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By Rob Fisher
If you enjoy British suspense fiction, you probably associate arsenic with an Agatha Christie murder mystery. And while this article is anything but fiction, it still contains a fair amount of mystery and intrigue!
Why so much mystery surrounding arsenic? We'll get to that, but first a little background.
Arsenic is a heavy metal occurring naturally in soil, rocks, water, and air. Arsenic is also introduced to the environment through mining, pesticides and other industrial applications.
There are two categories of arsenic: organic and inorganic. While inorganic arsenic is usually associated with long-term health issues, both forms of arsenic are found together in soil and ground water. And that is how arsenic finds its way into our food.
When arsenic is present in the soil or ground water, plants that are growing in that soil and water take it up. As a result, anything that is grown can potentially contain arsenic. Rice is particularly prone to absorb arsenic due to the fact that it grows in standing water. Ground water leeches arsenic from the soil and rocks through erosion and often contains higher levels of this heavy metal and is more easily absorbed by plants. But there are other key factors too.
For instance, due to the former use of arsenic-based pesticides in the US, rice grown here typically has higher concentrations of arsenic than rice grown in Southeast Asia or India. Many of our present day rice fields in the South were once cotton fields where arsenic-based pesticides were used to kill the boll weevil.
Another factor is that arsenic settles in the germ of a grain. Because of this, brown rice (that still contains the germ) has higher levels of arsenic than white rice. Fruit juices also present a known source of higher levels of arsenic.
The above example of brown rice begins to reveal some of the intrigue and mystery around arsenic. While whole grains are typically healthier for us than refined grains, if we're just looking at arsenic levels, the opposite could be true!
Also, while most of us would choose organic over non-organic grown vegetables, in the case of arsenic, unfortunately there is no difference. Organically grown foods can contain just as much arsenic as non-organically grown foods.[1]
Why Is Arsenic Dangerous?
Arsenic was the favorite poison employed by Agatha Christie murderers, and for good reason. High doses of arsenic are deadly and long-term exposure to this heavy metal is known to cause lung, kidney, skin and bladder cancers.[2]
Lower levels of arsenic can cause nausea and vomiting and upset the production of red and white blood cells in the body. Arsenic can bring on abnormal heart rhythms, cause damage to blood vessels, and cause a pins-and-needles sensation in the hands and feet.[3]
Arsenic may also cause problems with pregnancy, such as miscarriage and low birth weight and affect brain development in young children.[4] A 2004 study showed that children had lower IQ scores who were exposed to arsenic in drinking water at levels above 5 ppb.[5]
Arsenic, like other heavy metals, remains in the soil for many years after its introduction through natural or human means. Due to its chemical makeup, plants readily absorb it as though it were a nutrient.[6] Arsenic hangs around in our bodies too. It settles in the keratin our bodies use to create nails and hair.[7]
Another thing that makes arsenic dangerous is the ease with which we consume it. A recent study of 850 people by Dartmouth University revealed that food is likely the main source of arsenic intake.[8] Virtually every plant can contain arsenic. Ironically, the leafy green vegetables and cruciferous vegetables that are so good for us nutritionally hold higher concentrations of the heavy metal than other vegetables.[9]
Unregulated private water wells are also a common source of arsenic. Dark-meat fish like tuna, mackerel, salmon, and sardines may also contain higher levels of the arsenic toxin. Chicken and poultry are often given drugs that contain arsenic. This leads to higher levels of arsenic in the meat.[10]
While it is believed that low levels of arsenic in foods don't cause immediate health problems, the truth is, we just don't know. Also, while health problems are usually linked to inorganic arsenic, wherever inorganic arsenic is found, organic arsenic seems to be present also. So the jury is out on that verdict as well. You can see now why there's so much mystery around arsenic.
Here's yet another intriguing tidbit: "The Environmental Protection Agency assumes there is actually no 'safe' level of exposure to inorganic arsenic."[11] Yet arsenic has been used in very small amounts in medicine for at least 2000 years.[12]
As a homeopathic remedy, arsenic has been used to treat a wide variety of issues from digestive disorders to allergies to depression.[13] In fact, although considered a carcinogen, arsenic is effective in treating some forms of leukemia.[14] Clinical trials are underway to consider using arsenic as a first-line of treatment against leukemia where chemotherapy (also a known toxin) has been used in the past.
It is wise to note, however, that most present cases of arsenic overdose occur when taking homeopathic remedies. If people followed dosage recommendations they'd be okay, but many think that more is better and poisoning occurs.
How Much Arsenic Is Dangerous?
Experts estimate that we ingest between 12 and 50 micrograms of arsenic per day through our food and water.[15] But we know so little about arsenic that the trace amounts found in our food may even be beneficial. If so, we still don't know its function. Ironically, WebMD lists 12-25mcg/day as a suggested dietary requirement.[16]
If we can trust that standard, begin looking at your diet. Since rice is one of the culprits with higher levels of arsenic, let's look at a few samples.[17]
Lundberg California white basmati, the lowest US grown rice comes in at just 1.3-1.6 mcg per ¼ cup uncooked.
Carolina whole grain brown rice on the other hand boasts 6.4-8.7 mcg of arsenic per ¼ cup uncooked.
Archer Farms organic basmati (India) contains 1.3-2.2 mcg per ¼ cup uncooked.
Clearly, it matters where the rice is grown. Check out Consumer Reports and search "Arsenic in your food" for a more complete list of rice and other foods and their levels of arsenic. At the end of this article, we've provided a recipe for reducing the levels of arsenic in your rice.
While the FDA has established standards for allowable levels of arsenic in public water systems (10 ppb), no such standards have been set for food. However, in public water systems where fluoride is added, it is commonly contaminated with arsenic as well.[18]
The reason for this is that the added fluoride is not pharmaceutical grade, but rather diluted fluorosilic acid, which is a by-product of the fertilizer industry! As a result, "the Natural Resources Defense Council estimates that as many as 56 million Americans living in 25 states drink water with arsenic at unsafe levels."[19] No wonder many are up in arms about the fluoridation of public water.
The FDA does monitor the arsenic levels in certain foods and continues to study its impact on our health. But so far they have not established guidelines for allowable levels of arsenic in foods.
What Should You Do to Minimize Your Risk for Arsenic Poisoning?[20]
If you live on a private well, have it tested for arsenic. Public water is already tested and regulated for contamination.
If you are on public water, obtain a water quality report from the EPA. If arsenic is present, purchase a high-quality water filtration system. Either carbon-based or reverse osmosis systems work well.
Cut back on foods known to harbor higher amounts of arsenic. Some of these include: rice, fruit juices (especially apple, grape and pear), cruciferous and leafy green vegetables, seafood, non-organic poultry, wine and beer. There's no need to remove these foods from your diet, just eat them less frequently.
Rinse rice well before cooking. This can remove about 30 percent of the arsenic.
If you use homeopathic remedies that contain arsenic, make sure that you purchase them from a reliable source and that you take only the recommended dose.
How to Reduce Levels of Arsenic in Your Rice
As stated above, choose your rice from a good source. Arsenic levels tend to be significantly lower in rice grown in Southeast Asia and India, but California grown rice is also a great choice. Then follow the directions below.[21]
Thoroughly rinse the rice in a colander or sieve until the water runs clear. This may reduce arsenic in the rice up to 30 percent.
Place rice in a pot at a 6:1 ratio of water to rice. Cooking rice in excess water can reduce arsenic levels by another 50 to 60 percent. If you normally add salt when cooking rice, increase the amount of salt you add proportionately.
Bring rice and water to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until rice is tender. (About 30 minutes.)
When rice is tender, drain and rinse it again in a colander or sieve under hot water. Use hot water to prevent the rice from cooling.
Return the rice to the empty pot to dry. Place a clean kitchen towel over the top of the pot and then put the lid on top of the towel. After rinsing, the rice will be too wet. By putting it back in the covered pot, the towel will soak up excess moisture from the rice through evaporation. You may need to put the pot on extremely low heat to produce the desired evaporation. But be careful not to burn the rice or the towel! This may take 10-15 minutes.
Following the above steps produces delicious rice and can greatly reduce the amount of arsenic.
Due to the fact that we know so little about the long-term effects of exposure to arsenic, this is a topic we should come back to often for updates on more recent research. Meanwhile, follow the recommendations above to minimize your risk.
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[1] U.S. Food and Drug Administration, "Arsenic," nd, http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/Metals/ucm280202.htm.
[2] Emily Main, "5 Foods Loaded with Arsenic," Prevention, November 26, 2013, http://www.prevention.com/food/healthy-eating-tips/foods-and-beverages-high-arsenic.
[3] Brenda Goodman, MA, "Arsenic in Food: FAQ," WebMD, December 5, 2011, http://www.webmd.com/diet/arsenic-food-faq?page=1.
[4] Brenda Goodman, MA.
[5] Dr. Joseph Mercola, "Surprising Source of Arsenic in Your Drinking Water—Will EPA Take Steps to Protect Your Health?" August 13, 2013, http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx.
[7] Emily Main, "These 5 Foods Can Be High in Arsenic," Rodale's Organic Life, November 25, 2013, http://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/food/foods-contain-arsenic.
[8] Emily Main, Prevention.
[10] Emily Main, Prevention.
[11] Consumer Reports, "Arsenic in Your Food," November 2012, http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/11/arsenic-in-your-food/index.htm.
[12] Karyn Hede, "Chinese Fold Treatment Reveals Power of Arsenic to Treat Cancer, New Studies Under Way," Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Volume 99, Issue 9, 2007, http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/99/9/667.long.
[13] WebMD, "Arsenic," nd, http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-1226-arsenic.aspx?activeingredientid=1226&activeingredientname=arsenic.
[14] WebMD, "Arsenic."
[17] Consumer Reports.
[18] Dr. Joseph Mercola.
[21] Matt Frazier, "There's What in My Rice!? How to Kick Arsenic's Arse," No Meat Athlete, nd, http://www.nomeatathlete.com/arsenic-in-rice/.
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West Ham legend Alvin Martin has pleaded with Marko Arnautovic to write his name in Hammers history like Paolo Di Canio.
talkSPORT yesterday revealed the club have received a £35million bid from China for their star forward, which includes a seriously lucrative wage package.
And while the Hammers have rejected the offer, Arnautovic's head could have been turned a little by the money on offer.
However, Martin, who made over 450 appearances for West Ham over a 20-year spell at the club, insists cash is nothing compared to having a long-lasting connection with one club.
"I hope he'll see the light," Martin told Drivetime on talkSPORT.
"Looking back on my career, one of the biggest things I've taken into my 50s and 60s is that I played for the right club.
"I was connected with that club and I'm still connected with that club and its fan base. There's a value in that.
And Martin draws comparisons between Arnautovic and one of the most adored players in West Ham's history – Di Canio.
Di Canio played over 100 games for the Hammers and remains a cult hero to this day after producing several moments of pure genius at Upton Park.
Arnautovic should aspire to that level of admiration, insists Martin.
"One player who sums up the situation is Paolo Di Canio," he added.
"I think they're very similar. He's a leader, he's got charisma, he's a personality that the fans adore.
"Di Canio walks back into West Ham and he is given such a welcome. That's a big thing for a player and it's something you should think about.


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We named these Mazzi, meaning water in Luganda, because of their blue and turquoise colored beads. These are really pretty and very unusual bib necklaces. The necklace are made of black seed beads, but the main feauture of this necklace are the 35 cone shaped paper beads that make a "fan" or "bib" at the center of the necklace (measuring just about 5.5 inches at widest part).
These cone-shaped paper beads are made of tightly rolled magazine paper that have been varnished for durability. These beads have a silver metallic finish and reflect primarily blue and turqoise colors.
There is a silver-tone clasp in the back.
The seed beads are black.
The length of the necklace is just over 10 inches.
No two necklaces are exactly the same. These are handmade by our talented and hard-working women in the slums of Kampala, Uganda.


General Information: Thermophilic sulphur-reducing bacterium. Isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney at the Suiyo Seamount in the Izu-Bonin Arc, Japan. Deferribacter desulfuricans is an anaerobic, heterotrophic thermophile. It is a strictly anaerobic heterotroph capable of using complex organic compounds, ethanol and various organic acids as energy and carbon sources. Elemental sulfur, nitrate or arsenate was required for growth as an electron acceptor.


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Preheat the oven to 350°F. Cover a large baking sheet with foil. Place the squash, cut side down, on the sheet. Bake for 45 minutes, or until tender.
Warm the oil in a 10" no-stick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add the onions and garlic. Cook, stirring, over medium-high heat for 5 minutes, or until the onions are soft. Add the broccoli, carrots, spinach, sage, and thyme. Cook, stirring frequently, for 2 to 3 minutes, or until the vegetables soften slightly. Remove from the heat. Stir in the bread crumbs, raisins, lemon juice, pepper, and salt.
Pack the vegetable mixture into the squash cavities. Top with the Cheddar. Place on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 25 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown.


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Chair: Prof. Francesca Gimigliano, Co-Chair: Dr. Carlotte Kiekens
An important role for the Cochrane Rehabilitation Field is to disseminate available Cochrane evidence within the rehabilitation community as well as to other relevant health professionals, consumers and the public. This will of course be done by means of publications/newsletters, but also through a Cochrane Rehabilitation website, websites of rehabilitation societies and associated journals, and through the use of social media. The Communication Committee will create and maintain a database of all stakeholders and members, it will also facilitate internal communication within Cochrane Rehabilitation. It will be composed of a core group of 4 to 8 members plus other individual members who are willing to contribute to specific Committee tasks. To guarantee the variety in Committee members' representation, it is proposed to include at least one person coming from a LMIC and one from Allied Health Professionals. The relevant Goals of the Cochrane Rehabilitation Field for the Communication Committee would be: Goal 1 - to connect rehabilitation stakeholders globally; Goal 2 - to translate rehabilitation knowledge; and Goal 6 - to promote Cochrane to rehabilitation stakeholders and rehabilitation to Cochrane.
Chair: Prof. Julia Patrick Engkasan, Co-Chair: Prof. Elena Ilieva
With the support of different scientific rehabilitation societies in the world, educational initiatives such as Core EBM Courses and Rehabilitation Cochrane Review courses will be organized as part of PRM and other rehabilitation professional congresses and meetings (National, Regional and International) and offered online. A summer school could be considered in collaboration with specific Universities for PRM and other rehabilitation professionals, and for policy makers and healthcare managers. EBM and Cochrane review courses will be included as part of the curricula of PRM and other professionals and in continuing education. Special attention will be given to the educational situation in LMIC. For example, a key resource person for a country could be trained and made responsible for training, organization of courses in the native language and mentoring others in his/her country.
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In rehabilitation, EBM has been considered with diffidence by some, since RCTs in our field are difficult to conduct. Cochrane is at the centre of EBM approach. This is a great opportunity for the rehabilitation specialty to contribute to the successful use of EBM. In addition, Cochrane has several Methods Groups, whose aim is to develop appropriate methodologies for authors of review articles. The collaboration with these Methods Groups will strengthen the action of this Unit.
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One of the focuses of the Publication Unit will be to develop collaborations with rehabilitation journals to produce a Cochrane Corner, reporting the contents produced by Cochrane reviews relevant to rehabilitation. These sections could be differentiated according to the main interest of the journals. Another initiative could be the publication of a book, probably electronic, but possibly also printed, to report the available Cochrane Rehabilitation evidence. Another initiative will be an e-book: the systematic approach coming from such an instrument will allow on one side to facilitate the diffusion among stakeholders, on the other to check the actual topics not covered by Cochrane Reviews. The latter will allow to define new priorities for reviews, as well as to discover neglected area and/or areas with major methodological problems to produce RCTs. These results will be shared with the other committees. Finally, meta-reviews on specific topic of interest to rehabilitation will be produced as well.
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One of the aims of Cochrane Fields is to "tag" reviews of interest to the field (in this case Rehabilitation) within the Cochrane database and to produce lists of such reviews for interested stakeholders, researchers and clinicians worldwide. After being established, the aim of the Committee is to expand its work to include also systematic reviews out of the Cochrane Database. This work is of primary importance, and this Unit will be at the core of Cochrane Rehabilitation.
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Tre representative will play a prominent role in ensuring that all the work of Cochrane Rehabilitation reflects the different perspectives of Low-and-Middle-Income Countries.
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By definition, rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary field involving many different professional groups. In each committee at least one member will represent the allied rehabilitation health professions. Also, one representative will be a member of the Executive Committee. These representatives will have a prominent role in ensuring that all the work of Cochrane Rehabilitation reflects the different perspectives of the various people involved in the rehabilitation team, including professionals, consumers and carers. Another aim will be to progressively involve other groups that are not part of Cochrane Rehabilitation until now. This Strategy will be developed in multiple ways:
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Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, beat eggs and sugar until thick and lemon-colored. Beat in milk and vanilla. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to egg mixture and mix well.
Spread into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool 15 minutes on a wire rack. Spread peanut butter over top; cool completely.
In a double boiler or metal bowl over simmering water, melt chocolate and butter; stir until smooth. Gently spread over peanut butter. Refrigerate 30 minutes or until firm.
1 piece: 290 calories, 14g fat (5g saturated fat), 36mg cholesterol, 156mg sodium, 35g carbohydrate (24g sugars, 2g fiber), 7g protein.
This is a copycat version of Tastycake Tandycakes. I grew up on Tastycake and can tell you this is spot on!!! For those of you that gave it a low rating, you haven't tasted the original. The cake is not supposed to be cake like. It's more dense and spongy. If you love Tastycake, you'll love this.
I made this recipe over the weekend and was very disappointed. The cake was tasteless and oddly textured. No one at my house will eat it and I will end up throwing it away. My husband and son are lifting off the peanut butter and chocolate, eating that and tossing out the cake. I will not be making this recipe again and that is rare as I usually love TOH recipes and give them glowing reviews.
My children absolutely love this recipe. It is easy and so good!
I thought this was a great cake and relatively easy. As much as I love to cook I hate baking and always lean toward the "I can't mess up" recipes. I think this is one of them. Also, the tip about getting all of the foil off of a peanut butter jar is a great one but I sure don't think the fact that it isn't mentioned in the directions should make the rating be low.
Made this tonight for dessert... followed the recipe exactly. Came out terrific! Loved by all. This is a keeper recipe - my thanks to the contributor!
This cake was amazing! It tastes exactly like the original Kandy Kake! I wouldn't change a thing to the recipe at all! I had NONE of the issues other reviewers had at all.The only thing I have to do for my pan is use lard or butter because everything tends to stick to it. Cooking spray didn't let the cake release very well but that was MY PAN, not the recipe. If you have a pan like mine, that's my suggestion to help you with this awesome cake!
Haven't tried this recipe yet...However, I thought it very important to mention, please if you're going to put a jar of peanut butter in a microwave, make sure you've removed every scrap of foil from the jar or you WILL have fireworks!


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When copied exactly as two files, it works. When I try to combine the logic in a file that posts to itself, it fails bizarrely. First, here's my code:

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File is not an image.

Not sure how to make that prettier, but it's all the information I've been trying to gather.

A: Oh... my.. god.
Obviously almost immediately after I post the question, I started trying to comment out the parts that were different, and found this one line was breaking everything:
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The-Dream. Net Worth, Career, Personal Life, Childhood, Assets, Other Works
Facts of The-Dream. Net Worth, Career, Personal Life, Childhood, Assets, Other Works
Terius Youngdell
Popular by his stage name, The-Dream is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer who has the net worth which is estimated to be $10 million. He released five albums between 2007 and 2013.
What Is The Earning of The-Dream?
The-Dream is a professional singer who enjoys his life by collecting a net worth of $10 million so far. Let us look at his earnings from the albums:
Love Hate in 2007: $600,000
Love vs Money in 2009: $502,000
Love King in 2010: $175,000
IV Play in 2013: $42,000
Besides his album, The-Dream has worked with other artists like Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Beyonce and others which helped him to increase his net worth.
Let's Look At The-Dream's Property
The-Dream owns a mansion in Atlanta, Georgia worth $1.5 million
The-Dream owns a Ferrari
How Did The-Dream Begin His Career?
At first in 2001, Nash used to write the songs for other artists. He wrote songs for B2K, Britney Spears, Nivea, Rihanna, and others.
Then in 2007, Nash released his debut album Love Hate after signing a contract with Def Jam Recordings. In 2009, Nash released his another album Love vs Money featuring artists Mariah Carey, Kanye West, and Lil Jon.
In 2010, collaborating with T-Pain and Kanye West, The-Dream was successful to release his third album Love King.
Further Journey of The-Dream's Musical Career
In 2012, The-Dream released 1977 with a modified track list and named it Terius Nash: 1977. Then in 2013, The-Dream came to release his next album IV Play which was supposed to release in 2011. The featuring artists of the album include Jay-Z, Big Sean, Beyonce, 2 Chainz, and others.
In 2014, The-Dream released a free mixtape title Royalty: The Prequel. In 2016, The-Dream released another EP Crown and Jewel will be released in future.
The-Dream has been working on his next project and he mentioned that he will be continuing The Love series and release Love Affair in coming years.
Other Works of The-Dream
The-Dream is not only a rapper and singer but also he is a record producer and songwriter. He has written and produced songs for notable artists including Usher, Jesse McCartney, Ciara, and others.
The-Dream alongside Pleasure P, Ne-Yo, Jeremih, and Kevin McCall released their album Writers Block which consisted of 20 songs together.
Alongside his own work, The-Dream has also been a featuring artist on other artist's singles including Plies, Rick Ross, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, and others.
How Did The-Dream Spend His Childhood?
The-Dream born as Terius Youngdell Nash was born on September 20, 1977, in North Carolina. Nash learned to play trumpet, guitar, and drums when he was a child. His mother died when he was 15. He believes that the death of his mother inspired him to write songs and his grandfather always supported him.
Is The-Dream Married Or Still Single?
In 2004, Nash married Nivea. They had three children. In 2008, they were separated.
In 2009, Nash dated Christina Milian. The couple married in the same year. The couple was separated in 2011 but they had one daughter.
Then in 2012, Nash dated Lydia Nam and had one son together.
In 2014, Nash married Lalonne Martinez and they have two sons together.
Has The-Dream been arrested? Let's know
Due to an alleged domestic violence in Newport Beach, California in 2013, Nash was caught by the police. Anyhow, his then-girlfriend Lydia refused to press charges.
Then in 2014, Nash was arrested for felony assault and strangulation against his then-pregnant girlfriend Lydia.
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Apple Preparing to Move into "Spaceship" Campus
Reuters reports that, after years of delays and an estimated $5 billion price tag, Apple hopes to start moving into its new "spaceship" campus in a few months. One of Steve Jobs's final initiatives, the round glass building was projected to be finished in 2015 but was held up by a lengthy city approval process and insane attention to detail. Although it looks (and sounds) impressive, some architects wonder if the building is an example of form over function. Louise Mozingo, chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at U.C. Berkeley, told Reuters that the building could be tough to navigate. Other sources have said that the building has been a tremendous drain on Apple; we can hope that completing it will help the company devote more time, attention, and resources to its core products and services.
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Zac Imboden
How can a company worth billions of dollars and with a tremendous arsenal of technological and human assets be devoting less time, attention and resources to its core products just because they are constructing a new headquarters. If this is true, then Apple is being mismanaged, and we know the results the last time that happened...
Jonathan Nemo
One Infinite Loop was built in the twilight years of John Sculley standing as CEO of Apple Computer, Inc.
I'm not even sure what to make of the Campus Two project, yet.
B. Jefferson Le Blanc
If building the new campus was draining attention and resources from Apple's core business then in my opinion they cannot complete the transition to the new campus a minute too soon. Among other things, quality control at Apple has slipped badly in recent years. While it's impossible to draw a direct cause and effect relationship between the focus on Campus 2 and weakness in various Apple's product lines (iCloud, anyone?), the move alone into the new quarters will undoubtedly be tremendously disruptive for employees and their work schedules/routines. The wastage in man-hours will be immense. Once they are settled in I'm sure it will be a great place to work, though the scale of things will take some getting used to. Perhaps describing the place as a campus is appropriate: If you think of the inefficiencies of the normal college campus, then Campus 2 may seem less extraordinary. Relaxed work schedules could reduce the stress getting from one place to another. And, hopefully, there will be more than one cafeteria and innumerable small meeting rooms. Then, again, if you are important enough, teleconferencing may save a lot of shoe leather, or rubber, as the case may be.
David Illig
Who would be surprised if the creators of recent MacBook Pro's built a building in which function followed form!? I can assure you, based on experience with smaller torus-form buildings that it will be difficult to navigate without moving sidewalks and a lot of escalators. But again, that's not Apple's concern; only form matters these days. Glad I don't have to work in that white elephant!
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Last year, Chris Larner accompanied his chronically ill ex-wife to Switzerland's Dignitas clinic. He came home with an empty wheelchair and a story to tell.
Last year, Chris Larner accompanied his chronically ill ex-wife to Switzerlands Dignitas clinic. He came home with an empty wheelchair and a story to tell.
This moving, bittersweet show reflects on the circumstances, morality and humanity surrounding the journey. Through a candid, poignant and sometimes comic performance, Chris explores both the profound personal implications and the wider ethical issues that surround the contentious topic.
Chris Larner is a writer, actor and director. His stage work includes Alice in Wonderland (RSC); Wind In The Willows (National Theatre); and on TV, Clingfilm in Londons Burning. He has written extensively for comedy legends The Right Size and many others. With David Gilbert he wrote The Laxian Key for BBC Radio. His Edinburgh shows include acclaimed musicals The Translucent Frogs of Quuup (Guardian Best Musical Award 2004) and On The Island of Aars (nominated for five MTM Awards, 2008).
Hannah Eidinow has directed five Fringe First Award winning plays four of them documentary theatre pieces: An Instinct For Kindness (Edinburgh 2011), Lockerbie: Unfinished Business (Edinburgh 2010, 2011 & UK tour), What I Heard About Iraq (Edinburgh 2006, UK Tour & West End 2007), and Gone (Edinburgh & West End 2004). Hannah is Creative Development and Associate Director for Pleasance and an Associate Director of The Miniaturists, a writer-led group dedicated to producing short plays. Recent directing credits include Mood Swing (Edinburgh and New York 2010); Memory Cells (Edinburgh 2010); The Lady From The Sea (Arcola); and A British Subject (Edinburgh, Broadway, and Arts Theatre, West End).


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Madam How and Lady Why - Main page
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The Chalk Carts
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
More: Truth quotes
What do you want to know about next? More about the caves in which the old savages lived,--how they were made, and how the curious things inside them got there, and so forth.
Well, we will talk about that in good time: but now--What is that coming down the hill?
Oh, only some chalk-carts.
Only some chalk-carts? It seems to me that these chalk-carts are the very things we want; that if we follow them far enough--I do not mean with our feet along the public road, but with our thoughts along a road which, I am sorry to say, the public do not yet know much about--we shall come to a cave, and understand how a cave is made. Meanwhile, do not be in a hurry to say, "Only a chalk-cart," or only a mouse, or only a dead leaf. Chalk-carts, like mice, and dead leaves, and most other matters in the universe are very curious and odd things in the eyes of wise and reasonable people. Whenever I hear young men saying "only" this and "only" that, I begin to suspect them of belonging, not to the noble army of sages--much less to the most noble army of martyrs,--but to the ignoble army of noodles, who think nothing interesting or important but dinners, and balls, and races, and back-biting their neighbours; and I should be sorry to see you enlisting in that regiment when you grow up. But think--are not chalk-carts very odd and curious things? I think they are. To my mind, it is a curious question how men ever thought of inventing wheels; and, again, when they first thought of it. It is a curious question, too, how men ever found out that they could make horses work for them, and so began to tame them, instead of eating them, and a curious question (which I think we shall never get answered) when the first horse-tamer lived, and in what country. And a very curious, and, to me, a beautiful sight it is, to see those two noble horses obeying that little boy, whom they could kill with a single kick.
But, beside all this, there is a question, which ought to be a curious one to you (for I suspect you cannot answer it)--Why does the farmer take the trouble to send his cart and horses eight miles and more, to draw in chalk from Odiham chalk-pit?
Oh, he is going to put it on the land, of course. They are chalking the bit at the top of the next field, where the copse was grubbed.
But what good will he do by putting chalk on it? Chalk is not rich and fertile, like manure, it is altogether poor, barren stuff: you know that, or ought to know it. Recollect the chalk cuttings and banks on the railway between Basingstoke and Winchester--how utterly barren they are. Though they have been open these thirty years, not a blade of grass, hardly a bit of moss, has grown on them, or will grow, perhaps, for centuries.
Come, let us find out something about the chalk before we talk about the caves. The chalk is here, and the caves are not; and "Learn from the thing that lies nearest you" is as good a rule as "Do the duty which lies nearest you." Let us come into the grubbed bit, and ask the farmer--there he is in his gig.
Well, old friend, and how are you? Here is a little boy who wants to know why you are putting chalk on your field.
Does he then? If he ever tries to farm round here, he will have to learn for his first rule--No chalk, no wheat.
Why, is more than I can tell, young squire. But if you want to see how it comes about, look here at this freshly-grubbed land--how sour it is. You can see that by the colour of it--some black, some red, some green, some yellow, all full of sour iron, which will let nothing grow. After the chalk has been on it a year or two, those colours will have all gone out of it; and it will turn to a nice wholesome brown, like the rest of the field; and then you will know that the land is sweet, and fit for any crop. Now do you mind what I tell you, and then I'll tell you something more. We put on the chalk because, beside sweetening the land, it will hold water. You see, the land about here, though it is often very wet from springs, is sandy and hungry; and when we drain the bottom water out of it, the top water (that is, the rain) is apt to run through it too fast: and then it dries and burns up; and we get no plant of wheat, nor of turnips either. So we put on chalk to hold water, and keep the ground moist.
But how can these lumps of chalk hold water? They are not made like cups.
No: but they are made like sponges, which serves our turn better still. Just take up that lump, young squire, and you'll see water enough in it, or rather looking out of it, and staring you in the face.
Why! one side of the lump is all over thick ice.
So it is. All that water was inside the chalk last night, till it froze. And then it came squeezing out of the holes in the chalk in strings, as you may see it if you break the ice across. Now you may judge for yourself how much water a load of chalk will hold, even on a dry summer's day. And now, if you'll excuse me, sir, I must be off to market.
Was it all true that the farmer said?
Quite true, I believe. He is not a scientific man--that is, he does not know the chemical causes of all these things; but his knowledge is sound and useful, because it comes from long experience. He and his forefathers, perhaps for a thousand years and more, have been farming this country, reading Madam How's books with very keen eyes, experimenting and watching, very carefully and rationally; making mistakes often, and failing and losing their crops and their money; but learning from their mistakes, till their empiric knowledge, as it is called, helps them to grow sometimes quite as good crops as if they had learned agricultural chemistry.
What he meant by the chalk sweetening the land you would not understand yet, and I can hardly tell you; for chemists are not yet agreed how it happens. But he was right; and right, too, what he told you about the water inside the chalk, which is more important to us just now; for, if we follow it out, we shall surely come to a cave at last.
So now for the water in the chalk. You can see now why the chalk-downs at Winchester are always green, even in the hottest summer: because Madam How has put under them her great chalk sponge. The winter rains soak into it; and the summer heat draws that rain out of it again as invisible steam, coming up from below, to keep the roots of the turf cool and moist under the blazing sun.
You love that short turf well. You love to run and race over the Downs with your butterfly-net and hunt "chalk-hill blues," and "marbled whites," and "spotted burnets," till you are hot and tired; and then to sit down and look at the quiet little old city below, with the long cathedral roof, and the tower of St. Cross, and the gray old walls and buildings shrouded by noble trees, all embosomed among the soft rounded lines of the chalk-hills; and then you begin to feel very thirsty, and cry, "Oh, if there were but springs and brooks in the Downs, as there are at home!" But all the hollows are as dry as the hill tops. There is not a brook, or the mark of a watercourse, in one of them. You are like the Ancient Mariner in the poem, with
"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."
To get that you must go down and down, hundreds of feet, to the green meadows through which silver Itchen glides toward the sea. There you stand upon the bridge, and watch the trout in water so crystal-clear that you see every weed and pebble as if you looked through air. If ever there was pure water, you think, that is pure. Is it so? Drink some. Wash your hands in it and try--You feel that the water is rough, hard (as they call it), quite different from the water at home, which feels as soft as velvet. What makes it so hard?
Because it is full of invisible chalk. In every gallon of that water there are, perhaps, fifteen grains of solid chalk, which was once inside the heart of the hills above. Day and night, year after year, the chalk goes down to the sea; and if there were such creatures as water-fairies--if it were true, as the old Greeks and Romans thought, that rivers were living things, with a Nymph who dwelt in each of them, and was its goddess or its queen--then, if your ears were opened to hear her, the Nymph of Itchen might say to you--
So child, you think that I do nothing but, as your sister says when she sings Mr. Tennyson's beautiful song,
"I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles."
Yes. I do that: and I love, as the Nymphs loved of old, men who have eyes to see my beauty, and ears to discern my song, and to fit their own song to it, and tell how
"'I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling,
"'And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel,
"'And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.'"
Yes. That is all true: but if that were all, I should not be let to flow on for ever, in a world where Lady Why rules, and Madam How obeys. I only exist (like everything else, from the sun in heaven to the gnat which dances in his beam) on condition of working, whether we wish it or not, whether we know it or not. I am not an idle stream, only fit to chatter to those who bathe or fish in my waters, or even to give poets beautiful fancies about me. You little guess the work I do. For I am one of the daughters of Madam How, and, like her, work night and day, we know not why, though Lady Why must know. So day by day, and night by night, while you are sleeping (for I never sleep), I carry, delicate and soft as I am, a burden which giants could not bear: and yet I am never tired. Every drop of rain which the south-west wind brings from the West Indian seas gives me fresh life and strength to bear my burden; and it has need to do so; for every drop of rain lays a fresh burden on me. Every root and weed which grows in every field; every dead leaf which falls in the highwoods of many a parish, from the Grange and Woodmancote round to Farleigh and Preston, and so to Brighton and the Alresford downs;--ay, every atom of manure which the farmers put on the land--foul enough then, but pure enough before it touches me--each of these, giving off a tiny atom of what men call carbonic acid, melts a tiny grain of chalk, and helps to send it down through the solid hill by one of the million pores and veins which at once feed and burden my springs. Ages on ages I have worked on thus, carrying the chalk into the sea. And ages on ages, it may be, I shall work on yet; till I have done my work at last, and levelled the high downs into a flat sea-shore, with beds of flint gravel rattling in the shallow waves.
She might tell you that; and when she had told you, you would surely think of the clumsy chalk-cart rumbling down the hill, and then of the graceful stream, bearing silently its invisible load of chalk; and see how much more delicate and beautiful, as well as vast and wonderful, Madam How's work is than that of man.
But if you asked the nymph why she worked on for ever, she could not tell you. For like the Nymphs of old, and the Hamadryads who lived, in trees, and Undine, and the little Sea-maiden, she would have no soul; no reason; no power to say why.
It is for you, who are a reasonable being, to guess why: or at least listen to me if I guess for you, and say, perhaps--I can only say perhaps--that chalk may be going to make layers of rich marl in the sea between England and France; and those marl-beds may be upheaved and grow into dry land, and be ploughed, and sowed, and reaped by a wiser race of men, in a better-ordered world than this: or the chalk may have even a nobler destiny before it. That may happen to it, which has happened already to many a grain of lime. It may be carried thousands of miles away to help in building up a coral reef (what that is I must tell you afterwards). That coral reef may harden into limestone beds. Those beds may be covered up, pressed, and, it may be, heated, till they crystallise into white marble: and out of it fairer statues be carved, and grander temples built, than the world has ever yet seen.
And if that is not the reason why the chalk is being sent into the sea, then there is another reason, and probably a far better one. For, as I told you at first, Lady Why's intentions are far wiser and better than our fancies; and she--like Him whom she obeys--is able to do exceeding abundantly, beyond all that we can ask or think.
But you will say now that we have followed the chalk-cart a long way, without coming to the cave.
You are wrong. We have come to the very mouth of the cave. All we have to do is to say--not "Open Sesame," like Ali Baba in the tale of the Forty Thieves--but some word or two which Madam Why will teach us, and forthwith a hill will open, and we shall walk in, and behold rivers and cascades underground, stalactite pillars and stalagmite statues, and all the wonders of the grottoes of Adelsberg, Antiparos, or Kentucky.
Am I joking? Yes, and yet no; for you know that when I joke I am usually most in earnest. At least, I am now.
But there are no caves in chalk?
No, not that I ever heard of. There are, though, in limestone, which is only a harder kind of chalk. Madam How could turn this chalk into hard limestone, I believe, even now; and in more ways than one: but in ways which would not be very comfortable or profitable for us Southern folk who live on it. I am afraid that--what between squeezing and heating--she would flatten us all out into phosphatic fossils, about an inch thick; and turn Winchester city into a "breccia" which would puzzle geologists a hundred thousand years hence. So we will hope that she will leave our chalk downs for the Itchen to wash gently away, while we talk about caves, and how Madam How scoops them out by water underground, just in the same way, only more roughly, as she melts the chalk.
Suppose, then, that these hills, instead of being soft, spongy chalk, were all hard limestone marble, like that of which the font in the church is made. Then the rainwater, instead of sinking through the chalk as now, would run over the ground down-hill, and if it came to a crack (a fault, as it is called) it would run down between the rock; and as it ran it would eat that hole wider and wider year by year, and make a swallow- hole--such as you may see in plenty if you ever go up Whernside, or any of the high hills in Yorkshire--unfathomable pits in the green turf, in which you may hear the water tinkling and trickling far, far underground.
And now, before we go a step farther, you may understand, why the bones of animals are so often found in limestone caves. Down such swallow-holes how many beasts must fall: either in hurry and fright, when hunted by lions and bears and such cruel beasts; or more often still in time of snow, when the holes are covered with drift; or, again, if they died on the open hill-sides, their bones might be washed in, in floods, along with mud and stones, and buried with them in the cave below; and beside that, lions and bears and hyaenas might live in the caves below, as we know they did in some caves, and drag in bones through the caves' mouths; or, again, savages might live in that cave, and bring in animals to eat, like the wild beasts; and so those bones might be mixed up, as we know they were, with things which the savages had left behind--like flint tools or beads; and then the whole would be hardened, by the dripping of the limestone water, into a paste of breccia just like this in my drawer. But the bones of the savages themselves you would seldom or never find mixed in it--unless some one had fallen in by accident from above. And why? (For there is a Why? to that question: and not merely a How?) Simply because they were men; and because God has put into the hearts of all men, even of the lowest savages, some sort of reverence for those who are gone; and has taught them to bury, or in some other way take care of, their bones.
But how is the swallow-hole sure to end in a cave?
Because it cannot help making a cave for itself if it has time.
Think: and you will see that it must be so. For that water must run somewhere; and so it eats its way out between the beds of the rock, making underground galleries, and at last caves and lofty halls. For it always eats, remember, at the bottom of its channel, leaving the roof alone. So it eats, and eats, more in some places and less in others, according as the stone is harder or softer, and according to the different direction of the rock-beds (what we call their dip and strike); till at last it makes one of those wonderful caverns about which you are so fond of reading--such a cave as there actually is in the rocks of the mountain of Whernside, fed by the swallow-holes around the mountain-top; a cave hundreds of yards long, with halls, and lakes, and waterfalls, and curtains and festoons of stalactite which have dripped from the roof, and pillars of stalagmite which have been built up on the floor below. These stalactites (those tell me who have seen them) are among the most beautiful of all Madam How's work; sometimes like branches of roses or of grapes; sometimes like statues; sometimes like delicate curtains, and I know not what other beautiful shapes. I have never seen them, I am sorry to say, and therefore I cannot describe them. But they are all made in the same way; just in the same way as those little straight stalactites which you may have seen hanging, like icicles, in vaulted cellars, or under the arches of a bridge. The water melts more lime than it can carry, and drops some of it again, making fresh limestone grain by grain as it drips from the roof above; and fresh limestone again where it splashes on the floor below: till if it dripped long enough, the stalactite hanging from above would meet the stalagmite rising from below, and join in one straight round white graceful shaft, which would seem (but only seem) to support the roof of the cave. And out of that cave--though not always out of the mouth of it--will run a stream of water, which seems to you clear as crystal, though it is actually, like the Itchen at Winchester, full of lime; so full of lime, that it makes beds of fresh limestone, which are called travertine--which you may see in Italy, and Greece, and Asia Minor: or perhaps it petrifies, as you call it, the weeds in its bed, like that dropping-well at Knaresborough, of which you have often seen a picture. And the cause is this: the water is so full of lime, that it is forced to throw away some of it upon everything it touches, and so incrusts with stone--though it does not turn to stone--almost anything you put in it. You have seen, or ought to have seen, petrified moss and birds' nests and such things from Knaresborough Well: and now you know a little, though only a very little, of how the pretty toys are made.
Now if you can imagine for yourself (though I suppose a little boy cannot) the amount of lime which one of these subterranean rivers would carry away, gnawing underground centuries after centuries, day and night, summer and winter, then you will not be surprised at the enormous size of caverns which may be seen in different parts of the world--but always, I believe, in limestone rock. You would not be surprised (though you would admire them) at the caverns of Adelsberg, in Carniola (in the south of Austria, near the top of the Adriatic), which runs, I believe, for miles in length; and in the lakes of which, in darkness from its birth until its death, lives that strange beast, the Proteus a sort of long newt which never comes to perfection--I suppose for want of the genial sunlight which makes all things grow. But he is blind; and more, he keeps all his life the same feathery gills which newts have when they are babies, and which we have so often looked at through the microscope, to see the blood-globules run round and round inside. You would not wonder, either, at the Czirknitz Lake, near the same place, which at certain times of the year vanishes suddenly through chasms under water, sucking the fish down with it; and after a certain time boils suddenly up again from the depths, bringing back with it the fish, who have been swimming comfortably all the time in a subterranean lake; and bringing back, too (and, extraordinary as this story is, there is good reason to believe it true), live wild ducks who went down small and unfledged, and come back full-grown and fat, with water-weeds and small fish in their stomachs, showing they have had plenty to feed on underground. But--and this is the strangest part of the story, if true--they come up unfledged just as they went down, and are moreover blind from having been so long in darkness. After a while, however, folks say their eyes get right, their feathers grow, and they fly away like other birds.
Neither would you be surprised (if you recollect that Madam How is a very old lady indeed, and that some of her work is very old likewise) at that Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the largest cave in the known world, through which you may walk nearly ten miles on end, and in which a hundred miles of gallery have been explored already, and yet no end found to the cave. In it (the guides will tell you) there are "226 avenues, 47 domes, 8 cataracts, 23 pits, and several rivers;" and if that fact is not very interesting to you (as it certainly is not to me) I will tell you something which ought to interest you: that this cave is so immensely old that various kinds of little animals, who have settled themselves in the outer parts of it, have had time to change their shape, and to become quite blind; so that blind fathers and mothers have blind children, generation after generation.
There are blind rats there, with large shining eyes which cannot see--blind landcrabs, who have the foot-stalks of their eyes (you may see them in any crab) still left; but the eyes which should be on the top of them are gone. There are blind fish, too, in the cave, and blind insects; for, if they have no use for their eyes in the dark, why should Madam How take the trouble to finish them off?
One more cave I must tell you of, to show you how old some caves must be, and then I must stop; and that is the cave of Caripe, in Venezuela, which is the most northerly part of South America. There, in the face of a limestone cliff, crested with enormous flowering trees, and festooned with those lovely creepers of which you have seen a few small ones in hothouses, there opens an arch as big as the west front of Winchester Cathedral, and runs straight in like a cathedral nave for more than 1400 feet. Out of it runs a stream; and along the banks of that stream, as far as the sunlight strikes in, grow wild bananas, and palms, and lords and ladies (as you call them), which are not, like ours, one foot, but many feet high. Beyond that the cave goes on, with subterranean streams, cascades, and halls, no man yet knows how far. A friend of mine last year went in farther, I believe, than any one yet has gone; but, instead of taking Indian torches made of bark and resin, or even torches made of Spanish wax, such as a brave bishop of those parts used once when he went in farther than any one before him, he took with him some of that beautiful magnesium light which you have seen often here at home. And in one place, when he lighted up the magnesium, he found himself in a hall full 300 feet high--higher far, that is, than the dome of St. Paul's--and a very solemn thought it was to him, he said, that he had seen what no other human being ever had seen; and that no ray of light had ever struck on that stupendous roof in all the ages since the making of the world. But if he found out something which he did not expect, he was disappointed in something which he did expect. For the Indians warned him of a hole in the floor which (they told him) was an unfathomable abyss. And lo and behold, when he turned the magnesium light upon it, the said abyss was just about eight feet deep. But it is no wonder that the poor Indians with their little smoky torches should make such mistakes; no wonder, too, that they should be afraid to enter far into those gloomy vaults; that they should believe that the souls of their ancestors live in that dark cave; and that they should say that when they die they will go to the Guacharos, as they call the birds that fly with doleful screams out of the cave to feed at night, and in again at daylight, to roost and sleep.
Now, it is these very Guacharo birds which are to me the most wonderful part of the story. The Indians kill and eat them for their fat, although they believe they have to do with evil spirits. But scientific men who have studied these birds will tell you that they are more wonderful than if all the Indians' fancies about them were true. They are great birds, more than three feet across the wings, somewhat like owls, somewhat like cuckoos, somewhat like goatsuckers; but, on the whole, unlike anything in the world but themselves; and instead of feeding on moths or mice, they feed upon hard dry fruits, which they pick off the trees after the set of sun. And wise men will tell you, that in making such a bird as that, and giving it that peculiar way of life, and settling it in that cavern, and a few more caverns in that part of the world, and therefore in making the caverns ready for them to live in, Madam How must have taken ages and ages, more than you can imagine or count.
But that is among the harder lessons which come in the latter part of Madam How's book. Children need not learn them yet; and they can never learn them, unless they master her alphabet, and her short and easy lessons for beginners, some of which I am trying to teach you now.
But I have just recollected that we are a couple of very stupid fellows. We have been talking all this time about chalk and limestone, and have forgotten to settle what they are, and how they were made. We must think of that next time. It will not do for us (at least if we mean to be scientific men) to use terms without defining them; in plain English, to talk about--we don't know what.
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Look at NHL teams north of the border
Posted on September 26, 2018 by Taber Times
While the cool fall air isn't for everyone, it does bring some joy to those who are ready for the hockey season to begin.
With NHL preseason games already underway and the regular season starting up next week, let's take a look at the seven Canadian teams.
No matter if you are a Canucks fan or not, the departure of the Sedin twins will feel odd whenever you see Vancouver play.
Much like when Derek Jeter retired from baseball or Brett Farve retired from football, the Sedins were staple all-star NHL players that you could expect to see year after year.
Now with the rebuild certainly started in Vancouver, the Canucks have several players to be excited about, especially players that look like locks to be on this year's NHL roster.
Brock Boeser is an absolute stud who can and will score upwards of 30 goals if he plays a full season, Bo Horvat is a player who looks like he can take another big step in his game and Troy Stetcher should see more minutes on the backend.
Where Vancouver fans are really excited though is with Elias Pettersson C/RW, Olli Juolevi D, Quinn Hughes D and Thatcher Demko G.
While Hughes is bound for NCAA action this year, the other three all have potential to make this year's squad. Pettersson has looked good in the preseason and will likely get a good look this year on the big club, Juolevi also has a good shot at landing in the top six of the backend while Demko may be the answer the Canucks need in the blue paint, though it may not be shocking if they send him back to the AHL for a few months to start the year.
Either way, the Canucks may not be a playoff team this year in the stacked Pacific Division but they do have a good reason to be excited by the future.
Connor McDavid.
That's basically the biggest reason why people think Edmonton will turn it around this year and boy, it's hard to bet against the best player in the league.
He is an absolute force but the team around him isn't.
They need a top line winger to play with McDavid (they traded some guy named Taylor Hall) and their power play was horrendous finishing at the bottom of the league with a mere 14.8 per cent.
Their penalty kill wasn't much better, they didn't finish at the bottom, but they only killed off 76.7 per cent.
Like the Canucks, the Oilers have an uphill battle in the Pacific and I have a hard time seeing them as a playoff team as they didn't do much with their roster in the offseason.
That being said, their centre core of McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is pretty good but the rest of the team needs to have bounce-back years especially Cam Talbot if they want to contend for a playoff spot but my money is on them missing the cut.
The final Canadian Pacific Division team and, in my opinion, the best of the three.
While they don't have anyone of McDavid's ilk, they have a way better-rounded team that includes a great forward group and an incredibly solid defensive core.
Signing James Neal and trading for Elias Lindholm and Noah Hanifin in the offseason for Dougie Hamilton, Micheal Ferland and Adam Fox, the Flames will see a bit of a different lineup come opening night.
While the trade wasn't viewed as a unanimous positive move from Flames fans, it may just be what the Flames need to get back into the playoffs.
Plus they see Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan return after great seasons last year.
I think you can expect to see them team up with Neal on the top line which should provide plenty of offence.
Goaltending will once again be the lynchpin of the Flames team as Mike Smith will be looked upon to be a steady presence in the crease.
If the team can stay healthy, I would expect Calgary to grab one of the wildcard spots out of the west.
Onto the best team in Canada, and really one of the best teams in the NHL— the Winnipeg Jets.
Mark Scheifele is a top 10 player in the league and may be one of the most underrated players in the game outside of Winnipeg and I think he will be absolute money again this year.
Joining him on that top line is Patrik Laine who will score 50 goals this year after hitting 44 last year while captain Blake Wheeler will be another weapon the Jets will rely on up front.
The team is mostly the same as last year and I think they are a playoff lockout of the Central Division but will no doubt battle with Nashville for the top position.
While the departure of Paul Stastny, who was acquired at last year's trade deadline, maybe a negative on their offseason, it opens up a slot for a younger player to crack the lineup.
Overall, I think the Jets have the best shot at bringing the Stanley Cup back to Canada but playing in the stronger Western Conference, it's far from a given.
It's been a tire fire for the Senators, and there really is no better way to say it.
Take your pick for what's worse —it could be the Mike Hoffman, Erik Karlsson wife feud, owner Eugene Melnyk opening his mouth at every turn, trading their franchise-best player to San Jose, not having a first round pick this year and the possibility of their original pick, which was traded to Colorado in the Matt Duchene deal, being a high pick, none of it looks good for the Sens.
The team on paper looks like a bottom feeder, especially in the top-heavy Atlantic Division, but there are no guarantees in hockey.
While I would put a large sum on Ottawa being out of a playoff spot come April, I think the team is eager to prove they're better than most people think.
Brady Tkachuk looks like a great prospect for the Sens that will likely play quite a bit in the show this year and they have a few others in the system, namely Logan Brown and Colin White, that Sens fans can look forward to. Other than that though, I would expect Ottawa to be in a lengthy rebuild.
And speaking of rebuild, the Montreal Canadiens sure seem to be in one too.
Trading away their captain Max Pacioretty to Vegas sure seemed to signal the team was ready to turn over a new leaf but the problem is they still have Carey Price and Shea Weber signed to long-term, big money deals.
The team this year also lacks any real top one or two centremen, though after the trade to send Alex Galchenyuk to Arizona for Max Domi, they plan to use Domi as a centreman.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
They basically did the same thing last year with the trade to acquire Jonathan Drouin and how did that work out?
To top it all off, Weber isn't expected back until December at the earliest after offseason knee surgery so I don't expect the Habs to be a factor this year.
But… if there was one man on a team that I would look at to drag a bad team to the playoffs, it's Carey Price.
We've seen him have absolutely phenomenal years where he makes the Habs look better than they are so that is always a possibility. But since they also play in the Atlantic Division with Tampa Bay, Boston, Toronto and Florida, who are all playoff contenders, I don't see it happening and I won't lose any sleep over it.
Being a lifelong Leafs fan I figured I'd leave them till last.
And with that being said, I've waited for the Maple Leafs to be this good of a team for my entire life.
I've seen way more bad Toronto teams than good, so seeing hometown boy John Tavares sign was something all of Leafs Nation has been waiting for.
The funny thing was, I was in Vauxhall covering their Canada Day parade when it was announced so a big shout out to anybody who ignored the crazy guy in the Leafs hat celebrating on main street with a camera in his hand.
Lining up JT, Auston Matthews and Nazem Kadri down the middle is the best centre core I've ever seen in Toronto and it may be the best they've ever had.
For a team that has been around for 100 years, last year they broke a ton of team records including points with 105 and now they add a bonafide superstar in Tavares.
And I haven't even mentioned Mitch Marner, Morgan Rielly, Freddy Andersen or William Nylander. Needless to say, things in Toronto look a lot different than they did a few years ago.


Adjust, analysis and adjust of cultural policies.
This blog expose and propose. ADJUST points out, keeps track and informs as a way to regulate disorders in contemporary culture. Through the categories: : "Argumentos" (Arguments), "Lo inapropiado" (not appropriate) y "Clamaciones" (to claim) this blog acts as a blackboard of incorrect and inadequate practices. "Adhesion" is the category were readers can add themselves to the ideas or policies we post by signing up. Through visibility of information, this blog as an adjuster, applies pressure on private matters with public dimensions. The specific frame of this blog is art and culture. The aim is to promote fair practices by keeping track of the unfair ones.
This blog is a blackboard of incorrect and inadequate practices and an archive of these practices. The intention is to promote fair practices by keeping track of, and displaying, the unfair ones. One can point something out and publish it or send a note without making it public. The post being public applies social pressure; the blog acts as an adjuster. The post has the identity of the blogger visible as a sign of responsibility. In situations in which one wants to keep anonymity (to avoid the trouble resulting from visibility) the note is not made public but archived; the blog acts as a witness. Even though on a practical level this is useless, (with the exception of acting if similar posts are received), just the fact of the information being transmitted to a third party is potentially a threat. In this sense "just" the existence of the blog, if it has enough flow, make it into a deterrent element.
This blog is a draft-book of ideas, theories and policies. The purpose of the draft-book is to show which are in reality the problems of art, to deconstruct the fallacies (appear as problem but in reality there are not) and to draft policies that are coherent with the facts.
A newspaper or a blog differs from the actions of a consumer office or court, taking care of the public dimension of private matters. To inform is to tell the reality, which implies telling all that happens. To gain personal benefit, one might deny part of a situation, or make it look like what it is not. The role of journalism is to inform, using visibility as a tool for social pressure. Traditionally, the press exposes forgotten parts in another media such as television, however, in recent years, newspapers have stopped performing this task, passing it over to the Blogs. The 'journalist' figure as a professional investigator has been substituted by the everyday detective. At least in a potential form, anybody can be an information investigator searching on the Web, or posting data, or reacting to news arriving to his personal e-mail.
In certain areas such as art, education and culture, open calls, competitions and prizes, are sent via e-mail through global diffusion companies, such e-flux. The global nature of the calls contributes to their not-so-fair, often even abusive conditions. The 'open calls' often have no control mechanism other than the reaction of the users. As easy as opening the e-mail and reading the call, is sending another email questioning the procedure or the practices when they sound inappropriate. However, not many people exercise this capacity, perhaps because of laziness or simply because they do see themselves as part of anything.
This blog emerges because of two conditions: firstly a "global" society doesn't have regulatory mechanisms and it is the participant who is in charge of pointing out malpractice to control the procedure, as just another self-motivated action that one does everyday. There is the fallacy of the collective. It is crucial to recognize the association between 'global' and 'collective,' and the difference between 'collective' and 'community'; community recognizes individuality while collective hides it away. Secondly, art and culture are fields where the working conditions are very precarious and in some cases, exploitative of artist that are push to work for free. Abuse must be shown and new policies draft to change the work situation of artist and cultural workers in general.


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In April 2017, Crime Stoppers of Houston, working with Harris County Precinct 5 Constable Ted Heap, formed a city-wide Anti-Animal Cruelty Partner Council to bring key partners and agencies together to collaborate on finding solutions to improve how crimes against animals are reported and responded to in Harris County and the City of Houston.
With over 50 law enforcement agencies in Harris County, citizens often do not know where to report this type of abuse. The council's goal was to make it easy for citizens to report animal cruelty and neglect to the correct agency, thereby helping animals in need as quickly as possible. This also would free up resources that were incorrectly getting the calls.
Following Hurricane Harvey, the Harris County Animal Cruelty Taskforce was formed with the primary goal of streamlining the process of where and how animal cruelty can be reported in the Greater Houston Area. The taskforce acquired 832-927-PAWS as their phone number in order to further streamline the reporting process, speed up response times and minimize duplication of efforts across the county.
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Harris County Sheriff's Office has also added an additional Deputy to animal cruelty investigations.
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Seth Rogan is "Flattered" That People Think a Dog Looks Just Like Him
"I've been tagged by dozens of people saying I look like this dog," the actor tweeted.
Seth Rogen has no bones to pick over being told he looks like a dog.
Specifically, a dog whose photo went viral this week over the pup's uncannily human-looking eyes and what looks like a slight grin.
As a reference, here's Rogan:
Dogs Of The White House
President Donald Trump didn't bring a puppy to the White House, unlike his predecessors, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
The dog in question is actually Nori Porkchop, an Instagram-famous toy Australian shepherd and toy poodle mix who resides in Seattle.
Nori's photo went massively viral after Twitter account 41 Strange shared it, writing, "Just look at his eyes and smile."
The photo was originally posted in June 2018 on Nori's Instagram, where there are plenty more of the wise-eyed dog and his best friend, a Shih Tzu and Yorkie mix named Boba.
"Nori is very sweet. He wants to be friends with everyone, all dogs and all humans," Nori's human and social media manager Tiffany Ngo told Seattle Refined. She added that Boba is also sweet but is a "little more stubborn."
And while many people thought Nori was a dead ringer for Rogen, others have compared his cute mug to Albert Einstein and the Mona Lisa.
Kevin Hurless, Nori's other human, told Seattle Refined that in the past, the pup has also garnered comparisons to Chewbacca, Ewoks and actor Jeff Daniels.
In the end, maybe Nori really just looks like himself.
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Árvai Zombory Gedő (Marosvásárhely, 1836. március 31Széphalom (folyóirat). – Szerencs, 1913. szeptember 17.) református pap, egyháztörténész, földrajztudós, egyházi író.

Élete

Atyja, Mihály jelentős szerepet játszott a szabadságharcban, aminek következtében anyagilag tönkrement és súlyos fogságot is szenvedett. Tanulmányait Marosvásárhelyen és Székelyudvarhelyen elvégezvén, atyja elítélése után lelkes hazafiak támogatásával a kolozsvári református papnevelőben tanult. 1856-ban Nagyenyedre ment a református főiskolába történelmet tanítani, majd papi vizsgálatait letevén, külföldre ment és megfordult a marburgi, giesseni, baseli és genfi egyetemeken. Járt Londonban, Párizsban, Brüsszelben és Hollandiában, ahol kikutatta a feledésbe merült egyetemi alapítványokat. Hazatérvén, a lapokba dolgozott, majd Szalay Lászlónak ajánlatára, akinek leányát számtanra tanította, 1861-ben a szatmári református főgimnáziumba hívták meg a számtan és a természettudományok tanárának. Itt Ábray Károly tanártársával együtt szerkesztette a Tárogató című lapot, majd Ábray távoztával a Szatmári Közlönyt és megalapította a Kölcsey Társaságot. 1861-ben Megyaszóra ment papnak és ettől kezdve csak híveinék és az irodalomnak élt. Neje: Laczkai Korocz Emma (1849 – Mezőcsát, 1932.), akivel 1871. március 1-én házasodott össze.  Gyermekei: Zoltán (Megyaszó, 1872. szeptember 1 – Miskolc, 1939. december 2.), Mária (Megyaszó, 1875. augusztus 30 – ), Andor (Megyaszó, 1877. szeptember 26 – ), Géza (Megyaszó, 1879. szeptember 30 – ) és Gyula (Megyaszó, 1886. november 7 – ).

Írásai

Cikkei és kisebb dolgozatai: Girókúti Képes Naptár (1860. Két próba, tört. beszély). Orsz. Nagy Képes Naptár (1861. London és népe). Sárospataki füzetek ( 1862. Kant élete, szokásai, tanári pályája és környezete. Jakobi Frigyes Henrik. 1863. Vázlatok az újabbkori bölcsészek életéből. 1866. Julián római császár. 1867. Mutatványok A ker. egyház multja cz. egyháztörténelemből). 1868. Kísérletek a vallásbölcselemből.) Hölgyfutár (1861. 88. Hágától Rotterdámig. 1864. Tört. beszély.) Pesti Napló (1862. 170. Tárogató ellen, a Pap Zsigmond ellen irt czikkre). Ország Tükre (1865. 26. Szatmár-Németi). Hon (1863. 132. Szatmári a Kölcsey-ünnepélyen előadott költeménye). Prot. Szemle (1870. Végszavai a szentháromság kérdésében). Képes Csal. Lapok (1880. Emlékeimből: Szemere Bertalannál. Gr. Teleki László nálam. 1885. Földünk történetéből). Adatok Zemplénvármegye történetéhez. 1896. I. (Zemplén vármegyei kihalt főúri családok.) Ezeken kívül számos dolgozata jelent meg más fővárosi és vidéki lapokban, főleg a Tárogatóban s a Szatmári Közlönyben.

Munkái

 Úti rajzok (két kötet). Kolozsvár, 1861-62
 Fény és árny (történeti beszélyek, két kötet). Pest, 1862
 Magyar- és Erdélyország s ezzel kapcsolatban az ausztriai tartományok földleírása. Debreczen, 1863
 Fichte János Tófor élete és munkássága. Sárospatak, 1863
 A heidelbergi káté értelmezése. Kolozsvár, 1864
 A keresztyén egyház multja. Egyháztörténelem. Sárospatak, 1867
 Korszerű egyházi beszédek (2 füzet). Miskolcz, 1869-1870
 Egyházi beszédek. I. füzet. Budapest, 1881

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Források

További információk

 Sátoraljaújhely lexikona. Szerk. biz. elnöke Fehér József. Sátoraljaújhely, Kazinczy Ferenc Társaság, 2001

Magyar református lelkészek
Marosvásárhelyiek
1836-ban született személyek
1913-ban elhunyt személyek

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Press Award winners
2009: Merryman and Bronson
2008: Chris Copeland
2007: Karen Adler
2006: Carolyn Jack
2005: Linda S. Gottfredson
Dr. Linda S. Gottfredson, 2005 Mensa Press Award winner
Linda S. Gottfredson was presented with the 2005 Mensa Press Award for her article "Schools and the g Factor," published in summer 2004 in The Wilson Quarterly.
Dr. Gottfredson is a professor at the University of Delaware whose work has appeared in the Mensa Research Journal. She donated her prize of $1,000 to a fund set up at Johns Hopkins University in memory of Dr. Julian Stanley, a scholar who made significant contributions to the study of gifted youth and was the 2000 winner of the Mensa Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
Together with Robert Gordon, Dr. Gottfredson established the sociology of intelligence, a field that examines how the wide dispersion in intelligence within all human populations creates sociopolitical dilemmas for free nations and shapes or constrains the work, school and other institutions that cultures evolve over time. Most of her research has focused on individual differences in vocational interests and mental abilities, with particular emphasis on how they affect individuals' life chances. She also works to get allied disciplines (personnel selection; vocational counseling; school, health and evolutionary psychology) to take individual differences in intelligence seriously by showing how that can provide new insight into old problems.
Dr. Gottfredson is a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. She is on the editorial board of several journals, including Intelligence, and her articles have also frequently appeared in publications for general audiences.