I must say, life and it many surprises forced me to do this blog. I am speaking for all PROFESSIONALS today, and the key word is professionals. It is so important, when you make an appointment and you realize you will not be able to make the appointment to call, email or text to cancel. It's just the right thing to do… I don't know any other way to say it. It's just the right thing to do.
Professionals prepare for meetings, they arrive early to make the atmosphere warm and cozy for meetings, they ensure their appearance is professional and inviting for meetings and the block off time from their family, friends and other events for meetings. Most importantly when time is blocked off to meet with a client, we are now losing money for that schedule meetings. Now, frustration has set in and when we decide to change our policy to where we will charge for meetings/consultation, we now have to deal with individuals stating…" Oh they charge to met with them, they must be special or think they are Top of the Line". YES, I am special…. to my husband, my children and all the clients that I serve everyday and give them 100% of me. The same clients, I denied a meeting with to schedule a meeting with you and you didn't think to even reach out to cancel. And yes, I am Top of the Line, I'm assuming that's why the appointment was made. We all are Top of the Line, to the clients who seek to do business with us.
Time is valuable, that's the one thing you can not get back and first impressions is an exchange that work in both directions. If a client makes an appointment and I am late, unprofessional, dressed unprofessionally and etc., that client would more than likely NOT want to do business with me. This works the same for a client who makes an appointments, receives weekly and daily reminders and choose not to contact for cancellation.
To all my colleagues and business professionals…You are Welcome.
To other readers, if this is you or you have done this before…lets just all do better. Respect time, respect the person…It's just the Right thing to do!


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First Person: The Burgess Mystique
As national parks go, British Columbia's Yoho is more compact than most. Driving the Trans-Canada west from the Alberta border, it feels like you've already left it behind before you finish reading the "welcome" sign. But if you commit to the turnoff , the jewels you'll find are among the most precious in all of Canada's treasured mountain parks. So thought Charles Doolittle Walcott, the American geologist who discovered the Burgess Shale.
Words: Leslie Anthony
Tucked at the base of a massive rock face just off the highway, Cathedral Mountain Lodge immediately feels like the quintessential Rockies hideaway—a cluster of classic log cabins in the forest by a lake. It's also the starting point for a trip that's been on my bucket list since reading Stephen J. Gould's 1981 book Wonderful Life, which details the marvels revealed in this 505 million-year-old formation and the subsequent intrigue surrounding them.
The Burgess Shale, in fact, is the single most important fossil deposit in the world. Containing almost all life forms known from the so-called Cambrian Explosion—an era of numerous new phyla and body plans that seemed to appear "suddenly" in the fossil record—the Burgess has been lionized in literature, fi lm, and even music since its riches began undergoing serious study in the mid-1960s. The deposit's significance to both evolutionary theory and our understanding of all extant animals groups has remained unmatched in the annals of science. In recent years, the Burgess has again commandeered both scientific and popular consciousness with stunning new interpretations of well-known fossils—some that speak to evolutionary enigmas as central as sight and the perception of colour—as well as discoveries of new life forms, many of which have yet to be described.
All of this is on my mind as I begin the infamous 21-kilometre roundtrip hike to the "Walcott Quarry," where the Smithsonian Institute scientist and his family excavated fossils for some 20 summers.
Ocean bottom some 505 million years ago, the Burgess Shale now scratches the sky in Yoho National Park. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Institution
Beginning from the parking lot at Takakkwa Falls, we're soon high enough to see the Daly Glacier whose water feeds it. Above a series of switchbacks, we break onto another bench and the angle of attack lessens as we make our way to Yoho Lake and its historic, century-old Alpine Club of Canada campsite. Leaving the shallow, shimmering waters that are just catching morning sun, we follow a low-angled valley through cool, shadowed forest riven by small streams.
Slowly ascending the flanks of Wapta Peak, occasional breaks in the trees yield glimpses of alpine majesty. Openings soon become more frequent, the views more spectacular. Crossing under a cliff face we watch for rock fall, dive briefly back into trees, then pop out into a large rockslide. With its spectacular overlook of Emerald Lake and its eponymous lodge, the rockslide is a popular lunch spot, as the boldness of a swarm of plump, golden ground squirrels attest.
Shameless crumbhounds, the rodents beg pieces of sandwich and cookie, running over our boots as if these were just more rocks; they've done this for generations as Walcott's early photos document. Afterward, we pass through one last patch of forest before encountering krumholtz—the bonsai, ground-hugging trees that form a welcome mat to the alpine. The world before us reaches for the sky while we tread on what was once ocean bottom fifty fathoms deep.
Over a century after their discovery, the spectacular fossils of the Burgess Shale continue to reveal the deepest secrets of evolution, their very existence a testament to why ignorance of their meaning is so dangerous to society.
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) scientists have been working new Burgess quarries since the 1970s, making exciting new fi nds annually. A few summers ago, the ROM and Parks Canada launched a Burgess online exhibition as part of the Virtual Museum of Canada, an immersive journey using never-before-seen visuals and stunning animation to bring to life over a century of research and discovery. But the popularity of the Burgess has also made it more vulnerable: several years ago, Parks offi cials chased a pair of Czech thieves, their pockets laden with purloined fossils, across the precipitous slopes.
As a result, we now pass signs warning of a restricted area above the trail before crossing the "discovery point"—a shale talus where Walcott famously got off his horse in 1909 and first noticed the impressions of strange creatures in rock whose origin was eventually traced uphill to the exposure he named the Burgess Shale after a nearby peak. Standing where Walcott made his momentous discovery is spine-tingling for science geeks like myself, and shortly thereafter, we make the fi nal upward turn—switchbacks climbing an open face equivalent to a 41-storey building. By now, anticipation of actually seeing Walcott Quarry has erased any fatigue of ascent, and when we reach it—despite the jarring, solar-powered security camera set-up and steel lock-box in which Parks Canada keeps interpretive material—I can only pause to reflect.
If you know anything of the history of life, neither joy of physical accomplishment nor appreciation of the beauty of the surroundings can surmount the emotion of comprehension that washes over you here. A less familiar and far less tangible feeling, it dwells in the bricolage of broken shale slabs on which you stand—the ungraspable monster of deep time reflected in an odd little riot of life that took place on a muddy ocean floor some half-billion years ago. The range of body plans not only includes most of the invertebrate phyla with which we're familiar, but also forms that represent opposite extremes: on the one hand there are those creatures—some truly bizarre—that lost the evolutionary lottery and blinked out of existence forever; on the other hand are found the humble beginnings of our own heritage—primitive chordates that would, in a hundred million years or so, give rise to the vertebrates.
Over a century after their discovery, the spectacular fossils of the Burgess Shale continue to reveal the deepest secrets of evolution, their very existence a testament to why ignorance of their meaning is so dangerous to society. That's because to stand in a place like the Walcott Quarry and truly understand its significance and connection to ourselves is to let go of all prejudice, imperialism and appetite for war, and to abandon notions that artificial constructs like "the economy" carry any meaning whatsoever. Instead, the long-vanished organic diversity of the Burgess casts all of humanity—which came onto the scene a mere geological blink of an eye ago—as sharing a razor- thin slice of time as a single species that may or may not similarly disappear.
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Q: What is the frequency of the vertical and horizontal movement for small displacements?
$D$ is the stiffness of the springs, and $l_0$ is their original length, ,with $l>l_0$. My try was this:
$$m\frac{\mathrm{d}^2x}{\mathrm{d}t^2}=-D(r+(l-l_0))\cos{\alpha}+D((l-l_0)-r)\cos{\alpha}=-2Dr\cos{\alpha}$$
$$m\frac{\mathrm{d}^2y}{\mathrm{d}t^2}=-Dr\sin{\alpha}$$
Where alpha is the angle between the spring and the horizontal axis, and $r^2=x^2+y^2$, but I can't solve it.

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Doctored bats a mystery in high school baseball
Companies that will roll or shave a bat are easy to find on the Internet and generally conduct business by mail.
(U-T File)
By P.K. Daniel
Entering the final week of the regular season, most questions about high school baseball's toned-down bats have been answered — except one.
How many players are using juiced bats?
No one seems to know.
"I have heard of players using doctored bats," Granite Hills coach James Davis said. "But it is very hard to police."
A top pitcher in the region, who spoke on condition his name not be used, said he suspects some players have been using altered bats.
"You know, but you can't prove it," he said. "If you can get a better bat, you're going to get it."
Early questions of supplies and how the bats might affect the game have answered themselves. There are enough bats to go around and balls don't travel like they used to. But there is still talk of some players trying to sidestep the new rule, which was intended to lessen the "trampoline effect" and slow the speed of the batted ball.
The issue was raised last month in a game between two county rivals. One coach questioned whether a bat being used by the opposing team had been "rolled."
Bat rolling stretches the composite fibers and accelerates the natural break-in process. It eliminates dead spots, simulating the effect of hitting 500 or more balls.
Bat shaving involves removing the end cap and thinning out the inner barrel walls with a lathe, increasing the pop and distance off the bat by 40 or 50 feet.
Both methods are difficult to detect. To hide bat shaving, the handle is doctored to meet the minus-3 length-to-weight differential mandatory in high school.
"If a bat has been rolled or doctored, it is almost impossible to detect on the field," Chula Vista coach Jim Westlund said.
However, some less-sophisticated bat-rolling machines can leave striation marks.
The coach who complained about his rival last month said there were clear ligature marks up and down the barrel. Despite his objections, the umpire cleared the bat.
Ignacio Torres III, president of the San Diego County Baseball Umpires Association, said he wasn't aware of any umps coming across doctored bats.
"I don't know that we would be able to tell," Torres said. "I don't know that I could be able to say that a bat's been doctored. What we're instructed to do is just to check if it has proper labeling, if it's a bat that's been certified to be used."
Bats OK for high school this season are labeled BBCOR (Batted Ball Coefficient of Restitution) or BESR-ABI (Ball Exit Speed Ratio-Accelerated Break-In). Anything that alters the manufacturer's original design is against the rules.
Bat rolling and shaving is said to have originated in adult slow-pitch softball leagues, but it has worked its way into women's fast-pitch, youth travel baseball clubs, high school and college.
Chula Vista-based Composite Bat Rolling says on its website it will roll a bat for as little as $30. A person answering the company's email said the business had not been contacted by any high school players about rolling their bats.
On its website, a company called ProRollers of Norwalk, Ohio, says: "We carry all the new BBCOR Certified high school baseball bats. We have successfully juiced all of these new bats and have seen a considerable increase in distance and batted ball speed."
ProRollers did not respond to an email seeking comment.
BatRolling4u in Waterford, Conn., said via email it has rolled 200 to 300 BBCOR and BESR bats for high school and Division I college baseball players in the past four months. The company said a considerable amount of its business comes from California.
Ken Allan, who interprets national federation rules for the California Interscholastic Federation, said the national body is looking at requiring bat manufacturers to develop a method so rolled bats can be detected visually.
"As far as shaving the inside of a bat, the manufacturers are developing tamper-resistant bats so the end cap is firmly secured and permanently affixed so it cannot be removed by anyone other than the manufacturer without damaging or destroying it," Allan said.
In March, the Arizona Interscholastic Association's executive board said it will start randomly testing for illegal bats after learning some players were using altered bats.
Enforcement could be an even larger issue in California next season when many bats grandfathered in for 2011 will no longer be allowed.
Bill McLaughlin, assistant commissioner for the CIF's San Diego Section, placed responsibility for following the rules on the participants.
"Like all of our rules, you're relying on the integrity of the player and the coach," McLaughlin said. "If the coach and the player are willing to shave the bat or roll the bat to try to avoid a rule that's in place to protect the players, that's disappointing."
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Mondiali indoor
1 medaglia:
1 oro (Parigi 1985 nei 1500 metri piani)

Altre competizioni internazionali
1981
4º in Coppa del mondo ( Roma), 800 m piani - 1'47"59

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Conservatism and Anti-Semitism
By Gary Gindler
At the beginning of the 20th century, my grandfather's older brother (who was then a little boy) moved with his family to America. Their path was a standard one – a ship across the Atlantic and then quarantined on Ellis Island. They eventually settled in Pittsburgh.
At the end of the 20th century, our family completed their relocation to America. We have no more close relatives living outside of America. I do not know what the political preferences of those relatives were who arrived in America before us, but we came into America as staunch anti-communists. Also, we had a complete list of those family members who did not survive the Shoah.
We brought with us a clear understanding of who organized the Shoah. However, before we moved to America, we were unaware that most American Jews (many of whom are adherents of leftist, socialist ideology) did not want to see the truth about this. The reality that the Shoah was organized by their ideological cousins – the German National Socialists – is very unpleasant for a particular part of American Jewry.
This is why a section of American Jews behave as if the Shoah did not happen at all. They act as if in America there is no openly anti-Semitic party – the Democratic party. Moreover, some of them are even members of this party.
Many American Jews behave as if they do not understand that the Democratic Party has made a complete ideological turn in 190 years of its existence – from the far-right (and racist) party to the far-left (and anti-Semitic) party.
The neo-Nazi who shot 11 people in the Pittsburgh synagogue is known for his posts on Twitter. Judging by his posts, he was ideologically close not only to the anti-Semite Perez and the anti-Semite Ellison (Chairman of the DNC and his deputy) but also to the anti-Semite Farrakhan. Farrakhan is also known to be a longtime friend and ally of many bosses of the Democratic Party (for example, Obama and the Clintons). Both Farrakhan and Ellison belong to the American Nation of Islam organization. Farrakhan, his followers, and friends call the Jews "termites" and supporters of the "Synagogue of Satan." Both Farrakhan and his followers live among us and regularly come to the polling stations.
The political consequences of this attack are so apparent that even the predictable anti-Trump press blames Trump, but this time the blame is very sluggish and without former enthusiasm. After all, it is well known that when terrorist attacks occur, Americans prefer to vote for Republicans. In fact, President Trump, unlike the democratic opposition, immediately declared that this neo-Nazi (who, by the way, hates Trump) should be subjected to capital punishment. Of course, the voters are impressed.
Why, in such cases, do Americans prefer to vote for Republicans? Because Republicans (more precisely, a certain part of Republicans) play the role of proxy for American conservatives. Moreover, if the ideology of the classical Republicans is very controversial (they advocate for low taxes but an unlimited federal government), then the doctrine of the conservatives is entirely coherent (they favor low taxes and a limited federal government, as required by the U.S. Constitution).
Also, conservatives adhere to straightforward rules in the relationship between the state and the citizen. Conservatives respect the fact that a citizen cannot be blamed for something he or she is not able to change under any circumstances.
Therefore, conservatives will never dare to condemn a person for who their parents are, their place of birth, nationality, or race. The norms of such behavior are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. At the same time, conservatives believe that some qualities acquired after birth can (and in some cases are merely obligated) serve as the basis for a confrontation between the state and the citizen. These qualities include ideology, political preferences, morality, and human behavior.
In other words, anti-Semitism (like racism) is a taboo for American conservatives.
After the events in Pittsburgh, fruitless discussions about anti-Semitism will begin again in the American press. They will be unsuccessful because the ideological and religious components of anti-Semitism will again be hushed up. For conservatives, such a position is unacceptable. The attitude shown by the Pittsburgh police officers is more acceptable to them.
As you know, at first, two patrol police officers who answered the call started a shootout with a neo-Nazi in the synagogue. Both were wounded but remained on scene until the arrival of the SWAT team. The Pittsburgh SWAT began the assault and rushed under bullets, risking their lives to rescue, entirely unknown to them, Jews. Two SWAT officers were seriously wounded. They unloaded several magazines on the terrorist until he collapsed; then he crawled on his knees to the SWAT team, begging for mercy. Overall, less than 20 minutes passed from the first to the last shot in the synagogue.
This is how real America behaves when it meets with Evil.
This is how we all should consider the midterm elections. The 2018 elections are not just a midterm election. It is another episode in the eternal struggle between Good and Evil.
Remember which Democrats came to the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem? Not one arrived. Recall that the most anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli speech ever heard at the U.N. was not spoken by a representative of a Middle Eastern country with the 7th-century worldview, but by Secretary of State Kerry in the last days of the Obama administration in December 2016. It seems that the words "anti-Trumpists" and "anti-Semites" have become synonymous.
Anti-Semitism is irrational because it requires Jews to change what they cannot change by definition. Therefore, the answer to it should be such that even the most arch-irrational anti-Semite understands that neither his position nor any attempts to rationalize it are unacceptable by society in principle.
Now leftists will again propose some purely symbolic "security measures." For example, to hang in a prominent place another ridiculous "Gun Free Zone" poster although from the very beginning it was clear that such signs are just a magnet for psychos of all stripes. There will be many symbolic acts of solidarity, such as turning off the night illumination of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Thank you, France, but no acts of solidarity and public lightings of candles will help.
In pragmatic America, the Second Amendment to the Constitution provides a direct answer to the question of how to stop similar attacks in the future.
Gary Gindler, Ph.D., is a conservative blogger at Gary Gindler Chronicles. Follow him on Twitter.


What is Internal Family Systems Therapy?
Internal Family Systems is one of the fastest growing therapeutic models in the field today. The IFS model offers a clear, non-pathologising, empowering view of our psychological world by focusing on our innate wisdom, the natural Self, and from this place, positive change and healing is supported to unfold.
With the support of an Internal Family Systems therapist, individuals are encouraged to identify and get to know the members of their internal system that have become trapped in extreme roles, often indicated by the appearance of unwanted symptoms or unhelpful patterns of behaviour.
When treated with understanding and compassion, these extreme parts can drop their dysfunctional roles and instead return to roles that are more productive and life affirming, leaving the individual unencumbered by symptoms and undesired patterns of behaviour. The goal is to restore balance, harmony and compassionate Self-leadership to the internal system as a whole.
Could IFS be right for me?
If you are experiencing extremes in the way you think, feel or behave, Internal Family Systems might be the right type of therapy for you. Such extremes are often a sign of inner conflict; they are an indication that the different parts or aspects of your character have contrasting views about how you should go about living your life. A series of IFS sessions can help the different parts out of their extreme positions and guide them towards a more harmonious collaboration characterised by reduced symptoms and an improved sense of wellbeing.
Or you may have unfinished business relating to an adverse life experience, such as trauma, bereavement, neglect, exploitation or abuse, or to an issue concerning the way others related to you when you were growing up. IFS therapy supports you to release negative self-beliefs and troublesome burdens, some of which you may have been carrying for a very long time. The model also can be helpful in situations where you might be feeling a reduced sense of Self. For example, you may feel you have lost the vital spark at the core of your being that helps you deal with life's ups and downs. The role of the IFS therapist is to support you towards an empowered Self-led state that will help bring a new healthy balance both to your internal and external world.
What issues can be treated with IFS?
Schwartz set out to learn more about the internal world of his clients and began to discover that each individual possessed a unique population of inner personalities, most of which carried out specific functions. Furthermore, he learnt that each person appeared to have a core Self that never lost its potential to lead their internal system, even in cases where the person had been subjected to experiences such as neglect, trauma or abuse.
Refined over three decades, the IFS model continues to view a person as having an inner family of discrete personalities or parts. Such parts always retain a positive intention and, once released from dysfunctional roles with the support of an IFS therapist, the part can return to the valuable role it was born to fulfil.
The IFS model assumes that every individual already possesses the resources to heal themselves. The aim of the IFS approach is to support the individual to restore trust in the Self as leader of their internal system, and bring balance and harmony to the system as a whole.
Looking for an IFS Therapist?
Shane Scott has a Masters' qualification from the University of Roehampton, London, and has gone all to complete all three levels of training in Internal Family Systems Therapy. Having completed the clinical requirements, he is currently one of only two Certified IFS Therapists in the UK. He is experienced in working with the model, both face-to-face and online via Skype or Google Videochat.


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The Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
Milestones: 1921–1936
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928. Sometimes called the Pact of Paris for the city in which it was signed, the pact was one of many international efforts to prevent another World War, but it had little effect in stopping the rising militarism of the 1930s or preventing World War II.
Photograph with representatives who signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact in the White House
U.S. Peace Advocates
In the wake of World War I, U.S. officials and private citizens made significant efforts to guarantee that the nation would not be drawn into another war. Some focused on disarmament, such as the series of naval conferences that began in Washington in 1921, and some focused on cooperation with the League of Nations and the newly formed World Court. Others initiated a movement to try to outlaw war outright. Peace advocates Nicholas Murray Butler and James T. Shotwell were part of this movement. Both men were affiliated with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an organization dedicated to promoting internationalism that was established in 1910 by leading American industrialist Andrew Carnegie.
French Involvement
With the influence and assistance of Shotwell and Butler, French Minister of Foreign Affairs Aristide Briand proposed a peace pact as a bilateral agreement between the United States and France to outlaw war between them. Particularly hard hit by World War I, France faced continuing insecurity from its German neighbor and sought alliances to shore up its defenses. Briand published an open letter in April of 1927 containing the proposal. Though the suggestion had the enthusiastic support of some members of the American peace movement, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg were less eager than Briand to enter into a bilateral arrangement. They worried that the agreement against war could be interpreted as a bilateral alliance and require the United States to intervene if France was ever threatened. To avoid this, they suggested that the two nations take the lead in inviting all nations to join them in outlawing war.
Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg
The extension of the pact to include other nations was well-received internationally. After the severe losses of the First World War, the idea of declaring war to be illegal was immensely popular in international public opinion. Because the language of the pact established the important point that only wars of aggression – not military acts of self-defense – would be covered under the pact, many nations had no objections to signing it. If the pact served to limit conflicts, then everyone would benefit; if it did not, there were no legal consequences. In early 1928, negotiations over the agreement expanded to include all of the initial signatories. In the final version of the pact, they agreed upon two clauses: the first outlawed war as an instrument of national policy and the second called upon signatories to settle their disputes by peaceful means.
On August 27, 1928, fifteen nations signed the pact at Paris. Signatories included France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy and Japan. Later, an additional forty-seven nations followed suit, so the pact was eventually signed by most of the established nations in the world. The U.S. Senate ratified the agreement by a vote of 85–1, though it did so only after making reservations to note that U.S. participation did not limit its right to self-defense or require it to act against signatories breaking the agreement.
Mukden Incident
The first major test of the pact came just a few years later in 1931, when the Mukden Incident led to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Though Japan had signed the pact, the combination of the worldwide depression and a limited desire to go to war to preserve China prevented the League of Nations or the United States from taking any action to enforce it. Further threats to the Peace Agreement also came from fellow signatories Germany, Austria and Italy. It soon became clear that there was no way to enforce the pact or sanction those who broke it; it also never fully defined what constituted "self-defense," so there were many ways around its terms. In the end, the Kellogg-Briand Pact did little to prevent World War II or any of the conflicts that followed. Its legacy remains as a statement of the idealism expressed by advocates for peace in the interwar period. Frank Kellogg earned the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929 for his work on the Peace Pact.
1921–1936: Interwar Diplomacy
The Washington Naval Conference, 1921–1922
The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act)
The Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, German Reparations, and Inter-allied War Debts
The Geneva Naval Conference, 1927
The 1928 Red Line Agreement
The Great Depression and U.S. Foreign Policy
Protectionism in the Interwar Period
The London Naval Conference, 1930
The Mukden Incident of 1931 and the Stimson Doctrine
Good Neighbor Policy, 1933
Recognition of the Soviet Union, 1933
New Deal Trade Policy: The Export-Import Bank & the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, 1934
The Neutrality Acts, 1930s


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Details of the building on the NW corner of 5th Avenue and Broad St. (1001 Broad). This was the second permanent structure of the colony of Grinnell, built in the summer of 1854, for Anor Scott, store-keeper and merchant. It first stood near what is now the NW corner of the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broad Street. (There were then no streets as such: the town would not file a plat until January, 1855). Later it was moved to High Street, then to the SW corner of the intersection of Third Avenue and Elm Street where it is now part of a small house. Fragments of the handsome hand-painted wallpaper (four colors) fixed directly to the inner skin of the building--boards of the board-and-batten construction, gaps, studs, cross-pieces and all--are still within the present walls. (Courtesy of Hugh and Deborah Sheridan)
1002 High
Photograph of the brick house at 1002 High Street built in the late 19th century. Owners have included William M. Holmes and John Manly. The house was demolished in 1977.
1006-1008 Pearl Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Black and white photograph of 1006 and 1008 Pearl Street with seven individuals in period dress outside.
1008 High Street
Photograph of the house at 1008 High Street built sometime before 1861. It was the family home of H.W. Williams and later was converted to student apartments. house. Abby Williams Hill (artist of note) was the daughter of H. W. Williams and was born in this house in 1861. See Abby Williams Hill, by R. Fields, ISBN 0-917048-63-6, c. 1989, page 11 where there is the picture of the house and more biographical information about her. Abby taught at the college briefly.
Photograph of the house at 1011 Broad Street, built in 1895 for J. W. Billings, a local dentist. The house was later (1921?) moved to its present location on the north side of 16th Ave, east of the railroad tracks (1533 16th Ave.) At the time of the move it was stripped of its chimney and cupola. The house was moved by horse and block and tackle on 6th to Penrose, and then north on Penrose to 16th. Other buildings to occupy the original site on Broad Street were Van Wechel car dealership/garage, an St. Mary's Education Center.
1105 Park Street on the northwest corner of Sixth Avenue and Park Street in Grinnell, Iowa. This house was torn down in order to build the Grinnell College John Chrystal Center which was completed in 2002.
The home at 1110 Main Street (6th and Main) was built in 1892 for Henry C. Spencer. The tower and chimneys were eventually removed and roof line altered from the original.
Photograph of the house at 1124 Third Ave. built in the late 19th century. An early owner was Louise Henley, wife of the county superintendent of schools. Later owned by Janet Carl and Greg Johnson.
Photograph of the J. H. McMurray home at 1125 Broad Street, built in 1895. In 1915, McMurray made changes to the structure, including replacing the front porch and cutting off the pediments. At the NE corner, the second floor open porch was enclosed and windows added. A smoking balcony was created for Mr. McMurray with wood that would not absorb smoke. The Grinnell Historical Museum acquired the property in 1965.
Photograph of the house at 1126 Broad Street owned by E. W. Clark, a doctor. It was originally built in the 1870s but damaged in the 1882 cyclone. The cupola was later restored.
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2014 Session Recap: Renewable Energy Tax Credits Expanded
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Several bills passed this session will extend renewable energy efforts across the state. Senate File 2340 triples the amount of tax credits that are available to Iowans for installing solar energy projects, to a total of $4.5 million annually. The bill also increases the amount of money that individuals can claim for installing solar energy installations. [...]
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Representative Dan Kelley of Newton had the opportunity to write a post for the White House Blog after President Obama visited TPI Composites in Newton. The President highlighted investments in clean energy by passing legislation that will extend the Production Tax Credit. Here are Representative Kelley's reflections: Iowa State Representative Dan Kelley, who represents Newton, reflects [...]
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Thanks to creation of the Iowa Power Fund and Office of Energy Indepedence two years ago, Iowa is one of the first states in the nation to receive $16 million from President Obama for renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts. The U.S. Secretary of Energy came to Iowa to make the announcement on Monday. The $16 [...]
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President Obama made an Earth Day visit to Iowa on Wednesday to talk about energy. He visited Trinity Structural Towers in Newton, which manufactures wind towers. The President's visit highlights the work Iowa has done over the last three years to lead the world in renewable energy. Through the $100 million Iowa Power Fund and other [...]
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On a statewide tour this week, Democratic legislative leaders said the Legislature will focus on helping Iowans rebuild and recover during the 2009 legislative session, which begins on Monday, January 12th. "With the national recession beginning to take hold in Iowa, we know thousands of Iowans are struggling to make ends meet. Our goal is to [...]
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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called 7 Things I Wish People Knew About Being A Fat Woman and is located at https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/xpost-7-things-i-wish-people-knew-about-being-a-fat-woman/.
This article by Virgie Tovar originally appeared on SHESAID and has been republished with permission.
As body- and fat-acceptance movements have become more broadly accepted, there's this image out there of the 'right' kind of fat person; she's fat but she does pole-dancing or ballet. She's super athletic, goes jogging every day and has perfect health according to her annual health exams. She just happens to be fat. More power to these kinds of fat folks, but frankly the rest of us aren't obligated to live up to her health standards. Just like any other random stranger on the street, I'm not obligated to justify my right to exist in public to you by way of a doctor's note. If it's not something you'd demand of someone you'd perceive as being of an 'average' size, it shouldn't be something you demand of someone you think of as fat – it is exactly zero percent of your business.


Listen to FMH Assistant Vice President of Compliance Ryan Kramer discuss his experience with the CIRB Emerging Leaders Program.
The Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau (CIRB) Emerging Leaders Program just keeps growing.
This is only the fourth ELP class for CIRB and the program is already paying dividends to the organization and the industry, as well as the more than 30 participants. Previous ELP participants have become active recruiters for the program which is designed to help professionals in the crop insurance industry increase their knowledge and hands-on experience with key issues.
I had a chance to interview four of this year's class to talk about their experience with the program so far. Click here to read the original article and to listen to all four interviews.


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Ruskin drawings at King's College, Cambridge: #4 The Mer de Glace from the Montanvers Hotel above Chamonix
Professor David Hill	Ruskin	 December 6, 2018 December 7, 2018 15 Minutes
This is the fourth in a series of seven articles that will catalogue an important group of drawings by John Ruskin at King's College, Cambridge. For general notes on the collection see under article #1. I have to admit that progress with the catalogue has been somewhat slow: Part #3 appeared in 2014.
4. The Mer de Glace from the Montanvers Hotel above Chamonix, 1849
Graphite, pen and ink with brown and blue-grey washes, on smooth white wove paper, 12 3/4 x 19 1/4 ins [as measured 12.07.2012 DH, 322 x 493 mm (sight)] in good-quality old washline mount, but not acid-free and wants replacing.
The artist to
Henry Acland (1907);
The Squire Gallery, London ?to
Esmond Morse (whose name is pencilled on the backboard) and so to his daughter
Mrs Guy Barton (1969) by whom given 1981 to
Exhibition and Publication:
Exhibited Alpine Club 1907 no.25 as 'From the Acland Collection'
E.T. Cook and A. Wedderburn, 'Catalogue of Ruskin's Drawings', in The Works of John Ruskin, 1903-1912, Volume 38, pp. 216-309, no. 441 as Mer de Glace; sepia (12 3/8 x 19). Theodore Dyke Acland. Exh. Alpine Club (1907) 25. [441]. This beautiful drawing was specially made for Sir Henry Acland
Exh Abbot Hall 1969 no.31 as 'Chamouni, Mer de Glace', lent by Mrs Guy Barton (nee Morse)
Ruskin newsletter, no.25, Autumn 1981, p.10 as no.3 as 'Chamouni, Mer de Glace, watercolour, 19 1/4 x 12 3/4 ins. Exhibited Alpine Club 1907 'From the Acland Collection'
Examined by DH 12.07.2012
This watercolour is in very good condition, and represents a confident, virtuoso piece of draftsmanship, combining energetic handling, with tight control of detail. The colour was always muted, painted in a combination of sepia and blue-grey washes.
Mer de Glace from Montanvers
Photograph by David Hill, 1990
The subject is the famous glacier of the Mer de Glace, a little way -east of the French Savoy alpine resort of Chamonix. The viewpoint is a window in an upstairs room of the old Montanvers Hotel. The view of the glacier is flanked to the left by the les Echellettes, from where the ridge rises to Les Drus (3754m) out of the composition top left, and flanked to the right by the Tete de Trelaporte from where a rocky ridge rises to the summit of the Aiguille des Grands Charmoz (3444m), out of the composition top right. The major peak in the centre distance is the Pointe Walker (4208m) of the Les Grandes Jorasses, and the ridge of the Franco-Italian border peaking over 4000m with the Dome de la Rochefort (4015m) and Aiguille de Rochefort (4001m). The latter stands at the far end of a ridge that rises from the glacier in the centre of the composition via the Aiguille de Tacul (3444m). The drawing is slightly vague to the right of the Aiguille de Rochefort, but just in view from this point of view, is the Aiguille du Geant (4013m) cutting a distinctively sharp triangular silhouette.
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Chamonix, Mont Blanc and the Montanvers
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The site became famous following a bivouac there by the English visitors Pockocke and Windham in 1741. They were followed by a steady trickle of visitors, which with the publication of more and more guidebooks became a stream. The first refuge was opened there in 1779 and demand was so great that a proper hotel was built in stone in 1840. That provided Ruskin with his room, and is still standing to this day. Despite the fact that the only access was on foot or on muleback, the old hotel was joined by an exceedingly grand new building in 1880, which still offers great comfort as the 'Refuge de Niege, Montanvers'. In 1909 a mountain railway was completed to bring visitors up from Chamonix in ease, and today that carries thousands daily in the season.
The Montanvers Hotels and the Mer de Glace.
Google Earth 3D rendering.
The 1840 hotel in which Ruskin stayed is to the right. The larger building is the present day Refuge du Montanvers, built in 1880.
The style of the drawing is closest to that of drawings made on Ruskin's 1849 tour of the Alps. A good comparison is a sepia study of the Glacier des Bossons at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford:
Link to Ashmolean catalogue entry
Glacier des Bossons from Chamonix
Photograph by David Hill, c.1999
Ruskin painted that from the Hotel de l'Union at Chamonix, over several days, and as a result is even more highly developed. Ruskin claims to have been hesitant about using colour, not being able to process form at the same time as colour. He later writes about the contrast between the schools of Greece (form and chiaroscuro) and the Gothic (colour and pattern) in the Oxford lectures, where the dichotomy in his own practice became reified into an educational programme and a history of art.
The Abbot Hall 1969 exhibition label is inscribed with a note: 'From the collection of Juliet Morse (nee Tylor) a pupil of John Ruskin'. But this is incompatible with the Squire Gallery label that categorically gives it to Acland and the 1907 Alpine Club exhibition.
Rather it appears to have been an Esmond Morse purchase [presumably from Squires], and the note on the Abbot Hall label reflects a mistaken presumption of Mrs Guy Barton (nee Morse). The entry for this study in the catalogue of Ruskin's drawings in the Library Edition of Ruskin's Works no.441 refers to the exhibition at the Alpine Club in 1907 and expressly says 'This beautiful drawing was specially made for Sir Henry Acland'.
Ruskin's muse in this drawing was the geologist James David Forbes. His great book, 'Travels in the Alps of Savoy', first published in 1843, was by far one of the most scientifically important studies of the Alps. This book was the first to properly describe the true nature of the motion and agency of glaciers. If that were not important enough, it also proposed a conception of the ebb and flow of glaciers over deep time. He was already well-known by the time Ruskin began to cultivate serious Alpine ambitions of his own. Forbes had done most of his fieldwork for the book on the Mer de Glace in 1842. Ruskin was himself at Chamonix in 1842, but might not have been aware of Forbes's work at that time, but he was certainly aware of his reputation when their paths crossed at the Simplon Pass inn in 1844, and Ruskin was starstruck and not a little embarrassed when his parents inveighed the great man to look at their talented son's own Alpine work.
Forbes had a not-altogether-welcome advisory role in Ruskin's visit to Chamonix in 1846. A letter to George Richmond from Lucerne of 30 August gives important material on Chamonix for that year (Works 36/62-63):
'I wonder you did not give up everything when you found yourself overworked and come out with Acland—or at least make an appointment with him somewhere. I had the good fortune to meet with him at Chamouni, and we had one day together—Mrs. Acland giving him up for a glacier ramble, and waiting for us at the edge of the ice, to make tea in the most benevolent and delightful way conceivable, and then walking, or to speak more correctly, skimming, down the hill with us like a swallow; but they professed themselves obliged to go away the next day. I did not like to press them to stay, and I think perhaps they had some notions which on my account prevented their staying, when they could; however, away they went, much to my sorrow, for Acland had unluckily met with Forbes the day before, and Forbes had set him on a nasty, useless, ugly, bothering glacier walk—in which we lost our day—and I couldn't take him to any of the noble places. We found some beasts in the ice, however, which pleased him, and perhaps for practical purposes he learned as much upon it as he could anywhere, but he got no conception of Chamouni. I was only there four days myself. I didn't want to go at first, because it always gives me too much vexation to leave it. But we went because it was said some rocks were bared on the Mont Blanc in unusual places. All newspaper—the Mont Blanc is as changeless as the blue sky above it; but though we had wretched weather, I never thought Chamouni so unearthly—it is quite awful, and quite alone—nothing that I have yet seen can be compared with it in any wise; its inexhaustibleness and perpetual freshness to me I am truly thankful for—other scenery palls. I never entered it with so much wonder, nor left it with so strong regret.'
Acland's connection with this watercolour is made even more compelling (and poignant) by Ruskin's reminiscence of Acland in Praeterita (Works 35/197-98): They first met when Ruskin went up to Oxford to begin his studies at Christ Church College:
'Henry Acland, by about a year and a half my senior, chose me; saw what helpless possibilities were in me, and took me affectionately in hand. His rooms, next the gate on the north side of Canterbury [quad], were within fifty yards of mine, and became to me the only place where I was happy. He quietly showed me the manner of life of English youth of good sense, good family, and enlarged education; we both of us already lived in elements far external to the college quadrangle. He told me of the plains of Troy; a year or two afterwards I showed him, on his marriage journey [1846], the path up the Montanvert; and the friendship between us has never changed, but by deepening, to this day.
The 1846 walk on the glacier with Acland might almost provide an occasion for this study, except for the fact that in that year Ruskin was only at Chamonix for four days, and the documentation proves that, apart from the excursion to the Mer de Glace with Acland, he was rained off or otherwise engaged. We do not know how or when the watercolour passed to Acland; nonetheless their shared exploration of the subject certainly must have given it special significance.
The principal documentation for Ruskin's Alpine travels, apart from drawings and letters, is the diaries and notebooks kept by Ruskin himself, mostly at the Ruskin Library at the University of Lancaster, and also in the case of tours of 1846, 1848 and 1849 a diary kept by his valet, personal assistant and general factotum, John Thomas Hobbs, now at the Morgan Library, New York.
Ruskin was at Chamonix three times in 1849, and both his and Hobbs's diaries contain copious detail. Sifting through it, however, it is clear that Ruskin's main work was on the Tapia, the extensive sloping area of moraine, glacier and rubble that stretches between the foot of the aiguilles and the forest above the valley from the Montanvers to Plan de l'Aiguille. His main objectives were to try and understand the true forms of the aiguilles and the proper character of their geology. I hope to find opportunities to continue exploration of the work of 1849, but the Mer de Glace and the Montanvers remained somewhat peripheral until the end of Ruskin's third visit of that summer to Chamonix, 15-30 August when the opportunity arose to make the present watercolour.
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The Tapia between Montanvers and Plan de l'Aiguille above Chamonix
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Unfortunately Hobbs's diary finishes on 18 August. Presumably it must have been continued in a separate volume as yet undiscovered, but by way of some compensation the Morgan Library volume does close with a pressed Alpine Gentian, collected on the Tapia on that final day.
Ruskin's Diaries, however, are exceptionally detailed for this period. We discover that he was walking up to the Tapia from Chamonix almost daily – a climb of over 1000m, and then often the best part of another 1000m up to the foot of the aiguilles. At thirty years of age, he must have been in the best physical shape of his whole life, but even so, he decided to reduce the labour for a few days by staying at the hotel at the Montanvers for three nights, 22-25 August. The interlude came as a revelation: On 22nd he wrote 'I think I never enjoyed any evening so much as this in my life.. I had no idea what this place was, until I sat at the window quietly today, watching the sunset and the vast flow of the ice, swelling down the gorge – a dark and billowy river – yet with the mountainous swell and lifted crests that the iron rocks have all round it..
His principal work continued up at the foot of the Aiguilles Charmoz and Blaitiere, but on the final day, the 25th, he makes an explicit reference to this watercolour:
I have certainly not lately nor often in old times, felt stronger emotion than in watching the dawn from the Montanvert these three mornings past. Yesterday I saw it when it was still very dark and Orion burning beyond the Grandes Jorasses, and the whole river of heaven, between the hills, full of stars; and again later, when, as I was watching the increase of the serene, clear, cold morning light, a beacon intensely flashed out on the summit of the Dru. It was the morning star. I was up early to-day, and drew the Aiguille Charmoz before breakfast; then worked on glacier; then took a little ramble among the myrtilles on the hill-side: came in again and finished glacier, and [afterwards] descended to Source of Arveron [and thence back to Chamonix].
Whilst Ruskin was drawing and making geological observations, his assistant John Hobbs (or 'George' as Ruskin called him) was working on a parallel project of equal, if not even greater significance. In 1845 Ruskin had become interested in the new photographic process of daguerreotype. In 1839 Louis Daguerre sold his patent to the French government and in 1841 a British patent was bought by Richard Beard in London. Briefly, the process involved a copper plate with a coat of polished silver being sensitised to light with fumes of iodine and bromine. The image could be developed with mercury fumes, and fixed with a salt and soda solution. Despite the complexity and uncertainly, not to mention toxicity, of the process, daguerreotyping was rapidly improved and commercialised, and the equipment produced in sufficient quantity for 'home' use. Ruskin invested in his own equipment and Hobbs trained in its use. The diaries of 1849 feature a variety of references to Hobbs lugging the equipment around and carrying it on his back up lengthy climbs sometimes made arduous, even delirious, by hot weather and thirst. From the references it is plain that Hobbs attempted a significant number of daguerreotypes for Ruskin. The fallibility of the process mean that many of his effort resulted in disappointment,, but there were also several moments of exhilaration. After John Hobbs moved on from Ruskin's service in the early 1850s, Ruskin trained a subsequent assistant Frederick Crawley from 1853 to make many more. A large number of daguerreotypes survive, many at the Ruskin Library and another large collection with Ken and Jenny Jacobson. In 2015 the Jacobsons published a complete catalogue of all those surviving in a splendid book, 'Carrying Off the Palaces: Ruskin's Lost Daguerreotypes'.
Thus Ruskin and Hobbs were in the avant-garde of Alpine photography. Ruskin even claimed that Hobbs took the very first photograph of the Matterhorn when they were at Zermatt in 1849. That might actually be the case, and in any event Ruskin and Hobbs were most certainly at the cutting edge of representational technology and philosophy. A daguerreotype of exactly this view of the Mer de Glace survives at the Ruskin Library, Lancaster (RF Dag 75) and although it is given to Crawley and dated 1854 by both the Jacobsons and the catalogue of the Ruskin Library, it seems almost certain that Hobbs must have taken the subject during his stay at the Montanvers in August 1849. Were it not for the attribution by the Jacobsons and the Ruskin Library, it would seem an straightforward conclusion that the two views were taken at the same time.
Ruskin Library catalogue
The comparison of photograph and drawing illustrates the capabilities and limitations of each practice. The perspective of the photograph is entirely dictated by the optical specification of the lens. The perspective, scope and movement of the drawing is dictated by living conception and perception. The photograph mechanically records, within the limits of its resolution and its orthography, the forms of every detail. The drawing on the other hand transmutes that detail into rhythm and relation. If I am correct about the date of the drawing, then it was made towards the end of one of the most sustained and intense periods of scrutiny of rock and mountain form every undertaken by any artist. Drawing is an accumulative and assimilative process. Every drawing enters into an understanding of the subject, every understanding deepens and shapes perception. Over this summer Ruskin had entered more deeply than anyone into the nature of the ice-moulded and shattered rock form of the Mont Blanc massif. Though the drawing registers the outline and spatial contours of its subject, its draughtsmanship transmits a sense of the transmutation of material across time. One wonders what he would have thought of the hoard of visitors today, who come up on the train, wielding every kind of photographic apparatus from phones to high-end cameras, 4k video, or even (and I do so much want one) a drone (!).
Throughout the tour of 1849 Ruskin used Forbes's Travels in the Alps as a guidebook. Not only did Forbes's insights shape what Ruskin looked for, and what he saw, but so Ruskin's observations illuminated what he read in Forbes, and established an amplifying loop. Ruskin later gave a terrific account of viewing the Mer de Glace for the first time in the light of Forbes in Fors Clavigera (Letter 34, October 1873) Works 27/639-40):
'In 1843 [Forbes] solved the problem of glacier motion for ever, – announcing, to everybody's astonishment, and to the extreme disgust and mortification of all glacier students, – including my poor self (not the least envious, I fancy, though with as little right to be envious as any one), – that glaciers were not solid bodies at all, but semi-liquid ones, and ran down in their beds like so much treacle.
"Cela saute aux yeux," we all said, as soon as we were told; and I well remember the intense mortification of first looking down on the dirt bands of the Mer de Glace, from the foot of the Little Charmoz, after I had read Principal Forbes' book. That we never should have seen them before! – so palpable, so inevitable now, with every inch of the ice's motion kept record of, in them, for centuries, and every curve pencilled in dark, so that no river eddies, no festooned fall of sweeping cascade, could be more conclusive in proof of the flowing current. And of course it flowed; how else could it have moved but by a series of catastrophes? Everything explained, now, by one shrewd and clear-sighted man's work for a couple of summer months; and what asses we had all been!'
Given how large the Mer de Glace figured in Forbes's research it is perhaps surprising that it features relatively infrequently in Ruskin's work. There are numerous other subjects in the locality, but his generally looked in other directions or for alternative locations. It is perhaps the case that after Forbes had made so much of it, Ruskin viewed the Mer de Glace as exhausted in terms of its personal potential.
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He did, however, return to this exact subject in 1874 in a watercolour of The Mer de Glace from the Montanvers above Chamonix at the Ruskin Library, University of Lancaster (RF 1996P1206). This returns to the classic view of the Mer de Glace from the Montanvers, and looks to have been painted direct from nature, and very likely from a room in the Montanvers Hotel.
This drawing is dated 1874 in the catalogue in Ruskin's Works, but in the recent literature has most frequently been dated to 1849. It currently stand thus in the online catalogue of the Ruskin Library at the University of Lancaster. This drawing, however, is surely that documented in a letter dated 14 October 1874 to Mrs Simon from Chamonix (Works 37/145) in which Ruskin mentions going up to the Montanvers to make a drawing of the dirt bands from the window of the cabane for his forthcoming Oxford lectures. Works speculates that this might be the Lancaster drawing. Ruskin's Diary for 17 October 1874 records that he spent the morning finishing his glacier drawing.
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The comparison with the King's College drawing is illuminating. The handling of the Lancaster drawing is subtly developed and refined. Whilst on the one hand more relaxed, it is also equally as observant; the treatment of the Aiguille du Tacul in the centre, being both more deft and better assimilated. The use of colour to infuse the scholarly content with imaginative depth is also extremely marked, and a significant degree of development in Ruskin's artistic power becomes evident albeit employed with considerable restraint and subtlety.
It is interesting to compare the state of ice in the Lancaster drawing with that recorded in that at King's. It seems clear from the glacier edges to the left and right that the ice is lower in the later drawing by three or four metres at least. It is now perhaps thirty metres lower still, and in the summer a slew of rocky debris. The glaciers around Chamonix reached their peak in recent history in 1822, so were in retreat during Ruskin's entire career. He was one of the first to sound the alarm about climate change. By the 1870s, to him it was yet more evidence of the onset of an era of corruption and debasement. He would not be at all surprised by the continued trend of the last 150 years.
David Hill, December 2018
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voice of Sevastopol » News » Novorossia » Summary of hostilities in Novorossia on March, 7-8
Author: Ayre от 9.03.2015, 11:59
Last weekend, on March 7 and 8, the ceasefire was observed as a whole. Local fighting continued in the area of Donetsk airport in the south of DPR near the village Shirokino. In other parts of the front it remained calm.
The night of March 6 to 7 passed quietly In Donetsk, fighting was not conducted. By the morning on March 7 the situation remained calm in the city.
In the night of March 6 to 7 Ukrainian military violated the ceasefire in the area of Donetsk airport ten times: villages Spartak and Oktyabrsky, a Vesyoloye and 15th quarter suffered fire. The militia conducted small arms fire in response on AFU positions in the area of Opytnoye and Peski at night March of 6 to 7. Also Ukrainian positions in Avdeyevka were fired with grenade launchers and mortars. From 4:00 to 4:20 of March 7 Avdeyevka was under artillery fire.
The mission of the OSCE heard at least 50 explosions in the territory of Donetsk Airport controlled by the forces of the DPR between 10:14 and 11:40 am of March 7, mostly with automatic grenade launchers. Machine-gun fire was also heard in less than one kilometer to the north-west of the new terminal of Donetsk airport. Also, there were some mortar breaks in 300-500 meters away from the observer.
Around 22:10 of March 7 Ukrainian military fired at the area of Peski with heavy artillery from Krasnogorovka. By 22:30 of March 7 there was shooting battle in the area of Peski, and AFU were conducting harassing artillery fire at the airport in Donetsk. At 23:27 there was unrest in the area of Peski - shooting continued. Also Ukrainian military shelled the area of airport, village Spartak, "Volvo-center" and mine Oktyabrskaya in the night of March 8. On March 8 DPR militia positions near the village of Spartak suffered gunfire from Avdeyevka.
By 22:50 of March 7 there was shelling of Gorlovka from Mayorsk. Hits were recorded in the area of Kurdyumovka. At 02:30 of March 8 militia returned fire with mortars on positions of forces in the so-called ATO in the area of Mayorsk.
According to the headquarters of the so-called ATO, Ukrainian positions in the area of settlements Luganskoye and Lozovoye were fired with mortars on March 7.
In the area of  Mariupol the so-called forces of ATO withdrew self-propelled guns2S5 "Giatsint-S" on March 7 to safe boundaries. It was reported that the process of removing was fixed by OSCE observers according to Minsk arrangements.
During the night of March 7 militia positions at Novoazovsk and Shirokino were fired by the Ukrainian security services. The positions of the Ukrainian Army were fired by militia with small arms at Granitnoye. On March 7, according to the Ukrainian side, the Ukrainian military positions in the area of Mariupol and Shirokino were allegedly fired with small arms and tank guns. From 22:30 to 22:50 of March 7 fire with mortars was allegedly conducted at positions of the so-called ATO at Shirokino. In the morning of March 8, the Ukrainian military fired at the people's militia in the village Shirokino with mortars and tank from Kominternovo.
On March 7 skirmishes with small arms were reported in the area of the so-called ATO forces positions near Stary Aidar.
Ukraine, performing Minsk agreement, allegedly completed the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact in Donbass on Saturday, March 7.
On March 7 motorcade of Russian Emergency Situations Ministry consisting of more than 20 vehicles brought more than 200 tons of humanitarian aid to Donetsk. Food and medical supplies were intended for families of miners who were killed or injured in an accident at the mine Zasyadko as a result of explosion on March 4.


IBM API Connect Version 2018 accelerates your organization's cloud strategy with its multi-cloud deployment capabilities and scalable microservices architecture.
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IBM API Connect employs best practices with a parallel stack migration from v5 to v2018. Both your old and new IBM API Connect environments will be stood up during your team's move to ensure success.
Migration is possible via the easy-to-use CLI tool, Migrate Assist. Migrate Assist will take your v5 data and migrate it over to v2018.
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You can download the Migrate Assist tool from Fix Central and view migration documentation on the IBM Knowledge Center.
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For a week now, every time I upload my tx.response file to withdraw grin I am getting an error that says "Operation Failed".
Each time this has happened (about 12-15 times now) I send the file over to Spark and ask them to help me figure out why the .response file isn't being accepted. No one has helped me whatsoever. All Spark has done is re-send the .json file to try and withdraw again, but I continue to get the same "operation failed" error when uploading the response.
Has anyone had the same problem with withdrawals, or with SparkPool's lack of effort to help their customers? I'd like to get my money, but it seems like Spark either stole it or doesn't have it.
Yes I have this same problem, when I try to send the response file I get "error 400". Have not contacted support yet.


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Eufy RoboVac 30C review: the smartest way to vacuum
Authored by: Pierre Vitré Dec 11, 2018
Although Anker is best known for its batteries, the Chinese brands is also dedicated to the smart home world. Eufy (that's the name of the sub-brand) offers a whole range of vacuum robots. The RobotVac 30C is the latest model on the market. So what makes it so special? Thanks to the integrated Wi-Fi, you can control your RoboVac via its app as well as through Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.
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Compact and practical
Easy and fast maintenance
A word about the EufyHome app
Good at handling obstacles
✓Easy to configure
✓App and remote control
✓Compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant
✓Nice price
✕Lacking autonomy
✕Issues detecting cables
✕No warning message to empty the dust collector
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When we think about the Anker brand, we obviously first think of batteries and perhaps headphones, but the Chinese manufacturer also creates smart home products with its Eufy brand. The RobotVac 30C is the improved version of the previously released RobotVac 30. This version of the vacuum clean has gained a Wi-Fi connection and supports Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. This model costs 299 euros (around 340 dollars) and it's the brand's most expensive vacuum cleaner.
The RoboVac 30C comes with a remote control and two accessories. / © NextPit
This RobotVac doesn't differ much from the competition in terms of appearance . As with most devices in the market, you'll find a circular design. It's quite compact (7 cm thick) and its size allows it to sneak around the house quite easily, especially under sofas or other furniture. That's definitely a plus.
In terms of the device's controls, the RobotVac 30C features a main button on the front panel that will make the device start vacuuming. The button also lights up while the vacuum cleaner is operating and indicates the battery status. The light is blue when it's charged, orange when it starts charging, and red when it's running out of power.
The two rotating brushes are located underneath the unit on the front. They're responsible for collecting dust (and other things). There's also a roller-shaped brush for suction. Eufy also includes an accessory for doing routine maintenance on the device.
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The RoboVac 30C is compact and lightweight. / © NextPit
Interestingly, the RoboVac 30C comes with two large magnets. You can position them wherever you want to mark the vacuum cleaner's cleaning areas. This is very practical, especially in areas where you keep cables that might interfere with the proper operation of the vacuum cleaner.
The device comes with a remote control to start or stop the unit. You can use it to send the robot back to its base, choose different modes or start a quick wash, which takes 30 minutes. You can also use the EufyHome app to use all these features, but I though it was an advantage that the device came with a remote. This will save you the trouble of having to fetch your phone.
Lastly, the loading dock is relatively discreet, which means it will fit well in any room.
The vacuum cleaner comes with a handy remote. / © NextPit
On the front there's a slot for accessing the collector, which has a capacity of 0.6 liters. All you have to do is push it down to empty it. This process is easy enough and your hands won't get dusty. The only downside is that there's no warning notification to alert you when the bin is about to fill up.
Eufy recommends changing the filter every two months. You'll also need to change the brushes two to four times a year. The vacuum cleaner comes with two extra brushes and some filters.
All you have to do is push the button down to access the collector. / © NextPit
The RoboVac 30C is equipped with a Wi-Fi connection and can be connected to the EufyHome app , which is available for free on the Google Play Store. If you want, you can schedule a cleaning or activate the device when you're not there. The app is simple to use and really helps you out when you first configure the device.
The EufyHome app / © NextPit
If the vacuum cleaner has some issues, the app will alert you and inform you about the status of the problem. Xiaomi Mi Home also provides regular updates. The latest version allows you to select an area to be cleaned on a map, which is practical and very effective.
EufyHome
You can also use the device with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. During my test, I was able to connect the device to my Google Home. Once everything is set up (you'll have to use the Google Home app on your phone), everything will work quickly. You can start or stop cleaning and also locate your device. I personally preferred to use the remote control, but that's a matter of taste.
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In terms of the actual cleaning (after all, it's the main function of a vacuum cleaner), the RobotVac 30C performs very well . It's really good at dealing with obstacles, even though some of its competitors have more sensors on board. The device only has problems with cables lying on the ground, but that's the case with all robotic vacuum cleaners. One quick word of advice: avoid having cables on the ground!
Its suction power (ranging from 1300 Pa to 1500 Pa) is sufficient for vacuuming dust, hair and various kinds of dirt. As soon as the device is done cleaning, it will return to its base without hesitating. In terms of noise, the RoboVac is very quiet. It doesn't get any louder than fifty decibels.
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The RoboVac 30C has a 2600 mAh battery . That's not a great number, but that's because the device is also quite compact. Depending on the cleaning method you choose, the device might quickly run out of energy. When we tested the classic mode, the RoboVac 30C had an autonomy of one and a half hours. That's trimmed down to one hour with BosstIQ mode, which isn't great, but the device will automatically return to its base when it needs to be charged. This means that the vacuum cleaner is more suitable for smaller apartments.
There's no quick charge, but you won't miss this feature. The vacuum cleaner will have time to charge for the rest of the day and then can get back to work.
The loading dock is small and discreet. / © NextPit
It's compact, easy to use and powerful. The RoboVac 30C has a great price-quality ratio. It's good at avoiding obstacles, and thanks to the remote control and app, the vacuum cleaner can offer you a lot of help around the house. It's battery life isn't great and its compatibility with Google Assistant and Alexa isn't really that helpful. But the price will quickly make you forget its small flaws. All in all, it's a very good vacuum cleaner for anyone looking for a model to try out.
Eufy Lumos Smart Bulbs
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Plenum is a word used frequently in the wire and cable arena. But do you know what it means? Simply stated, plenum is a space that is commonly above a ceiling or below a floor that serves as an air circulation chamber aiding in heating and cooling functions. Plenum spaces permit fire and smoke to travel quickly, therefore it is important that materials occupying this space have characteristics that can withstand smoke and fire.
Plenum-rated cable is coated with a jacket that is made with flame-resistant material such as Teflon. Using plenum-rated cable in plenum spaces reduces levels of toxicity in the smoke emitted and the flame retardant jacketing makes the burning cable smoke less. If your cable is not going into a plenum space, than non-plenum cable is the less expensive alternative. PVC can cost as little as one third of the cost of plenum cable. However, with insurance rates on the rise, building owners are choosing plenum rated cable as the best long term cable decision. Plenum rated cables cause less overall physical damage in the instance of a fire thereby lowering the building owner's liability if an accident were to occur.
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The database "PUTIN'S LIST"
The database "PUTIN'S LIST" is created by the Free Russia Forum in order to search, consolidate and unify data on those responsible for creating and running a system of unchecked power and suppressing civil liberties both in Russia and abroad.
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About the persons
The project aims to gather information related to persons of the following categories:
The "POWER-HOLDERS" of Russia, who seized and unlawfully hold power in the country;
The "EXECUTORS", who, as public servants and MPs, directly implement the Kremlin's policy of felonious retention of power in the country;
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The database of the Free Russia Forum, "PUTIN'S LIST", does not replace the work of law enforcement agencies, but considers it necessary given the absence of an independent court system in Russia. The agency aims to collect and systematize data on crimes and those who use their connections to the government to evade legal responsibility.
"PUTIN'S LIST" is intended to become a resource for the future lustration campaign and public defamation of persons responsible for the destruction of freedom in Russia.
"PUTIN'S LIST" is run on by volunteers and uses information from open and other sources.
"PUTIN'S LIST" expresses interest in cooperating with similar projects in Russia and abroad, and calls for the unification and mutual use of information for the realization of the stated goals.
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