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Description: After weeks of preparation, on July 30 the Federals exploded a mine in Burnside's IX Corps sector beneath Pegram's Salient, blowing a gap in the Confederate defenses of Petersburg. From this propitious beginning, everything deteriorated rapidly for the Union attackers. Unit after unit charged into and around the crater, where soldiers milled in confusion. The Confederates quickly recovered and launched several counterattacks led by Maj. Gen. William Mahone. The break was sealed off, and the Federals were repulsed with severe casualties. Ferrarro's division of black soldiers was badly mauled. This may have been Grant's best chance to end the Siege of Petersburg. Instead, the soldiers settled in for another eight months of trench warfare. Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside was relieved of command for his role in the debacle.
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Brief Summary: July 30, 1864 had a very real chance to be the day that Robert E. Lee and his Confederate Army abandoned Petersburg, and with it Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy. The conditions produced when Henry Pleasant's mine was sprung at 4:45 A. M. offered the Union army a glorious chance to pour through and around the Crater after the massive explosion, seizing the high ground on Cemetery Hill and making continued Confederate occupation of Petersburg impossible. Instead, mass confusion brought about by a constantly changing plan, drunken division commanders, and the false protection of the crater combined with the timely Confederate reinforcements from Mahone's Third Corps division resulted in a disgraceful defeat for the Union army which ultimately cost Ninth Corps commander Ambrose Burnside and division commander James Ledlie their jobs after a lengthy Court of Inquiry.
Another aspect of this battle which has gained more attention in recent years is the massacre of Black Union soldiers in USCT regiments, not only by attacking Confederates, but by White Union soldiers as well. Efforts by Confederates in the post-war years downplayed the role of Blacks in the war in order to facilitate reconciliation with the North, and were generally accepted by White Northerners.
The story of the Battle of the Crater really starts in late June 1864 not long after the Siege of Petersburg began. Colonel Henry Pleasants of the 48th Pennsylvania was sure he could tunnel under the nearby salient sticking out from the Confederate lines east of Petersburg. Professional engineers in the Army of the Potomac were skeptical, and Meade provided almost no logistical help to Pleasants. Despite these obstacles, Pleasants and his men utilized an ingenious method for pumping fresh air deep underground, and the 48th Pennsylvania was able to successfully complete the tunnel and dig galleries left and right under the Confederate works by late July 1864.
Pleasants' tunnel offered Grant an opportunity in front of Petersburg, but first the Northern commander worked to increase the chances of success. Winfield Scott Hancock was sent with his Second Corps and two cavalry divisions north of the James River at Deep Bottom, ultimately pulling the majority of Lee's troops north to face them. The stage was set for a weakened Confederate front at Petersburg to be overwhelmed.
Much ink has been spent of the question of which of the four Ninth Corps divisions should lead the assault once the mine was sprung. Evidence is contradictory concerning the oft-repeated tale of Ferrero's Fourth Division, composed of Black soldiers and their White officers, training specifically for the situation presented on the morning of July 30. When Meade learned that Ferrero's USCTs would lead the attack, he discussed with Grant the possible political ramifications if the result was a failure. It would look like they were throwing Black soldiers out to get massacred, Meade reasoned, and Grant agreed. The night before the assault, Burnside was forced to choose between his three White divisions. Rather than selecting based on the leadership abilities of the division commanders or the morale and rested status of his divisions, Burnside had his commanders draw lots. The man tabbed to lead the assault, James Ledlie, would prove to be a catastrophically poor choice. He spent the day getting drunk in a bombproof behind the lines while his division moved into the maelstrom in a leaderless condition.
The mine was sprung at 4:45 A. M. after a false start and produced a massive explosion. The resulting Crater measured approximately 170 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 35 feet deep. Pegram's Petersburg Virginia Battery and portions of two South Carolina regiments in Elliott's South Carolina Brigade from Bushrod Johnson's Division were blown to eternity. Rather than immediately sprinting the distance between the two lines and taking advantage of the situation, Union soldiers were at first as confused as their Confederate counterparts. Once the Union attack started, it bogged down in the Crater itself as well as in the intricate line of trenches the Confederates had produced in the area. Bushrod Johnson's Division was defending the area. Ransom's North Carolinians under Col. McAfee were to the left of the Crater, Elliott's South Carolina Brigade had been defending the area in and around the Crater itself, and Wise's Virginians, under Col. John T. Goode, held the right. Could these units hold out until reinforcements arrived? All four divisions of the Ninth Corps were sent in, Ferrero's USCT Division heading in last rather than leading the initial assault. All four were unable to penetrate any meaningful distance beyond the Crater and the surrounding trenches.
Once Robert E. Lee learned of the explosion and the situation that existed east of Petersburg, he issued orders to William Mahone's division, manning the far right of the Confederate lines, to help out. Mahone ordered three of his brigades, his own Virginians under David Weisiger, Alabamians under John C. C. Sanders (often misspelled as Saunders, trust me), and Wright's Georgians under Colonel Hall, to march immediately to the vicinity of the Crater. As the Federals sent more and more men over no man's land to the Crater and the surrounding trenches they tried to mount assaults on Cemetery Hill, with little success. The standard story of the battle gives credit to the Confederate artillery in the area, especially the coehorns mortars, with keeping the Federals' head's down until the situation could be rectified. But keep in mind the three brigades of Bushrod Johnson. They played a role too, one for which they often get too little credit in the Virginia-centric story of the battle which was created in the decades following the Civil War.
As the Confederate artillery and Johnson's Division desperately tried to hold on a good portion of Mahone's Division was rushing to the Crater. Around 9 A. M. Mahone's Virginians and a portion of Wright's Georgia Brigade moved on the Crater and points north but were unable to drive the Yankees back. Mahone's men shot at the Federals packed in the Crater and the Northern troops fought back. This attacked convinced Grant and Meade that the day was a failure. They ordered Burnside to retreat back to Union lines. The problem was there was no way to do so at the moment without losing an inordinate number of men. It was a bloody stalemate for the moment, but Mahone had more cards to play. He sent in the rest of Wright's Georgians around 11 A. M., but their attack was also unable to break the stalemate.
As some Federals took the chance to run across the distance between the lines under heavy fire, others tried to hold the Crater until nightfall. This was not to be. The last Confederate attack occurred around in the early afternoon. While Mahone's Virginians and Georgians kept the confused mass of Union soldiers, Black and White alike, occupied in the Crater, John C. C. Sanders' Alabamians were sent in to end the stalemate, and end it they did. At this point, controversy ensued. Bryce Suderow, in an article for Civil War History, pointed to an exceptionally large number of Black Union troops killed versus number engaged and an unusual distribution of killed to wounded in the USCT units. Given these numbers, it is almost certain Black troops were massacred in the Crater as the battle ended. There are even Union accounts of White Union soldiers joining in, fearful of being found with Black soldiers. Confederate accounts almost universally pointed to Black soldiers yelling "No Quarter! Remember Fort Pillow!" as they initially assaulted, using this as justification for the massacre.
After the battle, Mahone and Weisiger's Brigade of Virginians were lauded for saving the day. This narrative overlooked the contributions of other Confederate units and produced no small amount of letters and articles from aggrieved non-Virginians. The controversy was more immediate on the Union side. A court of inquiry held in the weeks after the battle ended up blaming Burnside and division commander Ledlie while exonerating Meade. A subsequent investigation by the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War placed more blame on Meade, but Burnside (perhaps unfairly) and Ledlie (fairly) were sent packing, never to return to a meaningful command.
The Union plan to take Petersburg by frontal assault again failed miserably, and another serious attempt to attack in this manner would not occur again until Petersburg fell on April 2, 1865. Instead, Grant would approach Richmond and Petersburg from the flanks, always seeking to cut more Confederate supply lines and extending the miles of trenches Lee needed to cover, eventually stretching the Confederates to the breaking point.


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Facts are facts: We were all there in November, when President Hillary Rodham Clinton whipped failed Republican candidate Donald Trump by over 3 million votes to become America's first woman president.
Yet legions of heartbroken Republican Facebook are insisting otherwise, apparently because they are unable to accept the results of the election. Indeed, like many grief-stricken Trump fans, Facebook user Wesley Rogers is in the habit of visiting mainstream journalistic outlets to complain about reporters covering Clinton's presidency, calling them, "Such sad little snowflakes that they have to create a fake world since they can not handle the real one. MAGA!! TRUMP WON snowflakes."
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Stephen Davis takes you out on the road with Led Zep in 1975. He had access to the band where they weren't really giving anyone one in the media any. He was invited by a friend who worked with the band to go as a free lance journalist. He wrote the article for Atlantic Review, who didn't like it and didn't print it, but he got paid anyway. The story goes that he chronologically wrote his stories of traveling with them from date to date (including on their jet, Starship) of their tour, staying in their hotels etc. He put them into three note books and lost them only to find them and write this book.
There are very few tidbits or great stories in this to tell you about and the book lacks good story telling. I don't think Davis really got the Zep fans, at least the way he criticized them, and the band's live shows. You do learn how the band would mix up sets every night, mixing songs in the middle of other songs, changing the set list, etc. That's pretty cool. Robert Plant's stage banter and it's sometimes cryptic meanings aren't bad either. But really the book doesn't really enlighten you in anyway. Do you really care that Davis gets laid, or parties with the roadies? I know I don't. You also learn what he thinks of the band members: Bonham, a violent drunk who the band calls the beast; Page the recluse; Jones the introvert; and Plant, the jovial rock god. But, still nothing new or entertaining.
I really can't give much more time to this review. I will tell you to save your money and don't by the book. Maybe you will get lucky and there will be a Cliff Notes version, but that wouldn't be lucky, that would be torture. Davis really doesn't tell a good story,he tells you who, what and where, but never the why. Don't make the same mistake I did and buy it, just take my word for it. Because for a book that had high hopes in the end it was a real Heartbreaker.
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Paul Vincent Shannon (November 11, 1909 – July 25, 1990) was a Pittsburgh radio and television announcer best known for hosting the local children's television show, Adventure Time, and for his part in bringing about the early sixties resurgence of The Three Stooges.

Career
Shannon worked for years at KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and hosted his own show as the Dream Weaver, reading romantic poetry to electric organ accompaniment in the style of Peter Grant on the famous Cincinnati radio program Moon River over WLW. He also hosted the syndicated science-focused program Adventures in Research with Thomas Phillips.

After moving to WTAE-TV, Shannon became a Pittsburgh legend, particularly to the baby boom generation, as host of the popular children's television block Adventure Time. The show aired on WTAE channel 4 in the afternoons. The show showed Three Stooges shorts, the vast library of Warner Bros. Cartoons, Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, Little Rascals shorts, and the first color anime, Kimba the White Lion, in serialised form along with skits and songs.

Shannon played to a studio audience that attended each broadcast, usually scout troops, and amused his audiences with his alter ego, "Nosmo King", a play on "No Smoking" signs (but not to be confused with H. Vernon Watson (1886–1949), the British music hall artist who also performed as Nosmo King).

He used a prop he dubbed "The Magic Sword".

A high point of the show came each Christmas season, when Shannon read children's letters to Santa Claus, placed them into a rocket, and launched it to the North Pole.

Shannon was one of several 1950s–1960s children's TV hosts to begin presenting reruns of the Three Stooges on Adventure Time, bringing the trio's 1930s and 1940s comedy shorts to an entirely new audience. It helped revive the Stooges as a viable act at a time when they were considered ancient history, leading to an entirely new career of stage and film appearances.  In gratitude to Shannon and several other hosts, the Stooges featured them in cameo roles in their feature films.  Shannon played Wild Bill Hickok in the Three Stooges film The Outlaws Is Coming.

He retired and moved to Lantana, Florida, in 1975, and died there of brain cancer at age 80 in 1990.

References

Further reading
 Leonard, Vince (March 22, 1964). "Small Fry's Delight". The Pittsburgh Press. TV Page 4

External links
"Paul Shannon" (obituary), Orlando Sentinel, July 27, 1990
"Marjorie Thoma McCormick Michaux" (obituary), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 26, 1999
Arcane Radio Trivia article

The Outlaws Is Coming at Kiddiematinee.com

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Stop The Insane Quest for Inbox Zero
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Normally, when someone writes about Inbox Zero, it's from the perspective of experience and success. I come to you from the other side, the one of utter inbox disaster.
My personal Gmail account has over 43,000 unread emails and I have no idea how many left-to-grow-moldy-whiskers opened ones.
This is an improvement from 24 hours ago when I took the time to empty both the trash bin (imagine a trash bin emptied this infrequently in your home and then call a hazmat crew) and my voluminous spam folder. I did spend a few moments scanning the latter, just in case there was anything important in there, but by the 33rd porn invite, I realized it was all garbage and pulled the trigger.
I only took these two actions because Google recently informed me — via email, naturally — that I was almost out of Gmail storage space and told me to do something about it or buy more storage before my fresh mail stopped arriving altogether. I don't know why I assumed that the 15-year-old free service was, like, totally free for all time. That was a mistake on my part.
I did come by my monster inbox the old-fashioned way. I've been using Gmail (and the same Gmail account) for 15 years and was even described by Gmail in its welcome message to me as "one of the very first people to use Gmail."
If you're reading this and thinking, "I feel your pain," you're not alone. A 2018 Adobe survey found that 45 percent of people are not achieving inbox zero. As for the, to me, astounding 55 percent that said they do achieve it, I assume 25 percent of them are lying.
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That Empty Feeling
I know this because, according to another 2018 survey by Rescuetime, 70 percent of people keep their email inbox open all day but only 20 percent have a plan for managing all that mail. This is how UnZero Inboxes are born, folks.
People do have strong feelings about the pristine void of an empty message box. According to the Adobe survey, 27 percent describe the concept as "Amazing," like they're spotting some rare egret alighting on the spire of the Empire State Building. An equal number, though, deride the concept as "Borderline OCD." Like, who could be so compulsive as to micromanage their overstuffed inbox almost out of existence? 24 percent throw up their hands in despair and call Inbox Zero "Impossible." My favorite, though, are the 39 percent who say it's "Relieving," when, I bet, they have no first-hand experience with Inbox Zero.
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I Have My Reasons
Why isn't my Inbox empty? There are many good — I swear, these are good —reasons why. Let me know how many align with your excuses… er… reasons.
Email Is Dying
I have read many reports that say email as a form of communication between humans is passé. If that's the case, why spend hours each day cleaning it up? But this "dying" thing is probably overstating the case a bit. First of all, I get dozens of new emails in my personal account every single day (not counting spam). Some are pitches from companies. Many are newsletters and store promotions (thank you, online shopping) and a handful are personal missives written to me by other humans I know. Businesses certainly aren't giving up on email. A 2016 survey from Rebixit put email as a preferred channel for reaching customers at almost 25 precent (SMS, though, was a whopping 49 percent).
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It's Your Primary Communication System
I do most of my direct communication with coworkers via Slack, but aside from that, email is still a crucial communication platform. Though, if I'm being honest here — and I should be, right? Why lie to you? — texting far outstrips email (and phone calls) as my most important communication platform. For the record, I do not manage texts any better than I do email. Thank goodness Apple is about to improve iMessage search in iOS 13.
I do have important, emotional, and very personal email messages (a handful from my dead relatives) that I don't want to print out and refuse to delete. I know, I'm doing this wrong.
You Use It to Manage Contacts
I meet new people IRL (in real life) and online all the time, but I almost never manage to add them to my contacts. It takes a real effort for me to do so even on my iPhone (the process is a little convoluted, isn't it?). Instead, I like to use a combination of divination and voodoo to find people in email I think I know, do know, or have met multiple times but failed to memorize their names. I remember, say, the company they work for, or the topic they pitched, or some snippet of the brief discussion I had with them. Then I search Gmail for that one thing and usually find the email from them and then hover over the name to launch a brand-new email window. Throughout this process, I never commit their name or email address to memory. I am that kind of guy.
There's No Easy Way to Do It
I have fantasies of selecting all the emails in my inbox, hitting delete, and then walking away. I will never do that for all the reasons I've listed above. In my defense, deleting only the garbage is not easy. There are methods, many of them having to do with identifying classes of email and deleting just them. Every once in a while, I search on all messages from a particular newsletter sender and when I have a list of just those, I do delete all of them. I should do this a lot more often. I could also set up filters using Gmail's Labels feature (they're folders, sort of) and have any emails assigned to those labels auto delete after a certain amount of time. If you're like me and you read that as "This is a lot of work," you know why I have yet to do this.
You Live in Fear of Permanently Deleting Something Important
It's not just personal emails I worry about losing. I have inadvertently deleted new emails and then gone scrambling to retrieve them. Mass deletion guarantees I will delete something and later regret it. Trying to find discarded emails is like digging through garbage dump – not pleasant.
You Vehemently Disagree With the Very Idea of Deleting Anything Digital
We have unlimited space, right?
If you can store 2 terabytes of data in the space of a credit card, you should have enough room for billions of emails. Look at it this way. When we were taking analog photos, no one told us to throw 15% out because we were running out of room in our attic. Why are we being asked to clear space on a digital drive that takes far less space than an attic to store all the digital memories of 10,000 people?
You are overwhelmed, therefore, human
I have a lot on my plate and when I look at the size of my email inbox, I think, "impossible," and then forget about it and start feeling better again.
There is no magic wand for achieving Inbox Zero, but if it makes you feel any better, we're all in it (and in our inbox) together.
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BETHLEHEM WINS OK TO HALT RETIREES' BENEFITS
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Bankrupt Bethlehem Steel Corp., which has agreed to be bought by International Steel Group Inc. for $1.5 billion, won court permission to eliminate health-care and life-insurance benefits for its retirees.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland approved the plan, which affects about 90,000 retirees and their spouses. Benefits will end March 31.
Without the ruling, Bethlehem would have had to liquidate to escape its $20 million-a-month costs, and the agreement with International Steel would have collapsed, company attorneys said. Bethlehem sought Chapter 11 protection in October 2001, after years of losses from cheap imported steel, slowing demand and increasing retiree costs.
Bethlehem has $3 billion in health insurance liabilities for retirees and has paid $300 million in benefits since the bankruptcy filing.
The company said in December that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. terminated its employee pension fund and took over the responsibility for making payments to Bethlehem retirees. The agency will assume about $3.7 billion, the most in its 28-year history.
The federal agency, which is funded by employer premiums, insures pensions of about 44 million Americans. It assumes control of plans if they remain underfunded and uses employers' assets to help make payments.


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Dates: July 18, 2019 to July 27, 2019
Location: Great Plains Black History Museum, 2221 North 24th Street Omaha, NE 68122
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More Info: On Thursday, June 13th, the Great Plains Black History Museum opens its latest exhibit A League of Our Own, The Negro Baseball League Exhibit. The exhibit features photos, and baseball artifacts. It is said that in 1839, Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball, but today's game should be credited to Alexander Joy Cartwright. In 1845 Cartwright add the "diamond-shaped infield, foul lines and the three-strike rule." In 1920, Major League Baseball was founded, but their league did not allow African Americans to participate. So, that very same year we founded a League of Our Own, the Negro Baseball League. When the Negro League was founded it started off with, The Chicago American Giants, the Detroit Stars, the St. Louis Giants, Kansas City Monarchs, and the Indianapolis ABCs. These teams made up the core of the Negro National League. Because of segregation some people never had an opportunity to see these legendary National Baseball Hall of Farmers such as Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Wilber "Bullet" Joe Rogan, James "Cool Papa" Bell. It took 27years for Major League Baseball to integrate its league with the Brooklyn Dodgers' signing of number 42 Jackie Robinson The exhibit will be on display June 12th through July 27th. The Museum is located at 2221 North 24th Street Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 1:00-5:00 p.m.
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On Thursday, Texas Wesleyan received a flood of new students from Fort Worth.
Sponsored by the School of Education, the annual Science and Reading Camp brought hundreds of city students from elementary school to high school to campus for a day of learning.
Most are immigrants and refugees who are not proficient English speakers, according to an email from Wesleyan student Amanda Merrill. Because Wesleyan has both bilingual education and ESL specialization programs, it is a perfect opportunity for students in these programs to practice working with students with limited English proficiency.
The groups of students were led by education major volunteers, who guided them around campus and assisted with their activities, said Elizabeth Ward, associate professor of education.
Each year's activities are different. This year the students are doing a cart and ramp experiment in which they race carts down a ramp to measure speed and record who goes fastest and finishes first, Ward said.
Last year, students were read a book about a boy who had an amazing idea about how to build a car, according to Crystal Webb, an education major volunteer. After the story was over, students grouped together and discussed how they would make their own cars; they also designed them.
"It was really fun to see the smiles on the kid's faces, and how the engaged with the other college students," Webb said.
Education professor Robert J. Wilson said he started the camp about 18 years ago, when he realized that elementary students weren't getting enough science and reading; nor did they realize there is school after high school. The first Wesleyan visitors were fifth graders. Wilson put the camp together, teaching students science and reading and giving them a tour of Wesleyan.
The camp continued in this way for about 10 years, Wilson said. Toward the end of that time, Wilson met people from a second Fort Worth Independent School District language center that primarily assisted children of immigrants and United Nations refugees.
Wilson said he was asked if he could teach the teachers at that center how to teach the same reading and science that the first group of students were learning. The next year, the teachers at the second center brought their students to camp; this represented between 250 and 500 students.
"I'm a good teacher, but I'm not that good," Wilson said.
It was decided that the camp would be a perfect opportunity for education majors to get hands-on teaching experience, Wilson said. He left out the fact that none of the students they would be teaching spoke English; most of the children taken in by the second language center have spent their formative years in refugee camps.
"That is a real situation that our students will have when they go to set up their first classrooms," Wilson said.
The camp is just as much for the education majors as it is for the second language students, Ward said; it lets the education majors develop soft management skills that are hard to develop without hands-on experience.
The camp's biggest challenge is ensuring students understand what is going on and can learn from it, Ward said. This means the lesson must be brought down to the "comprehensible input," meaning it is at a point where the children can understand,participate in and make meaning of what is going on in the experiment, such as this year's car races.
"Our students learn more from the experience than their students," Ward said.
Dr. Robert Wilson (center) and Dr. Elizabeth Ward (right) stop for a picture at Thursday's Science and Reading Camp.
Photo by Lacey Mosier.
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Vice Prime Minister and Social Policy Minister Sergiy Tigipko has said that Ukraine still has not fulfilled its obligations in full in order to obtain the next tranche of a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
"Speaking about the current stage, we still are not ready [to receive the next tranche]. There are decisions that we haven't taken and we have to discuss and approve [them]…," he said on Channel 5 on Wednesday evening, when asked if everything was ready for Ukraine to get the next tranche of a loan from the IMF.
Tigipko noted that an IMF mission would work in Ukraine at the beginning of February 2011.
"The [IMF] mission will work [in Ukraine] until February 11  and, if I'm not mistaken, on March 15 there must be a decision by the IMF Board of Directors [on the allocation of the next tranche to Ukraine]," he said.
Tigipko said Ukraine had taken about 20 decisions that had to be approved under the IMF's conditions.


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Q: Importing the same object from the same module, in two different modules: module1.py:
from somemod import something
import module2

module2.py:
from somemod import something

Is something in module1 the exact same object as something in module2?
For example, if before importing module2, module1 would do something.val = 10. Could module2 get the value by doing something.val? Or does it get a different object?
Asked differently: does import execute an imported module even if it was already imported in the interpreter session, in a different module?
Also, is it necessary to from somemod import something in module2 if module1 already imported it?

A: It's the same object. Modules, like everything else in Python, are objects that exist in memory and referenced by a name. The import statement does two things: one, if the requested module does not yet exist, executes the code in the imported file and two, makes it available as a module. Subsequent import statements will skip the first step. This means that in module1, the names module1.something and module1.module2.something both refer to the same object created the first time somemod was imported.

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Maiden Speech 20th June 2007
Lord Mawson: My Lords, as I rise to make my maiden speech I am conscious, as the son of a milkman from Bradford, of both the privilege and the responsibility of taking a seat in this place. I take this opportunity to thank those noble Lords and staff who in the past few weeks have helped me to feel so welcome, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Rogers of Riverside, and the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, who supported me at my introduction. I also thank the noble Lord, Lord Williamson of Horton, and the noble Baroness, Lady D'Souza, for helping me feel at home on the Cross Benches.
I am one of those strange creatures some have come to call a social entrepreneur. I have spent nearly 25 years working in the middle of a group of run-down housing estates in the East End of London, attempting to improve the quality of people's lives and to encourage local people, for so long dependent upon the state for virtually every aspect of their lives, to take some personal responsibility for their local area and their own futures. We have had some success.
When I first arrived in Bromley-by-Bow as a young clergyman on a cold November evening in 1983, I was greeted by 12 elderly people in a 200-seater church, sitting where they had always sat. It looked as though the dead had been carried out and no one had noticed. I soon realised the seriousness of my predicament. Everything was run by the state. There were virtually no businesses and absolutely no private housing, and many of the public services and structures of local government and health did not work at all well for members of my local community. You felt you needed permission from five government agencies to blow your nose. I was surrounded by
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people who spoke 55 different languages and dialects and were living cheek by jowl within 10 minutes' walk of our church buildings.
It was soon clear to me that there was no quick fix. To understand the real impact on local people's lives of these realities, it would be about the long game. It would not be about seemingly endless three-year initiatives, mostly delivered by people who had no real connection to the community they were tasked to help. It would be about watching and engaging with the effects upon people's lives of 18 different structures of the health service that have passed our doors over the years, countless reorganisations of local government and senior staff who have come and gone, many of them good people, as they have attempted to make countless local government structures work. Strangely, the realities on the ground seemed immune to this frenzy of organisation.
It has been my and my family's privilege to live and work with many East End families and individuals who have shown great resilience and enterprise when up against such a merry-go-round. I have watched individuals become active, responsible citizens not just by sitting on committees but by rolling up their sleeves and taking over, shaping places and delivering services in practical, entrepreneurial ways.
During my many years in east London, I have operated 200 yards from what is now the 2012 Olympic site, of which I will have more to say later, particularly with regard to legacy. I have danced with many dinosaurs and had my feet trodden on more than once. It is from this background that I make the following general points about the Bill.
First, one of the Bill's key themes is the Government's desire to reform local government so that it is very clear where local leadership lies and to encourage personal responsibility to be taken by clearly identified individuals. I welcome this approach. It is my experience on the ground that such an approach leads to a more effective delivery of public services. People want to know clearly who is leading them.
Secondly, in east London, we have enjoyed, or suffered—depending upon your point of view—the complexity of being a pathfinder for every structural change successive Governments have invented. Therefore, I welcome the Bill's second important theme—to foster the integration of public services under a common strategy with common leadership.
I begin to have difficulty with the Bill on its third major theme of empowering citizens and communities. This is what a great deal of my work has been about. The practical experience of working in disadvantaged communities through the work of the Bromley by Bow Centre, where I have an interest, is that many people are not particularly interested in engaging with yet more committees and forums. Actually, the key to greater public involvement is to help people get practically engaged in helping them to create change for themselves. Billy Canon was a man on our estate with a difficult life experience, which left him on the edge, leading to poor health. He became an active healthy citizen because he was given the opportunity to take part in designing, building and then running a local park in a hands-on and practical way.
When in the early 1990s we proposed that we—at that time, a small community organisation—would build a new health centre, showing that primary care could be delivered in a better way, you would have thought that it was a nuclear missile site we were developing, judging from the reaction of the statutory authorities. We persevered and we delivered. We proved that you did not have to have grilles to protect staff; that you could integrate a primary care team with community and voluntary staff; and that you could run and maintain high quality creative facilities full of art, rather than sterile spaces full of plastic chairs smelling of disinfectant.
We challenged the often unwritten and unspoken assumptions about the quality of care and facilities that can be created and delivered without breaking the bank. We tweaked the nose of local statutory bodies and, to be fair to them, many are now working closely with us. They have raised the bar on what they consider should be the quality of services that are delivered.
The health centre that we run and the social housing company with which I am associated have both won a number of awards from government, and are recognised for their practical, hands-on community empowerment. While I am most proud of the lives that that have been improved directly, many more lives have been improved by raising the expectations of health providers and planners who have visited the Bromley By Bow Centre and seen what can be achieved and sustained.
However, this thinking needs to be reflected in the Bill. Social entrepreneurs are finding new and effective ways to deliver public services on the ground, and it would be wise to learn from their experience. It is not clear that the proposed local involvement networks as set out in the Bill are likely to lead to substantial change unless there is a significantly different approach. I hear that quite a lot more detailed work needs to be done on thinking through what the networks will do and how they will work in practice. In this regard, I was encouraged by what the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell of Surbiton, said today.
I ask Her Majesty's Government to consider amending the activities of the local involvement networks clearly to include the task of recommending those services which might be more effectively delivered by social enterprises than by statutory bodies. Given the focus of the Bill, I have in mind in particular those services that overlap existing statutory boundaries—for example, health, care and education—and which as a result often create difficulties in delivering joined-up provision.
What I would like to achieve in your Lordships' House is to champion the simple idea of allowing people who want to take a direct role in the delivery of services to do so, rather than assuming that it is always the state that must deliver for them.
During my years in east London, I have been continually impressed by the support of Members and colleagues from this House—Lord Peyton and Lord Ennals come immediately to mind. The suggestion, as some have made, that Members of this House are in some way disconnected from the realities of the world in which I have lived, I have not found to be true. These people's moral fibre, sheer practicality and friendship
have been a great source of strength to me and my colleagues over the years, and I shall do my best in my time here to add to their reputations. Unlike some Members of the other place who came and went, Members of this House have been steadfast in their support. In fact, Members of your Lordships' House have provided an advocacy role, enabling a small and growing neighbourhood organisation to have access to the Executive, and have enabled lessons from a local setting to enrich national policy.


If you've never truly appreciated the magic of no sound, John Krasinski's A Quiet Place will make you. Silence is golden and for this film, it's that golden it will save your life.
Earlier this year the actor come director's pulsating tension-filled horror loved by cinephiles and critics alike, which itself there is a rarity. Now that visceral experience can be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home…sshh!!!
A Quite Place stars Krasinski himself alongside his real-life wife Emily Blunt as Lee and Evelyn. We first meet them on 'Day 89' with their family as they try to navigate their lives in near complete silence. They must do this every day in order to avoid the mysterious creatures that hunt humanity by sound. Even the slightest whisper or a footstep can mean death and Lee and Evelyn are determined at all costs to protect their children and find a way to fight back.
When it comes to less is better, A Quiet Place is that perfect example. The less known about the film, the more likely you'll enjoy this exhilarating journey. This puts our focus on the family in question despite not actually knowing their names.
There's no narration or introductions to us about the family or what happened or whose responsible for the apocalyptic event we find our family is in. From the word go we meet them on 'Day 89' and something dreadful has happened. They wander the aisles of an already pillaged supermarket for supplies. Outside cars are abandoned, the streets are deserted and tumbleweed populate. Soon after they start to head home we soon learn the enemy is sound and a pin dropping could mean death for them all.
Who attacked them? The family finds out in the worst possible way, a harrowing experience for anyone. From the early scenes, we get subtle little clues from the newspapers, television in their purpose-built surveillance room. An invasion has happened but are these mysterious killer aliens from space? A failed government experiment or a fragment of our imagination? Not actually finding out gives these killers an extra fear factor.
One of the newspaper headlines 'Stay Silent, Stay Alive' gives us the biggest indicator of how they kill, by sound. From this, we start to understand the measures Lee and Evelyn go to 'sound proofing' a safe environment their children can live in. They communicate via sign language (Millicent Simmonds who plays Regan is deaf), when out they walk on sawdust covered paths in barefoot. Those paths even stretch outside their own home into the town, suggest their way of living is working and many had perished.
After the opening scenes, we meet the family in 'Day 472' and Evelyn is now pregnant and close to giving birth. This presents them with sounds they had heard since pre-invasion, new challenges. Lee is constantly creating new ways to soundproof his family even more, and we see some of them in action. If you need any more evidence of sound, when Evelyn enters their old home, eventually leads a nerve-shredding labour/birth scene with aliens closing in.
When you strip away the horror of the aliens, what we get is several family drama story arcs. The first is a family deep in the grief of a loss of a child. Guilt may be taking precedence especially with the daughter Regan (Simmonds) who feels the most responsible. Her relationship with her father deteriorates as her frustrations get worse simply as she is aware whats going on. As she wants to be treated like an adult she soon cherishes her father's protection and true love for her. This gives the film a Coming Of Age tone, she quickly grows up when her young brother Marcus (Noah Jupe), still doesn't understand the terror, he needs his big sister to protect him.
The film also highlights the anxiety of parents, Evelyn even laments 'What are we, if we can't protect them?'. If you can't protect yourself how are you going to protect your children?
A Quiet Place is an exhilarating, masterful horror which strips back to the basics tropes of the genre to deliver maximum tension. Keeping what we know about what happened helps push the focus onto the family. The trepidation you have for the family increases by each gripping scene. Fantastic all round performances from the cast, you truly feel they are a real family, you urge them to survive and win.
A pulsating horror thriller that will make you fear the power of silence for a very long time.


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If you're anything like me, you want to shred bills and documents as soon as you send the check in the mail or pay online. You don't want all that extra clutter hanging around. While that can be good for some items (junk mail, magazines, etc.) it doesn't always work for financial documents. If you own a home, have a credit card, are self-employed, have a job, or all of the above, here is some information about how long to keep your financial records.
Let's start with home ownership documents. These include closing statements (your HUD or RESPA, for example). You'll want to save that information for at least six years after you purchase the home. This is important for selling the home (if you do during that time period) because it can affect how much you pay in capital gains tax. It's also important to keep any receipts for home improvement projects. Some could be a tax write-off and others may also affect property taxes and capital gains tax.
If you use your credit card to purchase items that can be a tax deduction, you'll want to keep your statements for a good seven years. Otherwise, you can shred the statement once your receipts match what is listed on the statement for the month.
In terms of tax paperwork, it's important to know that the IRS has three years from your filing date to audit your return if it suspects good faith errors. They have up to six years to challenge a return if they suspect you underreported your gross income by 25% or more. So you'll want to keep all your tax returns for at least six years. You have three years once you file if you find a mistake on it and file an amended return for a refund.
You can easily get rid of regular bills once you see the check against it has cleared. You will want to keep any receipts or bills for more expensive purchases, such as jewelry, computers, televisions, etc. This you'll want to save for insurance purposes.
You can get rid of paycheck stubs once you compare it against the W-2 you receive for all your work the previous year. If everything matches up, toss the original stubs. If not, you'll want to request a corrected form from your HR department.
If you have more specific questions about how long to keep certain financial records, your CPA is the best person to speak to, especially if it's related to tax information.
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Located in the prefecture headquarters, this RDB office can offer advice about any RDB-organised activity, issue permits and book national-park activities. It also sells tickets for the Musanze caves.
This office can book national-park activities around the country and can also help with finding guides for the Congo Nile Trail.
Basic telephone and postal services.


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Who rules Delhi?
Posted on July 6, 2018 July 6, 2018 by Sanjeev Ahluwalia
Khichdi – Risotto if you prefer the Italian version – is a traditional palliative for Delhi belly. But Delhi's khichdi style political governance systems are guaranteed to give anybody the runs. So bad is the mess that it is difficult to find out who rules Delhi. The Delhi Government, a contender, appealed against orders of the Union Government to clarify its constitutional mandate.
Supreme Court clarifies the law
The Supreme Court, in its July 4, five judge bench, judgement, patiently re-explained the law, without venturing to drill down to the crux of the dispute between the Aam Admi Party (AAP) government and the BJP ruled Union government – who controls the public servants in the government of Delhi? The dispute closely resembles a Saas -Bahu quarrel – principally, who gets to jangle the house keys and run the house.
Judicial decisions unlikely to resolve political power stand-off
The AAP came to power by promising to the good but poor, people of Delhi, to set right the tyrannical, corrupt Delhi bureaucrats and other elites. The AAP found, to its dismay, that they had less real powers than the Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai. Being a glorified Municipal Commissioner was of no use in leveraging the AAP onto the national level and that too within months of coming to power. AAP chose the path of open, tactically public confrontation with the Union government in a David versus Goliath stand-off.
To be sure, the BJP run Union government's intention were hardly kosher either. It tried to swat the AAP at every opportunity. The previous Lieutenant Governor (LG), Najeeb Jung – appointed by the Congress, called an end to his stressed innings in December 2016.
Will the Supreme Court verdict change things? India is peculiarly American in its belief that good laws and sound judgements can set things right. There is little evidence to support this belief. Laws, which are out of sync with reality and judgements which are legally correct but practically iffy are not the stuff that good governance is made of.
Expectations build reality. Delhi is often described as "closely resembling a State government". Delhi is as much a state government as we are a "federal" country – another slipshod simplification used for the essentially unitary form of our polity albeit with some federal characteristics.
Delhi government is a "special" child of the Indian National Congress, which was in power in the Delhi Metropolitan Council uninterruptedly from 1972 till 1990. In 1991 the INC decided to embellish their jagir with a totem of statehood- possibly to appease citizens with a magic bullet which would solve all their problems. In 1992 the 69th Amendment to the constitution – prescribed a special status for Delhi. It became a hybrid between a Union Territory, like Puducherry and a State government, like Goa.
But no matter how many new, white Toyota Innova's Mr Kejriwal adds to his cavalcade, he will remain a Chief Minister in name only and Delhi's Legislative Assembly a caricature of democracy. This is not because Mr Kejriwal or the legislators are wanting on merits. But the constitutional arrangements militate against them having a free hand in providing good governance.
The proximate cause of the constitutional spat is that the Union government claims the Delhi government has no independent powers of managing their employees. It must do so only with the concurrence of the Union government. Municipalities face a similar constraint versus the State governments, which sit on their heads. The Supreme Court (SC) has not dealt explicitly with this critical issue. But reading between the lines, two implicit messages emerge.
SC judgement implies Delhi Government competent to legislate and execute on Public services
First, the SC has specifically stated that all matters in the State list, other than the three exempted subjects of Public order, Police and Land are within the legislative authority and hence also the executive authority of the Delhi government. State public services are one such subject at entry 41 of Schedule 7, List II of the State List of the constitution. A plain reading of the SC order indicates that this subject is within the mandate of the Delhi government.
But Delhi does not have its own cadre of IAS officers allocated to it or Provincial Service Officers appointed by it, unlike other states. It is staffed by IAS and DANICS (Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands) officers, made available to it by the Union government, which is the cadre control authority.
Union government's view on services too expansive
It is unclear where the Union government's powers to manage these cadres end. Allocation of specific officers to Delhi, training, promotion and disciplinary action are powers intrinsic to cadre management. But must the Union government also approve their posting to or transfer from one position to another within the Delhi government? These are routine decisions which affect individual officers but do not impinge on cadre management.
LG only an "engaged watcher" on all matters except Public order, Police and Land
Second, the SC drew a useful distinction between the right of the LG to be informed of all decisions of the Delhi government and his specific power to reserve a matter for the orders of the President. It was careful to emphasise that the latter is to be used only in exceptional cases. This indicates that the Supreme Court veers towards a rational and harmonious sharing of personnel management powers between the Union and the Delhi government.
The sprawling Delhi bureaucracy prefers the Union government as "Mai-Bap"
A May 21, 2015 notification of the Union Home Ministry espoused the view that the Delhi government has no powers with respect to management of public services on the specious grounds that it has no public services or State Public Service Commission of their own.
The Union government's unorthodox viewpoint draws support from the all-powerful IAS/DANICS cadre which fear loss of prime status, versus the uniformed services, if they are subjected to control of the Delhi government whilst the police remain directly managed by the Union government. The Delhi High Court will now rule on this sensitive issue.
Delhi's bloated administrative architecture wastes public money. It creates a clash of political egos and a surfeit of elected authorities all elbowing for space in just 700 square km of urban space. Delhi should revert to the 1956 arrangements – Union Territory with an Administrator overseeing the existing four civilian municipalities. But each must be headed by a directly elected Mayor. If the experiment works, India's metros could finally join the world in participatory local governance.
Tags: AAP, Arvind Kejriwal, DANICS, IAS, LG Anil Baijal, LG Najeeb Jung, Supreme Court of IndiaCategories: bureaucracy, Democracy, India, Judiciary and Law
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Sandip Madan says:
Well written, objective, insightful and educative. Thanks!
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SOUTHEAST ENGLAND. BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN SERIES.
By: Automobile Association.
Publisher: London, Reader's Digest: 1987
160 pp, 4to (11/14" H). Map endpapers. Colour photographs. "Breathtaking views, fascinating stories, archaeological treasures, links with famous characters - whether in the countryside or a town or village, around every corner you come face to face with Britain's heritage. All of these - and more - are to be found in this authoritative guidebook- part of a new regional series from the AA - which captures the spirit of the best and most interesting features of Southeast England. Local legends, literary, historical and architectural facts - together with items of natural history and geological ...
BRITANNIA: A JOURNAL OF ROMANO-BRITISH AND KINDRED STUDIES. VOLUME 9 1978. (VOLUME IX - 1978.)
By: Baatz, Dietwulf; Barrett, A.A.; Birley, Eric; Buckland, Paul; Castle, Stephen A.; Hanson, W.S.; Jackson, D.A.; Ambrose, T.M.; Jarrett, Michael G.; Johnson, Stephen; McPeake, J.C.; Moore, C.N.; McWhirr, Alan; Viner, David; Miller, M.; St Joseph, J.,
Publisher: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London, 1978.:
525 pp + 32 b&w plates at rear, large 8vo (9 11/16" H), soft cover. B&w maps, plans, drawings, diagrams, graphs, tables, (some fold-out) + photographic plates. Contents: Notes for Contibutors; Editorial; Recent Finds of Ancient Artillery; Knowle dge of the Literary Classics in Roman Britain; The Adherence of Britain to Vespasian; A First-Century Shield from Doncaster, Yorkshire; Amphorae from Brockley Hill, 1975; The Organisation of Roman Military Timber-Supply; Excavations at Wake r l e y , N o r thants, 1972-75; The Case of the Redundant Official; Excavations at Hayton Roman Fort, 1975;...
THE BEATLES' ENGLAND: THERE ARE PLACES I'LL REMEMBER.
By: Bacon, David and Maslov, Norman.
Publisher: San Francisco, 910 Press: 1982
139 pp, square 8vo (8 1/2" H x 8 1/2" D). B&w and colour photographs. "(A) photo-history of the places in the Beatles' lives and songs. From Liverpool to London to Hamburg, this book takes a unique look at the Beatles' homeland. Each page combines photographs of the Beatles with views of their actual British haunts. (It) is an informative and humorous look behind the Beatles' sites - with addresses included. An in-hand guide or entertaining reference book." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small crease at top edge of rear cover - migrates into last two ...
THE SECRET ROOMS: A TRUE GOTHIC MYSTERY.
By: Bailey, Catherine.
Publisher: London, Viking: 2012
466 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, floor plans, map, family tree. "At 6 a.m. on 21 April 1940 John, the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank, cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his own home, Belvoir Castle. For weeks, as his health deteriorated, his family, his servants - even the King's doctor - had pleaded with him to come out, but he had refused. After his death, his son and heir, Charles, the 10th Duke of Rutland, ordered that the rooms be locked up and they remained untouched for ...
MAPLEDURHAM CHURCH AND VILLAGE.
By: Baker, J.H.
Publisher: William Smith, Reading: 1970
47 pp, 8 7/16" H. B&w photographs, maps. Contents: List of Illustrations; Foreword; Prefatory Note; Mapledurham Village; The Two Manors; Mapledurham Church - Position - Exterior - Interior; The Closed Aisle - date of building; Monuments. The Font - Old Brasses formerly in the Church; The Church Windows. Present Day. Original Windows; Records of Two Antiquaries: (1) The Bardolf Aisle. (2) The Chancel and Nave; Additions, Renovations, Restorations; The Bells; The Church Plate; The Church Registers and Records; The Churchyard - New Entrance Gates - Tombs and Tombstones; The Mass Dial; The ...
THE HISTORY OF SCARBOROUGH, FROM THE EARLIEST DATE.
By: Baker, Joseph Brogden.
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green: 1882
527 pp, 10" H. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering/decoration, black banding on spine/front board, black endpapers. B&w illustrations (some fold-out). ***Please note: the illustration titled "Drawbridge of the Castle" is missing.*** Section headings: Introduction; Charters; The Castle; Siege of the Town; Religious Houses and Ancient Churches; St. Mary's; Modern Churches; Governing Body of the Borough; Parliamentary History of the Borough; Corporate History; Charities and Public Schools; Markets, Fairs, and Commerce; Harbour and Shipping; Recreations and Amusements; Biography; Folk Lore; F...
THE EMPIRE IS MARCHING: A STUDY OF THE MILITARY EFFORT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1800-1945.
By: Barclay, Glen St. J.
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1976
Condition: Very Good -
276 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w plates. "(A) study of the military strength of Britain and her Empire during the Boer War, First World War and Second World War. Dr Barclay evaluates the contributions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, and the changing roles played by the colonies during times of crisis. He explains British attitudes to colonial troops - Australian indiscipline and New Zealand thoroughness - and the lack of diplomacy on the part of British military leaders when dealing with their colonial counterparts. After the South Africa War the British government should hav...
THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE SPREAD OF LEARNING, 1478-1978: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.
By: Barker, Nicholas. Preface by Charles Ryskamp.
Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1978
69 pp, + large b&w plate section (photographs, reproductions), 11 7/8" H. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold crest on front board. "(C)elebrates the quincentenary of the introduction of printing at Oxford with a pictorial history of its subsequent progress, illustrated by the books, documents, and pictures which are its tangible record. The story, although it properly begins with the arrival of Theodoric Rood and the first learned and educational books that he printed, stretches back to the early thirteenth century when scribes, illuminators, and binders of books were alread...
THE FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT: GREAT GREAT STORIES FROM THE NATION'S FAMILY TREE. (THE 50 WINNING ENTRIES PLUS THE BEST OF THE REST.)
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196 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions. "The History Channel launched The Family History Project in September 2003 with the belief that every family has a great story to tell. The nation was invited to share the tales of its ancestors. The thousands of entries revealed a wealth of human experience, from grand achievement to everyday life, love and loss. Here we reproduce the favourites, illustrated with photographs from home archives. Well-known family historian Nick Barratt provides research tips for those inspired to research their own famil...
THE RIVER OF LONDON.
By: Belloc, Hilaire.
Publisher: London, T.N. Foulis: 1912
Condition: Good+
145 pp + publisher's catalogue, 7 7/8" H. Green cloth faded to brownish hue, gilt lettering on spine and front board, top edge faded gilt. 16 colour plates, including frontispiece, all mouned on gray stock, with tissue guards except for "Greenwich" which is a double spread - all present. Several pages as yet unopened. Chapter headings: Introduction; The Approach Up River; London, The First Crossing on the Thames; London, the Port of the Thames; London and the Lower Thames in Warfare. A bookstore's small label on front pastedown, very light browning to pages in margins, one tissue guard is ...
MADAME TUSSAUD: A LIFE IN WAX.
By: Berridge, Kate.
Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins: 2006
352 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "When she died in London at the age of ninety, a survivor of one of the most tumultuous epochs in history, Madame Tussaud had travelled far from her inauspicious beginnings in Strasbourg as the daughter of a common soldier and a housekeeper. Moving to Paris as a child, Marie climbed through the ranks of French society as the protegee of charmismatic showman artist Philippe Curtius, and witnessed the French Revolution in all its grisly detail. She survived the Terror and moved to London, where she struggled to find a foothold amidst the desperate competiti...
THE INVASION OF CANADA, 1812-1813.
By: Berton, Pierre.
363 pp, 9 3/4" H. Pictorial endpapers, maps/battle plans. Blue (faux?) leather spine with gilt lettering & decoration, gray boards with blue decoration on front board. "This first edition copy - is one of a limited number (unspecified) which have been specially bound and slipcased" from the copyright page. " To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed the best way to bloody John Bull's nose. It would, as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted, be 'a mere matter of marching'. How could a nation of eight million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet, when the campai...
COURT LADY AND COUNTRY WIFE. ROYAL PRIVILEGE AND CIVIL WAR: TWO NOBLE SISTERS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND.
By: Betcherman, Lita-Rose.
Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins / Phyllis Bruce: 2005
384 pp, 9 1/4" H. "The lives of two dazzling aristocratic sisters, Lucy and Dorothy Percy, present a perfect window into the world of political unrest and social intrigue of seventeenth-century English society. Their breeding, beauty, and cunning made them among the most influential women of their time. Born during the reign of Elizabeth I, the Percy sisters came to prominence at the court of Charles I. Lucy, the Countess of Carlisle - the 'court lady' - dominated the royal scene thanks to her position at the center of power. Her beauty, captured in magnificent Van Dyck portraits, and her pol...
THE STORY OF ULVERSTON: A SHORT HISTORY. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE OF ULVERSTON, AND THE GROWTH OF THE TOWN.
By: Birkett, Henry F.
Publisher: Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1949.:
183 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations - photographs, reproductions. "....(brings) together for the first time the many references to Ulverston in the local books of the last two-hundred years. With them there is muc h new and hitherto unpublished information, the whole being skilfully wrought into a continuous story. In it the growth of the town during eight-hundred years is traced, and the life of its people, their work and pleasure, their high-momen t s a n d t h eir troubles, revealed. The author feels he has written a social history, one that not only ...
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
By: Bishop, James. Foreword by Lord Blake.
Publisher: London, Angus & Robertson: 1982
144 pp, 10 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions of photographs, drawings, advertisements. "The First World War, which claimed the lives of so many men on the battlefields of the Western Front, also profoundly affected the character and everyday life of the nation at home. It was the first 'total war' and the whole country contributed to the war effort. The unrelenting demands of the trenches eventually forced the Government to introduce conscription while, for those left behind, the state intervened more and more in the lives of its citizens. Hardships increased: food and ...
THE PROVISIONAL IRA.
By: Bishop, Patrick and Mallie, Eamonn.
Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1987
374 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "Nearly twenty years after the present wave of conflict began in Northern Ireland, the Provisional IRA is still an active destabilising force within the United Kingdom. Yet despite the huge loss of life and the consequent political distortions and upheavals it has created, remarkably little is known about it. This authoritiative new book, the first full-length study to be undertaken since the Troubles began in 1969, examines the IRA in depth, analysing its leaders, its objectives and structure. Aided by numerous, unusually frank interviews with the men who run t...
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1584-1984.
By: Black, M.H. Foreword by Geoffrey Cass.
Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1984
343 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "In 1984 the Press celebrates four hundred years of continuous printing and publishing, and this history gives a readable and not-too-formal introduction to that unique record. It is the story of the development of the printing and publishing arm of the University of Cambridge, from the medieval system of resident stationers who dealt in manuscripts to the present large printing and publishing house which produces computer software and audio cassette tapes as well as books (mostly now computer-set). The narrative is given its proper setting in the devel...
PRIVATE WORDS: LETTERS AND DIARIES FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
By: Blythe, Ronald, ed.
310 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "The Second World War was, among other things, a great 'reading and writing' war. There was a passion for books of all kinds, and also a remarkable outpouring of personal writing in the form of letters and diaries. The latter were actually forbidden in the services because they might fall into enemy hands, but this did not prevent them from being kept in startling quantities. The young especially, whether on the Home Front or fighting abroad, became extraordinary self-examiners and communicators, finding all kinds of outlets for what was happening to them in the...
BRITANNIA: A JOURNAL OF ROMANO-BRITISH AND KINDRED STUDIES. VOLUME 8 1977. (VOLUME VIII - 1977.)
By: Bogaers, J.E.; Boon, George C.; Casey, P.J.; Crummy, Philip; Davies, Jeffrey L.; Davies, R.W.; Hind, J.G.F.; Kennedy, David; Knowles, A.K.; Lloyd-Morgan, G.; Miles, Henrietta; Money, J.H.; Peacock, D.P.S.; Phillips, Bernard, Walters, Bryn; et al.
523 pp + 29 b&w plates at rear, large 8vo (9 11/16" H), soft cover. B&w maps, plans, drawings, tables, (some fold-out) + photographic plates. Contents: Notes for Contibutors; Editorial; Tile stamps from Lincoln (Lindum) and the 'Legio V Alaudae'; Gold-in-Glass Beads from the Ancient World; Carausius and Allectus - Rulers of Gaul?; Colchester: the Roman Fortress and the development of the Colonia; Roman Arrowheads from Dinorben and the 'Sagittarii' of the Roman Army; Ateco of Old Ca r l i s l e ; t he 'Genounian' Part of Britain; the 'ala I' and 'cohors I Britannica'; The Roman Settlement o...
A DEEP SENSE OF WRONG: THE TREASON, TRIALS, AND TRANSPORTATION TO NEW SOUTH WALES OF LOWER CANADIAN REBELS AFTER THE 1838 REBELLION.
By: Boissery, Beverley.
Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn: 1995
367 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w maps, illustrations. "In 1839 fifty-eight men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales. They were unimportant men outside their own parishes, ordinary people who had been caught up in the political whirlwind of the 1838 rebellion. Even though they were all civilians, they had been tried by court martial. Convicted of treason, their properties forfeited to the crown, they paid a heavy price for rebellion. And as convicts in Australia, they were considered the lowest of a bad lot. During their years there, however, they earned the respect of Sydney...


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Biochemical and ultrastructural evidence for the association of basic fibroblast growth factor with cardiac gap junctions. Academic Article
Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) is a ubiquitous and multifunctional polypeptide that is believed to have a role in tissue repair and to act as a morphogen in embryonic development. Here, we have used immunohistochemical and biochemical methods with antibodies directed against the amino-terminal domain of bFGF, designated IS2, which recognize native and denatured bFGF, to demonstrate that in addition to its known intracellular and extracellular localization in heart, bFGF is also associated with cardiomyocyte gap junctions. In tissue sections, IS2 labeled regions of intercalated discs, producing an immunofluorescence pattern virtually indistinguishable from that obtained with antibodies against the heart gap junction protein connexin-43. By electron microscopy, gap junctions but not other regions of plasma membrane were heavily immunolabeled with this antibody. By solid phase immunoassay, bFGF was found to be more concentrated in a fraction enriched in cardiac gap junctions than in whole sarcolemmal preparations. Finally, an 18-kDa protein was recognized by several different antibodies specific for bFGF on Western blots of heart subcellular fractions enriched in gap junctions. We suggest that bFGF-like peptides are either an integral part of, or exist in close association with, cardiac gap junctions and thus may play a role in modulating gap junctional intercellular communication.
Kardami, E
Stoski, RM
Doble, Bradley
Yamamoto, T
Hertzberg, EL
Nagy, JI
03 Chemical Sciences (FoR)
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (Science Metrix)
Blotting, Western (MeSH)
Cattle (MeSH)
Escherichia coli (MeSH)
Fibroblast Growth Factors (MeSH)
Fluorescent Antibody Technique (MeSH)
Intercellular Junctions (MeSH)
Microscopy, Electron (MeSH)
Myocardium (MeSH)
Rats (MeSH)
Recombinant Proteins (MeSH)
Journal of Biological Chemistry Journal
Blotting, Western
Fibroblast Growth Factors
Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Intercellular Junctions
Microscopy, Electron
Myocardium


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Welcome to Monterey County Beauty! Long Term Rentals of Six Months or More.
Centerline Homes - St. James - sq ft - 4 bed - 4 bath -- for a single story house, this is a very nice layout that's spacious and practical.
Main and upper level floor plans of a 2-story Deltec home, Monterey model: 1165 sq ft per level; 15 sides and 39' diameter.
The Plantation Pine Road home plan provides plenty of living space with an elegant exterior. of living area, 4 bedrooms and 5 baths.
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Extra living spaces vary per plan and might include a bonus room, den and rec room.


Bubbles form during water oxidation, catalyzed by the new tetra-cobalt WOC. Photo by Benjamin Yin.
Emory University chemists have developed the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, considered a crucial component for generating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight. The breakthrough, to be published in "Science" and released online by the journal March 11, was made in collaboration with the Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry.
The fastest, carbon-free molecular water oxidation catalyst (WOC) to date "has really upped the standard from the other known homogeneous WOCs," said Emory inorganic chemist Craig Hill, whose lab led the effort. "It's like a home run compared to a base hit."
The WOC research is a component of the Emory Bio-inspired Renewable Energy Center (EBREC), which aims to mimic natural processes such as photosynthesis to generate clean fuel. The next step involves incorporating the WOC into a solar-driven, water-splitting system. View more information on sustainable energy research at Emory and EBREC.
The long-term goal is to use sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Hydrogen becomes the fuel. Its combustion produces the by-product of water - which flows back into a clean, green, renewable cycle.


Back when I got my old HP Pavilion, I also got an UPS (uninterruptible power supply). So when I got my new HP Envy, I decided to also upgrade my UPS and got the APC UPS XS 1300 at Fry's.
Just like the older version, this new version is simply better and easy to install. Simple plug-in your computer, monitor and other important devices to the UPS. Next, use the included USB cable to connect the unit to your computer. As you can see below, the bottom side is for battery backed up devices. You can also plug in devices on the top strip that will not be battery backed up but will still have surge protection.
Next, install the PowerChute program that comes with the UPS and configure it to suit your needs. This program will keep a log of any power outages, as well as let you know how much energy is being used by your computer and peripherals.
If you click on "Performance," you will see a display like below. Notice that on 12/12/2014, there was a 16 second blackout. There are other screens that will tell you how much power your setup is using, and how much it's costing you, and other useful information.
Unlike the cheaper models, as you can see below, there is a tiny LCD display on the front which will give you vital information regarding the UPS without having to even use your computer. This is a nice added feature if something is terribly wrong and you are not able to turn on your computer to see what the status of the UPS is.
All-in-all, the APC UPS is a plug-in and forget it, no-brainer purchase for any desktop computer setup. It's like your Insurance policy for your computer. You don't think about it until you need it. Then you're very glad you have it.


With the growing awareness of ultraviolet (UV) exposure resulting in an increased risk of photoaging and skin cancers, consumers are using higher sun protection factor (SPF) sunscreens with frequent reapplication. However, new research conducted by scientists at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy demonstrates that heat and reapplication influences different sunscreen products containing the same amount of a key ingredient, oxybenzone, potentially affecting safety and toxicity of the UV filters included in sunscreens.
Titled Evaluation of Reapplication and Controlled Heat Exposure on Oxybenzone Permeation from Commercial Sunscreen Using Excised Human Abdominal Skin, this research was presented at the 2018 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) PharmSci 360 Meeting in November in Washington, DC.
The researchers performed in vitro permeation tests, which indicated that oxybenzone, using lotion and spray sunscreen formulations, was able to permeate human skin with significantly higher cumulative permeation occurring from the lotion. With the addition of 24-hour heat exposure on the lotion, there was a 2.1-fold increase in cumulative permeation of oxybenzone when comparing sunscreen reapplication at 80 min and 160 min, to a single application and a 1.2-fold increase in permeation when comparing 24-hour heat application to 24-hour baseline temperature sunscreen reapplication studies. When comparing formulations, applying lotion with 24-hour heat and reapplication significantly increased the cumulative oxybenzone permeation 3.1-fold more than the spray reapplication.
The next stage of this work will examine sunscreen use through controlled in vitro and in vivo testing procedures with the eventual aim of establishing an in vitro-in vivo correlation between the two tests. In addition, clinical trials with currently marketed sunscreen products will be performed to assess sunscreen use conditions allowing for a better understanding of the current maximum absorption of oxybenzone.
The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) is a professional, scientific organization of approximately 9,000 members employed in academia, industry, government, and other research institutes worldwide. Founded in 1986, AAPS advances the capacity of pharmaceutical scientists to develop products and therapies that improve global health. Visit www.aaps.org and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter @AAPSComms. The official Twitter hashtags for AAPS are: #AAPS2018 and #PharmSci360.
Event brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to network and share the latest developments in microneedle technology and applications.
Audra Stinchcomb, PhD, will use awards to advance transdermal and topical drug delivery research.
New developments in pharmaceutical manufacturing and topical drug bioequivalence and bioavailability addressed in two day-long workshops.


The kinds of changes necessary for Canada to meet its Paris Agreement targets require an infusion of capital beyond what governments and taxpayers can cover.
Mandatory transparency around climate change risks held by business should be a central part of Canada's climate action, particularly given how much capital is invested in Canada's energy sector.
A three-year policy roadmap for greening Canada's financial ecosystem is achievable and includes coordinated action from multiple oversight organizations.
Ambitious action is required for Canada (and the world) to meet its Paris Agreement targets. This will require an infusion of capital beyond what governments and taxpayers can cover. The private sector must become deeply involved, encouraged by changes to the financial ecosystem that make climate change action and the low-carbon economy the norm.
While mandatory climate risk disclosure is a central part of the report's recommendations, there are supportive actions a number of government actors and financial organizations will need to take to build a financial system that empowers clean growth and greenhouse gas reductions.


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Limitations in quality bedding material have resulted in the growing need to re-use litter during broiler farming in some countries, which can be of concern from a food-safety perspective. The aim of this study was to compare the Campylobacter levels in ceca and litter across three litter treatments under commercial farming conditions. The litter treatments were (a) the use of new litter after each farming cycle; (b) an Australian partial litter re-use practice; and (c) a full litter re-use practice. The study was carried out on two farms over two years (Farm 1, from 2009–2010 and Farm 2, from 2010–2011), across three sheds (35,000 to 40,000 chickens/shed) on each farm, adopting three different litter treatments across six commercial cycles. A random sampling design was adopted to test litter and ceca for Campylobacter and Escherichia coli, prior to commercial first thin-out and final pick-up. Campylobacter levels varied little across litter practices and farming cycles on each farm and were in the range of log 8.0–9.0 CFU/g in ceca and log 4.0–6.0 MPN/g for litter. Similarly the E. coli in ceca were ∼log 7.0 CFU/g. At first thin-out and final pick-up, the statistical analysis for both litter and ceca showed that the three-way interaction (treatments by farms by times) was highly significant (P < 0.01), indicating that the patterns of Campylobacter emergence/presence across time vary between the farms, cycles and pickups. The emergence and levels of both organisms were not influenced by litter treatments across the six farming cycles on both farms. Either C. jejuni or C. coli could be the dominant species across litter and ceca, and this phenomenon could not be attributed to specific litter treatments. Irrespective of the litter treatments in place, cycle 2 on Farm 2 remained campylobacter-free. These outcomes suggest that litter treatments did not directly influence the time of emergence and levels of Campylobacter and E. coli during commercial farming.


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Barei releases videoclip and Eurovision version
10th March 2016 at 18:17 Ruben Gonzalez
A few weeks after she was chosen to represent Spain at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, Barei has now released the final Eurovision version of her song together with the video clip that will accompany it and further information about the stage performance in Stockholm. Read more
Barei gets the Spanish 2016 Eurovision ticket to Stockholm
2nd February 2016 at 00:34 Ruben Gonzalez
On February 1st the attention has been focused on the southern edge of Europe as one of the countries that has struggled the most during the last decade to reach a top 10 place at Eurovision, held a one night selection show where, after six different acts were performed Barei with the song Say Yay was proclaimed winner… Read more
Well known faces announced as jurors for Spanish national final
26th January 2016 at 15:40 Ruben Gonzalez
Loreen (Eurovision winner 2012), Edurne (Spanish 2015 representative) and Carlos Marín (member of the lyrical group Il Divo) have been announced today by the national broadcaster of Spain as part of a jury that will be involved in the decision on who represents the Iberian country at this year´s Eurovision song contest. Read more
Running order announced for Eesti Laul 2016
10th November 2015 at 15:46 Ruben Gonzalez
The Estonian public broadcaster ERR has once again put their trust in the long lasting Eesti Laul to select their representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. More details including running order for the two semi-finals has now been published. Read more
Melodifestivalen gets a new logo
27th October 2015 at 10:15 Ruben Gonzalez
Sweden´s biggest musical competition gets a brand new image this year, after five years using the same elements in its visual image and logo. Melodifestivalen´s new face is more modern and follows more simple lines than it did before, which may give us a hint at what we will be seeing on our screens during… Read more
Ruth Lorenzo shines in Your Face Sounds Familiar
The Eurovision representative of Spain, who once danced in the rain on Europe´s most famous stage, now delights the audience of her country with mesmerizing impersonations of some of the best singers in the world hoping to win a big prize for her chosen charity. Read more
Ruth Lorenzo goes back to singing in English
29th August 2015 at 22:01 Ruben Gonzalez
Ruth Lorenzo, who represented Spain in 2014 with the song Dancing In The Rain, released her first album Planeta Azul last October and now after almost a year, the singer and songwriter has decided to go back to singing in English in her new single called 99 which she just released as she heads into what seems is… Read more
Loreen releases new single
Months after her latest release, Paper Light, 2012 Swedish Eurovision Song Contest winner Loreen has released a brand new song called I´m In It With You. The song is an international project in collaboration with a Canadian who she worked with before. Read more
Måns Zelmerlöw announces new concerts in Europe
28th July 2015 at 20:45 Ruben Gonzalez
The singer, who has taken Europe´s charts by storm with his Eurovision winning song Heroes, has recently added new stops to his European tour. The tour, scheduled to start in September, is set to take Måns around Europe in the coming months. Read more
Polina Gagarina releases Russian version of Eurovision runner up
A Million Voices, the song that represented Russia in this year´s Eurovision Song Contest and came second has just been released in Polina's native language. The new version was presented a few days ago at a popular radio station. Read more
Måns Zelmerlöw gets a European tour
24th June 2015 at 21:25 Ruben Gonzalez
After weeks of this year´s winner talking about a possible upcoming European tour, now we finally bring you all there is to know about it so that you won´t miss the opportunity of seeing Europe´s musical Hero performing in a city, hopefully close to you. Keep reading to find out when and how. Read more
Soraya releases new English languaged single
The Spanish dance diva Soraya, who represented Spain in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest has just released her brand new single You Didn't Do It, which at the same time is a preview of what her coming album is going to sound like. Read more
Ruth Lorenzo tells her story
8th June 2015 at 16:45 Ruben Gonzalez
Ruth Lorenzo who represented Spain in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest last night told the story of her roller coaster life from being saved by two Mormons to taking part in UK's most popular TV show and from there to the Eurovision Song Contest. We bring you the highlights of her life. Read more
Dima Bilan releases new single for the Russian market
"Не молчи" Is the title of Eurovision legend Dima Bilan´s new single. It is a pop ballad, in which the 2008 Eurovision winner cries for the love of his life not to remain silent as it will only take a couple of words to save their love. Read more
Spain to return to Junior Eurovision Song Contest?
It´s been eight years since the Spanish broadcaster RTVE pulled out of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Back then they stated that it promoted stereotypes they didn´t share, but it seems things are changing as this week news broke that Spain might come back this year. Read more
Is there something cooking up in Spain for Eurovision 2016?
1st June 2015 at 14:00 Ruben Gonzalez
For the first time ever, the Spanish broadcaster, RTVE, this year chose to hire an external company to take care of the stage production of their Eurovision entry and it seems this might have set them on a new path for the future. Read more


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Since prehistoric times, the vast continent of Africa has produced jewelry of great beauty and exceptional variety. Craftspeople in the great medieval kingdoms of Africa made rings, earrings, bracelets, and other ornaments out of gold, beads of shell and of glass. All of which have long been important elements of personal adornment all over Africa. African jewelry has also been used as a vehicle for religious symbols and to indicate social or economic status. Today's African jewelry echoes many traditional themes, often with modern materials.
At AfrikBoutik.com, all of the African jewelry are completely hand made, authentic, and completely African in origin and design. Every item is a unique conversation piece, and whether you're looking for an item to complement your wardrobe or looking to create a unique style of your own, our jewelry is a beautiful part of African culture that is sure to get noticed!


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The next step is to set a price for the finished product. Once this has been agreed with the customer, an order sheet is made out and 80% of the price is paid as a deposit, either in cash or by bank transfer.
After the deposit has been received, the manufacturing process begins. For a traditional pince-nez without gemstones or corrective lenses the process takes 10 – 14 working days (alternative periods can be agreed); where corrective lenses are required, the process takes 14 – 20 working days (alternative periods can be agreed), depending on the chosen corrective lens. The manufacturing process for pince-nez decorated with gemstones takes, depending on the type of stones selected and the level of technical difficulty, 20 – 30 working days (alternative periods can be agreed).
The above guide to the length of the manufacturing process is naturally dependent on the quantity of orders being processed at any time. In light of the fact that manufacture involves unique manual labour, the entire manufacturing process, including the testing and final handover, is entirely based on negotiation in person.
The manufacture of pince-nez and jewellery collections and the manufacture of custom-made jewellery are also conducted according to the same procedure. In such cases the length of the manufacturing process depends on the complexity of the customer's requirements – and is determined by agreement.