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If you have read this far, you probably have already asked yourself that question. Instead of me trying to answer that, I felt it might be helpful to know that this question was raised a half-century ago. To answer it, Dr. Royal Lee, in 1948, wrote the following paper which he titled, How and Why are Synthetic Poisons Sold as Imitations of Natural Foods and Drugs?, "
An honestly enforced food and drug law is just as essential to the proper operation of commerce in foods and drugs as the rules and an umpire to administer them in a ball game.
It is obvious to all that such a law should stop the sale of poisonous imitations of common foods and drugs, except where proper labeling warns the buyer of just what he is getting, New synthetic products are constantly appearing, and are sold without proper tests or proper investigation of what their real proper‑ties are.
In fact, the Food & Drug laws seem to be suspended where synthetic imitations of good foods are concerned, and often actually perverted to persecute makers and sellers of real products, as we shall later show.
Let us first get to the bottom of this question of how synthetic products differ from natural. There are two ways in which a difference may exist:
a. The synthetic product may not be the same thing, but something that resembles the natural product.
b. The synthetic product is always a simple chemical substance, while the natural is a complex mixture of related and similar materials.
The first situation, where the synthetic material is not the same thing, is common. Take lactic acid, originally made from sour milk, now made synthetically in large quantities. The sour milk lactic‑acid consisted entirely of molecules that were of a right‑handed character. The synthetic is a mixture of equal parts of right‑handed molecules (dextro‑lactic acid) and left-handed molecules (laevo‑lactic acid). Such mixtures are known as racemic compounds. (In catalogs, etc., the prefixes I‑, d‑, or r‑, are used before the name of the substance.)
About thirty years ago, Dr. Crofton, an English endocrinologist explained how digestive enzymes could only act upon part of the food available. Here are his words:
"It will not be unprofitable now to inquire into the raison d'etre of this curious adaptor mechanism. How is it that the ferments of the tissue‑cells themselves cannot deal with the comparatively simple food material presented to them without the aid of adapters?
Pasteur first discovered that there are certain compounds of carbon which, while identical in every other respect having the same chemical formulae and the same chemical reactions differ only in their behavior to polarized light, that is one compound rotated the light to the right, the other to the left. Such compounds have the same specific gravity, molecular volume melting point, solubility, heat of solution, of combustion and of neutralization. They have the same amount of chemical affinity and index of refraction. Their absorption spectra are the same, and they have the same chemical action, yet one body rotates the light to the right as much as the other to the left. Pasteur's discovery was made with ammonium tartrates, and he found that if the common mould penicillium glaucum was made to grow in a solution of both (ammonium racemate) it lived on the dextro‑isomer but left the levo‑salt, as he thought, quite untouched, But it now appears it is broken up to a small extent."[1] (This requirement of the living cell for a minute amount of the laevo‑salt, and the reason for their requirement for the major amount to be the dextro‑ form is explained by Lee and Hanson in their discussion of cell reactions in their book, "Protomorphology", 1947, Lee Foundation [2].)
Few people know that dextro‑lactic acid is a food and laevo‑lactic acid is a poison. (One is converted into sugar in digestion, the other is a waste product.) Lactic acid once was found useful as a source of carbohydrate as a milk modifier for babies., and began to get into use in special cases where sugars were not well tolerated. In Halifax, some time ago, a number of babies died from the administration of lactic acid in milk, and here was a case where the synthetic product was inadvertently used in place of the natural, because of inadequate labeling precautions. [3] The doctors who recommended its use probably did not even know that there was a difference between the synthetic and natural lactic acid, although the drug catalog of Eli Lilly and Company of 1938, page 195, offers some information on the subject. The basic trouble is that the makers of synthetic products do not want a stigma of inferiority to be put on their imitation products, and will not label their imitations as different unless forced by conscientious food and drug inspectors to do so. And it is a notorious fact that the law is being ignored in many ways.
Where a food product must be composed of, say right‑handed molecules, the left‑hand may be as useless as in the case of left and right hand bolts and nuts in machinery. If you needed right hand cap screws to put the head of your auto engine back on, left hand screws would only serve to cause confusion and probably a failure to get the machine back into operation, unless you could find among them enough of the right screws to finish the job. To feed racemic or wrong "handed" food products is just as foolish. In the case of the babies in Halifax it caused death to feed the racemic product.
In 1895 Paul Walden, of the University of Rostock, (Germany), announced his discovery of the 'Walden Effect," the phenomena of the alteration of the optical inversion of natural organic substances that had been isolated M‑ crystal purity, over a period of time, apparently a result of removal from their normal environment and association with other protective and colloidal factors.
Walden, in a series of lectures at Cornell University, (1927‑28), stated:
"The phenomenon of autoracemization is of interest in connection with the question of permanency of optically active substances. Let us consider a pure organic substance such as the dextrorotatory bromo‑succinic ester. When it is kept for some time in a closed flask at ordinary temperatures, it undergoes spontaneous intramolecular rearrangement and a gradual decrease of the optical rotation results; in other words, it racemizes. Several examples may be cited to illustrate this remarkable fact…Might we
not speak of 'dying molecules' much as we speak of 'dead catalysts'?… The effect of
these reactions is, as we may express it, a complete turning 'inside out' of the molecule."
Dr. Emil Fischer, in 1906, said:
"This discovery is the most surprising observation in the field of optically active substances since the fundamental investigations of Pasteur."
Amino acids are also useless if not toxic when present in synthetic forms. only left handed (laevo‑) amino acids can be assimilated. All synthetic aminos are racemic.
Adrenalin is an outstanding example of a synthetic product that is being commercialized in disregard of the difference in physiological action. The natural adrenalin is fifteen times as 35 active as the synthetic dextro form [4] in its effect on blood vessels, while the dextroadrenalin is eighteen times as effective in promoting glycosuria.
Now, since the commonest use of adrenalin is to promote the vascular changes that relieve the asthmatic patient, the glycosuria (diabetes promoting) effect is definitely not wanted. But to get the same vascular effect, 15 x 18 or 270 times as much of the synthetic stuff must be used, in terms of its unwanted effect of putting sugar into the urine.[5]
The cost of calling a doctor and of getting a shot of adrenalin by the asthmatic patient when he is struggling for a breath of air is far too much to offset the two‑cent saving made by the pharmaceutical manufacturer who puts synthetic adrenalin in the ampule used by that doctor. But, if neither the doctor or the patient knows the difference, the synthetic stuff certainly win be the one he gets. Although natural adrenalin can be made as a by‑product in the processing of glands in making adreno‑cortin, makers of this material tell us there is no market for natural adrenalin because of the low price of the synthetic product.
Pantothenic acid is a vitamin now commercially available only in the synthetic form. Probably this is the reason for its effect of causing a loss of sex function, particularly in females. This castrating action has been found both in test animals and in human patients receiving the "vitamin", according to unpublished reports to us.
Pure natural Vitamin E was found three times as potent as pure synthetic Vitamin E.[6]
Of course, the poisonous nature of the synthetic Vitamin D sold as "Viosterol" and "Vigantol" is well established. It causes blood in the urine very quickly in children, by its destructive action to the kidneys. Deaths have been reported from the ordinary dosages used to "protect" from rickets. [7]
WHY DO NOT THE PEOPLE AND MEDICAL MEN KNOW THESE FACTS? Is it because the commercial promoters of cheap imitation food and drug products spend enough money to stop the leaking out of information?
Here is a good example of how hard it is to get the facts. In "Good Housekeeping" for September, 1943, in the "Question Box"' department, the question was asked, "Are synthetic vitamins as beneficial as those from food sources?" The answer was made "Manufactured vitamins are identical with those found in foods. They are just as beneficial.
When asked what references they could offer to substantiate that statement, "Good Housekeeping quoted the journal of the American Medical Association, December . 21, 1940, page 2185: 'There is no detectable difference between the synthetic chemical vitamin and the natural ones. Ascorbic acid is just as good Vitamin C as one gets from an orange."
When pressed for actual experimental evidence instead of swivel chair opinions, the Editor of "Good Housekeeping" referred the question to a group of "experts." Here are their opinions:
Dr. E. V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins:"…each and every one of these synthetic vitamins is identical with the natural product."
Dr. Henry C. Sherman, Columbia University: "In some cases the natural and synthetic forms seem to be identical while in other cases there may be more than one natural or more than one synthetic form." When asked for factual evidence from experimental work to prove that the synthetic vitamins in "enriched" flour, were equal to the natural, he replied, "I think any answers that a scientific worker would give you would be based upon facts and that nothing would be gained by spending time on library researches in order to attach specific references to our answers."
Dr. George R. Cowgill, Yale University School of Medicine: "In answering the question raised in your letter about relative values of synthetic as compared with "natural" vitamins one should keep clearly in mind the meaning of the terms involved. There is no difference between these two sources of the vitamins as such. However, in many nutritional experiments one works with highly artificial diets containing the synthetic vitamins and there is no supply of various unknown factors that are needed for nutrition. If these unknown factors are missing, obviously some malnutrition will result, but it seems clear in this situation that one is not thereby justified in concluding that the synthetic vitamins are inferior to the "natural" vitamins".
"This is the position taken by most of the authorities in the vitamin field. Thiamine as thiamine will meet the body's needs for this vitamin whether it is the synthetic variety or if it comes as a part of a food like a whole‑grain breakfast food. The natural food, of course, may contain the unknown factors that are missing from a specific mixture of vitamins, and therefore, be superior to this extent."
(Dr. Cowgill was not aware of the fact that natural thiamine can not be separated from B4, the vitamin that prevents some kinds of heart disease.[8] Therefore, it is impossible to compare natural thiamine with synthetic thiamine. He is comparing the synthetic B1 to a product purely hypothetical that is not known to science, not available for tests.)
We also obtained the opinion of Dr. S. Ansbacher, U. S. Vitamin Corporation, New York: "There is no difference whatsoever in the physiological activity of vitamins from natural sources and the ones made synthetically."
(Dr. Ansbacher here differs from a book his own firm published, "Vitamin and Mineral Therapy," by H. E. Dubin and Casimir Funk, 1936, (Dr. Funk was the discoverer of Vitamin B and the man who invented the word "vitamin."), in which is the comment: "Synthetic Vitamins: These are highly inferior to vitamins from natural sources, also, the synthetic product is well known to be far more toxic." Page 65)
Dr. Funk's opinion is significantly different from that of Dr. Ansbacher, present Research Director of the company. Why is it that none of these men seem able to refer to any concrete reason for their present opinions? Could it be that the profits involved in the sale of synthetic foods and drugs are so great that there is a constant campaign on to cover up the facts?
In the September 1948 issue of "Reader's Digest" is an article by Paul de Kruff, "Harry Steenbock Trapped the Sun," that appears to be for the express purpose of reviving the reputation of Steenbock and Viosterol the synthetic and poisonous form of Vitamin D. Aside from the dangerous nature of Steenbock's vitamin, its promotion by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation was an unconscionable racket. its nature is well exposed in the appended reprint from "This Month," June 1945…
Viosterol is still on the market. It will still poison your child if YOU do not watch out. Your doctor has not yet been informed by his medical society, (if he is a member of the A. M. A.), that they made a mistake in approving it as real Vitamin D, although all vitamin authorities, including Steenbock himself, who first published the fact, knows that Viosterol is NOT Vitamin D. [9]
The same issue of "Reader's Digest" carries an article on the nickel‑cadmium storage battery, a
common article in Europe for the last 40 years. it is completely unknown in this country.
WHY? Simply because the American makers of lead storage batteries have succeeded in
keeping out any knowledge of this battery from all American territories, and have stopped any
production in this country by hook or crook, (as the article tells it, by acquiring control of the
European concerns), all to protect their racket of selling a short‑lived battery to their customers text books ignore the cadmium battery.
In Canada the adulteration of white flour with synthetic vitamins is a criminal offense. In this country it is an approved practice, and the makers of synthetic vitamins reap a fat harvest for their contribution to the advertising propaganda of the flour millers. The real vitamins are removed to keep insects and molds out of the flour. Synthetic vitamins are added to fool the public, which knows that white flour without vitamins is unfit to eat. The fact that insects and molds still can not live in the flour any better than before the synthetic vitamins were added is not mentioned. Neither is the fact mentioned that test animals fed enriched" diets, ("enriched" with synthetic imitations of natural vitamins), DIE SOONER than control animals fed the deficient diets. Proof that synthetic vitamins are worse than none as food fortifiers, [10], proof that they are put into foods to defraud the buyers, cheat him out of his health and life, as well as his money.
This situation cannot be an accident. It must be a carefully planned conspiracy, with varying degrees of guilt for all the pseudo‑ scientists who have varying degrees of knowledge of the real situation, and who do not dare to expose the truth.
Food & Drug Inspectors and Officials are as helpless to combat this overwhelming influence as they would be to stop the sale of bootleg whiskey during prohibition days. To keep their jobs they have to keep one eye shut.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the first head of the Federal Food & Drug Department tried to stop the use of synthetic sugar, known as glucose of com sugar, in preserved fruits and canned goods. He felt that it was a fraudulent practice to load up such foods with synthetic materials of unknown effect on the human body. Further, people eat sugar as a sweetener, and the synthetic sugar was far less sweet than cane sugar, and would have to eat much more to get the same taste when added to preserves, etc. Dr. Wiley lost out in his desire to even get the label warning on containers that the product carried synthetic sugar, in fact, lost his job because he tried to protect the public.
Only this year have supporting tests confirmed Dr. Wiley's fears. On May 10, 1948, the University of Pennsylvania released the news to the Associated Press that they had found that the feeding of glucose to test animals caused diabetes. (Dr. Francis D. W. Lukens and Dr.
F. Curtis Dohan.)
Dr. Wiley thought that glucose was a possible cause of diabetes, but had no way to prove it. He felt that the makers of glucose should not be permitted to experiment on the whole population of the United States to find out.
It is the use of glucose in candy, soft drinks, bakery goods, ice cream, canned fruit etc., the low price of which enables their users to undersell all competitors who may try to use better sugars, and put them out of business. It is a clear case of where the public SHOULD be protected by a law, but, as Dr. Wiley said when he was forced to leave his job "thus the very law which the Supreme Court has said was enacted chiefly to protect the public health has
been turned into a measure to threaten public health and to defraud the purchaser of flour.
When you add up the industries that depend upon their foisting of synthetics as foods alone, (not considering drugs), you will find you have a list of the biggest in the country. Naturally, they are watching all loopholes where their rackets might start to crack. It is probably impossible for any research worker operating under the auspices of a university or in a government laboratory to be free from their indirect influence, Such items as have been quoted here are leaks that have commonly been quickly suppressed. No further work is done on these important questions. If a book like Dr. Daniel W. Quigley's, "The National Malnutrition which exposes these food racketeers, gets into public libraries, these influences get it off the shelves. This happened at Rochester, New York, where twelve of the Quigley books were donated by request, for the library and its branches. Later, when it was found that the books had been taken off the circulating list, the librarian admitted that no book inimical to local, industries could remain on the library shelves. Later, that same librarian was Written up in the local paper as a "Champion of FREE libraries where no outside influence could alter the nature of the "free speech" of the library. (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, November 21, 1944.) Was this a deliberate attempt to nullify a truth by circulating a lie? Or, maybe just a coincidence.
The Food & Drug Administration, and the Federal Trade Commission, instead of getting the facts in this situation and protecting the public against these dangerous imitations of natural foods, are bending their energies it seems to cover up for the racketeers.
We cannot find a single instance of where a maker of synthetic imitation vitamins has been prosecuted by the Food & Drug Administration for improper claims on his labels or advertising. But many makers of NATURAL products have been prosecuted for making claims IDENTICAL to what the makers of synthetic products are constantly and continually promoting. WHY THE SELECTION OF THE MAKERS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS FOR PERSECUTION? In one case in which we have the transcript at hand, the prosecuting attorney was successful in getting the testimony of a key witness REVERSED in the process of printing the record, which the Court of Appeals was able to use to support their argument to uphold the original judgment Without this help, it is hard to see where the original verdict could have been sustained, obtained as it was by obvious fraud, where Government "experts" declared no, vitamin deficiency could create either a degenerative, infectious, or a functional disease.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued orders and interpretations to makers of natural vitamins to "cease and desist" stating that a synthetic vitamin is in any way inferior to a natural.
Pages could be filled with examples of misuse of authority of this kind, where special business interests are being protected by police activity. If one asks the question, "Why do they prosecute one concern for a violation, and then let far bigger ones continue to use the prohibited advertising‑‑if it is wrong for one to make a statement why is it not wrong for another? The answer you get is "action can only be taken where a complaint is made, no one has filed a complaint against these concerns."
If a police authority can stop a murderer only after someone files a complaint, lets get busy and start filing complaints. For a lot of people are being murdered, slowly maybe in most cases, but none the less surely, by food racketeers, who are constantly finding ways to make a poor product worse, and sell it for less, thereby driving better ones off the market. On top of this, they are using the police power to stop the maker of better products from telling the truth on his label as to the difference.
Just WHY should the TRUTH be subservient to the OPINIONS of hired crooks who sell their reputations as EXPERT WITNESSES?
Can you imagine a better way to protect racketeers under the Federal laws? Or a better way for them to discredit their competitors? "[12]
References (These references are listed the same way that Royal Lee listed them)
[1] Crofton, W. M.: AN OUTLINE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY. Wm. Wood and Company, New York,
Second Edition, 1929.
]2] Lee, R. and W. A. Hanson: PROTOMORPHOLOGY. Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research,, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1947.
[3] Young, E. G. and R. P. Smith: LACTIC ACID: A CORROSIVE POISON. Journal of American Medical Association 125:1179‑1181) 1944.
[4] Harrow and Sherman: THE CHEMISTRY OF THE HORMONES. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Maryland, page 122, 1934.
[5] Dyson: THE CHEMISTRY OF CHEMOTHERAPY. The Chemical Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York, page 66.
[6] THE RELATIVE ACTIVITY OF NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC VITAMIN E. Nutrition Reviews 5:251‑253,1947.
[7] Bauer, J. M. and R. H. Freyberg: VITAMIN D INTOXICATION WITH METASTATIC CALCIFICATION. Journal of American Medical Association 130:1208‑1215,1946.
[8] Stepp, W., Kuhnau, J. and H. Schroeder: THE VITAMINS AND THEIR CLINICAL APPLICATIONS. English translation published by The Vitamin Products Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, page 24, 1938
[9] Steenbock, H., Kletzein, S. N. F. and J. G. Halpin: THE REACTION OF THE CHICKEN TO IRRADIATED ERGOSTEROL AND IRRADIATED YEAST AS CONTRASTED WITH THE NATURAL VITAMIN D OF FISH LIVER OIL. Journal of Biological Chemistry 97:249,1932.
DeSanctis, A. and J. D. Craig: A FIVE‑YEAR CLINICAL STUDY OF THE PROPHYLACTIC VALUE OFANTIRACHITIC AGENTS. New York journal of Medicine 34:712‑714,1934.
[10] Morgan, Agnes Fay: THE EFFECT OF IMBALANCE IN THE "FILTRATE FRACTION" OF THE VITAMIN B COMPLEX IN DOGS. Science page 261, March 14,1941.
[11] Wiley, H. W.: THE HISTORY OF A CRIME AGAINST THE PURE FOOD LAW. Published by himself, page 391, 1929.
[12] Lee R. How and Why Synthetic Poisons are Sold as Imitations of Natural Foods and Drugs. Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee, 1948
The above is an excerpt written by Royal Lee and from the book, Serious Nutrition: Incorporating Clinically Effective Nutrition Into Your Practice.
Royal Lee, in addition:
The late Dr. Royal Lee knew that food vitamins were superior to synthetic ones.
For another example, Dr. Royal Lee felt that food vitamin C was superior to ascorbic acid. "Dr. Lee felt it was not honest to use the name 'vitamin C' for ascorbic acid. That term 'should be reserved for the vitamin C COMPLEX'" [DeCava, J. The Lee Philosophy-Part II. Nutrition News and Views 2003;7(1):1-6].
Why then, according to the ingredients listed in a recent catalog, would a supplement company that Dr. Lee originally founded currently include ascorbic acid, inorganic mineral salts, and/or other isolated nutrients in the majority of its products?
Dr. Lee, like the late Dr. Bernard Jensen [Jensen B. Chemistry of Man. Bernard Jensen, Escondido (CA), 1983], was also opposed to the use of other isolated, synthetic, nutrients [DeCava, J. The Lee Philosophy-Part II. Nutrition News and Views 2003;7(1):1-6].
As shown earlier, Dr Lee specifically wrote, "In fact, the Food & Drug laws seem to be suspended where synthetic imitations of good foods are concerned, and actually perverted to prosecute makers and sellers of real products. The synthetic product is always a simple chemical substance, while the natural is a complex mixture of related and similar materials. Pure natural Vitamin E was found three times as potent as pure synthetic Vitamin E. Of course the poisonous nature of the synthetic Vitamin D is well established. WHY DO NOT THE PEOPLE AND MEDICAL MEN KNOW THESE FACTS? Is it because the commercial promoters of cheap imitation food and drug products spend enough money to stop the leaking out of information?" [Lee R. How and Why Synthetic Poisons Sold as Imitations of Natural Foods and Drugs? 1948].
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December has been a busy month for the CMIRC Children's Water Safety and Drowning Prevention Program. We have launched our Australian Aid expansion programs, renewed our Safe Child Thailand expansion programs in Lampang and Patong Beach, and launched initial efforts to establish programs in Petchabun and Sakhon Nakhon Provinces. Here in Chiang Mai we have completed the survival swimming and water safety course for the 9th and 10th municipal schools, leaving only one remaining school to be completed during this Rotary Year. A little more detail is provided below for each of these efforts.
As mentioned in the December Bulletin, CMIRC has received a 361,400 baht grant from Australian Aid to expand our Children's Water safety and Drowning Prevention Program. In December, project champion John Schorr visited our partner NGO in Phrao, the Warm Heart Foundation. We have developed a plan to begin our program there in February with 140, 4th grade students at the Ban Chaeng Khu Ruang School (ร.ร.บ้านแจ่งกู่เรือง).
John Schorr then traveled to Phuket to meet with the swim instructional staff at the British International School and with the administration at the Ban Ya Literacy Centre for Burmese immigrant children. Thanks to the generous offer of the excellent swim facilities at the British International School and the cooperation of their swim staff we will begin our Children's Water Safety and Drowning Prevention Progam there in January with 68 Ban Ya Centre children.
Final arrangements are being made to do an exploratory visit to Petchabun Province to meet with school officials and local Rotary clubs to discuss the development of a pilot survival swim program in the province.
John Schorr recently met with Past President Joe Evans and discussed initial plans for expansion of the Children's Water Safety and Drowning Prevention to Sakhon Nakhon. A local bilingual contact (Khun Golf) has also been identified and he is making initial inquiries with local school authorities.
John Schorr met with the Rotary Club of Patong Beach on December 9 and learned the club plans to continue the program with the Ban Sai Nam Yen School this year, with approximately 100, 4th-graders. The program is now officially named: The Rotary Club of Patong Beach Larry Amsden Swim Safe Programme, and the new program chair is Johan Storck.
John Schorr has also reached out to President Garn at the Rotary Club of Lampang and learned that they too will be continuing their program, but have requested some additional financial support for a second pilot program, which we will supply.
This Rotary year we have already completed 10 of the 11 municipal school 4th grade classes and plan for the entire program to be finished before the end of March. We will once again have a certificate ceremony for all children completing the CMIRC-Kru Payu Children's Water Safety & Drowning Prevention Program in May. This year we have taught our 1,000th 4th-grader survival swimming and water safety!


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While the Dead Kennedys lamented, in the first flush of the punk era, that they were too drunk to fuck, we say that the country, high and low, has now become too scared to think. It writhes in the grip of a collective panic attack, a case of the sweaty palms, a crack-up of faith in the future—a claustral terror that our bipolar political system cannot hope to allay, but can only stoke to greater furies.
Scapegoating, xenophobia, and demagogic posturing afflict our body politic, especially in a presidential campaign year. But as fear brews in our culture, there are other ailments too. Please hold our hand as Angela Nagle takes the temperature of the sex hysteria within the 4chan Internet enclave, Corey Pein examines the craze for cryonics, David Graeber diagnoses "despair fatigue" in austerity Britain, Kade Crockford nurses the terminally sick idea of a free and peaceful country, Cosmo Garvin scans the municipal corruption in California's state capital, and Tom Frank holidays in Martha's Vineyard.
Sober pundits intone, how do we balance liberty and security, freedom and security? We? Balance? The bywords of America in 2016 are more like plutocrats and jittery. Not since the late 1950s has a sense of impending doom so twisted the nation's mood. Welcome to the panic room.

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BIPOLAR MOOD DISORDER IS REPORTEDLY ON THE RISE. OR COULD IT BE NORMAL MOODINESS BEING MISDIAGNOSED? AHEAD OF NATIONAL BIPOLAR AWARENESS DAY ON 26 MAY, BALANCED LIFE INVESTIGATES . By GfIfiqs Horning PHOTOGRAPHY: GALLKETTYIMAGES Tecently, bipolar mood disorder (BMD) has slipped out of the stigma closet where most mental disorders are still confined, with celebrities such as Catherine Zeta-Jones and Russell Brand admitting to being sufferers. Even the fictional heroine Carrie Mathison on Homeland has it. While most mental health professionals are pleased, some, led by senior lecturer of psychiatry at University College London, Dr Joanna Moncrieff, fear it is contributing to the disorder being too readily diagnosed. In her book The Bitterest Pills: The troubling story of antipsychotic drugs, Dr Moncrieff argues that BMD has become a 'fashionable diagnosis', applied too liberally to general mood swings and often leading to the prescription of heavyweight antipsychotic drugs to many people who don't require it, at a cost to their well-being and their wallets. She reports that in the past 10 years, prescriptions for antipsychotics have soared and a high proportion are being used to treat the upsurge in bipolar diagnoses. WHAT IS BMD? Bipolar disorder is a severe mood disorder and the sixth leading cause of disability in the world, says Cassey Chambers, operations director at The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (Sadag). We receive hundreds of calls from patients and loved ones struggling to understand or cope with bipolar diagnoses,' she says. And it's much more than a simple mood swing: 'Sufferers experience sudden and dramatic shifts in emotions, which have little to do with external situations'. Clinical psychologist Dr Colinda Linde says that in the high or 'manic' phase, sufferers are ecstatic or irritable with racing thoughts, rapid speech, inflated confidence and boundless energy, needing very little sleep. Severe mania occasionally becomes psychotic, which is when you lose touch with reality and experience grandiose delusions, hear voices and see visions, making BMD difficult to distinguish from schizophrenia. In the low or depressive phase of BMD, sufferers can feel slow and sluggish, and lose interest in things. They may struggle to sleep or eat (or do too much of both), have problems concentrating or remembering, and can be overwhelmed with feelings of worthlessness and guilt, prolonged sadness and crying spells, making it difficult to function. COUNTING COSTS The euphoric manic phase leaves BMD sufferers reckless and easily distracted, so they'll often spend too much money, engage in risky sexual activities, abuse alcohol and drugs, and make disastrous business or financial decisions. They are also at risk of car and other accidents. In the depths of a severe depressive phase, they can also be a high suicide risk. People with BMD are more likely to try suicide than those suffering regular depression, and their attempts also tend to be more lethal, says Cassey. 'Psychiatric care and medication reduce the risk of suicide in those suffering from bipolar disorder from 30% to less than three percent.' ARE YOU AT RISK? BMD affects about one percent of the population, often starting in adolescence, though the average age of onset is 25. Men are more likely to start with a manic episode and have more of these, while women are more prone to depressive episodes. The exact cause of the disorder is still unclear, but is believed to be a combination of biochemical, genetic and psychological factors. Research has shown a link to a chemical imbalance in the brain and identified genes that may be associated, says Cassey. Your biological clock may be involved too, as the mania and depression are often cyclical and occur at certain times of the year, with changes in season sometimes precipitating episodes. 'Stress can also be a major trigger, as mood is so delicately balanced in BMD,' says Dr Linde, especially stress caused by key life events such as retrenchment, divorce or the death of a loved one. FINDING HELP There's no cure for the disorder, but there are many ways to manage it successfully. The earlier it's diagnosed the better, so treatment can begin, says Cassey. If left undiagnosed, the impact can be devastating to the sufferer, their family and community. Episodes can last from days or weeks to years, and more than 80% of people who have one episode will have another. If you suspect you have a problem, ask your doctor to refer you to a psychiatrist experienced with BMD and with whom you feel comfortable. Diagnosis is made through taking a history of manic or depressive episodes, as well as family history —there are no laboratory tests for it. 'There needs to be at least one manic episode to be diagnosed with bipolar 1/ says Dr Linde. And it takes at least one hypomanic episode (where mood is not severe enough to cause problems with working or socialising, and there are no psychotic features) to be diagnosed with bipolar 2, in which the main symptom is episodes of dysthymic mood (mild depression). TREATMENT TODAY BMD largely needs a chemical intervention, advises Dr Linde. But it is generally only for those patients who suffer psychotic depressive episodes that the powerful (and pricey) antipsychotics should be used, and carefully monitored, to avoid side effects, such as weight gain, high cholesterol, raised glucose that can lead to diabetes and heart disease, and even loss of brain tissue. Most BMD medication takes the form of mood stabilisers. These are not typical antidepressants, and can make bipolar patients cycle more frequently and worsen their condition. They may take a while to have an effect and show side effects until the optimal dosage is established. Dr Linde says that mood stabilisers need to be taken on a long-term basis to prevent a relapse, however well someone may feel. OTHER OPTIONS Almost two thirds of those in the bipolar spectrum have an anxiety disorder, reports Cassey, and there's mounting evidence of the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBD) in treating this as well as depression. 'CBD with medication is a common and effective treatment combination,' she says. But there are also effective steps you can take yourself. Dr Rakesh Jain, visiting clinical professor of psychiatry at Texas Tech University School of Medicine in the US, told delegates at the 2014 Congress of the SA Society of Psychiatrists held in Durban that numerous clinical studies have now shown that exercise and mindfulness meditation could be 'equally or more effective' than medication in preventing the return of depression, and should be prescribed along with it. Dr Jain advises 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day, five times a week (brisk walking, running and swimming), and two hours of meditation a week. That's just under 20 minutes a day of quietly 'paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally', in your office or at home. And it needn't cost a cent. For more information or support groups, contact The South African Anxiety and Depression Group (Sadag) on 0800 21 22 23, SMS 31393 or visit sadag.org. MAY 2015


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Homecoming Director Explains Why Spider-Man Has No [Spoiler]!
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Since the first MCU Spider-Man was announced, Kevin Feige has made it clear that this version of the web-crawler will be completely different from the others. The first evidence of this was the casting of Tom Holland and the news that Spider-Man: Homecoming wouldn't present an origin story.
So we won't see Uncle Ben, Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, or Harry Osborn, all of whom appeared in the movies directed by Sam Raimi and Marc Webb. Feige also kept his word by adding Vulture as the movie's main antagonist, avoiding villains who appeared in previous Spider-Man films.
However, Homecoming leaves out one essential Spider-Man element, and it's something that, along with his age, makes him unique among the Avengers. Check it out below, but keep in mind that it's a major spoiler!
Fortunately, Spider-Man: Homecoming reviewers have said that some surprises remain unspoiled by trailers or clips.
As mentioned, Director Jon Watts is trying to steer clear of elements we've seen in previous films, and he told Cinema Blend that this new Spider-Man lacks Spider-Sense:
I feel like we have seen a lot of Spider-Sense in the previous films, so we didn't really lean into that as hard as they have in the previous films. But I do think it is a really interesting thing to explore.
So while Spider-Man: Homecoming doesn't touch on that unique ability, it doesn't mean that it won't be included in subsequent movies. On the contrary, Jon Watts agreed that it's worth exploring.
The web is buzzing about the news that Spider-Man: Homecoming is already sitting at 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes! Will you see the movie on July 7?
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Title Howard Fonda: Singing the Body Electric
Artist Howard Fonda
Dates 2022.08.13 – 10.09
Reception 2022.08.13 (六) 4:00 p.m.
Asia Art Center (Taipei)
Howard Fonda: Singing the Body Electric
A tribute to "I Sing the Body Electric," a poem by American poet Walt Whitman from his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, Singing the Body Electric is the first solo exhibition of American artist Howard Fonda (b. 1974) in Asia. Whitman's poem, written in 1855, encapsulates a love and longing for the body, praising the wonders of the physical being, and pleasures of the flesh. It lauds the oneness of all people, which is experienced through corporeal connection — an idea that Fonda finds resonates with his own artistic practice, where he aims to examine and perceive other cultures, lives, and historical narratives with empathy and beyond the binary.
Childlike and vivacious, Fonda's polychromatic work embodies his particular painting style, which leaves a distinct impression, while profound philosophical contemplation underlies the jubilant, guileless facade. Concerns for history and the environment, as well as his thoughts and responses to artistic theories are carefully juxtaposed in his work. Visual symbols imbued with the artist's musings disperse throughout the work, awaiting scrutiny that reveals connotations.
Art making, for Fonda, is an investigation: His realistic depiction of the subject echoes a specific species or context in real life. Take for example his paintings of butterfly specimens, horse illustrations, or different animals in their habitats. We can always recognize the creature's physical characteristics, even articulate its name. Each scene, captured through his lens, exudes intrinsic significance. Viewers are guided by the artist's visual symbolism in their pursuit of a deeper understanding of his paintings, despite the artist's candid decision to name them "Untitled." In reflexive contemplation, Fonda invites viewers to reinterpret the cultural and environmental fables concealed within his work: to immerse themselves in the silence or commotion that suffuses the microcosm under his paintbrush, to absorb that visceral connection one feels in "singing the body electric."
Defined by dynamism, Fonda's loose, directional brushstrokes coalesce into ingenuous compositions, the outline of his subject obscured, a two-dimensionality made pronounced. Straddling the abstract and the figurative, his work is invested in a knowing visual equivocality. The binary logic reigns no longer, the artistic dialectic confronted. For the artist, every perspective is valid, the existence and understanding of everything an experience, indelible and incontestable. His creative process is one of liberty and prudent thinking; every work is the culmination of dialectical experience and imagination. Painting, for him, transcends the manual act of painting, and becomes a vehicle for self-realization, a vessel that carries his thought, his psyche.
Howard Fonda, born 1974 in Syracuse, NY, U.S., graduated in 1998 with a B.S. degree in history and fine art from the Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, NY. In the same year he studied French literature and history at the Sorbonne University, Paris, France; and visual art at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. He received an M.F.A degree in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. He was an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago between 2001 and 2008. He currently lives and works in Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.
Fonda has exhibited internationally, including in Munich, Brussels, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. His work is housed in the collections of the MoMA, New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. He is a visiting lecturer at numerous renowned schools, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Texas, and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
Untitled (chrysanthemum mawii, Ming Dynasty celestial globe vase, hex sign, Thomas Strahan wallpaper, Shara Hughes' In Your Dreams)
Untitled (tulips, Ming Dynasty Meiping vase, hex sign, Waterhouse Wallhanging's Dover, Austin Eddy's Horseriders)
Untitled (again and again, never forever/feelings)


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See the Email addresses of each one contact.
Get the notes the target user has written about their contacts.
Do you want to know to whom your kid is talking on the phone? Are you afraid that your child is texting with the wrong guys? Maybe your employees are talking on the phone when they should be working. Or worse - they may be contacting your competitors.


The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) officially established NHS in 1921. Four main purposes have guided chapters of NHS from the beginning: to create enthusiasm for scholarship; to stimulate a desire to render service; to promote leadership; and to develop character in the students of secondary schools. These purposes also translate into the criteria used for membership selection in each local chapter.
The NHS chapter at Clovis West is an active one. Under the direction of Katy Merrill, Advisor, NHS students serve as tutors in the Clovis West Tutoring and Writing Center. New members to NHS are solicited at the beginning of the second semester each year.
Applications for the National Honors Society are now available in P-12. Please stop by P-12 at lunch or after school to access the application link. An application workshop will be held Monday, November 5 at 3:00.


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New Orleans: Tougher, feistier, cooler 10 years after Katrina
(CNN) – As the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, CNN Opinion asked residents and those involved in New Orleans' recovery for their take on the lessons learned, and what the city means to them. All views are the authors' own.
Sanjay Gupta: The doctor
In the months after Hurricane Katrina, death notices in The Times-Picayune increased dramatically. Indeed, by the start of 2006, there were almost 50% more deaths than previous years. It is a horrifying statistic, and a reminder of the long-lasting impact of a storm that lasted a week and crushed three of the poorest states in the country — ravaging an area from Morgan City, Louisiana, to Biloxi, Mississippi, to Mobile, Alabama.
Even 10 years later, my memories of the time are crystal clear. Some things you are unlikely ever to forget. But my most powerful recollections have far more to do with the lives saved than those lost, especially at the hospital many called "Big Charity."
Inside Charity rests one of my favorite plaques of any building in the world. It reads, "Where the Unusual Occurs and Miracles Happen." It is audacious, and it is daring. It is quixotic, and it is adventurous. But for the hundreds of thousands of patients, mostly poor and indigent, who walked through the doors, received operations, were treated for mental illness, were administered their antibiotics, tested for HIV/AIDS and even began their lives — it was also a promise.
Yes, strange things happen here, but we will do whatever it takes to save your life.
Hurricane Katrina challenged that boldness, Charity and the remarkable nurses and doctors and respiratory technicians — and really anyone who worked at the hospital — who remained undaunted as the generators failed, food ran out and the water came gushing inside.
The unusual had occurred, and now it was time for the miracle to happen.
Three days after Katrina first stuck New Orleans, the Charity team, out of options, planned a rescue mission. They paddled dozens of patients across flooded roadways and then carried them up seven flights of stairs to the top of a parking deck to wait for a chance to evacuate the critically ill. It was nearly 100 degrees with unbearable mugginess, and yet the Charity team stood there, with scrub shirts drenched in sweat, and squeezed silicone bags full of air into the lungs of patients who could no longer breathe on their own.
They did this for days on end.
I will never forget it. Over and over again. Squeezing. They knew their hands were not permitted to become too hot, too painful or too weary. And, as a result, countless patients survived, even with the odds very much stacked against them.
When the helicopters finally started to land, it seemed miraculous to the hospital's patients and the staff. I knew, however, the true miracles had already happened.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is chief medical correspondent for CNN.


Now, we're not going to start criticising the iPod; God knows, it's seen us through some tough times. But, for all its long journey saving and lack of skipping, we're not totally ready to accept it as the future and turn our backs on the past just yet.
So far this has resulted in us watching Mad Men and using the term "Gee whizz!" every now and then but, thanks to Devin Ward, we now have a very obvious way of sticking our finger up to the present and warmly nuzzling up to the past.
He's converted some vintage radios into iPod speakers through some electrical know-how and impressed us mightily in the process.
You can even buy one yourself by clicking here.


The Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) Victoria is intended for real-time vessel monitoring and Inmarsat-C communications via satellites e-mail. The system privides archiving the collected routing data of vessels to analyze them.
VMS Victoria is available online in the Internet. A friendly user interface with data mapping makes an education cycle very short because it applies a standard browser like Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari. Three powerful servers are connected to the fast Internet line that provides the capability to serve few hundred users simultaneously.
A standard work place is a computer connected to the Internet either with a dedicated line or dialup connection. The browser Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator version 4.0 or later is required.
If you use the old browser of the version 3.0 then the system suggests you to update the browser with downloading the last free version.
Using a map user interface you have to download the additional client software Autodesk Mapguide Viewer. The downloading session is a one time procedure made only once for the first entry. It takes few minutes. Other entries from the same computer use the downloaded viewer.
If you use Netscape Communicator 4.0+, download Viewer (plug-in) . Then start mapguide_plugin.exe. After the self-extraction of files start setup.exe in the directory created.
If you use Internet Explorer 4.0+, download Active-X component. Then start activex.exe. After the self-extraction of files start setup.exe in the directory created.
Notice that the Active-X component downloading is initiated automatically with the first entry to the map interface if your Internet Explorer setup is default.
It allows you to emloy all main features which are implemented in the system. It required either a dedicated line or dialup access to the Internet with throughput of at least 19200bps. If the throughput is lower or the line is noisy then downloading maps of 100 to 150Kb takes too much time to be comfortable. The Victoria-Text version is recommended for use in the case.
It cuts the required Inernet traffic to the minimum level because data are not represented on a map. The text interface is recommended for poor Internet connection.
It requires technical knowledge on how a mobile Inmarsat-C unit works. However it pays back you with an extended set of operations to program mobile units and optimize polling. It allows you to poll in a circle, rectangle etc area. Telemetry is supported that provides the opportunity to collect data from different devices and sensors onboard a vessel.
Enter the website victoria.marsat.ru using a browser. If you are going to use a graphics user interface with maps then first download Autodesk MapGuide Viewer.
If you use Internet Explorer with default settings then you computer download and install the viewer automatically. If your browser is Netscape Communicator then download the viewer from the website www.mapguide.com , unzip it and start setup.exe to install the required plugin.
You may check if vessels of your interest are included in the system database. To perform the check use the button Seach Vessels at the home page.
Enter the Internet with a browser and type the website name victoria.marsat.ru. Then you see the Victoria home page. There are few versions to select on the page. A demo version does not need in a password. To use other three versions Text, Standard, or Technics you have to login with a password assigned in a registration. The registration provides you with access rights to specific vessels and features of the system. Select the version and press the button Enter.
The following text below describes how to work with the Standard version. Differences of alternative versions are described at the end of the manual.
After the login and version selection are made you receive a world map on the screen. There is a list of vessels which you are autorized to monitor at the left side of the screen.
Checkboxes for groups and vessels are intended for selection of those you would like to view on the map. The checked square button marks all the checkboxes, the empty box button cancels the selection.
Press the button View to put the selected vessels on the map. All vessels are represented with red circles which are placed at points where last data reports with latitude and longitudes were received. The black arrow is directed according to the course.
pulldown menu of the right mouse buttion.
The five left buttons of the picture menu control the map representation.
refresh the map on request. The system does the refreshing operation every ten minutes and updates vessel positions on the map automatically if new data are received. Mandatory data reports for all vessels in the system are sent usually twice a day. The system provides an opportunity to poll selected vessels and update position data with the shorter period up to ten minutes.
The left field of the map shows a legend for map layers. The layers look like transparent sheets with different data on them. The layers can be either visible or invisible.
The layer with a checked box is visible on the map. The example is the layer called Vessels. On the contrary, the layer Grid is invisible until the box is checked. Vise versa, you have to empty the checkbox to make the layer invisible. It is a useful operation particularly for the layer Routes since a white line of the route can be redundant if rivers are only ways for the vessel of interest. When a map scale changes then a set of layers changes sometimes. If you zoom in far enough then additional layers like Inland waters appear on the map, and the layer Grid becomes visible by default.
Grid makes the screen looking like a regular paper map with latitudes and longitudes.
The world map is generalized. However the greater a scale the better a basemap. While you zoom in then the portion of the detailed map is loaded to your computer if the scale threshold of the map representation is crossed. The most detailed map of the world coastline is of the scale of 1:1,000,000. If it is loaded then the layers Inland waters and Rivers are invisible by default since they implies heavy Internet traffic if requested.
Reports produces a table with data reports within the period specified.
The child windows consist of text information.
You may specify any period including historical that is the final date is not necessary means today. Then data reports and messages of the period are available for analysis from the database. The final date can be a date in a future. If you enter the present date then you have to update it for new portion of data very soon. It is recommended to set the last day of the year as the final date of the period that is in the future. The shorter period the faster data loading through the Internet.
The text window can be exported from the system. It is easy to save data as a dbf-file or csv-file in your computer for further processing with Excel or another software.
To select a vessel you have to click the left mouse button near the vessel position on the map. A request for the info or reports is related to the selected vessels only. However if there is no vessels selected in the session then the request is made for all vessels you are authorized to monitor.
Specifying a scale and a period you receive a map of your vessels with routes for the period from the system. The routes are shown as white broken lines with segments between red dots of data reports. The less time between consequitive data reports the better approximation of the real route with the broken line. On the contrary, if data reports are received just once a day then the broken line might cross the land on the map. It is common for rivers. Then it is more convenient to make the layer Routes invisible if you monitor river vessels.
If a cursor is near an object then a wellow rectangle with information on the object appears. The object means either a symbol of a vessel position, or a line of a route, or a red dot of a data report. The information is either a vessel name, or time, etc.
Save configuration that consists of information about a map scale, borders of the map, a list of selected vessels, and a specified period.
If the configuration is saved then it is easy to get the same picture on the screen as at the moment when the button Save configuration has been pressed for the last time. The configuration is saved in your computer. Press the button Retrieve configuration and get the last configuration on the screen without extra operations.
A user registers a vessel with the VMS Victoria provided the vessel is equipped with an Inmarsat-C mobile unit.
Staff of the Monitoring Centre registers the mobile unit for use with the LES Eik in Norway.
The LES initializes the mobile unit via satellite communications for the service and makes remote programming of the unit with a Data network id (DNID).
Staff of the Monitoring Centre makes remote programming of the mobile unit with the DNID to receive regular data reports automatically with the period adapted to requirements of the present national regulations.For example, it might be twice a day. The data report consists of time, latitude, longitide, speed and course.
The mobile unit transmits data reports automatically twice a day to the LES, the LES delivers the data to servers of the VMS Victoria via the Internet.
VMS Victoria receives the data reports, puts them in a database, and provides mapping.
A user enters the VMS Victoria via the Internet with a personal login and password. Using an Internet browser the user can monitor vessels which he is authorized to work with.
An Inmarsat-C mobile unit can be included in few groups provided few DNID's are registered. When the additional DNID's are employed you can poll your vessels any time you want. The poll provides updated information on positions of the vessels. The VMS Victoria allows to make easier e-mail exchange with vessels. The first registered DNID is usually intended for mandatory data reports according to national regulations. Optimal division of the fleet onto groups minimizes communication charges since an individual poll is just twice cheaper than a group poll which can serve up to 255 vessels simultaneously.
User provides a fleet name.
User divides the fleet onto groups (optional).
Staff of the Monitoring Centre assigns a DNID to the fleet.
Staff of the Monitoring Centre assigns an individual DNID to each group (optional).
Registering a single group you get an opportunity to poll the whole fleet and individual vessels. If few groups are registered then you benefit of flexible polls of separate groups. Any period of automatic data reports can be set by youself. Since DNID's are different the programming does not influence the mandatory data reporting.
Either a single vessel, or a selected group of vessels, or the whole fleet can be mapped on the display. To select a vessel for further requests you have to click the left mouse button when a cursor is near the symbol of the vessel. Few vessels can be selected with click and drag.
The special functions add convenient features for an active user but not necessary for regular operations.
Program an Inmarsat-C mobile unit for regular unreserved data reporting, a period between data reports, and an initial moment for the first report.
Stop regular unreserved data reporting.
The window Poll shows a selected vessel with a mobile unit onboard. Select an option once if you need just a single poll. If you select regular data reporting then few parameters should be specified. There is an opportunity to send a brief text message within the poll command, for example, You will be met by captain Smith. A white field is dedicated for the text. To send the request press the button Send.
The request goes through the chain of communications User - Monitoring Centre server - Internet - LES - Vessel mobile unit - Reply of the unit - LES - Internet - Monitoring Centre server - The User. You can look at how the request goes through the chain using a special window that is shown below. Press the button Check delivery to update the information.
The following messages Data report not received or Positive Delivery Notification not received are shown until the proper message is received. After the Positive Delivery Notification or Data Report is received you can read the message in a separate window clicking the underlined message type requested.
There is another economical way to send a poll command to a group of vessels. The group poll provides the opportunity to do it. The option Group Poll is in a pulldown menu of the right mouse button.
You can poll or program for regular data reporting all vessel of a group with a single operation. The group is associated with a Data network id (DNID) which is downloaded once to individual vessels before polling can be used. The group or DNID is made according to your request by the Monitoring Centre after your registration. The group can include the whole fleet or its portion, they can be many. The poll window allows you to select the group that provides the best communication and minimizes total communication charges.
Choosing the option you get an access to all messages from vessels and the LES which are located in the system database. The messages are divided into sections. Regular text messages from vessels can be found under the head Non-classified Messages. To get a list of messages in a section, you have to double click the section title in the left frame of the window. To read an individual message, double click the message title in the upper frame of the window. The text is immediately shown in the down right frame. The example is represented below.
The option provides an opportunity to brodcast a common text to many vessels with repetitions. Before you have to register an EGC network id (ENID) with the Monitoring Centre. The ENID is downloaded once to individual vessels before the vessel will recognise it.
The functions are intended to an advanced user to save time in the intensive work. They employ built-in functions of the GIS core Autodesk Mapguide.
Distance provides a range measurement tool.
Print allows you to print the map from the screen.
Copy copies the screen as a bitmap file.
Scale privides an opportunity to specify it by numbers but not graphically.
Bookmark provides an easy way to get selected areas on the screen.
Select is an advance tool to select vessels and other objects on the map within a circle or a polygon.
If your Internet channel is slow then the Lite version is a proper solution since it minimizes the Internet channel load. The Lite version may be selected on the main page. Its interface is based on text and tables but not graphics. Therefore no need to download the Mapguide Viewer for mapping data.
You receive all the information with tables and text including a list of selected vessels in a table instead of a map. The information is identical to the Standard version.
The advanced interface requires technical knowledge on how a mobile Inmarsat-C unit works. However it pays back since the advanced features include poll optimization using an extended set of poll operations. It supports telemetry that is polling multiple devices and sensors which are connected to the mobile unit.
You can specify a sub-address at the mobile unit which selects connected devices or sensors like a GPS device. Using the feature enter the sub-address number which is any value from 0 to 255. It corresponds to a device for the poll. The feature is especially useful for telemetry. The data can be collected from multiple devices provided each is supplied with a unique sub-address.


Chrome Event Furnishing tapped the Deft Union team to produce a set of modular food stations for use at a variety of events by their luxury clientele. The bars are simple modern and made to last.
All images courtesy of Chrome Event Furnishings.


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Empire : Palestine: State of play
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The dawn of a Palestinian state has been a long time coming. After 65 years of dispossession, 45 years of occupation, and 20 years of failed peace attempts, on Thursday Palestine took one step closer to joining the community of nations. With a final vote of 138 to 9, an overwhelming majority of nations at the UN General Assembly voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member state. This upgrade puts Palestine on par with the Vatican, and also could allow Palestinian claims to be filed in the International Criminal Court. This recognition came just days after another in the long line of catastrophes Palestinians have faced. Under a brutal Israeli bombardment of Gaza, nearly 200 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more were wounded. Empire asks: Must the Palestinian dream of a state be Israel's nightmare? And what does the path to a just solution look like?
Lesley Hazleton: On reading the Koran (wonderful)
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China, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran have signed an agreement to increase the volume of cargoes shipped through the four countries to international markets by rail. The agreement was reached after a meeting between the representatives of the countries in the Kazakh city of Astana, according to a statement by Kazakhstan's railways KTZ.
The participants also addressed the issue of establishing competitive tariffs for cargo transportation along the China-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran (CKTI) rail route.
"Noting the potential of the CKTI international transit corridor, the participants of the meeting spoke in favor of organizing a regular container service on this route," added the KTZ in its statement.
The statement further quoted KTZ's Vice-president for Logistics Sanzhar Yelyubayev as underscoring the need to create conditions for the development of container service, formation of stable container traffic, development of the client and freight base, and application of approved tariff rates for container service along the CKTI.
The CKTI was officially launched in February when a container train proceeded from Turkmenistan to Iran.
The test journey was conducted for adjusting the regular transportation on the new railway route, the Kazakh media reported.
The train that was loaded with various goods had left from the Chinese city of Yeiu at the end of January, passed the distance of 7,908 kilometers, crossed the territory of Kazakhstan and reached the Turkmen border railway station of Serkhetyak.
The Turkmen site of the new transnational railway route lies from Serkhetyak station to Serakhs on the Turkmen-Iranian border. This part is equal to 1,156 kilometers.
The total length of China-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran route is about 10,000 kilometers, and the journey that ends in the Iranian capital Tehran will take about two weeks.


Welcome to Baby Boomer Stories. This is our first post.
I am at that magical age where I am too young to get Medicare benefits and be put out to pasture but old enough to remember when you had one telephone in the house or apartment. It was colored black and was in the kitchen so that the lady of the household got to monopolize it. And it was a party-line, which meant that your family shared the connection with other people. If you picked up the phone and heard them talking, you got off and waited to try again when it was free. It was considered bad manners to listen in. If they were still on the phone ten minutes later when you checked again, then you asked them to kindly stop yapping.
That's what this blog is all about- memories of things I did and saw as well as thoughts and opinions on how they affected my growth. Notice I didn't say maturity because that is something that is still a work in process.
Author Larry TerenPosted on December 17, 2010 December 17, 2010 Categories baby boomer, cup of coffee, party-line telephonesLeave a comment on Hello world!


The new iPhone app BillionGraves.com (1BGraves) lets you contribute to the site's gravestone image database while on the road. Even without the app, you can add transcriptions to the site's online database. On the site, you can search gravestone records by person or cemetery (it looks like few stones are recorded yet, but you can find cemeteries listed with maps showing their locations).
The entire 1930 Mexico Census is now complete on FamilySearch. This indexing project started in September2007 and encompassed 13 million records.
Here's an update on a smaller genealogy subscription site you may not be familiar with: Family Tree Connection, launched in 2003, is approaching 2 million records. The names were transcribed from more than 5,400 documents including Masonic lodge rosters, military rosters, insurance claims, tax lists, orphanage records, club and society member lists, prisoner logs and mug shots, school catalogs, yearbooks, railroad employee information, rural telephone directories, church member lists and more.
Ancestry.com has added new US WWII Navy Muster Rolls (1938-1949) and a US Navy Cruise Books Index (1918-2009) to its military records collection.
Among the New England Historic Genealogical Society's (NEHGS) upcoming events is Come Home to New England, a weeklong educational event featuring research opportunities, individual research consultations, lectures and more. It takes place June 13-18 at NEHGS's Boston headquarters. Learn more on the NEHGS website.
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Stained Glass Museum Autumn Lectures
Posted on September 18, 2016 by ltempest
Tickets are still available for the Stained Glass Museum's autumn lectures, which focus on neglected aspects of twentieth-century stained glass in Britain. There will be opportunities to hear about the successful Arts & Crafts artist Theodora Salusbury (who is not as well known as her peers), the important role that the Lowndes & Drury studio (often known as the Glass House) had in the production and development of stained glass immediately after the Second World War, and the stained-glass artist and painter Keith New, whose work at Coventry Cathedral should have launched a successful career, but whose significance is only now beginning to be appreciated.
All the museum's autumn lectures take place on Thursdays at 7pm, at the Ely Cathedral Education & Conference Centre, Palace Green, Ely, CB7 4EW. Tickets cost £7.50 each (£6.50 for Friends), or £20 for all three lectures (£18 for Friends). Bookings can be made online, or by telephoning the museum shop (01353 660347).
Andrew Loutit: 'Proud as a Peacock: The Work of Theodora Salusbury 1875–1956'
Thursday, 29 September 2016, 7pm for 7.15pm start. Theodora Salusbury was born in Leicestershire and followed several courses of art training in the early twentieth century, including ones at the Slade School of Art and the Royal College of Art; she also served a four-year apprenticeship with Christopher W. Whall. Most of her known work dates from between the two World Wars, and was produced at studios in Kensington (London) and Cornwall. She was among those artists who used the facilities of Lowndes & Drury at the Glass House (Fulham), and her work is often identifiable by the use of a peacock as her maker's mark. Andrew Loutit is Salusbury's great nephew. He has travelled far and wide through England and Wales following up information from stained-glass experts and friends in order to find his great aunt's windows.
Alan Brooks: 'Lowndes & Drury and Post-War Stained Glass'
Thursday, 6 October 2016, 7pm for 7.15pm start. Founded in 1897, the London firm of Lowndes & Drury played a vital role in twentieth-century stained glass in Britain. From the surviving archives, at least 150 artists had their work made at its premises. The studio is well known for its contribution to the Arts & Crafts movement, but this lecture, after describing the early history of the firm, will focus on the English work that emerged from the studio in the post-war period. Alan Brooks has carried out considerable research into nineteeth- and twentieth-century stained glass. In 2012, he published The Stained Glass of Francis Spear, the first study of Spear's work. Since then, he has been researching the many artists and craftsmen who worked at the Lowndes & Drury studio in Fulham.
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United States international exhibition of stone tiles (Coverings) is stone and tile professional international trade fair in the world, is the event buyers and dealers, is the bellwether of stone and tile. Main customer reception in North America, South America, Europe, Mexico, and Spain.
April 14, —17 day, quartz tiles debut United States exhibition (Coverings).
This United States exhibition (Coverings) cement style of wood still prevailed, and all kinds of stripes stripes brick, rectangular tiles in a variety of creative tile display. Brings surprises both vision and antennae are, or will be 2015 products of the new wind direction.
Is intended to deepen Europe's position in the market, to further expand the international market. In recent years, has been active in Spain Valencia exhibition, Italy Bologna exhibition, Dubai exhibition, Korea as well as the Canton fair, continuous deep global high-end markets.


The Conifer Area Council's Historic Preservation Action Group is gathering information about a possible Conifer Historic District to help promote the history of the area and assist owners of historic properties obtain grants and funding. Additionally, CAC-HP acts as an umbrella group, bringing together people involved in various preservation projects. It shares information and resources and assists, as requested.
CAC-HP recently met with the Clarks, the new owners of the historic Bradford Junction located at the corner of Barkley Road and Highway 73, which includes the Yellow Barn and Civil War-era well. The new owners said they are very interested in preserving the barn and well, and making the barn usable once again. CAC-HP shared with the new owners historic information about Bradford Junction,; from toll road, stage stop and hotel to active ranch and updated them on past efforts to preserve the barn as well.
CAC-HP also has made itself available to Conifer Historic Society and Museum as it raises funds and applies for grants to determine the cost and feasibility of Meyer Ranch being a future Conifer area museum. CAC-HP meets at 6:30 pm the first Tuesday of each month in the Conifer Library Conference room located in the Conifer High School.


This lead sheet is 0.157" thick and weighs approximately 192 pounds. There is some slight damage due to shipping. Please note, all lead sheets have a tolerance of +/- .005" in thickness and cut sizes have a tolerance of +/- .125" in length and width. Our lead sheets are 99.9%+ pure and meet FED Specifications ASTM B749-03 & QQ-L-201f Grade C.


2. No Mustache In The Middle? No Problem!
Tried growing out your mustache for Movember only to be filled with patchiness, disappointment, and despair?
Don't worry…we still think you are awesome!
Today we are going to cover all things mustache.
This means everything from common growth patterns in mustaches (and where patches occur), solutions to make your mustache appear fuller, and we are going to throw in some pro-tips that other avid beardsmen have come to rely on over the years.
I mean, why would you be even reading this article in the first place if you haven't tried this already?
If you have a patchy mustache, you should give it a couple of months to grow before you fully evaluate whether or not it truly is patchy.
Therefore, you will want to follow the advice above and let it just simply grow out for a couple of months before you completely rule out your mustache thickness.
The point that we are trying to stress here – is that it's completely NORMAL to have this patch and that you shouldn't feel self-conscious about it one bit.
While having a few million bucks in the bank would probably make up for this odd patch of mustache, rest assured that its nothing to fret over and normal!
Seriously, if there was one misnomer about shaving that I wish to see completely gone by the day I die is this notion that if you shave your hair it will grow back thicker.
As a bald man, I can fully attest to the fact that every time I shave my head…I am still bald.
The same goes for your mustache too!
Give your mustache more time (again at least a couple of months) to fully see how the growth is coming along.
Setting your growth back to day 0 isn't going to help with a patchy mustache.
In the past couple of years, TONS of hair growth vitamins have hit the marketplace.
Nearly always loaded up with Biotin (Vitamin B7), this vitamin is largely responsible for the growth of your hair and nails.
So, if you are looking for a boost it MAY work.
If you take a multi-vitamin daily, it likely already contains this essential vitamin in the capsule. Therefore, taking additional Vitamin B7 isn't likely going to yield any marked increases in either mustache or beard growth.
Secondly, if you have a protein rich diet that regularly includes beef, nuts, eggs, beans, etc. then you are likely already getting this essential vitamin in your regular diet – again making the ingestion of additional supplements likely not necessary and a waste of money.
While we would all love to think that a magic pill can make a mustache and beard growth thick, it's the genetics that are having a larger play here.
However, if there was a single solution that may work well for a patchy beard, it's going to be the application of Minoxidil.
The same active ingredient that's found in Rogaine (wait – isn't that for your hair?!), has been proven to help SOME men regrow their hair.
Yes, Minoxidil was originally designed to be applied to your scalp and not your face.
While we aren't qualified to lend medical advice to our readers, we do at least want to pique your interest and check out some convincing videos on YouTube or Beard Forums (i.e. Jefffs Beard Board) as some men have gotten pretty good results when applying Minoxidil daily to a patchy mustache.
Again, we are not a doctor and the above shouldn't be taken as medical advice.
If you skew a bit to the younger side, then a reason why your mustache may be a bit patchy is that it simply hasn't fully matured.
Majority of men aren't just given a full beard the moment they hit puberty.
Instead, their hair begins to grow in patches at first, and then gradually fills out over several years.
While we would love to give you a solid answer and say that 25 years old is the mark when you should expect the end of any new hairs forming on your mustache, this simply won't be true.
Men's facial hair grows in at varying rates, and just like we were eluding to above, genetics has a large role to play in how your mustache is going to grow in.
Therefore, look to the men in your family to see how their beard filled in over the years (as this may give you some indications on what to expect).
Oddly enough, for some men, their beards tend to grow in at a rate much quicker than their mustache.
And this offset can be especially pronounced when you are growing a patchy mustache as well!
Therefore, we would recommend that after about a month of growth on your beard, that you head to the barbershop to tend to your facial hair and scale it back.
This will not only keep the hair on your cheeks and chin in line with the length of your mustache, but it will also give you a more uniform appearance that might make you turn a few heads.
Hair is a part of our body and just simply doesn't always act how we want.
Instead it goes off and does whatever it wants (i.e. like growing really long on freckles/moles for some reason).
The same holds true for your mustache.
Just like we covered above, beards and mustaches may grow in at different rates. But also the very hairs along your mustache may also grow in at different rates as well too!
Get yourself a beard trimmer where you can set the length to your preference and go to town on your mustache, or simply have the barber clean up the lines the next time you go get your hair cut (better choice).
While this will help to get the hairs all at the same length, it will also reduce the appearance of any visible patches on your mustache.
When you use a brush designed for the naturally rugged and thick whiskers on your face, you have much more control on training it.
Yes, that's right – you can train your mustache hairs.
When you use a thick bristled boars hair brush regularly, you can actually alter the way the beard hairs grow in.
So, if you have a mustache that has some wispy hairs that curl into your mouth (which is incredibly annoying when eating food), you can brush your mustache to the side.
After a few weeks, the hairs will naturally start to grow in this direction.
As a man with a patchy mustache, you can see where this is going.
When using a beard specific brush, you can get your hairs to cover up those stray patches to give you a much better look.
Mustache wax doesn't get enough love in the men's grooming world.
It's truly the life saver of anyone with a bit of a patchy mustache or one who wants a bit of style control throughout the day.
Largely made from beeswax (plus a few conditioners), mustache wax is perfect for getting even the most stubborn of whiskers in check.
Therefore, if you follow the advice from above, you should have a relatively kempt mustache that retains its hold no matter if its humid or dry during the day.
Check out our in-depth comparison of some of the best mustache waxes we loved.
Patchy or full, thick or thin, the most important thing to remember when growing out and handling your mustache is to embrace it.
A mustache gives you character and makes you YOU.
Even with a slightly sparse mustache, rocking facial hair is something fun we can do as men and adds a layer of style to our overall ensemble!


Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche leads an eight-day retreat in West Palm Beach every January. During the retreat he teaches every day, offers empowerment, and joins his students in practice. Members of the public are always welcome. Information about the winter retreat is usually posted on this website, as well as padmasambhava.org by mid-November.
In addition to the Winter Retreat, Ven. Khenpo Rinpoche often offers a two- or three-day teaching in the fall if his schedule permits. This will usually be in October, and information will usually be available on this website as well as padmasambhava.org by early September. Members of the public are always welcome.
Lama Jomo Lorraine, a Buddhist nun and long-time assistant to the Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches often leads a two-day Nyungne Retreat on the Buddha of Compassion in October.
The Nyungne practice of Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig), the Buddha of Compassion, is a purification achieved through silence and fasting. This profound teaching was transmitted through the stainless lineage of the great accomplished female master, Gelongma Palmo. Practicing it with great devotion increases peace, happiness, and fortune, and fulfill all wishes in this life. In the next life, it brings rebirth in Dewachen (Sukhavati), enjoying the glory of bliss and pleasure.
We offer half-day or full day retreats at different times during the year. These retreats include periods of group meditation and practice as directed by Ven. Khenpo Rinpoche. They are posted on this website in advance, and we send out announcements to everyone on our email list.
From time to time, Ven. Khenpo Rinpoche 0ffers teachings through live webcasts which can be viewed at the Palm Beach Dharma Center.
Over 500 of free videos of the Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches teaching and leading practices are available through PBC YouTube. Please click here to go to our local PBDC YouTube channel.
In addition to the activities at our local center, a wealth of opportunities are available at our main center, Padma Samye Ling in upstate New York, including retreats, teachings, ritual practices, and our Learning Dharma Skills Resident Volunteer Program.
Held in noble silence, this one month retreat at Padma Samye Ling is arranged to provide a space to receive the pith instructions and deepen personal Dzogchen meditation with the guidance of Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche.
Two full weeks of daily teachings and meditations with Ven. Khenpo Rinpoche on some of the most rare and precious pith instructions of Buddha Shakyamuni and Guru Padmasambhava.
An annual autumn week-long Buddhist philosophy retreat at Padma Samye Ling in August that includes two daily teachings by Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche with lots of time for questions and answers, morning and evening meditation practices, and additional evening group discussions.
An annual autumn week-long yoga retreat at Padma Samye Ling at the beginning of September featuring daily cycles of calm abiding meditation and Heart Sutra recitation, yoga, and nature walks. Each day offers an energizing morning yoga practice and a gentle late afternoon practice.
In the USA, especially in Tennessee, Puerto Rico, and New York there are teachings, retreats, and other special events throughout the year. To learn more, please go to our Center Directory and click on the link to each center.


These short media elements are opportunities to connect unit or lesson-level concepts to personal stories, anecdotes, or insights as a way to highlight the relevance of the topic or to share your passion for a particular topic.
These media elements are most effectively delivered as videos, however, they do not need to be. Instructors have pre-recorded weekly audio messages and delivered presentations highlighting the high-level topics covered in a unit, lesson or chapter.


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Q: PHP PDF functions How do I generate PDF files with PHP. php.net says that pdflib needs to be installed to use functions such as new_pdf ().
However, pdflib is not free and the lite version is not allowed for commercial use. I am confused. I would have thought PHP would have some built-in functionality to create PDF files.
How do I get through this as I do not want to use libraries such as fpdf, etc.?

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See Stack Overflow questions Generate PDF from HTML PHP and How to generate PDF files with PHP?.
It's your choice with which you feel more comfortable.

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Zend provides one as part of the Zend Framework. But the ones we have used for various purposes are:

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A: PHP does not have any in-built functions, so you have to use libraries. TCPDF is the easiest modules and it's free.

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Algodon Wine Estates Wins 2010 Global Best Of Wine Tourism Award
Château Giscours in Margaux, former Best Of Wine Tourism Best Of winner, hosted 250 members of the Bordeaux wine trade, local and regional personalities and the delegates to the Great Wine Capitals Global Network annual general meeting for the 7th annual international 'Best Of Wine Tourism' awards ceremony that took place on November 5th.
The international award winners were chosen by an international jury from the 56 regional winners from each member city of the Network in the categories of Accommodation; Architecture, Parks and Gardens; Art and Culture; Innovative Experiences and Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices; Restaurants; and Wine Tourism Services.
The 2010 international winners are:
Accommodation: Algodon Wine Estates - Mendoza
Algodon Wine Estates is a stunning 2.050 acre estate at the base of the Andes that has a range of peaceful lodges and villas for guests. Developed by renowned vineyard architect Bormida & Yanzon, together with designer Gerhard Heusch, the estate also offers golf, wine-making and several excellent restaurants. Eco-friendly concepts such as natural fertilizers and organic crops, solar energy and clean power are in place, and the estate plans to develop its own cattle and dairy farm.
http://www.algodonwineestates.com
Architecture, Parks & Gardens: Quinta do Seixo - Porto
Located in the Cima-Corga region near Pinhão in the heart of the historic Douro winelands, this is a wonderful place to see the traditional planting of vines in this region. Vineyards are on terraces with small stone walls between each one, as well as more modern planting styles. Because of its diversity, Quinta do Seixo has an excellent visitors' centre explaining these dramatic, and often breathtaking, methods of production, and offers excellent wine tasting opportunities. http://eng.sograpevinhos.eu/douro
Art & Culture: Clos Pegase - San Francisco | Napa Valley
Owners Jan and Mitsuko Shrem created Clos Pegase to be a temple to art and wine, sharing not only their wine, but their personal art collection with their customers. A visit here is an enlightening and enjoyable experience, with figures from Greek and Roman mythology - from Pegasus to Bacchus and Gaia - making continual appearances in the art and architecture of the winery, and the cave theatre.
http://www.clospegase.com
Innovative Experiences and Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices: Bodegas Muga - Bilbao | Rioja
Bodegas Muga was one of the first wineries in Rioja to open its doors to tourists. The attractive stone and wood building dates back two centuries, and provides visitors with a quality learning experience about wine, and the wider context in which it is made. The cellars also contain their own cooperage, allowing visitors to learn about the process of barrel making, so central to the Muga style.
http://bodegasmuga.com/eng/home_eng.html
Sustainable wine tourism practices: Weingut Hemmes - Mainz | Rheinhessen
The Hemmes family, innovative owners of a wine estate in Bingen-Kempten, has extended the idea of sustainablity from vineyards to the local environment. They have restored a former schoolhouse, a listed historic building in the heart of the village, and converted it into a wine school with tasting rooms, a professional kitchen, and areas for presentations, readings or celebrations. Not only has this preserved a key piece of history, but energy is supplied to the building by geothermal heat. http://www.weingut-hemmes.de
Castello del Trebbio - La Sosta del Gusto - Firenze
The large outside terrace makes for a perfect setting for this lovely restaurant, located in the Trebbio Castle. The castle was built as a small fortress in 1184 by the Pazzi Family, and passed into the hands of the present owners in 1968. Extensive renovations were carried out, and a restaurant, La Sosta del Gusto was opened in 2006. Run by a Maitre-Sommelier, it is renowned for its excellent seasonal menus, and its extensive,imaginative wine list.
http://www.vinoturismo.it
Rust en Vrede Restaurant - Cape Town
The first South African estate to specialise in the exclusive production of red wine, Rust en Vrede is now also famous for its welcoming, top quality restaurant. Located in the foodie-destination of Stellenbosch, the restaurant is located in what was once the wine cellar and is now a National Monument. The kitchen is in full view of diners, creating a relaxed but exciting atmosphere. Diners can also choose an intimate side area for private dinners.
http://www.rustenvrede.com
Wine Tourism Services: Château Pape Clément - Bordeaux
One of the best known châteaux of the Pessac-Leognan appellation, owner Bernard Magrez has invested heavily not only in the winemaking, but also in restoring the château and winery. The Orangerie, the Barrel Cellar, and the Pavillon du Prelat offer spaces for the staging of both personal and professional events, with a team fully on hand to organise everything from catering to logistics. Luxury wine tastings are also on offer, as are tours around Magrez's other Bordeaux vineyards.
http://www.pape-clement.com
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News, Press & Media Mentions
Algodon Fine Wines Continues Roll Out of its Portfolio of Award-Winning Malbec Wines at The Noble Grape
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Algodon Fine Wines Rolls Out its Award-Winning Portfolio of Malbec Wines at Sunset Corners in Miami, Florida
Algodon Fine Wines Rolls Out its Award-Winning Portfolio of Malbec Wines at Sherlock's Wine Merchant in Georgia's Metro Atlanta Area
Algodon Mansion Inducted to 2019 TripAdvisor Hall of Fame for Certificate of Excellence
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Service day: ferry services will not operate on the first Tuesday of every month between 9.30am to 12:00pm. Use the Wiseman's Ferry during these times.
There are 2 ferries that service this crossing during busy peak periods.
Wiseman's Ferry Forgotten Valley Association is an organisation formed by local business owners to strengthen our community and promote tourism to the most beautiful part of New South Wales. We'd love to hear from you.


Where: Millennium Square and We The Curious, Bristol City Centre.
It gives us great pleasure to announce the world's first public 5G end-to-end trial.
Free demonstrations and artistic showcases will be running throughout the weekend.
The 'Layered Realities Weekend – A 5G Showcase' is a collaboration between the University of Bristol's Smart Internet Lab and Watershed.
It is funded by the UK Government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) '5GUK Testbeds and Trials Programme'.
All demonstrations will be located in the large marquee in Millennium Square.
Technical Demonstrations are ongoing from 12:00 - 17:00 throughout Saturday and Sunday. Tickets for our demonstrations are not required.
Smart Internet Lab has secured funds to establish '5GUK Test Networks' a national asset, funded by the UK Government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) '5GUK Test Networks'. The Layered Realities weekend, 5G showcase, brings together the University of Bristol's Smart Internet Lab and Watershed, We The Curious, BT, Nokia, Zeetta, Cambridge Communications Systems, PureLiFi and BiO.
The Layered Realities Weekend, 5G Showcase is produced by Watershed on behalf of the Smart Internet Lab, University of Bristol.


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Q: Why do I need to "repair permissions" on my Aperture library in order to migrate to Photos? After installing Apple Photos as part of the 10.10.3 update and attempting to migrate my Aperture library I get an error message about "permissions" on my Aperture library:

What does this mean and why is it happening?

A: Apple often uses custom permissions to prevent users from going inside library files and deleting files that need to be in place since they are thumbnails and/or database files or referenced in database files.
Here's an official knowledge base article on the permissions required and steps to fix it.

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Reading your alert, the step is probably precautionary to ensure that all the files are readable and ready to transfer.
You can check the locking with Finder - select the Aperture Library and choose File -> Get Info. Observe the locked button and expand the Sharing & Permissions portion if needed. You probably need Read & Write permission on the folder and all it's contents. If you wanted to dive into terminal, I'd start at the bottom of the article and work upwards.
I would let the tool work and contact AppleCare if it reports another error or doesn't fix the permissions after one pass.