RE: The tariff classification of two coated fabrics from Canada.
In your letter dated November 2, 1993, on behalf of Shintoa International, P.O. Box 537-A, Springfield, OH, you requested a tariff classification ruling. You did not indicate the name of the Canadian manufacturer.
You indicate that the material of this construction will come in other colors, such as blue and green, besides the sample of the clear material that you submitted with this request. Our reply addresses only the classification of this clear material. You may wish to submit samples of the other colors for classification.
You also indicate that this material will come in various colors. Our classification, as in our response to the first material, addresses only the submitted sample. Other "colors" such as white or clear may be classified differently; you may wish to submit samples for their particular classification.
The applicable subheading for the first item, and again only for the clear material, will be 5903.90.2500, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics, of man-made fibers, not over 70 percent by weight of plastics. The duty rate will be 8.5 percent ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for the second item (black) will be 3921.90.1500, HTS, which provides for other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics, combined with textile materials and weighing not more than 1.492kg per square meter, products with textile components in which man-made fibers predominate by weight over any other single textile fiber, not over 70 percent by weight of plastics.
Goods classifiable under subheadings 5903.90.2500 and 3921.90.1500, HTS, which have originated in the territory of Canada, will be entitled to 4.2 and 2.6 percent ad valorem rates of duty, respectively, under the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA) upon compliance with all applicable regulations.


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A New Chair for Urban Studies
By Lucy Kellison '13
After one semester at Rhodes, Dr. Elizabeth Thomas has no trouble articulating a clear and attainable goal for her program.
"My vision of Urban Studies is that it becomes an interdisciplinary, academic hub for students, faculty and community partners who come from every area—from the arts and humanities to the social sciences to the natural sciences."
Last fall, Thomas joined the Rhodes faculty as an associate professor of Psychology and the new director and Plough Chair of Urban Studies. In the short time since her arrival, she and the rest of the Urban Studies Program have done a great deal to help achieve this vision. Stepping in for Dr. Thomas McGowan, who had served as interim director since Dr. Mike Kirby's retirement in 2010, Thomas used her first semester as chair to observe and actively learn about the projects in which faculty and students were already engaged. She also met with community partners to assess how to better develop these projects. Thomas says she was drawn to the Plough position because of the established focus on community-based learning and scholarship within the Urban Studies Program and throughout campus.
"Rhodes has articulated a clear vision that is focused on having students translate the academic study they are doing in the classroom into leadership and action in communities," says Thomas. "The Urban Studies Program is a really terrific illustration of the college aligning its mission with its resources. And we are so well situated because there is so much interesting work happening on campus already."
Thomas, who came to Rhodes from the University of Washington, Bothell, where she served as associate director for graduate education in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, has an academic background in community psychology. Her research has focused on how children and youth actively engage in and shape their learning environments, in addition to the role of community-based arts and public art in community development. Thomas says she hopes to incorporate her research methods into a shared vision for the Urban Studies Program.
During this first semester, Thomas taught an Introduction to Urban Studies course and another one on Community Psychology. She also developed a senior seminar for Urban Studies majors, which she will teach next spring. In the course, students are asked to determine the effectiveness of community-based programs that serve youth. In addition, it focuses on key concepts, methods and approaches to participatory action research and evaluation in community contexts.
Thomas' senior seminar is one of many courses within the program that demonstrates the applied component of academic learning that is such an integral part of Urban Studies. Kelli Zomer '12 has worked with several community organizations throughout her time as an Urban Studies major, both in connection with her classes and through independent internships. As part of her senior seminar paper on the concept of aging, she volunteered at the Lewis Senior Center. In addition, during the summer after her sophomore year, she completed an internship at the Vollintine-Evergreen Community Association, working with Memphis residents and at the Midtown North Community Garden.
"Just as in any big city, Memphis has its own share of problems with foreclosure, poverty, crime and other issues," says Zomer. "As an Urban Studies major, you become educated in the ways to defend against these types of things. Obviously, it is hard for one person to solve every problem. But with this major, you get the tools needed to put yourself in a better position to help the city that you live in."
In Thomas' Intro class, students completed a project in which they interviewed local Memphians to understand their perspectives on topics such as history, culture, political institutions, housing and the future of Memphis.
"These projects are really interesting," says Thomas. "Students use what they learn in class to think about cities and Urban Studies. In addition to doing traditional archival research they interview local stakeholders, so the idea is to blend scholarly work with the actual resources and people of the city."
As Plough Chair, Thomas hopes to increase this kind of student participation. One way, she says, is through the seven-member Urban Studies faculty committee. Along with serving as an advisory board to the Plough Chair, the committee acts as an interdisciplinary group that discusses course ideas and ways to connect the academic program to pressing, urban problems in Memphis. Thomas has been working to build relationships with the faculty this spring, and the committee will be officially launched under her direction in the fall.
Dr. Gail Murray, who has served on the committee since 2004, teaches History courses related to the study of urban issues. Next year, she will teach a class on the History of Poverty in America, which will look at how the American public has historically viewed the poor, and some of the ways the government and private groups have addressed their needs. Students in the class will take field trips and hear guest speakers from local organizations.
"I think wherever our students go, wherever they are citizens, they are going to be faced with crises in urban government structure, school systems, infrastructure, transportation and housing," says Murray. "Urban Studies prepares you to understand those problems and hopefully get involved in solutions."
Urban Studies requires majors to complete an academic internship. Murray says it provides them with transferable skills that are applicable wherever they go after graduation.
"Urban Studies majors are also much more critical consumers of the news," says Murray. "It teaches them to question institutions like local governments and school boards, etc."
One new way students are getting hands-on experience with local organizations is through Rhodes' involvement in a federal program called Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere, otherwise known as the HOPE VI Program. Established in 1993, the program provides competitive block grants to local public housing authorities to knock down severely distressed public housing sites and replace them with mixed-income communities. To date, Memphis has received five such grants, each of which requires a neutral third-party evaluator to assess the effectiveness of local programs related to HOPE VI. For the most recent grant, Rhodes was awarded the evaluation contract to assess the renovation and development of the Cleaborn Homes area in the 38126 zip code.
Dr. Heather Jamerson, assistant professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, serves as the appointed principal investigator for the 54-month contract. Her course, Field Projects in Community Organization, is focused entirely on working with the HOPE VI grant. During the fall semester, students collect data pertaining to neighborhood problems like vacancy and crime rates. They learn about public housing and work with local police and community partners to organize events such as community cleanups. In the spring, they focus on public housing and the residents themselves. This year, students conducted a door-to-door survey of previous Cleaborn Homes residents, asking how they were faring in their new settings and about any problems they may have faced. Students who work to evaluate the effectiveness of HOPE VI often present some of their data at Rhodes' Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium in April.
"The goal is to train students to be quality, social scientific researchers," Jamerson says. "Using multiple quantitative and qualitative methodologies, they find their interest in this huge project and then are supported in pursuing that interest."
Once students have completed either section of the course, they are eligible to work with Jamerson as research assistants on the project. This can take many forms—Jamerson has two summer fellows who work for pay, and another former student who interns with an urban planning firm in Memphis. In addition, two former students are now working in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) class to supplement the existing HOPE VI data.
This participatory action research is one of the focal points of Thomas' background as a community psychologist, and something that both Jamerson and Thomas hope to incorporate more into the Urban Studies curriculum.
"To really know a city, to know Memphis, we need the lived experience," says Thomas. "A lot of the history and culture of the city has not been documented. So in a way, by attending to the voices of those who have experienced Memphis, we are creating new forms of knowledge."
Jamerson says she is thrilled that Thomas is the new Plough Chair. "I value the type of work she does with communities, which is not about just quantitative surveys but finding out who people are and how to best develop programs and services that are going to really change Memphis. I appreciate that passion."
As for the future, developments are under way in the form of new classes and a new faculty hire this fall, Dr. Maya Evans, a political scientist who studies urban issues.
"I am so grateful for the strong foundation that has already been laid within the program," says Thomas. "I hope to reflect on everything I have heard this year about what is already going on, and then incorporate my perspectives so that we develop a shared vision for Urban Studies."

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As the web seems to be completely lacking of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) guides (not) I figure I have to make a run for it. Jokes aside, I haven't found a really good guide that takes the user from a very basic level to a reasonably good level.
If you are a novice user who wants to learn more about Search Engine Optimization, you have come to the right place. You will be able to follow the guide by clicking the categories to the right. You can also find all the posts from nr 1 to nr X under the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) value in the top navigation.
I will start out by writing a beginners post on each category and there after either write on demand under what cathegory I feel like. Feel free to post any questions you might have along the way and I will answer in the best fashion way that I can. If I am in a pissy mood I might flick you off. Please laugh at me if that would happen and make another try another day.
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The real deal when buying SEO services is to ask for good references. Ie. What was done, which were the goals and how were they met.
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FED SURVEY SHOWS SOLID ECONOMIC GROWTH
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The economy is growing at solid pace as the nation shakes off the effects of a stormy winter, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday in its survey of regional business activity.
Even in California, where the recession has been the most tenacious, "some positive signs are starting to emerge," the Fed said in a survey of economic conditions during March and April.The report could send some mixed signals on the outlook for inflation.
The Fed said competitive pressures are keeping the prices of most manufactured goods in check and retail pricing is generally stable to attract bargain-conscious shoppers.
But "price increases are reported for some raw materials," and production of cars and car parts, steel and building materials "is near capacity," the survey said.
The Federal Reserve has raised short-term interest rates from 3 percent to 3.75 percent since February, and most economists expect a boost to 4 percent when the central bank's policymaking Open Market Committee next meets on May 17.
For the previous five years, the Fed had been pushing short-term rates down to stimulate the economy but reversed course fearing inflation could be on the way.
In Wednesday's survey, concluded April 25, the Fed said, "Solid economic growth is reported in most parts of the country. Retail sales were strong in March, due in part to improved weather in many parts of the country."
The report said car sales were particularly strong and clothing sales improved.
Despite continuing weakness in the aerospace industry, the survey said factories overall are doing well.
The nation's farmers report good growing conditions generally as favorable spring weather took over in April.
Oil drilling is down, the Fed said, but drilling for natural gas remains strong.
The survey also said home sales activity is brisk in most parts of the nation and improving in the Northeast and California even with recent interest rate hikes.
In some areas, the rising rates have spurred a surge in home sales as buyers anticipate higher mortgage rates later this year.
Lending activity, particularly by consumers, has picked up, the Fed said. Its survey was conducted by the Fed's 12 regional banks.
It said production of autos, vehicle parts, steel and building materials was near capacity. Aerospace activity remained weak.
Money lending picked up, especially in the consumer area.


The Grand Western Canal Country Park and local nature reserve is an excellent site for school visits. The Country Park provides a variety of educational opportunities for groups of all ages and abilities.
Rummage around the wildlife garden and delve into the pond to try and find examples of lifecycles occurring within these habitats.
Children learn about different habitats and the range of plants and animals that live in these habitats. Experimental and investigative work will be included.
Focus on canal habitats – freshwater and grassland/hedgerows.
Pond dipping – lifecycles of pond creatures, larval and adult stages and habitat comparisons for different stages.
Minibeast Study – focus on lifecycle of butterfly and comparisons with freshwater creatures.
Comparison of the two habitats studied.
Discover the mysterious underwater world of the pond. Have a go at pond dipping, and use identification keys to find out what creatures have been caught.
That there are different kinds of plants and animals in the immediate environment.
To treat animals and the environment with care and sensitivity.
To observe and make a record of animals and plants found.
To present results in a table.
Take a look at some of the canal's smaller inhabitants. Find out what minibeasts are creeping and crawling around the country park.
Discover why the canal was built in Tiverton.
Unit: Unit 18: What was it like to live here in the past?
1: What is our area like today?
3: What can local buildings or sites tell us about the past?
7: What was it like to live in our area in the past?
That a map is a representation of an area.
To recognise some features in the local area, and to locate them on a map.
That an area may contain a mixture of old and new buildings.
That there are different sources of information for their area in the past.
To develop skills of accurate observation and recording.
To make deductions from physical evidence.
To recognise that some questions can be answered by looking at buildings and others cannot.
To synthesise what they have found out about the local area.
To put their findings into chronological context.
To contribute and cooperate as part of a group.
To organise information and communicate it in a variety of ways appropriate to the audience.
Observe and compare two different habitats found along the canal. Investigate the differences between animals found in both and find out how these animals are adapted to living in their environment.
Introduce children to the word 'habitat'.
To identify different types of habitat.
That different animals are found in different habitats.
To make predictions of organisms that will be found in a habitat.
To observe the conditions in a local habitat and make a record of the animals found.
That animals are suited to the environment in which they are found.
Describe a habitat in terms of the conditions eg leaf litter is cool, damp and dark.
State that animals and plants are found in some places and not in others and explain why.
To group organisms according to observable features.
Identify similarities and differences between similar organisms.
Group animals and explain criteria eg number of legs, wings/no wings on which the groups are based.
To use keys to identify local plants or animals.
To pose questions about organisms and the habitat in which they live and make predictions.
To decide what evidence to collect and to design a fair test.
To make reliable observations of organisms.
To indicate whether their prediction was valid and to explain findings in scientific terms.
Suggest a question which relates to an organism in its natural habitat and say what they think will happen.
Recognise what evidence is needed eg woodlice should be able to choose between a damp and a dry place and that a reasonable number of woodlice should be used.
Make observations which are relevant to the question under investigation.
Draw conclusions which match the observations made and relate these to their prediction and to their knowledge about the habitat.
The purpose of an Earthwalk is to awaken the group's senses and enthusiasm for the natural world. By witnessing new sights, touches and sounds the children can develop a respect for the natural world they previously were not aware of. The activities all encourage the sharing of knowledge and experience which builds a sense of community within the group.
This activity works best in late spring/early summer. It is an ideal actvity Reception/Year 1 classes. This sessions takes around 1 – 1 ½ hours.
Learning Objectives: To learn about senses and how these can be used to explore the world around us.
Leader explains about and demonstrates the different smells in nature. She then talks about a magic liquid that enhances each smell.
Each child is given a sponge soaked in magic liquid and encouraged to find smells. They then share their favourite smell with a partner.
Leader talks about different sensations felt from different objects – show a feather and discuss how it feels.
Each child is given an egg box with cards in each compartment. Each card has a different word on that describes a touch. The children must fill their egg boxes with appropriate touches using materials that were not living. The egg boxes are colour coded, indicating the groups the children will join the share their finds.
During this activity the children are encouraged to walk towards a new location.
Leaf slides moves the group to another location in preparation for the last activity to use sound.
The children are told that they have been invited to a slide show and must find an entry ticket (leaf) along the walk route. Once they reach the entrance to the slide show they are told that they are performers in the show and their tickets are the slides.
They are given a leaf slide frame made of card and shown how to use the frames, making the best image by holding the leaf and frame up to the light. The viewer can then witness colours and images that would usually go unnoticed.
The group is gathered into a circle to watch the slide show. Each child views their leaf, when they hear a clicker; they must pass their slide to the left. This continues until each child has its original slide back.
Leader explains that we are going to find the colours of nature.
Each child is given a piece of card with a layer of double sided tape (artist's palette). The children must look around for different colours and collect small dabs of colour and place it on their palettes. The dabs of colour should be no bigger than your little fingernail.
Share what you have found on your palettes.
Leader makes group aware of the sounds around them.
Each child is given a piece of card and a pencil and shown how to map sounds. They are asked to find their favourite quiet spot within sight of the leader and sit down. They are encouraged to map at least 5 sounds.
Each child describes the sounds they heard to the group members.
The Earthwalk finishes back at Rangers Office.
The leader summarises what the group has learnt i.e. we have used our 5 sense.
The leader ask the children to identify the five senses and location of the sense organs eg by pointing to them.
All the environmental activities are led by our ranger team. Full or half day sessions are available. We can adapt the sessions to suit the requirements of your class, and we are happy to include additional subjects or activities that could link to projects that the schools are currently involved with. Currently activities are designed for key stage 1 and 2 however secondary schools/colleges are welcome to use our facilities.
Sessions run Monday to Friday throughout the year. Morning sessions normally start around 10am and last for 2 hours. Afternoon sessions start at 1pm and again last for two hours. Alternatives times can be arranged with the Ranger Service.
sun hat and sun cream in summer.
The Ranger leading the activities is a qualified first aider and will also be carrying a first aid kit, safety throw line and a mobile phone.


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Sheriff reports DUI arrests
Trina Rose Mathews, 49, was charged with a second offense of driving under the influence and a second offense of driving on a suspended license on April 13.She was also cited for driving without headlights, failure to maintain her lane of travel, violation of the implied consent law, and possession of drug paraphernalia.According to Sheriff Patrick Ray, a deputy was on routine patrol on Highway 70 East met a truck at Sligo Bridge with no headlights on.The truck was reportedly traveling east in the middle of the highway, crossing the center line.When the officer pulled the vehicle over at Hillcrest Market, he allegedly found Mathews behind the wheel.The deputy allegedly noticed that her speech was slurred and very slow.He asked to see her license but Mathews reportedly laughed and replied that she had no license.She reportedly produced an ID from another state.The deputy said Mathews had an odor of an alcoholic beverage on her person, and that she admitted to having consumed some beer.Mathews reportedly submitted to, but performed poorly on, field sobriety tasks.The sheriff said that she did not consent to a voluntary blood withdrawal, so a forced blood draw was taken as per state law.She allegedly was found to have a marijuana pipe in her possession as well.A computer check of her license revealed that they were suspended in February 2007.Her bond is $6,500 and she will be in court on May 23.Meanwhile, 28-year-old Carly Chaundra Jones was charged with driving under the influence on April 6.She was also cited for failure to maintain her lane of travel and violation of the financial responsibility law.Ray said a deputy responding to a one-vehicle accident on Highway 56 north in the area of Jewel's Market found Jones to be the driver of the wrecked vehicle.The officer said that she had an odor of an alcoholic beverage on her person, was very unsteady on her feet, and her speech was slurred.Jones allegedly told the officer that she had taken Xanax and consumed some beer.She submitted to, but performed poorly on, several field sobriety tasks.She also submitted to a blood alcohol/drug test.Her bond is $1,500, and she will be in court on April 25.Carl Edward Schwartz, 29, of Dowelltown, was cited for driving on a revoked license on April 4.Ray said a drug detective saw Schwartz pull out of the DeKalb Market parking lot.The deputy had prior knowledge that Schwartz's license were revoked for a DUI from a previous arrest about a month before.A computer check confirmed his suspicions.Schwartz will appear in court on April 25.Juliann Marie Clark, 24, was cited for simple possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia on April 8. Ray said a drug detective conducted a search of Clark's residence after she admitted to smoking marijuana.He allegedly found a small baggie of marijuana on a television stand, a marijuana pipe in Clark's purse, a used hypodermic needle in a bedroom, and a pill crusher in a small bag.She will appear in court on April 25.
Young arrested at school for sexual battery


Car insurance companies process about 25 million repair and replacement claims every year. So they've got a pretty good grip on which repair shops can be trusted to do good work at a good price. Most insurers these days enter into contractual agreements that designate trusted shops as Direct Repair Providers (DRPs). The insurer recommends its DRPs to its policyholders when they file a claim; the DRPs agree to comply with the insurer's requirements regarding how to write an estimate, report a claim, which parts to use, what and what not to charge for and other specifications.
The Direct Repair Providers system is a mutually beneficial arrangement: the repair shop gets a steady stream of business and the insurer is protected from fraud and rising auto repair costs. But what do you, the policyholder, get out of the deal? Is it in your best interest to use the DRP your insurer recommends?
Your insurer has every right to suggest that use its preferred Direct Repair Providers. In many instances, it will be to your advantage because car insurance companies negotiate volume rates with their DRPs that save you and them money. All well and good. But if an insurer tells you that you must use its DRP, that's running afoul of anti-steering laws. Steering is the act of directing you to or away from a specific repair shop or requiring that repairs be made by a specific shop or individual – and many states including California and New York now have specific laws on the books prohibiting the practice. Even if your state doesn't have a specific anti-steering law, most states already allow you to choose your own auto repair shop. If you feel you've been steered, contact your state's insurance commissioner.
Also be wary of any insurer who tells you that if you take your car to the shop of your choice that you'll have to pay the difference out of pocket if the labor charges are higher than those of the DRP. Insurers are required by state law to pay any reasonable and customary charge regardless of who performs the work. So use the Direct Repair Providers if you're happy with the service they offer, but feel free to get estimates on your own and use the repair shop of your choice.


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2021 Toyota 86 / Subaru BRZ to get 2.4 turbo 'FA24F', renamed GR 86 – report
Brett Davis	 Jan 14, 2020
Car News, Subaru, Toyota
Toyota and Subaru are reportedly working away on the development of the next-gen Toyota 86 and BRZ duo, with word coming through they will both switch to a new turbocharged engine.
The news stems from a recent Autocar report from the UK that says the new sports cars will come with Subaru's latest 2.4-litre turbocharged flat-four engine. We first saw this engine with the all-new Liberty and Outback, and soon it's set to find service in one of the most popular modern sports cars on sale.
As reported in September, it was originally thought the sports cars would use a non-turbo version of that engine. But now it seems the tides have shifted, perhaps following feedback from fans who have long asked for more power. In its current form, the Subaru engine in question, codenamed FA24F, produces 194kW and 376Nm.
This unit is an extension of the FA20F found in the WRX, featuring direct injection, a twin-scroll turbo, and a fairly high (for a turbo) compression ratio of 10.6:1. The larger FA24F uses the same 86mm stroke, but with a 94mm bore instead of 86mm. The 10.6 compression ratio is also carried over.
A final power figure for the next 86/BRZ is yet to be confirmed, but even if 194kW is brought across, it will be a significant jump from the current 152kW output. Perhaps more importantly, the torque figure of 376Nm is huge compared with the current 212Nm. More torque would especially help with corner exit performance and even drifting capability.
It's understood Toyota will provide most of the foundations for the platform, taking its TNGA layout as a base and working from there. It's also said that Toyota's Gazoo Racing division will have a big role in its engineering this time around, with Autocar suggesting it will be renamed the GR 86 – or something along those lines – like the GR Supra.
There's no need to get your chequebook out just yet as market entry isn't expected until 2021. A concept version will likely appear beforehand, possibly a bit later this year.
Subaru BRZ, Toyota 86
2021 Subaru BRZ/Toyota 86 to use 2.4L, concept coming soon – report September 21, 2019
2021 Subaru Levorg previewed with prototype concept October 23, 2019
2021 Subaru Levorg prototype to debut at Tokyo show September 25, 2019
2021 Hyundai Tucson spied; new 2.5 turbo & 2.0 GDi HEV hybrid likely July 26, 2019
Brett is the editor and founder of PerformanceDrive. He's obsessed with driving, having played with Matchbox cars until he was tall enough to drive a real one. After initially working as a mechanic, Brett earned a degree in journalism and entered media as an editorial assistant at Top Gear Australia magazine. He then worked at CarAdvice.com.au. His dream is to live next door to the Nurburgring in Germany.


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Historic Region Promotes Veterans Day Travel Options
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Veterans Day provide an opportunity to visit historic regions where history was made, the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, a four state non profit group, says. Veterans Day is November 11.
Known as the region Where America Happened, the region includes: National and World Heritage sites, over 10,000 sites on the National Register of Historic Places, 49 National Historic districts, nine Presidential homes, 13 National Parks, hundreds of African American and Native American heritage sites, 30 historic main street communities, sites from the Revolutionary War, French-Indian War, War of 1812 and the largest collection of Civil War sites in the nation.
This 180-mile long, 75-mile wide area swath of land that stretches from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, contains a rich collection of patriotic and historic destinations to visit in honor of Veteran's Day. In addition to the plethora of battlefields (Gettysburg, Antietam, Manassas, Harpers Ferry) and national cemeteries (Gettysburg, Antietam, Culpeper), the group offers additional suggestions that will help travelers make a selection.
As everyone knows, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania has the battlefield and national park. It is also home to the oldest national cemetery, Soldiers' National Cemetery, dedicated 149 years ago by President Lincoln. However, another great place to visit is the Eisenhower National Historic Site. Visit www.nps.gov/eise.
Another unique destination within the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area is the War Correspondent's Memorial, located within Gathland State Park in Frederick County, Maryland. The War Correspondents Arch, a National historic monument dedicated in October 1896, is the only monument in the world dedicated to journalists killed in combat. Visit www.fredericktourism.org.
Traveling down Route 15, the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Scenic Byway, visitors should stop by Dodona Manor in historic Leesburg, Virginia. Dodona Manor is the former home of General George C. Marshall and his wife Katherine Marshall, which served as the Marshalls' residence from 1941 until the General's death in 1959. Visit www.georgecmarshall.org.
A little further south, folks will find a hidden gem in Manassas. Everyone knows about the two Civil War battles that took place there and may also be familiar with the nearby National Museum of the Marine Corps. However, tucked away inside the Manassas Regional Airport is the Freedom Museum. Visit www.freedommuseum.org.
There are many other historic places for veterans to see throughout the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area to make it a weekend getaway during the Veterans Day celebration or anytime throughout the year. Maps, suggested itineraries, and other travel resources are available at www.hallowedground.org
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership, a non-profit organization, seeks to raise awareness of the history within the swath of land from Gettysburg to Monticello. The JTHG Partnership has created the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area and the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Scenic Byway. Visit www.hallowedground.org
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Month: March, 2015
We Are Spock – Remembering Leonard Nimoy
"Spock: Do you believe in the concept of service to mankind?
Nimoy: I think so.
Spock: Then perhaps you are here to be of service."
"The show has certainly given me a sense of self-worth and particularly the relationship with the character of Mr. Spock has given me a constant guideline for a dignified approach to life as a human being."
Leonard Nimoy – I am not SPOCK
Spock has been with me for as long as I can remember. Unlike other characters from movies or comics, Spock was someone I identified with from my first encounter, and that impact has never faded. Throughout my childhood, Spock set the standard for how to remain calm in a moment of crisis, especially for an overly sensitive kid. But foremost, he taught me to control my emotions when life seemed overwhelming. To maintain an ability to step back and survey the situation from afar, allowing for a more reasonable judgment. He was also the quintessential outsider, being half Vulcan and half human, never fitting in with his home world, and yet also being an alien on the Enterprise.
I was a sensitive kid in Texas, raised to hunt and kill animals as a rite of passage, so I identified with his struggle. The contrast of growing up obsessed with Disney movies of anthropomorphized animals, yet having to hunt them in real life, was a conflict I could never resolve. Spock at least provided a role model, which was far better than the "pray about it" resolution I was taught at First Baptist Church.
This weekend, on the passing of Leonard Nimoy, I read numerous eulogies, most stating the same thing: that in spite of Spock's emotional distance, his character was the true heart of Star Trek. I fully agree.
My friend Arlene Martel, the wonderful actress who played Spock's wife T'Pring, gave me this great photo of her leaving the studios where she ran into Nimoy.
It's strange to feel moved by the death of a celebrity. The Spock side of me says, "But Jeff, you didn't even know Leonard Nimoy. Sure, you have read his memoirs, and you even came close to meeting him, but you didn't actually know him. Your emotions aren't logical." Yet I can't shake the malaise that has lingered since I woke on Friday with the news of his death. Unlike most celebrities, Leonard Nimoy and Spock are inseparable. He not only played the role, but he also helped develop it over the course of the series. Read the rest of this entry »


Hypocrites; once again Jesus decries hypocrites. Man, those hypocrites! I'm being a bit facetious here but it's important for us to remember there's a danger that any one of us can become a hypocrite and not even see it happening. To preach and profess one thing, but live in a completely different way. As a matter of fact, I find as a Catholic Christian and as a priest, I am constantly falling into the category of hypocrite. We can all become hypocrites when we fall or turn from the true essence of our faith and live and preach something else. And if you think you don't struggle with this, I'd like to meet you, because even in the Gospels the Apostles and disciples are constantly falling into hypocrisy without even knowing it.
Knowing God and why God asks us to honour the Sabbath gives us all a sense of why we should go to Mass on Sundays, why we ought to tithe (give for our community), why it's important and to reflect upon what we give to it and receive from our faith and the practice of our faith. If we look at those Jesus chastises in today's Gospel with disdain, we better make sure that we're living in as upright a manner as we can, and it's important that we get the message that Jesus is challenging us all to know why we do what we do – for God. He is not suggesting that honouring the Sabbath, or our holy day is of little or less importance.
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
Official snowfall records for Washington date back to 1884. By early February, this winter had already broken them with 142 centimeters of snow measured.
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Stars Fell on Alabama
This story appeared in the October/November 2014 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction. It was written through the end of June into the second week of July 2013 (with a break during which I finished another jazz-centric SF story, which isn't yet published); that is, I wrote this a few months after I started living in Saigon.
If you enjoyed this novella, I hope the story notes below only add to that enjoyment. And if you haven't checked it out already, you may also enjoy my previous jazz-SF novella from Asimov's, "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues."
"For fans of jazz, particularly early jazz, the story provides an uncommon look into the life of a performer of that art, someone fighting to get by in a time of racial injustice that made post civil-war United States society a sewer drain of hypocrisy and hatred… the compelling combination of physics, racism, love triangle, organized crime, and train caper make this story the star of this issue." — Harlen Bayha, Tangent Online
"Baby Tremblay is a noted jazz cornet player in 1929 Kansas City, but he's on the run from a local mafioso. But he's not just that. He was born a slave in 1817 in Alabama as Caesar Little. In 1833, the Leonid meteor shower had rained stars all around him. One "star" had spoken to him and he took it. It changed him. He stopped aging and the star taught him things. It also taught him how to make music. The story involves his train escape from Kansas City, more of the power of the star, and the appearance of a familiar great scientist. Well done!" — SFRevu
"It's nicely told, capturing a period feel well, and there's a particularly nice paragraph-long sentence in which a sense of wonder is bestowed upon him. And in addition to mention of Heisenberg there's a guest appearance from another giant of science." — BestSF.net
"A lot of neat stuff here, so much, in fact, that it would easily fill a much longer work, or perhaps a sequel. There's a lot of 1929 packed in, including a cameo appearance of a significant figure from science. But the incident with the old woman on the train is nothing but wrongness, as is the situation in which Baby leaves Walter, the senior porter, with no apparent twinges of conscience. I can't have sympathy for him after that, which is too bad, after the story started out so promisingly." — Lois Tilton, Locus
It's not surprising that when I moved to Saigon, I started playing the saxophone again: I had time for it, finally. But it's also not surprising that one of the first things I wrote after that was another jazz-SF story.
Now, I've always had a soft spot for the Louis Armstrong/Ella Fitzgerald version of "Stars Fell on Alabama," since I heard it on a CD I ended up borrowing from someone who didn't want it back in high school. Thing is, the song wasn't written till long after the time this story was set. (And the Louis/Ella version wasn't recorded until 1956!)
But the meteor shower that the song was named after? That's real: it was a Leonid shower of 1833, and all the stuff about Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln all having seen it is true. (I haven't seen anything about whether or how deeply Tubman was affected by it, but if Lincoln and Douglass' reactions are any indication, pretty much anyone who saw it was profoundly moved by the sight.) This was also the meteor shower that led to the commencement of the modern study of meteor astronomy.
I was slightly leery about including Lincoln's reaction, by the way. My impression is that the story I learned in school as a Canadian schoolkid about Lincoln and abolition was very much simplified (for example, along these lines). Still, it seemed a shame to leave him out, when he is on record as having witnessed and been affected deeply by the Leonid Shower, as were Douglass and Tubman. (And, also, I suspect Lincoln's reputation still hadn't been quite so thoroughly reexamined in 1929 as it has been today.)
Regarding the deep effect on people of the Leonid Shower: also true is the stuff about (at least some) white slave-owners on some plantations believing it was the end of the world, and gathering the slaves to tell them about their lineages. That story is taken from the recollections of Amanda Young, which are most easily accessible online in this set of lecture notes. (It casts interesting light on the psychology of those particular slave-owners, doesn't it? On some level, deep down, they unquestionably knew that the system in which they lived was wrong, plain and simple .)
Believe it or not, that B-flat that Baby "hears," as the deepest sound in the universe? It, too, is real–it's the "sound" vibrations of a massive black hole, discovered by English astronomers back in 2003. (Though, yes, yes, there is no sound in space. Read the link for the explanation.) Possibly (probably?) there are deeper tones further out there, but I figured it might be nice to give a shout-out to Dr. Andrew Fabian and his team.
In any case, this story also represents a little bit of speculative jazz archaeology. For one thing, a lot of people still think of New Orleans as the city of jazz, but their information is a hundred years out of date. Anyone who is into this music today knows that while lots of places have a vibrant local jazz scene, these days the "center of the jazz universe" (in drummer T.S. Monk's words) is New York City. But the transition didn't go New Orleans-NYC, not by a long shot.
The early history of jazz, like any form of art/entertainment, is deeply intertwined with economic, social, and technological history. (For example, a saxophone is a really high-tech piece of mechanical hardware. If you don't believe me, go buy one and take it apart, then put it back together again. Good luck with that!)
So, yes, jazz arose in New Orleans, alright, but then came the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, but especially following the dreadful 1927 flooding of the Mississippi (after which hundreds of thousands of people, many of them African-Americans, ended up stranded in refugee camps for months), many black southerners from New Orleans moved north; among them were many musicians, and the world center of jazz conglomerated in Kansas City, where many settled to play their music in the local clubs. In the 1940s and 1950s, economics drove them from Kansas City to New York City, which was then crowned jazz capital (and has remained such to this day).
(That's why, though I considered setting the story in Tulsa during the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, I finally went with Kansas City instead.)
Kansas City was also a major transportation hub, which was also a reason to attract African-Americans migrating up from the South: Pullman porters (who worked on trains owned by the Pullman Company) were exclusively black, and while it was actually a really rough job–and gave rise to the first black union in America, which of course the Pullman Company immediate set out to bust–it also gave was one of those jobs (some have argued, the job) that helped establish the black middle class. (Retired porters sometimes brag about meeting celebrities, but I've noticed that more often, they talk about how the job let them travel and see the country. Here's an example.)
Jazz's sojourn in Kansas City doesn't really get talked about much today–it was kind of news to me when I heard about it–though if you're really interested, this video explores the history a bit:
For those who skipped the video, I'll summarize it in one line: K.C. was a really important stepping stone between the New Orleans style and the later mutated forms of jazz that arose in other places, especially in New York. And if you pay close attention, you'll find little hints of Kansas City's former prominence throughout jazz, such as in song titles like Charlie Parker's "K.C. Blues" (a video I recommend you don't skip, below):
That said, this story takes place long before Bebop, and Charlie Parker, showed up. No, the true soundtrack for this story is a piece of music I first encountered on the wonderful blog of Ethan Iverson, the pianist with the group The Bad Plus, specifically in this post. Check it out:
Hearing that made me want very badly to write a Jazz Age story around Kansas City, but set on a train–and with some of the rhythm and drive of a train speeding, juggernaut-like, toward its destination. Seriously, I probably never would have written this story had Iverson not posted that blog post!
But I was also enthralled by the story of the 1833 Leonid meteor shower, and its various witnesses and their reactions. I wanted to write a story that somehow connected those two moments through a character who somehow lived long enough to experience both of them: one, in the deep and shameful past, when the potential of African-Americans was brutally and irresistibly suppressed, and the other, in a moment when, while suppression continued, the descendants of those people managed to do amazing things with the sliver of so-called "freedom" now allowed them by the state that oppressed them for so long.
(Obviously "allowed" doesn't mean that their freedom was given: what is inborn cannot be "given," but sometimes it must be won from oppressors. When oppressors remains in power, they "allow" increased freedom to occur, to whatever degree they deem necessary to further their own agendas.)
And, of course, I wanted to write an SF story, for which the title "Stars Fell on Alabama" is obviously very suggestive.
I also have been wanting to experiment with narrative structures other than the one that has come to dominate mainstream (Hollywood) film and popular fiction, for reasons I discussed previously here. I've been thinking a lot about utopian and satirical modes especially–the Wellsian utopian aesthetic and imagination, and the satire of Defoe, and Voltaire, and of the Coen Brothers, who are, I think, the best and darkest satirists around today. My wife had been watching Coen Brothers films very carefully, and I joined her for some of them, so that mode of storytelling–so different from the usual Hollywood narrative structure, and the usual structure of a lot of fiction–made an impression on me.
Then things started to fall into place: Kansas City had jazz, but it also had the mafia, and with that realization, everything came together, logline and all:
November 10, 1929, on the train from Kansas City to Chicago: a jazz man with a secret, a mobster with a mission, a woman with an obsession, and… the alien artifact that each of them would kill to have.
There are a number of figures in the story based on real historical people: for example, the DiGiovanni brothers really were high-level mobsters in 1920s Kansas City, who operated a grocery store as a front for their bootleg liquor business. Some of the musicians mentioned are real, and the scientist Baby meets on the train is very loosely modeled on Dr. Carl Eckhart, who really did meet Heisenberg during his summer trip to Chicago in 1929, and struggled with the uncertainty principle, though he did finally make peace with the notion, according to what he said in an interview decades later. It's fun to imagine Baby–and the "fallen star"–having played a role in that peacemaking.
Also, after reading James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" (one of the most well-known and significant jazz stories ever written–here's a PDF) I felt I had an angle of approach for both the issues of addiction (which, after all, also has a long history in European literary writing), and the racism that my protagonist would encounter throughout his extended lifespan. I also wanted to give some sense of the protagonist's low expectations from the white people around him, which is one reason why I decided to use the word "Negro" the way I did. It was, at the time, the "polite" word for an African-American, but that doesn't mean it was always a respectful word. The Gerald Early interview I read on Do the Math not only turned me on to "Sonny's Blues," but also to the nuances of that word as used by Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Crouch today, and how using it might help emphasize the awkwardness of the pervasive racism for a modern reader reading a story set in that time. (That is, drive home the overt racism that was inherent in interactions even when people were being technically polite. Sort of a fascism for nice people riff.)
As for what kind of music Baby was playing on his cornet, well: it's not the kind of jazz I usually listen to, though I've been checking it out a little more lately as I fill in my musical blank spots. (A bit like reading pulp SF for the historical perspective.) A good example is Bennie Moten's band:
But of course, the star was warping Baby's sense of music, such that I imagine it as some sort of proto-Bebop, except more harshly angular and still very lyrical, if that makes sense. (This vagueness, I'll add, is mainly a limitation of my imagination. What would jazz as envisioned by a man under the intoxicating influence of an alien artifact sound like? I mean, anyone? Anyone? Got an answer to that question?) I avoided discussing the character of the alien-influenced music too much mainly because I didn't want to enshrine disrespect for the artists who developed jazz by implying it was not their hard work or creativity, but an alien artifact, that was responsible for their achievements. Cute idea, yes, but also, under its surface, a revolting thing to suggest about so many amazing artists laboring under such circumstances as these people did. It's important that Baby's music is weird, but not too weird: he's a big name trumpeter in town, but his interaction with The Star is necessarily a form of communication. Jazz music is complex enough that the Star has confused it for language, and continues attempting to communicate in the "language" of music despite the communication being less than, er, communicative. But Baby is still a great musician in his own right; the Star influences him, but doesn't shape jazz.
Last thing: since I had an obvious Coen-Brothers frame in my mind, I actually struggled to figure out whether Baby would get out of this train in one piece. I love those Coen Brothers films where nobody gets out alive (or if they do, they wish they didn't) and am a big fan of the game Fiasco, inspired by exactly those movies. In fact, my wife was just discovering the joy of those precise films–Fargo and The Man Who Wasn't There, especially–when I started work on this story.
But Baby ended up seeming to me somehow emblematic: his extended lifespan allowed him to live through (and survive) so much of American history, and in a sense, killing him off at the end seemed unfair, cruel, and somehow metaphorically the wrong ending for his particular, weird song. Peril with a little hope, some wits and resources, but real danger looming still, sounded like a better ending cadence to me…
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What Is GDDR Memory?
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What is GDDR memory? GDDR stands for Graphics Double Data Rate, and there are differe...
What is GDDR memory? GDDR stands for Graphics Double Data Rate, and there are different versions of it. It's a type of video card RAM that was introduced by NVIDIA in 1999. In the past few years, GDDR5 has become one of the most popular types because it offers high bandwidths at lower power consumption rates.
What does this mean? It means you can play games in high settings without worrying about your computer's performance! Here we will talk about some other things to look out for when deciding which kind of VRAM to purchase and what they do for you.
The first thing to look for is the base clock rate. This is how fast your graphics card can process data and therefore how quickly it renders images onscreen. The higher this number, the better!
Next, you need to know what bus width the amount of information that's transferred at a time is supported by the type of memory you're looking at. For example, GDDRx has an x in front which means it supports transfer rates up to x GHz while GDDRy only supports y GBps.
Lastly, there are two common types of latency: latent (how long it takes after initiating action before something happens) or active (time between when a specific event occurs). Latency isn't really important as long as both numbers are low, but it's good to know.
Which Version Of GDDR Should You Get?
The acronym refers not only to graphics technology but an entire category of video cards with high bandwidths which have become popular in recent years because they offer low power consumption rates.
We recommend going with GDDR memory. It's very useful for high-end gaming and can even be used in video editing programs to make the process quicker. It's also easier to install than your typical RAM sticks.
But before you buy a graphics card, there are some other things you should consider too: How do you install it? There are usually two slots on the motherboard for this type of memory card one or both depending on what the manufacturer recommends after that all you need to do is close up the case again and boot up! If something doesn't work out exactly as expected, we would be happy to help by emailing us at
How Much VRAM Do You Need?
VRAM, or Video Random Access Memory, is a type of memory that stores information for graphical operations. When you play an online game with detailed graphics and high-resolution textures, your computer's video card fills up the RAM to store all of this data.
This might work fine at first but when there are sudden changes in gameplay (completing objectives) it could cause problems because the system has put more burden on itself by creating new objects while old ones still need processing.
For example: if you're trying to shoot someone from across the map then it would take longer for the shooting animation to happen because everything needs time to load onto your screen. With GDDR memory, things can be processed faster so these types of laggy moments can happen a lot less.
Are There Other Types of VRAM?
There are a few other types of VRAM, like DDR and SDR. However, these don't offer the same benefits as GDDR memory because they have lower bandwidths and slower performance rates.
VRAM is not typically the limiting factor in a PC's power, but you should still pay attention because it does have an effect on your computer.
GDDR:
GDDR is a type of memory that can be used with different types of graphics cards, from mobile to desktop.
If you're playing games on your laptop while plugged in then GDDR will work just fine because it's not limited by power. However, if you play on the go or use an external GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), then GDDR might not have enough bandwidth and would need faster VRAM like HBM instead.
DDR:
DDR is a type of RAM that stands for Double Data Rate. It's not as powerful as GDDR because it only has half the bandwidth and slower performance rates, but it is cheaper in price point.
DDR memory also powers graphics card VRAM which means you can't use both at the same time if your computer hardware supports them! The GPU will decide to use either DDR or GDDR depending on what specifications are necessary for specific usage.
SDR:
SDR stands for Single Data Rate and this type of video card RAM isn't used very often anymore since its predecessor was introduced about 20 years ago. This might be something worth looking into if you're trying to save money but don't want to sacrifice much power though!
The memory in a computer is one of the most important components. It stores all your data and processes instructions to make everything work right.
There are many different types of memories, but today we're going to talk about GDDR (graphics double data rate).
GDDR stands for graphics double data rate and it can be used either as RAM or VRAM (video random access memory) depending on which version you buy.
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Academic report: Mineral-microbial co-evolution and its implications for the livability of the earth
Academic report:Singapore Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Yu Fengwei was invited to our school for academic exchange
Academic Report: Professor Cui Hongjuan was invited to our university for academic exchange
Mineral-microbial co-evolution and its implications for the livability of the earth
Academic Report:Using Bioinformatics to Identify New Regulatory Mechanisms
Academic preview:From Discovery of small molecule regenerative medicine to the R&D of polypeptide / protein medicine
August 20, 2016 | By School of Life Sciences
Dr. Yang Pengyu, an institute fellow of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and California Institute of Biomedical Research (Calibr), is scheduled to deliver an academic report on July 5, 2016 11:00 a.m. at the invitation of Prof. Deng Cheng from NNU School of Life Sciences and the Youth Committee of Jiangsu Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Lecturer: Dr. Yang Pengyu, fellow of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and California Institute of Biomedical Research (Calibr)
Dr. Yang obtained his doctorate of science at the National University of Singapore in 2011. His main research direction at the time was the development and application of an analysis technique based on active proteome to determine the biological targets for small molecules and natural products. After graduation, he joined a research team at TSRI & Calibr headed by Peter G. Schultz, which has been engaged in the R&D of bioactive small molecules, polypeptides / protein and antibody drugs, and thoroughly studied targeted immunotherapy for diabetes, obesity and cancers. He discovered and identified a new small molecule compound that can inhibit the Hippo pathway, and be used in the treatment of degenerative diseases, in-situ repair and regeneration of tissues and organs. He constructed a new "binding" technology platform which was applied to the R&D of clinical compounds of a series of long acting polypeptide drugs for adjusting endogenous hormones. He published over 30 scientific papers in PNAS, Chemistry & Biology,JACS, ANGEW and other international reputable journals, which have been cited for over 1,200 times altogether. He has applied for four international patents for inventions. PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire, Bionity, and Faculty of 1000 once mentioned his work. He is the special reviewer for over twenty journals including "Chemistry & Biology ","ACS Chemical Biology ","Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry", "Medicinal Research Review", "RSC Advances",and "European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry". In 2010, he was awarded the "CHINESE GOVERNMENT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SELF-FINANCED STUDENTS ABROAD".
In his report, Dr. Yang discussed the discovery of small molecule regenerative medicine and the development platform of polypeptide / antibody drug. In the first half, based on the Hippo pathway, the screening of the small molecules of the YAP transcription coactivator in the process of skin regeneration in molecular, cellular and animal models was discussed. In the second half, he discussed the applied cases of a new "binding" technology platform in the R&D of long acting polypeptide drugs for adjusting endogenous polypeptide hormones.
We sincerely welcome teachers and students interested in this field!


When we were planning the trip to California we talked about leaving the kids with Jeff and going to San Francisco for a day or two. We decided to take the kids with us and it was a lot of fun with them. We went into the city late morning and spent some time at Pier 39 seeing the sea lions and taking pictures by the water. We ate lunch and let the kids ride the carousel. We took the kids to the aquarium. They loved all the fish and other animals. By the time we were done with all of that, it was close to rush hour. We went to the beach to kill time while traffic was bad. Kenzie loved the water and running away from the waves. Hudson wasn't sure what to think and preferred to stay farther away from the water. It was a really fun day and a nice change from staying close to home.
It was really fun seeing Hudson and Kenzie interact with each other. They loved everything that day. Kids make everything so much fun.


In 1535 the French explorer Jacques Cartier and his expedition were frozen in the ice off the St. Lawrence river. 25 of the 110 crew were dead from scurvy and the rest were due to follow. At this point a friendly native American came forward with a potion made from the needles and bark of the white pine, rich in ascorbic acid, or vitamin C. This produced a dramatic recovery.
When Cartier returned to Europe and reported to the medical mandarins they were amused by the 'witch-doctor cures of ignorant savages' and went on with their search for mystery toxins and bugs lurking in the dark holds of the ships. 260 years later, after the British Navy alone had lost over a million men to scurvy, the practice of carrying oranges, lemons and limes on board ship led to the 'limeys' ruling the waves.
Scurvy – vitamin C; pellagra – vitamin B3; night-blindness – vitamin A; rickets – vitamin D; beri beri – vitamin B1; pernicious anaemia – vitamin B12. It should have needed no great intellectual leap to suspect that another chronic, metabolic disease – cancer – might also be a vitamin-specific deficiency disease.
In 1952 the American biochemist Ernst Krebs PhD proposed that cancer was a deficiency disease: the deficiency being the factor linked for so long with cancer therapy. He identified the substance as part of the nitriloside group specifically, amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside first isolated, from the bitter almond, prunus amygdalus amara, in 1830 by the French chemists Robiquet and Boutron-Charland. Its chemical structure is D(1)-mandelonitrile-B-D-glucosido-6-6-B-glucoside, as recorded in the Merck Index, 1976.
Toxicologically, amygdalin falls between Class 1 and Class 2,36 which means it is virtually non-toxic. This compares with saccharin, between Class 3 and Class 4 and most 'chemotherapy': Class 6 – super toxic.
Traditional Eskimos, the Hopi and Navajo tribes, the Abkhasians of the Caucasus Mountains and other notably cancer-free groups have amygdalin-rich diets.
After taking into account the required factors, Krebs allocated his substance the next available number on the vitamin B index: 17. He named his concentrated amygdalin preparation, Laetrile.
One of the first doctors to use Laetrile in the control of cancer was Dr. Maurice Kowan. This landed him in court in Los Angeles. The prosecutor told the jury: 'This is not a kindly old man. This is the most thoroughly evil person the imagination can concoct…This man has to be stopped. He is very dangerous. The way to stop him is a guilty verdict.'39 Dr Kowan was heavily fined and, at the age of 70, sentenced to two months in prison.
The basis used by the cancer mafia for the attack on Dr. Kowan was a falsified report produced by two doctors, Garland and MacDonald in 1953. The two, who had ideal credentials by way of their being involved in surgery and radiation and in the promotion of cigarettes as a health measure, produced a report which stated that no evidence of anti-cancer changes were observed by the consultants using Laetrile: a report found, later, to be demonstrably fraudulent but which has been quoted religiously by vested cancer interests.
Nemesis took her revenge in appropriate fashion on the two, one with lung cancer and one in a fire suspected as being caused by a cigarette.
Dr. John A. Richardson began to use B17 in the summer of 1971. His first patient was the sister of one of his nurses: a case of advanced malignant melanoma of the arm. She had been given around six weeks to live with a little longer if she had the arm amputated.
The woman was also a diabetic who, after the treatment, controlled her disease without insulin. When she returned to her original doctor he still wanted to amputate: she declined the offer.
Dr. Richardson and his two nurses were marched out past the specially-invited television cameras and were arrested under the Californian 'anti-quackery' laws.
The concerted campaign, which was to last for years, to ruin Dr. Richardson; physically, mentally, financially, professionally and legally had begun.
The authorities revoked his medical licence and he was ordered to attend meetings 600 miles away in San Diego, with many of the hearings cancelled at the last minute; a procedure kept up at weekly intervals for six months.
The threat to the cancer business from effective therapies was taken very seriously from the beginning. By the 1940s the Syndicate had 300,000 names on its 'quack' files. Vitamin B17, being a unique threat due to its simplicity, attracted more concentrated attacks than all the other treatments put together: fraudulent test reports; hired, banner-carrying pickets outside clinics; rigged juries; newspaper character assassinations; dismissal of heretic employees, etc.
The FDA, orchestrating the onslaught, sent out 10,000 posters and hundreds of thousands of leaflets warning about the dangers of the toxicity of the non-toxic substance. Earlier, a Congressional Accounting Office had found that 350 FDA employees had shares in, or had refused to declare an interest in, the pharmaceutical industry.
After much searching, geographically and historically, the FDA came up with three alleged cases of deaths from Laetrile poisoning: this in a country where hundreds are killed daily by FDA-approved treatments.
Two were women who had swallowed vials of Laetrile which were for injection only and one was an eleven month old baby girl, one of whose parents was taking the medicine for cancer.
The totally-fabricated stories of B17/Laetrile toxicity were eagerly grasped by the UK cancer combine. The 'Dept. of Health', aided by Gwyneth Dunwoody MP and her hysterical outbursts about 'cyanide poisoning', had apricot pit powder removed from the health food shop shelves.
In March 1984 the government brought in 'The Medicines (Cyanogenetic Substances) Order 1984'. This Order meant that preparations which '..are presented for sale or supply under the name of, or as containing, amygdalin, laetrile or vitamin B17 or…contain more than 0.1 percent by weight…' of the 'cyanide-producing substances' were to be under the control of the 1968 Medicines Act and, therefore, out of easy reach of any cancer patient who preferred to exercise freedom of choice instead of opting for the manslaughter on offer from the cancer hospitals.
The '0.1 percent' figure shows the extent to which the cancer cartel were prepared to go to stop amygdalin. Apricot and bitter almond kernels are around 2 percent amygdalin and have long been found in British and Italian biscuits on supermarket shelves in the UK. The fact that the biscuits have not attracted any attention shows the non-toxicity of the substance and confirms it is only a danger to the cancer racketeers and not to the consumers.
A much greater farce, of course, is the fact that all the billions of seeds within the apricots, peaches, plums, cherries, apples, pears etc., sold by fruiterers since March 1984, are all in contravention of the Order.
Or success: depending on which animal you choose and whether he who bank-rolls the research wants a positive or a negative result.
Other attempts to discredit Laetrile involved force-feeding large amounts of cyanide, extracted from amygdalin, directly into dogs' stomachs: in Laetrile therapy small doses are used and the cyanide component is released only by the cancer cell, in the presence of protective enzymes.
As the Laetrile/B17 suppression was demonstrably failing, with the ban being lifted in State after State, and as public pressure built up against the cancer fraudsters, the NCI were forced into a two-year, two hundred patient trial of the medicine. The official verdict having been already decided, it was paramount that the trial was rigged to confirm the authorised version. This was achieved by a multi-facetted approach.
Laetrile was not used: a Laetrile manufacture by-product was substituted. The usual junk diet, including animal products, was allowed the patients. The injections were discontinued after 3 weeks, not three months. The criterion applied to the test was of tumour reduction, not the improvement in well being, appetite, lack of pain etc.
Missouri and West Virginia legalised Laetrile after the verdict; reasoning, presumably, that if the American Medical Association, the FDA and the American Cancer Society had tried to ban Laetrile, it must be of considerable value in treating cancer. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute sacked one its senior directors, Ralph Moss, for blowing the whistle on the cover-up.
Basically, the results were coming out positive and we in public affairs were told to say the results were negative and this went on for three years.' – Moss.
At the height of America's "war on cancer" in the early 1970's, the un-profitable truth that Vitamin B17 cured cancer was swept under the rug by the Sloan-Kettering Institute in one of the most corrupt coverups of all time. The documentary Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan Kettering documents the employment of science writer Ralph Moss, who exposed the Sloan-Kettering coverup of the efficacy of B17 at a highly publicized press conference. Ralph found himself fired and escorted to the door by heavily armed guards the following day. Ralph Moss has recounted his story in detail, in a book he wrote called Doctored Results.
In 1971, the FDA banned B17, and spread unwarranted fears surrounding the idea that it poses a cyanide-poisoning threat, but as you will see in the remainder of this article, the evidence clearly shows that B17 is a safe and very effective treatment for cancer. "For the first time since I became a nurse 23 years ago, I do not fear cancer!" said registered nurse Mrs. R.E. Bruce from San Diego, California after reading World Without Cancer by G. Edward Griffin. The widespread understanding of B17 as a treatment for cancer could singlehandedly topple the American medical empire and obliterate its deep entrenchment in government.
Since toxicity is often used to scare cancer patients away from using B17, it's important to address this issue thoroughly. It's interesting to note the toxicities of radiation and chemotherapy are understated, and the toxicities of this natural food substance, though it is unwarranted, is used to scare people away from using it.
The aim of this 2014 study was to settle the argument amidst much conflicting information as to whether or not B17 truly exerts an anti-tumor effect. Published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, German researchers discovered that the anti-tumor hype was true as amygdalin reduced growth and proliferation of 3 different bladder cancer cell lines. They concluded that in vivo research must follow to assess its practical value as an anti-tumor medicine.
UK scientists studied a novel treatment in 1999, which used amygdalin in combination with a substance called "HMFG1-beta-glucosidase". The study found that the combination of the two substances was more effective and completely non-toxic, enhancing the cancer-cell specific toxic effect of amygdalin 36-fold.
Two Chinese scientists in 2014 published a paper summarizing the anti-tumor effects of amygdalin based on advanced research in recent years. They wrote that amygdalin was "a natural product that owns antitumor activity, less side effects, widely sourced and relatively low priced," but instead of promoting it as an effective treatment for cancer, which they knew it was, their aim was geared towards developing new drugs for pharmaceutical companies based on the findings of how amygdalin kills cancer cells.
Award winning author and mother Sandi Rog was diagnosed with T-cell Lymphoma Non-Hodgkin cancer in late 2010, at which point her cancer had already advanced to stage 4. Sandi had Multiple Sclerosis, and her doctor told her that it was likely the drugs she was taking for her MS that caused the cancer. Her doctor rushed her into chemotherapy, radiation, and even gave her stem cell transplants. After the stem cell transplant her liver began failing, so her doctors put her on more drugs, and in time, her cancer returned in the form of additional tumors. Sandi then acquired B17 from a naturopathic doctor and began taking 1000mg per day, and after only 8 weeks, her cancer was completely gone. After being cured, Sandi has shared her story at cancer hospitals, telling patients to take B17. Shortly after the hospitals told her she was not to return.
In 1975, Carl O. Helvie was diagnosed with lung cancer and was given only 6 months to live. After refusing chemo and other conventional methods, he began researching natural treatments to use instead. Carl began speaking with a doctor who helped him put together a protocol for his cancer, which included 25 apricot kernels per day, 2000mg B17 tablets, high-dose vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C, among many other supplements, and changes to his diet and lifestyle. Today Carl is the longest living lung cancer survivor ever recorded.
Babette Garfield, living in Las Vegas, NV was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 2001. The oncologist recommended chemotherapy to shrink the tumor prior to surgery. Instead she had surgery done, and outright refused chemotherapy and radiation. One year later, her CA125 test came back and she was cancer free, and has been for 5 years and counting.
Jason Vale, a former arm wrestling champion, was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of 18. After surgery, chemo, and radiation, his cancer went away, but only for a year, at which point it came back worse than ever. He heard about Laetrile or Vitamin B17, and after a couple months of eating seeds from apricots and peaches (containing amygdalin), his cancer was completely gone. He began selling it to people, and because he used the word 'cure' while trying to help people heal, he was thrown into a maximum security prison for 5 years. Watch Jason win the armwrestling championship here.
When a German Shepherd named Baron was diagnosed with cancer of the blood and given two weeks to live, Mary Smith began treating him with B17. 7 Months later, at the time this testimony was written, Baron is alive and well.
About 20 more cases of cancer successfully eliminated using apricot seeds can be found here.