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Part of Jen Platt Hopkins 2010 garlic crop drying in her shed.
May I brag?
Daughter Jen has won a blue ribbon for the second year at the New Hampshire State Fair for her "Plate of Garlic". Each entrant must offer five (and only five) bulbs on a paper plate for the judging. Jen's garlic is both sweet an pungent, though the judges work only from appearance, not taste! Jen harvesting garlic in her garden surrounded by deer fence.
Jen grows vegetables, herbs and cut flowers in her Zone 4, Canterbury NH garden. It's a place where I weed for hours on end, surrounded by her lovelies and their delicious scents, away from my daily air of Manhattan. She grows stiff-neck garlic ( Allium sativum ophioscorodon, short name ophio, or top-set garlic) This species sends up a hard flower stalk that makes a tight loop at the top of the stem in some varieties, then forms a capsule at the tip holding tiny bulbils. The bulbils, about the size of a grain of wheat can be saved and planted. They take three years in the ground before they are big enough to dig for home use.
Stiff or soft?
Stiff-neck garlic is thought to be tastier than soft-neck varieties (Allium sativum), though it doesn't store as well, only 3-6 months so doesn't appear in your supermarket. The stiff-necked is also thought to be medicinally much more potent. The soft-neck garlic doesn't tolerate cold well and is usually restricted to southern gardens; but a few varieties have been adapted to colder regions. Its used for garlic braids because the stems are soft.
Just wait til next year
A superb characteristic of garlic is that the grower can set aside a small portion of the crop each year (called 'seed garlic') for next year's planting. Jen keeps big blemish-free bulbs for her 'seeds', harvesting in July, then planting in mid to late October after a light frost. After pulling from the ground bulbs are cleaned, then hung in an airy, dark place to dry. Before planting, cloves are carefully separated from the stem, but NOT peeled. Each bulb will produce 6-8 large cloves. Tiny cloves are used in cooking and not replanted.
Jen's first garlic came from a nearby farm, now defunct, and she's been saving her own seed garden for seven years. Friends Mary & Paul down the dirt road in Canterbury grow fruits and vegetables for their daily use. Mary stores her seed garlic by threading it through the slats of a wooden crate. (below)
To Eat or Admire?
Not only did Jen win first prize for her 'Plate of Garlic' but in 2008 she also won a blue ribbon in the category: "Dried Herbs, decorative", with a swag of stiff-neck garlic, calendula, sumac seed heads and chive flowers.It's the-same-but-different from the stiff-neck garlic swag that I created for my book 'Garlic, Onions & Other Alliums', by Ellen Spector Platt, Stackpole Books, 2003. Mine included three varieties of hot peppers, bay leaf, and sage, the idea being to use whatever herbs you have at hand with the stiff stems of the garlic providing the structure, and everything else being wrapped in bunches with wire to the garlic. What's the garlic equivalent of 'the apple doesn't fall far from the tree'?
To learn all about garlic and other alliums, see my book, above.

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Why Can't House GOP Leaders Stand Up to Radical Members of Their Party?
No Republican on the Homeland Security Subcommittee was willing to speak against Steve King's "poison-pill" amendment.
When I first came to Washington in 1969, one of the first members of Congress I met and talked to was George Mahon, a courtly, laconic conservative Southern Democrat who happened to be chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. We talked about the committee and its traditions, and he said to me, "If you want to know anything and everything about appropriations, read the Fenno book."
Mahon was referring to the magisterial The Power of the Purse: Appropriations Politics in Congress, a political-science classic by Richard Fenno, the role model for all congressional scholars. The book tells the story of a powerful committee that did not fit the contemporary stereotype of a panel larded with members eager to open the floodgates of taxpayer dollars, to fund any and every boondoggle for the benefit of their own districts and those of their colleagues. Instead, Appropriations, from the chairmanships of Republican John Taber and Democrat Clarence Cannon through Mahon and on for decades thereafter, was carefully filled by party leaders with lawmakers of both parties who saw their role as guardians of the public purse, looking with a jaundiced eye on excessive spending and working together to provide tough oversight of government programs. The committee had well-established norms that rewarded diligence, fairness, and bipartisanship.
I thought of Mahon, and Fenno, last week as I watched David Price of North Carolina give an eloquent, anguished speech on the floor of the House as it debated the Homeland Security appropriations bill. Price had a distinguished career himself as a congressional scholar before he came to Congress, and he continues to write insightfully about Congress from the inside (ask him for the paper he wrote for a recent conference at Yale). More important, he is an institutionalist to his core, a longtime member of Appropriations who venerates a deliberative process, bipartisan cooperation and action, and regular order.
Why was Price so distraught? The Homeland Security Subcommittee, on which he is the ranking Democrat, had brought a balanced, sensible bill to the floor, crafted with the participation and cooperation of members on both sides, to protect our homeland within severe budget constraints. The work inside the subcommittee had been a model of how the process should work -- but for a second year in a row, its work was threatened by a poison-pill amendment offered by that poster boy for radical nihilism, Steve King of Iowa. The amendment blew up the Dream Act, taking away all discretion from the Department of Homeland Security to focus its deportation resources on criminals and miscreants and forcing the department to end any deferral in the deportation process that enables "dreamers" to stay in the United States.
By his own admission, King was trying to blow up any chance for a comprehensive immigration bill to pass the House. But the amendment was also a key test of whether the current Republican leaders of the House, and especially the members and leaders of the Appropriations Committee, valued this model of bipartisan deliberation and decision enough to keep its model bill intact.
They failed the test. Miserably. Not a single Republican on the Homeland Security Subcommittee voted against the poison-pill amendment. Only one Republican member of the full committee, freshman David Valadao of California, opposed it. No Republican member of the party leadership team opposed it. Committee Chairman Hal Rogers showed the opposite of leadership and proved he does not belong in the same category as Taber, Cannon, Mahon, Bill Natcher, Dave Obey, Bob Livingston, Bill Young, and others who cared about process and regular order, and the fierce independence and responsibility of the historic panel.
Rogers is actually a good guy, as are many of the committee members -- like Oklahoma's Tom Cole -- who failed the test. The only logical explanation is a frightening one: They are all intimidated by the more extreme and radical forces in their party. That the driving forces in today's GOP -- the ones who can say "Jump" and have the party leaders respond "How high?" -- are the likes of Steve King and Ted Cruz is deeply unsettling.
There is more. The new radical GOP has so embraced a slash-government-at-any-cost mentality that it is enthusiastic about the mindless across-the-board cuts known as the sequester, and is determined to slash all domestic discretionary programs even more deeply to meet the 10-year timetable in the balanced-budget framework of Paul Ryan. That includes programs that shape our homeland and national security, public safety, food safety, basic medical and scientific research, and much more.
As we focus on how a junior private contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton could gain access to and then leak the most sensitive intelligence information we have, keep this destructive mindset at the fore. Why have we privatized and subcontracted the lions' share of our national security intelligence apparatus? Because mindless budget cuts, a long-standing zeal to privatize reflexively, along with multiyear pay freezes for all civilian government employees and other efforts to undercut and demoralize those who work for government, have made it nearly impossible for government security agencies to compete with the private sector for top-flight electrical engineers and computer scientists. So we have turned to the back door, relying more and more on less-secure private contractors. This is the consequence of moving from a commendable focus on lean, efficient, and functional government in areas where we need it to an unthinking hatred of all government that is transcendent in the new GOP, and unchallenged by those who know better.


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California’s state Senate recently passed a single-payer health-care bill, and we’re warming to the idea as an instructive experiment in progressive government. If Democrats believe the lesson of ObamaCare is that the government should have even more control over health care, then why not show how it would work in the liberal paradise?
The legislation guarantees free government-run health care for California’s 39 million residents—no co-pays, deductibles or insurance premiums—as well as virtually unlimited benefits.
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Groundbreaking is planned Saturday for a $60 million stadium for the Houston Dynamo soccer team after city leaders approved an economic development tax zone deal. The Houston City Council on Wednesday approved an ordinance for development, construction, operation and maintenance of the sports and entertainment facility.
The Harris County Houston Sports Authority in December approved an agreement to build the proposed soccer stadium. The venue is scheduled to open in April 2012. The stadium would also be the site for Texas Southern University football games.
The Dynamo currently play at Robertson Stadium at the University of Houston.

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A couple of weeks ago, Forbes revealed its annual list of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood, with Robert Downey Jr. effortlessly landing the top spot. This week, the publication has released the list of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, with Jennifer Lawrence taking the number one spot followed by Scarlett Johansson — hardly surprising, but what makes this list interesting is that many of the women on it earn far less than their male counterparts.
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August is the last month of summer, which means you’re probably looking forward to bigger releases like Fantastic Four — but don’t let Ricki and the Flash escape your notice. The new film from director Jonathan Demme and Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody features Meryl Streep in the role of a rock goddess who left her family behind to pursue her dreams. As seen in the new clip above, yes, Queen Meryl does indeed really sing and play the guitar.
It must be difficult to be mad at your absentee mom when she rocks this hard — the new trailer for Ricki and the Flash has arrived, in which acting icon Meryl Streep plays a rock icon fumbling her way through making amends with the family she once left behind. Adding a little realism is Mamie Gummer, Streep's real-life daughter who plays her fictional daughter in the film, which totally won't make you cry at all.
Suffragette doesn’t look like your average historical drama or biopic, even though it checks off a few of those boxes (heavily gray British period piece starring Meryl Streep) — no, this true story of the women’s suffrage movement looks intense and stunning, and the trailer alone is enough to make you want to get up and throw a rock through a window.
After a few months of teaser images, the wait is finally over. You can watch Meryl Streep in action as a rock goddess in the first trailer for Ricki and the Flash, the new film from screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jonathan Demme. Not long ago, we learned that Streep had seriously committed herself to learning to play the guitar (of course she did — she’s Meryl F—ing Streep) for the film, and it seems that her hard work paid off.
Meryl Streep is a Queen. That’s just science fact. The immensely talented actress appears next as a rock star (oh, yes) in Ricki and the Flash, from writer Diablo Cody and director Jonathan Demme. The titular role of Ricki requires singing and guitar-playing, and you know Queen Meryl would not be content letting a stand-in handle all the work. In addition to recording 12 cover songs for the new film, Streep was so committed to the project that she spent six months honing her guitar skills and wound up literally bleeding for her art. That’s just how Meryl Streep rolls.
‘Ricki and the Flash’ is one of my most-anticipated films of the year—you’ve got Meryl Streep playing a rock goddess in a film directed by Jonathan Demme and scripted by ‘Juno’ and ‘Young Adult’ writer Diablo Cody. What more could you ask for? Well, how about the first image of queen of everything Meryl Streep rocking out with a guitar? Done.
Russell Crowe pretty much just inserted his own foot into his privileged male mouth. It’s hardly news that actresses face sexism, ageism, and other sorts of unpleasant -isms in Hollywood, but the actor thinks their complaints about ageism specifically are “bulls---”—which is both a willfully ignorant and completely sexist opinion. Hey, Mr. Crowe, ageism in Hollywood, much like dry land in ‘Waterworld,’ is not a myth.
t’s not out of the realm of possibility for Disney’s ‘Into the Woods’ to receive a couple of Oscar nods this season. It’s likely that Rob Marshall’s adaptation of the classic stage musical will get nominated for production design and/or costumes, at the very least, while star Meryl Streep might—just maybe—receive a nomination for her performance. The latest featurette for the film, which hit theaters on Christmas Day, takes us behind the scenes to show us the magic that went into bringing the woods to life.
In the fall of 2013, APCO Worldside surveyed 70,000 people about the world’s biggest brands. They measured their responses in eight different ways—“understanding, approachability, relevance, admiration, curiosity, identification, empowerment, and pride.” The number one most loved company out of 600 choices: Disney.

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Out of brightly coloured threads of narration and description Paul wove a dazzling tapestry of stories from the world of the Arabian Nights. Under the guidance of the old woman who looked after them, the orphans Masud and Miriam brought back the mysterious Bird from the land of Gibur to the Garden with the Fountain of Laughter and the Fountain of Tears, during which adventure it was the girl who saved the boy, and not vice versa – but after that, the bird just sat and watched the stars go by, until one day it said, “It is time!” and flew away.
Meanwhile, Hassan the Archer was taken on an expedition to find the Lost City of Iram by a Sheikh who knew a lot more than he did. They found it, but, of all the treasures there, they could only take a small box of red sulphur, which nevertheless had the power to transform everyday objects into gold and jewels. Riches and luxury were a poor compensation for Hassan, whose wife and children had mysteriously disappeared in his absence.
Suleiman the Magnificent's fascination with the Lost City of Iram enabled him [with the help of the Oldest Stork in the World] to find it under the desert sands, but all he could do then was contemplate it, until Death, the Destroyer of Friendships and the Breaker-up of Feasts, took him, and he was buried in the city he had sought, and the djinn covered it again with the sands they had removed at his behest.
All things change, and Mahmud the Merciful succeeded to the throne of his father, known as the Merciless, and found, in the depths of his father's prisons, an old man with a small box of red dust, who had refused to divulge its secret to the former ruler, and, even as the new sultan released him, so a large bird arrived in the city, followed by a young man and young woman, whose identity, gentle listeners, I'm sure you can guess.
As if all that hadn't been treat enough for an evening for the thirteen of us gathered in an upper room, John played guitar in our first interval, and the last session brought another five stories: Janet told The Businessman on Paradise Island, Alan told The Car and the Horses, Misha told The Fish in the Grass, the Buns in the Trees, and the Sausages in the Lake, Raph told The Slippers of Abu Kassim and Mike raced through The Princess with the Golden Hair from Howard Schwartz's Elijah's Violin.

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This full weekly sticker kit is sized to fit the HP Classic sized Dashboard layout planner although these stickers fit in many other horizontal planners as well! The four pages gives you many stickers to use in one or multiple planners if you wish to color coordinate your week.
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Obergurgl Weather February
Near Obergurgl there is the ski resort Obergurgl-Hochgurgl, which in February will most likely have enough snow in order to go skiing.
To help you choose the best time to travel, you can find climate data below on the weather in Obergurgl in February.
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Temperature in Obergurgl
In February the average daily maximum in Obergurgl is -0.1°C, and the minimum -8.3°C.
The hottest February day on record is +11°C, and the coldest -23.4°C.
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There are 10.9 hours of daylight in Obergurgl in February. Out of these, on average 2.5 are sunny, which means the sun is almost never visible.
The amount of precipitation in Obergurgl in February is usually 42 mm, a negligible amount.

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At this point last year, Xander Bogaerts looked as if he was well on his way to a great rookie season. He was hitting .300/.391/.443 with four home runs, 15 RBIs, 15 doubles, with a .371 wOBA (which measures a hitter's offensive value, .320 considered average) through 55 games and 233 plate appearances. While the defense was subpar, Bogaerts was, at the very least, contributing at the plate.
But then Bogaerts moved off shortstop following the signing of Stephen Drew and the offensive production evaporated. Bogaerts skittered to the end of 2014, concluding the year hitting .240/.297/.362 while flailing the bat any time an outside slider came his way. The defense at third base was not any better, and when the Red Sox traded Drew to the Yankees, Bogaerts continued to struggle at shortstop.
Through 55 games in 2015, the offensive output for Bogaerts has ticked back up noticeably; the 22-year-old is hitting .297/.342/.400 with two home runs, 21 RBIs, eight doubles and a .326 wOBA through 55 games and 205 plate appearances and has been picking up as of late. During the seven-game homestand, Bogaerts hit .440 (11-for-25) with three extra-base hits, four RBIs and four runs.
But what's most notable for Bogaerts is the improved defense. In 2014, Bogaerts posted a -3.7 UZR/150 at shortstop, which measures runs above average defensively per 150 defensive games. Bogaerts' defense this season has flipped around 180 degrees; so far in 2015, Bogaerts' UZR/150 is 6.4. To put that in context, Drew's UZR/150 in 2013 was 6.7. Where last year he was ahead of only Yunel Escobar (and a couple ticks worse than Derek Jeter, oof), this season he's posted the seventh best dWAR (4.5) in baseball among qualified shortstops. In the American League, Bogaerts is tied for the second-highest.
Third base coach Brian Butterfield has worked extensively with Bogaerts to improve the young shortstop's defensive ability. Butterfield identified Bogaerts' feet as the area that needed the most improvement.
"I’ve always looked at shortstop as an up-the-funnel, moving-forward-type position. Going from the back of the diamond to the front of the diamond," Butterfield said to WEEI last August. "You’re going up the funnel to attack the ball while third base is more of a side-to-side, even front-to-back, back-to-front, in order to get the better hops. I call it a zig-zag position at third base. At shortstop, the demands are greater, so you better attack the ball, especially on guys that can run, you better attack the ball and not let it bounce too many times, and get it in the air quickly."
The progress is evident.
... doesn't happen for Bogaerts in 2014; the ball either scoots under his glove or is booted.
It's an indisputable fact that Bogaerts has made remarkable strides defensively. He, however, has made some pretty big improvements at the plate as well. So far this season, Bogaerts is not hitting for a whole lot of power (just a .103 ISO compared to .123 ISO in 2014), but he's significantly cut down his strikeout rate from 23.2 percent to 13.4 percent by figuring out the outside slider that was his kryptonite in 2014.
Bogaerts' performance this season places him among Top-5 in WAR among shortstops so far this season at 1.4 WAR, trailing only Brandon Crawford, José Iglesias, Jhonny Peralta and Adeiny Hechavarria, placing him smack-dab in the middle of the All-Star conversation.
As of June 9, Bogaerts sits below the Top-5 in the American League for the starting shortstop position, standing more than three million votes behind leading vote-getter Alcides Escobar (0.8 WAR). So unless the whole island of Aruba (population 102,911) each votes 30 times or Taylor Swift tweets to vote that all Swifties should vote for Bogaerts which stages a remarkable comeback, it doesn't look like Bogaerts will be starting at shortstop for the American League in Cincinnati on July 14.
With that said, Bogaerts' performance so far this season places him among the top-2 shortstops (in regards to WAR) in the American League, trailing just Iglesias.
Beyond just the fan vote, Bogaerts can be voted in by his fellow players or chosen by American League manager Ned Yost for the All-Star roster. There's still a long way to go until the All-Star game and Bogaerts could still fall into a major slump — Bogaerts hit .135/.176/.250 in June in 2014 — but the Aruba native has made significant strides, both offensively and defensively, that should make Yost and players around baseball take a couple of extra seconds when they come across Bogaerts' name on the All-Star ballot.

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On the following pages you will find lots of information about the products and workshops available from my studio, Moro Silver. My speciality is designing and making jewellery from silver and bronze clay, a technique which originated in Japan about ten years ago and uses recycled raw material, which is environmentally friendly as it is reclaimed from waste.
It is a very versatile product – you can do almost anything with it in terms of work and with a little tuition you can make simple jewellery to your own design very quickly.
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Orange creamsicle is one of my absolute favorite flavors, and I doubt I'd ever turn one down if offered one. What I love about this particular recipe is that it's naturally-sweetened, sugar-free and also free of many allergens like dairy and eggs. It's also vegan, which is great because we have lots of friends who are vegetarian or who are allergic to different foods, so it's such a great recipe!
Who wants to bake during the summer months? Frankly, the smell is worth it, but not if it also warms up your house! That's why summer sweets should stay that way--sweet--without adding any heat. Celebrity chef Alex Guarnaschelli of the Food Network has some really great cool dessert recipes that work really well for the summer months.
If you're ever in the mood for both a brownie and a cookie but can't make a decision, it's definitely brookie time. A brookie is a combination between a brownie and a cookie, combining the best of both worlds. You can even customize a brookie with a swirl of cinnamon, raspberry jam or caramel, top it with some salt or other fun additions to satisfy your cravings.
While I'm not a huge fan of adding a lot of citrus to savory foods, I love me some citrus cake and desserts. The other day I had a lemon-blueberry bar that was pretty much Heaven in your mouth, and I will always love orange-chocolate flavor combinations. Both are my favorite flavors of ice cream/gelato, too.
There are endless ideas for a healthier-for-you ice cream. Many people like to freeze grapes and pop them, while others freeze and mash up bananas for "ice cream." Then, of course, there are various custards and yogurts made with healthier alternatives, depending on what healthier means for your body type and unique nutritional needs.
If you've never made a fat bomb, you're in for a treat: they're quick, easy and delicious. While they might seem daughting because they are full of fat and meant to keep you full on a ketogenic way of life, you can always modify them to work with your own lifestyle. The best thing about fat bombs is that they essentially all follow the same pattern: you blend all of their ingredients together, pour them in bite-sized molds and freeze them. In a few hours, they're ready!
Strictly speaking, dips aren't actually dessert material unless they're of the sweet variety, but for those who prefer savory bites, a dip can make a fantastic end-of-meal treat or a snack on its own with your favorite dippables, whether they be pita chips, crisps, pretzels or vegetables. I've always been a dip lover and have enjoyed dips my whole life, so I'll often take a good savory dip over a sweet one any day. Ranch and French onion are some of my all-time favorites, and both are so much better when made with fresh ingredients.


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(11-22-2016, 06:39 PM)Octo Wrote: But you should focus on lowering the inflammation levels in your body.
You could try turmeric which is not dangerous to your health and have strong anti-inflammatory properties.
Curcumae rhizoma (Turmeric root) 1-3 g 3 times a day. Sprinkled over food or however you want it.
You can gradually increase the dose to up to 20 grams if you can handle it.
Also cut out sugar completely from your diet.
And stick to a Mediterranean diet, it should be fairly easy for you.
New knowledge for me, thanks Octo
I take fresh ginger mixed with fruits as I've been told it helps.
So you mean powder [processed] Turmeric? Guess fresh would be better if I find it.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 11, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) – ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs – today announced that Cleveland has been selected for an expanded federal initiative designed to help repair communities hit hardest by the housing crisis. Cleveland is one of six Ohio cities and 18 metropolitan areas nationwide designated for the program.
The announcement marks the expansion of the Neighborhood Stabilization Initiative, which was jointly developed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the National Community Stabilization Trust. The pilot program, first launched in Detroit, MI, in May 2014, was extended earlier this year to Cook County, IL. In addition to helping stabilize neighborhoods, the initiative is also intended to reduce the inventory of foreclosed real-estate owned (REO) properties held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Click here for a fact sheet on the Neighborhood Stabilization Initiative’s expansion.
The markets that were selected for the initiative’s expansion are Metropolitan Statistical Areas in which Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each had at least 100 real estate owned properties valued at less than $75,000. The selected Ohio markets include Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland-Elyria, Columbus, Dayton, and Toledo. Nationwide, the following areas have been designated for the initiative:


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Woman airlifted after Memorial Day accident at Innsbruck
By Dean Dyer Staff
HELEN - The female passenger of a golf cart was injured Memorial Day when the cart turned over onto her.
The Helen police report states that the incident occurred around 3:30 p.m. Monday at Innsbruck golf course.
According to the investigating officer's report, it had just rained and two women were in a golf cart going down a steep decline on the wet pavement.
The driver, identified as Chong Park, told the officer that as she applied the brakes the cart swung around, flipped over and pinned female passenger Tae Hee Kim.
Park's husband and Kim's husband were following behind. They told the officer that they immediately exited their golf cart and were able to upright the overturned cart that was on top of victim.
White County Emergency Medical Service personnel arrived on scene and requested a helicopter to transport the patient to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
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An open-air synagogue, Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall is the most holy of Jewish sites, and as powerful a demonstration of religious observance as exists anywhere. Hasidic Jews line up by the wall to pray, bending gently forward, and to kiss the stones, some placing notes of prayer into the cracks of the wall. If you can, visit at sundown on a Friday. Shabbat is when the wall is at its liveliest, with much reading from the Torah, dancing and singing in worship– a joyous, moving spectacle.
Jerusalemis an endlessly explorable city, its old city in particular a place that positively encourages wandering its atmospheric, timeless streets. The modern city is the backdrop to a scene where minarets and steeples spear the air, ramparts peek out in places, the Church of Mary Magdalene’s golden domes wink in the sun on the Mount of Olives, and, of course, there sits the great, graceful curve of the iconic Dome of the Rock.
Away from the welter of extraordinary religious spectacles, it’s worth making time for some secular sights. Grab a shakshuka and linger in one of the old city’s varied quarters, or venture downtown and negotiate your way around the bustle of Mahane Yehuda Market. Whatever you’re after, you’ll get it here, the air hanging heavy with cardamom and coffee, and some fantastic fruit juices to accompany your shopping.

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SYNCO G2 (A2) 2.4GHz Dual Wireless Lavalier Microphone System
The SYNCO G2 (A2) Wireless Lavalier Microphone is a wireless dual microphone. It is reincarnated from G1(A2) with a display that shows all major indications. It continues to analyze the input audio using proprietary technology before delivering clean, clear audio using 2.4GHz digital transmission technology. G2(A2) captures two sound sources at the same time using one receiver and two transmitters, making it suitable for a wide range of content productions.
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The embryoscopes of 'Nadezhda'
The assessment of embryo development usually is done by traditional microscopy methods. Still, in many cases, we apply the most modern platform for embryo culture and continuous monitoring, the embryoscope.
The embryoscope combines a last-generation incubator with an inbuilt microscope with a camera and specialised software for monitoring and analysis of embryo development without the need to take them outside the incubator. The platform monitors 24/7 vital environmental parameters like temperature and gas composition, and the camera documents the embryo’s development every ten minutes in seven different planes.
In contrast to traditional microscopy, the embryoscope allows us to follow up on the dynamics of embryo development. At the same time, we can analyse and closely monitor the cell division and changes in embryo morphology in every single moment. Embryoscopy provides enormous advantages for selecting the embryos with the highest implantation potential.
Data from the embryoscopy are stored and can be further used for more in-depth analyses.
When is embryoscopy recommended:
Embryo development day by day
The day of your egg retrieval.
Two pronuclei can be observed in the fertilised egg (the zygote) – one from the sperm and one from the oocyte. Not all eggs retrieved show signs of fertilisation. Some will need to be reevaluated on day 2 for a final result.
The zygotes have cleaved into two to four cells.
The normally developing embryo is already cleaved into 8 cells, called blastomeres.
The morula stage – the embryo now consists of 12 to 16 cells.
The blastocyst stage – the embryo now consists of about 110 cells, which form two types of tissue-like structures: the inner cells mass, which will give rise to the foetus, and the trophectoderm, from which the placenta, the umbilical cord and the foetal membranes will be formed.
Five to six days is the maximum period for your embryos to live in the lab.
On each of these days, the embryologists will evaluate the embryo development.
Various parameters are assessed: cleavage and number of cells, whether the cells are equal in size and symmetry, whether there are fragments. Also monitored are embryo compaction and the size and quality of the resulting blastocysts.

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A Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun, on Monday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Akintunde Segun, to one year imprisonment for stealing a water tank belonging to the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA).
The Association of Resident Doctors at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, says its members will commence a three-day warning strike on Monday.
As part of efforts to appreciate the role being played by security personnel during the lockdown in Ogun State as well as mitigate its economic effects on their families, the State Government has donated some food items to officers across all security outfits operating in the State.
About four persons have been reportedly killed as suspected herdsmen and farmers clashed in Iwoye area of Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The incoming administration of Prince Dapo Abiodun in Ogun State plans to make Primary and Junior secondary school education tuition-free.
An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that two men be remanded in prison for attempting to murder the Ogun State APC Chairman, Chief Derin Adebiyi.
Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Honorable Abike Dabiri-Erewa, weekend, debunked the rumour making the round that she hoard Covid-19 Palliatives in her G.R.A residence in Ikorodu, Lagos.
Some hoodlums accosted INEC officials as they prepared to commence voting during Saturday’s by-election at Unit 13, Kosofe council area of Lagos State.
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Lagos East Senatorial bye-election, Babatunde Gbadamosi, has won his polling unit.
Alex Iwobi shone as Everton played out a 1-1 draw against Burnley in Saturday’s Premier League game.
The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Christians Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Rev. Yakubu Pam, on Saturday charged Nigerian youths to rise and complement government’s efforts at addressing the challenges facing the country.
A group, Abia Youths for Good Governance (AYGG), has lambasted the Provost of Abia State College of Education (Technical) Arochukwu, Dr Philips Nto, for his attack on a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Dan Okeke.
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the mid-November apparent murders of a traditional leader and his son in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, the state government has disclosed.
Ecobank Group has recorded a revenue of N461.2 billion for the nine months for the period ended September 30, 2020, representing nine per cent increase compared with N422.6 billion posted in the corresponding period of 2019.
Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has called on government at all levels to give priority attention to women, especially in the areas of sports, swimming, as well as rural empowerment.
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed “to probe false posting on the Ministry’s official Twitter handle of court proceedings in a lawsuit against him and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC).

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Women Don't Work for Money by fine artist Pasha du Valentine.
I use found objects for the Art Renouveau series.
Eco friendly and great for feeling smug about recycling, this series depends entirely on the things I find that have been discarded or undervalued.
I see the world from a different point of view now, it's more positive, more optimistic.
This is a cross-stitch I found and some of the Men Only magazine cut outs I bought at an auction. They can't be sold on eBay or social media as they are deemed offensive.


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Overall, it was just ok: Royal Princess Cruise Review by Cruise'nMaMa
Overall Member Rating
Overall, it was just ok
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
We stayed at the Marriott Courtyard Dania Beach which offers free shuttle to Port. Rooms were typical. Very busy hotel. No restriction on number of people for each shuttle time; Called people to board by ship and that worked well.
We were very excited for this cruise despite the initial member reviews. However, somethings are very true that others posted.
Embarkation: Easy for us because we were Preferred and could bypass everyone (who gave us dirty looks). Otherwise, stick to the time that Princess emails to you. You will sit around and wait from what I saw. Able to head to buffet and room right away.
Cabin: We had a mini-suite, A519; Typical princess minisuite inside; Poor sized balcony outside especially for category; Furniture too big and uncomfortable; More no point having footstool, no room to have it out. I use my balcony a lot and so this was a big disappointment for me. Room Steward was very friendly first day and rarely seen rest of cruise and did an ok job but not the best.
Food in Main Dining Room - Allegro - Good, decent fair. Very good waitstaff. Only had 1 night where I didn't find much that excited me. Horizon buffet - typical fair; seemed repetitive all week except for Pastry Shop section. That was awesome.
Ports: Good; been to all before. We did the kayak, hike and snorkel tour on St. Thomas. Was great and a lot of fun. Good for all experience levels.
Children's clubs: About 300 kids on the ship. My son is 10 years old and this was his 3rd cruise; First time he actually asked to go to the kids club because he liked the space and activities. They had foosball tables, air hockey, PS3/Wii, movies, crafts etc.. You have to sign kids up for after 10pm or for port days (first time i've encountered that) and you also were charged after 10pm (1st for that too).
Entertainment: Standard shows. Comedian and Illusionist were both excellent. Illusionist did a separate, intimate show for kids that they really enjoyed. Princess Theater is ok but not great. Chairs are narrow and uncomfortable; no more balcony and no more enjoying a drink before or during. They use the atrium for a lot of dancing and other small shows which makes it very loud and very busy/congested.
Pools: Not enough for a ship this size. 1 Main Pool, 1 kid-sized Pool and 1 Adult only. When the weather is as good as ours was that week, it makes for a very crowded and loud area as there is food all around it also. Could not get a lounge chair near the pool. Had to deposit stuff at eating table instead.
Disembarkation was very relaxed and quite easy. We were scheduled in the Navy 3, 8:45am group and cleared customs by 9:20.
The things I was most disappointed in were the balconies, people flow on the ship, lack of promenade deck. I felt very closed in on this ship. I do not like to take elevators but at times were forced to because of ship design and it was typically an unpleasant experience. This ship had too many people for me and its design emphasized it. Also, my other major issue was the clientele aka passengers on this cruise. Our week seemed to attract a large entitled, older crowd. I have never encountered so much behavior that would make the Cruise Critic Naughty list as I did on this cruise. My son is very well-behaved and did not deserve some of the treatment he encountered such as being shoved out of the way by a couple who didn't want to wait their turn as he got a couple of waffles while I was standing nearby. He patiently waited his turn and the adults should be able to also! Its a buffet people there will be more food. We would show up for a show in the Princess theater only to have people move away or constantly give us dirty looks. All he did was sit down and wait for the show. He wasn't running around, screaming, climbing things. We also witnessed people trying to get out of paying for things they obviously signed for, complaining when they couldn't have escargot every night just because they wanted it, treating crew rudely, complaining loudly about too many kids and guess where they were? the kids pool! Seriously? Honestly, it was a sad display. The crew, I give kudos to as they continued to keep a smile on their face and greet you but I'm sure it was hard at times!
Overall, I would not sail Royal again. I will sail Princess again but on their smaller, and likely older ships. Less
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text: Hey all, I started mashin drum and bass and hip-hop lyrics together, I dunno if anyone but me likes it, so I decided I'd throw it on the net for people to rate or hate. 1; Monoman - Dirty Games feat. Beastie Boys 2; Pendulum - Voodoo People feat. Jurassic 5 3; Electrosoul System - Colours feat. 2Pac 4; DJ Marky f. Stamina MC - LK [Code Mashup] I've got other Mashups, but these are the ones I had the most fun with. I've always been working on a pretty basic 45min set.. if I'm not torn apart with hate by the time it's done I'll post it. Cheers.


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For today, a tanka. I had been working on another poem that sort of went bust--it just didn't make sense. Sometimes those things happen. Rather than pursue it further, I used the thorns that were supposed to be meaningful in the first poem (and weren't), and put them into this tanka. If nothing else, it's very green!
Laura Purdie Salas is the host for the last Round-Up of National Poetry Month. Hurry over!


According to recent research, the average policyholder should have $46,000 more coverage than they have.
The majority of people who should be covered by a life insurance policy don’t even have one, but among those who do, the results of a recent study have suggested that they have typically underestimated the amount that they actually need.
This means that if the worst should actually occur, the insurance payout may not be enough to cover beneficiary needs.
SunLife recently conducted a study that has shown that the average payout from a life insurance policy is £51,500, (almost $79,000), but at the same time, they also found that the average outstanding mortgage currently sits at £83,000 (about $123,300), which means that there is a shortfall of £31,500 (about $46,300) between the policy payout and the amount of debt that would be left to bereaved families.
Since most people buy life insurance so that families won’t face financial devastation, this shows a possible problem.
The majority of people who purchase life policies have done so in order to make certain that if the primary earner in the family should die, then there won’t be a devastating impact on the family’s financial situation.
That said, while the shortfall does represent a potential serious problem, SunLife managing director, Dean Lamble, has pointed out that even if policyholders eliminate that shortfall, it still may not be enough to cover the expenses that the bereaved family could face. Lamble stated that “If for example the breadwinner in a family was to die, being able to pay off the mortgage would be a big help. But, while that would take a significant burden off the family, it wouldn’t leave any money to pay the ongoing household bills, provide an income or mean the everyday things could carry on.”
For this reason, it can take some careful thought and calculations in order to determine the amount of life insurance coverage that will actually be needed. SunLife’s research report recommends that customers who uncertain about the amount that they need should err to the side of caution and opt for slightly more coverage as opposed to slightly less.


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As it is known, Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of volume, accepted the money laundering allegations of the United States. Zhao agreed to pay a $50 million fine under the agreement with the US Department of Justice and resigned from his CEO position. Now, Zhao’s lawyers are requesting permission for him to return to the United Arab Emirates, where his family resides.
According to His Lawyers, Zhao Has No Risk of Escape
After the founder and former CEO of Binance, Zhao, admitted to violating the Bank Secrecy Act, his lawyers objected to the US Department of Justice’s court application, arguing that he should be allowed to leave the US before receiving his sentence in February. The lawyers have requested that Zhao be allowed to return to the United Arab Emirates for now.
The lawyers argue that Zhao has already proven that he has no risk of escape by coming to the US to accept these charges. Indeed, Judge Brian Tsuchida, who presided over the case, acknowledged that Zhao coming to the US and appearing in court voluntarily was convincing. In the court application, the lawyers emphasized this point and stated, “Judge Tsuchida has determined that Zhao does not pose a risk of escape, even while residing in the United Arab Emirates, based on all relevant facts, including Zhao’s voluntary surrender, his intention to resolve this case, and the proposed substantial bail package.”
Binance agreed to pay a $4.3 billion fine, implement a compliance program, appoint independent observers to review past transactions, and approve Zhao’s resignation as CEO this week. Richard Teng, the former regional markets president of Binance, has taken over as the new CEO.
According to the Department of Justice, Zhao Should Stay in the US
Zhao was released on $175 million bail on November 21. However, his lawyers and the US Department of Justice have differing opinions on whether Zhao, who is a US citizen and whose family resides in the UAE, should return to the UAE or stay in the US. If Zhao returns to the UAE, he must return to the US two weeks before his conviction.
The Department of Justice argues that Zhao could afford to lose the $15 million he deposited and the $5 million deposited by his guarantors. The lawyers say that this argument ignores Zhao’s and Binance’s financial commitments. The lawyers state, “Despite the weight of all this information and Judge Tsuchida’s evaluation of them, the government does not provide any valid or additional basis for insisting that Zhao stay in the US, away from his family, for months between his defense and sentencing.”
Zhao’s sentence is scheduled to be announced on February 23, 2024. Zhao, who is expected to receive an 18-month prison sentence, has agreed to pay a $50 million fine in the plea deal.


text: I just returned from the theaters at Lincoln Center. Avatar Imax 3-D was incredible to watch (though I did doze off through the love story sequence). The action was great and the effects were really something to see in 3-D on such a large movie screen. I recommend seeing it in Imax before it’s yanked from the theaters to make room for Alice in Wonderland in Imax 3-D (which I can’t wait to see!).


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Meatball opened in March on Kapahulu Avenue in the former home of Mac Nut House (and before that, La Bamba) as a tiny white-washed casual dining restaurant that does one thing well.
Grondin, Brew'd and new spots by Lucky Belly and Tucker and Bevvy owners
On the quest for Taiwanese beef noodle soup
Cinco places to get your tacos, tequila and Tecate.
Local kombucha brewery offers booch on tap at Kokua Market.
The lineup for the Hawaii Food and Wine Festival has been announced and tickets are now on sale.
Chris Greywolf, aka Wolf, would rather be making armor and swords or leading the Khanate of the Golden Horde.
Nobu Waikiki, Monkeypod Kitchen, Cactus, Vintage Cave
Mother's Day is May 11
Daylight Mind Coffee Co., Tasty Dim Sum and Snacks, Hawaiian Fresh Farms
The Mercury Bar makeover means fresh juice cocktails and pizza
Hiroshi Fukui has left, but the new chefs have taken up the modern kaiseki tradition.


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Sheng is part of any generation of middle class that Chinese media has dubbed “fang nu,” or housing slaves, a reference on the lifetime of employment needed to settle debts they have accrued. They’re taking up 民間二胎 even while the us government maintains property curbs to damp prices which have almost tripled since China embarked in 1998 on a drive to enhance private owning a home.
“It’s a reward personally because I could never afford this kind of luxury after I start repaying my housing loans the following month,” said Sheng, who paid 1.1-million yuan to the one-bedroom apartment in the city’s western outskirts and will also be using about 70% of her salary to service her mortgage.
China’s growing middle class reaching for homeownership helped property prices rebound starting in the second half of last year. They rose 1% in January from December, the greatest gain in two years, as outlined by property website SouFun Holdings Ltd. Home prices in Beijing and Shanghai each rose 2.3% from December.
Average per-square-meter prices in 100 cities tracked by SouFun are 5 times average monthly disposable incomes. A 100-square-meter (1,076-square-foot) apartment today costs about 40 years’ annual income, based on SouFun and government data, even as salaries get more than quadrupled since 1998.
Sheng was able to buy her 50-square-meter apartment after borrowing a combined 770,000 yuan through a 20-year mortgage from Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. and a 15-year loan in the local housing providence fund. Her parents helped together with the 30% downpayment. She is going to repay about 4,000 yuan on a monthly basis for the home, a one-hour subway ride from central Shanghai’s historic Bund that cost 16 times her annual salary, in accordance with the apartment price and her income.
Chinese homebuyers typically use 30% to 50% of the monthly incomes to pay back mortgages, said Wu Hao, a manager at the loan brokerage of Bacic & 5i5j Group, Beijing’s second-biggest realtor for existing homes. It advises clients to keep monthly repayments less than one-third with their incomes.
The “general guideline” among Chinese banks is the fact a borrower’s salary ought to be twice their payment per month; otherwise they’ll have to submit proof of assets, for example property, cars, or insurance to demonstrate their ability to service the debt, Wu said. Using 70% of monthly income to pay for the mortgage is “very rare,” she said.
Home loan rates, which move using the benchmark monthly interest, ordinarily have maturities of five to 3 decades. The People’s Bank of China’s benchmark lending rate for loans over 5 years now stands at 6.55%.
Outstanding residential mortgage loans grew 12.9% a year ago to 7.5-trillion yuan, the slowest pace in four years, as China tightened lending, based on central bank data. A credit binge during 2009 fueled inflation, weakened banks’ financial buffers and triggered a rise in soured loans.
Still, analysts remain upbeat on Chinese banks. Home loans made up 20% of your total loan portfolio of China Construction Bank Corp., the nation’s largest mortgage company, at the conclusion of June, while at Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the 2nd largest, the ratio was about 14 percent, according to their first-half earnings reports.
Stable property prices in 2013 “should benefit CCB the most, as it has got the highest real estate-related exposure on the list of H-share banks,” Grace Wu and Leon Qi, Hong Kong-based analysts at Daiwa Capital Markets, wrote within a Jan. 22 report. H shares would be the shares of Chinese companies traded in Hong Kong.
Developers also are benefitting as homebuyers rush to purchase since they expect prices to increase further. China Vanke Co., the greatest developer that trades on Chinese exchanges outside of Hong Kong, said sales rose 56% last month from your year earlier, while Evergrande Property Group Ltd., the country’s largest developer by sales volume, said its January sales greater than tripled.
Standard & Poor’s raised its outlook for Chinese residential developers to stable from negative inside a report released today, saying companies could actually improve their liquidity at favorable costs because funding channels reopened. The ratings company stated it didn’t expect the central government to “drastically” tighten or loosen controls about the property market and average selling prices will rise up to 5% inside the country’s 100 major cities this current year.
The volume of residential property sales in China will rise this year, driven by improved funding to developers, Fitch Ratings said in a Jan. 29 research report.
The home market has “heated up,” while home prices in main cities may rise just as much as 10% in the following 3 months, said Johnson Hu, a Hong Kong-based property analyst at CIMB-GK Securities Research, in a interview.
Loose monetary policy will drive housing prices and sales up from the near term, Hong Kong-based Jinsong Du, Credit Suisse Group AG’s head of property research, wrote in the report Feb. 18.
Credit Suisse favours Hong Kong-traded Chinese developers with “strong” sales and “less expensive” valuations, like Country Garden Holdings Co., controlled by China’s richest woman Yang Huiyan, and Poly Property Group Co., a developer that is certainly partly state owned, Du said. Country Garden and Poly Property trade at a ratio of around eight times estimated profit, compared to 13.4 times for the Hang Seng Property Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The central government has since April 2010 relocated to stamp out speculation inside the property market by raising the down- payment requirement on first mortgages to 30% from 20%, ordering a minimum 60% deposit for second-home purchases and an increase in rates for second loans. It also imposed a home tax initially in Shanghai and Chongqing, and enacted restrictions within 40 cities, like capping the amount of homes that could be bought.
The brand new government may introduce more property curbs if it takes power in March. China may tighten credit policies for anyone getting a second home or enhance the tax on gains on transactions of existing homes in the most affluent, roughly- called tier-one cities, the China Securities Journal reported Feb. 1, citing an unidentified person.
Home sales in China’s 10 biggest cities almost quadrupled to 8.5 million square meters within the first five weeks from last year, property data and consulting firm China Real-estate Information Corp. said in an e-mailed statement Feb. 19.
“The uncertainty lingers as the government may issue new tightening policies if home values are rising too quickly,” said Tian Shixin, a Shanghai-based property analyst at BOC International China Ltd., within a phone interview.
Chinese urban residents’ average disposable income rose 12.6% last year to 2,047 yuan per month, in accordance with the statistics bureau. The average one-square-meter of brand new floor area cost 9,715 yuan in December, as outlined by SouFun.
The shift to private owning a home stems from reforms were only available in 1998, when then Premier Zhu Rongji privatized state- owned housing provided at low rents to urbanites, transferring home ownership in the government on the families occupying the dwellings. About 230 million people relocated to cities within the 2000- 2011 period, the largest urbanization in history, in line with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The thought of getting a property with borrowed money didn’t become popular until 2004 when home values in main cities started rising fast enough to compensate for interest payments, enticing buyers to borrow to purchase property, said Liu Yuan, a Shanghai-based researcher at Centaline Property Agency Ltd., China’s biggest real-estate brokerage.
Today about 50% to 70% of home buyers within the first-tier cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou use mortgages, borrowing a typical 50% of your home’s value, according to Centaline.
Cai Yue, a 33-year-old manager in a Shanghai-based pharmaceutical company, bought her first home a decade ago after graduation, among the first wave of Chinese getting mortgages as dexlpky83 government tried to encourage home ownership through providing income tax rebates and the cheapest funding by two decades.
Cai borrowed 50% from the bank for her 300,000 yuan apartment in 2003. Her monthly instalment was 1,600 yuan, about 40% of her salary at the time.
“It was a good modern idea to battle a home loan in those days,” said Cai, who earned 3,700 yuan per month way back in 2003 and declined to disclose her current income.
With home values of 6.8 times during the her annual income, 房屋二胎 managed to pay back her debts in 2007 and get a 2nd home for a couple of-million yuan that same year. Her first home, the 75-square-meter apartment about 8 kilometres (5 miles) north of the Bund, has surged sixfold in value. Cai repaid all her mortgages in December and is also barred from buying a third apartment in Shanghai.

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text: We're all in this thing called life together, and it is our divine duty to help one another along. Sometimes people need a helping hand, a shoulder to lean on or even just a friendly smile. How many times has it made your day when someone you didn't even know showed you kindness or gave you a friendly gesture? That inner smile and feeling of being elevated emotionally is the feeling we should all strive to give those who cross our path in a day. Whether in the classroom, the work place or on the street, we should be a caring and positive influence in the lives of othes; in doing this, we are a true light in the world.

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The response to Dr. George Tiller's death has made me nearly as angry, and more shocked, than even the murder itself made me. It is appalling to see any public figure, no matter how foolish and corrupt, equivocate by condemning a murder but calling the victim of that murder a "monster." It is disgusting to read Megan McArdle's double-voiced paean to vigilantism, which compares the killer's victim to a Nazi, or William Saletan's bankrupt and sophomoric exercise in moral equivalency. Everyone, or almost everyone, makes a token acknowledgment that murder is still a crime, and purports to disapprove. But with that brief obligation dispensed, people evidently feel free to vilify the dead man, the victim of the crime, in the most grotesque and slanderous way, comparing him to Josef Mengele or Pol Pot. The vile O'Reilly actually delivers his pro forma denunciation in a transparently insincere voice, signaling that while "Kansas law" allows what Tiller did, O'Reilly has nothing but contempt for that law. Then he proceeds, much more warmly to repeat his libelous smears on the victim. Then O'Reilly complains of unfair treatment by his critics. Someone has been murdered in a church, and O'Reilly claims that he, O'Reilly, is the victim.
I've never really believed in the decline of our civilization until now. What could be more barbarous, less humane, less civil?
Beyond the indecency of speaking this way while Tiller's widow and family are still grieving, and beyond the rank dishonesty of the smears against him, it is shocking to hear people continue the very demonization that got the man murdered in the first place. Dr.Tiller is discussed, even in his death, as a monster, as someone whose motives with incomprehensibly malevolent, as someone who should not be imagined as real or human. They mouth pious regret for his death, but do their best to erase the life he actually led from the public memory.
Worst of all, they complain about being held accountable for the inflammatory rhetoric that made the crime seem possible, and then sensible, and finally even laudable, to the deranged gunman. They compare a man to genocidal tyrants, and when he is killed they compare him to genocidal tyrants again, and they are shocked, shocked, that anyone would suggest they ought to have spoken differently.
O'Reilly presents, essentially, the Louis Farrakhan defense: He's not responsible for Malcolm X's murder, and should not be blamed for it simply because he was publicly preaching that the Malcolm should be killed. Farrakhan felt he was being unjustly persecuted, too.
O'Reilly, and the other pro-lifers who complain that they are being viewed unfairly, are wrong. They are not being unfairly blamed. They are free from criminal penalty, and from civil suit, because they did not participate in the crime itself. They are free from any censorship of their speech, even their intemperate speech, because they did not explicitly urge the murder. The freedom with which they trash and defile Tiller's memory proves how far from any real fear of censorship they are.
The essence of their position is that it is unfair for others to judge their speech. They will be permitted to say whatever they like, however dishonest or intemperate, however liable to encourage the violent fringe. But it is unfair for listeners to make a judgment about their honesty, their temper, their morals or their wisdom. For the rest of us to listen to them and decide for ourselves is, apparently, a violation of their freedom. Accusing people of murder and comparing them to Hitler is an exercise of their rights. Calling them dangerous demagogues for saying those things is a violation of their rights.
O'Reilly and Carlson and the leaders of Operation Rescue should not be punished by law, or by censorship. But they should be blamed. They have earned an enormous amount of blame. They are free to pose as moral authorities, the rest of us are not obligated to believe it. They can say whatever horrible and morally depraved things they please. But no one has to pretend to like it.


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When I moved up from New York to Connecticut nine years ago, I never thought I would wind up devoting a blog, website, and facebook to it. Sometimes you have to leave a place to come back to it. I now spend a lot of time in NY in the virtual sense, but between living up here, running a toner business, and raising a family I don’t get to go back too often in the real sense. Relying strictly on virtual word of mouth, the page has grown to a membership of thousands and continues to grow. Thanks to Mitch Kahn and Dave Frieder I have a rare chance to come down and meet in real life on the 9th some of the people I have spent so much time with online.
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In comparison with traditional dry patches, the smart bandage regrew three times more blood-rich tissue.
Researchers have designed a “smart bandage” that could accommodate multiple medications tailored to a specific type of wound, all in a single covering, according to a study published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials (Nov. 3, 2017; 27(41):1702399–1702409).
“This is the first bandage that is capable of dose-dependent drug release,” said study author Ali Tamayol, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Nev, in a press release. “You can release multiple drugs with different release profiles. That’s a big advantage in comparison with other systems. What we did here was come up with a strategy for building a bandage from the bottom up.”
The dose and delivery schedule of medications can be customized through a microcontroller, no larger than a postage stamp, that is triggered by a smartphone or other wireless devices. Voltage from the microcontroller heats the fiber and its hydrogel, releasing the medicine it contains onto the dermis.
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Medicine in the smart bandage is released through small patches composed of a hydrogel coating, conductive coating and cotton thread.
Dr. Tamayol and his team conducted a series of experiments to evaluate the potential advantages of their smart bandage.
In one study, the scientists applied a smart bandage loaded with growth factor to wounded mice. When compared with a dry bandage, their version regrew three times as much of the blood-rich tissue critical to the healing process.
Another analysis showed that an antibiotic-loaded version of the bandage could eradicate infection-causing bacteria. Collectively the experiments also demonstrated that the heat needed to release the medications did not affect their potency.
The team anticipates that the smart bandage will be used initially to treat chronic skin wounds caused by diabetes. It can also help stimulate faster healing of bullet wounds or prevent the onset of infection in remote environments.
“This is a platform that can be applied to many different areas of biomedical engineering and medicine,” said Dr. Tamayol.
According to the researchers, further animal and then human testing is needed before the patented design can go to market. The clinicians are also working to incorporate thread-based sensors that can measure glucose, pH, and other health-related indicators of skin tissue. This will allow the team to create a bandage that could autonomously deliver proper treatments.
The investigators received support from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and the National Institutes of Health in the United States.

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Volume 18, Number 1 .... January 1996
The future looks dark as the budget axe is taken to the National Endowment for the Arts. Though the legislation has not yet passed the full Congress and though the President can still veto it, at present, the House and Senate conference committee has agreed to cut the NEA's 1996 budget from $175 million to $99.5 million. NEA faces major restructuring. Forty percent layoffs in staff and changes in the application process are anticipated. Replacement categories for the previously discipline -based categories are now "creation and presentation", "education and access", "heritage and preservation", and "planning and stabilization". The effect of these new categories will be to have different organizational groups such as museum exhibitions competing against opera or ballet for grants.
Los Angeles Times, Saturday, November 4, 1995, p. F2.
Four sculptures by Columbian artist Doris Salcedo were destroyed by U.S. Custom Service officials at John F. Kennedy airport. Pieces of the sculptures were hammered off as the custom officers searched, unsuccessfully, for narcotics. The sculptures were en route to the Carnegie Museum which plans to file a claim for the damage with the federal agency.
by Robert Lee Hotz in Los Angeles Times, Thursday, November 16, 1995, pp. A1, A26, A27.
"Getty researchers are preserving an ancient African trail by reburying it. They are battling erosion, vandals - and controversy."
Since 1993 the Getty Conservation Institute has been working, at the request of the Tanzanian department of antiquities, to unearth, document and preserve the 3.6 million year old Laetoli footprints. Made of volcanic ash, the fragile footprints were being subjected to seasonal rains, disruption by plant roots, and were in possible danger of vandalism.
The Getty team, under the supervision of Martha Demas, has documented the site, created a digital map of the area, made more accurate casts of the prints, and then has re-buried the footprints. The burial consisted of two inches of sand, a layer of a special cloth designed to absorb water without allowing erosion, a distinctive layer of gray soil used as a marker for the site, another layer of sand, a sheet of woven fabric that has an herbicide incorporated into the cloth that is designed to leach out over the next eighty years, more soil, another sheet of material to block roots, a nylon sheet to retard erosion, and a final layer of soil.
Controversy lies in whether the footprints should eventually be taken from their original site and displayed and preserved in a museum. They are considered by some as being too fragile to move yet others believe that to leave them in the remote and unprotected location means that they will eventually succumb to the elements.
by P.R. in ARTnews, summer 1995, p.62.
A four CD-ROM set entitled Encyclopedia of Techniques of the Work of Art is being co-produced by the Louvre and Apple Computer. The set "will concentrate on historic techniques, tools, and materials in four fields of art: painting, graphic art, sculpture, and "objects d'art"." The first of the four discs will be completed by the end of this year.
by Susan E. Milligan and Judd Tilly in ARTnews, October 1995, pp.126 - 130.
"One of the icons of 20th-century sculpture, Constantin Brancusi's Endless Column, along with the artist's entire sculptural complex at Tirgu Jiu, has fallen into disrepair. But and ambitious restoration plan conceived by a Romanian Brancusi authority has scholars and other experts feeling uneasy."
The damaged sculptures, particularly Brancusi's Endless Column, pose a conservation problem which is being addressed by conservators on both sides of the Atlantic. While the renovation of the entire complex raises opposition from the local population as well as Brancusi scholars. Discussion regarding the restoration of sculptures is addressed by members of the J. Paul Getty Foundation and Getty Conservation Institute, and the Romanian Ministry of Culture Institute for Restoration.
The "uneasiness" centers around the initiator and manager of the project, Radu Varia, as well as the extent of the restoration plan.
in Art in America, p. 35.
The world Monuments Fund has developed a World Monuments Watch program which will develop a list of 100 cultural sites that are in dire need of protection. American Express has donated five million dollars for the project which will be used as seed money to raise matching funds.
by A. L. in ARTnews, Summer 1995, p.64.
Henry Moore's King and Queen were vandalized in Dumfries, Scotland. The heads of the figures were sawed off earlier this Spring. In Canbarra, Australia a sculpture by Greg Taylor of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were also severely vandalized. The head of the queen was broken off and a sledgehammer was taken to the figure of the prince.
by Paul G. Bahn in Archaeology, September/ October 1995. p. 20.
Some of the paintings at Chauvet Cave in southern France have recently been carbon dated . Of the eight samples of charcoal that were taken from the paintings and the cave floor, those of two rhinos and a bison have been dated to approximately 32,000 before present. Up until now the oldest dated painting was that of a hand stencil dated about 27,000 years BP. Sophisticated art in the form of small carvings is already known from this earlier period but it was thought that artists of the time had not yet mastered depicting three-dimensional forms. The possibility that the paintings were made by occupants using charcoal from fireplaces of earlier dwellers warns caution regarding the actual date of execution of the paintings.
in the L. A. Times, Nov. 30, 1995, F2.
Damien Hirst, the British artist who has repeatedly shocked the public with sculptures using dead animals and dying insects, is this year's winner of Britain's Turner Prize, a prestigious yet controversial art award that aims to expand ideas of what constitutes art. The 30-year old Hirst--who has pickled a shark and a sheep and made a rotting cow and a bull copulate with the help of hydraulics--was the hot favorite for the $30,970 prize, presented by musician Brian Eno Tuesday night at London's Tate Gallery. Hirst is currently showing one of his most recent pieces at the Tate: the split carcasses of a dead cow and its calf floating in green formaldehyde. This year's selection of Turner finalists provoked the usual cries of "rubbish" from traditionalists--Hirst's competitors were Mona Hatoum who used medical technology to video the inside of her body through every orifice; Callum Innes, whose abstract paintings include blank white canvases; and Mark Wallinger, who made his name showing a live horse as a work of art.
by Maria Puente in USA Today, Friday, Dec. 1, 1995.
Thousands of small museums across the country are easy targets for thieves who are stealing everything from Native American treasures to historic jewelry. While many of the thefts don't come close to the multimillion dollar heists at bigger museums, the local thefts are devastating to communities. At least 24 local museums have been robbed in the last three years. One disturbing pattern: about half the cases involve theft of Native American artifacts worth thousands of dollars on the exploding market for such material in the US, Europe, and Japan.