Oh how I loved this book. The recipes weren't necessary but they are an added bonus. Love that this book reminds us how to break bread at the table and be hospitable. I've gifted so many copies of this book.
This was my second read through of the book The Greatest Gift. Such a great Advent book. One Thousand Gifts was wonderful. I downloaded the app and have been keeping track of my own gifts. It helps us keep stock of our blessings.
Working at a church, this book spoke to me in so many ways. Reading what individuals are searching for etc. Too many have been hurt by the church and I truly think this is a book that might help individuals heal.
Sadly I didn't read many fiction books this year. But this was such a good read.
This is the book that truly made me realize I'm a writer. I participated in a six week course on this book. So so good! I love that the authors interacted and commented on our blog posts. They also have some great podcasts.
Another book that I loved. Emily helps us all take time to breath and bask in our simply Tuesday's. After reading this book, I don't dread Tuesdays like perhaps I did before.
This book is so fun…it made me laugh in so many places. But in other places, as a single woman, I couldn't always identify with Jens stories. But overall, I truly enjoyed this book.
Another fantastic read! Loved this book!
Oh so much goodness! In 2016, I need to finish Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg, Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber, The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury (Thanks Katie M. Reid) and Beautiful Uncertainty by Mandy Hales (Thanks Susan Shipe) Beautiful Uncertainty doesn't come out until 2016 but I was gifted a prerelease copy. As a single woman myself, this book is PURE GOLD!
Last but certainly not least, I'm currently reading "Notes on the Journey: Living with Sarcoma and Hope" by Laura A. Koppenhoefer. The book is a compilation of Laura's CarePages from approx Sept 2011-Spring 2014. Laura lost her cancer battle on Nov 30th of this year. I'm thankful for a friend who is loaning me her copy of Laura's book. I'm reading through slowly and savoring my dear friend's words!
These words have been replaying in my head and my heart today. They are in the text I will be preaching on Sunday. In this text, Zechariah and Elizabeth are told that Elizabeth will give birth to a son and they will name him John which means "God is gracious and/or merciful." Yet even in the midst of this annunciation to Elizabeth, that is not where I'm finding myself focusing instead I'm pulled to the above words from Luke 1.
Have you ever noticed that when your electricity goes out, you don't need much…one candle can give off just enough light? That light takes away the shadows of the darkness. That light reminds us of this precious holy child who comes as the light in the darkness. In contrast, John comes to give us knowledge of this promised Messiah while Jesus comes to fulfill that promise; the light of the world.
During this season of Advent, not everyone experiences joy. There are many who are in the depths of death and are sitting in those shadows of darkness. I think of my friend who recently lost his father; also a beloved grandfather, spouse, father-in-law. I also am reminded of dear Laura's daughters. For them, that empty chair at the table or around the Christmas tree is evidence of this one they loved and lost. They are literally sitting in the shadows of death. Yet God reminds us that God will guide our feet into the way of peace. Both these dear souls are no longer in pain, but rather have been guided into the way of peace.
And those feet that bring Good News and guide them into peace, they came first as infant feet; born in an stable in Bethlehem; a Son born for our sins; a Son born to guide us all into the way of peace. This peace is a peace that only this infant son can bring in the midst of our sorrows and joys and showers upon us through God's love for God's people.
This love is a love that reminds us always of the power and gift of love and relationships in our own lives. As my friend Laura was laying in her hospice bed, she asked us her friends, family and mat carriers to send her pictures etc to decorate her room. Only a week there, her room was filled with so much love. There was no white space left on those walls; a concrete example of the power of love; Gods love that guides us all into the way of peace; a peace that passes all human understanding.
Our gracious merciful God sends this infant child as an embodiment of God's love for all God's people. This unlikely King born to this unlikely woman triumphantly breaks the dawn from on high especially to all of us who sit in darkness and/or in the shadows of death and guides our feet into the way of peace!
Let's walk forward trusting in this promised Messiah who always promises to take our hands and guide our feet into the everlasting way of peace that only God can provide!
The Top Ten Things November Taught Me!
I am linking up with Emily Freeman's monthly link-up today. You can check out all the posts over at Emily's Place.
(1) It is so much fun to find new clothing lines. Thanks to my friend Lindy for introducing me to LuluRoe. I am so excited to try out my leggings. I also will be purchasing a dress or skirt.
(2) Even.If.Not has become one of my new favorite phrases penned by my blog friend Kaitlyn. I am on her launch team and am so excited for all of you to read her book. Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between will be released in early 2016. For more information, click here!
(3) Time with dear friends is so so good for the soul! Lunch with KG, coffee with CT, Beer and Hymns with EG and AH. We need to take time to gather around the table more often friends!
(4) We need to find a cure for cancer! I know this isn't news to anyone. But too many individuals have been taken way too soon. My friend Laura completed her Baptismal journey yesterday. My heart breaks for Laura's daughters who have now lost both of their parents to cancer. Two weeks ago, our local Taco John's held a fundraiser for a young wife and mother who was battling cancer. She passed away two days after her fundraiser. And it seems that more and more people are being diagnosed with cancer.
(5) Thanksgiving with the family is the best! Love spending time with my family especially as my grandparents age. Good food, great conversation, competitive Rook games, lots of laughter and so much more!
(6) The gift of community! I especially have noticed it in the last 24 hours. Voxes, Tweets, Facebook messages and the list goes on. In the words of my friend Sally, it feels like one giant cyber hug. And my friends, that is a perfect description. As the Wartburg Seminary community grieves, near and far, there is power in knowing that we do not grieve alone but together.
(7) Peppermint lattes, hot chocolate with mini marshmallows, vanilla egg nog….oh the goodness! I love this time of the year. There is something about curling up under blankets with a hot beverage in hand.
(8) I am a champion chili maker! I repeated as the Lutheran Campus Ministry chili feed champ which is voted on by local officials. This year it was local cops; last year fire men!
(9) Sometimes we just have to reward ourselves for completing a goal/challenge. I bought myself a new tshirt AND tank top for finishing the Write 31 Days challenge. I couldn't decide so I rewarded myself with two items!
(10) Pinterest isn't always a fail! I led the Family SS activities two weeks in a row. And the cute cupcake liner angels from Pinterest were not an EPIC FAIL. In fact, they turned out rather cute.
There are people who God places in our lives that leave such a lasting imprint. It is almost impossible to remember a time when you did not know that individual. Their light seems to always shine a little bit brighter than the rest of our lights. And my friends, today that light is a little bit dimmer. My dear friend Laura completed her baptismal journey yesterday and is now reunited with her beloved, Rod.
When I started at Wartburg Seminary, Laura was one of the first people that I met and was one of the most welcoming people I have ever met. In addition, her smile always lit up a room. She loved well and she loved deep! I am reminded of a story my friend Sandi shared about when her and her family moved onto the campus at Wartburg. Laura showed up with toilet paper and lemonade: perfect gifts for moving into a new home on a hot summer day. Love can be so very simple, like through fresh squeezed lemonade, and Laura was the absolute best at showing that love!
A few years ago, our friend Julia ran in honor of Laura and sarcoma research during the Fargo Marathon. Now I am no runner, but I was so delighted to stand on the sidelines donning my "Team Koppy" t-shirt and cheering on Julia and Laura.
So now as I lay down my mat, I see all the others around me reluctantly laying down their mats too. Laura touched more lives than I think she will ever know or could imagine. The impact of love for Laura is seen in the tears, Facebook posts, and sighs too deep for words that express the impact of love she has had on each and every one of us.
Laura, my friend, you are so dearly loved!


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#include <PiDxe.h>
#include <Protocol/UnicodeCollation.h>
#include <Library/BaseLib.h>
#include <Library/DebugLib.h>
#include <Library/UefiBootServicesTableLib.h>
#include <Library/UefiDriverEntryPoint.h>
#include <Library/UefiLib.h>
#include <Library/MemoryAllocationLib.h>
#include <Library/HiiLib.h>
#include <Library/BaseMemoryLib.h>
#include <Library/LanguageLib.h>

/**
  Performs a case-insensitive comparison of two Null-terminated strings.

  @param  This Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  Str1 A pointer to a Null-terminated string.
  @param  Str2 A pointer to a Null-terminated string.

  @retval 0   Str1 is equivalent to Str2
  @retval > 0 Str1 is lexically greater than Str2
  @retval < 0 Str1 is lexically less than Str2

**/
INTN
EFIAPI
StriColl (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN CHAR16                           *Str1,
  IN CHAR16                           *Str2
  );

/**
  Converts all the characters in a Null-terminated string to
  lower case characters.

  @param  This   Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  Str    A pointer to a Null-terminated string.

**/
VOID
EFIAPI
StrLwr (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN OUT CHAR16                       *Str
  );

/**
  Converts all the characters in a Null-terminated string to upper
  case characters.

  @param  This   Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  Str    A pointer to a Null-terminated string.

**/
VOID
EFIAPI
StrUpr (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN OUT CHAR16                       *Str
  );

/**
  Performs a case-insensitive comparison of a Null-terminated
  pattern string and a Null-terminated string.

  @param  This    Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  String  A pointer to a Null-terminated string.
  @param  Pattern A pointer to a Null-terminated pattern string.

  @retval TRUE    Pattern was found in String.
  @retval FALSE   Pattern was not found in String.

**/
BOOLEAN
EFIAPI
MetaiMatch (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN CHAR16                           *String,
  IN CHAR16                           *Pattern
  );

/**
  Converts an 8.3 FAT file name in an OEM character set to a Null-terminated string.

  @param  This    Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  FatSize The size of the string Fat in bytes.
  @param  Fat     A pointer to a Null-terminated string that contains an 8.3 file
                  name using an OEM character set.
  @param  String  A pointer to a Null-terminated string. The string must
                  be preallocated to hold FatSize characters.

**/
VOID
EFIAPI
FatToStr (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN UINTN                            FatSize,
  IN CHAR8                            *Fat,
  OUT CHAR16                          *String
  );

/**
  Converts a Null-terminated string to legal characters in a FAT
  filename using an OEM character set.

  @param  This    Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  String  A pointer to a Null-terminated string. The string must
                  be preallocated to hold FatSize characters.
  @param  FatSize The size of the string Fat in bytes.
  @param  Fat     A pointer to a Null-terminated string that contains an 8.3 file
                  name using an OEM character set.

  @retval TRUE    Fat is a Long File Name
  @retval FALSE   Fat is an 8.3 file name

**/
BOOLEAN
EFIAPI
StrToFat (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN CHAR16                           *String,
  IN UINTN                            FatSize,
  OUT CHAR8                           *Fat
  );

#define UC2_PRIVATE_DATA_SIGNATURE  SIGNATURE_32 ('_', 'U', 'C', '2')

typedef struct {
  UINT32                          Signature;
  EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL  Uc2;
  EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL *Uc;
} UC2_PRIVATE_DATA;

#define UC2_PRIVATE_DATA_FROM_THIS(a) CR (a, UC2_PRIVATE_DATA, Uc2, UC2_PRIVATE_DATA_SIGNATURE)

//
// Firmware Volume Protocol template
//
EFI_EVENT  mUc2Registration;

UC2_PRIVATE_DATA gUC2PrivateDataTemplate = {
  UC2_PRIVATE_DATA_SIGNATURE,
  {
    StriColl,
    MetaiMatch,
    StrLwr,
    StrUpr,
    FatToStr,
    StrToFat,
    NULL
  },
  NULL
};

//
// Module globals
//
/**
  This notification function is invoked when an instance of the
  EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL is produced. It installs another instance of the
  EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL2 on the same handle.

  @param  Event                 The event that occured
  @param  Context               Context of event. Not used in this nofication function.

**/
VOID
EFIAPI
UcNotificationEvent (
  IN  EFI_EVENT       Event,
  IN  VOID            *Context
  )
{
  EFI_STATUS                     Status;
  UINTN                          BufferSize;
  EFI_HANDLE                     Handle;
  UC2_PRIVATE_DATA               *Private;
  EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL *Uc2;

  while (TRUE) {
    BufferSize = sizeof (Handle);
    Status = gBS->LocateHandle (
                    ByRegisterNotify,
                    &gEfiUnicodeCollationProtocolGuid,
                    mUc2Registration,
                    &BufferSize,
                    &Handle
                    );
    if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
      //
      // Exit Path of While Loop....
      //
      break;
    }

    //
    // Skip this handle if the Firmware Volume Protocol is already installed
    //
    Status = gBS->HandleProtocol (
                    Handle,
                    &gEfiUnicodeCollation2ProtocolGuid,
                    (VOID **)&Uc2
                    );
    if (!EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
      continue;
    }

    //
    // Allocate private data structure
    //
    Private = AllocateCopyPool (sizeof (UC2_PRIVATE_DATA), &gUC2PrivateDataTemplate);
    if (Private == NULL) {
      continue;
    }

    //
    // Retrieve the UC Protocol
    //
    Status = gBS->HandleProtocol (
                    Handle,
                    &gEfiUnicodeCollationProtocolGuid,
                    (VOID **)&Private->Uc
                    );
    ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (Status);

    //
    // Fill in rest of private data structure
    //
    Private->Uc2.SupportedLanguages = ConvertLanguagesIso639ToRfc4646 (Private->Uc->SupportedLanguages);
    if (Private->Uc2.SupportedLanguages != NULL) {

      //
      // Install UC2 Protocol onto same handle
      //
      Status = gBS->InstallMultipleProtocolInterfaces (
                      &Handle,
                      &gEfiUnicodeCollation2ProtocolGuid,
                      &Private->Uc2,
                      NULL
                      );
      ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (Status);
    }
  }
}

/**
  The user Entry Point for DXE driver. The user code starts with this function
  as the real entry point for the image goes into a library that calls this
  function.

  @param[in] ImageHandle    The firmware allocated handle for the EFI image.
  @param[in] SystemTable    A pointer to the EFI System Table.

  @retval EFI_SUCCESS       The entry point is executed successfully.
  @retval other             Some error occurs when executing this entry point.

**/
EFI_STATUS
EFIAPI
InitializeUC2 (
  IN EFI_HANDLE        ImageHandle,
  IN EFI_SYSTEM_TABLE  *SystemTable
  )
{
  EfiCreateProtocolNotifyEvent (
    &gEfiUnicodeCollationProtocolGuid,
    TPL_CALLBACK,
    UcNotificationEvent,
    NULL,
    &mUc2Registration
    );
  return EFI_SUCCESS;
}

/**
  Performs a case-insensitive comparison of two Null-terminated strings.

  @param  This Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  Str1 A pointer to a Null-terminated string.
  @param  Str2 A pointer to a Null-terminated string.

  @retval 0   Str1 is equivalent to Str2
  @retval > 0 Str1 is lexically greater than Str2
  @retval < 0 Str1 is lexically less than Str2

**/
INTN
EFIAPI
StriColl (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN CHAR16                           *Str1,
  IN CHAR16                           *Str2
  )
{
  UC2_PRIVATE_DATA *Private;

  Private = UC2_PRIVATE_DATA_FROM_THIS (This);

  return Private->Uc->StriColl (Private->Uc, Str1, Str2);
}

/**
  Converts all the characters in a Null-terminated string to
  lower case characters.

  @param  This   Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  Str    A pointer to a Null-terminated string.

**/
VOID
EFIAPI
StrLwr (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN OUT CHAR16                       *Str
  )
{
  UC2_PRIVATE_DATA *Private;

  Private = UC2_PRIVATE_DATA_FROM_THIS (This);

  Private->Uc->StrLwr (Private->Uc, Str);
}

/**
  Converts all the characters in a Null-terminated string to upper
  case characters.

  @param  This   Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  Str    A pointer to a Null-terminated string.

**/
VOID
EFIAPI
StrUpr (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN OUT CHAR16                       *Str
  )
{
  UC2_PRIVATE_DATA *Private;

  Private = UC2_PRIVATE_DATA_FROM_THIS (This);

  Private->Uc->StrUpr (Private->Uc, Str);
}

/**
  Performs a case-insensitive comparison of a Null-terminated
  pattern string and a Null-terminated string.

  @param  This    Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  String  A pointer to a Null-terminated string.
  @param  Pattern A pointer to a Null-terminated pattern string.

  @retval TRUE    Pattern was found in String.
  @retval FALSE   Pattern was not found in String.

**/
BOOLEAN
EFIAPI
MetaiMatch (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN CHAR16                           *String,
  IN CHAR16                           *Pattern
  )
{
  UC2_PRIVATE_DATA *Private;

  Private = UC2_PRIVATE_DATA_FROM_THIS (This);

  return Private->Uc->MetaiMatch (Private->Uc, String, Pattern);
}

/**
  Converts an 8.3 FAT file name in an OEM character set to a Null-terminated string.

  @param  This    Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  FatSize The size of the string Fat in bytes.
  @param  Fat     A pointer to a Null-terminated string that contains an 8.3 file
                  name using an 8-bit OEM character set.
  @param  String  A pointer to a Null-terminated string. The string must
                  be preallocated to hold FatSize characters.

**/
VOID
EFIAPI
FatToStr (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN UINTN                            FatSize,
  IN CHAR8                            *Fat,
  OUT CHAR16                          *String
  )
{
  UC2_PRIVATE_DATA *Private;

  Private = UC2_PRIVATE_DATA_FROM_THIS (This);

  Private->Uc->FatToStr (Private->Uc, FatSize, Fat, String);
}

/**
  Converts a Null-terminated string to legal characters in a FAT
  filename using an OEM character set.

  @param  This    Protocol instance pointer.
  @param  String  A pointer to a Null-terminated string. The string must
                  be preallocated to hold FatSize characters.
  @param  FatSize The size of the string Fat in bytes.
  @param  Fat     A pointer to a Null-terminated string that contains an 8.3 file
                  name using an OEM character set.

  @retval TRUE    Fat is a Long File Name
  @retval FALSE   Fat is an 8.3 file name

**/
BOOLEAN
EFIAPI
StrToFat (
  IN EFI_UNICODE_COLLATION_PROTOCOL   *This,
  IN CHAR16                           *String,
  IN UINTN                            FatSize,
  OUT CHAR8                           *Fat
  )
{
  UC2_PRIVATE_DATA *Private;

  Private = UC2_PRIVATE_DATA_FROM_THIS (This);

  return Private->Uc->StrToFat (Private->Uc, String, FatSize, Fat);
}

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Will the heavens open for Hamilton?
Hamilton at home as showers intervene in Nurburgring practice.
Lewis Hamilton and his McLaren mechanics will be making room for a rain dance in their pre-race briefing at the Nurburgring after the Hamilton-McLaren package, significantly revised for Mercedes-Benz's home race topped the timesheets for only the third time this season during a damp Friday practice at the Eifel circuit.
Hamilton, who has struggled to score points this year let alone muster a title defence after McLaren went the wrong way with the development of the MP4-24, reminded his rivals of his presence in this year's show with an impressive early pace at the Nurburgring; one that is unlikely to topple home favourite Sebastian Vettel and championship leader Jenson Button, but which could prove decisive if rain arrives on Sunday, as forecasted.
Assisted by a revised McLaren package featuring a new front wing and an intricately designed double diffuser, the defending world champion posted a 1m32.149 in the closing stages of practice two, enough to edge out Vettel and Button for the top spot – and keep the Mercedes-Benz representatives happy.
Showers prevented anyone challenging Hamilton's time in the final ten minutes of the session taking the shine off his laptime somewhat as that is the period when most drivers make low fuel runs in qualifying trim.
Even so, the improvement from McLaren is both significant and genuine, and with heavy rain predicted for Sunday's race, Hamilton, his wet-weather skills, and the improved MP4-24, could cause an upset. Hamilton is refusing to get carried away though.
"We ve still got a long way to go but, most importantly, these new upgrades are pushing us in the right direction," he said. "It s a work in progress, but the guys back at the factory have done an incredible job to get these parts to the circuit I ve even heard of one guy working a 36-hour non-stop shift to build these parts, which is incredible."
"Hopefully we ll now do our job at the track and try to keep everything moving forward. It s still early days, and we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves, but I m hopeful of being able to get into Q3 tomorrow and look at scoring a couple of points on Sunday afternoon."
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh conceded: "I m sure we ve yet to see the strongest efforts from Red Bull Racing and Brawn GP, I think there are good signs of an improvement."
Indeed, a wet race would be equally welcome for Sebastian Vettel who is looking to become the first German driver to win his home grand prix since Michael Schumacher in 2006 – but far more importantly close the gap to championship leader Jenson Button.
The Red Bull driver stopped out on track with an electrical problem in the morning warm up before setting the pace in the afternoon, second only to Hamilton and pipping Button by a tenth of a second.
"We had a problem in the morning when the engine cut off in Turn One, so we lost quite a lot of track time," Vettel explained afterwards. "Thankfully it was dry again this afternoon, so the overall loss was not that big. It was quite tricky this afternoon as the circuit was still very slippery, making it hard to get a good lap and bringing the tyres in seems to be very crucial here."
"On top of that, the wind is very heavy and is playing some tricks, especially during braking in the last sector, but I think we have a good car, so I m looking forward to tomorrow. Obviously, we still have plenty of work to do. We ve done a lot of testing today so we will look now at what s best in order to be well prepared for qualifying."
Jenson Button will be looking to beat Vettel at his home race after the German trounced him at Silverstone a fortnight ago. The Brawn team have been struggling with a lack of front end grip and would ideally prefer hotter conditions for Sunday's race.
"We had a reasonable day and were able to make good progress on the set-up of the car," said Button. "We are still lacking in a few areas that we need to look at overnight and make improvements but overall today was a pretty good start to the weekend."
"The main problem is the cold conditions. The air temperature is almost what you would expect in winter testing and the low track temperatures are causing problems with the harder prime tyre so we will struggle with that tyre if it stays like this."
Dry conditions are expected for qualifying tomorrow which should enable Button to gun for pole. The opening qualifying session could also claim a high profile victim or two with usual back markers Force India's running strongly in practice.
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Researchers at Northwestern University have found a new bacterial coating made from Green Tea and Salt. They discovered new ways of utilizing the properties of naturally occurring polyphenols found in green tea, red wine and dark chocolate in this study. By dissolving polyphenol powders in water with a small amount of salt instantly they found that the effect produces transparent coatings that kill bacteria on contact. This coating also has antioxidant qualities and are non-toxic. The sticky nature of polyphenols and the low cost of materials could open the door to a wide range of uses for these coatings.Apparently the coatings can stick to virtually any surface, even Teflon, and are only 20 to 100 nanometers thick, potentially making them ideal for use in a whole range products.
Polyphenols are naturally occurring molecules found in many plants that also give some flowers, fruits, and vegetables their color. They are antioxidants that can reverse problems caused by oxidative stress to artery walls and their anti-inflammatory properties are said to help relieve chronic pain in conditions like rheumatoid arthritis.
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McFarlane Bridge in Maclean, Clarence Valley, North Coast
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Maclean's Scottish history dates back to the 1840s, when Caledonians started coming here, attracted by Australia's gold rush and the prospect of avoiding famine back in their homeland. Today, the town in the Clarence Valley on the North Coast of NSW is self-proclaimed as 'The Scottish Town of Australia', its bucolic Clarence River perch enveloped by fields of sugarcane and farmland. Spend your days drifting around in houseboats, eating fresh prawns and hiking through rainforest.
A slice of Scotland
Maclean has hosted a Highland Gathering for the more than 115 years, the Easter festival consuming the town with parades and fanfare. The bagpipe-playing competitions draw musicians from across the country, while crowds gather to watch caber tossing and Highland dancing, before enjoying traditional Scottish food.
But the tartan is not packed away when the event ends – around town you'll discover power poles painted in all the colours of a kilt. The first were decorated for the Olympic Torch arrival in 2000; today, you can find more than 200, alongside street signs carrying Gaelic translations. Still want more? Delve deeper into the town's Scottish (and otherwise) history at the Maclean Bicentennial Museum.
Explore the town
You could while away a day exploring Maclean's charm-filled streets, browsing exhibitions and picking up arts and crafts in the Ferry Park Gallery, or participating in a creative workshop hosted by local talent at the Kingstudio Gallery (which also boasts on-site accommodation). Time your visit right to meet the makers at Plunge, a month-long festival every April that celebrates the Clarence Valley's cultural scene through film, visual arts, creative writing, music, dance and more.
When it comes time to refuel, grab a great brew at coffee roastery Botero, or snack on fresh cookies and cake while exploring the stalls at the Maclean Monthly Community Markets, held on the second Saturday of the month.
Scenic walks
For unrivalled views over the Clarence Valley and beyond, wander two kilometres from the centre of town up to the Maclean Lookout – from here, the countryside unfolds in swathes of rolling farmland and hinterland. Continue on to the Pinnacle, a balancing rock formation and important Aboriginal cultural heritage site, surrounded by subtropical rainforest.
Given its prime position on the Clarence River, Maclean makes the ideal base for fishing and boating expeditions. Ask the locals where the fish are biting, and they might reveal their secret spots (if you're lucky). Non-anglers can still enjoy the seafood bounty at restaurants around town, with juicy estuary prawns a highlight on any menu.
Getting there & where to stay
Maclean is a seven-hour drive north from Sydney or three hours' south from Brisbane. You can also fly into the Clarence Valley Regional Airport on the outskirts of Grafton and hire a car for the 40min drive north. You'll find plenty of riverside accommodation options in Maclean. Or, sleep on the water in a houseboat, available for rent at Grafton 2 Yamba Houseboat Hire.
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CHINA, kills prisoners and sells their body parts.
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See where the macabre organ-transplant world of medicine has taken us. How many wealthy Westerners stuff their conscience and pay for the still warm body of hapless Chinese prisoners. Which raises the question of how many people are tossed in prison just to supply the state with more bodies to keep up with the world's demand for more body parts.
An acquaintance raves about the amazing advances China has made in medicine. When I point out that they pretty well do whatever they want to prisoners, they don't need to use rats in experimental operations, or drug trials on helpless humans,…..he just shrugs. Whatever. Just keep us rich Westerners happy and healthy, don't bore us with details. Gerda
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Terry Glavin: China's harvest of human organs tells us what we need to know about human rights
What we know about the pillaging of vital organs from still-living prisoners in the People's Republic of China, and the sale of their livers, lungs, hearts and kidneys, is that it is a widespread, outrageous and lucrative business and that the Chinese government habitually lies through its teeth about it.
What we know about the Chinese government's paranoia about Falun Gong, a harmless spiritual discipline not unlike a form of contemplative Buddhism, is that the Beijing authorities have jailed, executed or otherwise "disappeared" thousands of its adherents, who numbered perhaps 70 million before the reign of terror against them began in the 1990s.
We know, too that Falun Gong prisoners have been singled out as sources of raw material for China's shadowy organ-harvesting industry. We know this thanks largely to the persistent efforts at documentation undertaken by former cabinet minister David Kilgour and B'nai Brith senior legal council David Matas, and also owing to the more recent investigations carried out by the London-based foreign policy analyst and journalist Ethan Guttman. Their books on the subject are banned in China.
We also know that an early epicentre of Falun Gong persecution and the trade in their body parts was in Dalian, the feifdom of the cruel Communist Party boss Bo Xilai. Before corruption charges and the disfavour of Chinese President Xi Jinping brought the former Chinese commerce minister low and landed him in prison four years ago, Bo was facing lawsuits alleging torture and crimes against humanity filed against him in 10 countries.
Bo was also a favourite of Canada's China lobby. He was a "good ally," Sergio Marchi, the onetime Liberal trade minister and president of the Canada China Business Council lamented when Bo was jailed in 2012. Jean Chrétien, the Liberal prime minister who went on to a fabulous career in China-trade consultancies, called Bo an "old friend."
It is fitting, then, that it is in Ottawa – where only a few days ago Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ruined a little favour-currying affair the Liberal government had arranged in his honour by barking at Canadian journalists for impudently mentioning the words "human rights" in his presence – that Kilgour, Matas and Guttman are releasing a new report this week, exposing Beijing's top-to-bottom complicity in the organ-harvesting racket. Titled Bloody Harvest / The Slaughter: An Update, the report runs to 564 pages, followed by 2,360 footnotes.
The entire enterprise is controlled by the state, with the intimate involvement of China's military and security apparatus. The report exposes the Chinese government's efforts to enforce a systemic cover-up of the whole thing. It is an industrial-scale enterprise involving the traffic of tens of thousands of organ transplants every year – at least 15 times as many as claimed in official government statements.
Guttman's 2014 research had settled on a "best guess" that 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been slaughtered for their organs over the past several years. The new report's primary research findings, gathered together from hospital records, medical journals, whistleblower accounts and hard-to-hide databases, translated from the Chinese, appears to confirm that those earlier estimates were wildly over-cautious.
What we know about the number of people sentenced to death by China's rubber-stamp judiciary every year is that the number is a state secret. Amnesty International doesn't bother trying to count anymore – the last time was 2008, when at least 1,066 people were sentenced to death – but the usual death row organ-pillaging cannot account for the massive upsurge in transplant traffic in recent years. Voluntary organ donation in China is exceedingly rare. No organ donation system existed anywhere in China before 2010. A public, national organ donation system began only in 2014.
The United Nations, international medical associations and a variety of non-governmental organizations have persistently questioned Beijing about the spectacular disparities and transparently fraudulent official numbers surrounding its transplant industry. Beijing's response has consisted entirely of the same well-practised farrago of lies, how-dare-you conniptions and instructions to mind one's business that was so perfectly ventriloquized by the dutifully obedient Wang Yi in Ottawa the other day, on the subject of human rights in China more generally.
"There is no other plausible explanation for the sourcing of this number of organs than the killing of Falun Gong (and to a lesser extent, the killing of Uyghurs, Tibetans and House Christians) for their organs," Kilgour, Matas and Guttman conclude.
Last week, giving every impression that Canada's postures on the subject of human rights in China are negotiable, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau allowed that perhaps the free trade agreement with China that his party's decrepit old sell-outs so feverishly desire might take a bit longer than they would want, owing to "an awful lot of work to do to get towards that, whether it's on human rights and governance issues, whether it's on respect for the rule of law around Canadian investments."
Yes, quite. An awful lot of work will be required to shift President Xi Jinping, whose family has mysteriously accrued hundreds of millions of dollars to itself in the course of his rise to the pinnacle of China's gangland power structure, and who has accrued to himself greater power than any Chinese president since Mao Zedong, and whose accomplices in the National People's Congress include more than 200 gluttonous parasites with a combined net worth of $463 billion, roughly equal to the gross domestic product of Sweden.
Having driven the Chinese people into penury ($18 trillion in debt, as of last year) and after sucking the lifeblood out of China's captive pool of slave labour (the number of workers' strikes and protests has tripled over the past three years), two-thirds of China's Communist Party overlords are preparing to abscond from the country altogether, according to a 2014 poll by Shanghai's Hurun Research Institute. "Capital flight" from China reached nearly $1 trillion last year.
And what of Kevin Garratt, the innocent missionary the regime kidnapped in retaliation for the Canada having mentioned two years ago that Beijing's military hackers had just broken into the National Research Council's mainframes? And what of the 319 Chinese lawyers, human rights activists and their family members who have been interrogated, locked away in dungeons, held under house arrest or simply made to disappear over the past six months? What of the 20 people arrested in March for having the temerity to write a letter calling on Xi Jinping to resign?
We should mind our tone, Trudeau's hapless, gawping foreign affairs minister, Stéphane Dion, continues to instruct us. The ghastly and unpardonable crimes of Beijing's ravenous elites are best left to polite exchanges, in parlours. Says Dion: "I think that's the best way to see progress made."
Terry Glavin is an author and journalist.


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Nonfatal occupational injuries among African-American women by industry.
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NOIRS 2000--Abstracts of the National Occupational Injury Research Symposium 2000, Pittsburgh, PA, October 17-19, 2000. Pittsburgh, PA: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2000 Oct; :45
A previous study suggested that African-American women may have a higher rate of work-related injury that requires treatment in emergency department (EDs) and a higher proportion of employment in the healthcare industry compared to white women and women of other races. This study examined this type of injury by industry among African-American women using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a national surveillance system for nonfatal work-related injuries treated in EDs in the U.S. Injury rates were calculated based on employment data from the Current Population Survey. In 1996, African-American women, aged 16 or older, were treated in U.S. EDs for an estimated 141,427 nonfatal work-related injuries (2.3/100 full-time equivalents (FTEs)). Of these injuries, 38% occurred in the healthcare industry, with retail trade accounting for 14% and manufacturing accounting for 12%. The healthcare industry experienced the highest injury rate (4.5/100 FTEs), followed by construction (2.9/100 FTEs) and retail trade (2.4/100 FTEs). Injury patterns varied by industry in terms of source and event. For example, in healthcare, the leading injury source involved interactions with patients (i.e., lifting/moving patients) and the leading injury event was bodily reactions and exertions. Whereas, the leading source of injury for retail trade involved falls to the floor and the leading injury event was struck by or against objects. This study is consistent with the previous study and demonstrates that the higher injury rate among African-American women is due, at least in part, to the higher proportion of employment in the healthcare industry, an industry with the highest injury rate. The different injury patterns by industry underscores the need for targeted research and effective prevention efforts in high-risk industries.
Accident rates; Accident statistics; Accidents; Accident prevention; Injuries; Traumatic injuries; Injury prevention; Surveillance programs; Statistical analysis; Epidemiology; Racial factors; Sex factors; Health care personnel; Construction workers; Retail workers; Manual lifting
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Youth Music Project crescendos as more students take the stage thanks to rockin' lawyers
Rebecca Carlson
Special to Pensacola News Journal
The Gulf Coast is teeming with young musical talent. And, oddly enough, the attorneys at Stevenson Klotz Law Firm understand how difficult it is to book gigs, especially if you're not old enough to enter the usual venues.
The lawyers-by-day and rockers-by-night created the Youth Music Project in 2015 which grants students a $250 scholarship, plus $100 for their instructor. Winners also get coveted time on the Stevenson Klotz stage during Gallery Nights in downtown Pensacola.
"We may have kids who have never performed in public before," Eric Stevenson said. "Because it's a crowd that's constantly moving and people come and go, or they stand nearby but not too close — it's not like being in a concert hall or something that's really intimidating."
Three competitions are held each year that could include submitting an essay on subjects like the personal impact of music or submitting an original musical composition.
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"What we wanted to accomplish as a firm was to have a philanthropy that we were both invested in and meant something to us," Christopher Klotz said. "We came up with the idea of a philanthropy which sponsored young people's growth in music."
The deadline to enter an original song for the fall competition is Sept. 31. The winners will be announced in October on the law firm's Facebook page.
A name you'll want to remember is Ben Kennington. When this 12-year-old from Milton isn't playing sports with his siblings or hunting with his dad, he's working out new tunes on his guitar.
Ben became a scholarship winner in December after his parents, Steve and Kristin, suggested he enter the contest posted on Facebook.
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"I'd been working on a little song — not quite a song yet but just something I'd been working on," Ben said. "We did a video and I said a few things like thanks for the opportunity. We sent it in and about a week and a half, two weeks later we got word back that I'd won."
Adam Koppin and the music program at W.H. Rhodes Elementary School also won $100 on behalf of Ben.
Although Ben plays a little bit of everything, he prefers the fingerpicking style of his idols Chet Atkins and Merle Travis.
"(Travis) was the one who really started the fingerpicking," Ben said. "A lot of my music comes from his style."
Ben recently attended the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention in Nashville where he met a few of his favorite country music stars and even got a few to sign his guitar — names like James Burton, who played with Elvis Presley, and Jeff Cook of the band Alabama.
He and his parents believe that the Youth Music Program helped him become more confident as an artist. "It really pushed me to work on writing a song," Ben said.
Ben will play Gallery Night again this October. He also started the seventh grade with two albums under his belt, recorded while he was in Nashville.
Matthew Masuca is another scholarship winner. Masuca along with Adam Davis, Devin Thomas and Mac Wilson make up the ambitious alternative rock band The Juice Is Okay (TJIO) formed three years ago.
Matthew and Adam performed at a Gallery Night on the Stevenson Klotz stage as freshmen. They played Gallery Night as a group the following month.
"We were so nervous," said Matthew, who plays rhythm guitar and sings. "I feel that it was a really good starting point where we broke out of our shells and said, okay, we can do this, and we did."
Matthew heard about the scholarship and submitted an original piece that won.
"Gallery Night is great and we're super thankful for the opportunity that Stevenson Klotz has given to us," Matthew said. "They're probably the only reason we would ever have the chance to break out and showcase our music."
The band credits Stevenson Klotz with supporting them through the journey from budding artists to working musicians. They also have advice for those who want to make the leap.
"Don't hold back. The biggest part of making music and becoming successful is having confidence," Matthew said.
"Practice is key," TJIG drummer Mac said. "Practice doesn't make perfect, but practice makes it good. If you're not practicing, then you're not going to have the confidence to go out and play."
"Put in the time. Get comfortable with what you're doing," lead guitarist Devin said. "Put everything that you can into this."
"Just make sure that it's fun — that you're not stressing out about it. Because you're just going to go down in flames. It's not going to work," said Adam, bassist for the band.
TJIO plans to perform at Chizuko, have merchandise available and finalize their recent recordings in the next month.
On the horizon for the Youth Music Project is to expand into a larger event outside of Gallery Night. Perhaps at the amphitheater in the Community Maritime Park. The attorneys also hope to work with more schools and provide instruments to students in need.
Stevenson Klotz may practice law but these guys also rock outside the courtroom in the bluesy rock band The Alcaniz. Rounding out the band are bassist Anthony MacWhinnie, guitarist Craig Robert and lead singer Chris Heaney.
Klotz was a perpetual new kid growing up but no matter where his family moved, he always found tranquility in playing music. He keeps his dad's old Yamaha guitar in his office along with his second guitar, a Les Paul copy Global.
Stevenson has played the drums since age 10 and has a kit set up at the office. He shares that love with his son Cole, who has been playing the drums since he was 6 years old, and his daughter Lucy, who plays the guitar.
Appearing on the Stevenson Klotz stage at Gallery Night in September will be newcomers Taylor Grisset and Laws Savage. Catch them at the intersection of Government and Palafox streets.
Rebecca Carlson is a freelance writer for the News Journal.
The deadline to enter an original song for the Youth Music Project fall competition is Sept. 31. The winners will be announced in October on the law firm's Facebook page. For more details, call Stevenson Klotz at 850-444‑0000 or email info@youthmusicprojectpensacola.org.


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In the past, writing about Mount Everest, I've said that the summit is at 29,028 feet.
Agreeing for the first time, China and Nepal said the right number is 29,031.69 feet.
It's tough to measure a mountain. Figuring out where sea level starts is not quite clearcut. In the past, Nepal used the Bay of Bengal and wound up with the summit at 29,028 feet while China started with the Yellow Sea and got 29,017. Then, for the position of the peak you have to decide whether to include the snow cover. And, it gets even more complicated because shifting tectonic plates can lift the mountain and earthquakes make it sink.
Mount Everest Economics
More and more people want to scale those 29,000 feet.
From a trickle to an avalanche, the traffic on Everest has multiplied. One reason was the onset of expedition companies that facilitated and marketed the adventure. In addition, the equipment and weather forecasting got better. Changing the size of the groups also made a difference. At first more climbers supported the attempts of a few to make it to the summit. More recently, small groups, with all hoping to reach the top, ascend together.
You can see the numbers rising:
One result has been traffic jams at the summit:
These are the crowding numbers:
Still, Nepal refuses to cap permits because Mount Everest tourism boosts its $24 billion GDP by approximately 10 percent. Its fees and licenses generate approximately $13,600 a person:
Other climbing expenses include equipment, guides, Sherpas, travel, food, meds. Together, the whole Everest package averages $66,000 but (reputedly) can climb to $160,000.
Our Bottom Line: Thinking At The Margin
Economists like to say that we think at the margin. The margin is that imaginary line where we can add some sleep or drive faster or study longer or eat more. Choosing a budget, Congress is always at the margin when it allocates extra dollars to different agencies.
Similarly, the tale of Mount Everest is a story about climbing margins. It involves additional permits, more revenue, sherpas, and expeditions. Perhaps most crucially, climbers make decisions at the margin. They think about margins of safety when debating whether to scale the summit or not.
We would be remiss though if we did not add that all of these margins relate to the fixed quantity of the mountain that is supplied and the increasing goods and services that we demand. The result is too much traffic.
Let's end though with where we began. A few feet at the margin might not make a difference for a 29,000 foot mountain. But it does.
My sources and more: For Mount Everest, the BBC, and the Hustle were ideal complements. Then, for a slightly different perspective, this blog focuses on supply and demand. However, for the most accurate information, I recommend this paper from the University of Washington.
Our featured image, Mount Everest, is from the BBC.
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Industry Concerned About Lowering Cellulosic Ethanol Goals
Cindy Zimmerman July 12, 2010
A big change in the 2011 proposed targets for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) set forth by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today lowers the volume for cellulosic ethanol, compared to what is in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). The proposed goal for cellulosic biofuels next year under the proposal is now a range of 5 million to 17.1 million. The mandate for this year was already cut from 100 million gallons to 6.5 million in February.
"EPA remains optimistic that the commercial availability of cellulosic biofuel will continue to grow in the years ahead," the agency said in a release about the proposal, but the ethanol industry is concerned that lowering the goal will lower investor interest in next generation biofuels.
"While this may be prudent for EPA based on market conditions, it does send a chilling effect through the investment community with respect to cellulosic ethanol technologies," said Matt Hartwig with the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). "EPA's estimates underscore the need for Dept. of Energy and USDA to construct loan guarantee programs that work for cellulosic ethanol companies."
Chris Thorne with Growth Energy says his organization has the same concerns. "Cellulosic ethanol needs much greater investment to become commercially viable. Yet, in the six years that the Department of Energy has been managing the program, it has yet to issue a single loan guarantee to a cellulosic ethanol producer," he said.
The blend wall is also an issue for the ethanol industry to meet the RFS2 targets under EISA, according to American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) executive director Brian Jennings. "The scaled-down targets for cellulosic biofuel clearly indicate the E10 blend wall is standing in the way of market certainty for both corn and cellulosic ethanol producers," said Jennings. "Until the blend wall is dealt with in a meaningful way, it is going to be difficult to secure financing for and move forward with next-generation ethanol projects."
The lowered target for cellulosic biofuels lowered the overall goal for total renewable fuels next year, from the 8.25 percent set for this year in February by EPA to 7.95 percent of total gasoline sales in
2011 or a total of 13.95 billion gallons.
ACE, Ethanol, Ethanol News, Growth Energy, RFA


Pom poms seem to be popping up everywhere these days and the Pom Pom Yarn Ornament is right on trend. This DIY Christmas ornament adds some festive flair to your tree and you can create several in a rainbow of fun colors. Since you only need yarn and twine, this is truly one of the most budget friendly yarn ornaments out there. Plus, it will take you no time at all to makes one of these little poofs of happiness, so you can create several pom pom ornaments at once and fill your tree with explosions of brightly-colored yarn.
Easy, fast, and fun. Just what I like in my ornament crafts.


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Home Blog Looking ahead to our fifth year
Looking ahead to our fifth year
As Education Forward DC enters its fifth year of supporting the leaders and organizations determined to provide great outcomes for all students, we find ourselves in unprecedented times, facing great challenges.
We are looking within our organization and our work to reckon with the systemic racism brought to the forefront by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain, and too many others. We are also working to ensure that our young people will be set up to learn next school year — especially our students who are furthest from opportunity — who lack access to technology and internet, are in need of extra academic and social emotional support, and those who require special services. To say the least, the challenges we face loom large on our minds and in our hearts.
But we are hopeful that, together, we can meet our young people's needs and that the many organizations dedicated to our community can create the innovation and excellence that our students deserve.
As we enter our final year of our first strategic plan, we are focused on ensuring equity for our young people. To accomplish this, we are committing $13 million this fiscal year to achieve our goals:
Disrupting racism: More than half of our grantees are led by Black and Latinx leaders, but we must increase the number of grantees led by people who reflect the communities we serve in DC. This will require funding efforts to broaden our networks, expand our pipelines, and invest in leaders earlier to disrupt patterns that perpetuate white dominant culture and inequities in who philanthropy funds.
Increasing engagement: We will continue to support and amplify the voices of underrepresented studentsand families as we navigate this pandemic, increase the number of high-quality schools, and support the students furthest from opportunity. Now, more than ever, we need to hear from and listen to the communities most affected by our unfair system.
Building talent: Our city must work to retain diverse and effective educators and leaders throughout the city and continue to support new schools focused on quality and equity. We are focused on ensuring that more diverse and effective educators and leaders are serving our students.
Innovating and adapting learning: We must ensure that learning during COVID-19 and recovering from the pandemic's economic aftermath is focused on equity. Simply put, what we had before COVID-19 did not serve large numbers of our students well — students with disabilities, English learners, students from immigrant families, low-income students, students in foster care, adult students, and many more. As our city enters an unfamiliar school year, EdForward DC will ask critical questions of ourselves, support innovation among our work and the work of our grantees, and ensure that every school serves all students in DC.
We have the unexpected opportunity to really do things differently this year, and we are hopeful that our collective focus and dedication will ensure we overcome and are better for the great challenges we face.
We look forward to partnering with you on behalf of our young people.
Maura Marino


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We're having a beer release party, Saturday May 28th, that's going to be out of this world! No, no it's in Syracuse, but we are releasing the first beers of our worldly Expedition Series. The Expedition Series from Willow Rock Brewing Company represents unique offerings using ingredients from all around the globe. Scooter's Choice is a Double IPA using only hops from Australia and New Zealand and Fetchez La Vache mashes lavender from Provence, France and hibiscus from Haiti into French Saison. Come join us during your Memorial Day weekend and hey, bring the family, it will be the best staycation-beercation in Syracuse.


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Final Season Trailer: 'Orange Is The New Black'
By: LATF Staff | June 26, 2019, 9:27 a.m.
Filed in: Television > Series Trailers
This season, the cast and creators of Orange Is The New Black are honoring the passionate fans that have evangelized this beloved show over the years, by having the Orange Army themselves create the key art for the series finale.
Ten dedicated, talented, and diverse artists from across the globe—the UK, Armenia, Brazil, Italy, and the US – were hand selected via social media to have their showpiece displayed across busses, buildings, and billboards all over the world, in celebration of the seventh and final season premiere.
The seventh and final season of Orange is the New Black premieres on Netflix on July 26
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Pycnogenol - Does it Work?
Pine bark extract contains flavonoid compounds called oligomeric proanthocyanidin complexes (OPCs), which are thought to be responsible for some of its effects. Unfortunately, the current method of testing for these compounds can be easily fooled by the addition of tea catechins. Until a more reliable, validated method is developed, ConsumerLab.com is unable to test and review these products.In the meantime, we hope that the information in the full answer is helpful.
Is Pycnogenol equivalent to Pine Bark Extract? Are the alleged benefits limited to the French maritime source? I have seen PBE supplements that are much much cheaper, but sourced from Chinese Red Pine, or other locations.
Hi George - Pycnogenol is a standardized, branded form of pine bark extract. As noted in the answer above, most of the available research has used this brand; if you want to try another brand, it would be best to try one that it is standardized to a similar percentage of proanthocyanidins as Pycnogenol.
I hope ConsumerLab will test Oligopin(R) products. Pycnogenol(R) products I can already trust as Pycnogenol has been used in numerous clinical studies, but Oligopin is much cheaper than Pycnogenol. Oligopin and Pycnogenol are both made in France and from same plant, but by different French companies.
Oligopin has been also clinically studied, but much less than Pycnogenol.
Hi Jarkko - Thank you for your suggestion. Although we would like to test these products (and have wanted to for several years), there are no specific assays or reference materials for oligomeric proanthocyanidin compounds in these products, preventing us from reviewing them. This is the same problem we face with grape seed extract (https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/what-are-the-benefits-of-grape-seed-extract/grape_seed_extract/) and cranberry (https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/can-cranberry-help-with-utis/cranberry_urinary_infection/).
You say that you can trust Pycogenol(R) products; however, is there any guarantee that the various brands all contain exactly what is labelled on the bottle (re. dosage and absence of contaminants)? It seems to me that without ConsumerLab conducting independent and objective tests, the best we can do is go with a reputable brand and hope for the best.
My integrative medicine doc uses pine bark extract for kidney patients. I have been taking 100 mg for about a year after being diagnosed with stage 3 kidney disease. My Globular Filtration Rate has increased from 51 to 64, so now I am a stage 2! This is good progress!
I buy it from Vitacost, where if I hit a BOGO I can get 10 months supply for $20.00! 5 months for that price isn't bad either!
Does it matter if it's taken with or without food?
Hi Paula - In most studies Pycnogenol was taken with a meal, but it's not clear if this was to improve absorption or to minimize the chance of gastrointestinal upset.
Hi Monika - We are not aware of studies comparing Pycnogenol to Xeralto (a prescription anti-coagulant to prevent deep vein thrombosis) or assessing their combined use. We suggest you consult your physician about this -- and be aware that pine bark extract (Pycnogenol) may increase the risk of bleeding in people taking certain blood-thinning medications (also see the Encyclopedia article https://www.consumerlab.com/tnp.asp?chunkiid=21765 for more information).
I can submit first-hand anecdotal evidence on the use of Pycnogenol for tinnitus. I've had that condition for at least 15 years. Reading about a study whereby taking 150 mg of Pycnogenol daily for at least 4-6 months reduced symptoms in about 85% of sufferers, I gave it a try. I used Swanson brand briefly for about two weeks than used Healthy Origins brand for the rest of the time. I took 150 mg daily, faithfully from last October 2 until well into May this year. Results: zero, zip, none. No improvement whatsoever. Guess I'm a 15%-er.
I should state the obvious: your mileage may vary. I don't have Meniere's. I do have episodic BPPV. The tinnitus comes and goes from day to day, hour to hour. I've found the best treatment is to just ignore it. I have some hearing loss and that is harder to ignore, but I don't let it control my life. It's amazing what you can do with your mind if you decide to control it rather than letting it control you. If I had applied that Rx back in October, I could have save a bucket full of money because Pycnogenol isn't cheap. Live and learn.
It's amazing what you can do with your mind if you decide to control it rather than letting it control you.
Hi Wayne - There do not appear to be any studies regarding Pycnogenol use and prostate enlargement. Can you let us know where you read or saw this information?
I do not know whether I have reduced the size of my enlarged prostate but within only a couple of weeks of taking stabilised electrolytes of oxygen I now have normal and pain free urination. It also quickly eliminated a persistant and inflamed sore on my leg by applying it externally.
There is some information on the web that it should not be taken for longer than 6 months. I would like to know why but your explanation did not address this.
Hi Elizabeth - This recommendation may have been based on clinical studies using Pycnogenol which lasted for 6 months, although it has been used in clinical studies for up to one year and been well-tolerated. Please see the information we have added about this in the "Safety" section of the Answer.
Horphag would have you believe all the health benefits from OPC are exclusive to pine bark extract (pycnogenol), however the bulk of research originating out of France from roughly 1950 to 1980 was done with grape seed extract. Cyvex Technologies in Irvine has an excellent source of OPC they label as "BioVin". Horphag is aggressively sponsoring studies to position pycnogenol as superior to GSE but that is simply not the case and GSE is a lot cheaper.
This CL Answer initially posted on 2/17/2015. Last updated 12/15/2018.


On G+, Natalie asked how much time people spend preparing their weekly sessions. I'm currently only running games irregularily, but what I run is based on my campaign that saw regular fortnightly sessions for more than two years, so I think it applies somewhat. For this session in particular I opened up a third front that already was hinted at in my previous session: The Hypogea of the Valley of Fire being in contact with the Sylvan Realm.
Coming up with the adventure setup: 5 minutes using the Assignments table from Chthonic Codex.
Building the Hypogea Map: 30 minutes (80% done).
Recently, a cave-in opened part of the Hypogea to an area of lush woodland.
A number of Blind Piercing Behemoths (Chthonic Codex, pp 30/31) escaped.
One was killed by people living outside, surprisingly, but not without sacrifice.
The opening is too large to be closed off.
It's common knowledge that the land above the Hypogea is the Valley Of Fire, a valley that is enshrouded and flame and fire.
Lush woodland is not that so the Great Schools send out a joint expedition of apprentices (because, seriously, why would Masters or Savants go out there themselves before more is known?).
We also know that the Bears were on the lookout for their pope (at least, that's what they told the witch and the gnome accompanying them).
We also know that a rogue Wizard lives in the Sylvan Realm, in a Silver Tower that stands in a Milky Lake.
We also know that there are witches which seem to be unaffiliated to any school, so technically they're also rogue.
In addition, see the Sylvan Realm wiki for more background information.
Agathon the Stargazer You found a clue about the witches that are rumored to live in the Green Beyond, "always in threes they appear, mother, maiden and crone. Avoid the ire of the crone, the lure of the maiden and the wiles of the mother".
Phyllis the Artificer Your friend Sybil went missing and was last seen near the new opening. You think you can save them.
These are the pregens from the boxed set, enriched with results from Eric Nieudan's joining an ongoing expedition table (changed to a d12).
Assignment is They need help making it back before something bad happens. So, this group of apprentices is not the first to be sent out.
Really? No, you won't get to see the laws of reality this easily.
Maybe if you were to find a mystic place in the Hypogea, one could be revealed.
Concocted as per the Chthonotron. Only used as inspiration for where to set the cave-in, did not get active use during play (step-by step photos taken for later reference, material for another post).
Paolo did some live blogging during the session.
This session was based on previously developed material I got "for free" and which made up the major parts of game content. My preparation framed the origin of the player characters for me which allowed me to referee the game world properly. I would say there was nothing prepared that wouldn't see re-use in follow-up sessions. The cloth my campaign is made of got some more thread and embroidery, and I predict less general-use and more session specific prep in the future.


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I am stuck in regex problem. I want to match 'FruitEnum' and 'APPLE,BANANA,PEACH' but I can not get it. It is multi line and I couldn't find a pattern to match words. Can anyone help me about this match.

A: This regex matches your example, with two groups, the first one would match FruitEnum and the other will match APPLE
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Here is a demo link

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Why We'll Have Evidence of Aliens—If They Exist—By 2035
'The rapid growth in digital processing means that far larger swaths of the radio dial can be examined at one go and—in the case of the Allen array—many star systems can be checked out simultaneously. The array now examines three stars at once, but additional computer power could boost that to more than 100. Within two decades, SETI experiments will be able to complete a reconnaissance of 1 million star systems, which is hundreds of times more than have been carefully examined so far. SETI practitioners from Frank Drake to Carl Sagan have estimated that the galaxy currently houses somewhere between 10,000 and a few million broadcasting societies. If these estimates are right, then examining 1 million star systems could well lead to a discovery. So, if the premise of SETI has merit, we should find a broadcast from E.T. within a generation.
…Furthermore, scientists have been diversifying. For two decades, some SETI researchers have used conventional optical telescopes to look for extremely brief laser flashes coming from the stars. In many ways, aliens might be more likely to communicate by pulsed light than radio signals, for the same reason that people are turning to fiber optics for Internet access: It can, at least in principle, send 100,000 times as many bits per second as radio can.
…Physicists have also proposed wholly new modes of communications, such as neutrinos and gravitational waves. Some of my SETI colleagues have mulled these options, but we don't see much merit in them at the moment. Both neutrinos and gravitational waves are inherently hard to create and detect. In nature, it takes the collapse of a star or the merger of black holes to produce them in any quantity. The total energy required to send "Hello, Earth" would be daunting, even for a civilization that could command the resources of a galaxy. …It is hard to imagine that aliens would go to the trouble of smashing together two huge black holes for a second's worth of signal.
But there is a completely different approach that has yet to be explored in much detail: to look for artifacts—engineering projects of an advanced society. Some astronomers have suggested an alien megastructure, possibly an energy-collecting Dyson sphere, as the explanation for the mysterious dimming of Tabby's star (officially known as KIC 8462852). It is a serious possibility, but no evidence has yet been found to support it.
…It's also conceivable that extraterrestrials could have left time capsules in our own solar system, perhaps millions or billions of years ago, on the assumption that our planet might eventually evolve a species able to find them. The Lagrange points in the Earth-moon system—locations where the gravity of Earth, moon, and sun are balanced, so that an object placed there will stay there—have been suggested as good hunting grounds for alien artifacts, as has the moon itself.
Another idea is that we should search for the high-energy exhausts of interstellar rockets. The fastest spacecraft would presumably use the most efficient fuel: matter combining with antimatter. Their destructive "combustion" would not only shoot the craft through space at a fair fraction of the speed of light, but would produce a gamma-ray exhaust, which we might detect…'
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CohnReznick Capital Markets Securities to raise tax equity for Kansas wind farm
By Michelle Froese | May 18, 2016
The Bloom Wind project is expected to begin construction in the third quarter of the year and start commercial operations in 2017.
CohnReznick Capital Markets Securities announced its engagement with Capital Power, a power producer headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, to launch the tax-equity raise for the company's 178-MW Bloom Wind project in Ford and Clark counties, Kansas.
"We are thrilled to work with Capital Power on Bloom Wind as their exclusive advisor. There is already a tremendous amount of interest from a diverse set of investors," said Nick Knapp, Managing Director at CohnReznick Capital Markets Securities.
He added: "To be involved in the second project using the Proxy Revenue Swap is truly exciting and at the forefront of the industry. This product is proving to be very beneficial to the market and well received by the tax equity and lender universe."
Capital Power recently announced its participation in a groundbreaking 10-year hedge product, which protects wind projects' revenues against the variability of intermittent wind resources, thereby mitigating a key source of risk to tax equity investors.
The Bloom Wind project is expected to begin construction in the third quarter of 2016 and start commercial operation in the third quarter of 2017.


Each semester the NBB Program offers core and elective courses from a variety of different Departments and Programs. Thus, the current course list for each semester is necessarily fluid. Click on the below links to access the most current course list (as a PDF file) for each semester. This page will be updated frequently, so check back often during open registration periods.


Catherine M. (Swasta) Bobin, 84, of New Brighton, passed away Sunday February 3, 2019 at Heritage Valley Beaver.
Born June 15, 1934 in New Brighton a daughter of the late Joseph and Catherine (Bross) Swasta. She was a dedicated homemaker and a member of the Holy Family Catholic Church of New Brighton.
In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Anthony "Tony" Bobin, August 13, 1992, two sisters Dorothy and her husband Sam Cardosi and Mary Ann Harding and her granddaughter Marisa, Cassandra's infant twin sister.
Surviving are three sons Daniel A. (Susan) Bobin, Daugherty Twp., Rodney J. Bobin, New Brighton, James A. (Amy) Bobin, Pulaski Twp., two daughters Judith A. (Joe) LeFevers, Rogers, OH, Christine M. (Michael) Adams, Melbourne, FL, nine grandchildren Cassandra, Joseph, Jacob, Zachary, Alex, Evan, Isaac, Tyler & Michelle, one brother Joseph (Leslie) Swasta, Center Twp., one sister Cecilia (David) Kellogg, New Galilee, one brother-in-law Edwin Harding, New Brighton, many nieces, nephews and their families.
Friends will be received Tuesday from 2-4 & 6-8 in the J&J Spratt Funeral Home, 1612 Third Avenue, New Brighton, where prayer will be held Wednesday at 9:30am followed by Mass of Christian burial at 10:00am in the Holy Family Catholic Church, New Brighton.
Inurnment will take place in Sylvania Hills Memorial Park, Rochester.


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Superhuman: the startup offering a shortcut to empty inbox nirvana
The Silicon Valley firm makes bold claims for its slick technology that aims to rid people of torrents of unread emails
Alex Hern Technology editor
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Fri 12 Jul 2019 02.00 EDT Last modified on Fri 12 Jul 2019 04.18 EDT
Superhuman says its email system is the fastest in the world. Photograph: Dzianis Apolka/Alamy Stock Photo
In many ways, Superhuman is your archetypal Silicon Valley darling. It was founded by a brilliant Cambridge graduate who sold his first company to LinkedIn in 2012 then quit to start another one. It has attracted a cult following among early users, whose lives it promises to revolutionise (and who often insist it really has done so). And now it has scored a $33m investment from Andreessen Horowitz, the influential venture capital outfit that was an early backer of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and almost every other major startup going since it was formed in 2009.
But, in other ways, Superhuman is nothing like its peers. For one thing, it charges for what it makes: an eye-watering $30 a month. For another, it's taking the opposite route to the growth-at-all-costs mindset of so many startups: the Guardian first tried to sign up in 2016, and sat on the waiting list for almost three years before giving up and pulling strings to get VIP access. Oh, and it isn't building an AI blockchain for using augmented reality to run your biotech, or anything trendy like that. No, it makes an email client.
"From a customer's perspective the pitch is really simple," says Rahul Vohra, Superhuman's founder and chief executive. "We've built the fastest email experience in the world. Our customers get through their inbox twice as fast as before, get to the emails that matter faster, and many of them see inbox zero for the first time in years – which, as you can imagine, is pretty life changing."
That speed comes from two places, Vohra says. Well, actually it comes from "many hundreds of product decisions that have come together to make people go faster", but they can be lumped into two categories: firstly, there's the technology.
"Everything, even search, happens in 100ms or less," Vohra says. Superhuman uses canny tricks on Chrome to make the most of all the processing power a modern computer has, he explains, and to ensure that every email is available, and searchable, offline.
And then there's the design. The whole service is built from the ground up for people who live their life in the inbox, and it shows. "It's aggressively keyboard-shortcut focused," Vohra says, as he talks through the client. "You do everything from the keyboard."
Keyboard shortcuts are nothing new, but Superhuman practically shouts at you if you touch your mouse. Want to compose an email? Hit C. Need to CC someone in? Cmd-Shift-C will do that. Need to jump to a labelled email? Cmd-K will bring up a prompt, then just type the label name and hit enter. If you ever think you need to move your mouse to do something, a tooltip will pop up at the bottom explaining how to do it quicker from the keyboard.
And then there's a third reason: that $30 price-tag, and the focus it brings. It's certainly an eye-catching promise. "Email goes 24-Karat", the New York Times recently proclaimed.
"In the software industry, we have let ourselves fall into the trap of bad business models: of everything being ad supported," Vohra says, when I ask him whether a $360-a-year service can really "democratise productivity," as he argues. "I believe in the most honest and successful business model in the world, and that is: if you value something, you should pay for it. And for our users, it's incredibly good value. You spend $30 for hours back a week."
Focusing only on those who care about email enough to spend hundreds of pounds improving it helps. It lets the company require a moderately new laptop, for instance, to free it from the need to support slower machines. It also enables one of its more eye-catching requirements: a one-on-one introductory session with all its users, who must demonstrate their workflow to an expert at Superhuman over a video call, before receiving personalised advice on how best to use the email app.
But the weakness of focus is tunnel vision. As Vohra explained some of the more niche features in Superhuman, one was particularly eye-catching: extremely detailed "read receipts" for emails, created using a "tracking pixel" silently embedded in the emails.
The email standard doesn't allow for WhatsApp-style read-receipts, so instead companies that offer them – not just Superhuman but mostly powerful B2B services rather than consumer email clients – embed an invisible, transparent one-pixel image in every sent email, and track when that image is downloaded from their servers.
Superhuman does this too, but Vohra explained that the company's implementation was characteristically more powerful than its competition: the pixel could distinguish different recipients opening the same email, differentiate mobile and desktop openings, and even report the approximate (state or country-level) location.
Vohra explained the positives of the approach, describing sending an email to an investor and holding off spamming them with follow-up missives after spotting that they were opening it from a mobile device in Hawaii – presumably on holiday.
But others spotted the negatives. "They've identified a feature that provides value to some of their customers (ie, seeing if someone has opened your email yet) and they've trampled the privacy of every single person they send email to in order to achieve that," wrote fomer Twitter executive Mike Davidson, in a widely shared post. "Superhuman never asks the person on the other end if they are OK with sending a read receipt (complete with timestamp and geolocation). Superhuman never offers a way to opt out."
Too much time thinking about what its hardworking power-users demand from email left the company blind to the wider ramifications of what it was making, Vohra now accepts. "I have come to understand that there are indeed nightmare scenarios involving location tracking. I should note that we deliberately do not show cities — we only show states or countries — but a determined attacker could still misuse this information," he wrote in a chastened blogpost, the day after our last call.
"When we built Superhuman, we focused only on the needs of our customers. We did not consider potential bad actors. I wholeheartedly apologise for not thinking through this more fully." The company no longer tracks location data at all, turns off the read receipts for all users by default, and is "prioritising" work to let Superhuman users opt out of loading images by default – the only practical way to protect against tracking pixels. (Tracking pixels are not limited to emails, and are common across the web. The Guardian's website hosts one from Facebook, used to help advertise on the social network.)
How many work emails is too many?
The company has not removed the feature entirely, however. "We are still keeping the feature, as Superhuman is business software for email power users," Vohra says. "In the 'prosumer' email market, read statuses have been 'must have' for many years … Before Superhuman had read statuses, it was both our most requested feature and also one of the most common reasons not to buy. In our market, the demand for read statuses is so high that it has now become table-stakes." Vohra did not address another of Davidson's suggestions: that the company disclose its use of tracking pixels to email recipients.
In a market where its main competitor is the vast surveillance machine of Google, Superhuman's apology, and rapid decision to change its product, suggests there may be substance to its claim to be different. Still: feted by insiders, raising millions from the kings of venture capital, and plunging immediately into a crisis over personal data. Maybe Superhuman really is your archetypal Silicon Valley darling after all?


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US Judge Says Florida Can't Ban Cruise Ship's 'Vaccine Passport' Program |
James Python Aug 8, 2021
A U.S. judge has allowed Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. to demand that passengers show written proof of coronavirus vaccination before they board a ship, dealing a major blow to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's effort to ban "vaccine…
Singapore Says Cruise Ship Returns After Suspected COVID-19 Case |
James Python Jul 13, 2021
Singapore's tourism board said on Wednesday that a cruise ship operated by Genting Cruise Lines on a so-called cruise to nowhere had returned to the city-state after a 40-year-old passenger was suspected to…