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I thought the Chicago Sun-Times was engaging in subtle humor on its front page here...
... making it look like Lena Dunham was biting the headline, but — click through — she's holding an "I'm with Hillary" bumper in her teeth. And here's Lena's message of support for Hillary:
Hey, just a head's up: accusing women of supporting Hillary just because she's female is misogynistic BS — women are smart enough to make decisions based on a number of factors: policy, track record, campaign strategy. Yes I think it's time for a female president but I'm not part of a witch's cabal that senses ovaries and suddenly MUST VOTE. Plus if I was gonna vote for someone just because she was female it would be this chick...
(Photo of Lil' Kim.)
... written in on all my ballots always. So go ahead, argue your political POV but don't insult a woman's intelligence by acting as though she votes exclusively along vaginal party lines. As Kim would say "I'm valedictorian y'all in the audience/And I've got nine hundred and ninety-nine votes, You got nine hundred and ninety-nine notes/You know bitch I'm worldwide." New Hillary campaign slogan? TGIF!
Tags: gender politics, Hillary 2016, Lena Dunham
You moonbats are supporting Hillary not just because she's a woman, but because she's a Leftwing woman.
Lena wouldn't vote for Carly if Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan appeared before her and demanded it.
Not quite sure who Lena is, except that she apparently sexually molested a younger sibling growing up, and lied about being raped in college (supposedly by the only Republican on campus). You Can probably figure from that how she is likely to vote.
Well Bruce, Titus vouches for Lena's science chops so she also has that going for her.
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...
Not quite sure who Lena is, except that she apparently sexually molested a younger sibling growing up
If you want to be treated like a grownup man you should probably act like one.
"If you want to be treated like a grownup man you should probably act like one."
And that means being a left wing robot ?
BleachBit-and-Hammers said...
Shorter Lena: It's embarrassing to support Hillary for her ovaries. You should support her for her corruption!
Jump on the Hollywood Hype Potemkin Village group-think band-wagon. No thinking, just bad faith.
ARM said,"If you want to be treated like a grownup man you should probably act like one."
Irony. It's like it's your special gift.
Not understanding the meaning of the words you use, appears to be yours.
Wait....discussing the revelation by Lena that she molested her sibling or her false rape accusation is somehow immature now?
You should never use pop music lyrics to make an argument.
Nah, if it were Joltin' Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket and Condi Rice on the Republican ticket, Dunham would support the addled old perv. Dunham's target audience isn't the vagina'd crowd; it's the smug/twee-holier-than-flyover-yokels crowd.
(The idea that anyone is voting for Hillary because of her track record is absurd on the face of it. Go ahead, ask anyone spouting that talking point to name Hillary's top three successes. Then be cruel and ask for just one. Hillary is the "I'm not a Republican and it's my turn, damn it!" candidate.)
I Am Voting With My Vagina: Hillary Clinton For President
Real American said...
Men aren't making this shit up. There are women making the argument that voting for Hillary because VAGINA is the way to go. http://www.damemagazine.com/2015/04/14/i-am-voting-my-vagina-hillary-clinton-president
Hillary's campaign strategy is: Vote for me because VAGINA (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-embraces-gender-as-campaign-strategy/article/2560727)
It's not like Hillary's track record and list of accomplishments make her qualified to be president. She's done nothing. All she has to run on is VAGINA and idiots like Lena Dunham eat that shit up.
donald said...
Plus she had a kid with Web Hubbell, so she's a mom.
Chris N said...
Well, I'm convinced.
Time to ride that Hillary bus down Fury Road with Lena Dunham chained to the top.
----Not quite sure who Lena is, except that she apparently sexually molested a younger sibling growing up
If you want to be treated like a grownup man you should probably act like one. ----
It sounds like you are making light of molesting a younger sibling. Even you aren't that deranged, are you?
Lena should make another "my first time" video for Hillary, complete with all the sexual innuendo like she did for Obama. That would be edgy.
@ARM: If you want to be treated fairly, you should try being reasonable.
ARM would care about her molesting her younger sister if she were making structured money payments to that younger sister and if she were a Republican.
Then and only then would it have any significance.
@Unknown, ARM is trying to hijack the thread. Please don't feed the trolls.
As for me, while I always knew that Hillary Clinton was a corrupt, incompetent POS, in my wildest dreams I never realized Hillary was so low and disgusting that Lena Dunham would advocate for her.
There is no innate, Darwinian need to be moral. There is, however, a tremendous drive to appear to be morally superior. While Hillary and Lena have never met a temptation they didn't feed on, they have felt it necessary to portray the privilege and mendacity of their lives as a form of character building struggle. They're pretty good at it. How do moral schlubs like these two cellulite deposits get to be so admired?
Lena Dunham - the most puzzling "celebrity" ever. I have almost no idea who she is or why I should care what she thinks or says about anything.
From what I've read, usually from Althouse links, she's a nut and left-wing hack - but it seems somebody somewhere thinks she's a voice that must be heard.
iowan2 said...
What qualities, past performance, training, experience, do you, the voter use to determine as positive factors for President?
What disqualifying, character values, past decisions, reactions, events, associations, will influence you as a voter.
Determine those answers, and then plug in the name Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Then lie to yourself if you must.
"it seems somebody somewhere thinks she's a voice that must be heard."
E.g., Althouse.
JCC said...
I suspect both subtlety and humor to be without the bailiwick of the Chicago Sun Times, and even more so in the case of the foul-mouthed but ever charming Lena Bambina.
Plenty of women say they're voting for the vagina, so what's the problem?
Yes, it is misogynistic to say women vote for Hillary solely due to her sex.
It's just that they give no reason for the vote outside of that.
women are smart enough to make decisions based on a number of factors: policy, track record, campaign strategy.
As she makes a decision based on none of those things. Well, unless she is pushing a track record of incompetence and policy failure. Some women may be smart enough but Lena isn't one of them.
Blogger damikesc said...
I wouldn't be surprised if identity politics is over 75% of why Democrats vote for Democrats.
It seems like every presidential election cycle, I hear Republicans wanting to talk about tax reform, social security, immigration, war on terror, school choice, etc.
I hear Democrats wanting to talk about binders full of women, racism, the young, the old, etc.
AReasonableMan said...
...............................................................nah. I got it right.
Anyone claiming women support Hillary solely because she is a woman, is a misogynist, Ms. Dunham argues. The person is a misogynist, Ms. Dunham reasons, because women are smart enough to evaluate Hillary on her merits and vote accordingly. To suggest women vote exclusively along gender lines is insulting.
Ergo, anyone claiming white people don't support Obama solely because he is black, is a racist. The person is racist because white people are smart enough to evaluate Obama on his merits and support or criticize him accordingly. To suggest white people are supportive, or critical of Obama solely because he is black is insulting.
Similarly, Ms. Dunham argues, it is wrong to claim she herself is racist simply because her tv show lacks racial diversity.
"The argument there are not enough minority characters to represent New York--that I couldn't argue against. What I didn't like was the [conclusion] angle that 'therefore you are a racist, you are raised by racists, you come from a world of class and privilege.'"
Clearly Ms. Dunham has missed her calling. She belongs on a college campus, teaching a course in logic.
JAORE said...
If women are voting with their vaginas, I am putting on latex gloves before I pull that lever.
This is good news. When Hillary fans continuously reveal their stupidity and absolute dearth of reasons to vote for her, it'll make it much more clear to normal people why they can't elect this person. Hillary's best shot is using smoke and mirrors to confuse. Morons like Dunham inadvertently cut through all the fog.
Well, actually....no.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lrWfjgLms
Ok, I will admit to an ad hominem attack on the lying scumbag, Lena Dunham. It was just too hard to resist. Low hanging fruit and all that. I think that she is supposed to be some sort of actress, or some such. But I don't think I have seen her acting, etc. Both the sexual molestation and false rape claim are apparently from her autobiography, though why someone of her age would think that they dad experienced enough and done enough that anyone would be interested in such is beyond me.
Still, should these revelations/facts be relevant when discussing her views on Hillary!? I think very possibly. The fake rape claim, and esp when coupled with the fraudulent identification of her attacker as the only Republican on campus identifies her, in my view, as a hard left SLJ feminist. The type who truly believe that the magnitude of the charge is far more important than its truth, and the purpose of such is pushing the narrative, regardless, or really despite truth and reality. Which says to me that not only does she not speak for all women, but is likely to speak for a very tiny number of such.
JamesB.BKK said...
Just go with the sugar daddy vote, again.


Stray wins the Children's Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction.
August 8th, 6.30pm at the Circa Theatre in Wellington, I was delighted to hear my name announced at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults when Stray won the Children's Choice category for YA. Hoorah! I had about 12 flustered seconds from my seat to the stage to try and think of something charming and gracious to say. I was pink-faced and gabbling and completely chuffed. What an honour. It was a fun night catching up with many friends and familiar faces. New Zealand has a wonderfully supportive community of children's writers and I am so blessed to be a part of it. The big winner on the night was ANZAC Heroes, written by Maria Gill and illustrated by Marco Ivancic, a gorgeous non-fiction book filled with moving stories, interesting facts and beautiful illustrations.
Sorry about the blurry pic! But here's me mid-fluster.
And I had to celebrate with a Dunken' Donut at the airport the next day. Plus: my pretty certificate nestled amongst my reading, drinking, feasting.


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Minuteman Finances Look Even Shadier Than Before
By Right Wing Watch Staff | November 17, 2006 7:31 pm
When they appeared, fully armed, on the national scene, the self-appointed border vigilantes known as Minutemen had no greater ally in the news media than the right-wing Washington Times newspaper. Today, with media attention shifted elsewhere and a new Congress less friendly to the anti-immigrant fringe, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps probably wishes the paper would just leave it alone.
Back in July, Times reporter Jerry Seper – who had spent many months writing glowing articles about the anti-immigrant group – wrote an article suggesting financial mismanagement by the organization's leadership:
Many of the group's most active members say they have no idea how much money has been collected as part of its effort to stop illegal entry — primarily along the U.S.-Mexico border, what it has been spent on or why it has been funneled through a Virginia-based charity headed by conservative Alan Keyes. Several of the group's top lieutenants have either quit or are threatening to do so, saying requests to Minuteman President Chris Simcox for a financial accounting have been ignored. …
Critics said vast sums of money are being collected to build what has been described as an Israeli-style fence to keep out illegal aliens, but all that has been constructed is three miles of a five-strand barb-wired range fence on 2-inch metal poles. One former Minuteman volunteer said the fence "wouldn't stop a tricycle."
Simcox promised an audit and lashed back at "those who have tried to destroy this organization," who he said were racists who had been purged from the group.
Seper followed-up with another article in August, finding the trail of donations still a mystery, and in October, Seper noted that much of the money raised for campaigns on behalf of congressional candidates by the Minuteman PAC was going to private companies associated with Alan Keyes. Simcox reacted angrily, telling Seper, "You obviously need to learn more about how PACs work and the FEC requirements. Many of your questions don't make sense and show your lack of understanding," he said. "Thanks for the heads up on what will no doubt be your next hit piece on the MCDC movement. Who put you up to this, Karl Rove and Bush?"
Today, Seper examines the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps' newly-filed IRS form for 2005, and finds that not only did the group raise only $418,000 – far less than the $1.6 million it claimed – but it did not spend the $196,000 it claimed it did on outfitting its volunteers during its "border vigils":
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, under fire for a lack of financial accountability, spent nearly $450,000 last year for volunteers to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border — about $31,000 more than it collected in donations and registration fees — according to a report released yesterday.
The organization's first Internal Revenue Service Form 990 filing as a 501(c)4 tax-exempt charitable trust showed nearly $285,000 in MCDC contributions, or roughly 63 percent, were used to pay for program management and operating expenses, such as travel expenditures, salaries, educational materials and office expenses. Another $145,000, about 32 percent, went for MCDC's fundraising programs.
According to the report, about $20,000, or 5 percent, was spent on field supplies, meals, fuel and background checks for the claimed 8,500 Minuteman volunteers, who last year staffed observation posts at selected points along the Mexican border from California to Texas in April and October.
Simcox, who in October suggested Seper's inquiries reflected a "lack of understanding" about non-profit accounting, portrayed the disclosure of the 990 form as a one-time, magnanimous gesture representing the group's transparency:
MCDC officials declined to discuss the Form 990 report with The Washington Times, but Mr. Simcox said in a statement posted on the organization's Web site, "We are releasing our organizational IRS Form 990 and the additional audited financial statements on deadline, as promised, when promised."
He also said that the group's board of directors, which he heads, had decided that "this year and this year only" it would make public the organization's financial statements — citing what he called "outright malicious lies about the status of MCDC finances."
But as those in the non-profit world know, organizations are required by law to give their 990 filing to anybody who asks. As for the independent audit, the part released on the group's web site merely reiterates the totals listed in the 990 – including $174,000 in unspecified "professional services." (The five-page summary helpfully specifies that "The accompanying notes" – not included on the web site – "are an integral part of this financial statement.") The auditors say their job is to certify that the group's statements are "free of material misstatement" – but it does not make any claims about material mismanagement.
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Dato' Mohammad Zainal bin Shaari
Tradewinds (M) Berhad
Dato' Mohammad Zainal bin Shaari is the Group Managing Director of Tradewinds (M) Berhad.
Throughout his corporate career, Dato' Zainal has served in various positions in the private sector. After spending six years working in the United Kingdom, he joined Price Waterhouse (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers) upon his return to Malaysia in 1990. He was seconded to Price Waterhouse in San Francisco from 1993 to 1995 and became a Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1997, a position he held until 2002 before joining a boutique advisory firm in 2003. Thereafter, he was with Khazanah Nasional Berhad from 2004 until 2013, where his last position was Executive Director/Chief Operating Officer.
Currently, Dato' Zainal is the Group Managing Director of Tradewinds (M) Berhad. He was Chairman of DRB-HICOM Berhad between 2018 and 2020 and Chairman of Pos Malaysia Berhad between 2018 to 2019. He also sits on the Board of Composites Technology Research Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Hicom Yamaha Manufacturing (M) Sdn Bhd, NCB Holdings Berhad and various other private companies. He has also served as a member of Financial Reporting Foundation. His key industry experience includes investment management, energy, plantations, automotive, manufacturing and distribution, logistics, telecommunications, consumer products and education whilst his areas of expertise includes strategy, corporate transactions, governance, financial management and transformation.
Dato' Zainal is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales ("ICAEW") and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ("ACCA"). Additionally, he is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants ("MIA") and the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants ("MICPA).
Tradewinds Corporation Berhad is a diversified conglomerate with key interests in property development (as Tradewinds Property) and hospitality (As Tradewinds Hospitality).


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Kool-Aid is een limonademerk van het bedrijf Kraft Foods Company.

Ontstaan en productie

Kool-Aid is ontwikkeld door Edwin Perkins en zijn vrouw Kitty in Hastings (Nebraska), Amerika. Al zijn experimenten met de limonade vonden plaats in de keuken van zijn moeder. De voorloper van "Kool-Aid" was Fruit Smack, een vloeibaar concentraat. Om de transportkosten te beperken, ontwikkelde Perkins een manier om het water uit Fruit Smack te halen, waardoor alleen poeder overbleef. Dit poeder werd Kool-Aid genoemd. Perkins verplaatste in 1931  de productie naar Chicago en Kool-Aid werd verkocht aan General Foods in 1953.
In Hastings viert men nog steeds een jaarlijks zomerfeest genaamd Kool-Aid Days in het tweede weekend van augustus, ter ere van de ontwikkeling van Kool-Aid alhier.
In Nebraska is Kool-Aid de officiële limonade van deze staat.

Reclame en promotie

Kool-Aid Man, een getekende limonadekan, is de officiële mascotte van Kool-Aid. Hij werd bedacht vlak nadat General Foods het merk opkocht. Op tv en in reclamefolders is vaak te zien hoe "Kool-Aid Man" dwars door de muur een kamer met kinderen inloopt en zijn slagzin "Oh, yeah!" laat horen en ze vervolgens een glas Kool-Aid aanbiedt. Kool-Aid Man is al sinds de jaren 60 de officiële mascotte van Kool-Aid.

Smaken

Andere smaken zijn: Solar Strawberry-Starfruit , Artic Green Apple , Swirlin' Strawberry-Starfruit en Lemon Ice.

Andere producten
 Kool-Aid Twists Mountain Dew
 Kool-Aid Ice Cream Bars
 Kool-Aid Singles
 Kool-Aid Bursts
 Kool-Aid Jammerz
 Kool-Aid Fun Fizz
 Kool-Aid Pop 'n Drop

"Don't drink the Kool-Aid"
In het Engels bestaat de uitdrukking "Don't drink the Kool-Aid" om aan te geven dat iemand niet in gladde praatjes moet trappen. Deze uitdrukking is afgeleid van de massale zelfmoord in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978 van de Peoples Temple-sekte, die werd geleid door Jim Jones. Jones had zijn volgelingen opdracht gegeven limonade te drinken die gemengd was met cyanide, volgens de overlevering was de limonade Kool-Aid. In werkelijkheid was de cyanide gemengd met limonade van het merk Flavor Aid.

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University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine
"Why do you want to become an osteopathic physician?" Report Response
"What did you think of WVSOM? Marshall University?" Report Response
"What do you like to do for fun?" Report Response
"Suppose a 16 year old girl is a patient of yours, she comes to you and discovers that she is pregant. She asks you not to tell her parents. What do you do?" Report Response
"Nothing really. Just be honest." Report Response
"I have interviewed many, many times for med school in the past." Report Response
"The students were exceptionally friendly. The staff and professors were very helpful and they did their best to make the interviewees as comfortable as possible. The dress code also impressed me." Report Response
"Nothing." Report Response
"There are many outdoor activities within driving distance of the school." Report Response
"I enjoyed the interview. It was the most pleasant experience that I have been part of. I found out 3 days later that I was accepted. The administration is very nice." Report Response


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Ghost Stories for Christmas.
Christmas has traditionally been a time of family gatherings, story-telling and merry-making. The appeal of the ghost story at this time of year is symptomatic of these things; the requests for tales from a grandparent or the reading of M. R. James heightens our sense of ancestral ties and giddy celebrations. The country house has been synonymous with stories of ghosts and spooky happenings for centuries. Local tales of headless ghouls or floating grey women occur all over the world, and authors of such stories never seem to tire of some dark mansion or dilapidated house as their backdrop.
There are many tales from which I could have plucked something, but these are best read in full. Instead I draw your attention to a piece by George Cruikshank, British caricaturist and book illustrator, better known for his superb visual commentaries of the Prince Regent and high fashion during the first half of the nineteenth century. Second Edition of a Discovery Concerning Ghosts: with a Rap at the 'Spirit Rappers' appeared in 1864 and is a fantastic textual form of Cruikshank's acerbic wit and joviality. In it he highlights specific texts like Catherine Crowe's The Night Side of Nature (1848), and Robert Dale Owen's Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1860) declaring them to be 'cleverly written' and 'elaborately compiled' respectively, but nonetheless 'ghastly' and misjudged (pp. 7 and 13). There is also mention of the Sampson Ghost which Cruikshank notes as a 'spiritual farce' (p. 22) and Dr. Hibbert's Philosophy of Apparitions (1824) whereby Cruikshank really gets his hooks into the appearance of ghosts and provides the reader with true laugh-out-loud material, '… we should like to know if there are spiritual-outfitters shops for the clothing of ghosts who pay visits on earth, and if empty, haunted houses are used for this purpose… (p. 26). He even goes as far as illustrating this section with 'ghosts of stockings'!
The following is excerpts from the full text, but show the lighter side of telling ghost stories, and no matter what your feelings are concerning the existence of ghosts, George Cruikshank (accompanied by a sherry or rum) certainly provides some much-needed respite from the cold, dark evenings!
[All original spelling and punctuation have been retained.]
A vast army, composed of ghost, goblin, and sprite!
With their eyes full of fire, all gleaming with spite!
All lurking about in the "dead of the night"
With their faces so pale and their shrouds all so white!
Or hiding about in dark holes and corners,
To fright grown-up folk, or little "Jack Horners."
But though they all stand in this fierce grim array,
Armed with pen and with pencil, "I'll drive them away."
As the belief in ghosts has long been popular, and considered as an established fact, it may be quite allowable for an author to introduce a ghost into his romance; and it may be argued that authors have thus been enabled "to point a moral" as well as to "adorn a tale," by using this poetical license, or spiritual medium; but in these cases the tales or poems were given out to the world as inventions of the author to amuse the public, or to convey a moral lesson, and were accepted by the public as such.
It will be observed that there are different classes of ghosts, as there are of living people—the princely, the aristocratic, the genteel, and the common. The vulgar classes delight to haunt in graveyards, dreary lanes, ruins, and all sorts of dirty dark holes and corners, and in cellars. Yes, dark cellars seem to be a favourite abode of these common ghosts. This fact raises the question whether the lower class of spirits are obliged to keep to the lower parts of the house—to the "lower regions "—and are not allowed to go into the parlours or the drawing rooms, and not allowed to mix with the higher order of ghosts! Can this be a law or regulation amongst the ghosts? If so, is it not most extraordinary that these spirits should not be allowed to choose their own place of residence, and take to the most comfortable apartments, instead of grovelling amongst the rats and mice, the slugs, the crickets, and the blackbeetles? "tis strange, 'tis passing strange; but so it appears to be. By the by, some few of these poor spirits of the humble class of ghosts do sometimes, it appears, mount up to the bed-rooms, in the hope, I suppose, of getting occasionally now and then a " comfortable lodging" and a " good night's rest."
There is also an account of a haunted cellar in a gentleman's house, out of town, in which were heard " loud knockings," "a voice crying," "heavy feet walking," etc. The old butler, with his "acolytes," descended to the cellar (wine cellar) armed with sword, blunderbuss, and other offensive weapons, but the ghosts put them all to flight, and they "turned tail "in a fright. Yes, they all ran up-stairs again, followed by the "sound of feet" and "a visible shadow .'" This, of course, is a fact; and it so happens that I know another fact about a haunted wine-cellar, which, however, had quite a different result to the foregoing.
In a wine-cellar of a gentleman's house, somewhere near Blackheath, it was found that strange noises were sometimes heard in the evenings and in the night time, in this "wine vault," similar to those described above, such as knocking, groaning, footsteps, etc., so that the servants were afraid to go into the cellar, particularly at a late hour. The master at length determined to "lay " this ghost, if possible, and one evening when these noises had been heard, arming himself with a sword, and the servants with a fowling-piece and a poker, they cautiously descended into the cellar (with lighted candles, of course). Nothing was to be seen there, and all was quiet except a strange, smothered kind of sound, like the hard breathing of an animal, something like snoring, that seemed to proceed out of the earth in one of the dark corners of the vault, when, lo and behold! in turning their lights in the direction from which the sounds came, and advancing carefully, they discovered—what do you think? Don't be alarmed. Why, the ghost lying on the ground, dead—DRUNK! Yes, the ghost had laid himself, not with " Bell, Book, and Candle," but by swallowing the SPIRIT of ALCOHOL, the spirit of wine, beer, and brandy. Most disgraceful; in fact, this ghost had taken a "drop too much,"
Upon looking a little closer, they found that this ghost was one Tom Brown, an under-gardener; and it was discovered that he had tunnelled a hole from the "tool-house" through the wall into the cellar. This spirit was so over-charged with spirit, that he was unable to walk, so was doomed to be carried in a cart to the "cage;" and all the people living round about came next morning to look at the ghost that had been haunting the squire's wine cellar. Oh! what & fortune it would be to any one who could catch a ghost —a real, right down, "'arnest" ghost, and put him in a cage to show him round the country! I wish I had one.* It would cost little or nothing to keep such a thing; only the lodging, as he would require neither food, fire, clothing, nor washing!
In one of the tales brought forward by this author [R. D. Owen] is an account of the haunting of an old manor-house near Leigh, in Kent, called Ramhurst, where there was heard " knockings and sounds of footsteps," more especially voices which could not be accounted for, usually in an unoccupied room; "sometimes as if talking in a loud tone, sometimes as if reading aloud, occasionally screaming." The servants never saw anything, but the cook told her mistress that on one occasion, in broad daylight, hearing the rustling of a silk dress behind her, and which seemed to touch her, she turned suddenly round, supposing it to be her mistress, but to her great surprise – and terror could not see anybody.
Mr. Owen is so thoroughly master of this spirit subject that he must be able to tell us all about this "rustling" of the "silk dresses" of ghosts, and surely every one will be curious to learn the secret of such a curious fact. The lady of the house, a Mrs. R , drove over one day to the railway station at Tunbridge to fetch a young lady friend who was coming to stay with her for some weeks. This was a Miss S , who "had been in the habit of seeing apparitions from early childhood," and when, upon their return, they drove up to the entrance of the manor-house, Miss S perceived on the threshold the appearance of two figures, apparently an elderly couple, habited in the costume of the time of Queen Anne. They appeared as if standing on the ground. Miss S—— saw the same apparition several times after this, and held conversations with them, and they told her that they were husband and wife, and that their name was "Children;" and she informed the lady of the house, Mrs. R , of what she had seen and heard; and as Mrs. R was dressing hurriedly one day for dinner, "and not dreaming of anything spiritual, as she hastily turned to leave her bed-chamber, there, in the doorway, stood the same female figure Miss S had described! identical in appearance and costume—even to the old 'point-lace' on her 'brocaded silk dress '—while beside her, on the left, but less distinctly visible, was the figure of the old squire, her husband; they uttered no sound, but above the figure of the lady, as if written in phosphoric light in the dusk atmosphere that surrounded her, were the words, 'Dame Children,' together with some other words intimating that having never aspired beyond the joys and sorrows of this world, she had remained 'earth bound' These last, however, Mrs. R scarcely paused to decipher, as her brother (who was very hungry) called out to know if they were 'going to have any dinner that day?'" There was no time for hesitation; "she closed her eyes, rushed through the apparition and into the dining-room, throwing up her hands, and exclaiming to Miss S , 'Oh, my dear, I've walked through Mrs. Children!'" Only think of that, "gentle reader!" Only think of Mrs. R walking right through "Dame Children "—" old point-lace, brocaded silk dress," and all—and as old "Squire Children" was standing by the side of his "dame," Mrs. R must either have upset the old ghost or have walked through him also.
Although this story looks very much like as if it were intended as an additional chapter to "Joe Miller's Jest-book," the reader will please to observe that Mr. Owen does not relate this as a joke, but, on the contrary, expects that it will be received as a solemn serious fact; there was a cause for the haunting of this old manor-house, with the talking, screaming, and rustling of silk, and the appearance of the old-fashioned ghosts; there was a secret which these ghosts wished to impart to the persons in the house at that time, and if the gentleman reader will brace up his nerves, and the lady reader will get her "smelling-bottle" ready, I'll let them into the secret. Now, pray, dear madam, don't be terrified! Squire Children had formerly been proprietor of the mansion, and he and his "dame" had taken great delight and interest in the house—when alive—and they were very sorry to find that the property had gone out of the family, and he and his dame had come on purpose to let Mrs. R and her friend know all this! There now, there's a secret for you—what do you think of that?
Full link for Second Edition of a Discovery Concerning Ghosts: with a Rap at the 'Spirit Rappers' (1864) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3iJovjl2swoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Works by George Cruickshank http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/c#a9068
Selection of images by Cruickshank http://www.cruikshankart.com/georgecruikshank/
The Davenport Brothers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_brothers
The Ghost Club, to which Cruikshank dedicates this work (founded in 1862) http://www.ghostclub.org.uk/history.htm
Joe Miller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Miller_(actor)
The eeriness of the country http://freakyfolktales.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/walk-with-me-to-the-estuary-a-ghost-story-for-christmas/
Tagged as Christmas, George Cruikshank, Literature


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Conway, SC – Research economist Robert F. Salvino, director of the Grant Center for Real Estate and Economics at Coastal Carolina University, was featured on WRNN 99.5's "Morning Show with Dave and Liz" on Oct. 2, 2018, to discuss the economic impacts of Hurricane Florence on the Grand Strand.
Hurricane Florence developed in the Atlantic at the end of August and ripped through the Carolinas last month. Though the storm downgraded to tropical storm levels, it dumped vast amounts of rain on the area. Horry and Georgetown counties experienced historic levels of flooding that has affected highways, roads, homes and businesses – including Coastal Carolina University – throughout the Grand Strand.
Salvino, an associate professor of economics, discussed the storm's immediate and long-term impacts on the local community on the show. Citing work by CCU professor Taylor Damonte, director of the Clay Brittain Jr. Center for Resort Tourism, Salvino said the hurricane, flooding and mandatory evacuation order resulted in great loss for many local businesses, including a "…65 percent decrease in the hotel occupancy rate from the previous year."
However, Salvino remained optimistic that the impacts will only be short-term, saying businesses will reopen as soon as they are accessible. Despite the loss of revenues over the past few weeks, he believes there will not be a long-term negative impact on the local and regional economies. Full audio of Salvino's appearance on the Morning Show can be accessed here.
Salvino will join other speakers on Oct. 24 at the Asher Theatre in Myrtle Beach for the Economic Development and Infrastructure Forum to further delve into this topic. The forum is presented by the West of the Waterway Council in partnership with the North and South Strand Councils. Attendees will learn the latest updates on road projects, air service and economic development along the Grand Strand. The forum is open to all MBACC investors. Click here to register.
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Podostemaceae is the largest family of strictly aquatic flowering plants, with approximately 51 genera and 270 species. Many of these species are of conservation concern due to their delicate habitat within tropical waterways that are often dammed and used for hydroelectric power. We analyzed plastid nucleotide sequence data (matK, ndhF, and rbcL) using maximum likelihood inference to clarify phylogenetic relationships within the family. Our combined data set included 99 taxa, representing 93 species within 43 of the currently defined genera. Our results indicate that Podostemum is not monophyletic; Podostemum flagelliforme is an early diverging member of Podostemoideae and not closely related to other species in that genus. Additionally, various species of Rhyncholacis are more closely related to Autana, Macarenia, and Wettsteiniola, signifying that Rhyncholacis also is not monophyletic. Another important result is that the genus Thelethylax, despite the addition of new molecular data (ndhF and rbcL added to previously collected matK), remains unresolved in its placement.
Ciocca, William A., "Molecular Phylogeny of Podostemoideae (Podostemaceae)" (2014). Honors Theses. 189.


After the wedding photo was posted on Facebook, a Kauai woman immediately recognized the couple as her grandparents.
At a Christmas bazaar in Oregon last week, retired technical writer Judi Palumbo tackled pile after pile of other people's castoffs, unearthing an old, black-and-white wedding portrait.
Palumbo, who prowls estate sales and thrift shops for hidden gems that she resells online, paid $4 for the slightly tattered photograph. Its paper frame was etched with a date: Aug. 24, 1940.
Professionally made at Takasawa Studio in Hanapepe, Kauai, the image features a young Japanese couple, their blank faces looking at the camera fixedly.
A 1940 wedding photo of Yoshio and Sueno Miyazaki of Kauai was discovered at an Oregon bazaar. The couple's grandchild saw a Facebook post asking for help identifying the people in the black-and-white photo.
Dressed in a dark suit and tie, the groom stands stiff as a soldier. His wife, hands closed and shoulders slumped forward onto her clavicle, sits in a chair at his side. Round-faced and petite, the kimono-clad woman wears a bulky headdress, a traditional Japanese symbol of an obedient bride.
On Dec. 7, 1941 — 471 days after the couple in portrait married — more than 2,400 Americans were killed in Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. How might the war that followed have altered the couple's fate? It's a question that Palumbo, a self-described amateur historian, couldn't get out of her head.
So she took to social media, firing off a plea for anyone who might know the couple. If they were alive, she reasoned, they would probably be in their 90s. From behind her computer screen, Palumbo launched a search for the mystery couple in hopes that she could return to them their wedding portrait taken more than 75 years ago.
In the span of a couple days, Palumbo's Facebook post garnered more than 100 likes and dozens of shares, eventually finding its way to Tammy Puu, one of the mystery couple's descendants.
Puu was alerted to Palumbo's post by a relative. She immediately identified the photograph's subjects as Yoshio and Sueno Miyazaki, her deceased paternal grandparents.
Puu said she hasn't a clue as to how her grandparent's wedding portrait ended up in Oregon, where she has no relatives. But she's ecstatic that it will soon make its way back to Kauai, thanks to the curiosity of a stranger and a little online sleuthing.
"Getting this photograph back in our hands means more than anything," Puu said.
Puu, who is 45, was born and raised in Kalaheo, the same west Kauai town where her grandparents had lived. Growing up, she was close with her grandparents, especially her grandmother who had a life that was particularly vibrant.
When a couple of years passed and Yoshio Miyazaki realized that leaving his wife had been a terrible mistake, Sueno Miyazaki made sure to have her reckoning.
The youngest of 10 siblings, Sueno Miyazaki was born on Kauai in the Kukuiula plantation camp. She was born to Japanese immigrants who came to Hawaii to work in the pineapple fields.
When she was old enough, Sueno Miyazaki worked at the pineapple cannery in Lawai. A talented seamstress and Japanese obon dancer, she later became a founding member of Kauai Island Tours, which facilitated Kauai and Japan tour packages with translators. The tour company briefly employed Puu as a concierge.
Born in Japan, Yoshio Miyazaki immigrated to Kauai as a youth, eventually opening Miyazaki Electrical in Kalaheo. He and Sueno Miyazaki had two daughters and two sons, one of whom is Puu's father, 75-year-old Herbert Miyazaki. Less sociable than his wife, his presence in Puu's life was consistent but comparatively muted.
But there were some colorful moments. For example, he once told his granddaughter that they descended from Japanese royalty.
"If we go back to Japan, will people treat us really nice?" Puu remembers asking.
When Sueno Miyazaki died in 2002, Yoshio Miyazaki said he no longer wanted to be alive. But he was gifted with another three years of life. He died on Sept. 8, 2005 — the day before his deceased wife's birthday.
It's comforting, Puu said, to think that he timed his death so they could be together to celebrate.
Brittany Lyte is a reporter for Civil Beat. You can reach her at blyte@civilbeat.com.


Before the industrial revolution, physical activities had mingled with people's everyday life as a way of producing food, making goods, and protecting from enemies. Physical activities were inevitable. After urbanization and industrialization, the amount of daily physical activities significantly reduced due to the development of technology and auto-mobilization. Everyday activities are not enough to maintain health and physical fitness. As a result, sports facilities, such as a gym, fitness center and health club have been started spreading throughout modern cities.
What would people's everyday life be in the future? All physical activities, movements and labors will be no longer required in a daily routine. Manual labors will be replaced by technologies. Communication will be possible over wireless media. All goods and food will be home delivered. To maintain people's life physically active, physical activities will have to be inevitably performed regularly. We suggest incorporating sport facilities into city infrastructures, by transforming streets, pavements and parks into sports grounds, swimming pools, ski slopes and running tracks. Instead of selectively using physical facilities, physical activities will be easily integrated into daily routine.


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/**
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 *
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 *     export default class MyAction extends Action {
 *       respond() {
 *         let Post = this.modelFor('post');
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03/14/2019 05:25 am ET Updated Mar 14, 2019
Trouble For Tucker: Advertising Plunges After Racist, Sexist Comments Resurface
"This doesn't seem to be blowing over."
By Ed Mazza
Fox News host Tucker Carlson appears to be hemorrhaging sponsors after his old racist and sexist comments resurfaced this week.
An analysis by Samba TV found that Carlson had 39 advertisers on the Monday before the tapes uncovered by Media Matters made big headlines, and just 14 advertisers the day after, TheWrap reported.
"This is a sizable fall-off in advertisers," media analyst Brad Adgate told TheWrap. "This doesn't seem to be blowing over."
Carlson had 54 advertisers in the same week last year, but he lost some in December after he claimed immigrants made America "dirtier."
Advertising blocs fell to about 13.5 minutes on Monday, the day after the first batch of audio was released. On Tuesday and Wednesday ― after more old Carlson comments resurfaced ― ads fell to about 11.5 minutes, with many of them promos and MyPillow spots, The Contemptor reported.
The ads that remained weren't always typical for prime-time television:
This ad just ran during the 8 o'clock hour on Fox News pic.twitter.com/JNk42I77yL
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 14, 2019
On Wednesday, Fox News reps pleaded with advertisers to stick it out.
"We know there is a lot of noise out there, but the voice of a few shouldn't prevent you from marketing your brands to millions of consumers who actually buy your products and services," Marianne Gambelli, the network's head of advertising, said at a presentation to sponsors, per the Los Angeles Times.
Fox News executives told the Times that the presentation was planned months ago.
Fox News had $1.09 billion in ad revenue last year, a 7.2 percent increase over 2017. However, the Times added that Carlson's show was bucking that trend; its ad revenue plunged 45 percent in the fourth quarter as boycott calls grew over his anti-immigrant comments.
Some advertisers, however, remained committed to Carlson. In December, My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell said: "I make all of my advertising decisions based on what is best for MyPillow, my customers and my employees."
Lindell, an avowed conservative and a constant advertising presence on Fox News, even as various shows have been subject to boycott calls, was rewarded with an appearance as a guest on Carlson's show:
While more than a dozen companies have pulled ads from Tucker Carlson's show, this week My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell put out a statement saying he would keep advertising on his show.
Today, he's getting his own segment pic.twitter.com/Umu9EPdlMT
— Salvador Hernandez (@SalHernandez) December 22, 2018
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Salute To FOX News Channel's Brit Hume
WASHINGTON - JANUARY 08: FOX News host Shepard Smith poses on the red carpet upon arrival at a salute to FOX News Channel's Brit Hume on January 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. Hume was honored for his 35 years in journalism. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)


Lockable extra-wide opening doors, 9' 10" x 12' eucalyptus metal garden shed, large storage space for you to store all your garden essentials and is easy to assemble with a snap-tite system for added security.
This Escape Regent Titanium Easy Build Metal Shed is a tough and durable when anchored to the manufacturer's recommendations. Anchor kits are available as an optional extra, please see the options above for more details. The shed is delivered in preassembled panels featuring the unique, patented Snap & tite assembly system. It has been described as the easiest range to assemble on the market - instructions are also included.
The Premier Regent Eucalyptus Metal Sheds are maintenance free and they do not have the weathering issues that come with many other products thanks to the Globally used ultra tough BlueScope Steel construction. The pent roof means water runs off the building thus avoiding puddles gathering at the base and causing internal damp problems, and allows more height internally for taller items.
Hinged doors save space inside the shed and provide easy access.
A spacious pent roof will allow more room for taller items at the rear of the building providing more storage capacity.
The Ultra Tough BlueScope Steel sheds are available with either Titanium or colour bond finishes, each one as durable as the next with the only difference being your own personal preference.
Please note: All metal sheds and storage must be erected on a firm, level (preferably concrete) base and unless stated will not come with floor panels as standard. Please call our Sales Team if you have any questions before you buy.
Each shed comes with fully assembled panels including doors and a fixing kit with plenty of nails and felt to complete the roof assembly. Full fixing kit and felt with instructions manual included.
As long as the garden building is well maintained this poducat carries the 20 year anti rust guarantee.
Your possessions can be securely stored in the shed due to lockable, extra wide hinged doors.


Radio Frequency Spectrum is a scarce natural resource that is the fundamental pillar for wireless technologies, services and the daily activities of society pivot. These include TV and radio broadcasting, the mobile services, public safety, and other services and activities.
The NTRA's Radio Spectrum Resources Management Team, pursuant to Telecom Law No. 10/2003, is commissioned with the planning and management of all affairs related to the radio spectrum resources on the national level.
The Team has set the national frequencies usage policy and regulations that should fully comply with the publications (such as the resolutions, recommendations and handbooks) of ITU-R and other administrations concerning space and terrestrial radio services.
The Frequency Regulation Committee is commissioned, pursuant to law, to approve all the new wireless service systems and applications submitted by the civil and governmental bodies and entities.
On the international level, the NTRA's Radio Spectrum Resources Planning Team Affairs has been participating in all study group meetings of the Radio communications Sector of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-R). This participation enables NTRA to express Egypt's concerns and requirements on the international level and ensures that such requirements are taken into consideration by all ITU member states.
The National Radio Spectrum Allocation Table is the cornerstone of the Egyptian spectrum resources management system. It identifies the allocation of frequency bands to different radio services.
The table allocates 25 services over the frequency bands ranging from 8.3 kHz to 300 GHz. The table is revised once every 4 years to align it with the latest version of the international Radio Regulations that are revised by the World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC) every 3 to 4 years.
The Department is commissioned with a mandate to direct the international coordination tasks of both Space and Terrestrial radio services, to carry on international agreements with various parties, and to govern proper Radio spectrum for national operators avoiding harmful interference that could hinder or affect networks operation.
The Department also aims to resolve and coordinate any dispute arising from the operation of the national networks that could affect other networks on national and international levels, under the umbrella of the ITU Radio Regulations, Constitution and Convention, and with respect to the provisions of the Egyptian Telecommunication Regulation Law No. 10/2003.
In addition, it successfully manages the registration of national networks in accordance with ITU Radio Regulations, hence providing international recognition of these networks; and carrying on technical and regulative actions to provide adequate protection of the national networks. To achieve this goal, this Department takes part in various studies and activities of related ITU Radiocommunication (ITU-R) study groups.
Wireless technologies are a major part of the National Broadband Plan (eMisr). eMisr highlighted the need to make around 500 MHz of spectrum available for broadband applications by 2020.
NTRA is currently preparing for the commencement of the plan implementation phase. The radio spectrum plays an important role to meet the goals of eMisr. The Radio Spectrum Resources Affairs Sector is currently studying all spectrum-related actions in the short and medium term. In order to meet the requirements of eMisr, NTRA played a major role in World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 (WRC-12) in allowing a mobile allocation in the frequency band 694-790 MHz that is effective after World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-15). Such allocation will facilitate the medium term goals for deploying broadband networks in Egypt. In addition NTRA is participating actively in the studies currently carried out by the ITU-R regarding the allocation of new frequency bands to the mobile service with the aim of making those frequency bands available for broadband services.


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controllers:

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You can use this task on a production server to remove all front
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If you have two applications named [frontend|COMMENT] and [backend|COMMENT],
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Pct day 92 – Does California ever end?
I had a late morning behind the church, talking to Foxfire and the Germans, who were very clean. We compared fingertips. I am still filthy. The dirt is permanent.
I had some breakfast at the place across the street. I went with the savory choice, then contemplated an order of French toast. I should've got French toast. I regretted not getting toast for many hours afterwards. The cafe was attached to an independent bookstore, which was fabulous. I wanted all the books.
Hitching in town feels weird. But I only had to do it for a few minutes before a lady pulled over and offered me a ride. She was wearing Dirty Girl gators so I'd know she was a hiker. There were a couple of greeters at the trailhead. They were shockingly excited to talk to me, I think because I was a woman hiking alone. "I moved here to be close to the trail. But I'm too scared to start," the woman told me. Her husband nodded along. Then they gave me $20. This used to happen to me all the time in Japan. It's a custom, to give money and food to Shikoku pilgrims. I feel like it's not so common for PCT hikers. But I won't complain.
I really wanted to get some miles in. And nature did not want me to stop. At every pause, I was mobbed by yellowjackets. Persistent but not aggressive. What do they want? Salt? Love? I walked for awhile after dark. I saw a little dark snake on the path after dark. It was either dead or too cold to move. I scooted around it. At yet another fork of the Feather River, I started looking around for a campspot I accidentally shined my light all over some guys sleeping on the ground. Oops. I wanted to camp there, but not after waking everyone up. I crossed the bridge and found another riverside spot.
I am enjoying your adventure and think you definitely have the right attitude for getting the most out of the experience. Not being obsessed with daily miles makes your blog more interesting than most. What does it matter if you do a through hike in one year or two?
Since you ask what do the yellow jackets want? I'm fairly sure the answer is food, specifically protein. The vespids are omnivores with meat-eating mandibles. This time of year, all the nectar and pollen has dried up and the wasps are looking for meat. Usually they eat other insects but they will come to your barbecues for a bite of steak. Due to the drought conditions all over the West lately, ground dwelling yellow jackets have had a high winter survival rate. Only the queens overwinter. The workers die in the fall and seem to sense their mortality and get very aggressive looking for their last meal. They can wipe out a weak colony of honeybees, eating everything but the wax.
Beyond long clothes, gloves, and a headnet there doesn't seem to be much a hiker can do to discourage them. DEET doesn't seem to bother them. Flea collars for dogs and cats contain a chemical that is toxic to wasps if they eat it but it probably doesn't repel them although it might be worth a try if somebody wanted to experiment.
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Yngve Theodor Schoerner, född 7 september 1879 i Karlskrona stadsförsamling i Blekinge län, död 14 januari 1963 i Skeppsholms församling i Stockholm, var en svensk mariningenjör och sjöofficer.

Schoerner avlade studentexamen 1897 och civilingenjörsexamen 1901 vid Fackskolan för maskin- och skeppsbyggnadskonst på Kungliga Tekniska högskolan i Stockholm. Efter examen gjorde han praktik på Karlskrona örlogsvarv och 1903–1904 vid Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft. År 1905 blev han tillförordnad mariningenjör, 1906 extra mariningenjör, 1907 mariningenjör av andra graden och 1908 mariningenjör av första graden. Åren 1907–1910 tjänstgjorde han i Ingenjördepartementet vid Stockholms örlogsvarv. Han var fartygsingenjör på pansarskeppen Svea 1907, Oden 1908 och på Dristigheten under en expedition till Medelhavet 1909. År 1910 erhöll han tjänst vid Ingenjöravdelningen i Marinförvaltningen. Schoerner var Marinförvaltningens kontrollant vid byggandet av minkryssaren Clas Fleming vid Finnboda Varv 1910–1914, tjänstgjorde 1915–1917 vid Ingenjöravdelningen i Marinförvaltningen och var kontrollant vid byggandet av pansarskeppet Drottning Victoria vid Götaverken 1917–1918. Åren 1921–1929 tjänstgjorde han i Ingenjördepartementet vid Karlskrona örlogsvarv, därav som mobiliseringsingenjör 1922–1929 efter att 1922 ha utnämnts till marindirektör av andra graden. Han var chef för Ingenjördepartementet en kortare tid 1929.

År 1929 utnämndes han till marindirektör av första graden och var åren 1929–1942 marinöverdirektör och chef för Ingenjöravdelningen vid Marinförvaltningen tillika chef för Mariningenjörkåren. Denna tjänst innefattade vid dåvarande organisation handläggning och personlig föredragning i plenum av samtliga nybyggnadsärenden och tekniska utredningar etc. Inför och under den förstärkta försvarsberedskapen under andra världskriget var dessa arbetsuppgifter mycket omfattande. Under perioden 1930–1942 kontrakterades eller levererades följande fartyg: flygplanskryssaren Gotland, kryssarna Tre Kronor och Göta Lejon, minfartyget Älvsnabben, 10 stadsjagare eller därmed likvärdiga fartyg, 4 kustjagare av Mode-klass, 21 ubåtar av olika typer, 14 minsvepare av Arholma-klass, 20 mindre minsvepare, 4 vedettbåtar av Jägaren-klass, 11 motortorpedbåtar samt ett flertal smärre fartyg och isbrytaren Ymer. Följande fartyg inköptes och ombyggdes: ubåtsdepåfartyget Patricia, lasarettsfartyget Prins Carl, ubåtsbärgningsfartyget Belos samt jagarna Puke, Psilander, Romulus och Remus – de fyra senare från Italien.

År 1939 erhöll han konteramirals tjänsteklass – en utmärkelse som tidigare endast tilldelats Fredrik Henrik af Chapman. Efter att han 1942 lämnat Marinförvaltningen var han chef för Verkstadsavdelningen vid Sveriges Mekanförbund 1942–1950. Schoerner avgick ur amiralitets reserv 1949.

Yngve Schoerner invaldes 1919 som hedersledamot av Kungliga Örlogsmannasällskapet och 1930 som ledamot av Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademien.

Yngve Schoerner var son till manufakturhandlaren Otto Theodor Schoerner och Nanny Hildegard Juliander. Han gifte sig 1910 med Hildur Åhman. De hade sönerna Gunnar Schoerner, Erik Schoerner och Ove Schoerner.

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Ingenjörer från Karlskrona
Militärer från Karlskrona
Svenska ingenjörer under 1900-talet
Svenska militärer under 1900-talet
Svenska amiraler
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Ledamöter av Kungliga Örlogsmannasällskapet
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The Housatonic Valley Association is uniquely dedicated to protecting the entire Housatonic River Watershed. The watershed includes about 2,000 square miles of land stretching from western Massachusetts through western Connecticut and eastern New York to Long Island Sound. HVA monitors water quality throughout the watershed, conducts educational programs, works to link preserved space with the Housatonic River Greenway of hiking and biking trails and uses computer mapping to help towns measure the impact and benefits of land use and development. HVA's offices are in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut; South Lee, Massachusetts; and Wassaic, New York.


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Inflation, price hike: PM makes promise: 'This bad phase will be over soon'
Says government will announce a big package to give relief to the common man
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said he was proud of his government to take initiatives with regard to saving the future of coming generations, instead of pursuing the approach of gaining votes in elections.
He said the government addressed the challenges of pollution, deforestation, water scarcity and food shortage compared with the previous rulers who had spent extravagantly on roads construction at inflated rates at the cost of public expense.
He was addressing at the ground-breaking ceremony of 128-kilometre Lilla-Jhelum dual carriageway, which will be completed in 30 months at a cost of Rs 16 billion and will connect Khushab, Mandi Bahauddin, Gujrat and Mirpur regions.
Imran Khan said a country could not make progress if its rulers ignored its people and limited their strategy to gain votes.
He mentioned that after fifty years, the country was getting three big dams as the government realized the imminent challenge of shortage of water.
He pointed out that due to the apathy of previous governments, the ruthless tree-cutting had turned several cities including Lahore, once used to be called as City of Gardens, into a concrete jungle.
The prime minister said his government had planted around 2.5 billion trees with a target of 10 billion in coming years.
During the pandemic, he said, the prudent policies of the government had acclaimed global recognition in line with the decisions of the National Command Operation Centre (NCOC).
"I am proud of our team that has helped the country sail smoothly through the challenge of the century," he said.
The prime minister expressed confidence that the government would effectively overcome the passing phase of inflation as a result of the global situation.
"In the coming days, we are going to announce a big package to give relief to the common man," he said.
After completion of the five-year tenure, he said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would emerge successful in the eyes of public by achieving the goals of development and prosperity.
Imran Khan gave a comparison of the expensive road construction of 645 kilometres during the tenure of Pakistan Muslim League-N compared with the 1,750 km road network made during the PTI tenure.
He said on the construction of two-lane roads, the cost incurred during PTI government was 33.37 percent less compared with PML-N, up to 53 percent less on four-lane highways, and 19.6 percent less on four-lane motorways.
"No country can prosper if its leaders are indulged in corruption and there is no rule of law," he regretted.
On Lilla-Jhelum road, he said the project would help promote tourism in the area, boost farm to the market supply of agricultural produce, enhance employment opportunities and strengthen economic development.
Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar said the Lilla-Jhelum road would provide business and trade opportunities to the people, particularly of north Punjab.
He mentioned that under the District Development Programme, around 103 projects worth Rs 11.3 billion were being carried out in Jhelum.
He said the Punjab government in collaboration with Asian Development Bank would construct four roads of 5,006 kilometres in length.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Member of National Assembly from Jhelum, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said Lilla-Jhelum road would connect Grand Trunk road with motorway.
For this, the traffic from Kashmir will not need to pass through Rawalpindi to go to Lahore and Karachi.
This would make Jhelum and suburbs a periphery of Islamabad and would promote development, he added.
He mentioned that the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in three years had helped revive the industries and also facilitated the farmers.
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US town compensated for wildlife conservation
compensating people for conservation is happening at a regional scale. Local residents of Jamestown in Rhode Island, us, are paying farmers to delay haying their fields until after birds have completed nesting.
Experts claim it as a unique test to establish investment markets for ecological services. The compensation is meant to protect habitat for bobolinks, a grassland-nesting bird whose population is declining in New England.
Early hay Hay is grown for livestock and can be harvested twice a year and the first one (during May-June) usually interferes with nesting of bobolinks. Bobolinks nest in undisturbed hayfields during March-April."Changes in climate have caused farmers to harvest hay earlier over the years, cutting into the bobolinks' nesting patterns and leading to a decline in the birds," says Stephen Swallow, professor of environmental economics at the University of Rhode Island (uri).
The mowing machines destroy the birds' nests, eggs and young. The researchers found that delaying the harvest provides sufficient time for birds to mature and flyaway. "For that, farmers needed compensation as cost of delaying the harvest and purchasing replacement hay. By doing so, birds could be easily saved without negatively impacting the farmers," said Swallow.
"The Jamestown residents and farmers for the first time experimented to use a market approach to enhance ecosystem services," says Emi Uchida, assistant professor at uri. "Ecological markets are a way to correct such environmental problems by enabling businesses and individuals to express their values and invest in the environment," said Swallow.
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China Garment Industry Association recently announced the list of "Top 100 Chinese apparel industry enterprise" in 2012, the contest since 1995, has been successfully held for 17 sessions. In these 17 years, the number of excellent local garment enterprises continue to grow, and grow that they dominate the market through the mode of clothing and to join the association gradually become the benchmark enterprises to lead the development of the industry.
As the world's largest apparel consuming countries which also bring more business opportunity to the garmentsfabric labels development, the huge population base of China's 1.3 billion population, gave birth to the fertile ground for the development of the domestic apparel industry. In recent years, many apparel brands through innovative models of development, and e-commerce channels quickly seize the market. But while local brands growing, China's huge consumer market of clothing also attracted many international clothing brand continuous influx, the domestic clothing brand design concept is still a wide gap between international brands, a breakthrough which design bottlenecks have to achieve technological innovation and new material upgrades have become China's garment industry problems to be solved. There are also a design gap between the fabric labels from china mainland and western world.
With the continuous development of China's social and economic demand ,the people for the clothing consumption has moved from the basic survival needs of the "wrap up warm" to wear beautiful "," put "boutique consumer demand changes. Consumer choice and taste of clothing become the most visible manifestations of the aesthetic trends and values. Based on this, the clothing brand connotation, style design, materials, innovation has become the key to success in the garment enterprises, you can see that the domestic garment enterprises focus on brand and original design. There is no denying that the domestic garment enterprises are constantly in the process of brand development to advance their own design strength, the efforts made by R & D progress and innovation strength was to narrow the gap from international clothing brands. But in the garment industry design plagiarism phenomenon on the garments or garments fabric labels style is still very serious.
"Plagiarism" is a common phenomenon in the domestic apparel industry, many companies such practice euphemistically called "integration" said refining and learn the successful experience of the previous brand garments company, which makes many stick to the original design . On the other hand, the costume design patent applications on the intellectual property rights also exist difficulties, costume design can not withstand the patent application six months, the, as long as the minor local modification the "plagiarism goods" can easily escape the constraints of copyright laws. So we can come to the conclusion that the government should enumerate lots of concrete measures to eradicate the plagiarism on the design offabric labels and garments styles.
Designed to highlight the clothing brand connotation which is a direct reflection of the height and depth of the development of garment enterprises. No one know more about China than the Chinese people, while local brands in China is a serious lack of their own voice in the international apparel brands, the china mainland garments company are vying for space in the international markets, our urgent attention is needed.


Chandrapore is an undistinguished Indian town except for the outlying Marabar Caves. The language that Forster uses to describe the town creates the feeling of monotony, vast space, and infinity. The separation of the English settlement from the Indian is as distinct in the character and attitudes of the people as it is in the physical appearance of the houses and grounds.
Forster uses the sky as the symbolic arch which is almost the only common link between the two national groups. By implication, he contrasts the infinite power and mystery of the immense sky with the discordant affairs of earthbound men.
Changes in weather and types of weather are common symbols used by authors to indicate changes in moods or deeper meanings. In this book, Forster shows the sky as a source of strength as it governs the weather and the seasons. The earth is shown to be dependent upon the caprices of the sky. Words such as "glory" and "benediction" give the sky divine attributes. In his notes in the Everyman Edition, Forster records that the three parts of the book correspond to the three seasons of India: the cold season, which is just ending in the Mosque section, the hot season, which dominates the Caves section, and the rainy season, which occurs during the Temple section.
A central question of the novel is presented in Chapter 2: "Can the Indians and the English become friends?" The problems involved in interracial relationships determine the main lines of the plot's structure.
The Indians are introduced as intelligent and perceptive people who resent their treatment by the British but generally accept it with a humorous cynicism. Forster, although he depicts Indian failings, quite frankly sympathizes with the Indian attitude rather than with the English. Part of his concern was to show the evils of political rule of one nation over another. The major Indian characters in this novel are educated men who are capable of independent action. They must serve under minor or major British officials who rarely make any effort to consider the Indian viewpoint about anything. The Indians are expected to obey the British without question.
The reader meets Aziz's aunt, a Moslem woman in purdah (an Indian custom by which women live in seclusion). The only men to see women's faces were the men in their immediate families. It was commonly thought that Indian women were unimportant shadows in the background. Forster suggests that the sheltered Indian women were often women with lively minds whose opinions were sought and valued. Their men enjoyed visiting with them as equals.
Part 1, therefore, begins with an introduction to India from the Moslem viewpoint. (The term "Mohammedan," used by Westerners as a synonym for "Moslem," is considered objectionable by the professors of this faith. Mohammed, or Muhammed, was not divine; he was simply the messenger of Allah. The terms "Moslem" to define the person and "Islam" to mean the religion are considered correct.) This viewpoint is shown primarily through the warm, impulsive, young Aziz.
It is important to remember that Aziz calls Mrs. Moore an Oriental. The conflict of the Oriental mind and the Western mind is an important one in this novel, because it is the basis of much of the misunderstanding. Mrs. Moore has the ability to cross the lines. It is further important to remember the inscription that Aziz would choose for his tomb: he cherishes the "secret understanding of the heart" and values that quality in others.
Forster uses Chapters 2 and 3 to contrast Indian and English customs, attitudes, and beliefs. He shows the Indians at home discussing the English, followed by the English at the club discussing the Indians. Both groups are revealing likes, dislikes, and preconceived judgments about each other. Only the reader is seeing both sides and the elements that shape the problem ofAnglo-Indian dissension in India.
It is well to review these two chapters in detail to gain the feeling of differences between the groups. Look for contrasting viewpoints. For example, notice the difference in attitudes in the Major Callendar-Aziz episode. The major expected Aziz promptly; Aziz tarried with his friends and was delayed further by an accident to his bicycle. The underlying conflict is in the attitude toward time.
Highly organized nations and people put a premium on promptness; visitors to foreign lands, where life is slower, often notice that their time has only relative value. Punctuality, to a native of a country such as India, is not a major virtue; but courtesy is. The major, however, waiting to go to the club, becomes impatient at the delay and dashes off to settle the matter without leaving a message, without considering that Aziz may have a social life which would take him away from his house. Both men feel a sense of injustice.
Such opposing points of view serve as a constant source of irritation on both sides. Very few of the characters are able to overlook such petty differences and to find planes of common respect. Underlying these surface differences is, of course, the feeling of superiority of the British ruling class and the sting the Indian feels as the subject race.
The principal characters begin to emerge more distinctly from this point. Mrs. Moore and Aziz are revealed as persons of spirit and determination. Fielding's one line at the club, "Try seeing Indians," discloses that he shares their broader thinking.
Ronny Heaslop is shown for what he is: the kind of person who seems to have been stamped out with a cookie cutter. He is a product of England's public school system and adopts quickly and completely the attitudes of his British colleagues in India. This solves the inconvenience of thinking for himself and, of course, simplifies his relationship with his colleagues.
Contrast Ronny's statement about the subject race with the ideas of the newcomers, Mrs. Moore and Miss Quested. One should give careful consideration to the way Mrs. Moore begins her acquaintance with India. She respects what she cannot understand, as at the mosque. She puzzles her son, Ronny, by describing Aziz as a "young man" rather than as a young native. Later, she is almost swayed by Ronny's interpretation of the incident until she realizes that Ronny does not really know Aziz and that he is judging him simply as an Indian. Aziz is, to Ronny, not a young man to whom one accords the dignity of his position, but a young Indian who has dared to converse on an equal basis with an Englishwoman.
Adela Quested develops as a possible "thorn-in-the-side" person because she questions blanket judgments. She is a plain, fair-minded young woman with a questing mind and with (so she believes) an interest in knowing the Indians as they really are. She has the perception to wonder if she can be happy with a "rubber-stamp" British official as she questions Ronny's acceptance of the opinions of the 20-year men in the British Raj.
Fielding's comment, "Try seeing Indians" is a key to understanding this man's broader thinking. He seems to be saying: Stop looking at India. Try seeing the Indians as people with all the common problems that people everywhere have to meet.
The comments and thoughts of Fielding and Mrs. Moore should be observed closely. Their viewpoints, although different from each other, are unusually objective, and through their eyes the reader is able to view the problems more objectively.
In the opening chapters observe Forster's use of symbols. These symbols carry a thread of meaning throughout the novel. For instance, in the first chapter special significance is given to the sky. In Chapter 3 the moon becomes a symbol of universality: Mrs. Moore wonders if she is looking at the other side of the moon, the side never seen in England. A person passing by overhears, and comments that even on the other side of the world, it is still the same old moon.
Consider the implied meanings. Geographical location may change, but the same moon shines down upon everyone. There is a universal oneness — the oneness that might be achieved among all people, but which now exists only in the natural world. Later, when Mrs. Moore looks up at the moon, she feels a curious kinship with all heavenly bodies. This is the first portent of the transcendent nature of Mrs. Moore's thoughts.
The wasp symbol which crops up throughout the novel appears here for the first time. It is associated with Mrs. Moore's spiritual sensibility; and later the Hindu, Professor Godbole, is to associate the wasp with his memory of Mrs. Moore when he is participating in a religious ceremony. Both Mrs. Moore and the professor have an appreciation for the importance of everything — people, animals, insects, and even inanimate objects — in the divine scheme.
The geniality with which Collector Turton offers to give the "Bridge Party" (a party supposedly intended to bridge the gap between nationalities), to satisfy Adela Quested's desire to see Indians is indicative of the courtesy the English tender to their own kind. This serves as a contrast to the lack of courtesy they show to their Indian subjects.


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Three Questions: Norman Goldfarb, MAGI
CWWeekly presents this biweekly feature as a spotlight on issues that executives in clinical research face. This week, writer Suz Redfearn spoke with Norman Goldfarb, chairman of Model Agreements & Guidelines International (MAGI), an organization that has spent a decade promoting the standardization of clinical trial agreements (CTAs) and contract templates that both sites and CROs or sponsors can use to speed study startup. Goldfarb is also editor of The Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices, and managing director of First Clinical Research. In April, the Association of Clinical Research Professionals gave Goldfarb their award for innovation for the MAGI CTA initiative.
Q: Why have contracts between sites and CROs or sponsors traditionally been a problem?
A: It can take months for a study sponsor or CRO to negotiate a CTA with a research site. In contrast, you can put two real estate lawyers in a room and they can negotiate a $30 million real estate deal in three hours. It should not take three months to negotiate a $30,000 CTA. And, while we are negotiating, the patients have to wait.
Every study sponsor's and CRO's lawyers have developed a CTA template they think will accomplish that objective. These templates all have small but important differences in both substance and wording, and even the smallest change might expose the company to an unanticipated risk down the road. If a study participant is injured, for example, liability might be determined by an inconspicuous phrase like "to the extent that."
Similarly, research sites have—or should have—their own lawyers, with different ideas about what CTAs should say. It's not that anybody is against standardization; it's just natural to define standardization as "do it my way."
MAGI promulgates templates that are, to a large extent, acceptable to all parties in a clinical trial agreement—the sponsors, the sites and the CROs, which are usually the ones negotiating the agreements. The MAGI contract is meant to be neutral.
Q: Have there been other such initiatives? How have they performed?
A: The National Health Service and the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry have negotiated a standard CTA in Britain. But in Britain, almost all healthcare is provided by the National Health Service, so as a result, it wasn't as complicated to negotiate that as it has been for sites and pharmaceutical companies here to negotiate a similar standard template. The U.S. is a very diverse nation when it comes to healthcare providers.
In the U.S., there have been a few CTA standardization initiatives over the years, but they have mostly just dissipated. These efforts have been primarily driven by a small number of research sites, and included elements that sponsors ultimately found unacceptable. When the parties got to the end of the process, the sites said, "Here it is; let's use it," and the sponsors said, "No, sorry, it's not going to work for us after all." In contrast, the MAGI process has been very inclusive, with hundreds of contributors over the years.
Q: Are we getting any closer to acceptance and standardization in these contracts now? What does the future hold?
A: The MAGI CTA template and handbook are widely used by sponsors, CROs and sites to find common ground in CTA negotiations. But we still have a long way to go.
Over the past couple of years, MAGI has been joined by two other initiatives—the Clinical and Translational Science Awards program has developed the Accelerated Clinical Trial Agreement (ACTA) CTA template with backing from academia, and the Society for Clinical Research Sites, along with TransCelerate and the Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO), has developed CLEAR, a set of standard CTA clauses. Obviously, the clinical research enterprise does not need three different standard CTA templates, so the best solution is to merge them into a single template with optional text where needed. We'll have a working session at the next MAGI conference to start that process. If we can all agree on common language, there is a good chance of wide industry adoption. As we like to say, "We can agree to save lives."
In 10 years, I think chances are very good that we will have a standard template that, in some cases, the parties will decide works as-is, and in some cases will choose various plug and play options within it. We cannot expect one solution to fit everyone's needs, but we can severely limit the scope of the negotiations by settling on a few options that cover most of the needs. People can choose between those or combine them, and there can still be some custom language.
We live in a heterogeneous society. MAGI's objective is not to come up with one standard template that can just be signed as-is, but rather to come up with a template that industry can converge on over time, causing negotiations to drop from months to days or even hours.
This article was reprinted from Volume 21, Issue 19, of CWWeekly, a leading clinical research industry newsletter providing expanded analysis on breaking news, study leads, trial results and more. Subscribe »


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Q: Using a YAML header argument in knitr I am making a set of slides using rmarkdown and the LaTeX option of outputting it to beamer.
I have two templates I use in my slides - one specific for the LaTeX options, and one pandoc template that I have modified to account for some additional feature of my slides.
I have defined an option in the YAML header called to_print which is a boolean TRUE/FALSE that I pass to the pandoc template that tells it to add a package and clean up the slides for printing.
I also want to use this variable to define the name of the files. The basic idea being that I want to have one .rmd file for my slides, and then just changing this one option to signify that it's for printing by students, or for me presenting.
I have figured out that I can pass the render function using the knit parameter in the YAML header, but I have to specify to_print = TRUE and set the condition in the ifelse() statement in the output_file correspondingly.
Currently I have:
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title: "Introduction to R"
subtitle: "Reading and saving data in R"
date: '`r format(Sys.Date())`'
output:
  beamer_presentation:
    fonttheme: professionalfonts
    highlight: tango
    includes:
      in_header: "../../templatefiles/beamer_header.tex"
    template: "../../templatefiles/beamer_template.tex"
    incremental: no
    keep_tex: yes
    slide_level: 3
    theme: Warsaw
    toc: yes
fontsize: 10pt
fontenc: T1
to_print: TRUE
knit: (function(inputFile, encoding) { rmarkdown::render(inputFile, encoding = encoding,
       output_file = file.path(ifelse(TRUE,
                                      gsub("\\..*","_handout.pdf", inputFile),
                                      gsub("\\..*", ".pdf", inputFile)))) })
---

I would like to specify just one parameter that is then used to signify if this is a handout to be printed:
Pseudo-code:
to_print: TRUE
knit: (function(inputFile, encoding) {rmarkdown::render(inputFile, encoding = encoding,
       output_file = file.path(ifelse(YAML_PARAM$to_print,
                                      gsub("\\..*","_handout.pdf", inputFile),
                                      gsub("\\..*", ".pdf", inputFile)))) })

Is this possible, or something equivalent that would let me have one .rmd file with a boolean to toggle presentation vs. printing?

A: You can use the rmarkdown::yaml_front_matter() function:
---
title: "Introduction to R"
subtitle: "Reading and saving data in R"
date: '`r format(Sys.Date())`'
output:
  beamer_presentation:
    fonttheme: professionalfonts
    highlight: tango
    includes:
      in_header: "../../templatefiles/beamer_header.tex"
    template: "../../templatefiles/beamer_template.tex"
    incremental: no
    keep_tex: yes
    slide_level: 3
    theme: Warsaw
    toc: yes
fontsize: 10pt
fontenc: T1
to_print: TRUE
knit: (function(inputFile, encoding) { rmarkdown::render(inputFile, encoding = encoding,
       output_file = file.path(ifelse(rmarkdown::yaml_front_matter(inputFile)$to_print,
                                      gsub("\\..*","_handout.pdf", inputFile),
                                      gsub("\\..*", ".pdf", inputFile)))) })
---

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by: Gayle Anderson, Nancy Cruz
Posted: Aug 25, 2015 / 07:34 AM PDT / Updated: Aug 26, 2015 / 04:17 AM PDT
Gayle Anderson was live in Santa Clarita visiting THE GENTLE BARN, founded in Tarzana in 1999 by Ellie Laks. THE GENTLE BARN recently celebrated its 16th anniversary. THE GENTLE BARN was created as a place that combined Laks' special love of animals and desire to help children. More than one hundred and seventy rescued animals are now safe and happy at THE GENTLE BARN, which works with children from inner-city, group homes, mental health care facilities, foster homes, and schools to teach kindness and compassion for all living things. Since its inception, THE GENTLE BARN has been home to hundreds of animals and host to more than 400,000 people.
In 2003, Ellie and Jay moved THE GENTLE BARN to a six-acre paradise in Santa Clarita, CA. The property is complete with large horse and cow pastures, a red and white barnyard for the smaller animals, an organic vegetable garden, lots of shade trees, and a panoramic view of gorgeous mountains. A second location in Knoxville Tennessee has also opened, which is home to a cow named Dudley, three horses named Worthy, Indie and Chris as well as chickens and pigs. For more information on the Tennessee location, click HERE. The ultimate goal is to open THE GENTLE BARN's across the country so that every animal and child can have a place of healing and safety.
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Tickets for "A Gentle Thanksgiving" at both THE GENTLE BARN locations in California and Tennessee are now available online. Come celebrate gentleness on Thanksgiving Day, November 26th from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. by cuddling turkeys, taking part in a Native American drum circle and enjoying a gourmet, vegan meal. Individual tickets are $125 for adults ($100 for Tennessee location) and $50 for children 12 and under and include dinner, a gift bag, a T-shirt and the chance to feed the turkeys cranberries.
Open to the Public on Sundays
Donations: Adults $20.00, Children $10.00
Tickets are Now Available for:
"A Gentle Thanksgiving" at The Gentle Barn
If you have questions, please feel free to call Gayle Anderson at 323-460-5732 or e-mail Gayle at Gayle.Anderson@KTLA.com
California / 5 mins ago