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Amanita Muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric mushroom, has intrigued humans for centuries. Beyond its eye-catching appearance, this mushroom has a long history of use in various cultures for its psychoactive properties. In this article, we’ll explore the world of Amanita Muscaria tincture, its historical significance, chemistry, preparation methods, benefits, risks, and much more.
Historical Uses and Folklore
Amanita Muscaria has been a part of human history for thousands of years. Various cultures have utilized this mushroom in their traditions and rituals. From Siberian shamans to indigenous tribes in North America, it has played a role in religious ceremonies and shamanic practices. Some believe it to be the ‘Soma’ of the ancient Hindu scriptures.
The Chemistry Behind Amanita Muscaria
Understanding the chemistry of Amanita Muscaria is crucial to appreciate its effects. It contains compounds like ibotenic acid and muscimol, which interact with the human brain and nervous system. These compounds are responsible for the mushroom’s psychoactive properties.
Preparation and Extraction of Amanita Muscaria Tincture
To create Amanita Muscaria tincture, the dried mushroom caps are typically used. The tincture is prepared through a careful extraction process, where the active compounds are dissolved in alcohol or another solvent. This method ensures the preservation of the mushroom’s properties.
Dosage and Safety Considerations
If one decides to explore the world of Amanita Muscaria tincture, it’s essential to be cautious. Dosage is critical, as the effects can vary widely based on individual tolerance and body chemistry. Safety precautions must be taken to avoid potential side effects.
Potential Benefits of Amanita Muscaria Tincture
While Amanita Muscaria tincture is often associated with its psychoactive effects, some users believe it may have potential benefits, including enhanced creativity, improved focus, and stress reduction. These effects, however, require more research.
Risks and Side Effects
Amanita Muscaria is not without risks. Side effects can range from nausea and dizziness to more severe symptoms. Understanding these potential risks is essential before considering its use.
Legal Status and Regulations
The legal status of Amanita Muscaria varies from country to country. In some places, it’s legal to possess and use, while in others, it’s considered a controlled substance. It’s crucial to be aware of the legal regulations in your region.
Alternative Uses of Amanita Muscaria
Beyond its psychoactive properties, Amanita Muscaria has found alternative uses in various fields, including traditional medicine and mycology. Researchers are studying its potential in treating specific medical conditions.
User Experiences and Testimonials
Hearing about the experiences of others who have tried Amanita Muscaria tincture can provide valuable insights. We’ll explore some user testimonials to give you a better understanding of the effects and experiences associated with this elixir.
Where to Find Amanita Muscaria Tincture
For those curious about exploring the world of Amanita Muscaria tincture, we’ll provide information on where and how to acquire it safely and responsibly.
Amanita Muscaria tincture is a unique and intriguing substance with a rich history and a range of potential effects. However, it’s essential to approach it with caution and respect for its psychoactive properties and potential risks. Before considering its use, do your research, be aware of the legal implications, and consult with a healthcare professional if necessary.
- Is Amanita Muscaria tincture legal everywhere?
- The legal status varies from place to place. It’s crucial to research the laws in your region before obtaining or using it.
- What are the potential benefits of Amanita Muscaria tincture?
- Some users report enhanced creativity, improved focus, and stress reduction, but more research is needed to confirm these effects.
- What are the risks associated with Amanita Muscaria tincture?
- Possible side effects include nausea, dizziness, and more severe symptoms. It’s important to use it cautiously.
- How can I prepare Amanita Muscaria tincture at home?
- Preparation methods involve extracting the active compounds using alcohol or another solvent, but it’s best to follow expert guidance.
- Are there any medical uses for Amanita Muscaria?
- Some studies suggest potential medical applications, but more research is needed to validate its efficacy and safety.


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Madewell Thom DolanTM Liberty-Print Judy Tunic
New York City designer Thomasine Dolan (yep, Thom is short for Thomasine) has a knack for translating menswear-inspired details and tailoring in a very feminine way. Her silk tunic is the perfect example: The construction hints at men's shirting, while the bows on the sleeves and dainty Liberty print couldn't be more charming.
- Hidden snap front closure.
- Ties at shoulder.
- Straight skirt.
- Silk crepe de chine.
- Dry clean.
A definite statement that's as easy to wear as a sweatshirt. This dress is special in every way, from its architectural shape to its shoulder zips and leather-trimmed collar. True to size, nonwaisted. Falls 35 1/2" from shoulder. Cotton/nylon with a hint of stretch, leather trim. Pockets. Dry clean. Import.
Madewell Leather-Trim Piqué Ponte Dress $128 $59.99
With its sloped hemline and shoulder-baring bodice, this sheer georgette-topped design is undeniably sexy. You'll definitely want to wear this one someplace special. True to size, nonwaisted. Falls 36" from shoulder. Silk. Pockets. Dry clean. Import.
Madewell Silk Parkview Dress $158 $59.99
Love our chambray shirts? Try this dress version and thank us later. (We're especially into the special double-faced fabric that has a built-in checked lining—just try to resist rolling your sleeves.) True to size, shirtdress. Falls 36" from shoulder. Cotton. Machine wash. Import.
This dress is such a standout that we're tempted to make endless "spot on" puns. We'll spare you and say that this superspecial textured shift is just the dress to get you through the holidays. True to size, nonwaisted. Falls 34 3/4" from shoulder. Poly. Machine wash. Import.
Madewell Mood Dot Shiftdress $148 $119.99
Easy and flowing, with sleek angled seams, this light-as-air dress is a modern take on pretty, all in a unique floral inspired by a Japanese indigo print. True to size, nonwaisted. Falls 35 1/4" from shoulder. Silk/cotton. Dry clean. Import.
Madewell Skyscape Dress in Flowerstamp $155 $99.50
This brilliantly streamlined design is all about the fabric—a special, springy soft Italian jersey that is at once incredibly light and coolly structural. The result? A polished dress that feels like a T-shirt. Nonwaisted. Falls 34 1/2" from shoulder. Viscose/polyurethane. Dry clean. Import.
Madewell The Anytime Dress $128 $49.99
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Trailer Watch: Yance Ford’s Strong Island
Yance Ford, a 2011 Filmmaker 25 New Face, premiered his feature documentary debut Strong Island at Sundance this year, and the film’s new trailer has just dropped from Netflix. One of this year’s essential docs, Strong Island is a formally assured, highly thoughtful examination of racial injustice, family tragedy and the complexities of memory and grief. Filmmaker Contributing Editor Brandon Harris wrote about the film earlier this year at The New Yorker:
In the annals of cinematic memoir, there are very few films like Yance Ford’s Strong Island, a stylish and wrenching rumination on familial grief that had its première last night, at Sundance. In a formally audacious manner, one that promises to leave many viewers gripped with fresh helplessness, the film mines the defining tragedy of Ford’s life to lay bare the ways in which race and American justice often inharmoniously intersect. It is a brave, revealing film, and one whose topicality has only grown over the many years that it took Ford, a forty-four-year-old former producer for PBS’s documentary program “POV,” to put it together. As this grisly decade has revealed, there is no shortage of dead black men whose shooting deaths go unresolved in this country, and no shortage of black families for whom justice remains elusive.
Check out the new trailer above.

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Sofia Franklyn Bikini
Welcome to our article and photo gallery featuring Sofia Franklyn’s stunning bikini photos! This collection of images showcases the beautiful model in all her glory, posing against sun-drenched backdrops and gorgeous ocean views. From beachside poses to pool-time shots, each image highlights Sofia’s stunning figure as she models a range of bikinis that will have you dreaming of summer days spent by the water. Let’s take an up close and personal look at some of Sofia Franklyn’s most eye-catching bikini looks.
Sofia Franklyn Bikini Pics
About Sofia Franklyn
Sofia Franklyn is an online personality and co-host of the Call Her Daddy podcast presented by Barstool Sports. She’s got a huge following on Instagram with over 750k followers! Sofia first posted to Insta on Cinco de Mayo in 2012 – a pic of two margarita glasses. She started writing her own blog on the Barstool Sports website and was dating former HBO Sports president Peter Nelson at one time. Together with Alexandra Cooper, she co-hosts Call Her Daddy.

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Follow me through the heavy steel mesh security grill and into the derelict former Paddington Conservative Club, scene of the inaugural Finneganight, which was held here on Saturday 4 May 2019 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first publication of James Joyce’s novel Finnegan’s Wake by Faber and Faber.
Described as ‘a one-off pop-up Dadaist cabaret’, Finneganight brought together a brilliant company of authors and performers for readings, discussion and performances. I was honoured to have been invited to be part of it.
I read ‘The Willingdone Museyroom’ (p.8–10 of Finnegans Wake), and wore my old Royal Mail tie for the occasion (for the first time in probably twenty-five years), as later in the evening I also spoke briefly about reading Finnegans Wake in the Camden Town of the early 1990s – ‘A Portrait of the Author as a Young Postman’, in David Henningham’s words – before giving a reading of Patrick Kavanagh’s poem ‘Who Killed James Joyce?’
Here is author and critic David Collard – Finneganight’s impressario and Master of Ceremonies – and author June Caldwell, just arrived from Dublin, unwrapping the cheese and ham sandwiches (triangular cut), ‘shop cake’, fig rolls, and black and white puddings. This was the part of the evening where there seemed to be enough Guinness to go around . . .
And here’s David introducing the proceedings in front of the Convervative Club’s honours board, which stops abruptly at 1990.
Visiting from Los Angeles, Dan O’Brien and Jessica St. Clair performed ‘Jute and Mutt’.
‘So when did you first not read Finnegan’s Wake?’ L–R Jennifer Hodgson in conversation with Susan Tomaselli, Eley Williams and June Caldwell. The funniest, most earnest and illuminating literary conversation of the year.
‘Finnegan’s Wake’ – the song, with apostrophe – here performed by Melanie Pappenheim, accompanied by Alice Zawadzki. Later both company and audience reprised the song in the ‘shoutmost shoviality’:
Whack! Hurroo! Now dance to your partner! Welt the flure, your trotters shake; Isn’t it the truth I’ve told ye, Lots of fun at Finnegan’s wake.
David Henningham sang ‘The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly’ . . .
. . . while Henningham Family Press produced the programme, which was printed on their physics-defying – ‘Quarko’ format, specially developed for Finneganight.
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We’re Not Really Strangers Forgiveness Campaign
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We're human. We all make mistakes. When you forgive the past, you create space to redefine your future. Whether you're needing to forgive another person, or yourself, the Forgiveness Edition was designed to support those who are looking to let go.

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@shopdaintyhooligan - Tag your photos on Instagram for a chance to WIN a Gift Card!
These slippers feature grooves underneath the toes for a comfortable fit. True to size, model is wearing size 7.
Multi color Pom Pom balls throughout with gold heart charms with the phrase 'Made With Love'. Wrap up your ankle tied with Burgundy tassels


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Intensive management | Officials are testing the crop’s response to greater input applications
CYPRESS COUNTY, Alta. — Prairie researchers are studying rye response to intensive crop management.
The study is taking place at several Alberta locations this year and will expand into Saskatchewan and Manitoba this fall.
Agriculture Canada fall rye breeder Jamie Larsen explained rye test plots July 17 during a field day organized by Cypress County and the Farming Smarter applied research group near Medicine Hat.
Co-op trials here and in Lethbridge and Vauxhall, Alta., are testing the new hybrid ryes Brasetto and Guttino against several open-pollinated varieties, including Hazlet and Rifle. All varieties are subjected to conventional management and to more intensive management to gauge yield response.
All plots were seeded at 200 seeds per sq. metre and given a fall herbicide treatment of 2,4-D. Plots under intensive management were seed treated with Cruiser Maxx and received a second herbicide treatment in spring, along with a fungicide.
The intensively managed plots received 24 kilograms per acre of nitrogen in fall, while the conventional plots received none. In spring, the intensive plots received another 40 kg, while conventional plots received 24. Phosphate and potassium levels were determined through soil tests and applied to both types of plots as required.
“One thing you’ll notice about the fall rye hybrids, they’re not your typical rye. They’re pretty uniform in general,” said Larsen.
“That’s the idea behind a hybrid. They’re semi-dwarf so they’re shorter. They’re not quite as short as Rifle, but they’re definitely quite a bit shorter than Hazlet.”
Larsen said funding from the Western Grains Research Foundation will allow additional plots to be seeded this fall and next fall at the three sites in Alberta as well as at Indian Head and Melfort in Saskatchewan and Brandon in Manitoba.
“Then we’ll have a fairly decent data set in terms of looking at some of this stuff. It will be on small plots, but in the second year … we may try some large plots,” Larsen said.
Ducks Unlimited is also conducting rye research at several farm locations, comparing the hybrid Brasetto with conventional types in 20-acre fields and managing it like winter wheat.
Larsen’s research involves open pollinated cereals, but he is familiar with early results from hybrid rye trials.
“Looking at the data across Western Canada, the yields of these hybrids are actually quite impressive,” he said.
“In some cases we saw yields in small plots … of 10 tonnes or more.”
That is 25 to 30 percent better than traditional varieties, with a higher grain to biomass ratio.
Regina-based FP Genetics, which has the registration for the hybrid variety Brasetto, has partnered with Paterson Grain in a demonstration program to promote the variety to growers, millers and distillers.
The partnership involves several field trials that will start this fall.
The Cypress County site, seeded Sept. 27, saw winterkill this year, though it did recover. Similar plots in Lethbridge, seeded Oct. 5, fared better, Larsen said.
However, rye is known for its resiliency.
“It comes out of the ground like a rocket, so in comparison to winter wheat it gets established quite quickly.”

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As we continue our celebration of this year's CCLRT Resident Case Report Challenge submissions, we are proud to share this "Best in Class" winner by Cindy Shan from Northeastern State University-Oklahoma. So creative - check it out!
This week and next, we will continue to share these amazing videos from residents around the country, so check back for more!
Can't wait to see them all? Visit this page from the CCLRT with links to all of this year's submissions.


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End date: 23-02-2022
In prostate disease, biopsies, small tissue specimens, play a prominent role in the early detection and staging of cancer. Radical prostatectomy, complete surgical removal of the prostate, is typically performed as a curative treatment following a biopsy positive for prostate cancer. Radical prostatectomies result in enormous amounts of tissue for the pathologist to analyse.
Prostatectomy specimens need to be fully graded to allow determination of an adequate follow-up strategy for the patient. For example, a small high-grade component of cancer might be present that alters the treatment strategy and was missed on initial biopsy. Our group has developed a prostate cancer grading algorithm for biopsy samples. Next, we plan to extend this algorithm to prostatectomy data. From an algorithmic perspective, analysis of prostatectomy specimens is challenging due to the presence of a wide variation of tissue, some of which only appear in a fraction of cases. Examples include the seminal vesicles, surrounding fat, nerves, muscle, and large blood vessels, among others. These tissue types are also rarely sampled in biopsies, such that our biopsy-trained algorithm fails on those cases.
We will use fine-tuning to extend the existing model with normal tissue from various locations, depending on the Gleason grade that was falsly predicted. In order to ensure training data contains adequate tissue variability, we will use the false positives predicted by the biopsy model to monitor misclassifications in normal tissue during training time in a location-aware manner and sample data accordingly.
In this project we combined data from public datasets PANDA (~6.000 annotated biopsies), PESO (~40 prostatecomy slides from the test set), and 32 inhouse prostatectomy slides (slides from ~28 patients with coarse annotations).
For an interactive demo we advise to use the baseline algorithm avaiable via Grand-Challenge: Try out the algorithm
Overall the evaluation of several strategies to extend a biopsy Gleason grading algorithm to radical prostatectomy slides revealed that the models are prone to fit on confounding features such as staining, leading to decreased performance compared to the baseline. To overcome this issue proper stain normalization is needed, and combined with the use of biopsy slides during training and the selection of regions that caused false positives in the baseline model this can help to improve the performance. The future work on this project can include improvements such as cycleGAN normalization and pixel level Gleason masks for prostatectomy samples. The results of the preliminary results indicate that fine-tuning a pre-trained biopsy algorithm can effectively reduce amount of false positive Gleason predictions while preserving good performance on accurately grading biopsy slides and tumor regions in prostatectomy slides. This will potentially lead to an overall improvement in the accurate grading of radical prostatectomy slides.


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TV actress Shrenu Parikh's traditional look will teach you how NOT to dress up for Diwali
- Mouni Roy in this one-shoulder dress is ruining reds for us
- Madhuri Dixit Nene in this black jumpsuit is a sight you cannot miss
- Did Parineeti Chopra just wear a vest carved out of a carpet?
- Anushka Sharma's new designer label may not have been authentic after all
- Rani Mukerji's sublime, traditional attire is all the guidance you need for Diwali dressing
- PV Sindhu in this cold-shoulder dress is all you need to get rid of mid-week blues
- Malaika Arora just gave the world a peplum-saree and we can't keep calm
- India Runway Week: Nushrat Bharucha and Saiyami Kher grace the ramp
- 6 pictures of Katrina Kaif playing a bold and beautiful bride will make you go weak in the knees
- 5 outfits Rekha wore that no 63-year-old can
For the fans of the ruling prime-time television show, Ishqbaaz, the vibrance and energy of Gauri's character has been super-enthralling. Though it's the character sketch of Gauri that has made her the audience's favourite, we must acknowledge actor Shrenu Parikh's brilliant portrayal of this small-town girl on the screen.
While Gauri is known for the brilliantly coloured, traditional outfits she dons on the show, actress Shrenu Parikh prefers rather subtle colours off the screen. Though we have absolutely nothing against simplicity, we couldn't really get ourselves to like an outfit recently worn by this starlet.
We're not questioning how gorgeous the actress looked in the ethnic attire, but it was the weird colour combination of the ensemble that irked us a little. The actress posted a picture of herself on social media, where she can be seen in a dazzling yellow lehenga that boasted of a dainty floral embroidery and looked quite youthful.
Shrenu teamed the lehenga with a cornflower-blue blouse with mirror-work all over it, and looked quite ravishing in it. While the blouse and lehenga looked just so perfect together, we couldn't make peace with the peach details on the two, and of course, the net, peach dupatta she had draped.
Thanks to the colour-theme being so off, the peach infusion in this well-contrasted outfit successfully ruined the grace of the other two colours too. Apart from the mismatched colours on the outfit, we didn't really like the deep-hued, multi-coloured bangles, Shrenu accessorised the outfit with.
Though we weren't really impressed with the ensemble on the whole, Shrenu did leave a mark with the gorgeous matha-patti she finished the look with.
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We have gathered the finest directory of hair loss therapy for your attempt to stop you losing your hair in Renton.
Hair loss is a worrying situation for anyone in Renton. Male and female pattern hair loss is a genetic pain that can leave you feeling helpless. Surgical hair restoration can be expensive and does not treat the underlying medical problems.
There are endless products around to help you keep your hair, and if you’ve been sad at the thought of losing your locks, then it may be time to turn to your local Renton hair loss therapy. The guarantee that the staff can offer you is that they can help you with the problem of hair loss.
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The Kiierr Cap improves cellular respiration and stimulates hair follicles through the use of low-level light therapy (LLLT). Scientific studies have demonstrated that this technology produces thicker and healthier hair. Both the studies and governing certifications attest to its safety and effectiveness.
Until recently, this technology was available only through expensive procedures performed by physicians. Now, you can have it right in your own home for a more comfortable, more time-efficient method of treating hair loss.
In female pattern hair loss in Renton, there is a specific thinning of hair upon the scalp due to increased shedding or an overall lessening in the volume of hair produced. Female pattern hair loss is a bit interchange from male pattern baldness. Men typically have a receding frontal hairline, which can press forward to a bald patch upon top of the head. Women typically experience thinning whatever over, or the middle part gets wider as the follicles stop producing the volume of hair they did in the past.

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Estuarine circulation in Barkley Sound; observed characteristics and processes
Linder, Riley J.
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In March 2010 hydrographic data was collected in Barkley Sound as a part of a study to help better understand the physical properties and circulation processes within the Sound. The primary goal was to determine how the freshwater from Alberni and Effingham Inlets exit Barkley Sound into the Pacific Ocean. Understanding the circulation of the Sound is important for many reasons, among them, the need for biologists to account for the effects of environment on organisms.


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Jasmine Absolute Essential Oil
Jasmine absolute essential oil has a sweet, floral, warm, fresh aroma with balsamic undertones. It is used for nourishing and balancing.
How to use?
4-5 drops in bath, on tissue or in a vaporiser. 15 drops in 50ml carrier.
WARNING – do not apply undiluted or internally. Keep away from children and eyes. Store in a cool, dark place.
|J. officinale, Poet’s jessamine
|Solvent extraction using the flower heads
|Mediterranean, China ( India)
|An evergreen shrub or vine that grows up to 10m high with delicate bright green leaves and star-shaped very fragrant white flowers
|A dark orange-brown oil with a sweet, floral, warm, fresh aroma with balsamic undertones.
|In China the flowers were used to treat hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and dysentery.
Jasmine Absolute is used for severe depression. It builds confidence and dispels nervous tension. It is a powerful natural aphrodisiac. It also has a very beneficial effect on the respiratory system, by soothing irritating coughs and helping with hoarseness and laryngitis. It furthermore helps with muscle pain, sprains, and stiff limbs. It improves scars, dry skin, and stretch marks. Jasmine Oil is a uterine tonic for menstrual cramps. It benefits both the male and female body systems by regulating hormone balance. Jasmine Oil helps menstruation, labor, lactation, impotence, male infertility, and the prostate.
Jasmine essential oil tones dry, greasy, irritated and sensitive skin, increases elasticity and is often used to assist with stretch marks and to reduce scarring.
Blends well with
|Geranium, lemon, clary and sandalwood essential oils.
Cautions and comments
|No known contra-indications.
Main chemical constituents
|There are over 100 constituents in this well-balanced oil, the smell being carried in the Jasmine, which is a ketone.


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Blueneck Vinyl, CD & tapes from this artist at Norman Records
Idiosyncratically and in true Blueneck fashion, “The Outpost’ was recorded reclusively, though in an unusually short 18 months. The LP, complete with poignant vocals and an array of retro synths and guitars, is of the band’s most intense and progressive recordings to be released. Grab your copy of “The Outpost” on 180g black vinyl with free download code or CD digipak.
Proggy crew Blueneck have a new record, 'King Nine', and it's oh so serene: synth resounds around the corners of songs, while guitars shimmer and build to climaxes like the band are on some This Will Destroy You hype, tempered by pianos and the soft vocals of Duncan Attwood. 'King Nine' sounds like Porcupine Tree entering their pop phase but still having a lot of time for the weird, wonderful space they created.
- Vinyl Double LP (DEN212LP)

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Choose Kindness Crew Longsleeve
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After I released our Choose Joy design, I got several emails from ladies wanting a choose kindness design!
And Now it's here! Choose Kindness!
- Shown in heather forest with white font
- unisex sized, crew neck longsleeve
- midweight material
- Navy is 100% cotton, Athletic heather is 90/10 combed ringspun cotton/poly all other heathers are 52% combed and ringspun cotton, 48% polyester
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Written by Julie Devers and Karen M. Hayter
Two Academy Award-nominated movies this year spotlight the tragic lives of children. In “Blind Side,” Michael is an abandoned, neglected, young man who grows up without sleeping in a bed of his own. His absent father and substance-abusing mother provide no stability, structure, support, or guidance. In “Precious,” an illiterate, obese young girl is physically and emotionally abused by her mother and sexually abused by her HIV-positive father. The life stories of these protagonists are stress-filled, sad and depressing. Child abuse and neglect is a widely-publicized issue, but people are often hesitant to get involved.
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. To prevent child maltreatment, it is necessary to recognize it. There are different types of abuse, including physical, sexual, mental and neglect. Physical abuse is a non-accidental injury to a child. It might include beating, kicking, punching or burning. Indicators of physical abuse may be bruises, burn marks, broken bones, or other unexplained injuries.
Sexual abuse is broadly defined as intentional touching that can be reasonably construed for the purpose of sexual arousal, gratification or any other improper purpose, sexual penetration, or accosting , soliciting or enticing a child to commit an act of sexual contact or penetration.
Mental abuse is a pattern of physical or verbal acts or omissions by the parent that results in psychological or emotional injury or places the child at significant risk of such injury. Neglect might be described as failure to provide a child with the necessary food, clothing, shelter or medical attention necessary to sustain the health of the child or as the failure to properly supervise a child. A community member who suspects abuse or neglect of a child should call 337-5046 immediately.
So who works to prevent child abuse and neglect? Fortunately, there are a number of “unsung heroes” in our community taking affirmative action to prevent maltreatment of children.
Sherry Thomas-Cloud and Rob Peck, top administrators at Kalamazoo’s Department of Human Services, struggle mightily with heavy caseloads and light staff loads. Yet, they still manage to be supportive of innovative projects like the 9th Circuit Court’s Educational Neglect Initiative, coordinated by Beth Moeller, and the Family Dependency Treatment Court, led by Jennifer Mayberry.
The Kalamazoo Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Council (KCAN) awarded its Professional Excellence Award to CPS Investigator Allyson Carneal. Mrs. Carneal, a full-time caseworker as well as a law student, reviewed a case involving a homeless, single father and his 14-year-old daughter. Investigator Carneal discovered that the father was accused four years earlier of sexual abuse by a different child. She researched further and determined that the sexual assault accusation had never been investigated by law enforcement. Due to Mrs. Carneal’s determination and follow-through, that father has now been convicted of criminal sexual conduct.
Kathy Hosner, a KCAN worker, visits Head Start classes and presents the popular, “Kids are Special” program. Through the use of puppets and songs, the children are taught about good touches and bad touches. Ms. Hosner’s wonderful project reached nearly 2,000 children this school year. In response to these presentations, four children have stepped forward to acknowledge they were being abused at home.
Bob Ezell, his right-hand administrator, Greta Faworski, and their Board of Directors have been operating the Boys and Girls Club for many years. In addition to offering training in character, leadership, life skills, health and the arts, the club sponsors a Family Support Service Program.
A 65-member sociology class at Western Michigan University was moved enough by the Gazette’s story about Danielle Hampton (a successful foster child) to write letters of encouragement to her. The students wrote, “I’m so proud of you,” and “You CAN do it,” and “I look forward to seeing you on campus when you become a Bronco next year.”
To acknowledge Child Abuse Prevention Month, KCAN, headed by Executive Director Mimi Otto, plans several events to spark conversation on this sensitive topic. On April 1, two trees located on the mall outside the Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites in downtown Kalamazoo were covered with bright blue ribbons tied by community volunteers. Each ribbon represented a complaint made to our local Children’s Protective Service office in a recent year. Behind every ribbon is a child’s life story. This year’s trees will contain 5,281 ribbons and remain visible for the month. Today and Saturday, volunteers wearing aprons the color of the ribbons will be out in force looking for financial support during the Lifesaver Campaign.
Community members can be “lifesavers” of children at risk. We can volunteer for organizations that work to prevent abuse; financially support prevention groups; invest in kids; learn to discipline our own children thoughtfully; contact local officials to express support for prevention organizations; learn the signs of possible child abuse; and report suspected neglect and abuse. Each of us has an obligation to contribute to the developmental, emotional and physical needs of children. We can strengthen families by supporting families and the organizations that assist them.
In the films, “Precious” and “Blind Side,” sensitive and caring individuals stepped up to nurture and support the needy young people, Michael and Precious. We invite all of the Kalamazoo community to show that same kind of awareness and support in order that we can work together to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Submitted by Julie Devers and Karen M. Hayter on behalf of the KCAN Board of Directors.

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“Cast with ordinary people and steeped in lyrical simplicity, Howard Goldblatt’s superb translation of Fu Ping commands a disarmingly quiet beauty. It is as if Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg had miraculously resurfaced, not in the cornfields of Ohio but in the shadows of Shanghai.”
~Yunte Huang, editor of The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature
This week, we’re celebrating the release of Wang Anyi’s novel Fu Ping. Set in Shanghai in the 1960s, the novel reveals working class life at the heart of the city through the eyes of the titular character, who just arrived from the country. Today, cultural studies scholar Jie Li introduces Fu Ping—showing the importance of gossip to life in the side-streets of Shanghai, both historically and in Wang Anyi’s novels. Li is the author of Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life, a microhistory and memoir of the territories, artifacts, and gossip of two Shanghai alleyways across much of the 20th century.
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“If Shanghai’s alleyways could speak, they would undoubtedly speak in gossip,” Wang Anyi writes in her 1996 novel The Song of Everlasting Sorrow. “If the alleyways could dream, that dream would be gossip.” Although rarely featuring characters engaged in the actual act of gossiping, Wang Anyi’s oeuvre is permeated by the kind of emotional speculation so significant for the construction of gossip. Her mesmerizing, sprawling storytelling with rich, vivid details is also reminiscent of the structure and style of good gossip. For this Shanghai author, gossip is not just speech, but also “landscape” and “atmosphere” that “sneaks out through the rear windows and the back doors.” Gossip begins to “brew” at dusk; it has smells and tastes that “cling to the skin.” Gossip erodes privacy at the same time that it is the essence of the alleyway’s intimacy. Linking gossip to architecture and to the senses, Wang Anyi’s poetic meditation resituates it from print media to the alleyway as a social space and as a horizon of experience.
“If the alleyways could dream, that dream would be gossip.”
Nobody knows Shanghai gossip better than the city’s nannies, most of whom are migrants from rural areas. They not only exchanged long and complicated stories about the families they worked for, but also shared the skeins of narratives from their own roots and routes, from close and distant relatives from all over China. Having grown up with a nanny from Yangzhou, Wang Anyi centers her 2000 novel, Fu Ping, on this marginalized class of women so knowledgeable about the city’s nooks and crannies. The titular character Fu Ping’s name, literally “rich duckweed,” is homonymic with “floating duckweed” or “rich and poor.” As literary scholar Jiwei Xiao describes it, the name suggests the drifting lives and “rootless freedom” of many migrants to Shanghai as well as “the potential of the new proletariat class.” Orphaned as a child, Fu Ping is betrothed to the adopted grandson of Nainai, a nanny for a Communist Party official’s family, and comes to visit Nainai in Shanghai before her planned marriage. Through this newcomer’s eyes, ears, and nose, we readers can take a close look at the city’s neighborhoods, people, and things, eavesdrop on its legends, gossip, and whispers, and take a deep breath of its fragrances, mildews, and garbage, as Fu Ping drifts away from the city center to a shantytown of sanitation workers along the Suzhou River.
Set mainly in the years 1964 and 1965, Fu Ping also weaves together gossip narratives dating back to the 1930s and fast-forwarding to the Cultural Revolution. Given the political turmoil of China’s mid-twentieth century, the novel is deliberately sparing with historical time markers, or what historian Gail Hershatter calls “campaign time” (defined by a succession of Maoist mass movements) vs. “domestic time” (defined by activities around the household) in The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past. As Wang Anyi herself writes in the author’s note to Fu Ping: “In the chaotic changing of times, normal life remains unchanged.” Not that historical events did not matter, yet they changed individual destinies in altogether unpredictable ways. For example, the novel features as one of its many minor characters a “liar,” a motherless, unkempt, and impecunious classmate of the elder daughter of Nainai’s employer, in whose destitute household Fu Ping glimpses an omen of her possible future.
“In the chaotic changing of times, normal life remains unchanged.”
A brief postscript at the end of the chapter reveals that this “liar” is to find new hope and dignity out of her family’s misery and society’s pity by joining the mass mobilization of sent-down youths during the Cultural Revolution. Gossip thus provides alternative histories, or herstories, of socialist Shanghai than any simplistic grand narratives of liberation or oppression.
Inspired by Wang Anyi’s fiction about Shanghai, I decided to excavate a century of gossip and memories embedded in the two Shanghai neighborhoods inhabited by three generations of my mother’s and father’s families. The resulting microhistory, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life, spans the Republican, Maoist and post-Mao eras in four chapters entitled “Foothold,” “Haven,” “Gossip,” and “Demolition.” Apart from treating the home as housing defined by square meters, and then as refuge with assemblages of familiar artifacts, much of the book considers home as a site of private memory and storytelling. Chapter 3 traces a cultural genealogy of gossip in Shanghai as an everyday social practice, a recurring literary trope, and a form of counterhistory mediated by word of mouth, newspapers, fiction, cinema, and architecture.
Taking the reader with me on a homecoming journey, we observe how the labyrinthine Shanghai alleyway–with its many communal spaces as well as voyeuristic theatre of everyday life–produced and reproduced stories, spun out yarns and woven them into a fabric with color, nuance, and variety. Descriptions of transient scenes unravel into extensive, serialized accounts featuring complex relationships playing out over several generations. In morally turgid stories of pain and embarrassment, alleyway residents find catharsis or consolation for the unspeakable in their own lives.
“In morally turgid stories of pain and embarrassment, alleyway residents find catharsis or consolation for the unspeakable in their own lives.”
Weaving together some such narrative strands, I reconstruct the lives or legends of a few women who grew up or grew old in the cramped quarters of Shanghai alleyways, their romantic illusions and sordid realities. Beneath the false, big, and empty talk of loudspeakers and mass rallies in a revolutionary era, small talk between family members and trusting neighbors provided rare occasions of honesty, solace, and humor, thereby articulating and recuperate their diverse experiences of historical turmoil. After all, gossip, as Wang Anyi put it in The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, is “somewhat like the trash of speech,” and yet “it is only in such shoddy scandalous material that something true may be found.”

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The Phillies and reliever Jose Contreras are close to reaching an agreement on a two-year deal worth $5MM, reports ESPNDeportes.com's Enrique Rojas. The deal also includes an option for a third year plus performance based incentives.
Contreras, 39 next month, was very good for the Phillies in 2010, pitching to a 3.34 ERA in 56.2 innings. He struck out 9.1 and walked just 2.5 batters for every nine innings pitched. Earlier this week we heard that the Phillies were "working aggressively" to re-sign him.
Tim Dierkes broke down Contreras' free agent stock back in May, saying that he could be in line for a two-year deal if his strong work as a reliever held up.


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I’ve seen countless articles this week discussing grieving during the holidays, depression during the holidays… What should be a happy time of year, for me, is something I wish I could sleep through. I know, how could I say that?! I have a child who still believes in Santa. Heck, she believes that Stella the Elf is real and still doesn’t touch her. Did I mention she is 9? I love that she still believes and that is one reason I am living through this season of “joy”. I want to keep her happy.
If I had my way though, I would go to sleep today, remain in a coma-like state, and wake up sometime in January. The holidays are too painful. All the memories of last year. Happy, joyful, memories of a little boy experiencing his first real Christmas. With him gone this year, I am just left with those images that are piercingly painful instead of joyful. Playing out the last couple of weeks of last December in my mind causes tears in my eyes, not only for the first year grieving T, but for how quickly I fell, how quickly I succumbed to my anxiety. I am a week shy of my first real Panic Attack anniversary. This Attack that left me crippled, almost dying, fearing life with and without people. I am reminded of the hallucinations my brain tricked me into believing. I am also reminded of what followed…
The most severe Depression episode of my life. A year later, and I am still begging and pleading with it to leave my body. The Depression that sent me back to be hospitalized. Now, this little bugger, is keeping me from enjoying the holidays. Of course it isn’t working alone.
There is the whole issue with my In-Laws hating me, or at least the Depression is telling me that too. With this, I have decided on having a Jewish Christmas with my parents… Fiddler On The Roof, Chinese Food and Alcohol. There is a part of me that is aching, drowning in sorrow, that I will not be at my In-Laws enjoying Christmas Eve dinner like always and watching Sophia open gifts at the butt crack of dawn on Christmas Morning. But I can’t. I just can’t. I am so emotionally unstable, not sure of what words I may spew out if I went, knowing I would feel incredibly uncomfortable, most likely triggering a panic attack. Sounds merry, right?!
This year, I had to be a bit selfish. I had to put my Mental Health before the happiness of my husband and daughter. I am extremely lucky to have the two of them because they both understand. They have both witnessed my illnesses at their worst. But, I feel as if there really is no correct choice, Jewish Christmas versus Christian Christmas. Either way I suffer a bit inside.
So for this holiday season, please remember those that may not be in the spirit. They may want to be, but just can’t. Enjoy the holidays, try to really enjoy them and remember that happiness and joy. Hold on to it as much as possible so that no sorrow can penetrate it. Then, when at home later on, call or email that one family member or friend who has no happiness and be there for them. That one action means so much to us, being remembered is powerful.


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After a months-long refurbishment, Kringla Bakeri og Kafe is now open again in the Norway Pavilion at Epcot. The bakeri has massively expanded its footprint, taking over some little used merchandise space at The Puffin’s Roost next door. Even though it has more than doubled its size, guests can rest assured that some of their favorite items are still offered from park open to close, including the very popular School Bread. Let’s take a look around.
The exterior remains the same.
Cast Members have a short opening procedure where they let those in the area know that the location is open.
Even though it looks the same from the exterior, the space opens up immediately once guests step inside.
It’s hard to imagine now, but the entire service area use to be on the guest side of the current setup. That means that both the Cast Member serving area and the guest line (in addition to the counter and food display) were in the current guest space. Counting the guest space, display cases, Cast Member service area, and kitchen, the bakeri more than doubled in size.
Here’s a look at the food items on offer.
Logistically, the bakeri saw some upgrades too, including a new coffee maker and some increases in production capacity thanks to two new ovens.
There are new portable wine options from Woodbridge. These single serve offerings are shatter proof and perfect to take “to-go”.
Sticking with adult drinks, we see the removal of the Glacier Shot, but are told it could return in a mixed drink form in the future. A new look for the Aass brewery offering tap makes its way into the refreshed location.
The old version of the tap can still be found at the Norway beer cart. A fun backstory on the old version of the tap goes like this: Aass Brewery (pronouced “ouss”) is the oldest active brewery in Norway, but when Disney wanted to bring their beer to Epcot, they didn’t have a tap that they could use. Disney reached out to a traditional Norwegian woodworker to make a tap for them that resembles a figurehead from a traditional viking ship. When the woodworker had finished his work, he asked what the tap would be used for. When he was told it was for the Norway Pavilion in Epcot, he told the representative from Disney that he was one of the original woodworkers that worked on the Stave Church in Epcot! You can see the original tap below in the middle of the photo and it’s the same one still used in the Norway beer cart today.
In related news, the Midnattsol Bakeri, which served as a temporary location while Kringla Bakeri was under refurbishment, is expected to be removed from the World Showcase promenade shortly. The one item that guests may be sad to learn didn’t make the move into Kringla Bakeri when it reopened is the Viking Dog. It simply wasn’t enough of a traditional item to make it onto the permanent menu. That said, you can expect to see it again as part of the one day only Norway offering come New Years Eve.
The Kringla Bakeri is open from park open to park close.


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DR. REINER FUELLMICH: “THEY ARE MAKING SO MANY MISTAKES, WE ARE CLOSE TO A TIPPING POINT”
Leading German lawyer and member of the German Corona Investigative Committee, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich specialises globally on the prosecution of fraudulent corporations. He now leads a team of international lawyers in what will become the world’s largest global tort case—against all protagonists and accomplices in what is now being called, “The COVID Scandal.”
The team of more than 1,000 lawyers and over 10,000 medical experts has initiated legal proceedings against the CDC, WHO and the Davos Group for crimes against humanity. Dr. Fuellmich is currently preparing the largest class action lawsuit in history, a kind of “Nuremberg 2.0”.
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One of the reasons that I liked Deval Patrick was that he came out strong for renewable energy in Massachusetts. I was kind of disappointed by how little he has done since then, so perhaps this little speech will kick start something new.
Clean Energy for the CommonwealthDeval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts
Tuesday, 4:15 pm, April 22, 2008 (Earth Day)
Kresge Auditorium (W16;map)
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will deliver a major public address at MIT on Earth Day, April 22, 2008. He will discuss his vision for the future of clean energy in the Commonwealth.
Governor Patrick’s administration and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative have been working actively with the MIT Energy Initiative, MIT students, and MIT faculty on energy innovation and the development of an energy cluster in Massachusetts. In his address, Governor Patrick will elaborate on these and other key energy policy plans and initiatives of his administration.


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Former Black Panther and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has won a significant victory that opens a legal path to overturning his frame-up for the 1981 killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner. On 27 December 2018, Judge Leon Tucker of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas ruled that Mumia can re-argue his appeals due to the role of former Philly District Attorney Ronald Castille in his case.
In 1982, Ronald Castille was a member of the same District Attorney’s Office that convicted Mumia at his original trial. As D.A. of Philadelphia, Castille successfully fought to uphold Mumia’s conviction and death sentence. In 1990, when Mumia sat on death row, Castille petitioned the governor of Pennsylvania to expedite the executions of convicted prisoners on death row. In a letter to the governor, Castille wrote the following: “I urge you to send a clear and dramatic message to all police killers that the death penalty actually means something.” Castille was later elevated to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where he turned down Mumia’s appeals. In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the “Williams decision” (also involving Castille), ruled it is unconstitutional for a judge who had previously been personally involved in a case to subsequently hear an appeal of the same case.
The day after Tucker’s decision, the Philadelphia D.A.’s office, led by “progressive” Democrat Larry Krasner, claimed to have accidentally “discovered” six boxes of files in Mumia’s case while “looking for office furniture.” While the exact contents of the boxes remain unknown at this point, they may contain documents demonstrating not only Castille’s direct “personal significant involvement” during Mumia’s appeals process, but exculpatory evidence further exposing his racist frame-up.
Krasner has been endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, who enthusiastically declared:
“Philadelphia made history in November 2017, when a labor-backed multiracial coalition proudly elected movement activist Larry Krasner as Philadelphia District Attorney on a platform of ending mass incarceration, protecting immigrants, and confronting abusive police. Krasner’s victory showed the world the collective power that Philadelphians have when we rally together, electing somebody who fights for us.”
—dsausa.org, 7 June 2018
Far from fighting “for us,” Krasner is a tool of the Democratic Party and his primary loyalty is to defend the interests of the ruling class. While Krasner initially threatened to challenge Tucker's ruling and seek to reimpose Mumia's bogus conviction, he ultimately withdrew his appeal. Instead of a lengthy court battle to decide whether Mumia can get a new appeal, he can now proceed to legally contest his frame-up.
While we support every possible legal path to win Mumia’s freedom, we have no illusions that the same “justice” system that put him on death row in the first place will allow a new and fair trial. Mumia is innocent and was framed. Release him now!
For background on Mumia's case, see The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
We reprint below a lightly edited version of a speech given by IBT supporter Adaire Hannah at a rally in Wellington, New Zealand on 30 August 2018. The demonstration coincided with the legal hearing involving evidence pertaining to Castille in Mumia’s case.
Today, we stand here in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal as in a few hours’ time, in a Philadelphia court, evidence will be heard that in 1982 Ronald Castille, of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, intervened in the prosecution of Mumia and was, years later, a judge on the Philadelphia Supreme Court sitting in judgement over Mumia’s case. This behavior, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, is illegal.
Mumia joined the Black Panthers Party as a 14 year old and was an active member until its implosion in 1970.
He became a radio journalist while at college. He saw journalism as a means of exposing police brutality, racism, oppression and exploitation. Philadelphia police were notorious for their corruption, and harassment of the working poor and the oppressed. In 1980, Mumia was elected the president of Philadelphia’s Association of Black Journalists and in January 1981 the Philadelphia Magazine noted him as someone to watch.
In December 1981, Mumia was arrested for allegedly killing Daniel Faulkner, a Philadelphia police officer.
The police provided contradictory evidence; forensic evidence disappeared; witnesses were coerced to lie; and Mumia was repeatedly denied his legal rights. And we all remember the infamous statement by the judge, Albert Sabo, that he would “fry the nigger.”
Even an affidavit provided in June 1999, by the man who actually did kill Daniel Faulkner, has been denied consideration.
Mumia’s case exposes that there is no justice for the poor, oppressed and exploited. The capitalist system is rigged against us, which is why we, the International Bolshevik Tendency, have never called for a retrial of Mumia’s case.
Mumia was framed for the murder of Daniel Faulkner because of his political commitment to fighting against injustice and oppression. He would not be silenced.
For three decades Mumia was condemned to solitary confinement on death row. In December 2011 the death penalty was lifted but Mumia was condemned to a life sentence without parole.
In 2016 we met here to protest at the refusal of the judicial system to provide Mumia with medical treatment for his Hepatitis C condition. His ill health was ignored until he lost consciousness. It seemed that the judicial system, having failed to execute him, was prepared to allow him to die from a treatable disease.
The involvement of the workers’ movement in the fight to free Mumia is crucial, involvement such as in April 1999 when ILWU members stopped work from San Diego to Bellingham for a day.
Winning Mumia’s freedom is part of the struggle for our liberation.
His incarceration for a crime he did not commit is one of hundreds of thousands of examples of how capitalist justice is class justice. Here in New Zealand, if you are part of the working poor, Maori, Pasifika, homeless, unemployed or suffering from mental health issues, you will be over represented in the prisons.
That racism is a structural component of capitalism is exemplified by the American and New Zealand judicial systems. Maori make up about 15% of our population but make up over half of the prison muster.
We need to defy the labor laws that restrict our right to strike for anything other than our own contract renewals. We need to reject this political silencing of workers and the oppressed by united class action.
Today, we stand in solidarity with Mumia against this unjust system. However, justice for workers and the oppressed can only be achieved by the overthrow of the capitalist system which exploits and oppresses us.
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!


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It sounds radical and way out there but it's easy to do and it works. You really can do this. Best of all, it uses muriatic acid which is cheap and something that is free — air.
In a typical pool, pH is maintained at a recommended level of minimum 7.2 and a maximum of 7.8 with the ideal range of 7.4 to 7.6 (per APSP and many health department guidelines). The total alkalinity is maintained at a minimum of 80 ppm to a maximum of 160 ppm, with an ideal range of 100 ppm to 140 ppm.
If the pH and alkalinity are both higher than recommended levels, muriatic acid (HCl 31.4 percent), dry acid (sodium bisulfate, NaHSO4), sulfuric acid (H2SO4) are added or carbon dioxide (CO2) is injected to lower them. However, pH is a logarithmic value and total alkalinity is linear, so they will not be lowered or raised at the same rate.
High and Low Problem
So a service tech, commercial pool operator or pool dealer is faced with lowering either pH or total alkalinity too much or not enough. If enough acid is added to adjust the pH to the recommended range, then the alkalinity will be too high. If enough acid is added to adjust the total alkalinity to the proper level, then the pH will be too low.
When the pH is a little low (about 7.1 or 7.2) and the total alkalinity is near recommended levels, adding soda ash will bring both up to proper levels. However, if pH is low and total alkalinity is OK, there has not been a practical way to raise only the pH.
You can't add a strong acid (muriatic) and then later add a strong base (soda ash) and expect the total alkalinity not to change. These two chemicals exactly cancel each other out, assuming you add amounts to end up at the same pH that you started with. This is the classic "yo-yo" effect, though in practice it's even worse because people often use soda ash to raise the pH, which actually increases the total alkalinity even more, so you end up with a higher total alkalinity than when you started! The only way to lower TA is to physically remove some of the carbonates in the pool, and by "carbonates" I mean the collection of chemical species that are in equilibrium — carbonate ion (CO3-2), bicarbonate ion (HCO3–), carbonic acid (H2CO3) and aqueous (dissolved) carbon dioxide.
In theory, one could intentionally form calcium carbonate by over-saturating the water — significantly raising the pH and then physically removing the precipitate. But doing that can cause scale to form on pool surfaces and in pipes and equipment. And it is not a precipitate that is easily removed. In addition, the high pH can cause metal staining if metals are in the water. If there were a chemical that strongly precipitated carbonate without forming scale, that would be great (similar to the lanthanum based products that precipitate phosphates for algae control), but there isn't any.
Remove the CO2
The best way of removing the carbonates in the water is to aerate the water to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) since the pool is over-saturated in the first place.
Lower Alkalinity and pH With Acid, Then Raise Only pH With Air
Lowering the pH significantly will increase the amount of carbonates that are in the form of carbon dioxide in the water and that will increase the rate of outgassing (carbon dioxide leaving thewater). Aeration will also increase this rate of outgassing. As the carbon dioxide outgases, the pH rises with no change in total alkalinity. You can then add acid to lower both pH and TA with the net effect of lowering only the TA.
In other words, add acid until the alkalinity reaches about 90 to 100 ppm. Then aerate until the pH rises to 7.4 to 7.6.
The main rule to keep in mind is that it takes 25.6 oz. of full-strength muriatic acid (31.45 percent hydrochloric acid) to lower the total alkalinity by 10 ppm in 10,000 gallons. The problem: If one adds enough acid to lower the total alkalinity all at once, the pH can get very low. Now, let's see how low it would actually go in some extreme cases.
For this example, assume there are no borates, the cyanuric acid is 30 ppm and the pH is starting out at 7.8 (if it's at 7.5 and is stable, then the total alkalinity probably doesn't need to be lowered, but usually high total-alkalinity pools are high in pH as well). If one lowers the total alkalinity from 200 ppm to 80 ppm, the pH would drop to 6.1. If one lowered the total alkalinity from 300 ppm to 80 ppm, the pH would drop to 5.8. So you can see that even extreme additions of acid to lower the total alkalinity, at least to 80 ppm, don't get the pH much below 6.0. While such a pH is not good in the long-term, having the pH at that level for a relatively short time — less than a day — is not a disaster. At such a low pH, carbon dioxide will be driven from the water fairly quickly since there is 220 to 440 times more carbon dioxide in the water as the equilibrium amount with the air above the water.
Add the Acid
The key to adding such large quantities of acid to the pool is to avoid overdosing in one place, as that could damage the plaster. Adding the acid slowly over a return flow with the pump running, and then brushing to ensure thorough mixing, will prevent the pH from getting too low in one spot, potentially damaging the plaster. (And obviously, one doesn't want a return fitting pointing up when adding the acid because you don't want it splashing back at you.)
Add the Air
Simply doing things like pointing the returns upwards and running the pump on high to create surface disturbance will aerate the water reasonably well. One could also add an aerator to a standard return.
If there are waterfalls, fountains, spillovers, etc., turning those on will also help. Even better: an air compressor with a head that has many tiny holes. It would produce lots of small bubbles and, when that end is placed in the deep end, the bubbles would spend as much time in the water as possible.
The idea is to increase the air-water surface area as much as possible, for as long as possible.
Below is a video created by Rudy Stankowitz of Aquatic Facility Training & Consultants that demonstrates this process. (Note: This video is sped up 4x; the actual change in pH took about 4 minutes.)
How Long Will It Take?
I don't have anything but relative qualitative estimates based on how far out of equilibrium the carbon dioxide in the water is with respect to the carbon dioxide in the air.
My rough guess is that if the full amount of acid was added and the pH lowered towards the 6.0 "limit," the outgassing would occur fast enough to have the pH rise to 6.5 or so within one to two hours, even with modest aeration from pointed-up returns. Getting from 6.5 to 7.0 could take longer, though still probably within the same day (likely about four to eight hours more). It's getting from 7.0 up to 7.5 that could take longer – more than a day or two, assuming that total alkalinity is near 80 ppm, unless there is significant aeration. Of course, that's what you want since that means the pH will become stable. The down side for a service tech is that raising the pH using this method could take many hours or even a couple of days.
Not for Everyone
Most pool owners would probably not attempt such a "drastic" or "scary" procedure, especially if they asked their pool store about it. (A question to which they would likely hear, "Are you crazy?")
Professional pool service techs, however, could easily use this method. Acid is inexpensive and air is free, plus, there's not much chance of overdoing the pH raising procedure. As the pH gets near 7.5 it takes more and more aeration to make a change. In fact, it is difficult to raise the pH much over 7.5 with aeration in a swimming pool.
It's certainly a heck of a lot better than the "acid column" or "slug" method, which are more likely to result in acid pools that can destroy the pool surface in the area where it is added, especially in a vinyl pool. In fact, the biggest risk to the procedure described above — dropping down to a pH of 6.0 — is to vinyl pools since they are far more sensitive to pH than plaster pools. However, having just one to two hours exposure to a 6.5 pH is not a serious problem in a vinyl pool.
If the total alkalinity drop is limited to increments of 40 ppm, then the pH would not get quite so low. In this case, adding 102 oz. per 10,000 gallons at one time would lower alkalinity by 40 ppm, and the pH would not drop below 6.5. Then one could add air before lowering by another 40 ppm. So lowering alkalinity by more than 80 ppm could be done over multiple days or visits.
Accelerating a Process
Just keep in mind that the above method simply accelerates a natural process that will occur more slowly over time anyway. The total amount of acid needed to lower alkalinity would be the same if some is added every week to lower the pH — over time, the total alkalinity would slowly drop. This procedure simply speeds up the process. You don't save on the amount of acid you need to add, but you save on the frequency of required acid addition. You basically get it over with in a shorter period of time. This assumes that the total alkalinity isn't increasing over time, but that can also happen with evaporation/refill since the fill water usually has some total alkalinity.
If you lower the total alkalinity of the pool water to about 90 to 100 ppm with muriatic acid, then the pH will be too low (usually less than 7.0 and maybe as low as 6.0). However, if you have the total alkalinity at 90 ppm and the pH is low, wait a couple of days and the pH will go back up to about 7.5 on its own without a change in total alkalinity. Carbon dioxide equilibrium will be reached.
Here is what happens:
1. Aeration causes CO2 to outgas.
So aqueous CO2 becomes gas CO2 and leaves the water: CO2 (aq)->CO2 (gas)
2. Carbonic acid (H2CO3) in the water then creates CO2 according to this reaction: H2CO3 ->CO2 + H2O
3. Bicarbonate (HCO3–) in the water creates carbonic acid (H2CO3) according to this: HCO3– + H+->H2CO3
Net result: H+ is consumed and pH goes up — alkalinity does not increase
— pH is a measure of H+ (hydrogen ion) concentration. The less H+, the higher the pH. We just want to make this natural CO2 out gassing and pH rising process go faster.
More Aeration and Turbulence = Faster pH Rise
Things to Do To Make CO2 Outgas Quicker:
1. Turbulence created by return lines aimed up, waterfalls and spillways
2. Using a pressure washer aimed into the water to create turbulence
3. Aeration from a compressor, leaf blower or shop vac and diffuser disks or manifold with holes
4. Aeration using Venturi injectors
5. Using a degasser
Whenever the pH is low and the alkalinity is OK, use air to raise only the pH.
Comments or thoughts on this article? Please e-mail [email protected].

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Cape Town - Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang says he relishes playing with Alexandre Lacazette and is eager to combine with him more often this season.
Lacazette struggled to find his goalscoring form at the Gunners after signing from Lyon last year, and then saw his game time reduced following the signing of Aubameyang from Borussia Dortmund in January.
Aubameyang started Arsenal's opening Premier League game of the season on Sunday, when they lost 2-0 to Manchester City, with Lacazette on the bench.
However, the Frenchman came on in the 54th minute and seemed to lift the Arsenal attack in combination with Aubameyang.
"We really get on well," Aubameyang told ESPN. "There is a spark between us when we are both on the pitch together.
"We look for each other, we saw it (on Sunday) against City when he came on. I don't mind playing on the left if Laca is in the centre. We both want to do our best for the team."
Asked about how the Arsenal players are adapting to new manager Unai Emery, the Gabon international added: "We still need some time to adapt to the new manager and to integrate the new players.
"It is hard to test ourselves in a first game like this against City because they are so strong. We have to stay positive, work on the things we did well and improve on the rest. We will have a better idea next weekend after the Chelsea game.
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The Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran in his speech in the Third Committee called on Iran to release all political prisoners and executions to be halted.
Furthermore, representatives of various countries across the world including the European Union, United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Brazil condemned Iran for its crimes and called for a still in the executions.
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran Ahmad Shaheed’s 23-page report to the UN General Assembly states that political prisoners continue to be deprived of medical services which have led to the death of at least two prisoners including Mansour Radpoor in Gohardasht Prison, west of Tehran. These reports also indicated the deteriorating health of political prisoners that are faced with poor hygiene conditions, deprived of adequate food and very rare access to their family members.
It is worth noting that PMOI member Mansour Radpoor passed away in May of this year in Gohardasht Prison after enduring 5 years in jail in the mullahs’ dungeons while enduring inhuman pressures imposed by the regime’s henchmen, interrogators and torturers. He bravely stood for the freedom of the Iranian people.
Following the Special Rapporteur’s speech, representatives of various countries in their speeches condemned human rights violations in Iran under the mullahs’ dictatorship. They called on the Special Rapporteur for measures to impel the regime to abide by its international obligations.
The US representative said repression in Iran is far worse than dreadful. Torture and execution of political prisoners are examples of violating international covenants of political and civil rights. Many in Iran are sentenced to death without undergoing any judicial procedure merely for attempting to practice their right of freedom.
The European Union delegation said it is deeply concerned over the human rights situation in Iran because all five global conventions on human rights are being violated by Iran. It is necessary, they added, for the trend of executions in Iran to be taken into special consideration.
Condemning human rights violations and executions in Iran, the UK representative called the Special Rapporteur for urgent action in this regard.
The Canadian representative condemned torture and other cruel punishments enforced by the Iranian regime, saying it is deeply concerned over the human rights situation in Iran. The Canadian envoy expressed worries over depriving rights, including freedom of speech and assembly and restrictions against women in Iran.
Also, the Norwegian representative expressed concerns over the widespread human rights violations and demanded the release of political prisoners.
Representatives of various countries including Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Brazil called for international action to stop executions in Iran.
Iran’s representative in this session had an outburst response in this session to the wave of condemnations from the Special Rapporteur and various countries.
Why aren’t human rights violations in Canada, the European Union and US taken into consideration, the mullahs’ representative complained.
It is worth noting that in contrast to previous sessions where the regime’s allies, consisting of various governments who themselves have records of human rights violations, rose in defense of the mullahs, in this year’s session only China – the world record holder in executions – supported Iran.It is Iran’s choice how to protect human rights, the Chinese government representative said in its infamous defense of the bloodthirsty mullahs ruling Iran.
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High street footfall fell in the week after Christmas as shoppers opted to bag their bargains at shopping centres and retail parks.
The number of shoppers heading to the high street after Christmas fell 3% against “strong” comparatives from last year, when the number of consumers hitting the high street jumped 6.2%.
However, there were peaks of strong uplift in traffic for the high street, according to footfall specialists Springboard.
December 29, which has been labelled ‘Take back Tuesday’, reported a 5.1% increase in shopper numbers on the high street. Footfall in the town centre locations also rose 9.7% on January 2, but traffic fell 2.6% on New Year’s Day.
It was a different story for out-of-town retail parks, which reported a 3.6% uplift in shopper numbers during the period from December 29 to January 2. Shopping centres recorded a footfall rise of 1.8%.
In contrast to the high street’s News Year’s Day slowdown, shopper numbers soared 9.2% at shopping centres and 7.8% at retail parks on January 1.
Overall footfall during the period was down 0.3%, despite a 2.7% uplift on New Year’s Day.
Springboard insights and marketing director Diane Wehrle said: “Building on strong footfall experienced by high streets this time last year was always going to be a challenge for high streets, and these figures show there a job to be done in 2016 in order for a positive uplift to be realised.”
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Spartans end War Eagles’ season
Published 1:01 pm Tuesday, November 7, 2023
By Brian Pitts
When Mt. Tabor’s football team pulled out a 35-34 win over Davie on Oct. 6, the War Eagles were kicking themselves as they left Winston-Salem. The narrow loss was partly a result of missed opportunities.
But after the visiting Spartans knocked out Davie in the first round of the 4-A playoffs on Friday, 48-26, Davie had to tip its hat to the sizzling Spartans. Tabor simply played better in every phase of the game.
Tabor was firing on all cylinders. Davie couldn’t stop running back Zion Thompson (26 carries, 187 yards). Davie couldn’t stop quarterback Lane Albright, who was an efficient 15 of 19 for 258 yards and four touchdowns. The War Eagles couldn’t keep stalwarts Shamarius Peterkin (five catches, 112 yards) and Ja-don Blair (3-64) from beating them deep.
“They have two Power 5 guys on the outside, and when you line them both up on (offense), it’s a tough matchup,” Davie coach Tim Devericks said. “You can stop the run and stop the run, and all of a sudden they get 60 yards on one play. It’s a tough outfit to handle.”
The 14th-seeded War Eagles finished 7-4. No. 19 Tabor improved to 7-4. The Spartans were lower than a pregnant ant when they were 2-4 after back-to-back losses to Reynolds (29-28) and East Forsyth (21-20). But they’ve played like a team possessed of late, winning their fifth straight. They scored TDs on seven of 11 possessions, they did not punt until the fourth quarter and they averaged 8.1 yards per play, compared to Davie’s 4.3.
Things started well for Davie. Albright and Thompson failed to make a clean handoff and Landon Barber recovered the fumble at the Tabor 44 early in the first quarter. Ty Miller’s 13-yard keeper and his 10-yard completion to Grey Deal keyed a nine-play TD drive that opened the scoring.
Unfortunately for Davie, it only took Tabor a minute and a half to answer. On fourth-and-2 from the Davie 47, coach Tiesuan Brown decided to go for it. Davie’s defense was looking for a run play by Thompson, leaving Peterkin in one-on-one coverage. Peterkin got behind the defender and hauled in a 47-yard TD that tied it 7-7.
Four minutes later, Albright went deep again, this time to the other big-time threat. Blair didn’t catch a pass in the first meeting, but his 49-yard score gave Tabor a 14-7 lead it would never relinquish.
“I think they played No. 4 (Blair) a little more on offense than they did the first time,” Devericks said. “That’s smart because you can’t just load up on one side and double cover No. 5 (Peterkin) because then you’re leaving that dude (Blair) one-on-one on an island.”
The War Eagles had to trade punches to have a chance in the fourth quarter, but they got behind the 8-ball when their 12-play drive bogged down at the Tabor 15. After Davie turned it over on downs, Tabor fed its workhorse runner five times during a 10-play, 85-yard drive. The beastly Thompson churned for 51 yards as Tabor moved in front 21-7.
On Tabor’s next possession, Thompson trucked a defender on a 28-yard scamper, and moments later it was 27-7.
“He probably doesn’t get the accolades like a lot of guys do because he gets dirty yards,” Devericks said of Thompson, who averaged 7.1 yards per carry. “Other guys break long ones, but he gets those 7-yard runs, then 4 and then 8. He just keeps adding them up and it takes a toll.”
To the War Eagles’ credit, they did not roll over. Miller was a modest 6 of 15 for 52 yards before catching fire on Davie’s last offensive series of the first half. He completed passes to Kez Stockton, Ethan Driver, Braddock Coleman and Deal. He went 7 of 7 for 77 yards as Davie marched 83 yards to climb back to 27-13 before halftime. (The extra point banged off the upright.)
“(Miller) puts it right in the bread basket, and they made some great catches,” said Brown, who talked to Miller after the game. “I said: ‘Son, I think you were one of the best quarterbacks I’ve seen in a long time. I want to get your phone number and call you and I want you to work with my (13-year-old) son.’ I am dead serious about that. I think that young man is phenomenal. I hated it ended like this, but hats off to him.”
Davie needed a defensive stop to start the second half, but Albright made sure his Spartans stayed in command. He hit 3 of 3 passes for 55 yards to engineer a 64-yard drive that resulted in a 34-13 hole for Davie.
“I didn’t even have to say anything (at halftime),” Brown said. “The kids said: ‘It’s 0-0.’”
The War Eagles were on life support at this point, but they refused to die. On fourth-and-goal from the 1, Davie running back Markel Summers scored to cap a 12-play, 62-yard drive.
Then Matty Warner, Gavin Reese and Elijah Chaffin made defensive plays as Tabor turned it over on downs at the Davie 36. Then Deal and Driver made highlight-reel catches. Deal climbed an invisible ladder to reel in a 19-yarder on third-and-11. Seven plays later, on fourth-and-9 from the Tabor 25, Miller lofted the ball to the right side of the end zone. Driver reached out as far as he could, squeezed the ball and kept a toe inbounds. The point-after kick was no good, but Davie was within one score, 34-26, with 1:28 left in the third.
These receivers had clutch genes all year.
“We knew they were going to come storming back,” Brown said. “That’s a good team. Coach does a great job with Davie. Each and every year, they bring it.”
“All year we kept playing and kept battling each play no matter what the score was,” Devericks said.
Barber and Zander Richardson raised hopes for a comeback by coming through on the next defensive series. Tabor punted. Davie punted less than a minute later, but Barber made another significant stop on a second-and-4 run by Thompson. Then Albright overthrew Peterkin on third-and-3.
“(Barber’s) improvement from last year to this year has been phenomenal,” Devericks said of the junior d-lineman. “Pound for pound, he’s one of the stronger guys around, and he’s learned to play with that leverage.”
The game’s critical moment was next. On fourth-and-3 from the Tabor 45, the Spartans faked the punt. The upman took the snap and ran an option. He pitched to punter Jaden Wallace. The War Eagles swarmed to the ball and appeared to bury Wallace a yard or so short of the marker when a game-changing play was exactly what they needed with 7:30 remaining.
But Tabor got a generous spot and got the first down by a couple of inches. Boos from the home crowd rained down on the officials.
“We battled our tails off,” Devericks said. “They got it by four inches.”
“We were playing to win,” Brown said. “I knew if we got that, it was going to break their back, and that’s exactly what happened. Everything we do, we practice a lot. I trusted Jaden and he stretched that thing out and got it.”
After the spot, a Tabor knockout punch felt inevitable. On third-and-6, Albright rolled left and took off, gaining 28 yards to the Davie 20. Tabor scored three plays later. At 41-26, that was the stake through Davie’s heart.
“They smelled the blood,” Brown said.
The Spartans got an add-on TD with 3:20 to go. They only faced third down eight times all game. They were balanced (261 rushing yards, 258 passing yards). They were just fantastically good.
When the clock hit zeroes, Devericks stressed the positives. Davie flipped from 4-7 last year to 7-4 this year – the most wins in four seasons.
“They did something that hasn’t been done in a long time,” he said. “I said: ‘Don’t let this sour ending put a damper on what you’ve accomplished this year.’”
Devericks had to say goodbye to some treasured seniors.
“I appreciate everything they’ve given this program every Friday night,” he said. “The things they do in the offseason, coming to workouts … if it’s easy, there would be a lot more kids in America that did it. Athletics teaches you a lot of things, and unfortunately there’s only one team in every division that’s not gonna have the feeling we have right now.”
Notes: Davie’s offensive line was banged up by game’s end. Senior right guard Kevin Lazaro injured his knee in the first quarter, walked off slowly and watched the rest of the game with crutches. Senior left tackle Evan Froelich walked off gingerly with 7:26 left in the third and did not return. … Davie lost in the first round for the third straight year. … Tabor will be a monster next year. Thompson, Albright, Peterkin and Blair are juniors. … Devericks (42-40 in eight years) passed Mike Carter (40-42 from 1981-88) this year and climbed to No. 3 in career wins at Davie. The top two: Doug Illing (127-66 from 1998-2012) and Jack Ward (61-51-9 from 1956-67). … Going into the Tabor game, freshman Chaffin (91), junior Connor Hood (87) and senior Eli Branham (71) were Davie’s top tacklers.


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1. If the margin of safety is 0, then
a. The company is precisely breaking even.
b. The company is operating at a loss.
c. The company is earning a small profit.
d. The margin of safety cannot be less than or equal to 0; it must be positive.
e. None of the above is true.
2. The contribution margin is the
a. Amount by which sales exceed total fixed cost.
b. Difference between sales and total cost.
c. Difference between sales and operating income.
d. Difference between sales and total variable cost.
e. Difference between variable cost and fixed cost.
Use the following information for Multiple-Choice Exercises 3 and 4:
Dartmouth Company produces a single product with a price of $10, variable cost per unit of $3, and total fixed cost of $8,400.
3. Refer to the information for Dartmouth above. Dartmouth’s break-even point in units
a. Is 840.
b. Is 1,200.
c. Is 2,800.
d. Is 3,000.
e. Cannot be determined from the information given.
4. Refer to the information for Dartmouth above. The variable cost ratio and the contribution margin ratio for Dartmouth are Variable cost ratio Contribution margin ratio
a. 70% 70%.
b. 30% 30%.
c. 30% 70%.
d. 70% 30%.
e. The contribution margin ratio cannot be determined from the information given.
5. If a company’s total fixed cost rises by $10,000, which of the following will be true?
a. The break-even point will decrease.
b. The variable cost ratio will increase.
c. The break-even point will be unchanged.
d. The variable cost ratio will decrease.
e. The contribution margin ratio will be unchanged.
6. Solemon Company has total fixed cost of $15,000, variable cost per unit of $6, and a price of $8. If Solemon wants to earn a targeted profit of $3,600, how many units must be sold?


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