there I could take the train to Paris. But I also want to go to Valencia. But that would mean going to 4 places in Spain which could be tiring.
We are foodies and we'd like to visit tapas bars, pintxos. We'd also want to see a bullfight, maybe some cheesemaking factories, black pig farm, truffle hunting. Anything food and fun. I need advice. Because right now, I just want to visit every town and city in Spain that is listed on the map! And I know that's just not possible.
I think you need to research more and be realistic about what you can possibly experience in 12 days. Compromise.
Black pig farms are not that near any of the cities you named. Yes, it would be cool to see them 'live' but it might be several days to get there and back. Consider doing a jamon tasting instead. Jamonisimo is in Barcelona and it supplies to some world-class chefs including Ferran Adria.
It's one of my many dreams to visit the 5J facility in Jabugo. You can see from the website linked below that it's more than a hop and a skip from Seville. The various tour organizers will charge up to 200 euros per person to take you there or you can rent a car and drive yourself.
To visit Valencia, you could take the train from Barcelona for 2 days. From Madrid to Paris, it can be faster and cheaper to fly. You'll get lots of good food ideas from Chowhound but it sounds like you need transportation advice too. Go to Lonely Planet or Tripadvisor for that.
Wherever you go, don't just eat in restaurants---buy some fresh fruit. I have never anywhere or ever in my life had better strawberries or melon. Also there is a little fruit called the medano, sort of like an apricot, that was perfect. A foodie should never pass up a market. Also, if you cook at home, look to buy saffron in Spain as it is MUCH cheaper than in the States.
While in Madrid and taking your day trips to Toledo, El Escorial, and Avilla, do not buy the saffron at any of the kiosks. They are normally floor sweepings or dried out left overs. Get the fresh stuff in a store.
And yes it is touristy, but do the tapas in Plaza Mayor. A fun time.
Personally, on this trip, I'd skip Valencia. Had a great time there, but at night it was DEAD compared with Madrid, Barcelona and Seville. Besides, they are all on the AVE high speed train line and make convenient connections if you choose those three. Spain is by far my favourite country in Europe that I've been to and personally feel that what it has to offer food wise is comparable or better than France, Italy or any of the others.
For me, Spanish food is just like the culture, very passionate. Flavours are almost always sharp and pronounced. Most likely due to the moorish influence (see Lebanese cuisine for example) not typically mellow flavours.
Thanks for the replies. I just want to take advantage of my trip in Spain and Paris. So, is it recommended that I only go to two places in Spain in the 12 days I'm there? I definitely would do some jamon tasting! Barcelona is already on my list since I'll be arriving there but I want to explore Spain a little more. I would also love to go to Logrono, La Rioja for that Tapas bar strip. Is it a good Idea?
I think you can do 4 days in each place, as long as the connections are easy. From Barcelona, you can fly cheaply to San Sebastian (Vueling or Iberia) if you buy tickets in advance. I have a r/t ticket from Iberia for 100 euros.
"Tapas bar strip"? Do you mean going somewhere for a tapas crawl? I don't think you need to go to Logrono to do that. Of the 2 cities you already have in mind, Madrid and San Sebastian have areas where you can do a very nice tapas crawl.
Here's a link to todopintxos. It has great info on tapas bars in San Sebastian.
"is it recommended that I only go to two places in Spain in the 12 days I'm there? I definitely would do some jamon tasting! Barcelona is already on my list since I'll be arriving there but I want to explore Spain a little more. I would also love to go to Logrono, La Rioja for that Tapas bar strip. Is it a good Idea?"
Do you really want to experience Spain, enjoy Spain, or is it more important for you to achieve the biggest number of places visited?
Remember every time you change cities, you lose half a day in commute if the destination is nearby, or most of a day if the destination is far.
For your 12 days, if you go to, say, 4 not too far-flung destinations on your 12-day trip, your commute time - under the best circumstances with a miraculous lack of any type of delay, - will occupy 2 to 2.5 of the 12 days. If some of the destinations are far flung, which seems to be your desire, it may take up 3 whole days. Is that really how you want to spend your short holiday?
In a way Spain is like what the US used to be. Full of interesting nooks and crannies. Full of great regional cuisines, wines and different as well. I always prefer to see 1-2 regions in depth instead of seeing bits n pieces. So, assuming no car. Pais vasco, San Sebastian is a must, and there's some interesting art there as well From there it's an easy bus/train ride to Bilbao for 1-2 days and the fish market in Bilbao is great, worth a detour. Galicia has great food, the scenery (outside the coast) is nowhere near as nice as Asturias (except for the Ribera Sacra). Pontevedra has a great little tapas scene and from there it's an easy hop to some vineyards if you can rent a car for a day or two.
Asturias is tough as (for me anyway) it's all about nature and small towns.
Madrid, well, you can spend all 12 days there and not be bored, plus Barcelona is 2-3 hours by AVE train, so a surf n turf combo is so easy.
Andalucia that time of year is probably very nice, AVE to Sevilla from Madrid real easy.
But all in all to get to small towns, vineyards where some of the best stuff is, requires a car.
My choice would be Madrid (barrio Retiro, La Latina etc) for 3-4 days, then Barcelona for same, then fly to Sam Sebastian and stay put. You wont come away unhappy or famished.
I've been to Spain only once and miss it dearly. We arrived Madrid (4 days), Pamplona (San Fermin, 5 days), San Sebastian (4 days), into France & Pyrenees (2 days), return.
I certainly understand wanting to visit every region and every town, but as others say, perhaps plan less stops and enjoy more.
Although we were impressed with the food everywhere, San Sebastian (cut to close-up of misty eyes) was the crown jewel. Not only of our Spain trip, but of all our trips.
Skip whatever you want, but keep San Sebastian on the list.
The tapas bars of parte viejo are phenomenol.
Food culture is sublime.
If that ain't enough, they also have a gorgeous beach.
Thank you all. You have been such a great help. Ok, here's the plan now:
March 30-April 4 Barcelona
April 4-April 9 San Sebastian
April 9-April 14 Provence
April 14-April 21 Paris
I get tired moving from one place to the next so I'm keeping Parigi's advice of less transfers and longer stays. And yes, Aleta, San Sebastian and Barcelona have enough tapas bars to last a lifetime. No need to go to La Rioja! Morekasha, Madrid was initially on our list but I can't pass on San Sebastian after watching Bourdain and Jose Andres doing their food trip there.
Do you guys recommend getting France-Spain rail pass to get around these places? Is train the only option for these routes or do I mix planes with trains? Hope you could help me with this dilemma. Thanks!
Keep in mind that most of your time in Spain is going to be during Semana Santa--the week leading up to Easter. Not necessarily a bad thing, but this means that many people will be on vacation and some places may be closed or have different hours--so you'll need to plan ahead with travel and reservations more than usual. The train trip from San Sebastian to Provence would be quite an odyssey--but, as far as I know, it's not so easy by plane, either... From a logistical standpoint, doing it in this order San Sebastian-->BCN--> Provence--> Paris might make the connections simpler (pray there are no strikes). Or even Paris-->San Sebastian-->BCN-->Provence--> Paris.
Thanks all. Holy Week scares us. I don't want to miss out on places just because they're close on those days. Butterfly is so right. We were looking at travel options for San Sebastian and Provence, we will almost lose a day just on travel alone. Grrr! This Spain-France thing is really a major planning hurdle!

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Sept. 14, 2009 — -- The memory of Michael Jackson dominated MTV's Video Music Awards Sunday night, but in keeping with the ceremony's reputation for being the music industry's most raucous party, the show was anything but somber.
Madonna opened the two-and-a-half hour long extravaganza at NYC's Radio City Music Hall, calling the late King of Pop a hero and sharing an anecdote about the man she got to know over dinner and a movie in 1991. She signed off with the simple declaration, "He was the king. Long live the king," vacating the stage as Jackson's "Thriller" video took over the big screen and performers broke into his iconic graveyard dance.
"Thriller" merged into a medley of Jackson's greatest hits that led up to the night's marquee act: Janet Jackson, clad in black patent leather, dancing in sync with Michael against the backdrop of their 1995 duet, "Scream." She nailed it, paying tribute to her late brother like only his sister could.
"This is an adventure, a great adventure," Jackson says about his show in the two-in-a-half-minute clip. "We want to take them places that they've never been before. We want to show them a time that they've never seen before." (Go to ThisIsIt-Movie.com for the full trailer and more info.)
VMA Highlights: Kanye West vs. Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga's Grandiose Getups
But Kanye West stole the spotlight from Jackson, and fittingly, did so by stealing the microphone from someone else: Taylor Swift, during her acceptance speech for Best Female Video, the first award of the night.
As the 19-year-old embraced her first Moon Man statue and started speaking, West made his way onto the stage, grabbed the mic and interrupted, "Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'm gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time."


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To be able to communicate to the external world, cmucl supports external formats to convert to and from the external world to cmucl’s string format. The external format is specified in several ways. The standard streams *standard-input*, *standard-output*, and *standard-error* take the format from the value specified by *default-external-format*. The default value of *default-external-format* is :iso8859-1.
For files, OPEN takes the :external-format parameter to specify the format. The default external format is :default.
The available external formats are listed below in Table 13.1. The first column gives the external format, and the second column gives a list of aliases that can be used for this format. The set of aliases can be changed by changing the aliases file.
For all of these formats, if an illegal sequence is encountered, no error or warning is signaled. Instead, the offending sequence is silently replaced with the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD).
Format Aliases Description :iso8859-1 :latin1 :latin-1 :iso-8859-1 ISO8859-1 :iso8859-2 :latin2 :latin-2 :iso-8859-2 ISO8859-2 :iso8859-3 :latin3 :latin-3 :iso-8859-3 ISO8859-3 :iso8859-4 :latin4 :latin-4 :iso-8859-4 ISO8859-4 :iso8859-5 :cyrillic :iso-8859-5 ISO8859-5 :iso8859-6 :arabic :iso-8859-6 ISO8859-6 :iso8859-7 :greek :iso-8859-7 ISO8859-7 :iso8859-8 :hebrew :iso-8859-8 ISO8859-8 :iso8859-9 :latin5 :latin-5 :iso-8859-9 ISO8859-9 :iso8859-10 :latin6 :latin-6 :iso-8859-10 ISO8859-10 :iso8859-13 :latin7 :latin-7 :iso-8859-13 ISO8859-13 :iso8859-14 :latin8 :latin-8 :iso-8859-14 ISO8859-14 :iso8859-15 :latin9 :latin-9 :iso-8859-15 ISO8859-15 :utf-8 :utf :utf8 UTF-8 :utf-16 :utf16 UTF-16 with optional BOM :utf-16-be :utf-16be :utf16-be UTF-16 big-endian (without BOM) :utf-16-le :utf-16le :utf16-le UTF-16 little-endian (without BOM) :utf-32 :utf32 UTF-32 with optional BOM :utf-32-be :utf-32be :utf32-be UTF-32 big-endian (without BOM) :utf-32-le :utf-32le :utf32-le UTF-32 little-endian (without BOM) :cp1250 :cp1251 :cp1252 :windows-1252 :windows-cp1252 :windows-latin1 :cp1253 :cp1254 :cp1255 :cp1256 :cp1257 :cp1258 :koi8-r :mac-cyrillic :mac-greek :mac-icelandic :mac-latin2 :mac-roman :mac-turkish
A composing external format is an external format that converts between one codepoint and another, rather than between codepoints and octets. A composing external format must be used in conjunction with another (octet-producing) external format. This is specified by using a list as the external format. For example, we can use ’(:latin1 :crlf) as the external format. In this particular example, the external format is latin1, but whenever a carriage-return/linefeed sequence is read, it is converted to the Lisp #\Newline character. Conversely, whenever a string is written, a Lisp #\Newline character is converted to a carriage-return/linefeed sequence. Without the :crlf composing format, the carriage-return and linefeed will be read in as separate characters, and on output the Lisp #\Newline character is output as a single linefeed character.
Table 13.2 lists the available composing formats.
Format Aliases Description :crlf :dos Composing format for converting to/from DOS (CR/LF) end-of-line sequence to #\Newline :cr :mac Composing format for converting to/from DOS (CR/LF) end-of-line sequence to #\Newline :beta-gk Composing format that translates (lower-case) Beta code (an ASCII encoding of ancient Greek) :final-sigma Composing format that attempts to detect sigma in word-final position and change it from U+3C3 to U+3C2
This is the default external format to use for all newly opened files. It is also the default format to use for *standard-input*, *standard-output*, and *standard-error*. The default value is :iso8859-1.
Setting this will cause the standard streams to start using the new format immediately. If a stream has been created with external format :default, then setting *default-external-format* will cause all subsequent input and output to use the new value of *default-external-format*.
Remember that cmucl’s characters are only 16-bits long but Unicode codepoints are up to 21 bits long. Hence there are codepoints that cannot be represented via Lisp characters. Operating on individual characters is not recommended. Operations on strings are better. (This would be true even if cmucl’s characters could hold a full Unicode codepoint.)
Returns non-nil if the Unicode category is a letter category.
Returns non-nil if the Unicode category is a letter category or an ASCII digit.
Only recognizes ASCII digits (and ASCII letters if the radix is larger than 10).
Returns non-nil if the Unicode category is a graphic category.
Returns non-nil if the Unicode category is a titlecase character.
Returns non-nil if the Unicode category is an uppercase, lowercase, or titlecase character.
The Unicode titlecase letter is returned.
If possible the name of the character char is returned. If there is a Unicode name, the Unicode name is returned, except spaces are converted to underscores and the string is capitalized via string-capitalize. If there is no Unicode name, the form #\U+xxxx is returned where “xxxx” is the char-code of the character, in hexadecimal.
The inverse to char-name. If no character has the name name, then nil is returned. Unicode names are not case-sensitive, and spaces and underscores are optional.
Strings in cmucl are UTF-16 strings. That is, for Unicode code points greater than 65535, surrogate pairs are used. We refer the reader to the Unicode standard for more information about surrogate pairs. We just want to make a note that because of the UTF-16 encoding of strings, there is a distinction between Lisp characters and Unicode codepoints. The standard string operations know about this encoding and handle the surrogate pairs correctly.
Since strings are also sequences, the sequence functions can be used on strings. We note here some issues with these functions. Most issues are due to the fact that strings are UTF-16 strings and characters are UTF-16 code units, not Unicode codepoints.
To support Unicode characters, the reader has been extended to recognize characters written in hexadecimal. Thus #\U+41 is the ASCII capital letter “A”, since 41 is the hexadecimal code for that letter. The Unicode name of the character is also recognized, except spaces in the name are replaced by underscores.
Recall, however, that characters in cmucl are only 16 bits long so many Unicode characters cannot be represented. However, strings can represent all Unicode characters.
When symbols are read, the symbol name is converted to Unicode NFC form before interning the symbol into the package. Hence, symbol-name (intern “string”) may produce a string that is not string= to “string”. However, after conversion to NFC form, the strings will be identical.
When printing characters, if the character is a graphic character, the character is printed. Thus #\U+41 is printed as #\A. If the character is not a graphic character, the Lisp name (e.g., #\Tab) is used if possible; if there is no Lisp name, the Unicode name is used. If there is no Unicode name, the hexadecimal char-code is printed. For example, #\U+34e, which is not a graphic character, is printed as #\Combining_Upwards_Arrow_Below, and #\U+9f which is not a graphic character and does not have a Unicode name, is printed as #\U+009F.
cmucl loads external formats using the search-list ext-formats:. The aliases file is also located using this search-list.
The Unicode data base is stored in compressed form in the file ext-formats:unidata.bin. If this file is not found, Unicode support is severely reduced; you can only use ASCII characters.
|open filename &rest options &key||:direction :element-type :if-exists :if-does-not-exist|
|:class :mapped :input-handle :output-handle|
|:external-format :decoding-error :encoding-error|
The main options are covered elsewhere. Here we describe the options specific to Unicode. The option :external-format specifies the external format to use for reading and writing the file. The external format is a keyword.
The options :decoding-error and :encoding-error are used to specify how encoding and decoding errors are handled. The default value on nilmeans the external format handles errors itself and typically replaces invalid sequences with the Unicode replacement character.
Otherwise, the value for decoding-error is either a character, a symbol or a function. If a character is specified. it is used as the replacement character for any invalid decoding. If a symbol or a function is given, it must be a function of three arguments: a message string to be printed, the offending octet, and the number of octets read. If the function returns, it should return two values: the code point to use as the replacement character and the number of octets read. In addition, t may be specified. This indicates that a continuable error is signaled, which, if continued, the Unicode replacement character is used.
For encoding-error, a character, symbol, or function can be specified, like decoding-error, with the same meaning. The function, however, takes two arguments: a format message string and the incorrect codepoint. If the function returns, it should be the replacement codepoint.
This function changes the external format used for *standard-input*, *standard-output*, and *standard-error* to the external format specified by terminal. Additionally, the Unix file name encoding can be set to the value specified by filenames if non-nil.
list all of the vailable external formats. A list is returned where each element is a list of the external format name and a list of aliases for the format. No distinction is made between external formats and composing external formats.
Print a description of the given external-format. This may cause the external format to be loaded (silently) if it is not already loaded.
Since strings are UTF-16 and hence may contain surrogate pairs, some utility functions are provided to make access easier.
Return the codepoint value from string at position i. If code unit at that position is a surrogate value, it is combined with either the previous or following code unit (when possible) to compute the codepoint. The first return value is the codepoint itself. The second return value is nil if the position is not a surrogate pair. Otherwise, +1 or −1 is returned if the position is the high (leading) or low (trailing) surrogate value, respectively.
This is useful for iterating through a string in codepoint sequence.
Convert the given hi and lo surrogate characters to the corresponding codepoint value
Convert the given codepoint value to the corresponding high and low surrogate characters. If the codepoint is less than 65536, the second value is nil since the codepoint does not need to be represented as a surrogate pair.
string-encode encodes string using the format external-format, producing an array of octets. Each octet is converted to a character via code-char and the resulting string is returned.
The optional argument start, defaulting to 0, specifies the starting index and end, defaulting to the length of the string, is the end of the string.
string-decode decodes string using the format external-format and produces a new string. Each character of string is converted to octet (by char-code) and the resulting array of octets is used by the external format to produce a string. This is the inverse of string-encode.
The optional argument start, defaulting to 0, specifies the starting index and end, defaulting to the length of the string, is the end of the string.
string must consist of characters whose char-code is less than 256.
string-to-octets converts string to a sequence of octets according to the external format specified by external-format. The string to be converted is bounded by start, which defaults to 0, and end, which defaults to the length of the string. If buffer is specified, the octets are placed in buffer. If buffer is not specified, a new array is allocated to hold the octets. buffer-start specifies where in the buffer the first octet will be placed.
An error method may also be specified by error. Any errors encountered while converting the string to octets will be handled according to error. If nil, a replacement character is converted to octets in place of the error. Otherwise, error should be a symbol or function that will be called when the error occurs. The function takes two arguments: an error string and the character that caused the error. It should return a replacement character.
Three values are returned: The buffer, the number of valid octets written, and the number of characters converted. Note that the actual number of octets written may be greater than the returned value, These represent the partial octets of the next character to be converted, but there was not enough room to hold the complete set of octets.
octets-to-string converts the sequence of octets in octets to a string. octets must be a (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*)). The octets to be converted are bounded by start and end, which default to 0 and the length of the array, respectively. The conversion is performed according to the external format specified by external-format. If string is specified, the octets are converted and stored in string, starting at s-start (defaulting to 0) and ending just before s-end (defaulting to the end of string. string must be simple-string. If the bounded string is not large enough to hold all of the characters, then some octets will not be converted. If string is not specified, a new string is created.
The state is used as the initial state of for the external format. This is useful when converting buffers of octets where the buffers are not on character boundaries, and state information is needed between buffers.
Four values are returned: the string, the number of characters written to the string, and the number of octets consumed to produce the characters, and the final state of external format after converting the octets.
Users may write their own external formats. It is probably easiest to look at existing external formats to see how do this.
An external format basically needs two functions: octets-to-code to convert octets to Unicode codepoints and code-to-octets to convert Unicode codepoints to octets. The external format is defined using the macro stream::define-external-format.
|stream::define-external-format name (&key||:base :min :max :size :documentation) (&rest slots)|
|&optional octets-to-code code-to-octets flush-state copy-state|
If :base is not given, this defines a new external format of the name :name. min, max, and size are the minimum and maximum number of octets that make up a character. (:size n is just a short cut for :min n :max n.) The description of the external format can be given using :documentation. The arguments octets-to-code and code-to-octets are not optional in this case. They specify how to convert octets to codepoints and vice versa, respectively. These should be backquoted forms for the body of a function to do the conversion. See the description below for these functions. Some good examples are the external format for :utf-8 or :utf-16. The :slots argument is a list of read-only slots, similar to defstruct. The slot names are available as local variables inside the code-to-octets and octets-to-code bodies.
If :base is given, then an external format is defined with the name :name that is based on a previously defined format :base. The slots are inherited from the :base format by default, although the definition may alter their values and add new slots. See, for example, the :mac-greek external format.
This defines a form to be used by an external format to convert octets to a code point. state is a form that can be used by the body to access the state variable of a stream. This can be used for any reason to hold anything needed by octets-to-code. input is a form that returns one octet from the input stream. unput will put back N octets to the stream. args is a list of variables that need to be defined for any symbols in the body of the macro.
error controls how errors are handled. If nil, some suitable replacement character is used. That is, any errors are silently ignored and replaced by some replacement character. If non-nil, error is a symbol or function that is called to handle the error. This function takes three arguments: a message string, the invalid octet (or nil), and a count of the number of octets that have been read so far. If the function returns, it should be the codepoint of the desired replacement character.
Defines a form to be used by the external format to convert a code point to octets for output. code is the code point to be converted. state is a form to access the current value of the stream’s state variable. output is a form that writes one octet to the output stream.
Similar to octets-to-code, error indicates how errors should be handled. If nil, some default replacement character is substituted. If non-nil, error should be a symbol or function. This function takes two arguments: a message string and the invalid codepoint. If the function returns, it should be the codepoint that will be substituted for the invalid codepoint.
Defines a form to be used by the external format to flush out any state when an output stream is closed. Similar to code-to-octets, but there is no code point to be output. The error argument indicates how to handle errors. If nil, some default replacement character is used. Otherwise, error is a symbol or function that will be called with a message string and codepoint of the offending state. If the function returns, it should be the codepoint of a suitable replacement.
If flush-state is nil, then nothing special is needed to flush the state to the output.
This is called only when an output character stream is being closed.
Defines a form to copy any state needed by the external format. This should probably be a deep copy so that if the original state is modified, the copy is not.
If not given, then nothing special is needed to copy the state either because there is no state for the external format or that no special copier is needed.
|stream:define-composing-external-format name (&key||:min :max :size :documentation) input output|
This is the same as define-external-format, except that a composing external format is created.


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So, while I've been binge watching Outlander I've been spending time in the studio. I twisted the fringe on 3 scarves, they're now waiting to be photographed. I also got both the Macomber and AVL warped up..........and then there was some down time when I was so mesmerized by Outlander that I just had to stop and watch it..........
I put on a rayon flake shawl warp on the Macomber. Here's the beginning of the warp where I'm testing out using white rayon flake as weft and the same silver rayon flake for weft that I used for warp. I'll weave a shawl of each as I like them both very much. This is an 8 harness twill design.
Here's the all silver grey shawl being woven.
On the AVL a warp went on for 4 gingko scarves as I'm sold out of them. These will be lighter colors to go with the season. I was trying out weft colors here and will go with the taupe, silver grey and mint green for 3 of the scarves. I'm thinking I'll switch and weave the final scarf in taupe using my vines and leaves draft.
Here's what the back of the loom looks like with 40 harnesses threaded. It is a stretch to reach those back 8 harnesses when threading the heddles. Thank goodness there's an option to use the weaving program to raise the harnesses tromp as writ for easy threading. I can't imagine what a nightmare it would be trying to pick the next heddle up in the pattern without that. Theoretically I will have no threading errors this way but that's only if the computer program has no hiccups.

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By Gustavo Guerrero
Mental illness is present in everyday life. If you know at least five people, chances are you know someone with a mental health condition, as it affects 1 in 5 American adults. Despite what stigma and stereotypes would have you believe, these people matter—their challenges, their ability to get help, their loved ones, their mental health—it all matters to us at NAMI.
We want to help make your life better if you struggle with depression, if you live with schizophrenia or if your loved one experiences borderline personality disorder. We are here for you. This is the message we spread, and have been spreading since our inception in 1979. We are continuously looking for new groups of people and new audiences to hear that message, to hear our voice. No single audience is ever large enough when it comes to spreading awareness about mental health. But with each partnership, with each sponsorship, with each celebrity spokesperson, we reach more and more ears.
That’s why we are so proud to announce our new partnership with Lokai—a socially responsible lifestyle brand that represents the importance of finding balance along life's journey. Lokai is determined to help NAMI build our movement through raising awareness and supporting one of our most important resources: the NAMI HelpLine.
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The Oasis Reporters
February 18, 2018
From Moses Gbande, Jos
Two former military Heads of State, Generals Ibrahim Babagida and Olusegun Obasanjo have come under severe criticism for allegedly making moves to discredit President Muhammadu Buhari of being responsible for the current insecurity, economic recession and underdevelopment facing Nigeria by the National Coordinator of the Buhari Campaign Organization, Alh. Danladi Pasali, who in an interactive session with journalists, including our correspondent, Moses Gbande, accused the two former Nigerian leaders for looting the country’s resources thereby forcing the country into it’s current state.
Mr. Pasali said the letter purportedly written by former president Olusegun Obasanjo and the subsequent statement credited to Gen. Ibrahim Babangida asking Buhari not to seek for a second term in office is unfortunate.
“We want to put the records straight, President Olusegun Obasanjo brought the Maitatsine religious crisis in 1979 to 1980 and has been accused of misusing funds so he lacks the credentials or pedigree to blackmail an incorruptible leader like Muhammadu Buhari. To us, that is character assassination”.
Danladi Pasali added that the only achievement recorded by former President Obasanjo was the sale of Nigerian assets, otherwise we saw what he did in Odi in Bayelsa state, Zaki Biam in Benue state where he sent troops to wipe out over 3000 innocent lives of children, women, youths and men.
Pasali expressed confidence in the achievements of president Muhammadu Buhari for revamping moribund industries and providing fertilizers to farmers, adding the richest person now is the farmer.
He commended the president and Governor Simon Laong, for their administrative policies in the restoration of peace and religious tolerance.
He applauded the policies of the Federal Government and Governor Lalong since they came into office in 2015 which has helped in the development of the human index in the state unlike other administrations before him.
Mr. Pasali further said that the governor, Rt. Hon. Simon Bako Lalong has given them the benefit of being alive because of the constant payment of workers salaries under his administration.
“We are happy as workers and people of Plateau today are happy to have a governor like Lalong, who places human life first above any other project in the state.
“Although he has not built much structures or constructed many roads in the state, he has built many lives and protected hundreds, especially, the lives of the children, who were once thrown out of schools because their parents could not afford to settle their school fees before now, owing to the fact that they are civil servants.
The peace we now enjoy in the state is also a deliberate policy of Governor Lalong’s administration. Although we see pockets of attacks here and there, the number of deaths and its frequencies has reduced.
He maintained that the government is doing all things possible for peace to remain in the state. People are leaving other states now for Plateau state.
“We commend the Governor for holding on to that policy, as it has saved uncountable number of innocent lives.
“We expect that, if given the chance for a second term and the level of peace remaining the same, Governor Lalong, will build all that is desirable. For now, his strength and that of his administration for Plateau, rest in his human-focused policies, which needs to be embraced by all.”


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- To put it another way, potassium fertilizer is a kind of fertilizer that contains potassium as its principal active element.
- Because potash contains potassium in the form of salt, this type of fertilizer is sometimes referred to as potash fertilizer.
- In addition to potassium, two additional elements, nitrogen and phosphorus, combine to make a very effective fertilizer that will help both gardens and lawns.
To put it another way, potassium fertilizer is a type of fertilizer that has potassium as its principal component. The term ″potash fertilizer″ refers to the fact that potassium is present in the form of a salt in the form of potash. The elements nitrogen and phosphorus combine with potassium to make a very effective fertilizer that will help both plants and lawns.
- 1 What fertilizer is high in potassium?
- 2 Is potash organic fertilizer?
- 3 What is the chemical composition of K fertilizer?
- 4 Is potassium nitrate fertilizer safe?
- 5 What fertilizer is high in potassium?
- 6 How do you add potassium to soil?
- 7 What is a natural potassium fertilizer?
- 8 What is a good source of potassium for plants?
- 9 Is potash the same as potassium?
- 10 How do you make potassium fertilizer?
- 11 Does coffee grounds have potassium?
- 12 Is potassium good for tomato plants?
- 13 Do Epsom Salts have potassium?
- 14 What makes soil high in potassium?
- 15 Is bone meal high in potassium?
- 16 How do you know if a plant needs potassium?
- 17 What plants add potassium to soil?
- 18 What fruit is the best source of potassium?
- 19 How to apply potassium fertilizer?
- 20 Does fertilizer have potassium?
What fertilizer is high in potassium?
- So, what fertilizer contains a high concentration of potassium?
- Among the high-potassium fertilizers are charred cucumber peels, sulfate of potash magnesia (also known as kelp), Illite clay (also known as greensand), granite dust (also known as sawdust), soybean meal (also known as alfalfa), and bat guano.
- Of course, you may utilize a combination of any of these potassium sources, depending on what you have on hand and how much you need.
Is potash organic fertilizer?
In spite of the fact that potash is theoretically a naturally occurring material, only some types of potassium fertilizers containing potash are classified as organic. Some publications refer to a high potassium fertilizer as a source of information. The term ″potassium fertilizer″ refers to a fertilizer that contains just potassium or has a high ″K″ value.
What is the chemical composition of K fertilizer?
K Fertilizers are a kind of fertilizer. The chemical makeup of fertilizer Concentration of potassium ( percent ) KCI 50, 41, and 33 are muriate of potash. Potassium sulfate (K 2 SO 4 43) is a salt of potassium. Potassium nitrate (KNO 3 37) is a salt of potassium. K 2 SO 4 MgSO 4 18 Sulfate Potash Magnesia K 2 SO 4 MgSO 4 18 1 additional row
Is potassium nitrate fertilizer safe?
If you work with potassium nitrate fertilizer, you might get significant eye discomfort. The use of potassium nitrate fertilizer over an extended period of time has recently sparked debate among certain environmentalists. Potassium nitrate is composed of 13 percent nitrogen, and the plants are unable to utilize all of it if it is used on a regular basis.
What fertilizer is high in potassium?
A significant eye irritation might occur when working with potassium nitrate fertilizer.’ The use of potassium nitrate fertilizer over an extended period of time has recently sparked controversy. Despite the fact that potassium nitrate is composed of 13 percent nitrogen, plants are unable to utilize all of it even after repeated application.
How do you add potassium to soil?
- Eye discomfort caused by working with potassium nitrate fertilizer is a possibility. Concerns have recently been raised concerning the use of potassium nitrate fertilizer over an extended period of time. Potassium nitrate is composed of 13 percent nitrogen, and the plants are unable to utilize all of it if the fertilizer is used on a regular basis.
What is a natural potassium fertilizer?
Forestry waste (hardwood ashes): As the original source of ″potash″ fertilizers, forest waste can be used as a fertilizer (approximately a 5-gallon bucket per 1000 square feet) or added to your compost pile to raise the potassium content. Wood ash also has the effect of raising the pH of the soil, thus it is important to do frequent soil testing to ensure that the pH remains balanced.
What is a good source of potassium for plants?
Fertilized compost, which is mostly composed of food waste, is a good source of potassium. Banana peels, in instance, contain a significant amount of potassium. Additionally, wood ash can be used, but only a small amount should be applied at a time, as too much might cause your plants to be burned.
Is potash the same as potassium?
Potash is a compound composed of potassium. Throughout the earth’s crust, it can always be found in combination with other minerals, especially in areas where there are substantial quantities of clay minerals and heavy soils. Potash is a mixture of potassium carbonate and potassium salt that is impure in nature.
How do you make potassium fertilizer?
Four banana peels and three eggshells should be dried before using. Add 4 tablespoons of Epsom salt to the mixture and mix well. In a food processor or blender, pulse the ingredients until they are finely ground. Pour 75 mL of water into the powder, mix to incorporate, and then use the liquid to irrigate your plants as needed.
Does coffee grounds have potassium?
Four banana peels and three eggshells should be dried before using them. Add 4 teaspoons of Epsom salt to the mixture and mix thoroughly. In a food processor or blender, pulse the ingredients until they are finely powdered. Combine the powder with 75 mL of water by shaking it vigorously. Then use the liquid to hydrate your plants.
Is potassium good for tomato plants?
Potassium (K) is required by the tomato plant in order to grow. It is absorbed at a higher rate than any other vitamin, and a shortage in K can have a detrimental effect on the quantity and quality of fruit. The following are some of the advantages of potassium for tomato plants: Sugar transport is made easier with the help of this enzyme.
Do Epsom Salts have potassium?
Epsom salts have a nutritional value of 0-0-0, which means that they contain no traces of nitrogen, phosphorous, or potassium in any form whatsoever.
What makes soil high in potassium?
Many factors influence the amount of potassium taken up by plants, including soil moisture, soil aeration and oxygen level, soil temperature, and the type of tillage used. Higher soil moisture levels are often associated with greater K availability. Increased soil moisture promotes the transfer of potassium to plant roots, hence increasing its availability.
Is bone meal high in potassium?
Modern bone meal is a highly varied product, with the NPK ratio varying depending on the kind of bone utilized and the production process: 0-12-0, 2-22-0, 4-10-0, and so on. However, it invariably includes little or no nitrogen (the first number), little or no potassium (the third number), and a significant amount of phosphorus (the fourth number) (second number).
How do you know if a plant needs potassium?
- Chlorosis (yellowing) between leaf veins is one of the most common indications of potassium shortage in plants.
- Other symptoms include brown scorching and curling of leaf tips as well as chlorosis (yellowing) between leaf veins.
- Purple dots may sometimes emerge on the undersides of the leaves.
- Plant growth, root development, seed and fruit development, and many other aspects of plant development are often decreased in potassium-deficient plants.
What plants add potassium to soil?
Kelp Meal: Available in both dried and liquid forms, kelp and seaweed provide potassium to the soil in a form that is relatively rapid to release. In addition to being rich in a variety of minerals, such as potassium, greensand may also be mined from old former sea beds. It may be used as a fertilizer as well as a soil conditioner, and it can also be combined with compost.
What fruit is the best source of potassium?
- Avocado. Avocado is unquestionably one of the most potassium-dense foods available.
- Lima Beans are a kind of legume. In a single serving of lima beans, you may have more than one-quarter of your daily potassium requirements met while also getting a continuous stream of other nutrients, such as protein and fiber.
- Salad with Swiss Chard, Acorn Squash, Spinach, and Sweet Potatoes, as well as wild-caught salmon with dried apricots and pomegranate.
How to apply potassium fertilizer?
- Avocado is without a doubt one of the most potassium-dense foods available.
- Lima Beans are a kind of legume that is native to South America.
- It is possible to get more than one-quarter of your daily potassium requirements from a single serving of lima beans, while still getting a consistent stream of other nutrients, such as protein and fiber.
Salad with Swiss Chard, Acorn Squash, Spinach, and Sweet Potatoes, as well as wild-caught salmon with apricots and pomegranate seeds.
Does fertilizer have potassium?
Organic fertilizer and compost sources, such as seaweed products, wood ash and animal feeds and bedding materials, also include potassium in naturally occurring forms. The vital macronutrient potassium, along with nitrogen and phosphorus, is one of the most important for plant development and vigor, and it is required in the greatest quantities by plants.

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Watch 'I am Cait' Finale Online: Caitlyn Gets 'A New Beginning' with Kris, Transgender Friends in Episode 8
'Back to the Future' Documentary 'Back in Time' Trailer out, Movie Releases on McFly's Arrival Day in Future
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Rihanna-Lewis Hamilton Split Rumours: F1 Racer Spotted with Kendall Jenner; 'Diamonds' Singer Dating Travis Scott?
Chris Brown Wins Joint Custody of Royalty: Rihanna Congratulates Ex-Boyfriend; RiRi Wants Nia Guzman Banned in LA Clubs?
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- Mahabharata director's dream cast: Who is your pick to play Lord Krishna? Hrithik Roshan or Mahesh Babu?
- SS Rajamouli's emotional appeal: Kannadigas insist that Baahubali 2 director ask Sathyaraj to apologise
- The Big Bang Theory Season 10 to end on a cliffhanger with Amy, Sheldon calling it quits?
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The Pickeral Palace is set on a quiet, peaceful lot on Pickeral Lake. This is a no-motor lake located next to all-sports Fife Lake. The cabin features an older section with a unique cedar-wood kitchen, a more modern living room, 2 bedrooms and a full bath. The living room and master bedroom have sliders to a large deck that has a commanding view of the lake. Modern, fully-equipped kitchen and laundry facilities included. Quiet relaxation awaits.
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On July 13, 2021, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided the Essex County case of State v. Edwin Andujar. The principal issue concerned the propriety of the prosecution’s conducting a criminal background check on a prospective juror.
Chief Justice Rabner wrote for the unanimous Court in relevant part: In this appeal, the Court considers defendant Edwin Andujar’s argument that he was denied the right to a fair trial because racial discrimination infected the jury selection process. In doing so, the Court addresses for the first time when a criminal history check can be run on a prospective juror. The appeal centers on the selection process for F.G., a Black male from Newark. F.G. was questioned at sidebar for about a half hour.
Throughout the questioning, F.G. told the court he believed he could be a fair and impartial juror. F.G. volunteered that he had answers to multiple voir dire questions, including having two cousins in law enforcement and knowing “a host of people” who had been accused of crimes — five or six close friends in all. In providing details about those accusations, F.G. used terms like “CDS” and “trigger lock.” F.G. also told the court about three crime victims he knew. He said that two cousins had been murdered, and a friend had been robbed at gunpoint.
F.G. was asked if anything he had said would have an impact on him as a juror. F.G. suggested that he, like every other juror, has a unique background and perspective, which is why defendants are judged by a group. After additional questions, F.G. was asked whether the criminal justice system was fair and effective; F.G. responded, “I believe so because you are judged by your peers.” The State challenged F.G. for cause and asked that he be removed. The prosecutor noted that F.G. “has an awful lot of background” and “uses all of the lingo about, you know, the criminal justice system.” A second prosecutor voiced concern that F.G.’s “close friends hustle, engaged in criminal activity” because “that draws into question whether F.G. respects the criminal justice system” and his role as a juror.
Here, it seems prosecutors were looking to save their limited number of peremptory challenges by removing the prospective juror for cause. In arguing that he be removed from the prospective panel for cause, they also lay a potential basis to demonstrate that any peremptory challenge was not used for a prohibited reason like race.

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Horror History February 4
A young man tries to deal with the childhood terror that has affected his life.
While Sidney Prescott lives in safely guarded seclusion, bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the latest movie based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings.
David Cronenberg’s (Scanners) diabolical invader is a television show that seduces and controls its viewers. James Woods as a cable programmer looking for the ultimate in viewing thrills who becomes caught up in the horrific television reality.
A woman, beaten and raped by an unseen presence, goes to parapyschologists for help. They find she has become a magnet for an evil supernatural force that seemingly can’t be stopped.
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This pretty actress may have worked with big industry names, but she has very few hits in her kitty. Keen to salvage her unremarkable career, she requested the makers of a big budget film to cast her opposite a leading actor and even offered to sacrifice her fee.
A source says, “Though she is counted among A-listers and always stays in the news, she is yet to establish herself as an actress to reckon with. She hopes that her upcoming film will give her unremarkable career a boost. Several top-notch actresses vied for the role, but she managed to bag it because she agreed to do it free of cost.”
Some say the actress’ family also played a role in influencing the makers’ casting choice. “She would send feelers to the lead actor when she heard the makers were looking for an A-list actress to play his leading lady. Her family also put in a word for her. If this film does well, she is optimistic that her career will get back on track,” adds the source.
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As I wrap up my time in Ontario, I crossed the last item off my bucket list and was in full tourist mode on Tuesday. Looking for the perfect day in the Niagara Falls area? Follow what I did, and you won’t be disappointed. Pro tip: bring your passport. I walked over the bridge to the USA for an hour, and it’s much better here on the Canadian side.
I have played two of the largest pipe organs in Canada in the past two days! I haven’t talked about my music lately, but I’ve been playing piano and pipe organ since elementary and middle school. As I’ve been traveling, I haven’t played either much—in fact, it had been 13 months since I last played an organ. When I arrived in Toronto at the beginning of the month, I looked online for the largest organs in town, and over the past three Sundays I attended services at those churches.
Yesterday I took a step back in time to a period of European splendor and visited North America’s only full-sized castle, Casa Loma. Considered one of the grandest residential buildings ever constructed in Canada, it has 98 rooms, opulent bathrooms, secret passageways, an 800-foot tunnel, beautiful gardens, and much more. Not surprisingly, Casa Loma is a popular filming location for movies and TV shows.
Friday was a perfect weather day here in Toronto, so my boss gave me the afternoon off. I took a ferry to the Toronto Islands, a chain of 15 small islands on Lake Ontario just offshore from mainland Toronto—with amazing views of the Toronto skyline.
I’m no longer in the United States! After spending the summer in Minnesota—and taking a hiatus from posting here—I left last Thursday for Toronto, Ontario where I’m living this month. It was another whirlwind two-day journey across four states and one province. I’m really enjoying Toronto so far and have unexpectedly spent a lot of time staring in awe at airplanes in the sky.


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Dr. Minkoff-Zern’s research and teaching broadly explores the interactions between food and racial justice, labor movements, and transnational environmental and agricultural policy. This focus builds on her extensive experience with sustainable development and agricultural biodiversity projects abroad, combined with work on migrant health issues domestically. She has spent many years working on farms and with agriculture and food organizations in Guatemala, New York, and California. Her current project builds on previous research, where she found that a significant population of farmworkers and other first-generation Latino immigrants to the United States aspire to be small-scale farmers. In this work, she explores immigrant farmers’ roles in agrarian change in the United States today. She earned a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. from Cornell University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts in sustainable agriculture and development and a concentration in Latin American studies.
Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley
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Race, labor, and immigration in the food system; agricultural politics and policy; sustainability studies; feminist methodologies


Whenever I feel the need to go out and shoot photos I usually head down to Granville Island, a former industrial site that now has Vancouver’s farmer’s market, restaurants, art galleries and lots and lots of corrugated metal.
How do I love corrugated metal? Let me count the ways….
Bare winter branches contrast yellow against black.
The corrugated metal siding of a floating home reflects in the False Creek harbour.
Opus, where I buy most of my art supplies, is always good for spray-painted corrugations.
I like the way it looks as a backdrop to weeds growing up out of the cracks in the pavement.
But mostly I love the way it looks when it gets all rusty and falling apart!
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The Amboy Conference was the setting of the official “re-organization” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints into the Latter Day Saint denomination now known as the Community of Christ. Held on April 6, 1860, this conference recognized movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr’s eldest son, Joseph Smith III as his rightful successor and sustained the young Joseph as President of the Church.
Elder Zenas H. Gurley, Sr. presided over the conference held in Amboy, Illinois. Samuel Powers and Edmund Briggs were reported to preach powerful sermons and bear strong testimonies of the restored gospel. Joseph Smith III addressed the conference and told the assembled Latter Day Saints that he had accepted the calling “in obedience to a power not my own, and I shall be dictated by the power that sent me.” Smith also denounced the practice of plural marriage, stating that it opposed the doctrine contained in the Book of Mormon. He affirmed his allegiance to the constitution and laws of the United States, and he said that the church must act in accordance with those laws so that there be no antagonism between church and state.
Smith and his mother, Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, were accepted into the church without rebaptism — as their original baptisms were considered valid. After the conference, Smith and his mother returned to their homes in Nauvoo, Illinois, from where he began to preside over the affairs of the newly reorganized church.
A memorial plaque on the early history of the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormon Church). This was one of the first settlements of the Mormon Church.

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Report to the association about the publishing of the Ruffner Roots and Ramblings, and plans about content for future issues.
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Tai Chi for Life had their last session on Friday 10th March 2023.
The majority rated all aspects of the course as “Excellent”.
Many participants said they felt “relaxed” after each session, benefitting from “the breathing exercises and gentle movements”.
“Healing joints . . . my muscles loosen . . .deep breathing reducing stress . . . “
“The instructor was professional and inclusive.”
“Helpful volunteers, always looking to see who they can help with moves.”
“I only recently joined the class and recovering from ailment but can see the energetic difference since attending. . .”
Funded by the London Borough of Waltham Forest (Supporting Vulnerable Residents’ Fund), this project worked with up to 14 adults from assisted living and care homes who had varying degrees in severity of learning disabilities and neurotypical residents (40, including some individuals suffering from anxiety and other mental health concerns) from the Leyton and Leytonstone area.
Diverse individuals formed a cohesive group over the year of the project duration, understanding, and developing many Tai Chi principles and movements (including mastering the beginning of Chen First Form). Everyone benefitted from being in a uniquely inclusive learning environment.
Managers from the care homes/assisted living residences reported that some individuals would go home and demonstrate what they had learnt (helping others through instructions or modelling) and would be eager to return to class the following week. The more independent individuals attended other Dao Lu events at weekends or on public holidays.


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Battle to appoint new chief executive to run Tower Hamlets’ �1.2bn budget
Tower Hamlets council tonight will be at the centre of a row over appointing a new chief executive to run the authority’s annual �1.2 billion budget.
A joint panel of councillors and executive mayor Lutfur Rahman, whose decision has to be unanimous, has failed to accept anyone on the shortlist to take over the job after Dr Kevan Collins left last year, it is believed.
The full council tonight was due to vote on the recommendations of the appointments panel which met on April 23—but the committee failed to agree on any candidate, it is understood.
Normally, only the panel would have the power to select a successor to Dr Collins. It is expected that it won’t accept an executive officer recommending an appointment from a list that no-one endorced.
The vote on the panel’s report, which is part of the quasi-judicial process under employment law, is being taken behind closed doors at the end of tonight’s council meeting when press and public are excluded.
The executive does not have the power to over-rule the panel in the event of a stalemate and appoint its own candidate, say councillors, but can throw out any recommendations and start again. This could lead to the job of chief executive having to be readvertised.
Meanwhile, acting chief executive Aman Dalvi has been in the driving seat since September, when Dr Collins left after just two years in the top job and previously three years as Head of Tower Hamlets Children’s Services.
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- 2 Bow man appears in court charged with murder after body found in cemetery
- 3 Japanese udon noodles chain to mark Canary Wharf opening with free bowls
- 4 Bow man charged with drugs supply and criminal property offences
- 5 Riverside park extension above new sewage structures given green light
- 6 East End's 'last' Victorian funeral parlour being restored - and opens as burger bar
- 7 Jailed: Man who robbed and blackmailed men he met on Grindr
- 8 'Time to end the injustice': Barts staff set to strike amid pay dispute
- 9 Bow man accused of carrying out fatal hammer attack appears at Old Bailey
- 10 Shoreditch floral café blooms at new premises in Bethnal Green
Dr Collins declared when appointed to his �190,000-a-year post in 2009 that he was “here for the long haul” and was looking forward to the 2012 Olympics heading one of the five ‘host’ boroughs.
But he was lured away just 10 months short of the Games to head an education trust.


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RND's annual public speaking contest took place on Thursday, May 5th. In the Junior Division, Aidan Cruickshank won second place and first place was awarded to Garrett Hamilton. For the Seniors, Lorenzo Sivilotti took second place and Octavie Doherty-Haigh earned first place. On the same evening, the Poetry Contest winners were also announced. Hannah Moran-MacDonald was awarded and honourable mention. Prizes in the Junior Division were awarded to Hannah Wilson and Cody Wilson. And Maggie Drolet won first in the Senior Division. Congratulations to everyone who participated!


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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders in the United States. They affect nearly 30 percent of adults at some point in their lives.1 National polls also show that anxiety is on the rise.2 Such trends indicate there needs to be a greater emphasis on promoting healthy practices for anxiety management.
The benefits of exercise for physical health are well publicized. However, it is less known that exercise reduces anxiety levels.3 It is important to spread the word that exercise can be a healthy intervention for anxiety management. Exercise reduces anxiety in a number of ways.
First of all, exercise results in changes to the brain that are believed to improve anxiety. Such changes include increased production and release of serotonin and endorphins. These chemicals are believed to elevate mood and reduce anxiety.
In addition, anxiety activates our body’s sympathetic nervous system which secretes adrenaline. This results in physical changes such as a rapid heartbeat, elevated blood pressure, racing thoughts, muscle tension and sweating. Exercise is beneficial by dampening the response of the sympathetic nervous system.4
From a psychological perspective, exercise teaches you to focus on the present. Anxiety is defined as not being present in the moment. When we are anxious, we either worry about the future or ruminate on past events. Exercise teaches you to be in the present moment because nothing else matters but your current step on the treadmill or current lift. Let your mind wander and you will stumble off the treadmill or fail to lift the weight.
Furthermore, exercise reduces anxiety by building self-efficacy. This occurs because exercise, by design, promotes the setting and achievement of goals. Regardless of your level of physical fitness, there is always a goal to conquer. This may…

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