My "What These Women Really Want For Christmas" feature was really popular last year so I thought I'd go back to the same wonder-mother bloggers who gave me their wish-lists last year and ask them what they'd like this year. The ruse must have worked on their loved ones last year as every one of them was happy to send me on their most-wanted gifts for 2015.
So, without further ado, here's the Bumbles of Rice "What These Women Really Want for Christmas" 2015. This is a list by real women, with a variety of interests so there's a really good spread of ideas, so read, get inspiration, and start adding these items to your own wish-list!
First up this year is Sadhbh from the very beautiful (and it really is beautiful it even won the most beautiful blog at the Irish Parenting Blog Awards 2015) blog Where Wishes Come From where she writes about celebrations, shows us crafts and shares snippets from life with her twin girls.
It's the initials of my daughters and hubby!
Sticking with the cosy theme, and at the more reasonably priced €25.90 are these gorgeous suedette slippers from Accessorize. I have constantly cold feet but these look like they might just do the trick to sort that out.
This simple, classic, navy shopper (1) is on my wish-list – my six-year-old says I have too many handbags but when she grows up, she'll understand that you can never have too many handbags. It looks really good in real life too – I've been stalking it – and it's only €37 from Oasis.
To contrast with the sedate navy bag, I've included something from the blingier side of my wish-list – a "timeless elegance" Pandora ring (2). There's nothing practical about this gift, but if it's in my stocking on Christmas morning, it will make me very, very happy. €69 from Pandora.
Back to more sensible presents; I'm also hoping for these bunny pyjamas from Next (3). I got something like these last year and I love them – the fabric is gorgeously soft, and the quality feels much greater than the €26 price tag.
Every year, my sisters and I do Kris Kindle, and send each other wish-lists. This year on mine, I put "a good book", which is singularly unhelpful. So if my sister-KK is reading, I'll narrow it down now – I'd love to read The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton, which by all accounts is wonderful.
Dressing Gown (1)– I love getting new nightwear for Christmas. I would love a new dressing gown to replace a my very (very!) old one. Perfect for lazy days over the Christmas holidays! (The one pictured is from Marks and Spencer).
Google Music or Spotify Voucher – see above – hoping to get back into listening to music.
Elizabeth from shares her life with her husband, four children and a herd of alpacas. She tells all about life on Hushabye Farm in County Offaly on her beautiful blog, showing her flair for cooking and telling of life how it really is, with honesty and sentimentality at once. You might recognise her as "The Reluctant Farmer" from Irish Country Living.
Top of my wish list is a night way with himself (1- photo of random hotel room) …preferably with some theatre tickets thrown in, this was my gift last year and it was fab, matinee tickets to The Walworth Farce which allowed for a night in Dublin, with a theatre outing but still enough time for a potter around the city, fancy dinner and cocktails…what's not to love!
Lastly I would love a new decoration for our tree, every year we buy something new for it and much of the joy of putting up the tree comes from looking through the decorations and remembering where and when we bought them…simple, inexpensive but priceless in ways.
For a something small and fabulous, I love Laura Mercier's L'Heure Magique perfume (2). I wore if for our wedding day seven and a half years ago and it still gives me goosebumps. A 50ml bottle costs 79e in Brown Thomas – and is worth every scent. If you're going for broke the shower creme and moisturiser are equally amazing.
My crafty wings these days has been clipped by house painting and other jobs. I always find time to check in with the fabulous Purl Soho blog though and this year I'm in love with their mega chunky Big Little Dandelion Garter Blanket (3). This is the stuff of wish lists as the yarn costs $530 and a needles a whopping $160! I think an Ikea throw is more in the budget that this – but a girl can dream!
As a gadget addict it wouldn't be Christmas without a new gizmo. I've had some homemade ice cream disasters in my day so I'd love the Kitchenaid Icecream attachment (4) for my stand mixer. It retails from Debenhams, Brown Thomas etc for about 100e or is available on Amazon here .
As I sit at my computer each day looking at my poor nails I realise it is months since they had any professional attention. For me a professional manicure (1) is a real treat and something I reserve for special events. I think my last manicure was a 2 week manicure for my daughter's communion last May. A voucher for a 2 week manicure that I can do without any reason but to treat myself would be lovely. My local beautician does 2 week manicures for €20.
I love notebooks and making lists so each year I lust after a new notebook or planner. I would love a really nice family planner. I love this one from Organised-mum.co.uk (2) as it ticks all my boxes: it is hard back and ring bound which seems to be a really hard combination for me to find. It also allows space to keep track of everyone in the family on any given day as well as space to write to do lists. This particular planner is available to buy online for 14.99 plus delivery but any similar one would be a welcome gift.
What I really want for Christmas is some peace and quiet, maybe a whole hour of it, alone. But that's not really in the Christmas spirit and I'm not sure what link to send people to buy it, so I'd settle for babysitting vouchers. Or any of these things on my always very long list, that is now added to thanks to my lovely blogger friends showing me all the lovely things that they want too.
1. Since the summer i've been obsessed with these New Balance 420 Runners . OBSESSED. Originally I wanted the black/cream version and now it's the grey I covet. They're lovely but also very practical and stylish and sure the grey will match EVERYTHING.
2. A random kitchen thing: My friend has a toaster that also boils and/or poaches eggs. It's deadly, I want one. I don't care if it sounds like a gimmick, she has great taste and recommends it, it would definitely have me eating more boiled eggs or poached eggs for brekkie, and that's got to be good.
5. Books: I'm trying in vain to cut down my cookbook collection and freed up a lot of space on the bookshelves a few months ago, but this means that technically there is room for more so this year I'd love some healthier ones like Deliciously Ella, Jamie's Superfood are on my list or Irish ones like Susan-Jane White's Virtuous Tart and Neven Maguire's latest and then there's the new Irish Japanese Cookbook from Irish blogger Fiona Uyema that's got to be healthy and exotic at once.. Like Andrea I'd love "a good book" and Belinda McKeon's Tender is on my list, I loved her debut novel Solace. Christmas isn't Christmas without a good book.
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Nutritional Supplements: Information You MUST Know!
The Official Supplement Definition
What The Function Of Supplements Is
Who Takes Supplements... And Why
Who's (Not) Knowledgeable About Supplements & Nutrition
What Are Nutritional Supplements?
–Information On The Official Supplement Definition
Nutritional supplements as information from the government authorities indicates are consumable health products that contain one or more ingredients, or nutrients, commonly found in food (Official US Government FDA website, accessed Sept. 2010).
Furthermore, the substances used in nutritional supplements per information from the supplement definition, are usually delivered in the form of tablets, capsules, liquids, powders, or energy bars...
"intended for ingestion by mouth" (Official US Government FDA website, accessed Sept. 2010).
However, by this terminology the FDA refers to a specific way of "ingestion by mouth": swallowing the supplement products.
Another factoid that is good to know about food supplements is that there are some health supplements available which come in the forms of sprays and gels. Legally, those products are not deemed dietary supplements. As an example, in regard to spray supplements the FDA stated that:
"[...] the Act [=the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act] defines the term "dietary supplement" [...] as a product that is "intended for ingestion." Because oral spray products are intended to enter the body directly through the mucosal tissues at the back of the throat, they are not dietary supplements and are not foods." (FDA, 5-Feb-2019) [explanation & emphasis added]
Therefore, such product items do not fall into the regulatory category of nutritional supplements and information about those types of nutritional supplements, as a consequence, cannot contain any health claims pertaining to these products (FDA, 5-Feb-2019).
Other synonyms, or other equivalent or similar terms, commonly used for nutritional supplements (or certain types of nutritional supplements) are antioxidants, whole food supplements, natural health products, nutraceuticals, or vitamin supplements.
These Are The Most Common Ingredients Found In Health Supplements
The official definition of nutritional supplements and information thereof that specifies what supplements usually contain, lists the following categories of nutrients:
amino acids (building blocks of proteins)
enzymes (specific proteins regulating biochemical processes)
co-factors
botanicals and phytonutrients (plant substances)
fungi (such as medicinal fungal supplements –e.g., a Reishi mushroom supplement)
glandular extracts/concentrates
–Information On How Many Products Are On The Market
You know now the answer to "what are supplements?". You know the official definition of nutritional supplements. But... do you have an idea of just how many supplements are available?
By 2003, there were approximately 30,000 different dietary supplements available on the market, up from around 4,000 in 1994, according to data by the US Food and Drug Administration, also known as FDA (Taylor, 2004; Gibson & Taylor, 2005).
A statement published by the office of dietary supplements (ODS) which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a US government agency, divulged that there are "at least 50,000 dietary supplement products available" by the year 2011 (ODS, 2011). By 2019, an estimated 80,000 nutritional supplement products are available to consumers in the United States (Pew, 2019).
No doubt, the demand for vitamins and health supplements and information on what they are intended for, or what they do, has been growing steadily since the introduction of the currently valid set of policies on dietary supplement regulation (the DSHEA of 1994).
What Is The Function Of Vitamins And Dietary Supplements?
Nutritional supplements per information from the official authorities are "additions" (an extra bonus if you will) to, hopefully, a balanced good diet:
"Dietary supplements are intended to supplement the diets of some people, but not to replace the balance of the variety of foods important to a healthy diet." (Official US Government FDA website, accessed Feb. 2011) [emphasis added]
The central idea of not replacing a meal with vitamins and health supplements is that food is primarily composed of energy and structural nutrients (besides water), such as fats, carbohydrates, and proteins, also known as macronutrients. Your body needs these substances in relatively large quantities to function properly.
Ingredients found in supplements, on the other hand, are usually substances such as natural vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. They are also referred to as micronutrients because proportionally small amounts of them are required by the human organism for good health.
Most importantly, none of the micronutrients are a direct source of energy.
Furthermore, food items contain hundreds or thousands of substances and chemical elements (some of which may still not be known to science), making it unfeasible to put them all into nutritional supplements. Thus, eating a nutritious diet assures that you're getting this vast plethora of nutrients, including potentially still undiscovered constituents, above and beyond what you're getting with well-designed food supplements.
Therefore, to re-emphasize one of the facts about vitamins and supplements because it is a vital concept to understand...
Dietary supplements, such as vitamins and mineral supplements, are NOT... a replacement or substitute for healthy food, a meal, or for eating "junk food" (refined, highly processed food).
However, nutritional supplements are intended to "supplement", or complement, a healthy diet.
Are Orthodox Doctors And Consumers Knowledgeable About Supplements?
"I do know that most of my colleagues are still of the opinion that only a few rare health problems can be solved with proper nutrition or added vitamins and minerals." (Jonathan V. Wright, MD, in 1979)
Among the many facts about dietary supplements is that studies (e.g., Ashar, et al., 2007 & 2008) show that both physicians and medical students are poorly educated about nutritional supplements and information on the regulations thereof. As a consequence, traditional physicians convey little meaningful information on the health risks of dietary supplements or vitamin benefits to their patients (Tarn, et al., 2013).
This suggests that a conventional doctor (or a medical student) is not a reliable source to go to for advice on supplements. (For supplement advice I propose you consult with a certified nutritionist or an orthomolecular practitioner, or closely scrutinize the scientific literature on your own to form reliable answers.)
But, ironically, the advice from US government authorities on where to look for reliable dietary supplement information is...
"Your doctor is a good place to start." (Official website of nutrition.gov, part of US Department of Agriculture (USDA), accessed July 2013)
It isn't... because what the official authorities suggest entirely contradicts what the scientific data indicate.
Trust facts, not authorities.
These research findings also makes sense when you examine the reasons why doctors don't have adequate knowledge about nutritional supplements and information on their regulations.
Here's a clue...
"[...] there are lots of data to show that doctors spend little time reading the original research in [medical] journals." (Smith, 2006) [explanation added]
But this is really just a "symptom" of a much more basic reality...
The core reason why doctors, in general, are not well informed about nutritional supplements and information closely related to them is because conventional physicians learn little about nutrition, supplements, and other non-orthodox treatments in medical school (Crayhon, 1994).
A circumstance, which in itself is a "symptom", or outcome, of an even broader reality (the hard truth)... that of an authoritarian, corporation-dominated, commercialized culture of corruption:
Allopathic modern medicine is primarily a highly profitable business of sickness management, preferentially over the long run (e.g., the lifespan of the patient). The commitment to proper nutrition, including the resort to nutritional medicine with food supplements, is primarily a lifestyle of health maintenance.
Therefore, the nutritional orientation to life encroaches on the big profits of the medical "business with disease" (Rath, 1997 & 2003). Consequently, in one of their prime "milieus of control", such as medical schools, the unethical, criminal allopathic medical system (Carter, 1992; Walker 1993; Lanctôt, 2002; Angell, 2009; Gøtzsche, 2013) has systematically and deliberately neglected the genuine education of their uncritical indoctrinatees (conventional doctors) with authentic nutritional information.
In spite of the fact that most medical schools offer courses on alternative therapies, such as on nutrition, their emphasis is inconsistent, incoherent, and marginal within the full school curricula (Wetzel, et al., 1998; Berman, 2001; Adams, et al., 2006; Colquhoun & ten Bosch, 2008; Gramlich, et al., 2010; Frantz, et al., 2011).
This situation is reflected in the practically unchanged view of physicians, since the 1950s, that nutrition education in medical schools is inadequate (Frantz, et al., 2011).
It's not by coincidence...
"[The allopathic medical monopoly, a.k.a conventional official medicine, or the colluding corporatist governments and corporate medicine] want to end any evident connection between nutrition and health so that in the public perception, health is dependent upon professional medicine and pharmaceutical products." (Martin Walker, Independent English Health Researcher & Author [Mclean, 2004]) [explanation added]
However, the steady growth of the health industry (alternative or natural medicine), particularly since around the 1960s, and the accompanying increase in the frequency and complexity of questions and concerns patients ask their doctors about nutrition and food supplements (Gramlich, et al., 2010), has ignited, or rather inevitably "enforced", more interest by the medical profession in nutritional supplements and information thereof (Dickinson, et al., 2011). Although some research (e.g., Frantz, et al., 2011) suggests that there is a decline in the number of physicians who pursue education about nutrition.
The reality is that it is not uncommon for patients to know more about nutritional supplements and information related to nutrition than their physicians.
Alan R. Gaby, MD, stated in an investigative report:
"[...] most doctors know less about nutrition than do many of their patients." (Gaby, 2003)
In an editorial of a medical journal, physician Victor S. Sierpina, MD, wrote:
"Many of us did not receive adequate training about supplements in either medical school or residency." (Sierpina, 2008)
In 2010, Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, a physician educated both in conventional medicine as in non-orthodox healing methods, explained:
"There are no nutrition classes in [medical] school there is no nutrition training given to doctors." (Dean, Feb. 2010) [explanation added]
Another physician corroborates these statements:
"Neither you nor your doctor are aware that the health benefits of vitamins are a non-issue during medical education and that natural therapies have been systematically removed from the teaching calendars at medical schools during the 20th century and replaced by lectures in "pharmacology"." (Matthias Rath, MD)
A pro-supplement industry funded 2008 survey of 900 doctors revealed that most physicians did not receive any formal training or education about nutritional supplements (Dickinson, et al., 2011).
(More frightening, and revealing –and further corroborating– that the official, allegedly evidence-based, medicine business is in fact a highly unethical evidence-biased medical business, is that allopaths get a smidgen of meaningful education in medical school about state-authorized toxic vaccines they go on peddling to unsuspecting customers to enrich themselves (Burrowes, 2019)).
Unsurprisingly, because orthodox medical doctors generally have a lackluster understanding of natural food supplements a relatively small percentage of them recommend these health products to their patients (Bailey, et al., 2013).
In a culture where the authorities of medical education decide it is rather unimportant for doctors to get exposed to scientific data on some rather basic modalities of health like nutritional supplements and information about nutrition, and other unconventional, non-patentable remedies and healing methods, it will virtually seamlessly install...
... a bias in physicians towards the medical procedures of conventional, allopathic medicine,
and, respectively...
... a bias against any "alternative", non-orthodox medical approaches, leading to a neglect of involvement thereof on the part of traditional doctors.
Marcia Angell, MD, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, explained:
"One result of the pervasive bias is that physicians learn to practice a very drug-intensive style of medicine. Even when changes in lifestyle would be more effective, doctors and their patients often believe that for every ailment and discontent there is a drug." (Angell, 2009) [emphasis added]
The biologist Dr. Raymond Peat referred to the deliberate one-sided indoctrination process in medical school when he said in an interview:
"Doctors never have any idea about anything except what they're told is good practice." (Raymond Peat, PhD, in 2009) [emphasis added]
Similarly, in an editorial the author stated:
"The typical doctor is authoritarian. He or she, as a medical student or a qualified doctor, accepts what is imparted to her/him from the medical teachers, textbooks, and journals as gospel, "the revealed Truth", not to be questioned." (Paterson, 2006)
In view of these various scholarly statements and observations, suddenly a highly incriminating verdict such as that made decades ago by a conventional "heretical" doctor who had also been known as "The People's Doctor", Robert Mendelsohn, MD, (1926-1988), about his very own profession and professional colleagues appears much less inconceivable and outlandish but is reality-based in both yesterday's and today's times:
"[...] doctors turn out to be dishonest, corrupt, unethical, sick, poorly educated, and downright stupid more often than the rest of society. [...]. When I meet a doctor, I generally figure I'm meeting a person who is narrow minded, prejudiced, and fairly incapable of reasoning and deliberation. Few of the doctors I meet prove my prediction wrong." (Mendelsohn, 1979)
Of course, doctors are busy with keeping up on just the latest information in their specialized narrow field of medicine. Yet it is quite apparent that physicians, more often than not, don't (closely) examine anything outside what they learn in medical school because they feel it's "politically incorrect".
Most disturbingly though...
It isn't only information from "competing" or "outside" fields to orthodox medicine, such as alternative healing modalities (e.g., nutritional supplement therapy, accupuncture), that is being disregarded but also within the arena of modern medicine itself there is an apathy present among many (and probably most) doctors against data that threaten or question the officially propagated ideology of organized medicine.
A personal experience of mine corroborates this...
When I began to investigate mammograms, during 2010-2011 (by the way, the (e)book The Mammogram Myth is the culmination of that investigation –see Mammograms: Dangerous! Mammography Risks, Myths & Breast Cancer Facts), I noticed huge differences among the magnitude of positive effects from screenings with mammography in the scientific literature. It didn't make much sense to me. So I contacted some of the mammography scientists, among them Per-Henrik Zahl, MD, PhD, who had published many studies on the subject, hoping to get to the bottom of the matter.
After numerous personal exchanges with Zahl, who had been extremely forthcoming, gracious, open, and very detailed in the information he shared with me, he made this comment to me (assuming that I'm a physician):
"Most doctors do not try to understand the numbers in this discussion. I really appreciate your effort to understand why people publish very diverging results." (Per-Henrik Zahl, MD, PhD, Personal Communication, Dec. 30th, 2011)
A lot of laypeople are somewhat aware of the controversies about the merits of mammograms, which have been raised since the 1970s. Within orthodox medicine, however, remarkably conflicting, deviating, or opposing results, among the body of scientific-medical evidence, is apparently of no (real) interest to "most doctors" for further investigation. Presumably, not even to radiologists who ought to be intimately familiar with all of the pertinent research data, particularly with the "very diverging results", regarding the benefits of screening with mammography.
Thomas E. Levy, MD, summed up the customary, "politically-correct" behavior of traditional physicians with an observation:
"Doctors have a very strong herd mentality, […]." (Levy, 2010)
Now, what about consumers of vitamins and supplements, are they knowledgeable about supplements?
Research investigations reveal that the majority of consumers are equally poorly informed about nutritional supplements and information pertaining to how they are regulated (Dodge & Kaufman, 2007).
On the other hand, a study indicated consumers of vitamin supplements believe that traditional doctors are poorly educated about these types of health products (Blendon, et al., 2001).
Their perception confirms the empirical data on nutritional supplements and information relating to who is not knowledgeable about them.
One of the major facts about dietary supplements is that both physicians and consumers alike are poorly educated about nutritional supplements. And information and knowledge on dietary supplement regulations are equally lacking among both of these groups.
Who & How Many People Are Using Nutritional Supplements?
Information retrieved from numerous studies found that approximately half the adult US population routinely takes supplements (Ervin, et al., 1999; Satia-Abouta, et al., 2003; Radimer, et al., 2004; Rock, 2007; Cohen, 2009; Gershwin, et al., 2010; The Washington Post, 2010; Bailey, et al., 2011).
One study claimed the figure is even over 70% (Sadovsky, et al., 2008). A survey (Daniells, March 2012) corroborates that the 70% mark seems to be the accurate figure, while multivitamins remain the mostly used supplements. A nationally representative 2019 survey, too, found that 70% of American adults are using nutritional supplements (Pew, 2019).
Undoubtedly, the number of users has steadily increased since the 1970s (Bailey, et al., 2011). By the late 1970s/early 1980s, the figure was at 35% (Koplan, et al., 1986). It grew rapidly during the 1990s (largely enabled by new policies of dietary supplement regulation), but appears to have slowed down a bit at around the turn of the 21st century (Kelly, et al., 2005).
A number of studies on nutritional supplements found information which demonstrated that people who are obese are the least likely to consume all natural nutritional supplements. Well-educated, fit, older (45+) Caucasians (especially women) with higher incomes are the most likely to use vitamins and supplements (Eliason, et al., 1997; Satia-Abouta, et al., 2003; Yu, et al., 2003; Gunther, et al., 2004; Harrison, et al., 2004; Kennedy, 2005; Kelly, et al., 2006; Rock, 2007; Bailey, et al., 2011).
By the way, a large percentage of traditional physicians and nurses, closely matching the consumption figure of the general population, also appear to regularly take nutritional supplements as information, obtained from various research investigations, revealed (Gardiner, et al., 2006; Dickinson, et al., 2009; Dickinson, et al., 2011).
Why Are People Taking Nutritional Supplements?
Information and data gathered from extensive research (Eliason, et al., 1997; Hathcock, 2001; Kaufman, et al., 2002; Satia-Abouta, et al., 2003; Gunther, et al., 2004; Kennedy, 2005; Artz, et al., 2006; Gardiner, et al., 2007; Bailey, et al., 2013) show that the main reasons why people use nutritional supplements are...
...to improve, protect, or preserve their health,
and another vitamin use is...
...to treat their specific health issues.
(Originally published: ca. July-2012 | This is a revised version)
Recommended next page(s):
"Exploring The Shady World Of Dietary
Supplement Regulation" (–3-Part Article)
Dietary Supplement Regulation –Is Supplement Quality Assured?
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How to buy the foldable Motorola Razr smartphone
By Philip Michaels 2019-11-14T04:20:16Z
Motorola's foldable phone costs $1,500; here's where to get it
The newly unveiled Motorola Razr brings back one of the previous decade's premier cell phone designs but with a 2019 spin — flip open the phone and you're staring back at a 6.2-inch OLED screen. It's an eye-catching design that also enables you to slip a foldable phone easily into your pocket — if you can swing the four-figure asking price.
Yes, the Motorola Razr will be an expensive phone, costing $1,499.99 when it goes on sale next month. If there's a silver lining, that's nearly $500 less expensive than the $1,980 Galaxy Fold, a rival foldable device from Samsung.
Verizon looks like it will be the exclusive carrier for the Motorola Razr at launch. At the phone's unveiling tonight (Nov. 13), Motorola said that pre-orders for the Razr will begin at Verizon on Dec. 26. The phone will reach stores in January 2020, with Verizon and select Walmart locations offering the Razr. You'll also be able to buy the phone directly from Motorola.
Canadian shoppers will be able to buy the Motorola Razr sometime in early 2020.
You won't have to pay that $1,500 all in one fell swoop if you don't want to. Verizon will let you pay off the Motorola Razr in installments, spreading out monthly payments of $62.49 over two years.
It's unclear at the moment if Verizon will offer any deals for the Motorola Razr, but we'll update this article with any pre-order specials as they're announced.


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Pennsylvania has the opportunity to kickstart community solar — and its economy
Removing the state's ban on community solar, an initiative which has gained immense bipartisan support, will create thousands of jobs and billions in economic development dollars.
October 14, 2020 Tony Clifford
Pennsylvania State Capitol Building rotunda
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It's been two years since the Pennsylvania General Assembly has taken definitive steps to strengthen its solar energy economy, closing the solar renewable energy credits (SREC) market to keep jobs and investment inside the commonwealth. But new legislation to enable community solar programs in Pennsylvania is an opportunity that will create thousands of jobs and billions in economic development dollars to come to the state. Legislators would be wise to pass the bills in the coming weeks as a way to jumpstart the commonwealth's economy.
House Bill (HB) 531 and Senate Bill (SB) 705 are designed to make community solar accessible to more Pennsylvanians by removing the red tape preventing such projects. Representative Aaron Kaufer of Luzerne County is the prime sponsor of HB 531 and has been working diligently to ensure the bill delivers the most good to the widest cross-section of Pennsylvanians, from consumers, to farmers and small businesses. Introduced even before COVID-19 wrought its devastating economic impacts, the legislation is more important than ever.
A recent poll conducted on behalf of the PA Community Solar Economic Alliance shows that nearly 80% of Pennsylvanians, regardless of political party, support passing these bills. The support for enabling community solar programs and giving Pennsylvanians the choice to enroll is also bipartisan, with strong support from Republicans (68%), Independents (80%) and Democrats (85%), across urban and rural regions alike.
Right now, it's close to impossible to bring community solar plans to fruition in Pennsylvania because of utility law restrictions. The bills currently before the legislature would take the shackles off community solar development that is poised for major growth.
As a native Pennsylvanian (from just outside West Pittston in Luzerne County), I'm fully committed to making sure community solar is viable in the state. Some estimates project the overall impact of these bills on the state's economy to be over $2 billion. After all, my company alone currently has approximately $500 million in projects waiting to save everyday Pennsylvanians significant energy costs if these bills pass. The Coalition for Community Solar Access estimates that over 200 projects in 41 counties await action based on the passage of HB 531 and SB 705.
In addition, community solar has the potential to bring well-paying jobs to the commonwealth. Studies have indicated that the passage of HB 531 and SB 705 will increase the number of solar jobs in Pennsylvania substantially. For an economy rocked in recent years by the diminution of other core industries and COVID-19-related disruptions, an increase in solar jobs would be a significant boost to the commonwealth's employment landscape.
Blue-collar solar installation jobs from community solar projects pay well and don't require a college education. They could fuel middle-class economic resurgence in Pennsylvania. In addition, the solar industry offers a variety of other well-paying opportunities, from management to marketing to engineering and finance that can appeal to different potential employees. We offer careers that can open new worlds and keep Pennsylvanians in Pennsylvania, rather than having to leave the state to find the energy jobs of the future.
And that doesn't even take into account the other economic benefits community solar produces, such as generating tax revenues from otherwise unused or damaged land, lowering electricity prices for anyone who pays an electric bill, and providing energy choice for all Pennsylvanians.
The best argument for the bills, however, is that they provide an opportunity for bipartisan action on legislation that can provide economic relief to the commonwealth in so many ways, without raising taxes. The legislation has earned support from groups including the Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum and the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau.
But time is of the essence. The legislation needs to move before the 2020 elections. Otherwise, all the economic potential community solar can bring to Pennsylvania is on hold until the legislature reconvenes in 2021-or longer. Pennsylvanians cannot afford to wait.
It's time to get HB 531 and SB 705 passed and on their way to the governor for his signature. Call your Pennsylvania Representatives and Senators today to make sure they support this important legislation. It's time to Let Pennsylvania Shine.
Tony Clifford is the chief strategy officer for Rockville, Md.-based solar company Standard Solar.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author's own, and do not necessarily reflect those held by pv magazine.


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Q: Firefox Delaying jQuery Document.Ready Using Faye I'm using faye (for node.JS) which seems to be using a never ending xmlhttprequest to get "live" data.
I have a page that (on jquery's document ready function) loads a page
via ajax. When clicking a link within the loaded page, it loads
another page which also contains an ajax call via the document.ready function.
When faye is running in firefox, it seems to be loading endlessly from
the server. This seems to be throwing off jquery's document .ready
function. It typically won't execute the code loaded from ajax for at
least 10-30 seconds. Any idea what is causing this?

A: I isolated the issue - FireFox doesn't have websockets out of the box and when it relies on an open JSONP or XMLHttp request, all other ajax queries will be slowed down (by 10-20 seconds). You get around this by putting your script into an iframe and have it fire off a function.
Here is the full explanation: http://groups.google.com/group/faye-users/browse_thread/thread/f93c5e1d1048c89e

A: user800927, check out this thread in google groups for faye:
http://groups.google.com/group/faye-users/browse_thread/thread/f93c5e1d1048c89e
they explain that you need to put faye in an iframe and then execute the code via the parent window. hope this helps!

A: You might consider switching to socket.io unless there is something you really need from faye. Alternatively, stop into #node.js and ask questions! Make sure to report back with your findings.

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Communities rally in response to hate crimes
By: Savin Mattozzi ~Staff Writer~
Photo courtesy of npr.com | More than 100 tombstones were vandalized at the Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia.
The U.S. was struck by another wave of hate crimes in the past two weeks, some of which were deadly. These crimes come as cities report record hikes in hate crimes compared to the same period last year.
The New York City Police Department has reported a 42 percent increase in hate crimes, a trend police officials have linked to ethnic bias and xenophobia that emerged from the 2016 election, according to Bloomberg.
Two transgender women of color were shot and killed on Feb. 21 and Feb. 25. Keke Collier, 24, was shot in the early morning of Feb. 21 in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.
Chyna Gibson was shot outside of a strip mall in New Orleans on Feb. 25. Witnesses stated they heard between eight to 10 gunshots. Gibson is the fifth transgender women to be killed in 2017.
"Trans women have been facing these high murder rates for a very long time," Kelsey O'Neil, the assistant director at the Center for Diversity and Inclusion who identifies as queer, transmasculine, said. "However, I think with current administration, talks of rescinding protections for LGB people, as well as bathroom bills, which are a violation of trans people's rights, leads to law enforcement being more apathetic to really finding the people who are committing these crimes."
"Safety is relative to the person. I feel safe when I am walking into the Center for Diversity and Inclusion," O'Neil said. "I don't necessarily feel safe when I'm using the bathroom or a locker room or when I'm off campus going to a restaurant. That's always in the back of your mind."
On the weekend of Feb. 18, more than 170 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in a St. Louis suburb were desecrated, many toppled over. Sunday saw the same kind of vandalism at another Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia where around 100 tombstones were desecrated in a similar way.
"Gravestones are gravestones, it doesn't matter the religion behind them," said Olivia Stackhouse, a sophomore biology major who is Jewish, said. "They are there to celebrate the life that did happen. I feel like as humans, we're ignoring that. With our president, unfortunately, he allows people to justify their hate crimes… He validates that it's ok to do this."
Muslim organizations have been at the forefront of raising money for the desecrated sites.
Two Muslim groups have raised $131,000 to help restore both of the desecrated cemeteries. Any money left over will be saved for any future structures that need repairing.
Another mosque arson occurred on Friday, this time in Tampa, Fla. The entrance of the mosque sustained fire damage, but the flames were put out before they caused any structural damage.
"I feel disappointed that people feel the need to intimidate people through violence," Tamara Mahmoud, a senior biology major and president of Muslim Student Association (MSA), said. "Yes, something bad happened, but as a result, a lot of good things have been happening. A lot of people stand with one another during these times of intimidation."
The light atmosphere of Austin's Bar and Grill in Kansas City, Mo. was shattered by gunfire at 7:15 p.m. last Wednesday when the alleged shooter, Adam Purinton, opened fire. According to witnesses, Purinton began spurting racial slurs at Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, two engineers originally from India. Purinton was thought to have left the bar to later return with a gun. He shot both men and a bystander who tried to subdue him. According to witnesses, it is alleged that Purinton yelled "get out of my country" prior to opening fire. Kuchibhotla later died in hospital, while Madasani and the bystander, Ian Grillot, are currently recovering.
"Honestly, I was kind of expecting something like this to happen sooner or later," Akhil Kavuri, a junior biology major of Indian decent, said. "People are just misinformed. They just create their own ideas… People who have these prejudices now have avenues to share the hate that they have."
Kavuri explains that it wasn't until this recent shooting in Kansas City, that his parents became worried for him.
"Now that this news happened, they immediately texted me and said 'be careful,'" Kavuri continued. "I had a discussion with them before the election about how things might not affect you now, but when your son, if I go out there and I die, because somebody makes an assumption about me, then it's going to affect you… and I think that's the problem. If it doesn't affect you, then we don't feel a need to change things."
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Q: Подготовка данных для машинного обучения из csv c множеством столбцов Здравствуйте. Ранее задавал вопрос по подготовке данных для машинного обучения. Но теперь задача усложнилась. Данные в файле такого вида:
100;word;14;alice;59;?
200;any;35;?;?;?
6300;yes;?;myself;?;?

Если с извлечением категорий все понятно, то данные для обучения получаются в виде двумерного массива. Была мысль создать список строк, и помещать в него строки, полученные объединением каждой строки массива по столбцам (за исключением нулевого).
Т. е. взять строку из датафрейма. Объединить все ячейки в ней (кроме нулевой) c помощью join(). Поместить результат в строку. За тем следующую строку и т. п. А потом массив строк пропустить через HashingVectorizer.
Но хотелось бы узнать, нет ли уже реализованной штуки такого рода (в pandas.dataframe я что-то не нашел).
В первом столбце - категория. Во всех последующих - набор данных. Я думаю, что правильнее будет считать набор случайным (т. к. данные мне предоставлены именно в подобном виде).
Данные не гомогенны. В столбцах могут встречаться знаки вопроса (как заменка NaN), так и сами данные.

A: df = pd.read_csv('/path/to/file.csv', sep=';', na_values=['?','NaN', 'NA'], header=None)
df[df.columns[[np.issubsctype(t, np.number) for t in df.dtypes]]] = \
    df.select_dtypes(include=['number']).fillna(-1)
df[df.columns[[np.issubsctype(t, np.object) for t in df.dtypes]]] = \
    df.select_dtypes(include=['object']).fillna('')
new = df.set_index(df.columns[0]).astype(str).add(' ').sum(1).reset_index(name='joined')

Результат:
In [55]: new
Out[55]:
      0                      joined
0   100  word 14.0 alice 59.0 -1.0
1   200        any 35.0  -1.0 -1.0
2  6300  yes -1.0 myself -1.0 -1.0


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Igor Borko
Ukrainian singer, born 11 July 1961. After his army service, he tried to get accepted at the conservatory, but got very discouraging assessments. He sang in choirs, first a classical, than a folk music choir, where he was also a soloist. In 1986, eight years after his first attempt, he retried at the conservatory – and this time, he was accepted into the class of Kostjantyn Ognjevyj, who became, in Borko's own words, a second father for him. He studied with Ognjevyj for an unusually long time, until 1998.
In 1996, he went to an audition at the Kiev National Opera, and was rejected. He sang in various ensembles, folk and classical. At a concert of one of those ensembles in Paris, he was heard by the director of the Odessa opera, who hired him, and he made his opera debut as late as 2000, at 39 years old! His debut role was Edgardo.
In May 2001, he made his debut in Kiev, again as Edgardo. He was to stay at that theater for the rest of his career. Abroad, he sang as a guest in places like Boston, Baltimore, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Bucarest, Cluj or Prague.
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Igor Borko sings Lucia di Lammermoor: Tu che a Dio, with unknown bass
In RA format
I wish to thank Robert Schlesinger for the picture.
I would like to thank Vladimir Efimenko for the recording.


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Hey Gordo, What's Going on Here?
For Premier Campbell, unsavoury questions pile up.
By Rafe Mair 13 Apr 2009 | TheTyee.ca
Rafe Mair writes a Monday column for The Tyee. Read previous columns by Rafe Mair here. He also acts as a spokesperson for the Save Our Rivers Society.
Now silent on BC Rail deal, Campbell boasted of it in 2003.
As I write this, I'm coming to the end of a long road trip where I've been speaking to groups about the Campbell government's energy policy, which bids fair to permanently lay waste to 600 to 700 of our rivers and streams in this wonderful province of ours.
In fact, tomorrow evening I will do my seventh speech in six days, 10 in the past two weeks. During those days, I've had time to reflect on just what makes this premier such a destroyer of our unique environment.
When Gordon Campbell was leader of the opposition, I was up to my eyeballs fighting Alcan over Kemano II, or as they preferred to call it, the Kemano Completion Project. He wanted to know more about this matter so he came to my radio studio and looked at my material. He was with me for half a day whereupon he pronounced himself opposed.
Some time afterwards I asked him what had made him take that position and he related to me that he had seen a billboard showing sockeye salmon going into the Adams River to spawn and he didn't want his kids deprived of this wonder. I was impressed.
It surprised me when he became premier and almost immediately took the moratorium off Atlantic salmon fish farms.
Questions about our salmon
The issue at that time was the huge escapements of farmed salmon and the question was whether or not they might establish themselves in our rivers and streams. The premier was deaf to the entreaties of many of us who asked that he bring back the moratorium and apply the "precautionary principle" before anything further was done. Taking him at his word, I assumed that he cared for our environment.
Then, in 2003 or thereabouts, a lady named Alexandra Morton from the Broughton Archipelago, on the mainland opposite Port McNeil on Vancouver Island, came upon the scene. Though not a fish biologist, she was a scientist and had come the Broughton to study whales. At the suggestion of some nearby First Nations people, she tested young pink and some chum salmon and warned that sea lice from fish farms situated on their migration paths were slaughtering them.
The then minister responsible, John Van Dongen, wouldn't listen.
Neither did the premier who asked me to do a paper for him. Again, taking him at his word that he cared for the outdoors and our salmon, I did it. I collated all the scientific evidence available and it made an irrefutable case that Morton was right. He never acknowledged my work, let alone thanked me for it.
Questions about BC Hydro and our rivers
The more the evidence piled up, the more licenses were granted. When a legislative committee and then a commission under John Fraser, appointed by Campbell, confirmed Alexandra Morton's findings, the Campbell government issued more licences and expanded others.
Now we have the Campbell's 2002 Energy Policy, which mirrors the recommendations of Alcan. BC Hydro is no longer allowed to bring in new sources of energy. That must be done by the private sector, which is being allowed to stake rivers like old-time prospectors staked claims for gold. These private firms then will divert "their" rivers, often through tunnels up to 20 kilometres in length, thus reducing the flow in portions of the river bed by up to 95 per cent.
Questions about sweetheart deals
BC Hydro must pay huge contracts for this private power, often twice as much as they can get on the market. All this is done, we're told, to meet imminent power needs in the province. I will simply deal with the claim by observing that the National Energy Board, which vets export of energy, says B.C. is in most years an exporter of power.
Here is the insidious part. Even if B.C. did need new power, they would not be getting it from private operations for this reason: you cannot store electrical power in quantity, it must be used as it is created. You can, and BC Hydro does, "store" power by storing water in reservoirs behind dams but private projects have little or no ability to do that. Thus, private power, for the most part, can only be generated during the spring run-off when there's enough water to make their generators work.
That happens to be the very time BC Hydro's reservoirs are full so that they can't use the private power!
This means that all private power produced for the foreseeable future will be for export. We have, then, a BC Hydro unable to bring in new energy sources, strangled at this writing with $30 billion dollars in sweetheart deals with the private companies, no longer able to contribute millions of dollars to the public treasury, large companies making the power and sending their profits to their shareholders.
Questions about backroom dealings
Last year BC Hydro gave the public treasury about $500 million for schools, hospitals and the like. Now that money is going out of the province. Everywhere I go people ask the same question. Why?
The people look at the Basi-Virk "Railgate" court case and see the disappointing Attorney General Wally "Stonewally" Oppal refusing to answer questions about documents being disclosed. The premier does the same on the specious argument that the documents emerging from the trial are sub judice (before the courts).
There were the huge fees paid to Ken Dobell who was in a clear conflict of interest. We all read daily about the money that Liberal backroom boy Patrick Kinsella apparently got for consulting for the purchasers of BC Rail and the private power moguls while advising the government.
Last week Sean Holman and Mark Hume, in the Globe and Mail, laid l'affaire Kinsella bare before the public. If this isn't sleaze, what the devil is? And people, not surprisingly, ask: What the hell's going on here?"
They reflect on the fact that Gordon Campbell ran for office as a man who loved our precious fish and promised never to give up BC Hydro or BC Rail. People see money that used to come to us now goes to foreign shareholders and they ask again: What gives?
Questions about the smell in the air
How can any decent taxpayer look at all these goings on and not say in Hamlet's words "there's something rotten in the state of Denmark".
That doesn't make it so, I agree, but the air is odoriferous.
What I do say to Mr Campbell is this:
Your dealings with the sale of BC Rail.
The clear attack on BC Hydro.
The favouritism towards fish farmers and private power moguls (especially after posing as an environmentalist and defender of our Crown Corporations).
The conflicts of interest and huge fees paid to favourites.
All of this is bound to make ordinary British Columbians ask: Mr Campbell, just what the hell IS going on here?
Related Tyee stories:
Railgate: The Kinsella Connection
Before BC Rail deal was sealed, Campbell huddled with CN Rail chair McLean, fixer Kinsella.
May Contest Is NDP's to Win
Eight issues pecking away at Campbell's re-election chances.
Private River Power Draws Diverse Foes
'Green' claims disputed.
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El Mont Walsh (en anglès Mount Walsh) és una muntanya que forma part de les muntanyes Saint Elias i que s'eleva fins als 4.507 msnm. Es troba a l'interior de la Reserva i Parc Nacional de Kluane, al territori del Yukon, Canadà. El cim va ser nomenat en record del superintendent de la Policia Muntada del Canadà pel Yukon, James Morrow Walsh. La primera ascensió va tenir lloc el 1941.

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Eric & Calleigh #31 - A Vote For E/C Is A Vote For Shirtless Eric!
Discussion in 'Shipper Central' started by midnight_tiptoes, Oct 22, 2008.
Monica1604 CSI Level One
delkolover said: ↑
CSISDFlash said: ↑
I think it will be one big swoop and all of a sudden we will be seeing them go at eachother and the next thng we'll know is that htey are in bed with eachother. I somehow don't think when it finally does come that we will be led straight to the love scene because it has been building for so long. They may have already filmed but haven't edited into anything yet. That could be the reson for the music quoate the Emely made in the article.
But, this is just my opinon. Nothing would surprise me at this point. I don't think we are going to get that long goodnight kiss. I think they will just attack eachother like a bunch of crazed animal! LOL!
There is sooo much pent up sexual tension that Eric and Cal might mean for it to start off as a chaste kiss but when their lips make contact, it is going to unleash the fury of a category 5 hurricane and clothes will go flying!!
That was good:thumbsup:
Well I don't really care how they are gonna play it, I just want to see it on the screen with my own eyes. They are talking about it a lot latley so it's time to show it. And of course the less cloths the better.
Monica1604, Dec 16, 2008
delkolover CSI Level Three
Monica1604 said: ↑
The fact that the media is talking it up and Adam and Emily are more confident when they talk about tells me it is coming down the pipe, IMO! It implies, to me, that they know more than they are letting on and they obviously would but for them to be able to use such strong language, like "love" etc some is coming.
Maybe not in the next ep but soon!
delkolover, Dec 16, 2008
CSIMandy Lab Technician
I agree. I think Emily and Adam know more than they let on. I think this season we will finally see some romance between them. I can't wait!
CSIMandy, Dec 17, 2008
texmex327 Pathologist
CalleighEricFan said: ↑
I am sure they do. Damn...Feb. is too far away :scream:
How am I ever going to get through the holidays without seeing my hiphugger moments.
I guess the countdown is on. Only 4 more weeks until a new episode and hopefully *crosses fingers* for hiphugger squee moments.
texmex327, Dec 17, 2008
Guys we have to keep the posts to a three line minimum or we are going to get into trouble with the mods for spamming!
I know I am not a mod but personally, I don't feel like getting reprimanded by them for something we can sooo totally avoid. Believe me, I am guilty of it every now and again too but we really should try and follow the rules.
And yes, February is way tooooo far away for my tastes!! But I'm sure we will get through it! The next 3 weeks will go by faster than we think it will.
JoannaRose897 Police Officer
That would be nice to believe.. but I really do think that it's going to go by extemely slow. Let's hope it won't though.
Anyway, I'm not sure what to believe right now. I mean, what's up with the articles that have come out for the past two episodes saying that that particular episode is going to be the one where Calleigh and Eric decide to go for romance? I'm thinkin' that it's to boost ratings up, or at least that is part of it. Because I doubt that the stuff Emily and Adam have said in recent articles concerning Eric and Calleigh is false. It will happen, probably in February.. but I wish these articles that are giving flase information about when it will happen will stop coming out right before every episode.
I really cannot wait for February now though. I think that 7.14 and 7.16 are going to be two great E/C episodes.
JoannaRose897, Dec 17, 2008
From TVguide.com:
Matt's Mini Rant: CSI: Miami may be red-hot, but what they're doing ain't cool. After letting Emily Procter and Adam Rodriguez tease reporters with the promise a Calleigh-Delko hook-up, two weeks later 'shippers of said pairing have been given zilch to actually enjoy.
Its so good to know that we are not the only ones aware of this. I know they say patience is a virtue, so I will do my best to be patient.
hiphugger17 Coroner
texmex327 said: ↑
This could actually work in our favor. If they are doing it as false promotion (not the actual hooking up but the when) and people start getting pissed of they might realize it's not very smart from their part and they'd better speed things up. Given this ship is taking baby steps they should not mix that with getting people's hopes up with false info (if that's indeed what's going on). So no, it's not cool we've been kept waiting. Imagine if season seven is over and we are left with yet another cliffhanger and nothing else happening for the rest of the season! I know given the spoilers we have for 7.14 and 7.16 that's highly unlikely but we've been hopeful before just to be let down. I'm sorry I just kept on ranting but it does upset me that tptb or the media or whoever it is does not get their info straight :shifty:.
On a more positive note...
Spoiler: 7.16
I really can't wait to see the scene were Calleigh gives Eric his favorite Cuban snack. That is just :adore:. Bravo to whoever thought that one up .
hiphugger17, Dec 17, 2008
http://www.csifiles.com/news/171208_01.shtml
Adam and Emily once again speak about romance between their characters. LOL at Emily, wonder if she's been reading this thread . Seems they are just as anxious as us to see this happen!!
I understand they want to improve theirs ratings, but sometimes it's really annoying, it's just to much. And there is only just one way they can fix it. If they finally will show us great kissing scene including Calleigh and Eric or even something better like them in bed. We are patient, but after so many confusing informations we should get some kind of reward. And what else could be better then our favorite pair pouncing on each other?
I really hope they know something more about how this relationship will develop, but they just can't say anything yet. But if they are just playing with us I'll be really mad.
I know but in Adam and Emily's defense they never actually said WHEN it was going to happen....the two media outlets who reported on it did....they assumed it would be in the epsiodes that aired the day they interviewed them. So, IMO, it really is no one's fault but the two media outlets who reported it, leading all of us to believe that it would happen that night.
Read the actual interviews again, no where do Adam or Emily mention what episode it is going to happen in. The reporter does and you know what they say about assuming
I mean none of the interviewers actually asked them "when" it was going to happen. They should just ask them when it is supposed to happen and if they know, they might not say the exact ep but they would probably give us some kind of hint. I mean the media is reporting on the process of their characters moving torwards eachother and then assuming b/c Adam and Emily are acknowleding that fact that it is going to happen, the media then assumes it is going to be in the next episode.
I emailed Matt at TV Guide and told him basically the same thing. Someone should just ask them "when" the fans can expect to actually see them together.....we already know they are moving torwards a romance; that much is pretty obvious.
The show wants to improve ratings, I get that. IMO it is working. However, it is not CBS putting out press releases saying these things....it is reporters asking the questions and then assuming and basically making up the answer. All Adam and Emily are doing is confirming that their characters are probably headed for romance by answering the questions ask. They are not nor have they said that it is happening in the next closest episode.
Adam and Emily can only tease on the stuff that they "know" will happen. Episodes 712 to 714 have probably already been filmed. Not to mention that eps 715 and 716 are probably almost in the works too. So whatever they have seen or been told is going to happen, is what is driving their answers in these interviews. I firmly believe that if they are teasing us then TPTB are teasing them and not telling them everything. Which I don't think is happening. Adam and Emily are telling us basically all they know up to this point.
Jennifer Lab Technician
Actually, they likely haven't read anything on there. The article in CSI Files is nothing more than a summarization of what was in the Boston Herald.
I know but in Adam and Emily's defense they never actually said WHEN it was going to happen....the two media outlets who reported on it did....they assumed it would be in the epsiodes that aired the day they interviewed them. So, IMO, it really is no one's fault but the two media outlets who reported it in leading all of us to believe that it would happen.
She is absolutely right... none of the articles printed about the interviews with Adam and Emily regarding Eric & Calleigh's relationship have they EVER said their relationship was going to happen in any particular episode. It was nothing but the particular publication ASSUMING it would be in that week's episode. Matt needed to read the articles much more closely before he said what he did. Shame on him.
Jennifer, Dec 17, 2008
Jennifer said: ↑
What else is new with TV Guide??? :lol:
IMO they tend to be hypocritical and a mockery. I mean I hope they don't consider themselves journalists....they almost always stick their own opinions into a report or interview and then when someone calls them on it, they pass the blame onto someone else. Half the time the "scoops" they give out aren't even accurate or they simply regurgitate info already out there.
Exactly, when one of these media outlets asks Adam and Emily "when" it will happen and they either skirt the answer or give a hint then they will have actually reported on something true and not assumed anything.
Right now, they (the media) are the only ones looking like fools and disappointing the fans at this point. What Adam and Emily say doesn't get my hopes up or disappoint me, the media telling me it is going to happen when THEY obviously have no idea when it is actually going to happen nor ask when it is going to happen, is what disappoints and pisses me off.
HA HA delkolover, you make me laugh. I really don't believe what TVguide "reports" because they pissed me off with the whole "triangle" between Calleigh, Eric & Tara.
As for the other outlets reporting on what's going to happen between Eric & Calleigh maybe they are just as excited as we are and they can't wait to report it either. :lol:
But you are right, they haven't exactly said that it was going to happen this week, but that it will happen. So just knowing that they are getting there will make me happy. I look forward to watching their relationship unfold and the clothes coming off.
CSISDFlash Pathologist
Well they've built this thing up enough I hope that it will be as good as the build up or I will be disappointed. I just hope we get to see some of the action. With the luck we're having thought we are headed for a big'o Cliffhange at the end of the season.
CSISDFlash, Dec 17, 2008


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Музей єврейства міста Бердичева () — музей, присвячений єврейській культурі та релігійній традиції, історії життя євреїв на терені Бердичева.

Місце розташування
Музей єврейства міста Бердичева (Житомирської обл.) знаходиться у центрі міста (вулиця Європейська, 15), у приміщенні Бердичівської міської бібліотеки для дітей.

Історія створення
Ідея створити музей єврейства виношувалась кілька років. Після тривалих пошуків та обговорень, вибір припав на приміщення Бердичівської міської бібліотеки для дітей.

Реалізували проект вдалося завдяки співпраці з єврейською громадою міста Бердичева та її духовними наставниками — рабинами Моше Талером та Аківою Нємим.

18 вересня 2015 року відбулося урочисте відкриття Музею єврейства міста Бердичева.

Мета створення та діяльності музею єврейства Бердичева — накопичення та збереження єврейської історії, популяризація інформації про культуру та традиції єврейського народу. Експонати для музею частково подарувала єврейська громада Бердичева, частково — мешканці міста.

Про музей
Музей єврейства м. Бердичева — перший музей у місті, який присвячений історії становлення і розвитку місцевої єврейської громади, вшанування та увічнення пам'яті жертв Голокосту. Музейні експонати розповідають про вагомий вплив єврейської громади на розвиток Бердичева.

Експозиція музею поділена на кілька тематичних сегментів, до яких входять документи, фотографії, листи, спогади очевидців, що оповідають про життя євреїв у місті Бердичеві, починаючи з кінця 17 століття до теперішнього часу.

У музейних залах експонати на фоні 3D світлин старого міста розповідають все про життя бердичівських євреїв — про святкові дати й повсякдення заможних і бідних, лікарів, банкірів, інженерів, педагогів і звичайних ремісників та мілких торговців. Строкатої й колоритної громади, котра дала світу чимало видатних особистостей.

Перша зала присвячена історії, релігії і культурі єврейства. У залі представлені старовинні предмети побуту, святі книги, музичні інструменти, одяг і традиційний святковий стіл, накритий за традиціями шабата. Предметний ряд (предмети побуту, музичні інструменти) розповідає про життя бердичівських євреїв, а справжність речей довершують розповіді про духовне і повсякденне їх життя.

Їх долі поєднав Бердичів – тематичний фотосегмент музею, який розповідає про видатних євреїв, які народилися або перебували певний час у Бердичеві: Василь Гроссман, Шолом-Алейхем, Фрідріх Горенштейн, Стер Єлісаветський (дослідник Голокосту у Бердичеві), Антон Григорович та Микола Григорович Рубінштейн, та інші.

Друга і третя зала — присвячені тематиці Голокосту, вони мають найбільше емоційне навантаження. Головна мета — зберегти і донести до майбутніх поколінь історію про цю безпрецедентну трагедію євреїв у Бердичеві 1941—1944 рр., зберегти пам'ять про тих, хто страждав і був знищений. За роки окупації Бердичева було знищено 38 336 осіб єврейської національності.

Щорічно, 15 вересня, біля пам'ятного знака загиблим в'язням гетто, відбуваються мітинги вшанування пам'яті розстріляних євреїв. У цей один день, 1941 року було знищено більше ніж 12 тисяч євреїв.

Колекція
У музеї зібрано 198 предметів зберігання. Основне завдання у збирані колекції відобразити єврейську культуру та історію бердичівської єврейської громади, з часу першої згадки про євреїв (1593 рік) і до сьогодення. Це, в першу чергу, картини, археологічні знахідки, предмети побуту, грошові банкноти, пресса, архівні документи та інше.

Дослідження
У 2017 році була організована виставка «Медики-євреї», як результат дослідження ролі єврейської громади в історії розвитку медицини в місті. Ідея виникла у зв'язку із бажанням розповісти про неординарну особистість — уродженця Бердичева  Давида Шеренціса , лікаря, мецената, архітектора і засновника міського театру. У 2015—2017 рр. було проведено реставрацію приміщення, 14 січня 2018 року відбулася культурна подія року — відкриття Музично-драматичного театру на Європейській.

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/usr/sbin/chromeos-install /dev/sdb

*Reboot from the second internal SSD (holding down escape).
Note: choosing sda instead of sdb (or leaving out the /dev/sdb) will install the OS to the first internal drive.

A: I came across a similar problem. My solution was to use a bootable Ubuntu usb drive. I booted the Linux distro and ran the img writer from there.

A: Andrew, I'm trying to do exactly the same thing on my 901, have a Runcore 32GB drive with my windows partition on and, after succesfully running the cherry version of the Hexxeh Chrome OS Cherry Build (http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/) on a usb stick and installing it over the windows image, I'm struggling to get it onto the 4GB internal SSD.
Image Writer won't write to it.
Acronis clones the disk but can't make it bootable and due to the small size on the 901, I can't read the full instructions it gives on how to go about doing this afterwards!
Chromium itself always picks the Runcore SSD, whatever Bios setting I try and use to hide that drive.
I read that LinuxLive USB Creator 2.2 can be used to write a drive image to an internal drive if run from the command line and the --force option used. However I lost the page I was reading with the info on whilst trying to track down the program to download!!!
I'll re-post if I find a way and likewise, if you sort it out, please let me know what method was successful!


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