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Culaba, Alvin, Ph. D.
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Dr. Alvin B. Culaba
Accessible on the net, this webliography consists of selected papers, articles and power point presentations done by Dr. Alvin B. Culaba with other authors.
Dr. Alvin B. Culaba is a University Fellow, full professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department; and Director of Center for Sustainable Development Research and Linkage, Training and Consultancy. His areas of specialization include: energy technology and management, life cycle assessment, management of technology, manufacturing and environmental system engineering, and cleaner production technologies. He finished Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Portsmouth, England and Master of Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Leyte Institute of Technology.
http://intranet.dlsu.edu.ph/academics/univ_fellows.asp
Developing an Expert System for GP Implementation
http://www.apo-tokyo.org/gp/manila_conf02/resource_papers/ppt/henson_clr.ppt
"With Ruby-Pineda Henson of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Holy Angel University-Angeles City, Philippines as co author, this power point presentation provides how the potential of expert system technology is explored to develop a diagnostic software prototype that emulates how human experts diagnose Green Productivity (GP) of manufacturing processes. The use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology as the technical framework supports a systematic approach to GP analysis and rationalizes the structure of the knowledge base that spans inventory analysis, impact assessment and improvement assessment. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) provides a tool for decision modeling, for weighting or valuation of environmental impacts and prioritizing improvement options relative to these impacts in a continuous improvement strategy resulting to measures of GP performance."
A Diagnostic Expert System for Green Productivity Assessment of Manufacturing Processes
http://www.p2pays.org/ref/37/36320.pdf
"With Ruby-Pineda Henson, of the Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Holy Angel University-Angeles City, Philippines as co author, this article presents green productivity assessment of manufacturing processes. This study concludes that green productivity (GP) provides an open framework that can incorporate several strategies for sustainable manufacturing. The GP assessment methodology and computerized diagnostic prototype may be utilized as an internal management or self-assessment tool by companies in their continuous improvement strategies. The application of expert system technology is particularly appropriate to provide flexibility in testing assumptions and in preserving human expertise on green productivity program implementation. Enhancements may be made in future versions with a more comprehensive scope to include other pertinent life cycle stages, consider impact characterization differentiated into global, regional and local conditions and applicability on different industries when reliable databases become available. The GP diagnostic software may be integrated with some optimization software for improving industry performance."
Drive cycle development for tricycles
http://www.springerlink.com/content/5332wq722t284616/
"Co authored by J. B. Manuel M. Biona of the Center for Research and Training, Don Bosco Technical College, Mandaluyong City, Philippines, this article presents the drive cycle development for tricycles. The absence of protocols through which an alternative technology for two stroke tricycles could be evaluated makes it difficult to compare these technologies and determine the best alternative. This study demonstrates the process of the development of a dynamometer test cycle that would be reflective of the actual driving conditions in Metro Manila. The development of such test cycle would be vital to the development of emission factors. The study covers the gathering of actual speed-time data, development of the instrumentation device for the said activity, analysis of the data gathered and extraction of a test cycle. Results were compared to the Indian drive cycle to demonstrate the inappropriateness of adapting drive cycles derived from other areas."
Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment: A Tool for Public and Corporate Policy Development
http://lcacenter.org/library/pdf/PSME2002a.pdf
"Written with Raymond R. Tan, of the Chemical Engineering Department, De La Salle University - Manila, this article presents life-cycle assessment (LCA) as a methodology for analyzing the environmental interactions of a technological system with the environment. Early forms of LCA were used in the United States in the late 1960s for defining corporate environmental strategy, and later in the 1970s by government agencies as an aid for developing public policy. In the late 1990s, LCA emerged as a worldwide environmental management tool in the form of the ISO 14040 series. Despite relatively limited use in the Philippines, there is considerable potential for its utilization in both public and private sectors. For example, LCA can be used to assess different technologies in order to identify the best environmental option; alternatively, it can be used to provide a scientific basis for developing sound environmental strategies and policies in government or industry. Current LCA resources in the Philippines are limited, but in the past decade De La Salle University - Manila has gradually developed the capacity to engage in scientific research, technical consultancy and training in this field. A description of some current projects undertaken by the LCA research group is given."


The lamps and lighting elements in porcelain from Lladró will give your home that touch of elegance. A lamp or a light source is by itself a decorative element that provides warmth. Choose the perfect lamp for your favorite stayroom.


A derivative is a financial instrument whose value is derived from an underlying asset in some way, but whose value does not directly correlate to the price of that asset. One of the most commonly traded derivatives used to gain leverage in the stock market is called a stock option, or just "option."… trading options is a very easy way to lose all of your money quickly if you do not know what you are doing.
Before you buy a single option, make sure you fully understand how options trading works. First of all, what is an option? An option is typically a contract to buy or sell 100 shares of a stock at a certain price on a certain future date.
For example, let's say that company X is trading at $500 per share and you believe that in six months it will be trading at $600 per share. Let's say that you have $1000 to invest in company X. You can choose to buy two shares of stock, and if you are right you will make a profit of $200 over six months. Let's say, however, that you decide to purchase option contracts instead of shares. You can purchase options that expire in six months that give you the right to purchase 100 shares of company X stock at $550 per share, and each contract costs you $10.
Options such as these that grant you the right to buy shares are called call options or "calls" The price at which you are entitled to purchase the shares is called the strike price of the option. In our example, since each contract represents 100 shares, you can purchase one $10-dollar call option in company X with a strike price of $550 and an expiration date of six months in the future for $1000 ($10 per share times 100 shares). Now if the stock goes to $600 in six months, each option will be worth the difference between the $600 and the strike price of the option. In this case, the difference would be $600 minus $550, or $50. Since each option represents 100 shares of stock, the value of the option is now $50 times 100 or $5000!
Regardless of whether you bought shares of stock or call options, the price of the stock moved up 20%. If you bought shares of stock, you made a 20% profit. If you bought a $550 call option for $10, you made a 400% profit because of the leverage the options provided!
Got it? If not, you're in the exact same boat that I was when I first started reading about options. It isn't exactly "common sense" at first. But once you take the time and effort to understand exactly how options work, they actually do make sense. A great indication that you are starting to understand how options work is when you start to comprehend how dangerous they can be. As I said before, when you are purchasing an options contract, you must know that, statistically, there is a three in four chance that what you are buying will end up being worth nothing. That's right, worthless. There's a greater than 75% chance overall that you are turning over your hard-earned money in exchange for something that will not end up worth the figurative paper it's figuratively printed on.
That's exactly what happened to me, the guy that Motley Fool deemed a "financial sector specialist," in the summer of 2012. Since I'm a numbers guy, I sometimes like to think about life like an algebra problem. In my book, I tell the full story of how and why I bought x number of Morgan Stanley call options for y dollars about a month before expiration. And a month later, they expired and I sold them for 0x per option for a total of 0y dollars. So it can and does happen. More than 75% of the time.
But despite the rather bad 100% loss on the Morgan Stanley options, I've had more than enough great options trades to make up for it, including a 100% gain from J.P. Morgan calls, a 170% gain on (a different) batch of Morgan Stanley calls, and a 412% gain on some Bank of America calls.
I've barely scratched the surface on stock options today. If you are interested in a full, detailed introduction to options, the chapter in my book devoted to options tells the whole story. I've said repeatedly that I only trade options under very specific circumstances. Every single options trade I've made and the reasons why I made it is detailed in my book.


Trace your ancestor's journey across the seas! Spanning states and centuries, this resource contains immigration data on various nationalities and destinations, from New York to Louisiana. Approximately 200,000 individuals are referenced in this collection of passenger lists, legal documents, church histories, land records, biographies, and tax lists.
Including several out of print 20 volumes. Among these unique resources, you'll find a comprehensive account of Scotch-Irish immigration to South Carolina as well as a list of passengers who arrived in Charleston between 1820 and 1829. The Philadelphia "baggage lists" contained here, referencing about 40,000 individuals, are the oldest existing federal passenger lists.


Regardless of the niche, a clear and well-established telephony service allows you to connect several operators at the same time, provide clear and high-quality communications, record, work through and improve sales and service scripts for warm, cold and hot traffic, etc.
There are many business organizations that remain in a dilemma when it comes to using Cloud-Based or VOIP Telephone System. The fact is that the advertising space is now so oversaturated with corporate slogans of varying degrees of banality that it is not easy to isolate really useful telephony service for business organizations. So, we will understand whether business organizations should use traditional analog telephony or a cloud-based phone system. Let's mull now.
When faced with the question of office telephoning, most business organizations start with a regular analog PBX? Hardly any of them think of Cloud PBX. The equipment itself will cost you a hefty amount. Moreover, you still need to hire individual specialists for its maintenance.
The analog PBX has limited functionality and connecting a new employee or a multi-channel number to it is a marvelous technical adventure. If you intend to move your office to a new place, you will have to do it all over again, failing which you will not be able to keep the old phone numbers when moving. This may lead to the loss of customers and other inconveniences.
You do not need to purchase expensive equipment to connect a virtual PBX. Furthermore, all maintenance work is technicians of the company. You can also do it yourself if you are well-acquainted with different technical terms associated with the virtual PBX. You can continue conversations through an IP phone or through an analog phone connected via an adapter, via a smartphone or even simply through a computer using a headset.
In simple words, through any device connected to the Internet with the ability to transmit voice. All this will work as your office number. You can easily. connect to your virtual PBX an unlimited number of subscribers, regardless of their actual location.
This is an impossible work in case you are using an analog connection. Always keep in mind that with the cloud PBX, you can change the location of the office while maintaining a fixed telephone number at all the times. You can't maintain a certain contact number for the office in different cities or countries if you use the VOIP Telephone System.
The cloud-based telephony system is an obvious winner when it comes to Multi-channel Numbers and Other Advanced Functionality. A great advantage of the cloud PBX over analog is access to the full statistics and conversations. You need to hire a technician to access the statistics using analog networks.
You must always keep in mind that the Virtual telephony rates are lower than those of analog and your PBX is generally free. This will help you to save a lot of money on long-distance calls and, especially, on International calls.
Always remember that mobile communication is convenient when working with remote employees. Many operators provide favorable tariffs and solutions for calls abroad, and within the country, and calls within most networks are absolutely free or are charged minimal prices.
Almost all people use mobile communication for business purpose. The mobile phone is always with you and most mobile operators have convenient service centers and hotlines to support any issues or problems that often come up all of a sudden.
You must know that you bet on mobile communications for a business, each of your employees will have their own number. You cannot connect it to a single office number. Furthermore, you will not be able to make the number multichannel. It is important for a company to have a city number and place it on contact and advertising papers.
If you use cloud telephony, you can connect remote employees to this number. With a standard mobile connection, it will not be possible for you to connect to the city office number. Furthermore, it is always difficult to combine various functions for call processing with mobile communication, such as redirection, redistribution of calls to different employees, script voice recordings, etc.
The functions of IP telephony are easily accessible, configured or controlled by you or your employees. You can easily offer any convenient call script. Always keep in mind that Statistics and call recordings with the use of mobile communication are practically not available as with the use of analog telephony.
The actual cost of mobile communication depends on the tariff you choose, but on average mobile communication for a business is more expensive than virtual telephony. Also, calls within the cloud PBX for employees are absolutely free.
So, you see the pros and cons of Cloud-Based and VOIP Telephone System. The simplicity of setting, advanced functionality and operational technical support makes cloud-based telephony a better option for business organizations by all parameters.
Lisa Cooper works as a blogger for Fixtel, an Australian owned and operated telecommunications company. She's a web addict and spends too much time in front of the computer. She would love to share the knowledge, experience, and thoughts with others on the web. For more blogs, you can follow her on Facebook, and Twitter.


One of the best small Workplace design consultancies in London, seek a top Senior Interior Designer to be added to their team due to projects won.
They do the most beautiful workplace designs, that consist of classy break–out areas, and the most interesting workspaces for creative businesses across London.
They are also big on contemporary furniture designs and hospitality spaces in the commercial workplaces spaces that they design.
You use Autocad; Sketchup; and able to visualise and render with a Vray add–on (ideally).
Only the most creative designers from a similar background should apply!


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Somalia postpones long-delayed election
Somalia has postponed elections that were due to start on Sunday after months of delays in the deeply unstable Horn of Africa country, officials told AFP.
Indirect parliamentary and presidential polls were due to open on July 25 with four days of voting for the upper house by state delegates. The election cycle was due to end with a presidential poll on October 10.
"Even though the plan was the upper house election to start around the various states today, there is a delay, the election may not take place as planned," a member of the electoral commission told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The delay was due to the fact that federal regions were neither able to submit candidates' lists in time, nor to form local committees to cast the ballots, the source added.
A spokesman for the federal government, Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimu, told AFP that the elections were "postponed," without providing details.
Last week, the country's Al-Shabaab jihadists warned politicians against taking part in the elections, which were due to kick off after months of deadlock and delays.
The threat, in an audio message purportedly recorded by Al-Shabaab leader Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaidah, underscores the security challenges facing the election process in the country.
The Al-Qaeda-linked group has been fighting to overthrow the federal government since 2007 and frequently attacks government, security and civilian targets.
Somalia was plunged into an unprecedented constitutional crisis early this year, when President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and the leaders of Somalia's five states were unable to agree on the terms of a vote before his term lapsed in February.
After months of stalemate that at times turned violent, the political leaders finally agreed last month on a voting timetable.
According to the agreed plan, delegates from the five federal states, chosen by various clans in that state, elect parliamentarians, who then elect a president. The process was due to kick off on Sunday.
But according to several sources who spoke to AFP, the sole state that was capable of carrying out a vote "during the week" was Jubaland. According to one source, the state has already chosen its delegate committee and could publish a list of candidates "during the week."
"We are expecting the election to take place soon," said Mohamed Adan, a senior government official in Jubaland. Another source said the electoral process could kick off in the state later on Sunday.
In Puntland state, sources told AFP that the elections were delayed because of "technical reasons."
In Galmudug state, the local parliament is on a break and will reconvene in early August.
In South-West state, the process is blocked because the regional president is out of the country.
Impasse explodes into violence
Somalia's political impasse exploded into violence in April when negotiations collapsed and the lower house extended the president's mandate by two years, sparking gun battles on the streets of Mogadishu.
Under pressure the president, commonly known as Farmajo, reversed the extension and ordered his prime minister to reconvene with the state leaders to chart a fresh roadmap towards elections.
The ballots follow a complex indirect model whereby special delegates chosen by the country's myriad clan elders pick lawmakers, who in turn choose the president.
Successive leaders have promised a direct vote but political infighting, logistical problems and the Al-Shabaab insurgency has prevented such an exercise.
The upper house vote will be followed by elections for the lower house from September 12-October 2, according to an updated timetable issued last week.
According to a statement issued in June, both assemblies were due to convene to vote for the president on October 10, but no date for this election was given in the updated timeline.
Somalia has not held a direct one-person, one-vote election since 1969, the year dictator Siad Barre led a coup and went on to rule for two decades. Barre's military regime collapsed in 1991 and Somalia sank into anarchy.

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Just two days before Christmas, a bank robbery in Tupelo, Miss., ended tragically for two police officers and their families. Gale Stauffer, 38, was shot and killed, leaving behind a wife of 10 years and their two young children. A second officer, Joseph Maher, was also shot and sustained severe injuries.
Gale Stauffer was an eight-year veteran of the Tupelo Police Department. He was also the first law enforcement officer in Tupelo to be killed in the line of duty. As a result, the community came together to rally around his widow, Beth, and their two kids. An integral part of that effort was Mike Kirk, owner of U.S. Lawns in New Albany.
The project, initially titled "Build for Beth," was started by a local faith-based group. Soon, it grew to involve the entire Tupelo business community. This "gesture of love" was an effort to remodel and expand the Stauffer home, so that Beth and the children would have a comfortable place to live.
"Beth should not have to worry about a leaky faucet, a window that doesn't work, or a roof that needs to be replaced," said a letter from the project's organizers. The Stauffer home was completely remodeled, with a 900 square foot addition, all new furnishing, and a new lawn and landscape—for which U.S. Lawns donated all the materials, equipment and labor.
When the community decided to rebuild the Maher home as well, U.S. Lawns lead the way with tree removal, sodding, seeding, and new landscaping.
Mike says the New Albany team is proud of the way they were able to help their neighbors, which created a sense of pride in the U.S. Lawns organization.


In an ever-changing music landscape, Miami born Kat Lane, defines what it means to be a successful multi-talented artist. Kat Lane has been involved in entertainment as long as she can remember. She started dancing and performing at just 4 years old. Kat found her love for singing and songwriting while practicing for her Bat Mitzvah at just 12 years old! She also got involved in acting and was seen in various commercials such as Toyota, Rooms To Go, and Mountain Dew all before graduating high school!
5 years ago, Kat Lane added DJing and being an On-Air Personality to her repertoire. Since then, she has been on Mainstream Top 40 radio consistently for 4 years, and mixes live on the primetime Friday Night Mixshow from 10pm-midnight on Hits 97.3, which she's been rocking for over 3 years! She also takes over the mic for her on-air shows, Saturday 6am-10am, Sundays 7am-10am, and overnights midnight-5am, 3 times a week.
Between dancing, singing, and DJing, Kat Lane has shared the stage with global acts such as, Justin Timberlake, Dua Lipa, The Chainsmokers, FloRida, Charlie Puth, Steve Aoki, Snoop Dog, and Rita Ora, to name a few. Kat has also headlined as a DJ at premier hotspots from the west coast to the east coast, along with countless private parties and corporate events!
Kat Lane has sang the national Anthem at the Miami Marlins Stadium, the Miami Open, and the Breeder's Cup in front of 55,0000 people. Kat Lane's past and present brand partners include Sprint, Sol Republic, Eco Tools, Good Belly, Numark, Harmless Harvest, Juicy Couture, and many more.


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Pamela McKee
Organization: AARP
When we volunteer—that is when we take the focus away from ourselves and place it on the needs of others—the time and activity leave us rich in spirit.
— Pamela McKee
Pamela was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, before moving to New York in 1969 and then Washington, D.C. in 1970, where she's lived ever since. Pamela has worked for both the federal government and NGOs and her last professional stint was with the National Congress for Community Economic Development.
Pamela's roots in giving time to others began as a child in Trinidad and Tobago. She was inspired by her parents and relatives who were compulsive about sharing just about everything with family, friends, neighbors and strangers. "Back then it was especially food items, delivered to family and neighbors since we enjoyed an abundance of produce from our gardens as well as meat from the animals we raised," she said.
A long-time resident of Ward 4 in Washington, D.C., Pamela has been an advocate for senior citizens on behalf of the Office of Aging and was the ward representative on the Executive Council of DC-AARP from 2007 through 2011. She stepped down one year before the end of her tenure to fully engage in her biggest passion—working on political campaigns.
While Pamela has spent nearly 30 years in community economic development, she has always maintained a keen interest in issues of aging and gerontology. In 1977, she bought her home in a community where many seniors lived, and immediately got to work helping neighbors rake leaves, shovel snow, and get to where they needed to go. Today, she continues supporting these neighbors, which she calls "golden seniors," with crucial-information needs as well as securing birthday and condolence letters, from elected officials, to mark significant events in their lives.
"My volunteer service with AARP began in 2007 and focuses on the issues and concerns that impact the well-being of individuals 50 years of age and older, she said. "The organization lobbies at the state and federal levels addressing legislative issues around Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Affordable Care Act, care giving, financial literacy, access-to-work opportunities, fraud and scams against seniors, and voter education," Pamela said.
"I'm also very proud of the volunteer services I provide feeding the homeless with Martha's Table," Pamela said. "My volunteer relationship with Martha's Table began in 1986, shortly after my mother's passing. Historically, Martha's Table mission focused on providing meals for the homeless and after-school education services for children and youth. Several years ago, the organization added clothing and the alleviation of food deserts, in certain communities, so that parents and children can have good-quality, fresh, food choices."
On September 17, 2018, Pamela was sworn in, for a three-year term, as a public member of the Mayor's Advisory Commission on Caribbean Cultural Affairs (MACCA)—a new volunteer challenge! According to the Mayor Muriel Bowser's Office, "Members of the District's boards and commissions serve and lead in a wide range of capacities within the Bowser Administration and help shape and influence critical decisions and services for District residents."
"My favorite parts of volunteering include showing up for others whether it's in person or on Tell-Townhall meetings with AARP or in the park with my sandwiches, water, fruit, and hygiene items for the homeless," she said. "And on some occasions, the sandwiches are delivered to Martha's Table.
"Giving back or sharing—whatever we call the value—is very important for our lives and the health of our communities," Pamela said. "When we volunteer—that is when we take the focus away from ourselves and place it on the needs of others—the time and activity leave us rich in spirit."
A big fan of Cabot White Oak Cheddar, fellow Cabot Celebrities may be surprised to learn that there is an interpretative dancer hiding within Pamela, who freely admits dancing joyfully around the house whenever she can.
"When I'm not volunteering, I reach for my other great balm—gardening," Pamela said. "Once I cut my flowers and bring them into the house, I cannot wait to greet them in the bedroom or living room in the mornings. Ah, the beauty and scent of fresh flowers! It's pure joy that is ranked in front of my other hobby—hugging large trees on my walking meditations."
In addition to McKee, Cabot has honored 34 other AARP volunteers with Cabot Community Celebrity Cruises since 2010.
Having been honored as a 2011 Community Celebrity, Pamela will join us as a 2019 Alumnus. Joining her on the cruise will be her former colleague turned cruise buddy, Evelyn Frazier.


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National Illinois Judge Faces Misdemeanor Charge After Dropping Loaded Gun in Courthouse
Illinois Judge Faces Misdemeanor Charge After Dropping Loaded Gun in Courthouse
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 7:01 pm | כ"ח תמוז תשע"ח
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Surveillance-camera footage shows the judge dropping the gun, then picking it up.
Judge Joseph Claps kept his sunglasses on as he paced the courthouse lobby, but his suit jacket was off, folded and draped over his prohibited firearm.
He is a friendly guy, at least according to a surveillance video inside Chicago's Leighton Criminal Court Building, which shows Claps waving at two women passing by. It was about lunchtime on July 3, hours before a holiday.
Then a silver-toned pistol tumbles from a fold in his coat and slides across the polished floor.
There is no audio in the video released by authorities, but the sound undoubtedly makes an impression. The women, one of them a sheriff's deputy, pivot toward the metallic clank. Another deputy nearby whips her neck around to see what happened.
And now Claps, 70, an associate judge in Cook County's circuit court, has been charged with a misdemeanor crime of carrying a firearm in a prohibited place, authorities said.
Claps's pistol was loaded when he dropped it, Cook County Sheriff's Office chief policy officer Cara Smith told The Washington Post on Wednesday.
The judge holds a gun owner identification card and a valid concealed-carrying license, but that does not supersede the state law banning firearms in such places as courthouses, she said.
Judges, deputies and other courthouse workers come in the building without stepping through metal detectors, she said. Claps was walking toward the court when the incident occurred, an official familiar with the incident said.
There was a question on whether judges were exempt from that regulation, which may have led to initial restraint from the deputies on scene, Smith said.
Perhaps he had an exemption because of a threat or some other circumstance. After all, her office had never encountered potential violations of the prohibition, she said. The deputies notified their supervisors to investigate.
But the office of Chief Judge Timothy Evans told the sheriffs that no exemption or authorization to carry firearms was made for Claps, she said. He was processed and charged Friday but was not detained, Smith said. She thinks the charge carries a maximum of 60 days in jail and a $150 fine.
Claps did not immediately return a message seeking comment. He was reassigned to "nonjudicial duties" pending a Wednesday meeting of 17 judges of the circuit court, chaired by Evans, spokesman Pat Milhizer said in a statement to The Post.
His court date is July 19. Robert Foley, a spokesman for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, told The Post the case was referred to the Illinois attorney general to avoid conflicts of interest between Claps and prosecutors who have worked cases before him.
Claps has been a judge for more than two decades, the Chicago Tribune reported, including working as a Cook County prosecutor and top assistant to the state attorney general.
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The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
In the fall of 1918, as World War I was ending, influenza swept around the world and across the United States. The first reported cases in Boston were in early September and within four days the first death from the disease had occurred in Gloucester. Within two weeks, 82 individuals in Gloucester had died. While the epidemic would largely run its course by the end of the year, estimates are that it infected nearly 4,000 Cape Ann residents and took the lives of more than 250. The outbreak had lasting effects on the community and the course of daily life; it also severely tested the resilience of the people of Cape Ann.
Photographer Frank Robinson shot this picture of the "tent hospital" set up outside the Addison Gilbert Hospital in September 1918. The photograph was donated to the Museum by Harry Merchant in 2010.
Photographs in the archives of the Cape Ann Museum show the "tent hospital" that was set up on the grounds of Gloucester's Addison Gilbert Hospital during September 1918 in response to the epidemic. At that time, the Addison Gilbert had just 30 beds and was unable to meet the demands for medical care brought on by the disease. The outdoor hospital was overseen by the U.S. Army Medical Corps; it was one of eight such operations in Massachusetts, subscribing to the belief that "open air treatment" of influenza could be highly effective. To help staff the Gloucester facility, nurses were brought in from Canada. The Gloucester District Nursing Association, organized in 1914, did their part. While the Gloucester outdoor operation was praised by the surgeon general of the State Guard for its good work, as Lydia Florence Griffin, head of the District Nurses observed, the situation was dire:
"We are now in the midst of this terrible epidemic. The whole city is stricken, no help is available from the other cities, and as one of our nurses is also ill with it, it leaves Miss Thomas and Miss Riley to do it all. I called for volunteers who had taken the nursing course, and only one was willing to report for duty this afternoon. The situation is critical, the hospitals are filled, the doctors are ill, and the District Nursing Association and the few nurses and doctors worked in relays. No call went unheeded. As Gloucester was the first to be stricken, we were taken quite unawares. But I feel we were not found wanting."
Almost as quickly as it arrived, the epidemic subsided. By mid-October, reports were that the "danger period (had) nearly past." In March 1919, just 27 cases were reported and by April 1919 there were no new cases. The entire community was severely tested by the epidemic and took much away from it in terms of public health. A hospital was set up on Essex Avenue dedicated to the treatment of contagious diseases. Although Braewood Hospital, as it was known, was only in operation for a few years, in establishing it city officials acknowledged the importance of such a facility were an epidemic to strike again. The city also created a position for a school nurse, to work in tandem with the school physician. A nurse was appointed to the position in February 1920 and made over 680 home visits during the ensuing school year. The Gloucester District Nursing Association served its community heroically during the 1918 epidemic and continued to do so over the next century.
Margaret Ryan Bernard (1889-1958) was a graduate of the Addison Gilbert Hospital School of Nursing and is shown here in front of one of the tents erected on the grounds of the Hospital during the 1918 influenza epidemic. This photograph was donated to the Museum by Margaret's daughter, Terry Hutchinson in 2012.
This painting by Emile A. Gruppe (1896-1978) is owned by VNA Care and is currently on deposit at the Cape Ann Museum. It shows a thoroughly competent young nurse, ready to serve her community, standing at the top of the stairway that joins Friend and Main Streets.
To learn more about the history of the Addison Gilbert Hospital, check out As They May Need, a history of the Hospital written by Laurence F. Brooks and W. Warren Babson, published in 1989.


AMD have just released their driver to enhance performance on Star Wars Battlefront 2, for those of you who caved and bought EA's cash cow disguised as a game. The Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.2is available for download today, grab it right here.
NVIDA's newest Game Ready WHQL driver arrived today, version 388.31 offers optimized support for EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Injustice 2 as well as improvements to the performance of a variety of games including Destiny 2.
SLI will work as intended in the new Battlefront with this driver and a variety of other games received new SLI profiles as well. This is also the first driver to officially support the new GTX 1070 Ti, so make sure to grab it if you have been shopping recently.
Loot boxes may look good on paper as a way to generate extra revenue from a game but in reality they are incredibly unpopular with those who buy games. Originally EA had set the price of unlocking your first playable hero at 60,000 in game credits. According to the math done in the article Slashdot linked to, that would entail around 40 hours of gameplay assuming you never used any for the various other unlocks EA charges credits for. As EA limits the amount of credits you can earn at one time in arcade mode, most of those hours would need to be spent in multiplayer games as opposed to enjoying the game in peace and quiet. Of course, you could always pay money for them, $450 or so would unlock a hero.
In this case EA actually listened to their prospective customers, dropping the credit requirements for heroes by 75%; the loot boxes remain of course.
"Most importantly, Electronic Arts today announced that they are reducing the number of credits needed to unlock top characters in the game by 75 percent. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader will now cost 15,000 credits. Emperor Palatine, Chewbacca and Leia Organa will now cost 10,000 and Iden will cost 5,000."
The vintage Star Wars: Battlefront 2 is back!
We lost access to the original Star Wars Battlefront 2 back in 2014 when Gamespy's servers were shut down but thanks to a dedicated group of fans and support from Disney the game is once again playable. There are some issues currently, from servers not responding to deadly lag but there is a team working to resolve the issues. From the trailer released earlier this week, linked below, we can see that the new version about to be released is nowhere near as disappointing as the reboot of 2015. There will be far more maps, vehicle and heroes in the new game but we have yet to see if it will match the fun that was the original. Hopefully it will, but it won't match the current price of $4 on GoG.
"Battlefront 2's online relaunch doesn't seem to be going entirely smoothly for everyone, though. The game's Steam forums are currently clogged with threads such as Online is back but I can t [sic] play it, Can't join any servers, Multiplayer crashing and Insane server lag."


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← Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule / Raagnagrok: Performance. Saturday 27th June at 7:30pm
Exhibition and Book Launch: 'Distillatio' by Orryelle Defenestrate. 25th to 28th of June 2015 →
Douglas Benford / Jem Finer / Sue Lynch / John Bisset. Sunday 28th June 3:30-6:30pm
Jem Finer is an artist, composer and musician with a background in mathematics and computer science, dating back to the ICL 1900 mainframe computers of the early 1970s. An enduring fascination with deep time and space, self-organising systems and long-durational processes has been the impetus behind much of his work including his Artangel commission, Longplayer, a thousand-year-long musical composition playing since the last moments of 1999, Cosmolog, a two-year-long artists residency in the astrophysics department of Oxford University and the 2005 PRSF New Music Award winner, Score For a Hole In the Ground, a permanent, self-sustaining musical installation in a forest in Kent, which relies only on gravity and the elements to be audible. Recent work focuses on these interests and includes Kung Fu Pinball, a pinball machine modified to auto-compose music, Slowplayer, a 3 r.p.m. sound system and Spiegelei, a 360-degree spherical camera obscura. Supercomputer, a new work in Cambridge, finds Finer's "post-digital" thinking having come full circle in the form of a sculptural machine of a computational process, indebted as much to Jean Tinguely's Métamatics as to John Conway's Game of Life.
Douglas Benford, composer and sound artist, has been involved in various audio genres since the late 1980s, performing at institutions in the UK (Bristol's Arnolfini, London's Science Museum, Tate Modern, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow's CCA), festivals worldwide (Mutek, Synch, Transmediale) and has had installation work in numerous UK galleries (London, Swansea, Stroud and Essex). After numerous electronica releases in his 'si-cut.db' guise, in the past few years he has focused on acoustic improvisation and installations, using field recordings, classical instruments, vocals and children's toys. His collaborators include Blanca Regina, poet Tamar Yoseloff, Angharad Davies, Lina Lapelyte, Steve Beresford, sculptor Rob Olins, as well as – in the past – pop group Saint Etienne, Jem Finer (The Pogues), Momus, Rod Thomas (Bright Light Bright Light), Scanner, Stephan Mathieu and DJ Andrew Weatherall. He is also co-curator with Iris Garrelfs since 1996, of Sprawl audio events in London.
Sue Lynch plays tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet and also composes. She currently runs The Horse Music Club in South London, with Adam Bohman and Hutch Demouilpied. She studied Fine Art at Coventry College Of Art. In the 1980's she toured with The Happy End Big Band. As well as performing with Eddie Prevost, Jennifer Allum, Hutch Demouilpied, Richard Sanderson, and Sharon Gal, she plays with Hogcallin' (with John Edwards, Steve Noble, Adrian Northover), 'The Remote Viewers' (with John Edwards, Mark Sanders, Caroline Kraabel, Adrian Northover and David Petts) and Helen McDonald's 'Future Groove'.
John Bisset received training on the piano, but from eleven preferred the guitar, on which he was left to his own devices. As a teenager in Manchester he made compositions and structures for improvisation, wrote and sang songs with new wave bands, and produced visual art. He has continued to work in these areas: composing for large ensembles (London Electric Guitar Orchestra, London Improvisers Orchestra); improvising freely with the likes of Kaffe Matthews, Rhodri Davies, Burkhard Beins and Alex Ward; and playing songs and tunes with guitar-led groups (Pocket, Country Dad). His visual sensibilities being present in performance and scoring, and most recently in the short films of Twothirteen TV. In 1991 he founded the 2:13 Club, which presents concerts and festivals of new and improvised music. The 2:13 has sister clubs in Berlin (Burkhard Beins) and Athens (Nikos Veliotis) and has a continued, if sporadic, activity, and a score of issues on the label 2:13 Music/. Many of his activities have been confined to his kitchen (Twothirteen TV, The World in my Kitchen, The Wall). Since 2009 he has produced weekly short YouTube films with Ivor Kallin – as Twothirteen TV.
Apology: Please note Ute Kangiesser is now unable to perform.
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Rise Gardens Raises $2.6M Seed Round
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Yesterday the Rams traveled to Harlan, Iowa and took on the Cyclones and Knights. The Rams shot lights out and came away with the victory over Harlan and Carroll Kuemper. Glenwood scored a 159 while Kuemper came in second with a 162. Harlan finished third with a team score of 167. Jared Tigges of Kuemper was the top medalist with a score of 37. Colton Book of Glenwood was the second medalist with a 39 (won the tiebreaker by scorecard).
Glenwood traveled to Shenandoah yesterday for the Shenandoah Invite. The Rams finished in second place with a 307. Atlantic won the tournament with a team score of 292. Sophomore Ryan Leath was Glenwood's top finisher with a round of 73. Leath finished fourth in the tournament overall. Colton Book (76) and Eli Bales (77) placed them both in the top 15 earning ninth and eleventh place overall.
The Glenwood Boy's Varsity was victorious over the Lewis Central Titans 159-189 on a blustery, cold April day. The conditions were less than ideal for playing good golf, but we're excited to get back out there and competing. We didn't hit our goal for the day, but saw some great individual performances. Colton Book's 37 earned him medalist honors with Kris Yakes edging out Pierce Harrington for medalist runner-up with 40s.
Is there a better way to end a career than at a state tournament? Kobe has meant a great deal to Glenwood golf the past 4 years and I thank him for his contributions.
On Thursday, Kobe struggled to get off the tee and it seemed like he hit every single tree on the course. I'm really proud of the way he fought through the day. He played really well around the green, but needed 1 putts for pars only hitting 3 greens all day. He finished the day +10, 82 in a tie for 25th.
On Friday Senior golfer Kobe Rhodes qualified for the 2016 Class 3A State Golf Tournament. Kobe Rhodes advanced to the state tournament with a score of 76 at Denison's course. Coach Joyner and Kobe will tracked to Livermore, Iowa for the state tournament which will by played at Spring Valley Golf Course. According to Spring Valley's website they have a bridge that resembles hole #12 at Augusta. The course plays 6,078 yards from the white tees and 6,327 from the blue tees.
Good luck to Coach Joyner and Kobe Rhodes! Go low!
Glenwood boys golf finished second at sectionals last Thursday to qualify to the district tournament for the first time in ten years. The boys shot 319 as a team with scores of 76, 79, 79,85.
Yesterday the boys golf team traveled to Atlantic for the Trojan Invite. The Rams shot 315 as a team and finished third place at the tournament. Kobe Rhodes was the runner up at the tournament shooting a 73 (+4). Colton B shot a 78, Reagan M shot a 81, Eli B shot a 88, Ryan L shot a 87, and Nick S shot a 88. Colton Book's 78 was his career low!
The Rams score of 315 set a team record score at Nisha Hills (where the tournament was located). the previous course record for Glenwood was 332. Way to go boys, keep up the great work! GO RAMS!
Below is Ram Golf Coach Joyner's recap on their win vs. Clarinda.
"Glenwood traveled to Clarinda to take on the Cardinals at Clarinda Country Club in a 9-hole dual. The Rams came out victorious 143-151 on the night! Our score was the best by a Glenwood team at Clarinda by 12 strokes! Carlton Rahn (Clarinda) was the medalist after winning a playoff from Ryan Leath (Glenwood). They both shot a 34."
Coach Joyner's recap on the win over Shenandoah- " The Rams took on Shenandoah in a dual in Glenwood. The Glenwood Varsity shot 153 to pace the Mustangs' 164."
"Kobe Rhodes was medalist with another -3, 32 and Ryan Leath was Runner-up with a 37."
"(I'm) Really proud of our guys tonight because of not knowing about the weather. We came out and played pretty well. We left some shots out there, though. The grass is getting thicker and our lies are getting a little more treacherous. We're looking forward to hosting St. Albert in our last home dual on Thursday. "


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The collection of ancient and medieval Oriental manuscripts and books began in Russia as early as the reign of Peter the Great. In 1818, the Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences, the first academic institution of its kind in Russia, was founded as a natural extension of these collections. Scholars, as well as travelers, diplomats, missionaries and merchants, have consistently made contributions to the collection since the founding of the Asiatic Museum.
On November 11, 1818 the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, S.S. Uvarov, sent a letter to the Academy's Executive Committee declaring the founding of the Oriental Department with Academician Ch.M. Frahn as its chair. The letter was inspired by the acquisition of a number of Arabic manuscripts from the French diplomat, J.L. Rousseau. This group of texts is among the most treasured of the entire manuscript collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies. On November 28, 1818 Ch. M. Frahn established the Oriental Department in a room of the Kunstkamera, the first museum in Russia, founded by Peter the Great to hold his collection of rare and curious oddities. In December of the same year, the Oriental Department was re-named the Asiatic Museum. Although the source of this name is unknown, it may have been the idea of Ch. M. Frahn. In any case, it was this name that went down in the history of the Russian Academy. The Asiatic Museum was opened to scholars in July 1819. Five years later, the collection was moved to the then newly-constructed Library of the Academy of Sciences.
Many manuscripts were donated to the Asiatic Museum after 1917 and the collection of Oriental manuscripts and books became one of the greatest specialized libraries of its kind in the world -- a true treasure of Eastern cultures, housed on the shores of the Neva river.
By the end of the 1920s, the Academy had grown to include many departments, uniting scholars of many different areas of expertise. At this time the necessity arose to coordinate the activities of the various departments in order to make full use of the materials housed in the Asiatic Museum. In 1930, Prof. S.F. Oldenburg founded the 'Group of Orientalists,' in an attempt to unite all departments in one center. This new institution – later called the Institute of Oriental Studies – consisted of eleven departments. According to Oldenburg's vision, there would be no department of Oriental manuscripts. Instead, the entire collection of texts would be included in the center's Library. On May 23, 1930 the government authorities approved Oldenburg's plan and the Institute of Oriental Studies was born. The Asiatic Museum's entire collection was passed on to the Institute.
Although the Institute functions successfully to this day, it has had its share of troubles, beginning in the mid-1930s. The Stalinist repressions of the Russian scholarly elite cut the staff of the Institute by half. World War II began soon after. Many scholars never returned from battle and others died during the Leningrad Blockade. Of those that survived, many were forced to leave during evacuations. In addition to the suffering of the people, the manuscripts suffered as well. They were stored in the basement of the Library of the Academy of Sciences. Two Fellows of the Institute, Olga Petrovna Petrova and Alexander Nikolaevich Boldyrev, remained there in an attempt to save the manuscripts from being damaged by the extensive shelling and other hazards of war. Although they are no longer with us, we continue to treasure them in our memories.
In the 1930s, the Institute was required to focus on socio-political problems. Some members of Comintern contributed to this and young people from specialized high schools for workers replenished the Institute's staff. One of the main goals of the Institute became the study of the languages and modern literatures of the Central Asian countries that were Russia's colonies at the time. The study of the rich heritage of the manuscripts was temporarily deemed unnecessary, although the importance of this sort of research should not be underestimated. Through the understanding of important moments in the cultures and history of the ancient and medieval Orient, it becomes possible to more clearly understand the contemporary situation of this part of the world.
Despite the fact that this work was not valued, some scholars continued their research of Arabic manuscripts, new private collections of Tibetan texts acquired from Buryatia, Mongol manuscripts and Chinese scrolls from Dunhuang (brought by the S.F. Oldenburg expedition in 1914-1915). Iona Ginzburg began compiling a catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts that was never completed due to his death in the Leningrad Blockade. His catalogue was published for the first time in 2002.
In 1950, the Institute of Oriental Studies was granted a new home in a portion of the Novo-Mikhailovsky palace, an excellent location on the Neva, just opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress. However, the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences decided in the same year to move the Institute to Moscow. The main reason for the move was that Moscow authorities deemed the studies of the modern history, literature, economics and politics of Asian and Middle Eastern countries to be unsatisfactory. The Department of Oriental Manuscripts, headed by D.I. Tikhonov, remained in Leningrad only because there was no suitable place for it in Moscow at the time.
The department of manuscripts was moved to the ballroom of the Novo-Mikhailovsky palace. Also housed in the same palace were archaeologists, physicists and television specialists. This was by no means an ideal home for the manuscripts, as they suffered the constant shaking of floors and walls caused by machines at work. The manuscripts and extensive library consisting of approximately a million volumes had to be re-arranged in a relatively small space. Young researchers were hired to work at the department processing the manuscripts. Later, as specialists, their knowledge became the foundation of the current success of the Leningrad/St Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies / Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (IOM).
Within five years it became clear that the Department of Manuscripts was no longer vast enough to provide for the growing staff of manuscript researchers relying upon the rich heritage of the Petersburg-Leningrad Institute of Oriental studies. A proposal was made to reintegrate the Department into the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies and to appoint Academician Joseph Abgarovich Orbeli as its head. The Institute began to dedicate itself to the direct preservation of the manuscripts. The Fellows compiled academic catalogues and worked to publish critical and facsimile editions of the texts in the collection.
Beginning in 1844 and extending through World War I, all Russian consuls in the East were required to search for and purchase Eastern manuscripts and old printed books for the Asiatic Museum.
Previously mentioned, the acquisition of the J.L. Rousseau collection was bought in two portions, in 1819 and in 1825. In total, 700 exquisite Islamic manuscripts were donated to the Asiatic Museum.
P.L. Schilling made another important contribution to the Asiatic Museum. Between 1829 and 1841 he donated a total of 2,600 items, which included Chinese, Mongol, Manchu, Tibetan, Indian and Japanese texts.
In the beginning of the 20th century S.F. Oldenburg's Dunhuang expedition and P.K. Kozlov's Mongol-Sichuan expedition resulted in the acquisition of a unique collection of Chinese Dunhuang manuscript fragments (4th – 11th century) and Tangut manuscripts (12th – 13th century) from Khara-Khoto. The Dunhuang manuscripts were catalogued only in 2000. The collection consists of 360 complete scrolls and 19,000 fragments. The catalogue of the Tangut manuscripts was completed only a few years earlier. In total, P.K. Kozlov brought approximately 9,000 volumes of Tangut manuscripts and xylographs and approximately 3,000 Chinese ones.
Consuls and embassy officers in Central Asia at the end of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century sent Sanskrit, Uigur, Sogdian, Persian and Tibetan texts, as well as other manuscripts from 1000 AD. Those who sent back texts included N.F.Petrovsky, N.N.Krotkov, A.A.Dyakov, V.Roborovsky, and I.P.Lavrov who worked in Central Asia. In addition, texts were sent back by scholars who made exploratory trips to the oases of Eastern Turkestan.
Once the Russian Empire acquired parts of Central Asia, the Islamic collections significantly increased. This was due to the numerous expeditions organized to purchase manuscripts. The result of one of these expeditions was the purchase by the famous scholar, V.A. Ivanov, of over 100 manuscripts in Bukhara.
Among the unique collections acquired by the Institute of Oriental Studies after 1932 is a collection of Sogdian manuscripts from Pendjikent – the so-called Mugh mountain manuscripts. Documents found there can be dated earlier than 721 AD. This was the year in which Devashtich, the last independent ruler of Samarkand, was executed by Arabs. Most of his people were killed, as well.
Currently there are 84,485 manuscripts catalogued by the Fellows of the IOM.
The collection of Arabic manuscripts includes texts in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Kurdish, Afghan and Malay. In total, there are approximately 15,000 items. The earliest texts are vellum folia from the Qu'ran. They are written in Kufic calligraphy and can be dated between the 8th and 10th century AD. There are many Qu'rans written by hand and decorated with colored ornamentation and gold, but they are all from later dates. As we know, the Islamic faith forbid the decoration of sacred and secular texts with images of humans or animals. No one should dare to depict Allah as he is the only creator of the world and an attempt at creating his image would be considered an insult. There is one exception to this rule and that is a book by Al-Hariri (1054 -1122), entitled Makam (Short Stories). The manuscript was written in approximately 1237 and includes 98 miniatures and 40 unwans, ornaments serving as headings of each story.
In contrast to the Arabic manuscripts, those of Persia are decorated with rich miniatures, bright colors and gilding. There are many albums of pictures, entitled Muraqa. The earliest Persian manuscript is dated 1143. In total, there are 3,181 Persian and Tajik manuscripts. There is one particularly beautiful and well-rendered album of Indian and Persian miniatures (16th – 18th century) purchased in Isfahan on the tsar's orders. It combines both the Mogul and Isfahan schools of painting. The backs of both miniatures are decorated with calligraphy. The best calligraphers worked diligently writing poems in various scripts. Fine frames depicting tiny plants, either in bright gilding or in restful pastels, enclose the miniatures and give the album a special beauty.
The Turkic manuscript collection has fewer varieties of Turkic languages than the collection in Istanbul or Uzbekistan, but it exceeds all other considerable libraries of Turkic texts as far as quality of manuscripts and number of subjects included.
Although impossible to describe all the collections held at the Institute, it is sufficient to indicate some of the most unique ones.
First of all, there is the collection of Dunhuang manuscripts (4th -11th century) from the caves near Mogao (North-East China, modern Gansu province). The majority of the Dunhuang manuscripts are Buddhist. There was a time when Dunhuang was an enormous monastic cave complex that included monasteries, libraries, designated rooms for the writing of texts, Buddhist universities and schools. In addition, Dunhuang was an important stop on the Silk Road. Similar Dunhuang collections are kept at the Paris National Library and at the British Library. These manuscripts are highly valued in China. A Shanghai publishing house, The Old Book, has published a number of albums with the facsimile copies of items from various collections.
The Tangut manuscript and document collection is also of great value. The manuscripts were discovered in 1909 by colonel P.K. Kozlov during his excavations in a suburgan located in the north-west of the ghost city, Khara-Khoto. Along with a female tomb decorated with a number of statues of Buddhist saints and deities seated in front of the sacred books, there was a walled-in library of manuscripts and xylographs in Tangut, Chinese and Tibetan. All the manuscripts and xylographs are from the time of the great Tangut state, Xie Xia (982-1227), destroyed by Chingis-khan. The earliest of the xylographs is dated 1084. Along with a great number of Buddhist treatises, the collection contains some dictionaries, grammars, Tangut law codes, Tangut translations of Chinese classics, as well as many administrative and official papers and letters. The possibility of Tangut studies as a separate discipline existed in the 1930s, thanks to the efforts of N.A. Nevsky, but his work was limited to a few years, as Stalinists executed him in 1937. In any case, he laid the foundations for Tangut studies by deciphering Tangut-Chinese and Tangut-Tangut dictionaries and making the first rough description of Tangut grammar, which was developed by later generations of scholars.
The Institute also houses one of the world's greatest collections of Tibetan xylographs and manuscripts which includes more than 20,000 volumes and contains works by famous teachers of the most important sects of Tibetan Buddhism. The earliest Tibetan xylographs and manuscripts were found in the Dunhuang caves and in the Khara-Koto suburgan. A computer database of the collection, supported by the American Ancient Classic Input Project, is nearing completion. At the end of 2006, work on a new cataloguing system and an academic catalogue was begun.
There is a large collection of Eastern Christian manuscripts in Syrian, Coptic, Armenian and Georgian. The earliest items date from the 12th – 13th century.
The collection of biblical literature includes texts in Hebrew, bilingual texts in Hebrew and Greek and translations of the Bible into Arabic. It is a very valuable collection and closer study of the texts should begin in the near future.
Currently, scholars of the IOM have processed and catalogued the bulk of the principal texts in the collections. Academic descriptions of Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Korean, Kurdish, Japanese, Mongol, Afghan and other collections, in more than 40 volumes, have been published. There are both brief descriptions as well as detailed catalogues that supply scholars with information important to their textological study and research into sources.
The descriptions of the manuscript collections have permitted scholars to select the most interesting texts to study and publish first. At the beginning of the 1960s a large project was begun publishing critical editions of texts. In this series, entitled Literary Monuments of the Eastern Peoples, first editions were published of some important texts of Persian literature, unique Arabic, Turkic and Mongol texts as well as rare Chinese, Korean and Japanese fiction and historical literature. Another series, Written Monuments of the East, brought about the publication of the most precious Tangut and Chinese manuscripts from Khara-Khoto and Dunhuang, along with Sanskrit treatises on Buddhist philosophy from Eastern Turkestan. In the Cultures of the East (Materials and Studies) series, more than 30 monographs were published, combining the forces of scholars from many academic centers in Russia.
All documents connected with the activities of the Institute are kept at the Archive of Orientalists. These materials have been systematically collected there since the establishment of the Institute in 1930. There are papers, both complete and incomplete, from all of the Institute's fellows, except for the Academicians and the corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences. Their works are kept at the Archive of the Academy of Sciences. The earliest dated material from these collections is from the 16th century. In total, the Archive contains 131 collections, including approximately 60,000 items. The most valuable items in the archives include works of N.J.Bichurin, N.A.Nevsky, V.A.Zhukovsky, O.M.Kovalevsky, A.E.Snesarev, among others.


When my husband decided to cut out the cigarettes, it was a welcomed relief. We've been encouraging him to do so for as long as I can remember and finally the day arrived, out of the blue, of his own accord, with much rejoicing from me.
Despite smoking for close to 20 years, he decided to kick the habit cold turkey, no nicotine substitutes………or so I thought, until I walked into the car and counted various different chocolate and doritos packets all rolled up and jammed into the driver side seat pocket. So it seems that sugar was going to be the substitute! Oh well, I guess it's only short term and the lesser of two evils, maybe?
So I embarked on making him some healthier treats so that I didn't feel so bad about him eating all that junk.
The problem for me is that my husband is a very harsh critic when it comes to 'healthy' food, and more so if it happens to be 'vegan'.
But I was convinced that I could create something he would love so began the great cookie experiment, and I'm happy to share with you the outcome of that experiment, which I might add was a success.
Makes 10 medium sized cookies and 2 giant ones.
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celcius.
Mix together the coconut oil and coconut sugar, I use a stand mixer with the whipping attachment and this works really well. Add the almond milk and vanilla and mix. Once it's all incorporated, remove the whipping attachment and add the beating attachment.
In a separate bowl add the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt, and mix together with a fork, then add to the wet ingredients and beat until it all comes together. It will look a bit like dough and will bunch up like a ball.
Roll the mixture into 1 TBS sized balls & place them on a cookie tray lined with baking paper. Use the palm of your hand to flatten them.
Bake for 7-10 minutes depending on whether you like them chewy or crunchy. I like them crunchy with a little chewy centre so I did it for close to 10 minutes.
These keep well stored in an airtight container after they have cooled completely.
All you need to do is just set out some time once or twice a week to do some basic food prep and then you're done. This probably isn't as essential in the summer months when it's nice and warm and eating fresh salads is something most of our bodies crave anyway and you know how easy it is to whip up a delicious salad right? It only takes a few minutes if your fridge is stocked with natural plant foods and if you have some pantry staples to whip up a great and tasty dressing.
So, here are my top 2 tips for staying on top of your food game whilst maximising your time and still pumping out delicious, healthy food.
These veggies make the bulk of my meals, and I may buy some extra ones that are in season.
If anything, planning some of your meals ahead saves you time! The best advice I was ever given by a nutritionist was to imagine my perfect day food wise and replicate that day in day out when you know you're going to be under the pump with work/family/life.
So set out a couple of days a week and just prep your favourite things and store them in containers so that you can organise a meal in minutes.
Now I'm going to share with you what I do, this is not to say that you have to do it this way obviously, but just to give you an idea.
So because my week starts on a Sunday, I do my meal prep on the Saturday. This meal prep usually lasts me 3-4 days.
Lunch: Wholegrain wrap with hummus, baby spinach, grilled tofu slices, vegan cheeze, tomato. I normally put this under the sandwich press because it's cold at the moment and I'm craving warm foods.
Afternoon snack: 2 TBS nut butter, 1 cup of celery sticks, 10 strawberries.
First I cook 5 days worth of oats in the slow cooker. Each serving is 1/3 cup of oats, 2/3 cup of unsweetened almond milk, 1/3 cup of water, 1/2 grated apple, 1/2 tsp of cinnamon. So I add all of this into the slow cooker, enough for 5 servings. Once it's cooked to my liking (not too runny, not super thick), I portion out 5 days worth of oats, put 2 in the freezer, and keep the other 3 in the fridge. The pumpkin butter I make once a week so I just scoop that into the oats just before I eat it.
Whilst that's cooking, I turn on the oven, chop up all of my veggies (mushrooms, capsicum, carrots, zucchini, pumpkin, sweet potato, eggplant), drizzle them with some olive oil, salt, pepper and some dried oregano, mix it all up and then bake them for about 40-45 or until the root veggies are done.
Now that the veggies and breakfast are cooking, I get the grains on. I like to use the boil method because when I cook grains for myself I don't like to season them so the boil method is fine for this. Once they're cooked, I just drain them in a colander and rinse under cold water to get rid of the starch. I leave in the colander to drain again until every part of the prep is done and then I store. I only make enough for 3 days because grains tend to go off pretty quickly.
Then I prepare the tofu. I cut 60g serves lengthways and pan fry those on a non-stick pan without any oil until they are nice and golden. These get stored when done and will be used in the wraps. I normally make enough for 5 days.
I chop the rest of the tofu into cubes and repeat the above process. These will be used to accompany dinner and normally last for 3-4 days, at 100 g serves for each meal.
That is all and it probably takes about 1 hour, including chopping and cooking time, but you're probably in the kitchen for about 1 1/2-2 hours if you factor in washing and cleaning up afterwards. I clean as I go so this cuts down the time too.
The night before work, I just have to put everything for dinner in containers, 1 for the hot food to be reheated, and 1 tub for the salad. I make the wrap, and I pop the strawberries, celery and nut butter into a little container and off I go.
I only ever food prep for my working days or if I know my days off are going to be busy. If I have nothing pressing to do on my off days, I don't prep anything as I do love catching up with friends over a meal, or visiting our favourite cafe with my daughters.
I do like to change things up to prevent getting bored so for breakfast I like to alternate between cooked oats and overnight oats which can also be made ahead of time, I normally make up to 4 and just keep them in the fridge. My daughter loves them too so they don't last long.
There you have it, hope you got some ideas out of this post and that it makes your life easier and gives you more time to do the fun stuff!
Whenever I feel under the weather, or even just a little bit down, I always crave soup. It's like medicine to me. Something grounding and nourishing to give my insides some much needed TLC.
This soup is really easy to make, just like all of the dishes I put up if you haven't already noticed!
My aim when I'm cooking, is to make the tastiest of meals, in as little time as possible. The actual preparing of the ingredients is what I like the most, the cooking is just a necessity some times.
You can find the purple sweet potato noodles used in this recipe in any good Asian grocery store, or you can also use kelp noodles. If you don't have anything against eating grains, rice noodles would work really nicely here too. I love grains, but I know some people are sensitive to them.
Place all ingredients in a medium saucepan, and add enough water to just cover the vegetables. Turn heat on to med-high and bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer with lid on, until pumpkin is soft and carrot gives a little.
Ladle vegetables and liquid into a blender, and blend until smooth. Start on lowest setting first and be mindful that hot liquid can sputter and burn you so have the lid on properly. If you like your soup runny, you may need to add a little more hot water. I prefer mine thick and creamy so this amount of liquid suits me fine.
To cook the noodles, just add the amount you want to a pan of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes or until soft. Drain, rinse and add to your soup. I find sweet potato noodles quiet starchy so even if you leave them in the water after you have turned of the heat, they won't go gluggy. This is a bonus, as I sometimes get caught up doing other stuff! If you have left overs, they're also great through stirfrys.
I had this soup for lunch and it definitely made me feel so much better. Because of the toppings, it makes for a filling meal.
BBQ pulled jackfruit fajitas with all the trimmings!
Not long ago, I shared my recipe for Smoky BBQ pulled jackfruit and if you haven't yet tried it, I highly recommend that you do.
Today, I want to share how you can take that recipe to create this wonderful dish.
Mexican cuisine comes an equal third with Vietnamese as my favourite top three cuisines of the world (Peruvian and Middle Eastern food take the top 2 spots respectively). I love the freshness and simplicity of most of the dishes and they are truly a party in your mouth. In my household, we normally make all the accompaniments and put them in the middle of the table, and then everyone makes their own bespoke dish with what's available. It's fun, and the kids love it.
Here's the recipes for the accompaniments that go with our smoky BBQ pulled jackfruit fajitas.
Use a mandolin to finely shred the cabbage and place in a medium bowl with the finely chopped coriander. Add the lemon, olive oil and seasoning and use hands to mix it thoroughly. Taste and adjust seasoning if required.
Freshly ground pepper and Celtic or Himalayan pink salt to taste.
Mash the avocado but leave a few lumps, stir in the onion, lemon juice and seasoning. Taste and adjust seasoning if required.
Chipotle cashew sauce/mayo is also a staple that goes with this dish and you can find the recipe for it here.
The other accompaniments are chopped tomatoes, cos lettuce leaves, which I also use as wraps if I'm not feeling the corn tortillas, cucumber and red capsicum salsa, and steamed corn.
I use gluten free corn tortillas which are easy to find, and have tried making them myself but I really need to get one of those amazing little tortilla machines next time I'm in the states, which will hopefully be next year for 4th of July, woot!!!
In the meantime, I'll settle for the store bought tortillas. I have to say, I do prefer making our own Mexican food as Australia really lacks any amazing Mexican eateries IMO. But I would love to be proved wrong.
Anywho, I hope you love the recipe and if you do, let me know! If you don't love it, let me know too so that I can improve on what I'm doing.
The next few posts will be dedicated to the humble chickpea. Maybe the most versatile legume in existence, and definitely one of my favourites because of that.
I'm sure you're no stranger to using chickpea flour, and if you're gluten intolerant, you've probably come across it more often than not. It's found a lot in gf flour substitutes, and in this instance, i'm going to use it solely for that purpose.
So, before you go scrunching up your nose, I dare you to try this recipe out. You won't regret it!
Pre heat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Line a loaf tin with baking paper and set aside.
In a medium bowl, mix bananas, oil, eggs, sugar and vanilla extract. In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, spices and salt. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix gently with a whisk to combine all the ingredients well.
Pour into prepared loaf tin, arrange the extra banana in which ever way you like on top, and bake in the oven for approximately 1 hour, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Once out of the oven, use a pastry brush to glaze the top with maple syrup. This is an optional step but highly recommended.
Leave in pan for 10 minutes, then remove and leave on wire rack to cool.
Because all ovens vary, start checking at the 45 minute mark to avoid burning.
Stores well in the fridge for up to 5 days, on the counter for up to 3, and frozen in slices for up to 3 months.
© One Hungry Mami 2019. All rights reserved.


Based on the results of the 1870 census, the permanent population of the Red River Settlement during the Resistance 1869–1870 is generally estimated at about 12,000 persons.[i] Of these, about 6,240 were reported to be Catholic and 5,720 were reported to be Protestant.
According to the 'French Report' of Archibald's census, 5,757 people were Métis Français and 4,083 were Métis Anglais.
Likewise, there was no separate category for counting people of Inuit descent — though some individuals at Red River may well have had Inuit ancestry — for example, members of families of Hudson's Bay Company employees who had migrated to Red River from posts in Labrador, or from along the Eastmain (the eastern shore of Hudson Bay and James Bay). The census enumerators would have had to make decisions on a case-by-case basis on how to record individuals whose ancestry was not specifically mentioned as a census category.
[ii] See also Kemp, "Land Grants Under the Manitoba Act," http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/transactions/3/landgrants.shtml, who notes "10,000 for the total number of halfbreeds" was an estimate; and Hereward Senior, The Last Invasion of Canada: The Fenian Raids, 1866–1870 (Dundurn, 1991), 177. Thomas Flanagan and Gerhard Ens, "Metis Land Grants in Manitoba, A Statistical Study," Social History/ Histoire Sociale 27, no. 53 (1994): 70, give the total as 11,960. John Welsted, John Everitt, and Christoph Stadel, eds., The Geography of Manitoba: Its Land and Its People (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1996), 127, gives the total as 11,963. The latter number was also quoted in 1878 — see Thomas S. Fernon, No Dynasty in North America. The West Between Salt Waters ... (Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead, 1878), 6. Gerhard J. Ens, Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), 140, gives the total as 12,228. See also Statistics Canada, "The 1800s (1806 to 1871)," Government of Canada website, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/98-187-x/4064809-eng.htm (accessed 6 February 2012), which agrees with the latter figure.
[iii] Sprague, Canada and the Métis, 75.
[iv] "Instructions to be observed by the Enumerators," Manitoban and North-West Herald (22 October 1870).
[vi] John Elwood Ridd, "The Red River Insurrection, 1869-1870," M.A. thesis (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1934), 2.
[vii] See, for instance, the Governors (and First Ladies) of Assiniboia 1812 – 1869 page of the Provisional Government of Assiniboia site, and the discussion of Governor of Assiniboia William Bletterman Caldwell's African and Indian (from India) ancestry.


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Resolution of steel price row in sight
The debate over the price at which Iscor will supply steel to the SA automotive manufacturing industry could soon be resolved.
Iscor, citing the need to price the steel it sold in South Africa in line with the dictates of the global market, announced a 19,7 per cent January price increase for automotive steels.
CARtoday.com reported in October that Iscor offered to provide the SA automotive industry with electro-galvanised steel sheet, which is used extensively for motor vehicle body panels, at "competitive domestic pricing to the prevailing price (in dollars) of a similar product on the international market".
But last week, an "agreement in principle" was reached between the two parties and Iscor and the car makers will meet again over the next few days on the issue, reported.
Iscor has said that the price rise will not be too high because of the rand's recent strengthening. The firm's chief executive, Louis van Niekerk, hinted "that there could even be a price cut" if the rand stayed close to its current levels.
"If we have to reduce our prices, we will reduce prices," he said. However, Van Niekerk defended the company's import parity pricing policy, which he said was practised all over the world.
"Recently, international prices were at 40-year lows, and we reduced local prices to low levels," he added. "If I were to work on a social pricing approach, and not on the free market, I shouldn't be running a listed company."
Some sectors of the SA automotive industry told CARtoday.com in October that they had been upset by Iscor's unilateral approach in pushing up prices, saying customers wouldn't benefit from low-cost local production.
"A dollar-based pricing structure doesn't make sense in South Africa as the steel is manufactured locally, from locally mined ore, using local labour and energy," Naamsa president Ian Robertson said.
A major priority for the Industrial Development Corporation, in its insistence that the local steel industry be restructured, is to ensure that more local steel is sold to the automotive industry, he added.
In an effort to resolve the row, meetings have been held between representatives of Iscor, Naamsa and the National Association of Automotive Component and Allied Manufacturers, the report said.
Naamsa executive director Nico Vermeulen said the agreement between Iscor and the industry had been reached in what he described as "open and frank" discussions.
Vermeulen said Iscor, which in the past year announced plans to expand its presence in the automotive market, had formulated a revised pricing proposal, which was now being tested by the industry.
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