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GARY RANDALL
Hypocrisy In High Places
The headlines continue: "Arkansas Governor Sends Religion Bill Back For Re-Write"---"Indiana Republicans Meet With LGBT Groups Seeking Fix..."---"Gov. Pence Caves..."---"Pence Buckles Under Powerful Gay Pressure..." and on and on it goes.
The public outcry, which is being led by some of America's most powerful and influential leaders, is reminiscent of those lining Main Street in Jerusalem chanting, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him."
Like in Jerusalem, there are hypocrites in the crowd. There are also those who have been misinformed.
In this case, some of the most influential voices condemning religious freedom and Indiana's attempt to protect it--- in calling for a boycott of the state and all businesses located there, are in fact closely aligned in contractual agreements with governments that not only discriminate against homosexuals but sentence them to death.
Hypocrisy.
The City of Seattle and the city's mayor are among the hypocrites lining the streets. But there are others among us, including Governor Jay Inslee.
Here's the facts:
Ben Shapiro and Erick Erickson have done the research.
The tolerant left, they have found, has now decided that anybody who believes in freedom of religion ought to be boycotted.
We knew that.
Crowd hysteria has set in. Most businesses in the State of Indiana do not discriminate against anybody, including homosexuals.
But the crowd, led by some of America's most successful, doesn't seem to care. Crucify them anyway.
Last Sunday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company would "never tolerate discrimination."
He then compared Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act to Jim Crow, equating a law guaranteeing the rights of individuals to take part in only the transactions they want, to forcing individuals to take part in only those transactions the government deems worthy.
Tyranny.
Here's the hypocrisy.
Apple and CEO Tim Cook are happy to do business with Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Qatar, and the United Emirates. All these countries discriminate against gays. Homosexuality is punishable by death in these countries.
Other companies like Smallbox, Salesforce, and Angie's List are also shouting from the sidewalk, while doing business with these same anti-gay countries.
Seattle, Portland and San Francisco all have formal business relationships with these countries as well.
Welcome to Seattle.
In 2007, Edward Burton, president and managing director of the US-Saudi Arabian Business Council, came here to Seattle to meet with the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle, and the Rotary Club of Seattle.
A formal relationship was created.
The Trade Alliance is comprised of "a partnership of the Port of Seattle, Port of Tacoma, Port of Everett, Metropolitan King County Government, Snohomish County Government, Pierce County Government, City of Seattle, City of Everett, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and union leadership."
The Trade Alliance is scheduled to hold an event in Seattle this month to promote doing business in Iran, where homosexuals have been hanged from a crane.
The event is scheduled for April 22. Twenty days from today.
Mayor Murray, Governor Inslee... where is the outrage? Is there only outrage when biblical Christians are seeking protection from the oppressive agenda of the homosexual community?
The chants from the sidewalks of modern day Seattle (and elsewhere) by Mayor Murray and Governor Inslee sound terribly hollow.
Most can understand that they see their political careers being tested in some way and they really love their jobs, but does the hypocrisy and duplicity really run this deep?
By next week the public should know if these champions of tolerance and inclusiveness and equality will go ahead with the meeting, postpone it, or quietly have it somewhere else. Will the press even report it?
God help us.
This weekend, in another place and another time, a confused public and their hypocritical leaders lined the sidewalks chanting, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him."
Rome saw Him as a distraction--- maybe more, to their rule over Jerusalem.
Caiaphas, High Priest of the Temple, was an influential man for sure. In telling the story, BBC says, "Caiaphas knew everybody who mattered. He was the de-facto ruler of the world wide Jewish community at the time, and he planned to keep it that way."
At the time of the Crucifixion, Caiaphas had served in his position for 18 years. He would serve another year then retire to a farm outside Jerusalem. Most High Priests before him had not lasted more than about 4 years.
It was, in a way, a family business. Annas, Caiaphas' father- in- law, had previously gotten 5 of his relatives appointed to that office. Many believed Caiaphas had gotten the position on the merits of his father-in-law.
The work was hard but BBC notes the rewards were big. It's noted that "modern archaeologists have discovered that Caiaphas and his associates lived lives of luxury with large and lavishly decorated homes."
Caiaphas' power base was the Sanhedrin, and his rule was sustained at the pleasure of the Roman government. In that Caiaphas served by Roman appointment, he worked at his relationship with Pilate.
Caiaphas had a lot to lose. So did his family.
Keep in mind there was a commercial component to the Passover as well as a spiritual one. More than 2,000,000 people were in town for the feast. This generated huge revenue in relationship to the rituals associated with the Passover.
Clearly Jesus was a problem on several fronts.
In engineering His crucifixion, Caiaphas used deception, misinformation and an appeal to ego.
He convinced the Roman government Jesus was a threat to them. He convinced Pilate to do what he, Caiaphas, could not legally do---sentence Him to death.
In addition to the power, the ego, and the money, there was a spiritual component with Caiaphas as well.
As a Sadducee, he did not believe in the resurrection. This absence of belief justified his actions as a kind of social justice in which he was protecting the people from this man called Jesus.
Hypocrisy. Self Deception.
However, there was a much greater dynamic at play in this event.
Ancient prophets speaking for God had predicted these events and that they would lead to the greatest expression of love known to mankind.
John described it like this, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son..."
In the end it had little to do with Rome, the Centurions or Caiaphas and his powerful family. It had everything to do with God's Word and God's plan.
By Sunday of that week at least one Centurion, the government of Rome and the religious leaders and many in the general public knew things had not worked out as planned.
Jesus wasn't dead anymore. The tomb was empty.
The elite class was shocked. Caiaphas, the Roman Government and others who participated in the execution were silenced---pondering their next move.
An interesting discovery was made in 1990. Archaeologists working in Jerusalem's Peace Forest discovered 12 ossuaries, or limestone boxes. Each held the bones of deceased people.
It was a custom that family members would return to the tomb at some future time and remove the bones left by the decomposed body. They would gather the dry bones and put them in an ossuary with the person's name attached to the box.
Among the 12 boxes discovered was one with the name "Yehosef bar Kayafa" which translates "Joseph, son of Caiaphas."
Josephus, the historian, always referred to Caiaphas as "Joseph, who is also called Caiaphas."
Archaeologists agree these are the bones of 60 year old Caiaphas mentioned in the Bible.
The Caiaphas ossuary is now displayed in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
The tomb of Jesus remains empty.
It is written, "The kingdoms of man rise and fall, but the Kingdom of God is forever and ever."
It could also be said, "Man's plans rise and fall--God's plan is forever and ever.
While Christians are experiencing the wrath of those obsessed with redefining marriage, family, God's Word and God Himself in today's culture---this too shall pass. God's plan is on schedule.
He is Risen. Rejoice.
The misinformation movement seems mostly fueled by the media, by their headlines and their reporting. Being just a bit off, is all it takes.
Do those whom a business does business with, have to be in agreement with everything that's right, in order for a business to morally have the right to do business with them?
I think of how Jesus ate with publicans and sinners while he did his work.
Mayor Ballard indpls bowed to disgrace to evil to sin above G-D you are a blatant supporter of the homosexual agenda for America to literally screw her and you are complicit
The rep who said he was against freedom of religion act because his son told him to is a complete spineless antichrist following his son and satan into hell
Oh man, this is fun watching you guys unravel. We knew you were on the wrong side of history. We just didn't realize it would be the wrong side of such modern history. All the republican presidential candidates supported the law. That's going to come back to bite them.
Anonymous 12:04 PM, April 02, 2015
With all this controversy....I can't help but think that something is happening.
Suppose a Jew and a Muslim own and operate a catering business together and in comes a homosexual who wants them to cater his wedding, and on the list of items on the menu, they notice that they all contain pork.
I've heard that both Jews and Muslims are required by conscience to not even handle or even taste pork for their religious reasons.
What should the government do in such a situation? Should they go after the catering company for all they are worth, and if so for what reason?
Equal protection under the law?
Does everyone have to go into a closet if one group comes out? How is that fair?
All the caterer would have to do is say "Pork is not on our menu and never has been. We have never offered pork to anyone.". Case closed. Civil protection laws never require someone to sell something they've never offered before. They only require a business to offer the items they already offer to all customers equally.
A man can go on you tube and watch a good tutorial on how to pain a motorcycle tank, by a professional restorer / painter. I did, and do you know what he said?
He said that his heart and soul goes into his work, and that his name is on his work. Something to think about, because we have some government agency as well as some judges who don't seem to think about it very much.
They want to force some Christian businesses into a closet because one particular group decides to come out, and call that equal protection under the law or something.
When government does damage to the name of a Christian business....well maybe with the measure they want to meet out....you know. That's how I feel about it.....I mean if they want to go for all they are worth....
Is it wrong for Christian businesses to ask for equal protection under the law? I thought that was a constitutional right for everybody.
I guess that what the Washington state A/G and some judge wants is involuntary servitude. (see Feb 23rd Faith and Freedom blog)
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A Los Angeles Times editorial compares Sens. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) and John McCain's (R-Ariz.) health care reform plans. The editorial argues that regardless of who takes office in January, the next president will be required to focus on health care, as well education, reform.
"Health and Education Reform" (Los Angeles Times, 10/16).


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Arkansas hiring UCF's Travis Williams
by: Otis Kirk
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas is hiring UCF defensive coordinator Travis Williams to replace Barry Odom.
Williams was the defensive coordinator for Gus Malzahn the past two seasons after previously coaching with him at Auburn. Williams was co-defensive coordinator while coaching the linebackers at Auburn in 2019-20. He was a defensive analyst with Auburn from 2014-16 before being promoted to linebackers in 2016-18. He coached linebackers at Miami in 2021 before being hired by Malzahn on Feb. 17, 2021.
Williams helped UCF to a 9-4 record and runner-up finish in the American Athletic Conference. He was nominated for the Broyles Award in 2021.
He was an All-SEC selection at linebacker for Auburn in 2004-05. He spent 2006 and 2007 seasons playing with the Atlanta Falcons in the SEC.
Williams and UCF had the No. 40 defense in the nation this year allowing 23.2 points and 382.3 yards per game.
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Australia: Man teaches dog how to drive on farm in Victoria; meet Lexie, the 'driving dog'
An Australian farmer taught his one-year-old dog how to drive so she could help move sheep. The Jack Russel named Lexie, who lives at a farm near southwestern Victoria's Hamilton district, is turning out to be an asset behind the wheel. A video show the dog driving a truck at a sheep farm down under.
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A video of a dog driving a car shows a one-year-old Jack Russell named Lexie doing a good job.
Cameron Zschech, her owner, explained how one day while 'moving a mob of sheep, he thought it was time Lexie took control of the wheel.
The Australian man taught his dog to drive and now she helps rounding up livestock on the Victorian farm as he feeds out hay.
Man teaches dog how to drive: An Australian farmer taught his one-year-old dog how to drive so she could help move sheep, because why not?
The Jack Russel named Lexie, who lives at a farm near southwestern Victoria's Hamilton district, is turning out to be an asset behind the wheel. Videos show the dog driving a truck at a sheep farm down under to round up livestock.
Cameron Zschech, her owner, told ABC that he filmed Lexie 'driving' his ute (abbreviation for: utility vehicle) explaining how one day, while 'moving a mob of sheep, he decided the Jack Russel could be in charge of the wheel.
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"I thought now is the time that I could teach the dog to drive," he said. "There's no reason she can't do it just because she's a dog."
The Victorian followed the same method as his father used to teach him: Put the truck in first gear and "let it idle along".
"She went alright," said Cameron.
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"Lexie thinks she's a sheep dog," he continued. "She's got the right attitude for the role but her size lets her down a bit. She's about one-tenth the size of a ewe…"
The dog's career behind the wheel began after she was injured as a puppy on the farm. A large, 80-kg ewe stood on her leg, leaving her yelping and unable to chase sheep anymore.
However, she has recovered ever since and "become a little bit smarter" as the owner noted that chasing the sheep in a car is a lot safer for her.
Lexie now helps with quite a few jobs around the farm, steering the car as Cameron feeds out hay - something the farmer describes as "pretty good teamwork".
Fascinating and prodigious as it may be, Lexie is not the first dog to have driven a car. Way back in 2012, two dogs named Porter and Monty drove modified cars and are said to be the world's first 'Driving dogs'.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in Auckland, New Zealand, trained shelter dogs to drive as part of a campaign aimed at sending the message that abandoned dogs are as intelligent and deserving-of-love as any other dog.
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The best comparison I can make to the music on Nectars of Emergence is to Such's The Issue at Hand. It's also the highest compliment I can give. Denley's wind instruments ripple across the aural spectrum and Ingar Zach's percussion punctures the membrane of Kim Myhr's acoustic guitar lilts. These seven tracks were recorded at a church in Norway in 2009, and if there is a presence of the otherworldly, it is the miraculous presence of emergence denoted in the title. Sounds are given space and the interactions between the improvisors crystallize them. There is so much modest beauty to be found listening to the improvisations on this record that it is easy to forget just how much instrumental prowess and aesthetic grace are necessary for its production. While the trio of Tilbury, Prévost and Iwamoto as Such only recorded the one album, let's hope that Mural continue their emergence for a long time.
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NFL reinstates Cowboys DE Gregory from yearlong suspension
By Schuyler DixonThe Associated Press
FRISCO — Dallas Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory, who was suspended all of last season over multiple violations of the NFL's substance-abuse policy, was reinstated Tuesday.
Gregory can join the Cowboys at training camp in California next week and will be eligible for games as long as he continues to meet the terms of his reinstatement, the league said. The team reports to Oxnard on July 24, two days before its first practice.
The NFL said Gregory was immediately eligible for meetings, conditioning work and "similar activities" and would be cleared for practices and games once "arrangements have been confirmed regarding Gregory's clinical resources in Dallas."
The 25-year-old Gregory last played in the 2016 regular-season finale, when the former Nebraska standout had his first career sack at the end of his second season. He was suspended before Dallas' playoff loss to Green Bay, his third suspension of the season.
Gregory slid to the Cowboys at the end of the second round in 2015 because of off-field concerns that included a positive test for marijuana at the NFL combine.
The Cowboys have backed Gregory's attempt to return to the field, with several teammates writing letters of recommendation to the NFL as part of the process of him applying for reinstatement.
Owner and general manager Jerry Jones, whose recent second-round gambles in the draft haven't paid off, has praised Gregory's character repeatedly during the pass rusher's absence.
Gregory was considered one of the best pass rushers in his draft, and there was promise early with a strong rookie training camp. Gregory vowed he wanted to make good on his word to Jones that he could control his issues with marijuana.
But he only made it through one season, and didn't have a sack while missing four games with an ankle injury.
The first suspension was announced in February 2016, and he was away from the team during training camp while in rehab. The second suspension came seven months later. Gregory remained with the team while serving the 14-game ban before playing in the final two games.
The yearlong suspension kept Gregory from participating in club activities and banned him from team facilities except for sessions with the person in charge of his treatment.


New York Yankees: Is the Luke Voit hype real?
The powerful first baseman's hot streak could be just that, or maybe the start of the New York Yankees' next great first baseman.
No New York Yankees fan thought Luke Voit would prove to be the answer at first base. Even though he was acquired from the St. Louis Cardinals for his bat, limited MLB experience at age 27 was enough to question his potential.
The Missouri native went from batting .182 in eight games with the Cardinals this year to become the Yankees' late-season answer at first base. With Greg Bird struggling yet again, Voit has slugged 12 home runs with the Yankees. He is batting .319 with 13 home runs and 33 RBI and is batted an impressive .314 since putting on the pinstripes.
Granted, the sample size is small and I even penned an article explaining why not to give up on Bird, but the numbers don't lie. Even staunch Bird defenders like myself are second-guessing the idea that he's our first baseman of the future. Could the Luke Voit we're seeing now be one the Yankees can rely on for years to come?
Now, before we dive into the numbers, Luke Voit was NOT just some random prospect the Yankees got from St. Louis. Chasen Shreve and Giovanny Gallegos were traded for Voit for one reason. The team needed right-handed power after star slugger Aaron Judge broke his wrist on July 26, and Voit was acquired the very next day.
And it's obvious why general manager Brian Cashman was intrigued by Voit, who batted .327 with 13 homers and 50 RBI for the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds last year. Voit also posted those numbers in just 74 games, so the potential for more power was there.
Simply put, Voit has exceeded expectations in the Bronx. His BABIP sits at .350. His medium contact rate is at 44 percent and his hard contact sits at 46.2 percent. Voit's fly ball rate (FB%) is at 35.9 percent and his home run to fly ball ratio is at 36.4 percent.
Voit's numbers suggest great luck across his 124 at-bats as a Yankee, but there's no denying the truth. He has become a folk hero amongst the fans. His little bunny-hop following a home run swing draws memories of Sammy Sosa.
The love from the fans is real. I even started shouting "Use the force, Luke!" after each of his home runs. Luke Voit truly is a New York Yankees folk hero. Hopefully, his story has a happier ending than another Yankees cult phenomenon.
Dateline, New York. The year was 1998. Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan was on its way to grossing over $216.5 million at the box office. I, on the other hand, was 12 years old and watching the Yankees wrap up a record-setting season that would end not only with winning the World Series, but winning 125 total games.
In what seemed like an unseasonably warm September, with clinching the AL East an inevitability, manager Joe Torre gave more playing time to 26-year-old outfield prospect Shane Spencer. Little did either man know a folk hero was about to be born.
Spencer earned his opportunity by hitting .322 with 18 home runs at Triple-A Columbus, and he looked mildly impressive in a handful of appearances in June and August. In September, however, people started paying attention.
That's because in 14 games that month, Spencer hit an astounding .422 with eight homers and 21 RBI. Of those eight, three were grand slams he hit in just over a week's time.
Naturally, like every other young fan, I jumped on the Shane Spencer bandwagon full force. He was our left fielder of the future. He was destined to become a Yankee great in the same vein as Mickey Mantle. This was all going to continue, right?
Boy, how wrong I and a lot of people were. Spencer never rose above a reserve role with the Yankees and only hit 33 home runs the following four years. He split 2003 with the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers and played his last MLB season with the New York Mets in 2004. Just as quickly as the promise arrived, it disappeared in what seemed like the blink of an eye.
Fun as Luke Voit is to watch, Yankee fans should view Shane Spencer's story as a cautionary tale. For all we know, this could be the best we see out of Voit. With Bird's numbers pointing more to bad luck than declining skill, let's not set ourselves up for disappointment.
Now, even though Greg Bird deserves a shot at reclaiming his job next year, that doesn't mean Luke Voit should be tossed aside at season's end. Rather, he should be kept around so he can truly compete with Bird to be the starting first baseman in 2019.
If he has a great spring and Bird struggles again, then the solution is right there. Voit is the guy at first base and should be treated as such while everyone hopes the strong spring carries into the regular season. If he struggles and Bird wins out, then there's already an excellent platoon situation where Voit can play against lefties.
The point is this: Luke Voit has done a great job during his short Yankees tenure and should continue playing first base into the postseason. New York is at a point where great as Bird can be, the one with the hot bat has to be in the lineup daily. That man right now just happens to be Luke Voit.
However, fans also have to think realistically. Five fantastic weeks is just not enough time to measure the effectiveness of a hitter. For all we know, Voit could just be on the hottest of hot streaks.
It is for that reason nobody should get excited yet. As was seen with Spencer, hot streaks end quickly, and Voit's is no exception.
Still, with how he's playing, he has no doubt earned a second look in 2019.


The Yellow Jacket is located in North America. Their genera is Vespurla Dolichovespula. It is yellow with black bands around the body and is ½ inches long.
Warning: Yellow Jackets can bite and sting numerous times!
Colonies are usually started with only inseminated queens overwintering. Colonies are protected in places as hollow logs, in stumps, under bark, in leaf litter, in soil cavities and human-made structures, but usually under ground. Queens emerge during the warm days of late April or early May, they select a nest site and build a small paper nest in which eggs are laid. After eggs hatch from the 30 to 50 cells, the queen feeds the young larvae for about 18 to 20 days.
Cool fact: Try not to kill a colony because it will protect gardens by eating harmful bugs.
Larva grow into fully groan adults in mid-June and become workers and colony defense. A worker is usually something that forages for food and is a defense system.
Warning: Do not step on a rim of a wasp nest because you could be bitten and stung by hoards of wasps!
Wasps die in winter because of the cold and the food is very scares. After a colony has disserted the nest will never be used again! And probably never seen again because it won't be maintained and the winter will disintegrate it.
Cool fact: When colonies get big the population expands rapidly, and depending on the species, may consist of as many as 5,000 workers and 15,000!
LIFE CYCLE OF YELLOWJACKET. Diagram of underground nest sections, above left. Queen begins building a new nest in spring, upper right. Nest expands rapidly in summer as the number of workers increases, middle right. In late summer-early fall, worker populations and the colony are at their peak, lower right. The colony begins to decline, and the deserted nest disintegrates rapidly in winter. Queen, lower left, in diapause position, overwinters under loose tree bark, roof shakes, or other protected location.
Worker populations reach their peak in late summer, center (not drawn to scale, workers are 1/3 to 1/2 the size of queens). New males and queens mate, lower right; males die, and inseminated queens seek winter shelter. The cycle begins again in spring. Maximum size is attained in August or September.
Cool fact: Yellow Jackets are the most aggressive wasp!!
Warning: When a wasp is near don't run or swat at it because fast movement will make it excited and attack you.


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Bloodstream infections can develop late (after day 100) and/or in the absence of neutropenia in children receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
V. Romano, E. Castagnola, S. Dallorso, E. Lanino, A. Calvi, S. Silvestro, G. Morreale, R. Giacchino, G. Dini
Istituto "Giannina Gaslini"
We retrospectively evaluated the incidence and time from transplantation of bloodstream infections occurring in children receiving bone marrow transplant (BMT) at G Gaslini Children's Hospital between September 1984 and December 1997. During this period the incidence was 35% after allogeneic and 26% after autologous BMT (P = 0.08). Among these episodes, 38% after allogeneic BMT and 90% after autologous BMT were detected in the presence of neutropenia within the first 30 days from reinfusion (P <0.001). Incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infections was 40% after allogeneic and 8% after autologous BMT (P <0.001). Bloodstream infections in the absence of neutropenia were 55% after allogeneic BMT vs 10% after autologous BMT (P <0.001) and occurred later after reinfusion (mean 199 vs 41 days, P <0.001). Among the episodes occurring after allogeneic BMT and in the absence of neutropenia, 61% were related to the presence of a central venous catheter, 15% were related to the presence of GVHD, but 23% were not associated with any of major risk factors for infection. Finally, 38% of episodes following allogeneic BMT were detected after day 100 vs 1% after autologous BMT. We concluded that patients receiving allogeneic BMT experience a high incidence of bloodstream infections in the absence of neutropenia and that a significant proportion of these episodes is not clearly associated with well known risk factors such as GVHD or central venous catheters. Moreover, many episodes develop a long time after the transplantation procedure. Therefore, any febrile episode following allogeneic BMT even late and/or in the absence of neutropenia should be intensively managed.
Homologous Transplantation
Central Venous Catheters
Catheter-Related Infections
Bacteremia
Late infections
Marrow transplant
Romano, V., Castagnola, E., Dallorso, S., Lanino, E., Calvi, A., Silvestro, S., ... Dini, G. (1999). Bloodstream infections can develop late (after day 100) and/or in the absence of neutropenia in children receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplantation, 23(3), 271-275.
Bloodstream infections can develop late (after day 100) and/or in the absence of neutropenia in children receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. / Romano, V.; Castagnola, E.; Dallorso, S.; Lanino, E.; Calvi, A.; Silvestro, S.; Morreale, G.; Giacchino, R.; Dini, G.
In: Bone Marrow Transplantation, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1999, p. 271-275.
Romano, V, Castagnola, E, Dallorso, S, Lanino, E, Calvi, A, Silvestro, S, Morreale, G, Giacchino, R & Dini, G 1999, 'Bloodstream infections can develop late (after day 100) and/or in the absence of neutropenia in children receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplantation', Bone Marrow Transplantation, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 271-275.
Romano V, Castagnola E, Dallorso S, Lanino E, Calvi A, Silvestro S et al. Bloodstream infections can develop late (after day 100) and/or in the absence of neutropenia in children receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplantation. 1999;23(3):271-275.
Romano, V. ; Castagnola, E. ; Dallorso, S. ; Lanino, E. ; Calvi, A. ; Silvestro, S. ; Morreale, G. ; Giacchino, R. ; Dini, G. / Bloodstream infections can develop late (after day 100) and/or in the absence of neutropenia in children receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. In: Bone Marrow Transplantation. 1999 ; Vol. 23, No. 3. pp. 271-275.
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Henri-Bourassa – stacja metra w Montrealu, na linii pomarańczowa. Obsługiwana przez Société de transport de Montréal (STM). Znajduje się w Ahuntsic, w dzielnicy Ahuntsic-Cartierville.

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Dương Thị Việt Anh (ur. 30 grudnia 1990 w Bạc Liêu) – wietnamska lekkoatletka specjalizująca się w wielobojach oraz skoku wzwyż.

Brązowa medalistka mistrzostw Azji juniorów w skoku wzwyż (2008). W 2009 zajęła piąte miejsce w pięcioboju podczas halowych igrzysk azjatyckich oraz zdobyła w skoku wzwyż brązowy medal igrzysk Azji Południowo-Wschodniej. Tuż za podium – na czwartym miejscu – ukończyła rywalizację w skoku wzwyż na halowych mistrzostwach Azji w Teheranie (2010). Dwukrotna medalistka (srebro w pięcioboju i brąz w skoku wzwyż) z halowych mistrzostw Azji w 2012. Podczas igrzysk olimpijskich w Londynie (2012) nie awansowała do finałowego konkursu skoku wzwyż.

Medalistka mistrzostw Wietnamu.

Rekordy życiowe: pięciobój (hala) – 3812 pkt. (19 lutego 2012, Hangzhou); siedmiobój (stadion) – 5350 pkt. (13 września 2011, Ho Chi Minh); skok wzwyż (hala) – 1,84 (18 lutego 2012, Hangzhou); skok wzwyż (stadion) – 1,92 (30 czerwca 2012, Ałmaty). Rezultaty zawodniczki w konkurencjach wielobojowych są aktualnymi rekordami Wietnamu, lekkoatletka jest także halową rekordzistką swojego kraju w skoku w dal (5,82 w 2012).

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MIB: U.S. Life Activity Drops 6.8%
NU Online News Service, Sept. 17, 2003, 6:48 p.m. EDT -- The MIB Group Inc., Westwood, Mass., says U.S. life insurers checked 6.8% fewer ...
By Allison Bell | September 17, 2003 at 08:00 PM
NU Online News Service, Sept. 17, 2003, 6:48 p.m. EDT – The MIB Group Inc., Westwood, Mass., says U.S. life insurers checked 6.8% fewer life insurance applications in August than they checked in August 2002.
U.S. application activity has fallen in seven of the last eight months, MIB says.
Stacy Gill, MIB's chief knowledge officer, says activity has been even weaker in Canada than in the United States.
"This summer's results for the period June-July-August lagged last year's activity both in the U.S. and Canada by almost 2% and 3% respectively," Gill says.
But U.S. activity was much stronger among U.S. applicants over age 59 than among younger applicants.
A 2.5% increase in activity for older applicants helped compensate for the effects of a 9% drop in activity for younger applicants.
Canadian insurers did better than U.S. insurers throughout most of 2002, but they faltered last month. The Canadian activity level was 4.7% lower in August than in August 2002, MIB says.
MIB is a nonprofit group that collects information about individual life insurance customers for most U.S. and Canadian life and health insurance companies. The group uses the search activity statistics for its own databases to compute the life application activity statistics
Allison Bell
Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at abell@alm.com or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.


Energy branding is becoming increasingly important to differentiate companies and countries.
From an energy perspective Iceland is unique with all its production coming from renewables, primarily hydropower, and almost all of its heating coming from geothermal resources.
But don't be surprised if you didn't know that as rather few people do. Iceland is a (relatively) remote island and its power system is closed – there are no energy exports and the only energy imports are fossil fuels for transportation.
But that may be about to change with the growing interest from companies in sourcing green energy, Haraldur Hallgrimsson, Business Development Manager of Landsvirkjun, the state-owned National Power Company of Iceland, told Engerati in an interview at E-world Energy & Water 2016.
For those companies those green credentials become part of their branding with their customers. This, coupled with the possibility of consumers in for example the UK or Germany being able to buy products produced with renewable Icelandic energy in the future, is raising the potential of energy branding Iceland.
"We believe the next generation will be much more aware of the importance of sustainable energy production and environmental impact. Our customer base will change demanding cleaner sources of energy," says Mr Hallgrimsson.
Conveniently on hand to help in this task is Dr Fridrik Larsen, who holds the world's first and only doctorate in energy branding and heads up Europe's first energy industry brand consultancy, Reykjavik-based LarsEn Energy Branding.
Dr Larsen, who is organizing the first energy branding conference in Reykjavik in September, says that branding is about adding "dimensions" to a product or a company to differentiate it from others.
Clearly energy branding has the potential to be a gamechanger for utilities and this appears to be starting to be recognized. [Engerati-Enel Goes Open Power] But more generally Dr Larsen believes that utilities know relatively little about branding and need to change their mindset towards it.
"Think back 15 years and the telcos didn't believe in branding but now we see them competing with utilities for the smart home and which will win the hearts of consumers? For now, it is the utilities that will lose because they don't have clear positioning and branding strategies.
Forget customer engagement, disruption, innovation and advertising. These buzzwords mean nothing for energy if they are not delivered by a well-founded branding activities.


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Artus  Gouffier de Boisy, né le  à Boisy  et décédé le  à Montpellier (Hérault), est un diplomate français.

Il fut seigneur de Boisy, de St-Loup et d'Oiron, duc de Roannais, comte d'Étampes, pair de France et grand maître de France.

Jusqu'à son décès le , il a été le principal conseiller de Francois  dès l'avènement de celui-ci en 1515. Il en avait été depuis 1506 le gouverneur, c'est-à-dire le responsable de son éducation.

Biographie

Enfance
Artus  Gouffier est l'aîné du second mariage, le , de Guillaume  Gouffier, seigneur de Boisy ou Boissy, sénéchal de Saintonge (†  à Amboise, Indre-et-Loire) avec Philippe/Philippine de Montmorency (†  à Chinon, Indre-et-Loire ; fille de Jean II, sœur de Guillaume et tante paternelle du connétable Anne de Montmorency).

Guillaume et Philippe avaient eu huit autres enfants : Louis (chanoine de la Sainte-Chapelle, abbé de Saint-Maixent), le cardinal évêque d'Albi Adrien, Pierre (clunisien, abbé de St-Denis en 1505, de St-Pierre-sur-Dives et de St-Maixent), l'amiral Guillaume de Bonnivet, Catherine (religieuse aux clarisses de Moulins), Charlotte (gouvernante des enfants de François , femme de René de Cossé-Brissac et mère des maréchaux Charles et Artus), Anne (aussi gouvernante des Enfants de France) et Aymar (abbé de St-Denis en 1517 et de Cluny en 1518, évêque d'Albi en 1523 ou 1524) ; de plus, Artus avait cinq demi-frères et sœurs, son père Guillaume ayant épousé en premières noces Louise de Chaumont d'Amboise, fille de Pierre : dont Madeleine, aussi gouvernante des Enfants de France et femme de René Le Roy de Chavigny.

Artus devient au plus tard en 1490 enfant d'honneur de Charles VIII. Il se trouvait ainsi placé dans l'intimité du jeune roi de France : c'est à ce titre qu'il l'accompagne lors de la conquête de Naples, combattant à ses côtés lors de la bataille de Fornoue, le , gagnant définitivement la confiance du roi, ainsi que celle de la reine, Anne de Bretagne.

Le gouvernement de François d'Angoulême
Après la mort de Charles VIII, Artus Gouffier reste proche de son successeur, Louis XII, fort du soutien que son père Guillaume avait apporté lors de la Guerre folle à celui qui n'était encore que duc d'Orléans. C'est ainsi que Louis XII le fait bailli de Vermandois en 1503 et capitaine de Chinon en 1514.

Mais c'est en 1506 qu'il obtient la charge déterminante pour la suite de sa carrière : il est alors désigné comme gouverneur du jeune François d'Angoulême, en remplacement de Pierre de Rohan, Maréchal de Gié, qui vient d'être disgracié. Anne de Bretagne a vraisemblablement joué un rôle déterminant dans sa désignation, car elle figurait parmi les adversaires du maréchal. Cette charge de gouverneur était déterminante car, Louis XII n'ayant pas de fils, François d'Angoulême se trouvait le premier dans l'ordre de succession au trône de France. Artus Gouffier prenait ainsi place dans l'entourage du futur François  et de la mère de ce dernier, Louise de Savoie.

En tant que gouverneur, Artus Gouffier était vraisemblablement chargé de l'aspect chevaleresque et militaire de l'éducation du jeune prince : Jean de Saint-Gelais, quand il énumère les mérites d'Artus Gouffier, insiste surtout sur ses hauts faits durant la campagne napolitaine de 1494-1495.

La confiance de Louise de Savoie et de François d'Angoulême se concrétise à plusieurs reprises dans les années qui suivent. En 1508, il fait office de procureur de Louise de Savoie lors de l'hommage rendu pour elle au roi pour les seigneuries de Matha, Aulnay et Maulévrier. En 1513, François d'Angoulême fait de lui le gouverneur de son duché de Valois. En 1514, il est nommé en tête de la liste des officiers de la maison de François d'Angoulême.

Le Grand maître de France
Artus Gouffier est nommé Grand maître de France dès le , à peine une semaine après l'avènement de François . Grand officier de la couronne, le grand maître est chargé de diriger toute l'activité de la cour : il supervise les appointements du personnel de la cour, contrôle les dépenses, garde les clés des résidences royales et veille à la sécurité du roi.

Il devient dans le même temps le conseiller le plus écouté de François . C'est dans les négociations précédant la signature du Concordat de Bologne, dans les derniers mois de l'année 1515, que son rôle éclate pour la première fois au grand jour.

Lorsque le Concordat est finalement signé, le , Artus Gouffier a déjà quitté l'Italie pour mener au nom du roi une autre négociation : durant ce même mois d', il est à Noyon pour rencontrer les émissaires du jeune roi d'Espagne Charles , futur Charles Quint. Quelques mois plus tard, au début de l'année 1517, c'est encore le grand maître qui conduit la délégation française qui rencontre à Cambrai les émissaires de l'empereur Maximilien, avec qui un autre traité est alors signé.

Le Concordat et ces différents traités visaient à assurer la sécurité extérieure du royaume vis-à-vis de ses puissants voisins. Pour compléter ce dispositif, une ambassade est également organisée en 1518 auprès d'Henri VIII, en Angleterre. L'ambassade a lieu, mais Artus Gouffier ne peut pas, cette fois-ci, la conduire, du fait des graves crises de goutte qui l'assaillent régulièrement.

Il parvient tout de même à conduire une nouvelle rencontre avec les émissaires de Charles d'Espagne, au printemps 1519, à Montpellier. Cette entrevue visait à apaiser les tensions suscitées entre les deux souverains par la mort de Maximilien, le , dont la succession attisait les convoitises des deux jeunes rois de France et d'Espagne.

Largement compromises par cette rivalité, les négociations de Montpellier sont finalement interrompues brutalement le  par le décès du grand maître, emporté par une nouvelle crise de la maladie : le décès d'Artus Gouffier sert de prétexte aux autres ambassadeurs de François  pour mettre fin aux discussions. Le grand maître laisse à sa mort l'image d'un homme de paix, décédé avant d'être parvenu à un accord entre les deux plus puissants princes de la chrétienté.

Famille
Artus Gouffier épouse le , Hélène d'Hangest († ), fille unique de Jacques de Hangest, seigneur de Genlis, qui lui apporte en dot toutes ses seigneuries.

De leur union sont issus trois enfants, Claude, Hélène et Anne. Claude Gouffier succéda à son père dans l'ensemble de ses terres et devint par la suite grand écuyer de France.

Terres et titres
Par son père, Artus Gouffier se trouvait à la tête d'un ensemble de terres dont les deux pôles se situaient l'un en Poitou, à Oiron, l'autre en Forez, autour de Roanne et Boisy. En Poitou, ce sont les seigneuries d'Oiron et de Glénouze ; en Forez celles de Boisy, Roanne, Saint-Haon-le-Châtel et La Motte-Saint-Romain.

La faveur de François  lui valut plusieurs autres terres et titres : comté d'Étampes (en 1515, à titre viager uniquement), seigneuries de Villedieu-sur-Indre et de Bourg-Charente (et Garde-Épée à Saint-Brice). Sa fortune lui permit dans le même temps d'arrondir le périmètre de ses possessions autour d'Oiron avec l'acquisition des seigneuries de Saint-Loup et de Passavant.

De plus, juste après la victoire de Marignan, François  fit don à Artus Gouffier d'un ensemble de seigneuries du duché de Milan, l'ensemble étant érigé en un comté de Caravaggio. Ces seigneuries furent définitivement perdues par son fils Claude après la perte définitive du duché de Milan par la couronne de France en 1525, mais le titre de comte de Caravaggio, francisé en Caravas ou Caravaz, resta à ses descendants (le Carabas du ''Chat botté'' de Perrault ?).

Enfin, il achète, toujours en 1515, le droit de gérer les biens considérables qui constituaient le douaire de la reine Marie, veuve de Louis XII, repartie en Angleterre et de ce fait dans l'incapacité d'assurer elle-même l'administration de ses biens en France.

La consécration de vaste ensemble vient le , avec l'érection des seigneuries foréziennes d'Artus Gouffier en duché-pairie  : pour la première fois, ce titre était attribué à un personnage qui n'était pas prince du sang. Malheureusement, les lettres du roi n'avaient pas encore été enregistrées à la mort du Grand maître, quelques semaines plus tard : elles n'ont donc jamais pris effet.

Artus Gouffier et le château d'Oiron
Malgré l'obtention de ce titre, c'est au château d'Oiron qu'Artus Gouffier fit réaliser des aménagements destinés à en faire le cœur des possessions de la famille. Outre la construction d'une galerie, il entreprit surtout la construction d'une collégiale, juste à côté du château, qui ne fut achevée qu'après son décès. Elle abrite encore aujourd'hui son gisant.

Épitaphes
Artus Gouffier laissait à sa mort l'image d'un homme de paix, mort avant d'être parvenu à un accord entre François  et Charles d'Espagne. De fait, quelques mois plus tard, l'élection du second comme empereur sous le nom de Charles Quint signe le début des hostilités entre les deux plus puissants princes de la chrétienté. La concomitance de la mort du grand maître et de la reprise des hostilités a fortement marqué ses contemporains, ce qui transparait dans plusieurs textes de l'époque :
 Fleuranges :
 Martin du Bellay :
 Nicolas Versoris :
 Brantôme :

L'auteur le plus prolifique sur le sujet fut le rhétoriqueur poitevin Jean Bouchet, qui a doté son ouvrage Le Labirynth de fortune d'un , où l'on peut lire notamment :

Décoration

Décoration officielle
  Chevalier de l'ordre de Saint-Michel

Références

Bibliographie
Yves-Marie Bercé, « Artus Gouffier, grand maître de la Maison du Roi (vers 1472-1519) », Le Conseil du Roi de Louis XII à la Révolution, dir. Roland Mousnier, Paris, PUF, 1970, .
Étienne Fournial, Monsieur de Boisy. Grand maître de France sous François , Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1996, 149 p.
Arlette Jouanna, Philippe Hamon, Dominique Biloghi, Guy Le Thiec, La France de la Renaissance. Histoire et dictionnaire, Paris, Robert Laffont, 2001, article « Gouffier, famille », .
Pierre Carouge, « Artus (1474-1519) et Guillaume (1482-1525) Gouffier à l'émergence de nouvelles modalités de gouvernement », Les conseillers de François , dir. Cédric Michon, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2011, .

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
Adrien Gouffier de Boissy (° 1479 - † 1523), son frère cadet, cardinal, légat du Saint-Siège et Grand aumônier de France
Guillaume Gouffier de Bonnivet (° 1482 - † 1525), son frère benjamin, amiral de France
Aymar († 1528), également son frère, évêque
François Gouffier († 1594), son neveu et fils de Guillaume, seigneur de Crèvecœur et maréchal de France

Liens externes

Bernard Gineste (éd.), «Artus Gouffier, comte d'Étampes: Charte en faveur des religieuses de Maubuisson ()», in Corpus Étampois, 2008 [avec des images de son sceau et de sa signature].

Chronologies

Diplomate français
Duc français du XVIe siècle
Grand maître de France
Gouverneur du Dauphiné
Chevalier de l'ordre de Saint-Michel
Cour de François Ier
Naissance en septembre 1475
Naissance en Haute-Savoie
Décès en mai 1519
Décès à Montpellier
Décès à 43 ans
Mort d'une insuffisance rénale
Duc de Roannais


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Southern California /
10 Most Haunted Hotels in Southern California
Southern California is one of the best all-year-round vacation destinations, and not only because of Hollywood.
There are numerous amusement parks, entertainment venues, and much more that you can visit with your friends and family.
However, if you're a fan of the supernatural and enjoy learning about the paranormal, you're bound to love checking in at one of the haunted hotels in Southern California.
Photo credit left: madame.lefigaro.fr right: flickr/mattlineker
Updated 2/10/2020 – Each of the hotels you're about to discover flaunts luxuries that complement the comfort of their rooms.
Many of these are architectural masterpieces that have brought pride to their local communities.
However, almost a century old, each of these has a few ghost stories to tell, poltergeists to spook guests, and entities that do much more than go bump in the night.
Be forewarned though; the following ten hotels have been known to scare guests and even employees.
Therefore, if you aren't ready to face a ghost or handle their scary antics, opt for another hotel.
But let's just say, your vacation won't be as exciting.
And now then, on to…
The 10 Most Haunted Hotels in Southern California
1 #10) Hotel del Coronado, Coronado
2 #9) Mission Inn, Riverside
3 #8) Paso Robles Inn, Paso Robles
4 #7) Banning House of Two Harbors, Catalina Island
5 #6) Chateau Marmont, West Hollywood in Los Angeles
6 #5) Joshua Tree Inn, Joshua Tree
7 #4) Ojai Valley Inn and Spa, Ojai Valley
8 #3) Wyndham Garden The Pierpont Inn, Ventura
9 #2) Bracken Fern Manor, Lake Arrowhead
10 #1) Horton Grand Hotel, San Diego
#10) Hotel del Coronado, Coronado
Photo credit: flickr/mojo2u
Also known as The Del, Hotel del Coronado is one of the few hotels that proudly mention that they're haunted.
The hotel itself enjoys sharing the story of 'beautiful stranger' Kate Morgan.
Aged 24 at the time of her death, she was probably waiting for her lover when she checked in on Thanksgiving Day.
According to the passengers who traveled with her, she fought with her male companion, who deserted her en route.
After five lonely days, she purchased a handgun from San Diego and took her own life.
Kate lets herself be known, especially in the third-floor guestroom.
Guests there experienced flickering lights, TV switching on and off, sudden breeze coming from nowhere, scents and sounds, and other signs of paranormal activity.
#9) Mission Inn, Riverside
Photo credit: flickr/isayx3
One of the Historic Hotels of America, The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa takes pride in its reputation as one of the most haunted hotels in Southern California.
That's why it's part of the Ghost Walk Riverside, a pre-Halloween fundraiser for the California Riverside Ballet.
The first set of ghosts to be spotted there is the Miller family.
The builder of the hotel Christopher Columbus Miller, his son Frank and every Miller who lived on the property has been seen or heard around the hotel.
Photo credit: flickr/paytonsphotos
Several respected online psychic mediums believe that the Millers are behind the beautiful singing coming from empty rooms, large blue lights floating around the hotel, and equipment malfunctioning.
If you want to catch a glimpse of their ghosts, check the hallways, near the ceiling in the dining room, and the storage area behind the hotel.
While you may not feel their presence easily, Alice Miller's room has been known for hotspots, which could also indicate a portal to another dimension.
So, don't tread lightly around The Mission Inn.
#8) Paso Robles Inn, Paso Robles
If you're in San Luis Obispo County, stop by Paso Robles and check in the Paso Robles Inn.
Once famous for its proximity to the mineral hot springs of the area, it made headlines in The Tribune in 2001 when a reporter write about the phantom calls from room 1007.
Several times over a few weeks, the front desk clerk complained about receiving calls only to find no one at the other end.
Staff members who checked room 1007 didn't find anyone there.
The calls were believed to be a system malfunction until 1007 called 911 on day.
To call the police, callers have to press 8 and 0 first, which shows that someone was behind the calls.
Investigating further, the General Manager Paul Wallace discovered that night clerk J.H. Emsley died in the 1940 fire that destroyed the original Paso Robles Inn.
He sounded the alarm, allowing all to escape, but died of a heart attack there.
Wallace believes the call to 911 went out at 9:05, which is when Emsley sounded the alarm the night of the fire.
Head of Maintenance, Mike Childs went to the room to inspect the phone after the 911 call.
By then, the 1007 had called the front desk several times.
While standing in the room, Childs saw the phone light up and dial the front desk.
When he tried calling himself, the two-line phone cut him off and dialed from the second line.
Both he and the clerk heard "an odd kind of sound" that they never heard before in their lives.
You can verify the story yourself by requesting room 1007 and watching the phone during the day.
#7) Banning House of Two Harbors, Catalina Island
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On the outside, Banning House Lodge on Santa Catalina Island is a romantic luxury getaway.
Spend one night there, especially if you're sensitive to the paranormal, and you'll see that there's a dark side to this cozy lodge.
In addition to the ghosts of the owners of the island, the Banning brothers William, Joseph Brent, and Hancock, you're bound to come across The White Lady.
Still unidentified, she haunts the rooms and hallways of this hotel.
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Another ghostly resident is that of an old fisherman, if you're not lucky enough to see him, you may smell the tobacco and sea salt linked to his presence.
The surroundings of the Banning House Lodge are also haunted by Natalie Wood.
The actress downed while on a trip to the island.
As her death still remains a mystery, she's yet to find peace in the afterlife.
#6) Chateau Marmont, West Hollywood in Los Angeles
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The glamorous, haunted Chateau Marmont was home to A-listers like Marilyn Monroe and continues to bring in celebrities, including Lindsay Lohan.
However, there are others who haven't left after checking in over the past five decades.
One of Hollywood's favorite comedians John Belushi died in Bungalow 3 there and has since been haunting it.
In 1999, a family resided there while their house was under renovation.
One night, they discovered their two-year-old laughing and giggling on his own.
When asked what made him laugh, he said, "The funny man."
The next day, while going through a book of celebrity guests who stayed at the hotel, the child pointed at John Belushi and shouted, "The funny man!"
While Belushi does put a smile on the faces of Chateau Marmont's guests, it's important to mention that there's a dark history to this hotel.
Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski's bride, was stabbed to death while eight-months pregnant shortly after leaving the hotel.
Natalie Wood, who's rumored to have had an affair with Nicholas Ray there, experienced a premonition that she would die in the water.
#5) Joshua Tree Inn, Joshua Tree
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A hacienda-style motor inn, Joshua Tree Inn was the choice of famous musicians such as Donovan and Gram Parsons.
The latter died in room #8 of the hotel due to drugs and alcohol overdose, which is why his spirit remains there.
However, everyone who's tried communicating with him testify to his spirit's benevolence.
In the guest book of room #8, visitors have written "Love envelops this room" and "As a spirit medium, I notice your spirit has settled, and the restlessness subsided.
You are now resting in peace.
I feel your most active in the afternoon".
Some of their comments also show that they interacted with him, such as "Richard asked Gram to give us a sign, and the radio came blaring at us with country music at 2:39 a.m."
If you do head to Joshua Tree Inn and get the chance to stay in room #8, you may see small items move or relocate during your stay.
Gram Parsons also tends to make his presence felt by moving the room's mirror, which is the only piece of furniture that remains in the room since he died there.
#4) Ojai Valley Inn and Spa, Ojai Valley
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This Spanish Colonial style retreat is one of the most luxurious hotels and flaunts an award-winning spa and golf course.
Because of this, the management of the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa tries hard to hide the ghost stories and paranormal activity tales.
Room #5 especially has been the hub of these with many guests reporting mysterious banging sounds from the closet and a foul smell that makes its way out once they open its doors.
The Ojai Valley Inn and Spa is also known for strange shadowy figures that float in other rooms as well as on the grounds.
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These could be the spirits of the shell shocked soldiers who died there while the resort was used as a hospital during World War II.
If you smell cigarettes all of a sudden and feel the hair on your back and arms stand, chances are that one of these is close by.
#3) Wyndham Garden The Pierpont Inn, Ventura
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Built in 1910, the Pierpont Inn has been known to host numerous celebrities, including Clark Gables, Bette Davis, Charlie Chaplin, and even President George W. Bush.
After being renovated in 1999, some spirits were stirred and they could be seen across the hotel.
One prominent ghost is that of the Phantom Lady.
Seen in formal attire, she's usually spotted in the massage rooms or seen dancing in the parking lot.
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If you notice wet footprints in the hallways of the first floor, she just passed before you.
Aside from the Phantom Lady, the Pierpont Inn in Ventura is home to a formless, shadowy mass and a poltergeist that haunts and pranks the kitchen staff.
#2) Bracken Fern Manor, Lake Arrowhead
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Dating all the way back to the 1920s, Bracken Fern Manor's history has been riddled with tales of gangsters like Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel.
However, it's now one of the prominent haunted hotels in Southern California.
One of the most prominent ghosts there is that of Violet, a prostitute who committed suicide after the mob gunned down her lover.
As the rooms of the hotel were name after the girls who occupied them, the Violet on the second floor has scared guests and workers alike with paranormal occurrences.
Some have smelled the scent of perfume while others noticed a smoke-like apparition near the mirrors.
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After the Bracken Fern Manor underwent renovations, a worker became a devout believer in the paranormal.
After locking up the building for the night, he came up with his crew only to discover the weirdest thing.
"We come back the next day and there's a candle burning in here," he said.
"It had only been burning maybe an hour or so.
It had been 12 hours since we'd last been in the place.
We don't let any candles in here.
For some reason, candles come on."
In addition to Violet, the ghost of a little boy haunts Bracken Fern Manor.
Possibly the son of one of the prostitutes there, he was trampled by horses outside the inn.
Over the years, guests have heard him play on the stairs or witnessed his footprints in the snow.
#1) Horton Grand Hotel, San Diego
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The boutique Horton Grand Hotel is one of the historical buildings in San Diego, which is why it shouldn't be surprising for a few ghosts to find their way there.
The most famous entity is the ghost of Roger Whitaker, who currently occupies room 309.
Interestingly, he was shot while hiding in an armoire at another hotel after cheating while gambling.
In a séance, he explained that he chose this hotel because it reminded him of the place of his death.
A century and a half later, Whitaker continues showing off.
If you pick his room, you'll probably feel your bed shake, watch the lights flicker on and off, and discover your soaps and amenities misplaced.
Some guests reported the room to be locked from the inside although unoccupied.
While investigating the room, the Casper Paranormal Investigations team woke up after playing poker at night to the sight of the 4 of Spades propped up in the bathroom.
Other entities at the Horton Grand Hotel are Ida Bailey, a madam of a brothel that was once on the land of the reformed hotel, and the poltergeists in rooms 435 and 436 and near the armoire.
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Please note that the station providing the latest weather data is not necessarily in the center of Saint-Jean-de-Crieulon. Differences in prediction may appear according to the location of the weather station, especially in mountains where data usualy come from plains. For better accuracy at high altitude, you should check the snow weather forecast.
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The property is located on Baycliff Road, a well-established residential housing district of West Derby, with good access links to Princess Drive, linking with East Prescot Road towards Alder Hey Hospital. Being close to Croxteth Park, West Derby Golf Club, approximately 5.2 Miles from Liverpool City Centre. There are various local neighborhood shops within close proximity on Baycliff Road, and also a Tesco Superstore, Post Office, and Ladbrokes.
The property provides detached three-storey blocks of 64 self-contained accommodation, built of brick construction with tile pitched roofing and landscaped gardens surrounding the site, a dwarf wall with palisade perimeter boundary, as well as some road side car parking for residents and visitors.
The entire site is held on a long-leasehold interest at a peppercorn rental from the 21st March 1975 on a 75-years with an expiry 21 March 2050. We have been in negotiation with Liverpool City Council to acquire the freehold interest. Further information available upon request.
All of the occupiers are held on Assured Shorthold Tenancy agreements.


Our current goals are to take in as many equine, based on our number of open spaces, who require special attention, who must be surrendered and those that have been abused. In addition, evaluate each equine to see if adoptable, or able to be utilized in programs to assist developmentally disabled individuals, veterans, and local community-based support groups.
Our present strategies are to maintain and achieve our current and future goals and accomplishments by continueing to maintain an active role and partnership with our local community agencies, working side by side with our local community mental health department and local Veterans' office. As well as maintaining our continuous involvement with being an active member of our local West Branch Chamber of Commerce. By participating with the other member organizations to help individuals who have special needs, learn about and participate in our equine based programs.
Our present long term goal is to become a certified facility in EAAT Programs (Equine Assisted Activities & Therapies), by becoming a certified PATH (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International) Facility and to have a certified PATH instructor on-site.
Based on our highly proficient and dedicated volunteers, our experienced horsemanship of our individuals, and with our newly built 13,000 square foot equine facility, D&R ACRES HOBBY AND RESCUE FARM has the ability and know how to maintain and continue to grow and provide exceptional equine programs to and for our community desires.
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Artist statement: "I want to call attention to beauty in unremarkable places: the grey of wet concrete seen through worn out holes in a leaf on the sidewalk, light reflected on the wall in midafternoon. A highly restrained palette gives emphasis to differences between closely related but separate things. The artist book format provides an inherent two-sidedness. For every page, each front is also a back. The only way to view the entire piece is to relinquish a part of it. With print, I am most interested in edges; where two color blocks overlap or nearly touch, the areas where ink saturates the paper, making you aware of both the printed surfaces and the paper acting a as mediating substrate between the pages. The ease and immediacy of printing on a Vandercook press creates a circumstance where experimentation exists concurrently with the editioning practice. My process is more akin to collaging with printed elements at the press than to strategic letterpress design and production. Spontaneity exists alongside a thought out page and careful presswork. I work back and forth between written words and pictorial elements; images are inspired by a text, and texts grow from images."
Oxford, Iowa: Sara Langworthy, 2013. Edition of 24.
9.75 x 8.5"; 18 leaves. Printed letterpress with photopolymer. Papers: Kitakata, Kozo Kaiga, University of Iowa Center for the Book handmade text sheets in a variety of fibers including hemp, flax and cotton, and overbeaten flax/cotton combination, an offcut left over from an earlier book "Solid Phases". Bound into a modified limp paper binding with UICB Papercase Natural as the cover paper. Housed in a cloth-covered clamshell box. Signed and numbered by the artist.
Sara Langworthy: "The project began as three smaller projects: an investigation of two opposing definitions of the word 'cleave'; an exploration of the coded language and repeated words contained in tatting instructions and manuals; and a play with the negative spaces of flattened decayed leaves found on sidewalks in November. The book combines images and text printed from photopolymer plates with hand-brushed sumi ink painting.
"The primary motivation for this book was to investigate the state of being two things at once, and the natural tensions present when opposing forces are required to inhabit the same spaces. All text is drawn from the definition of 'cleave,' and words taken from tatting instructions. The text in the book was constructed from a series of random/chance exercises using these words. The first signature sets the scene of the word 'cleave' fighting itself: a passionate joining with a violent separation. The second signature examines the results of the repeated joining and separating. The first signature is printed primarily in pale greys and greens; the second signature is equally monochromatic, but uses a pink/orange/yellow palette.
"A formal constraint of this project was to use only papers I had in my collection, and to recycle or revisit previous half-begun prints and book ideas which had a link to the themes of duality and opposites. Two of the folios (the two outer folios of each signature) are prints begun during an Artist's Residency and Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Their initial print layers are wood type printed in opaque white and transparent white inks, layered with hand-brushed sumi ink washes. The total number of these sheets determined the edition size of the project. The leaf prints are new to this project. A number of other elements are visitors from earlier works, including especially the otherworldly watertowers and adjacent scaffolding."
University of Iowa: Sara Langworthy, 2012. Edition of 33.
9.25 x 12"; 28 leaves. Handset text from a very worn case of Helvetica. Printed on a Vandercook SP-20. Images printed from photopolymer plates and linoleum blocks. Papers: Sakamoto, Shin-Tobi, an overbeaten flax sheet made by Bridget O'Malley of Cave Paper, and assorted text-weight sheets made at the UICB Papermaking Facility. Contained in a modified full-cloth case binding.
Sara Langworthy: "Solid Phases is inspired by drawings of the molecular structure of ice, and the language used to describe the brittle bond of water in its solid phase. This book explores the fragile nature of connection, tendency towards stasis despite change, and the impact of stress upon a solid. The text is culled from the book Ice Physics (Peter V. Hobbs, 1974) in particular the first section of the book entitled Solid Phases of the Water Substance.
"Images are heavily inked and printed in multiple layers on translucent paper, saturating the sheets and blurring the distinction between front and back. Images and sentences are constructed across multiple pages; the viewer reads down through each page. The resulting images are fully experienced only in book form."
9.25 x 4"; 10 leaves. Text is Janson. Printed on Sakamoto paper from photopolymer plates. Hand-painted sumi ink. Japanese multisection binding with gatefold pages. Laid in custom cloth-covered clamshell box. Numbered. Signed by the poet and artist.
Seven poems by Emily Wilson, with four companion images by Sara Langworthy.
Emily Wilson, poet: "The poems in Morpho Terrestre come from a manuscript presided over by diverse genies, particularly, Robert Hooke, whose 17th century treatise, Micrographia, contained some of the earliest and most influential studies undertaken with the new technology of the microscope. Among other influences are painters—Winslow Homer, J.M.W. Turner, Neil Welliver—and poets—Marianne Moore, Robert Frost. I guess the common thread has to do with 'seeing' and then pressuring that activity through another medium, like paint or language, or something else. I like to think of the poems as the result of some imaginative transit or trade taking place, back and forth, between a moment of physical observation and remembered residues of it, its associative promptings and grabbings after other strands, the delight in the 'things' of the words themselves. But the sound is what sets the whole thing going."
Sara Langworthy: "The prints are multi-layered, employing both relief printing and hand-painted sumi ink washes. The printed elements were made from a series of photopolymer plates, which were from plants, stems, and sticks. All printing was done using a Vandercook proof press; the printing process itself has more in common with drawing or collage than with strategic letterpress printing. The end goal was an edition of 50 books, so I began with enough paper to print 100 of each image. The editioning process was done concurrently with the print experiments. The images are hidden behind gatefolds, giving the viewer the opportunity to experience the text itself, without my own visual interpretation getting in the way."


The Maldives has "substantially understated" its budget deficit, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned, by underestimating its spending and "probably" overestimating tax revenues.
"Moreover, not all of the financing for even the approved budget has been identified, and additional risks exist as well – including the need to clear reported unpaid bills carried over from 2011 and the possible loss of lease extension payments (Rf 700 million, or US$42.4 million) assumed in the budget," the IMF's mission chief for Maldives, Jonathan Dunn, told Minivan News.
While the 2012 budget put the deficit at less than 10 percent of GDP, "the IMF team sees the figure as more likely to be 17.5 percent of GDP, and perhaps larger than this," Dunn said.
"The financing gap for 2012 is thus at least 7.5 percent of GDP, or about US$160 million, and possibly substantially larger than this," he added.
As a result, economic growth and stability in the Maldives were unlikely to be maintained "in the medium term" unless the government substantially cuts spending.
Meanwhile, government revenue for the first quarter of 2012 has fallen 15.5 percent below projections, the Maldives Inland Revenue Authority (MIRA) has reported.
Revenue from tourism land rents fell 18.6 percent on the previous quarter, however the largest contributor to the drop were the new government's changes to resort lease extension payments, which saw a 76.1 percent drop in revenue below projected figures.
Inflation meanwhile spiked 13.4 percent in February, with the price of food increasing 28 percent.
Government revenues for the quarter has nevertheless increased 76.2 percent compared to the same period in 2011, "mainly because of the significant increase in Business Profit Tax (BPT) and Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections", MIRA noted: Rf 361.7 million (US$23.4 million) and Rf 721.9 million (US$46.8 million) respectively.
Dunn observed that printing money would only facilitate the much-larger-than-expected 2012 fiscal deficit.
"This, in turn, would imply that national imports would be substantially larger than expected, because in the Maldives, where most goods are imported, almost any spending by either the government or the private sector turns, directly or indirectly, into import demand," he noted.
"Usable reserves at the MMA are low, so if the fiscal gap this year is financed via money creation, it is likely that the MMA's usable reserves would soon dry up," he said.
Dunn emphasised that the only sustainable solution was for relevant parties to rationalise the budget by boosting revenues and cutting expenditure, despite the political difficulties.
"These may be politically difficult measures, but the consequences of not reducing the budget deficit are likely to be even more difficult," he warned.
Furthermore, ongoing dollar shortage would not be resolved while the Maldives continued to substantially increase spending, Dunn added.
This practice allowed such nonfinancial businesses to conduct large-value foreign exchange operations outside the banking system, "an unusual arrangement and sustains the parallel foreign exchange market," Dunn noted.
"In a more typical situation, nonfinancial businesses [such as resorts] would have licenses only for the exchange of small-value cash transactions and would be required to channel large-value foreign exchange transactions through the banking system. In the case of Maldives, this would substantially increase liquidity in the official foreign exchange market," he suggested.
Dunn emphasised that "fiscal imbalances in the Maldives have been present for many years and that fiscal adjustment remains necessary".
Faced with increasing pressure from the IMF to lower expenditure after failed attempts in 2010 to cut the salaries of civil servants – a maneuver blocked by the Civil Services Commission (CSC) and backed the then opposition – former President Mohamed Nasheed's administration insisted that increased revenue from the new taxes would match expenditure, and boasted that the 2012 budget was the first in many years to balance income and expenditure.
Following the police mutiny and controversial change of government in what the MDP contends was a coup d'état, spending by President Dr Mohamed Waheed's administration has escalated as it seeks to shore up support in a fractious political environment.
Lost income has also increased, with MIRA warning in March of unrealised revenue from the new government's recent decision to accept resort island's lease extension payments in installments, an amendment that former Tourism Minister Dr Mariyam Zulfa contends was pushed through by several local resort owners with vested interests, that immediately cost the treasury US$135 million.
In March, MIRA anticipated receiving a total of Rf375 million (US$ 24 million) for lease extensions, however the income received dropped to Rf23 million (US$1.5 million) as a result of the decision.
Meanwhile today the publicly-owned State Trading Organisation (STO) dropped legal attempts to reclaim a US$1.2 million debt owed by the Meridian Services owned by MP Abdulla Riyaz of the new ruling coalition. The STO justified the decision in a letter to the court, by stating that it did not have enough board members to meet quorum and make decisions.
In a bid to address spiralling costs, the government is reviewing the Aasandha universal health scheme introduced by Nasheed's administration on January 1 this year, which "is and will always be completely financially unsustainable in a country such as the Maldives", according to President Waheed's Special Advisor, Dr Hassan Saeed, in an article for newspaper Haveeru.
"The introduction of unrestricted, universal free healthcare with no agreed regulation or management was an act of folly, recklessness and irresponsible political immaturity that rivals any of the actions of Mr Nasheed's administration," Dr Saeed contended.
"And what's more he knew this but still went ahead with it. And the consequence is that we now have the IMF breathing down our necks and a budget deficit that threatens to derail all government social programmes," Dr Saeed wrote.
The new regime has already ruined the country with their greed, PR and bribes. Totally irresponsible! We have gone back 10 years in less then 10 weeks financially.
Welcome to the new reality. Unless we can inject massive capital from international community we are ring to go belly up. Print the money and take all the foreign currencies to Malaysia and Singapore for the Baghees to survive and leave the bones to the people again.
This article lacks a lot of information, that should be told to the public along with everything said here. Article should have mentioned all the steps taken by the government to cut-over head expenses. Some very important steps were taken to reduce the deficit. The civil-servant salaries had to be restored to respect the court rule last year, there is nothing the government can do. Militants promotions should take effect to respect the guidelines of procedures made years back. Fishermen subsidies is something the government owes to the citizens, there is no way the government can stop giving these subsidies. The above mentioned reasons are to be looked in a broad manner, all those reasons are bound to happen if the government is respecting the Maldives constitution. Minivan News should show responsibly when reporting these critical articles which can easily give wrong impression about the authorities to the people.
This article is very biased. Minivan News is trying to twist the truth and to flame the people against the government. Previous government did not respect the law and order - and did not give the subsidies and civil salaries. Its changed now. current government is following the rules and regulations - therefore ruling according to the constitution. Civil Salaries and subsidies is to be given. Why did Minivan News not report the governments cost cutting plans, and plans like the port to be built increase the foreign income brought to the country. Biased article this is. MDP slaves!
Some bad policies by Nasheeds administration... to mention a few ..
1. Devaluing the Rufiyaa especially changing the exchange rate regime..
It is as if every regime is out to bankrupt the country!
Minivan News & its MDP propenda. Why cant Minivan News "the so called Independant news" tell the real news. MDP Govt in 3 years disbursed major funds to its activits and friends. Look at the Audit reports of last 3 years.
Previous regime streamlined government, reduced debt and taxed the super rich to help the less well off. Not rocket science. That was after paying for Gayooms disgusting yacht, 60 cars and vulgar palace. Get real and wake up! National debt went down to 10% under Nasheed, these guys are robbing us!
People commenting here and criticizing the MDP previous govt. are ignorant about economics and spreadsheets but masters in greed and corruption!


• After a Lions field goal to cut the Rams' lead to seven, Detroit attempted an onside kick that the Rams recovered in Detroit territory. L.A. capped the drive with a field goal to extend their lead to 10 points. With how well the Lions were playing defense, this was an unnecessary risk that the Lions never recovered from.
• In a game where Rams quarterback Jared Goff struggled, Todd Gurley led the way with over 160 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns. His fourth-quarter touchdown sealed the win as the Rams clinched the NFC West title with four games left to play.
• Aaron Donald was unblockable as he finished with two sacks, a forced fumble and four tackles for loss. Detroit had no answer for Donald as he completely dominated the game. He has 16.5 sacks on the season and is trying to win back-to-back Defensive Player of the Year awards for the surging Rams.
• Detroit wasted a great effort by their defense as they held the explosive Rams offense to 344 yards of total offense. They were able to force two turnovers and sacked Jared Goff four times on the day.


For this post, we're bringing you the top 5 villas on the Costa del Sol that are for sale for under €800,000. If you've been thinking about buying your dream home on the Costa del Sol, then this post will give you a good understanding of the Villas that are on the market.
This stunning 6 bedroom villa is located in the popular area of Miraflores, and is only a short distance away from the beach. This home is also only a short walk away from shops, bars and restaurants and has been fitted with high quality contemporary furniture.
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A well known development method is based on Service Oriented Architecture. One of its claimed benefits is the re-use of services already built. Re-use will lower the costs of development and maintenance and could minimise the time to market for new functionality. In order to efficiently decide which services can be re-used, one needs to know which services are already available. This is the first problem. Often, there are already much services built over many years. No one has the overview of the services currently available. When one does know a service that is applicable for re-use, another problem is that there is no insight into what effect a change of this service might have on other, related services. It might be that a small change in service A will result in a big disfunctioning of service B, C or even Z further down the chain of interactions.
SoaVis can help to provide an overview of all services which is easy to browse and navigate. For each service, it shows at least the basic functionality and the relations with other services and systems. Changes in the overview are immediately visible, whether there is a new service added or the relations of an existing service are changed.
Generally, a good solution starts with a Central Repository which stores all services and their designs (both internal workings as well as the external interface). Often this Central Repository is already in place but hard to use for analysis. It mostly consists of the base code and maybe (if lucky) some separate interface definitions.
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The business managers could browse through the publicly available services to get insight into what is already available. With that knowlegde, they often think of new functionality that could be easily provided by just re-using existing services in a different way. For instance, look at a Customer Service Center where the representatives are using a set of services to determine the current portfolio of the customer. Using the same set of services, this same portfolio could easily be shown on the internet where the customer is logged into his private page.
Solution Architects could analyse both public and private services to determine the most efficient way to solve a problem for the business.
Service Designers can analyse the services to determine what the impact of a change might be for other services.
By coupling other information to specific services, testers could generate overviews of the status of a service, whether it is accepted or there are still errors.
Project Managers can use the relations of services to determine the dependencies between different projects touching the same services.
Support Operators could get insight into the use of services when the performance information is coupled. Every service could provide a history of information like how often it has been called per day, week or even hour if desired.


What Causes Bones to Degrade?
Did you know that we begin to lose bone mass in our mid-thirties? And that men and children are also at risk? Fortunately healthy bones can be built by implementing simple, natural lifestyle strategies.
Nobody's perfect, and even some of the healthiest foods out there have a flaw: anti-nutrients. Anti-nutrients are compounds that can block the absorption of important bone-building minerals. Nuts, seeds, grains, and legumes are the biggest offenders, but by sprouting, or better yet fermenting these foods – you unlock their nutrient potential. Additionally, maintaining a proper colon pH by consuming probiotic rich-foods or a probiotic supplement will aid in mineral absorption.
Did you know that your bones are living, and are constantly in the process of breaking down and rebuilding? Exercise is a great way to encourage your bones to rebuild themselves and become stronger. The best kind? Weight-bearing exercises, like weight lifting, or any exercise where your bones are working against gravity, like walking, climbing stairs, hiking or dancing.
Our bones are our body's main reservoir of alkaline minerals, like calcium and magnesium, which our body calls upon to help maintain proper blood pH. When our diet is too acidic (as is those that are more centered around meat, grains and dairy) our body needs to draw on our bones to help buffer the acid, thus leaching our bones of the very minerals they need to stay strong. Going green, as in eating more phytonutrient-rich vegetables and fruits provides your body with alkalizing minerals, helping your bones stay strong and healthy.
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Sporian is a technology leader in high-temperature sensing, low-power field sensing, and edge analysis. Our products bring advanced control, health monitoring, and IIoT capabilities to the most critical industrial assets.
ThermIQ™ pressure, flow, temperature, vibration, and position sensors can enable the next generation of control, monitoring, and digitization in critical industrial assets. Proven for use up to 1,200°C (1,600°C in some cases) and driven by Sporian's ceramic and signal processing IP, the products can enhance performance and availability in combustion, reaction, and molten media assets. Sporian can meet many of the specialty sensing needs of industrial operators and support the development requirements of OEMs and control integrators. Contact us directly to learn more.
ThermIQ™ sensors enable advanced combustion and compressor control for aerospace turbines. Sporian's products can contribute to improved fuel efficiency/performance and reduce unplanned downtime, delivering cost savings. Learn more here.
ThermIQ™ sensors enable advanced control, monitoring, and digitization in power generation and mechanical drive gas turbines, burner systems, and other combustion assets. Learn more here.
ThermIQ™ liquid media sensors improve control and on-spec production in applications involving very hot process flows and high-pressure reactions. Learn more here.