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Okay, recently I was reading an article on how to get more followers to your blog. It had some good points, like always try to use proper spelling, try not to offend your readers, and make your post interesting. Of course those are all things that I try to do (unfortunately, proper spelling and English are not always easy for a science major). Then it said to try to only stick to one consistent topic. It is not a good thing to jump all around from one topic to another topic.
I guess I agree. Unfortantly I can not do this. I would admit that I mostly talk about motherhood and my micro preemie. I will try not to talk about icebergs and then gross motor development. But, the reality is that I am diverse. My daughter and motherhood does dominate my life, but I do have other interest. And thus, I have to make a post about the amazing cup cakes I made this week:
Pumpkin Cupcakes with maple frosting
1 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 extra large eggs (room temperature)
1 cup canned pumpkin puree (8 ounces)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar, lightly packed
1/2 cup vegatable oil
Maple frosting recipes follows
2- 1.4 ounce bars Heath bars chopped
Preheat oven to 350. Spray 10 to 12 muffin liners.
Medium bowl sift together flour, baking soda and powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. In a larger bowl, whisk together the eggs, pumpkin puree, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vegetable oil. Add the four mixture and stir until combined.
Divide the batter among the muffin liners and bake for 20-25 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean. Spread with maple frosting and sprinkle with chopped toffee bits.
6 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/4 teaspoon Maple flavor (real is great, if you are cheap like me... imitation flavor)
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups sifted confectioners sugar
Cream the cream cheese and butter on low speed, stir in maple flavoring and vanilla then slowly ad the confectioners sugar and mix until smooth.
There is something so wonderful about a cupcake. A perfect little cake, made just for one. I also love to bake because you put ingredients just right in a bowl, and then you have perfection in an hour later. A lot of baking you can do in parts so that if you are busy you can finish them later, such as baking the cup cakes and then do the frosting the next day.
These were beautiful cupcakes but, unfortunately we ate them too fast for photographs. Enjoy Autumn!

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SPURS were rocked by the news that Harry Kane will be out for at least six weeks with ankle ligament damage.
The England forward will not return to training until early March, the club confirmed on their Twitter feed.
The Sun3 Harry Kane hobbles down the street on crutches and in a protective boot at 10.30am this morning
SunSport's exclusive images earlier today showed Kane limping down a London street on crutches and in a protective boot.
Spurs' star striker limped off the pitch at full-time of Sunday's 1-0 loss to Manchester United after being caught in the ankle by Phil Jones.
He had treatment on the field but looked to be in significant pain as he walked off.
And in snaps worrying to Tottenham, England forward Kane can be seen gingerly walking down Harley Street with the help of crutches and a protective boot on his left foot at 10.30am this morning.
Spurs announced the news that all fans were fearing on their Twitter feed at 5pm.
The Sun3 Harry Kane struggled getting out of a blacked-out car as he went into a clinic

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Knowing how to put up your fence can be confusing. Do you need to make a full loop to get the electricity through the fence or can you run a dead end fence line and still get shock?
Electric fence does not need to make a complete loop. An electric fence line that dead ends will work just as well as a fence line that is a full loop.
Read Can Grass Ground Out My Electric Fence? to get more details on keeping your fence running hot.
Electric fencing can form a loop around your animals
The most common way to use electric fencing with animals would be to completely surround the herd with electric, meaning the fence forms a loop.
If your only fencing available is electric, then your herd will always be in a loop of electric fencing.
This is what you see when you see a herd of cattle grazing within a high tensile wire paddock with four wire sides. These cattle would be in a loop of wire fencing.
Our flock is normally in a loop of electric fencing
Having the sheep in a loop of fencing is normal for us. We do not have all of the property line fenced, so we use netting to keep in the sheep most of the time.
Especially further out from the barn, there is little to no permanent fencing in place so the sheep will be in a loop of electric netting that we move, as needed.
We use electric netting as the main fence for our farm, but this information would be the same for single strand electric fences (wire or polybraid) and high tensile fence lines, since they all work off of the same type of fence charger.
ElectroNet 9/35/12 is an article I wrote covering all of the details on the netting we use for our sheep, if you want to know the pros and cons of using electric netting as a primary fence for year round grazing.
Electric fence lines can be straight and dead end
Most folks would be combining electric with permanent fence lines or something non electric like cattle panels.
For people using a combination of fences the shape of the electric fence will vary, as will whether or not the electric makes a loop.
We have a few paddocks where netting is used with permanent fencing and when that is the case the netting is not in a loop because we don’t need it to be!
Dead ended electric fence lines can divide a pasture
Using netting or other electric fencing to partition off your pasture works great! You get tons of pasture size options and the versatility to change your mind anytime you decide to put the fence line somewhere else.
Our most common division line in a pasture is straight, but not always. It depends upon the shape of the area and if we have to go around any obstacles or zig zag around a bit to give the flock water access.
Dead end fence lines need to be supported on the end
If you decide to run a non loop shaped fence line, remember to support the end posts, you don’t want the fence to sag.
As far as the charge goes, it does not matter if the fence circles back on itself or not, either works fine.
We don’t have too many single strand wire fences up (since the sheep go under them!), but you can run a wire fence in a line (not just a loop).
We support the fence line by tying off the last post of the netting to a T post or wooden post that is part of the permanent fence line we are tying to. There is a cord around the end posts of the netting for this purpose.
All electric fence lines hook up to power the same way
Whether your fence line is forming a loop, going straight or making an usual shape and dead ending, it will hook up to the energizer the same way.
As long as you have the energizer grounded and the fence does not have anything touching it (weeds, grass or metal, yikes!) put the fence line where you need it and fire it up.
The shape of fence line will not change effectiveness of the shock.
An electric fence needs a ground rod to work
The loop you may be thinking of is for the charge to go out through the wire and come back through the earth to the ground rod you have put in the dirt for your fence charger.
This is why the fence works in the first place, the “shock” is trying to get out of the wire.
For the charge to get out of the wire, there has to be an easier place for the charge to go than staying in the wire. When you or your animals touch the wire and get shocked, you were the easy route to the earth for the charge.
Having a sufficiently large ground rod or multiple ground rods, helps your fence work better, especially in challenging conditions like dry soil.
Here’s an article from Michigan State University Extension on Grounding the Electric Fence, for more details on setting up the ground rods for your fence.
Vegetation must be kept trimmed back from the fence wire
Far more important than the shape of your fence is keeping the wires clean, as in free of vegetation. Tall grasses and other vegetation touching the fence will get shocked, which takes power out of the line.
A large amount of grass touching the fence, especially if the grass is wet, will take a large amount of power out of the fence line.
Once the animals get wise to your fence having little to no power, they will start getting out. This is always much harder to stop than it is to prevent! Save yourself the stress and keep the plants trimmed back to keep your fence hot.
Of course, when your fence wire touches metal it will loose power, as well! Usually you can hear the shock when this happens.
Vegetation pulling down the power of the fence is more of a surprise, since it’s normally not one specific place along the fence line, it’s the whole line or a big section of it.
All of those blades of grass are each taking a little of the charge out of the fence. This doesn’t seem like a big deal until you realize that little bit of charge loss is multiplied thousands of times, now that’s a lot of lost power!

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With the workshop weekend looming, I wanted to spend the day preparing myself and my stuff. We are to bring a portfolio of work. I've been throwing it around in my head which work to bring. The obvious thing would be to show recent pieces. Although I do work in other media, I guess I will bring the watercolors. And maybe my little pen and inks done while waiting at the allergist's office.
I printed out my artist's statement, such as it is. It's for my eyes only, but my eyes are pretty critical. It's a loosey goosey art language statement. In college, art majors needed to take English for Art Majors Only. They expected us to be able to discuss our work to regular people, as well as other artists. We wrote papers reviewing the masters works, museum pieces, and each other's work. It wasn't easy, but helped us to develop an art speak that normal people understood.
Every paper I wrote, my professor would ask if I wrote it. She'd say my language on paper was not the same thing that came out of my mouth. What could I say? I'm from Queens and what comes from my lips is not how I think or write. Ugh.
So yes, artist statement is ready. I also printed out the directions. Believe me, I'm not leaving home without a GPS thing.
I had a small bit of time yesterday and today, before getting involved in other things, to paint. Working from some photos I took a while ago I just went to it. Yes, I said from photos! No pencil, just paint. I didn't get a chance to take a photo at the twenty minute mark and what you see is well past that. I just wanted colors, shapes, and values. I was going to continue to add to the lower left corner, but I think it's balanced just as it is. Heavy with color on the upper right, and void of it at the lower left. Weird composition, but I'm going with it.
Besides, I'm out of time. Tomorrow is another day.

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While Victoria is a lovely destination to visit, Melbourne has been named the most livable city in the world for six consecutive years by economists, and it has also been named the world’s greatest coffee city by the World Coffee Awards, beating out the likes of Rome and Vienna.
In addition to being a wonderful destination to visit, Victoria is an excellent place to live. So, while you’re looking to go there with family, friends, or alone. Without thinking much, start planning, book alaska airlines reservations in any class and save up to 45% off on every flight till the last minute. To assist you, the following guide will help you include more activities for a reviving holiday!
The following are some of the most popular tourist attractions in Victoria, British Columbia:
This is the Great Otway National Park.
The Otways are a popular detour off the Great Ocean Road since they are considered a must-see while in Victoria. They’re popular with both locals and tourists from other states and nations. You may even go ziplining in Great Otway National Park if you’re feeling very bold along the Great Ocean Road.
The Grampians National Park is a must-see destination.
The sunset across the horizon is a must-see in this beautiful national park, and you’ll find a plethora of photo opportunities. These stunning natural wonders are only a few examples of what this park has to offer visitors. A great diversity of native Australian birds and marsupials may be found in the Grampian Mountains. This makes it a great place to view native wildlife while taking advantage of the large network of hiking trails around the area. Stunning examples of ancient aboriginal painting.
The Phillips Island
There is a bridge that links Phillip Island to the mainland, which can be reached in less than two hours by car. Due to its popularity with tourists and locals alike, it has become a popular backpacker location in Melbourne.
For its adorable penguins, the island is one of the most popular tourist attractions in all of Australia. Viewing platforms for the penguin parade, subterranean facilities, and the Ultimate Penguin Tour, which offers more up-close and personal interaction with the penguins, are all available to visitors. Every night as the sun sets, a big group of penguins gathers together. The visitor center’s exhibits and information are both instructive and fascinating.
Bendigo In Bendigo, you may get a fascinating glimpse into Victoria’s past.
Bendigo prospered during the Victorian era as a gold rush town due to its close proximity to Melbourne and ease of travel by train. Bendigo is known for its historic structures and its role in the gold rush, making it a tourist destination. Victoria’s gold mines produced more gold than any other place in the world save California at one point. Bendigo alone has extracted about a million kilogrammes of gold since the commencement of mining in the 1860s. The town has various instances of Victorian architecture that have been carefully kept. This flood of migrants from all over the globe transformed Victoria from an isolated trading port into an important colony similar to how the gold rush in America drew in migrants from Australia and other parts of the world.
Protected area in Healesville, Australia
Most people agree that Australia’s best place to observe and interact with native Australian wildlife in its natural habitat without being disturbed is this sanctuary, located in the lovely Yarra Valley. To get up close and personal with a range of well-known Australian wildlife, such as kangaroos and emus as well as wombats and the platypus, which is the sanctuary’s most famous resident animal, is what you’ll receive when you visit. ‘Wombat pat & play,’ ‘wading with the platypus,’ and a dingo encounter (apparently they sometimes give visitors a kiss on the cheek!) are just a few of the exciting ‘wild experiences’ available. These experiences with nature, like “wading with the platypus,” are equally exciting. These one-of-a-kind experiences in Australia will make the voyage one to remember.
Fitzroy, dubbed a “inner-city magnet for all things edgy and quirky” by time out, is home to vintage shops, bustling clubs and pubs, a strong alternative subculture, and wonderful restaurants providing a mix of Australian and foreign cuisine at often very inexpensive pricing. Fitzroy is a neighbourhood in Melbourne’s financial centre that is home to several multinational corporations. Fitzroy’s atmosphere is one of the most appealing aspects of the neighbourhood, with several markets, art festivals, and other activities taking place throughout the day and night. Visit the in.cube8r Fitzroy Emporium and Gallery while you’re in the area.
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Hundreds of demonstrators closed down streets in northeastern India on Tuesday as part of an 11-hour shutdown in protest of legislation that would grant citizenship to persecuted Hindus and other religious minorities from Muslim-majority Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who immigrated to the country illegally, reports AP.The Citizenship Amendment Bill was passed by a majority vote in India’s lower house after midnight and still needs to be passed by upper house before becoming law.
The shutdown began at 5 am and was organized by the North East Students Organization, an association of student groups from across India's eight northeastern states.
They oppose the bill out of concern that more migrants will move to the border region and dilute the culture and political sway of indigenous tribal people.
Protesters blocked traffic across the state of Assam, including in the state capital Gauhati, by burning tires and sitting on roads. Shops and businesses closed, and several vehicles were vandalized.
The protesters have burned effigies of leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.

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Never is so much owed by so many as after wars. And pandemics.
Governments’ debt burdens have soared over the course of the past two years. By the end of the second quarter of this year, they collectively owed a whopping $86tn, compared with $71tn at the end of 2019, according to the Institute for International Finance’s latest Debt Monitor.
Most of that additional borrowing has been done by richer countries, taking their total debt-to-GDP ratios to north of 130 per cent — from 110 per cent pre-Covid.
Regular readers may be aware that we’re not especially concerned about the size of that burden. But we’ve been interested in looking at whether policies offered in the past can provide some guidance on how to manage the fresh liabilities.
With that in mind, an idea presented in a new paper from the Adam Smith Institute piqued our interest. It’s based on a tool used by none other than Winston Churchill to refinance the first world war debt during his spell as chancellor in 1927: to issue Consols.
Consols are ultimately means to mitigate rollover risk. While they pay a coupon to the bearer, they have no fixed repayment date. The Consols issued by Britain to finance the Napoleonic Wars were, the Adam Smith Institute points out, only repaid in 2014.
The think-tank notes that Consols “should not be used for routine big-spending projects, but rather, rare and unexpected emergencies like wars and pandemics that create an immediate large need for borrowing.”
Being the Adam Smith Institute, it wants the UK Government to specifically legislate to convert existing Covid debt into ‘Covid Emergency Bonds’ based on Consols, with a commitment to repay when the economy recovers.
The paper’s here for those who want to read more.
What to make of this? We don’t usually find ourselves in agreement with the Adam Smith Institute, but there’s a lot going for this idea. At the moment, with debt markets being what they are, why not lock in ultra cheap financing costs for future generations, rather than having to roll over the debt in ten or thirty years time, when rates may be much higher?
We decided to ask Norma Cohen, formerly of the FT and currently a fellow at Queen Mary University, who has written for us twice on the relevance of the post-World War One situation to the current predicament. (See here and here.)
Here’s what Norma had to say:
The cost of debt service today, even with the massive pandemic related borrowing, is a fraction of tax revenue compared with the interwar period when the debt/GDP ratio was similar to today. In the 1923/24 fiscal year, debt service equalled 40 per cent of tax revenue. It is in low, single digits today . . .
. But the reason I favour the issuance of Consols is that the lesson of the interwar years is that there is such a thing as ‘rollover risk’. There is another reason; longevity risk is emerging as a huge risk both to individuals and financial institutions. If government could borrow from investors, service the debt in full and on time, but avoid capital repayment following the death of investor, it could avoid rollover risk on a portion of its borrowings. This was used not only by Britain but by the Dutch and Italian city states all through the middle ages. It would be like government-issued annuities. Perhaps insurance companies would also buy them as a hedge.
Annuities from insurers are considered poor value for money now because rates are so low. But government issued annuities might be able to be more generous because governments do not have reserve requirements nor do they have marketing, advertising and sales costs.
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Texas and Louisiana are among 18 states whose Attorneys General and governors filed an Amicus Brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the plaintiffs.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a Montana school choice case that could directly impact 37 state constitutions banning public funds from being used on religious schools.
Many legal scholars expect the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Montana Supreme Court ruling based on one of the state’s constitutional amendments, the Blaine Amendment.
The case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, is considered by many to be a landmark religious liberty and school choice case dating back to 19th century law, which many argue is unconstitutional because it requires governments to prohibit public funding from being directed toward religious schools.
Montana was among many western states to adopt such an amendment after Congress stipulated in 1875 that doing so was a pre-condition of joining the Union. Montana joined the Union in 1889 after delegates to the 1889 Montana constitutional convention passed the Blaine Amendment to the state constitution.
In his final address to Congress in December 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant suggested that an amendment to the U.S. Constitution be proposed, “prohibiting the granting of any school funds, or school taxes … for the benefit of or in aid … of any religious sect or denomination.”
He argued doing so was “the duty of each of the several States to establish and forever maintain free public schools adequate to the education of all of the children.”
Rep. James G. Blaine of Maine proposed the amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which passed in the House on Aug. 4, 1876, by a vote of 180 to 7. It also passed in the U.S. Senate by a vote of 28 to 16, but not enough to meet the two-thirds threshold required.
Montana’s high court cited the state’s Blaine Amendment when it struck down the state’s tax credit scholarship program first created by the legislature in 2015. The law allowed tax credits to fund education scholarships, which the state Department of Revenue later stipulated could not be used to fund religious school education.
Three parents sued the department, and the case eventually landed before the state’s highest court, and is now to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. A ruling is expected in June.
“In the past, the U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that states are free to relax those bans, and are even free constitutionally to provide some forms of neutral aid that winds up in the budgets of religious institutions – especially when the aid is channeled according to the wishes of parents and children,” Lynn Denniston at the Constitution Center argues.
“But, despite the existence of such bans for more than 140 years, the Supreme Court has never answered one key question about them: Does the First Amendment’s guarantee of the ‘free exercise of religion’ actually require states to provide aid to religious institutions, if the aid has nothing to do with promoting religious beliefs or practices?” she adds.
Jeanne Allen, founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, argues the Blaine Amendments represent “an outdated relic from a prejudicial past.”
The center, and more than a dozen organizations and civil rights leaders, 16 Attorneys General and two governors, filed separate amicus briefs with the court in support of the plaintiffs, urging the justices to reverse the Montana ruling.
“The ruling by the Montana Supreme Court discriminates against and punishes parents who choose to send their children to religious schools,” the attorneys’ general joint statement says. “If upheld, it has far-reaching consequences that could threaten school choice programs nationwide, depriving religious, low income and disabled children of a quality education of their choice.”
The states include Oklahoma, Georgia, Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky through Gov. Matt Bevin, Louisiana, Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
An alternative to work around the Blaine Amendment, adopted by six states, is the Education Savings Account, the Friedman Foundation for School Choice notes. State laws allow parents to withdraw their children from public schools, and use ESA funds to cover educational alternatives such as private school tuition and fees, online learning, private tutoring, and other educational expenses.
ESAs have been adopted in Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, and Tennessee. However, ESAs in Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee are limited to students with disabilities, and Nevada’s program is currently inactive.
This article was first published by The Center Square.


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Lorazepam use in modern clinical practice
Sedative drugs are prescribed at the initial treatment stage of neurosis and neurotic disorders. Benzodiazepines are safe and effective sedative drugs that have minimum risk of side effects.
In pronounced symptoms of neurosis and neurotic disorders, benzodiazepines are recommended to use in combination with atypical or typical antipsychotics to achieve sedative effect. In modern clinical practice one of the most effective and most commonly prescribed benzodiazepines is Lorazepam drug.
Lorazepam drug has hypnotic, sedative, muscle relaxant, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant effect. Lorazepam drug possesses pharmacological properties:to stimulate benzodiazepine receptors of allosteric center;to reduce the excitability of the subcortical brain structures (hypothalamus, limbic system, thalamus);to slow down spinal, polysynaptic reflexes.
Anxiolytic effect of Lorazepam drug is caused by the impact on the amygdaloid complex in the limbic system, which leads to decrease of emotional stress, relieves feelings of anxiety, worry and fear.
Sedative effect of Lorazepam is due to the influence on the non-specific thalamic nuclei, reticular formation of brain stem, leading to a decrease in the neurologic symptoms (fear, anxiety).
Soporific effect of Lorazepam is achieved due to inhibition of reticular formation in the brain stem.
Anticonvulsant effect is provided due to taurine which inhibits the excitation in the epileptogenic locus and prevents the spread of epileptogenic activity.
Muscle relaxant action of Lorazepam occurs due to slowing down the activity of spinal, polysynaptic, inhibitory, and afferent ways. When using Lorazepam, it is possible a direct slowing down of motor nerves and muscular system functions.
Lorazepam medication does not affect psychotic symptomatology (hallucinations and affective disorders). In Lorazepam use, severity reduction of delusional disorders and affective intensity is observed in rare cases.
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Lorazepam drug has sedative, muscle relaxant and soporific effect in premedication period.
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Lorazepam drug is intended for oral administration. Lorazepam tablets can be taken with or without food.
To treat neurosis and neurological disorders, Lorazepam drug is prescribed in daily dose of 3mg (one Lorazepam 1mg tablet three times a day).
If side effects occur when using Lorazepam in daily dose of 3mg, the dosage should be reduced up to Lorazepam 1mg.
If daily dosage of Lorazepam 3mg does not provide the expected therapeutic effect, Lorazepam daily dosage is recommended to increase up to 6mg (one Lorazepam 2mg tablet three times a day).
Maximum daily dose of Lorazepam is 10mg to treat neurosis and neurotic disorders.
To treat insomnia, caused by anxiety or stress, one-two Lorazepam 1mg tablets are recommended to take before bedtime.
Elderly patients (over 65 years) are recommended to start the treatment with daily dosage of Lorazepam 1mg (one Lorazepam 0.5 mg pill two times a day).
In premedication period, 2-4mg of Lorazepam medication is recommended to take 1-2 hours before surgery.
Lorazepam drug should not be used in children (under 12 years).
Lorazepam 4-6mg once daily is recommended for patients, who previously used anxiolytic drugs.
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Ce livre est la transition parfaite entre la saga Harry Potter et la trilogie des Magiciens. [...] En plus de tout ça, on trouve, en vrac : des références culturelles géniales, l'utilisation de la technologie par les sorciers, une guerre inter-espèces, la lutte contre le sexisme, des super-héros discrets, quelques insultes bien envoyées [...] un roman one-shot à lire absolument pour tous ceux qui aiment la magie, les histoires de grands ados (les héros sont majeurs) et, ok, les histoires d'amour un peu.
Angelique was one of those beautiful unfortunates whose amorous youth was sacrificed to the horrors of a cloister because of the ridiculous vanity of a mother who wanted to appear young at fifty and who wished to keep with her only a young boy of ten whom she worshiped and who passed as her eldest son.
It had been scarcely one month since the mother had come out of mourning, the year since the death of her husband having expired, when, reentering the world, her great attributes attracted the eyes of several suitors. One of them, who was after her wealth rather than herself, whose birth and good looks she must have taken into consideration, flattered her one day that she was still young. Believing that it would be to become young in effect, she sent away a girl of nineteen whose age contradicted the sentiments of the admirer and whose growing charms would soon eclipse the remains of a painted beauty.

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In the immediate aftermath of the Nazi seizure of power Rothenberger
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Hans Lammers in early 1941; Lammers was not impressed and
rejected the plan. Rothenberger then sent the same ideas to Rudolf
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before he could act on them. Finally in 1942 Rothenberger condensed
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In order to undertake these changes Justice Minister Franz Schlegelberger was dismissed and replaced by Otto Thierack , with Rothenberger appointed his state secretary in charge of judicial reform. Bormann's ally Hans Klemm was added as another state secretary in order to limit the power of Rothenberger.
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Rothenberger soon returned to his original reform plans and sought to give the Nazi Party a closer role in the training of judges. Alongside this he sought to extend the use of lay judges and people's courts at the expense of the professional judiciary. Nonetheless he argued that the dispensing of justice at the highest level should remain in the hands of a proper, trained judiciary, an idea that was interpreted by Bormann as not going far enough. Others however saw Rothenberger's ideas as constituting unwarranted attacks on the judiciary and indeed Hans Frank resigned from the presidency of the Academy of German Law, a body which he had established in 1933, as a protest against the Rothernberger proposals.
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LVM Systems has opened registration for its 2012 Users’ Conference. The two-day conference offers LVM customers and other healthcare call center professionals the opportunity to learn about industry practices. “This is shaping up to be a fantastic conference,” said LVM Systems’ Cheryl Baker, manager, client services. “We are recruiting energized speakers who are eager to talk about the promising future of healthcare call centers.”
The conference is scheduled October 24 and 25 at the Double Tree by Hilton SanTan Elegante Hotel in Gilbert, Ariz. The theme for this year’s conference is “Positively Impacting Lives,” which is a tribute to LVM’s newly articulated mission statement: “Positively impacting lives through innovative, sustainable healthcare call center solutions.”
“There are so many ways healthcare call centers can provide increasing value to their organizations,” said Mark Dwyer, LVM Systems’ chief operating officer. There is also a preconference Telehealth Nursing Practice Core Course (TNPCC) on October 23, offering eight CEU credits to attendees completing the course. The early-bird fee (ending August 31) for the TNPCC is $275 and includes continental breakfast and lunch. The registration fee for the conference is $595 per person; learn more at www.lvmsystems.com.


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Friday, January 18th, 2013
On Jan. 16 Pres. Obama adopted the NRA suggestion that public schools be fortified by police. Already, a third of schools have SROs (School Resource Officers), cops whose beat is the school. The reason is to ostensibly make schools “safer.” Will it be more cops at any price for strained cities and police departments?
Here we go again America. An outrageously disproportionate solution for a problem so rare as to be nearly non-existent, albeit headline grabbing. Meanwhile, on a daily basis, students are exposed to psychological violence from peers and they witness their teachers being victimized by abusive administrators or more senior teachers. They see and emulate the witnessed adult bullying on a regular basis. Anything being done? Nope. The excuse is that there’s no money.
Mysteriously though there will be funds for putting cops in schools, denying coverage of the very cities that hire them. Of course, in urban schools in America street violence long ago walked right in. [Watch season 4 of David Simon’s brilliant HBO series The Wire for a realistic portrayal of life in underfunded, overtested, and ignored inner city schools.]
Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
We Americans have much to learn from experiences in other countries. It doesn’t have to be “the way it is” forever.
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
It’s incredibly important for everyone to watch their chosen words in light of the tragic shooting of a U.S. Congresswoman. I will try to do so. The myopic mass media begrudgingly acknowledge that words do have consequences. However, they accept no responsibility for demanding that the only information worthy of precious TV air time is to focus on a fight between adversaries.

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Where would you want to open a prototype "green" restaurant? McDonald's (MCD) has decided to do so on the south side of Chicago. The new restaurant starts with the typical standalone McDonald's unit we are used to seeing and uses "smarter design elements" to save the store 25 percent per year in utility bills.
What are the changes? The new store will use heat recovery devices to recycle cooking heat. Storm water runoff from the parking lot will be collected and used for irrigation. Plants will be stationed on the roof to provide insulation and further water control. Skylights will augment and eliminate the need for some electric lighting, and tables will be made from recycled plastic. In addition, cardboard food containers will be produced from recycled material.


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Former Man Utd figure slams ‘shocking’ Glazers for ‘worst case of bullying’
Former United head of first-team development Nicky Butt has slammed the club's owners for their involvement in European Super League plans
New details emerge of ‘explosive’ incident that led to Butt leaving Man Utd
It has already emerged that there was more to Butt's exit than just the desire for a new challenge, and now more information has arrived
New light shed on fractured atmosphere which drove Butt out of Man Utd
Man Utd announced that the 46-year-old left to seek a 'new challenge', but a report claims there was more to it than that
Nicky Butt steps down from Manchester United position
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has paid tribute to the work of Butt and claims he will always be a Manchester United 'legend'.
Nicky Butt dismisses Man Utd myth surrounding Van Gaal, Mourinho
Nicky Butt has completely dismissed the “myth” that both Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho disrespected traditions at Man Utd.
Nicky Butt claims starlet is ‘best young player he has ever seen’ at Man Utd
Jamie Redknapp claims that Nicky Butt told him a Man Utd starlet is “the best young player he’s ever seen” at Old Trafford.
Butt warns Man Utd about damaging cost of ‘unbelievable’ youngster’s exit
Nicky Butt has warned Manchester United that they must do all they can to keep hold of one talented youngster
Man Utd hero on why he ‘can’t wait’ to have Leeds back in Premier League
Nicky Butt has explained why he is keeping his fingers crossed that Leeds will secure a return to the Premier League this season.
Butt explains how McTominay, Pereira can take Man Utd to next level
The midfield duo have been key for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side so far...
Butt lists multiple reasons why Solskjaer won’t be sacked by Man Utd
Nicky Butt is adamant Man Utd have no plans to sack Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, having listed a plethora of factors why he's still being backed.
Nicky Butt on why current Man Utd crop can emulate Class of 92
Development chief Nicky Butt insists one young Academy graduate has all the attributes required to become a major star for Man Utd.
Nicky Butt promoted as Man Utd restructure Academy
Nicky Butt has been named as Manchester United's head of first team development, the club have announced.
Man Utd lucky to have best midfielder in world in Pogba – Butt
Man Utd are fortunate to have Paul Pogba in their ranks and his presence at the club is a "massive feather in our caps", claims Nicky Butt.
Man Utd coach lifts lid on difficulties faced by Marcus Rashford
Manchester United coach Nicky Butt has revealed the pressures that Marcus Rashford faces in his young career
Man Utd’s youngsters can emulate Class of ’92 – Butt
Nicky Butt believes that Manchester United’s current youth players are capable of repeating the achievements of the ‘Class of ’92’.
Butt ‘expects’ Man Utd to sign best young players in Europe
Nicky Butt suggests Manchester United are set to go on a recruitment drive of some of the best young talent in Europe this summer.
No club can touch United for promoting youth – Butt
Nicky Butt says Man Utd's academy is still the most attractive option for young players despite the emergence of their big-spending rivals.


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One of Marvels most anticipated films is the adaptation of Captain America. However, there isn’t much known about the project. We know who the character is, and that the film will start shooting this June, but nothing regarding the plot.
In an interview with BoxOffice.com, director Joe Johnston gives us a little bit of info regarding the plot for “The First Avenger: Captain America”.
Thanks to ComingSoon.net:
“It’s not going to be a Captain America that you expect. It’s something different. It is influenced by the comic book, but it goes off in a completely different direction. It’s the origin story of Captain America. It’s mostly period—there are modern, present-day bookends on it—but it’s basically the story of how Steve Rogers becomes Captain America. The great thing about Captain America is he’s a super hero without any super powers. Which is why this story, among the hundreds of super hero stories, appealed to me the most. He can’t fly, he can’t see through walls, he can’t do any of that stuff. He’s an every man who’s been given this amazing gift of transformation into the perfect specimen—the pinnacle of human perfection. How does that affect him? What does that mean for him emotionally and psychologically? He was this 98-pound weakling, he was this wimp, and he’s transformed instantly into this Adonis. You’d think he got everything he wanted. Well, he didn’t get everything he wanted. The rules change at that point and his life gets even more complicated and dire. For me, that’s the interesting part of the story. It’s got some great action sequences in it and some incredible stuff that we’ve never seen before. But at the heart of it, it’s a story about this kid who all he wants to do is fit in. This thing happens and he still doesn’t fit in. And he has to prove himself a hero—essentially go AWOL to save a friend…”
I’m glad that the film will be different from the comics. One thing I’m always irritated at is fan boys complaining about comic book films deviating from the comics. If I wanted exactly whats in the comics, then I’ll read the comics.
From that summary this sounds as if its gonna be another hit from Marvel. What I’m most looking forward to seeing is the drama Rogers has to go through after he becomes a super-human.
The only thing left to do now is the casting. If you ask me, I say Aaron Eckhart is PERFECT for the role. Sure, he may be a little old, but he looks the part and has proven he has acting skills. After watching “Avatar” for a second time, I have been moving in favor of Worthington being cast. However, I have a feeling the role has already been cast, but Marvel won’t release it until they want.
I am hoping the studio doesn’t make the costume look silly(same goes for Thor). Lets get real, the only person that would look intimidating in that outfit would be Chuck Norris.
Who do you think should play Captain America? And, does this make you more excited to see the film?


Tuesday, July 24, 2012
The good folks from the American Friends Service Committee posted today on their blog, Cell-Out AZ, documents they obtained that show the "state of Arizona deliberately circumvented and ultimately repealed a state law requiring private for-profit prison corporations to demonstrate cost savings in their bids on new prison contracts. These records reveal that the state was aware that existing private prison contracts were not saving the state money—despite state laws requiring private prison contractors to deliver such savings."
You can read the documents and the entire post here.
A brilliant snippet from the AFSC post:
Several of the key players in the Arizona budget process have accepted contributions from lobbyists, political action committees (PACs) and other individuals/entities associated with for-profit prison corporations. For example:
Governor Brewer’s campaign manager and top advisor, Chuck Coughlin. Coughlin runs Highground Consulting, which lobbies for CCA in Arizona.
Paul Senseman, a CCA lobbyist, is also the “spokesman” for Brewer’s PAC
John Kavanagh, Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, has accepted numerous campaign contributions from lobbyists associated with the for-profit prison industry. Kavanagh was instrumental in the passage of the 2012 CJBRA.
House Speaker Andy Tobin has raked in thousands of dollars from lobbyists and others associated with three of the for-profit prison corporations currently bidding on contracts in Arizona. This includes donations from the CEO’s of both GEO Group and GEO Care, as well as the MTC PAC.
Suspecting that the “invisible hand of the market” was behind the effort to remove the cost and quality assessment requirements, muckraking journalist extraordinaire, Beau Hodai, sent a public records request to Kavanagh’s office seeking documents related to the drafting and passage of the budget bill. [Mr. Hodai, you may recall, was responsible for first revealing the links between CCA and the Governor’s office in relationship to SB1070 for In These Times.]
In response, Hodai received a two-paragraph letter, denying access to records relating to the bill and invoking “legislative privilege.” Because, after all, what good will it do to remove all accountability from the for-profit prison industry if snooping reporters can uncover records relating to influence working behind the scenes through public records law?
The timing of the repeal coincides with plans to award a new contract for 1,000 more for-profit prison beds. The contract for these beds is expected to be signed by September 1, 2012. Funding for the beds was approved in the same budget that removed the accountability provisions. Many have questioned the wisdom of building prisons we don’t need (the state’s prison population is decreasing) and can’t afford. After all, the state is barely beginning to come back from a crippling budget deficit. And where was Arizona supposed to find the funds for a massive prison expansion, anyway?
Soon after the budget passed, the answer was revealed: The legislature planned to pay for new prison beds by sweeping $50 million from a housing trust containing money from a settlement the federal government negotiated with big banks in the wake of the mortgage crisis. The monetary aid was intended for states to assist people impacted by foreclosures. So, essentially the legislature planned to pay for overpriced prisons we don’t need by stealing the money from victims of the housing crisis. Classy.
On May 24, 2012, The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest and the William E Morris Institute for Justice filed a lawsuit on behalf of distressed homeowners to prevent the transfer.
So, to recap, private prisons are a waste of money and everybody knows it. But because the corporations pour millions into lobbying and campaign donations, Arizona politicians have adjusted state law to “look the other way”— thus paving the way for future contracts unencumbered by pesky accountability measures and ensuring that the state budget will continue to bleed millions into corrections at the expense of education, health care and social services.
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Almost passed by this unassuming roadside gem on a motoring tour of southern France. Hunger overcoming, stopped for lunch. Quite astoishing service, excellent quality of food and all sandwiched between a route nationale and a carpark. Brochette of succulent meat, succulent salads and fine attention to detail. Robust, no onsense eating where quality is taken seriously and reminds one of what old fashioned routiers used to be. Fine quality, good prices and a place to remember.
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First, I like how they can’t be bothered to give actual examples. Which states in Africa? Oh, just, you know, some states in Africa. That’s exactly the sort of detail I like in my textbooks.
Second, I just don’t understand the quotation marks. Surely they’re referring to actual promises, in the dictionary sense of statements made about future actions to be undertaken (or not undertaken), whether or not those statements are sincere? Am I to understand that Communists are not capable of this sort of political action? This book uses scare quotes so strangely. It seems like they want to fence off any idea of honesty or sincerity from the people they disagree with, and quotation marks are the best means they have.
From George Thompson & Jerry Combee, World History and Cultures in Christian Perspective 2nd Edition (Pensacola: A Beka Book, 1997), 93.
And what’s also strange is that this was published *7 YEARS* after the fall of the Soviet Union. That’s not to say that Communism had been totally eradicated as an institution by then (Cuba, China, Vietnam and a few other countries are proof of that), but it certainly had been weakened to the point that it was no longer the monolithic nation-eating, domino-effect-producing politico-economic force of the Cold War era. History marched on. Apparently the author’s political attitudes didn’t.


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As world leaders filled the halls of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, in Brasilia, a Jatoba tree made its way through the gates of the Norwegian embassy, as a climate refugee. Indigenous activists from the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) brought the tree from the Amazon to the embassy and sought refugee status for it, as a protest of the consistent deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. In doing so, they’ve sparked new life into the ongoing conversation of what rights and legal protections people owe their planet.
Thousands of miles away, in New York that week, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, touted the country’s pledged efforts to curb deforestation. His comments struck many activists as empty and hypocritical because of his record of mass deforestation. As one of the globe’s most powerful and prominent climate change deniers, he’s overseen the loss of over 10,000 square miles of Amazonian forest. Norway, in contrast, became the first country to officially “ban deforestation” in 2016 when it enacted a policy that removed goods associated with heavy deforestation from the country’s incoming supply chain.
APIB activists aimed to draw attention to Norway’s ban, calling for wider boycotts of goods that contribute to deforestation in Brazil, Reuters reported. “Today the Amazon has become a war zone; 90% of the deforestation is illegal,” AIPIB leader and renowned political activist Sonia Guajajara told Reuters when she stood with the tree at the embassy on Wednesday.
In a statement to Forbes, the Norwegian Embassy in Brasilia confirmed that “We will look after the tree, now planted on Embassy ground, while at the same time, continue our efforts to help reduce deforestation in Brazil.” The Norwegian Embassy has a history of Amazon protection projects in Brazil.
They added: “The Norwegian Embassy is frequently presented with letters and petitions from a number of actors, informing us of their views. Receiving the letter accompanying the Jatobá-tree was in line with our normal diplomatic activity, being receptive and open for dialogue with a broad range of stakeholders.”
Despite how “in line with normal diplomatic activity” this occurrence may have been, it reopens the growing discussion on what legal rights and protections environmental entities are owed. Ecuador was the first country, in 2008, to recognize the constitutional rights of nature. In 2017, New Zealand was the first country to grant legal personhood a specific river (the Whanganui River); later that year Colombia and India followed suit in granting legal rights to rivers within their own countries. Since then, a few other countries and municipalities have echoed these actions, granting legal protections to waterways. In nearly every case, Indigenous activists have led the efforts to recognize parts of nature as living entities (a fitting corollary to the designation of corporations as people).
In an interview with NPR, Monti Aguirre, from International Rivers explained “Many Indigenous communities recognize nature as a subject with personhood deserving of protection and respect, rather than looking at it as a merchandise or commodity over which property rights should be exercised.”
Yet, while these efforts grow out of a departure from commodification, it’s hard to forget that the sanctity of rivers is shaped by their clear use-value; water is life, as Indigenous activists say, and these waterways undergird the livelihoods of the communities (both human and not) surrounding them. No wonder the drive to protect them runs so deep. Even though Indigenous people use the sap of the Jatoba tree in medicine, the emotional appeal of a single tree’s essential, life-giving properties is a much harder case to make. Granting this tree refugee status is an even further push to truly recognize the inherent value of natural entities, removed from any of their immediate use.
In this case, recognizing the importance is a matter, quite literally of seeing the forest for the tree; the urgency and live-sustaining properties of protection lie in the need to curb broad Amazonian deforestation.
Granting protections to rainforest trees like the Jatoba will not just preserve the rich biodiversity of non-human nature, but it also will provide a much-needed carbon sink (rather than the massive source deforestation currently is) keeping carbon emissions and global temperatures at habitable levels. In 2020 deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon were the highest of the decade and emitted the equivalent of 648 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
In the face of such daunting totals, the details of whether one tree is seen as a refugee or not may seem pedantic. Patrick Barkham described that rights of nature laws like this can often feel like “worthy aspirations yet to translate into decisive action and change in real life.” Yet, he pointed to the perspective of Erin O’Donnell, an author of a book on rights for rivers, whom he interviewed for his piece in The Guardian. O’Donnell explained that an intangible designation, like giving a river rights or making a Jatoba tree a refugee, “can and does change the way we think.” And that change in perspective is what can spiral out into real action and more sustainable practices.


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The history of Royal weddings as seen through items in the Royal Collection
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The marriage of George III and Queen Charlotte took place at St James's Palace, London on 8 September 1761. Their union is the subject of this fan, with portrait roundels of the couple being supported by allegorical figures probably representing Fame and the Arts. Personifications of Commerce and Liberty, and Britannia and Neptune oversee the scene on either side.

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I think it is possible to generate keys on an offline computer and sign. To create a transaction I need to input transactions detail, and somehow I have to transfer signed transaction from offline computer to a online computer to relay the transaction.
Is it possible to do this without using USB storage? I can use a keyboard, or barcode reader to transfer the input transaction hash to an offline computer and the signed transaction back to the online computer. So that private key stays with the offline computer.
What are step-by-step instructions to do this, with any required error check / correction?


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“Now seems like the perfect moment to look ahead to the firm’s next chapter as we continue to build the leadership at the firm to work alongside me and current principals Mickey Benson and Lou Taylor, both now and in the years ahead.”
As we emerge from our 20th year, it has been so gratifying to look back over the last two decades in business and reflect on all of the amazing clients we have had the incredible good fortune to work with and the homes we have been able to create for these families during that time — truly “Places to Call Home.” These last two decades have also brought me together with a tremendous array of collaborators, both outside and within this firm. Interior decorators, landscape designers, contractors, consultants, and craftspeople have all challenged and inspired me and my team. Equally important, for the last 20 years I have spent my time each day working alongside the most extraordinary group of young architects, designers, and administrators within my office, all of whom have shared my passion for what we do and a deep dedication to creating environments that our clients will feel at home in. I have been enormously privileged to work with such an incredible team all these years, a team which has grown steadily in size and capabilities since the day we opened.
And now, with that team approaching nearly 40 individuals, it seems like the perfect moment to look ahead to the firm’s next chapter: to continue to build the leadership at the firm to work alongside me and current principals Mickey Benson and Lou Taylor, both now and in the years ahead. It is for this reason that I am thrilled to announce that Aimee and Kevin Buccellato, two of GPSA’s earliest staff members, along with their firm Buccellato Design, will be joining forces with GPSA to form Schafer Buccellato Architects launching in September of 2023. I couldn’t be more thrilled that two people who worked with me to form the foundation of GPSA’s work — and its culture — will be returning to help lead us in our next chapter.
At its core, our work has always been about creating places to call home and for us, this merging of talent with Aimee and Kevin Buccellato — and their team at Buccellato Design — is also a coming home of sorts. As GPSA’s first employee, Aimee left a role in a prestigious New York firm in the summer of 2002 to embark on a new adventure working side by side with me at what then had just been a sole-practitioner firm. Kevin joined the firm shortly thereafter, and their innate talents as architects were matched by their dynamic leadership as they helped to manage multiple projects and our nascent practice in those early days.
In 2008, the Buccellatos left GPSA to move to the Midwest, raise a family, and explore their passion for teaching. They each accepted individual appointments to the Faculty of the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame that year, and so began their illustrious new careers in academia. Aimee received tenure at Notre Dame in 2017 and Kevin developed the School’s curriculum in Architecture and the Building Arts, establishing the Building Arts Concentration within the undergraduate program.
In addition to her tenured position as an Associate Professor of Architecture at Notre Dame, Aimee served as a Fellow and faculty advisor to University’s Fitzgerald Institute of Real Estate and was an Affiliated Faculty Member for the School’s Environmental Change Initiative, Global Adaptation Network, and Notre Dame Energy. She has also co-authored nearly 30 academic papers with faculty across six disciplines.
In addition to his teaching roles at Notre Dame, including most recently as an Assistant Professor of Practice and a Professional Specialist, Kevin has presented and published his joint academic research nationally, and served as Commissioner of the Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County for nearly a decade.
In 2011, as a companion to their mission as teachers, Aimee and Kevin established Buccellato Design, their own architecture and interior design firm, and together have designed residences and civic projects around the country in the years since. Their projects — which include Notre Dame’s Morrison Family Education and Outreach Pavilion and the Notre Dame Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility — have received several design awards, including a Citation for New Construction from the American Institute of Architects in Indiana, the first Notre Dame-built project to receive such an award.
Not surprisingly, the Buccellatos are both graduates of the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame and Aimee also holds a Masters degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Kevin is a member of the American Institute of Architects and Aimee is a U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Accredited Professional in Building and Construction.
They are both members of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, where Aimee is a Fellow Emeritus. They each have a longstanding history of serving their own community in various roles as well: Aimee served on the board of the City of South Bend Venues, Parks, and Arts Commission for eight years, and Kevin served for six years on the Board of the Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County.
Most importantly, in addition to these many professional accolades and their extensive architectural experience, Aimee and Kevin, and everyone at Buccellato Design, share the same values that have always been at the core of GPSA: we are all dedicated to taking the best of traditional architecture and creating elegant, welcoming, timeless spaces so that our clients can enjoy and celebrate the relationships and moments that make their lives meaningful.
Every single day over the past twenty years, I have been excited about what comes next — what new project takes us to a new place geographically or asks us to solve a new problem we have never tackled before. But this is a completely new kind of excitement, as we look forward to the next twenty years — and beyond — as Schafer Buccellato Architects and the work we will create.
Together, as partners and principals, Aimee, Kevin, Lou Taylor, and I — along with other partners in the years to come — will guide the firm into the future as we continue to collaborate with the amazing clients who believe in us, challenge us, inspire us, and trust us; the extraordinary decorators, landscape designers, contractors, and consultants who are instrumental in advising us and helping us shape and articulate our vision into something tangible; and the incredible group of people in our office who give the work we do the true excellence that it has. Please join me in welcoming Aimee and Kevin and their team into our family.
— Gil Schafer,February 2023
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that Aimee and Kevin Buccellato — who worked with me to form the foundation of GPSA’s work and culture — and their team at Buccellato Design, will be joining forces with GPSA as we head into our next chapter.”


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[pct-l] Cannister stove for thru-hik
simon.deleersnyder at gmail.com
Tue May 28 14:55:11 CDT 2013
Thanks again for all the great tips, very helpful! And sending one big
package to the USA from Europe and then bouncing it from there up ahead is
a very good idea, I think I might just do that!
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Meridith Rosendahl <
meridith.rosendahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Piper ought to put a cookbook page on her website,
> santabarbarahikes.com (when she has nothing better to do, of course).
> of her hiking meals make me so hungry I'd love to cook them at home. Other
> hikers could contribute (with her permission of course). What do the rest
> of you think?
> That said, Dicentra's website, onepanwonders.com has a huge amount of
> information about back country meals and snacks, prehike preparation, etc.
> Check it out.
> Piper's Mom
> Message: 12
> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 14:49:20 -0700
> From: Diane Soini <dianesoini at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Cannister stove for thru-hik
> It doesn't really matter what most people do. You do have more
> choices than you think and can choose what you want to do. Most
> people eat really poorly (I did too) and eat a lot of top ramen,
> instant potatoes, Lipton pasta sides, poptarts and stuff like that.
> 1. You can carry some fresh food with you. Certain fruits and
> vegetables carry well for a day or two depending on how hot it is. I
> carried an onion, broccoli and chard torn up and stored in a bag with
> a little water at various times.
> 2. You can cook regular pasta noodles without simmering. Just use the
> pot cozy method. I have not tried rice but I imagine white rice might
> work since it's edible in about 15-20 minutes normally. Red lentils,
> available in Asian markets, might work since they cook way faster
> than regular lentils. Potatoes cut up small might work. Experiment at
> home. For sauces, some people dehydrate marinara sauce into a
> leather. You can purchase Alfredo sauce powder and other similar
> sauces in the same aisle where they keep taco seasoning. Rice stick
> noodles cook in 3 minutes and you can make hobo Pad Thai with peanut
> butter mixed with soy sauce.
> 3. Lately I have been dehydrating cooked and raw vegetables and
> cooked meat for use on the trail. I mix them all together in random
> combinations. I rehydrate in a plastic peanut butter jar for a few
> hours and eat it cold with tons of the most gourmet real olive oil I
> can find. Ingredients include
> - Dehydrated cooked and mashed sweet potatoes and yams
> - Dehydrated slow-cooked chicken, pork or beef that is in a shredded
> - Dehydrated baked chicken breast cut in chunks (stays kinda chewy
> when rehydrated but I like it.)
> - Dehydrated cooked beets, rutabaga, celery root
> - Dehydrated raw carrots, kale, chard, zucchini, tomatoes, beet greens
> 4. A friend of mine ate a lot of quinoa. I guess it cooks pretty
> quickly. I might try quinoa sometime. There is instant quinoa but I
> think it tastes rancid.
> 5. Polenta cooks fast. I don't really like it so I don't use it. Oats
> cook fast. You don't even have to cook them, you can just soak them
> over night and eat them cold in the morning.
> 6. You can purchase freeze-dried fruits and vegetables from various
> companies online. There are a lot of quality freeze-dried products
> that are way better than Mountain House.
> 7. Fresh hard cheeses carry well. Cream cheese carries pretty well,
> too. As do regular cheeses, although the warmer the weather the more
> of an oily mess they become.
> 8. Tuna, salmon, spam and sometimes chicken breasts come in foil
> packets. Tortillas carry well. Peanut butter. I've carried a loaf of
> bread, peanut butter and jelly. The bread did not get smashed up.
> Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were probably the least satiating
> food I've ever brought though, maybe second least after Danish pastries.
> 9. Instant pudding with instant Nido powdered milk makes a great
> snack. Carnation instant breakfast or protein shakes are other
> options. People trade Starbucks via packets like money and cigarettes
> on the trail to mix in their shakes.
> 10. Avocados travel well and are probably the most amazingly
> delicious thing you can eat on the trail.
> More and more people just shop as they go rather than prepare
> everything in advance. There's a market approximately every 2-5 days
> on the trail until after about Crater Lake. Then the markets are
> further apart.
> Good news is you can mix and match all these things and make up your
> own ideas. It does not have to be all one method, and probably
> shouldn't be in case it turns out your planned food is no longer
> appealing out there.
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After being extorted by police personnel at the Ogudu Police Station in Lagos, Nigeria, a Nigerian citizen has grieved.
The victim, @ayam andrew, claimed the officers took N30,000 from him on the station grounds.
He exposed the faces of three of the officers in a tweet, and they were smiling unaware that they were being photographed.
As he tagged the Lagos state Command PRO and Force HQ Public Relations Officer, the individual screamed out for justice.
The young man wrote this on his page :
The more you hope for a better Nigeria, the worse it gets. Got extorted of a sum of N30,000 by the men of the @NigerianPolice, right within the premises of Ogudu police station.
At @Princemoye1 kindly help get justice cc: @HubNGR @benhundeyin @SavvyRinu.


'The Simpsons,' new 'Diners, Drive-ins and Dives' On Tap Tonight
Stuck on the couch tonight? TimesReporter.com features editor offers some Friday night TV viewing suggestions in his daily column:
If you're a fan of "The Simpsons," tune to Fox at 8 p.m. for back-to-back episodes. True, they both are previously shown episodes, but if you're true "Simpsons" fan, this should not matter. And, there's always the chance you missed one or both the first time around. Both can be seen on WJW-TV Channel 9.
First on the bill, at 8 p.m., is an episode first shown Dec. 6, 2015. In this episode, Lisa tries to restore the reputation of Springfield's first female inventor, andBart tells a lie that causes Homer and Marge to believe he is a sociopath. In the episode that follows at 8:30 p.m. (first aired Jan. 3), Homer returns to his favorite job, as a dishwasher in a Greek restaurant, when he is fired from the nuclear plant. Also, Lisa accidentally creates sentient artificial intelligence. Of course she does.
If you've been watching the History Channel's remake of "Roots" (and even if you have not), you may want to tune to cable Channel 23 at 10 p.m. for "Roots: A History Revealed." The show will feature leading historians as they take an unblinking look at slavery, including the history of colonial Africa, the Middle Passage, the plantation system, the role of African Americans in the U.S. Civil War, and the struggle of slaves to hold onto their identities.
A new episode of "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" airs at 10 p.m. on the Food Network (cable Channel 46). Titled "Cruisin' in Cuba," the episode features Guy Fieri as he cruises the food scene in Cuba. He samples coffee lobster and a regional pork plate, and authentic Russian ravioli and chicken Kiev. He also visits an outdoor paladar grilling up ribs and lamb-stuffed plantains.


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