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Alex Scott has revealed that she is ‘struggling’ to look for a partner and has taken advice from Jamie Redknapp in the hope of finding her perfect match.
The football pundit, 38, admitted she is ‘single and ready to mingle’ as she candidly spoke about her attempts to find a ‘connection’ with someone.
She explained that she is ‘open’ to getting to know both men and women and ‘never closes herself off’ when it comes to dating.
Alex has never publicly confirmed her sexuality but previously spoke about dating fellow footballer Kelly Smith, who was her teammate at Arsenal, in her memoir.
After ‘struggling’ with some dating apps, Alex said her pal and former footballer Jamie told her about the app Raya, which is commonly used by celebrities.
‘People have a load of preconceptions’: Alex Scott has revealed that she is ‘struggling’ to look for a partner and has taken advice from Jamie Redknapp in the hope of finding her match
‘I struggle with apps’: The football pundit, 38, is struggling to look for a partner and has taken advice from pal Jamie Redknapp (pictured in 2018) to join dating app Raya
Speaking about her dating life, she told Grazia magazine: ‘Its really hard [to find someone] cause people have a load of preconceptions. I struggle with apps.
‘For me, it’s all about connection that instant connection with someone and conversation and I’m like ‘Oh wow.’
‘I remember Jamie Redknapp telling me ‘There’s a dating app Raya…’ So I was on it but I was to scared to connect with anyone.’
Opening up about her future plans, Alex admitted she would ‘love’ to have children as she spoke about turning 40 in two years time.
The TV presenter admitted that she wasn’t ready to have kids in the past but would have children by herself if she felt it was the right time.
Alex went on to speak about the online trolling she has had to deal with since retiring from football and becoming a broadcaster.
She candidly admitted online bullies have sometimes made her question whether she is ‘actually good at her job’ and has spoken about these fears in therapy.
Speaking about her footballing career, Alex admitted that people told her she wouldn’t make it but when she did, she worried about what she would do when she left Arsenal.
Exes: Alex has never publicly confirmed her sexuality but previously spoke about dating fellow footballer Kelly Smith (both pictured), who was her teammate at Arsenal, in her memoir
She said her love for broadcast stemmed from her own enjoyment of pre and post match interviews, leading to her successful career as a sports pundit.
However, her road to presenting was not without its barriers as Alex said some broadcasters told her she wouldn’t make it because she has a stammer and an accent.
Alex, who also has dyslexia, said she never wanted to admit defeat so memorised every script by heart because she wasn’t able to read the standard autocue.
While presenting on BBC’s The One Show alongside Matt Baker, she realised she could read his autocue because his font was different as he also had dyslexia.
Her latest comments about her dating life come after she confirmed her past relationship with her teammate Kelly Smith in her memoir.
She played alongside Kelly, 43, for both England and Arsenal, admitted that she was her ‘first love’ as she spoke of the ‘heartbreak’ that followed when they split.
In the book, titled How (Not) To Be Strong, Alex said that it would be ‘cheating’ to not include their time together as they helped each other face their demons.
Sources close to Alex revealed at the time that she has had relationships with both men and women but ‘doesn’t label herself as anything’.
Speaking to The Mirror at her book launch, she explained: ‘I’m writing this book and I want to tell everything. I thought I’d be cheating you all if I didn’t put that in there.
‘For me, it’s like that first love story, I fell madly and deeply in love. And yes, there’s that heartbreak and those things, but it’s a huge part of my life and I wouldn’t go back and change that.
‘I get excited about being a mum’: Alex also admitted she would ‘love’ to have children and said if it felt right, she would have kids by herself
‘Because that feeling of love and that excitement and what it gives you, it needed to be in there.’
Alex recalled how Kelly helped her helped her to deal with her traumatic childhood whilst she battled alcoholism.
Following their split, Kelly went on to marry DeAnna Dobosz in 2016, with whom she has two children.
Alex largely remained tight-lipped about her relationships in the past, though she was rumoured to be in relationship with Coronation Street’s Sam Robertson in 2020.
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ELYRIA, Ohio — For decades, the iconic yellow bus has been proven as the safest way to get students to school and home again — and Bendix and Thomas Built Buses Inc. are working together to help make school buses even safer. Supporting both student safety and the men and women behind the wheel with a school bus industry first, the Bendix Intellipark Electronic Parking Brake can now be ordered factory-installed on two Thomas Built models. Intellipark is available as an option on the Saf-T-Liner C2 equipped with a Cummins diesel or Detroit Diesel powertrain and an air brake package, and comes standard on the Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric bus. Thomas Built Buses is the first school bus manufacturer to make Intellipark available.
A leading manufacturer of school buses in North America, High Point, North Carolina-based Thomas Built Buses was founded in 1916 and is a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America LLC, the largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America.
“Thomas Built Buses continues to be a strong safety partner in our mission to provide student transportation drivers with advanced technologies and the best tools for helping to keep their passengers safe,” said Scott Burkhart, Bendix vice president, sales and marketing. “In a typical year, they carry nearly 25 million children on regular routes, and there’s no more important cargo than our collective future and the potential they represent.”
Bendix, a member of Knorr-Bremse and North America’s foremost supplier of safety technologies for school buses, is the North American leader in the development and manufacture of active safety, air management, and braking system technologies for commercial vehicles.
Monitoring inputs in critical areas, such as the foot brake, the accelerator pedal, and wheel speed, along with a 30-second timeout, the Bendix Intellipark Electronic Parking Brake helps prevent rollaway and runaway crashes by automatically setting the brakes if the driver does not. The system utilizes a customizable J1939 network message to facilitate or inhibit unparking the vehicle to support when the driver intends to do so.
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Introduced in 2019, Intellipark was named one of the year’s top five new technologies by the North American Truck Writers, as well as a Heavy Duty Trucking Top 20 product. It has been tested and proven across a wide range of conditions, and through hundreds of thousands of park and auto-park cycles, generating positive feedback from fleets and drivers.
School districts and fleets can also use information from the data Intellipark provides through Bendix SafetyDirect to enhance their safety programs and driver training efforts.
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Long-distance migration presents complex conservation challenges, and migratory species often experience shortfalls in conservation due to the difficulty of identifying important locations and resources throughout the annual cycle. In order to prioritize habitats for conservation of migratory wildlife, it is necessary to understand how habitat needs change throughout the annual cycle, as well as to identify key habitat sites and features that concentrate large numbers of individuals and species. Among long-distance migrants, sea ducks have particularly complex migratory patterns, which often include distinct post-breeding molt sites as well as breeding, staging and wintering locations. Using a large set of individual tracking data (n = 476 individuals) from five species of sea ducks in eastern North America, we evaluated multi-species habitat suitability and partitioning across the breeding, post-breeding migration and molt, wintering and pre-breeding migration seasons. During breeding, species generally occupied distinct habitat areas, with the highest levels of multi-species overlap occurring in the Barrenlands west of Hudson Bay. Species generally preferred flatter areas closer to lakes with lower maximum temperatures relative to average conditions, but varied in distance to shore, elevation and precipitation. During non-breeding, species overlapped extensively during winter but diverged during migration. All species preferred shallow-water, nearshore habitats with high productivity, but varied in their relationships to salinity, temperature and bottom slope. Sea ducks selected most strongly for preferred habitats during post-breeding migration, with high partitioning among species; however, both selection and partitioning were weaker during pre-breeding migration. The addition of tidal current velocity, aquatic vegetation presence and bottom substrate improved non-breeding habitat models where available. Our results highlight the utility of multi-species, annual-cycle habitat assessments in identifying key habitat features and periods of vulnerability in order to optimize conservation strategies for migratory wildlife.
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Lamb, J. S., Paton, P. W.C., Osenkowski, J. E., Badzinski, S. S., Berlin, A. M., Bowman, T.,...McWilliams, S. R. (2020). Assessing year-round habitat use by migratory sea ducks in a multi-species context reveals seasonal variation in habitat selection and partitioning. Ecography, 43(12), 1842-1858. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05003
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A 53-year-old grandmother from the UK died after her body was unable to fight off an infection that entered her hand through a small cut. The animal-loving woman went into septic shock in April after she was infected by the saliva of her pet terrier – whose affectionate licking of her hand transferred an infection that, although rare, proved fatal.
Sheena Kavanagh, from Hilderstone in the English county of Staffordshire, fell sick and was unable to battle through the infection transmitted to her by one of her three dogs. In 1988, Kavanagh had her spleen removed after being physically assaulted. The spleen, which functions primarily as a blood filter, also synthesizes antibodies that help prevent infection.
Doctors in the UK were initially baffled when Kavanagh was brought into the hospital in late April. The woman appeared to have bacterial meningitis, but a regimen of antibiotics did not improve her condition, and she died within days.
UK’s The Telegraph reported that “her death was so unexpected doctors were at first unable to pinpoint what had caused it. Clinicians are considering publishing a report on the case because it was so rare.”
Kavanagh, who owned two Yorkshire terriers, a long-haired Jack Russell and six horses, took penicillin twice daily to stave off any potential infection after her splenectomy 25 years ago.
Dr. Hiam Ali said the bacterium was found in a blood sample taken after Kavanagh arrived at hospital.
“She had antibiotics [in the hospital] which worked on the bacteria but unfortunately the damage was already done,” Dr. Hiam said. “Her blood was full of bacteria and organisms. Capnocytophaga canimorsus, an organism present in dog saliva, normally doesn’t cause damage. But in people without a spleen it can cause death due to septic shock. But it is extremely rare.”
According to The Telegraph, Andrew Haigh, the coroner for South Staffordshire, recorded Kavanagh’s cause of death as “splenectomy and dog saliva in the bloodstream.”
The woman’s death raises the question – How safe are the friendly kisses that dogs give us? Should we allow our pets to constantly lick us on the hand or face? Should we kiss our digs?
According to Animal Planet, dogs lick for a variety of reasons. A mother stimulates her pups to start breathing by licking them. Dogs also lick because they like the saltiness secreted by our sweat pores. Licking also becomes a gesture of submission, and of course – a sign of affection.
Kissing your dog or letting your best friend lick you in the face and lips might seem like a germfest, but Clark Fobian, DVM and president of the American Veterinary Medical Association, says that common sense needs to come to the fore.
“You have to think of where their nose has been,” Fobian told WebMD. “Has it been inside a dead opossum on the side of the road, or the posterior of another dog, or in the litter box?”
That said, Fobian stressed that the bacteria carried by dogs typically do not pose big health risks for most people.
“Human and dog mouths have a large number and a wide variety of bacteria,” Fobian says. “Fortunately, most of it doesn’t make us sick, but some can. Parasites like hookworm, roundworm, and giardia can be passed from dog to human through licking. Salmonella, too, can be passed from your dog to you, or vice versa.”


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The United Kingdom’s first hydrogen fuel cell train rolled down the tracks, marking a milestone in the global push for greener transportation. Passengers climbed aboard the HydroFlex prototype as it ambled through the English countryside—without emitting any of the pollution that follows diesel locomotives.
HydroFlex is a joint initiative of the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) and Porterbrook, the British railway company. The team demonstrated the four-car train at a rail testing center in Warwickshire, where rail aficionados gathered for an industry event. Researchers say they plan to test HydroFlex on the main U.K. railway network later this year, with funding from the Department of Transport.
“In the next few years, we could certainly see a fleet of these operational in the U.K.,” Stuart Hillmansen, a senior lecturer in electrical energy systems with BCRRE, said in a video at the rail conference.
As countries and cities work to improve air quality and combat climate change, railways have become another frontier for zero-emission technologies. Many rail systems around the world still rely on diesel-electric powertrains, resulting in soot, smog, and carbon emissions. In the U.K., transport officials recently vowed to eliminate the nation’s diesel-only locomotives—about 3,900 trains—by 2040.
To curb diesel use, railway operators can electrify networks with overhead catenary lines or conductive third rails. (About one-third of the world’s track-miles are already electrified; in Europe, Japan, and Korea, the percentage is higher: about 60 percent.) However, converting existing tracks can be prohibitively expensive, particularly where long-distance and low-use networks require new infrastructure. As the costs of fuel cell modules and batteries continue to decline, hydrogen trains are gaining traction.
In Germany, two such trains entered into passenger service late last year. Alstom, the manufacturer that made them, recently announced it will build 27 more of its Coradia iLint trains for European tracks, and it’s developing a separate model for the United Kingdom. Japan and South Korea are planning hydrogen trains, and in the United States, local officials in California and North Carolina are pursuing projects to convert passenger trains.
“Economically, they (fuel cells) can make sense today, where they couldn’t a number of years back,” says Guy McAree, director of investor relations for Ballard Power Systems in British Columbia, Canada. The manufacturing company supplied the fuel cell system for HydroFlex and is working on hydrogen rail projects in Germany and China.
HydroFlex is a hybrid model, designed to draw most of its power from overhead lines or third rails, with the fuel cell kicking in where neither option exists, according to BCRRE. Of the four cars on the converted Class 319 train, one holds all the good stuff: a 100-kilowatt proton-exchange membrane fuel cell module; 200-kW of lithium-ion batteries; and 20 kilograms of hydrogen, stored in four high-pressure tanks.
Hydrogen is piped into the fuel cell, which then pulls oxygen from the air to create electricity. That in turn powers the traction motors beneath the passenger cars, with additional electricity stored in the battery bank. Unlike diesel locomotives, the system doesn’t emit any sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, or greenhouse gases—just a little heat and water.
“It’s a very smooth and quiet ride,” says Andreas Hoffrichter, a professor in railway management at Michigan State University, who hopped on HydroFlex earlier this week. He helped develop BCRRE’s first locomotive prototype, Hydrogen Pioneer, as a doctoral researcher in Birmingham. When we spoke on Thursday, he’d already made his way to another hydrogen rail conference, this one in Germany.
Fuel cell systems on trains can vary depending on the power demand profile, he says. Light rail and commuter trains frequently start and stop, so it makes sense to have a relatively larger battery and a smaller fuel cell. This also benefits the regenerative braking system, which recharges the batteries. For long-distance and freight trains, which make fewer stops, a larger fuel cell and smaller battery system are a better fit.
Across the sector, fuel cell modules are virtually the same on trains, buses, ferries, and heavy-duty trucks. The main differences are in the supporting components and structural designs that accompany the systems, says Buz McCain, director of systems engineering at Ballard.
For instance, when designing for rail, engineers must account for constant vibrations as trains move down the tracks and dampen the shocks that result from connecting and disconnecting cars. Unlike HydroFlex, other hydrogen trains store their fuel cells on the roof to free up cargo and passenger space; this requires stringing multiple modules together across a flat, trapezoidal surface.
However, the biggest challenge facing hydrogen trains goes beyond the tracks. Hydrogen refueling infrastructure is lacking worldwide, though transportation officials in the U.K. and elsewhere are working to install more refueling stations and deploy more fuel trucks. Hydrogen producers are likewise working to ramp up supplies—and to develop cleaner production methods, such as using renewable energy to split water molecules.

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Oil falls for third day, knocked by rising U.S. output
Oil declined on Tuesday for a third day running as evidence of rising U.S. output and a gloomier outlook for demand growth in a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) weighed on prices.
Brent crude futures were down 71 cents at $62.45 a barrel by 1510 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures fell 64 cents to $56.12.
Last week, both benchmarks hit their highest levels since 2015, but traders said the market had lost some momentum since then.
The IEA on Tuesday delivered a surprisingly downbeat outlook for oil demand in its monthly market report, showing an expected slowdown in consumption that was at odds with a more bullish view from OPEC on Monday.
The Paris-based IEA cut its oil demand growth forecast by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) for this year and next, to an estimated 1.5 million bpd in 2017 and 1.3 million bpd in 2018.
The IEA said warmer temperatures could reduce consumption, while sharply rising output from outside the producer group OPEC might mean the global market tilts back into surplus in the first half of 2018.
"You cannot have the same forecast at $60 as you have at $40. You need to address that and the IEA is starting to make that adjustment," Petromatrix strategist Olivier Jakob said.
Traders said they were cautious about betting on further price rises.
"Prices ... are starting to look like a pause or pullback is needed," said Greg McKenna, chief market strategist at futures brokerage AxiTrader.
This sentiment comes in part on the back of rising U.S. oil output, which has grown by more than 14 percent since mid-2016 to a record 9.62 million bpd.
The U.S. government said on Monday U.S. shale production in December would rise for a 12th consecutive month, increasing by 80,000 bpd.
"The recent price support, namely the tension in the Middle East, has been swept aside as rising rig counts and U.S. shale output (are) in the focus of traders," PVM Oil Associates analyst Tamas Varga said.
Despite the cautious sentiment, traders said oil prices were unlikely to fall far, largely due to supply restrictions led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia, which have helped reduce excess stockpiles.
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Statements of persons nominated - Parish elections 2 May 2019
Here are the published lists of nominated candidates, called the Statement of Persons Nominated, for the elections for all contested Parishes on Thursday 2 May 2019.
Great Dunmow - South Ward
Saffron Walden Parish - Audley Ward
Saffron Walden Parish - Castle Ward
Saffron Walden Parish - Little Walden Ward
Saffron Walden Parish - Shire Ward
Not all of the local councils will end up having an election (strictly called a poll), as this depends on whether there are more candidates for the town or parish council than there are seats on it. We have published the result of uncontested town and parish council elections.


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How is gypsum formed
Gypsum is made up of oxygen, sulfur, calcium and water. its a sedimentary rock and a crystalline mineral, It takes the form of crystals which can at times be found projecting from rock – leading to its old English name of the Spear Stone.
As evaporation occurs the sulfur is not protected by the water and oxygen contacts sulfur bonding with it to form a sulfate (SO4 2_). The sulfate then bonds with calcium (Ca) and water (H2O) to create gypsum.
Technical Requirements of Building Gypsum
The building gypsum is white and has a density of 2.6 to 2.75g / cm3 and a bulk density of 800 to 1000kg / m3.
As per GB9776-88 building gypsum can be classified into high-class, first-class and acceptable grades in light of strength, fineness and setting time (see the below table) Among them, bending strength and compressive strength are measured by letting samples contact with water for 2 hours.
|Strength||Bending Strength (≥)||2.5||2.1||1.8|
|(MPa)||Compressive Strength (≥)||4.9||3.9||2.9|
|Fineness (%)||Sieve Residue of 0.2 mm Square-hole Sieve (≤)||5.0||10.0||15.0|
|Setting Time||Initial Setting Time(≤)||6|
|(min)||Final Setting Time(≤)||30|
Building gypsum is tagged by the order of name, bending strength and
For example, the building gypsum of 2.5MPa bending
strength can be tagged as: Building Gypsum 2.5 GB 9776.
Hydration of building gypsum technically requires that water requirements accounts for 18.6% of the weight of semi-hydrate gypsum. But in fact, water often accounts for 60%-80% in order to make the gypsum slurry have certain plasticity.
Excess water gradually evaporates in the hardening process, which leads to a large number of pores left in the hardened gypsum, with the porosity of 50%-60%.
Building gypsum has low strength, small apparent density, low thermal conductivity and high sound absorption after hardening.
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STIR-FRIED DAIKON RADISH CAKE (Lo Bak Gou 萝卜糕). Another recipe inspired by @woon.heng. I haven’t had these for forever. These are usually made with dried shrimps, so thanks, @woon.heng, for this recipe. Unfortunately, I didn’t have preserved radish, bean sprouts, or Chinese chives. I used 5 diced fresh shiitake mushrooms, 4 green onions, and 1 chopped shallot instead. Turned out yummy still! 😋
400-500 g shredded Daikon radish
1 small carrot shredded (about 1/2 cup)
1 cup fresh mung bean sprouts
¼ cup chopped Chinese chives
1 tablespoon preserved radish
1 teaspoon garlic
2 teaspoons sambal oelek, optional
1 tablespoon soy sauce
oil for cooking
salt & pepper to taste
Batter (mix into a thin batter)
1⅓ cup [210g] rice flour used Thai rice flour
2 cups room temperature water
1 teaspoon salt & pepper
In a heated non-stick pan, cook daikon & carrot until the daikon turns translucent and all water has evaporated over low-med heat. Add in the batter & cook into a thick paste, then season. Transfer the mixture into a 9X5 loaf pan and cover it with foil, if needed. Steam over high heat for 30 minutes or until a cake tester/fork comes out clean. Let the cake cool it completely/refrigerate overnight before cutting it.
To make the stir-fried version, loosen the cake with a knife & cut it into bite-sized cubes.
Heat a non-stick pan with oil then pan-fry cake cubes until golden brown on all sides. Using the same pan, sauté garlic and preserved radish until fragrant.
Add in the chili sauce, if using & return the cake cubes back into the pan and season with soy sauce. Finally, add the veggies in and cook until the veggies are slightly tender. Serve warm.
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The day you CDMA enthusiasts have been waiting for is finally here. Today, in a closed door press only meeting, Verizon Senior Vice President Hugh G. Lyar announced to a stunned room that “The iPhone is coming, the iPhone is coming! I’m so happy to announce that starting someday we will be offering Apple’s iPhone to our customers. While we don’t yet have official pricing, we can tell you that it’s going to be expensive. We figure we can charge whatevs, and you’ll just buy it anyway, so why not make some extra sweet sweet skrilla? We know our customers are super excited to get their multitasking on and we are thrilled to announce this new partnership with Apple. Who’s ready to get some Rhapsody and Vcast? Can I get a hellz yeah? Lines are forming now outside of Verizon stores everywhere!”
With a few simple words, the iPhone has officially made the jump to the nations largest wireless provider. Later in a Q&A session, Mr. Lyar showed a preview of verizon’s new iPhone ad campaign staring Owen Wilson.
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Everyone having a good weekend? It rained off and on yesterday and it's turned cooler. Hard to believe that June is only two weeks away with this kind of weather! Today it hasn't rained but it's looked like it could at any minute! I had a really hard time getting a decent photo and still this is not the best :(
Last night when I went to bed and was laying there trying to fall asleep I envisioned this card. I was thinking back to when I was a little girl and daddy would take me and my older brother fishing. I don't know why those memories started flooding my mind but they did. That's also how this card started coming to my mind! (Strange huh? My mind is always thinking of what my next card might be lol) Anyway, I'm so thankful and blessed that I have so many good times to look back at now. My dad has alzheimers disease and I can honestly say this is the hardest thing to have to go through. I'm still thankful that he's here with us and right now he still knows who I am. But with each day that passes I can see a little of my daddy slipping away. I know when I hand him this card he's probably forgotten all the times we went fishing but I know I won't ever! I have the best daddy ever :)
I used A Child's Year for the silhoutte of the little boy fishing (don't they know little girls like to fish to or at least I do lol) The mountains were cut from the Paper Dolls for Everyday cartridge. The bank that he's fishing from I hand cut. I used my copic markers on the bank, mountains, and the water in hopes to give it a more realistic feel (don't know if I accomplished what I was aiming at, but it was the best I could do) I'm not sure if you can tell in the photo to well but I've sponged the sky with some ink. I didn't want it to be left white. I also didn't want it to stand out. I just tryed to blend it as much as I could with the rest of the card if that makes sense. I used Emma's stamp set You're My Best Buddy for the sentiment. It's actually two stamps from this set the Happy Father's Day and the word Daddy. Now here is a picture of the inside of the card! I had a VERY hard time trying to figure out how to take a picture of this! I decided to hold it and snap the picture (sorry it's not the best at ALL hee hee)
Again, I need to figure out how to take pictures when I do the inside of cards. I tried laying it flat and it would be so dark you couldn't see it. I tried turning the card inside out (couldn't get it to stand up) So, I just held it with my hand. (thats where all the shadows are coming from)
I remember on one of our fishing trips, catching a tinie, tiny fish! I bet it was no longer than my hand at the time and honestly don't know how it even was able to get on the hook, it was just that small! Anyway, I had a fit not wanting to throw it back. My daddy put some of the river water in our bucket and put the fish in also. We took it home and put it in a aquarium that I had that was empty! I wished I could remember now how long it lived! So, for the inside of the card I knew I wanted to use the sentiment You are a keeper from Emma's stamp set, My Favorite Sayings! I made my own aquarium using George and Basic Shapes Cartridge. The fish is from Paper Dolls for Everyday.
I'm sorry this post has turned out so long and I probably did alot of rambling but just wanted to share the thinking in behind my card! Thanks for looking! Hugs, Leanne

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Name: William Stamper
Birth: 27 MAR 1774 in Granville County, North Carolina
Death: 30 APR 1852 in Morgan County, Kentucky Stamper Cemetery
William Stamper was a farmer, trapper, hunter, and trader. Born in North Carolina. He migrated from the area of North Carolina to Kentucky, and settled on Rockhouse Creek in Southeastern Kentucky, Perry County. He was magistrate and Sherriff of Perry County. Rockhouse Creek became Letcher County, Kentucky in 1842. Williams son John Whitt was the first tax assessor of the new county. Married Emily Polly After 1843 William and Emily moved to Morgan County, Kentucky. William died in 1852 and is buried at Stamper Cemetery. Emily died in 1850 and is also buried at Stamper Cemetery.
Sources: . History of Letcher County, Kentucky and Letcher Co's Methodist Heritage, The Mountain Eagle newspaper
Information on William Stamper came from the East Ky page 9, 1-4 1965-1969. Ky. Vol 1#2 September 1965
The Researcher of this information Carolyn Wilson Dyer suggests there is always possibility of error in any research materials.
She suggests your use this information as a guide to conducting your own research on the Stamper surname.
Emily Millie Polly b: 2 AUG 1778 in North Carolina
- James B. Stamper b: 13 DEC 1797 in Letcher County, Kentucky
- Sarah Stamper b: 15 NOV 1799 in North Carolina
- Martha Stamper b: 28 FEB 1801 in Perry County, Kentucky
- Rachel Stamper b: FEB 1803 in Perry County, Kentucky
- Hiram H. Stamper b: 19 APR 1806 in Perry County, Kentucky
- John Whit Stamper b: 28 MAY 1808 in Perry County, Kentucky
- Isom Stamper b: 1809 in Virginia
- Elizabeth Stamper b: 16 JAN 1811 in Perry County, Kentucky
- Bealinda Stamper b: 23 MAY 1813 in Perry County, Kentucky
- Isaac Daniel Stamper b: 19 SEP 1816 in Perry County, Kentucky
- Nancy Stamper b: 19 SEP 1816 in Perry County, Kentucky
- William Buckner Stamper b: 1 MAY 1820 in Perryr County, Kentucky
- Mary Polly Stamper b: 20 APR 1823 in Perry County, Kentucky

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Fighting Homelessness, One Smartphone at a Time
Halibutboy Flatfish stashed this in Infrastructure
Hey tech companies: cut the crap and donate some smartphones.
Donation is such a good use of older smartphones. Win-win.
Some argue that is true worldwide. Melinda Gates, who leads the Gates Foundation with Mr. Gates, wrote in The New York Times this month that cellphones are essential to lifting women in developing countries out of poverty.
Wow the Bay Area creates a lot of homeless people:
The San Jose metropolitan area has 7,600 homeless people, and San Francisco has 6,400, placing them among the top 10 metros nationwide in that category, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In the San Jose area, three-quarters of homeless people live in unsheltered locations, the highest rate in the country. In December, officials there shut down the Jungle, a 68-acre homeless encampment in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Meanwhile, the average person in Silicon Valley last year earned $116,033, and in San Francisco, $104,881, including supplements like pensions. That is compared with $61,489 in the United States as a whole, according to Joint Venture Silicon Valley, which publishes an annual report. The median home sale price in San Francisco is above $1 million, according to Trulia, the real estate site. In Palo Alto, it is $2.3 million.
What do you mean by "creates"? San Jose and San Francisco are two different issues. SJ homeless are 80% from the area and largely driven out by weak supply and therefore high housing prices (on top of whatever personal issues). SF are more self-selected and non-local.
SF and SJ may have different feeder populations but there are two factors that are similar since they share a technology industry that is wealthy, and that contributes to who wins elections.
The high cost of living combined with SF and SJ government policies create a lot of homeless people.
I do like this story:
Holly Leonard has been homeless on and off for years. There was a stint in jail and, more recently, a period in a women’s homeless shelter, while her husband slept in their car.
But last month, the two moved into a one-bedroom apartment in San Jose, Calif., complete with a small garden. Ms. Leonard found it on Craigslist while using her Nexus 5 smartphone — a donation from Google that she got from a San Jose nonprofit called Community Technology Alliance.
“People don’t put out ‘for rent’ signs anymore, so the Internet is the best way,” Ms. Leonard said. “You can’t even go get a paper application for a lot of things. You can’t get a job unless you get online.
“Before I got a free phone, it was like you’re almost nonexistent.”

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Senior High Schools in the country will not be depending on imported food produce in feeding students under the free SHS policy, the Interior Minister Ambrose Derry has disclosed
According to him, all food products for the policy will be bought from farmers under the planting for food and jobs program.
He disclosed Friday when touring selected SHS schools to monitor progress of the Free SHS policy in the Upper West region.
“There is a buffer company that has been taken and what is going to happen is that we want the food that we give our students to be those that our farmers have produced,” he said.
“We are not going to feed our school children on Chinese rice or Korean rice,” he added.
The policy was officially launched by president, Akufo-Addo Tuesday, September 12, 2017. According to President Akufo-Addo, it has led to the enrollment of over 90,000 students who would have otherwise dropped out of school.
According to the President, the programe has led to the enrollment of over 90,000 students who would have otherwise dropped out of school.
Addressing the UN General Assembly Thursday, he said the program has made it possible for the less privileged Ghanaians to keep their wards in school.
“We’ve just started the free Senior High School programme which aims to guarantee secondary education to all of Ghana’s children. This programme will ensure that all our children will be educated to at least secondary level and money or the lack of it will no longer mean a denial of education.
“This has already led to an increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year who otherwise would have dropped out at this stage.
“SDG 4which aims at ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all will be within our reach by the target date,” he said.


Hello, I just uninstalled my GPU driver so I could restart my PC and install the new driver however, all I get is a blank screen. I mean I cannot even get into the BIOS. What the hell happened? My specs are,
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
AMD FX 8350
Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR 3 RAM
WD Black 1 TB HDD
Sapphire Vapor-X R9 280X
Thermaltake Smart M750W PSU
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Did you reset the BIOS? If not try that first.
yeah, something else went funky if you can’t get into the UEFI/bios… Reset the bios and let us know.
The FX series chips do not ship with onboard graphics, so you will need your graphics card connected to your monitor to be able to get into the UEFI.
Ok so I was finally able to get into the BIOS and then was able to get into windows and installed the new GPU driver. After restarting a couple times I am now back at a blank screen unable to do anything again. This is perplexing. I unplugged everything and plugged it back in to make sure all the cables were tight and even tried new power cables for everything and still nothing.
I took out my HDD to see if I could get back into the BIOS and nothing. What could possibly be wrong? Bad motherboard? GPU? This is maddening. The thing that is weird is I don’t even know how I was able to get back into the BIOS seeing how I got an image on my monitor seemingly randomly.
Have you tried one stick of RAM at a time? also do you have any other GPUs around?
I never hared of GPU drivers uninstall causing anything to do with BIOS. I think what could of happened (which happened to me) is your GPU is sagging. Try to make sure your GPU is not hanging hard on the PCIe port. Maybe prop it up with some Lego?
I have tried one stick of RAM at a time and no go. My GPU does sag. I will fiddle with it when I get off work. Do you think the GPU sagging could have damaged my motherboard?
Do you see the system POST on the screen consistently? If so I’m willing to bet it’s not a hardware issue but rather a software issue.
One thing you can try is booting a Linux Live CD and see if you get a display that way.
I can’t see the screen so I do not know if it is posting or not. This motherboard did not come with a speaker so if it is trying to beep I have no clue. I fear the worst
Alright, know anyone with a spare GPU you can test with? I’ve had a few GPUs just outright die.
Can you try a different connector on the GPU? Maybe that connector has gone bad.
I tried the other DVI connector as well as the HDMI port and nothing
Yeah with what you’re telling us I’m sorry pal but it sounds like either bad GPU or something wrong with the Motherboard.
If it is GPU sag, there is slight chance the motherboard got damaged and that specific PCIe slot may no longer work. If your motherboard has another PCIe slot that you can put the GPU in, you could try that. Other then that i dont know, it could be dead gpu or motherboard.
That motherboard is on the older side. I have had funny things happen with some 990FX chipsets when the CMOS batt dies. Maybe try pulling the battery and put a new one it. I know strange but worth a shot
Try a different power supply if you have one.
Assuming your chip isn’t overclocked, you’re using at least 500w under max load. I would put a 1000W PSU in it if that one burned out.
I’m going to try a new battery and then try my uncle’s gpu and if none of that works then I am stumped
Ok this is weird. Sometimes it will post and boot into windows and sometimes it doesn’t do anything and I notice when that happens the boot device led doesn’t light up. So sometimes it sees my HDD and sometimes it doesn’t. What is happening?


New York Times Claims It Found No Evidence Al Qaeda, Other International Terrorist Group, Was Connected to Benghazi Attack
Say intelligence fixation on AQ contributed to killing of ambassador
A leading U.S. newspaper says American intelligence efforts in Libya that fixated on al-Qaida likely contributed to the killing of the American ambassador to Libya in 2012.
The New York Times reported Saturday it could not find any evidence, after months of investigation, that al-Qaida or any other international terrorist groups had any role in the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
The newspaper said the "fixation" on al-Qaida possibly distracted intelligence experts from "more imminent threats," including local anti-Western militia leaders such as Ahmed Abu Khattala, and the angry reaction to an American-made video denigrating Islam.


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Alchemab is harnessing the power of the immune system to cure disease by using nature’s most effective search engine: adaptive immunity.
Our unique approach identifies groups of resilient individuals, such as long-term survivors of cancer, to learn how they overcome or resist disease. Using leading-edge science and deep learning, we create therapeutics from those antibodies present across the resilient population.
Our dedicated and diverse team is augmented by valued partnerships and collaborations with patient representative groups, biobanks, industry partners, and academic institutions.
Alchemab is using this approach to build a broad pipeline of protective therapeutics for hard-to-treat diseases with an initial focus on neurodegenerative conditions and oncology.

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By Brian Livingston
Military service members and veterans of America's armed forces gathered Thursday morning at St. Patrick's School to enjoy a pancake breakfast in their honor.
Susannah Millar, president of the Parent School Association for St. Patrick's said this is the first year of the event but it will likely not be the last.
"The students are always looking for ways to say 'thank you' to the veterans and we have a lot of children that go to school here whose parents are in the military so this just seems natural," Millar said. "The PSA is happy to be a part of this."
US Navy Commander Justin Bates was in line with his three boys as each of them received their plates with pancakes and sausage. He said this was a wonderful event and commented the school was always good about doing special things.
"The school is always talking about service to others and whenever you join America's armed forces that is what you are doing so the lessons there are important and not lost on the students," said Bates, who is an instructor at NAS Meridian. "This is good for the kids to see."
The breakfast followed a Veteran's Day mass held at St. Patrick's.
By Brian Livingston
- Local News
City defends plan to drain lake
City officials say they need to drain Long Creek Reservoir and cut a 40-foot section out of the lake's dam to protect lives and property downstream, but it is unclear from engineering reports and state officials if the dam needs to be totally drained and breached to shore up the dam.
State officials said city needs to contact feds about bald eagles
If there are bald eagles nesting at Long Creek Reservoir, then city officials need to contact the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, said Nick Winstead, an ornithologist with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, & Parks Museum of Natural Science.
Long Road Ahead
Monday marks three months since the April 28 tornado ripped through Decatur, causing extensive damage to homes, businesses and government buildings.
- BACK TO BACK
Decatur road work ramping up
Work began earlier this month to resurface an 11-mile stretch of Highway 503 in Decatur.
College programs aim at enabling the ‘New Creatives’
When Adobe launched its 2014 Release of the Creative Cloud the announcement video opened with interviews from a complex group of people who they referred to as “The New Creatives.”
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- MCC PTA program earns top scores
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A course description for a novel-writing class
Are you ready to get serious about leading a Big Thing writing class? I know I am. Here’s my plan for my Advanced Fiction Writing course during Fall 2011.
In this class, all students will be required to produce at least 50,000 original words, the first draft of a new work. This will not be done only during November’s “National Novel Writing Month,” but rather over the course of the entire semester. The course will be characterized by: intense focus on the writing process and on developing a writing regimen; weekly word count check ins; “studio” in-class writing time; practice in creating an outline or storyboard of a book; small peer groups for feedback; and analysis of a few contemporary novels that will serve as models.
This semester, you will teach yourself how to write a novel. The manuscript you produce may be the first draft of a novel you will someday publish. Or it may be what many writers refer to as their “apprenticeship” novel, their “drawer novel.”
In “The Habit of Writing,” Andre Dubus describes two types of writing: horizontal and vertical. For example, a short story might be composed horizontally (draft after draft)over the course of a month, or it might be composed vertically (one perfect sentence at a time) over the course of a month. Many of us write vertically because we’ve mostly composed stories and papers on short deadlines, and word processing allows us to edit as we write.
Principle #1: We will operate on the assumption that novels, as opposed to short stories, might need to be composed horizontally, that the fictional skill set we have acquired thus far is insufficient to meet the demands of novel writing.
Writing horizontally often means that what’s on the page is messy, incomplete, not the kind of writing we’d submit to an instructor to be graded, to a workshop for peer critique, and certainly not to an editor to be published. But that’s okay because:
Principle #2: We are not writing a novel so much as we are drafting a novel, which means that we are not overly concerned with the quality of the writing, but rather with the quantity.
Of his “failed” novel Fountain City, Michael Chabon has said, “Often when I sat down to work, I would feel a cold hand take hold of something inside my belly and refuse to let go. It was the Hand of Dread. I ought to have heeded its grasp.” So: how do we learn to distinguish the difference between “The Hand of Dread” (which would indicate that our project indeed should be abandoned) and “Normal Dread” (the fear and anxiety we’re confronted with every time we sit down to write)? When do we ignore the dread, and when do we listen to it?
Principle #3: You do not have to finish the novel you start writing this semester, but before putting it aside, you must think seriously about whether the problem is that the project is flawed or that you have reached the end of your ability to meet its challenges.
If that principle terrifies you, good. Writing a novel is a daunting task, but I also want to maximize your chances of success. In order to do this, I have drastically revised the way I teach fiction writing. This course will not provide you with a customary experience, and if you’re aren’t okay with that, please don’t take the class.
Principle #4: We will operate on the assumption that no one is here reluctantly. You’re here of your own volition. You want to learn. Perhaps because you love to read novels and want to better appreciate their composition and execution. Perhaps because you’ve “always wanted to write a novel.” Or because you have tried unsuccessfully to do so in private.
Methods of Evaluating Student Performance
Note: We have approximately 15 weeks. 50,000 words/ 15 weeks = 3,333 words a week or about 476 words a day. (To give you some perspective, the above section, “Course Rationale,” is 481 words.)
300 points or 30%: Weekly Word Counts. Every time you make your weekly quota, you get 20 points. If you fail to meet your quota, you donâ€™t get 20 points. 15 x 20 points = 300 points
200 points or 20%: Book Report Project. You will choose a book from which you need to learn something, devise a method to learn that something, and write an analysis that demonstrates what you learned. You will turn in not just the paper, but also physical evidence of your grappling.
200 points or 20%: Your Storyboard. You will be required to create a blueprint for the book you want to write. It can be as complete or incomplete as you need it to be.
200 points or 20%: Participation. There will be no Big Group Workshop. Instead, you will work in Small Groups, which will meet in class and online. For the first few weeks, we’ll rotate around so that everyone can see what each other is working on, and then you’ll select your Small Group for the remainder of the semester.
100 points or 10%: Final. At the end of the semester, you will polish a 10-40 page writing sample and learn how to write a “pitch letter” summarizing your work in progress.
Inspiration Book: Chris Baty’s No Plot, No Problem or Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird
Practical Book: Writer’s Digest Books, The Complete Handbook Of Novel Writing: Everything You Need to Know About Creating & Selling Your Work
Realism/coming-of-age books: Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower or Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Suspense/”I couldn’t put it down” books: Emma Donoghue’s Room or Thomas Harris’ Silence of the Lambs
Genre/Sci-fi/dystopic books: Kevin Brockmeier’s The Brief History of the Dead or Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games or Justin Cronin’s The Passage
Plot as a given books: Paula McClain’s The Paris Wife (based on the life of Hadley and Ernest Hemingway) or Irina Reyn’s What Happened to Anna K (modern retelling of Anna Karenina).
These books will serve as our models. I’ve organized them in this way, labeling their “type,” not because I’m encouraging you to embrace marketing categories, but rather because experience has taught me this: you stand the best chance of finishing a novel if 1.) you consciously choose to write the kind of book you yourself enjoy reading, and 2.) you do not set yourself up to fail by choosing as your model something akin to Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom! (which happens to be one of my favorite books). I’m not discouraging you from having literary or intellectual ambitions, but rather (again), I’m trying to maximize your chances of meeting the goal of drafting a novel, in this case by encouraging you to create reasonable expectations for yourself. Also, you will receive a long list of books on the CRAFT of novels upon completing the course.
In this class, everybody wins
There is no such thing as a “failed” novel, as long as we keep writing. Next week, we’ll hear from writer-teacher Lowry Pei, who will address that very subject in a guest blog post: “No Writing is Ever Wasted.”


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A recent article in The Progressive Farmer sounded an alarm about the re-emergence of the corn rootworm, a beetle was once called the “billion dollar pest” due to the big impact it has had on valuable corn crops and the costs farmers have racked up trying to control it. Read more
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Up until recently, a genetically modified organism was one that had its genetic materials engineered. Now, a new technology is completely blurring the line. It’s called gene editing, and it often involves “turning off” or deleting genes from a plant’s genome, as opposed to moving genes from one species to another. Read more
Last week, just before they adjourned for summer recess, Congress passed a bill that will establish national standards for labeling food containing ingredients which are genetically engineered (GE) also known as genetically modified organisms (or GMOs). President Obama is expected to sign the bill into law in the coming weeks.
Does this mean U.S. shoppers will soon see labels disclosing GMO ingredients on all food products? Not exactly. Read more
It’s not often that a conversation inspires an idea leading to a project that improves people’s lives and potentially transforms an industry. But that’s what happened to Jorge Gaviria, founder of Masienda. While serving as a host and translator at the G9 Chefs Summit at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, NY in 2013, Gaviria heard chefs discuss responsibly sourced ingredients. This inspired him to travel to Mexico and learn about the country’s rare heirloom corn varieties. He got the idea to work with smallholder farmers there to buy their corn, import it to the U.S., and supply restaurants, which would make delicious tortillas using the corn. In 2014, Gaviria founded Masienda, which is a combination of the words “masa” or corn flour and “tienda” or store, to accomplish his goal.
Sourced Landrace Non-GMO Corn Varieties
“I gained an appreciation for the storied history of corn,” Gaviria says. “The more I learned the more I wanted to create opportunities for farmers and to connect chefs to them.”
Mexico, particularly the southern state of Oaxaca, is known as the birthplace of corn.
“Mexico has been producing corn for 12,000 years,” Gaviria says.
The country has as many as 59 landraces, or locally adapted, traditional varieties of corn, according to Martha Willcox, Maize Landrace Improvement Coordinator at CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), who has helped Gaviria with his project.
“Maize is the culture in Mexico,” she says. “Everyone eats maize every day, and there are 2000 culinary applications.”
Within those 59 landraces, Gaviria says there are “tons of varieties” of corn, including many colors such as white, blue, red, and yellow.
“There is a huge amount of diversity in the landraces,” Willcox says.
Masienda sources its corn from Oaxaca, whose corn varieties are among the most rare and diverse in Mexico. Gaviria buys the corn from the region’s smallholder farmers who have been growing these corn varieties for generations.
“These farmers are custodians of a very precious commodity,” says Alan Tank, former assistant vice president of the National Corn Growers Association and an adviser to Masienda. “The value it represents to them and to the world is nothing short of phenomenal.”
As an Iowa farmer, Tank appreciates the value of Mexico’s corn heritage. “Being part of family farm, I understand the need for biodiversity and preserving it,” he says.
Provides Needed Income to Farmers
The average size of the smallholder farms range from about 2 to 12 acres. Oaxaca’s farmers are poor with 62 percent of the population living below the poverty line.
Masienda’s purchase of the farmers’ excess corn—most of the corn they need for food—provides the farmers with income they would not otherwise receive.
“We are providing a fair price to the farmers for growing the corn and having a big impact on rural communities there,” Gaviria says.
“It’s a way to provide markets with good prices for farmers who have continued to grow these landraces,” Willcox says.
This year Masienda is working with 1200 farmers after starting with 100 in 2014. Willcox and CIMMYT helped Gaviria identify the best corn varieties, connect with the farmers, source the corn, and pay the farmers.
Masienda imports 10 to 15 different landraces. According to the company’s website, this is the first time in history these corn varieties have been available outside of the remote, indigenous communities of Oaxaca.
Masienda supplies corn to about 100 restaurants, mostly in the U.S. with a few in Canada.
One of those restaurants is Taquiza in Miami, Florida. Owner and chef Steve Santana uses blue and white bolita corn varieties to make masa flour, which is then made into tortillas and chips.
Santana is enthusiastic about Masienda’s corn. “Visually it’s really cool looking, and the flavor is unmatched,” he says.
Santana could buy much cheaper U.S. domestic corn but he prefers the heirloom varieties.
“I like knowing that farmers are getting treated well throughout the supply chain,” he says. “We are preserving a little history; this is pure food in its natural state.”
Non-GMO Market Opportunity
Masienda is growing exponentially. In just two years, the company’s corn imports grew from 40 tons in 2014 to 80 tons last year and 400 this year.
The company is also co-branding tortilla products with Chicago-based restaurant Frontera Grill and plans to sell its own branded products.
Gaviria says the market potential for the landrace corn is huge. According to the Tortilla Industry Association, the U.S. tortilla market is worth $12.5 billion.
Most tortillas in the U.S. are likely made from genetically modified corn since more than 90 percent of the corn grown here is GM. But with the soaring demand for non-GMO foods, there is great market potential for Mexico’s heirloom non-GMO corn.
Mexico has not approved production of GM corn, but last August a Mexican judge overturned a September 2013 ban on plantings of GM corn, paving the way for field trials of the controversial crop.
The concern is that GM corn production could cross pollinate and contaminate Mexico’s landrace corn varieties. In 2001, University of California scientist Ignacio Chapela published a paper documenting GMO contamination of some of Oaxaca’s landrace varieties. Willcox thinks this may have occurred when Mexican migrant workers brought back GM seed from the U.S. and planted it.
However, she says: “I haven’t seen evidence (of GMO contamination). I don’t worry about it. It’s still not legal in Mexico.”
Gaviria sees GMOs as a threat to Mexico’s corn biodiversity. “GMOs could have a fundamental impact on the tradition and scope of preservation,” he says.
Provides Vehicle to Preserve Landrace Corn
Gaviria has ambitious plans for Masienda. “We want to educate consumers on what corn can and should taste like and provide an alternative supply chain to what we’ve conventionally known in the U.S. for the last 50 plus years,” he says.
In the process Masienda aims to support smallholder farmers, sustainability, and biodiversity.
“What Masienda does and represents is nothing short of essential,” Tank says. “It provides a vehicle to ensure landrace genetics can be preserved and protected. It allows farmers to capture value. What better way to preserve the landraces than to create a market for them so they are preserved for history.”
Willcox says Masienda is an exciting project with a lot of potential: “It’s a conservation effort, a development effort, and a research effort.”
This post originally appeared in The Organic and Non-GMO Report.
When it released a 408-page report on genetically engineered (GE) crops yesterday, the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) said claims about GE crops—both pro and con—“have created a confusing landscape for the public and policy-makers.” But the report itself might not clear up all the confusion.
One year ago, an agency of the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC) declared that glyphosate (or Roundup), the world’s most widely used herbicide, probably causes cancer. Then, in the fall, the European Food Safety Agency’s (EFSA) responded with an assessment that disagreed with the WHO’s findings. Read more
A version of this post previously appeared on Modern Farmer.
Earlier this week the USDA reached out to Modern Farmer asking if Secretary Tom Vilsack, the only member of President Obama’s cabinet that has lasted through both terms in office, could give us a call. He wanted to plug the $17.6 million in grant money that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently made available for organic farming research, as well as a few other things he’s been working on to support the local food movement, or what the USDA often refers to as the “farm-identity preserved” market. But we got to chat about a few other things, too, like Vilsack’s recent trip to Cuba and his views on the GMO labeling debate. Read more
Today’s big food and agriculture companies work hard to protect their images. Companies like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Monsanto spend a lot of time and money diverting attention away from negative science related to their products and associating themselves with groups that promote healthy food and families.
For a long time, those tactics appeared to be working; but several of this year’s developments suggest that they might not work for much longer. In fact, you might say that 2015 was the year transparency re-entered the picture. Here’s a timeline of what happened.
Update: On Janury 28, 2016 the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision, effectively putting the herbicide — and the new generation of GMO crops it was designed to be used with — back on the market.
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made an unusual move—it changed its mind. In a legal ruling, the agency said it would revoke its approval of a controversial new herbicide called Enlist Duo, which combined the weed killers glyphosate (Roundup) and 2,4-D.
The EPA had approved the Enlist Duo just a year earlier, despite considerable public opposition and “grave concerns” from about 50 members of Congress. Made by Dow AgroSciences, Enlist Duo was specifically formulated to be used on corn and soybeans genetically engineered to resist it. And although it was initially approved for use in only six Midwestern states, the EPA extended that approval to an additional 10 states this past spring. Read more
Update: On January 29, 2016, the FDA banned imports of GMO salmon until the agency can publish guidelines for how it should be labeled.
Late last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved AquAdvantage salmon—the first edible genetically engineered animal to earn such an approval. The salmon, produced by AquaBounty Technologies, are genetically engineered (GE) with DNA that causes them to grow to market size much faster than other salmon. And while many advocates have shown concern over the fish in recent years, the FDA has declared it safe to eat.
The AquAdvantage salmon will only be raised in contained, inland facilities in Panama, from eggs produced in Canada. Once harvested, they will be imported for sale in the U.S. But exactly when they could show up on store shelves remains uncertain. “It is too early to discuss commercialization plans, but there are several paths to market that are being considered,” AquaBounty spokesperson Dave Conley told Civil Eats. Read more


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Cyprus seeks answers and closure on missingBreaking News
Nobody knows who this man was: all they know is that he wore dark gray trousers, a pale shirt, probably lace-up shoes and pale brown socks, which remained surprisingly intact during years buried in the damp earth.
It's not much to go on.
"How many men were wearing gray trousers back then?" a researcher asked as he picked up a small piece of linen and examined it."About two-thirds of the population."
The nameless man, and scores of others like him who disappeared decades ago, offer a poignant reminder of the disputes keeping Turkish and Greek communities apart on this east Mediterranean island.
Cyprus has been divided since a Turkish invasion in 1974 which followed a brief coup by Greek Cypriot extremists seeking union with Greece.
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Balsamic vinegar has been a staple in Mediterranean cuisine for centuries, and for good reason.
Not only does it add a tangy flavor to dishes, but it also has numerous health benefits.
But with all the conflicting information out there, it’s hard to know if you can eat balsamic vinegar every day.
In this article, we’ll explore the potential benefits and risks of consuming balsamic vinegar on a daily basis.
So grab a bottle of your favorite balsamic and let’s dive in!
Can I Eat Balsamic Vinegar Everyday?
The short answer is yes, you can eat balsamic vinegar every day. In fact, incorporating balsamic vinegar into your daily diet can have numerous health benefits.
Balsamic vinegar contains acetic acid, which has been shown to have antimicrobial properties and may help with diabetes management by limiting spikes in blood glucose levels. It may also aid in weight loss and promote healthy digestion.
However, it’s important to note that moderation is key. Drinking too much balsamic vinegar can cause an upset stomach and other issues. It’s recommended to limit your intake to about 2 tablespoons or less per day.
Additionally, it’s important to pay attention to the label of the balsamic vinegar you buy. Genuine balsamic may be expensive but does not contain added sugars. Other brands may contain additional sugars to help match the taste of genuine balsamic vinegar.
There are also a few potential health risks associated with consuming balsamic vinegar on a daily basis. The acidity of balsamic vinegar could erode dental enamel and it may contain small amounts of lead, which could potentially raise lead levels in children. If you have any concerns about lead, talk to your healthcare provider to be sure you’re safe.
Some people may also experience side effects such as throat irritation, stomach pain, flatulence, tingling sensation or swelling of the tongue, and heartburn after consuming balsamic vinegar. These side effects are generally mild and usually subside within a day or two.
The Nutritional Benefits Of Balsamic Vinegar
Balsamic vinegar is a low-fat and low-sugar food additive that contains strains of probiotic bacteria. It has been proven effective in reducing cholesterol levels and stabilizing blood pressure. Additionally, it contains antioxidants and antimicrobial compounds that can help improve a person’s complexion over time.
One of the top health benefits associated with the acetic acid in balsamic vinegar is its ability to help manage diabetes. Studies suggest that vinegar, including balsamic vinegar, can help people with type 2 diabetes better manage their blood sugar levels when taken in moderation prior to eating.
Balsamic vinegar also contains resveratrol, which helps reduce the oxidation of LDL cholesterol (also known as the “bad” kind of cholesterol). Furthermore, it has anti-inflammatory properties and can promote healthy digestion by improving the balance of gut bacteria.
It’s important to note that traditional balsamic vinegar yields higher antioxidant levels than those found in other types of balsamic vinegar. Aged balsamic vinegar also tastes better and has a stronger antioxidant capacity, with larger amounts of polyphenols.
How Balsamic Vinegar Can Improve Digestion
Balsamic vinegar can be a great addition to your daily diet if you’re looking to improve your digestion. The acetic acid found in balsamic vinegar can help supplement natural stomach acid, which can boost your digestive capabilities. It also stimulates the production of pepsin, a stomach enzyme that breaks down proteins.
In addition to its ability to supplement natural stomach acid, balsamic vinegar also contains probiotic bacteria. Probiotics support gut health by adding healthy flora to the digestive tract, which can help food move smoothly through your system. The more you add to their population, the happier your intestines will be.
The enzymes in balsamic vinegar also help with digestion and absorption of nutrients, making it an excellent addition to any diet plan. Balsamic vinegar has been shown to aid in protein digestion by breaking down amino acids and making them more absorbable by your body. It can also aid in fat breakdown so that it can be used as fuel for energy rather than stored as fat around your waistline.
Lastly, balsamic vinegar contains natural pectin which acts as an anti-inflammatory when consumed regularly. This can help alleviate constipation or other digestive issues that might be caused by a lack of fiber intake.
The Potential Risks Of Consuming Balsamic Vinegar Daily
While balsamic vinegar has numerous health benefits, consuming it on a daily basis may come with some potential risks. One of the main concerns is the acidity of balsamic vinegar, which can erode dental enamel over time. To avoid this, it’s recommended to rinse your mouth with water after consuming vinegar or use a straw to drink it.
Another potential risk is the presence of lead in some balsamic vinegar products. While the amount of lead is considered to be too small to affect adults, there’s a chance it might raise lead levels in children. To minimize this risk, it’s important to buy high-quality balsamic vinegar from reputable sources.
Some people may also experience side effects such as throat irritation, stomach pain, flatulence, tingling sensation or swelling of the tongue, and heartburn after consuming balsamic vinegar. These side effects are generally mild and usually subside within a day or two. However, if you experience persistent symptoms, it’s important to consult your doctor.
How Much Balsamic Vinegar Should You Consume Daily?
As mentioned earlier, it’s recommended to limit your intake of balsamic vinegar to about 2 tablespoons or less per day. This amount is safe for most people and can provide numerous health benefits without causing any adverse effects.
It’s important to note that the amount of balsamic vinegar you consume may vary depending on your individual health needs and dietary requirements. If you have any medical conditions or concerns, it’s best to consult with your healthcare provider before adding balsamic vinegar to your daily diet.
When purchasing balsamic vinegar, it’s also important to read the label carefully. Genuine balsamic vinegar may be expensive but does not contain added sugars, while other brands may contain additional sugars to match the taste of genuine balsamic vinegar. It’s best to opt for brands that do not contain added sugars and are made from high-quality ingredients.
Creative Ways To Incorporate Balsamic Vinegar Into Your Daily Diet
If you’re looking for creative ways to incorporate balsamic vinegar into your daily diet, here are some ideas to get you started:
1. Use it as a marinade: Balsamic vinegar makes a great marinade for meats, tofu, and vegetables. Mix it with some olive oil and your favorite herbs and spices for a delicious marinade that will add flavor to your meals.
2. Drizzle it on roasted vegetables: Roasted vegetables are delicious on their own, but a drizzle of balsamic vinegar can take them to the next level. Try it on roasted Brussels sprouts, carrots, or sweet potatoes.
3. Add it to soups and stews: A splash of balsamic vinegar can add depth and complexity to soups and stews. Try adding it to tomato soup or beef stew for a delicious twist.
4. Make a salad dressing: While salad dressing may be the most common use for balsamic vinegar, there are endless variations you can try. Mix it with olive oil, honey, mustard, or garlic for a tasty dressing that will make your salads sing.
5. Use it in desserts: Balsamic vinegar may seem like an unlikely ingredient in desserts, but its sweet and tangy flavor can be a great addition to certain dishes. Try drizzling it over fresh berries or vanilla ice cream for a unique and delicious dessert.
Incorporating balsamic vinegar into your daily diet can be a tasty way to add flavor and health benefits to your meals. Just remember to use it in moderation and choose high-quality brands without added sugars.


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Hotel Delle Nazioni
Just a short walk from Trevi Fountain, near Piazza di Spagna, Montecitorio and Palazzo Chigi, the Hotel delle Nazioni in Rome is an elegant residence in the heart of the city’s cultural, commercial and political center.
The Hotel Genova is situated in Rome, in the Esquilino district near the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and the Teatro dell’Opera.
The Hotel Memphis is situated in Via degli Avignonesi, which owes its name to the French Papal Guards of Avignon, who at one time presided over Rome.
Marina di Pietrasanta coastline
Versilia Palace Hotel
The Versilia Palace Hotel is situated on the seafront of Marina di Pietrasanta, just a short distance from the renowned Forte dei Marmi, one of the most exclusive localities of the Versilia coastline.

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Latitude: 52.9753 / 52°58'31"N
Longitude: -1.6391 / 1°38'20"W
OS Eastings: 424331
OS Northings: 342053
OS Grid: SK243420
Mapcode National: GBR 5BR.DFL
Mapcode Global: WHCFD.SGNX
Entry Name: Brailsford Mill
Listing Date: 12 July 1985
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1109709
English Heritage Legacy ID: 81377
Location: Brailsford, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, DE6
District: Derbyshire Dales
Civil Parish: Brailsford
Traditional County: Derbyshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Derbyshire
Church of England Parish: Brailsford All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Derby
SK 24 SW PARISH OF BRAILSFORD SLACK LANE
5/36 (West Side)
Mill, now used for storage. Reputed to be dated 1693. Red brick and sandstone
ashlar. Plain tile roofs with one brick gable stack. Two storeys. T-plan. Ashlar
south elevation. Broad gabled bay to left. Rusticated basement with doorway and
later window. Stone band above. Blind semi-circular arch to first floor with a door-
way under a stone lintel. Stone band above and circular window in the gable. Lower
bay to right continuing the rusticated basement with stone band above. Doorway to
ground floor, square window above. Rear walls of brick. Interior not inspected.
Mill pond to north.
Listing NGR: SK2433142053
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This girly, pastel, unicorn party has been put together by One Social Design! Pastel hues and accents of gold have really grasped the magical essence of this glittery, whimsical party! Rainbows, glitter and an abundance of pastel pinks, lilacs, blues, mints and sorbet yellow really made this party POP! This party thrown for some very colourful kids enchanted any inner mythical creature!
The sweetest of dessert buffets ensured any sugar craving monster was kept at bay! Amriel Cakes has once again outdone herself! The most adorable Unicorn cake was the pièce de résistance! From the fun mint colouring, to the trickling of stars, this adorable Unicorn cake sparkled and shone! A child's dream come to life, this rainbow eating unicorn was absolutely spectacular!
Gorgeous rainbow plates form Meri Meri Party was replicated in the colourful balloon garland by Gaby's Balloon decor! The gold stars acted as a stunning accent of colour, that was perfectly carried throughout the design. A grand touch, gold decorations oozed luxury and sophistication. Ensuring this pretty and pastel birthday had an enchanted and sophisticated feeling to it!
Anything but uni-corny, this party has been truely been beautifully styled!
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called last night for Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) to resign his seat in the Senate. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports:
“I think he should resign immediately,” McConnell, Kentucky’s senior senator, told the Herald-Leader Tuesday night after a Hardin County GOP rally. “If he did not do that … there is a 100 percent certainty that he would be expelled from the Senate.” … “The Senate would have zero tolerance for the continued service of a convicted felon,” McConnell said.
In calling for Stevens’s resignation, McConnell joins several other prominent Republican senators including Jim DeMint (SC), Lindsey Graham (SC), John McCain (AZ), Gordon Smith (OR), and Norm Coleman (MN). Other Republican senators, including Pat Roberts (KS) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX), have suggested that “it’s up to Alaskans to decide Stevens’ fate.” Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) also called for Stevens to resign.