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13 Underrated Small Towns in the South You Need To Roadtrip To
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Karlin Riles
The American South is home to incredible cities like New Orleans, Atlanta, Charleston, and Nashville. But some of the greatest gems can be found in charming small towns throughout the region, where the heritage, music, food, architecture, and famous southern hospitality of this beautiful, complicated, and often misunderstood region of the United States can truly be experienced.
In these towns and small cities, visitors will find accents and sometimes languages that have faded from larger cities, incredible and unexpected histories, and some of the best food in the world.
1. Abita Springs, Louisiana
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An hour's drive across the world's longest overwater bridge from New Orleans is the quirky, artsy, tiny town of Abita Springs. Best known for its eponymous beer, a stop at the Abita Brewing Company is a must. While many tourists from New Orleans make a day trip to Abita, the newly opened Abita Springs Hotel makes an overnight possible, and there is plenty to do. The Abita Mystery House is perhaps America's weirdest museum (it's been featured on American Pickers, Roadside America, and is frequented by celebrities filming in the area) and just around the corner is the historic Abita Cafe and its sister snowball stand selling New Orleans' favorite dessert. Abita is also a gateway to the Tammany Trace, one of America's first rails to trails path which winds for 31 miles through St. Tammany Parish.
2. Natchez, Mississippi
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The southernmost stop of the Natchez Trace, Natchez was settled by French colonists in 1716 and is one of the oldest communities in the South. Situated high on a bluff over the Mississippi River, Natchez is known for its Antebellum-era Greek Revival architecture and is home to numerous plantations and mansions, including Longwood, Melrose, Rosalie Mansion, and Stanton Hall. Natchez is also home to St. Mary's Basilica, constructed in the mid-1800s as the only Catholic Cathedral in Mississippi and widely considered an architectural masterpiece among Southern Catholic churches.
3. Breaux Bridge, Louisiana
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The crawfish capital of the world is situated between Lake Martin and the Atchafalaya Basin, and is a wonderful base for experiencing authentic Cajun culture and swamp tours. Breaux Bridge is just a few miles outside of Lafayette, but has a charming small town vibe and lots of great restaurants and unique lodging options. Don't miss La Poussiere, an authentic Cajun Dancehall that opened in 1955, and be sure to strike up a conversation with the locals, some of whom still speak Cajun French.
4. Muscle Shoals, Alabama
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This northwest Alabama town is best known for developing the "Muscle Shoals Sound." Artists including Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers, and Carrie Underwood have all recorded hits at studios in Muscle Shoals, and visitors can tour both historic and active recording studios including FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios. Also nearby is Ivy Green, Helen Keller's birthplace which offers tours and a chance to see the water pump that famous for providing Helen Keller's breakthrough.
5. Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
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Situated on the Gulf of Mexico an hour outside of New Orleans, Bay St. Louis has experienced a renaissance since it was decimated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Almost 13 years later, Old Town Bay St. Louis has become a hub for art galleries, restaurants, and local shopping. Each May, pirates take over the bay for a weekend during the annual Pirate Day in the Bay, during which the town celebrates all things pirate.
6. Dauphin Island, Alabama
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Just outside of Mobile, Alabama, Dauphin Island is often passed over for larger beach towns on the Alabama and Florida Gulf Coast. But this tiny island, accessible via ferry or bridge, is one of the few places on the Gulf Coast that hasn't been built up with hotels and condos. The island is ringed by beautiful beaches and teeming with wildlife, both on its shores and inland in places like the Audubon Bird Sanctuary and Indian Shell Mound Park. For history buffs, there's the Fort Gaines Historic Site, home of the Battle of Mobile Bay. Hotel lodging is limited, but there are plenty of affordable beach house options, most of the situated high up on stilts and sometimes precariously over the open water.
7. Cleveland, Mississippi
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A jewel of the Mississippi Delta, Cleveland is one of many towns in Northwest Mississippi that deserve a stop on any southern road trip. From the Grammy Museum to Po Monkey's Lounge, Cleveland highlights the incredible contribution the Mississippi Delta region made to the blues and to all American music. The Delta is arguably the best place to experience true southern soul food, and there are dozens of authentic local restaurants featuring classics like catfish, collard greens and cornbread.
8. Seaside, Florida
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Population: 55,000 (Fort Walton County)
This planned community located in unincorporated Fort Walton County is largely made up of vacation rentals, but is a fascinating find for fans of urban planning. Seaside is a master planned community, one of the first examples of New Urbanism fully formed, and has been an example to cities and towns all over the South looking to incorporate its design principles. But the real draw to this picture perfect town is its stunningly gorgeous beaches, which with their crystal clear and emerald blue waters and powder-like sand are some of Florida's best.
9. Wears Valley, Tennessee
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Often overlooked for the more touristy neighboring towns of Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, Wears Valley is both more affordable and more authentic than its neighbors and offers a bypass to the bumper to bumper traffic experienced at the Gatlinburg entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Come in the spring to see bear cubs up close, or in the fall for the beautiful foliage. An unexpected treasure in the Smoky Mountains communities are the dozens and dozens of pancake houses — try Hillbilly's.
10. Milledgeville, Georgia
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Architecture is the draw of this town in Central Georgia, home to the Greek Revival masterpieces Rose Hill at the Lockerly Arboretum and the Old Governor's Mansion, the Old Capitol Building, considered to be the first example of Gothic Architecture in a public building in the United States, and Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor's home Andalusia Farms. The Visitor's Center offers a guided landmark tour on a historic trolley.
11. Tupelo, Mississippi
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Tupelo is best known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley, and his childhood home and church have been converted to a museum in his honor. But there is more to Tupelo than Elvis, including the Tupelo Automobile Museum and a Buffalo Park, which you can tour on the "Bison Bus". Tupelo is one of several stops on the Natchez Trace Parkway, an "All-American Road" maintained by the National Park Service, and has several opportunities for camping or hiking.
12. Oxford, Mississippi
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A literature lover's dream, Oxford has been home to William Faulkner, John Grisham, and dozens of other authors, poets, and artists. For sports fans, Oxford is best known as the home of Ole Miss and the famous Manning quarterbacks it produced. Visit during the spring and summer to experience the charm of the historic Downtown Square and Faulkner's Rowan Oak, or come on a home game weekend in the fall to get the full Southern tailgating experience.
13. Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Pronounced "Nac-a-tish", this college town in northern Louisiana is most famously known as the setting for Steel Magnolias starring Julia Roberts, Sally Field, and Dolly Parton, and fans can stay at the house turned bed and breakfast where the movie was filmed. Though beautiful year round, this town is best visited during its elaborate Christmas Festival which takes over the town in December and features over 300,000 lights and 100 set pieces on the banks of the Cane River, or during the Meat Pie Festival which celebrates the town's favorite food.
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Arch Hand Microsurg > Volume 26(4); 2021 > Article
Kim, Park, Lee, Kim, Koh, Roh, Lee, and Lee: Malignant Nodular Hidradenoma of the Fingertip: A Case Report
Archives of Hand and Microsurgery 2021;26(4):265-269.
Jin Soo Kim1 , Jung Hyun Park1 , Hee Jeong Lee2 , Byung Jun Kim3 , Sung Hoon Koh1 , Si Young Roh1 , Kyung Jin Lee1 , Dong Chul Lee1
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Gwangmyeong Sungae General Hospital, Gwangmyeong, Korea
2Department of Pathology, Gwangmyeong Sungae General Hospital, Gwangmyeong, Korea
3Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
Corresponding author: Dong Chul Lee Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Gwangmyeong Sungae General Hospital, 36 Digital-ro, Gwangmyeong 14241, Korea
Tel: +82-2-2680-7637 Fax: +82-2-2615-7218 E-mail: ophand@gmail.com
Received August 24, 2021; Revised September 11, 2021; Accepted September 13, 2021;
Copyright © 2021 Korean Society for Surgery of the Hand, Korean Society for Microsurgery, and Korean Society for Surgery of the Peripheral Nerve.
Malignant nodular hidradenoma (MNH) is an infrequent, highly malignant tumor derived from eccrine sweat glands. MNH usually occurs on the scalp, trunk, and proximal extremities, and rarely on the hand. A 55-year-old male patient visited clinics with a gradually enlarging painless mass at fingertip. It begins a year ago. Recently, it has grown rapidly and starts ulceration, and bleeding over the past 3 weeks. According to the biopsy report, it has focal necrosis, atypia, atypical mitoses, and nuclear pleomorphism suggested that the mass was MNH. After histological diagnosis, tiny bone erosion was observed in the re-read radiographic finding. For the oncologic evaluation, the patient was transferred to the cancer center. Radical amputation was performed to the residual tumor that might remain based on re-reading of radiographs. MNH of the finger is especially difficult to the diagnosis given its rarity and variable histology. When ulcerative skin lesion and radiographic bone erosion are observed, one should suspect malignancy and makes out a proper therapeutic plan after histologic biopsy.
Keywords: Neoplasms, Sweat glands, fingers
The incidence of sweat gland carcinoma (SGC) is approximately 0.005% among all malignant epithelial neoplasms of the skin [1]. Malignant nodular hidradenoma (MNH) was first reported by Keasby and Hadley in 1954. It accounts for 6% of malignant eccrine tumors, which in turn are found in 1:13,000 skin biopsies [2]. Several cases have been published under various names, called MNH, clear cell hidradenocarcinoma, malignant clear cell hidradenoma, malignant clear cell myoepithelioma, and malignant acrospiroma.
They usually occur on the scalp, trunk, and proximal limbs after the fifties, and rarely occur in the distal extremities [2]. Clinical features include solitary, firm, asymptomatic intradermal nodule, and occasionally ulcerated skin, which grows slowly over several years and then suddenly increases in size. MNH recurs in 50% of the total cases and is reported to metastasize to lymph nodes, bones, and visceral organs in 60%, finally leading to death [1]. The pathological findings widely vary and are rarely identified, thus the probability of misdiagnosis is high [3].
In a case report by Chang et al. [2] in 2011, for the first time, treatment with a clear resection margin of hidradenocarcinoma on the right index fingertip was introduced. We would like to report the first case of MNH on the fingertip in Korea.
A 55-year-old male patient came to the hospital with a painless mass that began to grow slowly from a year ago. The size suddenly increased from the last 3 weeks, and ulceration and bleeding occurred.
Clinically found firm mass of 1.5×3.0 cm and partly ulcerated lesion was observed in the distal volar pulp of the left index finger (Fig. 1). It showed a normal range of motion and there was no numbness or tingling sensation. At the clinic, we could not found any bony anomaly on the X-ray, so ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were performed. Ultrasound showed a cystic mass with solid component arising from the deep aspect, and. Possibility of hemangioma due to increased vascularity around the mass. Official reading from the radiologist confirmed that it did not show any unusual findings on MRI (Fig. 2).
According to benign origin impression, we had designed the skin with an 1-mm margin of ulceration edge with extending skin incision. The surgical findings showed well-demarcated mass without adhesion to the surrounding tissues. It was located subcutaneously, and a pale yellow 1.5×3.0-cm mass was removed (Fig. 3).
Primarily closed wound healed well without any complication. According to pathologic findings, the encapsulated tumor was situated and circumscribed in the dermis. Nodular mass showed solid and cystic components. The tumor was connected to overlying epidermis and extended into the subcutaneous fat. It also consisted of solid nest showing extensive necrosis, which were surrounded by a hyalinized stroma. The tumor cells are predominantly polygonal or fusiform cells with clear or pale staining cytoplasm containing a large vesicular nucleus. Some areas appear as basaloid cells or eosinophilic cytoplasm. Intracytoplasmic lumens or duct-like structures represent ductal differentiation. Nuclear pleomorphism is apparent, and so is hyperchromatism. Mitoses are very conspicuous (Fig. 4).
Based on the pathology findings, we diagnosed the MNH and requested the radiologist for the re-read of MRI findings. A tiny bone erosive lesion at distal phalanx was identified on MRI.
For further oncological evaluation, the patient was referred to the cancer center. Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) was taken and no distant metastasis was found. To remove the residual tumor that might remain, radical amputation was performed at the level of the distal interphalangeal joint (Fig. 5).
Wound healed without any specific complication 1 year after the surgery and there was no evidence of metastasis as a result of periodic follow-up (Fig. 6).
Written informed consent was obtained for publication of this case report and accompanying images.
Malignant hidradenoma is a rare malignant tumor that differentiates from an eccrine gland present at the distal end of the sweat gland [2]. In 2011, Chang et al. [2] reported the first case of MNH on the fingertip. This is the first case report of MNH at the fingertip in South Korea.
It is very difficult to make a clinical diagnosis of MNH due to the rarity of the disease itself, controversial and complex terminology, and various systematic findings. Clinically, it mainly occurs as a solitary mass on the extremities, on the head or on the trunk, and as an intradermal nodule with a size of 0.5 to 2 cm [4]. As in this case, it is very rare that it occurs at the end of the digital extremity. The skin may appear normal or occasionally ulcerated, pink, purple, or blue-colored skin [1]. It is characterized by asymptomatic and sudden growth in size over a long period of time, and this rapid growth is caused by external stimuli such as trauma, electrocautery, or incomplete excision [5]. MNH has high local recurrence rate (50%), followed by metastasis to lymph nodes, bone, and visceral organs (60%), usually fatal results [6].
Diagnostic clues for MNH included the large size of the lesions, poor circumscription with dispersed tumor lobules infiltrating tissues at a notable distance from the parent tumor mass, solid sheet-like growth pattern, comedo pattern of tumor necrosis, presence of lymphatic invasion, high nucleocytoplasmic ratios, and frequent mitotic figures [1]. MNH differentiated histologically from other clear cell tumors of skin, such as squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and other adnexal carcinomas. Basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma differ in ductal formation, showing cuticular differentiation and multilobular infiltrative growth pattern. Differential diagnosis with other malignant adnexal carcinoma is important because of similar cytologic features. The nuclei of malignant sebaceous tumor cells show prominent indentations with distinctive scalloping. Eccrine porocarcinoma is readily distinguished by basaloid proliferation of cells with intra-epidermal nesting and lack of clear cell transformation [1].
In MRI, both T1- and T2-weighted images show low signal intensity, and malignancy can be predicted by referring to the clarity of the tumor margin and the degree of invasion of surrounding tissues [7].
Treatment requires extensive surgical resection due to the aggressive nature of the tumor and high local recurrence and metastasis rates. In the advanced stage of SGC, a safety margin of 0.5 to 1.0 cm should be secured with digital amputation [3]. In 1990, it was first reported that Dhawan treated SGC at the fingertip through Mohs micrographic surgery [8]. Ten years later, a case in which Chang et al. [2] treated MNH on the fingertip of the right index finger with clear resection margin was introduced. In the above cases, no focal lymph node or distant metastasis was observed. Therefore, only margin-free resection was used to finish treatment without recurrence and prevent distal amputation [2]. In our case, bone erosion was observed in the image based on the pathological findings. Thus, it resulted in distal amputation.
According to Robson et al. [9], high mitotic counts, lymphovascular invasion, and tumor depth greater than 7 mm in SGC have a poor prognosis and require sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB). SLNB helps to identify metastasis early. We did not perform SLNB because we did not suspect malignancy at the time of the first operation, and we confirmed that there was no metastasis through PET-CT at the cancer center.
We missed the bone erosion in the preoperative X-ray and MRI, and the small bone erosion was not visually confirmed even during the operation, so we suspected it to be benign and performed the operation.
In conclusion, for a mass that grows slowly, rapidly increases in size, and shows ulcers on the skin, an accurate diagnosis should be made through accurate imaging and histological examination after surgery. Also, if margin-free resection can be performed during the second operation, digital amputation should be avoided, but if tumor margins show evidence of bone invasion, local recurrence and metastasis should be prevented through digital amputation.
The authors have nothing to disclose.
A 55-year-old male visited with a 1.5×3.0-cm firm mass. It started 1 year ago and rapidly increased in size from 3 weeks ago with central ulceration and bleeding.
(A) Possibility of hemangioma due to increased vascularity around the mass on ultrasonography. (B) Official reading from the radiologist confirmed that it did not show any unusual findings on magnetic resonance imaging.
During the first operation, the firm solitary mass was removed with the stalk.
(A) Low power view show circumscribed tumor nodule and cystic areas surrounded by a hyaline stroma (H&E stain, ×10). (B) The tumor shows extensive necrosis (asterisks) (H&E stain, ×40). (C) Duct-like structure (empty arrowhead) and cytoplasmic lumen (solid arrowhead) are evident. The tumor cells have pleomorphic and hyperchromatic nuclei (H&E stain, ×400). (D) Mitotic figures (solid arrowhead) are easily found (H&E stain, ×400). Nucleoli are prominent.
(A) No distant metastasis was observed on positron emission tomography-computed tomography. (B, C) Radical amputation was performed due to bone erosive lesions of the distal phalanx found on magnetic resonance imaging re-reading.
No specific complaints and no evidence of metastasis after 1 year.
1. Souvatzidis P, Sbano P, Mandato F, Fimiani M, Castelli A. Malignant nodular hidradenoma of the skin: report of seven cases. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2008;22:549-54.
2. Chang CH, Chang KP, Huang SH, et al. Hidradenocarcinoma of the fingertip: a case report and literature review. Dermatol Surg. 2011;37:704-8.
3. Nazerali RS, Tan C, Fung MA, Chen SL, Wong MS. Hidradenocarcinoma of the finger. Ann Plast Surg. 2013;70:423-6.
4. Kasbekar PU, Shailaja PJ. Case study of a rare case of nodular hidradenoma of the finger. Int J Sci Res. 2013;3:1-4.
5. Lee JH, Cho SI, Do NY, Dong KW, et al. A case of giant malignant clear cell hidradenoma. Korean J Otolaryngol-Head Neck Surg. 2005;48:1305-8.
6. Stout AP, Cooley SG. Carcinoma of sweat glands. Cancer. 1951;4:521-36.
7. Choi BS, Kim YJ, Kim JY, Jo HJ. Nodular hidradenoma on the fourth finger. J Korean Soc Surg Hand. 2013;18:143-6.
8. Dhawan SS, Nanda VS, Grekin S, Rabinovitz HS. Apocrine adenocarcinoma: case report and review of the literature. J Dermatol Surg Oncol. 1990;16:468-70.
9. Robson A, Greene J, Ansari N, et al. Eccrine porocarcinoma (malignant eccrine poroma): a clinicopathologic study of 69 cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 2001;25:710-20.
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Lasiochalcidia pubescens is een vliesvleugelig insect uit de familie bronswespen (Chalcididae). De wetenschappelijke naam is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1834 door Klug.

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Asked: February 28, 2021 2021-02-28T07:07:55+00:00 2021-02-28T07:07:55+00:00In: Mediterranean Agriculture
Where can you find Mediterranean agriculture?
The regions having Mediterranean type of agriculture in the world are as follows:
(i) The Mediterranean Basin: France, Spain, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Israel, Northern Nile valley, i.e., all the regions around Mediterranean Sea
(ii) California in USA
(iii) Central Chile
(iv) Southern part of South Africa
(v) Lower Murray – Darling basin of South Australia
Mediterranean agriculture is that type found in the areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea which have mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers, and also in those areas elsewhere with a similar climate – central and southern California, central Chile, the south west of Cape Province, the south west of Western Australia and the southern part of South Australia. In terms of area occupied, in numbers employed or in the value of its products, it is not of major importance. Nor would all writers accept it as a valid type, for within the Mediterranean basin a variety of agricultural enterprises are pursued, whilst some writers are unhappy with the assumption that similar climates give rise to similar types of farming. But the agriculture of the Mediterranean has played a major role in the evolution of agriculture in the western world, and on this ground alone it justifies discussion.
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Pseudacraea kuenowii, or Kuenow's false acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.

Description

Ps. kuenowi strongly recalls Ps. hobleyi in the orange transverse band of the forewing and the white  median hand of the hindwing, but has in the basal part of the forewing instead of the black dots a thick black longitudinal streak in the cell and in 1 b.
 kuenowi Dew. (46 b). The orange transverse band of the forewing of almost uniform breadth between the costal margin and vein 3, its spot in cellule 1 b much shorter than that in cellule 2; the white median band of the hindwing is narrow, with an almost uniform breadth of 5-6 mm., and only reaches vein 1 b, cellules 1 a and 1 b being light yellowish nearly to the base. Congo, rare; mimics Planema poggei (58 d).
 neumanni  Thurau (= hypoxantha Jord.) only differs in having the orange median band of the forewing somewhat broader, distinctly wider at the costal margin than at vein 4, the spot in cellule 1 b as long as that in 2, while the white median band of the hindwing reaches the inner margin, towards which it is distinctly widened; the inner margin is only yellowish between the white band and the anal angle. Uganda. Ps. gottbergi Dew. (46 b) has on the forewing a narrow, somewhat curved transverse band of almost uniform breadth, which reaches the hindmargin near the hinder angle, is composed of nearly quadrate spots and has a spot also in the apex of the cell. The hindwing is dark red-brown with black streaks and narrow black marginal band. The forewing on both surfaces with a thick black longitudinal streak in the cell and in cellules 1 b and 2. This rare species is coloured and marked almost exactly like Ps. ruhama (46 c) and Planema elongata (58 b, c). Cameroons to the southern Congo region.

Subspecies
Pseudacraea kuenowii kuenowii — southern and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia
Pseudacraea kuenowii burgessi Jackson, 1951 — Uganda: slopes of Mount Elgon, Kenya: slopes of Mount Elgon
Pseudacraea kuenowii gottbergi Dewitz, 1884 — Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola, western Democratic Republic of the Congo
Pseudacraea kuenowii hypoxantha Jordan, 1911 — Uganda
Pseudacraea kuenowii kigezi Jackson, 1956 — Uganda: west to the Kigezi and Ankole districts

Biology
The habitat consists of forests.

Adults mimic Acraea elongata.

References

Butterflies described in 1879
Limenitidinae
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by Hermann Dewitz


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Printmaker Lynda White tells of the thrill of exhibiting at the RBSA
The RBSA fosters ambition in its artists and is a great organisation to join if you've just moved to the area, as Lynda White found out…
Lynda White is a printmaker inspired by the natural world.
She studied at the School of Art, Swindon, where she first encountered lino and screen printing.
Lynda has just moved to Birmingham and her return to printmaking comes after working for 30 years as a special needs teacher and Assistant Headteacher in Swindon and London.
'I've always drawn and painted,' she says, 'but it was when I picked up my studies again that I discovered the wider processes of printmaking.
'I enrolled at Morley College in Lambeth. It was there that I learnt etching from Frank Connelly as well as revisiting monoprinting and drypoint.
'I found etching wasn't for me, but I did meet someone involved in sculpture and printmaking and we still work together from Faye Haskins' studio in London.'
It was during this time that Lynda first began to sense a real ambition to take her art more seriously, and a trip to Birmingham to the RBSA cemented her resolve. She knew a move was on the horizon, and found inspiration at the gallery.
'I was always impressed that my friend called herself an artist, and it was only after I first visited the RBSA that I thought 'When I move to Birmingham I'm going to be an artist too.'
During the upheaval of packing up her home, she turned to her art.
She says: 'That visit to the RBSA gave me the confidence to get started. The move was also an important factor in that I now have more space to work.
'I got my first piece in the RBSA's Open exhibition and couldn't believe it. I recall scanning the lists and eventually finding my name. It was so exciting!'
'Field' was produced as part of a series based on remembered images from a holiday in Cornwall.
'I think they were about letting loose.
'There was a real physicality to the way these monoprints were created using small rollers and rubber inking scrapers on multiple plates.
'I also made a collagraph, Spine, as a graduation gift for my goddaughter, who had just qualified as a chiropractor.
'The process involved is very different to the monoprints. I found some card on my garage floor to use as the basis of the plate, scratched into it, and applied some PVA… I wasn't sure how it was going to print. It's like magic when you lift up the paper and see the results. That's part of the appeal of printmaking!
'Evolution was a commission based on ammonites, again it was a collagraph. Produced as a Varied Edition, it's about growth and change, as well as the imprints and traces left behind.
'Another collagraph plate was printed behind it as a blind emboss to show this but also to create texture. Colour was added by sweeping a large roller very lightly across the inked plate.'
Lynda is now thinking of where she will next exhibit and sell her work.
'I'd like to put something forward for the next RBSA Open and Prize Exhibitions, as I was so impressed with how they hung my work at the Friends Exhibition.
'With a blind emboss, you don't see the imprints if it isn't hung correctly, but the install team hung it beautifully. I was so pleased.'
Much of the behind-the-scenes work at the RBSA is carried out by members and Lynda has herself volunteered to steward, and hopes to get more involved.
'It's a brilliant organisation as it's a real, working gallery, and the range on show is extremely varied. The RBSA draws in some incredible talent.
'I want to progress to become an Associate and then a Member, and I think you exhibit three works before you can be considered… it's all part of developing as an artist.
'I now call myself a printmaker. It still makes me hold my breath, but I feel I am on my way.'
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The QANTAS 747 Farewell Begins. By Owen Zupp.
Aviation, Leadership, Short Thoughts
The Finale Begins.
The finale of the QANTAS 747 has begun. The Sydney skies were forecast to be grey and damp, but the Queen of the Skies would not be denied. Under blue skies and with fair winds at their backs, people made their way to Sydney Airport where the first of three "Farewell Flights" for the Boeing 747 was in its final stages of preparation.
My wife was fortunate to win a seat on the flight in a staff lottery, while I was on the ground to chat with passengers and take photos. From the moment that we entered the terminal, there was a throb among those that had gathered. Antique QANTAS travel bags, old boarding passes and uniforms of yesterday were there to be seen. Past QANTAS pilots, aviation enthusiasts and families awaited the boarding call that would signal the move to Boeing 747-400, VH-OEJ – the last of the QANTAS 747 bloodline.
Pushed back, clear of the tug and free to taxi under her own power, the Queen was saluted by a pair of fire tenders before it was time to take to the skies. Those on board were subsequently treated to a unique experience in an aircraft the size of the 747. Tracking as far north as the Central Coast, west to Narellan and south to the National park, highlights included flypasts of both Sydney harbour and the airport. Aside from the significance of the day, the low density of air traffic during the pandemic undoubtedly assisted with such generous airways clearances.
For well over an hour those passengers enjoyed the experience of a lifetime, while for many of the crew it was the end of a personal journey. It was all too soon that the "Queen of the Skies" was guided over the fence to reunite with the earth.
The festivities continued once the giant had been towed into the QANTAS Hangar 96. Stories were exchanged, food was consumed, and surplus QANTAS cabin items were sold off to raise money for charity. The crew posed for numerous photos as they showed some of the passengers through the flight deck before more images were captured by the engine intakes.
Outside, staff queued for their chance for one last meeting with the 747. And while OEJ was at rest, it was only catching its breath after this short sprint. There were still two more joy flights to complete before her final journey. Then there will be one last, familiar Pacific crossing before a short hop to the Mojave Desert where those mighty engines will finally fall silent.
The end is near but in these uncertain times, at least there is a finale fitting of a Queen.
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Take a right at the light onto Cozzens Lane. There is a Verizon store on this corner. If you see the movie theater on the right you've gone too far south. If you have not passed the Walmart, keep going.
Follow Cozzens Lane all the way to Route 27. There will be a Wawa on the corner.
Drive north until you come to Adams Lane. Vertis Corporation has a facility on the corner. Take the jug handle to turn left over Route 1.
On Cozzens Lane continue all the way to Route 27. There will be a Wawa on the corner.
Drive north until you see the building on the right at 2000 Route. Turn right into the first entrance. If you see the Wawa at the corner of Cozzens and 27 you've gone slightly too far.
Shortcut that will help: For those coming from the north on 27 or on Cozzens from Route 1 there is an alternative shortcut to help you come in from the south. As you come up Cozzens you will pass the North Brunwsick Fire Station. Take a left on Wedgewood Drive. If coming down 27, take a left on Cozzens then a right on Wedgewood. Take Wedgewood to Schmidt Lane. Take a right on Schmidt. You will run into 27. Take a right. The facility will now be on your right and you can make the right turn into the parking lots south entrance. If you must come from the north on 27 please give care to making the long left turn into the south entrance.


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Normal science, identified and elaborated on by Thomas Samuel Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, is the regular work of scientists theorizing, observing, and experimenting within a settled paradigm or explanatory framework. Regarding science as puzzle-solving,  Kuhn explained normal science as slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory, without questioning or challenging the underlying assumptions of that theory.
Kuhn stressed that historically the route to normal science could be a difficult one. Prior to the formation of a shared paradigm or research consensus, would-be scientists were reduced to the accumulation of random fact and unverified observations, in the manner recorded by Pliny the Elder or Francis Bacon, while simultaneously beginning the foundations of their field from scratch through a plethora of competing theories.
Arguably at least the social sciences remain at such a pre-paradigmatic level today.
Kuhn considered that the bulk of scientific work was that done by the 'normal' scientist, as he or she engaged with the threefold tasks of articulating the paradigm, precisely evaluating key paradigmatic facts, and testing those new points at which the theoretical paradigm is open to empirical appraisal.
For the normal scientist anomalies represent challenges to be puzzled out and solved within the paradigm. Only if an anomaly or series of anomalies resists successful deciphering long enough and for enough members of the scientific community will the paradigm itself gradually come under challenge, and perhaps be subjected to a paradigm shift.
Karl Popper has criticised Kuhn's view of normal science as excessively conservative and dogmatic—though whether Kuhn is prescriptive or merely descriptive here is open to doubt. Popper, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Toulmin and Watkins have also questioned whether the contrast between normal science versus revolutionary science is as stark as portrayed by Kuhn.


The capitalist framework is quite general, because as much as capitalist theories dictate when one should invest, they are completely agnostic as to what/when one should consume.
The idea of consumption is exogenous to capitalism and can be defined to be anything. For investment to take place, all that is required is a sufficiently low discount rate. For example, let's say you want to save starving children in Africa. If you value feeding 10000 starving children in a year more than you value feeding 1000 starving children now, you have a 900% discount rate and should invest in anything with greater than 900% annual return. This particular hurdle rate would almost be impossible to overcome, but most altruistic goals have lower discount rates than that.
Extra credit: does morality have a discount rate?
On Monday's Econtalk, Taleb said that knowledge was harmful. Here's my take.
Formalisms are born in academia, where they establish boundaries within which solutions are sought. Those boundaries make it possible for ideas to engage, by directing people to compete on the same problems. Boundaries are necessary for focus, they make it easier to share and hybridize ideas. The real game (of life) is broken up into sub-games which academics play in for status and respect.
The sub-games of academia have independent intellectual histories and traditions. Within each sub-game, there is enough competition that solutions are dependable and valid. However, to actually use an academic result in the real world, one has to make sure the sub-game itself is set up correctly. Sub-game incorrectness takes longer to catch – paradigms have inertia. Assumptions are often accepted by players to make the competition a good game with clear winners, not so much to reflect reality.
Alas, the academic quantification of risk in the finance sub-game has falsely enthralled us all, when in fact it is a weak shadow of real world uncertainty.
In decision theory, risk adversity is represented by concavity in the utility function. Concave functions bend downwards, so a straight line drawn between any two points would lie below the function line, and averaging any two function values by any weight would have a smaller value than the function at the averaged position.
For a given average outcome, the expected utility is higher if there are fewer possible outcomes. Maximizing expected utility then makes the agent prefer a smaller variance in outcomes. This is how decision theory generates risk adverse behavior.
Presented in this way, the desire to reduce variance is fundamental, an ends in itself, and not subject to justification.
avoid the choice because of the fear that uncertainty makes me susceptible to fraud, since other agents have freedom in the uncertain space.
These reasons all point to uncertainty as an indicator of incomplete information, and as a cue to spend more on information or a chance to avoid future information cost, something a priori excluded if you assume information costs to be zero, as does canonical economic theory.
Presented in this way, the desire to reduce uncertainty is instrumental, a means of bettering the expected outcome, not a goal in itself.
Risk adversity's relationship to the management of ignorance cannot be denied. Characterizing risk adversity as the maximization of concave utility functions misses this point. Exogeny is useful for compartmentalizing and communicating theories, but in making ignorance exogenous you restrict an agent from choosing to learn more or to avoid the cost of future learning. In the presence of this restriction, the model will not display a realistic reaction to risk.
Note: I use the words "value" and "goal" interchangeably in this post.
Terminal values are pursued for their own sake. Instrumental values are pursued as a means to attaining terminal values, or other instrumental values closer to the terminal values.
For example, if I had the ultimate goal of maximizing profit, I might break that up into the instrumental goals of increasing revenue and decreasing cost. Depending on the situation, those two instrumental goals can be broken up into even more specific instrumental sub-goals.
Instrumental sub-goals help to reduce repetition in thought. Conditions change in such a way as to change the actions demanded by an instrumental sub-goal, but not change the validity of the way in which the terminal goal is divided into sub-goals.
Irrationality is often caused by holding on to instrumental sub-goals even though they no longer serve your terminal goal. This is what Eliezer calls thought caching.
The properties described are nested – nominality is needed for ordinality, which in turn is needed for interval-ality, in turn needed for ratio-ality.
Anything interval level and above is considered quantitative. Most qualitative measures serve only nominal function, i.e. whether something is the same or not.
The language for this one comes out of physics. It is a general phenomenon seen in many places. In chemistry the words used are kinetics / thermodynamics.
Equations of Motion – When we understand what causes change in a system, we are able to predict what the state of the system will be in the future given its state now. The rules which dictate the change are called equations of motion, or EOM.
Information Loss – Sometimes, EOM leak information. This means that where it was possible to distinguish between two possible worlds at time t1, you find them indistinguishable at some later time t2. Funnels are a good example of this – when you use a funnel you are able to care less about where the liquid is initially, because it all goes to the same narrow end.
Transience / Steady State – When an EOM discards all the information it has, no matter where you start out you will end up at the same place. Most of the time, however, EOMs don't lose all the information, and the movements which are subject to rubbing out, or friction, are called transient movements, while whatever persists in the long run is called the steady state.
This is an index for an upcoming series of posts on the various dichotomies used to apply abstraction to modeling and problem solving. The list below will gradually be replaced with links.
Each pair of terms is hopefully balanced, being specific to the same degree as the other. The different pairs are not exactly orthogonal, but are hopefully orthogonal enough for the collection as a whole to serve as a typology.
There is a blow-by-blow account inside on the mechanics of the balance sheet when a bank makes loans and takes deposits.
The basic idea is this: ΔAssets = ΔLiabilities is always true because it is an accounting identity. However, liquid assets = liquid liabilities is not always true.
When a bank lends out money, it merely creates a number in its ledger. The (asset~liability) pair is (loan~checking account). When the borrower or a depositor withdraws currency, however, it is (reserves~checking account) that is deducted. The reserve requirement is the required ratio of reserves to checking accounts, basically a requirement that banks always be able to pay cash for a certain fraction of its checking account balances.
In a digital computer, wires have one of two states, 0 or 1. This is not natural, however – many possible voltages can be put on the wires, but only a small subset of these possible voltages ever occur inside a digital computer, being those voltage values which can be unambiguously interpreted as either 0 or 1. This is a design goal – the components of a digital computer work in such a way as to maintain the interpretability of the wire voltages, and also to maintain the interpretability of the transistor physics as logic gates.
This idealization of the computer's voltage states is used to standardize the components and the component interactions. That standard behavior then forms the basis for logical induction, such that we can design circuits which as a whole have too many possible states to exhaustively test, yet can be known to be correct by virtue of the correct interactions between its parts. The whole can be known to be correct because the parts are correct. There are many devices that can be interpretable as logic gates – different implementations of the same idea. Implementations include domino tiles, water channels, game of life, wooden blocks. The reason we choose silicon is because silicon devices maintain interpretability even at high frequency, and can be made very small.
Economists have theories about how economics processes work, and many of these theories start with assumptions like "no transaction cost" and "no externality". These don't have to be taken as passive observations about reality. Rather, they should be taken as conditions worth bringing about, because of their utility in market processes.
One case which interests me greatly is the government intervention used to create the neutrality of money. Brad Delong describes Keyne's General Theory as trying to make Say's Law true.


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Q: Как сделать коммит в родительском проекте с изменениями из сабмодуля при помощи пре-коммит хука? Разрабатываю pre-commit хук для гита, моделирую ситуация когда разработчик зашел на своей локальной тачке в подмодуль - изменил файл - вернулся в родительский проект и и сделал git add . и git commit после чего сработал данный хук. Весь текст хука значения не имеет оставлю только нужную часть.
Используя git submodule foreach

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*Обращаюсь к подмодулю

*Индексирую изменения

*Делаю коммит

Собственно, когда отрабатывает хук я вижу что создался новый коммит в подмодуле
4 шагом я пытаюсь проиндексировать изменения в родительском проекте обращаясб просто git add deploy (это название подмодуля)
Вижу сразу два сообщения

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*о том, что изменения проиндексированы и они попадут в коммит

*что появились новые коммиты в подмодуле и нужно обновить (??????) и что нет изменений которые попадут в коммит

Изменения на сервер не прилетают как видно из скрина №1

На скрине №2
я выполняю git status чтобы увидеть снова эти сообщения, но осталось только одно сообщение - все готово и индексировано - коммить

На скрине №3 я выполняю снова коммит и тогда появляется коммит в родительском проекте

Почему это не отрабатывает с первого раза?

A: Я все таки нашел причину, почему это происходит. Дело в том, что git add в pre-commit работает не в каждой версии и обсуждений на этот счет много.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51778574/git-add-in-pre-commit-hook-not-staging-file-for-commit
Его частое поведение он индексирует изменения, но они попадут только в следующий коммит. Т.е у вас появляются сразу два противоречивых сообщения, что изменения проиндексированы и одновременно что есть новые изменения, но они не проиндексированы. Просто хочу добавить, что я потратил 2 дня на поиска ответа.

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In what can only be described as a bold marketing move by file sharing service formerly known as YouSendIt, the company has announced it is dropping the brand name by which their 43 million customers know them across the globe in favour of a new brand- Hightail.
I can certainly understand why they did this; it is yet to be seen whether they have done it in time.
About a year ago I began to notice less and less YouSendIt email links coming through my inbox and more links from competitor services such as Dropbox.
YouSendIt's core service provision gives customers the capability to share files via downloadable email links. This prevents desktop based inboxes from self-destructing send and receiving large files. YouSendIt offers plugins to email clients such as Outlook which proved a significant innovation for its time.
Like any innovation in the fast paced cloud technology world of today, competitors began to emerge who could do that and a lot more.
Services like Dropbox and SugarSync offer the ability to quickly share files and, also act as your virtual hard drive/online back up at the same time. Their services are designed to be very simple and very clean – it's a model which has proven incredibly popular with millions of tech savvy consumers.
As the popularity of services like Dropbox grew, their public relations / online marketing capability grew as well – every customer using their service became an email advocate and advertising to their colleagues, friends and family.
This type of added value competitive offering has left YouSendIt/Hightail customers out in the cold somewhat. Every additional step they need to take to share a file or minute they have to wait for a file to upload hampers the efficiency with which they can clear their inbox.
Hightail acknowledge in their recent blog the need to keep pace with competitive change and the reality that their YouSendIt name constrains the perception of their service offering.
The most disconcerting aspect of the competitive environment for YouSendIt/Hightail must have been the realisation that their arms length service was a remarkable disincentive for customer retention. With services like Dropbox, a business's entire hard drive (over potentially several hundred GB of data) is entrusted to them.
The time intensive nature of researching and logistically transferring your files to a file sharing service makes you think twice – even if a superior offer comes along.
In comparison, it is easy to drop the arms length, YouSendIt/Hightail product in favour of other services. It was easy to become a customer but became just as easy to leave.
Hightail have announced their intention to reposition their brand with a new service offering. The new brand name is designed to remove the constraints of what this service can offer the market.
The question is, will the new service offering be enough to reclaim their share of the storage / sharing /syncing market?
I believe Hightail needs to offer lapsed customers a very shiny, new USP. Their communications plan to bring customers back will need to be just as shiny.
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Q: Screen tearing without compiz I am trying to setup a working 13.04 desktop. If I use default ubuntu desktop, it loads compiz and I don't have any tearing.
If I run openbox, I get tearing while compiz is disabled.
Ive tried to add this in /etc/enviornment:
CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling

But it didn't work. Also tried compton as a composite manager for openbox but also didn't have any luck.
In xorg.conf I have TripleBuffer set to on.
Would like to use openbox, i3wm, mate, xfce... everything except the default unity desktop.
Any help, please?


In this session the Google Summer of Code students (or their mentors) will be able to present their work. This will a good overview of the work they achieved this summer.
This session is the now usual panel of students who participated in Google Summer of Code this year. They will present their work and their feedback on stepping in the LibreOffice community.


Being a backbench MP can be pretty dull. In recent times, former members of the government have found the experience of merely being a member of the legislature so upsetting that they've downed tools and left Parliament altogether: David Cameron made a big show of saying he'd stay on and serve Witney from the backbenches, before finding himself on those backbenches sooner than he'd thought and scarpering. George Osborne, similarly, ended up as a backbencher, then quickly amassed as many other jobs as he could, before quitting politics 'for now'. Perhaps these were rational individual choices given the comparatively lower pay and considerably lower prestige of the backbenches compared to government. But they did suggest that you might as well not bother doing the job that your constituents actually elected you to do.
New MPs are often so keen to join the government or the shadow frontbench that they spend as much of their time as possible auditioning for it by asking sickeningly loyal questions in the Commons, writing supportive op ed pieces for CCHQ to circulate, and doing the dull dirty work of defending the government on political programmes. Nothing wrong with being ambitious of course, but some ambitious backbenchers can neglect their jobs as MPs before they've even joined the government. Others sink into a misery when they don't get promoted.
Will Quince may well be keen to get promoted to the government. He was elected in 2015 and is now a PPS to the Cabinet Office. But he hasn't wasted his time prior to getting on the lowest rungs of the government ladder. Shortly before entering Parliament, Quince's son was stillborn. Shortly after entering Parliament, Quince started campaigning on behalf of other bereaved parents for better treatment in hospital, and for proper investigation into stillbirths. He has spoken in the Commons about his own trauma, and worked on the Baby Loss all-party parliamentary group with other MPs, including his colleague Antoinette Sandbach, who have decided to use the darkest moments of their own lives to help constituents. Sandbach's baby son Sam died of Sudden Infant Death syndrome when he was just five days old. When she spoke in the Commons, she wept, as did her colleagues. One MP offered to intervene on her speech so she could recover a little after describing what happened the night she found that Sam had stopped breathing. Surrounded by colleagues who were elected at the same time as them, the two MPs promised to campaign on baby loss – and they have kept that.
Today, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will announce that every mother whose baby is stillborn or suffers life changing injuries will be offered an independent investigation into what went wrong. He will also say that the government is considering giving coroners the powers to investigate stillbirths too. Without MPs like Quince and Sandbach, there simply wouldn't have been the necessary attention on baby loss and the way hospitals treat those whose babies don't come home. All effective campaigns take up a huge amount of an MP's time, but to use your own grief to try to change things is naturally even more consuming. Whether these two MPs have glittering ministerial careers ahead of them or not, they can know that they've used their time on the backbenches so well, to the extent that other parents might suffer a little less.


We got a late start, so we didn't go all the way to the falls, but it was a very nice hike, nonetheless. Lots of water in the creek, and plenty of evidence that it had been quite a bit higher sometime in the last few weeks.
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THANK YOU! That's been bothering me all day!
Oh Stormfather, what have you done? Roshar will shake when Jasnah learns about Hemalurgy.
That's true. I guess I didnt consider enough about how much power there is in choosing which highprince gets which position. You could grant power to the ones most loyal to you to pin down the those who arent as loyal. That's a good observation. Ishar is known as the Herald of Luck. I wonder what that correlates to in government?
I've been thinking about this for a while. In ancient times, each highprince had a specialization and authority over a certain field. This was to make sure they work together. We know 4 of those fields (Information, Commerce, War, and Works), but each one has a surprisingly large amount of power. Information has control of the justice system and investigations, Commerce has control all merchants and trade routes, War has complete military authority, and Works has control of infrastructure, civil services, and potentially stormlight management. With all this power given to just 4 highprinces, and with 6 more we don't even know about, it got me thinking: what is there left for the king? We know Gavilar was a powerful king, but that's probably because he didn't give specializations to any of the highprinces. The only authorities I could think of for the knight would be assigning these specializations and declaring war on nation and then handing military power to the Highprince of War. So maybe the position of King is simply a puppet position used to give the people a symbol of unity while the highprinces continue to be kings of their own princedoms without anyone above them.
Oh that's dark. Oh that's even more dark! I didnt come here to hear about parents being left behind and be sad. My mind is blanking. Who is our second favorite herdazian?
Why dont you like vin?


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This Week's Find: A 2,000 Square-Foot One-Bedroom Carriage House
by Lark Turner
Look behind Louis at 14th, and you'll find a bit of a hidden gem: A 2,000-square-foot 19th century carriage house with an industrial vibe.
The historic home at 1417 T Street NW (map) is technically on a tiny alley called Treto Way NW. It was built around the 1890s, according to listing agent Roby Thompson. At some point in the 1960s it was bought for a pittance by friends who split the building in half. The southern end abuts an empty lot originally shared by the neighbors; the northern end is what's for sale. A portion of the empty lot, to be shared with a neighbor, can be acquired by the eventual buyer for an additional $50,000.
For the past 20 or so years the two-floor space with soaring ceilings been occupied by Paula Schumann, an interior designer, who uses the unfinished ground floor as an office and storage space and the top floor as a living space. (Schumann did not want interior photos taken.)
Image courtesy Roby Thompson.
Upstairs, Schumann preserved the home's wooden beams and updated the kitchen. A closed-in interior courtyard topped with a skylight brings light into the downstairs space and adds a lofted feeling on the upper floor, which has one bedroom and an attached bath.
The space has large windows, but is dwarfed by its new neighbor, the sprawling Louis at 14th. The large buildings to the north and east make the property feel like a secret hideaway, but they do block out some light and air to the property.
Full Listing: 1417 T Street NW (map)
Listing Agent: Roby Thompson, Long and Foster Real Estate
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DarylD said at 11:57 pm on Thursday October 16, 2014:
I walked behind the Louis to check out the hidden gem, but found the place run down, and grafittied. Looking forward to seeing the interior.
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4th Of July Fashion Projects are DIY ideas for creating something for America's Independence day check all of them below.
Independence day is near and you need to be prepared before the event so you can enjoy it in patriotic fashion.From past few weeks we have shared some 4th of July posts related to clothing and shoes.
4th of July Shoe Ideas and 4th Of July Outfits are two posts have all the patriotic fashion related to clothing and shoes.But today we have more DIY ideas for you some are for clothing,shoes and some are for other accessories.
All of these are creative and can be easily done at home using simple tools or things available in the house.First you need old things it can be clothing or shoes and then apply these shown ideas on them.
You can have America flag snicker or shoes choose the white color because then its easy to make a flag on it.Flag can be made with paint colors or stickers are available in the market of different sizes.
But these projects are handmade stuff that can be made by hand and you don't have to buy any expensive things.Outfits can easily be customized by dying them with American color or drawing it from paint colors.
Colors should not have to be permanent because you are doing this for a day after that you can remove the colors.
If you have bought printed dress of American flag which are specially designed for this event then you can add more sparkling embellishments to it.Make it more visible so your outfit can become unique and special that no other person have worn.
You can have American flag on handbags skirts,denims,tops on both side of it and sleeve area of the shirts.
Below we have some 4th Of July Fashion Projects ideas you can take inspirations from these images and create something of your own.


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Ebola epidemic reveals gaps in research into diseases of poverty
By Cécile Barbière | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Samuel White
Over 11,000 people died in the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus. [UNMEER/Flickr]
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The Vaccine Alliance has announced that it will fund research into an Ebola vaccine. Without public funding, laboratories often ignore illnesses that affect the poorest patients. EURACTIV France reports.
The Ebola epidemic served as a lesson to the international community. Just days after the all-clear was declared in West Africa, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) announced the signature of a partnership with the pharmaceutical laboratory Merck, to accelerate research into a vaccine against the virus.
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"The suffering caused by the Ebola crisis was a wake-up call to many in the global health community," said Seth Berkley, the executive director of Gavi. "New threats require smart solutions and our innovative financing agreement with Merck will ensure that we are ahead of the curve for future Ebola outbreaks."
Purchasing commitment in the pipeline
The Vaccine Alliance, which is largely funded by the governments of developed countries, foundations and the private sector, concluded a $5 million purchasing commitment with Merck.
In return, the laboratory will provide 300,000 doses of the vaccine by May 2016 to deal with a potential resurgence of the epidemic, subject to the approval of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The American laboratory could then submit a marketing authorisation request by the end of 2017.
>>Read: First Ebola vaccines shipped to Africa
The Ebola virus, or Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a disease that affects Humans and primates, and is carried in the blood and bodily fluids of the infected animal. The 'reservoir host', where the virus survives between outbreaks among humans or primates, remains unknown, but is suspected to be a species of bat.
It has not yet been proved whether or not contamination by air is possible in a natural environment. Between 50 and 90% of Ebola cases in humans are fatal.
More than 11,000 dead
The incubation period generally lasts between eight and ten days, but can be anything from two to 21. No specific treatment for the virus currently exists, but experimental vaccines were tested during the recent epidemic in Liberia, one of the worst-affected countries.
In two years, the official death toll from the outbreak reached 11,315 out of 28,637 reported cases across ten countries, including Spain and the United States. According to the WHO, this figure, which may be a significant under-estimate, makes the recent epidemic more deadly than all the previous outbreaks combines, since the virus was identified in Central Africa in 1976.
The urgency to develop an Ebola vaccine is as pressing as ever, as the day after the WHO declared the epidemic over, a new case was confirmed in Sierra Leone on 15 January.
"We are at a critical point in the Ebola epidemic, passing from the treatment of cases and patients to the management of the residual risk of new infections," said Dr Bruce Aylward, the WHO's Special Representative for the Ebola Response. "We expect new resurgences and we should prepare for them."
The announcement of the Gavi-Merck partnership was welcomed by Doctors Without Borders (MSF). But the NGO will remain vigilant over the final price of the vaccine, which will be a determining factor in whether it is widely used in developing countries.
Manica Balasegaram, the head of MSF's Access Campaign, said, "We want to understand how Gavi and Merck will fix a price, especially in the long term, and we need confirmation that the final price will be close to the cost of production."
"Given the public and philanthropic investments in the vaccine, we hope that Merck will buck the trend of the pharmaceutical companies and be as transparent as possible about contributions, the financing of R&D, development subsidies and the tariff structure of the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine. Public donors and philanthropists should not pay twice for the research and the development of the vaccine," he said.
Declining research into the diseases of poverty
The Ebola epidemic shed light on the shortcomings of the system of research into the illnesses that affect the poor.
In fact, the first steps towards creating an Ebola vaccine were carried out more than ten years ago. But epidemics have tended to affect only rural areas in developing countries and have always been contained, making the vaccine a low priority for the laboratories.
"Ensuring a vaccine will be available to protect people who might have missed out due to a market failure lies at the heart of what makes Gavi so important in global health," said Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Chair-elect of the Gavi Board. "It is our moral duty to ensure that people do not miss out simply because of where they are born or whether they can afford to pay."
Not an isolated example
As Bruno Rivalan from Global Health Advocate explained, Ebola is far from the only example of where financial interests have taken precedence over public health.
"Tuberculosis is another example of the failures of this research model, which ignores the diseases of the poor. In 40 years, the laboratories have placed only two new molecules on the market. So the treatment of this illness, which is very common in developing countries, is not progressing, while multidrug-resistant strains of tuberculosis are beginning to appear," he said.
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"The research and development model for diseases linked to poverty is completely broken, because it is linked to profits, and there is no specific incentive for research into diseases that affect the poor and developing countries," Rivalan said.
This lack of economic incentive (subsidies, innovation prizes, tax deductions, purchasing guarantees, etc.) will be partly addressed by the Gavi and Merck partnership on Ebola.
But the Ebola vaccine "should be taken as a lesson about the creation of new research models on the diseases of poverty, and not as a timely solution brought about by the panic surrounding this disease," said Rivalan. "Because if the incentives had been in place, maybe an effective vaccine would have existed before the epidemic even began."
More than €1 billion was pledged by member states and the European Commission to fight the Ebola crisis. The Council has appointed Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Christos Stylianides as the EU Ebola Coordinator.
Mobile laboratories, humanitarian experts, and specialists in dangerous infectious diseases have been deployed to the region.
The €280 million call for proposals, launched by Commission and the European pharmaceutical industry, is under the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI).
€140 million will come from Horizon 2020, the EU's framework programme for research and innovation, and €140 million from the pharmaceutical companies which are members of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA).
The research will involve large-scale clinical trials of new vaccines in the Ebola-affected countries as well as the development of fast diagnostic tests and new approaches to manufacture and distribute vaccines.
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