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Shan Ortiz Case
Case: Shan Ortiz
County: Pinellas
Case Number: CRC1115758CFANO
Charge: Sexual Intercourse While Having HIV
Charges Dropped Due to Legal Precedent, Not Baker's Organizations
This case, just like the Lenny Love Case, is another perfect example proving that Baker is lying about being beneficial or even being involved whatsoever. The charge in this case was "Sexual Intercourse While Having HIV." A previously appealed case highlighting the legal definition of "sexual intercourse" in Florida is the reason HIV Charges were dismissed in the Case of Shan Ortiz.
An appellate court in Florida has ruled that the state's HIV disclosure law can only be used to charge heterosexuals. The judges found that because the law referenced 'sexual intercourse' that it could only be applied to heterosexual activity since intercourse is only defined as "the penetration of the female sex organ by the male sex organ."
Impact On Shan Ortiz Case
The ruling has already had an impact on a case in Treasure Island, where the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorneys office threw out a case against a gay man (Shan Ortiz) charged with failing to disclose his HIV-positive status to his partner of four years.
But his former lover says that doesn't change the fact that the man had failed to disclose his HIV status, reports 13 News.
"I found out after we broke apart that he was, in fact, HIV positive for 20 years," the alleged victim said. "It's harmful to somebody's health and you're putting other people's life at risk. And you can't play God."
This case was dismissed by legal precedent and proves that Baker was not involved nor was any of his dubious organizations. If Baker wants to continue this charade, he needs to put up some proof of exactly how his organizations have been involved and exactly what they accomplished. For some reason Baker refuses to do so.
Lenny Love Case
Case: Lenny Love Case Number: C/11/CRA/19831 Common Pleas Case Number: B 1104307 State: Ohio County: Hamilton
Science And Evidence Prove Clark Baker Lying Again
This is the perfect case to prove that Clark Baker is not only lying when he claims that his OMSJ and/or HIV Innocence Group were involved in this case, but it also proves that the very science that Baker claims he uses to get HIV Criminal charges dismissed, actually worked against him in this case. See also the cases of Jose Alex Perez and Daniel Hay Lewis.
A physical examination of Love revealed that he is not HIV positive.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said the baby was examined at Children's Hospital for possible injuries consistent with Love's statements, but the baby did not exhibit any injuries.
Deters said his office also asked the court to order a mental evaluation of Love, and nothing in the court clinic evaluation supported Love's claims that he had abused the baby.
Deters said that since there was now no basis for the charges, the Hamilton County grand jury ignored them on Friday.
The Department of Jobs and Family Services and appropriate mental health authorities have been notified about Love's statements and condition, Deters said.
"I am relieved that the baby is fine and that this incident was the fabrication of a mentally unstable person. We always take these allegations seriously and must be absolutely positive that the incident did not occur," Deters said in a news release.
Deranged Man
The charges were dropped because a mentally deranged man lied not only about raping his own 6 month old child, but also because HIV Tests proved he was NOT HIV+ (just like Jose Alex Perez and Daniel Hay Lewis.) However, these facts did not stop another mentally deranged man from posting the lie that his "organization" was involved and helped to get the charges dropped by proving that HIV Tests are fraudulent. I have saved a download of Baker's HIV Innocence Group webpage as of August 25, 2011 just in case he tries to delete this case from the webpage.
Jerome Walker Case
Case: Jerome Walker State: Ohio County: Montgomery
Municipal Case Number: 2011-CRA-005516 Criminal Case Number: 11CR1906
Charge: 4 Counts Felonious Assault
The more I delve into the research of these cases, the more clear I become as to how Baker can make such specious claims. For instance, in the case of Jerome Walker, a 33 year old man who is definitely HIV+ per HIV test results (the ones Clark Baker claims are fraudulent) gave HIV to a 15 year old boy. Again, this is proven per HIV test results (the very same tests Clark Baker claims are fraudulent.)
Clark Baker claims that HIV Charges were dismissed in August 2011. This is not true. A grand jury indicted Mr. Walker on 4 counts of felonious assault which is the Felony Charge in the state of Ohio. If you were only to research theMunicipal charge, it would appear as if the Grand Jury dismissed the charges on June 27th, (but only if you were trying to fool others.)
Charge Charge Description Amended To Amended Description Finding
2903.11B1.F2 FELONIOUS ASSAULT Dismissed
* Also, WITHOUT PREJUDICE ON 6-23-11 INDICTMENT RETURNED BY THE GRAND JURY
End of New Disposition Entry by ACJ
New Disposition (Ref No 4) for Count 1 of 2903.11B1.F2 entered, as follows:
* Indigent Application Fee Amount to be Transferred to Common Pleas Court
R – Termination Entry Dismissed Direct Indictment returned by Grand Jury 6-24-11.pdf (imaged)
However, if you are so sure the Mr. Baker is not being completely honest (and commit an entire blog and hours of your time), you might research his claims a bit further. I called the Montgomery County Clerk in Ohio at 937-225-4536 and was given the Felony Indictment Case Number of 11CR1906. And this websitewhich lead me to find that Mr. Walker was CONVICTED of 2 of the 4 Felonious Assault Charges and sentenced to spend 2 Years in Confinement!
This does not exactly jibe with the information found at Mr. Baker's site which states that "All HIV Charges Dismissed Aug. 2011". I could further point out that Mr. Baker even got the month wrong. It was actually July 28, 2011 when Mr. Jerome Walker was CONVICTED of 2 counts of Felonious Assault with 2 Years of Confinement. Mr. Baker was only 3 days off, perhaps I should give him the benefit of the doubt since I nailed him on his other egregious lies?! NAH!
Cordlin Comer Case
Case: Cordlin Comer
Case Number: 2010-FY-0002103 Grand Rapids , Michigan
Charge: 2 Counts Aids-Sexual Penetration w/ Uninformed Partner
The Words Get In The Way (Of The Truth)
This case is interesting for many reasons. First it is the only case of the 25 listed at Baker's HIP/HIG site in which Baker even attempts to provide a morsel of proof that his organization has actually been beneficial to the outcome of a case, much less provided any help at all. Anyone who has ever read any of Clark Baker's many blogs (from Ex Liberal In Hollywood, to OMSJ, to CWBPI) or any of his so called "investigative reports" knows that he is extremely pedantic to say the least. He may be prolific with words, but he is not quite as forthcoming with actual facts. The cases Baker claim to have been involved with however, is quite a different story. Not once, until now, has Baker uttered one word or supplied one iota of proof as to how his organization has been involved in any of these cases.
For this case, Baker provides a letter from Mr. Comer's Defense Attorney, Mr. Kerchoff, that alludes to some mysterious "Sample Affidavit" that was "instrumental" in getting this case resolved. The fact that Baker does not provide the actual "Sample Affidavit" gives me pause. Hopefully it will be a part of the Court Documents when I get them. However, from the sound of Mr. Kerchoff's letter, it would appear as if this "Sample Affidavit" strengthened his case considerably. Unfortunately, the facts do not bear this out.
Plea Deal Rejected…No, Wait, Accepted
In January, the County Prosecutor offered a plea deal to decrease the charge from two counts to one. The defense attorney rejected the plea.
"AssistantKentCountyProsecutor Kevin Bramble said his office was willing to charge Comer with one charge of a person with AIDS having sex with an uninformed party that would have included both victims. (snip) Comer's attorney Jeffrey Kirchhoff said his client was rejecting the offer because they are still awaiting medical records in the case."
Three months later, in April, Defendant Comer accepted the exact same deal offered in January. Not only that, he pleaded guilty.
"Monday – the same day he was slated to go to trial – Comer accepted a plea offer and pleaded guilty to one count."
It appears that the Medical Records the attorney was waiting for, along with Baker's mysterious "Sample Affidavit" did not do one bit of good! The County Prosecutor did not offer a better plea deal than what was offered months before. And the Prosecutor got a conviction. If Attorney Kerchoff was hoping the Medical Records could be manipulated as Clark Baker claims is one of his main tools in these cases, that would appear to be a big dud here as in the cases of Jose Alex Perez and Daniel Hay Lewis I have previously discussed at this site.
Interesting Twist
If Attorney Kirchoff was truly happy about the outcome, it would have to be that his client did not receive more jail time. I doubt he could count a victory in which his client accepted the exact plea deal offered months before and a client that pleaded guilty. However, the judge may have gone easy on the jail time since the victim married the defendant and bore him a child!
– A man who pleaded guilty to having sex with a woman and not telling her he has AIDS is now the victim's husband and the father of her child.
– In the courtroom was his wife there to support him. She also happened to be the victim he pleaded guilty to potentially exposing to HIV.
– Neither the bride-victim, nor the groom-defendant wanted to make a statement.
-Judge George Buth revealed that Comer had married the victim and the two of them had a child together.
How can Clark Baker credibly claim to have aided in the "resolution" of this case when the defendant pleaded guilty to the original plea deal offered even after all evidence was accounted for? None of Baker's "winning strategies" that he boasts about at his HIP/HIG site helped to generate a better outcome for this defendant than the County Prosecutor had offered in the beginning of this case. Quite simply, Baker has once again claimed victory for a case he was not active in and for which he offered nothing productive, especially regarding his AIDS Denialist "Strategies".


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Book review: 'Bernie Takes Tahoe' back to its gambling heyday
Gloria Sinibaldi
'Bernie Takes Tahoe'
By Arturo Raymond
Double Up Press
Lake Tahoe native Arturo Raymond introduces us to Bernie in his zany novel "Bernie Takes Tahoe" published by Double Up Press.
If you are looking for a literary masterpiece or searching for inspiration through well-crafted prose you won't find it here. But you will find a lot of laughs on this wild ride with Bernie and a cast of interesting characters including a sweet German shepherd named David who becomes vicious when he hears the word "Devil."
This Tahoe tale is set in 1975, the heyday of Tahoe's nightlife and gambling scene. If you experienced that era, the historical content will make you smile. Tahoe references will keep you saying, "I remember that" or "I've been there." "Bernie Takes Tahoe" is fun, nostalgic and sometimes a little naughty. Crack open a cold beer, bring out the pretzels and enjoy a crazy adventure with "Numbers" Bernie.
Bernie is a larger than life character inspired by Raymond's childhood memories while growing at the lake. He is a "roast and a tribute to my late father," Raymond said.
"An Elvis Presley protégé, Bernie is known around the casino circuit as a lounge lizard after his nightclub act falls off the billboards at the High Sierra and descends to the depths of the Pinecone Lounge only to crash and burn there, too. His gambling obsession has left him debt filled and in dire straits. What now? We love to hate Bernie yet by the end of the book we love him, period. Why? Maybe it's because he so darned honest!"
With a healthy dose of imagination and some generous embellishments Bernie was born. He will immediately catch your eye on the front cover surrounded by his adorning female groupies. Posed in his element, at the gaming table, it's easy to understand why they call him "Numbers." Not only is he a hard-core gambling fool, he's a self-proclaimed womanizer, bourbon slamming, morally unhinged oaf. Bernie experiences his fair share of "having his way with the women." They can't seem to get enough of him, until he meets Zelda, that is, the evangelical, mysterious woman who changes everything, including his luck. Bernie makes his way from being busted and disgusted to the pinnacle of "cool", but not without some detours along the way.
He never misses an opportunity to call somebody, "Baby" and although it's grating on the nerves at first it turns out to be what makes him endearing.
Readers will follow Bernie on his wacky escapades where other characters surface, one of which is Crunch, a cracker-eating crazy. Crunch has only one motive: get in on Bernie's gambling action. "Gimme them numbers!!!" I personally found Crunch to be a bit creepy but his antics contribute quite colorfully to the storyline.
Bernie Takes Tahoe" is a gambling tale with a twist. King David even gets involved, (no not the dog, the biblical figure.) Will Bernie change his ways and find redemption? Maybe.
With a Jackie Collins style of writing you will either like this one or not. I thought it was funny and light, maybe a bit slow to take off but all in all it delivered.
Gloria Sinibaldi resides part-time in South Lake Tahoe. Her short story "A Means To Survive" appears in "Tahoe Blues." She is a job coach, trainer and author. Contact her at: glorialinda16@gmail.com.
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The Toronto Raptors followed their first loss of the season with an impressive victory against the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday, beating their Eastern Conference rival by a final score of 129-112.
Kyle Lowry and Kawhi Leonard led the way for the Raptors, but it took a team effort to hold off a late run by the 76ers.
The 76ers had no answer for Kawhi Leonard. In 33 minutes of action, the two-time All-Star had 31 points, seven rebounds, four assists and four steals. He shot an efficient 10-for-19 from the field and didn't commit a single turnover for the second straight game.
Leonard was at his best in the third quarter, when he scored 11 of his 31 points. He's now averaging 9.2 points per third quarter this season, putting him behind only Paul George (10.8) and Stephen Curry (10.4) for the most in the NBA.
It didn't look like the Raptors were going to need Leonard in the fourth quarter, but Joel Embiid caught fire and made the game interesting. Leonard responded by pouring in eight more points and coming up with one timely steal on Ben Simmons.
In other words, the MVP chants were more than justified for Leonard on Tuesday.
Don't let Leonard's performance overshadow what Lowry did, as he finished with 20 points and 12 assists, giving him his sixth straight double-digit assist game of the season.
According to TSN's Josh Lewenberg, Lowry didn't record his sixth double-digit assist game until Dec. 15 last season. Equally as impressive: Lowry is now one more double-digit assist game from tying the franchise record set by Damon Stoudamire in - wait for it - 1996.
That was ... a long time ago.
Lowry also hit a clutch 3-pointer for good measure that basically ended any hopes of a 76ers comeback. He's off to an unbelievable start this season.
Ben Simmons came close to a triple-double, but he struggled to take care of the ball all game long, committing a career-high 11 turnovers.
Leonard was involved in a lot of those plays. He used his long arms to disrupt Simmons when they were matched up together and picked off a couple of his passes when he was in help position.
It's matchups like this that show how valuable Leonard's two-way play is.
Leonard and the Raptors took advantage of many of those opportunities, too, outscoring the 76ers 29-21 in points off of turnovers.
Your +/- winner of the night goes to Pascal Siakam, who finished the game with an eye-popping +24 next to his name.
After scoring a career-high 22 points against the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday, Siakam did a little bit of everything against the 76ers to the tune of 15 points, 15 rebounds, three steal and two assists. Those 15 rebounds set a career-high and gave him his second double-double of the season.
That's pretty impressive considering Siakam had zero double-doubles in his first two seasons with the Raptors.
Pascal Siakam, who didn't record a double-double in 136 games over his first 2 seasons, already has 2 in 8 games this season. He's got 13 points and 11 rebounds midway through the 3rd quarter tonight.
Is it still too early to start the Most Improved Player talk? Because Siakam's case is growing by the game.
It was another all-around effort by the Raptors, but Jonas Valanciunas deserves some recognition for his play.
In 17 minutes off the bench, the Lithuanian scored 23 points on 8-for-14 shooting from the field and a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line. With all but two of those points coming before the fourth, Valanciunas actually outscored Embiid 21-20 through three quarters.
While Embiid scored 11 points in the final frame, bringing his scoring total up to 31 on the game, there aren't many teams around the league that can bring a centre as talented as Valanciunas off the bench. When Fred VanVleet is healthy enough to return, the combination of him and Valanciunas could help Toronto's all-bench lineup find their rhythm again.


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My sibling and I have a terribly busy HVAC business. My dad started the heating equipment business, when he was a young man! When my sibling and I were old enough to learn about HVAC equipment, he started to teach us the trade. My sibling and I learned pretty much everything from Dad, and the two of us were able to repair any heating equipment before the two of us were able to drive a car. My sibling learned plenty about HVAC equipment in the Army, and I went straight to work for my dad. Even though the two of us both chose a totally different path, the two of us still ended up running the family business. My dad retired a little while ago, and my sibling and I have been swamped with the amount of work. After talking for weeks and weeks, the two of us eventually decided to hire another individual to work alongside both of us. My sibling and I interviewed several different guys, until the two of us found somebody who seemed right for the job. He also learned about HVAC equipment work from his dad. He was a Nate certified service professional, and he had a special certification in refrigeration repair work. He wanted more currency than my sibling and I offered, so the two of us discussed the hire for several afternoons. My sibling and I did not discover any other individuals that seemed passionate about HVAC equipment. We soon decided to extend an offer to the Nate Certified Technician, and the two of us made the offer for more than he originally asked for. The two of us did not want someone else to grab the guy, because the two of us took our time to make the decision.
Have you ever checked out that TV show called House Hunters? I like to watch the property networks because they are pretty much always interesting, plus I especially adore House Hunters International… I learn so much about other countries by enjoying that show regularly. I will say that occasionally I am embarrassed by the way Americans behave when they are searching for a property in other countries. It is unquestionably simple to see how blessed all of us happen to be. The bunch of us are accustomed to every convenience all of us could possibly imagine. The bunch of us have incredible appliances plus counters in the kitchen space, plus all of us hardly ever cook. The bunch of us have swimming pools we don't use often. The bunch of us have incredible Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C equipment such as Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C with zone control, heated flooring, plus heating equipment that cost as much as some people's yearly earnings. I am constantly in shock at how demanding our countrymen typically are. Many properties in other countries come with humble things, however some have no air conditioning equipment at all. Others have mini-split ductless air conditioner equipment, no doubt added in an attempt to appeal to American purchasers with American attitudes plus American money. Of course, most properties have gas heating equipment of some sort, but honestly not all. A lot of people rely on wood stoves plus fireplaces. I am sure there are unquestionably people who would even dream of a smart control machine or heating equipment for a pool they never use. I recently went out of the country for the first time in my whole life, plus I rented a locale online. It did not have central air conditioning equipment, but it did have a ductless mini split in the various rooms of the property. I used it every day plus it was very challenging without it.
Owning a pet is definitely no small responsibility. Dogs and cats become members of the family, and we have to take the best care of them. That is not too tough as long as everything is going smoothly… However, if your pet gets sick, you can count on having some pretty hefty bills flowing in. I speak from experience because my pet is just getting over some bizarre illness. So, after trying to manage it myself for around 3 weeks, I finally gave up and took her to the vet. The vet bill was over $200, and I was told if she didn't get better by next Friday, I would need to do a whole lot more. Of course, she didn't get better, and so it cost me more. The other thing that is going to cost me a great deal of money, though, is the air conditioning equipment. You see, our pet is running a fever… Even though it is now winter, it is seriously tepid where we live. Normally, I would not use the air conditioning equipment and would just open the windows and use the ceiling fans. However our pet has to have the air conditioning equipment on all the time with this condition. If I don't keep her thermostat reading low, she will likely have some serious repercussions. So, here I sit, running the air conditioning equipment all day even in the winter season. Granted the cooling costs will not be quite as high as they are in Summer because the Heating, Ventilation & A/C equipment doesn't have to operate as hard, however still. The air conditioning equipment is not free, however of course our pet is worth it.
My little sister was always so wrapped up in her books as well as her schoolstudies that life would sometimes pass her by, but I saw this quality in her at a young age. And so I decided that I was going to be her protector early on. And while our parents were consistently trying to make her be different, I accepted her for who she was. Now that we're older I can look back to see that she was probably on the "spectrum" as they say, but back then all of us didn't even know what autism was; Not that it would have mattered to me one way or the other, as her big brother. Now as grownups, our roles are the same, except that she runs a successful Heating, Ventilation, as well as A/C consulting business. And so I run her shop for her. She employs 6 Heating, Ventilation, and A/C techs and she is fantastic with the work. But she is pretty bad at handling people. Some of these Heating, Ventilation, as well as A/C techs even thought they could get away with padding the timeclock and being paid for tasks they didn't do. But believe me, I set them straight. My little sister is the Heating, Ventilation, as well as A/C expert, heck she is an expert with almost anything involving math or science, but I am definitely the people handling expert! I'm the supervisor for the Heating, Ventilation, and A/C techs, however I don't know the first thing about the equipment. I tell the HVAC workers "you keep the air conditioners in line, and I will just keep you all in line." Some of the Heating, Ventilation, as well as A/C techs are afraid of me, which is exactly the way I planned it to be! And I intend to keep it this way.
Living in a very warm region is charming – if you love being hot all of the time. But if you are more like the rest of the population, or like me, then living in a region with an endless summer time gets super old in my opinion! Of course, both of us do get about a month of actual "cold" weather, though it's nothing what some of my northern family members contend with. Besides, getting through a few weeks of cold weather is nothing if you know exactly just how to handle it! My secret weapon is a dehumidifier, which works in our favor for every day of the year when we're home. I've noticed that when the weather outside is hot plus humid, the dehumidifier works incredibly well to dry out the inside of our home, and that in turn makes it easier for our home to cool down in the summer. This is because the air conditioning system isn't trying to cool the air as much as it is trying to cool the home itself. In the Winter time though the dehumidifier still proves useful for the same purpose it's in there for. There's no sense in having a furnace at our home since there's only a few weeks of cold weather each year, so I instead choose to rely on our electric heater more often than not. People tend to worry when I talk about using a portable heater, but you know what, portable heating systems are much safer now! Most of them come with failsafe systems, so that the unit will automatically shut off if it gets over a certain temperature. Plus, a normal heating system will honestly be really hot and it'll warm up the home or the room itself much quicket. Whatever you choose it'll allow you to stay cool and comfortable.
One big tip-off that you'll get from your Heating in addition to Air Conditioning system, is a sligh notification that it's time for some sort of repair. For example, if there's a funny odor, and it certainly isn't an odor that you can confuse with much of anything else with because it's a distinct moldy odor then it's serious. This type of odor signifies the growth of mold in the HVAC duct of your heating, ventilation and cooling. One should be extra careful when getting the mold treated by an Heating in addition to Air Conditioning worker. However HVAC technician's are equipped with the respected tools to get mold out of a HVAC duct system. Don't do what my brother did! That fool brother of mine dealt with this situation in his home, in addition to quickly found that the mold growth in the Heating in addition to Air Conditioning ducts was more extensive than he thought, it was everywhere. Did he call a professional heating, ventilation in addition to undefined repair worker to clean out the HVAC duct? No he did not. Did he at least have the formal training in addition to expertise to remove the mold in addition to keep it from coming back? That's a definite no! My brother thought he was smart so he sprayed bleach into the HVAC duct of his home from every supply in addition to the return ventilation. That of course made it so that the Heating in addition to Air Conditioning system ductwork carried the bleach smell all through the house, which practically ruined the air quality and he had to leave his windows open. I'll say this though he certainly needed an HVAC technician.
In my neighborhood, there is an old man who is always being seen riding around in his pick-up truck. He will go around slowly with an arm hanging out the window and getting baked in the sun while searching the area for junk and recyclables that he throws into the back of his truck. I think that sometimes he just takes a bunch of it to the dump, but I actually think he may fix a lot of it up to sell to local pawn shops. I only met him a few times, but every time I spoke to him he seemed really nice. Last time when we spoke together, I got on the subject of how warm my house was. I needed something to cool my house without having to spend the five thousand dollars that I would actually need for a new air conditioner. I asked the man if he knew where he could find one of those old-school window units. Then I could at least have a couple of cooler rooms. He nodded wordlessly before hopping into his truck and driving off. He came back about thirty minutes later with a window AC unit in the back of his truck. I didn't know if he had one lying around his home, or if he just knew where he could find one. Regardless, he found one for me in less than an hour. I gave him a hundred dollars for getting it for me. He said that was too much for the unit, but I insisted on letting him take it. He then helped me bring the unit inside to set it up. It worked perfectly, minus the fact that it smelled a little funny. The fabulous air conditioning was worth the bad smell for a few days.
I have quite a few pets around our house… I have a cat, a dog as well as a pet hamster, having multiple pets can cause a lot of problems with the air quality in our home! There is regularly a lot of pet hair plus pet dander around the locale. The hair plus dander gets up in the air vents of our heating plus air conditioner. This has cost me a lot of money in heating as well as a/c repairs plus ductwork cleaning. I am having to call our local heating as well as a/c company to send out a certified heating as well as cooling specialist to clean our ductwork, air vents plus general a/c plan plus our heating plan regularly because of all the pet hair plus dander caught in the vents! It is certainly costly having to do this all of the time. The a/c plus heating plan regularly alerts me when this happens thanks to our smart thermostat that is on our wall. The smart thermostat is certainly smart! Not only does it guess our desired temperatures in our home, but it also alerts me when the air vents are seeming to be congested. This smart thermostat was a blessing when I got our pets for this genuinely practical reason! I love our smart thermostat almost as much as I love our pets. The smart thermostat has made a large change in our life. If you have pets, you should consider getting one. Also consider getting your ductworks cleaned by the local heating plus cooling company as well! You'd be surprised at the difference in air quality.
Last month, I went shopping for a brand new & current heating & cooling system. I had been shopping around for quite a while not knowing what kind of heating & a/c proposal to get. I went around to a handful of heating and cooling companies in the area and asked for information and opinions on assorted heating & cooling components. The HVAC workers provided me with information on everything from a ductless mini-split unit to radiant heated floors to window air conditioners. I even received information on some fancier models that included humidifiers, dehumidifiers, and air purifiers, but I don't think I have a need for all of that. On top of all these different heating and cooling models, there was also the choice between several types of thermostats that would be on the wall that include choices such as dial thermostats, digital thermostats & smart thermostats. You control a smart thermostat using your PC, laptop or iphone through an app, & you can have it turned on or off when you are away from your home! It sounds entirely awesome & innovative! Also, the smart thermostat detects and recognize the most frequently used heating and cooling settings in your home. The smart thermostat then automatically adjusts your home to your favorite settings. I have decided to go with a standardl heating & cooling proposal with the smart thermostat, and just because it sounded awesome! In addition to being cool and operating efficiently, the smart thermostat will cut our utility bills. I am very excited to get it installed!
When my sibling told all the people that she wanted to be an Heating and Air Conditioning service technician, the family freaked out! I don't know why, though. My sibling was 15 years old at the time, sure – and it seemed like such a major decision to just make on a whim! Still, she seemed like she really wanted to attend the technical school for the last 2 years of her public education. She would be able to acquire her school diploma, all the while studying the heating and air-conditioning trade. She needed our parents permission to switch to the technical program and school though. Hesitant at first, my parents were legitimately surprised and shocked by my sibling's decision! They thought it was crazy for a girl to choose a man's profession! My sibling thought that was ridiculous too, though she told them it was all so sexist. My sibling begged and pleaded for a week, yet our parents fought him the whole way until they finally decided to consider looking at the Heating and Air Conditioning service program. My mom asked for my input on the matter as always, because I was the oldest and already in school. Even though it was still the early 90s, I told my parents that they were being unrealistic about what my sibling can do. They wanted our sibling to choose her own future, yet they dangled the keys over her like she was a trick dog! I told our mom and dad that it was better not to argue about her choice. It was definitely the right choice, as each of my siblings signed up for the Heating plus Air Conditioning service classes. My parents signed the forms for all of them, too! My sibling completed that class, and went on to do wonderful things!


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LORA Inclinometer For Subway Monitoring In Southeast Asia - Co., Ltd.
Recently ZC's LoRa inclinometers have been successfully used on a geotechnical monitoring project in Southeast Asia. It was a major subway line, beside which some hi-rises were to be built. In order to make sure that the soil and underground structures are safe and sound, people needed to check regularly if there were any unexpected changes in tilt angle of the railway sleepers.
On site there were two parallel tunnels. Inside each 40 locations on the railway were to be monitored. Traditionally they should be linked together by cables so each sensor could be provided with electric power and data collected by each sensor could be delivered to a datalogger for temporary storage and further transmission.
This time the customer decided to try the wireless way. 40 LoRa inclinometers and 4 gateways were deployed along the railway in each tunnel. Installed on the wall above the sidewalk, each gateway supported 8 inclinometers close to it. No cables were used for the inclinometers, as they were powered by high capacity Lithium batteries while communication with the gateways was wireless LoRa.
By contrast, the gateways could be powered either by batteries or an external power source. Each gateway was connected to an on-site industrial PC, and the PC would send data to the air via GPRS so engineers were able to analyze data in the office. No dataloggers or RTU's were needed.
The wireless solution proved to be simple, cost-effective and successful.
ZC's LoRa inclinometer is a dual axis tilt sensor with +/-15 deg measuring range, 0.001 deg resolution and 0.01 deg accuracy. With the help of a LoRa gateway, it's able to work continuously for 2-4 years. One gateway is capable of supporting up to 64 sensors, as far as 2.5 kilometers away.
It is believed that LoRa inclinometers, LoRa VW nodes as well as other geological sensors based on LoRa protocol will be increasingly widely used for geo-monitoring.


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package monocle.generic

import language.higherKinds
import monocle.PTraversal
import monocle.function.Each
import monocle.{ Iso, Traversal }
import monocle.generic.internal.TupleGeneric
import cats.Applicative
import cats.syntax.cartesian._
import shapeless.{ ::, Generic, HList, HNil }

object product extends ProductOptics

trait ProductOptics {
  def productToTuple[S <: Product](implicit ev: TupleGeneric[S]): Iso[S, ev.Repr] =
    Iso[S, ev.Repr](s => ev.to(s))(t => ev.from(t))

  implicit def hNilEach[A] = new Each[HNil, A] {
    def each: Traversal[HNil, A] = Traversal.void[HNil, A]
  }

  implicit def hConsEach[A, Rest <: HList](implicit restEach: Each[Rest, A]) = new Each[A :: Rest, A] {
    def each: Traversal[A :: Rest, A] = new PTraversal[A :: Rest, A :: Rest, A, A] {
      def modifyF[F[_]: Applicative](f: A => F[A])(s: A :: Rest): F[A :: Rest] =
        (f(s.head) |@| restEach.each.modifyF(f)(s.tail)).map(_ :: _)
    }
  }

  implicit def productEach[S, SGen <: HList, A](implicit gen: Generic.Aux[S, SGen], genEach: Each[SGen, A]): Each[S, A] = new Each[S, A] {
    def each: Traversal[S, A] = new Traversal[S, A] {
      def modifyF[F[_]: Applicative](f: A => F[A])(s: S): F[S] =
        Applicative[F].map(genEach.each.modifyF(f)(gen.to(s)))(gen.from)
    }
  }
}


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#include "tensorflow/compiler/jit/graph_to_functiondef.h"

#include "tensorflow/cc/framework/ops.h"
#include "tensorflow/cc/ops/function_ops.h"
#include "tensorflow/cc/ops/standard_ops.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/framework/function_testlib.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/graph/equal_graph_def.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/graph/graph_constructor.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/graph/graph_def_builder.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/lib/core/status_test_util.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/platform/test.h"

namespace tensorflow {
namespace {

bool EqualFunctionDef(const FunctionDef& a, const FunctionDef& b,
                      string* diff) {
  // TODO(phawkins) use a more sophisticated equality test.
  if (a.DebugString() != b.DebugString()) {
    if (diff) {
      *diff = strings::StrCat("Definition mismatch for function ",
                              a.signature().name(), ":\n", a.DebugString(),
                              "\n ---- vs. ----\n", b.DebugString());
    }
    return false;
  }
  return true;
}

TEST(GraphToFunctionDefTest, Basics) {
  Scope root = Scope::NewRootScope().ExitOnError();
  auto a = ops::_Arg(root.WithOpName("A"), DT_FLOAT, 0);
  auto b = ops::_Arg(root.WithOpName("B"), DT_FLOAT, 1);
  auto c = ops::_Arg(root.WithOpName("C"), DT_FLOAT, 2);
  auto d = ops::Add(root.WithOpName("D"), a, b);
  auto e = ops::Add(root.WithOpName("b"), d, c);
  auto f = ops::Neg(root.WithOpName("h"), e);
  auto g = ops::AddN(root.WithOpName("G"), std::initializer_list<Output>{e, f});
  auto h = ops::_Retval(root.WithOpName("H"), g, 0);

  GraphDef graph_def;
  root.ToGraphDef(&graph_def);

  std::unique_ptr<Graph> graph(new Graph(OpRegistry::Global()));
  GraphConstructorOptions options;
  TF_EXPECT_OK(ConvertGraphDefToGraph(options, graph_def, graph.get()));

  FunctionDef fdef;
  TF_EXPECT_OK(GraphToFunctionDef(*graph, "test_fn", &fdef));

  FunctionDef fdef_expected = FunctionDefHelper::Create(
      "test_fn",                             // function name
      {"a: float", "b: float", "c: float"},  // inputs
      {"h_0: float"},                        // outputs
      {},                                    // attrs
      {
          // nodes in the function body
          {{"D"}, "Add", {"a", "b"}, {{"T", DT_FLOAT}}},
          {{"b_0"}, "Add", {"D:z:0", "c"}, {{"T", DT_FLOAT}}},
          {{"h"}, "Neg", {"b_0:z:0"}, {{"T", DT_FLOAT}}},
          {{"G"}, "AddN", {"b_0:z:0", "h:y:0"}, {{"N", 2}, {"T", DT_FLOAT}}},
      },
      {{"h_0", "G:sum:0"}});  // return values

  string diff;
  bool fdefs_equal = EqualFunctionDef(fdef_expected, fdef, &diff);
  EXPECT_TRUE(fdefs_equal) << diff;
}

}  // namespace
}  // namespace tensorflow


1600 – Queen Elizabeth l (1533-1603) granted permission for the charter of the British East India Company (1600-1858), also known as the John Company, on December 31, 1600 to establish trade routes, ports, and trading relationships with the Far East, Southeast Asia, and India. Trade in spices was its original focus, but later traded in cottons, silks, indigo, saltpeter, and tea. Due to political and other factors, the tea trade didn't begin until the late 1670s.
1662 – King Charles II (1630-1685) while in exile, married the Portuguese Infanta Catherine de Braganza (1638–1705). Catherine's dowry was the largest ever registered in world history. Portugal gave to England two million golden crusados, Tangier and Morocco in North Africa, Bombay in India, and also permission for the British to use all the ports in the Portuguese colonies in Africa, Asia and the Americas, thus giving England their first direct trading rights to tea.
Retrieved from WhatsCookingAmerica.net in 2011, September 27.


Dr. Yury Glikman, head of the working group Open Service Engineering, at Fraunhofer FOKUS, was reelected as president of the OW2-Consortium on the 23rd of March 2016 in Paris. With more than 2000 members OW2 belongs to the most important Open Source communities worldwide.
Glikman is an expert in Cloud Computing and Open Source. At the Fraunhofer-Institute FOKUS, he is involved with the themes Open Data, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. The focus in particular being technical interoperability.
OW2 brings together software developers from around the world that jointly develop industrial Open Source middleware and software-infrastructure and make these available for everybody. Apart from networking the Open Source community, the aim of the consortium is the development of Open Source middleware, general business applications and to further Cloud Computing platforms.


In the past few weeks the word 'frugality' has cropped up in connection with organizations and consumers. I wonder if it is the new buzz word and we are now going to see a crop of books on 'frugal organizations'? This could be a good author opportunity – there are many books on frugal living including 'Frugal Living for Dummies' but nothing specifically about frugal organizations that I stumbled across when interrogating amazon.com.
brand, and convenience, has become the dominant mind-set among consumers in the United States – and probably in other wealthy countries as well. Two-thirds of American shoppers are cutting coupons more frequently, buying low price over convenience, and emphasizing saving over spending. Per capita consumption expenditure has declined across demographic groups. Consumer sentiment remains weak. These trends are not going to change, no matter the pace of economic change.
Some organizations already have a mindset of frugality. Walmart is the classic example here. There's a debate on this in Business Week putting the pros and cons of Walmart's approach, and there are many tales (perhaps apocryphal of Walmart employees sharing hotel rooms, using free pens, etc that reinforce the image of very tight financial controls). Tesco has a similar attitude – for example, its headquarter building reflects caution when it comes to discretionary spend.
Spending by Chinese households as a percentage of GDP is roughly half the US consumption ratio and remains significantly below private spending levels in Europe and Japan. And despite rising sales of items such as automobiles and household appliances, the ratio of private spending to GDP in China today has actually fallen relative to Chinese spending levels of a decade ago.
"Everyone knows that corporate growth–true growth, not just agglomeration–springs from innovation. And the common wisdom is that companies must spend lavishly on R&D if they are to innovate at all. But in these fiscally cautious times, where every line item of every budget in every company is under intense scrutiny, many organizations are doing just the opposite.
The old consumption pattern cannot be sustained any more. The main idea now is how to create consumption for all these consumers-from China, India, and from other countries-given our resource constraints, given our environmental constraints. That's the biggest challenge to the world.
Designing frugal organizations that add value different from financial growth and conspicuous consumption may be the way to go.


Can cities use CEQA to circumvent the HAA? We filed suit against Sonoma to find out.
The City of San Mateo denied housing. Today, we filed suit.
We sued Sausalito. And then we won.
San Mateo denies housing. CaRLA fights back.


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Q: Need queue module to be shared between two applications I need to share some queue between two applications on same machine, one is Tornado which is going to occasionally add message to that queue and another is python script runs from cron which is going in every iteration add new messages. Can anyone suggest me module for this ?
(Can this be solved with redis usage, I avoid to use mysql for this purpose )

A: I would use redis with a list. You can push a element top, and rpop to remove from the tail.
See  redis rpop
and redis lpushx

A: The purest way I can think of to do this is with IPC. Python has very good support for IPC between two processes when one process spawns another, but not in your scenario. There are python modules for ipc such as sysv_ipc and posix_ipc. But if you are going to have your main application built in tornado, why not just have it listen on a zeromq socket for published messages.
Here is a link with more information. You want the Publisher-Subscriber model.
http://zeromq.github.io/pyzmq/eventloop.html#tornado-ioloop
Your cron job will start and publish messages a to zeromq socket. Your already running application will receive them as subscriber.

A: Try RabbitMQ for hosting the queue independent of your applications, then access using Pika, which even comes with a Tornado adapter.  Just pick the appropriate model: queue/exchange/topic and protocol of the message you want (strings, json, xml, yaml) and you are set.

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Mexico City becomes first jurisdiction in country to outlaw conversion therapy
Muskan Yadav | JURIST International Editor-at-Large
July 28, 2020 08:52:29 am
The Mexico City Congress has approved a bill reforming the city's penal code to criminalize conversion therapy.
The reform seeks to penalize practitioners of conversion therapy, and the relevant provision in the Code specifies "the criminalization of contracts, treatments, therapies or services, tasks or activities that pretend to correct the sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression that undermines free self-determination."
Conversion therapy is intended to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. It employs practices that range from psychological counseling to those of a religious nature to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and minors are especially vulnerable.
According to the bill that was approved in a special session on Friday, forcing someone to undergo the therapy is punishable by up to five years of imprisonment, and a longer period where a minor is forced to undergo it.
Temístocles Villaneuva, who led the proposal as a local representative of the MORENA party, had said earlier that the criminalization of the therapy will bring wider acceptance, greater security, lower violence and formal protection to the LGBT community.
The approval makes Mexico City the first jurisdiction in the country to outlaw the therapy. Mexico's federal legislators are considering a nationwide ban, and the capital city's move is being hailed as a positive step for the states in the country to follow.
The UN Independent Expert on Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity had called for a global ban on conversion therapy during a Human Rights Council meeting earlier this month. While only a few countries (Germany, Malta, Ecuador, Brazil and Taiwan) have criminalized it so far, efforts are gaining momentum in the US (20 states and multiple cities have already banned it) and several other countries.


Ohio will soon have a law in place that provides a "legal safe harbor" from tort claims related to a data breach, to entities that have implemented and comply with certain cybersecurity frameworks. It remains to be seen whether any entity will ever be in a position to take advantage of the affirmative defense this law offers. Below is a summary of the key provisions, followed by comments on why the safe harbor is likely the equivalent of a really small umbrella in a downpour.
Safe Harbor Scope – The new law provides covered entities with an affirmative defense to tort claims based on Ohio law or brought in an Ohio court alleging that a failure to implement reasonable security standards resulted in a data breach.
(3) The scale and scope of the cybersecurity program must be appropriately tailored to the covered entity's size, complexity, available resources, nature of operations and sensitivity of information to be protected.
Showing that the covered entity obtained a certification from a third-party auditor of compliance with a framework/standard at some point in time may not be sufficient to meet a defendant's burden of proof – plaintiffs will likely argue that the covered entity must show compliance in fact at the time of the data breach. It is not uncommon for a merchant to obtain a certification by a third-party assessor that the merchant was compliant with PCI DSS at the time of the assessment, only to have the forensic firm conducting an investigation of a payment card security incident prepare a report that finds that the merchant was not compliant.
The Ohio law that offers a "legal safe harbor" sounds great until you look at the limited scope of the safe harbor and the challenges that will go into proving eligibility for the affirmative defense. Certainly, if there is an ability to assert the affirmative defense, it creates another obstacle for a defendant to put in the plaintiff's path. But there are several paths a plaintiff can choose where this safe harbor will not come into play.


He may not yet have his father's trembly, Old Testament delivery but Ian Paisley Jnr (DUP, North Antrim) still brought something of the dust of the wilderness of Edom to proceedings.
As sun-baked prophets did in Biblical postexilic days, so did Mr Paisley corrugate his brow and ask an unfashionable question which laid bare the world and its wicked ways.
The Commons was discussing the fetid Jimmy Savile affair. It had been raised on an Urgent Question by Rob Wilson, the Reading East Tory who has played a scorcher on this issue.
Mr Wilson argued that the BBC, which employed Savile, appeared not to want 'to get to the bottom' of the scandal.
BBC chairman Lord Patten must wish he had been more polite to Mr Wilson when the Reading man first started to raise his Savile doubts two weeks ago.
Maria Miller, Culture Secretary, dealt with Mr Wilson yesterday with all the snort and brio of an anger management-trained switchboard telephonist.
Though unexciting, she was a model of caution.
Her Labour opponent, Harriet Harman, wanted a cranking-up of child protection checks at the BBC. The Harman response is characteristic of today's politicians. Faced with something bad, they reach for rules, procedures, management solutions. Their default reaction is to demand new tiers of scrutiny, creating more jobs for the inspectorate class.
It is a response that shies away from the simple gauge of unspoken decency but egalitarians dislike morality unless it can be codified to their own convenience.
Mr Paisley rose. Tall fella. He has his father's shoulders and skull-shape and Northern Irish accent. As I say, the larynx does not yet have the entrancing, papery creak but it is still a strong, clear voice, the Ulster uplift giving it a tone of disbelief.
He asked Mrs Miller if she was truly convinced that attitudes at the BBC had changed since Savile's day.
He was referring, lest you forget, to that photograph of Andrew Marr lunging at a female BBC colleague in a Soho street late at night, slipping a flattened hand down the back of her jeans to have a right old rummage. The House listened to Mr Paisley with exquisite horror.
Mr Marr is a member of the London elite. He presents a BBC TV political talkshow on Sunday – Sunday! – mornings. He is a magnifico of the liberal chatterati, a secular archbishop of the Centre-Left.
And here was an Ulsterman arguing that if the Poohbahs of public interest broadcasting behave thus in public, well, Houston, we have a problem.
Mrs Miller did not reach for the no-comment button. She quickly told Mr Paisley that he was 'absolutely right' to question such behaviour. BBC bottompinchers, beware!
What no MP yesterday raised, though perhaps soon they will, is how a gaudy Pied Piper such as Savile, meretricious in so many ways, came to be elevated to such prominence by a public sector broadcaster. How did Jimmy Savile meet Reithian ideals?
Why was he not only tolerated but also promoted to such stardom?
Answer: grottification of standards, dumbing down, rampant egalitarianism. That is the real scandal of culture.
Not that one would expect that lesson to be understood at a Culture Department which just made Big Brother producer Sir Peter Bazalgette the new chairman of the Arts Council.
In other news, Tory Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell (the 'pleb' police-row man) took his front-bench seat for Home Office Questions and was the object of Opposition jibes.
He just about survived but he looked miserable. He wrung his hands, frowned, rounded his shoulders and cast sorry glances at Labour. Not so much Whip as Whipped Dog.


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Reinhold Platz (Cottbus, 16 januari 1886 - Ahrensburg, 15 september 1966) was een Duitse vliegtuigontwerper en vliegtuigbouwer in dienst van het Nederlandse bedrijf Fokker.

Platz trad in 1912 als lasser in dienst bij Fokker. Zijn eerste werkzaamheden betroffen het lassen van de metalen framedelen van de Fokker Spin. Hij had de techniek van het lassen geleerd van de Fransman Edmund Fouché en was een van de weinige personen in Duitsland die destijds aluminium kon lassen. Aangezien de buizenconstructies van de Fokkers van aluminium werden gemaakt kreeg hij dus veel invloed.
In 1916 werd Fr. A. Möser hoofdingenieur bij de Fokker-fabriek in Schwerin, na het overlijden van hoofdontwerper Martin Kreutzer. Andere bronnen geven aan dat Platz zelf hoofdingenieur werd. De controverse is begonnen rondom het boek van A.E. Weyl Fokker: The Creative Years en de latere kritiek op Weyl door Peter Grosz.
Platz had geen hogere opleiding genoten; net als Anthony Fokker was hij een man van de praktijk. Dit maakte hen tot een sterk team, waarbij Platz Fokkers revolutionaire ideeën over de luchtvaart tot uitvoering wist te brengen. Hij was onder andere betrokken bij de ontwerpen van de Fokker D.VII, de Fokker Dr.I, de Fokker D.VIII en de passagiersvliegtuigen Fokker F.I, Fokker F.II en Fokker F.III.

Na de Eerste Wereldoorlog werd Platz hoofdontwerper bij de Fokker-fabrieken in Amsterdam. Hij kreeg toen vooral kritiek van collega's op zijn conservatisme ten aanzien van nieuw ontwikkelingen binnen de vliegtuigbouw, zoals de metalen constructie van de vliegtuigen van Junkers. Hij bleef tot 1931 werkzaam bij Fokker waarna Anthony Fokker alsnog genoodzaakt was hem te ontslaan, omdat de technische kennis achterbleef bij de rest van de wereld. Daarna vertrok hij naar Pander in Den Haag. Daar heeft hij blijkbaar weinig inbreng gehad, aangezien er geen vliegtuigen uit zijn periode bij Pander bekend zijn, en deze fabriek in 1934 alweer zijn deuren moest sluiten.

De Platz hangglider
In de tijd dat Platz werkzaam was bij Fokker in Amsterdam, ontwikkelde hij een zweefvliegtuig met zeil-achtige vleugels. Een voorloper van de hangglider van Francis Rogallo, zoals we die nu kennen. Het maakte zijn eerste bemande vlucht in 1923 nabij Vlissingen. Hoewel geclaimd werd dat het toestel volledig bestuurbaar was, wijzen latere experimenten met replica's erop dat het toestel alleen rechtuit kon vliegen. Tegenwoordig wordt het ontwerp nog wel gebruikt als vlieger.

Duits vliegtuigbouwer
Platz, Reinhold

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About the museums
The museums for coastal heritage and reconstruction of Finnmark
The company is owned by the municipalities of Hammerfest, Nordkapp, Måsøy, Berlevåg, Gamvik and Lebesby. Our head office is located in Honningsvåg. You are welcomed to visit our six departments in the northernmost part of Norway.
Welcome to the Museums for Coastal Heritage and Reconstruction in Finnmark IKS.
The coast of Finnmark is harsh and demanding and has a long and varied history. The first fishing villages appeared along the coast of Finnmark during the 1200s. At that time, fishing for cod and the sale of dried fish was the foundation for the settlement. Cod-fishing is still one of the most important foundations for settlement this far north in Europe.
But today's fishing villages are modern societies with diverse business and activity. In our five museum departments you can experience real coastal culture, gain insight to local history, and get to know the life of the people who lived and still live in the area. Every fishing village and small society has their own unique history. Some of these are represented in the different museums along the coast. The focus of the exhibitions is coastal culture through the centuries to modern times.
The Museum of Reconstruction for Finnmark and Northern Troms is located in Hammerfest. The exhibition shows how acts of war in the period 1940-1945 played out in Finnmark and Northern Troms, as well as the situations for refugees and the reconstruction of the region. Here it is also possible to see what the caves, barracks and reconstruction houses looked like. Måsøy Museum is located in Havøysund, the centre of the municipality of Måsøy. The museum was established in a building that was originally built as a rectory. The collection of items consists in large parts of tools and technical equipment as used by fishermen through the 1900s. There are in addition several fixed exhibitions such as kitchen, living room, schoolhouse and line baiting booth.
The North Cape Museum is located in Honningsvåg, the centre of the municipality of Nordkapp. The museum presents coastal history through thousands of years, with focus on changes in coastal societies and culture along the coast of Finnmark as well as the development of the tourism industry in connection to the North Cape and to Finnmark. The museum has an old boat slip from the 1950s under restoration, and a provisory power station from 1951 with a generator from the German battleship Tirpitz.
Gamvik Museum is located in the fishing village Gamvik in the municipality of Gamvik. The museum is established in the old fish factory Brodtkorbbruket. A very important part of the museum is of course the museums old function and the history of the building. Also found is information on cultural heritage from the older stone age to newer times, coastal Samí culture, whaling and the Mehamn-uprising, the Pomor trade, war and reconstruction period. A nature exhibition showing animal- and birdlife in the Slettnes nature reserve is also in place.
Berlevåg Harbour Museum is located in Berlevåg. The museum's main building is a restored storing facility formerly owned by the National Port Authority who built the piers in Berlevåg. Here you will be able to gain insight into the nearly 100 year long process of expanding the harbour. The museum also has exciting documentation on ship transport, fishing, the Second World War and the reconstruction.
Museene for Kystkultur og gjenreisning i Finnmark IKS
Postboks 396, 9751 Honningsvåg
Telefon + 47 78 47 72 00
post@kystmuseene.no
Besøksadresse: Holmen 1, Honningsvåg


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Flower Market has many "flowers in a gift" that come in an unique vase that can be used many times! The recipient will think of you every time they use it! Flower Market in Clearwater, FL has Flowers in a Gift suitable for every occasion.


This 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle is designed by Nene Thomas and measures 19" x 30". Available in two-piece count.
This 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle is designed by Nene Thomas and measures 19" x 30". Available in two-piece count.
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I was in awe on Friday when the eclipse darkened the skies. There was an eerie silence and the birds thought night had come.
Although not a complete eclipse where I was, I was able to watch it on BBC via the Stargazing Live programme and was blown away by the technology involved in putting the programme together.
Via our present day technology, the BBC had outside broadcasts from Cornwall, Leicester, Jodrell Bank, the Isle of Lewis, from the Faroe Islands on the ground and even from a small plane flying above the islands at around 25,000 feet so they could get the best view of all. All linked together via satellite and then beamed instantly around the whole country.
"It was truly a beautiful sight to behold, even on TV!"
Because of science, in part thanks to Isaac Newton and his understanding of gravity on celestial objects, we can accurately predict, over a period of the next 500 years, the exact moment an eclipse will happen, how much shadow each location on the earth will get during it and for how long.
For this particular eclipse, in Cornwall, it was around 86% at 9.15am, where I was it was around 90% at 9:30am and as we moved further up the mainland and beyond, eventually to the Faroe Islands, we reached 100% before 10am. Shame the cloud cover was so variable across the UK on Friday. Some places got a great view, others not so much.
It's incredible to think that only a few hundred years ago, people still associated eclipses with doom! Like the appearance of a comet in the night sky, a solar eclipse had people running for the pews and begging for forgiveness; much to the glee of the priests and the swelling of church coffers.
Before that, in tribal Britain, clans would gather together and make noise to drive the moon away then celebrate the return of the light with a huge feast and the odd grateful sacrifice.
And before that? Our Neanderthal cousins probably ran for their caves in terror not knowing what to think! Interesting how all the birds and animals just think it's night time again. Sometimes I wonder if we over think things, but to see the sun fading out during the day must have been quite frightening before we knew exactly what was happening between the Earth, the Moon and our life-giving star, Sol.
I'm glad we live in this technological age. One of scientific freedom, of shared knowledge across the Internet and of curiosity to know more and more about the Universe around us. We even understand that in around 500 million years, the Moon will have moved away from us so far that we won't ever get an eclipse again! The Moon will simply look like Mercury or Venus do when they transit in front of the sun.
But by then, we may be standing on a completely different planet and what will the sky look like there? Will that planet's own natural satellites give us a new total eclipse, lost over time to the residents of Earth? I do hope so.
"Could you imagine two moons completely eclipsing two suns at the same time? How amazing would that look?"
A total solar eclipse can make you realise how small and insignificant you are, but also help you understand the physics of the Universe better. They truly are amazing things to see!
I find it an amazing coincidence that the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but is 400 times closer, which is why solar eclipses can be total. What a time to be alive!
PS ... I find it an amazing coincidence that the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but is 400 times closer, which is why solar eclipses can be total. What a time to be alive!


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Webby Awards to Honor Dan Savage for It Gets Better Project
By Max Gouttebroze |
Dan Savage, founder of the It Gets Better Project, will be honored with a Special Achievement Award later today during the Webby Awards for his work inspiring LGBT youth to overcome bullying. Each year the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences honors excellence on the internet during the Webby Awards. Established in 1996, the Webbys have recognized over 100 websites, interactive advertising campaigns, online film and video and mobile applications. The It Gets Better Project has been using a combination of these online tools to send a powerful message of support to LGBT youth. It Gets Better started following the media coverage of the suicide deaths of LGBT (or LGBT-perceived) teenagers last fall. Dan Savage and his partner Tyler Miller recorded a video and posted it on Youtube to send a message of hope to LGBT youth and encourage them to turn their attention towards a brighter future. Dan Savage created an official It Gets Better channel on Youtube and soon millions of users posted their own message of encouragement. Among those who sent messages to LGBT youth are: President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chris Colfer of Glee, comedienne Kathy Griffin, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family, Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns, the Yale Divinity School, and Google employees. Watch Dan Savage and Tyler Miller's It Gets Better video: 7IcVyvg2Qlo The 15th Annual Webby Awards will be airing live on Facebook on June 13, 2011, at 8:00PM EST. You can watch them here.
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West Coast: especially northern California.
Typical Symptoms: Lyme Disease has three stages.
Early: is a characteristic rash at the site of the tic bite called erythema migrans. Its main property is an expanding, red circle.
The second phase is more disseminated: multiple erythema migrans patches occur in 15% of patients, other symptoms that can occur during this phase are arthritis, conjunctivitis, nerve palsies, headache and fatigue. Other uncommon issues can develop during this phase if untreated.
Late disease is chronic arthritis of the large joints, usually knees. This is very, very uncommon in kids who have been treated.
Seasonal Issues: spring and summer when tics are out; geographic distribution includes New England, eastern mid-Atlantic states, upper Midwest in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Incubation Period: 1-55 days with a mean of 11 days. Late symptoms occur months to years later.
Diagnosis: clinical if rash present; quick lab assay that will remain positive for life – so it can be used for diagnosis but not to confirm if treatment was effective.
Prevention: REMOVE THE TICK if you remove the tic with in 2 days, Lyme will not get transmitted from the tick to the person its attached to. So, the sooner than better. How to remove? Take a tweezers and grab the tick on the head. Gently pull up and the tic will release. Don't worry if the tikc's small pincers stay attached to the skin – those don't carry disease and will not cause harm.
Antibiotics for 14-21 days orally for early disease. More complicated disease and late disease needs to be treated longer and sometimes by IV antibiotics.
Call Your Pediatrician if your child has: A tick bite where a characteristic rash began to form.
School and After school Activity Issues: no restrictions. This is not contagious person to person.


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This is the second book written by Laurie Excell for the series "From Snapshots to Great Shots." I found the information here to be in more detail than her book on Composition and believe that this book will appeal to a wider, although more specialized, audience. This book also serves as a good companion volume to Moose Peterson's Captured. While Peterson's book is written in a more folksy manner, Excell's book is more of a "how-to" volume and, being much shorter, is also a quicker read.
Excell considers Peterson to be one of her mentors so you will see many parallels between their books with regard to equipment, locations, etc., but Excell does not put as much emphasis on using photography as a component of wildlife studies. Instead, she focuses more on photography rather than projects surrounding the photography.
As in her other book, Composition, each chapter contains practical exercises to help photographers develop or fine tune their skills. Excell closes this book with information on two specific wildlife photography excursions, photographing bears in Alaska and photographing birds in Texas. I found these two chapters were easy to read and gave photographers a better idea of what to expect should they decide to take one of these trips.
Peachpit Press rates this book as a "Beginner" level volume which is probably accurate although I believe it offers useful information to the more experienced photographer as well. My only lingering question is whether I would recommend that a photographer read this book before or after Peterson's Captured.


The track was dry for the Clio Eurocup qualification session. Times improved rapidly and Salvatore Arcarese (Rangoni Motorsport) made the most of the situation.
The French drivers then took things in hand on home turf and Eric Tremoulet put his Clio on provisional pole from Yoann Baziret a few minutes before the end of the session. However, between the evolution of the track and the slipstreaming phenomenon the dying minutes proved decisive.
Rangoni Motorsport made the most of team strategy. Arcarese set his first pole in the Clio Eurocup in 2m 31.205s from his team-mates Oscar Nogues and Massimiliano Pedala. Marc Guillot could do no better than sixth and Mike Verschuur twelfth.
Baziret's second-quickest time was good enough for pole for the second race from Nogues and Tremoulet with Guillot seventh and Verschuur ninth.


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This monumental, four-volume reference overviews significant events and developments in religious history over the course of more than five millennia.
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Creation, Beauty, Revelation
Séraphine (2008). Written by Marc Abdelnour and Martin Provost. Directed by Martin Provost. Starring Yolande Moreau and Ulich Tukur. 125 mins. Unrated. Rotten Tomatoes 89%; Metacritic 84%.
She certainly seems not to be the sort from whom one would expect religious wisdom of any sort, and that is true enough, at least at first glimpse. In any case, the odds, at least as we read them, are much against that. A lumbering middle-aged peasant woman, shy and silent, she scrapes by, barely, tending houses and people in a small village not far from Paris. Furthermore, she shows some signs of OCD and apparently for a time lived with the local convent during a period of emotional distress of some kind. Again, nothing singular about her at all.
Save for the oddity that she has lately come to often spend her nights painting, as in still-life painting, and she paints and paints, even devising her own remarkable materials, vivid palette, and curious luminescence (even now, a century later, her paintings retain their haunting chromatic intensity). Beginning with small wooden panels, decades later she paints six-foot canvases of profusely effulgent flowers and trees, stunning in their abstract immediacy. She says her guardian angel told her to paint.
In short, the film tells the story of Séraphine Louis (1864-1942), played marvelously by Yolande Moreau, whose early work was discovered by prominent German art collector Wilhelm Uhde (1874-1947), one of the early sponsors of Picasso and a host of other modernists, a man who saw collecting not as business but as spiritual journey. In 1914, summering outside of Paris in the village of Senlis, he stumbles upon a small, radically unique rendering of apples, and as taken aback as he is to find such a piece, he is further startled when he learns that the panel was, in fact, done by his very own housemaid, a silent and half-decrepit peasant. He soon sees her other work praises and encourages Séraphine.
However, with the fast approach of the German army, he must flee to Germany, leaving behind his own remarkable art collection. In the summer of 1927, he's back in France staying in Chantilly, nearby to Senlis when he ventures there for a local art fair. Again he is startled by two large paintings, done, unmistakably, by Séraphine, who he assumed had died in the war, and on these he promptly heaps praise, calling them flat-out "very beautiful," a term he uses only rarely.
The trajectory of this engrossing obscurity-to-fame art tale is indeed remarkable, though the real wonder, frankly, lies in what Séraphine paints, and of this the film could have made more without going didactic. Audiences no more than glimpse her work, whether on the small wood panels on which she begins or the enormous canvasses to which she moves in late career. And in those lies the deep, real wonder, mystery both abundant and, well, dazzling, even when the paintings go "dark." Throughout Séraphine maintains that what she hears is an angel's voice, the same that told her to paint in the first place.
We'd think this more than dubious if not for the product, so to speak. And then, too, there's what she paints and how, namely her relish of a lavish natural world, climbing trees, windy hilltop panoramas, light on river water while bathing, and always endless fruit and flowers.
Throughout, what Séraphine sees, or rather beholds, in those paintings early and late is a world transfigured, aflame with a kind of "fearful symmetry" (William Blake), for lack of a better term, the paintings themselves constitute a raid on the inarticulate and inexpressible (Eliot). So wholly unique and rapturous are they that viewers indeed wonder if she sees as fully and purely as very God the Creator. And hears as well, for throughout her nights of work she sings, often rapturously, from the Mass, convent liturgies, and God knows where, though the neighbors are definitely not at all enamored. In the end viewers sense this peasant woman's sense of inexpressible splendor in the ordinary, perhaps seeing, against all odds, the world as God sees it: everything transfigured, cells themselves aflame and enchanting, a voluptuous numinous manifest (Dillard).
At one point the film references St. Teresa's counsel that one can find the majesty of God in the scrubbing of cooking pots. And everywhere else too, and we all can see it as well. Séraphine of Senlis, as she is now known, shows it to be so.
written by Roy Anker


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Jaws 2: The Making of the Hollywood Sequel
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"Jaws 2: The Making of the Hollywood Sequel" Book Review
Published by BearManor Media
Written by Louis R. Pisano and Michael A. Smith
2015, 362 pages, Reference
Book released on September 5th, 2015
Jaws (1975) needs no introduction. Steven Spielberg's blockbuster film adaptation of author Peter Benchley's bestselling novel of the same name brought in waves of profits for Universal Studios. Producers David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck were determined to mine the tale for more cash, and set a sequel in motion. When Spielberg proved unavailable, the duo moved ahead without the seasoned captain and brought a new director aboard the project. John Hancock (Let's Scare Jessica to Death) was hired and immediately set about casting the film and scouting locations. Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary were signed to headline the cast, and the production did their best to surround them on both sides of the camera with familiar names and faces from the original film. Trouble began almost immediately after principal photography began, and soon Hancock was removed from the director's chair and replaced by Jeannot Szwarc (Somewhere in Time). Filming resumed several weeks later, but not everyone in the cast returned. The stories surrounding the turmoil on this production are legion, but until now they have never been collected in one place. Authors Louis R. Pisano and Michael A. Smith attempt to correct this oversight with their new book Jaws 2: The Making of the Hollywood Sequel.
Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb contributes a humorously prescient Foreword to the book, in which he encourages readers to keep in mind that memories fade over time and that nobody really remembers the truth of what actually happened. Pisano and Smith have spent a great deal of time tracking down as many cast and crew members possible for this collection and conducted countless interviews with all involved. What follows is an impressive trip down memory lane as witnessed by those who worked on both versions of the film. Jaws 2: The Making of the Hollywood Sequel uncovers a generous number of original storyboard drawings that map out several key sequences, many involving the shark. The book also boasts a large number of rare behind-the-scenes photographs, including some showcasing the material shot under Hancock's direction. Longtime fans of the film will be excited to finally get an inside look at what really happened on this troubled shoot.
There is no doubt that a book dedicated to the making of Jaws 2 is long overdue, but this one collapses under its own weight. For all the amazing information found in the pages within, what is sadly missing is a dedicated editor. The number of spelling and grammatical errors gradually increases as the reader progresses through the text, and in one instance a sentence simply trails off without end in order to break for some photographs, never to return. Topics are broken into general categories rather than separate chapter headings, and the interview participants are arranged alphabetically instead of by their actual level of involvement with the picture. It is all the more frustrating that some blocks of information appear to have been copied and pasted from one section to the next, as though these were originally intended to be released as separate essays.
Pisano and Smith have done such a thorough job in tracking down a parade of participants that their interviews would make for a better documentary than book. As it stands, a lot of the anecdotes are repeated ad infinitum and the majority of the content is culled from the memories of people that were let go before filming truly got underway. The secondary round of cast interviews continues to focus on the numerous supporting players and there is very little input from the main actors. When the authors land a major catch like Szwarc or Hancock, the questions become softballs gently lobbed in their vicinity. The book would benefit from archival interviews with those no longer with us, including Brown, Zanuck and Scheider. There is plenty of gossip to be found and much of it involves either Hancock's ineptitude as a director, or Scheider's pissy attitude in response to being "forced" to appear in the sequel.
The authors' hearts are completely in the right place and their research is impressive, but somewhere in the final stages of assembly a lot of stupid mistakes were made and the finished product suffers for it. There is too much time spent with background actors and zero input from the guys that built the mechanical shark. The photographs are wonderful and rare and a real treasure, but are only in black and white. I can defend the decision by inferring that color reprints may have been more costly or that this was a creative decision to give the book a similar feel to Gottlieb's legendary The Jaws Log chronicle of the original picture. Jaws 2 is not a perfect movie, but it has its supporters, and while Jaws 2: The Making of the Hollywood Sequel is not a terrible book, the film and its fans deserve better.
Louis R. Pisano


Hey Memphis-area readers . . . Patrick is headed your way. And he's supporting a wonderful cause, along with cartooning's top talents.
On Thursday, May 29, 2016, members of The National Cartoonists Society will lend their time and talents to "Cartooning for Kids," an event that supports St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. They'll spend the day at the hospital drawing for the patients and their families, and handing out goodie bags crammed with t-shirts, sketchbooks, crayons, toys, comics, and books.
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