Fluffy edible pillows of yum!
Italians are more than proud of their cuisine and Gnocchi is one of the most famous dishes that they are known for other than pizza and pasta!
mini Potato dumplings eaten in place of pasta….served with some of the most decadent or simple sauces…..they can even be browned and almost pan-fried with butter then topped with parmigiano for a simple snack! Depending on the region in Italy you are in they may come flavored, or made with different ingredients.
The first time I made homemade gnocchi I did it all on my own without any input from my husband–I made them with purple potatoes from our garden! They were not beautiful and they were not made correctly, but they were made with LOVE! I have since learned the tips and tricks that my mother-in-law used to always make her gnocchi soft, delicate, and so scrumptious! THE RIGHT POTATO is KEY! Red potatoes have the least moisture….use them! I do not recommend using gnocchi the day after. You cannot store the dough overnight. Cook all of your gnocchi or freeze them with enough flour and separated on a sheet pan until fully frozen then store in a freezer bag or container for up to a month. No need to defrost before boiling.
Our favorite way to serve our gnocchi is with Ragù (thick tomato meat sauce) and fresh mozzarella. The secret is dicing up the mozzarella and having the sauce already hot. as you pull out the gnocchi immediately add sauce and diced mozzarella, then pull out more gnocchi and repeat. try not to stir the gnocchi to much, if you need to fold them carefully. Serve with finely grated parmigiano reggiano. See recipe for additional serving suggestions.
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Below is the recipe we used! Click here for the Butter and Sage sauce recipe!
Gnocchi board we love to use below!
Put the unpeeled potatoes in a large pot. Fill the pot with enough cold water to cover the potatoes by at least 2 inches and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium, partially cover the pot, and simmer the potatoes until they are completely tender and easily pierced with a skewer, 30 to 35 minutes.
Lightly flour a work surface. Add the egg to the potatoes, just roughly and then add the flour and salt. Mix with your hands until the flour is moistened and the dough starts to clump together; the dough will still be a bit crumbly at this point. Gather the dough together and press it against your work surface until you have a uniform mass. Do not overwork the dough. Transfer it to the floured surface and wash your hands.
Cover with a cloth and allow to sit for 10 min.
Don't forget to generously flour the work surface as well as the area where the gnocchi are set to rest while waiting to cook!
Boil water with plenty of salt—1 tsp. per qt. of water or even more!
Gnocchi are done when they float to the top of the water. Use a slotted spoon to scoop from the water top. Allow water to come to a boil again before adding more gnocchi to cook.
**Serve with butter sage sauce (recipe on my website), pesto and finely grated pecorino romano or parmigiano Reggiano or Ragù and fresh diced mozzarella topped with freshly grated pecorino romano or parmigiano reggiano.
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Are These The 10 Best Philly Suburbs?
Editor's note: No surprise that the future tourism mecca of Western Montgomery County is missing from the list. I guess mini-golf, carousels and train rides aren't enough to propel a crime infested borough to the top of any great places to live list. Not sure why the cart is always put before the horse.
Real estate website Movoto.com has compiled a list of the 10 best Philly suburbs.
With nine towns in Pennsylvania and one in New Jersey, the site ranked these towns based on many factors such as amenities per capita, standard of living, crime rate, and average commute time to Philly.
Six towns in Montgomery County made the list, while the rest were in Chester, Delaware and Camden counties.
Hazleton – 38 officers, hiring 10 new police officers built in the $9.3 million proposed budget (they think they have a crime problem).
Editor's note: Would it have made more sense for Capt. Drumheller to take the Civil Service test before being offered the promotion? I love how council forms a committee to find a new police chief and they do absolutely nothing. The point of the committee was exactly what? We all know how things work in Pottstown **wink, wink, nod, nod** Thank you Evan for your candor in reporting this process.
POTTSTOWN — Police Capt. Richard Drumheller is now one step closer to being Police Chief Richard Drumheller.
If approved by a borough council vote Monday night, Drumheller will replace Borough Manager Mark Flanders, whose retirement as police chief becomes official April 14.
Since he was appointed Nov. 13 as borough manager, Flanders has held both positions, although drawing only one salary.
For the most part, Drumheller has been running the department since then.
Editor's note: Scranton had a population of 76,089 according to the 2010 census. The city is 25 square miles. According to Citydata.com, Scranton had 150 police officers and a department of 170 as of 2010. The crime rate in Scranton for 2010 was 275.7 (US average is 319.1).
Scranton currently has an acting Chief of Police whose salary is the same as the permanent Chief who stepped down three months ago. The salary for running a department of 170, in a city of 76,000 people is $81,073.
Pottstown had 22,377 residents according to the 2010 census and is 5 square miles. Pottstown had a police department of 46 officers (58 total) per Citydata.com's data for 2010. Pottstown's crime rate for 2010 was 539 (US average 319.1).
Pottstown's Chief of Police/Acting Borough Manager is already making more than $100,000.00 a year.
The cost of living differences being taken into consideration, Scranton is 3 1/2 times the size of Pottstown in population, 5 time as large as Pottstown in area and has a police department 3 times the size of Pottstown's and yet Scranton's Chief of Police makes $20,000 less a year than Pottstown's??? We won't even get into the difference in the crime rate between the two (HINT: Scranton is safer).
Does this not illustrate why Pottstown's budget is grossly over inflated? Does this not indicate paying a new borough manager way more than Jason Bobst was making is fiscal insanity?
The mayor of Scranton, who is the chief executive and not a ribbon cutter like Pottstown's Missy Mayor, makes $81,872 (far less than Jason did) and he runs a city 3 1/2 time the size of Pottstown. And trust me, running Scranton is more challenging than running Pottstown.
Pottstown Borough Council might as well start a bonfire in Smith Plaza, throw the taxpayer's money in, make a few s'mores and call it a day!


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Australia's painful journey towards indigenous rights
The fracas that engulfed the country's prime minister during Aboriginal protests on Australia Day speaks volumes about a society still coming to terms with its past
Mon 6 Feb 2012 15.30 EST First published on Mon 6 Feb 2012 15.30 EST
Aboriginal and other protesters interrupt an Australia Day awards ceremony in Canberra. Photograph: The Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media via Getty Images
In saying that I have conflicting views about the hustling of Julia Gillard, the prime minister, to her car through a cordon of Aboriginal demonstrators and police on Australia Day last month, I am merely reflecting a genuine confusion many of us feel. The protesters later said that their anger was directed at the opposition leader, muscular, all-surfing, all-bicycling, former Catholic seminarian (like me) neocon (unlike me) Tony Abbott. Yet I have to say Abbott's remarks about the determinedly ramshackle Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, founded 40 years ago, did not seem to me racist or wild.
I assert this though I am not an admirer of Abbott's. The idea of his winning the prime ministership from the unpopular Labor leader, Gillard, makes me fantasise about political asylum in Scunthorpe. But this is what Abbott said about the Tent Embassy: "I think a lot has changed for the better since then [the setting-up of the Embassy]. I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian … I think it probably is time to move on from that."
I don't utterly agree with him, but his is an arguable opinion. When the Tent Embassy was founded outside federal parliament in 1972, it was established by four Aboriginal leaders planting a beach umbrella in the turf. There they stood to protest the refusal of a conservative government then in power to recognise Aboriginal land rights claims. When that brave beach umbrella was raised, the obscene doctrine of terra nullius was still accepted as Australian common law; a legal fiction that Australia was land belonging to no one. This made seizure of Australia – and the continuing possession by settlers – utterly legal.
Bodyguards hustle Prime Minister Julia Gillard away during an Aboriginal protest on Australia Day in Canberra. Photograph: Lukas Coch/EPA
As it developed, the Tent Embassy served as a political awakening and education for many Aboriginal leaders. It resisted all government attempts to remove it, and all the complaints of those who considered it "an eyesore". It always claimed Aboriginal sovereignty over the Northern Territory and in a more general sense over Australia. But soon after it was set up, goes the good-faith argument of many Australians, including some Aborigines, things began to improve in small stages. The Labor government of Gough Whitlam recognised Aboriginal land rights on federal lands. Since then, state governments have legislated to "allow" such claims on unalienated land within their boundaries.
The most graphic and significant event for land rights followed a long legal fight waged by a heroic Torres Strait islander named Eddie Mabo. Mabo was a man appalled to discover that his ancestral garden on Murray Island was not his in law, but belonged to the crown. He fought his case through a number of courts until it reached the federal high court. He had died by the time, in 1991, that the high court recognised that not only his garden, but the whole of Australia, had belonged to Aboriginals and Torres Strait islanders all along. It ruled too that they had never ceded ownership, and that governments must now take account of these facts. The high court declared that though it might be legally unviable for Aboriginals to claim all privately owned land, they had a right to unalienated land and were the traditional owners of all of Australia. This decision did not bring an Aboriginal nirvana. There were still, for example, aggressive mining leases taken on Aboriginal land – but now royalty payments had to be paid.
In 1997, the Bringing Them Home report, concerning stolen generations of Aboriginal children, was tabled in parliament. The tale of such kidnappings was depicted for the world in that brilliant Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara) memoir and movie, Rabbit-Proof Fence. An Aboriginal opera singer I know, Deborah Cheetham, was given to an amiable white family who were told she had been found abandoned in a box. As an adult Deborah found her real mother, who described how officials had taken her by force and thwarted all attempts by her mother to find her. But now, more than 100 years of child-thefts were at an end.
The next advance was Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to indigenous Australians in 2008 for "successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians". Nowadays, no civic event occurs without recognition of the traditional owners. In many cases an Aboriginal elder is invited to give a "welcome to country". Some are cynical about this, saying: "First obliterate them, then honour them." But the acknowledgement does often stand as a gesture of sincerity on the part of many officials and citizens aware of eons of Aboriginal occupation.
In the midst of any debate stands the "Federal Intervention" in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. It began in 2007 as the result of a report entitled Little Children Are Sacred, which dealt with child abuse in fraught Aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory. Its co-author was an eloquent Aboriginal leader, Pat Anderson. Australia was surprised by the swiftness of the government intervention, the sudden arrival of troops, police and health workers in the communities. To some this seemed an election ploy by the then leader, John Howard. But it was seen by others as a necessary benign action in which the health and reconstruction wings of the armed forces would be engaged. Under the intervention, the federal government would take over management of Aboriginal land for five years and re-establish communities on orderly lines. To achieve this, the Racial Discrimination Act would be temporarily suspended. This would allow the federal government to regulate welfare payments and to ban liquor and pornography from communities.
The Little Children Are Sacred report was horrifying. At the time the intervention began, though, I thought it heavy-handed and a repeat of the failed paternalism of the past. Yet many Aboriginals in the communities involved welcomed it with unfeigned enthusiasm. Marcia Langton, an Aboriginal academic, condemned "the cynical view afoot that the intervention was a political ploy – to grab land, support mining companies and kick black heads". Many Aboriginals were concerned not with intervention itself, but with the lack of tact with which it sometimes proceeded.
Though debate still rages over the benefits and failures of the intervention, it is argued even by many Aboriginal leaders that the Tent Embassy is an anachronism, a structure bespeaking division rather than reconciliation. Many of the Ngunnawal people on whose land it stands want it removed. Warren Mundine, a Sydney Aboriginal elder who is a former president of the Australian Labor party, even quarrelled with Australian federal police's refusal to go ahead with arrests. "The full force of the law should be whacked on them," he said.
One Aboriginal leader I have had something to do with is the formidable Lowitja O'Donoghue. She is a former nurse who – on her merits and not on the basis of sentiment – would have been a frontrunner for president had we become a republic in the late 1990s. Her present programme is to do away by referendum with a clause in the Australian constitution she calls "potentially prejudicial" to Aboriginal rights. O'Donoghue seeks a 2013 referendum to eliminate it, to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples as original occupiers of the continent, and to express the duty of the commonwealth to attend to the advancement of indigenes. Sadly, shock-jocks, exploiting what happened on Australia Day, might defeat her dream.
Just as Abbott's remarks, though untactful, are defensible as free speech, there is an obvious case for the right of Aboriginal activists, wisely or not, to retain the Tent Embassy on the same basis. Even if it does not represent majority Aboriginal opinion, and even if it might annoy more people than it persuades, it stands for justifiable complaint.
Aboriginal deaths in custody are still not unknown. The death of Mulrunji Doomadgee on a cell floor in Palm Island in 2004 remains the focus of endless inquiry and racial bitterness in Queensland. Aboriginal life expectancy is still 20 years behind that of non-indigenous people. Nearly one out of two Aboriginal males is dead by the age of 65. Aboriginal people account for just under a quarter of jail inmates though they are only 2.5% of the population. In the past decade one-quarter of indigenes in the cities have completed high school, and fewer than one in 10 in remote Australia. Fewer than one in 10 urban Aborigines achieves a university degree, and fewer than 3% of those in remote Australia. The figures are improving but so far by small increments.
One of Gillard's aides has been sacked for allegedly tipping off protesters that Abbott would be at the event in Canberra where the fracas occurred. The incident has now transmuted itself into an argument over Labor "dirty tricks". Only a few voices have asked whether it might not be better, and less potentially provocative, to move the date of Australia Day. The Australia Day Council, led by the former Test cricketer Adam Gilchrist with considerable imagination and competence, emphasises immemorial Aboriginal occupation as one of the elements of the day. But this anniversary of the founding of the penal settlement in Sydney Cove, of modern Australia's extraordinary beginning as an Eden for pre-fallen and pre-condemned Adams and Eves, was also the beginning of what proved a tragic dispossession of Aboriginal peoples.
So nothing will finally allay hostility until Aboriginal equality is achieved by white goodwill and, above all, by indigenous education, political skill and leadership. Until then, the mourning and the howling continues.
Australians: Origins to Eureka by Thomas Keneally is published by Allen & Unwin, £16.99. To order a copy for £13.59 with free UK p&p go to guardian.co.uk/bookshop or call 0330 333 6846.
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Caroline Dinenage is named Early Years Minister
09 Aug 15:00 by Ann-Marie Dalton
It is understood that the official announcement will be made later today.
The MP for Gosport, Stubbington, Lee on the Solent and Hill Head, is also minister for women and equalities.
Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance, said, 'We welcome the news that Ms Dinenage has been named as the new early years minister and congratulate her on her new role.
'With the planned rollout of the 30-hour free entitlement offer, the imminent launch of the Government's early years workforce and life chances strategies, and the publication of a revised EYFS Framework, this is clearly a time of significant change and transition for the early years sector – and one that can only benefit from positive, honest and open relationship between the sector and Government.
'As such, we look forward to working closely with Ms Dinenage and her team at the Department for Education, to continuing to represent the views, ideas and concerns of early years providers and crucially, to working in partnership with Government to build and sustain a quality, affordable, sustainable early years sector.'
Liz Bayram, PACEY's chief executive, said, 'PACEY and its members are looking forward to working with Caroline Dinenage not least of all on the implementation of the extension to the free early education entitlement; the development of a workforce strategy and much more.
'These matters now require her urgent attention. All children benefit from high quality early education and its vital the planned extension of free entitlement to 30 hours a week for working families does not place at risk the huge improvement in quality our sector has achieved in recent years. High quality that has been achieved through the hard work and dedication of practitioners and settings, despite reduced funding and support levels from Government.'
The minister was first elected to Parliament in 2010 and is the daughter of television presenter Fred Dinenage.
There was controversy when she was appointed equalities minister by David Cameron after last year's general election, as she had voted against equal marriage.
From 2014-15 Ms Dinenage served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the former education secretary Nicky Morgan MP.
Before entering politics Ms Dinenage ran a small manufacturing business for 20 years.
She attended Oaklands RC Comprehensive School, Waterlooville, and then studied Politics and English at Swansea University.
It has been announced that environment minister Thérèse Coffey will have responsibility for rural childcare.
Ms Bayram said, 'We are also pleased that the new job includes responsibility for rural childcare. Given so many registered childminders play such a critical role in sustaining rural childcare we will be seeking an early meeting with her to discuss how we can support this new brief for DEFRA.'
Purnima Tanuku, chief executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said, 'We are really pleased to welcome Caroline Dinenage to this crucial role and look forward to working with her.
'Mrs Dinenage's first priority must be ensuring the successful implementation of the Government's flagship 30 free hours childcare election pledge.
'The forthcoming pilots in several local authority areas will offer a great learning opportunity to fine-tune the new system before it is fully rolled out. Together we must look to the pilots to see how 30 free hours can be made a real success for families.
'NDNA and the sector are ready and willing to engage with 30 free hours as long as the funding is right.
'Having established her own small business, Mrs Dinenage will be familiar with the challenges that SMEs face, so I'm sure she will be interested in getting to know the mixed economy in childcare and early years education. Private, voluntary and independent nurseries which are crucial to the delivery of 30 hours free childcare can offer quality, capacity and flexibility if they are given the right conditions to operate in.
'Continued momentum on the early years workforce strategy introduced by Sam Gyimah is also extremely important. A promised qualifications review is also needed urgently as current requirements for childcare students to hold GCSEs in maths and English at a minimum of grade C is causing a barrier to many great candidates.'
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Q: Discrete Math Predicate Logic with Balls Attempting to use the predicate symbols shown and appropriate quantifiers, write each English language statement as a predicate wff. (The domain is the whole world.) I want to know if this is correct.
B(x) is "x is a ball."
R(x) is "x is round."
S(x) is "x is a soccer ball."

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*All balls are round.

My attempt: (∀x)B(x)∧[R(x)]

*Not all balls are soccer balls.

My attempt: ~[(∀x)(B(x)→S(x))]

*All soccer balls are round.

My attempt: (∀x)S(x)→[R(x)]

*Some balls are not round.

My Attempt: (∃x)(B(x)∧~[R(x)]

A: (1) Incorrect. You've stated that anything in the whole world is round and is a ball.
Answer: $$\forall x, \,  B(x) \implies R(x).$$
(2) Correct. Simplification will give $$\exists x : B(x) \wedge \neg S(x).$$
(3) and (4) are correct.

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Is It Possible To Remove Chemical Weapons In Syria Under Current Conditions?
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
And I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning. Let's talk next with the United Nations official who oversaw the U.N.'s report on the use of poison gas in Syria. This report does not specify who used those chemical weapons, but the United States and others say evidence in that report backs their claim that the Assad regime was behind the attack.
The woman responsible for the report is Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs. And in our conversation earlier today, we asked how hard it was to work in Syria.
ANGELA KANE: It was a very difficult mission. The team that is headed by Professor Sulstrom(ph) worked in 40-degree Centigrade temperatures in full gear, under conditions that were not exactly ideal from a security viewpoint. The first day they went in, they actually were fired at by sniper fire. And they still persevered and said no, we've got to do this job. And what you've seen yesterday come out is the report that the team did.
INSKEEP: So that sounds rather difficult. You're talking about 40 degrees Centigrade. For people who measure in Fahrenheit, let's just stipulate that's really hot to be in a moon suit. Do you believe it's going to be possible to find and remove chemical weapons under the conditions you just described?
KANE: I think it is a challenge. I don't think it's ever happened before; that you have to not remove but also destroy chemical weapons and chemical agents in a rebel situation, with fighting going on between the government and the opposition. But I think it can be done.
And what we have seen so far, what I have heard, is that there is great cooperation from the Syrian government. They need to declare their stockpiles, they need to declare what they possess. And then, of course, the need to look at, in terms of how can it be destroyed safely, quickly. And as you know, the Geneva agreement has very, very ambitious timelines as to the location - knowing the location - and then also the destruction of the weapons stockpiles.
INSKEEP: Ambassador, what do you think of analysts who are saying that your evidence points pretty clearly at the government of Syria being responsible for the chemical attack in August?
KANE: I do not think that they have looked at the report. It's about 40 pages. I mean, it's very detailed in terms of what they've found; the symptoms they've found, the munitions they've found; the environmental samples they took including fragments from rockets. And so there's a lot of information in the report from which analysts will draw their own conclusions.
We have always said we will not point fingers at anyone. We will simply present the report as factual evidence, as scientific evidence. And I think that the scientific evidence has been hailed all around as very, very sound. So the analysis that will done will be done by others.
INSKEEP: Help people understand this who may wonder what's the point of doing it if you're not going to say who did it.
KANE: We have never had an investigation of a chemical weapons, allegations of chemical weapons used where a team actually went in within four or five days after the attack happened and had so much first-hand evidence. I think it is absolutely unprecedented and it is really a major achievement that it was possible to be done. And I do think that I would hope that anyone who wishes to think about, or wants to think about using chemical weapons, will not do so because I think in this day and age - an immediate perseverance in trying to get at the truth, and then also, as the secretary-general has repeatedly said, hold those who are responsible to account.
INSKEEP: Well, granting that you didn't see it as part of your mandate to assign blame, is this evidence of a quality that could be used in a criminal prosecution?
KANE: I am not a lawyer, Steve. I can't really tell you that. All I can tell is let the experts have a look at the report and draw their own conclusions. And if they feel that that is backed up by the report, then so be it. We only put the facts out there for the world to see.
INSKEEP: Have you maintained a chain of custody of this evidence that would be sufficient that it could be handed over to prosecutors should that decision be made?
KANE: That chain of custody is absolutely guaranteed. Whatever the team took, and they took about 30 environmental samples; they had a lot of blood, urine and hair samples that they analyzed. That chain of custody means that they took it themselves and they guarantee that never left their sight until it was brought to the laboratories and analyzed. And that is all going to be archived. So that chain of custody remains as it is right now.
INSKEEP: Angela Kane is the U.N. high representative for disarmament. She's in New York. Thanks very much.
KANE: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk once notoriously called hydrogen fuel-cell cars "bull****"," and for a moment, it may seem that Toyota agrees.
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One of Rattle's toes was amputated today. He seems happy, despite the fact that he may never be a sled dog again. It turns out that his toe was fractured. Meds for him are cephalexin and rimadyl. We need to keep his foot dry and bandaged for 2 weeks. I'll take some pictures when we take the bandage off in a few days.


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Characterization of genetic polymorphism in the goat β-lactoglobulin gene
Ramona N. Pena, Armand Sánchez, Josep M. Folch
Two new variants have been detected and characterized for the goat β-lactoglobulin gene at the cDNA level and confirmed at the genomic level. The two polymorphisms are located on exon 7 of the gene. One of the polymorphic sites is produced by a single nucleotide substitution in position +4601, allowing a polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) genotyping procedure to be developed using SacII restriction enzyme. The other polymorphic position contains a 10 bp long insertion at position + 4641 that can be detected by capillary electrophoresis of the PCR product amplified with a fluorescent primer. The association of these two polymorphisms was also investigated, resulting in the description of two new alleles. Both of these contained the point mutation at the SacII site, with or without the 10 bp insertion at position +4641. The distribution of these new polymorphisms was studied in a population of males of four different goat breeds. The gene frequencies for these variants were similar in Spanish and French breeds.
Journal of Dairy Research
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Pena, R. N., Sánchez, A., & Folch, J. M. (2000). Characterization of genetic polymorphism in the goat β-lactoglobulin gene. Journal of Dairy Research, 67(2), 217-224. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022029900004155
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N2 - Two new variants have been detected and characterized for the goat β-lactoglobulin gene at the cDNA level and confirmed at the genomic level. The two polymorphisms are located on exon 7 of the gene. One of the polymorphic sites is produced by a single nucleotide substitution in position +4601, allowing a polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) genotyping procedure to be developed using SacII restriction enzyme. The other polymorphic position contains a 10 bp long insertion at position + 4641 that can be detected by capillary electrophoresis of the PCR product amplified with a fluorescent primer. The association of these two polymorphisms was also investigated, resulting in the description of two new alleles. Both of these contained the point mutation at the SacII site, with or without the 10 bp insertion at position +4641. The distribution of these new polymorphisms was studied in a population of males of four different goat breeds. The gene frequencies for these variants were similar in Spanish and French breeds.
AB - Two new variants have been detected and characterized for the goat β-lactoglobulin gene at the cDNA level and confirmed at the genomic level. The two polymorphisms are located on exon 7 of the gene. One of the polymorphic sites is produced by a single nucleotide substitution in position +4601, allowing a polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) genotyping procedure to be developed using SacII restriction enzyme. The other polymorphic position contains a 10 bp long insertion at position + 4641 that can be detected by capillary electrophoresis of the PCR product amplified with a fluorescent primer. The association of these two polymorphisms was also investigated, resulting in the description of two new alleles. Both of these contained the point mutation at the SacII site, with or without the 10 bp insertion at position +4641. The distribution of these new polymorphisms was studied in a population of males of four different goat breeds. The gene frequencies for these variants were similar in Spanish and French breeds.
JO - Journal of Dairy Research
JF - Journal of Dairy Research
Pena RN, Sánchez A, Folch JM. Characterization of genetic polymorphism in the goat β-lactoglobulin gene. Journal of Dairy Research. 2000 May 1;67(2):217-224. doi: 10.1017/S0022029900004155


Welcome to Dunsford District Elementary School! Dunsford District Elementary School is the proud home of the Stingers. The school opened in 1978, with 263 students and 14 teachers on staff. An increase in the school's population resulted in an addition in December of 1989 – doubling the size of the school. The school currently has about 265 students. The staff consists of 14 teachers, 4 educational assistants, 2 custodians and 1 secretary.
Dunsford DES strives to provide an outstanding academic experience for its students. Our school's dedicated staff also seek to provide a wide variety of extra-curricular activities for our students. Sports teams are fielded in cross-country, soccer, volleyball, basketball and track and field. A wide variety of other extra-curricular activities are also available to students, including plays (an annual Christmas Concert), the Leadership Group and a vibrant intramural sports program which runs throughout the year. The school community (students, parents and staff) generously supports a number of charities such as the Terry Fox Run, a Christmas Hamper Program and the Lindsay Animal Shelter. Staff, students and parents alike take great pride in our school and it shows!
Dunsford District Elementary School serves an area generally bounded by Sturgeon Lake to the north, Pigeon River and Lake to the east. The southern boundary is St. Luke's Road from Pigeon River going as far west as Heights Road. The boundary then goes north along Heights Road until Pickerel Point Road and west to Sturgeon Lake. The school is located just off of Highway 36.


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Islamic finance is the ideal catalyst for taking trade relations between East and West to a new level
Ameinfo - 28 May 07
Islamic finance is the ideal catalyst for taking trade relations between East and West to a new level, Bahrain-based Ithmaar Bank CEO Michael Lee told the recent World Economic Forum on the Middle East at the Dead Sea, Jordan.
More than 1,200 political and business leaders, including 16 heads of state, took part in the conference, which was opened by H.M. King Abdullah Ibn Al Hussein. In his keynote address, Lee said that Western countries and companies are increasingly looking towards Islamic finance as an option for raising money for major projects. 'The worldwide Islamic finance market is currently worth more than $500 billion, with Islamic banks growing at around 20 per cent a year, twice as fast as their traditional counterparts. The combined turnover of the Islamic banking industry could top 2 trillion US dollars in the next three years or so,' he said.
'The Sukuks (Islamic bonds) market is still in its infancy stages but has huge potential for growth. The sizes of some Sukuks already issued are staggering, running into the billions of US dollars, and they are being used to fund major developments and expansions in the West,'said Lee. Lee also explained that Sukuks are no longer solely being issued by Middle East-based Islamic banks. 'In 2004 a Sukuk was issued by the German State of Saxony specifically targeting Middle Eastern markets and last year saw the first US Sukuk, which raised money for gas field projects. Sukuks are also expected to become a popular mode of financing in the UK and Japan,' he said. 'Even the banking giants of the Western world are getting into Islamic finance, with Standard Chartered, Citigroup and HSBC being just some of the major institutions launching Islamic services.' Lee added, however, that Islamic Banking will need time to mature as an industry before it can operate on the same level as conventional banks. 'A broad and transparent regulatory framework needs to be in place in order to win the complete trust of multinationals and countries outside the Muslim world. We at Ithmaar Bank are pleased to be operating from the Kingdom of Bahrain, which is helping to pioneer these new standards,' he continued. 'The industry also needs to find new ways to differentiate itself from traditional banking by offering unique products and services that emphasize the strengths of Islamic finance.' Mr. Lee is a seasoned investment banker with over 34 years of experience serving multilateral, governmental, corporate, financial institutional and high net-worth clients, at Merrill Lynch in London, Hong Kong and New York, and at Dean Witter, where he was Chief Executive of Dean Witter Capital Markets-International in London. In 1992, he became a senior adviser at the Kingdom of Bahrain's then Ministry of Finance & National Economy, providing inter alia strategic advice on the development and regulation of the Bahrain International Financial Centre. Immediately prior to joining Ithmaar Bank, he was with Emerging Markets Partnership, which he joined as Managing Director in 1998, and where he was Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Emerging Markets Partnership Bahrain, 40% owned by Shamil Bank of Bahrain, a subsidiary of Ithmaar Bank; EMP Bahrain is the general partner and manager of the US$ 930.5 million Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Infrastructure Fund.
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The faceoff between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees, which saw Boston defeat New York in 10 innings, delivered the best Sunday Night Baseball rating in four years for ESPN, according to Nielsen.
Boston started its rally in the ninth when Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman issued back-to-back, one-out walks. He allowed three walks and J.D. Martinez's two-out, two-run, bases-loaded single over second baseman Gleyber Torres' leaping attempt, cutting New York's lead to 4-3. Boston tied the score on a throwing error by Yankees third baseman Miguel Andújar.
Cora's Red Sox went on to win the game 4-1 without their manager. In the bottom of the first, Severino came up and in on Mookie Betts. Four pitches later, Benintendi capped the four-hour, 39-minute marathon by chopping a single up the middle as pinch runner Tony Renda scored.
Benintendi hit a walk-off single that gave Boston the win, sent Fenway Park into hysterics and buried the Yankees even deeper in the AL East standings.
Have the Boston Red Sox already locked up the American League East? In 12 games this season, he's batting.353 with a homer, 11 RBIs, and a.990 OPS.
Ramon Laguarta , the future CEO, has spent 22 years at the company, and served as the President of PepsiCo. PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi will step down after 12 years of leading the food and beverage giant.
While many people are thinking Alisson's acquisition could be the final piece in Liverpool's jigsaw, their former manager isn't too sure.
The U.S. also said that it would exert "maximum economic and diplomatic pressure" on other countries to stop buying crude oil from Iran.
The Red Sox comeback finished out a worst-case scenario for the Yankees over the weekend. Washington pulled out a 2-1 win.
David Price held the lead until allowing the first two hitters to reach in the seventh.
Masahiro Tanaka allowed Betts' homer but little else among six hits.


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The creation of the dental hygiene program in the VCU School of Dentistry four decades ago marked a milestone for women in the field of dentistry. In its beginnings, the program faced challenges with resistance to dental hygiene as a discipline and the presence of women in the school. The program graduated six students in its first class – all of whom satisfied the requirements by attending dental, pharmacy and nursing classes.
"It was unheard of for women to take dental classes," says Jackie P. Jackson (B.S.'72/D), a graduate of the department's second class. "We were breaking new ground."
Like others in her class, Jackson, now an employee benefits consultant, started her career in dental hygiene and later changed her line of work.
"We learned to think diagnostically because we did not take every class at the dental school," she says.
Since then, the department has grown exponentially. The new W. Baxter Perkinson, Jr. Building features a dental hygiene office suite and includes a state-of-the-art classroom to accommodate as many as 50 dental hygiene students. The latest equipment and resources were purchased for the expanded program in preparation for increasing student enrollment, which doubled to 40 from last year.
During Reunion and Alumni Weekend this past April, the division hosted the biggest alumni event in the program's history. A leadership group of 40 dental hygiene alumnae coordinated their efforts and helped to mark the 40th anniversary by raising $70,000, more than 10 times the average for annual giving to the division.
"These gifts mark a new milestone in the history of the dental hygiene program," said Jim Doyle, the school's development director for alumni engagement.
Many members of the first five classes each pledged $5,000 to benefit the division's annual fund, the Dental Hygiene Leadership Fund. Their gift honors Ann Dinius, Ph.D., (Cert.'89/AHP), the division's first director and the first full-time female faculty member in the School of Dentistry.
The School of Dentistry expressed its gratitude to Dinius for launching the program 40 years ago and named the new dental hygiene office suite in the Perkinson Building in her honor. Dinius learned of the naming in a surprise announcement at a donor dinner hosted by alumna Jan Milner (B.S.'72/DH; D.D.S.'83/D) and Jackson.
"It is rewarding to hear how the dental hygiene program we put together 40 years ago has had such positive influence," Dinius said. "I couldn't be more proud of the achievements and successes of VCU graduates and that I had a part in their dental hygiene education."
To make a gift to the School of Dentistry, contact Jim Doyle, director of development for alumni engagement, at (804) 828-1138 or pjdoyle@vcu.edu.


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Jim Cummings - Another of Queenie's drones, truck driver, Mr. Sneed, leader of "Iron Goose"
First really major parody ep: New Wave rockers (Blondie), Silly Symphonies (opening musical scene), Irwin Allen's "The Swarm."
First ep to feature Zipper. Emphasized are his smallness and resulting feelings of inferiority and unimportance, also his bravery.
Queenie a hard-edged "heroine": selfish, self centered but ultimately earns our sympathy for being a "pure" victim. You can understand her feelings after being deprived of attention.


A new national study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found large state-to-state differences in the use of medication, therapy, and combination treatment for children with ADHD. Overall, the study found that close to 87% of children in the US with diagnosed ADHD receive at least one of these treatments.
The study, "Treatment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Among Children with Special Health Needs," found that among children ages 4 to 17 diagnosed with ADHD, nationwide about 40% took medication alone, 10% received behavioral therapy alone, and 30% used a combination of medication and behavioral therapy. About 10% took nutritional supplements believed to help treat ADHD.
The CDC reports that among preschoolers specifically, about half received behavioral therapy either alone or in combination with medication, and about 25% took medication alone. In addition, 20% of children aged four to five with ADHD received no treatment.
Published in the April 1, 2015 issue of The Journal of Pediatrics, this study relies on the most recent data available, which were collected during 2009–2010. The data came from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, a nationwide phone questionnaire that relies on parent reports of ADHD diagnosis and treatment.
In this study, the term "behavioral therapy" serves as a catchall for a wide range of behavior treatments. These include classroom management, peer interventions, social skills training, and cognitive behavioral therapy. The questions also didn't distinguish the intensity of treatments.
The state-by-state breakdown of treatment for ADHD showed some dramatic trends. In nearly the entire Northeast, at least 50% of children with ADHD had received some sort of behavioral therapy for ADHD in the past year. Compare that to southern states such as Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, and West Virginia where less than 40% of kids had done the same. The state with the highest use of behavioral therapy was Hawaii (60.6%) and the lowest was Tennessee (32.5%).
In several states in the Midwest, including South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa, more than 80% of kids with ADHD had been treated with medication within the previous week. However, many of these states also had high levels of behavioral therapy use.
The state with the highest percentage of kids with ADHD who took medication was Michigan (87.5%), while the lowest was California (56.6%).
An overview of ADHD data from the CDC, including maps is here, and state-by-state data are available here.
In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a new set of clinical guidelines for treating ADHD in children. These recommendations came out after the data were collected for this survey.
Among the guidelines, the AAP says a combination of therapy and medication is the best treatment for children ages 6 to 11 with ADHD. The AAP says that children under age six should initially be treated only with behavioral therapy. When a preschooler doesn't respond to therapy, the AAP says to try adding a methylphenidate medication, such as Ritalin.
The CDC researchers see these data as a benchmark on which they can compare how prescribing and therapy practices have changed since the AAP guidelines were released.
White children were more likely to be treated with medication alone than non-white children.
Children who lived in the West, had mild ADHD, or who had a co-occurring condition were less likely to have taken medication for ADHD in the previous week.
Children with ADHD who lived below the poverty line were more likely to have received behavioral therapy in the past year than children living 200% or more above the poverty line.
There was an inverse correlation between state-based estimates of past year behavioral therapy use and past week medication use (in other words: more behavioral therapy = less medication and vice-versa).
About 10% of kids with ADHD took a dietary supplement for it. This was most common among those with a co-occurring condition and those with college-educated and high-earning parents. Only about 1% of kids took only a dietary supplement with no other treatment; the majority of them took the supplement along with medication, therapy or both.
A total of 88.6% kids with ADHD were being treated with medication, dietary supplements, behavioral therapy, or some combination of the three; about 11% of kids with ADHD were not being treated with any of these methods.
About 85% of kids taking medication took a central nervous system stimulant, the standard medication of choice for ADHD. So what were the other kids taking? Almost 6% were taking an atypical antipsychotic, 3% an SSRI, and 4% each clonidine (Catapres, Kapvay) and guanfacine (Intuniv).
Kids who had a "medical home"—a concept mainstreamed by the AAP that focuses on coordinated, accessible, patient-centered care—and private insurance were more likely to have taken medication than kids without a medical home (or a central hub of care) and with public insurance; those children were more likely to have received behavioral therapy.


NEW SEASON PREMIERE! The first Fall Festival of Theme Shows presents Music: Peabody pianist Xiaohui Yang & Young Artists of America: The Songs of Tim Rice, both filmed in MPT studios. Also pipe organist rock star Cameron Carpenter.


PT. Kao Indonesia subsidiary of Kao Corporation is one of the leading multinational companies in consumer goods. The company has various products to fulfill and satisfy consumer needs. In nowadays business the company has implemented integrated business system and quality management procedures to pursue consumer satisfaction.
PT Len Industri (Persero) is one of the largest Indonesian state owned electronic and telecommunication company. The Company established in 1965 and initialy as a government research institution. The Company's status changed into a state-owned limited company under the Ministry of SOEs in 1991.
The Company head quartered in Bandung and operated 6 (six) business units; Renewable Energy, Navigation System, Railway Transportation, Telecomunication, Control System, and Defence Electronic. In 2010, The Company awarded CIQS 2000:2002 certificate of quality system access network from the certification learning center institution of PT Telkom Indonesia Tbk. To supported its business, PT Len Industri (Persero) operated 3 subsidiaries company, consist of PT Interloka Utama, PT Eltran Indonesia, and PT Surya Energi Indotama.
ConocoPhillips is one of the world's largest independent E&P companies, based on proved reserves and production of liquids and natural gas, with operations in almost 30 countries. In Indonesia, ConocoPhillips has been operating for more than 40 years and continues to grow and play a role as one of Indonesias leading partner in meeting increasing energy demands by exploring new reserves as well as maximizing the value of existing core areas. We're searching for highly motivated, top-performing individuals who are seeking for the opportunity to develop, learn and grow with a dynamic and global company for the following positions.
Angkasa Pura 2 Lowongan Kerja kembali tersedia bagi kandidat yang berkeinginan untuk ambil bagian dari perusahaan nasional yang berfokus pada sektor pelayanan bandara udara di bagian barat Indonesia.


At 21:58 Allentown transmitted box 2521 (12th & Turner) for 144 North 12th Street for a house fire sending Engines 9, 4, 10, 6, Truck 2 (Engine 11) and Battalion 3.
Battalion 3 arrived and reported nothing showing from a 3-story M/O/R (middle-of-row). Upon further investigation, he reported smoke in the hallway of the number 2 floor. Engine 9 Stretched a hand line to the second floor and found a kitchen fire. A second hand line was stretched to the floor above as the fire was extending to that floor.
Crews contained the fire with two hand lines. Searches of the dwelling came up negative. Engine 14 was dispatched to the scene for fire watch. Companies were on the scene for about an hour.


Note: Organizations in formation are not real associations yet and also no legal entity. They are more like an initiative that works towards the creation of a new industry representation in form of a trade organization/association.
PMA, the Performance Marketing Alliance is an attempt to form an industry association for the affiliate marketing industry. The initiative was launched with financial backing from Affiliate Classroom in spring 2008 and has gained strong support across the various players in this industry. The association formation process is still in progress. Visit the PMA website for more information about the initiative itself and how you can actively participate in its formation process.
Note: The organizations and associations in this list are ordered alphabetically and not by size or reach.
ABM, the American Business Media. Founded in 1906, American Business Media is the association of business information providers, delivering business intelligence to industry, Madison Avenue, Wall Street and the Beltway. Its 300-plus member companies reach an audience of more than 100 million professionals and represent nearly 5,000 print and online titles and 1,000 trade shows and well over $20 billion in annual revenues.
AMA, the American Marketing Association at MarketingPower.com. The AMA's website, MarketingPower.com, supplies marketing professionals and AMA members with the information, products and services required to succeed in their jobs and careers.
AMA, the American Management Association at AMANet.org. American Management Association is a world leader in professional development, advancing the skills of individuals to drive business success. AMA supports the goals of individuals and organizations through a complete range of products and services, including seminars, Webcasts and podcasts, conferences, corporate and government solutions, business books and research.
ANA, the Association of National Advertisers at ANA.net leads the marketing community by providing its members insights, collaboration and advocacy. ANA represents over 400 companies with 9,000 brands that collectively spend over $100 billion in marketing communications and advertising. The ANA strives to communicate marketing best practices, lead industry initiatives, influence industry practices, manage industry affairs and advance, promote and protect all advertisers and marketers.
BMA, the Business Marketing Association at Marketing.org is the world's largest B2B Marketers Association. BMA thought leaders will be sharing stories from member clients like Siemens, Gates Rubber, Cemex, HP and more.
DMA, the the Direct Marketing Association is the worldwide largest organization for direct marketers. AIM (Association for Interactive Marketing) is since 2005 part of DMA. The DMA also established the Interactive Marketing Advisory Board (IMAB).
IAB, the Interactive Advertising Bureau Homepage. Founded in 1996, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (www.iab.net) represents over 300 leading interactive companies that actively engage in and support the sale of interactive advertising. The IAB is dedicated to the continuing growth of the interactive advertising marketplace, of interactive's share of total marketing spend, and of its members' share of total marketing spend.
IBNMA, the International Blogging & New Media Association for bloggers, podcasters and others who are active in the New Media space.
ICA, the Internet Commerce Association. The Internet Commerce Association - Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Domain Name Entrepreneurs. It's mission is to promote and share best practices among participants in the domain name industry and to educate consumers, policy makers, law makers and the media about the value and benefits of direct navigation traffic and the domain name industry.
IIMA, the International Internet Marketing Association. The IIMA is an organization that helps marketers understand the value and potential of marketing on the web and strives to raise all marketers' abilities to a new level.
IMC USA, the Institure of Management Consultants USA. IMC USA is the premier professional association and sole certifying body dedicated to individuals consulting to management. The IMC USA mission is to promote excellence and ethics in management consulting through certification, education, and professional resources.
OLGA, the Online Lead Generation Association promotes best practices in online lead generation (Lead-Gen), co-registration (Co-Reg), and related online marketing disciplines. It aims is to educate Web site publishers and marketers about the benefits of user-friendly, high-quality opt-in leads, and to represent their interests in legislative and regulatory venues.
PRSA, the Public Relations Society of America is the world's largest organization for PR professionals. PRSA's primary objectives are to advance the standards of the public relations profession and to provide members with professional development opportunities through continuing education programs, information exchange forums and research projects conducted on the national and local levels.
SCIP, the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) is a global nonprofit membership organization for everyone involved in creating and managing business knowledge. Our mission is to enhance the success of our members through leadership, education, advocacy, and networking.
SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization - non-profit professional association working to increase awareness and promote the value of Search Engine Marketing worldwide.
SEO Pros, the Organization of Search Engine Optimization Professionals is an Not For Profit Organization of search engine optimization consultants and internet marketers developing and implementing a set of "best practices" standards for search engine optimization professionals.
SMBTN, the SMB Technology Network is an organization for IT consultants, resellers, and related professions (Small and Medium Businesses). SMB Technology Network (SMBTN) is a membership organization for IT consultants, resellers, and related professions which provide IT services and/or solutions to businesses. It's mission is to provide new opportunities for those serving the Small and Medium sized business space through education, collaboration, and networking.
USASBE, the United States Association for Small Business Entrepreneurship. USASBE is the leading voice in entrepreneurship research, teaching, and application. It's mission is to advance knowledge and foster business development through entrepreneurship education and research.
WAA, the Web Analytics Association. The WAA unites and fosters the interests of industry practitioners, vendors, consultants and educators who use, sell, install, implement, consult, teach or train in the field of web analytics.
WOMMA, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association - the official trade association for the word of mouth/viral/buzz marketing industry. WOMMA's mission is to promote and improve word of mouth marketing by: Promoting "best practices" to ensure more effective marketing, protecting consumers and the industry with strong ethical guidelines, evangelizing word of mouth as an effective marketing tool and setting standards to encourage its use.
GPWA, the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association. The GPWA is a professional association of webmasters and others who promote online gaming. They offer a variety of benefits to their 6,000+ members. They publish the GPWA Times, a print magazine and weekly online newsletter, run an active forum with over 200,000 posts, operate a seal of approval program for portal websites operated in a reputable fashion, and provide facebook applications to members enabling them to earn revenue through social networking. Membership in the association is free.
Consumer Protection and Business Regulations Agencies and Organizations. Consumer and Business Protection Resources and Information.
AMA Canada, the Affiliate Marketers Alliance for Canadadian affiliate marketers. Bringing Marketers Together - The Affiliate Marketers Alliance is an organization developed to bring internet and affiliate marketing professionals from various fields together and to provide a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas.
CAMA, the Christian Affiliate Marketing Association is organized by Wade Tonkin for christrian affiliate marketers. The Christian Affiliate Marketing Association (CAMA) is non-denominational (or is it multi-denominational) faith-based organization that was formed in July 2007. It's mission is to promote Christian values (integrity, fairness, etc) in affiliate marketing, promote wholesome Christian affiliate programs and offers, offer resources to Christian affiliates and merchants to help them be more effective and to promote fellowship by presenting Christian themed events at secular online marketing industry events.
HiMA, the Houston Interactive Marketing Association. HiMA is Houston's advocate for interactive marketing and it is dedicated to increasing the awareness, education and utilization of interactive marketing in the Greater Houston area.
SMA-UK, the Search Marketing Association UK (for search marketers from Great Britain). Founded in October 2004, SMA has the mission "To provide a service to search marketing individual professionals and companies by helping to establish a favourable operating environment, by providing a forum for discussion on non-competitive issues and by providing information to assist them in their business."
SEM PDX - Search Engine Marketing Professionals of Portland (SEMpdx). SEMpdx vision is to build national credibility for Portland as a hub for the search engine marketing industry. It's mission includes goals like: to develop and enhance member businesses & employees and to inform and educate the Portland community on the benefits of SEM.
SMA-NA, the Search Marketing Association of North America. The SMA-NA is an association for people and companies involved in the study, promotion and practice of search engine marketing.
The SMA-NA has been dissolved effective Sept 15, 2007.


Things I liked: ability to customize fit to my stature, overall quality, accuracy, trigger, light feeling cocking effort, and balance. the r-11 is a great rifie, i have owned two r-7's and one r-8, for over 20 years all fine rifles, but the r-11 is in another class. one hole groups @ 20 yds.,with crossman premiums ," light or heavy", most .25 " or less indoors.
Things I would have changed: for myself nothing, but for someone wanting to put a scope over about sixteen inches in length , a longer reciever would probably be necessary.
What others should know: like an ole buddy once told me," long after the price is forgotten-- the quality remains", i believe my r-11 will be a testament to this , as the r-7 's and r-8 are. pyramyd air really made my day the first trip to the indoor range with the r-11!!!


FILE - Actor and comedian Bill Cosby exits the Montgomery County Courthouse after a jury convicted him in a sexual assault retrial in Norristown, Pennsylvania, April 26, 2018.
Bill Cosby faced the start of a sentencing hearing Monday at which a judge will decide how to punish the 81-year-old comedian who blazed the trail for other black entertainers and donated millions to black causes but preyed on at least one young woman and perhaps many more.
Cosby was the first celebrity to go to trial in the #MeToo era and could be the first to go to prison — perhaps for the rest of his days — after being convicted in April of drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.
"Obviously, the allegations are serious, and, except for his age and poor health, would normally warrant some jail time," said Samuel Stretton, a veteran defense lawyer not connected to the case.
"I really think it's important that he spend some time behind bars," said Lublin, who said Cosby assaulted her when she was 23 in 1989. "At some point, he should acknowledge what he's done, and do the time for the crime."
FILE - Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand, center, reacts after the guilty on all counts verdict was delivered in the sexual assault retrial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, April 26, 2018.
Monday morning, just a few hours before the sentencing hearing was to begin, Constand tweeted Ephesians 4:26, a Bible verse about letting go of anger: "Be wrathful, but do not sin; do not let the sun set while you are still angry; do not give the Devil an opportunity."


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Our Clive Historical Diorama is a real, working model train designed and planned from Clive maps from the early 1900s. Come and see this exciting display at the Clive Depot in Swanson Memorial Park.
Caboose Acquisition
When we were talking to the owners of the Norfolk Southern Railroad about acquiring the Depot, they offered the Clive Caboose to us. At that time, the railroads were doing away with using a caboose at the end of trains and they didn't need it any more. Since we were interested in the Depot as a museum, they thought we might be interested in having the Caboose for our "historical park." They were correct! Cabooses are really hard to find and so we are very lucky to have one. It fits in very nicely with our "railroad" history for the City of Clive.
Swanson House History
1940's picture of the Swanson Family.
Left to right: Charles, Scennia, Mildred, Ester, Eileen, Agnes
Scennia
The Swanson House was built in 1911 for the purpose of income and living quarters for Mrs. Scennia Swanson and her five small children.
"In the fall of 1911, my mother was left a widow with five small children, ages ranging from five months (Mildred) to 10 years old. She left the farm in Grimes and built her home in Clive with the help of friends and neighbors. It was in this General Store and Post Office where she raised her family. Our home was very plain. No carpet on the floors. We lived in the upstairs. Only the living room was papered. The downstairs was used for the store, post office and general storage."
–Mildred Swanson
Mrs. Scennia Swanson ran the store from 1911 to 1929. At that time it was turned into a two-story house where Scennia and Mildred lived out the rest of their lives.
» Swanson General Store: 1911-1929
» Post Office: 1912-1929
» Private Swanson home until 1991
» CHS restores home as General Store & Post Office.
Upon Mildred's death in 1991, she left the property in trust to the City of Clive with the stipulation that it be developed into a park. The city had no desire to work with the structure (house) and came to the historical society to see if they would want to restore the house to some functional capacity and manage it. For the Historical Society, it was a blessing in disguise. No one would wish for Mildred's death, but with this property, a plan was devised for allowing the old depot to be moved across the street instead of to the new Campbell Park and a promise was make to restore the house to the original General Store.
Restoring the Swanson house back to the General Store cost approximately $45,000. The addition had to be removed and replaced, the interior was gutted to remove walls that had been added, floors had to be replaced that had been destroyed by termites. When our contractor removed the 13 layers of wall paper in the main rooms he could see exactly where the shelves had been in the store, so he built the shelves to match the original ones.


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Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius en latin, Alde l'Ancien ou Alde Manuce en français), né en 1449 à Bassiano dans les Marais pontins et mort le  à Venise, est un imprimeur-libraire italien installé à Venise, qui a joué un rôle fondamental dans la diffusion de la culture humaniste de la Renaissance dans la péninsule italienne, et particulièrement de la littérature grecque.

Biographie

En 1494, Manuce ouvre son imprimerie à Venise. Il travaille avec de nombreux collaborateurs ; parmi eux, Andrea Torresano, l'un des éditeurs vénitiens les plus célèbres depuis les années 1480 et dont il épousera la fille, Maria, en 1505. Torresani lui procura la maîtrise technique complétée par celle des caractères gravés par le tailleur de poinçons bolonais, Francesco Griffo.

Dès ses premiers livres non datés ainsi que son premier livre daté, une grammaire grecque, Alde Manuce peut ainsi imprimer en grec. L'impression en grec avait été difficile à mettre en place, quoique des mots grecs soient présents dans les premiers livres imprimés en Italie, à Subiaco, dès 1465. Au moment où Alde Manuce commence son activité, les imprimeurs ont réussi à maîtriser les accents et esprits nécessaires à la compréhension du texte. Ils cherchent encore trop souvent à reproduire les ligatures des manuscrits, ce qui demande un grand nombre de caractères.

Alde Manuce utilise dans sa carrière quatre fontes grecques successives (en 1495, 1496, 1499 et 1502), gravées pour lui par Francesco Griffo, qui utilise comme modèles les écritures d'érudits grecs réfugiés. Ces caractères cursifs furent les plus imités et firent disparaître les styles d'écriture, copiés sur les manuscrits byzantins, qui avaient perduré.

En 1500, Manuce épouse la fille du maître imprimeur Andrea Torresano d'Asola, avec lequel il s'associe. Manuce s'associa aussi avec son ancien élève Alberto III Pio, seigneur de Carpi, qui n'est autre que le neveu de Pic de la Mirandole. L'argent était géré par la plus grande banque siennoise de l'époque, la banque Chigi.

On doit à Alde Manuce l'impression de nombreux ouvrages importants, mais aussi les progrès faits en imprimerie. Le premier, en effet, en 1501, il utilisa les caractères italiques, au moment où il lançait l'édition de petits ouvrages in-octavo plus petits, moins chers et plus maniables que les in-quarto ou in-folio. Ces caractères penchés, gravés par Griffo, permettent de mettre plus de texte dans une seule page.

Alde Manuce reçoit aussi l'aide de nombreux érudits ayant fui l'Empire byzantin après sa conquête par les Ottomans. Ces érudits grecs, Marcus Musurus, Arsène Apostolios, Démétrios Doucas et Janus Lascaris, préparent pour Alde ses éditions grecques et participent à l'Académie qu'il crée.

Avec l'aide de ce groupe d'humanistes, Alde Manuce publie de nombreux ouvrages importants, parmi lesquels on peut citer la plus ancienne édition d'Hérodote en grec en 1502, les editiones principes de la Rhétorique et de la Poétique d'Aristote, les œuvres d'Aristote en quatre volumes, les comédies d'Aristophane, le  de Pline le Jeune, ainsi que des outils pour l'apprentissage de la langue : grammaires grecques (il en écrivit une lui-même qui fut éditée sur ses presses après sa mort), auteurs grecs utilisés pour l'étude de la langue, etc. Il publiera au total plus de .

Mais son chef-d'œuvre typographique reste l'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili attribué à Francesco Colonna, paru en 1499 et  comme l'un des plus beaux incunables de la Renaissance. Ce texte, récit en néo-latin des songes de Poliphile amoureux, est en effet accompagné de très nombreuses gravures et sa mise en page représente l'apogée du travail d'Alde Manuce sur la combination du visuel et du textuel.

Aucune des œuvres publiées par Alde Manuce ne l'est dans un but lucratif, toutes les œuvres sont humanistes. On reconnaît par ailleurs la marque typographique de cet éditeur, qui représente un dauphin s'enroulant autour d'une ancre, symbolisant l'ancien adage  (« Hâte-toi lentement »).

Après sa mort, ses presses furent reprises par son beau-frère et son beau-père, les Torresani d'Asola, puis, à partir de 1533, par son fils Paul Manuce. Son petit-fils Alde le Jeune fut lui-même imprimeur.

Les réserves de ses livres imprimés sont telles que 200 ans après sa mort, on trouve certains d'entre eux encore neufs.

Galerie

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie

  Martin Davies, Aldus Manutius Printer and Publisher of Renaissance Venice, Malibu/Londres, J. Paul Getty Museum/The British Library, 1997.
 Paul Dupont, Histoire de l'imprimerie, Farnborough, Hants.: Gregg, 1971 .

 Verena von der Heyden-Rynsch, Aldo Manuzio, le Michel-Ange du livre. L'art de l'imprimerie à Venise, trad. de l'allemand par Sébastien Diran, Gallimard, 2014,  .

 Pierre Milza, Histoire de l'Italie. Des origines à nos jours, Fayard, 2005,  .

 Antoine-Augustin Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, ou Histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs éditions, Paris, J. Renouard, 1834 ;  éd. (fac-similé Oak Knoll, 1991).
 Bruno Rives, Aldo Manuzio. Passions et secrets d'un Vénitien de génie, Librii, 2008,  .
  Natale Vacalebre (ed.), Five Centuries Later. Aldus Manutius: Culture, Typography and Philology, Florence, Olschki, 2018 .

Portrait gravé
 Portrait d'Alde Manuce, gravé par Martinus Sibenicensis Rota (1520?-1583)

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Background: Unlike full reading, 'skim-reading' involves the process of looking quickly over information in an attempt to cover more material whilst still being able to retain a superficial view of the underlying content. Within this work, we specifically emulate this natural human activity by providing a dynamic graph-based view of entities automatically extracted from text. For the extraction, we use shallow parsing, co-occurrence analysis and semantic similarity computation techniques. Our main motivation is to assist biomedical researchers and clinicians in coping with increasingly large amounts of potentially relevant articles that are being published ongoingly in life sciences. Methods: To construct the high-level network overview of articles, we extract weighted binary statements from the text. We consider two types of these statements, co-occurrence and similarity, both organised in the same distributional representation (i.e., in a vector-space model). For the co-occurrence weights, we use point-wise mutual information that indicates the degree of non-random association between two co-occurring entities. For computing the similarity statement weights, we use cosine distance based on the relevant co-occurrence vectors. These statements are used to build fuzzy indices of terms, statements and provenance article identifiers, which support fuzzy querying and subsequent result ranking. These indexing and querying processes are then used to construct a graph-based interface for searching and browsing entity networks extracted from articles, as well as articles relevant to the networks being browsed. Last but not least, we describe a methodology for automated experimental evaluation of the presented approach. The method uses formal comparison of the graphs generated by our tool to relevant gold standards based on manually curated PubMed, TREC challenge and MeSH data. Results: We provide a web-based prototype (called `SKIMMR') that generates a network of inter-related entities from a set of documents which a user may explore through our interface. When a particular area of the entity network looks interesting to a user, the tool displays the documents that are the most relevant to those entities of interest currently shown in the network. We present this as a methodology for browsing a collection of research articles. To illustrate the practical applicability of SKIMMR, we present examples of its use in the domains of Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Parkinson's Disease. Finally, we report on the results of experimental evaluation using the two domains and one additional dataset based on the TREC challenge. The results show that the presented method for machine-aided skim reading outperforms tools like PubMed regarding focused browsing and informativeness of the browsing context.
A final version of the article as submitted for publishing in the peer-reviewed PeerJ journal.
Vit Novacek conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, code base of SKIMMR.
Gully APC Burns conceived and designed the experiments, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Note that for the research reported in this article, we have received an exemption notice from an IRB review by the USC UPIRB, under approval number UP-12-00414.
This publication has emanated from research supported in part by research grants from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under Grant Numbers SFI/08/CE/I1380, SFI/08/CE/I1380 -- STTF 11 (2), and SFI/12/RC/2289. Work was also supported under NIH grants RO1-GM083871 and RO1-MH079068-01A2. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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Wendy Whelan and Maya Beiser in
choreography by Lucinda Childs to
music and poetry by David Lang,
Eisenhower Theater,
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
by George Jackson
copyright 2019 by George Jackson
At the start of the 20th Century, Diaghilev's ballet dancers such as Pavlova, Nijinsky, Karsavina, Bolm et al. did "moderne" numbers on their comcert programs. Nijinsky, of course, has been considered an innovative modern dance choreographer as well as a classic-romantic performer. If ballet and modern dance are analogized to poetry and prose, then the reverse examples - modern dancers doing ballet - aren't as frequent. They haven't the requisite bodies nor techniques. Yet there is the instance of Merce Cunningham's partner, Carolyn Brown, daring to dance in Fokine's "Les Sylphides" and doing so quite credibly.
Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan in "The Day." Photo by Hayim Heron and Courtesy of Jacob's Pillow.
Lately, some maturing ballet dancers such as Robert Fairchild and Sara Mearns have have been venturing into modern dance. Currently, at the Kennedy Center, the former New York City Ballet ballerina Wendy Whelan (now that company's associate artistic director) is performing choreography by post-modernist Lucinda Childs. There are just two women on stage in "the Day", Whelan and cellist Maya Beiser. The musician is seated somewhat upstage left, playing her instrument. Whelan moves about, dressed in flowing white like a Roman image of Minerva. The space they inhabit is transected by four metallic poles and a partly horizontal, partly raked floor. Projected behind them is a daytime panorama of sky and perhaps cliffs. Whelan holds herself tensely compared to Beiser. Moreover, Whelan's movements seem intentionally limited and repetitious. This is not a generous goddess.
Whelan stands, stalks, runs, turns forcefully and deliberately, plus she handles props. She does these things repeatedly. Her favorite instrument is a metallic tape measure which she shapes into geometric forms. I was reminded of Ruth Page's 1932 "Variations on Euclid" (also known as "Expanding Universe") but was Childs aware of this predecessor? During the first part of "The Day" , Whelan removes her toga and moves about in simple underwear. Later she has on black, overall tights. The backdrop changes, bringing us indoors from the rocky landscape into a huge hall filled with people at its far end. Throughout this dance's first part, a recorded voice (Reisen's, I think) recites David Lang's poem "The Day" (it is over 300 lines long in the printed program). All the while, Reisen remains seated, playing Lang's often grainy music.
Part 2 is subtitled "world to come". There is no poetry but Lang's music starts with bangs on the cello that becomes more melodic, more mournful than the score for Part 1. Whelan remains dressed in the overall black tights. She repeats poses and motions from the dance's first part but performs them with greater flow and also adds some new motions. There is more taking of poses while lying down. This final, tomorrow section of "The Day" ends with another reminder of preceding work. Veils of white cloth unfurl from on high. One of them covers Whelan. When the long cloth has hit the floor, Whelan wraps herself in it and rolls forward, down the raked portion of the stage floor. This recalled an image from Balanchine's neo-classical "Orpheus". Apparently, according to Childs and her collaborators, our future is a mummy.
Post-modern dance at Judson Church in the 1960s, where Lucinda Childs first called attention to herself, was often simplistic and repetitious yet daring and new emotionally. "The Day" hasn't that risky, innocent edge of feeling. Whelan, Reiser, Lang and Childs try hard to recapture a memory of the future.
Photo above right, also Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan in "The Day." Photo by Hayim Heron and Courtesy of Jacob's Pillow.
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Veduta aerea Giardino Scotto_ foto con drone (F. Muzzi)
Scotto Garden
Interno Giardino Scotto (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)
The Sangallo Fortress, or Cittadella Nuova, rises where the ancient church of Ss. Andrea and Vincenzo in Kinzica (1093) once stood. The base of the bell tower at the entrance to the garden from Lungarno Galilei is only partially visible. The fortress was built starting from 1440, during the first Florentine domination and the government of Cosimo the Elder de' Medici. The first attribution was to Filippo Brunelleschi who likewise gave the design to the new citadel to close the bridge with the two towers (G.Vasari), even if the intervention of Domenico di Matteo, who was restoring the Cittadella Vecchia at the same time, is more likely. The project was submitted to Francesco Sforza of Milan: a triangular structure with corner towers. With the second Pisan republic (1494) the fortress was partially destroyed and rebuilt only after 1509, with a project by Giuliano da Sangallo who endowed it with three bulwarks, on which cannons were placed to defend the city (even if tradition has it that the cannons were aimed at Pisa, for fear of citizen revolts). With the advent of the Lorraine and the new reforms wanted by Pietro Leopoldo at the end of the eighteenth century, the fortress was abandoned and sold for 4,445 ducats to Gasparre Chiesa. In 1798, it passed to the Livorno shipowner Domenico Scotto who transformed it into a real garden of delights. Military rigour gave way to elegant Kaffehaus, to the long vaulted walk punctuated by large arches, pavilions and places of refreshment. Trees were planted and elegant fragrant flower beds created. Unfortunately, to provide for the opening of the road that was to lead from Piazza Guerrazzi to the new Ponte della Vittoria, in 1934, the western bulwark was cut. Almost at the same time, the two gates on the current Lungarno Fibonacci were opened. Recently, the underground ramparts were restored and brought to light the great gate of San Marco in Guatolongo (XII) of the ancient medieval walls and some pictorial decorations. During the summer, the park hosts outdoor film screenings.
The tradition, albeit unfounded, since at the time it had not yet become a garden of delights, tells that in the eighteenth century some meetings of the Colonia Alfea (the Pisan Arcadia) were held in this place: among the illustrious presences, Carlo Goldoni, who recited a sonnet (scene represented in a painting by Annibale Gatti on the curtain of the Verdi theatre). At the end of 1744, Goldoni arrived in Pisa and remained there for three years. In 1753, he published the comedy The servant of two masters, whose draft he had written in the city, dedicating it to the 'very happy days' spent in Pisa. Colonia Alfea was born in Pisa on 24 May 1700 from the union between the Academies of the Stravaganti (Extravagant), Ombrosi (Sombre), Oppressi (Oppressed) and Inesperti (Inexperienced). The requirements for admission were the 'civility of origin, combined with the goodness of morals' as well as a solid reputation as a scholar in at least one of the main sciences.
In 1781, the fortress was sold to Gaspare Chiesa, then passed , in 1798, to Domenico Scotto, a rich shipowner and merchant from Procida who in 1775, at the age of 25, moved to Livorno. His was a life full of encounters, mercantile trades and aristocratic friendships in the society of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The Cittadella Nuova of Pisa, so called to distinguish it from the first fortress, the Citadel in Lungarno Simonelli, where the arsenals are also located, was dismantled and demilitarised. Domenico Scotto had it transformed into a garden of delights with a kaffeehouse and contributed himself to embellish it with laurel, bulbs and strawberry trees from Holland. He also imported various plants including oranges and lemons also from Portugal. He was helped by his daughter-in-law, Teresa, who between 1811 and 1827 bought many tree species, also from the Botanical Garden of Pisa. In 1935, the Municipality of Pisa purchased the garden and, based on a project by engineer Gino Steffanon, started its renovation. The bombings of '43 and '44 left many gaps, and the octagonal-shaped kaffeehouse was destroyed. However, today, following numerous restorations, the Scotto garden is the most romantic public green space in the city.
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