Remember the creationist hypothesis about high pressure atmosphere leading to gigantic dinosaur sizes? Well check this out: creation science at its best! Basically, this guy believes that dinosaurs and humans lived together and he wants to prove it by recreating what he thinks the early Earth's atmosphere was like, particularly, a far higher pressure than it is today (presumably due to the water/ice above the firmament or something), and growing his own dinosaurs.
And though he's already got a working prototype, it's yet to yield any results.
What makes you chuckle about this? I'm glad there's a creationist actually willing to test a hypothesis like this, yet troubled that he believes this strongly enough to actually follow through with it. Who knows, maybe in 2 or 3 years we will all be praising Jesus and riding our velociraptors to work!
What WOULD be fascinating, would be be just ONE creationist with a valid point or idea.
There seems to be no shortage of whacko's and propagandists, and no one, at all, with a valid argument.
I wish there was a way to prevent the child abuse that is part of their misinformation campaigns.
A law that made it a crime to teach children wrong information, and/or lies, would be a great start.
If done over the internet, perhaps wire fraud laws would apply?
I wish him all the best...does dinosaur really taste like chicken???
Probably...when they compared the DNA of a T Rex to modern critters, the chicken was the best match.
And, so far, almost every odd critter tastes the same, so, people know what a chicken tastes like, so, they all taste like chicken.
Crocodile tastes like chicken so, yes, dinosaur probably also tastes like chicken... or more accurately, chicken tastes like dinosaur, because it is.
What's he going to do, raise lizards in that thing?
By the way, I don't think Michael Jackson benefited a lot from his hyperbaric chamber, but who knows, maybe it kept his nose from further shrinking.
When "The Flintstones" is essentially your paleontology/archaeology resource, so you have cavemen and dino's together, etc...its hard to be taken seriously except by those wearing religious blinders.
AS a side bar, its also common in media to show a caveman chipping at a stone to make a wheel, whereas the wheel was a much later invention.


Well, fast forward it to 2016, and a new Garrett ACE Series has been released. The Top of the ACE line, the "Ace 400i" has even more improvements over it's earlier production models. The new ACE 400i now has cam-locks, a request many have made to Garrett and they listened. The front of the screen now has a large digital target ID, using numbers plus target probability numbers suggesting ferrous/non ferrous conductivity. Also new is the "iron Audio" feature, available only on higher, more expensive metal detectors. This helps eliminate junk targets by designating them with a distinguishable low tone in the iron range, which might be junk, depending on what type of targets you are searching for. To help eliminate EMI (electro-magnetic-interference) Garrett has given you the option of hunting with different frequencies. This will also allow you to hunt close to your buddy by elimination his metal detector interference. And....the coils off the older ACE's work fine on the new ACE Models. So hang on to your sniper coils!
Garrett still has maintained the notching system, which is also available in the higher end AT Pro/AT Gold Series. This allows you to selectively remove junk targets so you won't hear the audio, or set it up to just hear one particular target. This comes in handy when searching for a lost earring. You can remove all notches except the one(s) sounding off on the remaining earring, then search with ease for the other earring. And......you do NOT lose more depth removing notches for unwanted targets like on other metal detectors with knobs to add discrimination, where as you advance the knob to remove further targets, where you do in fact lose depth.
To those considering the New ACE 200, 300 or 400, it is simple to use. It's well balanced and only weighs 2.9 lbs. (1.32 kg.). The length of the rod can be adjusted, depending on a persons height. It comes pre-programmed for your choices of coin mode, relic mode, jewelry mode, a custom mode (you create it, it saves it) or a setting with no discrimination so you can hear all targets. It is so simple to operate or sequence through the different programs. It operates on 4 x "AA" Batteries and readily excepts rechargeable batteries. I managed about 27 hours on the set of batteries which came with the metal detector.
To maintain a high degree of reliability with consistent results, I used the unit for 10 hunts. Anyone can go to a site not previously hunted before with any detector and do well. I chose to put on about 50 hours on it, so as I can properly learn it, and learn it's strengths and weaknesses.
Here are the results of my 10 hunts. This machine is a Super coin magnet! I started hunting in relics mode, hunting a lot of schools and sports fields. As I learned where my (Canadian) coins were reading with the VDI, I began to remove some notches. I pretty well ended up using the coins mode, as it also maintains notches where most (but not all) gold rings will read. I used my old concentric 9" x 12" coil from my old ACE 250 mostly. Bottles caps often read as good copper/silver coins, so using the iron audio can help to eliminated them. I discovered that deeper bottle caps read higher compared to more shallow ones. So......bottle caps and aluminum pull tabs remain the "Curse" for metal detector users. The square pull tabs often tend to give a strong double beep, whereas nickels have a softer single beep sound. It got so I could guess a nickel would pop up with a good probability. Hey....these things happen when the hours accumulate on a detector. One thing for sure....the ace BANGS hard on coins. Because the weak signals on the ACE are amplified so you can easily hear them, (unlike the modulated volume on the AT Series) hunting without headphones becomes easy in a quiet environment. Wireless headsets not required!
I did manage to dig up 4 rings during my hunts. You can't miss them. They hit hard! The older ACE models were very good for hitting rings, including gold ones. I didn't find any gold rings, however, I did get a solid gold football charm in a sports field! That was a first!
Here are some pieces of jewelry I dug up. If the jewelry is there, the ACE will find it no doubt.
My last 3 hours metal detecting were done in a freshwater lake. Because only the coil is water proof, I hunted just the beginnings of the freshwater lake. I notched out nearly everything except where gold rings might show up. That left only 4, sometimes 5 notches left on the screen. I had built up my confidence with this machine that any old silver coins/rings or older copper coins would easily be hit on. I got pennies in the 40's on up, but no rings today.
My thoughts.......A great detector for coin/jewelry hunting. It also performs well hunting relics. It has too much power! I could not hunt with full sensitivity....a first for me. All my other detectors could operate with full sensitivity in the woods, but not the new ACE! It bangs hard on targets....even very tiny ones. This machine would do well on the beaches dry sand or shallow fresh water searching for micro jewelry. When hunting in shallow water, PLEASE remember to tether the machine so it can not accidentally fall in the water if you drop it.
The depth indicator id fairly accurate with coin sized targets. I did pull out an old tag at bout 8 inches. It performs well for depth in my soil. I wish I could try it on a wet salted beach in/out of the water, but the nearest beach is 14 hours away. I hunted an afternoon without using any headsets, and I could easily hear the audio and distinguish the soft signals from the loud double beeps. I didn't like detecting with the iron audio left on, rather, I used it to help identify a target. Running the iron audio on all the time and getting a good audio on a target added confusion as to dig or not. A little trick I learned was that trying to pinpoint a large target is very difficult. Pop cans were easy to ID because of this. This allowed me to just move on to a better target saving time.
It is an excellent entry level detector, with lots of bells & whistles seen on many higher priced detector. It's simple to use, easy to learn, and depending on your goals for metal detecting, may be the only machine you might ever need, yet, you can easily move up to a more elaborate expensive model in the Garrett line. For a metal detectorist with over 20 years of experience, the ACE 400 is an excellent machine for coin and jewelry hunting! And......it will not sit in the closet collecting dust. Every metal detector I own has it's strengths in certain niches.
Please go to http://www.garrett.com/hobbysite/hbby_division_promotions_en.aspx for further information and to find a dealer nearest you to purchase Garrett equipment.
You sure have my curiosity going on this detector... May have to pick one up..
Took my new Ace 400 to a park in Brownsville,Tx. Nice warm morning with just the daily walkers so I decided to try the area around the main soccer field. The last Garrett owed was a Garrett GTAX 550, heavier than heavy with a coil that was the size of a salad plate. Boy was I surprised with the Ace 400 lightweight and with the 5X8 DD. It didn't take long to get used to the tones and IDing the tab range. One thing about this detector is that it loves dimes and copper pennies. Great machine and one heck of an improvement from my last Garrett. Two thumbs up.
so other than he cm vs inches. what are the differences between the Ace 400i and Ace 400 ?
Wish the 400 came with auto ground balance.
Yes, ground balance would be great. I'd buy one in a New York second.
Up to your usual standards.
Whatever you do, do it with enthusiasm.
"All of society comes to nothing without good plumbing."
50 hours of metal detecting and 421 coins found are not something to brag about. On average you are only finding slightly more than 8 coins per hour. Your value in clad coins of $24.80 or less than 6 cents per coin found and less than 50 cents per hour. Those are not impressive numbers.
I can't speak for others. For myself, I'm not out to get rich or make money from detecting. I am new to detecting and I purchased the Ace 300 for my wife and Ace 400 for myself. They seem to be great machine from those that you can buy from the box stores. I enjoy getting out with the wife and just finding the old stuff(other than those pesky aluminum cans) buried. If we were in it for making money I think we all might be dirt poor and looking for a new profession.


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Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
Bring Your Own Device in the Information Literacy Classroom
Ilana Stonebraker, Purdue UniversityFollow
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Hal Kirkwood, Purdue University
Mary Dugan, Purdue University
This is the publisher's PDF version of: Stonebraker, Ilana R.; Robertshaw, M. Brooke; Kirkwood, HP; Dugan, Mary. (2014) Bring Your Own Device in the Information Literacy Classroom. Indiana Libraries, 33(2). P. 64-67. https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/IndianaLibraries/article/view/17193. This article was first published by Indiana Libraries under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. It can be viewed online at: https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/IndianaLibraries/article/view/17193.
In the 2013 school year, a team of librarians in the Parrish Library of Management and Economics at Purdue University taught a business information literacy course to approximately 500 management students in eight 70-person sessions. Due to limitations on a set of iPads borrowed from another department, one of two concurrent classes was taught with a set of iPads, while another had a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy, where students brought their own laptops or iPads. Focus groups, observations of behavior, and final evaluations were utilized to evaluate the comparative perceived effectiveness of the two technology approaches. This paper consists of three parts: an introduction to both methods of content delivery with a description of the results of the project; a discussion of the relative value of each method; and finally, proposed best practices for where, when and why to use each method for library instruction based on the TPACK (technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge) framework.
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The current motherboard is MSI c236m, in the menu I see something like windows 7 installer support, which I enabled. After that I wrote the iso to a 16GB kingston pendrive I always use for installation. A Windows 10 installation successfully booted from it on the same computer, so the pendrive is ok.
I tried to write this win7 iso with recent rufus and I got the following error when I tried to boot from it: file: bcd, code: 0xc000000d, message: "error occured while attempting to read boot configuration data". I checked the pendrive, the BCD file exists. I tried with both NTFS and FAT32 it does not affect it. Secure boot is disabled. I used GPT and MBR.
I tried with Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.6.1, sometimes it writes unable to read errors while extracting, but most of the times everything goes fine. It is weird.
I tried with Windows7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool-Installer-en-US and I got the following error:

I verified the sha1 checksum of the iso, it is fine.
Any idea how to fix this?

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Hey mums, ditch the mobile and talk to baby instead!
*If you do want a better word, I have loads. But they're stored in a lock-up on an industrial estate outside Neath and I can't remember what I've done with the key.
What's the phenomenon I'm talking about?
The proliferation (now there's a much better word. It must have escaped through the bullet hole in the lock-up door. Don't ask!) of young mums around the streets and shopping centres, wheeling their state-of-the-art strollers/buggies/travel systems.
Push chairs have so many different names these days.
I have my own special name whenever one runs over my foot.
As you might expect, these new mums continually look downwards adoringly, engrossed to the point of complete absorption in the magical, marvellous, new acquisition in front of them.
No wonder the NHS is strapped for cash.
They must hand out a free phone to every new mother when she leaves hospital.
I've lost count of the times I've had to walk into the road or duck into a shop doorway to avoid an advancing buggy being haphazardly steered by a young woman resting her arms on the buggy's handle, as she texts or reads those sent to her, oblivious to other pedestrians.
However, more importantly – and this infuriates me – is that they also seem oblivious to their precious child and more interested in the texts they're sending to and receiving from friends.
It doesn't take a lot of imagination to picture these friends in another street or shopping centre, also pushing a buggy and ignoring their toddlers.
Some people say they remember being in their pram, looking up to see their mother's face.
There's a generation growing up now who'll only recall looking up from their 'advanced travel system' to see the back of a smart phone.
Time to find a better route to tackling congestion and potholes?
Traffic jams and potholes in our towns and cities at the moment are causing so much stress and frustration that even playing Buddhist meditation music in the car while driving won't help reduce our blood pressure.
Everywhere we go, we currently face these obstacles on a daily basis – and it doesn't seem to be improving any day soon.
Even if we use public transport, the same challenges are faced.
It's got to the point that I'm now thinking that 'by pass roads' are the answer.
But where does that leave our towns and villages if we are driving around the outside of them?
Local trade would surely suffer.
Congestion and poorly maintained highways are now among the biggest complaints that our local authorities are faced with, yet the solution to the problems are a long way off.
Maybe we need to look at other countries public transport systems and why they work so well?
As for me and the town of Ammanford, the congestion issue is almost grinding the roads into the town to a halt at times and is a huge risk to road safety.
I wonder how the Dalai Lama would deal with this?
In a strange quirk of fate, within a matter of days the world said "Goodbye" to two people, both famous in entirely different fields.
Sir Ken Dodd and Professor Stephen Hawking.
Stephen Hawking was an expert on the concept of time, while anyone who's seen Ken Dodd 'live' will know he had absolutely no concept of time!
Ken's career took him from Liverpool workingmen's clubs to the London Palladium, where he enjoyed several long runs, starting with his legendary 1965 season when he performed two shows a night, six nights a week – and squeezed in a matinee on Saturdays!
Although famous for his 'Tickling Stick'; surreal comedy; and the invention of words like 'Tattyfilarious' and 'Plumptiousness', he took his comedy very seriously.
Around the walls of his study at home in Knotty Ash, were 50,000 books on humour, many written by great philosophers.
He had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, on a continual quest to crack the secret of what makes us react to hearing a random series of words delivered in a certain order (i.e. a joke) with laughter.
Personally, I think he'd already learned that secret years ago, but he never stopped trying to hone his already impressive comic skills and would keep a record of what jokes worked best in different parts of the country.
Even when he became established as one of our greatest comedians, he never took his success for granted, comparing his occupation with that of a gladiator.
"You buckle on your sword, take on an audience and must win them over in the first 30 seconds. After the "Hello!" gags, come the topicals, followed by the surreal stuff. Eventually, you can say whatever comes into your head".
He believed that anger, despair and depression are the enemy of jokers and that his job was to dispel those thoughts.
It was a job he did magnificently for 60 years.
And let us not forget Jim Bowen who also died last week.
Jim livened-up Sunday teatime for millions of us.
I am sure many of you reading this column can remember this time very well, often referred to as "The good old days" by the older generations.
However, times have changed and, unfortunately, there are so many of us today that don't know who lives on the street, or in some cases, even who lives next door!
Gone are the days when you would pop next door to catch up on the gossip or your neighbour would pop in to share their copy of the South Wales Evening Post when they'd finished it.
This was networking at its best. Human beings are meant to live in tribes and look after each other.
Do we really need these Easter extras?
If we're angry about something, we can argue about it until we're blue in the face.
Smurf's must be permanently cheesed-off.
I get blue-faced angry with retailers who refer to their 'customers' while secretly regarding them as 'cash cows' to be mercilessly squeezed of every penny.
It's usually early September when my faced adopts a blue tinge – on the first day I wander into a supermarket and find Halloween-related tat, November 5th fireworks and Christmas cards & wrapping on sale all in the same aisle.
This money-grabbing greediness is the closest retailers can get to stopping customers at the door and demanding they hand over the contents of their wallets & purses before telling them to come back next week with more dosh.
You might think that sounds ridiculous – but last week I read about a new (at least it is to me) product supermarkets have created to part us from our hard-earned.
How have we managed to celebrate Easter for hundreds of years without placing a stick of wood with rabbit-shaped baubles hanging from its spindly branches on top of the sideboard?
Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsbury's are charging around £15 for a two-foot tree – maths geniuses will have calculated that's £7.50 a foot – while a company called Party Pieces, owned by the Duchess of Cambridge's parents, is selling Easter Trees for £19.99.
Get behind me in the queue!
You can now buy carrot-shaped Easter Crackers!
A spokesperson for one retailer selling these unnecessary Easter items said "They appeal to people keen on creating new traditions!".
Hey! I've got a new tradition!
I don't know about you but over the past couple of weeks I've had some trouble warming up.
For the record, it must have been cold last weekend.
As I passed my local councillor, I observed he had his hands in his own pockets. Just sayin' . . .
When it was announced The Rolling Stones are playing the Principality stadium this summer, no doubt many young music fans greeted the news with an uninterested shrug and an exaggerated yawn – if they could work up enough enthusiasm.
But it'll be a sell-out and Cardiff's hotels, bars and restaurants will benefit.
Can you imagine the length of the queues outside the Caroline Street chippies when 74,500 hungry people leave at the end of the concert?
Taking into account the average age of the Stones and their fans, the concert will probably end around eight-thirty.
Although Keith Richard's features are now so craggy and lived-in he actually looks like his passport 'photo, the fact that the Stones are still going strong and in demand after half a century is astonishing.
When the Stones began in 1962, there were no CDs, mobile phones, iphones, X-Boxes, home computers or downloads.
On Sundays, cinemas didn't open until four-thirty and, although admission only cost seventeen new pence, as there were no videos or DVDs, you had to wait at least seven years if you wanted to see a particular film again!
In 1962 the UK had just two TV channels – BBC and ITV – which broadcast in black and white and closed down around 11.30pm.
People were expected to go to bed early and be ready for work next day.
No wonder teenagers like 'Mick'n'Keef' rebelled, grew their hair and formed R & B groups.
Fifty years later, the Stones are still rolling and when they come to Wales in June, 'This could be the last time' fans will get to see if Mick really does 'Move like Jagger'.
Unfortunately, I won't be at the concert as I'm having a new shed delivered that day and I'll need to paint it black.
Oh, get off my cloud!
I'm sure I am not alone in hearing the snap, crackle and pop when I jump out of bed in the morning.
Unfortunately it's not my breakfast cereal, it's my knee joints warming up!
Use it or lose it is the motto.
Now we can't argue with that!
Before you ask – I weigh 14st naked.
That's if the scales in Boots The Chemist is anything to go by.
My case comes up next Monday!
Wondering exactly what these people thought the police could possibly do about it kept me awake all night.


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Concrete Tipi
Wall South Dakota
South DakotaPennington County
Ward Beaumont Whitwam
roadside rest areas
folk art (traditional art)
prestressed concretefieldstone
Michelle L. Dennis, "Concrete Tipi", [Wall, South Dakota], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/SD-01-103-0094.
1968, Ward Whitwam. I-90 rest area near Wasta.
With the development of the interstate highway system in the 1950s came guidelines for Safety Rest Areas (SRAs), which included running water, flush toilets, picnic tables, shelters, and walking paths. Further standardization occurred with the passing of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965. Although the amenities were standardized, each state could adopt designs that would represent its unique historical or cultural identity. As a result, SRAs became expressions of regional flavor and modern architectural design. Along South Dakota's two interstate highways, I-90 (east-west) and I-29 (north-south), are nine concrete tipis built by Sioux Falls architect Ward Whitwam between 1968 and 1979. The tipis evoke the American Indian history and culture in South Dakota. The first two were built at rest areas on either side of I-90 near Wasta.
The tipis are constructed of eight prestressed concrete poles that represent the lodgepole framing structure of an American Indian tipi. The poles, each of which rises 56 feet and weighs 6.5 tons, are set into 35-foot-diameter concrete base. Each pole is notched and inlaid with a steel plate where it intersects with the others at the top in a spiral composition that results in a 3-foot-diameter opening at the top.
Whitwam also paid tribute to pioneer settlers with his original design for a dug-out, sod-covered restroom facility. The sloped ends of the building curved around one half of the tipi, forming a circular plaza in front; railings above the building provided protection for those atop the structure, which resembled a low hillside from afar. These dug-outs were unfortunately demolished to build facilities with larger restrooms. The new buildings are single-story, rectangular structures of native fieldstone and contain visitors' centers and restrooms, all gathered under a shallow gable roof.
Like other oversized roadside attractions, such as Dinosaur Park in Rapid City or the Milbank windmill, these concrete tipis are well-known landmarks to those regularly traveling the highways. There are five other tipis on I-90, two at Salem, and one each at Valley Springs, Chamberlain, and Spearfish; two others are on I-29 at New Effington and Junction City.
Callison, Jill. "Concrete Tipis Praised as Folk Art." Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD), February 15, 2015.
Nelson, Steve. "Tourists Praise Tepee Rest Areas." South Dakota Department of Highways Newsletter, August 9, 1968.
Nelson, C.B., "Concrete Tipis," South Dakota. National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, 2014. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
Michelle L. Dennis
Wall, South Dakota
Pennington County


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Circle of Love and Power
The ring, a circle with neither beginning nor end, symbolises eternity, unity, and perfection. In modern times, a ritual most crucial for all couples committed to matrimony is the purchase of the engagement ring. Generally, the engagement ring is somewhat more ornate than the plain wedding ring and is traditionally worn only by the bride, depending on cultural background. In some countries, especially in the East, both the woman and the man wear an ornate engagement ring.
It is widely accepted that a ring first signifying engagement can be roughly linked to the Fourth Lateran Council held by the Church in 1215, when it was declared that a longer waiting period between betrothal and marriage was appropriate. Plain rings of gold, silver, and iron were at first used to indicate betrothal. But a betrothal was also considered official if the couple simply drank a toast together, linking their little fingers while drinking, if this was done in front of witnesses.
The origin of the ornate engagement ring set with precious stones, particularly diamonds, is obscure. But the choice of precious stones for an engagement ring was once considered of utmost importance, as every month was believed to be under the influence of a specific stone, and each stone came attached with its distinctive wisdom and lore. Historically, the first recorded diamond engagement ring was presented to Mary of Burgundy as a betrothal gift by Archduke Maximillian of Austria in 1477.
In the past, florid gems were an important status symbol for the aristocracy, and laws were in place to ensure that only the privileged class wore gemstones, thereby preserving a visible division of social rank. Once, a popular concept was to represent and celebrate the joining of two families by mounting the engagement ring with the birthstones of the bride and her parents on the left side of the ring and the birthstones of the groom and his parents on the right side.
During the sixteenth century, joint rings, made with two or more hoops, were common between lovers. Each ring was engraved with a portion of a specific design, so that the complete figure was only formed when all the rings were in position. The hoops of the so-called gimmal ring turned on a hinge, and on betrothal the groom's fingers were placed in two of the hoops while the third hoop was on the bride's finger, to indicate to everyone that the bond or union was a mutual one. During the marriage ceremony, the separate rings were then fastened together to form the wedding ring for the bride. This custom died out, however, and for several centuries now, it has been customary, especially in English-speaking countries, for the man to present an engagement ring to his fiancée on their betrothal.
The luckiest stones set in an engagement ring are emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and of course, diamonds. The diamond symbolises conjugal love and is therefore every girl's dream and 'every girl's friend'. However, pearls are seldom found in engagement rings, as they resemble tears and are said to bring tears to the marriage. Opals, regarded as ill-omened, should also be avoided unless they represent the wearer's birthstone. In some European countries, such as Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, plain gold bands are still worn to signify engagement, whereas in other countries such as France, coloured gems instead of diamonds are preferred.
Exactly when the wedding ring became an established social custom is difficult to ascertain, and many theories abound about its origin, but rings have certainly been an outward sign of marriage since antiquity. As a symbol of marriage, the wedding ring might even be a memento of the days when a man customarily stole his bride. If the lady objected to being dragged away, she would be fettered at the wrists and ankles. This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Amongst the Venda of Southern Africa, for instance, it is still customary for married women living in rural areas to wear many heavy metal rings on their legs. The rings stretch from the ankles to just below the knees and are traditionally regarded as a sign of beauty. They are never removed, greatly impede walking, and leave out any possibility of washing the skin underneath. Originally, their purpose was to prevent the woman from running away, but over time, they have become a symbol of matrimony within the tribe.
The Bible does not mention wedding rings, but ring ceremonies, symbolising the eternal bond between two people, existed during Talmudic times. Wedding bands were found in Egyptian tombs, were worn by Greek and Roman ladies, and seem to have been a part of nuptial customs among the earliest civilisations. The early church leader and prolific writer, Tertullian, tells us that it was customary for the groom to send a gold ring to his intended bride; hence, the custom seems to have been well-established in the second century CE. It was also customary among the Anglo-Saxon tribes of northern Europe to give rings as pledges before a wedding. The word 'wed', from which is derived 'wedding', is of Anglo-Saxon origin and means 'pledge'.
During Roman times, throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance period, only the wealthy wore rings, as it was a sign of nobility and rank to possess such an ornament. It was not tolerated for single or unmarried persons to wear rings unless they were judges, doctors, or other honourable persons. The one single exception allowed the lower classes was the wedding band, an indication in itself of the esteem in which it was held. So it was with great pride and vanity that those intent upon marriage, and thus permitted to wear this honourable adornment, hastened to do so.
Before the advent of a church ceremony, it sufficed for the betrothed couple to exchange rings, sealing their contract in front of a gathering with a kiss. Usually, these rings took the form of a plain band, generally made of iron, as only the wealthy could afford gold. The ring, however, is unnecessary to constitute a legal marriage. For those who could not afford any ring, a ring could be borrowed for the ceremony, and often, the priest lent the couple a golden wedding band during the ceremony at a small fee, or else, the bride could slip her finger into the loop of the church key as a substitute. Alternatively, for those who could not afford wedding rings, it was enough to bend a coin with promises of love. Such bent coins, with oaths sworn and prayers breathed over them, could be used as a bond of union. These crooked pieces of metal were believed to be endowed with mystic properties and curative virtues and were, therefore, carefully kept by the couple.
In England during the thirteenth century, rings made of rushes were sometimes used among the poorer classes. Shakespeare mentions rings of rushes in The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Edmund Spenser refers to them in Faerie Queene. In William D'Avenant's work, The Rivals, the following lines appear: 'I'll crown thee with a garland of straw, and I'll marry thee with a rush ring'.139 Rush rings, however, were predominantly used for fake or pretend marriages, and ecclesiastical authorities warned that no young girl should let a man put a ring of rushes on her hand, as this was only done expressly to seduce her.
Many superstitious speculations, of course, are centred on the ring as a pledge of matrimony. The ring should never be dropped during the wedding ceremony, because whoever dropped it would be first to die; to take the ring off at any time could jeopardise the marriage; to lose it meant losing the husband's affection; to break the ring or to part with it at any time was considered ominous; and to remove the ring permanently meant seriously tempting fate. A variation on this superstition, however, allowed the removal of the wedding ring once the couple had been blessed with their first child. If, however, the wedding ring had worn so thin as to break, either the wife or the husband would soon die. Wedding rings were also often used for divination. By suspending the wedding ring on a string over a pregnant woman's belly, it was believed that the unborn child's sex could be determined by interpreting the ring's swing.
The swearing of oaths on rings is a practice dating from ancient times and is reflected in the exchange of rings during the marriage ceremony. In the past, rings were regarded as symbols of power. Amongst Romans, it was customary to wear an iron ring on the left hand as a symbol of bravery. The Roman historian, Pliny the Elder, relates how a law concerning the right to wear rings was passed by the Senate in 22 CE: 'A rule was [...] imposed, that no one should have the right to wear a ring, unless he himself as well as his father and grandfather, were free born, had capital assets amounting to 400,000 sesterces, and under the Julian law relating to the theatre, possessed a seat in the first fourteen rows'.140
As emblems of power, rings were traditionally used as seals by which orders were signed and objects of value secured, as the following passages from the Old Testament attest: 'And he said: What pledge shall I give thee? And she said: Thy signet and thy bracelets....'.141 From ancient times, throughout the Middle Ages, and beyond, the delivery of a seal ring represented the assurance that the person to whom it was given could be admitted the highest friendship and trust. A woman, having her husband's seal ring in her possession, could issue commands on his behalf and was considered his representative in every respect.
Depending on their design and composition, rings were once widely credited with supernatural powers, including healing properties. It was also thought that through their shine and gloss, rings conveyed their owner's well-being. Strengthened through mystical inscriptions and magical stones, rings were believed to have the power to make humans invisible, fireproof, and invulnerable. Popular legend partly ascribed the military prowess of Joan of Arc and the meteoric careers of Thomas Cromwell and Cardinal Wolsey to the powers of magic rings in their possession. Biblical leaders such as Moses and Solomon were believed to be skilled in the art of fashioning magic rings. Solomon is reputed to have used a magic ring in making the stones for building the Temple in Jerusalem, as the use of iron tools was forbidden.
Rings were also thought to possess medicinal properties and were used to cure rheumatism, paralysis, and other cramping disorders. In European countries, so-called cramp-rings were often made from the metal attachments, such as the handles, hinges, nails, or screws, obtained from coffins. Alternatively, rheumatism sufferers could quietly stand at a church entrance and wait to receive many pennies from parish bachelors. After receiving the pennies, three circuits of the communion table had to be completed. If the priest was obliging, he then exchanged the pennies for a silver coin, which, when made into a ring, was believed to be a definite cure for the ailment – woe to those unable to find a bachelor!
Inscriptions on rings, ranging from magic formulas to the names of loved ones, were once considered effective in warding off evil, hence, worn solely for protection. So-called charm rings, engraved with words of power and made from suitable protective material such as silver, could be used to ward off the evil eye. Belief in the protective power of rings even extended to warding off the dreaded plague by using rings on which the names of the Holy Family and the three Magi were inscribed.
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Americana duo Hymn for Her spread seeds of positivity with their video for "Scoop".
Former True West man, Russ Tolman preps a new solo album and a series of European dates alongside the release of "Los Angeles".
Shovels & Rope's By Blood is a record that smacks you in the face as a first impression, but then, still demands time to give up its secrets and grow on you. Give it the time.
Inspired by a haunting stay in North Fork, California, indie folk band Grand Canyon expand their sound with the shimmering, Americana-tinged pop of "Heaven".
Mean Dog, Trampoline is a thoroughly enjoyable album that highlights Matthew Lorenz's skills as a songwriter. Having Steve Berlin along as a producer certainly helps bring out more color in the Suitcase Junket's music.
Freakwater's Morgan Geer has returned with the best Drunken Prayer LP to date, Cordelia Elsewhere. Filled with hooks and mixed by Mitch Easter, it's the one we've all been waiting for and Geer tells us about it.
Inspired by her own tales of suffering and salvation, Kelly Augustine meshes her rootsy soul with folk authenticity on her debut album, Light in the Lowlands.
Born from self-realization in the aftermath of a divorce, Americana artist DL Rossi delivers a searingly honest note-to-self on his latest single, "Better".
Singer-songwriter Tony Lucca's first full-length album following a "self-imposed time-out" offers a refreshing look outward as he expands his musical boundaries.
There's a Lone Star saying that goes something like, "It doesn't matter if I am right, as long as I know I am true". Patty Griffin follows that motto.
Having written the song after a difficult discussion with his wife about living with abuse, Dan Hubbard's latest single is "a really earnest conversation about getting out".
Luther Dickinson and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon's short run of City Winery shows preceded the release of their debut Solstice.


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Q: Access to merge fields of Named credentials in apex context I have to provide OAuth access token to a JS SDK,
The JS is uploaded in Static resource and referenced in visualforce
JS_SDK.accessToken = '{!my_access_token}';

From Named credential documentation, I understand that in apex we can construct custom headers by doing
req.setHeader('Authorization', 'access_token {!$Credential.OAuthToken}');

I have defined the named credential, authenticated and
checked: Allow Merge Fields in HTTP Header & Allow Merge Fields in HTTP Body fields.
Is there a way to refer the {!$Credential.OAuthToken} in apex as a variable
and then refer in visualforce.
Does the merge field resolution only happen when the request is sent out ?

A: Yes, the merge field is resolved only upon callout. This is an intentional design choice to avoid leaking the credentials unnecessarily. You would need to make the callout in Apex directly in order to take advantage of this feature.


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Hector Extends Loan
Michael Hector has extended his stay with Cheltenham until the end of the season.
Reading defender Michael Hector has extended his stint with Cheltenham Town until the end of the season.
Michael and Reading have agreed to a youth loan deal which means there is no 93 day restriction on his stay here at the Abbey Business Stadium. There is however a 24 hour recall should Reading decide to call Michael back to the Madejski Stadium.
"Michael has been superb for us and I'd like to thank Reading for allowing us to keep him." said Mark Yates.
"He is a good young defender and he has done really well since being here. He's a young player but he has a big future and it was important that we were able to keep hold of him until the end of the season."
The 20 year-old central defender has featured in every single match since joining the club with 12 appearances and he has helped oversee three clean sheets during that time.
All loan players currently with the club right now will be here right through past the dates for the League Two play-off matches meaning that they would be available for a possible play-off campaign.


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Eight Inducted into 2015 Class of the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet today inducted eight individuals into the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame. The unanimous vote for the Class of 2015 came during the Sept. 29 Cabinet Meeting at the Capitol.
Inductees are:
1. Charles E. Bennett, U.S. Army veteran (deceased)
2. Laurence O. "Larry" Campbell, U.S. Marine Corps veteran (deceased)
3. Chief Master Sgt. Charles E. LeCroy, U.S. Air Force (retired)
4. Lawton M. Chiles, U.S. Army veteran (deceased)
5. Col. Curtis V. "Curt" Ebitz, U.S. Army (retired)
6. Col. Warren "Rocky" McPherson, U.S. Marine Corps (retired)
7. Gerald V. Myers, U.S. Army veteran (deceased)
8. Maj. Gen. Earl G. Peck, U.S. Air Force (retired)
The Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame recognizes and honors those military veterans who, through their works and lives during or after military service, have made a significant contribution to the state of Florida through civic, business, public service or other pursuits. It is not a traditional military hall of fame, as it focuses on post-military contributions to the State of Florida.
An induction ceremony to honor the eight inductees will be scheduled in the future.


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Alexei Fjodorowitsch Trjoschnikow (, wiss. Transliteration Aleksej Fëdorovič Trëšnikov; *  in Pawlowka, Gouvernement Simbirsk; † 18. November 1991 in Sankt Petersburg) war ein sowjetischer Polarforscher, Geograph und Ozeanologe.

Studium und erste Expeditionen
Alexei Trjoschnikow wurde am 14. April 1914 im Dorf Pawlowka (damaliges Gouvernement Simbirsk) geboren. Er immatrikulierte 1934 an der Fakultät für Geologie und Geographie in Leningrad. Nach seinem Abschluss im Jahr 1939 arbeitete er am Arktischen Institut der Glawsewmorput (später "Arktisches und Antarktisches Forschungsinstitut") in Leningrad. Bereits 1938 hatte er seine erste arktische Expedition an Bord des Schiffes Iwan Papanin () in die Karasee unternommen. An Bord des Schiffes "Temp" () nahm er im Sommer 1940 an einer weiteren Expedition teil, bei der die Laptew-Straße untersucht wurde. Die Expedition überwinterte auf den Neusibirische Inseln und kehrte erst im Oktober 1941 nach Krasnojarsk zurück, in das während des Großen Vaterländischen Krieges das Forschungsinstitut verlegt wurde.

Zweiter Weltkrieg und Untersuchungen der Arktis
Zwischen 1942 und 1944 bestand Trjoschnikows Arbeit darin, die Schiffe der Nordflotte sowie Frachtschiffe mit hydrometeorologischen Daten über die Kara- und Laptewsee zu versorgen. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg konnte sich Trjoschnikow wieder der Erforschung der Arktis widmen. Unter anderem wurde durch seine Arbeiten im Jahr 1948 der Lomonossow-Rücken entdeckt. Von 1949 bis 1950 war er Leiter einer Luftexpeditionsabteilung, welche die Arktis untersuchte. In den Jahren 1954 und 1955 leitete er die Eisdriftstation Nordpol-3 () im Arktischen Ozean.

Sowjetische Antarktisexpeditionen
Im Jahr 1956 startete die Zweite Sowjetische Antarktisexpedition, bei der Trjoschnikow Leiter war. Die Station Mirny diente dabei als Hauptbasis. Von ihr aus erkundete er mit Hilfe von Geländefahrzeugen und Flugzeugen die umliegenden Gebiete und drang so tief in die Antarktis vor. Außerdem wurden während dieser Expedition die Wostok-Station sowie die Hilfsstation Komsomolskaja errichtet. Die Expedition endete im Jahr 1958.

In den Jahren 1963 bis 1964 war Trjoschnikow an der Errichtung der Molodjoschnaja-Station in der Antarktis beteiligt.

Von 1967 bis 1969 leitete er die 13. Antarktisexpedition der Sowjetunion. Trjoschnikow umrundete dabei mit dem Schiff Ob () die Antarktis. Während dieser Expedition wurde die Bellingshausen-Station auf King George Island, einer der Südliche Shetlandinseln, errichtet.

Weitere Reisen
Im Mai 1973 brach Trjoschnikow zu seiner mittlerweile vierten Antarktisreise auf. Während dieser leitete Trjoschnikow, der sich an Bord des Schiffes "Nawarin" () befand, unter anderem die Evakuierung der auf der Molodjoschnaja-Station eingeschlossenen Überwinterer.
1976 war er Leiter der Expedition "POLEKS-SEWER" (, Polarexperiment – Nord) an Bord des Schiffes "Professor Wise" (). Trjoschnikow unternahm seine letzte Reise in die Arktis, als er im Jahr 1986 die Eisdriftstation Nordpol-28 () besuchte.

Forschung, Ämter und Lehre
Trjoschnikow war von 1960 bis 1981 Direktor des Arktischen und Antarktischen Forschungsinstituts. Er promovierte 1963 zum Doktor der Geographie. 1967 folgte die Habilitation. Trjoschnikow wirkte ebenfalls an zahlreichen Büchern mit, unter anderem war er von 1966 bis 1969 Chefredakteur bei der Abfassung des "Atlas der Antarktis" () sowie des "Geographischen enzyklopädischen Wörterbuches" ().

Von 1977 bis zu seinem Tod war er Präsident der Geographischen Gesellschaft der UdSSR, in der er seit 1964 bereits die Position des Vizepräsidenten innehatte. Im Jahr 1982 wurde er zum Mitglied der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ernannt. Seit 1981 leitete Trjoschnikow die Abteilung für Ozeanologie an der Universität Sankt Petersburg.

Alexei Trjoschnikow starb am 18. November 1991 im Alter von 77 Jahren in Sankt Petersburg. Er wurde auf dem Friedhof in Komarowo begraben.

Familie
1939 heiratete Alexei Trjoschnikow Tatjana Nikolajewna Makarewitsch (1917–1993), die er ein Jahr zuvor an der Universität kennengelernt hatte. Das Paar hatte die Töchter Xenja und Natalja.

Auszeichnungen
Trjoschnikow erhielt während seines Lebens zahlreiche Auszeichnungen. Unter anderem vier Leninorden, den Titel Held der sozialistischen Arbeit sowie den Orden der Oktoberrevolution. Die Geographische Gesellschaft der UdSSR verlieh ihm 1965 die Lütke-Medaille.

Im Jahr 1978 wurde der vom tschechischen Astronomen Antonín Mrkos entdeckte Asteroid (3339) Treshnikov nach ihm benannt. Mrkos hatte Trjoschnikow im Jahr 1957 auf dem Polarplateau der Antarktis kennengelernt.

Literatur
 A. F. Trjoschnikow: Kontinent unterm Eis. Fahrten und Forschungen in Antarktika, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1962 (russische Originalausgabe: Закованный в лед, Географгиз, Москва 1957)

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Polarforscher (Arktis)
Polarforscher (Antarktis)
Hochschullehrer (Staatliche Universität Sankt Petersburg)
Träger des Leninordens
Träger des Ordens der Oktoberrevolution
Held der sozialistischen Arbeit
Mitglied der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Person als Namensgeber für einen Asteroiden
Sowjetbürger
Russe
Geboren 1914
Gestorben 1991
Mann