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Black LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Group on the U.S. Reclassification of WNBA Player Brittney Griner as "Wrongfully Detained" by Russia
National Black Justice Coalition Says Russia is Playing Political Games With Griner
WASHINGTON, DC — Yesterday, the United States government reclassified WNBA Brittney Griner as "wrongfully detained" by Russia.
According to ESPN: "the change in official designation means that the U.S. government will no longer wait for Griner's case to play out through the Russian legal system and will seek to negotiate her return. It also means that Griner's fellow WNBA players and supporters in Congress will be told they have the family's blessing to bring as much attention to her case as they wish."
In reaction to the announcement, Victoria Kirby York, deputy executive director at the National Black Justice Coalition, a leading Black LGBTQ+/SGL civil rights organization, explained:
"Brittney's status change is an important moment in the movement to bring her home safely and swiftly. It means there is now a two pronged approach focused on both legal and political strategies.
"It has become clear that Brittney's legal team has acted in good faith to clear her name through Russia's legal system, and that the Russian government has been actively trying to leverage Brittney's detainment for political purposes tied to their war on Ukraine. This is unfortunate, especially because Griner's status as a Black, lesbian, woman leaves her vulnerable to increased discrimination and abuse at the hands of the racist and homophobic Russian government.
"We urge the U.S. government to do all it can to bring her home before she is no longer able to maintain her safety in a nation at war."
We invite the global community to join us in solidarity with Brittney and her family by joining our global call for prayer regarding her swift and safe return home.
Join us in signing the petition to secure her return here.


To facilitate the investigation of gene promoters, this work presents an integrated system namely GPMiner for identifying promoter regions and annotating regulatory features in user-input sequences.
The proposed promoter identification method, whose predictive sensitivity and specificity are both ~80%, incorporates the support vector machine (SVM) with nucleotide composition, over-represented hexamer nucleotides and DNA stability.
Additionally, the input sequence also can be analyzed for homogeneity of experimental mammalian promoter sequences.
After identifying the promoter regions, the regulatory features such as transcription factor binding sites, CpG islands, tandem repeats, the TATA box, the CCAAT box, the GC box, over-represented oligonucleotides, DNA stability and GC-content are graphically visualized to facilitate the observation of gene promoters.
Users can input the gene group for mining the co-occurence of transcription factor binding sites.
Bid Lab, Institute of Bioinformatics, National Chiao Tung University , Taiwan.


First Bank was founded in January 1907 and is based in Burkburnett, Texas. The bank operates as a subsidiary of First Burkburnett Bancshares, Inc.. According to the FDIC and based on the institution's charter type, First Bank is classified as a commercial bank, state charter and Fed nonmember, supervised by the FDIC. First Bank is a FDIC-insured bank with certificate number of 3121. The Fed RSSD ID of First Bank is 239659.
First Bank currently operates with 6 branches located in Texas. First Bank is the 157th largest bank in Texas. The bank does not have any offices outside Texas.
The full address of bank headquarters is 300 East Third, Burkburnett, TX 76354. You can visit the official website of the bank at www.firstbankweb.com for more information and online banking service if available. For a list of all First Bank branches and detailed branch information like hours of operation, phone number and address; please refine your search by selecting a state from the map or list below.


This carrying case for the Crain No. 001 Model "A" Tile Cutter features an easy-to-carry, streamlined design that also saves space. The interior is custom-formed to the shape of the cutter to support and protect the tool in transit. The two durable metal latches close the case tightly. Also includes large carrying handle that is recessed to prevent breakage, and two durable piano-type hinges that are connected by steel pins. Includes case only. Net weight: 13 1/2 lbs.
This 75 lb. roller has an all-steel frame and zinc-plated roller sections for long term performance. The roller sections have smooth surfaces and rounded corners to reduce scratching and indentation of the vinyl. The outer sections are counterbored to provide recesses for the axle fasteners and prevent damage to walls. The three sections float independently on the axle to compensate for subfloor irregularities. Also comes with a protective case with wheels for transporting the roller that eliminates hand-carrying and picking up debris on the sections. Sections diameter: 4 1/2". Width: 16". Height: 38". Net weight: 75 lbs.
This protective case holds 75 or 100 lb. vinyl rollers and includes wheels to transport the roller from the van onto the jobsite. It eliminates hand-carrying of the roller and picking up debris on the sections that occurs if the roller sections contact the ground. The case stands on its own, and has two large handles on top for lifting when necessary. Two durable metal latches securely hold the case closed. Also holds Roberts and Gundlach rollers. U.S. Patents #7,188,724 B1 and #7,571,806. Net weight: 8 lbs.
This hand roller for vinyl includes three rubber rollers with just the right hardness to produce pressure on the vinyl without scratching and scuffing. The three rollers roll a 7 ½" wide section of vinyl on each pass. The axle and fasteners are recessed within the outer sections to allow the tool to work close to the wall. The raised aluminum handle has a large flat section for applying palm pressure. The twist-lock tube assembly adjusts handle length from 17" minimum to 27" maximum. Net weight: 3 lbs.
This hand roller for rolling vinyl at seams and other areas has a square edge solid steel roller and shorter six inch varnished wooden handle. The square edge on this roller and the offset, single arm bracket allow it to work up close to walls. The roller face has an ultra-smooth, zinc-plated surface finish to minimize scratching and indentations. Ball bearing construction produces a smooth rolling action that is designed to last. Net weight: 2 lbs.
This hand roller for rolling vinyl at seams and other areas has a round edge solid steel roller and longer nine inch varnished wooden handle. The round edge on this roller allows it to work up close to vinyl flash coving, where a square edge roller can't go. The roller face has an ultra-smooth, zinc-plated surface finish to minimize scratching and indentations. Ball bearing construction produces a smooth rolling action that is designed to last. Net weight: 2 lbs.
This hand roller for rolling vinyl at seams and other areas has a round edge solid steel roller and shorter six inch varnished wooden handle. The round edge on this roller allows it to work up close to vinyl flash coving, where a square edge roller can't go. The roller face has an ultra-smooth, zinc-plated surface finish to minimize scratching and indentations. Ball bearing construction produces a smooth rolling action that is designed to last. Net weight: 2 lbs.
These dividers are designed for the scribing needs of sheet vinyl installers. The rounded body fits comfortably in the user's hand. Includes a bent leg and a removable straight leg that can span up to six inches. Legs are adjusted using the folding thumbscrew. The bent leg offsets the tool from the wall for easier wall scribing. The straight leg can be removed and used for pencil scribing using the knurled steel thumb nut. Both legs have knurled steel caps to hold replacement needles (No. 129). Net weight: 2 oz.
This is a pack of two replacement needles for the No. 310 Dividers. These needles are approximately 7/8" long, 0.060" in diameter, and have a sharp point for scribing. These needles press fit into precisely formed holes in either leg of the No. 310 Dividers. Net weight: .01 lb.
The No. 129 needles are a pack of 50 replacement needles which can be used on most all Crain dividers and scribers except the No. 194 Outside Corner Scriber. They are .063" in diameter, 7/8" In length, and have a sharp point. These needles can be used on the following Crain dividers and scribers: No. 109 Pin Vise, No. 110 Inside Cove Corner Kit, No. 111 6" Scriber, No. 112 8" Scriber, No. 188 Hinge Scriber, No. 240 Bar Scriber, No. 355 Bent-Leg Lino Divider, No. 380 Deluxe Dividers, No. 382 Double Needle Dividers. Net weight: 1 oz. per pack.
This scriber has a knurled two part brass thumb knob for all necessary adjustments, with no screwdriver required. The top portion adjusts the pin height based on the material thickness, and the bottom portion sets the offset distance between the needle and the guide that is being used. Includes a rounded end guide for wall scribing and a bottom guide for seam scribing that runs along the edge of the bottom piece of material as the top piece is being scribed. The steel tool body provides approximately a two inch range of offset adjustment. Needles are replaceable (No. 371). Net weight: 3 oz.
This tool accurately scribes longer widths from 2" to 16". It has a knurled two part brass thumb knob for all necessary adjustments, with no screwdriver required. The top portion adjusts the pin height based on the material thickness, and the bottom portion sets the offset distance between the needle and the guide that is being used. Includes a rounded end guide for walls and a bottom guide for seam scribing that runs along the edge of the bottom piece of material as the top piece is being scribed. Needles are replaceable (No. 371). Net weight: 4 oz.
Includes one each replacement needle for use in either the No. 370 Recess Scriber or the No. 372 18" Scribing Tool. The needle diameter is approximately 0.060". The needle length is 1 1/2 inches. The needle is sharp on one end for scribing. Net weight: .01 lb.
The hinge scriber is a sheet vinyl seam scriber designed for accuracy, ease of adjustment, and for good grip and control. The offset distance between the bottom guide and the needle is adjusted using a precision thumbwheel. Once adjusted, the three arm knob locks the needle in position. The hinged base allows the tool to be more easily inserted at the seam, particularly on thick material. With the hinge folded open, insert the base under the material on top and hook the guide on the edge of the material underneath. Fold the hinge back and the needle is positioned on the top piece of material and ready to scribe. Needle height is adjustable for different thicknesses of vinyl. Range of offset adjustment: 11/32". Replacement needles: No. 129. Net weight: 4 oz.
This versatile 6" bar scriber works both as a wall scriber and a seam scriber. The tool has a rounded end guide for wall scribing, and a bottom guide for seam scribing that runs along the edge of the bottom piece of material as the top piece is being scribed. The 6" bar allows approximately 5" of length adjustment using the large steel thumbscrew. Needle height is adjustable for various material thicknesses using a screw on the front of the bar. Needles are replaceable (No. 129). Net weight: 4 oz.
This versatile 8" bar scriber works both as a wall scriber and a seam scriber. The tool has a rounded end guide for wall scribing, and a bottom guide for seam scribing that runs along the edge of the bottom piece of material as the top piece is being scribed. In addition, the red housing has a hole in its bottom for a second needle which allows the tool to scribe circles or feature strips. The 8" bar allows approximately 6" of length adjustment using the large steel thumbscrew. Needle height is adjustable for various material thicknesses using a screw in the front of the bar. Needles are replaceable (No. 129). Net weight: 8 oz.
This kit for scribing inside corner patterns comes with a specialized cove scriber, a cove template, a pin vise, and detailed instructions. The cove scriber is used to scribe lines on the felt for positioning the cove template. The cove template is used for scribing the inside cove pattern onto the vinyl. Afterwards, the cove scriber can also be used to scribe the top edge onto the vinyl to fit the cap metal. Produces a cove to 3 3/8" standard height, but is adjustable for greater height if needed. The cove scriber and pin vise take Crain No. 129 needles. Net weight: 8 oz.
This pin vise is used for miscellaneous pattern layout scribing for sheet vinyl installation or making score lines on vinyl tile. The 5 ¾" long handle has a precision chuck and screw-on cap on its end for holding the replaceable needles. The tool takes standard Crain No. 129 Scriber Needles. Net weight: 1 oz.
This precision outside corner scriber for use in forming outside corners on sheet vinyl, rubber base, and vinyl base. It scribes a line on the side of the corner that remains to be trimmed, using the opposite previously trimmed side as a guide. The guide leg has a rounded end for following the contour without scratching. The guide leg is adjustable in relation to the needle to compensate for various material thicknesses, and is held in place by a knurled steel fastener. The needle height is also adjustable for various material thicknesses. The scribing needles are replaceable (No. 128). Net weight: 1 oz.
These high carbon steel needles have an .058" outside diameter and 9/16" length, and include a sharp point. They are smaller needles used in the No. 194 Outside Corner Scriber ONLY as far as Crain tools are concerned. They come packaged fifty needles per container in a durable plastic container with a lid that snaps closed for storage. Net weight: 1 oz. per pack.
This tool tracks in the seamline to cut a trapezoidal groove for welding. It maintains consistent grooving depth even when floors are not level, up to 1/8" of variation over one foot of seamline. The floor following wheel rides on the floor to raise or lower the blade in response to variation. A spring-loaded floor following dust shroud improves dust control. Includes a 12 tooth 130mm carbide-tipped blade (No. 971), and carrying case. Diamond grit blade for metal-impregnated safety floors is sold separately (No. 972). 110VAC 9A No load RPM 12,000. Max. groove depth 3.5mm. Net weight: 20.5 lbs.
This is a replacement carbide tipped blade for the Crain No. 970 Power Groover. It is a 12 tooth 130 mm diameter blade which can also be used on other groovers that take this size blade. It cuts a trapezoidal shaped groove in the material. It is not for use on metal impregnated safety floors. This blade is resharpenable. For safety floors, see the No. 972 Diamond Groover Blade. Net weight: 8 oz.
This is a heavy grit diamond abrasive cutting blade for metal impregnated safety floors. It has continuous diamond grit brazed on its entire outside diameter. Its 130 mm diameter works on other groovers that take this size blade. It produces an approximately 3.4 mm wide groove. Diamond wear affects width and depth of cut. Net weight 1 lb. 1 oz.
This heat welding gun comes with a Leister Triac ST heat gun for consistent and reliable heat output. A single dial on the back controls output temperature from 104° - 1290°F. The standard 11/4" outlet fits a variety of nozzles. Also includes a pencil tip nozzle (No. 963), triangular speed welding tip for triangular or "half moon" rod (No. 961), round speed welding tip for round rod (No. 962), and carrying case. Net weight: 7 lbs.
This triangular speed welding tip for the Crain No. 960 Heat Weld Gun is for welding seams using triangular or "half-moon" ("half-round') welding rod. The air outlet is precisely formed to focus hot air over the seam area and minimize scorching. This tip has a standard sized inlet diameter that fits the pencil tip nozzle outlet of most other popular heat weld guns. Net weight: 1 oz.
This round speed tip for the Crain No. 960 Heat Weld Gun is for welding seams using round 4 mm welding rod. The air outlet is precisely formed to focus hot air over the seam area and minimize scorching. This tip has a standard sized inlet diameter that fits the pencil tip nozzle outlet of most other popular heat weld guns. Net weight: 1 oz.
This versatile tip works with 3 mm or 5 mm round welding rod, "half-moon" ("half-round") welding rod, or triangular welding rod. It has an adjusting screw at the rod inlet to adapt the inlet to the various rod shapes. The grooved brass pressure roller is also adaptable to the various rod shapes. The hot air inlet is sized to fit the Crain No. 960 Heat Weld Gun or previous model No. 980 Heat Weld Gun, as well as other popular models of heat weld guns. Net weight: 4 oz.
The pencil tip nozzle adapts our No. 960 Heat Weld Gun to our No. 961 Triangular Welding Tip, No. 962 Round Welding Tip, No. 963 Pencil-Tip Nozzle, or No. 979 Universal Welding Tip. The angled outlet is convenient for holding the heat gun and keeping the speed tip in contact with the welding rod. This nozzle is also for welding coved areas in conjunction with a pressure roller (No. 967). This nozzle has a standard diameter inlet that fits most popular heat weld guns, and a standard diameter outlet that fits most popular speed tips. Net weight: 3 oz.
This hand groover cuts a U-shaped groove at the seam line for welding. It used for starter grooves near the wall for insertion of a power groover, for making grooves in tight areas like doorways, or wherever floors are not level. It is designed to groove by pulling on the large wooden handle. The adjustable fin guides the U-shaped blade along the seam line and controls the grooving depth. The depth control prevents gouging and rising up of the blade. The result is a uniform groove at a faster rate. Comes with 3 blades, one pre-loaded on the tool, and two stored in the handle. Net weight: 6 oz.
This knife is used to trim excess welding rod from the seam area after cooling to make the seam area flush with the rest of the floor. It is used in a two-step process in conjunction with the No. 986 Trim Guide. First, insert the trim guide beneath the knife and trim off the bulk of the material on a first pass. Afterwards, remove the trim guide and make a second pass with the knife only. The fine cut of the second pass finishes flush with the surrounding floor. The knife comes with a protective pouch. Blade is resharpenable. Trim guide not included. Net weight: 2 oz.
This steel depth control guide is used with the No. 985 Quarter Moon Knife in a two-step trimming process that removes excess welding rod from the seam area after cooling. First, insert the trim guide beneath the knife and trim off the bulk of the material on a first pass. Afterwards, the trim guide is removed and a second pass is made with the knife only. No knife is included with this guide. Net weight: 1 oz.
This kit includes the basic tools needed for vinyl welding, all at a great price! It includes: No. 969 Head Weld Gun (including a Leister Triac ST heat gun, No. 963 Pencil Tip Nozzle, No. 961 Triangular Welding Tip, and the No. 962 Round Welding Tip), No. 968 Floor Following Power Groover, No. 955 Pull Hand Groover, No. 965 Skiving Knife w/Blade, No. 340 Selvage Trimmer, No. 370 Recess Scriber, No. 189 Hook Handle Utility Knife, and stainless steel cleaning brushes. Comes complete with a metal carrying case that holds all the tools in the kit.
This knife for trimming excess heat welding rod at the seam comes with a sharp, flexible blade that is replaceable and a built-in pivoting trim guide, all in one tool. Eliminates difficult resharpening and gouging problems with quarter moon knives. Uses a two-step process for trimming. On the first pass, trim with the guide under the blade to remove the bulk of the material, then pivot the trim guide out of the way on the second pass. The flexible blade won't gouge high spots. Net weight: 7 oz.
This tool is used to weld seams in areas where a speed tip does not work well such as at coved areas. The welding rod is threaded through the hollow handle and put under the brass pressure roller. The pressure roller has a groove for guiding and pressuring the welding rod into the cove seam area. As the roller presses and holds the rod, a heat gun with pencil-tip nozzle welds it in place. Net weight: 2 oz.
This resharpenable combination knife includes a long hook edge on one side and a deep hook edge on the other. The long hook edge has a sharp point and works well for precision cuts, particularly in following a previously scored line. The deep hook edge works well for long rough cuts in sheetgoods. The edges are pre-sharpened to an extreme sharpness. The blade is made from a special high carbon steel that holds an edge longer and is easily resharpenable. The contoured wood handle fits well in the hand and permits a strong grip. Net weight: 4 oz.
This utility blade knife has many added contours to provide improved grip and greater pulling power. Works especially well with hook blades on tough vinyl. The wide contoured midsection transitions to a narrow rear hook in proportion to the palm and fingers. The rear hook gives the little finger improved advantage for greater pulling power. The body pivots open by loosening the folding thumbscrew for fast access to replacement blades. The precision blade holder holds the blade tightly even at extended length. Blades: No. 295 (utility) or No. 996 (hook). No blades are included with this knife. Net weight: 4 oz.
This utility or hook blade knife has a hinged body that opens rapidly using a large thumbwheel in the center of the body. The body can be opened by rolling the wheel across a surface for access to blade storage. The knife is contoured for enhanced grip, and has a precision blade holder that holds blades tight even at extended length. The knife comes with a plastic carrier that fits inside a pocket. Blades: No. 295 (utility) or No. 996 (hook). No blades are included with this knife. Net weight: 4 oz.
This classic utility or hook blade knife has a knurled body for solid grip. Designed with a compact profile and precision blade carrier for making detailed cuts in sheet vinyl materials. Pivots open quickly for blade storage using the folding thumbscrew. Takes hook or utility blades. Blades: No. 295 (utility) or No. 996 (hook). No blades are included with this knife. Net weight: 4 oz.
The Gundlach No. 6 Airway Knife holds specialized blades for vinyl installation. The Crain No. 025A Airway Straight (Gundlach No. 25-AB) and Crain No. 026A Airway Hook (Gundlach No. 26-AB) blades are used with this knife. Comes with one No. 025A straight blade. These blades have a square central cutout that fits on a square boss in the knife that eliminates blade wobble. The blade holder has a long neck and an optimal angle for making cuts in sheetgoods materials. The knife body has finger contours to enhance grip. The knife halves open for blade storage by loosening the case-hardened fastener. Net weight: 6 oz.
The Gundlach No. 5 Ward Handle knife is a specialized sheetgoods installation knife that allows blades to be mounted at different angles depending on the material. Blades can be mounted at a steep angle for stiff commercial vinyls and thick linoleum, or at less steep angles for regular materials. Takes Crain No. 012 (Gundlach No. 12-WB) Standard Blades or No. 013 (Gundlach No. 13-WB) Heavy Blades. This knife can also take the Gundlach No. 26-AB Hook Blade with the blade screw passing through the square hole of this blade. Comes with one No. 012 Standard Blade. Net weight: 1/16 oz.
This knife has a 2 1/2" deep hook blade that is ground especially for cutting linoleum. It is a permanent riveted blade and handle combination. (See the Crain No. 066 handle and No. 064 blade for the Dexter interchangeable handle and blade.) The blade of the No. 060 is made from high carbon steel, and is resharpenable. The wood handle is contoured for enhanced grip and has a dark varnished finish. This is the Dexter No. X752 1/2 (EDP No. 52140) Linoleum Knife. Net weight: 3 oz.
This knife has a 2 1/2" deep hook blade that is ground especially for cutting vinyl. It is a permanent riveted blade and handle combination. (See the Crain No. 066 handle and No. 064 blade for the Dexter interchangeable handle and blade.) The blade of the No. 063 is made from high carbon steel, and is resharpenable. The wood handle is contoured for enhanced grip and has a dark varnished finish. This is the Dexter No. VX752 1/2 (EDP No. 52160) Vinyl Knife. Net weight: 3 oz.
The No. 066 includes the Dexter No. 10-D handle only. It takes any of Dexter's threaded tang replacement blades including the Dexter VX752 1/2 D Replacement Vinyl Blade (Crain No. 064), or any of the others that are available. This handle has the same contour and dark varnished finish as Dexter's permanent handle and blade knives. It provides the convenience of replaceable blades with the same Dexter feel and quality. No blades are included with this handle. This is the Dexter No. 10-D (EDP No. 52010) Standard Handle. Net weight: 3 oz.
This knife is one of the best available for vinyl installation. The angled blade holder puts the blade at an optimal angle for long cuts, and keeps the knuckles off the floor. It takes the specialty Dexter No. 072 Hook Blades that have an ultra-deep hook to cleanly cut felt back vinyl. It also takes standard utility and hook blades. The body has the classic contour of Dexter linoleum knives, and pivots open for blade storage by unscrewing the end cap. This is the Dexter No. 7 Custom Handle. Blades: No. 072 (Dexter No. 72-5 "V" Sharp Hook), No. 073 (Dexter No. 73-5 Heavy Duty Straight), No. 295 (standard utility) or No. 996 (standard hook). No blades are included with this knife. Net weight: 6 oz.


TeraLyzer is a first-of-its-kind software solution for material parameter extraction from terahertz time domain spectroscopy data in transmission geometry. It delivers highly precise information of the complex material parameters of a sample (n, α, κ, ε', ε''), including error bars and the estimated sample thickness.
One of the strong features of the TeraLyzer software is that thin samples in the sub-100 µm regime become accessible to your research without the need for differential measuring setups. Moreover, analysis of multilayer systems promotes a whole new range of experiments.
For a free TeraLyzer trial version contact our expert.
The TeraLyzer software incorporates multiple procedures empowering investigation of thin samples of several mm down to sub-100 µm thickness. In a first step, your transmission THz-TDS data is imported and prepared for evaluation by a pre-processor. Secondly, the sample thickness is extracted. Finally, the optical parameters (n, α, κ, ε' and ε'') along with error bars are evaluated.
Accurate thickness determination is also possible even if the sample is inaccessible, e.g. inside a cryostat. Moreover, the TeraLyzer supports also characterization of multilayer samples. Even highly absorbing samples can be measured due to dynamic range consideration according to .


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J.P. Mulvihill & Son General Insurance Brokers Ltd. has been looking after the insurance needs of clients like you for over 70 years. J.P. Mulvihill Sr. decided he needed a career change after 26 years as a textile foremen at Kenwood Mills here in Arnprior so he decided to purchase an existing insurance broker in Arnprior called G.F. MacNab Agency. In 1971, J.P. Mulvihill junior (Jim), at the age of 24, moved back to Arnprior with his wife Louise to work with his father after working for Sun Life Insurance Company in North Bay. At this point, the name of the agency officially changed to J.P. Mulvihill and Son General Insurance Agency. Unfortunately, in October 1976, J.P. Mulvihill Senior passed away and Jim purchased the business from the estate, incorporated in 1980 as J.P. Mulvihill & Son General Insurance Brokers Limited. In 1996, Jim purchased his main competitor in the town of Arnprior, Neil Campbell Insurance, and with this acquisition, the agency volume doubled. Fortunately for Jim, the brokerage remains successful today as all of his children joined the company, son Kevin and daughter Erin in 1994 and son Matthew in 1997. In 2016, we continued to grow as our brokerage acquired another long-standing community broker Mather Insurance & Real Estate Ltd. Mulvihill Insurance continues to service Arnprior and the Ottawa Valley and is now into its 3rd generation. It truly is a family run business with family based values. Throughout this time, we have grown with our communities to become an integral part of our client's lives. As your local insurance brokers, we feel we understand the individual needs and issues of our clients and the communities we serve.
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SORSOGON CITY– In celebration of National Children's Month this year, the Provincial Council for the Protection of Children (PCPC) and Area-Based Standard Network (ABSNET) will be hosting a children's forum on October 18, 2014 at the Provincial Gymnasium, this city.
Some 150 children between the ages of 13 to 17 from the 14 municipalities of Sorsogon and PCPC's partner organizations signified to join the forum.
With the theme "Bata Kasali Ka, Ikaw ay Mahalaga," the forum aims to bring to the children's consciousness their significant role in all government undertakings.
Asst. Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Myra Relativo said the forum is a whole-day activity which will include talks on Child's Participation Guidelines and Child Protection Policies.
Representatives the Council on Children's Welfare (CWC) the Provincial Prosecutor's Office will lead said discussions.
"The forum would likewise encourage stakeholders to promote and advocate children's participation in decision-making processes, in the family, school and community," she further said.
An open forum will follow after every discussion to provide an opportunity for the children to raise their concerns and share their ideas on the topics.
Interactive games, fellowship, and bonding activities are also scheduled in the afternoon. These will be facilitated by Intervida, Good Neighbors, FACE Inc., and Casa Miani.
The country's celebration of the National Children's Month (NCM) every October of each year is pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 267, series of 1993. It calls for a nationwide celebration of children's month to promote and protect the physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being of the child as well as to emphasize the importance of the role of the child within the Filipino family and in nation building.
October 2014 marks the 22nd National Children's Month Celebration. The annual celebration is spearheaded by the Council for the Welfare of Children since 1993 by virtue of Presidential Decree 603 or the Child and Youth Welfare Code.


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very cute! very sturdy mug.
I have enjoyed painting novelty mugs for a while now and am so thankful to all of my friends at ETSY for making these last 2 years so successful.
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Book 17 of the nationally bestselling Joanne Kilbourn series is classic Gail Bowen: masterfully compelling storytelling that combines a modern, urban family with a gripping, satisfying mystery.
GAIL BOWEN's first Joanne Kilbourn mystery, Deadly Appearances (1990), was nominated for the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada Best First Novel Award, and A Colder Kind of Death (1995) won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel; all sixteen previous books in the series have been enthusiastically reviewed. In 2008, Reader's Digest named Bowen Canada's Best Mystery Novelist; in 2009 she received the Derrick Murdoch Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. Bowen has also written plays that have been produced across Canada and on CBC Radio. Now retired from teaching at the First Nations University, Gail Bowen lives in Regina, Saskatchewan. The author lives in Regina, SK.


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NGC 2661 is een spiraalvormig sterrenstelsel in het sterrenbeeld Kreeft. Het hemelobject werd op 19 maart 1784 ontdekt door de Duits-Britse astronoom William Herschel.

Synoniemen
 UGC 4584
 MCG 2-23-4
 ZWG 61.8
 IRAS 08432+1248
 PGC 24632

Zie ook
Lijst van NGC-objecten

Externe links
  NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
  SIMBAD Astronomical Database
  SEDS

NGC-object in Kreeft
Sterrenstelsel in Kreeft

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A rarity among poets today, Youmans writes in metered verse, sometimes rhyme. Her skill at mastering the forms is impressive.
The Foliate Head contains three divisions, and a sample of images and poems from each are represented here (UK: Stanza Press, July 2012.) An especially lovely book, it is a collaboration of friends: poet and novelist Marly Youmans (US), artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Wales), and designer Andrew Wakelin (Wales). It was no surprise to us that we also received valuable input from a fourth conspirator, Peter Wakelin, head of The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. We thank publisher Pete Crowther--first for requesting a manuscript, and then for allowing us to form the book together. It is an rare thing for a publisher to do, and we are grateful for the challenge and the pleasure it gave us.
Please note: This beautiful book (with many more poems and images) appears as a limited edition. When those 300 copies run out, there will be no more. Now in second printing.
by Welsh artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
Under a freighted, leaning sky of ice.
Torrential time, widening the spaces.
Then came the soft relentlessness of snow.
As others wished, as others would commend!
May fuse with light, where we're not as we were.
And when I sleep my dreams are jasmine-lit.
Transforms into a single jessamine.
Small against the dark and galaxies.
I cannot share, these stars upon my skin.
I bend to taste the snow, and it is sweet.
Another green man by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
To tempt her with delicious shame.
Like gossips warning at her back.
Or stop the arrows of his smiles?
When set beside a glowing kiss?
And what they did was mortal sin.
And spread a lie that she was free.
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A.	Yes. Before a stipulation may be executed, notice of the proposed stipulation must be provided and the public and other parties must be afforded a reasonable opportunity to submit comments on the proposed stipulation before it is executed by the interested parties.
A.	Applicants are assessed an intervenor fee equal to $1,000 for each 1,000 kilowatts (1 megawatt) of generating capacity of the subject facility, but no more than $400,000. For example, for a 100 megawatt facility, the application phase intervenor fee would be $100,000 (100 x $1000). In addition, for facilities that will require storage or disposal of fuel waste byproduct, an additional intervenor fee will be assessed at the application phase of $500.00 for each 1,000 kilowatts (1 megawatt) of capacity, but no more than an additional $50,000.00.


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Home Health Tips Your Genes Help You Choose Your Friends, Study Says
Your Genes Help You Choose Your Friends, Study Says
by adhealth32 January 18, 2011
MONDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDay News) — Your friends aren't just people you enjoy: You tend to befriend others with similar or complementary genes, a new study suggests.
Biology drives people to find others with similar or complementary traits
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego found that gene clusters were comparable among friends, even after accounting for the predisposition to befriend others in the same geographic area.
The team analyzed two independent U.S. health studies, the Framingham Heart Study Social Network and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which allowed respondents to name friends over a period of time ranging from six to 32 years.
"It does blur the line between nature and nurture, that's for sure," said study author James Fowler, a professor of medical genetics and political science. "We show in this paper that our environments, in part, are based on the genes of our friends. What the study brings to light is that genes of other people are part of what affects our environment."
Mapping specific genetic markers within each individual's social network, the researchers learned that individuals tend to forge friendships with those who share two of six tested markers.
For example, those who carried the so-called DRD2 marker, which is associated with alcoholism, were apt to befriend other DRD2-positive friends, while those without the gene formed alliances with other DRD2-negative peers.
Fowler said this situation exemplifies homophily, a sociological term that means "love of like" and illustrates the adage "birds of a feather flock together."
"We were wondering if this was true not just socially, but biologically and genetically," he said. "It makes sense because we know there are some genes associated with social outcome."
The team was surprised to find that individuals also tend to befriend those with opposite but complementary traits. People who carried a gene known as CYP2A6, which is associated with an open personality, tended to form friendships with others who lacked that genotype.
This negative association, called heterophily, is illustrated by the adage "opposites attract," Fowler said. It even affects the choice of a spouse, he noted, indicating that people usually choose mates with a different but complementary immune system to maximize their own health.
"As a child, I would always wonder how both of these [adages] could be true," he said. "This study emphasizes it's going to be true for different attributes."
The study, published online in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, makes the argument that social networks are not just randomly chosen, but are dictated at least somewhat by genetics, he said.
"We've never known before that we have that correlation between friends," Fowler said. "We live in a sea of the genes of others. We shouldn't just be thinking of the impact our genes have on our outcomes, but what the impact of our friends' genes are on our outcomes."
Ting Wu, a professor of genetics at Harvard University, said she finds the study exciting because genetics has been taught in a "very strict fashion" for many decades.
"We've been trained to think about genes in a particular way," Wu said. "Now we have the time and luxury to look for phenomena we haven't studied."
"It makes sense that what makes us the way we are can influence how we choose our friends," she added. "We know our friends influence us."
For more information about genetics, visit the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
SOURCES: James Fowler, Ph.D., professor, medical genetics and political science, University of California, San Diego; Ting Wu, Ph.D., professor, genetics, Harvard University, Boston; Jan. 17-21, 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, online
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The Quarto Group Explained
Founded: 1976 (as The Quarto Group)
Founders: Bob Morley, Michael Jackson, Laurence Orbach[1]
Headquarters: Islington
Distribution: Hachette (UK, USA)[2] [3]
Keypeople: Marcus Leaver Chairman & CEO
Revenue: $ 188.4 million (2016)
Imprints: Below
The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976. It is domiciled in the United States and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Quarto sells books across 50 countries and in 39 languages through a variety of traditional and non-traditional channels. Quarto employs over 400 people in 11 offices in London, Brighton, Bristol, New York City, Minneapolis, Boston, Seattle, California, Hong Kong and Sydney.
The group was established by co-founders Laurence Orbach and Robert Morley and was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1986.[4] Laurence Orbach was Chairman and CEO until November 2012, when he was replaced as Chairman by Tim Chadwick and Marcus Leaver as CEO.[5]
The Quarto Group was founded by Bob Morley, Michael Jackson and Laurence Orbach in the early 1970s and was finally established as The Quarto Group in 1976.[6] In 1986, Quarto listed on the London stock exchange.[7]
By the late 1990s, Quarto had acquired three new imprints, Rotovision, Book Sales Inc and Rockport Publishers and founded another four imprints, Quarto Children's Books, Quintet and Aurum Press that published health, lifestyle and children's books. The group expanded further in the US – with the addition of Book Sales, Rockport Publishers, Walter Foster, Creative Publishing International, Motorbooks, and more recently, Cool Springs Press. In the UK, Quarto grew by acquiring Jacqui Small, Frances Lincoln and Wide Eyed Editions.[7][8].[8] [9] By the 2000s, The Quarto Group had increased imprints and genres, along with this, a steady increase in its share value.[9] In August 2011, The Quarto Group acquired independent UK book publisher Frances Lincoln for £4.5 million.[10]
In 2012, Marcus Leaver took over from Laurence Orbach as Group CEO [11] and in the same year, the group made a profit of $11.4 million (£7.3 million) on revenue of $181 million (£116 million).[12] Since then, the group has pursued a stated strategy of growing both organically and through judicious acquisitions, while constantly focusing on operational efficiencies.
With increasing profit, 2013 saw a restructure of The Quarto Group by creating and renaming four distinct businesses:[13] Quarto Publishing UK, Quarto Publishing US, Quarto Publishing International Co-editions and Books & Gifts Direct. By 2014, the group had started two new children's imprints: Wide Eyed Editions and words & pictures,[14] and acquired small world creations[14] This helped the increase in share price by 60% since 2010.[15] This helped the increase in share prices by 60% since 2010.[16] In 2015 Quarto acquired Ivy Press and Ivy Kids for £1.5m and continued its expansion [17]
In 2017, Quarto implemented a new organizational structure, moving away from geographic business divisions and encouraging imprints to be run as independent businesses with creative, commercial and financial oversight from the centre. The group has established a central platform that includes finance, operations, sales, marketing and foreign rights sales and that services all 48 imprints.[18]
That same year, Quarto sold its last two non-publishing businesses – Books & Gifts Direct (Australia/New Zealand) and Regent Publishing Services (Hong Kong) – and is now solely focused on its core publishing expertise.[19]
International publishing partnerships
The Quarto Group has launched a number of foreign-language imprints through international partnerships with foreign publishers. These include:
Quarto Editora The Quarto Editora imprint was launched in Brazil in 2014 through an international publishing partnership with Brasil Franchising and their publishing business Editora Nobel. Quarto Editora publishes in categories such as cookery, beauty and self-help. Nobel Editora distributes the books through its franchises and main book trade channels.Kalimat Quarto Kalimat Quarto was launched in 2016 as an international publishing partnership with Sharjah-based Kalimat Group. The imprint publishes books in Arabic and distributes them throughout the Middle East and North Africa.[20]
Quarto Iberoamericana Announced in May 2017, Quarto Iberoamericana is Quarto's Spanish language imprint launched in partnership with Argentina-based publisher Catapulta Editores S.L. The imprint publishes 20 books a year with the first six books, launching in Autumn 2017, in adult categories such as cookery, lifestyle and spirituality. Catapulta Editores will be responsible for sales and distribution in Spain, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Quarto is expected to announce more partners to distribute the books in the rest of Latin America and North America in the near future.[21]
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Fine Wine Editions
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Web site: The Quarto Group (UK): The Quarto Story. 4 February 2016.
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https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/client-publishers/our-clients/ Hachette - Our Clients
Web site: The Quarto Grp Inc.. 4 February 2016.
News: Orbach removed as Quarto director. The Bookseller. 8 November 2012. 9 July 2013.
Web site: Return and Declaration Delivered for Registration by Oversea Company (UK): beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. 4 February 2016. yes.
Web site: Analyst Research Report Snapshot. 4 February 2016.
News: Aurum Publishing Group Created. Benedicte. Page. The Bookseller. January 25, 2013. 4 February 2016.
News: Quarto Snaps-up Frances Lincoln. Graeme. Neill. The Bookseller. 16 August 2011. 4 February 2016.
Web site: Directors & Dealings. 4 February 2016.
News: Quarto Looks to Cut Debt After 2012 revenue fall. Joshua. Farringdon. Bookseller. 12 March 2013. 5 February 2016.
News: Quarto predicts annual profits 122m. charlotte. Eyre. The Bookseller. 16 October 2014. 4 February 2016.
News: Williams made Frances Lincoln publisher. charlotte. Eyre. The Bookseller. 4 April 2014. 4 February 2016.
News: Two Chief Executives Who Could make a Big Impact. John. Lee. The Financial Times. 2 February 2015. 12 February 2016.
News: Quarto buys Ivy Press for £1.3m. Joshua. Farringdon. The Bookseller. 25 February 2015. 4 February 2016.
News: Quarto Group Restructures Sales and Marketing. Jim. Millot. Publisher's Weekly. 24 April 2017. 11 May 2017.
News: Quarto disposes of Regent Publishing Services for $7m. Lisa. Campbell. The Bookseller. 24 March 2017. 11 May 2017.
News: http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/QRT/12776737.html. Stock. Exchange. The Stock Exchange. 14 April 2016. 11 May 2017.
News: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/quarto-launches-new-spanish-language-imprint-quarto-iberoamericana-542921. Catherine. Cowdry. Quarto launches Spanish language imprint: Quarto Iberoamericana. 26 April 2016. 11 May 2017.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "The Quarto Group".


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Die reichen Leichen. Ein Starnbergkrimi ist eine vom Bayerischen Rundfunk produzierte Fernsehkomödie aus dem Jahr 2014. Regie führte Dominik Graf. Der Film gehört zur Heimatkrimi-Reihe des BR.

Handlung
Polizeimeisteranwärterin Ariane Fink aus Dortmund verschlägt es an den Starnberger See, wo sie sich schon bald nach ihrer Ankunft zusammen mit ihrem Kollegen und Vorgesetzten Lu Reinhold um eine Wasserleiche kümmern muss, die aussieht wie der Märchenkönig Ludwig II. Ariane erkennt am Ufer Spuren, die auf zwei Personen schließen lassen. Um den Toten zu identifizieren suchen Ariane und ihr junger Kollege Timo Senst Rat bei Josef Haufferding, der in der König-Ludwig-Historie sehr gut Bescheid weiß und auch einige seiner größter Verehrer kennt. Auf dem Rückweg müssen sich die beiden Polizisten gleich um einen Unfall mit Fahrerflucht kümmern. Ein PKW hat mit hoher Geschwindigkeit eine Radfahrerin angefahren. Da in dem abgelegenen Landstrich nicht schnell genug Hilfe zu bekommen ist, verstirbt die Frau am Unfallort.

Die Obduktion der "Kini"-Leiche bringt zutage, dass der Mann an Narkolepsie litt und sein Tod ein Unfall gewesen sein dürfte. Die Starnberger Polizei bekommt schon gleich den nächsten Fall, denn nun wurde auch noch Sisi entführt. Sisi Weilinger ist die Tochter einer sehr reichen, alteingesessenen Starnberger Industriellenfamilie. Ihre Mutter zeigt sich sehr gefasst und ist davon überzeugt, dass ihre Tochter schnell freigekauft sein dürfte. Der Entführer fordert fünf Millionen, die Rita Weilinger schon am nächsten Tag bereitstellt. Sisis Vater bringt das Geld zum Übergabeort, wo aufgrund der Polizeiüberwachung der Abholer des Geldes sofort gefasst wird. Der junge Mann wird verhört und gibt an, dass er das "Paket" nur abholen und in einem Spind deponieren sollte.

Obwohl der Entführer das Geld nun nicht bekommen hat, taucht Sisi wohlbehalten wieder in Starnberg auf. Die Polizei ahnt nicht, dass Sisis Vater Gerd Sinnern, der seit einiger Zeit von Rita Weilinger geschieden ist, hinter der Entführung steckt. Die Ehefrau hatte (wohl auf eine zusätzliche Nachricht) zweimal fünf Millionen von ihren Konten abgehoben. Da ihr Exmann einplante, dass die Geldübergabe von der Polizei vereitelt werden würde, hatte er seinen Anteil kurz vor der Übergabe an einen Komplizen übergeben. Dieser meint nun, dass sie ein gutes Team wären und weiter zusammenarbeiten sollten. Da Gerd Sinnern das nicht will, erschlägt er seinen Komplizen kurzerhand. Am nächsten Tag wird die Leiche gefunden und die Ermittler finden Indizien, dass der junge Mann mit der Entführung zu tun hatte. Allmählich kommen sie auch dahinter, dass an der ganzen Entführung und Lösegeldübergabe Sisis Vater beteiligt war und die Mutter die Polizei belog. Rita Weilinger erfährt, dass die Firma ihres Exmannes pleite war. Beim Versuch, Starnberg zu verlassen, ertrinkt Sinnern nach einem Mordversuch an Ariane Fink. Die Mutter wirft die Tochter wegen deren Unterstützung des Vaters aus dem Haus.

Durch kriminalistische Kleinarbeit kann letztendlich auch die Identität des Toten im Starnberger See geklärt werden. Josef Haufferding hatte den Mann als König Ludwig "aufgebaut" und mit seiner Hilfe eine Dokumentation erstellt, wozu auch das Bad im See gehörte. Dass er dann tatsächlich ertrunken ist, war nicht vorauszusehen. Da Haufferding ihm aber nicht geholfen hatte, muss sich er wegen unterlassener Hilfeleistung verantworten.

Hintergrund
Die reichen Leichen. Ein Starnbergkrimi ist eine Fortsetzung von Freiwild. Ein Würzburg-Krimi mit Thomas Schmauser als Hauptkommissar Peter Haller.

Kritik
Rainer Tittelbach von tittelbach.tv meint zu diesem Krimi: "'Ein Starnbergkrimi' ist keiner jener Gaudi-Krimis, die auf der Grundlage von bayerischer Lebensart und deftigem Humor Mord zur schönsten Nebensache der Provinz machen. Dafür gibt es abgedrehte Geschichten, Auswüchse historischer Heimatkunde & Momente, die regionale Poesie verströmen."

Die TV-Kritik der Frankfurter Rundschau fand, dem Film gelingt es, "das Gefühl zu vermitteln, bei echten Ermittlungen in einer echten Umgebung dabei zu sein, Menschen zu zeigen, denen man wirklich begegnen könnte, wenn man sich jetzt in sein Auto setzt und nach Starnberg fährt". Weiter schreibt David Segler: "Graf verwebt die beiden Fälle [Der Tod des scheinbaren Wiedergängers von König Ludwig II. und die Sisi-Entführung] geschickt, um sie am Ende doch wieder auseinanderzuziehen; der Kini ist dabei allgegenwärtig. Was die Filme des erfolgreichen Regisseurs (niemand hat so oft einen Grimme-Preis bekommen wie er) so einzigartig macht, ist sein uneingeschränktes Interesse auch für jede Randfigur."

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"The Cut", Fatih Akin's latest film, completes his "Love, Death and the Devil" trilogy. Following "Gegen die Wand / Head On" (2004) and "Auf der anderen Seite / The Edge of Heaven" (2007), "The Cut" tells the story of a young and poor Armenian blacksmith Nazaret Manoogian who is separated from his family during the Turkish genocide against Armenians in 1915. Years later, he learns that his twin sister has survived. Manoogian sets out to find her, an odyssey which takes him from the deserts of Mesopotamia via Havana to the desolate prairies of North Dakota.
The music for this cinematic epic was written by the Berlin musician, producer and actor Alexander Hacke, a member of the band Einstürzende Neubauten, for whom he has played guitar since the age of fourteen. In 1992 Alexander Hacke began composing film music, his works including the score for Fatih Akin's "Gegen die Wand". Franco-Moroccan singer Hindi Zahra has contributed various vocal tracks and a newly recorded version of her song "Everything To Get You Back" to his latest project.
"The Cut" is a soundtrack that musically expresses the emotions and thoughts I associate with the Film: The music accompanied and shaped the film from the first draft to completion. Alexander Hacke's "The Cut" is a proud Western soundtrack that takes a bow to the work of Ennio Morricone, yet at the same time sounds completely innovative and new. "The Cut" is Alexander Hacke's Magum Opus.


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Home » Estate Sales and Events » Frank Kowing Stick Art Discovery Up For Auction
Frank Kowing Stick Art Discovery Up For Auction
Aug 14, 2017 by Christopher Lancette
Hundreds of Frank Kowing canvas and stick art pieces to hit auction blocks.
Editor's Note: Orion's Attic is proud to partner with Everything But The House on a special upcoming auction of the life's work of Maryland artist Frank Kowing. The online auction begins Sunday Aug. 27, 2017 and runs until Thursday Aug. 31, 2017 at 8 p.m. Eastern. Click directly on the auction here. More than 150 Kowing pieces will be in this auction, while more will follow at later dates. You will find a fantastical world of vivid two-dimensional paintings and three-dimensional stick art, or found object art. You will find an eye-popping array of pieces that include political figures such as Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Osama bid Laden and more. Explore commentary on a diverse array of subjects and world events. Examine society from an unusual perspective. From whimsy to dystopia, Kowing was a prolific artist who leaves it to viewers to best find their own meaning in his work. Visit the Everything But The House web site above to register to bid now! You can also view some of our photos from the day we found the collection in the home but visit EBTH to purchase the art. View videos about our discovery on our Orion's Attic Facebook page.
Frank Eugene Kowing (April 1, 1944 – Sept. 24, 2016) knew early in his life that he was going to be an artist. Born in McMinnville, Oregon, he was painting by numbers by age six. The youngster grew tired of that by the time he was eight because it wasn't creative enough, his brother Terry Kowing remembers.
A neighbor then stepped in and changed the course of Kowing's life. "He gave him a set of oil paints which truly launched his enthusiasm for art," Terry Kowing says. "By the time he was fourteen, art was his favorite subject."
Kowing would dedicate the rest of his life to developing his talent – selling paintings and "stick art" (also known as "found object art") around the world and producing a massive volume of pieces that would be discovered in his Silver Spring, Maryland home after his death.
The young Kowing graduated Linfield College as the school's first art major in 1966. A member of the U.S. Navy Reserve, he joined the Navy full-time during the Vietnam War. He served on the combat supply ship USS Mars as a personnel man. His ship went on a battle mission to North Korea when the spy ship USS Pueblo was captured.
According to Kowing's first wife Peggy McCardle, who had already begun working with Kowing on his memoirs by the time of his death, Kowing went on to study painting at the Gerritt Rietveld Academy in The Netherlands and later obtained a Master of Fine Arts in painting at Penn State University (1973). Kowing then spent several years working with art galleries in New York before he was drawn to a Peace Corps assignment in Tunisia, where he taught both art and living skills to developmentally disabled students.
Frank Kowing and his dog DuChamp
McCardle says that Kowing would spend the rest of his life in a similar fashion, moving from job to job. He loved adventure, loved new things and worked as much as he needed to in order to support his artistic endeavors. He worked sporadically building and painting lofts in New York. He renovated and painted homes in Pennsylvania, salvaged mine timbers in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington state, taught developmentally disabled children in California. Meanwhile, he participated in gallery shows and solo shows in New York, Washington D.C., Maryland and elsewhere. He eventually settled in Silver Spring, Maryland, just across the Washington D.C. border, and reconnected with the District arts scene. He taught art, worked as a curator throughout the Metro D.C. area, and did more solo and group shows.
Kowing also retained an agent to help him sell his work but McCardle says that process, selling, was always a philosophical struggle, something that caused him anguish.
"He struggled with that his whole life," she says. "He wanted more people to see his work but he wasn't willing to play the game."
Kowing focused on impressionism in his early career. Over time, he began to fall in love with abstract painting and "construction" on canvas. His entry in the New York Yearbook explained the style as that of "using multiple materials on two-dimensional canvasses with bas-relief shapes – forms break away and out of the confining space of rectangles, collage echoing often lyrical line, in a dynamic whole that is a fusion of emotional content and objective imagery."
Kowing possessed a deep and abiding love of nature, too, prompting him to begin incorporating sticks and other items from the natural world in his art. He combined that with discarded man-made objects, salvaging pieces from the trash and creating art with them.
"We would be walking past a dumpster and he'd see something, think it was a cool thing that someone was just throwing away," McCardle says. "He would go after it and then use it in his art. He was a driven artist and he was always carrying sketchbooks everywhere he went. He didn't feel he was living if he wasn't doing something with his art."
His subjects are often intense.
"The shapes I create are forms that I have discovered in nature's rhythms," he wrote in the draft of his memoirs he was working on with McCardle before he died. "(I use) geometric and curvilinear shapes, in dialogue with expressive paint work, symbolic of struggles between structured society and the chaotic natural world. I utilize many layers of paint to achieve just the tonality and quality of light I desire … words, poems, text from studio notes show up in various ways in my work. These are steeped in a wide range of emotions. The content of the artworks is the dynamic network of paint and materials, and constitutes a visual journal of my life."
McCardle says that Kowing's greatest joy as an artist came from giving viewers the opportunity to see his work through their own lenses, looking at it with all of their own life experiences guiding how they saw it.
"He hoped they would have some kind of emotional reaction to it," she says. "He wanted them to see the shapes and the content and bring their own interpretation to it."
Though some of Kowing's work focuses on political subjects, the artist himself possessed no partisan leanings.
"The beginning of appreciating art is a sense of wonder – it's what makes us human beings," he wrote. "I have never been politically active. I make fun of politicians in my work, but leave activism to others."
After years of failing health and during an intense period of depression, Kowing took his own life in September of 2016. He endured several accidents and operations that were followed by a crippling late diagnosis of Lyme Disease. Increasing pain required increasing medication with a poor prognosis, according to brother Terry Kowing, and the specter of more surgeries may have been the final straw.
"Frank left us with a greater appreciation for his art and a desire to share his life (and art) with others, although there is much sadness that his life was not longer," Terry Kowing says.
Asked what the artist would most like to be remembered for, McCardle points to one of the last notes he wrote for the memoirs she hopes to complete next year.
"Painting is my form of celebration, and it's also the way in which I explore the world. I make 'recordings' of what I find out. I always try to give my whole self to whatever I'm working on, with as much curiosity as I can muster, in order to understand a little better what being human is. In that sense, I use art as an instrument to unearth shards of truth and beauty."
Christopher Lancette is co-owner of Orion's Attic, a Silver Spring, Maryland-based estate liquidation company that serves the greater Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland area. Orion's Attic is also always looking to buy collections of jewelry, antique toys, militaria, rare books, art, all kinds of collectibles and so much more. Contact us today if you would like to sell your antiques and collectibles.
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Q: Angular: How to programmatically trigger DOM events, like mouse click? I want to raise a click MouseEvent programmatically, for example, from an Angular Component to simulate a mouse click. Is this possible and how? I didn't find any existing question on this here.
The DOM element will be some element like a button in a Component template.

A: In Angular, you would obtain an ElementRef using ViewChild. Then you could either call HTMLElmenent.click() or HTMLElement.dispatchEvent(event).
See Stackblitz Demo
Option 1: Use HTMLElement.click()
import { AfterViewInit, Component, ElementRef, ViewChild } from '@angular/core'

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `

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  styleUrls: [ './app.component.css' ]
})
export class AppComponent implements AfterViewInit  {
  @ViewChild('namedElement', {static: false}) namedElement: ElementRef;

  public constructor() {}

  ngAfterViewInit() {
    this.namedElement.nativeElement.click();
  }

  public showAlert(msg: string) {
    alert(msg)
  }
}

Option 2: Use HTMLElement.dispatchEvent()
import { AfterViewInit, Component, ElementRef, ViewChild } from '@angular/core'

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `

Test Angular Programmatic Click Event

    Named element

  `,
  styleUrls: [ './app.component.css' ]
})
export class AppComponent implements AfterViewInit  {
  @ViewChild('namedElement', {static: false}) namedElement: ElementRef;

  public constructor() {}

  ngAfterViewInit() {
    const event = new MouseEvent('click', {
      view: window,
      bubbles: true,
      cancelable: true
    });

    this.namedElement.nativeElement.dispatchEvent(event);
  }

  public showAlert(msg: string) {
    alert(msg)
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Beautiful morning for a ride.
The two big things that Nancy pointed out and then helped fix on Monday were my bracing with the right leg, and his outside shoulder popping out constantly. Fixing those two things led to some great work out of Connor, and Nancy was truly impressed with the progress we've made. "Well yeah, you should be leading by 10 points after Starter Dressage with work like that!" (referencing GDHT) were her exact words. Felt good to get that kind of validation!
After watching that ride, my trainer gave me much the same lesson today, but over fences, and I learned that I've had too much inside bend especially on gymnastic lines. Inside bend + popped shoulder = crooked horse over fences. Opening the inside rein and keeping him stick-straight in the outside rein while keeping my inside leg on around the corner led to a feeling over fences I have not gotten with him before: that he wasn't going to get "stuck". I always feel like I have to cowboy up the last couple of strides or he'll break, but it turns out a lot of that was due to the way I was riding him, not the way he actually goes.
his pre-ride pee with one leg way out to the side.
It's hard for him to bring that inside hind through when he's working properly, so he likes to avoid that by traveling with his shoulder to the outside. I had to pay attention to it every stride, because if I let up for a second, he would pop it out. It's subtle, but correcting it made a big difference in the way he went. Inside leg there for him to bend around, half-halts on the outside rein.
Interestingly, getting the outside shoulder like that snapped him out of his usual second-half slump, where we lose the lightness we had the in the first half of the lesson after a break, so I wonder if maybe he's tired of working properly by then, and has been taking advantage of me by throwing his shoulder around in the second half. Some of it is still conditioning, but it's something to think about.
Baby also took out his first fence today, haha. Growing up so quickly! I gave him a good ride and he made what my trainer called a "green horse judgment error" at the first element of a 2 element gymnastic and didn't snap his front end up in time to clear it, so we went through it. I made him jump the second element anyway and his ears were swiveling back and forth as he tried to figure out why the pole was chasing us. The good boy learned from his mistake, though, and was tight and careful the next time we went to it!
That's lucky that it's taken him so long to take out a fence! Hopefully it wasn't too traumatic for him.
A little bit of luck and a lot of natural caution and body awareness, I think. The same traits that make him a reactive ride also make him aware of his surroundings and his own body. I think he came out of it okay, he jumped well the rest of the lesson. Good to learn that things explode when you hit them now rather than later!
Lol about the pre ride pee! Jack always had to pee before I got on him. Silly boys!
Haha, silly boys indeed! Last week Connor had to pee during the ride but wouldn't at first, even when I got off to give him a chance, and was just slogging through the lesson. Glad he did it before this week - and in the wash rack, not the crossties!


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You have a warehouse in that port, which basically means that the first structure you build on any port has to be a warehouse. Warehouses don't count towards the 10-lot limit, and you don't need a deed or materials to build it, but it does cost you money to build.
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Mohiniyattam - The classical dance from Keralam
Mohiniyattam is a classical dance form of Kerala in South India. The origin and popularity of this dance form is closely tagged to the great Tamil dance master Vadivelu, one of the Thanjavur quartets. One among the eight Indian classical dance forms, Mohiniyattam is a graceful traditional dance to watch and is a solo recital by women dancer. The term Mohiniyattam comes from the words mohini meaning a woman who enchants onlookers and aattam meaning graceful body movements. Thus, the word literally means - dance of the enchantress.
This dance form has a legend attached to it as per the Hindu mythology. It says that, after the ocean of milk was churned jointly by the gods and the demons to extract the elixir of life, the demons took the divine brew by force. Following the incident, Lord Vishnu came to the rescue of the gods. He allured the demons by taking the form of a woman with outstanding beauty called Mohini and stole the elixir of life from them and handed it to the gods. The enticing acts of Mohini are reflected in Mohiniyattam. At a time when the Devadasi tradition was prevalent in major parts of south India, Mohiniyattam used to be performed by Devadasis (temple dancers) in temples, during the rule of the Chera kings from 9 to 12 C.E.
Another famous story of vishu avatar Mohini is with a demon named Bhasmasura. Bhasmasura was a devotee of Lord Shiva. He performed immense penance to obtain a boon from Shiva. As a result of his penance, lord Shiva became pleased and told him to ask for a boon. He asked for immortality, but Shiva said that he did not have the power to grant him immortality. Bhasmasura then changed the mode of the boon he wanted. One whose head is touched by Bhasmasura with his forefinger, should immediately burn up and turn into ashes or bhasma. This was his demand. Siva granted him the same boon.
Bhasmasura was immensely happy and with overwhelming joy, he decided to test the boon on Mahadev himself. Before long, he attempted to touch the head of Shiva with his forefinger. He wanted to burn Siva and turn into ashes and then possess Goddess Parvati. Siva fled, but he was chased by Bhasmasura. Wherever Mahadeva went, there Bhasmasura also followed. At last, Siva managed to reach the abode of Vishnu and sought a solution to the predicament, for which he himself was responsible.
On hearing Shiva's problem, Mahavishnu agreed to help him. Vishnu took the form of Mohini and appeared in front of the demon. Mohini was so exceedingly beautiful that Bhasmasur was immediately attracted by her. Bhasmasura requested Mohini to marry him. Mohini replied that she was very much fond of dancing, and would marry him, only if he could match her moves in dance. He agreed and hence they started dancing. The event went on for days, as Bhasmasura matched her move for move. While dancing, she struck a pose where her hand, especially the forefinger was placed on top of her own head. As he imitated her, he touched his own head with his forefinger and was immediately burnt up and turned into ashes, in accordance with the boon he had gained.
Coming back to Mohiniyattam,this dance form also has elements of other performing art forms of Kerala viz. Koothu and Kutiyattam in it. Besides, Mohiniyattam also came under the sway of two other south Indian dance forms -Bharatanatyam and Kathakali. Mohiniyattam in its early days went through ups and downs, which eventually got steadied during the period of King Swathi Thirunal of the erstwhile Travancore kingdom.
Apart from King Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, this dance form received timely interventions which helped in getting its share of attention and popularity from the great Malayalam poet Vallathol Narayana Menon, also the founder of Kerala Kalamandalam and the noted Mohiniyattam teacher, Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma.
The dance form Mohiniyattam has love and devotion to God as its major themes, with usually Lord Vishnu or his incarnation Lord Krishna as the lead character. Mohiniyattam comprises about 40 different basic movements called adavukal and its performance style is marked by the swaying of hips and the gentle movements with straight body posture from side-to-side. This dance like many other classical dance forms of India follows the sign language (mudra) as described in the ancient treatise on Hastha Lakshanadeepika to convey the story. These mudras are expressed through fingers and palms of the hands.
The musical accompaniment of Mohiniyattam dance consists what is known as chollu. The lyrics are in Manipravalam, which is a combination of Sanskrit and Malayalam.
Simple, yet classy costume is one of the aspects that give Mohiniyattam a unique identity among classical dance forms of India. The attire for this dance form consists of white sari, bordered with broad golden brocade (called kasavu in Malayalam).
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Joy Cohen is a 23-year old Jewish beauty in an Asian body. As a baby, Joy was adopted from China by the Cohens, a rich Jewish family, so she may look Asian on the outside, but she really is Jewish on the inside. She feels rejected by her biological parents, and as she naively brings the two families together, tension and conflict between the two cultures develop immediately…so Joy's happy ending may not be so happy, after all.
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Episode two of The Council, a narrative adventure game that redefines the genre with RPG mechanics and consequences for every choice, will release on May 17th. Hide and Seek continues the story of Louis de Richet as he deals with the dramatic results of his actions in episode one, released to press and player acclaim earlier this year.
He must continue his investigation into the disappearance of his mother, Sarah, while dealing with the newly-arrived Spanish head of state, the finally-revealed Lord Mortimer, and the quickly-forming factions on the island.
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Hide and Seek releases on May 17 on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Steam. Complete Season owners on Steam and Season Pass owners on consoles will receive a two-day headstart, with all of episode two being playable from May 15, as well as providing access to all future episodes. Episode one, The Mad Ones, is required to run episode two.
The Council is a narrative adventure game that seduced players and journalists alike with a deep and captivating story featuring intricate characters and smart writing. The innovative concept brings the Narrative Adventure genre beyond its boundaries and allows for meaningful choices with impactful consequences.
The Council episode two, Hide and Seek, releases May 17th on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The complete season will include a total of five episodes, with new episodes releasing regularly in 2018.
This looks phenomenal I am really impressed by the screenshots I hope this episode has lots of hidden dialogues, items, and other things to really personalize the story. This game is also really close to being one of my favorite game of all time!


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Q: MATLAB Drawing a function which takes vectors as an arguement I want to draw an anonymous function in MATLAB which takes vectors as arguments. Does anyone know a solution?
Here is the example.
k=@( x1 , x2 ) exp(-C*sum((x1*ones(1,size(x2,2))-x2).^2)/0.5)';
wphi = @(xstar) ones(1,N)*(a.*y'.*k(xstar,x));
ystar=@(xstar)wphi(xstar)+b;

I want to draw ystar function. However; xstar is a vector with size 2. Whenever I use a drawing function like ezplot, it assumes xstar as a double variable. As I summarize; I want to draw ystar function, for example in the interval of (-1,-1) to (1,1) for xstar.

A: I can't really test this, because there are a lot of things undefined in your code, and I can only assume your functions do work. But in principle, this should work:
xsv = linspace(-1, 1, 100);
[xstar1, xstar2] = meshgrid(xsv);
xstar = [xstar1(:), xstar2(:)];
surf(xstar1, xstar2, reshape(ystar(xstar), size(xstar1)))


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National Grid hails massive electricity storage site on Nantucket
Calling it the largest electricity storage battery system in New England, National Grid unveiled on Tuesday a six-megawatt system on Nantucket that cost $81 million to build. As part of the project, a new diesel generator was installed for backup, replacing an old one. The goal is to ensure people and businesses on the island get reliable service during times of peak summer demand and to avoid the need for a third underwater cable to the island. The company has 13,000 customers on Nantucket, but the cost of the project will be borne by ratepayers throughout National Grid's Massachusetts system, according to a spokesman. The new Tesla battery system could cover roughly half of the island's electricity demand for up to eight hours. — JON CHESTO
Fidelity's switch leads to less pricey college savings plans
Fidelity Investments cut fees for the majority of its college savings plans as it launched portfolios that combine active and passive money management. The lower fees on 15 of 22 plans will save investors more than $4 million a year, Fidelity said Tuesday in a statement. The Boston company, which manages $25 billion of the 529 assets sponsored by the states of Arizona, Delaware, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, also said that on Oct. 3 it launched eight college saving portfolios that combine active and index investments. The latest move is part of ongoing fee changes at closely-held Fidelity, which has $2.8 trillion under management. The company has in the past several years joined the asset management price wars with Charles Schwab Corp., Vanguard Group, and BlackRock Inc., all of whom have reduced fees on index mutual funds and ETFs. Fidelity, which built an empire on the prowess of its stock pickers, startled the industry last year by offering several zero-fee index mutual funds. — BLOOMBERG
Hong Kong exchange to UK counterpart: Nevermind
After stunning market watchers with its bid to buy the London stock exchange, the Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday dropped its bid. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. said it was ''unable to engage'' with managers of the London Stock Exchange Group. That followed the London exchange's public rejection of the surprise offer in mid-September, citing a ''lack of strategic merit.'' — ASSOCIATED PRESS
Startup that aimed to reinvent municipal bonds tells workers it can't pay them
Neighborly, a startup that once sought to upend the way securities are sold in the $3.8 trillion municipal-bond market, idled its employees after an unsuccessful effort to raise money to stay afloat, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg. Started in 2012, it lists Ashton Kutcher at Sound Ventures, Maven Ventures, and Stanford University among its investors. Neighborly sought to shake up the way state and local government debt is sold so residents would invest in their own communities. To allow for small-scale investments, the company broke with prevailing practice by selling bonds in tiny increments, rather than the typical lots of $5,000 or more aimed at bigger buyers or mutual funds. While cities including Cambridge hired Neighborly, the company failed to gain a foothold and ended up only having a limited impact. — BLOOMBERG
For $20m, Boeing seeks slice of space travel
Boeing Co. agreed to invest $20 million for a minority stake in Virgin Galactic, a startup that is preparing to fly its customers into space next year. The relationship is designed as a collaboration aimed at shaping the future of human space travel, the companies said in a statement Tuesday. Virgin Galactic also is setting longer-term sights on shuttling airline travelers around the world at high speeds — a mode of transport that will take years to achieve. The deal positions the companies to explore the marketplace for airline travel at hypersonic speeds above the Earth's atmosphere, trimming trips across the globe to two hours or less. Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. also has announced plans for such flights in the future. — BLOOMBERG
Tariffs, uncertainty pummel small-business confidence
US small-business sentiment fell to near the lowest level of Donald Trump's presidency, as tariffs and economic uncertainty increasingly weigh on the outlook for owners across the country. The National Federation of Independent Business's optimism index declined 1.3 points to 101.8 in September, the third drop in four months, according to data released Tuesday. While the gauge remains elevated by historical standards, it's the lowest since March and close to January's 101.2, which was the weakest since Trump's term began in early 2017. — BLOOMBERG
Newsflash: Daily Mail may buy its British rival
The owner of the Daily Mail newspaper may attempt to buy The Daily Telegraph, according to analysts at broker Liberum Capital Ltd., a deal that would combine two of the UK's most prominent right-wing and Brexit-backing newspapers. With about $245 million of net cash on its balance sheet after the recent sale of energy-information business Genscape, Daily Mail & General Trust Plc is positioned to pursue its stated preference to focus on acquisitions rather than shareholder returns, Ian Whittaker and Harry Read wrote in a note. The Daily Mail declined to comment. — BLOOMBERG
Toys R Us (and R Target?)
The parent company of Toys R Us is turning to a rival to restart its e-commerce business ahead of the holiday shopping season. Tru Kids Brands is teaming up with discounter Target Corp. to relaunch Toysrus.com, according to a joint release. The site, which launched Tuesday, features product reviews and directs browsers to a buy button at Target.com to complete the purchase. The moves come as the first two new Toys R Us stores — one in Houston, the other in Paramus, N.J. — will open in November as part of a small comeback of the defunct iconic toy chain. — ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fender accused of price distortion
Fender, the historic guitar maker for rock legends Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, deliberately set minimum prices to guarantee profit margins on its iconic instruments, according to the UK's competition watchdog. From 2013 to 2018, Fender Musical Instruments Europe Ltd. allegedly ran an illegal policy of resale price maintenance, requiring guitars to be sold at or above a minimum figure, restricting customers who shop around from finding a better deal, the Competition and Markets Authority said in a statement on Tuesday. Fender is famous for its Stratocaster electric guitar, used not just by Clapton for his famous opening chords on his hit "Layla" but more recently by guitarists like U2's The Edge. The Stratocaster gained a measure of immortality when Hendrix set fire to one live on stage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, before smashing it. — BLOOMBERG