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THINGS TO SEE IN AUTUMNTIME
The Purple and Gold of Autumn
There was once an old gentleman named Father Time, and he had four beautiful daughters.
The eldest was called Winter Time. She was tall and pale. She dressed chiefly in white wool trimmed with wonderful lacework. She was much admired by some, but others considered her very cold and distant. And most agreed that she was the least winsome of the sisters.
The second one was called Spring Time, and she was dressed in beautiful golden-green satin. She had a gentle, sunny disposition; some thought her the loveliest.
The third was Summer Time, and her robe was dark-green velvet. She was warm-hearted and most attractive, full of life and energy, and as unlike the eldest sister as possible.
The youngest was Autumn Time. She certainly was a wonderful creature, with red rosy cheeks, plump form, and riotous good spirits. Her robes were gorgeous and a little extravagant, for she wore a new one every day, and of all that she had, the one that she loved the best and wore the latest was of purple and gold. We can go out in October and see the purple and gold, and gather some scraps of the robe, for it is on every wayside and every hillside.
Why the Chicadee Goes Crazy Twice a Year
A long time ago, when it was always summer in our woods, the Chicadees lived merrily with their cousins, and frolicked the whole year round. But one day Mother Carey sent the small birds a warning that they must move to the South, when the leaves fell from the trees, for hard frost and snow were coming, and maybe starvation too.
All the cousins of the Chicadees listened to the warning and got ready to go; but Tomtit, their leader, only laughed and turned a dozen wheels around a twig that served him for a bar.
"Go to the South?" said he. "Not I; I am too happy here; and as for frost and snow, I never saw any, and I don't believe there are such things."
Very soon the leaves fell from the trees and the Nut-hatches and the King-wrens were so busy getting ready to go that the Chicadees left off play for a minute, to ask questions. They were not pleased with the answer they got, for the messenger had said that all of them were to take a long, long journey that would last for days, and the little King-wrens had actually to go as far as the Gulf of Mexico. Besides, they were to fly by night, to avoid their enemies, the Hawks, and the weather at this season was sure to be stormy. So the Chicadees said it was all nonsense, and went off, singing and chasing one another through the woods, led by Tomtit singing a new song in which he made fun of the travellers.
Tom Tom Tiddy-Mouse!
Hid away in our house,
Hid his brother in the cellar,
Wasn't he a silly feller?
But their cousins were quite serious. They picked out wise leaders and formed themselves into bands. They learned that they must follow their leader, they must twitter as they flew in the darkness, so as to let those behind know where\he leaders were; they must follow the great rivers southward; they must wait for a full moon before starting, and never travel by day.
The noisy, rollicking Chicadees continued to make fun of their cousins as they saw them now gathering in the woods along the river; and at length, when the moon was big, bright, and full, the cousins arose to the call of the leaders and all flew away in the gloom. The Chicadees said that all the cousins were crazy, made some good jokes about the Gulf of Mexico, and then dashed away on their favourite game of tag and tumble through the woods, which, however, did seem rather quiet now, and bare of leaves; while the weather, too, was certainly turning uncomfortably cool.
At length the frost and snow really did come, and the Chicadees were in a bad way. Indeed, they were frightened out of their wits, and dashed hither and thither, seeking in vain for some one to set them aright on the way to the warm land. They flew wildly about the woods, till they were truly crazy. I suppose there was not a squirrel-hole or a hollow log in the neighbourhood that some Chicadee did not enter to inquire if this was the Gulf of Mexico. But no one could tell anything about it, no one was going that way, and the great river was hidden under ice and snow.
About this time a messenger from Mother Carey was passing with a message to the Caribou in the Far North; but all he could tell the Chicadees was that he could not be their guide, as he had other business. "Besides," he said, "you had the same notice as your cousins whom you called 'crazy.' And from what I know of Mother Carey, you will probably have to stick it out here all through the snow, not only now, but in every winter after this; so you may as well make the best of it."
This was sad news for the Chicadee Tomtits; but they were brave little fellows, and seeing they could not help themselves, they went about making the best of it. Before a week had gone by they were in their usual good spirits again, scrambling about the snowy twigs, or chasing one another as before.
They were glad to remember now that Mother Carey said that winter would end. They told each other about it so much that even at its beginning, when a fresh blizzard came on, they would gleefully remark to one another that it was a "sign of spring," and one or another of the flock would lift his voice in the sweet little chant that we all know so well:
Another would take it up and answer back:
and they would keep on repeating the song until the dreary woods rang again with the good news, and the wood-people learned to love the brave little bird that sets his face so cheerfully, to meet so hard a case.
And winter did end. Spring did come at last. And the sign of its coming was when the ice broke on the stream and the pussy willow came purring out above it. The air was full of the good news. The Chicadees felt it, and knew it through and through. They went mad with joy, chasing each other round and round the trees and through the hollow logs, shouting "The spring is here, the spring is here, Hurree, Hurree, Hurree," and in another week their joyous lives were going on as before the trouble came.
But to this day, when the chill wind blows through the deserted woods, the Chicadees seem to lose their wits for a few days, and dart into all sorts of queer places. They may then be found in great cities, or open prairies, cellars, chimneys, and hollow logs; and the next time you find one of the wanderers in any out-of-the-way corner, be sure to remember that the Chicadee goes crazy twice a year, in the fall and in the spring, and probably went into his strange hole or town in search of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Story of the Quaking Aspen or Poplar
The leaf of the Quaking Asp is like the one marked "a" in the drawing. Its trunk is smooth, greenish, or whitish, with black knots of bark like "c". All the farmers know it as Popple, or White Poplar; but the hunters call it Quaking Asp or Aspen.
The name "quaking" was given because it is for ever shaking its leaves; the slightest wind sets them all rustling. They move so easily because each leaf-stem is like a thin, flat strap set on edge; while the leaf-stem of such as the oak is nearly round and scarcely rustles at all. Why does the Quaking Asp do this? No doubt, because it lives in places where the hot dust falls thick on the leaves at times, and if it did not have some trick of shaking it off, the leaf would be choked and bent so that the tree could scarcely breathe; for the leaves are the lungs of the trees. So remember, when the Poplar rustles loudly, it is coughing to clear its lungs of the dust.
Some trees try to hide their troubles, and quickly cover up their wounds; but the Aspen has a very touchy skin and, once it is wounded, it shows the scar as long as it lives. We can, therefore, go to any Aspen tree, and have it tell us the story of its life. Here is the picture of one. The black marks at the forks (c) are scars of growth; the belts of dots (d) were wounds given by a sapsucker to rob it of its sap; the flat places (e) show where a Red Squirrel gnawed off the outer bark.
If a Raccoon climbed the tree (f), or an insect bored into the trunk, we are sure to see a record of it in this sensitive bark.
Now, last of all, the paper on which this story is printed was likely made out of Aspen wood.
The Witch-hazel
These are the things to make you remember the Witch-hazel; its forked twig was used-nay, still is used-as a magic rod to show where there is running water underground; that is, where it is possible to find water by sinking a well. Its nuts are explosive, and go off with a snap, shooting the seeds that are inside, ten or twenty feet away, when the cold dry days of autumn come. Third, its curious golden-thread flowers appear in the fall.
As Cracked Jimmy used to sing:-
Witch-hazel blossoms in the fall,
To cure the chills and fevers all.
-Two Little Savages.
On November 16, 1919, after a sharp frost, I went out in the morning to get some Witch-hazel flowers for this drawing, and found them blooming away in the cold air, vigorously as ever. Imagine a flower that can bloom while it is freezing. In the drawing I have shown the flower, like a 4-lipped cup with four yellow snakes coiling out of it.
But these are not the deadly snakes one hears about. They are rather symbols of old AEsculapius, the famous healer of the long ago, whose emblem was the cup of life with curling snakes of wisdom about it. In the Witch-hazel has been found a soothing balm for many an ache and pain. The Witch-hazel you buy in the drugstores, is made out of the bark of this tree. If you chew one of the little branches you will know it by the taste.
Near the top is a flower that is finished, its snakes have fled; and at the top of all is a bud for next year. That is, they are-is, has-been and going-to-be. The nuts are shown in the corner.
Note, last of all, that it is a sociable little tree; it always goes with a crowd. There are generally three or four Witch-hazels from one root, and there is always a family of cousins not far away.
How the Shad Came and How the Chestnut Got Its Burrs
In the woods of Poconic there once roamed a very discontented Porcupine. She was forever fretting. She complained that everything was wrong, till it was perfectly scandalous, and Wahkonda, the Great Spirit, getting tired of her grumbling, said:
"You and the world I have made don't seem to fit; one or the other must be wrong. It is easier to change you. You don't like the trees, you are unhappy on the ground, and think everything is upside down, therefore I'll turn you inside out, and put you in the water." And so the Porcupine was turned into a new creature, a fish, called the Shad. That is why he is so full of little sharp bones.
Then after the old Porcupine had been turned into a Shad, the young ones missed their mother, and crawled up into a high Chestnut tree to look for her coming. Wahkonda happened to pass that way, and they all chattered their teeth at him, thinking themselves safe. They were not wicked, but at heart quite good, only badly brought up; oh, so ill-trained, and some of them chattered and groaned as Wahkonda came nearer. Then Wahkonda was sorry for them, remembering that he had taken their mother from them, and said: "You look very well up there, you little Porkys, so you had better stay there for always, and be part of the Chestnut tree." And he touched each one with his magic wand and turned it into a burr that grew tight to the tree. That is how it came about. There they hang like a lot of little Porcupines on the twigs of the tree. They are spiney and dangerous, utterly without manners, and yet most of them have a good little heart inside.
How the Littlest Owl Came
After the Great Spirit had made the world and the creatures in it, he made the Gitchee O-kok-o-hoo. This was like an Owl, but bigger than anything else alive, and his voice was like a river plunging over a rocky ledge. He was so big that he thought he had done it all himself, and he became puffed up. He forgot the Great Spirit, who decided to teach him a lesson in this wise:
He called the Blue-jay, the mischief-maker of the woods, and told him what to do. Away went the Blue-jay to the mountain at the top of which was the Gitchee O-kok-o-hoo making thunder in his throat. The Blue-jay flew up to his ear, and said: "Pooh, Gitchee O-kok-o-hoo, you don't call that a big noise! You should hear Niagara; then you would never twitter again."
The Gitchee O-kok-o-hoo was so mad at hearing his big wonderful song called a twitter, that he said: "Niagara, Niagara! I'm sick of hearing about Niagara. I will go and silence Niagara with my voice." So he flew to Niagara while the Blue-jay snickered and followed to see the fun.
Now when Niagara Falls was made the Great Spirit said to it, "Flow on for ever." That last word of the Great Spirit it took up as it rushed on, and never ceases to thunder out "For ever! For ever! For ever!"
When they came to Niagara the mighty cataract, the Blue-jay said, "Now, Gitchee, you can beat that I am sure." So Gitchee O-kok-o-hoo began bawling to drown the noise of it, but could not make himself heard.
"Wa-wa-wa," said the Gitchee O-kok-o-hoo, with great effort and only for a few heart beats.
"For ever, For ever, For ever," thundered the river, steadily, easily, ceaselessly.
"Wa-wa-wa !" shrieked Gitchee O-kok-o-hoo; but his voice was so utterly lost that he could not hear it himself, and he began to feel small, and smaller; and as he began to feel small, a strange thing happened-he began to get small and smaller, until he was no bigger than a Sparrow; and his voice, instead of being like a great cataract, became like the dropping of water, just a little
Tink-tank-tink,
Tink-tank-tink.
And this is why the Indians give to this smallest of the Owls the name of "The Water-dropping Bird," who was once the greatest of all creatures, but is now shrunk to be the littlest of the Owls, because he became proud and forgot the Great Spirit.
The Wood-witch and the Bog-nuts
Once upon a time there was a rich boy, who knew all about the city, and nothing about the woods. He went for an outing into the wilderness, and got lost. He wandered all day until he was very tired and hungry. The sun was low when he came to a little pathway. He followed it, and it led to a small log cabin. When he knocked, an old woman opened the door. He said, "Please, Ma'am, I am lost and very hungry, will you give me something to eat?"
The old woman looked sharply at his clothes, and knew that he was rich, so she said: "Poor people are wise, they can take care of themselves in the woods. They don't get lost. But you rich people are fools, and I wish you would go away."
"I will, if you'll give me something to eat," he answered.
Then the old woman said: "Listen, foolish rich boy, in the woods beside you right now is a friend who feeds the poor people, maybe she will feed you. She is tall and slim, her eyes are brownish purple and her hair is green, and by this you may know her-she has five fingers on one hand and seven on the other. Her house is in the brier thicket; she climbs to the roof and stands there all day waving her hands, and shouting out in wood-talk, 'There are cocoanuts in my cellar.'
"Now go and find her, maybe she will feed you. She always feeds us poor folks," and the witch slammed the door.
The boy was puzzled. As he stood in doubt, there was a loud noise, and his friends arrived. They brought him the food and comfort that he needed.
Then he said: "I wish to know what that old wood-witch meant by the lady with the purple eyes and green hair." So he went again to the log cabin and knocked.
When the old woman came, and saw a lot of people about, she was frightened for she knew she had been unkind. But the boy said: "Now Granny, you needn't be afraid, I want you to show me the friend that has seven fingers and a cellar full of cocoanuts."
"I'll show you, if you promise to do me no harm," she answered.
"Of course, I'll promise," replied the boy.
Then Granny Wood-witch went hobbling to the nearest thicket and cackled out loud, as she pointed out a trailing vine that had sometimes five leaflets on a stalk and sometimes seven. "See, see, that's the lady. See seven fingers on that hand and five on this. Now follow her feet down and dig in the ground."
They dug and found strings of lovely brown nuts as big as walnuts.
"See, see," chuckled the wood-witch. "See the cocoanuts in the cellar."
Go forth and look for it, ye Woodcrafters. You will find it throughout Eastern America on the edge of every wood. Its flower is like a purple-brown sweet-pea, and is in bloom all summer long. Follow down its vine, dig out a few of the potatoes or nuts, and try them, raw, boiled, or if ye wish to eat them as Indian Cake, clean them, cut them in slices, dry till hard, pound them up into meal, and make a cake the same as you would of oatmeal.
The wild things love them, the Indians love them, and this was the bread of the wood-witch. The books call it Bog Potato and Ground Nuts. It is the third secret of the woods.
The Mud-dauber Wasp
If you look under the roof of any wooden barn in Eastern America you are likely to see the nest of the common Mud-wasp.
If you look on warm sunny days along the edge of some mud puddle you are sure to see a curious steel-blue wasp, with a very thin waist, working away at a lump of mud. She seems to be breathing hard with her body, as she works with her yellow legs, but she finally goes off laden with a gob of mud. This is the Mud-wasp at work, building a strong mud-nest for her family. The nest is the one we have seen hung under the roof of the shed, always put where no rain can reach it.
In the drawing are two of these nests.
Once the cradle is ready, the mother Wasp goes spider-hunting. Whenever she can find a spider, she pounces on it, and with her sting, she stabs it in the body, so as to paralyze it, but not kill it. Then she carries it to the mud cell and packs it in, at the far end. Many spiders are caught and preserved this way, for they do not usually die though they cannot move.
When the cell is full, the Wasp lays an egg on the last spider, and seals up the opening with a mud lid.
Very soon the egg hatches out a little white grub which begins on the spider next to him, eating the legs first, and the body last, so as to keep it alive as long as possible, though of course the spider has no feeling. Then he eats the next spider, and the next, growing as he eats, until he nearly fills the cell, and the spiders are all eaten up.
Now the grub goes to sleep, and next spring comes out as a full-grown Mud-wasp to do exactly as the mother did, though it never saw that Mother or had a lesson from any one in the many strange things it must do to live.
I went into my boat-house to-day, November 20, 1919, to get a mud nest for this drawing. There were 86 on the roof; some of them with 20 or 30 cells, and besides there was a lot of paper nests by other Wasps. The nest I took had two cells, one open and empty, and the other with a mud lid on tight. This held a long, shiny brown transparent case, in which was a white grub much too small for the big coat he was wearing. The grub was sound asleep, and would have come out next spring, as a big steel-blue Mud-wasp had I let him alone. But there are plenty of Mud-wasps so I fed him to the Chicadees, which likely is what Mother Carey would have done.
The Cicada and the Katydid
Once upon a time, long, long ago, the birds whose job it was to make the woods merry with their songs, decided to go on strike. They said, "We have sung all day, all springtime, and half way through the summer, but now we are moulting, the weather is frightfully hot; we need a rest, and we are going to stop singing, to take a holiday."
Then Dame Nature, who is sometimes called the All-mother, or Mother Carey, said: "Dear me, this will never do! No songbirds, woods silent all through the dog-days. Now who will be strike-breakers and volunteer to supply the music till the birds get once more in a good humour?"
Then up at that question got a long-winged insect like a big fly, and a long-legged insect like a green grasshopper, and both said at once, "I will." Amid low murmurs of "Scab! Scab!" from many of the Wood-birds.
"You. I forgot that you two had any voices at all!" said Mother Carey.
Then the long-winged creature, whose name is Cicada, began, "True, my voice isn't much, but I have invented a most successful musical Castanet. Listen!"
Then he began an extraordinary racket like an alarm clock, a threshing machine, and a buzz-saw all going together. He filled the grove with his noise, and set all the woodfolk laughing with his funny performance. Though, of course, he didn't mean to be funny; he thought it was fine.
Then as the Cicada ceased, Mother Carey said to the Green Hopper, whose name was Katy, "Now, Katy, what can you do?"
"I do not brag of my voice, dear Mother," said she, "but I am a thrilling performer on the violin."
Then she humped herself up over a green fiddle that she had under her cloak, and nearly deafened them with its hoarse screechings.
There was no doubt that these two could make as much noise as a wood full of birds; both were eager to take sole charge, and a bitter dispute arose as to whose idea it was first.
But Mother Carey settled it by dividing the time. "You," she said to Cicada, "can take charge of the music by day, and you," she said to the Green one, "must take it up at sundown in place of the nightingale, and keep it up, till the night breaks, and both of you continue till the frost comes, or until the birds are back on the job."
That is how it all came about.
But there is considerable feeling yet among the Katies, that they should get all the night work, and never be seen performing. They think that their ancestor was the original inventor of this cheap substitute for bird song. And it is made all the worse by a division among themselves. Some say "she did" and some say "she didn't." If you notice in early August, they are nearly all shouting, "Katy-did." Then by the end of the month, "Katy-didn't" is stronger. In September it is still mixed. In October their work is over, the chorus ended, but you hear an occasional "Katy-did" and finally as late as Indian Summer, which is Hallowe'en, I have heard the last of the fiddlers rasp out "she did"; and do it in daytime, too, as though to flout the followers of Cicada. And, if the last word be truth, as they say, we may consider it settled, that Katy really and truly did. And yet I believe next year the same dispute will arise, and we shall have the noisy argument all over again.
If you look at the portraits of Cicada, the Hotweather-bug or Locust, and of the Katydid, you will not see their musical instruments very plainly, but believe me they have them; and you can hear them any late summer hot-weather time, in any part of the Eastern States and some parts of southern Canada.
And now let me finish with a secret. Katy is not a lady at all, but a he-one disguised in green silk stockings, and a green satin dress.
The Digger Wasp that Killed the Cicada
Strange things are done in the realm of Mother Carey; strange things and cruel. At least so they seem to us, for we do not know the plan that is behind them. We know only that sometimes love must be cruel. I am going to tell you of a strange happening, that you may see any hot day in August. And this is how it came about.
At that meeting in the woods when the Cicada and the Katydid undertook to be musicians, while the birds were on strike, there was one strong insect who gave off an angry "Bizz, Bizz" that sounded like "Scab, Scab." That was the big yellow-and-black Digger Wasp, the biggest of the wasps, with a sting that is as bad as that of a baby rattlesnake. And that very day she declared war on the Cicada and his kind. The Katydids she could not touch, because the Wasp cannot see at night.
But the Cicada was easy to find. As soon as the day got hot, and that awful buzzing began in the trees, the Big Digger got her sting ready, and went booming along in the direction of the sound.
Now Mother Carey had given the Cicada bright eyes and strong wings, and it was his own business to take care of himself; but he was so pleased with his music that he never saw the fierce Digger Wasp, till she charged on him. And before he could spread his wings, she had stabbed him through.
His song died away in a few shrieks, and then the Cicada lay still. But not dead, for the Digger had stuck her poison dagger into the nerve centre, so that he was paralyzed and helpless, but still living.
Now the Digger set about a plan. She wanted to get that Cicada body into her den, to feed her young ones with it. But the Cicada was bigger and heavier than she was, so that she could not carry it. However, she was bent on doing it, she got all ready, took tight hold with her claws, then swooped from the tree, flying as strongly as she could, till the weight of the Cicada brought her to the ground within fifty feet, while the den was fully a hundred feet away. But the Wasp dragged the Cicada up the trunk of another tree, then took another long sloping flight as before. One more climb and skid down, brought her to her den-a hole in a bank that she had dug out; that is why she is called the Digger Wasp. The passage was a foot long and had a crook in the middle. At the end was a round room an inch and a half high. Here the Digger left her victim's body and right on its breast, to one side, laid an egg.
This hatched in two or three days, and began to feed on the Cicada. In a week it had eaten the Cicada and grown to be a big fat grub. Then it spun a cocoon, and made itself into a bundle-baby, resting all autumn and all winter in that dark den.
But when the spring came with its glorious wakening up, great changes came over the bundle-baby of the Digger. It threw off the cocoon and its outer skin, and came forth from the gloom into the sunshine, a big strong Digger Wasp with a sting of its own, and a deadly feud with all screaming Cicadas. Although it never saw its mother, or got any lessons from her, it goes after the buzzing hotweather-bugs, when August comes, and treats them exactly as she did.
How the Indian Summer Came
Wahkonda, the Great Spirit, the Ruler of the World, had found pleasure the whole summer long in making mountains, lakes, and forests. Then when the autumn came, and the leaves fell from the trees, He lighted His pipe and sat down to look over the things He had made.
As He did so, the north wind arose for Cold Time was coming, and blew the smoke and ashes of the pipe into His face. Then He said: "Cease your blowing, all ye winds, until I have finished smoking." So, of course, there was dead calm.
Wahkonda smoked for ten days, and during all that time there were no clouds in the sky, for there was no wind to bring them; there was unbroken, calm sunny weather. But neither was there any wind to carry off the smoke, so it hung, as the teepee smoke hangs at sunrise, and it drifted over the valleys and forests in a blue haze.
Then at last when the Great Spirit finished His smoke and His meditation, He emptied out His pipe. That was the signal, the north wind broke loose, and came howling down from the hills, driving the leaves before it, and warning all wild things to be ready, for soon there would be winter in the woods.
And it hath been so ever since. When the leaves have fallen and before yet the Ice-king is here, there come, for a little while, the calm dreamy days, when the Great Spirit is smoking His pipe, and the smoke is on the land. The Red-men call them the Smoking Days, but we call it Indian Summer.
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What They Found Was a Miracle.
After the great market crash of 1929, families everywhere are falling on desperate times. Raised by a grandmother who instilled a love for simple pleasures and the good, wild things growing on God's earth, Julia Wortham is determined to make a decent life for her children. Her husband, Samuel, carries the shame of losing his job, their home, and Julia's savings. He also bears the impossible burden of providing for his family.
Then circumstances force the family to seek shelter in an abandoned farmhouse--and to find mercy in a stranger's heart. Emma Graham, the elderly owner, is indeed merciful. But there are others who will stop at nothing to drive the family from the farm. Meanwhile, Sam and Julia's fears could compel them to abandon the one place they and their children long to call home.
As the unusual bond between Emma and the Worthams deepens, each person sees with increasing clarity the truth that "there is a time for everything under the sun." Filled with both joy and hardship, those times will create a harvest greater than any of them have ever known.


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NACHA released new statistics late last week on growth of ACH transaction volume in the U.S. According to the firm, B2B transactions were a key driver of ACH transaction growth in the third quarter of the year, leading NACHA Chief Operating Officer Jane Larimer to describe the ACH Network as "thriving."
"Governments, financial institutions, businesses and consumers are all reaping the benefits the ACH Network provides," Larimer said in a statement. "More people than ever are benefitting from Same Day ACH. With the enhancements to Same Day ACH, the ACH Network is delivering the capabilities requested by corporate end users."
As NACHA expands Same Day ACH functionality, it's unclear how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) will embrace the faster payment capability. What is clear, though, is that ACH is a growing part of businesses' accounts payable (AP) and other payment operations, with industry service providers pushing corporates away from paper checks. ACH may be the most popular ePayments rail option for B2B transactions in the U.S. today, but it's not the only one. New data has emerged about how SMBs use other payment rails, including cards and wire transfers.
With the new research finding opportunity for wire to disrupt checks' hold on accounts payable, and millennial entrepreneurs shying away from business credit card products, the latest data signals changes ahead for the way small business owners pick their payment rails.
In Q3, 896 million B2B ACH payments were completed, NACHA said in its latest release, signifying a 10 percent year-over-year increase in volume of B2B ACH transactions. In all, more than 3.3 billion ACH debit and nearly 2.3 billion ACH credit payments were made during the quarter, with online ACH payments growing 14 percent year over year. NACHA said 43.2 million Same Day ACH payments were made during the quarter, a 192 percent year-over-year increase, though NACHA did not disclose what percentage of that volume was made by business payers.
Ninety-four percent of corporates surveyed by The Clearing House said remittance information included with wire transfer payments is valuable, with nearly two-thirds describing this feature as "very valuable." The Clearing House and the Federal Reserve surveyed 381 corporate decision-makers about their use of wire payments, finding that corporates are demanding a more streamlined way to send and receive remittance data along with their wire transfers. Most companies surveyed said they would be willing to pay an additional fee to have remittance information move along with a wire payment. According to the report, though, smaller businesses — which make up the majority of B2B payments volume — are most willing to shift payments volume from check to wire if the wire payment costs are lowered.
A 47 percent increase in B2B wire payments volume would need just 2 percent of B2B check volume to switch to wire, the Federal Reserve and The Clearing House's report found. Researchers emphasized the importance of financial service providers to promote wire payments for business clients, thanks to the speed and security of the rail. For that migration to occur, however, financial institutions must streamline wire payment and remittance management offerings, and make the payment rail cost-effective, particularly for SMB customers, the report said.
Twenty-four percent of small businesses said they carry a balance on their credit cards from month to month, according to a new report released from Mercator Advisory Group this past week. Analysts noted the card rewards programs as a key benefit for small businesses that choose the relatively more expensive financing option over more affordable bank loans or lines of credit. Yet, small businesses are more likely than the average consumer to occasionally carry credit card debt: About half of SMBs surveyed said they carry debt on occasion, compared to one-third of consumers. Interestingly, half of millennial small business owners refuse to use a commercial card product.
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The FDA set the levels by testing samples of a particular product from various sites throughout the country and determining the average amount of defects present under "best available manufacturing practices." Meeting the handbook's standards doesn't give a product a free pass, though. A processed food may fall below the FDA's defect action levels, say, but carry salmonella or E. coli. Nor does it follow that an item with a few more insect parts and rodent hairs than allowed poses a health risk. Rather, they act as a bellwether—a clue that the facility where it's handled is unsanitary and more likely to produce food with dangerous contaminants. The FDA is, however, reviewing its standard on mammalian excreta to determine if the levels permitted pose a greater risk of salmonella contamination.
The FDA also notes that pesticides will not solve the bug problem since they are mainly intended to protect the plant. Not to mention that eliminating insects by using more pesticides arguably presents a larger threat to human health.
eats bugs as part of their regular diet. In Oaxaca, Mexico, street vendors sell crispy, seasoned crickets. Thailand raises water beetles and bamboo worms commercially as a dietary staple. Proponents of entomophagy note that it is a greener diet—insects need fewer resources than animals and they don't produce greenhouse gases as cattle do. Plus, insects can deliver just as much, and sometimes more, protein and iron as meat. Water bugs, for example, have four times as much iron as beef.
Justifying rodent hair and droppings is harder to swallow, but according to the FDA, rodents are nearly impossible to banish completely from mills, granaries, and factories. For the most part, the sanctioned levels of defects in the handbook don't seem to jeopardize our health. (Although, some believe that the impurities in food exacerbate allergies.) Beef, which is not mentioned in the handbook, causes the vast majority of food-related illness and deaths.
What is most worrisome—to the rational brain, not the gag reflex—is whether the FDA monitors food manufacturers closely enough to discover when defects do exceed the limits. After all, the FDA didn't catch the gaping holes that existed for years in the ceiling of a Georgia peanut plant, allowing water to leak through. Dirty water at the Peanut Corporation of America plant may have caused the salmonella outbreak earlier this year that sickened more than 500 people and is blamed for eight deaths. So while a few hairs or spider legs in our food won't cause us any harm, they might be representative of a much larger threat lurking in the sidelines.


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Shailene Woodley bows out of the 'Divergent' TV movie
By Andrew Sims
Divergent star Shailene Woodley had a blunt answer when asked if she'd be returning for the fourth and final(-ish) installment.
"No," she told Vanity Fair this week. "I'm not going to be on the television show."
Okay then!
This is the first time she's definitively answering whether or not she'll return for Ascendant. Remember, Lionsgate is adapting the back half of Veronica Roth's Allegiant for television and hopes it'll serve as a backdoor pilot to a spinoff series. It was originally slated to be a theatrical release — Until Insurgent and Allegiant puled poor box office numbers.
In September, Woodley was uncertain about continuing but left the door open. "Out of respect to the studio and everyone in involved, they may have changed their mind and may be doing something different, but I'm not necessarily interested in doing a television show," she said.
In December, Theo James followed in Shai's footsteps, hinting he was uninterested in returning for Ascendant. Miles Teller also said he doesn't want to be involved. The actors have the option to run away because their contracts called for each of the films to be released theatrically.
Between the challenges of recasting many of the characters and trying to put a captivating story together that'll win back longtime fans, Lionsgate may be better off just putting Divergent out to pasture. It's too bad — If they never split Veronica Roth's Allegiant into two books, the series would've successfully walked into the dystopian sunset two years ago.
There is a bright side: Some may see this as sweet justice for that plot twist Veronica Roth put at the end of Allegiant. Not everyone loved it, though Shailene was a fan.


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Cannabinoid-based Possible Treatment for Parkinson's, EHP-102, Seen as Superior to New Molecules in Early Test
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Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals announced that two of its cannabinoid-derived candidates — CBGA-Q and CBGA-Q-Na Salt — showed anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease. However, these benefits were not superior to those obtained from treatment with the company's already patented EHP-102 compound.
The findings, "Comparison of the neuroprotective activity of cannabigerol derivatives in Huntington's and Parkinson's disease models," were presented during the 29th Annual Symposium of the International Cannabinoid Research Society (ICRS) in Bethesda, Maryland.
Cannabinoids and other players of the endogenous cannabinoid system — a widespread neuromodulatory network involved in central nervous system development and in response to in-body and environmental stimuli — are known to exert neuroprotective effects, and have been investigated in a variety of conditions that including brain trauma, spinal injury, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's.
EHP-102, a compound derived from the non-psychotrophic cannabinoid called cannabigerol (CBG), has previously been shown to attenuate inflammation and neuronal loss in mouse models of Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.
CBGA-Q and CBGA-Q-Na Salt are two new molecules derived from cannabigerol acid being developed as possible treatments of Parkinson's and Huntington's.
To test these new compounds, researchers compared their activity with that of EHP-102.
When orally administered to a mouse model of Huntington's disease, EHP-102, CBGA-Q and CBGA-Q-Na Salt all had anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects. But animals treated with EHP-102 showed significantly better responses in comparison to those given either CBGA-Q or CBGA-Q-Na Salt.
Oral EHP-102 and CBGA-Q also eased Parkinson's-related behavioral symptoms and prevented neuronal loss in mice injected with 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA). 6-OHDA causes cellular dysfunction and the death of dopaminergic neurons, enabling the molecular replication of Parkinson's disease in a laboratory setting. Comparing both molecules, EHP-102 was once again found to be superior in its effects than CBGA-Q.
"Patients with Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease suffer from devastating physical and psychological symptoms," Jim DeMesa, MD, CEO of Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals, said in a news release.
"There is currently no cure for these diseases and so the results of the studies conducted by our scientific team and collaborators, which demonstrate the possible disease-modifying potential of EHP-102 and some of our other CBG-derivatives, are very encouraging."
Given EHP-102's "therapeutic superiority," its developer plans to soon start the preclinical studies required to advance the compound toward clinical testing in both Parkinson's and Huntington's.
The post Cannabinoid-based Possible Treatment for Parkinson's, EHP-102, Seen as Superior to New Molecules in Early Test appeared first on Parkinson's News Today.
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[Passport](http://passportjs.org/) strategies for authenticating with [wechat]
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## Install

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## Usage of OAuth 2.0

#### Configure Strategy

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN"), a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, issued guidance on February 14, 2014 (the "Cannabis Guidance")1, to clarify Bank Secrecy Act expectations for financial institutions seeking to provide services to marijuana-related businesses. We recently received confirmation from FinCEN that financial institutions continue to be required to update their Suspicious Activity Reports ("SARs") on marijuana-related businesses – a requirement that is being missed by some financial institutions. This Alert addresses the continuing obligation by financial institutions providing banking services to participants in the cannabis industry to regularly update "Marijuana Limited" SAR filings.
Financial institutions with SAR requirements may file SARs for continuing activity after a 90-day review with the filing deadline being 120 days after the date of the previously related SAR filing. Financial institutions may also file SARs on continuing activity earlier than the 120-day deadline if the institution believes the activity warrants earlier review by law enforcement.
Identification of suspicious activity and subject: Day 0.
Deadline for initial SAR filing: Day 30.
End of 90-day review: Day 120.
Deadline for continuing activity SAR with subject information: Day 150 (120 days from the date of the initial filing on Day 30).
If the activity continues, this timeframe will result in three SARs filed over a 12-month period.
FinCEN recently confirmed the obligation to regularly update Marijuana Limited SARs, which presents significant compliance obligations on financial institutions. While it may not be possible to correct prior filing omissions, alternative approaches might be considered to address a compliance shortcoming.
Second, for vendors supplying products and services to cannabis entities—such as irrigation, accounting and other services—the due diligence required may include determining whether the product or service originally provided to the cannabis entity is still actively being provided by the vendor. Alternatively, if a vendor is no longer involved in cannabis-related activity, the general rules governing the filing of a SAR would be applicable.
While questions can be directed to FinCEN's hotline, compliance determinations in this area are difficult and complicated. In the instance of inadvertent filing errors, care should be exercised to properly correct such errors and reflect appropriate compliance on a go-forward basis.


February 8, 2019 (MLN): As of December 31, 2019, the central government of Pakistan was Rs.26.6 trillion in debt, going by the provisional figures released by the State Bank of Pakistan, today. Compared to the debt of Rs.22 trillion by the end of December 2017, this figure has risen by over 20%, YoY.
As per the data released, out of the total, domestic debt stands at Rs.17.5 trillion (up by 13.6%) whereas external debt is Rs.9.1 trillion (up by 36%, YoY).
The sharp rise in domestic borrowing is influenced by the substantial borrowing on short term (Rs.10.3 trillion as of December 2018) which has increased by 35.6% YoY, since the long term domestic debt figures (Rs.7.2 trillion) fell by over 7%, YoY.
On the external front, long term debts account for the largest part of total debt. The central government's long term debts (Rs.9 trillion) rose by 37.8%, YoY while the short term debts (Rs.76.5 billion) fell by 47.7%, YoY.


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If you receive a traffic ticket, your individual situation and the nature of the offense will dictate whether you need legal representation. If you have a commercial driver's license, a significant number of points against your driving record, or a career involving driving, any type of traffic conviction could jeopardize your driving privileges or ability to keep your job. As a Southern California Motor Vehicle Offense Lawyer, I can meet with you and help you analyze whether you need to retain counsel.
These are just a few example of motor vehicle offenses that do not constitute mere "infractions." An infraction does not expose an individual to incarceration or the risk of probation. Rather, the penalty imposed for an infraction is a fine up to $250. Misdemeanor or felony driving offenses can result in a criminal record, incarceration in county jail or state prison, more substantial fines, probation, required classes/counseling, loss of driving privileges, and other forms of punishment.
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Description: Rare Rice Hotel Houston Texas Restaurant Ware Turquoise Blue Crested Glass Drink Glass by Libbey Circa 1970s
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History for the Preservationist: The Rice Lofts, formerly the Rice Hotel, is a historic building at 909 Texas Avenue in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The current building is the third to occupy the site. It was completed in 1913 on the site of the former Capitol building of the Republic of Texas, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The old Capitol building was operated as a hotel until it was torn down and replaced by a new hotel around 1881. Jesse H. Jones built a new seventeen-story, double-winged hotel in 1913, also called "The Rice Hotel." This building underwent major expansions: adding a third wing in 1925, adding an eighteenth floor in 1951, and adding a five-story "motor lobby in 1958. In addition, there were several renovations during its life as a hotel. It continued to operate as a hotel before finally shutting down in 1977. The Rice, renamed the Post Rice Lofts, was renovated and turned into apartments in 1998 after twenty-one years of standing unused.
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● In two separate incidents on 1 December, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian boy and a Palestinian woman following alleged stabbing attempts at the Gush Etzion junction (Bethlehem) and Enav checkpoint (Tulkarem).
● On 2 and 3 December, in the Shu'fat Refugee Camp (East Jerusalem) and Nablus city, the Israeli authorities demolished the family homes of two Palestinian suspected perpetrators of attacks against Israelis in 2014 and 2015.
● The wave of violence across the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) continued during the reporting period (24 to 30November) resulting in eight Palestinian fatalities, in addition to a Palestinian child who died of injuries sustained previously, and another 929 Palestinian and 13 Israeli injuries. Between 1 October and 30 November, 103 Palestinians, including 23 children, and 17 Israelis were killed, and 11,299 Palestinians and at least 182 Israelis were injured in the oPt and Israel.
● Five Palestinians were killed and one injured by Israeli forces, and a foreign national and 12 members of Israeli forces were injured by Palestinians in six separate Palestinian attacks and alleged attacks. The incidents included three stabbings and three ramming incidents in the West Bank and in West Jerusalem. None of the perpetrators and alleged perpetrators reportedly belonged to any faction or armed group. Another Palestinian man was stabbed and injured by an Israeli civilian in Bet Shemesh town in Israel.
● Three Palestinians, including a child, were shot with live ammunition and killed by Israeli forces during three separate clashes in Al `Aroub Refugee Camp (Hebron); at the recently established checkpoint in East Jerusalem; and during a search and arrest operation in Qattanna village (Jerusalem). Another 886 Palestinians (number of children unconfirmed), were injured during these and other clashes, mainly in the context of protests, including 41 near the fence surrounding Gaza and the rest across the West Bank. The Qalqiliya governorate continued to account for the largest number of injuries (359), mainly around Al Jaljuliya checkpoint, which controls the only access route into Qalqiliya city. At least 13 per cent of all injuries resulted from live ammunition.
● A 16-year-old Palestinian boy died of injuries sustained earlier this month when he was shot with live ammunition by Israeli forces during clashes near the Ramallah-DCO checkpoint.
● Five Israeli settler attacks leading to injury or damage to property were recorded during the week, including the injury of a 60-year-old woman as a result of stone-throwing in Jit village (Qalqiliya); the physical assault of a Palestinian man at the entrance to Yatma (Nablus); vandalism to olive trees and attempted arson near Yitzhar settlement; ramming and killing a sheep and attacking the 14-year-old herder near Eh al Hilweh (Tubas); and anti-Arab graffiti and vandalism of a vehicle in KhaletZakariya (Bethlehem). Additional incidents of intimidation by Israeli settlers were reported.
● In addition to the aforementioned Palestinian attacks, an Israeli vehicle was set on fire and damaged in the H2 area of Hebron city.
● On 30 November, an Israeli court convicted two Israeli minors for the abduction, burning and murder of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy from East Jerusalem on 2 July 2014. The verdict on the main perpetrator, an Israeli settler adult, was delayed after his lawyer submitted a legal opinion about his sanity.
● Israeli forces confiscated ten tents provided as humanitarian assistance in response to the demolition of 14 residential tents and animal shelters on 26 November in the Area C herding community of Al Hadidiya (northern Jordan Valley) on grounds of lack of Israeli-issued building permits. Four of the tents were already erected and sheltered the 15 Palestinians, including four children, who were displaced as a result of the demolitions. Half of the demolished homes were originally provided through humanitarian assistance in response to previous demolitions. Additionally, part of the donor-funded community road which services around 100 people, had been demolished on 25 November. Five Palestinians were otherwise affected, including a pregnant woman who was physically assaulted and injured by an Israeli soldier while she was trying to gather belongings prior to the demolition.
● On similar grounds, the Israeli authorities demolished another three structuresin Halhul (Hebron), Husan (Bethlehem), and the Belt Hanina area of East Jerusalem, and forced a family to self-demolish an extension to their house in the Old City of Jerusalem. Israeli forces also confiscated three containers in Husan during the demolition there.
● During the week, Israeli forces carried out at least five confiscations of vehicles and equipment in the West Bank, including: eight public transport busses in Nablus city (Nablus) citing their use to transport "people involved in riots"; a privately-owned truck loaded with natural fertilizers on its way to Tammun (Tubas), for "carry out materials for illegal works"; a privately-owned bulldozer for carrying out "unauthorised works in Area C" in Belt Dajan (Nablus); and four water pumps in Ad Deir herding community in the northern Jordan Valley. Also on 28 November, Israeli forces raided a radio station in Hebron City, confiscated equipment therein and delivered a military order to close it for six months, alleging incitement against Israelis.
● For the fourth time since the beginning of November, 13 Palestinian families living in the Humsa al Buqai'a herding community (Tubas), including 46 children, were displaced from their homes for six hours to make way for Israeli military training. Humsa al Buqai'a is one of 38 Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities located in areas designated by the Israeli authorities as a closed zone for military training ("firing zone").
● Israeli forces intensified movement restrictions and searching procedures across many West Bank areas, resulting in long delays and disrupting the access of large parts of the population to services and livelihoods. In the Hebron governorate, all routes (including dirt roads) leading to the main traffic arteries (Roads 60, 356, 35 and 317) were either blocked by cement blocks, dirt mounds and metal gates, or controlled by flying checkpoints. In the Nablus governorate, the entrances to Nablus city, Huwwara, DeirSharaf, BeitFurik, Asira ash Shamaliya and Sarra were blocked or controlled by checkpoints, including. Entrances to Far'un (Tulkarem) village, and to its agricultural area behind the Barrier, were also blocked. In the Ramallah governorate, Israeli forces closed with cement blocks the main entrance to Sinjil and Al Mughayir; and intermittently blocked the entrances to Deir Nidham and Ni'lin villages; and the road between Bir Nabala and Ramallah; the entrance to . In the Jerusalem governorate, Israeli forces blocked all entrances to Hizma village for a day and, in East Jerusalem, as of 30 November, 14 closures were in place, including eight checkpoints and partial checkpoints.
●The Egyptian-controlled Rafah Crossing was closed in both directions during the reporting period. The Crossing has been closed, including for humanitarian assistance, since 24 October 2014, except for 37 days of partial openings. Authorities in Gaza indicate that over 25,000 people with urgent needs, including around 3,500 medical cases, are registered and waiting to cross. According to the World Health Organization, on 25 November, Israeli authorities announced raising the minimum age of patient companions eligible to apply for a permit to cross via Erez crossing, en route to hospitals in the West Bank and Israel, to 55 years.
OCHA protection of civilians data includes incidents that occurred outside of the oPt only if they involved residents of the oPt as either victims or perpetrators.Palestinian injuries counted in this report only include people who received medical treatment by paramedic teams on the ground, in local clinics or in hospitals. Figures on Israeli injuries are based on media reports.


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HomeNewsAVA FESTIVAL Releases Exciting First look at New Multi-Stage Festival at Belfast's Boucher Playing Fields.
AVA FESTIVAL Releases Exciting First look at New Multi-Stage Festival at Belfast's Boucher Playing Fields.
February 28, 2020 Conor Kinahan News, Gigs, New Music
After announcing its largest line-up to date with headliners such as Orbital, Denis Sulta, and the long-awaited return of Laurent Garnier and Fatima Yamaha, AVA has revealed a first glance of its new site plans and stages for the now outdoor festival. Set for May 28th-31st, AVA makes its debut at Boucher Road Playing Fields Belfast, along with an opening show and free conference at the MAC with closing events in the city.
In keeping with the ethos of AVA Festival, this year sees an uncompromising approach to the design and creativity, collaborating with the very best of local artists and bringing back some of the most exciting international performers to the city. The festival landscape will have a distinctive set up by merging industrial stage design with visual & electronic art and music across four enclosed intimate experiences.
The AVA Main Stage will maintain the warehouse style for the Festival, by providing a large enclosed headline-ready setting, complete with the iconic AVA lighting and visual show, set to show-case Orbital, Laurent Garnier, Denis Sulta and many more in the best possible light to Belfast.
Take a look at the New Festival Site Below!
Returning, will be the infamous Boiler Room and Red Bull Stages, AVA has sourced and will utilise shipping containers, accompanied by lighting installations designed and developed by local creative Oisin O'Brien, who runs Visual Spectrum.
'Immerse AVA' is a new edition and a groundbreaking concept from the team supported by Future Screens NI; the scaffolding stage will create a fully immersed 'drenched' like experience of light and visuals, incorporating surround sound systems to create a unique experience, that is set to tour beyond the Festival in Belfast.
Festival Director & Founder, Sarah McBriar said: "Working with a blank canvas is exciting, as the opportunities are endless. We have been developing the new site design for some time, incorporating the elements we believe will showcase the artists in the best way and make this year's AVA experience unique. The breadth of local and international artists in the line-up is a testament to the successes and growth of previous years. We are proud to bring AVA to one of the best crowds in the world for our sixth year running."
Beyond the dancefloor, AVA will once again deliver a full programme of art installations and music/art/culture led conferencing at the MAC, chill spaces, local food traders, a new cocktail bar experience and visual art exhibitions, plus much more.
Tickets to AVA Festival are on sale via https://avafestival.com/festival with full festival passes available at £75 as part of a group ticket or £85 as a standalone ticket, with a deposit scheme running at £25, don't delay reserve your space today!
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A look inside: Lowell House
Bathing in Chinese language and culture
Yoga class with Shaomin Chew '13 (front) in the Lowell House Tower room. Eli Martin '13 (from left), Jerry Tullo '12, and Johnny Motley '12 follow Chew's lead.
Photos and text by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer
A change of pace, through yoga
Four days a week, six to 10 Lowell House residents ascend five flights of stairs to the Tower Room, where they practice yoga for an hour, at the direction of House member Shaomin Chew '13.
The atmosphere is hushed and relaxed, as participants make space for their mats on a hardwood floor splashed by rays of late afternoon sun. Upon entering the room, students are greeted softly by Chew, who became a certified yoga instructor after her freshman year.
"Yoga is an incredible de-stressor," Chew said. "It helps me stay calm and focused, so I can be more productive at school. The physical exercise is a big deal, and I like that I have a small community. We get to know each other, and have a connection. I took a semester off and taught yoga in NYC during my sophomore year, but it was very different there. I much prefer the personal interaction I have in these classes."
"A lot of my students run and do yoga, and they tell me the combination is really helpful. Doing yoga an hour a day refreshes you."
Isabelle Glimcher '13 said, "It's a chance to slow down and reflect, to get away from your books. It's so convenient, being in the House, and it fits so easily into your schedule. And the fact it's in the House means I know the people involved. It's a point of commonality, and you get to know people in a different way."
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Shaomin Chew leads a yoga class in Lowell House.
Katie Sylvan '13 (from left), Eli Martin '13, Jerry Tullo '12, and Johnny Motley '12 move into a back stretch.
Hold that pose!
Eli Martin '13 and Shaomin Chew stretch out.
Eli Martin '13 (from left), Jerry Tullo '12, and Johnny Motley '12 follow the lead of their teacher, Shaomin Chew, and concentrate on their breathing.
Low lunge ...
... while attaining inner zen. Namaste!
"America's well-being is tied to the role that China plays in today's world, and so learning its language — but also its culture — is so important," said Jennifer Li-Chia Liu, who is focusing on those topics to help develop an increasingly integrated pedagogy within Harvard's curriculum.


Skoda is one of a number of carmakers that spotted a 'quick-win' opportunity to grab a slice of the burgeoning SUV market by turning their estate cars into soft-roaders, adding rugged styling, increased ground clearance and four wheel drive. Volkswagen has its All-Track, Volvo its Cross Country, Audi its Allroad, etc, etc.
We all know that Scouts are keen on their badges and this one is no exception. The Scout name appears on the grille, the tailgate, the sills, the seats, the gearknob, the steering wheel and even on the touchscreen - so there's little chance of you or anybody else forgetting which version of the Octavia you're driving.
But there are a number of other Scout-specific elements that mark this car out including uniquely styled bumpers, sills and wheelarches, a Rough Road package with engine guard and underbody stone guard, 17" Polar alloy wheels, front fog lights and silver door mirrors.
I would describe it as handsome rather than beautiful. The basic Octavia's design is well-resolved and its chiselled features are enhanced by the rugged Scout-only addenda.
The interior has the typically 'junior VW' feel that you get in most Skodas - it's smart and functional, but generally finished in ever so slightly inferior materials. The clear exceptions, however, are the lovely Alcantara and leather upholstery and the elegant, shiny grey trim which features on the doors, centre console and steering wheel.
On the technology front, there's a touchscreen satnav, trip computer, cruise control and lane assist fitted as standard, but among £3,500 of optional extras, our test car also has the wifi hotspot, parking sensors and Bi-Xenon headlights with the brilliant Adaptive Frontlight System (AFS) which automatically adjusts your beams for driving on the Continent.
With seating for five, there's plenty of room to stretch out both up front and in the rear and bootspace is generous too, at 610 litres, rising to 1740 with the rear seats folded - more than enough to ensure jealous stares from your rivals at the local car boot sale!
A nice practical touch is the selection of pull-down hooks, designed to prevent your carrier bags from spilling the entire contents of your weekly shop during your short drive home.
The torquey 150hp 2-litre Diesel engine fitted to our test car has all the pulling power you need to cart you, your family and a boot crammed full of luggage off on a continental road trip. I know, because that's what I did!
The Scout performed ably over an extended test period across a variety of surfaces including carpet-smooth autoroutes, steeply snaking Alpine passes, poorly-maintained mountain B-roads and even little-used, rural tracks. In fact, it didn't put a foot wrong.
Given its high-riding stance, you might expect the Scout's ride to be a bit 'wallowy' - but it's actually very composed. It's neat and tidy around the corners and generally a relaxing car to drive. The steering, gear change and clutch are light, but the brake pedal is a bit on the heavy side for me - and could use a little more servo.
When the going gets especially tough, there's an off-road mode that will get you out of trouble in most situations, but it is worth remembering that you're driving an estate with extra capabilities as opposed to a purpose-built 4x4 so it's best not to be too hung-ho!
0-62mph is despatched in just over 9s with a maximum speed of 129mph but if that's not quite enough for you then you could go for the 184hp version which also comes with the sequential automatic gearbox.
For a car of this size fitted with permanent 4 wheel drive, I'm impressed with the official CO2 emissions of 125 g/km and combined fuel consumption of almost 59mpg and I was pleased to see an indicated average in the high forties over the course of 3,000 miles or so of intense activity.
There are more than half a million Scouts in the UK. Not the Skodas, no, the other kind, but there's no reason why this car shouldn't be just as popular.
The Scout motto is 'Be prepared' and this Skoda is ready for just about anything. It's practical, extremely versatile and good to drive, with very reasonable running costs to boot. It certainly seems to have earned its badges. I think Lord Baden-Powel would definitely approve.


This highly talented, creative and inquisitive child, attends Providence Girls Catholic Girls High School. Jade showcased her artistic skills at the Trinidad and Tobago Art Society's recent Members Only Exhibit entitled "Reflections". Her oil painting, "Reflections in Solitude" drew much publicity on Social Media. It was purchased by a buyer from Canada who said the painting drew an emotional response from her, reminding her of her home country Trinidad.
Jade's imagination and creativity bears no limits, as she taught herself to knit from YouTube tutorials, makes jewellry, and even sews little purses and pillows. She also dabbles in clay, crafting sculptures, using hand held tools to carve definition and depth. Through observing her mother at work in the kitchen she has even created her own recipes, making her own bread, chocolate cake in a mug or pasta dishes. She has also participated in Digicel's Trinidad and Tobago Young Voices as part of her school choir.
Asked about her future career aspirations Jade who once wanted to be a fashion designer, currently expresses she would now like to be a digital animator. Recently, she has been teaching herself via tutorials how to use Adobe Illustrator, Krita and other similar computer art programs, getting her feet wet in digital art.


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Fish farms face emergency enforcement order: two days to present plan of action
Polluting fish farms have two working days to present a plan of action describing how they plan on tackling illegalities
1 September 2016, 1:43pm
by Miriam Dalli
Aerial photos show the slime spreading from fish farms
The Planning Authority, with the blessing of the Environment and Resources Authority, has issued emergency enforcement order against four operators whose tuna farms are riddled with illegalities.
The notification gives operators two working days, i.e. by Monday, to present a plan of action detailing how they plan on removing the illegalities. Failure to abide by their own plan, the authorities will move in with an enforcement order and take direct action – which could include releasing the fish into the sea.
The operators must provide a "specified reasonable period" by when the illegalities will be addressed.
An emergency enforcement order does not allow operators to appeal.
The Planning Authority confirmed that the emergency enforcement order was served during a meeting that was held between the Planning Authority, the Environment and Resources Authority and the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture with the operators.
"The enforcement orders require, that with immediate effect, the operators will comply with all the conditions stipulated in their respective planning permits. This includes both the number of structures and the operations of the fish farms," the Planning Authority said.
The Authority made it clear with the operators that the way they are operating their tuna fish farms today is "totally unacceptable and is negatively impacting the coastal bathing water, which is enjoyed by locals and tourists alike".
Two of the tuna fish farms are located in the north part of the island, close to Comino and is-Sikka l-Bajda, off San Pawl il-Baħar and another two are located off the Marsaxlokk area.
Information published yesterday in the MaltaToday's midweek edition reveals that three of Malta's main operators all operate in breach of permits.
The infringements vary from undeclared cage sizes to the breeding of undeclared species.
AJD Limited, which produces tuna at the north of the island and faces an active enforcement, has been found to hold 13 tuna cages, 90 metres each, without the necessary permits.
The operator holds permits for three cages each measuring 42 metres each and another three cages which measure 50 metres. A sixth tuna cage measures 90 metres. The operator is located off St Paul's Bay.
Fish & Fish Limited and Malta Fish Farming Limited are both located in the south of Malta and both have been served with enforcement notices, which are at the stage of appeal.
Fish & Fish Limited is operating a tuna farm with a planning permit that was originally issued for the breeding of sea bream and sea bass. On site, the operator has 14 tuna cages, each measuring 50 metres. The approved permits are for eight tuna cages and eight sea bream/sea bass cages measuring 20 metres.
Malta Fish Farming Ltd is permitted to produce tuna, sea bream and sea bass. But 15 sea bream/sea bass cages (x20 metres) and a tuna cage measuring 50 metres face an infringement notice. MFF is permitted two sea bream/sea bass cages (x 20 metres), two tuna cages (x50 metres) and a tuna cage measuring 90 metres.
The emergency enforcement notice comes after years of blatant abuse by the operators which went ignored by authorities. As junior minister Deborah Schembri explained during a press briefing on Tuesday, operators only require a planning permit but do not need an operating licence.
Environment minister José Herrera described the slime that has polluted Malta's coasts as "almost a national crisis".
The Authority has reserved the right to proceed with direct action if it deems that the operators are not addressing the issue adequately and complying fully with the enforcement orders handed down to them. The Planning Authority also reserved the right to withdraw the current permits.
Next week, a revised legal notice will be published which will introduce harsher administrative fines intended for any planning illegalities related to the sea including illegalities in the aquaculture sector. Daily fines will go up to €2,000 up to a maximum of €200,000 in the aggregate.
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28 August 2018 | Medical Negligence
Devastating outcome from medical malpractice
Posted by Lidia Monteverdi
The English case regarding Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba has been followed with great interest by Australian medics and lawyers. A recent decision to reinstate Dr Bawa-Garba to the list of UK medical practitioners seems to have finally put an end to the matter, which has been ongoing for a number of years.
The case concerns Dr Bawa-Garba's care and treatment of Jack Adcock in February 2011.
At the time, Dr Bawa-Garba was a junior doctor training to be a paediatrician. She was two years from finishing her training. She had recently returned to practice as a Registrar at the Leicester Royal Infirmary Hospital ("the Hospital") after 14 months of maternity leave. Jack was six years old. He had Downs Syndrome along with a known cardiac condition.
On 18 February 2011, Jack presented to the Hospital in the morning with a history of vomiting, diarrhoea, shallow breathing, dehydration and slightly blue lips. On arrival, he was unresponsive and limp.
On that day, Dr Bawa-Garba was the most senior doctor on duty. She was in charge of multiple wards due to poor staffing. The consultant, Dr Bawa-Garba's supervisor, was not onsite due to a double-booking in his calendar. He was due to attend the Hospital in the afternoon for rounds.
Jack was assessed by Dr Bawa-Garba. She ordered blood tests and initially diagnosed gastro-enteritis. He was treated with fluids. Jack underwent a chest x-ray which showed he was suffering from pneuomonia. The x-ray results were not reviewed in a timely manner. Jack was treated with antibiotics, which were administered one hour after Dr Bawa-Garba prescribed them. Jack's condition fluctuated throughout the day, although he appeared stable when the consultant arrived at the Hospital and, for this reason, the consultant did not review Jack. Sadly, Jack went into septic shock in the evening and suffered from organ failure. Resuscitation was commenced and Dr Bawa-Garba was called. She mistakenly identified Jack as a child in the "do not resuscitate" category and stopped resuscitation efforts. A nurse alerted her to her mistake and resuscitation was re-commenced. Jack sadly passed away at 9.20pm that evening.
Dr Bawa-Garba (along with two other members of staff) was charged with the criminal offence of manslaughter by gross negligence. The case against her was that her actions contributed to, or caused, Jack's death by serious neglect which fell so far below the standard of care expected of competent professionals that it amounted to manslaughter by gross negligence.
She was tried and ultimately convicted by a jury of the charge. The Court found that "[t]hese were not just simple breaches of duty, but really serious breaches amounting to gross negligence." She was sentenced to a two year suspended sentence.
Following Dr Bawa-Garba's conviction, the independent Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled that she was a competent doctor who had made mistakes in the context of serious systemic failures. A one year suspension on her ability to practise was ordered. The General Medical Council (GMC) was successful in an appeal to have Dr Bawa-Garba struck off the register of medical practitioners in the UK. Dr Bawa-Garba obtained alternate legal representation to appeal that decision. On 13 August 2018, Dr Bawa-Garba's appeal was successful and she was reinstated to the register.
In Australia, it is difficult to imagine that Dr Bawa-Garba would have been charged with, much less found guilty of, manslaughter due to gross negligence. There were systemic issues that appear to have contributed to Jack's death such that it is difficult to attribute his death solely to Dr Bawa-Garba's actions. Nurse Amaro, who was also involved in Jack's care, was also found guilty of manslaughter. The Court was particularly critical of her record keeping, failure to monitor his vital signs and failure to bring his deteriorating condition to the attention of more senior staff members. In addition, the fact that Dr Bawa-Garba was the most senior doctor on duty that day, having returned from maternity leave and in charge of multiple wards are all concerning systemic failures which were out of her control.
This case serves as a reminder that good doctors can and do make mistakes. Sometimes the consequences of those mistakes are devastating, as in this case.
At Turner Freeman we have lawyers who specialise in medical negligence claims.
If you or someone you know has suffered as a result of medical negligence, including a situation in which you have suffered injury as a result of inadequate treatment, or a lack of treatment at a public hospital, we encourage you to call us on 13 43 63 to speak with one of our medical law experts.
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Goibhne the Maker
Homemade Bil's Campaign
Role: Character (Heroic)
This character is an original creation. We often call these "homemades" or "homebrewed" – think home cooking or craft beer.
Many of these characters were created to take part in tabletop role-playing game sessions. Others were invented as a creative writing exercise, often as part of a community event. This specific character was part of a RPG campaign run by writeups.org contributor Bil.
Alter ego: Goibhne the Maker
Marital Status: Presumed single
Known Relatives: The entire Celtic Pantheon
Group Affiliation: UNION, the Celtic Pantheon
Base Of Operations: Mobile
Height: 6'8" Weight: 650lbs Age: Unrevealed; at least 3,000
Eyes: Green Hair: Bright red
As a corporeal god, Goibhne (pronounced GUY-nee) is virtually immortal, and extremely durable. His strength is incredible, and his muscles and bones are four times as dense as mortal tissues. He also is extremely hard to fool, either with illusions or any form of invisibility, as his eyes do not truly see light. He can see the presence of magic, and knows about cosmic scale incidents at an instinctive level.
As befits a god of the forge, he has potent control over metallic substances, and can manipulate magnetic fields with only a conscious thought. He cannot manipulate metals on a molecular scale, however.
In addition to a knowledge of occult artifacts and their manufacture, Blacksmith has whole-heartedly embraced modern technology. His skill with devices is matched by few, and surpassed only by Springer, and a select few others. In addition, like most of the rest of his pantheon, Goibhne is an accomplished bard, usually preferring percussion instruments and his own clear voice, but proficient with many other instruments.
For combat, he wields a hammer that was one of his first creations. It is nearly indestructible, and he wields it with skill garnered from thousands of years of combat against the Fomori, ancient enemies of his pantheon. It can manipulate metallic materials on a molecular level as he concentrates on it, with such alterations being completely permanent.
In addition, he can cause it to surround itself in intense flames, or guide itself once he has hurled it at a foe. The power of a strike from his hammer is rivaled only by a blow from Powerhouse, or perhaps Varak. Only a Celtic deity, or one of direct maternal descent from a Celtic deity, may wield his hammer.
Much of Blacksmith's history is lost in the shrouded mists of time. According to Celtic myth, the Tuatha De Danaan fought a series of wars against the monstrous Fomori, before finally being driven out by the Milesians, thought to be the ancient ancestors of the Irish.
If this is so, then their retreat from Ireland had to be of their own volition, as only the most incredibly powerful of metahumans can hope to face deities on the power level of Blacksmith, let alone an entire pantheon of such a power level.
It is known that he returned to Earth in the mid-20'th century, in the early 60's. He founded the international task force of the U.N., known as UNION, and has adventured as its leader ever since.
A 6'8", 650 lb. giant, he strides through life as a larger than life figure. He wears modern clothes under normal circumstances, and is usually well-dressed. In combat, he goes shirtless, with green breeches and Celtic boots, his long red hair pulled back in a ponytail. His arms are wrapped with metal bands, and he wears a torque around his neck. The only feature that really distinguishes him from human, however, is his long, pointed ears.
A Renaissance man, Goibhne is relatively humble and matter-of-fact about his abilities. He is usually casual about anything that goes on, but is deadly serious about the welfare of his team, and about combat situations.
Blacksmith _might_ have some sort of connection to either Captain Marvel or Wonder Woman, but it may not be a friendly one at first, given the relations Rome had with the Celtic peoples. Or, he could have come to Earth following the Gods' War, to be an adventurer.
Dex: 07 Str: 23 Bod: 19 Motivation: Thrill of Adventure
Int: 10 Wil: 11 Min: 12 Occupation: Adventurer, God of the Forge
Inf: 09 Aur: 11 Spi: 15 Resources {or Wealth}: 15
Density Increase: 02, Invulnerability*: 19, Magic Sense*: 09, Awareness*: 09, Magnetic Control: 16, Truesight (ML)*: 11
Density Increase: Power Always On, Does not subtract from Dex
Invulnerability: Counteracts Physical Damage, Counteracts Mental Damage, Counteracts Mystical Damage
Artist (Musician, Sculptor)*: 09, Gadgetry: 13, Occultist (Identify Artifact, Occult Knowledge, Premonition)*: 09, Occultist (Create Artifact): 16, Scientist*: 10, Weaponry (Exotic Weapons, Melee Weapons, Missile Weapons): 11
Headquarters (Expansive), Leadership, Omni-Scholar, Scholar [Celtic Lore]
U.N.I.O.N. (High), Heroic Community (High, Powerful)
Limelight, Distinct Appearance
BLACKSMITH'S HAMMER [BODY 28, EV: 25, Flame Being (ML): 20, Flight: 14, Metal Manipulation: 14, HP Cost: 1632. Power Bonuses and Limitations: Metal Manipulation: Duration is permanent, requires 3 AP's of time to affect the target. Drawbacks: May only be used by a Celtic Deity]
By William Chamberlin
Source of Character: Homegrown
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DC Adventures RPG
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