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Microgrids slowly make inroads in Midwest, with Illinois taking the lead
Written By Kevin Stark October 1, 2018
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Jellyfish float in a display at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium in April 2013.
Microgrids have struggled to compete with cheap power in the region, but a fledgling movement is finding a foothold.
The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago's glitzy downtown loop is home to thousands of creatures, from shrimp to beluga whales, each dependent on a habitat that precisely mimics their natural environment.
It takes a constant power source to keep the lighting and temperatures just so for the more than 100 environments, and for that, the aquarium counts on a microgrid.
"The diversity of life and the environment requires a pretty reliable, resilient power system to ensure the safety," said Drew Gravitt, a sales manager with Schneider Electric, an energy management and automation system company that manages the aquarium's power system.
The aquarium's power system, which can operate as an energy island in the event of a grid power outage, is an example of a fledgling movement in the Midwest to invest in microgrids as a form of insurance for reliability and resiliency.
Microgrids have not found fast traction in the region, mostly because the cost of power is low and distributed resources have not been developed as aggressively here. But that is changing as schools, large companies, and other institutions invest in behind-the-meter microgrids, especially here in Illinois.
"Illinois is the bright spot in the Midwest," said Peter Asmus, a principal research analyst with Navigant Research.
Navigant Research tracks the growth of microgrids internationally and publishes a microgrid tracker every two quarters.
Here is a snapshot of Navigant's numbers for the Midwest:
The region had 58 microgrids as of Q2, 2018.
The top segments were commercial or industrial (18 projects), campus microgrids (15 projects), and military installations (11 projects,).
Illinois had the most microgrids with 15, followed by Michigan (10) and Minnesota (9).
"In terms of capacity, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota are the only three Midwestern states that are in the top 25 of U.S. states," said Johnathon de Villier, a Navigant research analyst.
The number one barrier facing microgrids — especially utility-scale microgrids — in the region is the low cost of power.
"The Midwest is a real barren wasteland for microgrids," David Chiesa, senior director global business development at S&C Electric, an electric power systems company based in Chicago. "If you look at the cost of power in the area — 8 or 9 cents per kilowatt hour is your residential average. If you are a large power user, they don't even charge you as much as that."
As a result, Chiesa said S&C is regularly pushed out of the microgrid sales in the Midwest. S&C Electric only works with large-scale commercial and industrial users, and S&C doesn't make low-voltage devices.
"I've gone down the road with several customers," Chiesa said. "When they go to talk to the utility, the utility goes, 'well, we don't want to lose you as a customer, you know, we are charging you 6 cents a kilowatt hour right now, if we went down to 5.5 cents, would you forget this whole microgrid idea?'"
But Chiesa and Asmus agree that things are changing with the growth of distributed resources and utilities looking at non-wired alternatives. "That's where the worm will turn," Chiesa said.
In North America, most microgrids are in California, where there are high retail rates, and along the East Coast, where state programs for resiliency in the wake of storms have prompted development.
Asmus credits Illinois policy — like the state's grid modernization law passed in 2011 — for spurring innovation, and the largest utilities, ComEd and Ameren, for being out front in discussing the potential of utility scale microgrids. "They've been talking about microgrids for quite some time."
While utility-scale microgrids — like Ameren's $5 million facility at the utility's Technology Application Center in Champaign, Illinois — receive a lot of attention, most microgrids are actually built in the private sector. "The vast majority of microgrids are not utility microgrids," Asmus said. "They serve college campuses, and more recently communities."
"The segment that used to be lagging that is really picking up is the commercial and industrial," he said. "The Midwest has a pretty healthy portion of its market based on that."
Shedd Aquarium's microgrid includes a 265-kilowatt solar system on its roof and a 1 megawatt battery storage system. The aquarium has set a goal to reduce its energy consumption by 50 percent by the year 2020.
It's not just about keeping the lights on and the penguins comfortable, Gravitt notes. As a nonprofit aquarium that depends on visitors to help pay for operations, it's also about keeping revenue flowing.
"There are 2 million people that go through there every year," he said. "After power reliability are safety concerns, but their revenue relies on it being open."
About Kevin Stark
Kevin has written for Midwest Energy News since May of 2017. His work has appeared in Pacific Standard, Chicago Reporter, Chicago Reader, and on NPR's Latino USA, among other outlets.
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March is Multiple Sclerosis month. In honor of MS patients and research, we are featuring a guest blog from scientist and communicator Hamideh Emrani. Thoughts expressed here are not necessarily those of CIRM.
If you are reading this post, other than out of curiosity, chances are that you know someone who has been affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS). This unpredictable and at times confusing disease has affected too many people in my circle of friends and family. I personally have spent hours reading about it and reading about possible treatments.
For instance, M, a really close friend of mine woke up one day and everything was blurry. She could see but it seemed as if there was a thick fog covering everything. After seeing her optometrist and being evaluated via multiple tests and an MRI scan, she was diagnosed with MS. The reason behind her blurred vision was inflammation of her optic nerves.
Why do MS symptoms happen?
The nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are connected through cellular extensions. Each cell has one long cellular extension at one end, called an axon, that looks similar to an electrical wire. Axons relay information using neural signals from one cell to another. Just as an electrical wire has a protective plastic cover to avoid leakage of electricity, these axons, are covered with a protective layer of a special fat called myelin.
In MS, a patient's immune cells start to attack this protective layer in the central nervous system: the optic nerves, brain, and the spinal cord. They also attack the cells that produce myelin (called oligodendrocytes) and the injured nerve axon fibers. This results in de-myelination or the loss of myelin; and eventual deterioration and damage of the nerve axons. In turn, multiple scar tissues form on the damaged areas on nerves that can be seen through MRI, hence the name "multiple sclerosis" with sclerosis meaning scar tissue.
Generally, the demyelination and scar tissue will cause communication problems among nerves and the symptoms vary in each patient making it a complicated disease to treat. Some common resulting symptoms include excessive fatigue, pain, blurred vision, walking difficulties, muscle stiffness and changes in brain-based skills such as memory and problem solving.
Depending on the stage of the disease and the extent of the damage, the disease has been categorized to four different courses.
Clinically Isolated Syndrome (CIS) The person has had one episode of neurological symptoms that may or may not be accompanied by damages seen in an MRI scan.
Relapsing remitting MS (RRMS) The most common type of MS, which is characterized by clearly defined periods of neurologic inflammation called "MS attacks" that can be followed by periods of partial or complete recovery. The person might be completely symptom free during these remission times.
Secondary progressive MS (SPMS) Many patients with RRMS over time transition to SPMS where there is no recovery from the symptoms and disability accumulates.
Primary progressive MS (PPMS) There are no remissions from the onset of the disease and disability caused by disease activity worsens over time.
What is the cause of MS?
MS is affecting a growing number of human populations. While the jury is still out to define the main cause, many scientists believe that various factors play a role such as genetic predisposition, viral and bacterial infections, and environmental cues. MS is mostly prominent in countries in the Northern hemisphere and colder climates. It affects more women than men, and is mostly diagnosed between the age of 35-50.
Unfortunately, there is no cure for MS at the moment. The drugs that are available, called MS modifying treatments, try to prevent the progression of the disease but they don't reverse it. Instead, the drugs mostly modulate the immune system to avoid further attacks or treat symptoms such as fatigue, pain, and bladder issues that are caused by the damage.
How do stem cells come into picture?
Stem cells are unique cells with the ability to both self-renew and specialize into different cell types. This amazing regeneration ability has turned them into great sources for designing treatment strategies to replace the damaged cells in MS. Two stem cell treatment approaches for MS are currently in development. In one, the researchers try to reboot or modulate the patient's immune system to prevent it from attacking the nerve cells. In the other, scientists focus on using stem cells to make oligodendrocytes to try and regenerate and repair lost and injured nervous tissue.
The most common stem cells used in clinical trials are the blood, or haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) which are isolated from the bone marrow. Haematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) have been used for decades to treat blood cancers such as leukemias, but the first time they were studied for treating MS was in the 1990s.
In this method, the patient's HSCs are collected from the bone marrow and stored. Then, the patient's immune system, including the bone marrow, is completely depleted through chemotherapy. Finally, the stem cells are transplanted back into the body and after a few months eventually build up a new immune system.
Just last month, Dr. Paolo Muraro et al. published a report that reviews such clinical trials and the long-term outcomes for the patients. They evaluated data for 281 patients from 25 centers in 13 countries that were followed an average of 6.5 years after the transplant. At the end they conclude that almost half of the patients receiving HSCT did not have any progression of the disease. And, younger patients with the most common form of MS, RRMS, who had less disability going into the trial, and had gone through less disease modifying treatments had a better outcome. (73% were progression free at the 5 year mark).
In the HALT-MS trial, a small number (24) of patients with, RRMS, whose disease was not controlled by any medications, underwent HSCT. After 5 years, 91.3% of the patients did not show any sign of disease progression.
In June 2016, a Canadian team of researchers reported the results of a long term follow up of an aHSCT trial (the "a" stands for autologous, meaning it used the patient's own cells) on 24 patients whose MS had progressed even after receiving conventional treatments. After up to 13 years after the transplantation, no relapses were evident, and 35% of the patients experienced reversals in their level of disability.
Back in 2015, Burt et al. reported their HSCT treatment regimen for 123 RRMS patients and their follow up of up to 4 years. In their study, instead of completely depleting the patient's immune system, they just suppressed it and performed the transplants. Their data suggest that there was no disease progression in 87% of individuals who had MS for less than 10 years.
Will Stem Cells be used for treatment of MS in the near future?
Even though the initial results of the HSCT clinical trials sound promising, the risks that are involved are not easy to ignore. In all the mentioned trials, there were side effects related to the transplant. There were also a total of nine deaths reported in all the studies combined (since 1990s). However, most of these deaths occurred before the year of 2000 and they were attributed to transplantation techniques and patient selection methods. Over the years, researchers have been working hard to fine tune the techniques and made the procedure safer. But even now it is important for the patients to weigh the benefits and the risks before undergoing the procedure.
That's why neurologists and stem cell scientists do not currently recommend blood stem cell transplants as the top-of-the-line treatment option for most MS patients. Other types of stem cells are being investigated for their potential in deriving oligodendrocytes and nerve cells to re-myelinate and repair the damaged ones. However, they are still in development and have not reached a clinical trial in people.
At the moment, many stem cell treatment approaches are all at the experimental level and more research is needed to completely prove them to be safe and effective. There are many trusted sources to get information from and the international society for stem cell research (ISSCR) has produced a great nine step guideline for patients and family members considering stem cell treatments. Also the national MS society website is a great resource for learning more about Multiple Sclerosis, including participating in clinical trial studies.
Hamideh Emrani is a science and technology communicator in Toronto, Canada. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and has a Masters degree from the University of Toronto. You can follow Hamideh on Twitter.
Before reading this, I didn't know much about what causes MS and how it can be treated. I had no idea that stem cells are able to self-renew and change into other cell types. It is so interesting how some are isolated in the bone marrow. Stem cells seem like an interesting and beneficial field of study!


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Defenders of Faith: Pope Francis Did Not Question Christ's Divinity, Vatican Says
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The journalist who made the recent allegations about Pope's views on Christ's divinity had also previously claimed that the pontiff denied the existence of hell, with the Vatican dismissing these claims as well.
The emergence of allegations that Pope Francis denied the divinity of Jesus Christ has prompted the Vatican to step forward and refute these claims, the Catholic News Agency reports.
According to the media outlet, the rebuttal was issued in response to a column in La Repubblica penned by the newspaper's founder, Eugenio Scalfari, who wrote that "Pope Francis conceives Christ as Jesus of Nazareth, a man, not God incarnate"; the journalist did not claim, however, that he interviewed the pope recently, but said that "this was a topic he had discussed with Pope Francis at some time in the past."
"As already stated on other occasions, the words that Dr. Eugenio Scalfari attributes in quotation marks to the Holy Father during talks with him cannot be considered a faithful account of what was actually said but represent a personal and free interpretation of what he heard, as appears completely evident from what is written today regarding the divinity of Jesus Christ", director of the Holy See's press office Matteo Bruni said in a statement on 9 October.
In his column, Scalfari sought to support his thesis about Christ not being divine by using examples from Scriptures that mention Jesus praying, and raised these points to the pontiff.
"'They are the definite proof that Jesus of Nazareth, once he became a man, even if he was a man of exceptional virtue, was not a God'," the pope allegedly told him, as quoted by the news agency.
The media outlet also points out that the pontiff has made frequent references to Christ's divinity, which does not correlate well with Scalfari's allegations.
In 2015, Scalfari also reportedly claimed that Pope Francis made comments denying the existence of hell, with the Vatican dismissing these allegations as well.
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Pasquale Lolordo è stato uno dei più potenti mafiosi Italoamericani di Chicago degli anni '20, socio di Al Capone e capo dell'Unione Siciliana, nonché uno dei principali contrabbandieri di alcol della città di Chicago e parte dell'Illinois.

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Nato nel   1887, a  Siculiana  in provincia di Agrigento, Lolordo succede a Antonino Lombardo (sostenuto da Al Capone) alla presidenza dell'Unione Siciliana quando Lombardo viene ucciso il 7 settembre 1928 dai killer di Joe Aiello per essersi rifiutato di cedere la presidenza dell'Unione; resta ferito anche Joseph Lolordo, fratello di Pasquale e guardaspalle di Lombardo, mentre rimane ucciso l'altro guardaspalle Joseph Ferraro. Lolordo era stato uno dei pupilli di Mike Merlo il potentissimo e rispettato capo dell'Unione morto per cause naturali nel 1924.

Pasquale Lolordo era stato uno dei fermati dalla polizia nel corso di un incontro tra mafiosi siciliani che si era svolto nel dicembre del 1928 presso l'Hotel Statler di Cleveland; assieme a Joseph Giunta, i due rappresentavano la delegazione della famiglia di Chicago. Appena un mese dopo, la sera dell'8 gennaio 1929, Lolordo viene assassinato a casa sua mentre stava brindando con alcuni amici di cui si fidava, il quale in realtà erano passati segretamente dalla parte di Joe Aiello. Quest'ennesimo omicidio ruppe l'instabile tregua che si era formata tra le forze di Capone e quelle di Aiello, insanguinando di nuovo la città di Chicago con decine e decine di omicidi. Lina, la moglie di Lolordo, in preda al dolore, interrogata dalla polizia si trincerò nella più totale omertà.

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Tiger Woods 2018 Major Championship Review
How did Tiger Woods perform during 2018's four major championships? We take a closer look...
At the start of the year, such was the scepticism surrounding Tiger's most recent comeback that questions remained over his ability to play competitively at a weekly PGA Tour event, let alone challenge during the latter stages of a major championship.
The great man himself has relayed since that back in early 2018 he wasn't sure he would have any sort of reliable golf swing come April for The Masters. Furthermore, he had by no means his tournament schedule set in stone. Fast forward seven months and we now have watched four separate attempts to pick up major number 15.
To wrap up our coverage of the 2018 major season, we thought we would review each of the four performances. Here's what we've come up with...
The Masters - Augusta National
Before The Masters back in April, Tiger Woods referred to himself as a 'walking miracle' and to the fact that he felt blessed merely to be able to swing a golf club again.
Off the tee at Augusta National Tiger impressed, but poor iron play and shaky putting were to be his undoing. Indeed, he cut a frustrated figure when asked directly about his performance with the irons stating that he had not expected to be struggling so much with his approach shots.
All in all, his four days at Augusta National came together to provide a bit of a ho-hum return to major championship golf. With that said, he did survive the 36-hole cut and an aggregate score of 289 saw him place T-32 - a particular highlight being the final round 69.
Catch Tiger's best shots at The Masters 2018...
U.S. Open - Shinnecock Hills
A rather more sobering performance in Southampton, New York followed April's showing at The Masters.
A solid second round 72 was two shots better than the field but ultimately wasn't enough to right the wrongs of an opening day 78. Despite hitting the ball quite well during a difficult two days in New York, he couldn't get it rolling on the greens and would miss the cut by two shots.
June's major championship was a rather more forgettable experience for the former world-number-one.
Catch whatever highlights there were from Tiger's 36 holes at the 2018 U.S. Open below...
The Open Championship - Carnoustie Golf Links
Tiger's only post-U.S. Open start in the lead-up to his appearance at Carnoustie was a solid T-6 finish in a reasonably weak field at the Quicken Loans National.
Confidence was obviously gleaned from that performance (and practice sessions since) by the time he arrived in Angus, Scotland because this was a rejuvenated Tiger who had come to the 147th Open Championship ready and equipped to win.
And win he almost did.
For a spell during the final round the whole of the golfing world were losing their minds because, almost unfathomably, Tiger Woods was leading The Open. So many people had written off the possibility and made peace with the fact that the future golfing landscape would be one where 'The Tiger Effect' had no place.
It was fun while it lasted. Tiger would eventually settle to a T-6 finish - thanks in part to a double bogey at the 11th and a single at the 12th - but he was now firmly on the prowl again in major golf.
The crowd got a little over-excited on the 18th tee-box...
PGA Championship - Bellerive Country Club
The 100th PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club provided further evidence that the global golfing family need to consider Tiger Woods as a regular threat at future major championships.
Flashes of brilliance returned and he had the full-throated crowd in raptures on several occasions. Had he managed to keep his tee shots a little more under control then he may have pushed the undoubtedly deserving Kopeka even closer than the final two-shot deficit. Regardless, as every event passes it becomes ever clearer that Tiger's game is getting better and better, which is quite a daunting proposition for the rest of the field.
As things stand he is an early joint-favourite for The Masters in 2019. The way he is playing at present it would take only a few tweaks to his game to go on and justify those odds.
Here's his best shots from Sunday's final round...
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ABC Alumni call for political change | radioinfo
ABC Alumni call for political change
Thursday 22 November, 2018
Kerry O'Brien addresses the ABC Alumni launch audience
ABC Alumni, a group of former ABC staff and supporters, held its official launch yesterday at the ABC headquarters, calling for secure funding, guaranteed editorial independence, and changes to the way the ABC's Board and Managing Director are selected. radioinfo was there.
The event was also a celebration of the ABC's achievements to date, with speakers including Kerry O'Brien the former editor and host of the 7:30 Report, Four Corners and Lateline.
Matt Peacock, a former ABC journalist and the co-convenor of ABC Alumni, opened the event,
"The aims of the alumni, put simply, are the continued advocacy for public media, free, fearless, independent and quality media."
He also mentioned ABC Alumni's plans to advocate for restoring the ABC's service to the Pacific and Asia, which had its budget slashed by sixty percent in 2014, as well as making submissions to the federal inquiry into competitive neutrality, and the senate inquiry into the political interference in the ABC, demanding an "independent and suitably knowledgeable board". He also announced the group's plans for more 'targeted activity' similar to their pamphletting campaign during the Wentworth by-election.
ABC's acting Managing Director David Anderson praised the national broadcaster in his speech, emphasising its importance to the Australian community
"The ABC is part of the fabric of our community, and arguably the most loved and important and trusted cultural institution that we have in the country.
"Whether it's through our journalism where we provide that fact based information so that the people of this country can make the decisions that they need to for the future, whether we're shining lights into dark corners, whether we're holding people to account. Giving voices to those that don't have one."
Anderson also discussed the importance of the ABC's independence, a common theme among the speakers:
"It's our independence that's most important, and our independence that's non-negotiable. So our independence is still intact, it hasn't been breached. But if there was any positive that came out of the last two months, the positive is the groundswell of advocacy for the ABC about our independence and how important it is now and into the future. And something that we are absolutely resolute about."
He also voiced concerns about the ABC's financial independence, calling for a "sustainable budget that we can rely on into the future, so that we can continue to provide our services...now and forever more."
He emphasised the need to move past the events of ex-Managing Director Michelle Guthrie's sacking and ex-Chairman Justin Milne's resignation, and the need to reaffirm the importance of the ABC's content and audience saying, "the dedication and commitment of the ABC staff is stronger than it's ever been and is unwavering and continues to be strong."
Kerry O'Brien reminded audience members that the ABC has suffered political interference in the past, both from within and without, citing an example from his work in the seventies on This Day Tonight, when the program was instructed not to run an interview with a trade unionist for postal workers as they had not obtained an interview with the postmaster general. They ran the interview regardless, and the producer was removed from the show. Mr. O'Brien spoke at length about his other experiences with political interference at the ABC, as well as what he considered self-censorship by the ABC.
He spoke about the need to remember the ABC's history, and the need for board members to advocate for the broadcaster, criticising a lack of enthusiasm among previous board members for the national broadcaster. He urged staff and supporters not to be complacent with regard to accountability:
"I don't think there should ever be a point when inside the ABC we just assume that whatever we're doing is right, and good and proper, and that we never need review, and that we never need scrutiny. Of course public broadcasting does, and of course mistakes get made. And of course we have our low times as well as our high points. But nonetheless, the central thread, I think, that has run through the ABC through all of this period is the spirit of the staff. And the spirit of the staff is the pursuit of excellence. And I don't think that pursuit has ever been lost."
O'Brien decried what he views as political hostility towards the ABC, today and in the past:
"Now the situation today is as bad if not worse than at any time that I can recall since I have been a part of or even an observer watching the abc. I think the hostility is just bizarre."
Fiona Stanley, former ABC board member, also backed ABC Alumni's calls for board members with relevant expertise, as well as a willingness to defend the ABC. "Really aren't we there as advocates for the ABC? Where's the advocacy of this current board? For anything other than I don't know what."
Matt Peacock concluded with a rallying cry to those present:
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The Hardness of Hallmark Holidays
Tatum Fishel
Today, all the Valentine's candy is 50-75% off! And replacing it is the Easter candy. Away with the conversation hearts (my fave!) and in with the Peeps (another fave!). Immediately following the February 14th holiday, we discard everything pertaining to it, and move on to the next moneymaker.
Hallmark made you do it.
Don't get me wrong, I love a good piece of holiday candy (it's the 6th love language). And I love the idea behind the "Hallmark" holidays… you know the ones the card companies turn into a big deal so that you'll spend your money on their stuff – Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day. There's nothing wrong with celebrating the people we love, and our moms and our dads. There's nothing wrong with buying cards and candies and taking special people out to a nice lunch or dinner.
It's incredibly ok that the world sends gentle reminders to us to cherish the people we love. We should want to shower them with kindness and love and celebrations.
But the truth of the matter is that these days are hard for some people. They're hard for the single. For the childless. They're hard for those who are parenting small ones alone. They're hard for the ones whose parents have passed or they're in a season of grief.
So what is the church's role to the people who are not so lucky as to be in a season where they are celebrated during a "Hallmark" holiday?
It is very simple: to reach out.
It isn't complicated. It was always to reach out. To check in and say hello. To recognize that on some of these days, though they are just another day, people in their community may not have a person to get dinner with, go to brunch with, or cookout with.
But the people who are hurting in these seasons also have a role: to reach out. To say something. To say they feel lonely or would like to join your family for lunch. Or to say that these moments are hard to be in the season they're in.
See how both sides have an obligation to reach out? See how the church has a role to reach out to its hurting brothers and sisters, but that's not a one-sided obligation. It's a two way street.
There are always going to be people around us in seasons of sadness when others are celebrating. Seasons of grief when others have joy. And that's ok. It's important for all of us to remember that we are all parts of one Body (1 Corinthians 12), working together to make it run. It doesn't matter our season of life, we all have a role in the church, we all have a role to one another – and that's to reach out.
In the words of Edwin McCain, "Say anything, save everything/ If we say nothing this love will die."
Who can you reach out to today just to check in?


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Any other ideas to add to the pot?
What about the Chicago Neighborhood Blends from The Spice House?
Hate to say it, but Brach's not from Chicago anymore either.
Terrific replies! I'll forward this along to the bride. Thank you all!
So of course, a bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's barbecue sauce has to go in the gift basket. A box of what used to be Marshall Fields' mints (dang! I can hardly remember the name now ... ah! Frango Mints!) should go in too.
Can anyone give me some more ideas? Shelf-stable stuff, that I can carry on the plane or pack in my luggage.
There are a couple of interesting threads about this topic here and here. I'd add Vosges to that list as well.
I'm frantically trying to gather inexpensive favors for a bridal shower this weekend and remembered this thread. I picked up a bunch of small boxes of DAS Caramels (classic) and also City Caramels (Pilsen & Lincoln Square) at the Downtown Farmstand yesterday. I think they'll go over well.
There are indeed numerous microbreweries and brewpubs; the one I'd suggest, in addition to Goose Island, is Half Acre.
Remember, if you are bringing liquids on airline flights, they need to go inside your checked luggage.
I am dealin with this exact same questions, or rather my mother is, who volunteered to handle the gift baskets.
1. Any idea of somewhere local to the city where I can buy Gale's Root Beer? I know it is on Amazon, but surely there is somewhere local I can purchase it? I'm fine buying it by the single bottle, but larger quantities would be better, since I need 20 bottles.
2. In terms of local Chicago potato chips, when I think Chicago I think Jay's. But do you agree? What is the most distinctly Chicago brand of potato chip? Or more importantly, what is the best tasting brand of Chicago potato chip (no offense to Jay's...).
Lawry's seasoning salt is a great idea I would have never thought of...adding it to the list!
I find it unfortunate that, in the potato chip realm, Chicago is known for Jays. It would be better if we were not known for any potato chip.
Giving someone bad potato chips, just because they are produced in Chicago, means that you are giving them bad potato chips.
Skip the chips and add some Garrett's popcorn (Garrett's Mix) to your gift bag. As far as Gayle's goes, I'm not 100% sure, but I think I've seen it at GNR Fresh Farms on Touhy and/or Mariano's.
Not sure if you're set on Gale's, but you can walk straight into the Filbert's factory on S. Ashland and buy root beer (or any of their other drinks) by the case- they'll let you mix and match, too.
I bet you call it the Willis Tower, don't you?
lougord99 wrote: Giving someone bad potato chips, just because they are produced in Chicago, means that you are giving them bad potato chips.
Jay's is owned by Snyder's-Lance, and closed its Chicago planet Dec. 5, 2007. (That's the current production home for Burnt City Brewing). Vitner's, in Freeport, IL may be the closest to a Chicago-area potato chip maker.
Lol. Actually, I think that might be the first time I've ever called it that.
seebee wrote: I bet you call it the Willis Tower, don't you?
I used to work for Gale Gand and I'm FB friends with her. She recently posted that she found it at the Caputo's in Lake Forest, so you might try whichever is closest to you. Gale's Root Beer has it's own FB page, so I imagine they would respond pretty quickly.
DClose wrote: Lawry's seasoning salt is a great idea I would have never thought of...adding it to the list!
How is Lawry's seasoned salt part of Chicago (I get that there's a Lawry's here, but that's pretty tenuous)?
I do like Jay's Kettle-Cooked Chips and their Hot Chips.
Vitner's I like their hot varieties of cheddar & sour cream and salt and vinegar.
Can you pop in gift certificates to favorites like Portillo's, Scooters, or someone's stuffed pizza?
How about something from Half Acre (says the teetotaler still mad that Goose Island is no longer local) or some other local and respected brewer.
Or Intelligentsia's black cat chocolate espresso beans (also acquired by Peet's and no longer local) or some other coffee from a respected local roaster.
If you do the green relish, then you must include the sport peppers. Apparently, those peppers are easy to find here but not necessarily elsewhere.
I would consider a box of Salerno butter cookies. It's about as local as Jay's now, but once it was very local.
spinynorman99 wrote: Unnaturally green relish?
LMAO - worst wedding gift EVER!
I settled on Gale's Root Beer, a TBD seasoning blend from The Spice House, some butter cookies, and Intelligentsia coffee as a starting point, along with some more run of the mill things like sparkling water, tylenol (for the next morning), that sort of thing.
I found Gale's Root Beer at Libertyville Sunset Foods and bought them out of it. More will be delivered tomorrow...which is a good thing...since I need more than they had!
Relish would cause issues but bottles of root beer would not? Not following the reasoning.


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There's just something irresistible about a handmade, fine quality product. As the success of Detroit based Shinola shows us, the stamp of made in Detroit can add the finishing touches to a product's attraction. Douglas and Co is the newest kid on the block, launching their line of handmade goods made in Detroit. This smaller company could take a piece of large retail market.
Shane and Melissa Douglas launched Douglas and Co after spending some time learning all about the process of making leather. Co-founder Shane Douglas said it was learning this process that inspired them to start the company.
From their studio in Detroit the two source leather, cut it, size it, sew it and assemble their products for the business. It's all handmade from Detroit. The company makes small gift items like coasters and key chains, and larger products like wallets and clutches. Each product is designed and created for a certain amount and series, too. The team believes it adds to the authenticity of handmade goods.
Below are a couple items featured for launch.
Products will be available soon online at their website www.douglasandcodetroit.com. What do you think quality goods with the made in Detroit stamp? We'd love to hear your thoughts on this trend.
Also, you can check out Douglas and Co at their upcoming launch part this Saturday, November 22nd.


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The film stars: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Max Martini, Toby Stephens, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Demetrius Grosse and Freddie Stroma.
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The principal describes the student-led conferences as one of the most successful community engagement initiatives that the school has used. The interviewed parent also said that the conferences were an effective way to engage with the teachers about his children's achievement. They agree that the conferences work because they are completely led by the student and parents in a process that redistributes power to them, away from the teacher. The parents respond to their children in a very focused and loving way about their achievement. The school has kept data on how many parents responded to the parent-led conferences. For example, at the end of 2009, 72 percent of parents came to conferences, and 100 percent of those parents wrote letters and made certificates in response to their children's achievement books.


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Milo Yiannopoulos' Nuclear Attack On Jordan Peterson
Milo Yiannopoulos
I have long ago labeled the very bright Milo Yiannopoulos a curious character. He often says some truly brilliant things that mess with social justice warrior minds. But he is too dangerous to provide a full endorsement of. You just never know what he is going to say next. But some of his stuff is so damn good and well written that I will quote him every great once and while in isolation away from whatever else he is writing, saying or doing.
I mention this because it appears that Jordan Peterson has hurt Yiannopoulos' feelings.
Now, Peterson is another soul that delivers a mixed message but nowhere near as extreme as Yiannopoulos. I do feel more comfortable highlighting and featuring Peterson when he says very important things, which he does often enough.
That said, I feel compelled, because I do feature him so frequently, to also call out Peterson when he goes off track (and when he goes off track, he can go way off track). See, for example, The Limits of Jordan Peterson's Libertarian Understanding.
This all leads me up to this: Yiannopoulos has written a vicious attack on Peterson in a foreword to a new Vox Day attack book on Jordan. Again, it appears that the Yiannopoulos essay is fueled by the fact that it appears, at least as Yiannopoulos tells the story, that Peterson distanced himself from Yiannopoulos at the June 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival when someone linked Yiannopoulos with Hitler.
Let's just say the Yiannopoulos essay is payback by nuclear means.
I mean, consider this Yiannopoulos comment about Peterson:
He is a line of coke masquerading as the Eucharist.
Now, Yiannopoulosis is a skilled writer, and when he wants, a talented observer of man and men---but, again I warn, he can go way off.
With these warnings, I point to the Yiannopoulos piece. I think a lot of it is unfair to Peterson and he is clearly upset that Peterson didn't defend him at high altitude Aspen but in between all this, there is somewhere between 10% and 20% of the commentary that contains observations about Peterson that I have never seen made before by anyone else and deserve thinking about. And there are also some very good points made about sticking to truth and principle---when it is tough to do so.
Then there is stuff that is way off.
You have been warned: Here is Yiannopoulos.
Rock November 20, 2018 at 2:45 PM
I stopped reading after he attacked his relashionship with his daughter...This article is sad attempt at relevance and attention seeking. And to claim he's a journalist. Dr.Peterson defended this guy on multiple occasions and now this as an act in kind? Keenly awaiting Dr.Peterson's often shredding and deserved responses.
Shegottawideload November 20, 2018 at 8:43 PM
Children tend to throw hissy fits first and worry about the impact later. Milo is showing true maturity it seems.
MikeyBikey November 21, 2018 at 12:51 AM
Dunno, our conservative (happily married to whom?) homosexual is annoyed at the shortcomings and contradictions of one Mr. Petersen and wants to pull rank. Well, whoopty doo, boys and girls.
Sort of like lesbian Camila Paglia decrying LGBQT as the harbinger of the end of Western civilization. Huh? Do these people understand what irony means?
Maybe our Snow White could look in the mirror for once and get a sense of history, much more acknowledge that they are part of the problem, along with Jordan P.
Cory Brickner December 4, 2018 at 1:14 PM
I went to read this and it's nowhere to be found on his site. Wiped from the internet.


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Q: How to set the type of NSBatchDeleteResult of a NSBatchDeleteRequest? I have some core that performs a Batch delete request:
extension NSManagedObject: Clearable {
    /// Clears all objects of this type in coreData
    static func clearAll() {
        let context = AppDelegate.sharedInstance()?.coreDataHelper.objectContext()
        let fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest<NSFetchRequestResult>(entityName: String(describing:self))
        let batchDeleteRequest = NSBatchDeleteRequest(fetchRequest: fetchRequest)
        do {
            if let unwrappedContext = context {
                unwrappedContext.shouldDeleteInaccessibleFaults = true
                let result = try unwrappedContext.execute(batchDeleteRequest) as? NSBatchDeleteResult
                DLog("result \(result.debugDescription)")
                switch result!.resultType {
                case .resultTypeCount:
                    DLog("resultTypeCount")
                case .resultTypeObjectIDs:
                    DLog("resultTypeObjectIDs")
                case .resultTypeStatusOnly:
                    DLog("resultTypeStatusOnly")
                }
                if let objectIDArray = result?.result as? [NSManagedObjectID] {
                    let changes = [NSDeletedObjectsKey : objectIDArray]
                    NSManagedObjectContext.mergeChanges(fromRemoteContextSave: changes, into: [unwrappedContext])
                }
                try context?.save()
            }
        } catch let error as NSError {
            DLog("Error removing : \(error), \(error.localizedDescription)")
        }
    }
}

The code works fine, but the result of the batch delete is always .resultTypeStatusOnly
The documentation here https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles/CoreData_Batch_Guide/BatchDeletes/BatchDeletes.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016086-CH3-SW2 says under the title Updating Your Application After Execution that

it is important that you notify the application that the objects in
  memory are stale and need to be refreshed.

And to do that the result type has to be .resultTypeObjectIDs, to be able to trigger the NSManagedObjectContext.mergeChanges(fromRemoteContextSave: changes, into: [unwrappedContext]) part. It's just not clear how you get that.
How does one set the type of the result?

A: You can set the resultType property on the batchDeleteRequest. So, also from https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles/CoreData_Batch_Guide/BatchDeletes/BatchDeletes.html :

When the executeRequest completes successfully, a response is received. That response can take one of two forms. The form of the response is deteremined by setting the resultType property on the NSBatchDeleteRequest. The default value is NSStatusOnlyResultType, which returns nothing.
  The other option is NSBatchDeleteObjectIDsResultType, which returns an array of NSManagedObjectID instances indicating which entities were deleted during the execution.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

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Q: What does `B means? In toplevel, i get the following output:
#`B
- : [> `B ] = `B

then what does `B mean ?  Why do we need it ?
Sincerely!

A: An identifier prefixed with a backquote like `B is a constructor of a polymorphic variant type.  It's similar to the constructor of an algebraic type:
type abc = A | B | C

However, you can use polymorphic variant values without declaring them, and in general they're much more flexible than the usual algebraic types.  The tradeoff is that they're also quite a bit trickier to use.
One thing people use them for is as simple named values, like enum values in C.  Or, more precisely, like atoms in Lisp.  You can use ordinary algebraic types for this, but you need to carefully maintain your definitions of them and guard against duplication.  With polymorphic variants, you don't need to do either of these.  You can use them without declaring them, and the constructors aren't required to be unique (two different types can have the same constructor).
Polymorphic variant constructors can also take parameters, as algebraic constructors can.  So you can also write (`B 77), a constructor with a single int parameter.
This is a pretty big topic--see the above linked section of the OCaml manual for more details.

A: It's a polymorphic variant. From the documentation:

Variants as presented in section 1.4 are a powerful tool to build data structures and algorithms. However they sometimes lack flexibility when used in modular programming. This is due to the fact every constructor reserves a name to be used with a unique type. One cannot use the same name in another type, or consider a value of some type to belong to some other type with more constructors.
With polymorphic variants, this original assumption is removed. That is, a variant tag does not belong to any type in particular, the type system will just check that it is an admissible value according to its use. You need not define a type before using a variant tag. A variant type will be inferred independently for each of its uses.


The five top books you've read this year (so far)?
It is really hard picking five books, especially when I have read so many great books this year already but I will go with the first ones that pop up into my head.
Top five books you want to read before the end of 2016?
I have a kindle full of books as well as quite a few physical books sat waiting to be read so there are loads I want to read as well as ones that haven't been released yet.
What top five tips would you give to new bloggers?
The blogging community is a great one, so if your ever struggling or have a question, shout out, as there are so many lovely bloggers out there that are more than happy to give advice or will try and help where they can.
Like many bloggers, blogging is a hobby, for me when I start to feel stressed or feel like it's more like work I lessen my review load, it's all about getting a happy medium and enjoying what your doing.
Don't beat yourself up if you don't like a book, every one has different tastes and not every book is going to be loved by the same people.
Have a good and clear review policy, this way you will hopefully get less invites to genres that you don't read.
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Андрі́ївська ву́лиця — назва вулиць в різних населених пунктах колишнього СРСР.

Андріївська вулиця — вулиця в місті Житомир.
 Андріївська вулиця — вулиця в місті Київ.
 Андріївська вулиця — вулиця в місті Кропивницький.
 Андріївська вулиця — вулиця в місті Кременчук.
 Андріївська вулиця — вулиця в місті Прилуки.

Андріївська вулиця — вулиця в місті Великий Новгород.
 Андріївська вулиця — вулиця в місті Санкт-Петербург.
 Андріївська вулиця — вулиця в місті Ставрополь.
 Андріївська вулиця — вулиця в місті Череповець.

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1. Preheat oven to 325° (162*C) Grease one 8 cup muffin pan or line with paper cups.
2. Combine oats, pecans, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl. Combine honey and almond butter in a small microwave-safe bowl; microwave at HIGH 20 to 30 seconds, stirring until smooth.
3. Add honey mixture and egg white to oat mixture; mix very well. Divide oat mixture evenly among 8 muffin cups coated with cooking spray.
4. Using damp hands, press oat mixture into bottom and up sides of each muffin cup. Bake at 325° for 15 to 20 minutes or until edges are browned and crisp; cool completely in pan.
5. In a medium bowl, mix together the yogurt, vanilla and lemon zest. Fill each cup with about 1/4 cup yogurt, and top with about 1/4 cup berries.
Tip: You can add ¼ cup of ground flax or hemp seeds to bump up the nutrients in this recipe.


1. Preheat oven 190°C. Grease a 25cm cast iron skillet with cooking spray.
2. Using electric beaters, beat together butter, brown sugar and caster sugar until light and creamy. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Fold plain flour, baking powder, salt and coconut into mixture. Stir until smooth.
3. Evenly press cookie dough into prepared skillet.
4. Gently push pieces of white chocolate and raspberries into the surface of the dough.
5. Place in the oven for 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown and white chocolate has caramelised.
6. Remove skillet from oven and allow to rest for 10-15 minutes before serving. Serve cookie warm with generous scoops of vanilla ice-cream or cream.


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Amos 08 Jan 05 - 02:04 AM
Stilly River Sage 08 Jan 05 - 01:43 AM
Stilly River Sage 07 Jan 05 - 08:40 PM
Tweed 07 Jan 05 - 03:52 PM
Amos 07 Jan 05 - 02:21 PM
Rapparee 07 Jan 05 - 01:52 PM
Rapparee 05 Jan 05 - 09:11 AM
Tweed 05 Jan 05 - 08:46 AM
Little Hawk 04 Jan 05 - 08:35 AM
Rustic Rebel 04 Jan 05 - 02:58 AM
Rustic Rebel 03 Jan 05 - 08:26 PM
GUEST,Tweed 03 Jan 05 - 05:45 PM
GUEST 03 Jan 05 - 04:39 PM
MMario 03 Jan 05 - 04:24 PM
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:04 AM
Ah, ma'am, but where else than in my dreams. It is still a compliment!! :D
In your dreams! (I lied, I haven't made it to bed yet. But I'm going! The cats are scolding and the book is calling out to be read.)
Gawd, what an elegant concatenation of souls that is!!!
Had I but an invitation there would be celebration beyond measure !
This is it for me tonight. One of the rest of you is going to have to come along and boost Mom up overnight, 'cause I'm headed to bed. To read. It's Friday and the kids are at their Dad's house. It's just me and the cats and Mark Twain.
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:40 PM
The Mother seems to have suffered a brief fugue episode. She drifted along and forgot where she was. I found her wandering down near the bottom of the page, but have returned her home.
You have a point there. (To be redundantly sublime, or should that be sublimely redundant?).
The Character of a Fugue:
A fugue generally consists of a series of expositions and developments with no fixed number of either. At its simplest, a fugue might consist of one exposition followed by optional development. A more complex fugue might follow the exposition with a series of developments, or another exposition followed by one or more developments. Fugues that are tonally centered will expose the subject without venturing out of an initial tonic/dominant constellation.
This all conforms to the general pattern of BS here. Sometimes a Fugue d'Tweed may consist of so much fine BS that a series of developments soon follow and sometimes the tide is out and the cone is low. Sometimes Tweed is just fugued. Sometimes Beedubz takes a bath, Rapaire gets ripped, and Khandu's Cantati can't get it up.
Right now we are between low and high cone, by the way. High tide and maximum distortion of my brain will occur at exactly 6:24 PM EST. Unfortunately I will be unable to share any of the Top Flight BS that will spill freely from it at that precise moment as I will be quaffing a cold one at the corner tavern. No doubt I will score low with this, but I have not mentioned the Canadian fellow who overacts one time today, and that should count for at least 5 points on it's own!
It would be a hard call, between the Fugues of Tweed, the Bathos of BeeDubyaEll, the Riffs of Rapaire, the Cantati of Khandu, the Eleganzi of Little Hawk and the Salients of SRS...I would not want the job myself!
Well, if it were to come down to a competition, no one can top this entry of Bee-dubya-ells. (scroll a little up that page to get the first couple of bits he posted in the lost dog story). It's the 10 that makes all other 10s actually 9.99999999s. So I won't keep score, but will offer them occasionally as a way to acknowledge excellence.
No, Amos, I think that a committee should vote upon it. A "Best of the Best" award, so to speak. You should certainly be in the running, but Shatner should be eliminated since he is a professional.
That's a sure winner, Rap. I think SRS should buy you one!! :D
I don't prostitute chess by playing for money (of course, I'm not really terrific, either), I don't fence competitively, I don't shoot either guns or arrows competitively, and I don't fling the BS competitively.
It is nice to be recognized, though.
Perhaps an award, similar to the Oscars or the Golden Globes or the Critics' Choice, is needed.
May I suggest this? It's in Latin, so its classy and everything.
Oh, now you have done it, SRS. You start handing out scores, people are gonna want prizes. Next thing you know you will swamped with flirtatious missives from every soi-disant bullmeister in town hoping for a piece of that ineffable admiration stuff. Jealousy in the halls of Bull. All night sweat sdessions dreaming up perfect score-getting posts. Aw, jeeze. No thanks. I couldn't stand the stress, and it would drive you crazy! Look what happened to Aine!!
Amazing what the BS-meisters can make of even the slightest fluff around here! And Rapaire landed a perfect 10 with his Laura observation. (Is someone keeping score?)
This also explains the results of the last election!! All those people were voting for different W's but punched the same button!
I understand that Laura can't tell between W, either.
OK, I'm putting in for Workman's Comp. Obviously I havge lost key operating abilities due to long hours in front of a monitor, as I can no longer tell the perfectly obviosu difference between W, W, W, or the more distinct W.
I guess I should thank you for making me face up to it, SRS!!
Ye of little BS--the thorn is the "th" not the "v" sound. So why are you pronouncing V like TH? Amos, it just came through that way, what can I say? Your W looked like a W instead of a W. I think you were leaning on the keyboard a little too hard.
I usually pronounce it as a thorn. Thus "Wagner" becomes "Thagner" and "whisky" becomes "thisky" and "water" becomes "thater" and so forth.
Now just a cotton-picking minutem, here. If I type "W" as in "Vagner" the same "W" appears as when I type "W" as in "Wilson Pickett". So it is irrefutably and ineluctably demonstrated thereby that the addition to the symbol "W" of a "Vuh" or a "Wuh" sound is in the eye of he/she who reads the pixel! As chief pixellee of the VAH-gnerian phonemes, SRS< you must cast out the Vee in your own eye.
Amos, that should be Wagnerian with a "V" sound, not Wagnerian with a "W" sound. The "W" sound came through with your typing. Pay attention to these details, please!
How about blues opera or Wagnerian guitar?
Wow...talk about BS, look at that poor woman with her head full of pictures!! That's being unduly influenced by quackery, not tidery, which is Tweed's Conehead Syndrome (TCS). TCS sufferers tend to be middle-aged with strong emotional lives, attached to emotional forms of expression such as blues guitar or Wagnerian opera. The condition was reported in the April 1, 2001 edition of Scalpel, the professional journal of the British Association of Ob. Gyn. and related Specialists, who practice their love of women across London.
Is it something like this?
I am in a semi-coned state at present. High tide was at 2:55 PM today. It is now 5:36 and the cone is receding somewhat as is it's habit when the seas go out and is completely normal to my way of thinking. I would think that the only way to describe the shape of my skull would be by using an animated .gif image. I must try to put something together soon.
And I wish to thank Rapaire for being kind enough to look upon this condition of mine with his usual objectivity and natural curiousity. Many would only point and laugh at something so out of the norm, not realizing the potential of such a gift.
Normal in this case means the shape of Tweed's head when it is not under the influence of the lunar tides; that is, as it is defined in the first paragraph of my post.
hand waving at the back of the room, over near the window
First define normal, please? And why should this term be applied to Tweed?
Actually, Tweed, given your nominal place of residence the tug would be greater at the upper sides of your head, not at the top. One definition of several possible ones (and perhaps the simplest) would describe your head as a right triangle ABC with right angle at the base, A, and the vertex at C with the side BC rotated about the center line AC. Thus the vector applied to the side of your head by the gravitional influence of the moon would cause a "perfect dome" to be formed.
If the gravitational force caused a "perfect dome" by exerting a vector on the top of your head, your head would have had to be flat to begin with.
CLASS ASSIGNMENT: What is the normal shape of Tweed's head?
REGARDING TIDES AND THE MOON'S INFLUENCE ON THE HUMAN SKULL
The tides at a given place in the Earth's oceans occur about an hour later each day. Since the Moon passes overhead about an hour later each day, it was long suspected that the Moon was associated with tides. Newton's Law of Gravitation provided a quantitative understanding of that association.
Differential Forces
Consider a water molecule in the ocean. It is attracted gravitationally by the Earth, but it also experiences a much smaller gravitational attraction from the Moon (much smaller because the Moon is much further away and much less massive than the Earth). But this gravitational attraction of the Moon is not limited to the water molecules; in fact, the Moon exerts a gravitational force on every object on and in the Earth. Tides occur because the Earth is a body of finite extent and these forces are not uniform: some parts of the Earth are closer to the Moon than other parts, and since the gravitational force drops off as the inverse square distance, those parts experience a larger gravitational tug from the Moon than parts that are further away.
I hesitate to even make mention of this but....
I've noticed for some time now, that during certain times of the day the top of my head begins to rise towards the heavens and becomes a perfectly formed cone. Does this phenomenon occur to any other MOABS or is it unique to me alone?
Alas, I have placed a foot in a mouth, and neither of them mine, and thus let the Mother begin a decline. Let there be moaning at bar, and high seas at the channel mouth, and low seas ashore, that the MOABites may fear to stray from their mother. Let there be Trye BS in the home of the mother.
Just between us mothahs...
Lordy, Lordy, now we got us TWO high-falutin transcendees to hafta deal wit! This is almost too much, Olive!!
Oh, I don't know, Amos. I have found the recent BS here to be somewhat mildly amusing, especially that of the being which calls itself "Tweed."
Little Hawk:
Tell ya what - when we want someone to put a superior-sounding, condescending and patronizing piece of tripe here n the MOAB we'll run right over and ask you for it, ok?
I see you people have been getting into some interesting stuff in the last few days. The hungry mind is most gratified by endlessly diddling on about inconsequential things and keeping itself amused while life slips by.... :-)
Better than usual for the MOABS, though.
"A brightrneess that measures the light...."
Ahh, that would be yer own loverly self, fer sure!! Sweetly said, as only a poet roper might!
It is a kindness that reaps a kindness. A love that is a deeply infected love. A brightness that measures the light, unto all those that breath the air of color, into their souls and finds itself a highlight unto it.
I will not repeat an unnecessary transpired surge of emotion unto thee,
but I will let you all know I'm still as horny as can be.
I will not falter as I speak Of all the things that have transpired as of the first of the year 2005. I know I am still a poet roper and will never change in that fact.
Benevolent to the worthy, remember?
Thank you very much Rapaire. I was just fine with my story. I didn't know who you were talking about so I looked up Guytrash. Now you have me thinking my imagination is a freak or was it that I inspired the dog from hell? I will never know for sure will I? Except that smile...
guytrash
Right back at you Tweed!
Well now, I thought I'd just pass on a tidbit about George W. Bush:
George Washington Bush (1790?-1863), an experienced frontiersman and successful farmer, was one of the wealthier pioneers to follow the Oregon Trail west. His father, of African descent, was said to be a sailor, and his mother was an Irish American servant. As a young man, Bush worked as a voyageur and trapper for fur trading companies, including the famed Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). During this time he traveled extensively in the Western plains and mountains, perhaps reaching Puget Sound.
By the 1830s, Bush had settled in Missouri and married Isabella (or Isabell) James (c. 1809-1866), a young German American woman with whom he had five sons (a sixth was born in the West). Bush farmed and raised cattle, and the family was well off. However, Missouri, a slave state, had passed racial exclusion laws, and Bush and his sons faced increasing bigotry and discrimination. In an effort to escape the discrimination, the Bushes joined the family of their friend Michael Simmons, a white Kentuckian, and three other white families related to the Simmons, to head west on the Oregon Trail. Bush's frontier experience made him a valuable addition to the party.
When the Simmons party reached the Columbia River in the fall of 1844, they found that the provisional government of Oregon Territory had enacted discriminatory laws, like those of Missouri, barring settlement by African Americans. Not wishing to separate from the Bush family, Simmons and the other members of the party decided to locate north of the Columbia, where American settlers and their provisional government had not yet extended their reach. The party spent the winter of 1844-45 on the Columbia, not far from Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Vancouver in present-day Clark County.
Want to know what happened? His claim was upheld by the US Congress, he farmed Bush Prairie until he died, and his son William O. Bush was a member of the first Washington State legislature. The Bushes were one of the wealthiest families in the Territory.
No, no, no! You got 5500, not 1! Khandu got 1, years and years and years and years and years ago.
But I got dibs on 5555!
From: GUEST,Tweed
No, it was named
I got one! I got one!! The day is complete.
RR, was the dog named Guytrash, by any chance?
My God, how I do love you Rustic.
Perhaps the day was to be bright and blue, perhaps it was to be driving snow. Either way I know for certain it was a fog that remained in my brain that day, just like a dream.
I was playing a variant of a humoresque, combined with a aubade, which was to be the prelude to an intermezzo in a capriccio form on my harmonica on the first day of the year 2005, in the early hour of 6:00 AM.
I cannot say for certain if it was the music or the form of the music that lent itself to the following events that took place. I only can say I was changed and am not entirely the same person I once was.
I was sitting alone, upstairs. I was playing quite intense. You cannot play a cappriccio unless it is intense, in my opinion.
The room was dimly lit by three candles in the eastern windows. I was hitting a high crescendo and I heard a sound behind me. I turn around to look from where the sound was and standing, or rather lurking behind me was a strange dog of unusual proportions.
It's legs where long and lean, with small paws and it looked like it had 7 toes on each foot. It's body was short and fat like that of a bulldog and it's head was over-bearing and large. It was hard to believe it could balance itself. The face of the dog was huge and it was smiling and stood swaying to the music.
I didn't know this dog but it did not cast fear my way as I continued to play in a glissando fashion.
I was quite mesmerized at this animal. I would play allargando, the amimal would sway at a slower pace. I would play allegro and it would sway quite faster.
I thought I would really check this out and I began to play a divertimento. The dog got up on it's long thin back legs and started doing these short, jumpy little movements.
Believe me when I tell you this, it was hard to play my harmonica and not laugh at this point.
I started to play a berceuse and the dog started to cry. Quickly I went back into a rhapsody and soon the dog was smiling again.
I don't know why none of this phased me, or frightened me. It seemed such a natural thing, and I was as into it, as this strange dog-animal was. I couldn't stop.
I played for nearly an hour with this creature squatting , swaying, smiling and shaking and as the sun began to rise I went into a final requiem.
My mistake.
Suddenly, and without much warning the animal let out a howl that was more than deafening. The windows rattled to extreme. The candles went out as if a gale of wind blew through. I heard the people downstairs let out screams when they were awakened by the sound. I watched as the animal became a whirlwind of my sheet music. It rose in a fashion of a tornado.
That's when I stopped playing. And a sudden as I did, my sheet music settled to the floor.
I heard the people downstairs say something like "For what is real and what is aboriginal, cannot be fucked with".
I look down at my messed up sheet music and on the top of my windblown pages was one blank page containing the only evidence and proof that this all happened.
A single paw print from an animal with 7 toes.
..or a Blues site after a cloth used to cover luggage and vintage amplifiers.
I agree Mmario. Completely absurd.
But the tree was named for the Chief!
It is written so on a copper tablet (which has disappeared during The War) that found in 1832 inside a mound along the Natchez Trace by the noted scholar William Harpe and translated by his brother, Joshua.
naming a city after a tree? About as probably as naming a website after a fish! Who'd believe it?
Well here's an equally unbelievable story....
Incorporated as a city in 1870 and named after the native Tupelo gum tree, Tupelo's modern history can be traced to the convergence of the Mobile & Ohio and the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham railroads in 1887. As a rail distribution and manufacturing center, Tupelo achieved several firsts, including the first city in the nation to provide its citizens with dependable, inexpensive electric power through the Tennessee Valley Authority.
You completely forgot to mention, Tweed, the Battle of Tupelo, which was fought there during the Late Unpleasantness Between The States.
I (insert a modest cough here) have had the privilege of visiting, not only the battlefield upon which this engagement was fought, but Tupelo its very own self.
As for the truth about the story of Two Pillows, you can find this inscribed upon a Standing Stone at the tippy-top of the Priest's Mound at Cahokia (the one across the river from St. Louis, not one with the drag strip -- that's a couple hunnert miles north).
Named after the Mississipian chief "Two Pillows", who dwelt at Cahokia Mounds.
This is true, 'cause I haven't lied to you recently.
HOO!! That is TWO lies in a row and a shitload of BS, Rapaire! You are much to be commended for your efforts to keep the BS flowing like a fountain. I'd much rather hear a good lie than the truth anyday, and that is why I hang out on this thread.
Actually the name came from the days when the Underground Railroad was in operation. An ancient man, called Zacharias McFee, who operated a way station for escaping slaves and hid them in his root celler while they waited for transportation to the Tennessee line. He'd dug it himself on his 78th birthday and vowed to make it only as big as what he could dig in one day and consequently it could only hold a couple of people comfortably. When the wagoner would arrive at midnight he'd ask, "How many tonight Zack?" and Zacharias would reply, "There's two below."
Needless to say, the present day town of Tupelo grew up around this little shack and then Elvis was born and it's main industry is guided tours around the streets that Elvis' feet had touched at one time or other. There is much talk at the city hall about changing the name to either "Elvisville" or "Presley City" these days, I'm told.
And that is the true story of how Tupelo got it's name.


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Q: Function to open apple maps for driving directions? I am constructing an app that features a list of businesses and their locations (locations in coordinate form), and I'd like to provide a button that, when pressed, pushes the user over to Apple Maps and brings up driving directions.
How could I go about doing this?  I've seen similar questions asked on StackOverflow, but they've been referring to mobile web URLS, mine will be native to the application.
Thanks!

A: Yes you can do this. Check out this code.
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    //in the lauch options, you can make it driving, walking, or public transportation
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Brown conceived the idea while working with organizations in Niger, West Africa, that provide information regarding failed crops and help address local farmers' worries about feeding their families. Brown's new approach could improve the ability for government and humanitarian aid officials to plan and respond to drought-induced food price increases in Niger and elsewhere.
Brown, the lead author of a study to be published early next year in the journal Land Economics, said that until now officials have primarily studied the after effects of occurrences like floods or droughts that might affect crop production as their best means of warning of a coming food security crisis. "With this new study, for the first time we can leverage satellite observations of crop production to create a more accurate price model that will help humanitarian aid organizations and other decision makers predict how much food will be available and what its cost will be as a result. This is a unique opportunity for an economic model to take climate variables into account in a way that can aid populations large and small," she said.
To use their price model in a real-world situation, Brown and her colleagues compared variations in crop production to variations in food prices in parts of West Africa. They focused on a sample crop, a drought-resistant grain called millet. Locally, people use millet to create a couscous-like dish. Brown's team observed the June-September wet season to the October-May dry season – and the amount and growth rate of green vegetation. Then, it studied how seasonal climate differences affected the crop's price in local markets.
Food prices are not determined solely by human action. Climate variables affect about 20 percent of the process of market pricing, according to the study's co-author Jorge Pinzon, a research scientist and mathematician at Goddard. This is a factor that decision makers often do not take into account when analyzing food security, Pinzon said.
Brown believes that information provided by this new technique can aid organizations that are part of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Famine Early Warning System to stem suffering that occurs every year from food crises. Brown hopes that her method, funded by NASA and USAID, may eventually help the farmers in Niger more effectively plan what to grow and when to grow it to earn a living wage.
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