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Applying for Marriage Licenses
Couples who will be holding their marriage ceremony in Massachusetts may file for a Marriage License with any City or Town Clerk in the Commonwealth.
In Belmont, we ask all couples wishing to apply for a Marriage License make an appointment with the Town Clerk's office.
Appointments are available on the following schedule:
Monday 10 am, 2 pm, 5 pm
Tuesday through Thursday 10 am, 2 pm
Friday 10 am
To contact the Town Clerk's office to schedule an appointment, please call 617-993-2603 during business hours. A confirmation email containing the details will be sent to the couple.
If a person is in the military, intentions may be filed by either party, providing one is a Massachusetts resident. If a person is incarcerated in a county house of correction or a state correctional facility, intentions may be filed by either party. A marriage license, once obtained, is valid for 60 days from the date intentions are filed and may be used in any Massachusetts city or town. It is not valid outside the state of Massachusetts.
When filing intention to marry, we will ask for the name and contact phone of the person who will perform the marriage.
There is a mandatory three-day waiting period. While Sundays and holidays are included in the three days, the day the application is filed is not.
For example, if you apply Monday, your license will be available as soon as Thursday; if you apply on Tuesday, your license will be available as soon as Friday; and if you apply on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, your license will be available as soon as the Monday after the weekend.
One party must pick up the valid license at the Town Clerk's office prior to the wedding; a review of the license for errors is required before it will be issued.
Obtaining a Waiver of the Waiting Period
You can obtain a court waiver after filing intentions. According to M.G.L Ch. 207 § 30, if both parties are residents, or non-residents, or one of each, and they need to dispense with the three days, they may do so by applying to the judge of a probate or district court to have the license issued without delay, after filing intentions with the Town Clerk. Under extraordinary or emergency circumstances, such as if the death of either party is imminent or the female is nearing the end of her pregnancy, an authorized request by a minister or member of the clergy or an attending physician shall suffice and the clerk can issue the license without delay.
To obtain a waiver, you should file your intentions first with any city or town clerk. Then an application for a waiver must be filed by both of you at a probate or district court. After a hearing, the court may issue a certificate allowing the Town Clerk to issue the marriage license to the couple, and the marriage may be performed without delay. The court schedules the hearing at the complete discretion of the Court, the couple should plan for a wait of several hours.
Cost of License
As of March 1, 2021, the filing fee in Belmont is $50.00. This fee includes the intention filing fee ($30) and one Certified Copy of the Marriage Certificate ($20). The applicants must include a mailing address for the certificate when they file their intentions.
This fee is payable at the time the intention is filed; cash or check payable to the Town of Belmont are acceptable forms of payment.
A Massachusetts resident may marry the applicants are 18 years of age or older. A birth certificate may be required to show proof of age.
If either party is under 18, a court order from a probate or district court where the minor resides must be obtained before the marriage intentions can be filed.
Divorced and Widowed Applicants
You are not required to present a divorce certificate when filing intentions to marry. However, it is extremely important that an individual who has been divorced be certain that his/her divorce is absolute. If you are uncertain as to the absolute date of your divorce, you should contact the court where the divorce was granted. In Massachusetts, a divorce does not become absolute until 90 days after the divorce nisi has been granted, regardless of the grounds for divorce.
If a previous marriage was annulled, you will be required to show a copy of the annullment paperwork.
There is no special requirement for a person who is widowed to remarry.
Witnesses to Ceremony
Massachusetts statute does not require that witnesses be present at your ceremony. However, if a member of the clergy performs the ceremony, you should ensure that you are in conformity with the appropriate religious tenets.
Massachusetts no longer requires medical information before marriage. State lawmakers repealed the law requiring blood tests late in 2004.
Clergy, Justice of the Peace and One-Day Solemnizers
The member of the clergy or justice of the peace must complete and sign the original license and return it to the clerk of the city or town where the license was issued.
The current Belmont Town Clerk is a Justice of the Peace for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. If you would like to have the Town Clerk perform the ceremony, email ecushman@belmont-ma.gov. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has set the rate for JP services at $100
If an out-of-state member of the clergy is to perform the marriage, the member of the clergy must obtain a Certificate of Authorization from the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth prior to the ceremony. This certificate, which is issued by the Public Records Division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, is to be attached to the original license and returned to the clerk of the city or town where the license was issued. For further information, contact:
Division of Public Records
One Ashburton Place, Room 1719
A person who is not a recognized member of the clergy in Massachusetts or a Justice of the Peace (such as a relative or family friend) may obtain one-day special permission from the Governor to perform a marriage.
To apply for a one day Solemnizer for a marriage, go to the the Secretary of the Commonwealth's website or call the Commissions office at (617) 727-2836.
A $25 fee is paid to the Commissions Division of the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and a one day Solemnizer certificate is sent to the approved Solemnizer. The certificate must be submitted with the signed marriage license after the ceremony.
For specific instructions to complete the marriage license, see One Day Solemnizer Instructions.
Special Requirements for Immigrants
If either of the parties has arrived as an immigrant from a foreign country at least five days before filing the intention application, the application may be filed at any time before the marriage, and the certificate shall be issued at any time after the filing.
Obtaining Certified Copies of the Marriage Certificate
After the marriage is performed, and the Solemnizer (JP, Priest, Rabbi, etc.) has returned the signed marriage license to the Office of the Town Clerk, the marriage is recorded by the State of Massachusetts. Any time after the marriage is recorded, a certified copy of the marriage certificate can be issued. Parties are welcome to telephone the Town Clerk's Office at 617-993-2603 to check on availability of the marriage certificate if time is an issue. Each certified copy is $20.00 and usable for all legal purposes.
As of March 1, 2021, a Certified Copy of the Marriage Certificate is included for any couple filing their intentions. Once the marriage is recorded by the State, the Town Clerk's office will mail the certificate. This process typically takes approximately ten (10) from the day the license is received from the solomnizer.
Changing Your Name
In addition to being a marriage application form, the Notice of Intention to Marriage form also serves as a legal name change document. The document will ask which surname you would like to use after marriage. Both parties may change their last name to whatever they wish at this time. By answering this question, you avoid the probate court fees for initiating a name change.
A certified copy of your marriage certificate will be needed at the following locations and you must appear in person:
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Registry of Motor Vehicles
If you have a passport, fill out this form to make the name change.
You should also make the necessary changes to your work, insurance, health care provider, banks, retirement, etc.
Additional assistance can be found at:
Mass Registry of Vital Records
150 Mt. Vernon Street
vital.regulation@state.ma.us
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Reducing Layoffs: How Work Sharing Can Help Workers and Businesses in West Virginia
In times of economic uncertainty, instead of sending trained staff to the unemployment line, companies in 24 states and the District of Columbia can use work sharing. This voluntary program allows employers to use unemployment benefits to retain their workers and avert lay-offs. Work sharing could be particularly helpful to West Virginia's mining and construction industries which have both faced employment ups and downs during this past recession. Read
West Virginia's economy, similar to other states, experiences many ups and downs. The peaks and valleys of the state's economy as it moves through recessions and recoveries can be hard on the state's workers and businesses. As the economy slows, workers often lose their jobs and face hardships as they seek new employment. Once the economy begins to grow again, businesses often struggle to replace the experience and skills of the employees they lost during the bad times. This struggle can prolong the pain, making it more difficult to rise out of a recession.
The recent national recession was no different for West Virginia. The worst economic downturn since the Great Depression officially began in December 2007, although it took nearly a year for the recession's impact to be felt in West Virginia. The impact of the downturn on West Virginia was severe. Between September 2008 and February 2010, West Virginia lost approximately 25,300 jobs. For nearly a year and a half, West Virginia lost an average of 1,490 jobs a month.
Recovery from the recession has been slow. It took nearly two years for West Virginia to regain most of the jobs that it had lost during the recession. The gains have come slowly, with less than 1,000 jobs added per month on average.
The slow recovery and weak job growth have meant the sustained high unemployment for the state. Unemployment peaked at 8.5 percent, more than double its pre-recession rate. Since the end of the recession, West Virginia's unemployment rate has remained elevated, with more than 57,000 workers remaining unemployed.
While the recovery has dragged on, those who are unemployed are finding themselves without work for longer periods of time. The share of unemployed workers who have been without work for more than six months has grown from 19.7 percent in 2008 to 43.8 percent in 2011.
The effects of this long-term unemployment can have a dire impact on these workers' wellbeing and their futures. West Virginia's construction and manufacturing workers have been particularly affected by the recession and have yet to see a full recovery. More than 8,000 construction jobs were lost in the state during the recession, and fewer than 3,000 have come back. Manufacturing has fared even worse, losing 9,000 jobs, with no signs of recovery.
With the recovery remaining weak, a little-known policy has emerged to help businesses weather economic downturns and keep their workers employed. Work sharing (also known as short-time compensation) is an unemployment insurance benefit intended to keep job losses from happening in the first place, allowing businesses to retain their workforce during recessions and avert layoffs.
Work sharing gives businesses the option of reducing the hours and wages of their employees instead of laying them off. Workers with reduced wages and hours are then eligible for partial unemployment benefits to help make up the lost wages.
Work sharing benefits not only the employer and the employees, but the state as a whole. Work sharing deters job losses, reduces turnover and unemployment, helps workers maintain their wages, and reduces the effect of long-term unemployment.
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A gentleman performs different smiling faces to earn money on street of Chongqing city, the price is 1 yuan (RMB) -- about 15 cents US currency, per smiling face.
Our world needs smiling faces! We even need more understanding and forgiveness!
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With love in your heart, you will be invincible!
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Get a handy list of all the expenses you can claim in PDF form so you can review them whenever needed.
If you rent an office or workshop, then the figure you can put through your tax return is fairly straightforward.
However, for a lot of small businesses, renting isn't an option for either financial or practical reasons, so you may find yourself working from home.
As your business is likely to be increasing certain household expenses, it seems unfair not to include these within your tax-deductible expenses.
But as it isn't as clear cut what is a business expense and what is a personal expense, making the calculation isn't a simple case of popping some bills through your tax return.
Is there a really simple way to calculate my use of home expenses?
HMRC have created a flat rate which you can claim for your use of home expenses. These are dependant on the number of hours you work from home and I explain these I more detail in this blog.
I think the simplified expenses work well if you have a low impact business. Maybe one that requires you working from a computer in the corner of a spare bedroom or off the dining room table.
You can claim the additional internet costs separately and the overall impact on your light and heating bills are going to be low.
What can I do if I don't think the simplified flat rate is high enough?
The flat rate set by HMRC is on the low side, as you may expect. So, if your business has a larger impact on your household bills, you may find these simply are not high enough to cover the additional costs.
It could be that you have a room solely dedicate to your business, so the spare bedroom is now officially your workshop and no longer has a bed in it. Or maybe you provide beauty treatments of massages from home so need not only a dedicate room, but have that room well heated.
In these instances, it is worth getting out the pen and paper and doing some maths.
How much space in your house does your business take up?
The first thing you need to do is identify how many rooms your house has as these will all be covered by your household bills.
HMRC refer to "normal living spaces" so bathrooms, landings and hallways can be excluded. If you have a garage or garden room which is also attached to your light and heating bills, then these need to be included too.
Quite often a room in your house may have a duel purpose; such as the spare bedroom, so you cannot claim 100% of the costs.
Be honest and think about how much time your business spends in each room.
For most it might be a nice and easy zero percent. If you have a dedicated room, then that would be a nice and easy 90-100%. However, it could be that you use one room for your business between 8 and 4 and the rest of the time other family members use it, so the business use is only 70-80%.
What expenses can I claim for as part of my Use of Home?
I've mentioned light and heat a few times, so your heating and electric bills can be included.
You can also include the interest element of your mortgage payments (not the capital bit) or rent plus your council tax.
If your business is included in your home insurance, then that can also be included in the calculations. If you have a business only insurance, then 100% can go throw separately.
Broadband and telephone costs can be calculated separately.
So, now you have the basis of your calculations it's time to do the maths.
The first thing to do is add up all your expense for the year and then divide it between the number of rooms. That will give you a cost per room.
Then you can multiply the cost of the rooms that have some business use by the percentage they are used by the businesses. So, cost of room x 90% business use.
You can then add up the business use figures and that will give you the total expense that you can claim through your tax return.
How often should I do this calculation?
I would only recommend doing this calculation once a year as there are no real benefits on doing this more often.
You should recalculate your Use of Home expenses every time you complete your tax return however to reflect fluctuating costs and amend to any changes of business use.


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Important American Moneybags: Andrew Carnegie & Henry Ford
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Carnegie was born in 1835, the son of a Scots weaving hand-loom operator. The family left Scotland and emigrated to the United States of America in 1848. Young Andrew worked first at a cotton mill, then as a telephone operator, and then on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Quite soon he was Superintendent. As only seems to happen in America, he got himself into the iron manufacturing business, moved to steel, and became a millionaire.
Andrew Carnegie had little education and no engineering training but possessed enormous drive accompanied by fantastic energy, with which he swept aside competitors and, more significantly, the trade unions. In the latter bracket he suffered a terrific strike called the 'Homestead' in 1892, but he smashed that too, defeating the Steelworkers Union.
One of his secrets was keeping an open mind to suggestions and new theories, such as the 'open-hearth' process for making steel; working hand-in-hand with Henry Clay Frick he made the first vast vertical combine to include coke ovens, coalfields, ore mines, ships and railways. He was thus able to control all sources of supply and distribution.
Very soon the Carnegie corporation dominated the steel industry, and put Andrew in the top list of rich men along with Rockefeller, Morgan (q.v.) and others. He personally received nearly $500 million after selling his corporation to J.P. Morgan and Henry Finch. These last re-organised things by turning it into the United States Steel Corporation, producing 60% of the country's steel.
Carnegie then retired to devote himself to philanthropic causes, a favourite pasttime for American millionaires. Another popular move at the end of the 19th century was marrying off daughters to the British aristocracy – Dukes if available, but any title down to Baron seemed to be acceptable, as long as it was ancient and genuine.
Andrew Carnegie wrote a book called Gospel of Wealth expressing his view that personal fortunes should be used to benefit society as a whole. He put this theory into practice himself. Over 2,500 libraries in Britain, the USA and Canada were founded by him – the first in his original home town of Dunfermline in 1882.
In the States, among many other establishments, he founded the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh in 1912. This is now a part of the Carnegie-Mellon University. He is said to have given away more than $350 million dollars to charitable and worthy institutions. He died in 1919 at eighty-four. Despite his practical altruism Carnegie has remained one of the favourite Aunt Sallys of the Communists, presumably because he came from nothing and made a colossal fortune through the capitalist system.
HENRY FORD was as American as blueberry pie, born in Michigan in 1863. He repaired watches and clocks and learnt to be a mechanic before building his own petrol-driven motorcar, principally from bicycle parts in 1893. Ten years later he founded the Ford Motor Company and was the first to realise that motorised transport for the family need not be a rich man's privilege.
He dreamed up the idea of mass production, and, concentrating on just one model, he introduced the cheap family autombile. This 'Tin Lizzie' was the Model T, first produced in 1909 and according to Henry Ford could be bought 'in any colour so long as it was black'.
In 1913 he developed the idea of mass production by making assembly lines in his factory. Soon he had cut production time by 90%! He wrote that the work was planned 'so that each man and each machine do only one thing'. He added that 'the thing is to keep everything in motion and take the work to the man and not the man to the work'.
By 1925 Ford was churning out a car every ten seconds and between 1909 and 1927 he made fifteen million 'Tin Lizzies'.
There was competition from General Motors, which copied Ford's methods but had seven different models in a variety of colours. He brought in the Model A in 1928, which had improvements such as shock absorbers and was offered in four colours.
Opponents of the capitalist system were surprised when (in 1914) Ford gave his workers a guaranteed minimum wage of $5 a day (more than double than anyone else); a share of the profits and an 8-hour working day. This did not sound like capitalism at all. At least Henry stuck to the role model by hating and mistrusting the trade unions.
Henry Ford was radically opposed to intervention in any form. He was a declared pacifist and isolationist and made fiery speeches against his country's involvement in the First World War. This did not stop him from building tanks, ships and vehicles for the military, so his pacifism must have become blind to his capitalistic instincts.
In 1936 he established the Ford Foundation, soon to be the world's largest trust for educational, scientific. Artistic and charitable purposes. He died in 1947 at eighty-four.
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Meet the Tripsers!
Jen Grasso
Jen runs everything at the Triposo HQ in Berlin. She grew up between New York and Boston but has called Berlin home for 8 years.
What do you do at Triposo?
I'm the Office Manager - I do everything the boys don't!
Where do you call 'home'?
I left the States as soon as I finished college and spent the next few years traveling around pretending to be an artist until I eventually made Berlin my home.
How did you get the travel bug?
Growing up in suburban America where everything is the same day in and day out can make one a bit stir crazy. I traveled to Europe as a teenager which opened a whole new set of doors. I left for New York as soon as I could and never looked back.
Where do you dream of travelling to?
I'd like to see the Northern Lights and the midnight sun, get Indian food in India and Dim Sum in China, but a small tropical island wouldn't be bad place to start.
Memorable trip?
The most relaxing was my tour of the bath houses in Budapest.
Travel advice you've been given/learned along the way?
Talking louder and slower in a foreign language doesn't mean people will understand you any better.
What do you always take when on the road?
Band-Aids. I'm a bit of a klutz so I try to have at least a couple on hand for when I inevitably hurt myself.
What do you collect when you travel?
The tackiest thing I can find. And how to say "Cheers" in different languages. I'm up to 12 or 13 now!
By hana on Friday, October 19, 2012 268 reactions
Dmitry Koval
Our team is growing fast - last week Dmitry joined the team from Kiev, starting with the fun of a team Jamboree in Spain!
How was it to spend your first week of a new job at a villa in Spain with the team?!
It was a fantastic way to start! We brainstormed and discussed product ideas during the day, had beers in the evening and exchanged visions about the best travel guide on the planet. The guys are awesome to work with and to hangout with too!
What do you actually do as a Software Engineer for Triposo?
I download a bit of Internet, hash it, crunch it, shake it, add some salt, pepper and beer to make the best travel guide!
I was born and raised in the industrial city of Donetsk in Ukraine. There are two big things about Donetsk - coal mines and football. And perhaps beer. For the last seven years I lived in Kiev, it's a fantastic city with a lot of history and all the old bits of architecture that I love. Now I'm living in Berlin to work at our Berlin office. I call home a place where I come back in the evening and discuss the day with my wife :)
I think it started with my father was taking me on trekking trips in the Caucasus Mountains several times a year. I just got hooked to seeing new places and having new experiences.
Memorable journey?
Road trips in the Indian countryside and trekking in the Caucasus Mountains in the early 90s, when a lot of men had machine guns hanging over the shoulders!
Besides the Moon, on the shortlist I have Tibet, more Greek Islands, Kenya and Kamchatka. Speaking of dreaming, of course the North pole/South pole.
If anything goes wrong - it's even more interesting! Irritations are short, memories are forever.
My big and heavy Canon DSLR, a couple of lenses, a bunch of memory cards, chargers and all that stuff. But there's one thing that is always with me no matter what and it is my pocket moleskine with the pen. It has dents and scratches from all the places its been to with me.
Essentially all the things that make a place unique. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's not and people may call the police :)
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By hana on Friday, October 12, 2012 68 reactions
The Sitges Hackathon
The Hackathon is a traditional element of our Jamborees, so we did one in Sitges last week. Since our team has grown considerably we had different teams of people all working on a cool project. The purpose of the hackathon is to do a project and finish it in one day, but we always see that it takes a bit of time to publish what we've done. But now the results of the first project are in.
Douwe spend one day on comparing how similar languages are:
We've had phrasebooks in the Triposo apps for a long while now, based on the content from Wikitravel. So I went ahead and wrote a script to extract from those Wikitravel pages for each language the phonetic version of the words one to nine. I then calculated the similarity between all language pairs by calculating some sort of edit distance between the corresponding pairs of words.
Given the very straightforward approach used and the fact that all of this was done in just one day, the results are quite amazing. This is the image Douwe produced that shows how similar languages are:
Read the whole story on Douwe's blog
By Unknown on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 115 reactions
Triposo 2.0
The 2.0 version of our App has just hit the Appstore worldwide. We're so excited about it and about all the new features that we can't wait to hear from you guys traveling out there what you think. Let's look at the three most important ones:
The iPad
We've loved the iPad and iPad users have loved our app from the start. The iPad is such a great device for a travel guide. It may not be the device that you carry around when you hit the streets, but it's close to perfect for reading in the airplane or getting some inspiration in your hotel. So when we were redesigning the iPad app it was this behaviour we had in mind. You use the iPad to get inspired about the place you are visiting, but also to read about the history or the architecture, and you bookmark all your personal discoveries. These are synced to your phone so when you visit the town you won't have trouble finding then.
The bookmarking functionality has been very popular from day one - and with the way the new iPad works we expect it to become even more popular from now on. But if you are somewhere deep in our guides it took quite a few taps to go back to the bookmark page. So we changed that. From now on, they are just one tap away. Tap left bottom corner and you will see all your bookmarks.
The travel log
We know how important it is to keep track of what you do when you travel. So far the only thing you could do in our app was keep track of the places you visited. It's a great feature and it's a hassle free way to create a great looking travel log even when you are offline, but we think we can do better. So what we did is make it easier. We made it easier to add the pictures you take to your travel log directly from the first screen of the app. We made it easier to do checkins, we made it easier to add little notes. And we made it easier to edit what you added before. Finally, we made it much easier to see your complete travel log. Both on iPad and iPhone it's now its own mini-app within the Triposo app and everything you want to do, you can do it right there.
And then there's the countless little improvements we've made we can't mention in this post or it would be our longest blog post ever - just download our app and enjoy. You can find it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/triposo/id467053028?mt=8
By Unknown on Friday, October 05, 2012 176 reactions
The Sitges Jamboree
We believe you need to keep on traveling yourself to make a travel app. You just can't do it in an office. So one of the things we do on a regular basis is organize Jamborees: get togethers for the team in an exciting place. The past year we've been in Amsterdam, Berlin and Morocco and and now we are in Sitges, just south of Barcelona for a week.
The whole team in a big house, code all day, brainstorm all night about the next release (codename Aubergine) and do some traveling ourselves to experience first hand what the problems are that need fixing. To give some idea of how these experiences make our app better, let's go back to the beginning of the year.
During our January Jamboree we had the whole team in an old Riad in Marrakech to work on a new release. In the weekend we were going on a day trip to Essaouira and we were looking for the place where the grand-taxi's leave. And we can't find it in our own app.We had been building our travel app with great suggestions for sightseeing and eating out and testing it in places we knew well. And we had forgotten what it felt like to be in strange city where no-one speaks English and everything's broken. What it felt like to be really lost. That same night we started coding and added a new section to the app. Maps with practical places: bus stations, pharmacies, police stations. The kind of things you just need when you're lost.
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The Bible and Interpretation
On the Insignificance and the Abuse of the Copper Scroll
By Robert R. Cargill, Ph.D.
Center for Digital Humanities
The Copper Scroll has perplexed scholars and fueled the minds of fringe theorists for decades. It is not that the scroll is "mysterious;" we know what it says and what it purports to be: a list of buried treasure. Rather, the Copper Scroll is so anomalous among the Dead Sea Scrolls that scholars have relegated it to a realm of triviality bordering on insignificance. This 30 cm tall document etched on thin sheets of copper, rolled up, and oxidized by centuries of exposure to the environs of the Dead Sea was discovered in Cave 3 near Qumran in the West Bank. But while it was discovered along with hundreds of other documents that have collectively come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Copper Scroll remains the mother of all anomalies.
Most of the Dead Sea Scrolls are written on parchment, with a few written on papyrus. But the Copper Scroll is etched on metal – unique among the documents discovered near the Dead Sea. Its language is unlike the literary Hebrew found in other Dead Sea Scrolls, and better resembles the Hebrew used much later in the Mishnah, the Jewish law code compiled around 200 CE. It also differs in palaeography (the script used to write the letters), orthography (the way words are spelled), date (50-100 CE), message (a vague map describing buried treasures), and genre (a list) from all other Dead Sea Scrolls.[1]
Scholars aren't quite sure what to do with the Copper Scroll. Milik concluded the Copper Scroll was placed in Cave 3 around 100 CE, after the other scrolls were abandoned in the other caves. Others like Lancaster Harding and Cross believe the Copper Scroll to be the folklore of Qumran. Still others believe it describes actual treasure belonging to the residents of Qumran. I join the scholars who conclude that the Copper Scroll describes articles from the second Jerusalem Temple (most likely legendary) supposedly hidden after its destruction in 70 CE, in keeping with later date of its composition. The Copper Scroll was most likely placed in Cave 3 long after the rest of the Dead Sea Scrolls were placed in their respective caves. And while it was discovered during the excavations that produced the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Copper Scroll should not be considered part of this collection because its author(s), script, style, language, genre, content, and medium are otherwise unattested among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Because of this irregularity, amateur treasure hunters and even some scholars regularly appeal to the Copper Scroll in a seemingly perpetual effort to promote sensational fringe theories, raise money, and bring attention to their far-fetched claims. Sensationalists prey on the ambiguous and everyone loves a treasure hunt; the Copper Scroll is both.
The most recent dilettantish foray into Copper Scroll-related nonsense is "The Copper Scroll Project,"[2] led by Vendyl Jones disciple Jim Barfield, a retired arson investigator with a self-proclaimed "limited knowledge of Hebrew" and "no archaeological experience."[3] And yet, Barfield claims, "There's little doubt I've broken the code on the Copper Scroll,"[4] as if scholars had not already translated the document a half-century earlier. Not unexpectedly, Barfield never reveals what he claims to have "discovered," yet circularly argues that since several "rabbis, historians, theologians, and archaeologists" have seen his research and have not disagreed with him, he must be right.[5] Barfield naïvely concludes, "One of my greatest advantages I believe is that, uh, my lack of education in this area."[6] And yet, the group has set up a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax exempt fund for raising $148,000 they claim is needed to carry out their investigation.[7]
So with (an admittedly illegal) metal detector in hand,[8] a snazzy (but now broken) website,[9] a Facebook page,[10] and regular YouTube video updates (produced by Barfield's son),[11] Barfield keeps his "supporters" updated on their progress, which has curiously come to a halt in recent weeks. It seems that the Israel Antiquities Authority, who Barfield claims provided the permit for their excavation, has stopped returning their calls, and is no longer interested in working with them. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the Copper Scroll Project leaders have been making deliberately misleading claims about their role in the excavation. Or, perhaps it is due to a network of archaeologists, scholars, and bloggers working behind the scenes asking why the IAA would take money from posers like Barfield and the Copper Scroll Project.
Regardless of the reason, a few details have come to light regarding the Copper Scroll Project. An IAA representative familiar with the group says that they do not possess a license, are not permitted to dig, and are paying money to watch as observers. With only "observation" status,[12] they do not lead, coordinate, or participate in any excavation. They merely watch an IAA licensed excavation and document it on video. Thus, claims that they are leading an excavation are simply untrue. Ironically, claims by Barfield that the IAA excavators are "not digging to the required depth" are actually true. Because Barfield has no say over the excavation, the IAA digs as they wish and where they wish, and allow Barfield and company only to observe the excavation and report their findings to the public. That was, at least, until the IAA saw the claims Barfield was making. It appears the IAA now wants nothing to do with the Copper Scroll Project, fearing perhaps that their association with a fringe, prophecy-obsessed group of Messianic Christians with no archaeological experience might harm the department's credibility. Perhaps this is the reason that the Copper Scroll Project's April 26, 2009 YouTube update overdubs the name of the IAA "archaeologist" they claim was assisting them in the original update.[13] It certainly must explain Barfield	's most recent exasperated claim that, "Information and correspondence from Israel has stopped. Why, I can't tell you, but my email has not been answered since we left Israel in May."[14]
But it is not just wannabe archaeologists that prey on the Copper Scroll. Some scholars holding to fringe theories about the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls regularly make the Copper Scroll a central pillar of their unlikely arguments. The University of Chicago's Norman Golb has made a name for himself in part by appealing to the Copper Scroll to argue in support of his version of Karl Rengstorf's theory that none of the Dead Sea Scrolls were produced at Qumran.[15] Others, like author Robert Feather, have written several books touting the Copper Scroll's connection to treasures from Egypt.[16] The fact that most scholars have wholly dismissed claims by the Barfields, Golbs, and Feathers of the world has not stopped the latter from publishing books and raking in money from a public more than willing to entertain speculation and sensationalist claims over scholarly consensus and sound academic research.
The Copper Scroll will no doubt continue to tempt the imaginations of scholars and the public alike. A good treasure hunt has always been profitable subject matter for Hollywood and booksellers. But for the wise, the Copper Scroll is little more than what scholars have claimed since the beginning: an anomaly discovered among the otherwise informative manuscripts comprising the Dead Sea Scrolls.
[1] Meir Bar-Ilan, "The Process of Writing the Copper Scroll," Bar Ilan Website, 2002 [cited July 2, 2009]. Available at http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/coperite.html.
[2] Well chronicled by Richard Bartholomew at http://
barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/oklahoma-ark-eologist-arson-investigation-skills-to-find-lost-temple-treasure/ [cited July 2, 2009].
[3] http://www.copper-scroll-project.com/jim-barfield.html
[cited July 2, 2009].
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1y4mIv4dnk,	3:32 [cited July 2, 2009].
[7] http://www.copper-scroll-project.com/copper-scroll-project-funding.html	[cited July 2, 2009].
[8] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhFmX65fzw,
4:06 [cited July 2, 2009].
[9] http://www.copper-scroll-project.com [cited July 2, 2009].
[10] http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Copper-Scroll-Project
/94698371827	[cited July 2, 2009].
[11] http://support.tjci.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&
id=5625 [cited July 2, 2009].
[13] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhFmX65fzw
[cited July 2, 2009]. Listen carefully to the audio at 0:28, 1:26, 2:18, 3:50, and again at 5:11.
[14] http://www.copper-scroll-project.com/index.html	[cited July 2, 2009].
[15] See Golb, Norman, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?: The Search for the Secret of Qumran (New York: Scribner, 1995), 117-150. See also Golb, Norman, "On the Jerusalem Origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls," University of Chicago Oriental Institute Website, 2009 [cited July 3, 2009], 1-2. Available at http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/jerusalem_origin_dss.pdf. See also Harris, William, "Excavations Reinforce Golb's Contention of Where Dead Sea Scrolls Originated," University of Chicago Chronicle, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2004) [cited July 3, 2009]. Available at http://chronicle.uchicago.edu
/041104/scrolls.shtml.
[16] Feather, Robert, The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of	Qumran: The Essene Record of the Treasure of Akhenaten,	Rochester, VT: Bear & Co., 2003. See also Feather, Robert, The	Copper Scroll Decoded: One Man's Search for the Fabulous Treasures of Ancient Egypt, London: Thorsons, 1999.
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Moliterno sheep cheese (pecorino) is a raw milk cheese enhanced with Italian black truffles and is produced in Basilicata and Sardinia. The truffle is injected in the paste of the semi-aged cheese before it's fully aged.
Once infused in the cheese, the truffles are only visible in "veins," but their deep flavor permeates throughout this table cheese, resulting in an unforgettable tasting experience.
During the cheese aging process, the rind is rubbed with oil and vinegar. Delicious and aesthetically intriguing, the Truffled Moliterno cheese is a real masterpiece in the dairy world.
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I've just spent a terrific two weeks working with a group of seven teachers from across Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Spain and the United Kingdom). The event was Literature and Drama in Language Learning which I was co-teaching with Alan Pulverness at the NILE School in Norwich. Below is a summary of most of the activities we did.
Interactive drama games and drama strategies for group cooperation, creativity and language learning. These included Ten Second Objects, Clap Across the Circle, Freeze Frames, Word Tennis, I Am A… and many others.
Performing a short script extract. The purpose of stage directions, how to block movement and the value of status exercises.
Exploring a short story through drama. Performing the story in sections and exploring the soundscape of a story. Investigating and creating characters through Hot-Seating and Role on the Wall.
Interactive games and activities for exploring Shakespeare, speaking the text and performing the stories. Particularly memorable was the section where groups created 'movie trailers' for A Midsummer Nights Dream. Here is a short trailer that one group made.
We looked at the work of Augusto Boal and explored Image Theatre leading onto a performance of some Forum Theatre around the theme of oppression. We also had a brief look at Dorothy Heathcote, process drama and Teacher in Role.
NILE have asked me to create a short online course about the use of drama in language learning and I will be using some video shot during this course to illustrate examples. Hopefully I will get working on this in November/December 2016.


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Knife-wielding radical Muslims attack evangelists for leading people to Christ in Uganda
CP World | Saturday, October 08, 2022
By Morning Star News
A church bell hangs from a tree branch outside a Catholic church and a school in Odek village, Uganda. | REUTERS/JAMES AKENA
NAIROBI, Kenya — Two evangelists sustained deep knife wounds after leading several Muslims to Christ at debates on Islam and Christianity in eastern Uganda, sources said.
Andrew Dikusooka, 35, and 26-year-old Ronald Musasizi had debated Islamic scholars in several areas around Iganga District, and some attacked them after a Sept. 20-24 series of such debates in the district's predominantly Muslim Nampirika village, said a leader of their ministry, unnamed for security reasons.
"The two evangelists are nursing terrible wounds on their sick beds in Iganga town after being attacked and beaten by radical Muslims," the leader told Morning Star News.
Andrew Dikusooka and Ronald Musasizi receive hospital treatment after being knifed in Iganga Disrict, Uganda. | Morning Star News
Dikusooka said that after the last day of the debate, well-known Muslims were among those who put their faith in Christ.
"Many people gave their lives to Christ, including Muslims, witchdoctors and street vendors," Dikusooka told Morning Star News. "The conversion of these people angered Muslims who began shouting to disrupt the occasion. When the meeting ended, we took the new converts aside and had a few minutes explaining the meaning of the new life in Christ and the commitment to follow Jesus Christ."
They were halfway home at about 7:30 p.m. when a group of Muslims blocked them near a railroad crossing shouting, "They are the ones — beat them, beat them," he said.
"They then started beating us with blunt objects, and one named Shafiki Mugendawala from Nasuuti, in Iganga, hit me with a sharp knife right on my head," Dikusooka told Morning Star News. "Another named Musiitwa Manisuuli from Kigulu Iganga struck my friend in the belly and hands."
He knew the assailants because they had debated them on several occasions, he said.
"Both of us fell down as a bright light flashed from a coming vehicle that appeared from the opposite direction," he said. "From that time onwards, we did not know what happened. We only found ourselves in the hospital in Iganga town with deep wounds."
The driver of the vehicle was the one who rescued them and drove them to the hospital, they later learned.
At this writing the two evangelists were still recovering in the hospital.
"Since we know the attackers, after our release from the hospital we shall by all means file a case against them," Dikusooka said. "Please pray for us for quick healing."
The attack was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.
Uganda's constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one's faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12% of Uganda's population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
Morning Star News is the only independent news service focusing exclusively on the persecution of Christians. The nonprofit's mission is to provide complete, reliable, even-handed news in order to empower those in the free world to help persecuted Christians, and to encourage persecuted Christians by informing them that they are not alone in their suffering.
Muslim mob attempt to kill Christian woman on trial for sharing WhatsApp message
Killings at 'epidemic levels': Nigerian Christians slaughtered by radical Fulani herders, ISWAP terrorists
Ugandan woman killed after attending church, accepting Christ
Dozens more Christians killed, many others critically wounded in Nigeria


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Longform Podcast #398: Dean Baquet
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Dean Baquet is executive editor of The New York Times.
"I always tried to question what is the difference between what is truly tradition and core, and what is merely habit. A lot of stuff we think are core, are just habits. The way we write newspaper stories, that's not core, that's habit. I think that's the most important part about leading a place that's going through dramatic change and even generational change. You've got to say, here's what's not going to change. This is core. This is who we are. Everything else is sort of up for grabs."
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Baquet's archive at The New York Times
[03:15] "Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops" (The New York Times • June 2020)
[03:15] "A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists" (The New York Times • June 2020)
[10:00] The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times (Jones, Tifft • Little, Brown • 1999)
[29:45] Dean Baquet's 1988 Pulitzer Prize
[55:15] "Still Processing: The Day After" (The New York Times • November 2016)
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We know what you're thinking. Serious food fight à la Animal House. But how easy do you think it is to get peanut butter out of your hair? On November 5, this food war is fighting for something bigger than an uncleanable mess.
Can you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich faster than it takes you to say it? Bring your PB and J game to Beta Alpha Psi's 7th Peanut Butter and Jelly Wars to benefit a local homeless shelter on November 5, from noon to 3:00 p.m. in the Student Union on the NYC Campus.
Don't worry about crunching the peanuts or squishing the grapes. In a nutshell (pun intended), what you have to do is spread the PB and J on the bread faster than all the other teams. Enjoy a friendly competition with students, an opportunity to give back to the community, and even network with Pace alumni in an informal (messy) setting.
Students will break off into teams of 8 to 10 people and make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as fast as their hands can move. Think you have what it takes?
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My friend Holly hasn't had a TV in years. She was also the first friend of mine to give up a land line telephone, and I can't even remember how long ago that was. So she's "one of those." She's been without TV or cable for many years, and her favorite source of programming is hulu.
So she wrote me the other night that she was watching Hell's Kitchen when an ad for Alabama Power appeared. Holly is my editor, so she's read everything I've ever written and knows what that means. Hulu is serving local advertising based on the geographic location of the person watching the program. Holly lives in Huntsville. Oh no!
Hell's Kitchen is a Fox program, and there's a local Fox affiliate in Huntsville. Fox is a partner in hulu. Figure it out. Fox can distribute Hell's Kitchen — and serve local ads — directly to Holly without using its affiliate in the market. This is the end of the network. In the old days, of course, all networks paid their affiliates to carry their programs, and life was good for broadcasters. Now, the affiliates pay their networks, and the only thing saving them is must‐carry fees from cable operators. But wait! Cable has nothing to do with hulu either. Oh my.
So local broadcasting is in the midst of a perfect storm with only two opportunities for tomorrow: a successful MDTV strategy with the digital broadcasting chip in smartphones, and figuring out how to monetize local unbundled, on demand content. Let's be real; the day is coming when program makers will distribute their stuff directly to consumers and share money with NO network, and we've got to be ready.
Local broadcasters don't realize it, but they're sitting on a pot of long tail gold in decades of video archives from their markets, content that is just sitting there in analog form waiting for some smart people to come along, digitize it and tag it for search. I'm convinced there's a significant business model waiting for those who unlock all that video. Will broadcasters do this? Not likely. It's too expensive, and public companies have bottom lines to serve.
I also think the cost of programming is going to come down, which will open doors to local people, and that we're on the cusp of a revolution here. Local media companies need to be at the forefront of this.
Meanwhile, it's the networks that are fighting Google TV, and we should be bold enough to go it alone on that one. We want anybody to distribute our original and unbundled content, and the we're going to be waiting for awhile before our networks — our "old" networks — jump aboard that train.
Of course, all of this has been coming for a long time now, and I have an enormous bruise on my forehead from frustrating meetings with media companies unable to receive the warning. You care about me, right?
We have a Fox affiliate here now? Seriously? I didn't know that. LMAO.
Hulu does not require user information for straight viewing, but does require a user/password account for 'adult' content, which does require location data.
The interesting here is where they are getting the location data from, and how much data is available. An I.P address can get you a neighborhood, for localizing ads, but where will they stop in 'tailoring' ads based data mined from a users history or website visits?
As for local news doing what you suggest with their video archives, what is the point? Running this day in history specials? Local TV has the same problem that print has, that being no follow through.
Example, here is a story about folks who get ripped off by a scam artist who gets enough face time to say no comment, and the piece ends with some sonorous voice saying that the authorities are interested. Fade to commercial, on to next story.….
Where is the follow up story where the guy gets convicted, or gets off on a technicality?
Local news could be doing a lot more.
alan: I am not a registered hulu user. I don't have an account. I only watch one show, Hell's Kitchen, because my 10‐year‐old stepson is into it, and we discuss it on his visits with us. I don't know very much at all about the technical side of such things, but i can tell you that they don't have any more information than they're able to get from an unregistered person watching one show.
Alan, off the top of my head, there's revenue from selling it for repurposing, revenue from "what happened on your birthday," follow up programs (as you state), repackaging "day in history" stuff, selling videos about years, new programs, search ads, the list is pretty significant.
It's not hulu's data that matters so much as it is data assembled by the entity serving the ads.
That's exactly what I thought when I saw the headline last week that Netflix is offering $70–100K per episode to studios for rights to stream current episodes (rather than waiting until the end of the season and packaging them up). No network or local broadcaster is necessary to monetize the content producer's episodes.
The day to which you refer comes when a) the content producer has enough of these revenue streams, b) these streams are sufficiently/increasingly rich and c) the current revenue stream (network model) is sufficiently diminshed by reflecting its dimished cost effectiveness.
Any guesses on when the day arrives? Another decade?
I don't have an account. I only watch one show, Hell's Kitchen, because my 10‐year‐old stepson is into it, and we discuss it on his visits with us. I don't know very much at all about the technical side of such things, but i can tell you that they don't have any more information than they're able to get from an unregistered person watching one show.


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Our Friends in the North is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in nine episodes on BBC2 in early 1996.
Telling the story of four friends from the city of Newcastle in North East England over 31 years from 1964 to 1995, it also brought in real political and social events specific to Newcastle and Britain as a whole during the era portrayed, including general elections, police corruption, the Miners' Strike and the 1987 'hurricane'.
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Interdisciplinary education is not new. Numerous examples illustrate teachers' efforts to integrate a variety of subjects such as the language arts with mathematics, the visual arts with social studies, mathematics with science, or music with physical education. A vivid example of teaching across subject areas appears in Whitin and Wilde's (1992) Read Any Good Math Lately? The book highlights children's books that focus on selected mathematical concepts in an integrated way. Chard and Flockhart (2002) described a project approach used to study a local park that focused on integrating reading, writing, science, social studies, and math. Heidi Hayes Jacobs, author of Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation (1989), states that "there is no longer as much discussion among educators about whether to blend the subject areas, as about when, to what degree, and how best to do it" (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1994, pp. 1-2). Integration of the curriculum emerged from what educators knew about learning, child development, and the ways in which school prepares a child to be a productive member of the community. Children's interest in their environment is not subject specific; it crosses many disciplines. This idea is reflected in the interdisciplinary integration approach proposed by Drake and Burns (2004). Teachers organize the curriculum around common themes, concepts, and skills across disciplines to facilitate learning. This approach, in contrast to a discipline-based approach to learning, seeks to connect the disciplines through points of attachment. It proposes to unify understanding by organizing skills and knowledge along lines of connection and convergence rather than along lines of divergence and differentiation.
Although each of Fogarty's models is helpful, the multiplicity of choices is somewhat overwhelming. We have experimented with a variety of approaches to interdisciplinary teaching and have developed three models that function on a continuum from simple to complex (figure 1.1).
A shared model is one in which two subjects are integrated through a similar skill, topic, or concept that is part of the content for both subject areas (figure 1.3). The model requires agreement between the teachers on the theme, skill, topic, or concept and on the time line for teaching. The time line can result in simultaneous presentations in the respective classrooms, or one teacher might explore a common theme, skill, topic, or concept a short time before the other teacher. The shared model may require the teachers to adjust their sequence of teaching to include the new "shared" content. The integration helps students understand how themes, skills, topics, or concepts can cut across subject areas. The students' learning is reinforced in a meaningful way as they view teachers presenting similar ideas in different classrooms in parallel.
To give teachers the opportunity to restructure or refocus curriculum to provide students with the chance to learn through a new lens. For example, when teaching patterns, the physical education and music teachers create a joint learning experience to enhance the children's understanding of patterns. The teachers select the ABA structure or ternary form as the focus of the experience. The students create movement sequences, such as twist, stretch, twist, and compose music in the ABA form to accompany their movement sequence.


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The vintage and retro caravan craze continues to blossom on both sides of the Tasman. This is evidenced by the numerous vintage rallies attracting large numbers of caravans across Australia and New Zealand. It is a phenomenon that shows no sign of slowing down as more people are drawn to restoring much-loved old caravans.
In Vintage and Retro Caravans Downunder, Don and Marilyn Jessen profile some of the prettiest, rarest and most unusual old caravans in Australia and New Zealand. They'll introduce you to some dedicated caravanners, who share their thoughts on their vintage- vanner lifestyle and the caravans they love.
As well as plenty of fabulous vans, there are also insights into caravan fashions over the years, tips on how to accessorise with period crockery and caravan ware, and some advice on presenting your caravan. Whether it's retro and vintage that interest you or you're a caravan fan, there's plenty here to intrigue and inspire.


ResApp Health Limited (ASX: RAP), the developer of smartphone medical applications for the diagnosis and management of respiratory disease, today announced positive preliminary results from its paediatric clinical study currently underway at Joondalup Health Campus (JHC) in Perth, Western Australia. The preliminary results, prepared by the team led by Associate Professor Udantha Abeyratne at The University of Queensland (UQ), were calculated based on an initial 211 patient dataset.
In addition to these groups, the dataset includes 95 patients diagnosed with URTI, croup, bronchiolitis, bacterial pneumonia or other respiratory diseases that were not considered in this preliminary analysis.
The performance of the algorithm was evaluated using the method of leave-one-out validation against the clinical diagnosis provided by the JHC clinical team. Performance was calculated using voluntary coughs alone as well as using a combination of voluntary and spontaneous coughs.
Greater than 97% sensitivity, 92% specificity and greater than 95% accuracy (see below for definitions of sensitivity, specificity and accuracy) for separating the Asthma Group from the Normal Group using cough sounds.
Greater than 91% sensitivity, greater than 95% specificity and greater than 96% accuracy for separating the Viral Pneumonia Group from the Normal Group using cough sounds.
Very little difference in performance in any cases was observed between using spontaneous (involuntary) and voluntary coughs in the disease groups studied.
An increase in subjects from 91 in Indonesia to 211 in the present study.
A focus on viral pneumonia in the present study. Note that bacterial pneumonia is typically treated using antibiotics, while antibiotics are typically not used for viral pneumonia cases.
The present study successfully validated the use of voluntary coughs as only spontaneous coughs were used in the Indonesian study.
The present study successfully validated performance using healthy subjects as the control group; such subjects were not available in the Indonesian study.
The present study (currently underway at both JHC and Princess Margaret Hospital) also includes high numbers of patients clinically diagnosed with URTI, croup and bronchiolitis. It also includes a growing number of patients with bacterial pneumonia. The team at UQ is currently adapting and training the algorithms on these additional diseases as well as further refining the algorithms for pneumonia and asthma. The team is also investigating the use of easily available patient data such age, gender, presence/absence of fever and breathing rate in further improving the diagnostic performance of the algorithms.
The Company notes that these results are preliminary and may change as the clinical study progresses and more patients are added to the dataset.
Sensitivity is the proportion of patients with the disease that test positive. Specificity is the proportion of patients without the disease that will have a negative test result. Accuracy is a measure of both categories.
Founded in 2014, ResApp Health Limited, through an exclusive license granted by the University of Queensland (UQ) is developing smartphone medical applications for the diagnosis and management of respiratory disease. The technology is based on a machine learning algorithm that uses sound alone without the need for additional hardware to diagnose and measure the severity of a respiratory condition. The algorithms have been successfully tested for pneumonia and asthma diagnosis in a clinical proof of concept study by UQ through funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Addressable markets for this technology include licensing to large telehealth service providers for 'in consultation' point of care diagnosis, at-home diagnosis and management of respiratory disease through direct sales to consumers and healthcare providers, and working with global aid and humanitarian organisations to deliver tools for low-cost diagnosis in the developing world.


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Cool Fan-Made Trailer for Obi-Wan Kenobi Spinoff Movie
By Nick Janks
Check out this awesome fan-made trailer for an Obi-Wan Kenobi spinoff film set in the Star Wars universe, featuring Ewen McGregor.
Vimeo user and Star Wars fan Rich Williamson uploaded a teaser video showing what a potential Obi-Wan Kenobi spinoff film could look like, and it looks deep.
His version would follow Obi-Wan during his time as a hermit, in the periods between the Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
The trailer isn't too exciting, but it's cut together really well and looks professional considering it's cut together with footage from the Star Wars prequels and McGregor's film Last Days in the Desert, which saw him playing Jesus Christ during his forty days wandering the desert.
The footage from that film actually fits the trailer quite well, as he essentially has the same outfit as Kenobi and is set in the desert, which is similar to the planet of Tatooine, where we first meet Obi-Wan in A New Hope.
Ever since it was announced that there would be standalone spinoff films set in the Star Wars universe, lots of interest has been shown by fans to see a spinoff based on McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi, and considering Disney is developing a Han Solo film as well as rumoured Boba Fett and Yoda films, it makes sense that a Kenobi film should be thrown in the mix somewhere there as well.
McGregor has also expressed interest in revisiting the role, after telling Steve Weintraub of Collider the following earlier in the year:
"I'd very much like to do one too. I think the story between Episode III and Episode IV, I think there's a story there. I think that's the Obi-Wan Kenobi movie, if there is one. The one that bridges my Obi-Wan Kenobi and Alec's Obi-Wan Kenobi because there's a—I don't know how long he's in the desert there, but it's got to be twenty or thirty years."
It seems like it's almost inevitable that we'll be getting a film that focuses on this character, it's just a matter of when.
Source: Collider
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Key Food Stores Co-op, Inc. es una cooperativa de supermercados de propiedad independiente, fundada en Brooklyn, Nueva York, el 20 de abril de 1937. Sus tiendas se encuentran en Connecticut, Massachusetts, Nueva Jersey, Nueva York, Pensilvania y Florida.  La sede de la cooperativa Key Food está en Matawan, Nueva Jersey. El director ejecutivo es Dean Janeway. La cooperativa también opera tiendas bajo las banderas Key Food Marketplace, Key Fresh & Natural, Food Dynasty, Urban Market, Food World, Food Universe Marketplace, SuperFresh y The Food Emporium.

En noviembre de 2015, la empresa completó la compra de 23 tiendas de la moribunda A&P, que estaba en quiebra (y a punto de cerrar), con lo que el número total de tiendas bajo su gestión ascendió a 212. Las tiendas incluían las sucursales de Pathmark, A&P, Waldbaums, Food Emporium y Food Basics USA. Dos de las tiendas serán operadas bajo propiedad corporativa en lugar de cooperativa (una novedad para la empresa). La adquisición la convirtió en el mayor supermercado de la ciudad de Nueva York.  El principal proveedor tanto de A&P como de Key Food es C&S Wholesale Grocers.

En los años 70 y 80 Key Food estuvo involucrada con una empresa de camiones que cometió fraude fiscal. Dos directores, Camillo D'Urso y Pasquale Conte también estaban implicados en actividades mafiosas y en el tráfico de heroína utilizando pizzerías como tapadera.

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Religion has been a major topic of discussion in this year's presidential campaign. Can America embrace a Mormon President? Is Barack Obama a closet Muslim? Or if not, is he Christian enough? Or, for that matter, is John McCain the "right kind of Christian," whose faith can satisfy the religious right, key to his party's base?
Sadly, Jews have been among those posing at least one of these questions. Far-right-wing, or simply naïve, Jewish involvement in spreading scurrilous rumors about Sen. Obama's supposed religious leanings led a diverse coalition of Jewish leaders to spring to the Senator's defense during the primary season. These Jewish luminaries included folks who did not and do not back Sen. Obama or any Democrat. However, they united with more liberal leaders to distance themselves from Jewish complicity in denouncing a candidate on the basis of his supposed religion. Having been victims of such libelous whisper campaigns for centuries, we Jews cannot stand idly by.
However, if we examine our own Bible, we may well draw the conclusion that Judaism teaches that a leader's religion matters a great deal. As King David is dying, he charges his son, Solomon, who is to become King. "Keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in God's ways and following God's laws, commandments, rules and admonitions as recorded in the Torah of Moses." David's message is repeated: The Kings of Israel must rule with the Torah at their right hand. When they are faithful to God, Israel prospers. When they bow down to false gods, the kingdom is conquered. In the eyes of our ancient faith, religious fidelity is more than the most important quality by which a King is to be judged; it may be all that matters.
We can test the theory, by examining the life and the rule of Solomon himself. Early in his reign, the wise king is faithful to God and Torah. He erects the great Temple in Jerusalem. He expands the kingdom to the greatest territory and power that Israel has ever known.
Then, Solomon gets greedy. He amasses great personal wealth. He marries a variety of foreign wives, no doubt with the idea of shoring up his far-flung empire. He may even join some of these wives in the worship of their gods. He abandons the faith of his father and the Torah of Moses. By the time Solomon dies, he is unable to leave a large, prosperous kingdom to a single successor. Two sons fight over the throne; and the kingdom is divided, ten tribes to the north and two to the south. Ultimately, the ten are lost to our people, to this very day.
Solomon's example is – like those of other, less successful and more unfaithful kings to follow – a cautionary tale for us today. If a leader is not true to the faith upon which the nation is founded, the state will fall. If the President is corrupt, utilizing the office as a source of personal enrichment – for himself, for his tribe, for his cronies – the people will suffer.
The ancient kingdom of Israel was founded upon faith in the Lord and the words of Torah. Our prophets predicted doom when princes and priests ignored God's word. When a King and his courtiers would "trample the heads of the poor," as the prophets put it, they were disobeying God's law. Breaches of faith would lead to breaches in the walls that protected Jerusalem.
Our Presidential candidates' faithfulness does matter. The success of the next President will rise or fall on his fidelity to the principles and founding words of our nation. On January 20, Senator McCain or Senator Obama will take an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. If he does, American will surely prosper. If he does not, our nation will continue to decline.
If the President protects the liberty that the Constitution grants to all the nation's citizens, then America will show the world its character.
If the President respects both the powers of, and the limitations upon, his office, he will embody humility born of true greatness.
If the President upholds the Constitution, when it is convenient and when it is not, we will know that we have chosen the right man.
That Constitution specifies that a person is eligible for election or appointment to any position in our government, irrespective of his or her religious faith or lack thereof.
To be sure, the Constitution also protects each American's right to vote by secret ballot, and to the free exercise of religion. Any individual citizen may choose to vote for, or against, a candidate, on the basis of religion. All would do well, though, to follow the advice of our first President, George Washington, who wrote that America "gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance." Note that President Washington equated bigotry with persecution. He understood, as the history of our own people has taught, that one would lead to the other.
During the primary season, we were subjected to a constant, quiet drumbeat of suspicion about the religion of one candidate, former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. Gov. Romney is a Mormon, more properly a member of the Church of Jesus Christ – Latter Day Saints. Now, I do not pretend to be an expert with respect to that religion. What I do know is that Gov. Romney has been in public life for decades, as have other Mormons, his late father among them. In no instance has a legitimate claim been made that Gov. Romney or any who came before him have turned aside from the Constitution of the United States because of the dictates of their Church. Suspicions about a Mormon President, per se, were pure bigotry, whatever one might have thought of the candidacy of Gov. Romney himself.
Similarly reprehensible rumblings surrounded the candidacy of John F. Kennedy, when he ran for President in 1960. President Kennedy was Catholic, not Mormon, but the unfounded suspicions were similar. Would a Catholic President take his cues from the Pope? Kennedy even went before a panel of Evangelical pastors in Houston, to plead his case. Ultimately, though several doubtless did not support Kennedy for President, those clergy did declare that his religion did not render him unfit. The claims that he would put the Constitution second to Papal decree were preposterous, and based on nothing but ignorance and bigotry.
Perhaps the claims about Sen. McCain's Christianity are most disturbing. Nobody wonders if he is a Christian, but many on the far right are demanding that he be more forthcoming about his faith. John McCain has always viewed his faith as private. His detractors would like for him to say that his Christianity will dictate his policies as President. We can hope that Sen. McCain will continue to resist such a proclamation; and that, like Sen. Obama – and like President Kennedy and Gov. Romney before them – he would govern in accordance with the Constitution, not the dictates of his Church.
Some commentators, among them comics, have suggested that the rhetoric of the current campaign suggests that we're voting for Preacher, not President of the United States. Nevertheless, I must admit that, occasionally, I have been moved by a politician's statement of faith. A candidate's faith does matter, when she tells us that her Church teaches her to respect folks who worship in others. A candidate's religion does make a difference, when he tells us that he believes that even the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth must be humble. And let us not forget: Just as a King of Israel could succeed only if he was loyal to Torah, so will our next President raise his right hand in January, swearing his allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. May that be God's will.


Modillon » Blog » Is Guest Blogging Really Dead?
This entry was posted on 24 January 2014 .
Guest blogging started out as a good practice on the web. In its early days, it was a genuine way of reaching out to people that it actually brought value to the internet community.
Currently, too many people are taking advantage of guest blogging for linking. In fact, there are several companies and individuals who offer "guest post outsourcing services," these days. This has resulted to the proliferation of low quality, sometimes mind-numbing content that no one wants to read.
How will Google know the difference between quality blogging and spam?
When some people figured out that guest blogging would be a great way to get others to link to their site, tons of generic, boring and sometimes really bad posts flooded the web. Worse, several sites were created for the sole purpose of hosting guest posts which are supposed to help sites rank higher in search engine results through several links embedded in the posts.
Again, these posts are mostly keyword-stuffed pieces, filled with fluff and poorly written. This alerts Google and identifies and marks them as spammy, low quality web sites. Sometimes, the high volume of guest blog posts in a site also warns Google that this is a link building tactic and marks them as spam.
With so many unscrupulous site owners as well as marketers out there, large scale guest blogging has become risky. Excellent quality guest blogging would be judged on the merit of the site that the post is published and the relevance of the content to the recipient link.
Despite what Cutts described as, "The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO," guest blogging is here to stay.
The reality is, Google continues to give preference to content-based link building. This is not going to change any time soon.
Cutts admits that despite the negative things he pointed out, guest blogging is a great way to gain exposure for your product, to get your branding recognised, to increase your reach and a good way to expand your network and get to know and interact with other members of the internet community.
Cutts did point out that there are "fantastic, high-quality guest bloggers out there," and that he was not talking about high-quality multi-author blogs. His declaration about the negative aspects of guest blogging was directed specifically at people who spam others in order to get ahead in search engine rankings.
Search Engine Optimisation or SEO specialists and content marketers need to know that guest blogging should only be used as a supporting tactic. It should not be their main strategy in getting their sites to rank higher in the SERPs (search engine results pages). Keep your site clean of spammy content and Google will reward you.
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