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Home European History Ancient British History Alfred: Bringer of Knowledge
Ancient British History
Alfred: Bringer of Knowledge
Alfred was a warrior king, and a brilliant one at that, but he was also a learned king, one who cared very much about literature and language and perpetuating the memory of not only himself but also his people. To this end, he promoted and even took part in the translation of a collection of books from the vaunted Latin into the more pedestrian Anglo-Saxon, thereby ensuring that the contents of those books could be enjoyed by even the most pedestrian of Germanics (provided that they could read, of course, or, in the worst case scenario, provided that they could listen to someone else read).
Among the books winning this translation were texts in history, philosophy, and religion. Included in the last category was Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, which was a sort of handbook for bishops. These books were sent to all the bishops in England, so that they might instruct their flock anew. (This came about in no small part because the Danes and Vikings had sacked so many monasteries and burned everything in them, including all the books.)
Alfred did some of this translation himself, including Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy. Orosius?s The History of the World and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Like Bede before him, Alfred knew the importance of education and learning, and he placed a premium on practices that advanced and encouraged both. He encouraged and financed the construction of schools, so that his people could learn more about themselves and the world around them. One legend has it that he started the first university at Oxford.
Alfred was also the main backer for a series of chronicles that would evolve into the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, one of the most recognizable and most oft-quoted sources for Anglo-Saxon life ever written.
All of these deeds and facts suggest that Alfred was concerned not only with his and his people?s here and now, but also with their descendants? there and then. One he was fairly certain that the Danes had at least been contained, he turned his attention to improving the lot of his people. As amazing a military tactician as he was, he was perhaps even moreso a forward-thinking ruler who placed supreme importance on his people?s and his kingdom?s ability to grow and thrive, to meet challenges not only on the battlefield but also in the literary and intellectual realms. Rather than shame his people into docile obedience at the hands of himself or of the clergy, as previous rulers had done, Alfred chose to encourage his people to think for themselves, to learn for themselves, and to fight for themselves. It was a truly cosmopolitan idea, one that promoted unity in a land that sorely needed it. For this far-reaching vision as well, he can truly be called Alfred the Great.
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Create a four-year high school plan.
Explore extracurricular opportunities at Williams and/or in your community.
Meet with your advisor to discuss course selection. Challenge yourself with advanced level study where available and appropriate.
Keep up your grades. Take advantage of ninth period and our incredibly accessible and helpful faculty.
Make the most of summer vacation.
Continue to meet with your advisor about course selection. Update him/her about your goals. Challenge yourself with advanced level study where available and appropriate.
Keep up your grades. Take advantage of our ninth period and our faculty.
Stay dedicated to your extracurricular activities. You should be involved in a couple of things for which you have a real passion.
Students take the PSATs in October for exam exposure and practice and will receive their scores in December. Students will be able to see the questions they answered both correctly and incorrectly. Students can improve their future performance by reviewing their personalized score report and original test booklet.
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Students may choose to take appropriate SAT Subject Tests at the end of Sophomore Year.
Consider spending your summer pursuing something of great interest to you, whether a job, an internship, a college class or a travel opportunity.
Students can begin visiting colleges. We recommend students begin with their state's public flagship institution (typically UConn or URI), a small private college (Connecticut College is right here!), a large private research university, and schools in different environments (urban, suburban, rural) to get a sense for a variety of different campuses.
Explore college fairs in the area. NACAC (National Association for College Admission Counseling) and NEACAC (New England Association for College Admission Counseling) both sponsor college fairs throughout the state at different times of year. Performing Arts Fairs and Gap Year Organization Fairs are also within a one hour drive. Some large area public schools (East Lyme and Fitch) also host college fairs to which our students are invited.
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Belgian Singer Angèle is the Face of Chanel Beauty's Latest Campaign
Beauty, News & Trends
Sarah Hani Jamil
Photo:Instagram / Angele
She may not be too well known in our neck of the woods but Belgian singer-songwriter Angèle has quickly risen to international pop sensation status with huge success in Europe, particularly in France. The 26-year-old debuted her first single La Loi de Murphy in 2017 and subsequently released her first album, Brol, which became a best-selling album in France in 2019. In 2020, she collaborated with British singer Dua Lipa on the single Fever, which further brought her global recognition.
Like her name, Angèle possesses an angelic and innocent quality to her with her sweet raspy voice, golden blonde hair, and youthful looks. Entertainment runs through her blood; Angèle's parents are Belgian Singer Marka and actress Laurence Bibot, meanwhile, her brother is the rapper, Roméo Elvis.
For Chanel's 2021 Eye Collection, the brand has selected her to front its campaign. However, this isn't her first rodeo with the couture house. Angèle has been a Chanel ambassador since 2019, a relationship that first began when she climbed the stairs at the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival wearing Chanel Haute Couture. Following that, she has already been chosen as the face of two other advertising campaigns: the Spring-Summer 2020 Eyewear collection and the Chanel Coco Beach 2021 Ready-to-Wear line.
Get ready to see her on the big screen as she will soon make her acting debut alongside Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver in the musical film Annette, which is set for release later in 2021.
Here, she shares more about her relationship with Chanel:
On wearing makeup
"It depends on the day, but when I put on makeup, it's usually a good sign. It means that I want to shine, to feel beautiful. I can still feel beautiful when I don't have makeup on, of course, but with the pandemic, it's cool to change things up sometimes, to have fun. Makeup can change the look of your eyes, make them more intense or softer."

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Thomas Nelson House is a historic home located at Peekskill, Westchester County, New York. It was built about 1860 and is a two-story, frame dwelling with a slightly hipped roof in the Italianate style. It has a two-story rear wing. It is clad in clapboard and sits on a stone and brick foundation.  It features a one-story, open front porch with scrolled brackets, paired posts, and bracketed eaves.  Also on the property is a contributing well house.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Italianate architecture in New York (state)
Houses completed in 1860
Houses in Westchester County, New York
Buildings and structures in Peekskill, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Westchester County, New York

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Jerry Brown casts ballot, but stays mum on…
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Jerry Brown casts ballot, but stays mum on certain races
PUBLISHED: October 30, 2014 at 3:56 p.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 10:22 a.m.
OAKLAND — Days ahead of Tuesday' election, Gov. Jerry Brown cast his ballot early Thursday, quipping that the 21-point lead that a new poll shows he holds over his Republican challenger "is validating my campaign strategy."
That strategy, until this week, was not to bother campaigning at all.
Brown, his wife, Anne Gust, and their Corgi, Sutter, all wore orange in honor of the San Francisco Giants' World Series win as the governor took about eight minutes to complete his ballot in a corridor outside the Alameda County voter registrar's office. Brown, 76, seeks an unprecedented fourth term.
Gust noted the Giants won the World Series in 2010 as Brown won his third term; they won again in 2012 as voters approved Brown's Proposition 30 tax hike; and now they're "a good-luck charm" for Brown this year. Brown agreed he's "very proud of the Giants, but I want to see the A's come along, too."
Brown said he voted early because he'll be in Roseville on Election Day for the funeral of a sheriff's deputy slain in last Friday's shooting rampage in Sacramento and Placer counties. But he encouraged Californians not to wait for Tuesday, either: "It is good to vote early, and this ballot is relatively complicated."
There was no question on how he voted on the ballot's first two propositions. Brown campaigned aggressively on behalf of Proposition 1, the $7.5 billion water bond, and Proposition 2, to beef up the state budget's rainy-day fund. But he wouldn't say Thursday how he voted on two hotly contested measures: Proposition 45, to give the insurance commissioner authority to reject unjustified health insurance rate hikes, or Proposition 46, to lift the state's decades-old cap on medical-malpractice lawsuit awards and require drug testing for doctors. "Those I'm going to leave it to the secrecy of the ballot," he said.
He also wouldn't say whether he'd voted for incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson or challenger Marshall Tuck, whom a Field Poll released Thursday showed tied. Education, he said, is "an area that's more politicized than it should be, and I'm not going to add to it."
Brown endorsed Councilwoman Libby Schaaf for Oakland's mayor in early October but wouldn't name his second and third choices in the city's ranked-choice voting system — or whether he made second and third choices at all.
Josh Richman covers politics. Follow him at Twitter.com/Josh_Richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.
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A jekyll website for photographers

## Highlights
1. Easy setup and you get a site of your own for __free__.
2. To add new pictures, you need to just upload them. __No code__ changes required.
3. This I like the most, you get to see EXIF data like __aperture, shutter speed, iso__ etc when you click on any image automagically.

## Quick Start
If you know a tad about tech and love taking pictures then this open-source project may help you setup a website to showcase
all your creations without effort. And not just that, with this you need not pay a single dime to host your website as
it's hosted by GitHub for __free__.

**Just follow the below steps and your website would be live in no time:**

1. Fork this repo by hitting the `Fork` button at the top right corner.
2. Enable github pages from the repo settings.
3. Upload your pictures to `images/fulls` and `images/thumbs` directory. _You can do that on github.com itself or you can clone and push the images to your repo._
4. Add your own custom domain in `CNAME` file or just remove the file if you don't own a domain. _You can use the default domain that github provides._
5. And that's it, your website is set. To view, go to [photography.ramswaroop.me](http://photography.ramswaroop.me) (or whatever you have in the CNAME file) and if you don't have one, you can go to [yourusername.github.io/photography](http://yourusername.github.io/photography)

And of course, you don't want my name at the bottom to show up. You can change it in `_config.yml` file as well as few other settings like your google analytics etc.

## ProTips
I have made this as an [npm](https://www.npmjs.com) package with [gulp](http://gulpjs.com/) to __automate image resizing
and thumbnail generation__. So if you're lazy like me then you can just do the following before you push your images to github.

1. Go inside the project `$ cd photography`
2. Install all dependencies by `$ npm install`
3. Copy all your pictures (the largest size available, straight from your camera) and put it inside `images/fulls` directory
4. `$ gulp` to resize the images and to generate thumbnails for faster page loads
5. Push your changes to github.com by `$ git commit -am "a nice commit message"` and then `$ git push origin master`

## Credits
Thanks to [AJ](https://twitter.com/ajlkn) for the website template which I enhanced for [jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/).

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Кастел Сант Елмо () е Средновековен крепостен замък, разположен на хълма Вомеро в Неапол. Замъкът е изграден от неаполитански жълт туф, на мястото на стара норманска наблюдателна кула, наричана Белфорте. Поради стратегическото си местоположение, през вековете Кастел Сант Елмо е желана плячка, за всички завоеватели на града. От неговата позиция се вижда целия град, залива и пътищата, които водят към града.

История

Първите исторически сведения за замъка датират от 1329 г., годината, в която Робер Мъдри нарежда на регента на Викария, Джовани де Хая да построи дворец, на върха на хълма Sant'Erasmo. Архитектите, отговарящи за работата, са Франческо де Вико и Тино ди Камаино, наследен след смъртта му през 1336 г., от архитект Атанасио Примарио, а през 1340 г., от Балдучио де Бача. Строежът е завършен през 1343 г. при управлението на Джована I.

Замъкът е обсаждан многократно. От унгарския карал Лайош I през януари 1348 г., след гнусното убийство на брат му Андрей Унгарски, съпруг на Джована I, за чиято смърт е обвинена. След капитулацията на кралицата, замъкът е окупиран от племенникът ѝ Карл III.

През 1416 г. кралица Джована II го продава за сумата от десет хиляди и петстотин дуката на Алфонсо V.

Замъкът е желана военна цел, когато през 1503 г. французите и испанците се бият за Неаполитанско кралство. По заповед на испанския крал Карл V, вицекралят Дон Педро де Толедо възстановява замъка през 1537 г. Строежът е завършен от архитекта Джан Джакомо дел Акая през 1546 г.

През 1587 г. мълния, пада в склада с барут, взривява голяма част от крепостта, убивайки 150 души. Във вътрешността на крепостта са разрушени църквата Сант'Еразмо, замъкът на кастелана и военните жилища, причинявайки също щети на голяма част на града. Реставрационните работи, поверени на архитект Доменико Фонтана, започват през 1599 г. и завършват през 1610 г.

Вече въстановен, замъкът е превърнат в затвор, в който от 1604 до 1608 г. е затворен философът Томазо Кампанела, а през 1659 г. и Джована ди Капуа.

През 1647 г., по време на неаполитанската революция начело с Масаниело, вицекрал херцог на Аркос се укрива в крепостта, докато хората напразно се опитват да я превземат. Фортът бомбардира града и благодарение на защитата, организирана от кастелана Мартино Галиано, крепостта издържа на хорското нападение.

През 1707 г. крепостта е обсадена от австрийците, а през 1734 г. от Бурбоните. По времето на Френската революция в затвора са хвърлени някои якобинци като Марио Пагано, Джулиано Колона, Дженаро Серра ди Касано, Еторе Карафа.

По време на въстанието от 1799 г. крепостта е завзета от въстаниците, които на 21 януари засаждат първото дърво на свободата и на 23 януари издигат знамето на Неаполитанската република. Когато републиката пада, там sa затворени Джустино Фортунато, Доменико Чирило, Франческо Пинятели от Стронголи, Джовани Баусан, Джузепе Логотета, Луиза Санфеличе и много други.

До 1952 г. се използва като военен затвор. Впоследствие крепостта става военния имот, където до 1976 г. живеят някои моряци и техните семейства.

Отворена за обществеността на 15 май 1988 г., крепостта е Гражданска собственост и се използва като музей.

Архитектура

Вънщен вид

Замъкът представлява един от най-значимите примери за военна архитектура от шестнадесети век. Той придобива сегашния си вид след укрепителните работи, поръчани от вицекрал Дон Педро от Толедо и извършени по проект на архитект Луиджи Скрива. За първи път крепостно съоръжение има вид на звезда със шест лъча, които се издигат на двайсет метра над централната част, като във вдлъбнатите ъгли са отворени ниши за артилерийските оръдия.

Тази необичайна военна структура без кули, която предизвика много критики по време на строителството, се оказва много функционална през годините. Заобиколена от ров, оборудван с голяма цистерна за водоснабдяване.

Над портала е закачен мраморен кралски герб на Карл V, изобразяващ двуглав орел и мраморна плоча с надпис, който напомня неговото управление и периода на вицекрал Педро ди Толедо, маркиз Вилафранка.

Седем вратички осигуряват защитата на охранителите на подвижния мост, ако бъдат нападнати, преди да успеят да затворят моста.

Интериор
За достъп до вътрешността на замъка трябва да се изкачи стръмна рампа и да се премине мост, защитен от странични стени, в които се отварят дванадесет вратички.

Във входа, вляво, през наполеоновата епоха е поставена порта гилотина, построена в стила на времето. След този втори вход започва последната входна рампа към замъка. Във втората крива се отваря голям прозорец вдясно, с изглед към града и историческия център. По-нататък вдясно, друг портал води към стаите, използвани като затвор.

На Пиаца д'Арми (оръжеен плац) е кулата на командира, като стаите представляват това, което е останало от жилището на командира и служителите на крепостта. Настилката на плаца е автентична.

На големия площад, има изградена малка църква, посветена на Сант'Еразмо, построена от испанския архитект Пиетро Прато през 1547 г. По-късно същата е възстановена от Доменико Фонтана. Вътре в нея е запазен ценен под в майолика, характерена за неаполитанското майсторство.

Музей "Неапол 1910 – 1980"

Музеят експонира около 170 творби, включително скулптури, картини и графики, изработени изключително от неаполитански майстори, с цел да се документира хронологично, художественото развитие в Неапол през ХХ век.

Виж също
 Кастел дел Ово
 Кастел Капуано
 Кастел Нуово
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 Donatella Mazzoleni, Tra Castel dell'Ovo e Sant'Elmo. Napoli: il percorso delle origini, Napoli, Electra, 1995, ISBN 88-435-5191-4.
 Marcello Orefice, Castelli medievali nella storia del reame di Napoli, Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006, ISBN 88-495-1289-9.
 Anna Romano e Leonardo Di Mauro, Mura e castelli: Castel dell'Ovo, Castel Nuovo, Castel Sant'Elmo, in Valori di Napoli, Napoli, Pubblicomit, 1999, ISBN 88-86319-20-7.
 Hernando Sanchez, Una visita a Castel Sant'Elmo: famiglie, città e fortezze a Napoli tra Carlo V e Filippo II, in Annali di storia moderna e contemporanea, Milano, Vita e pensiero, 2000.
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Indian Blankets now cover the BAE Systems campus in their effort to establish pollinator-friendly, native habitat.
Background: BAE Systems, a multinational military defense, electronics, and aerospace company, signed on as one of the first Monarch Wrangler corporate partners in Fall 2015. Paula Mondebello, Senior Communications Representative at BAE Systems, championed the partnership. "The opportunity to engage our employees and create Monarch habitat on our own corporate campus to benefit this iconic species is directly in line with our values as a company and our commitment to the communities where we live and work," Mondebello said. Many employees volunteered to help bring the campus' 140-acre property back to its natural state, in collaboration with Texas Parks and Wildlife, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, NWF, and USFWS.
Project: As part of their TxN Certification project, BAE Systems is creating essential monarch habitat by planting pollinator gardens, removing invasive species, and restoring native grasses on their privately owned campus. Project initiatives include invasive species removal, native pollinators plots, rainwater and AC condensate collection, demonstration gardens, predator control, habitat control, erosion control, seedball distribution, employee education and testing program, monarch shelters, and census.
BAE Systems employees have participated in seedball-making sessions, encouraging the growth of pollinator-friendly Texas natives, and have enjoyed working with Texan by Nature and our conservation partners to learn the difference between invasive and native species. The company expects to see an uptick in monarch appearances on their campus, as well as a long-term cost savings in grounds management.
June 5, 2018. Recently, BAE's environmental team at the Austin Campus were awarded top employee honors for their project and recognized globally by BAE as a leading campus in conservation during 2018 World Environment Day!
An additional 21 environmental projects are planned for 2017-18, with several already underway. Texan by Nature looks forward to keeping you updated on BAE Systems campus-wide native habitat restoration efforts!


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Q: How to keep track of the network traffic on 3G/wifi on an iOS device? I am trying to understand how does an app like DataMan work. Even if it runs on the background, how can it measure the bandwidth allocation of the other apps?

A: Most apps like that inject a proxy to all your data calls.  Through that they measure the amount of bandwidth you are consuming.
There is no way to measure data you are using outside of your app. You can track it for your own network call within your app though.

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package main

import (
	"context"

	servicedirectory "cloud.google.com/go/servicedirectory/apiv1beta1"
	servicedirectorypb "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/cloud/servicedirectory/v1beta1"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	c, err := servicedirectory.NewRegistrationClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		// TODO: Handle error.
	}
	defer c.Close()

	req := &servicedirectorypb.GetEndpointRequest{
		// TODO: Fill request struct fields.
		// See https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/cloud/servicedirectory/v1beta1#GetEndpointRequest.
	}
	resp, err := c.GetEndpoint(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		// TODO: Handle error.
	}
	// TODO: Use resp.
	_ = resp
}

// [END servicedirectory_v1beta1_generated_RegistrationService_GetEndpoint_sync]


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Zulewski: Want to hate referees? Read this first
Tom Zulewski
A few weeks ago, I was struck by something after a wrestling match between Cedar and Canyon View ended.
The Falcons were clearly impressive, rallying to beat the Redmen in the final duel between the teams as Region 9 foes. But one gentleman wearing a Cedar hat wasn't about to take the defeat lying down.
He didn't waste time when the match concluded, approaching one of the referees and letting him know of everything he felt was wrong about the calls he made.
After allowing him to vent for a few moments, the official said something to the man's face that should be obvious to those who are capable of sane, rational thought.
If you think you can do better, put the jersey on and make the calls yourself. The pay may not be much, but you'll be smack in the middle of the competition and can put your stamp on the outcome.
And criticism — some constructive, some just downright irritating — will come with the territory.
In my 18 years of sports writing, I've heard enough "you suck" chants directed at referees to make me a millionaire if I got paid a dime every time the words were said.
Most officials have thick skin. It's essential for them to deal with fans and parents who believe every call that goes against their son, daughter or team should be met with a federal investigation.
But some aren't like that. They have feelings. They have faults. They're human.
Remember the disaster that was the three weeks NFL fans had to endure replacement referees at the start of the 2012 season? The capper was the infamous Monday Night Football game between Green Bay and Seattle.
The final play of the game was a Russell Wilson pass that floated toward the end zone in the direction of Seahawks receiver Golden Tate and Packers defensive back M.D. Jennings. Jennings somehow got a hold of the ball first, but Tate managed to get his hands in a bid to wrestle it away.
In the chaos, Lance Easley raised his hands and signaled a touchdown due to "simultaneous possession." The play gave Seattle a 14-12 victory and was talked about for weeks afterwards, mostly in anger, death threats and late-night talk show jokes.
Easley's life hasn't been the same since. He suffers from severe depression, has been on medical leave from his job since June, and is separated from his wife after 28 years of marriage.
And one mistake captured for millions to see on television played a huge part in the downward spiral.
Two years later, the Packers and Seahawks will meet Sunday for the NFC championship and the right to go to the Super Bowl. I won't be surprised if Easley gets talked about at some point on the pregame shows before kickoff.
To get a fuller understanding of the story, please check out this outstanding piece from Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports on how Easley is doing since the play dubbed "Fail Mary" hit our collective sporting consciousness.
If you call yourself a sports fan, if you have some degree of compassion and a soul, I sincerely hope you think twice about berating a referee after reading this when a call doesn't go your team's way.
Sports are for our entertainment. Winners and losers will happen. Mistakes will happen. Those who play the games learn strength of character, but it's a crying shame when fans can't follow their example.
In the end, sports is not about life and death. It's supposed to be fun. People shouldn't have to be fighting for their lives when mistakes are made.
Once a Lance Easley — or any other referee at any level — makes a call, wrong or right, it can't be taken back. If more people accepted this and moved on, the world of sports would be an even better place.
Follow Tom Zulewski on Twitter, @Tomzsports.


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DJR Team Penske had no right of appeal against the penalty that relegated Scott McLaughlin to 18th in Sunday's race at the Coates Hire Newcastle 500, according to managing director Ryan Story.
McLaughlin received three separate penalties during the race, the final coming as the chequered flag fell for his part in a stoush that saw Craig Lowndes crash out on the penultimate lap.
In a tense battle for the championship with Jamie Whincup, McLaughlin needed to finish 11th or better to secure the championship.
The penalty, which was handed down as a pit lane penalty added 25 seconds to McLaughlin's race time, which dropped him from 11th to 18th, costing him a maiden Supercars title.
The New Zealander disagreed with the sanction.
"The rules are quite clear that a PLP or time penalty, a penalty during the race basically, isn't subject to appeal," Story explained.
"We've seen instances this year where we've been on the wrong end of the stick and at the right end of it.
McLaughlin's first penalty came early in the race when he was caught speeding entering pit lane, though Story is unconvinced.
"It's a line on the road and if they say we were going above 40(kph), we were going above 40(kph), but it didn't appear that way from what we were able to digest here in the shed here," said Story.
"It gave Scotty a suitable warning when we could see them he should be slowed down but we saw van Gisbergen close up behind him as a consequence of slowing down.
"Whether he got back on the gas a bit early or not I guess we'll have a look at that.
"We have to be circumspect about the day in reference to the entire year, and one of the things we said to try and commiserate our troops was it took three penalties to beat us today," he added.
"That's something that we will take stock of as part of the healing process I suppose.
"You want to see a champion crowned at the last event, don't you? I think that there's a part of the rationales firmly fixed in that regard.


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iWantEmpire Partners with Talent Testing Service
Exclusive Sponsorship Designed to Support Artists of All Preferences and Persuasions!
LOS ANGELES (February 22, 2018) – iWantEmpire has inked a deal with Talent Testing Service, the premier blood screening facility for the adult industry, to serve as its official advertising partner. The terms of the agreement were designed and negotiated by both parties to offer a multitude of benefits to performers across all TTS locations.
"iWantEmpire is very pleased to partner with Talent Testing Service and help raise awareness about their invaluable contributions to workplace safety in the adult community, as well as the advantages to health screening in every sexually active population," said Jay Phillips, founder and president of iWantEmpire. "TTS plays a pivotal role in the protection of artists, fans and everyone who is sexually active and we are proud to work with them and promote their missive and the need for regular testing at their state-of-the-art facilities! We are encouraging all artists and fans alike to play safe and to get tested regularly!"
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Over the next months, iWantEmpire will equip each of the four TTS locations with mini refrigerators, branded bottled water, protein bars, and a Glamour Selfie Station which will feature props, wigs, hats, and "I Know My Status" signs. iWantEmpire will also have the opportunity to promote its platforms through educational videos, signage, and printed material at all Talent Testing Services locations. iWantEmpire currently subsidizes all testing costs for its contract stars and has an authorized fund for an undisclosed amount to award other artists the same. Additional terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Home Medical Marijuana THe Cure
Tommy Chong battling prostate cancer
Tommy Chong, one-half of the marijuana-loving "Cheech and Chong" comedy duo, is battling prostate cancer, he announced Saturday on CNN.
Having first noticed symptoms about eight years ago while incarcerated for selling drug paraphernalia, Chong said he was diagnosed "about a month ago." He revealed his condition in an interview about his support for decriminalizing marijuana use and sales.
"I've got prostate cancer, and I'm treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," he told CNN's Don Lemon. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Chong described the cancer "as a slow stage one (that I've) had for a long time." He said that he was drug free for about three years, during which time he began having prostate-related problems.
"So I know it had nothing to do with cannabis," he said. "Cannabis is a cure."
He and his on-screen partner Cheech Marin recorded a series of hot-selling comedy albums in the early 1970s, before hitting the big screen in 1978 with "Up in Smoke." It was the first of several "Cheech and Chong" films chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the stoner pair. The two continue to tour as a comedic act, with shows scheduled for later this month and the fall, according to their official website.
Besides the "Cheech and Chong" films, Chong has appeared in several TV series, such as "That 70's Show." He's authored several books including "The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint" about his "family business" specializing in handmade bongs, arrest and nine months in federal prison, according to his and Marin's website.
Chong, 74, explained to CNN that he doesn't smoke marijuana, which he said he'd quit about a year ago "for health reasons," to treat his prostate cancer. Rather, he said the ingests the hemp oil "at night, so I won't be woozy all day."
"I'm taking it as a medicine," he said.
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Sarankhola is a mauza (a small group of villages) in Dakhin Khali Union, Sarankhola Upazila of Bagerhat District, on the northeastern edge of the Sundarbans forest in Bangladesh. According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, the mauza had 2,902 households and a population of 11,623. The populace consists of a majority of Muslims and a small minority of Hindus. Khuriakhali is one of the five villages within the mauza.

See also
 List of villages in Bangladesh

References

Villages in Bagerhat District
Villages in Khulna Division


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Idaho Laws & Rules
Section 23-1303
Idaho Statutes are updated to the web July 1 following the legislative session.
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COUNTY OPTION KITCHEN AND TABLE WINE ACT
23-1303. Definitions. (1) The following terms as used in this chapter are hereby defined as follows:
(a) "Bonded wine warehouse" means a licensed warehouse within the state of Idaho that is solely authorized to store and handle wine.
(b) "Bonded wine warehouse license" means a license that authorizes a bonded wine warehouse to solely store and handle wine. Handling of wine as provided for in this chapter includes the loading, unloading, and delivery of wine from a vintner or winery to a bonded wine warehouse, from a bonded wine warehouse to a vintner or winery, from a bonded wine warehouse to another bonded wine warehouse, or from a bonded wine warehouse to a distributor. A bonded wine warehouse license does not authorize the distribution or sale of wine.
(c) "Dessert wine" means only those wines that contain more than sixteen percent (16%) alcohol by volume, but do not exceed twenty-four percent (24%) alcohol by volume, are grape-based, and are fortified through the addition of wine-based spirits or brandy made from grapes. Dessert wine as defined herein shall not be deemed to be a spirit-based beverage for the purposes of paragraph (i) of this subsection. Dessert wine as defined in this section shall not include aromatized wines such as vermouth, quinquina, and americano.
(d) "Director" means the director of the Idaho state police.
(e) "Distributor" means a person to whom a wine distributor's license has been issued.
(f) "Domestic produced product" means wine at least seventy-five percent (75%) of which by volume is derived from fruit or agricultural products grown in Idaho.
(g) "Importer" means a person to whom a wine importer's license has been issued.
(h) "Live performance" means a performance occurring in a theater and not otherwise in violation of any provision of Idaho law.
(i) "Low proof spirit beverages" means any alcoholic beverage containing not more than fourteen percent (14%) alcohol by volume obtained by distillation mixed with drinkable water, fruit juices and/or other ingredients in solution. These products shall be considered and taxed as wine. Spirit-based beverages exceeding fourteen percent (14%) alcohol by volume shall be considered as liquor and sold only through the division system.
(j) "Person" includes an individual, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, or any group or combination acting as a unit, and includes the plural as well as the singular unless the intent to give a more limited meaning is disclosed by the context in which it is used.
(k) "Retailer" means a person to whom a retail wine license has been issued.
(l) "Retail wine license" means a license issued by the director authorizing a person to sell table wine and/or dessert wine at retail for consumption off the licensed premises.
(m) "Table wine" shall mean any alcoholic beverage containing not more than sixteen percent (16%) alcohol by volume obtained by the fermentation of the natural sugar content of fruits or other agricultural products containing sugar whether or not other ingredients are added.
(n) "Theater" means a room, place or outside structure for performances or readings of dramatic literature, plays or dramatic representations of an art form not in violation of any provision of Idaho law.
(o) "Vintner" means a person who manufactures, bottles, or sells table wine or dessert wine to importers for resale within this state other than a licensed "winery" as herein defined.
(p) "Wine" includes table wine and dessert wine, unless the context requires otherwise.
(q) "Wine by the drink license" means a license to sell table wine or dessert wine by the individual glass or opened bottle at retail, for consumption on the premises only.
(r) "Wine distributor's license" means a license issued by the director to a person authorizing such person to distribute table wine or dessert wine to retailers within the state of Idaho.
(s) "Wine importer's license" means a license issued by the director to a person authorizing such person to import table wine or dessert wine into the state of Idaho and to sell and distribute such wines to a distributor.
(t) "Winery" means a place, premises or establishment within the state of Idaho for the manufacture or bottling of table wine or dessert wine for sale. Two (2) or more wineries may use the same premises and the same equipment to manufacture their respective wines, to the extent permitted by federal law.
(u) "Winery license" means a license issued by the director authorizing a person to maintain a winery.
(2) All other words and phrases used in this chapter, the definitions of which are not herein given, shall be given their ordinary and commonly understood and accepted meanings.
[23-1303, added 1971, ch. 156, sec. 3, p. 760; am. 1973, ch. 144, sec. 1, p. 281; am. 1974, ch. 27, sec. 62, p. 811; am. 1984, ch. 221, sec. 1, p. 531; am. 1987, ch. 169, sec. 2, p. 330; am. 1994, ch. 266, sec. 1, p. 823; am. 2000, ch. 469, sec. 72, p. 1521; am. 2003, ch. 111, sec. 5, p. 354; am. 2003, ch. 119, sec. 1, p. 363; am. 2004, ch. 318, sec. 3, p. 893; am. 2008, ch. 181, sec. 1, p. 546; am. 2009, ch. 23, sec. 54, p. 67; am. 2017, ch. 73, sec. 1, p. 184; am. 2019, ch. 76, sec. 1, p. 179; am. 2020, ch. 10, sec. 1, p. 12.]
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A Mick Foley biopic, eh? We think we've got the PERFECT casting...
The news that professional wrestler Mick Foley is gearing up for a biopic of his life wasn't too surprising. Mick is a larger than life character, and his first book, Have A Nice Day, was a #1 bestseller in 1999.
Kim and I talked about what kind of person would be able to play the young, goofy, and hungry version of Foley. After all, if you are or have been a fan of pro wrestling over the past 20 or so years, you know Mick's backstory. You've seen the footage from Mick's teenage years jumping off a toolshed doing an elbow drop. That kind of crazy move is what became Mick's trademark. And whether it was as Cactus Jack, as Mankind, or as the irrepressibly goofy Dude Love, Mick has been a crowd pleaser for years, and he needs someone special to play him.
But I have to be honest – I was surprised that Kim and I came to the same conclusion: that it would be best to cast an unknown or little known actor in the role. And I was even more surprised to find we both picked the same young man for the role – an irrepressibly goofy and talented young ham named Jim Wakefield.
Who is Jim Wakefield? Well, to most people, probably nobody. But if you're an internet fan, or into YouTube on a more or less regular basis, you might know his name. Wakefield first shot to semi-prominence in the summer of 2008, when at 19, he was (and remains) the youngest competitor to win an episode of the hilariously funny and extremely grueling ABC game show Wipeout. During the show he listed his profession as "professional skateboarder", but it quickly became obvious to everyone watching that he was also an actor, a ham, and someone who was genuinely funny to watch. His little "Wipeout Song And Dance" was so popular among the fans of the show that it was later used in promos for the show, and he was invited back to do it again as part of the Wipeout Wrap Party at the end of the summer.
Jim also has done quite a bit of amateur acting – he has a YouTube page that features clips of his Wipeout appearance as well as a collection of a few short films that he and his roommate have put together, several of which are truly hysterical.
Now, I know what you're thinking…THAT GUY? THAT SKINNY GUY? NO WAY!
But remember, this is a MOVIE. And until you saw it, did you ever think Mickey Rourke could pull it off either? I would have never known he had a Randy "The Ram" Robinson in him before "The Wrestler". And Sean Penn doesn't look ANYTHING like the real Harvey Milk, and yet he won an Oscar for the role.
Granted, Wakefield would have to add at least 50 pounds to his skinny frame. And he's a little too tall. But then again, Elijah Wood isn't a 4 foot Hobbit and Wolverine isn't supposed to be 6 foot tall either. It's his personality that makes it work –and both Kim and I brought it up when we first saw him on Wipeout – "OMG, he's like a teenage Mick Foley!" So in retrospect, I guess it's not so surprising that Wakefield was the first person that entered our minds as the right person to play the Mick.
Part of the key to playing a real-life role like Foley will be getting to know Foley the man and his unique mindset, his off-kilter way of thinking. And in that respect, Wakefield has a 500 yard head start on any other possible competitor. And lets face it – Foley himself, even back in the day, would have been hard pressed to win a punishing show like Wipeout. Wakefield ALREADY HAS. He's obviously got the physical stamina for the role. He's got the personality. He's got the drive to be a star; his publicity efforts over the last couple of years show that. And Hollywood could easily give him the look – that's what they DO.
So don't pooh-pooh us so quickly. And, hey, Mick? You and Jeff Katz should take a meeting with Wakefield…I have the distinct feeling you'll like the idea once you talk to the guy…because we think he's EXACTLY what you're looking for….
Sep 28, 2010 5:35:00 PM | Casting Couch, Pop Culture, Sports, TC's Take, Television, Thoughts and Musings, Weblogs
Subject:CINEMA #251 - "Blazing Sirens - Police In The Movies!" Hey guys - sorry our schedule has been a bit messed up lately...things have been hectic around here... This week on Subject:CINEMA, we take a look at Police in the movies! Plus our Bonehead of the Week, and complele coverage of 26th annual Boston Film Festival, with reviews of FIVE films - LOCKED IN, MISS NOBODY, CONVICTION, CHERRY, and WELCOME TO THE RILEYS! Thanks to ALL of you who take the time to listen to Subject:CINEMA. Now, if we can...


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Life on Earth exploded, but meteorites didn't start the party
Sometimes life just finds a way
By Mark D. Kaufman | Published Jan 30, 2017 7:00 PM
A plethora of meteorites rained down upon Earth 468 million years ago, but they probably weren't responsible for an explosion of life. Pixabay
A modern evolutionary myth may have been dispelled.
Some 470 million years ago, a wealth of meteorites started falling to Earth, filling the sky with shooting stars. Around the same time, life on Earth erupted into an astonishing diversity of new critters, during the impressively titled Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE). Some scientists connected these two instances, proposing that as space rocks plunged into the ocean, they somehow ignited an evolutionary eruption in Earth's seas.
But new research, published in Nature Communications, suggests that the meteorite showers started two million years after the great life explosion, which puts this tempting theory in some hot water.
"Our results confidently rule out that meteorite bombardment had any—or any significant—role in the GOBE story, as had previously been proposed," says Anders Lindskog, who studies Earth's environmental past at Lund University in Sweden.
Sea creatures flourished during this period. Predatory nautiloids with grasping tentacles, spined and armored mollusks, trilobites, corals, plankton, and grapolites—colonies of creatures who shared the same skeleton, like walls of an apartment building—dominated the seas. Today, their fossils are found in rock layers around the world.
Ancient arthropods, called trilobites, flourished in Ordovician seas. Wikimedia, High Contrast
But in another layer—an ancient seafloor packed with meteorites—Lindskog and his team found convincing evidence that the space rocks started falling long after life began to flourish on Earth, around 470 million years ago.
The clues came in the form of tiny crystals, and they found thousands of them. Zircon crystals are incredibly useful because "they basically act like clocks," says Lindskog. The ratio of elements in the crystals change in precise ways over time, which allowed the team to figure out, to a pretty precise degree, when the crystals formed.
The crystals don't lie. They were born around 468 million years ago, confirming that the meteorites fell to Earth during this period. The rocks splashed into the sea and settled down for a long rest next to these crystals, which were just forming in seafloor sediment, two million years after the great explosion of life.
Although the meteorites' role in diversification is now thrown into question, the idea that such a shake-up could have stimulated Earth isn't a crazy notion. "Evolution does seem to speed up when environmental conditions aren't in equilibrium," explains Lindskog. "So such a scenario is not entirely unreasonable."
But now, we're all left wondering about what might have triggered the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event.
At the time, life on Earth was still young, so there was ample opportunity for new life to find niche, unoccupied environments and thrive in them.
"Life had only been around for less than 100 million years, which is nothing," says Clive Neal, who studies planetary geology at the University of Notre Dame and wasn't involved in the new study. "There's a lot of niches that could still be habitable. And you get biodiversification if there's a niche available. Life will fill it."
Extinction events open also open up opportunities for new creatures to evolve and fill vacant niches, like an unexploited area of coral reef. Neal points at a mini-extinction event that occurred 511 million years ago. The ruthless emissions from an Australian supervolcano (he points out that today's Yellowstone is just a puny one in comparison) wiped out a bunch of life, but in doing so, may have opened up opportunities for other species. Enter GOBE.
Also helping the cause for flourishing life were rising sea levels. "The very high sea levels that prevailed at the time provided enormous marine shelf areas, with more space for life to thrive," explains Lindskog.
Most of all, Lindskog emphasizes, we should never underestimate the inherent biological ability of creatures to simply adapt. "Life somehow has a built-in ability to evolve," he says. Even without a bombardment of meteorites.


Ag scríobh an méid seo dom tá nuacht as an ngnáth le léamh sna meáin Fhionlannacha. Roimhe seo, bhí cineál ceartaiseacht pholaitiúil chontrártha le haithint ar gach aon alt faoi antoiscigh na heite deise agus faoi na 'gardaí sráide', nó na bligeaird shráide ab fhearr a rá, a bhí in ainm is a bheith 'ag cosaint ár gcuid ban is cailíní' ar 'bhagairt' na dteifeach ón tSiria. Cé gur léir don duine dhall le fada nach raibh i gceist leis na 'gardaí' seo ach dronga maistíní agus seal maith ama caite i dtóin an phríosúin acu, ghlacadh na hiriseoirí i ndáiríre an leagan den scéal a bhí ag na bligeaird féin gan amhras ar bith a chur ann – is é sin nach raibh iontu ach aithreacha teaghlach agus iad buartha faoi shlándáil a gclainne.
D'imigh sin, áfach, agus tháinig seo: anois, tugann na hiriseoirí bligeard ar bhligeard, Nua-Naitsí ar Nua-Naitsí agus coirpeach ar choirpeach, agus iad ag tabhairt tuairisce ar na pleananna cinedhíothaithe a bhíos i mbéal gach uile dhuine sna dronga seo, chomh maith leis na hairm thine a ndéanann na hamhais seo gaisce astu. Cad é a chuir na meáin ar athchomhairle mar seo?
Is dócha gurbh é scéal Jessikka Aro é. Iriseoir í a scríobh tuairisc don chomhlacht náisiúnta craolacháin faoin dóigh a mbíonn claonbholscairí agus troill Rúiseacha ag iarraidh comhráite ar líne san Fhionlainn a chur as a riocht trí thuairimí réamhtháirgthe – ciníochas mar shampla – a stealladh ar fhóraim éagsúla diospóireachta. Ansin rinne na claonbholscairí céanna mórionsaí ar Aro, agus maslaí pearsanta éagsúla á gcaitheamh ina treo acu – d'fhéadfá a rá gur fíoraíodh a tuairisc féin go huile is go hiomlán, ach ba bheag an cuidiú di é, nó is léir go ndeachaigh an chlúmhillteoireacht seo go mór mór chun dochair di.
Bhí an lá le Jessikka Aro sa deireadh, áfach, nó bronnadh Duais Iriseoireachta na Fionlainne uirthi as an tuairisc faoi throllfheachtais, agus is dócha gurbh é an bronnadh seo a thug tuilleadh misnigh do lucht a ceirde. Mhothaigh iriseoirí na Fionlainne go raibh de chead acu an fhírinne a insint, rud atá le haithint ar na meáin go léir inniu. Ceist eile ar ndóigh cén fáth nár ghlac siad an misneach sin roimhe seo.
Scríbhneoir Gaeilge ón bhFionlainn é Panu Petteri Höglund.
As I write this, the Finnish media are packed with news of an uncommon kind. Before, a sort of inverted political correctness could be perceived in every article about right-wing extremists and 'street guards', or rather blackguards who are trying to give an impression that they are 'protecting our women and girls' against the 'threat' of Syrian refugees. Although it has been obvious to everybody for a long time that these 'guards' are nothing but gangs of goons who have spent much of their lives behind bars, journalists have usually accepted the version of the story the blackguards themselves prefer – that they are just fathers concerned about their children's personal security.
Things have changed since: now journalists call a blackguard a blackguard, a neo-Nazi a neo-Nazi and a criminal a criminal, disclosing the genocidal dreams that are the small talk of these gangs, as well as the firearms these goons are so proud of. What brought this change of heart?
Probably it was the story of Jessikka Aro. She is a journalist who fronted a report for the national broadcaster on how Russian trolls and spin doctors are trying to derail online discussions in Finland by spamming prefabricated opinions, such as racism, to all kinds of online forums. Said spin doctors attacked her big-time with personal insults; you'd say that her report was massively proven to be true, but that was little help, because the defamation campaign obviously damaged her greatly.
Jessikka Aro got the last laugh, though, because her report about these troll campaigns earned her the year's Finnish journalism award, and this is probably what gave her colleagues the encouragement they needed. They felt that they could tell the truth, and this is what you see in all media now. It is of course a different question where their courage had been hiding before this.
Panu Petteri Höglund is a Finnish writer of Irish expression.


One of our fondest traditions at the Wentworth Inn is our annual Thanksgiving dinner: an opportunity to provide our guests with a delicious and heartwarming holiday meal right here at our historic hotel, nestled in the charming White Mountain hamlet of Jackson Village.
It's also a chance to see some familiar faces: Some of our Turkey Day guests come back year after year for the occasion. Whether that describes you, or you're looking for a new and different way to mark that fourth Thursday in November, we invite you to come celebrate with us at the Wentworth!
Full country breakfasts for two each morning of your Wentworth Inn getaway!
Given the talents of our in-house gourmet chef Brian Gazda and his team, any meal at the Wentworth Inn is one to write home about. But we always get especially excited to see what Chef Gazda dreams up for our Thanksgiving feast, and needless to say after eyeballing this year's menu we're counting the days!
You can check out the complete menu right here, but let's just say it comes chock-full of seasonal deliciousness—including lots of wonderful autumn vegetables. The Wentworth Inn kitchen abides by a fresh, local, seasonal, farm-to-fork philosophy, and that's well on display for the holiday dinner.
Among the appetizer choices are forest mushrooms (gathered by our tried-and-true "Mushroom Man," Bill) prepared with caramelized onion and Vol-au-Vent. Savor a second course of a Fall Harvest Salad tossed with local apples or a soul-satisfying Cider Butternut Squash Bisque. The main courses hit all the right notes, not least the Cider Brined Roast Turkey sourced from Jackson's very own Davis Farm. If turkey's not your thing, though, Chef Gazda has equally delectable entrees to tempt you with—from prime rib to salmon to sweet onion and ricotta tortello.
And we can't not mention the fall-friendly desserts, which (believe us) will be very difficult to choose: from the Apple Galette to the Maple Sweet Potato Pecan Pie to the House Pumpkin Ice Cream.
Don't forget: As always, Chef Gazda has fantastic options for gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian diners!
Our Thanksgiving menus this year come graced by a lovely painting by local landscape artist Erik Koeppel, who'll be on hand to sign his work.
Make your Thanksgiving reservations at the Wentworth Inn today by calling 800-637-0013 or booking online right here. We can't wait to spend the holiday with you!


I am an artist working in various genres using oil paints, acrylics and pastels. My early paintings were mainly of domestic pets or family members. After retirement from a well known bank I gained a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art. My final show paintings were large scale, semi-abstract landscapes which were all purchased by Solihull College and are displayed around the campus. I enjoy painting seascapes, especially with rough seas and rocks but I still return as often as I can to my first love of animal paintings. I particularly enjoy completing commissions for domestic pets but have also tackled parrots, pigeons and even a Highland Cow. Whenever possible I take my own photographs to work from as these images must show the character of the subject in order to create a successful portrait.


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Elusive Bobcat Makes An Appearance At OSU
The OSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital repaired a fractured femur on a bobcat brought in by Chintimini Wildlife Center.
One of the most beautiful cats in Oregon is rarely seen by humans.
Although bobcats have stable populations throughout the state, their nocturnal lifestyle, excellent camouflage, and wariness of humans keeps them hidden from view by all but the most avid back-country hikers.
This week, doctors and staff in the OSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) were thrilled to have the opportunity to work with a bobcat up close and personal.
A few days earlier, a good citizen found an injured juvenile bobcat in the ditch off highway 20 near Blodgett, and risked their skin to wrap the ferocious, snarling cat in a blanket and take her to Chintimini Wildlife Center. The center immediately provided water and food for the starving cat then sedated her enough to give her an examination. They found a broken leg and called OSU for help.
Several veterinarians in the Corvallis area provide pro-bono assistance to Chintimini, but the most challenging medical cases often go to OSU. (See previous story). "The leg was fractured with a number of pieces and fissures," says orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Jennifer Warnock.
Dr. Warnock was able to rebuild the leg with plates and screws donated by DePuy Synthes. She designed the placement of the hardware specifically to avoid the formation of soft tissue calluses in the upper leg muscle. "Calluses can cause quadriceps adhesions which would slow the cat down," she says. That was a critical issue for an animal whose survival depends on speed in hunting.
There are other concerns when operating on wildlife. For one, the anesthesia is different than it would be for a dog or house cat. "Our anesthesia team is amazing," says Dr. Warnock. "They are so skilled with all species, and great at pain control." In fact, many hands worked together to save the bobcat, from the skilled technicians who assisted in surgery, to the experts in radiology, to the fourth-year veterinary students who provide post-surgery, tender, loving care.
It was a stroke of luck that student Margot Mercer was on rotation in the hospital when the bobcat came in. She had been a Chintimini volunteer for three years prior to starting vet school, so had lots of wildlife experience. "I was really excited to be the surgery student on the bobcat case," she said. "I was one of the few people comfortable handling her without sedation." It was also a great opportunity for Mercer to observe a feline fracture repair. "I learned lots of new things that are translational into small animal practice," she says. "The basics are the same as they would be for domestic cats."
The surgery bill was funded, in part, from Dr. Warnock's teaching fund, and, in part, by the college's Olive Britt Hope Fund. "This is a great example of the quality of OSU care and compassion; how we can come together to make it right for this beautiful cat," says Dr. Warnock.
The surgery went well and the bobcat is now recovering in its kennel at Chintimini. "Her IV is out and she is eating like a champ," says a spokesperson for the refuge.
The bobcat will return to OSU in six weeks for a checkup. If the bone has healed, then Chintimini can begin the long process of rehabilitation. Because one of her four canine teeth was broken and pulled, they want to be sure she can still hunt before they release her back to her territory. "It will be late spring before she is released," says Dr. Warnock. "She needs to be able to reliably kill live prey."
Dr. Tiffany Kimbrell, student Margot Mercer, and Dr. Jennifer Warnock were part of the surgery team that repaired a fractured femur in a bobcat from Chintimini Wildlife Center.
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