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Keene Will Spend $2 Million on Solar Panels, Energy Efficiency
On December 16, the Keene city council voted to spend about $2 million on energy efficiency and solar power for city-owned buildings. In 12 years, the investment will pay for itself. After that, the city will be making a profit from the investment.
The move means the city will be significantly reducing air pollution and its contribution to global warming.
Solar panels will go up at city hall. More efficient space heating and lights will be installed in municipal buildings.
Logging or Wilderness: Public Hearing Nov. 16
Members of a local environmental group are urging the public to attend a public hearing on November 16 near Springfield about whether Massachusetts state-owned forest land should be logged or kept as wilderness. Forest Watch members say people should speak out in favor of wilderness at the 6:30 p.m. meeting with representatives of Governor Deval Patrick at 380 Southampton Road in Westfield.
60 People Call for Peace at Northampton City Hall Rally
On August 7, about 60 people rallied at Northampton city hall to call for cuts in war funding and increases in government funding for jobs installing solar panels. Out of an annual federal government budget of about $2,900,000,000,000 about half goes to war. Details are at:
www.warresisters.org/files/FY2011piechart.pdf
Frances Crowe spoke at the event. More information on Crowe is at:
http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss233.html
Among the groups working to promote peace and solar power are www.peace-action.org and www.greenpeace.org
August 10 Hearing on Better Buses for Keene, Brattleboro Region
On August 10, there will be a public hearing about a government plan to provide better local bus service in the Keene and Brattleboro region. The relevant buses will serve Keene; Claremont, NH; Putney, Vermont; and other towns.
The Southwest (NH) Region Planning Commission will hold the hearing at the Charlestown, NH public library at 226 Main Street from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.
Traveling by bus or train, rather than by car, reduces global warming, suburban sprawl, acid rain, lung cancer, and other problems.
People Power Defeats Plan to Narrow Brattleboro's Downtown Sidewalks
Brattleboro residents defeated a plan by the administration of lame duck Republican governor Jim Douglas and lieutenant-governor Brian Dubie – the Republican who wants to be elected governor in November – that would have narrowed already-narrow sidewalks in downtown Brattleboro. The goal was to make cars, trucks, and SUVs drive faster through the world-famous, historic downtown on the shore of the Connecticut river. Dubie-Douglas also wanted to cut down trees on Main Street.
Valley Farmers Hit by Global Warming
Record heat and little rain has Valley farmers scrambling to irrigate their crops. Some wells are going dry, forcing farmers to drive their tractors with tanks on their trailers long distances to pump water out of rivers and ponds.
Vern Grubinger is Extension Professor of Agriculture at the University of Vermont. He has worked with a program of the federal agriculture department's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) project. The program looked at the effects of global warming on farmers.
Natalie Merchant Will Sing in Northampton on July 13
Natalie Merchant, probably the world's best female singer, will sing in Northampton on July 13. It will be her first concert in the Valley in at least a decade. Her lyrics, and the music on her albums, are often – but not always – excellent. But Merchant's concerts are always great, thanks to her incomparable voice.
In the song "Motherland," Merchant sings:
Where in hell can you go
Far from the things that you know
Far from the sprawl of concrete
That keeps crawling its way
About 1,000 miles a day?
In Keene, Bicycle Thieves Active
Police say there has been a rash of bicycle thefts in recent days in Keene. Perhaps the nation's leading experts on how to prevent bicycle thefts, the staff of the group Transportation Alternatives (TA) in New York City, can help concerned Keene residents. From recommending the best bicycle locks, and the best way to use the locks; to helping draft local laws that require builders of apartment and office buildings to install indoor, locked bicycle parking; to ways to persuade cities and towns to install more on-street bicycle parking -- TA can help. Details are at www.transalt.org
In Danger: Giant Park Near Keene, Brattleboro
Pisgah State Park, with thousands of acres, is the biggest state park in New Hampshire. It is in the town of Hinsdale, and two other towns. Hinsdale is directly across the river from Brattleboro. The following article was written by Jeffrey Scott and Marti Hobbes of the group Defenders of Pisgah. It was posted on a bulletin board at one of the entrances to the park on June 27. The only contact info provided for the group was:
Spofford, NH 03462
Photo: Climate Activists Camp on Amherst Town Common
Dozens of activists spent the night in tents on the Amherst town common June 23 - 24 to call for action on global warming. The event was organized by The Leadership Campaign www.TheLeadershipCampaign.org photo by Mino Caulton


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» Norbury Lake Provincial Park
Norbury Lake Provincial Park
The Steeples, a distinctive feature of the Hughes Range of the Rocky Mountains, stands clear against the sky to the east of this lightly wooded area.
Just south of Fort Steele, the park encompasses Peckham's Lake and fronts on Norbury Lake. Beach areas, water sports and pleasant walking trails. Rainbow trout in Peckham's Lake.
Power boats are prohibited. The Kootenay Fish Hatchery at Wardner is a short distance away.
Established Date: July 15, 1958
Power boats are prohibited.
Pets are permitted on the north end of Pecham's Lake, as indicated by the signs. Dogs must remain on leash at all times as to not disturb wildlife or other park users. Park visitors are responsible for their behavior and must dispose of their excrement.
18 km. north from Hwy 3 and 16 km south from Hwy 93/95 near Cranbrook.
History: The two lakes within the park – Norbury and Peckham's – were originally both named Norbury. The name commemorates the Honourable F. Paget Norbury who settled in the area in the late 1800's. He ranched here and was a magistrate at nearby Fort Steele during the town's heyday. Later, the Peckham family bought some land from Norbury and the lake closest to their property was subsequently called Peckham's Lake.
Conservation: This climate promotes the growth of Lodgepole Pine, Douglas-fir and Western Larch. Trembling Aspen is located near Peckham's Lake. Chokebery, Thimbleberry, Willow and several species of grass form the ground cover. Alongside Norbury Creek and along the trail from the campground to the picnic area on Peckham's Lake, one can see a diversity of plant and bird life.
Wildlife: Elk, deer, and Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep may be seen in the area, especially during winter months. The Columbian ground squirrel and other members of the squirrel family can be seen within the park.
Approved Purpose Statement and Zoning Plan [PDF] for Norbury Provincial Park
There is a boat launch at this park. Use is restricted to non-motorized boats, only.
Anyone fishing or angling in British Columbia must have an appropriate licence.
Pets/domestic animals must be on a leash at all times and are not allowed in beach areas or park buildings.
Exceptions: Pets are permitted on the north end of Pecham's Lake as indicated by the signs. Dogs must remain on leash at all times as to not disturb wildlife or other park users. You are responsible for their behavior and must dispose of their excrement.
There are no lifeguards on duty at provincial parks.
There is a boat launch at this park, use is restricted to high clearance vehicles. Boat use is restricted to non motorized boats only.
Cold water taps are located throughout the park. Taps are shut off during the off-season.
This park has a day-use/picnic area.
This park only has pit toilets; no flush toilets.
This park offers vehicle accessible campsites on a first-come, first-served basis; campsite reservations are not accepted.
Long-stay camping
Sites 12 to 21 are designated as "long-stay" sites.
A minimum of 4 consecutive weeks must be booked. The long stay program is available from May 1 to September 30 in this park. Please contact the operator to book one of these sites.
Long-term stays may not extend beyond their registered dates. Trailers parked on site prior to long-term registration are subject to the 14 day per year park stay. Trailers left on site unattended may be towed at the owners expense.
Information on other parks participating in this pilot program, or a link to the Long-Stay Policy document, is available on the Frontcountry Camping Policies and Fees webpage.
Long-stay camping available:
$56 /week May to June 14th and after the Labour Day long weekend in September (shoulder season)
$84/ week June 15 until after Labour Day (peak season)

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In the interest of doing the necessary research to form my own understanding, I ask you for a CFR. I need to hear or see for myself exactly what he said and the context in which it was said. Please post the talk or a transcript.
I find it very disturbing that members (?) are recording General Authority talks without their knowledge or permission and then using snippets to discredit them. Who did this?
Well I for one do not need my leaders to be flawless and like I said I'm happy to think for myself, even when listening to a general authority so I'm happy to assume ***for myself that he suggests we not research in a way that removes us from God.
I personally don't believe (***my opinion) that this little talk was some great revelation that suddenly Oaks wants the people to stop asking questions and stop researching answers.
His advice is the same as that given by Jesus himself, first be converted to Christ. Since the primary purpose of the Church is to point us to Christ, it seems self-evident that conversion to Christ ought to be the first priority—and Christ invites us to come to Him when we lack wisdom, we're not able to do so without the requisite faith (that's attendant to that conversion) and we're left to our own limited comprehension and unable to tap into Divine omniscience.
I saw this posted of this portion of the talk. I haven't watched it yet myself (but will now).
Can't get my volume to work on my computer! If anyone listens to it, maybe then can supply a quote?
But we disagree about what he did state means. How can we resolve that disagreement?
Also, Oaks specifically said "He acknowledged that some Latter-Saint couples face conflicts over important values and priorities. Matters of Church history and doctrinal issues have led some spouses to inactivity. Some spouses wonder how to best go about researching and responding to such issues.
So, if we want to stick only with what Oaks actually said then we must acknowledge that he was speaking about a very specific situation and it would be wrong to try to apply his advice outside of that scope.
The only situation that we can apply his words to (if we want to stick with what he did state, as you said we should) is one where there is 1) one spouse who has become inactive over doctrinal issues and 2) a spouse wants to know how best to research and respond to those issues. Only when those two things have occurred can we apply his response that 3) research is not the answer.
If we are sticking only with what Oaks said, is it fair to broaden his words to more situations than the one he specifically is speaking of?
I have every confidence in the ability of anyone who is covered to, and communes with, Deity to find and dwell in the rest of the Lord, regardless of whether or not they know anything about the Church.
And I concede I don't think it would have been possible for me to be converted to the Church without first being converted to Christ. I might have been able to say there was some goodness in the Church prior to conversion to Christ, but Divine confirmation is necessary for my conversion.
The answer to what? To say research doesn't give anyone the answer doesn't make sense. Is he saying research doesn't give us the answer to the question of whether there is God? Maybe, but to say research isn't the answer to that question seems silly. Research can only help someone come to an answer, in the long run no matter the question. Given your example of metallurgy, the problem is real. It may or may not have any bearing on whether the book is scripture. I don't see how researching the issue of metallurgy provides no answers.
I agree. He states that "research is not the answer" for "matters of Church history and doctrinal issues" that "have led some spouses into inactivity".
That's pretty specific actually and then he recommends reading the essays. I do agree that they contain some of the answers, but they leave a lot of the details out, IMO.
Bluebell you are quite intelligent. I have no CFR but just going off my experience, it is ***my opinion.
He said that research was not "the" answer.
He didn't say that research wasn't a answer (among others), or part of the answer, just that it wasn't "the" answer.
That is why i said, "I think he means research alone is not the answer."
One purpose of discussion to determine what we think he meant to say. This is what the OP did when he said, "I worry that President Oaks doesn't care about actually helping people to grow into mature humans..."
It's very definitely part of the answer and should be recommended, not discouraged. As I've already posted, members should do their own research and reading....then study and pray.
Contextually he clearly means the answer to what is causing a faith crisis. He gives that sentence right after "Matters of Church history and doctrinal issues have led some spouses to inactivity. Some spouses wonder how to best go about researching and responding to such issues." In other words the answer is the truth (from his perspective) that would resolve the question that is leading someone out of the Church.
Of course a Church critic will see this quite differently than active members. But Oaks is coming from the perspective that the Church is true and that there are answers. Certainly research can give answers to some questions, but not the questions Oaks is interested in.
I'm surprised people are attempting to make this into Oaks advocating no research. Which, if anyone knows Oaks history, makes no sense as an interpretation.
I'm not sure that I agree that having an encounter with God or the BoM imposes a specific burden of proof in the way that you seem to suggest.
The nature of the experience will certainly determine how evidence gets interpreted. But typically if one believes one has had a clear revelation saying that the Book of Mormon is true entails beliefs about the consequences of being true. Those are themselves interpretations of course arising out of ones other beliefs and practices. In general though I think for most people its truth entails a degree of historicity and thus evidence that has to be judged along side missing evidences such as say metallurgy.
I'm not trying to prescribe a specific set of reasoning here. Just noting that these revelatory encounters with God and then faith in their validity will change how we interpret evidence. How could it not? I think Oaks is completely correct to point to these experiences as what ultimately determine the answers rather than evidence since those experiences shape how the evidence is interpreted.
The question I would ask is whether you've ever been confident that something was inspired by God, and then later had a change of heart?
Sure. I'm a fallibilist. I think we can regularly be wrong about things.
But by the same measure I've thought I've seen things that upon closer inspection turned out to be false. I've misremembered things. I don't infer from that that I should disbelieve all I see or remember. That'd be functionally impossible.
I think the question I would ask someone who says that they have faith that some elements of polygamy were inspired by God, is what would you do if the current President of the church reinstated polygamy and you were called to practice it? Would this be a challenge to your faith?
Sure. But since I don't foresee it happening I don't worry about it much.
I find it more disturbing that General Authorities are so paranoid about having a broader audience for their words. Perhaps if they were more confident in their messaging then a recording wouldn't be a bad thing. When you have the entire talk available it is much more difficult to take something out of context or confuse what you thought you heard with what was actually said. If the message is correct a recording seems to offer a lot of protection against having the talk taken out of context.
I have no issue with someone recording a public meeting with or without permission. I"m also 100% fine with people recording their own disciplinary councils. I'm a little less ok with people recording personal conversations.
Do I dare? It was recorded last Fast Sunday, by one of the young men in attendance. I guess the recording has been pulled because the YM was caught. I heard it in full, and the transcript below is accurate from my memory.
"I come to see what happens when I'm not here. But I had an impression from the Spirit of the Lord, to teach something to each of you and particularly the young men of the Aaronic priesthood. Because I saw something, in Sacrament meeting today, that told me that some of you don't understand something. The Sacrament is an ordinance of the Gospel. And because it's an ordinance, it needs to be done exactly right. Just like the prayers that the priests offer, they have to say the exact language in the prayers. Because it's a priesthood ordinance. Just like baptism. The Lord taught us, when we are baptized, the priest who officiates raises his right hand, and says, 'having been commissioned of Jesus Christ, I baptize you, in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Ghost.' and then he immerses the person in the water. And if that's not done exactly that way, it has to be done again.
Now. When we partake of the sacrament, young men and young women, we are renewing the act of baptism. We're promising the Lord again, what we promised in baptism, that we'd keep his commandments. And also, he promises to renew the effect of our baptism, so that we're cleansed, from our sins, when we partake of the sacrament, if we've repented of them. But now there's something about the right hand. When we're baptized the priest raises his right hand, not his left hand, but his right hand. And when we partake of the sacrament, we partake with our right hand, not our left hand. And today, I saw quite a few of the deacons take the sacrament with their left hands. Don't do that. Because you set the wrong example for the congregation if you do that.
I know why you did that, because the sacrament tray was coming up on this side, and it was easiest to do that way. But a mother who's holding a baby, probably changes the baby, so she can use her right hand. And all of us should partake of the right hand, when we participate in that great ordinance of the gospel. That's what I felt impressed to share with you, and I've often mentioned that in other meetings, but I've never seen so many deacons take the sacrament with their left hand, so I thought I'd better perform my responsibility to share that with you. God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen."
ETA: Just noticed that the youtube is posted now on the thread. I don't have a problem per se with him reiterating a way of taking the Sacrament, but why does it feel so legalistic? And why can the temple wording and covenants change? He should have came with a more postive comment to the YM, IMO. Life is hard for youth they need more than what they got from him in person. Sorry to hope_for_things, if I've made this thread go off track to the desires you had for posting it.
Well I don't think it's bad advice to advise the spouse who wants to stay in to avoid the research, because research only confirms the questioning spouses position in most cases. The problem I've seen in these situations is the believing spouse has no clue what the questioning spouse is talking about. It's odd to tell the spouse whose trying to keep the questioning spouse in that he/she should not research. That just doesn't work for me at all. As it is for me, spouses move along together, not separately. My wife was always afraid, unbenownst to me, of the things I was reading, early in our marriage, because in her mind it was exactly where I was getting my questions and ideas. As soon as she decided to look into it a little, she wanted out of the Church immediately.
He seems to be advising spouses to move in separate directions, if that is the case. Whether people come or go it's probably a good idea that they communicate effectively. To tell one spouse to effectively shut out the life of the other seems silly, and foolish. "trying to research the questions your spouse asks, isn't the answer". Again, I say to what? It's not the answer to the spouses questions? I guess not. There are no such answers, as the gospel topics essays typically show.
It seems to me this fits nicely into Oaks history of no research into the issues. I suppose you are thinking of his professional life, but I don't know much about that. Nobody is making this into anything. The issue is with what he said.
I'm not feeling convinced by your explanation here. I think the Church will lose people no matter what. The gospel topics essays aren't really answers to questions, they are summaries of research. It's odd to promote them as answers. I suppose there are some answers but for the sum of each essay the answer seems to be we don't know. I that's what he's saying here. After researching you will find that there are no definitive answers. The problem is I think that's a pretty terrible way to approach this. Research is not the answer to accepting the Church as what it claims to be, I suppose. But, that doesn't really work for the questions that are leading people out fo the Church. Those questions need to be explored further not ignored, not treated as they don't matter. You would, I think, be one of the first to say that research is actually a good way for one to get a handle on the issues and help decide or evaluate one's thinking on any given topic.
Contextually he clearly means the answer to what is causing a faith crisis.
But the problem is, most of those having a faith crisis over ""matters of Church history and doctrinal issues" are having a crisis because they have not done any research on these topics. They are blindsided when they learn of them. And, when they express shock regarding some of the things they are now discovering, they are many times met with "If you'd paid attention, these things have always been taught" or...."If you'd not been so lazy, you would have done your own research and reading up on these topics"....or something similar.
So to say that research is not the answer....what is then? How can a member be well read on these topics and not do any research? Yes, there is pondering and praying needed....but one needs to research to learn what to ponder much of the time (especially regarding the topics that are causing many of the issues).
These topics are still not being taught by our leaders to the members (except possibly in some institute or seminary classes). So, where do they learn about them if not by doing their own research?
(By the way Clark....I always appreciate your posts and insight and I'm not just directing this just at you....).
I think you're just misinterpreting what he said. And it's not just his professional life, depending upon what you mean by that. I assume you mean his life as a lawyer and university president. But he's also one of the founders of Dialogue magazine. He has a long history of inquiry and investigation.
Anyway, I just don't see a history of Oaks worrying about research. Quite the contrary. I do see him strongly suggesting that research requires the spirit and that we should always pay attention to what we don't know as well as what we do. That is, I see him as advocating fairly straightforward critical methods.
I'm not feeling convinced by your explanation here. I think the Church will lose people no matter what. The gospel topics essays aren't really answers to questions, they are summaries of research. It's odd to promote them as answers. I suppose there are some answers but for the sum of each essay the answer seems to be we don't know. I that's what he's saying here. After researching you will find that there are no definitive answers. The problem is I think that's a pretty terrible way to approach this. Research is not the answer to accepting the Church as what it claims to be, I suppose. But, that doesn't really work for the questions that are leading people out fo the Church. Those questions need to be explored further not ignored, not treated as they don't matter.
I'd agree that a major problem with the gospel essays is that none of them really help give a faithful final interpretation. That is they give summaries of research but no real help with how to interpret that research. I think the Church should do better there.
That said, I don't think the answer is "we don't know" and I don't think in the least that's what Oaks is saying. It seems clear he's saying the exact opposite. Now again, that depends upon how you see those other methods. Someone who's skeptical epistemologically of revelation and faith in general is simply going to dismiss Oaks here. But he clearly is advocating a way to get answers.
I'm certainly not saying ignore data. But I think we also have to acknowledge that sometimes we don't have the data to reconcile conflicts of data. I don't mind exploring them further. However again if one does that without the spirit you're going to get wrong answers.
You would, I think, be one of the first to say that research is actually a good way for one to get a handle on the issues and help decide or evaluate one's thinking on any given topic.
As for my view, I think that research without the spirit will be completely counterproductive depending upon the topic in question. That's because you'll almost always just be getting a skeptical secular perspective minus those key elements that can give one the correct answer. That's been my whole point.
But the problem is, most of those having a faith crisis over ""matters of Church history and doctrinal issues" are having a crisis because they have not done any research on these topics. They are blindsided when they learn of them.
I don't know if it is most people, but certainly some information put in a faithful form is important. I am an advocate of an inoculation approach. I think we should be broaching more of these topics in a faithful context. I think the gospel topics help a little here. But they alone are insufficient.
So to say that research is not the answer....what is then? How can a member be well read on these topics and not do any research?
Well at a certain point I do think people are responsible for their own knowledge. So depending upon the topic I often am less sympathetic when these topics have been broached in Church magazines, lessons, and so forth.
So I'd first say we need to earnestly want to know and attempt to know. That is inquiry and research. (You can't just ask without first studying it out in your mind) You have to be reading scriptures, praying nightly etc. You have to reach the point where you know.
Then you continue to inquire and aren't bothered by evidence that appears to go the other way simply because you know what the answer is. How you interpret and deal with the evidence will be radically different.
I've mentioned this before, but on my mission we'd constantly have anti-Mormons show up for our investigators. Often in very odd coincidences that make me think there's more going on than chance. If we were able to get the investigator past the third discussion, so that they'd prayed and had a spiritual experience, then when the anti-Mormon material and people showed up, it led to a stronger testimony. If they hadn't (as was typical before a 3rd discussion even if they'd had spiritual experiences during the lessons) then they'd fall away. What made the difference? The anti-Mormon materials (which included most of what get brought up now in faith conflicts) forced them to really come to God to know if it was true. As such they actually helped get the person to find out directly.
The problem with research that's so often done is that it is coming from a purely secular perspective and only giving one side of the debate. The data is important, but unless one reads it with the spirit, one will most likely get the wrong answer (IMO).
So to say that research is not the answer....what is then? How can a member be well read on these topics and not do any research? Yes, there is pondering and praying needed....but one needs to research to learn what to ponder.
(By the way Clark....I always appreciate your posts and insight and I'm not just directing this at you....).
I think by Pres. Oaks saying what he did, he validated we who have always said that the church would rather us read only church authorized sources and also validates those of us that have had faith crisis over finding out something we hadn't known and that there is a distinct reason for that after all.
Thanks for bringing this up and posting this topic hopes_for_things, it is proof finally that we couldn't help but fall into this conundrum.
In your opinion, if one spouse has become in active in the church due to doctrinal issues, and the other spouse is attempting to get the spouse to be active again, is research the way to do it?
Depends upon the type of persuasion. The main problem that I have observed in living and socializing in areas with different beliefs is that those of the other beliefs may not be very tolerant of LDS doctrines and their persuasion is often social pressure. There is nothing wrong with diversity as long as most of the diverse groups are tolerant of the viewpoints of others. That is something that President Oaks was referring to.
If a person is not well grounded in the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by those methods, he pr she will be the more easily swayed by secular arguments and social pressures.


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Analysing how GST rates will affect the electrical equipment industry in India.
Goods and Service Tax (GST) which has come into force from 1st July has revolutionised the way India pay the taxes. It is expected to give a major boost to make easier business operations. The One Nation, One Tax has been designed to tax transforms India into a single market. The dawn of GST, celebrated in a way similar to the dawn of independence for India is by itself an indicator of the extraordinary expectations from GST in the years to come. This article describes how GST rates will affect the electrical equipment industry in India.
Equipment which come under renewable energy segment such as biogas plant, solar water heater, pumps, panels etc. will be attracting 5 per cent GST. While equipment like pumps, dairy machinery, and nuclear power generation elements will be around 12 per cent and motors, generators, transformers, boilers and turbines machinery is around 18 per cent.
In the lighting industry, the tax structures under GST are LED lighting at 12 per cent and conventional lighting including CFL/FTL is 28 per cent.
Energy efficiency and saving being the mantras for a decade, some of the states like Uttar Pradesh levied zero tax on LED fittings and in most of other states the tax was just 5 per cent. Similarly, in most of the states, the VAT for the energy efficient CFL lamps was around 12-13 per cent. Now the GST for LED fittings is fixed at 12 per cent and for CFL it is 28 per cent.
"With a composition of lighting industry at around 60 per cent in organised sector that are subject to Excise Duty (ED) and Value Added Tax (VAT) and the balance 40 per cent in unorganised sector without ED, it is difficult to make inferences about the immediate future," observes Kumbhat of K-Lite Industries.
Threat to 'Make in India'!
Even though, there will be a lot of benefits of GST in the long term, we can expect short-term negative impact too. In case of lighting industry, both fixtures and the components have been kept in the same bracket at 12 per cent as compared to 6 per cent customs duty on components earlier. "Importing components like MCPCB/diodes and LED drivers might rise as the taxes would be roughly the same in both cases. In turn such a shift towards import will not encourage the 'Make in India' concept," Kumbhat opines.
Experts observed that the success of GST will depend on how effectively the government is able to enforce the new tax system. "Simplified tax structure and unified market will improve operational efficiencies," concludes Kumbhat.


NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Aerogen AEGN, -1.65% shares continued to rally Tuesday, extending a gain of more than 25 percent on Monday after the company received 510(k) clearance to market its home nebulizer treatment product from the Food and Drug Administration. The stock surged more than 30 percent to $3.32 in recent trades, pulling back slightly after hitting a 52-week high of $3.40 earlier in the session. The Mountain View, Calif., firm plans to market the Aeroneb Go Nebulizer for respiratory therapy through its exclusive agreement with Medical Industries America.


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Ex-Playmate: Alex Rodriguez texted me for a…
Ex-Playmate: Alex Rodriguez texted me for a 'hookup' weeks before proposing to Jennifer Lopez
'He was like being a dirty dog,' ex-Playmate said about ex-Yankee's racy text messages
US Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (L) arrives at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards with Playboy playmate Zoe Gregory (R), in Los Angeles, CA, 27 February 2002. (LUCY NICHOLSON/AFP/Getty Images)
US singer and actress Jennifer Lopez (R) and husband baseball player Alex Rodriguez arrive for the 91st Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 24, 2019. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
US Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (4th R) arrives at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards with Playboy playmates including Zoe Gregory (far left), in Los Angeles, CA, 27 February 2002. (LUCY NICHOLSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Singer/actress Jennifer Lopez and former pro-baseball player Alex Rodriguez attend the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 91st Academy Awards at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on February 24, 2019. (JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX/AFP/Getty Images)
Jennifer Lopez (L) and Alex Rodriguez backstage during the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez attend the world premiere of "Second Act" at Regal Union Square Theatre, Stadium 14 on December 12, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images)
(L-R) Marc Buoniconti, Alex Rodriguez, and Jennifer Lopez attend the 33rd Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner, which raised millions of dollars for the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis at The New York Hilton Midtown on September 24, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis)
Alex Rodriguez (L) and Jennifer Lopez attend the after party for the finale of the 'Jennifer Lopez: All I Have' residency at Mr. Chow at Caesars Palace on September 30, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images )
Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez attend Jennifer Lopez's MTV VMA's Vanguard Award Celebration at Beauty & Essex on August 21, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Toth/Getty Images)
Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez attend the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on August 20, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Professional athlete Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez attend the 2018 Time 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Time)
Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez at the Guess Spring 2018 Campaign Reveal starring Jennifer Lopez on January 31, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Guess, Inc.)
Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez attend Calibash Los Angeles 2018 at Staples Center on January 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for SBS)
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez arrive for the 2018 Met Gala on May 7, 2018, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images)
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez attend the 'World of Dance Celebration', in Los Angeles, California, on September 19, 2017. (JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX/AFP/Getty Images)
(L-R) Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez participate in the phone bank during "One Voice: Somos Live! A Concert For Disaster Relief" at the Universal Studios Lot on October 14, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jordin Althaus/Getty Images)
(L-R) Alex Rodriguez #13 of the New York Yankees stands for the National Anthem with Jennifer Lopez and husband Mark Anthony before the game against the New York Mets on May 21, 2005 at Shea Stadium in the Flushing neighborhood of New York City. The Mets defeated the Yankees 7-1. (Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images)
By Martha Ross | mross@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: March 26, 2019 at 6:14 am | UPDATED: March 26, 2019 at 4:39 pm
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Just weeks before Alex Rodriguez was photographed on a beach at sunset, getting down on one knee to present Jennifer Lopez with a 16-carat diamond engagement ring, he was sending a former Playboy Playmate racy text messages, begging her for "naughty videos" and a threesome with her and another woman, the ex-Playmate claims.
"He was being like a dirty dog. He seemed like a needy, horny bloke," Zoe Gregory, 44, told The Sun newspaper in an interview. "If he is doing this right up until the point he is proposing to her, it is just not fair."
Gregory, who lives in London, also claimed that the former New York Yankees slugger sent her a photo of his penis, complimented her on her curvaceous figure and 36DD breasts and asked for names of "fun girls for me and him," reported The Sun, which published what it said were some of the messages sent via WhatsApp.
"J-Lo is amazing and she doesn't deserve this," Gregory told The Sun. "While getting ready to marry her, he was asking me for sex videos, demanding we hook up and asking me to make arrangements with other girls."
Gregory's claims are the second time Rodriguez, 43, has been accused of being unfaithful to Lopez, 49, since he and the singer announced their engagement March 9.
Former Oakland A's player Jose Canseco launched a Twitter tirade against Rodriguez, his long-time baseball enemy, by claiming that A-Rod had been sleeping with his ex-wife Jessica Canseco.
Jose Canseco called A-Rod "a piece of (expletive)." Similar to Gregory, he expressed sympathy for Lopez for being "a poor girl" who has no idea who she's marrying.
Watching World of Dance watching J.Lo text Alex Rodriguez little does she know that he is cheating on her with my ex-wife Jessica poor girl she has no idea who he really is
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) March 11, 2019
But Jessica Canseco vehemently denied her ex-husband's claim about her and Rodriguez a few days later.
"Those false accusations Jose is making are not true!" Jessica Canseco wrote on Twitter. She was married to the former MLB player until 1999. "I have known Alex for many years and haven't even seen him for over 5. I certainly did not sleep with him."
Jessica Canseco, a Beverly Hills-based TV personality, added that she is "friendly" with both Rodriguez and Lopez.
Gregory said that Rodriguez's racy texts ended after Jan. 22, about six weeks before he proposed to Lopez in a romantic seaside moment that appears to have been carefully stage-managed and obviously shot by someone other than him or Lopez.
3.9.19✨♥
A post shared by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo) on Mar 12, 2019 at 9:21am PDT
Whether or not Rodriguez and Lopez had yet to become engaged, Gregory, who now works as a fitness trainer, said she still think Rodriguez's overtures to her are not "right."
"J-Lo needs to wake up," Gregory said. "I feel bad for her and I don't think it's right."
But Lopez has instead tended to shrug off reports that Rodriguez has troubles with fidelity, according to Us Weekly.
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In 2017, when Lopez and Rodriguez were about four months into their relationship, news circulated that Lopez had hired a private investigator to confirm or debunk allegations that he is a serial cheater who was still seeing a former mistress.
"She's heard the cheating rumors in the past and has never let it bother her," a source told Us Weekly earlier this month. "She trusts (Rodriguez) and his love. They are inseparable and together almost all of the time."
Martha Ross
Martha Ross is a features writer who covers everything and anything related to popular culture, society, health, women's issues and families. A native of the East Bay and a graduate of Northwestern University and Mills College, she's also a former hard-news and investigative reporter, covering crime and local politics.
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One Dead, One Injured in Three-Vehicle Wreck Near Tenino Thursday
By Rolf Boone / The Olympian
One driver was killed and another was injured in a three-vehicle wreck near Tenino Thursday afternoon, according to Washington State Patrol.
The woman who died at the scene was 27-year-old Kylie C. Thompson, of Vancouver, Washington, according to the Thurston County coroner. A 56-year-old Rainier man was injured and taken to Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia.
About 2:15 p.m. Thursday, the Vancouver woman was headed south on state Route 507 at Military Road Southeast, according to the state patrol. Two other vehicles were headed north on the same road.
Troopers say the woman's car crossed into the northbound lane, triggering the three-vehicle crash. Excessive speed was the cause of the crash, according to the state patrol.
The injured Rainier man's vehicle eventually rolled onto its top. The third driver, a 33-year-old man also from Rainier, was not injured. The road was closed for three hours, according to the state patrol.


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« Pam Ore —Grammar of the Cage
Nathaniel Tarn —Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers
Dilemma: After perceiving eight decades of absolute loss in the world and bearing witness to the exploits of the poisoned species of man, how does one find hope? Nathaniel Tarn seems to solve this dilemma by nodding towards birds and trees as member species of his coveted clan, proclaiming them to possess extreme beauty, then letting his darker instincts peer out a bit from under the cuffs of his jacket. He wears his emotions on his sleeve. What punches does he need to pull now?
This is not to say that there isn't an admirable quality to his unmitigated gloominess. Who am I to say he has not earned his world-weariness? I am not suggesting that his weltschmerz seems put on for size. Tarn has done more and seen more in his life than I presume I have in my last ten. And some readers may not find his darkness as remarkable as I do. They might see hope in his homage to those things that he finds beauty in as he resists the pressures of a ravaging world.
The ravaging world has become ever more present in this his 80th year. Tarn was born in 1928 in Paris, rose to become a leading anthropologist and a translator of Neruda. His influence on ethnopoetics is unquestionable. He is also unquestionably a great world traveler [the poems in Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers find such settings as Sarawak, Borneo, East Malaysia, the Greek Islands, Megiddo (a hill in modern Israel), Los Angeles, Maui, Bali], and astute observer (particularly of birds).
The poems are almost never populated by specific humans. These are left out of the picture to a very large extent. Like a good anthropologist, he generally addresses humans in collective form. When the human world is invoked, it is almost always as a "we" (when Tarn wants to appeal to our sense of humanity) and a "you" when he wants to lecture humans on the errors of their ways. This seems very strange to me to have a book populated mostly by animals and ideas. But I believe that Tarn has had quite enough of endeavors so that their specific meanderings and tribulations are trivial. Indeed, compared to the geological time scale that Tarn's work exists in, the human is unimportant.
Tarn takes this turn to such a great extent in the final (and title) piece of "Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers" that we learn only in the endnote that during the trip that inspired the poem his friend and colleague during the trip died halfway on the trip out and how Tarn had to arrange for his removal from the forest. All this at the age of 80. Yet nowhere in the poem is there any mention made of the colleague's calamity. Instead, Tarn is true to form, remarking on several bird species and talking of imminent encroachment on bird habitat. The birds are his angels: Kingfisher
Buceros [Rhinoceros Hornbill]
Terpsiphone a! paradisi [Asian Paradise Flycatcher]
These are the stars of his poems in which nature can do no wrong. I would not completely refrain from using the term "romanticized" notion of nature, for its harshness and vicissitudes are never mentioned. The term "food chain" does not appear once! Even the animals he refers to are very well-behaved. Tarn's role, then, is as the birder/witness come to drink in the scenery and gather what he can about the differences between human social behavior and how birds behave in their tree canopy.
It is also interesting how Tarn refers to these birds by their scientific name instead of their common name. In this way, he also makes reference to Celan in what I believe to be Celan's native Romanian in one epigraph for "La Citta´Morta." Tarn is ever the one for scholarly exactitude, and perhaps one could say of him like Eupolis, an Athenian comic playwright, said of one of his influences, Pindar, that the poems of Pindar "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning." Could it be that in modern times, too, Tarn, like Pindar, is more respected than read?
Let us not give in to our age's ignorance completely (though I think Tarn has, in fact, already acknowledged this kind of capitulation). There is reason to read Tarn if we need to be reminded of how man, in the name of "progress," so often overreaches, how the irritations of modern life juxtaposed against the majesty of the untrammeled natural world.
These moments of juxtaposition are an indicator of what Forrest Gander refers in a recent Harriet Blog post (see below), as environmental literacy.
The United States and China are locked in a tug of war to determine which country can spew more carbon. For both, natural resources are plundered for short-sighted ends. Perhaps these facts place particular responsibilities on the poets of both countries. Maybe the development of environmental literacy, by which I mean a capacity for reading connections between the environment and its inhabitants, can be promoted by poetic literacy; maybe poetic literacy will be deepened through environmental literacy.
Tarn's switches between the excesses of the modern world, its blindsightedness, and the natural set up the "connections between the environment and its inhabitants." The associational qualities of poetry make it an excellent vehicle to pursue these relations. I think probably pursues them better than fiction, which must always be plot-bound to a much greater extent.
These moments of juxtaposition are also, for this reader, the most satisfying parts of the book. One moment in "Hummingbird-Sandwich" he will be rhapsodizing about the virtues of gardening and the next he will be damning the irritating calls of solicitors looking for donations to feed the vast numbers of hungry and homeless elsewhere in the world. Then he calls down the hummingbirds to be witness to his good deeds the way gods would come down to witness the past good deeds of humans. Lamenting the passing of the gods, he desires for Nature to come and bear witness to his acts of kindness. He says, "Let hummers come in then or perish in a sandwich."
This is one of the very few moments of levity in the book which usually inhabits a much more serious tone. Usually, very serious, condemning, perhaps even with a vengeance for modern life. But this moment of acknowledging the absurdity of man's interaction with nature provides a different window, if ajar only for a moment. Its presence raises a question for as a reader. The experience of reading a text that demands justice and equality for nature is well-documented [Tarn's texts are but a few in a long litany]. However, is there much of a tradition for comical interaction with birds and species outside of the human in general? I guess it can't be expected that animals have a sense of humor, or perhaps humor is so species-specific that one couldn't expect a hyena to laugh or a hen to cackle. One means of approaching, it seems, the comical side of nature is in the anthropomorphizing of animals. I could expect Tarn to scoff at human hubris in projecting our mental life onto animals (at least this is why I presume he never engages in any anthropomorphizing of his animal subjects), but this act of awkward empathy is often the most sympathetic effort we can make as humans. Without placing ourselves into the mental, and therefore emotional life, of animals we are never going to get past the point where Tarn would like humans to be: beyond our anthropocentrism. In fact, I don't trust anybody who doesn't anthropomorphize animals once in a while . . . or even routinely.
Too much of Tarn, for this reader, is as witness, watcher, locator, namer of the natural. His birding tendencies get the best of him. I respect birders in their quests to see. Some, in my opinion, go too far in trying to catalog these events with a "life list." However, I question whether the extent of one's interaction with nature must be the visual (or in the case of birdsong — auditory). Where does play enter into the picture? Would this signal encroachment for Tarn? I would like to ask him this.
Certainly there is very little that is gestural in Tarn's engagement of the natural world. the gardening is the one indication of the speaker moving his hands. However, there is a premium placed on human gesture as redemptive. In "A Smile" after, once again, Tarn has contemplated the absence of humans in this world at some distant point in the future, Tarn anthropomorphizes Juniper as mother and Piñon as father, Juniper waving with her many yellow hands. Then, quickly, he shifts to the abominations of the modern by invoking "seven cool million tons of bombs" and "tortured prisoners" which lead to
defoliation, that especially, the dying trees around
. . . a devastated head, beauty devoured by age, needles
of grief worn deep into the skin, small rivulets
of patience also, running down cheeks
into the chin and neck: the mirror image of the face
that's watching it across the room, a face
broken on the same wheel, a marriage wheel
of fortune—though all's been positive to date!
Even the grief! Time passes and will not
be seized in any way, will not allow itself
to be held down by its frail shoulders,
arrested, stopped there in its tracks to be enjoyed.
It must, alike all else, be seized against the wind,
caught on the wind—"eternity" some said. Yet, still
from time to time, the smile may flash, the smile
still dazzles and whole lives light up—as if
illuminated by a tender fire, a burning, not
destructive of our wood, but granting life, quick,
urgent life, inclusive patience and refreshing love.
The sentiment at the end is rooted in the mother's smile, the Juniper mother. It is an extraordinary sentiment, one that requires a great act of imagination to tease it out from the Juniper. However, I wonder if a smile's capacity for "whole lives lighting up" appears a bit too Debby Boone. Perhaps I am just allergic to earnestness, that heartfelt moment that should cause a clamor in the soul but to me feels too much like schmaltz, a moment of overt sentiment strictly to produce an effect.
The book is organized into four parts. The first section deals with poems that contemplate death, the animal world, gardening (some of the best of this section) and an examination of Matthias Grünewald's altarpiece circa 1526 in Alsace, France. The second section is entitled "Dying Trees" and it deals with the devastation of trees in the American West (the subject of "A Smile"). The third part is entitled "War Stills" and the main themes are of mindless devastation of the environment and the mindless pursuit and guarding of property that is at the heart of so much of modern warfare, particularly the madness that is the Iraq War. The fourth section, (in the reader's opinion, the most effective) is the one which aims most effectively at distinguishing the relationships between the natural world and man's civilized and urban instincts. The final section "Arawak" is comprised of the long title piece mentioned above that documents the loss of the natural world and its impact on the indigenous tribes.
Ascending Flight, Los Angeles
It is characterized by a pale subtle happiness of light and sunshine, a feeling of bird-like freedom, bird-like altitude, bird-like exuberance, and a third thing in which curiosity is united with a tender disdain. —Friedrich Nietzsche
Seen face to face in a domestic converse:
no compassion. Seen in a group of persons
in social converse, none either. Seen solo
waiting, far off and isolate, colorless as
a grounded, wingless, songless passerine,
compassion's ocean rises, flooding chest
chasm, a fraction further, extrudes tears up
and into eyes. Here, vastness of the Angels'
heart downtown, close to all arts and music,
sparsely filled up with buildings, their al-
zebras in crazy inundation of Californian
light. Always a few degrees above our own
and riotous with varied flowers and greens.
Airwise, blinding green parrots and such e-
xotica as might seem to belong here crackle.
Little Tokyo, Little Beijing, good rebates on
blouse-grown wings. The tears sink down to
rest in curiosity. Inveterate explorers wake.
Abandoned leftwing veterans rot on streets.
Beyond a world mayhem continues. Crying
sees murder; curiosity: consumption. through-
in a day, hang out, eat, drink, shop & consume.
Birds from colorless to color: flowers color
to colorless. To stop life's turn to nightmare
adopt the colorful patience of birds. Flowers
take flight and become birds, add color to
the birds in sky, so high, their colors hit in-
visible. This is the level we desire to reach:
bird high, plant low—famose cosmogony.
Out there in Hollywood, air-breasted women
trying to become birds and failing even, why
at ascent to flowers! To conjugate, lone mind,
all that is beautiful way and above all man, &
human understanding. Planes in their traces
along sky move white from unknown city-
unknown city, and this for no known purpose
you can witness low—but bird is clear in
purpose how much high, as hummer was at
nose the other day while gardening. Since I
was raising flowers to the power of air. As
child, remember Mitchell in the movie, eyes
up intently at a lone seagull—and she'll be
loveliest ever to fly, him whispering, and so
she was in metal clad, flying countries alive.
In cities, when the noise by day is overwhelming,
birds have evolved in time to sing by night, thus
to be heard by other birds. That's what we birds
are doing now, that once were poets of the day.
We sing at night, all hope on standby, but we are
heard by our own kindred. Meantime, deliberate,
people may rot into sweet angeleños. We crummy-
nals! dropping them there while shopping! O! O!
Wait! Wait! For ages now I shall read self-same,
very same book over and over, not skipping book-
book, place-place, or landscape-into-landscape.
I'll persevere presentially with one enlightened
me, ago when we could not even climb castles.
My darkness lifted and, suddenly made mirror, I
sent back simple verbs to one scale of our time.
Emotions are dead leaves; yet some may carry
to sing as if a world were morning, as if light,
still tinted by the birds, were truth and possibly.
After the night, after angelesque dreams, a great
light sphere rolling into the room, a rubber cage
with convict bird inside—clothed in all colors
the despised can dream. World granted. Novel day.
The most gratifying thing about this poem for poets should be that we, as poets, are the chosen people according to the birds, that we poets are ones who have evolved to sing by night. The idea of birds evolving to sing by night is the kind of observation about animal and life and the natural world that I expected more of during the course of the book. As an apparently lifelong veteran birder, I had hoped to learn about more specificaspects of unusual bird behavior, something that would make me stand up and say, Wow, would ya' look at that? But these moments were too few. This poem also offers up my favorite line of the book: "To stop life's turn to nightmare adopt the colorful patience of birds" This just about sums up all of the didactic turns that Tarn is taking in the book.
Technically speaking, there are some interesting things going on with this poem as well. The unusual hyphenation at the ends of some lines lends to multiple suggestions. I especially like the "e-xotica." This is very novel manipulation and underscores the juxtaposition of our current e-crazed phase of development with the birds. "Crummy-nals"? This bordered on being a little too cute for me and again a bit heavy-handed. Most of the piece seems like an accumulation of fragment; therefore, the piece feels very dense as one reads it, and its turns are quite labyrinthine. Those readers who do not bring a ball of string with them, may be eaten by the Minotaur.
All five sections of the book are preface by the prefatory poem Pursuit of the Whole & Parts. In this poem Tarn provides philosophical meditation of the relationship of the individual to the larger world-system outside of the individual. Tarn says that the perception of the general is not sufficient without the particulars to coincide with it. He goes further that it is the moment of those particulars crystallizing in a moment of gestalt where one can rationally pursue the general, the whole, the "firefly of spirit" again. Once that crystallization occurs it may recur in various forms, endlessly like the patterns of nature themselves. This sounds very much like the idea of "attractors" in non-linear dynamical systems. I wonder if this is what he may have had in mind as he tried to poeticize this concept. As a piece of poetry-philosophy, it is one of the finest in the book.
However, I would take issue with the line "the selfishness of the light-hearted, the cloud-walker, alone with his invisibles, his intangibles, all those angelic wings . . ." It seems to me that he might be thinking about a different concept of light-heartedness" than I am used to or he is attempting to excuse his own darkness as that which is necessary for the kind "firefly of the spirit" to arise. Perhaps because my own temperament seems to be so far from such heft which Tarn considers to be the opposite of selfishness, I object to this characterization or at least confess that I do not understand what Tarn means. But if rightly interpret Tarn as meaning that the considerate man is by all manners dark and brooding over his many unnamed and unrecognizable atrocities (which presumably would indict all contemporary urban humans), then I might detract from this position by pointing out a little light-heartedness sometimes can be a better teacher than the perpetual extolling about the woes of the world. Can one reach a point where one has witnessed too much?
Tarn's project in Ins and Outs of Forest Rivers is that of the impassioned environmentalist who, seeing the horrible disfigurement of the natural world, will not go quietly into that good night. He has set upon a group of particulars that has locked into place as a conceptual whole. He gets the picture, and he is going to carry out his versification to that aim. Perhaps his age sets him toward the goal of preservationism. One tends to want to preserve everything. The hint of progress means the world is getting up and taking a few more steps without you. I remember this in my mother quite well, who, a few years before she died, took to standing out in front of a bulldozer and a contractor's team which wanted to cut down a huge oak tree just off my parents' property line in order to build a new road. She stood there in a showdown with them for three days until they got a court order for her to desist. When she told me about it, I was shocked that she had found such a passion for a tree. Assuredly, it was a beautiful tree, but I had hardly known my mother to put up a fight before this moment. In fact, she had idly stood by while my father had felled scores of trees in the past.
Hopefully, some day I will inherit some of her sentimentality.
I wanted to directly and vigorously connect in a prolonged manner with this book in the worst way, but I found in the fits and starts that I devoted to it, that I could not sustain any long sittings while reading it. I chipped away at the book and then came back to re-engage with some of the pieces. I think this is perhaps the way Tarn intended for it to be read. If it is not, I can only provide the usual excuses of not having sufficiently large blocs of time to dedicate to it or perhaps I am part of the "multitude not ready for elegant learning." Or the attention span needs some Cialis. Whatever the case, Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers is a book for anyone who tends to perk up when the conversation turns toward the abuses and devastation of man. Though it does not always seek to display the full variety of colors desired in elaborate plumage, it quietly instructs to adopt the colorful patience of birds, both overtly and as an object lesson.
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Is there a demo version with a .bat file to run it? I want to test certain hardware emulator but I need to have an exe or bat file to use it.
I'll create a download version on monday.
There is no lwjgl version for Solaris. That's why it doesn't start because it's an OpenGL-only demo.
Ohhhhhh. Just installed it and was playing around. Thought it would be cool to run that demo .


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Q: Inversion of adverb/adjective and preposition Is one of the following two sentences incorrect ?
"I didn't get good enough a glimpse" (1)
and
"I didn't get a good enough glimpse" (2)
In my native language, the latter seems more natural, but the former sounds better to my "english ear", so I'm a bit conflicted about it, and am not sure what words to look up.
If both are correct, is there a nuance between the two versions ? I can't think of any that would make sense.
If the first version is correct (regardless of the second), in what circumstances should one invert and adverb and a preposition ? (this seems to be related to the adverb "enough" rather than the adjective "good", because "I didn't get good a glimpse" definitely does not sound right - in particular, although this sounds superficially related to the inversion in "how good a glimpse did you get ?", I don't think they actually are)

A: Typically people say, "I didn't get enough of a look."  I wouldn't use "glimpse" because a glimpse is, by definition, quite fleeting (brief, probably incomplete).


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Knights Fighting, C1260
by Henry Shaw
Knights fighting, c1260, (1843). Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).
Keep your furry and feathery friends close, whether they are a galloping stallion or a dog taking a selfie. Our gallery is here to turn empty walls into a cute and quirky display of animal art.
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This giclée print delivers a vivid image with maximum color accuracy and exceptional resolution. The standard for museums and galleries around the world, giclée is a printing process where millions of ink droplets are "sprayed" onto high-quality paper. With the great degree of detail and smooth transitions of color gradients, giclée prints appear much more realistic than other reproduction prints. The high-quality paper (235 gsm) is acid free with a smooth surface.
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Knight, Late 12th Century
Christine de Pisan, Presenting Her Book to the Queen of France, Early 15th Century
Musical Instruments, 12th Century
King and Knight, Late 12th Century
View of the Hall, Christ's Hospital, City of London, 1833
Interior View of the Hall, Christ's Hospital, City of London, 1833
View of the New Grammar and Mathematical Schools, Christ's Hospital, City of London, 1833
The Old Hall, Whittington's Library and the Cloisters, Christ's Hospital, City of London, 1825
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Os sais quaternários de amônio, sais de amônio quaternário ou compostos quaternários de amônio são bioativos catiônicos com poder surfactante. Sua estrutura básica possui duas regiões bem definidas, sendo um átomo central de nitrogênio ligado covalentemente a quatro grupos funcionais por meio de carga positiva, formando a região catiônica e outra região denominada aniônica, carregada negativamente onde geralmente o cloro ou bromo se liga ao nitrogênio.

Foram introduzidos no final da década de 1930 e desde então são frequentemente utilizados como detergentes e desinfetantes. Para a boa atividade antimicrobiana é requisito que ao nitrogênio esteja ligado uma longa cadeia alquila com comprimento de C8 a C18 que serve também como um grupo hidrofóbico.  Os grupos hidrofóbicos nos quaternários de amônio tendem a desempenhar funções antimicrobianas.

Desinfetantes desta classe são bactericidas contra formas planctônicas e biofilme, bactérias Gram negativas e Gram positivas, fungos e vírus envelopados.

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City of Hopkins enlivens its streets with Forecast's help
August 2, 2018 /in News /by Jen Dolen
The Artery is a three block street connecting the City of Hopkins' Mainstreet with the future LRT station on Excelsior Blvd. Forecast Public Art was hired to help plan a programmable streetscape with custom designed amenities.
Hopkins Minnesota was established in 1893 as a center of commerce and industry. It continued to grow around a central downtown, shaped by all modes of transportation. Art has played a large part in the city's forward-thinking leadership. In the late 1990s, City leaders saw and acted upon an opportunity to build a center for art in Downtown Hopkins, moving the city's image toward a vision of arts and entertainment. Continued support for the arts, and an appreciation of what art and artists can do for a community, led to an infusion of art outside the walls of the Hopkins Center for the Arts and into the streets. By 2008, planning for Metropolitan Council's Green Line Extension established a Light Rail Transit station on Excelsior Boulevard, two blocks south of Hopkins' historic Main Street.
The challenge this posed to City leaders was how to bring transit riders into downtown, and how to best connect Hopkins residents and employees to the Downtown Hopkins light rail station. Making the street experience seductive for pedestrians became the goal. Art was the primary way the street would evolve into a vibrant place, in addition to a separated bikeway connecting two regional trails, and redevelopment of the sites along the corridor into higher density transit-oriented development. City planners discussed using art to communicate Hopkins' story, adding interest to the street and making a statement about the influence of art in the community. The name of the new street, the Artery, aimed to emphasize both the importance of art and the importance of the route.
The city tapped Forecast Public Art to bring expertise to the process of developing plans that would set the stage for art in many forms. A focus group of artists informed the corridor design, advocating for more flexibility and less programmed use of the space. They recommended fewer fixed features and more space for art to organically happen. The artists advised city planners to experiment with temporary installations and allow for the artists who use the space to inform its direction. Based on this feedback, the design of the Artery includes open areas for temporary installations and performance art, the opportunity to hang their art over the street, access to electricity and places to meet and experience art.
A national call resulted in 100 responses. Proposals were reviewed and artists selected by the City's public art committee. Along with the commissioned art, several local artists contributed designs—including C.J. Renner, Fawzia Khan, Russ White, and Heather Renaux—which the city used to create screens, add interest and tell Hopkins' story of rich history and current diversity. Four sculptures were commissioned: Night and Day by Jason Klimoski, Moline by James Brenner, Dragonfly Wing by Stanton Sears, and Photo Op Bench by Ben Zamora. In addition to site specific design, the sculptures also serve to provide shade and act as a road closure, a photo opportunity and a monument announcing the gateway to the Artery.
Construction of the Artery was completed spring 2018. People are finding a shady spot to have lunch under Night and Day, occasionally, the road has been closed to cars using the Dragonfly Wing, and James Brenner's Moline is a beacon that sets the tone and aesthetic of the Artery. The city looks forward to performances in the future!
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There's the subject, and then there's the form. The subject of this book exhausts and depresses me. It's about a few residents of a slum in Mumbai and the various social and political factors that impede them from improving their lot in life. Their situation is terrible. They lack adequate water, sanitation, and food. They subsist by scavenging in the garbage. The institutions that ought to serve and aid them — police, government, courts, schools, charities — in fact do them more harm than good, exploiting their labor and extorting their meager resources. It's terrible, but not terribly surprising; we know full well that situations like this exist all over the world.
What is surprising is the form of Boo's book. It's not a study or a history; it's a story. There are no statistics or interviews with experts or extended analyses of causes and effects. Boo spent years in this one relatively small slum, interviewing and re-interviewing the same residents, and tracking the particular setbacks and advances they made in their individual lives. The questions of how or whether these particular examples might be used inductively to fuel broader conclusions about poverty in general is not here entertained or answered.
The effect, for me, was disorienting in two ways. First, because the book follows the narrative arcs described by the lives of persons, those persons felt like characters to me, rather than humans. Second, their stories seemed radically decontextualized. I wanted to know more about what was going on in the city around them, the slums around them. I wanted to know more about the history of the country, the political situation, and so forth. At the same time, I realize that my sense of having no context is analogous to the contextless-ness of the slum dwellers themselves, who have few means of understanding what's going on in the world outside the slum.
This is a good book but a strange one. I am having a hard time assessing the nature of my reaction. I guess another way to put it is that I wanted Bertolt Brecht to have written it. It needs a dash of the alienation effect, so as to ensure that I don't think of humans as characters or vice-versa.


LAFAYETTE — Brent Johnson, wanted for the the Sept. 6 homicide that occurred in the 300 block of Lafayette Street, was arrested Sept. 20 in Auburn, WA through collaborate efforts between the United States Marshals Service of Tacoma, the United States Marshals Service Violet Offender Task Force Louisiana and the Lafayette Police Department Special Investigations Unit, Lafayette police announced.
After extradition, Johnson will be booked in the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center on the active warrant for second degree murder, police said.
The homicide occurred at approximately 10:30 a.m. Sept. 6. Lafayette Police responded to the 300 block of Lafayette Street after a report of shots fired. Officers found one male victim in the front of a residence suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced deceased.


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Remote learning plans established
by nadignewspapers@aol.com · April 1, 2020
Remote learning plans established Chicago Public Schools and City Colleges of Chicago announced that both institutions have established remote learning plans to ensure instructional time continues while school buildings and campuses are closed due to the pandemic.
"We will not allow this crisis to be an obstacle to our students' futures and their dreams," said Mayor Lori Lightfoot. "It was a Herculean effort to shift one's curriculum to an entirely new mediumespecially in such a short amount of time – and it's a testament to the passion and commitment of Chicago's entire education community that they have been able to do just that. While our schools remain closed, thanks to our city's countless faculty and staff, education in Chicago remains open."
Schools will provide students with daily learning activities and offer both digital and non-digital learning options to promote equitable access to instructional materials, a press release said. Schools can create their own activities or augment enrichment activities provided by the district, which will be created every 2 weeks during the closure.
Teachers will provide weekly feedback to students on the assigned activities they complete and they will be directly available to their students for academic support, which may include digital learning and follow-up with students who lack digital access.
Schools will have the flexibility to determine how best to provide learning opportunities, and teachers will be expected to be available for 4 hours per school day. Potential activities include streaming live activities, including a mini-lesson, book reading, digital discussion or lecture, with a maximum of 2 hours of digital learning, the release said.
Schools will provide office hours via phone, virtual methods or e-mail during regular hours of the school day to answer any questions and support ongoing learning. The primary goal of the remote learning plan is to keep every student engaged and connected to his or her school through daily learning opportunities.
While students are expected to complete assignments and schools are able to grade work, grades cannot negatively impact any student's academic standing and incomplete assignments will need to be made up following the remote learning period, the release said.
In order to expand access to remote learning, the district is undertaking an effort to deploy more than 100,000 devices to its highest-need students. CPS is working to put more devices in the hands of families by moving approximately 65,000 school-based devices into homes, allocating 37,000 devices that were recently purchased, and deploying additional devices acquired through potential philanthropic contributions. The district will prioritize schools with the greatest need based on a hardship index, percentage of students that qualify for free and reducedprice lunch, and percentage of students in temporary living situations.
Also, City Colleges of Chicago implemented remote learning and shifted classes for its more than 30,000 credit-earning students online. The community college system went from 10 percent of credit class sections being taught fully online to 92 percent of credit class sections being taught fully online as of today. City Colleges also shifted its student services from previously being almost entirely in-person to exclusively online. City Colleges students can access admissions, advising, the library, tutoring, financial aid, registrar, business office, veterans services, transfer services, wellness center, information technology help desk, disability access centers, and our Call Center, all online at www.ccc.edu/vss.
On April 13, City Colleges' free adult education courses, including GED and English as a Second Language, will start to be offered via distance learning. City Colleges is also offering loaner laptops for adult education students, who can apply at https://apps. ccc.edu/LoanerLaptop/logi n. For more information, send an e-mail coron avirus@chicago.gov.
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Q: How to calculate the best text color to contrast with background in rails I need to calculate a color for the text, when a background is set and that color should be the best contrast possible. The color should not be between white or black, but some color that makes sense for contrast. is there any idea? tks

A: Possible solution:
class InvalidFormat < StandardError; end

RGB_REGEXP = /\A#(..)(..)(..)\z/
VALID_FORMAT = /\A#[a-fA-F0-9]{6}\z/

def invert_color(hex, black_white = false)
  raise InvalidFormat unless hex =~ VALID_FORMAT

  red, green, blue = hex.match(RGB_REGEXP).captures.map(&:hex)

  return (red * 0.299 + green * 0.587 + blue * 0.114) > 186 ? '#000000' : '#FFFFFF' if black_white

  red = (255 - red).to_s(16)
  green = (255 - green).to_s(16)
  blue = (255 - blue).to_s(16)
  ['#', *[red, green, blue].map { |c| c.rjust(2, '0') }].join
end

invert_color('#de34fc')

# => #21cb03

invert_color('#ffffff')

# => #000000

invert_color('#000000')

# => #ffffff

invert_color('#de34fc', true)

# => #ffffff

Note: You need to pass color in format #XXXXXX or convert #XXX to #XXXXXX before passing. And also add prefix # to format XXXXXX

A: You can try the Chroma-Gem.
def invert_color(color)
  rgba = Chroma.paint(color).rgb
  Chroma.paint("rgba(#{255 - rgba.r}, #{255 - rgba.g},#{255 - rgba.b}, 1.0").to_hex
end

You should get the inverted color of the color in the parameter.

A: Short Answer:
There is no short answer, ultimately this is a non-trivial question. But for a simple black/white text color flipper, see my GitHub repo, "Fancy Font Flipping"
Longer Answer:
First of all, "best contrast" is not necessarily "most contrast". It is possible to exceed a maximum contrast in a number of contexts.
Second, for small text, contrast is less about a pair of colors, and more about "spatial frequency", i.e. the weight and the size.
Third, for any given hue, there are some hues that interfere with each other, particularly some hues that, on a color "wheel", are opposite of each other. Certain so-called "complementary" colors are really more "oppositional" colors, and can carry with them certain artifacts, such as chromatic aberration.
An easy example here is full red and full blue:

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And fourth, an "appropriate" hue to contrast with some other hue is very subjective, and therefore not well within the reach of an automated method. In most cases, the safest is to maintain hue, and just adjust the luminance and the chroma (saturation).
What's The Context El-Con-Text-Olay
And again, contrast perception is so much more than just the difference of a pair of colors, without some reasonable constraints the results may be more unpredictable than you'd like.
A context sensitive contrast measure that is being developed for the future WCAG 3, and for other standards, is the APCA, and the npm package npm i apca-w3 has a reverseAPCA() that takes one color and a target contrast value, and returns a color of that contrast, though at the moment it only returns a greyscale. It's a JS library, but the basic functions should be trivial to port to Ruby.
It has a parameter option to return a luminance instead, and you could use that and integrate a CIELAB or CIELUV colorspace to also provide a hue/chroma correlate.
There is an interesting sRGB centric version of LUV known as HSLuv that is relatively perceptually uniform that might be useful for your purposes. It can be seen at HSLuv.org
The L in HSLuv is L* (Lstar) which is a semi-uniform perceptual lightness, and using ∆L* (i.e. Lstar difference) you get a somewhat usable contrast prediction, though it's not that accurate in terms of TEXT contrast, it's useful with large patches of color. But it is probably a "best start" for you in terms of a real, useful, perceptual model of color contrast.
How HSLuv Might Work For You
In HSLuv, Hue is 0-360, S and L are 0-100.
So if you have color A as 260°H 92S 33L* then a color that contrasts with that (same hue) might be 260°H 100S 83L*
For some color schemes, you might want to rotate the hue some set distance clockwise or CCW... or decrease saturation... or increase it... these are all largely subjective choices.
But what this is leading to is: the IMPORTANT thing in contrast is the achromatic luminance contrast, and here that is the ∆L*. In APCA it is the Lc value (lightness contrast) and again, is "essentially" the achromatic parameter.
But to change the achromatic L* or Lc value, and also have control of hue/chroma, you need to add in a model like HSLuv. I'm working on such a feature for APCA, but it's "not ready for primetime", and it's using yet another color space/model (SACAM... maybe probably or not..).
Readability Contrast vs Color Contrast
As a final note: For readability, it is luminance contrast, or achromatic lightness/darkness that is important, regardless of hue.
But for discernibility (i.e. lines on a map) color (hue chroma) are important, and then it also becomes important to consider those users with color insensitive vision (inaccurately called color blind). Color insensitive have the same contrast needs as standard vision for READABILITY. But for DISCERNIBILITY, color insensitive have additional needs due to their various difficulties discriminating hues.
So, if you are working on contrast for readability of text, it is the Y, L*, or Lc value that is important. But if you are working on other design features (like dataviz) then you need to add in ways to help discriminate that are not based solely on hue.


Every architect has horror stories about construction quality on job sites. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) union wants to prevent that, investing $250 million for a training center in Las Vegas to teach and certify their workers. The group has been building the International Training Center, just outside McCarran Airport, over the past several years, and recently completed phase five of the complex, bringing its total size to almost 1 million square feet. The facility features more than 70 classrooms, its own dorms (with 300 guest rooms), and training shops fitted with facilities like scaffolding mock ups, concrete form making stations, a pile driver pit, flooring stations, glass curtain wall mock ups, turbine pit, a robot zone, and even a tank to practice underwater welding. Third year apprentices from around the country train here for two weeks at a time. They include general carpenters, interior systems carpenters and drywallers, millwrights, floor coverers, millworkers, cabinetmakers, framing and residential carpenters, pile drivers, lathers, scaffolders, roofers, and workers in forest-product and related industries. The UBC sponsors more than 200 training centers across North America (there are about 3,500 full- and part-time instructors associated with the UBC), but this is by far the largest. "Our job is to make sure our members are trained and ready," said Bill Irwin, executive director of the Carpenters International Training Fund.
An abstracted version of a street tree, a canopy of tessellated irregular polygons balances atop slim steel posts.
When Public: Architecture + Communication visited the site of the transit shelters the University of British Columbia had asked them to design, they found that something was missing. The main point of entry to the campus, University Boulevard is lined with trees—except where the bus shelters would go. "There was this language of gaps that we noticed," said Public's Christopher Sklar. The shelters themselves, they decided, should fill in the tree line. The designers were left with a question, articulated by Sklar: "How does it be a quiet piece but also something interesting and unusual that relates to its surroundings?" Beginning with the image of a tree's branch structure, Public placed a wood canopy defined by a repeating pattern atop slim steel posts. As for the pattern itself, the designers considered a range of options, from Moorish patterns to simple geometric shapes. The trouble with a geometric pattern, said Sklar, is that it is "often a static thing. We looked at triangles; they're just triangles. Add a side, it's just a square." But if you add one more side, you have a pentagon. And that is where things get interesting. The tessellation of irregular pentagons is surprisingly complicated, on both a mathematical and an aesthetic level. "The thing that we liked about the repeating pentagon is that it creates something that is repetitive, but it's also something that's fluid and dynamic," said Sklar. "It doesn't feel like it's repeating when you're actually in it. It's kind of a flowing structure above you." Public alternated between Rhino and Grasshopper, finding that it was easier to perfect a line drawing and plug it into Grasshopper than to allow Grasshopper to generate the tessellation. "I think it's one of these things where it's a new technology, people want to see what it can do, think it can help you generate forms," said Sklar. "But it's taking away the last thing we have left to us. We're designers, we want to shape the thing." The team built a full-scale model of two of the canopy's cells to get a sense of their size, hoisting the cardboard shapes onto the ceiling pipes in their Vancouver studio.


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Sojourner Hodges
Sojourner Hodges was born in Florida in 1986. She started composing music at age five and at age six began taking piano and music theory lessons with Juanita Becker. Singe age thirteen she has been studying composition. In the summer of 2004 she appeared as composer and pianist on From the Top, a nationally syndicated radio show hosted by Christopher O'Riley, where she premiered the second movement of her Trio for violin, cello, and piano, and her solo piano piece Achromatopsia. Also during 2004, Hodges participated in the Czech-American Summer Music Institute in Prague, Czech Republic. Sojourner Hodges is an accomplished and acclaimed young composer who will be making waves in the new music scene for decades to come.
Bolcom with BMOP
Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory | March 6, 2011
[Concert Review] Bolcom, BMOP, and the graceful ghost of Ligeti
I'm late with my thoughts on the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's "Bolcom with BMOP" evening last Sunday. Which may have something to do with the fact that I was slightly, but not entirely, disappointed by the program. I was drawn to the concert because I'm a fan of its eponymous star, the distinguished American composer William Bolcom - or at least I'm a huge fan (like many people) of his piano and vocal music (a favorite selection, "The Poltergeist," above).
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The upshot of the piece seemed to be that every musical style was in effect a kind of harlequin, and the whole of musical history therefore, yes, merely a commedia.
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The concentration of calcium (Ca), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn) and selenium (Se) in plasma of 76 nonagenarians (mean age, 89.0 ± 6.3 years), 64 centenarians (mean age, 101 ± 1 years) and 24 middle-aged subjects as controls (mean age 61.2 ± 1.1 years), was determined by sector field inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. All the subjects lived in Sardinia, an Italian island, that has the higher prevalence of centenarians than in other European countries. A comparison among the three classes of age showed a significant depletion of Ca, Co, Fe, Mn and Se (all p < 0.001) in nonagenarians and centenarians with respect to controls. In particular, the geometric mean (GM) values of Ca, Co, Fe, Mn and Se were: 94.1 μg/ml, 0.46 ng/ml, 1314 ng/ml, 2.47 ng/ml and 111 ng/ml in controls; 87.6 μg/ml, 0.22 ng/ml, 815 ng/ml, 1.07 ng/ml and 88.9 ng/ml in nonagenarians; 87.0 μg/ml, 0.29 ng/ml, 713 ng/ml, 1.27 ng/ml and 81.9 ng/ml in centenarians. The highest inverse relationship with age was observed for Fe (p < 0.001; ρ = − 0.352) and Se (p < 0.001; ρ = − 0.417). This trend was also observed when data were sorted by gender. On the other hand, Cu and Mg levels in plasma remained substantially unchanged during aging. As regards Cu, it was significantly higher in females than in males in controls (GM, 1294 ng/ml vs. 1077 ng/ml; p = 0.012), in nonagenarians (GM, 1216 ng/ml vs. 1081 ng/ml; p = 0.011) as well as in centenarians (GM, 1226 ng/ml vs. 1152 ng/ml; p = 0.045) and in hypertensive subjects with respect to healthy people (GM, 1215 ng/ml vs. 1129 ng/ml; p = 0.021). These data can be used to enhance knowledge and support the research on: i) metals involved in aging in areas with high rates of human longevity; ii) variables (gender, lifestyle habits and health status) as critical determinants in aging; and iii) mineral intake and supplementation at older age affecting the healthy aging.


NBC's "Little Big Shots" was the only show to adjust up in adults 18-49 from Sunday's fast nationals. It rose a tenth of a point to finish at 1.7. Several other shows went the other way.
"The Carmichael Show" (0.9) and "Crowded" (0.7) each adjusted down a tenth for NBC, as did the American Country Countdown Awards (0.9) on FOX. A "Little Big Shots" rerun on NBC also adjusted down a tenth to 0.7.


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