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"You bring the tea service. I'll bring $20,000. In cash. Let's keep this off the books."
Letter from Lansy
EPISODE VI: "Weekender Loonies and Sicko 212s!"
A final missive from Lansy Everett, formerly of the New York Herald Tribune, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Vogue, Worth, and Harper's Bazaar
Dear Graydon:
Since I'm filing this just before Christmas, let me tie up this bundle of Upstate Journals in a neat little bow. (And it's the ONLY present you'll be getting from me! They used to LOVE me at Murray's Cheese for all the gift boxes I sent out on Si's dime, but now I'm persona non gratin.)
My previous journal left off with Louise Deeds—for it was indeed she, very much alive—aquiver in my arms, shocked to find a stranger addressing her by name in the Palm Beach house where she had been held prisoner for 25 years. "My name is Lansy," I said. I was all set to tenderly show her a photo of her son, Haven, as a grown man, but I couldn't get the Face ID on my iPhone to recognize me and shouted, "Oh, for fuck's sake, come ON!" at it—not a good look given the context—and then I had to type in my numerical code, which slightly killed the drama of the moment.
But finally, after some trouble, I was able to pull up the picture I'd taken of Haven in his apron at the A-OK supermarket in Slattern. When I cooed to Louise, "There's your boy—he cuts meat now," she held her hand over her mouth and convulsed with sobs. Then she looked up at me and said, "I … I didn't kill my husband, if that's what you're here for. Are you F.B.I.?"
Minor Umbrage
I'm not proud to say that I took minor umbrage at this. I smoothed a hand over my Steven Stolman sheath and said, "Really? F.B.I.? In this dress?"
Then, remembering that I was supposed to be compassionate, I gently led her to one of the Gabriella Crespi rattan pencil-reed "ear" chairs in the impeccably curated living room of her captors, Ty and Vegan Conroy. There, huddled against me, Louise began to talk—well, tried to, except that every 30 seconds one or the other of us kept TUMBLING off of the chair! Fond as I was of Gabriella, she never WAS good at practicality.
So we settled ourselves on the floor. And there, Louise unspooled a tale as twisted and bendy as the pattern on the Conroys' Gio Ponti rug.
Walt and Louise were childhood sweethearts, born and raised in Slattern. He was a carpenter, she cleaned houses. They were used to dealing with weekender loonies of our tribe, having both worked for Ismail Merchant and Jim Ivory at their place in Claverack and witnessed the likes of Simon Callow, Vanessa Redgrave, and Wally Shawn playing nude badminton while Ismail looked on, grilling his Sarson-walla prawns.
Things Got Strange
But the Conroys were another thing entirely. They bought the old Tippety Top Dairy, renamed it Vandal Farm (?!?), and spent a fortune replanting, rebuilding, and redecorating it. Walt made good money doing some of the renovations, but when the Conroys actually moved in, in '94, things got strange. Louise, who cleaned their house twice a week, witnessed violent fights between Ty and Vegan. "They always wore these real tight riding clothes and tall boots, and their fights seemed to turn them on," she told me. "After one of their throwdowns, I just wanted to cheer up Mrs. Conroy, so I told her how much I liked the tea set that I was polishing. It was real pretty, made of shiny bronze. And Mrs. Conroy, she just screamed at me, 'Then take it! TAKE IT, Louise! I don't like that old 70s shit anyway.'
"Then we started hearing crazy stuff about their private life—that they liked to be in threesomes, foursomes, six-somes. Folks around our area were always looking to earn extra money, and I know some milkers and herdsmen and barn-builders who spent the night at Vandal Farm. After a while, the Conroys got one of the local guys to work as a recruiter for them, passing around pictures of the Cushman's fruit stand and saying there was good winter work in South Florida in the citrus groves, and you can't beat the weather. Mr. and Mrs. Conroy would pay for their travel, and maybe for a few other things, if you catch my drift. A few people took them up on their offer, but not us.
"That's where it turned bad, actually. Walt was picking me up from Vandal Farm one day because my truck was in the shop, and Mr. C asked us to stay for a minute. He and Mrs. C put out some wine and brie and, basically, they indecent-proposal'd us. That was the name of a big movie at the time, I don't know if you know it. It didn't get particularly good reviews, but I always liked anything with Woody Harrelson in it, even Doc Hollywood, and—"
"The STORY, Louise!" I said. "Get ON with it!"
He and Mrs. C put out some wine and brie and, basically, they indecent-proposal'd us.
"Yes, ma'am, sorry. So Walt, he could get hotheaded, right? And he says to Mr. Conroy, 'We ain't no pervs like you sicko 212s—the act of sexual intercourse is for one woman and one man!' And Mrs. Conroy says, 'Well, then, give me back my tea set!' And then Mr. Conroy, he goes nuts on Mrs. Conroy and says, 'THAT's where the tea service went? How could you give it to these dumb yokels? That set is worth 20 grand!'"
"And this was the Crespi tea service, Louise?" I asked.
"I don't know Crespi from Pepsi, ma'am," she said. "But when Walt heard '20 grand,' he said to Mr. Conroy, 'You can have that damned tea set back if you buy it back.' Mr. Conroy, he liked Walt's guts for saying that. He said, 'You got a pair-a balls on you, kid. You might of been able to work for me … if you'd finished high school.' Well, that got Walt red in the face. He up and tackled Mr. Conroy, and I screamed and tried to separate them while Mrs. Conroy just stood there watching them, stroking her inner leg with a riding crop. Walt had Mr. Conroy pinned when Mr. Conroy said, 'O.K., it's a deal. Tomorrow, we'll meet at the far side of Leech Pond. You bring the tea service. I'll bring $20,000. In cash. Let's keep this off the books.'
"After that, Walt and I drove to the Slattern Ridge Tavern to cool off. Walt felt like he'd won. He said that that kind of money would set us free, and we'd never have to worry about how to support our son. But it didn't feel right to me, and I told him so. Before I knew it, we were hollering at each other, and we'd gotten the attention of the whole tavern. I was so embarrassed that I ran out, and Walt followed, promising me that it would all be O.K.
"The next morning, we left little Haven with my cousin Taystee"—Graydon, I'm spelling that out phonetically, Lord knows how it is actually spelled—"and we set out in our boat to the far side of Leech Pond, with the tea set tied to the bow in a dry bag. I was a mess. The far side of the pond had always been a happy place for us, where Walt and I would take Haven skinny-dipping on summer nights. Haven loved it when we held him close in the water, skin to skin. He used to say, 'Mommy, Daddy, look at us—we're Love People!'
"We set out in our boat to the far side of Leech Pond, with the tea set tied to the bow in a dry bag. I was a mess."
"We got to the far side, and there were the Conroys, waiting in front of their Land Rover with their stuck-up smiles on their faces. I got out of the boat first and handed over the dry bag to Mrs. Conroy. Then Mr. Conroy unzipped an old canvas duffle bag that said DREXEL BURNHAM something-or-other on it to show us the cash inside. He said to Walt, 'Don't spend it all in Beverly Hills, Jed Clampett.'
"That got Walt's temper up all over again, and he took a swing at Mr. C. They got to rassling on the ground, just like the last time, right down to Mrs. C stroking her inner thigh with the riding crop. Only this time, it was Walt who got pinned. Before I knew what was happening, Mr. C. grabbed the crop from his wife and held it over Walt's neck, saying, 'Take it, backwoods boy' over and over in this low-pitched devil voice. And then Walt went limp, dead. Mrs. C got mad, saying, 'Damn it, Ty, you killed another one! You can't go this hard!' He got all angry and said, 'Baby, I was in the moment!' Me, I just screamed and rained fists on Mr. C's back. That's when they duct-taped me and threw me into the back of the Rover. Then they loaded Walt into our boat and pushed it adrift."
Graydon, they drove Louise all the way down to their Palm Beach place in a straight shot, telling her that they'd kill her too if she tried to get help. By the time they were approaching the Southern Boulevard Causeway, it was mid-morning the next day. Vegan abruptly insisted that they detour to John G's for breakfast because she was starving. "Mr. C got angry at this, and then they were all caught up in another one of their fights," Louise said. "So at a stoplight in Lake Worth, I ripped the duct tape off of my wrists and ankles and made a run for a Walgreens. I still had my ATM card, so I took out $200 for a bus ticket. I needed to get home to my boy. But the Conroys came in, grabbed me, and hauled me back out. I guess, Florida being Florida, no one thought anything of two rich people in riding gear dragging a barefoot woman in a dirty sundress along a sidewalk."
"At a stoplight in Lake Worth, I ripped the duct tape off of my wrists and ankles and made a run for a Walgreens."
Thereafter, Louise became their prisoner and servant, too frightened and brainwashed to flee, even after the Season ended each April. Winter weekends, she said, were the worst: endlessly cleaning up after the Conroys' house parties, at which, she said, "they did some disgusting things with them Cushman's Honeybells that I can't even talk to you about."
So transfixed was I by Louise's grisly tale that I'd forgotten that my mission was to hustle her out of the house as soon as possible and into the car where Patrick Lyonnais, my co-conspirator and lookout, was waiting. The spell was interrupted by the sound of commotion and car doors slamming, followed by Patrick's voice shouting "LANNN-ZEEEE, get her OUT!"
Louise and I made haste out the front door into the yard, but it was too late. Ty and Vegan had returned early from the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue gala—after getting into another of their violent fights, I was later to learn—and now Ty was advancing toward me.
"Unhand her, lady!" he said, pulling a bowie knife from a phallic black-leather sheath that hung from his belt. My mind was a blur of thoughts: We are about to get killed. His facial work looks less impressive up close—more Larry Ellison than Sandy Gallin. What kind of monster wears a knife to a BENEFIT?
Louise broke free and made a beeline for the gate. I wasn't so lucky. Ty Conroy raised his knife to stab me, end me.
Two Bullets in His Rear End
And then there was a sudden POP-POP, and he fell to the ground, the tip of his knife grazing my face above my left eye, opening up a cut. He was yowling in pain, having taken two bullets in his rear end. Behind him, holding a revolver, stood my savior: Fulgencio, my little man from Chez Jean-Pierre, the keenest-eared of busboys! He had overheard the ENTIRE conversation that Patrick and I had had with Simon Doonan, Jonny Adler, Steven Stolman, and Rich Wilkie about saving Louise from her prison on Inlet Drive!
"I could no take the chance that you get hurt, so I follow you," said Fulgencio.
"And you came … packing heat?" I said, gasping with relief.
"This is Florida, Miss Lansy," he said. "We got the stand-your-ground law."
Louise Deeds received a hero's welcome in Slattern Ridge when we got back last week, Graydon. And she and Haven's reunion was a SIGHT to behold: an embrace that lasted as long as the villagers' sing-along of Neil Diamond's "Hey Louise." And when Louise saw her son's paintings—of his "Love People" going about their business naked, the only state in which Haven could ever remember being happy in Slattern—she was overcome with joy.
So was David Zwirner, whom Patrick had dragged up from the city to view Haven's work. "Lansy, dis gives me da feels," said David. Next year, he's putting Haven in a group show at his gallery with two other low-information regional primitivists.
A Quiet New Life in Slattern
The Conroys long ago sold their farm in Hillsdale, but the Feds have raided their places on 68th Street and in Palm Beach, and the couple face multiple counts of second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, and possession of Schedule I drugs. Plus, Simon has charged them in the court of public opinion for being "disappointingly normcore given their sexual deviance."
As for me, I'm just trying to get back to my quiet new life in Slattern, in my little flat on Main Street above the tattoo parlor. Haven and Louise are coming over for Boxing Day supper: rotisserie chicken and Kirkland Rioja courtesy of Costco, and, for dessert a crate of Cushman's Honeybells. Harry & David, their current corporate parent, sent it to me with their compliments for exposing "wanton conduct that runs counter to the wholesome values that the late Ed Cushman held dear."
Early this morning, I took my Kia Soul to the Kwik Fill for gas. Even in the cold, the Duck Dynasty boys were out front of the station at dawn, sitting on crates, drinking the weak urn coffee and smoking their ciggies. Dyer Dwyer, the very first member of the local gentry with whom I struck up a conversation when I moved here, motioned for me to pull up a crate. "Coffee and a cruller's on me, Miss Jessica Fletcher," he said.
I pulled up the collar of my Prada puffer, sat down, bummed a Pall Mall off of Dyer, and used his to light mine. His brother, J.D., brought me a cup of Kwik Fill swill, heavy on the Cremora and sugar.
"Look at you, sittin' here with us hillbillies, all nicked up from a knife fight," Dyer said, pointing to the six stitches above my eyebrow that I've yet to have removed. "You fit right in. It's like you've always been here, Lansy."
Get a load of me, Graydon: I am now a LOCAL!
Lansy
Read Lansy's previous episodes here
Photos: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock (Adler and Doonan); Iris/WireImage (Spacek); Geraint Lewis/Alamy (Shawn); Moviestore Collection/Shutterstock (Modesty)


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Luke Jonathan Thomas (Syston, Inglaterra, Reino Unido, 10 de junio de 2001) es un futbolista británico que juega en la demarcación de defensa para el Leicester City F. C. de la Premier League de Inglaterra.

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Tiler Peck is an award-winning principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet, an actress, choreographer and designer. She added the title of curator to her ever-growing list of accolades when she launched and starred in the Los Angeles Music Center's presentation of BalletNOW, a part of the Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance At The Music Center program. Tiler also starred in the Hulu feature documentary, Ballet Now from Paul Allen's Vulcan Productions with executive producer, Elisabeth Moss and director, Steven Cantor. She recently had the honor of choreographing the box office smash action movie, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.
Ms. Peck was born in Bakersfield, California where she began her dance training at the age of two at her mom's dance studio. At the age of 14, she entered the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, full time. The same year, she became an apprentice with the New York City Ballet and in a few short months was asked to join the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. Tiler was promoted to Soloist in 2006 and to Principal Dancer in 2009 where she remains to this day.
Tiler made her Broadway debut as Gracie Shinn in Meredith Wilson's The Music Man at the age of 11 and also appeared on Broadway as Ivy Smith in the Tony Nominated On The Town. She portrayed the role of Louise in the Emmy-nominated production of New York Philharmonic's Live From Lincoln Center production of Carousel and recently played the title role in Susan Stroman's newest musical, Little Dancer, at the Kennedy Center. She is attached to star in the production, now called Marie, for its Broadway run.
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Nowki est une localité polonaise de la gmina de Bliżyn, située dans le powiat de Skarżysko en voïvodie de Sainte-Croix.

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Water delivered by dental units during routine dental practice is highly contaminated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a new chemical solution flushed through Dental Unit Water Lines (DUWL) for the control of contamination inside dental units.
Six old dental units equipped with a device designed to automatically flush disinfecting solutions through the water system (Castellini Autosteril) were selected. Water samples from DUWL effluents were collected in each dental unit for 10 randomly selected days, before and after a 5 minute DUWL disinfecting cycle with TetraAcetylEthileneDiamine (TAED) and persalt (Ster4spray produced by Farmec spa, and distributed by Castellini spa). Water samples were plated in R2A Agar and cultured at room temperature for 7 days, and the total number of heterotrophic microorganisms counted and expressed in Log10 CFU/mL A general linear model was fitted and multiple regression ANOVA for repeated measures was used for the statistical analysis.
The mean contamination in DUWL effluent at baseline was 5.45 ± 0.35 CFU/mL (range 4.79 to 5.93 CFU/mL). When water samples were tested "in vitro" against the chemical, no growth of heterotrophic bacteria was detected after a 5 minute contact in any of the water samples tested. After undergoing a 5 minute disinfecting cycle with the chemical, DUWL mean contamination in water effluents was 2.01 ± 0.32 CFU/mL (range 1.30 to 2.74 CFU/mL) (significant difference with respect to baseline).
An inbetween patient disinfecting procedure consisting of flushing DUWL with TAED and persalt equivalent to 0.26% peracetic acid could be useful in routine dental practice for cross-contamination control.
It has been known for more than 30 years that water delivered by dental units during routine dental practice is highly contaminated by numerous species of pathogen and non-pathogen microorganisms which enter dental units retracted up from the oral cavity of patients undergoing dental treatment or delivered by incoming municipal water, the so called heterotrophic bacteria [1–3]. Inside dental units, heterotrophic bacteria persist in DUWLs growing as a multispecie biofilm on the inner surface and continuously supplying dental unit water system. In 1996 American Dental Association established a goal for dental water to contain no more than 200 Colony Forming Units (CFU) /mL (2.3 in Log10 CFU/mL) of heterotrophic unfiltered output  Several methods have been suggested by which the DUWL contamination by heterotrophics might be kept under this limit and flushing protocols or chemical treatment are some of the options available to dentists [5, 6].
Among chemicals now available, peracetic acid is one of the most powerful biocidal agent with a rapid and broad spectrum biocidal activity and could be a useful chemical for the purpose of controlling DUWL contamination [7, 8], although, as delivered, it has a series of side-effects which have limited its use in dentistry [9–12].
In recent years, a new chemical formulation (TetraAcetylEthyleneDiamine in association with persalt) has been proposed as a non hazardous means of generating peracetic acid in situ in the absence of preformed peracetic acid side-effects [13, 14].
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the chemical to control DUWL bacterial contamination by heterotrophics both when tested "in vitro" and when flushed into DUWL.
We selected for use in this study 6 dental units (Castellini Logos), all connected to municipal water and that had been in daily use for approximately 1 year. None of the selected units had ever been treated for removal of biofilm or reduction of planktonic bacteria. All dental units were equipped with a device designed to automatically flush disinfecting solutions through the water system (Castellini Autosteril).
a) DUWL contamination at baseline: a water sample (2 mls) was recovered in the morning before working for 10 randomly selected days from the high-speed handpiece line of each dental unit (60 samples). Samples were collected into a sterile tube added with filter-sterilized sodium thiosulphate at a final concentration of 18 μg/ml to oppose the growth-inhibiting effects of residual chlorine. Two split samples of each were made; the first split sample served to evaluate DUWL contamination at baseline.
b) DUWL contamination following "in vitro" contact with Ster4spray: the second split sample was used for the purpose. Ster4spray (produced by Farmed spa and distributed by Castellini spa Italy) is a fine powder containing a binary active system (TetraAcetylEthyleneDiamine and sodium perborate) which is activated by dissolving in water at a initial temperature of 35°C to form peracetyl ions at pH 8, equivalent to 0.26 % peracetic acid ensuring stable concentration up to 24 hours. The active is completely biodegradable and degrades to acetic acid, oxygen and water . One part of each water sample was tested against nine parts of disinfectant. After five minute of contact time, one mL of the mixture was rapidly added to 9 mL of the recovery/neutralizer broth (3% polysorbate 80, 0.1% L-histidine, 0.3% lecithin, 0.5% sodium thiosulphate in phosphate buffer 25N) to prevent further inactivation taking place.
c) DUWL contamination after a disinfecting cycle with Ster4spray flushed through DUWL by Autosteril: after collecting samples at baseline, each dental unit underwent (each morning for 10 days) a disinfecting cycle with Ster4spray consisting of flushing DUWLs with the disinfectant and washing it for 2 minutes after a 5 minute contact, and a further water sample was collected immediately after each cycle into a sterile tube added with filter-sterilized sodium thiosulphate.
Water samples (at baseline and after either "in vitro" disinfecting tests or "inside dental unit" disinfecting cycles) were plated in R2A Agar within 3 hours of collection and cultured at room temperature for 7 days, and the total number of heterotrophic microorganisms counted. All absolute counts were converted to Log10 values. This laboratory procedure has been recognized to be the best procedure to collect most of heterotrophic bacteria from DUWL [15–17].
A general linear model was fitted and multiple regression ANOVA for repeated measures was used to evaluate differences in CFU/mL between dental units, times (baseline and after disinfecting cycles) and the interaction of dental units × time; the Bonferroni t test was applied for significant values as a multiple-comparison t-test. The statistical analysis performed (multiple regression ANOVA for repeated measures by fitting a general linear model relating cfu to dental unit, disinfection and the interaction between dental unit × disinfection), not only allowed to evaluate any difference between cfu values before and after the disinfecting cycles, but also to evaluate any statistical difference in cfu between dental units and any difference between dental units in the cfu decreasing rate following the disinfecting cycles.
a) DUWL mean contamination at baseline (in Log10) was 5.45 ± .35 CFU/mL (range, 4.79 to 5.93 CFU/mL). Heterotrophic counts higher than 2.3 Log10 CFU/mL were found in all water samples. No significant difference in CFU/mL was found between dental units (F = 2.17; NS).
b) No growth of heterotrophic bacteria was detected in any of the water samples tested "in vitro" with Ster4spray.
c) DUWL mean contamination (in Log10) in water effluents from dental units which had undergone disinfecting cycles with Ster4spray was 2.01 ± .32 CFU/mL (range 1.30 to 2.74 CFU/mL). Heterotrophic counts higher than 2.3 Log10 CFU/mL were only found in 10% of water samples. The difference in CFU/mL between values obtained after dental units had undergone disinfecting cycles and values at baseline was highly significant (F = 178.8; p < .01). No significant difference in CFU/mL decreasing rate after the disinfecting cycles was found between dental units (F = 2.18; NS).
Water effluents from DUWL are highly populated in routine dental practice by heterotrophic bacteria principally originating from municipal water piped to the dental unit. Human pathogens, sucked back into the lines during dental procedures due to inadequate anti-retraction on dental units, have also been reported in some studies [3, 18, 19]. Both oral pathogens and heterotrophic bacteria can be responsible for severe diseases, and immune-compromised patients in particular may be at high risk .
As far as heterotrophic bacteria are concerned, the results of this study confirmed that DUWL are highly contaminated when dental units in use for several months receive no decontaminating treatment. According to our data, the great amount of DUWL contamination did not greatly differ from a dental unit to another and none of the water samples collected at the beginning of randomly selected working days reached CFU/ml values below the limit imposed by ADA for the year 2000 .
Interesting results have been obtained by testing the water samples against peracetic acid delivered by the chemical solution. After 5 minute of contact no growth of heterotrophic bacteria was found in any of 60 water samples tested. These results are in agreement with other reports showing that preformed peracetic acid possess a very rapid and broad spectrum microbicidal activity together with a very good activity against biofilm in waterlines used for haemodialysis [8–12].
However, despite these interesting properties, preformed peracetic acid has not been so far utilized in any study in dentistry with the aim to control DUWL contamination. Effectively, as delivered, preformed peracetic acid is unstable, potentially explosive, highly acidic and as a consequence highly corrosive. These properties make products containing preformed peracetic acid difficult to formulate for long term storage stability and difficult to handle and transport so limiting the use of this product in dentistry [9–11].
In the recent years, TAED with peroxygen source at near neutral pH has been clamed to provide a nonhazardous means of generating peracetic acid in situ, in the absence of the preformed peracetic acid side-effects .
Preliminary data from a previous study showed the relevant biocidal "in vitro" activity of the test formulation against human pathogens including spores, and data from the present study underline its great efficacy against heterotrophic bacteria both when tested "in vitro" and when flushed into DUWL .
In fact, DUWL flushing with the chemical solution left standing into DUWL for 5 minutes provided a good control of DUWL in all dental units studied, the mean CFU/ml values being well lower than the limit imposed from ADA, and values higher than 2.3 Log10 CFU/mL being only detected in 6 out of 60 samples.
These data are in agreement with other studies which have obtained similar results, but adopting different disinfecting procedure [21–23], consisting of introducing chemicals into water systems either continuously or intermittently during working pauses [24–28].
Although the mentioned treatments offer less potential for recolonization of waterlines since they keep into contact the chemicals with DUWL for longer periods of time, most of these agents can not probably ensure a rapid killing of viruses and bacteria eventually sucked back during dental procedures, since they are used at very low concentration in the continuous waterline supply or during working pauses .
Instead, we may speculate that intermittent between-patient treatment regimens using potentially biocidal concentrations of germicide, besides keeping low level of heterotrophic bacterial counts during dental procedures, could be also effective in eliminating oral pathogens eventually aspirated from patients under dental treatment and spread out during next procedures.
For this purpose the chemical formulation tested in this study might be very useful when used between patients in combination with dental units which incorporate the capacity to disinfect DUWL by the automatic flushing of lines.
ii)The between-patient flushing of dental unit waterlines with disinfecting solutions with strong and rapid biocidal activity could be very effective in controlling microbial contamination in water effluents during dental procedures.


With a population of only 8,473 people, San Augustine County, Texas, is a small rural county. The county covers 592 square miles. San Augustine County is one of 38 counties located in East Texas. East Texas is also often colloquially referred to as the Piney Woods, an area characterized by dense pine forest that unurls into Arkansas and Louisiana. The most common type of land for sale in San Augustine County is residential property. Recent Lands of Texas data showed 5,145 acres of land for sale in San Augustine County valued at a combined $17 million, with a median sale price of $97,000. Based on data for median land prices throughout the state, land for sale in San Augustine County is currently valued cheaper than in other counties. The city of Broaddus in San Augustine County featured the most land listings for sale. The average price-per-acre value of land for sale in San Augustine County places the county 145th overall in the state.
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Q: get unicode graphemes as unsplitted item with python2.7 any idea, if it is possible with regex (python 2.7) to get uniq chars unspitted into surrogate pairs for unicode graphemes?
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Kristin Chenoweth Fashions Cheeky 'Corset' Out Of Palm Bract
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American actress Kristin Chenoweth took to Instagram Monday evening to share a video of her using a piece of palm bract to make a unique corset.
"I'm walking down Santa Monica and I pick up this from a tree, and it's a corset. Christian Seriano, I'm helping you out on my next gown," she quipped, referring to the American fashion designer who was thrust into the international spotlight after the 4th season of American design competition show Project Runway.
The Tony Award-winning actress, who is also a successful recording and concert artist, has a long history of success in the world of theater, including roles in Wicked, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and On the Twentieth Century.
In a recent interview with Broadway World, Chenoweth spoke about the theater role that stands out as her favorite.
"For sure Candide at the New York Philharmonic that was filmed for [PBS'] Great Performances was a highlight for me because I'd always been told by my teacher Florence Birdwell (who I admire very much) that [Cunégonde in] Candide was my part," she said.
"I had very much looked up to Barbara Cook and I always wanted to do that role."
The 50-year-old artist also revealed that her mother was the most significant influence on her decision to become a performer. She said that her mother always let her practice, was supportive of her needs, and encouraged her to participate in choir and drama.
The Music Modernization Act "protects the actual future of the music industry" – Kristen Chenoweth. That was a huge win, but there's still more hard work to be done! #GRAMMYsOnTheHill https://t.co/0LtysQbKpn
— musicFIRST (@musicFIRST) April 7, 2019
As The Inquisitr previously reported, Chenoweth was one of the presenters at the Tony Awards early in June, along with Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jane Krakowski, Sara Bareilles, Abigail Breslin, Lucy Liu, Judith Light, Samira Wiley, Sienna Miller, David Byrne, Tina Fey, Sutton Foster, and Darren Criss.
Hollywood Life spoke to Chenoweth at the Awards and reports that she said she would love to play Dolly Parton on the Broadway stage. She also added that Parton will be featured on her upcoming album, along with Ariana Grande, Reba McEntire, and J. Hud.
"It's for the girls, about the girls, and by the girls!" she said.
Chenoweth said in the same Hollywood Life interview that she has recently been dedicating her time to her Broadway Bootcamp, which began on the night of the Tony Awards and took place in her state-of-the-art theater with 1,500 seats. She said it consisted of an intense week of singing, dancing, acting, followed by a week of performances — and some scholarships will be awarded.


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Opening July 13, sculptor Marc D'Estout and mixed media artist Silvia Poloto will present their work in a shared exhibition titled Cryptic Intersection in the Main Gallery. The opening reception will be held on Friday, July 13, from 7 to 9 pm, with music by Jamey Brzezinski.
Brazilian-born Silvia Poloto works in a range of visual disciplines. She is known for her lively abstract canvases and mixed-media sculptures. Using a variety of media, she explores juxtapositions that unfold in rich, textured hues and expressive gestures. The result is a body of work characterized by equal amounts of surprise, playfulness, and provocation. We are honored that Poloto has created a new series for this exhibition, including many large collages. While the Bay Area is Poloto's current home, her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, including United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, Jordania, Italy, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, and China. In the Bay Area, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Italian American Museum, and the DeYoung Museum, where she was an artist-in-residence. Poloto's work has been acquired by more than 80 institutional and corporate collections around the US and by more than 900 private collectors around the world.
Marc D'Estout's hand-crafted metal sculptures are surprising, minimalist yet rich with surrealist narrative. His work often reveals a dark humor, a sense of the uncanny, or vaguely threatening. D'Estout has a deep connection with materials and process. He has mastered the challenging skills of hand-shaping and fabricating sheet metal forms, which he then finishes with carefully crafted surfaces. His style of metalsmithing or metal-shaping falls somewhere between the fine art metalsmith and the artisans who hand-form custom car bodies. This combination of D'Estout's vision with highly disciplined craft-based processes makes his work unique in contemporary art. His work has been shown at numerous venues, including University of Hawaii Art Gallery; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; SFMOMA Artist's Gallery; San Jose Museum of Art; de Saisset Museum; San Jose ICA; and the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, among others. D'Estout's sculpture is also shown in furniture and design galleries, such as LIMN and Coup d'Etat in San Francisco and Gallery of Functional Art in Santa Monica. He is currently represented by Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco.
To learn more about these fascinating artists, visit the show and then come to their joint Artist Talk on Sunday, July 29, at 3:30 pm in the Main Gallery.
Sanchez Art Center is located at 1220 Linda Mar Blvd in Pacifica, about a mile east of Highway 1. Following opening night, the galleries are open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 1–5 pm, and by appointment, through August 12. For more information, email info@SanchezArtCenter.org or call 650.355.1894.
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Perdomo v. Holder: The Continuing Struggle to Define the Concept of a Particular Social Group
Corey Sullivan Martin
E. Supp. 35
Qualifying for asylum requires that an applicant be considered a refugee. In order to qualify, an applicant bears the burden of demonstrating persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Often, gender-based asylum claims can only proceed under the particular social group category. The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Perdomo v. Holder highlights the court's struggle to identify a coherent and workable definition for a particular social group and the consequent adverse effect on gender-based asylum claims. This Comment explores the Ninth Circuit's definition of a particular social group as well as the Board of Immigration Appeals' conflicting definition. By examining Perdomo in light of these divergent definitions, this Comment demonstrates the need for clarification so that confusing and unnecessary language does not continue to create problems for deserving applicants. This Comment ultimately concludes that the Ninth Circuit should adopt the Board of Immigration Appeals' definition in order to provide greater consistency and clarity in asylum law.
Corey S. Martin, Perdomo v. Holder: The Continuing Struggle to Define the Concept of a Particular Social Group, 31 B.C. Third World L.J. E. Supp. 35 (2011),
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Victor, Idaho – Teton Springs Golf and Casting LLC has chosen Rendezvous Golf Management to manage the Headwaters Club at Teton Springs, a 27-hole resort facility located here at the south end of the Teton Valley of Idaho.
Teton Springs Resort partner Rick Brawner announced April 12 that Rendezvous was selected based on their strategy of combining executive positions in order to drive bottom line results.
In its young history, the Headwaters course has already hosted numerous events including two Rocky Mountain Section PGA Championships, and the Idaho Golf Associations Ladies and Junior Championships. In 2011 it will be conducting the IGA Men's Amateur Championship and the inaugural "Battle in the Tetons", a collegiate event hosted by Weber State University.
In addition to Teton Springs, Rendezvous Golf Management also oversees all operations at nearby River Rim Ranch, a Greg Norman-designed course and real estate community.
Rendezvous Golf Management was formed in 2007 by Bob Marshall and Sean Cracraft. Nestled in the foothills of Teton Valley, Idaho, among three mountain ranges and just 20 minutes west of iconic Jackson Hole, sits the Teton Springs All Season Resort Community. With Yellowstone just 75 miles away and Grand Targhee a mere 24 miles from the club, guests of the expansive resort, members of the Headwaters Club and visionary residents of the community, have one of the country's best-kept secrets.


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New California Independent Contractor Law May Allow Suits Against Rideshare Services
Since their inception, Uber and Lyft have argued that their drivers are independent contractors rather than employees. The companies maintain that they merely provide a technology platform that enables independent contractor drivers to provide services to riders who hire them. The companies contend that they are therefore not covered by numerous laws and legal principles that apply to employers.
Among these is the doctrine of "respondeat superior", a principal-agent rule that holds employers responsible for most acts of their employees, even if not directed or sanctioned by (or even known to) the employer. So long as rideshare drivers are considered independent contractors, Uber and Lyft generally cannot be held responsible for their drivers' negligence.
Independent Contractor Test
In 2018, the California Supreme Court decided a case involving same-day delivery service drivers whose hiring entity considered them to be independent contractors. Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court, et al. established a so-called "ABC test" for determining a worker's status. Under this test, a worker is considered an independent contractor if he or she:
(A) Is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work. This must be both stated in the hiring contract and practiced in reality
(B) Performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business; and
(C) Is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed for the hiring
Common examples include home repair and landscaping contractors.
Assembly Bill 5, a new state law, has now codified the ABC test adopted in Dynamex. While it does not explicitly name any rideshare service, the law can be interpreted as being aimed at them.
AB 5 provides that for purposes of the state's Labor Code and Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, an employer-employee relationship is presumed to exist unless the "hiring entity" can demonstrate the existence of all three elements of the Dynamex "ABC" Test
Among many other questions not explicitly answered by either Dynamex or AB 5 are:
Are Uber and Lyft "hiring entities" or, as they contend, merely providers of a technology platform.
Under the respondeat superior doctrine, can riders who are injured or sexually attacked (see our separate blog on this subject) in a rideshare vehicle successfully sue Uber and Lyft directly, asserting that the Dynamex test isn't satisfied?
AB 5 requires the "hiring entity" to demonstrate that the ABC test applies. In an action by the state under the Labor or Unemployment Insurance Codes, what amount of proof will be considered adequate?
Uber recently announced that it intends to continue treating its California drivers as independent contractors. In thus appears that the last chapter of the employee-versus-independent contractor saga in California has not been written.
The attorneys at the Law Offices of Eslamboly Hakim will remain actively involved in these and related issues on behalf of our clients.
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Synchronised swimming grew as a sport from ornamental swimming and theatrical water ballets of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. In the early days, male swimmers performed round-dances in the water as a swimming art form, decorated with garlands or Chinese lanterns. In 1891, the Royal Life Saving Society of Great Britain (RLSS) published a handbook for swimmers encouraging "ornamental swimming" or "scientific swimming".
The sport developed from life saving and swimming techniques and the first contests, held in 1891 in Berlin and 1892 in London, were for men. However, artistic swimming became accepted as better suited to women because they were more buoyant, especially in the legs, and able to better make pictures with their bodies on the surface of the water.
Australian Annette Kellerman (p37) was described as the first under-water ballerina when she performed in a glass tank at the New York Hippodrome in 1907. A group of women opened the German national swimming championships in Leipzig in 1921 with an exhibition of figure swimming but the main impulse came from Canada. In 1924, in a world first, the Quebec provincial championship for figure and stroke competition, limited to women, was held in Montreal, with the figures taken from the scientific swimming section of the RLSS handbook. Top Canadian diver and water polo player Margaret (Peg) Sellers played a pioneering role and, two years later, won the first official national championship in performing figures and strokes.
The sport had also caught on in the United States, where Katherine (Kay) Curtis, who had already experimented with water stunts as a student at the University of Wisconsin, started a water ballet club at the University of Chicago in 1923. At about the same time, Gertrude Goss introduced rhythmic swimming at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she was an associate professor. Curtis took a shoal of 60 swimmers dubbed the Modern Mermaids to perform in the lagoon at the 1934 World Fair in Chicago. It was there that the term "synchronised swimming" was first introduced to a big audience by the announcer, Norman Ross, Olympic freestyle champion in the 400m and 1,500m in 1920 (p72). The popularity of water ballet soared to its theatrical zenith with film star Esther Williams, a US freestyle champion who performed at the San Francisco World Fair in 1940 – the year the first synchronised swimming competition was held in the United States. "Aquacades" also involved the likes of Johnny Weissmuller (p74), Buster Crabbe (p84) and Eleanor Holm. Williams went on to make a succession of hugely popular "aqua musicals", exposing a burgeoning sport to the world. In Europe, the German Kaethe Jacobi introduced competition in floating patterns with her Isar-Nixen (Isar Mermaids) in Munich in 1934.
Meanwhile, the sport that became known as synchronised swimming grew increasingly technical and athletic, with music accompanying the routines. Synchronised swimming sought a place in the Olympics and featured as a demonstration sport from 1952 to 1968. The sport joined the FINA stable with the 1952 adoption of rules in accordance with proposals from Canada, the USA and Argentina, countries where 'ornamental' and 'figure' swimming had caught the public's imagination. However, a 1952 Peruvian proposal to ask the IOC for Olympic status was rejected.
The United States and Canada also demonstrated the sport at the first Pan-American Games in Buenos Aires in 1951 and synchronised swimming celebrated its first official international competition appearance at the next Pan-American Games in Mexico in 1955. It featured solo, duet and team events, and the US swept all three titles. Marion Kane played a major role as founder and coach of the San Francisco Merionettes and as a promoter of the sport in its bid for a place on the world stage. The sport received further recognition in 1967 when Pam Morris of the Merionettes, the nation's first triple champion in 1965, became the first synchronised swimmer to be inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Synchronised swimming entered global competition, with the United States, Canada and Japan competing at the inaugural FINA World Championships in Belgrade in 1973. It finally took its place as a full Olympic sport in 1984 at the Los Angeles Games.


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Russian-Born Socialite Convicted of New York Fraud – AP
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A Russian-born socialite has been found guilty of theft of services and grand larceny in New York, facing up to 15 years in prison and deportation to Germany, the Associated Press reported Friday.
Anna Sorokin, 28, assumed the name of Anna Delvey when she tricked her friends and banks into financing her lavish $275,000 lifestyle for 10 jet-setting months, prosecutors said. Sorokin — who claimed to be a German heiress — was born in Russia in 1991 and moved with her family to Germany at age 16, New York magazine reported last year.
A Manhattan jury convicted Sorokin of a total of eight counts of theft of services, grand larceny and attempted grand larceny after a month-long trial, AP reported. It acquitted her of one count of grand larceny and one count of attempted grand larceny.
She faces 10 to 15 years in prison and potential deportation to Germany for overstaying her visa.
Sorokin is scheduled to be sentenced on May 9, AP reported.
"There's a little bit of Anna in all of us," Sorokin's defense attorney Todd Spodek was quoted as saying as the sides wrapped up their arguments earlier in the week.
This is the first time Moscow has sent ground troops on the battlefield, rebels say.
Cooperation in this area between the two regulators could alarm Russian proponents of Internet freedom.
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Moscow made the move ahead of Ukrainian parliamentary elections on Sunday.
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Carlos Huber, the founder and curator of Arquiste, is a formally trained architect specializing in Historic Preservation. Born in Mexico City, he also studied in Paris, Spain and New York City.
His experience in the world of luxury retail, creating meticulously detailed interiors for Polo Ralph Lauren, provided a unique opportunity to design commercial spaces with historical references.
Turning to his longtime love of perfumery, Huber studied fragrance development and collaborated with internationally recognized noses, Rodrigo Flores-Roux and Yann Vasnier, in order to recapture the olfactive notes of historical moments.
Each fragrance restores the olfactive experience of a particular time and place, allowing both women and men to unlock personal revelations and experience history in a most intimate way.
His beautiful and complex creations honor history and embrace modernity.
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An international team of scientists have succeeded in splitting a single photon into three, beating some seriously long odd in the process. The work could pave the way for three-way quantum communications and according to lead researcher, Associate Professor Thomas Jennewein will "open a new frontier of quantum optics and allow a new class of experiments in quantum computing using photons.
An international team of scientists have succeeded in splitting a single photon into three, beating some seriously long odd in the process. The work could pave the way for three-way quantum communications and according to lead researcher, Associate Professor Thomas Jennewein will "open a new frontier of quantum optics and allow a new class of experiments in quantum computing using photons."
Scientists have been able to split a single photon in two for some time by sending a single photon through a special class of optical crystal. This produces an entangled pair of photons; each retaining many of the characteristics of the other.
An entangled pair is useful in many experiments: they allow instant and secure communication between two parties. Entangled photons are also useful in optical lithography, in theory making it possible to etch at as little as on eighth of the wavelength of the light carving the chip.
It was thought likely that a similar technique could then split one of those daughter photons in two again. But the odds of such an thing happening in nature are something like one in a billion billion. Not something the average physicist is prepared to sit around and wait for, and something that seemed for many years to be experimentally out of reach.
But thanks to advances in waveguide design, the team says it can now generate photonic triplets at a rate of almost five per hour - against a background rate of one every two hours or so.
From Nature.com: The team used periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP) and periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) — non-linear crystals that are more efficient than those generally used in previous experiments — and inserted a waveguide into one. The waveguide helps to confine the optics along the crystal's length to increase efficiency further, so that the probability of a photon splitting into three is one thousand times greater — a more experimentally friendly one in a million billion.
The next step is to see if all three of the photons are entangled, which could lead to interesting experiments in three-way quantum communication.
The work is published in the journal Nature.


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// Copyright (c) Autofac Project. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE in the project root for license information.

using System.Reflection;
using Autofac.Core.Activators.Reflection;
using Autofac.Util;
using Autofac.Util.Cache;

namespace Autofac.Core;

/// <summary>
/// Defines known, internal-only caches that are used in relatively hot paths, so we want to
/// avoid the additional dictionary lookup in <see cref="ReflectionCacheSet.GetOrCreateCache(string)"/>.
/// </summary>
internal class InternalReflectionCaches
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the cache used by <see cref="Util.AssemblyExtensions.GetPermittedTypesForAssemblyScanning"/>.
    /// </summary>
    public ReflectionCacheAssemblyDictionary<Assembly, IEnumerable<Type>> AssemblyScanAllowedTypes { get; }

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    /// Gets the cache used by <see cref="InternalTypeExtensions.IsGenericEnumerableInterfaceType"/>.
    /// </summary>
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    /// <summary>
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    /// Gets a cache used by <see cref="AutowiringPropertyInjector.InjectProperties"/>.
    /// </summary>
    public ReflectionCacheDictionary<PropertyInfo, Action<object, object?>> AutowiringPropertySetters { get; }

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    /// </summary>
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    {
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            Usage = ReflectionCacheUsage.Registration,
        });

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Archive | March, 2019
How can we prevent climate catastrophe?
Phil Gasper
An organized working class will be a crucial part of any movement that is capable of winning the kinds of changes we need. Workers not only can demonstrate in large numbers: they also they have the power to shut down sectors of the economy, which provides crucial leverage against a powerful ruling class.
What a U.S. military intervention against Venezuela would look like, according to Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs concludes that this type of operation would necessitate the military occupation of Venezuela for some 20 years, taking as examples the experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan, but also Panama in 1989, where military operations dragged on over for eight and a half years.
The Green New Deal's magical realism
The half-measures and failed "market mechanisms" of the mainstream more "unrealistic" than the bold plans put forward by the Green New Deal. The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but that won't mean very much if, within just a few decades, the planet can no longer sustain life as we know it.
Samir Amin: The organic intellectual
Eds. and Samir Amin
The film 'Samir Amin: The organic intellectual' depicts the audacious struggles of, as well as interviews with, addresses by and special moments involving this most outstanding intellectual of the South.
Brazilian president to commemorate 1964 fascist military coup
Brazilians took to social media following the news calling out Bolsonaro for "celebrating" the military dictatorship and its coup using the hashtag #DitaduraNuncaMais (No More Dictatorship).
Reconstructing the history of the electricity sabotage in Venezuela
Fictitious narratives spun by the opposition failed to go viral in social media—such as those showing images of people apparently collecting water from the Guaire River, which is not suitable for consumption. A report made by the Catia TV team, debunked this false story.
Singing in a cage is possible and so is happiness
The Tricontinental and Vijay Prashad
Once more, punctually, Israel—with the vengeance of Zeus—has begun to bomb Gaza, from which the sounds and smells of war are never absent due to Israeli bombings. It helps Israel that the United States is fully behind its policy of annihilation.
The sunrise will be the same for those who wake and those who never will
Disregard by the dominant powers of human lives in places such as Iraq has a long history. It goes back a hundred years.
Killing the most beautiful things we own
The fight over the Amazon is not new, but the scale of its potential destruction has considerably increased. The protagonists of the murder of the Amazon are clear: capitalist firms of different scales and the political class that enables them.
New attack on electricity system seeks to halt Chavista counteroffensive
This time the attack was physical: an operation against the bank of high voltage transformers that convert electricity to be transmitted.
Venezuela: New widespread power outage as gov't denounces alleged attacks
Ricardo Vaz
Venezuelan authorities denounced a "double attack" against the country's electrical infrastructure.
Chagos and the dark soul of the British Labour Party
This analysis shows there could be no more startling illustration of the operation of the brutal and ruthless British Establishment in an undisguisedly Imperialist cause.
Why is society so racist?
Slavery, while intensely profitable for the bourgeoisie, ran counter to capitalism's ostensible ideology: liberté, égalité, fraternité. A resolution to this contradiction was needed, and came about in the concept of race
Marx and the democratization of work
The solution for capitalism's problems requires transforming the capitalist workplace into democratic institutions where everyone has an equal say on what happens there.
The homeless 8-year-old chess champion and other horrific 'uplifting' stories
In the worsening economic climate, a growing number of these supposedly "uplifting" stories become unintentionally horrifying after a moment's reflection.


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Supporting museums Art we've helped buy Collection of five wax medallions
© National Maritime Museum
Collection of five wax medallions
S C Grimes through The Art Fund
Miniature medallions depicting: 1) Admiral of the Fleet Adam Duncan (1731-1804); 2) Admiral of the Fleet Lord Richard Howe (1726-1799); 3) Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805); 4) & 5) Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1725-1823).
A sixth work was presented to the National Portrait Gallery.
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Art we've helped buy at National Maritime Museum
Early Experimental Marine Timekeeper c. 1660
Year-going regulator (Pendulum clock)
Venetian Boats Reflected in a Calm Sea
Two Nelson Relics
The Parting Cheer
The Nelson on the Stocks, Building at Woolwich in the Year 1814
The Chelengk
The British Fleet at Anchor off St Lucia, 1778
The Boatbuilder's Yard, Cancale, Brittany
The Battle of Texel, 11-21 August 1673
The 'Royal Prince' and Other Vessels at the Four Days' Flight, 1-4 June 1666
Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson
Portrait of Elizabeth of Bohemia
Pair of candlesticks
Objet d'Art toothpick case given to Lord Nelson by Lady Nelson
Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Mortlake Tapestry of the Battle of Solebay, 1672
Marine chronometer
Lord Bridport's Action off L'Orient at the Close of the Action
Landing of Captain Cook at Middleburg, Friendly Islands
i) The Kongouro from New Holland; ii) Portrait of a Large Dog
HMS Duncan at Mahon
Greenwich Palace from the North-East, with a Man-o'-War
Greenwich Hospital
Eddystone Lighthouse
Collection of 79 marine paintings
Collection of 10 watercolours
Astronomical chronometer
An English Flagship and Other Vessels Becalmed at Sun Down
Admiral Vernon medals
A Swim-Headed Barge
A set of lithographs
3 paintings of HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery
1) HMS Endymion; 2) HMS Jumna; 3) Yachts Fleet Wing and Vanessa; 4) HMS Endymion rounding Cape Horn
Henry Nelson O'Neil's The Parting Cheer is a crowded scene depicting a ship crammed with emigrants leaving from a London quayside, focusing on the reactions of the grieving friends and families left behind on the shore.
The Art Fund has helped with the acquisition of various images and objects associated with Nelson – a purse, a tea caddy, a toothpick case. Two of the most splendid are a portrait of the Vice-Admiral by Lemuel Francis Abbott, based on a sketch done while Nelson was at Greenwich, and Yinka Shonibare's Fourth Plinth sculpture Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, which has a permanent home outside the museum's Sammy Ofer Wing thanks to our fundraising campaign.


In 1969, Smt. Parmeshwari Devi Gordhandas Garodia started a school in a garage in Ghatkopar, Mumbai. Today, that idea has grown multifold to propagate Smt. Garodia's noble objective through the Garodia Group. The Group has been actively nurturing education ranging from kindergarten to tertiary segments, across India and Singapore.


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Public lands office goes in guns blazing, hiring cronies and sparing no taxpayer expense fighting the feds
by Eric S. Peterson
On Jan. 11, 2011, John Harja, then-director of Utah's Public Lands Policy Coordination Office, calmly sat down in the budget hot seat in front of the Natural Resources Appropriations Committee. The committee had been grilling agency heads on budget cuts that might have to come out of their organizations to meet the required cuts affecting all of state government.
Harja wasn't nervous, despite the fact that while legislative fiscal analysts were recommending minor cuts from other government programs, they specifically recommended Harja's entire office be scrapped due to poor accounting of taxpayer resources and poor planning of the office's goals.
Harja not only politely disagreed with the fiscal analyst, but also decided it was as good a time as any to ask for more money for his office.
"So, in fact, rather than say anything more about the proposed cuts, I'm going to ask you for even more funds," Harja said. "I need more."
That Harja sidestepped his office's annihilation—and by the end of the session secured $400,000 in extra litigation funding, as well as $22,200 in unrestricted funds—speaks to how important the Utah Legislature and the Governor's Office feel is the work of the Public Lands Policy Coordination Office (PLPCO).
The office's mission is to coordinate all government voices in the state to stand up against the federal government and pry off the kung fu grip the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior has on the state's public lands.
According to some estimates, 60 percent of Utah land is owned by the U.S. government. This doesn't sit well with oil and gas developers, off-road-vehicle weekend warriors and many rural Utahns who chafe at not having control of the dirt underneath their feet.
PLPCO is litigating to reclaim approximately 18,784 rural roads across the state in a massive legal battle that, if successful, could also potentially undo the protected status of millions of acres of federally designated wilderness-study areas. The process of claiming back such roads requires attorneys and field agents to use an advanced digital-mapping system to track the roads and travel to rural areas of the state to interview witnesses and explore the disputed roads.
In 2005, the state filed a similar claim on seven roads in federal court. The judge has so far ruled on only two of the roads, located in Emery County. San Juan County has been in a legal battle over Salt Creek Trail, a single jeep road in Canyonlands National Park, for the past 12 years. The case is still in appeals. According to environmental advocacy group Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), the county has spent $1 million litigating just that road.
The herculean task of litigating 18,784 roads requires money and staff, which is why Harja informed the committee that his office needed more help. At the time of Harja's January committee meeting, he had already taken on a new intern, who was something of a protégé of Harja's, as indicated by documents City Weekly received through an open-records request. The intern, Christine Osborne, was taken on for an unusual "indefinite" internship. Roughly three months after starting her internship, she was given a full-time position starting at $63,000 a year.
Osborne's most recent work experience prior to joining the office? Playing the bassoon in the Utah Symphony.
Harja acknowledges that the Governor's Office did receive a complaint in early 2011 alleging an inappropriate relationship between Harja and Osborne.
"Those [allegations] were false and dealt with a long time ago," Harja told City Weekly during a November 2011 interview, during which he reiterated that he had "no relationship" with Osborne.
According to the Governor's Office, the state's human-resources department investigated the allegations and "determined there was neither violation of policy, nor illegal conduct by PLPCO staff."
While her role in the office was considered questionable even by PLPCO staff, perhaps most perplexing is how an office that has received millions in taxpayer funds to reclaim lands for the state—ostensibly to help bring in more tax revenue—was able to ignore the 2009 advice of legislative auditors, who suggested better oversight and accounting of the office's finances.
Harja argued at the January 2011 committee meeting that the nature of dealing with so many different local and federal agencies made it so he couldn't strictly follow auditors' 2009 suggestions about creating measurements to track the office's progress.
The office's plan following the 2011 session, according to documents, appears to have been business as usual. But a shake-up did eventually occur at the office in December 2011. The week before the Governor's Office turned over more than 500 pages of documents to City Weekly about the office, including e-mails about Harja and Osborne, Harja was replaced as director of PLPCO and accepted a position as an advisor at the Utah Department of Agriculture & Food.
Roads Less Traveled
In December 2011, Utah blazed new trails in public-lands litigation by being the first state to file notice of intent to sue to retake ownership of 18,784 roads in 22 rural counties. The state claims the right-of-way to these roads based on Revised Statute 2477, a law passed by Congress in 1866 to give settlers rights-of-way to the paths and trails they'd carved out of territorial lands (see p. 19).
The notices of intent served as the warning shot, giving the federal government 180 days to consider an alternative solution before the legal showdown really begins.
For Harja, the payoff for the years' worth of preparation for litigation and preparation is simple.
"A transportation network that we can own," Harja says.
SUWA attorney Heidi McIntosh disagrees.
"This really isn't about roads," McIntosh says. "It's about trying to control federal public lands." McIntosh points to the case of the Salt Creek Canyon feud, where San Juan County sued over the Salt Creek Trail in Canyonlands National Park to claim it as a road. The road was actually a streambed, and the county had previously been upset that SUWA had prevailed in court to prevent Jeeps from driving up the rugged path. "Jeeps would hit a rock, and all of the fluid and oil would drain into the creek," destroy the vegetation and contaminate the stream, McIntosh says.
McIntosh highlights this case to point out that PLPCO's claims on 18,784 roads—many of which are, in fact, dirt paths, streambeds and cowboy trails—stand to be an incredible taxpayer boondoggle. According to documents McIntosh received from the state in an open-records request, 113 of the 18,784 roads cross over national parks like Arches in Moab and Capitol Reef National Park near Torrey.
"It's their attempt at shock and awe, because they can't be serious about litigating 18,000 claims," McIntosh says. She says San Juan County spent $1 million litigating the Salt Creek case alone, which they lost over a 12-day trial but are still appealing.
PLPCO attorneys got their first taste of what might happen to the majority of those 18,784 roads based on a Nov. 17, 2011, hearing before Utah District Court Judge Dee Benson.
The case had been filed in 2005 by the county and the state of Utah in a move to reclaim seven RS2477 roads in Emery County. Utah filed nearly 400 pages of exhibit documents as evidence of the county's ownership of the roads.
During a hearing on the federal government's motion for summary judgment—a move to decide a case before it goes to trial—Benson said that the motion and the evidence submitted in support of that motion needed to be streamlined.
"This case is the perfect example of the system that I find cumbersome and difficult. You have all … 'flooded' may be too much of an exaggeration, but you have provided the Court with a lot of facts," Benson said of the filings.
Emery County had employed the same painstaking evidence procedures that PLPCO is preparing for its 18,784 road claims—using advanced digital-mapping systems, and sending attorneys and field agents to interview witnesses and explore the disputed roads. Benson wasn't satisfied.
"What I need to find out is whether the county or the state or both received some communication by writing or orally that the right-of-way they think they have, they don't," Benson said.


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Attoor is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

This town is situated 5 km north-east of Marthandam and 25 km north-west of Nagercoil. The Sri Adikesavaperumal Temple, which is one of the 108 Divya Desams, is situated 1 km east of Attoor.

Demographics

As of 2011 India census, Attoor had a population of 11910. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Attoor has an average literacy rate of 83%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 84%, and female literacy is 82%. In Attoor, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

The place is known for the natural appeal and temples. Within 3 km from Attoor is the famous Jain Temple in a place called Chitharal. The temple is known to the local people as MalaiKovil (meaning temple in the hill). The name of the Hill is "Thiruchanathumalai" as incorporated in the Holy scripts of Jains. The posture of Jain is depicted in the outer walls of the Temple. Now the Jain temple has been occupied by Hindus and the sanctum sanctorum has deity of Devi.In the same place one can find two cashew nut companies and that is the major source of income for lot of people. Farm lands are now started converted to Rubber gardens. Attoor has a tropical climate and receives rainfall twice in a year. Almost 1 km from Attoor there is one old Lord Siva Temple. This temple was built 1000 years before. In front of the temple is a pond which is more than 500 m in length and 380 m in width. The entire pond filled up with lotus flowers is more than just beautiful.
Ancient people used to believe life is not complete without worshiping in this temple.

Educational Institutions

Schools
 Good Shepherd Nursery and Primary School
 N.V.K.S Higher Secondary School
 Yettacode Higher Secondary School
 Yettacode Nursery and Primary school
 Government High School Villonikonam

Colleges
 Maria College of Engineering and Technology
 Maria College of Ayurveda
 N.V.K.S College of Education
 White Memorial College of Physiotherapy
 White Memorial Homeopathy Medical College
 Maria Homeopathic Medical College
 Marthandam College of Engineering and Technology
 Maria Siddha Medical College

References
2.http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=746322

Cities and towns in Kanyakumari district


Without question, maintaining a vibrant relationship with your child can be challenging if your child resides most of the time with her other parent and you live thousands of miles away. If, however you get the opportunity to relocate closer to the child, you may desire to take that opportunity to have a larger role in the child's life and spend more time with her. When experiencing a situation like this, you still have to go to court and secure a modification of visitation, which means you still have to demonstrate a sufficient change of circumstances to the judge. This is a substantial requirement that requires careful knowledge of the law. To make sure you get the change you need to enhance your relationship with your child, consult an experienced Maryland family law attorney.
The case of L.J. was one where the father was a U.S. Marine who found himself in that type of situation. He and his wife had a daughter in 2009 and divorced in 2012. When they divorced, the husband was on active duty, stationed in California. The wife lived and worked in Maryland. After the separation, the parents worked out a custody arrangement and a visitation schedule. The schedule gave the father 120 days per year until the child started school. After school began, the father received all but three weeks of summer break, in addition to spring break, Thanksgiving break and every other Christmas holiday.
Three years after the divorce, the father received a medical discharge from the military and returned to Maryland. His new home was roughly 30 minutes from the mother's residence. Based upon this change, the father asked the court to modify the visitation schedule and allow each parent to have the daughter 50% of the time.
In order to be entitled to any sort of change to your custody and visitation agreement, you have to prove to the court that you have experienced what the law calls a "material change in circumstances." This is a relatively heavy burden of proof and the sort of everyday changes of life that commonly happen will generally not trigger an ability to re-litigate custody and visitation.
Obviously, moving cross-country to relocate from 3,000 miles away to 30 minutes away is not an everyday change, but the trial court still ruled that the father had not established a "material change in circumstances," so he was not entitled to a change in custody or visitation. The father appealed and won.
Once you have proof of a valid change in circumstances, then you must prove that the change you desire is in the best interest of the child. In this couple's case, the trial judge concluded that the best interest of the daughter would be served by making no changes and denying the father's request. The court stated that the child had formed a closer bond to the mother due to the long-distance relationship with the father. The appeals court rejected that conclusion, though, as the evidence in the case indicated that the child was close to both parents and, whenever with one parent, expressed that she missed the other.
For skillful and knowledgeable legal representation in your family law case, contact experienced Maryland family law attorney Anthony A. Fatemi. Our office has been helping our clients to work toward productive outcomes in their divorce, child custody and visitation cases for many years. To find out how we can help you, contact us at 301-519-2801 or via our online form.