The following information is from the Winter 2005 edition of Gibeciere. (...) It's named for a magician's apron. It's published as "The Journal of The Conjuring Arts Research Center." The article is by Volker Huber and is titled "The Yawning Mouth."
Painting by Bernardino Luini. "The painting was done around 1520. It is the second depiction known up to now to show a conjuring apparatus that was not the cups and balls. And it is the second picture known up to now of a "Conjuring Trick" after L'Escamoteur by Heronymus Bosch which was painted around 25 years earlier." The author describes an etching of the artwork made in 1795 by Francesco Bartolozzi and shows a depiction of it in his book. He mentions that at that time it was thought that the original painting was done by Leonardo de Vinci. Bernardino Luini was a student of Devinci and thus is work is influenced very heavily by him. When magnified the painting clearly shows that the ribbons at that time were actually attached with a nail into the END of the block.
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In 1996, a newly renovated facility became the new home of the Chattanooga African American Museum and the Bessie Smith Hall. Located at 200 E. M. L. King Boulevard, the facility was established to pay homage to the late "Empress of the Blues", Bessie Smith, through the establishment of a Performance Hall within the complex. The Bessie Smith Performance Hall has become well known in the Chattanooga community as an educational institution and spectacular venue to host performances, banquets, meetings and various community events.
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I recently learnt on Twitter (from @Melissa_Benn as it happens) that there is a film due to be released in the UK later this month about the philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt.
Regardless, any excuse is worth it to draw people's attention to Arendt's wonderful essay "The Crisis in Education", a copy of which can be found here. Although written over 50 years ago about American education, it applies perfectly to contemporary education debate and in particular its analysis of the ideology of progressive education has never been beaten.
This is something I think of whenever I hear yet another elaborate justification based on technology, social theories or neuroscience for the same practices that have already done decades of harm. If you haven't already read it, please find the time.


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Green was introduced to the medical finances field while working at his father's firm, a general CPA practice that worked with businesses and individuals. About half of the firm's clients owned their own dental or medical practices.
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Congrats on being a finalist.
Enjoyed your fun story. Great memories for your family.
Congratulations on the top 10! And love your birthday dinner story - glad it all worked out!
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Congrats on top 10! We were without power for 3 days in the Atlas Blizzard in October and we really learned how to cook for a family with the propane stove.
Hi!!!! Congrats on top 10!!!! I sure see why it was chosen!!!! Beautiful!!!!! Great the Birthday turned out great in the end!!!!!
Huge congratulations! It sounds like you all had a lot of fun and i admire his determination for whipped cream!
Congrats on top 10. Its a gorgeous quilt.
a huge congratulations. I loved those nights when the family was growing. We wound up having one a week. Sometimes upon request it would be two or three. Helps keep family together.
What a great blog post! Congratulations on being in the top 10 finalists!! That is so exciting. I haven't looked at the others yet, but I follow Christa's blog too and am happy for you both! Each of your quilts is dynamite. Plus I love your story about the revised birthday celebration -- thanks for sharing that one.
Wow! What a special occasion made even more memorable. The battery powered mixer cracks me up!! I love your tie in to Back to Basics. Very clever - and congrats again on being a finalist. Your quilts are always amazing!
Congratulations!! It is a beautiful quilt, to be sure!!
Jacob and the batteries--so awesome! Glad it was memorable for sure. And, congrats on the quilt! What an accomplishment!
Beautiful quilt and such a fun day!
Good for you on your top 10!! The power goes out for long stretches here in Ohio every once in a while. Thank goodness for the generator!!
Congratulations on top 10. Sounds like your husbands special dinner and family time was a little slice of heaven topped with whipped cream!
Congratulations! Pretty sure I would have let out a squeal too, if I were in your shoes. Or would that be slippers at that hour of the morning? One of the reasons we enjoy camping so much, in our tent, is that electronics don't go with us. Well, except for our phones, but we often can't get cell service, so they don't really count. It's great fun to just be together and not stare at a screen the whole time.
Congratulations on making it to the top ten! You have what it takes! Talent, a good eye, skill and perseverance. I wouldn't be surprised if you make the top three. Enjoy, you've more than earned it.
Congrats on being in the top 10, What a great birthday story. Being without power for a few hours is nice with no electronics. Only problem here is it also means no water and no flushing!
Congratulations on being a top ten finalist! Your quilt is absolutely gorgeous! Nice to know another family has the same tradition of special birthday dinners. My mom did this while I was growing up and I carried it on with my children. They get super excited and try to fit all their favorites into one meal. One year my daughter who was turning 5 asked for tacos, homemade mashed potatoes and corn on the cob! Needless to say we all ate it with smiles on our faces and topped the evening off with a all lemon birthday cake!!! Good luck with the contest.
Yay! Congrats for getting into the top 10. What an achievement, and I loved reading about the birthday memories. That definitely is not going to be one forgotten anytime soon.
Congrats on the happy news. And I had to chuckle about the whipped cream. The birthday boy was not going to be denied. LOL It is something my hubby would have come up with too.
I was thrilled to see your quilt as a finalist...so exciting!
Belated congratulations for getting in the Top 10 with your lovely quilt. I was so happy for you when I read about it on Christas blog. Imlaughed about your whipped cream. In our house we use an egg beater to whip cream. No problem when there are power cuts here.
Congratulations on being in the top 10. I used to live where the electricity went out all the time and sometimes took a couple days before it was back on. One Thanksgiving it went out just as the turkey was put in the oven. Fortunately it only stayed out a couple of hours as I am sure that all the guys fixing it wanted their dinners also. You and your family are always going to have a great memory of the pecan pie eaten by candlelight. I love how your husband solved the whip cream issue. I have a couple of wire whips that I probably would have used but it is so much easier with a mixer.
we live in a 200 year old converted barn and the lights regularly go out during dinner parties. It happened so regularly we used to joke we had a ghost playing games!
Congrats on being a top ten contender!


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By: Tiffani Martin Last Updated: December 27, 2020
The beginning of November was successful for Lowell High School. Fall sports ended with very little delays, and Lowell had their first female cross country state champion, the Junior Karina James. Additionally, the Red Devil Football Team made it to the second round of sectionals. With fall sports finishing up, Lowell's annual Fall Sports Awards was held virtually for each team. Many student athletes achieved first and second round all conference, which is an outstanding achievement.
With fall sports complete, winter sports, like boys and girls basketball, swimming, gymnastics, and cheer, began with no delays. However, on November 10, Lowell High School decided to close for three weeks due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the area. This led to very limited attendance for games, but the Red Devils were still able to continue competing.
Even with limited attendance at games, the support for Lowell's winter sports could not be better. For boys and girls basketball, you can watch the games via live stream on YouTube. This gives fans the opportunity to support the Red Devils in a safe manner. Currently, both the boys and girls basketball teams are at an even win to lose ratio. Both teams have their heads up and continue to play hard knowing they have the potential to earn more wins as the season progresses.
As for other extracurricular activities, a plethora for teachers banded together with roughly 14 students and decided to better Lowell High School. These students and teachers founded the Diversity Club for those who wish to continue making students of all kinds feel welcome. These students and teachers will work to make the school a safe environment for all and are starting to plan events for 2021.
In addition to the Diversity Club, Lowell High School's spring musical is starting production soon. This year's musical is Aladdin, and the production begins on January 4th. Even with the extended quarantine until January 11th, theaters participants know the show must go on. They will continue to practice guidelines for COVID-19 during this musical; however, even with restrictions these students are determined to put this production on for the community.
Student Spotlight: Antonia Barraza
Antonia Barraza is a junior at Lowell High School. She competes in sports all year round, and is looked at as a role model in school. This year, Barraza has participated in fall and winter cheer, as well as gymnastics. Barraza's fall cheer season ended successfully with a third place finish in state.
Next for Barraza came her winter cheer season. The winter cheer team is allowed to cheer for basketball teams; however, with no crowd, the games feel different.
"It's been hard trying to maintain a normal cheer season with a limited crowd at basketball games, it's pretty quiet in there. Sometimes it feels pointless to cheer towards maybe 15 people," said Barraza.
Even with multiple setbacks, Barraza is still extremely thankful to be given the opportunity to even have a cheer season. She continues to try and remain positive during her winter season because she knows her season could end at any moment. To show her gratitude, Barraza still puts in hard work in both of her varsity sports.
"COVID-19 can't ever take away how much I enjoy my winter sports, teammates or coaches. It can't take away the drive I have," said Barraza.
In addition to her athletic career at Lowell High School, she has been extremely successful in her academic career. She was recently recognized as a Rising Star of Indiana, which is a huge accomplishment for those enrolled in honor programs.
Barraza also received a recognition for student of the month by demonstrating drive during the month of December. She was extra excited about this because she has continued to find motivation throughout Lowell's virtual learning. She was also glad to hear from some of the nominators who made her student of the month recognition possible.
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buy arial, no rx sans-serif;">Since the early 60s at least, ed flying cars have occupied the imagination of generations. Numerous companies have attempted to make flying cars a reality, none reaping success so far. Now, Terrafugia, are picking up the gauntlet with a novel method.
Terrafugia are entering the testing stage, and on 1 December have secured a special exemption from the US Federal Aviation Administration to operate a small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) for the TF-X, for research and development purposes.
The TF-X is a four-seat, hybrid electric, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flying car that is semi-autonomous. "As the TF-X™ program is currently in the early stages of development, extensive sub-scale flight testing of sUAS, along with wind tunnel testing and aerodynamic simulation, are key to refining the vehicle's design," the company said in a press release.
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Terrafugia plans to test a one-tenth scale model of the TF-X vehicle to gather data on flight characteristics to aid further development. The exemption will allow Terrafugia to fly its model up to an altitude of 122 metres (400 feet) at speeds under 16 km/h.
Currently, Terrafugia engineers are constructing the TF-X sUAS model, and preparing test plans for the flights.
The TF-X, when finished, will feature folding wings and a rear propeller for forward thrust.The folding wings will come equipped with their own propellers, each powered by 16 separate motors. The 300 horsepower engine should provide plenty of power for both lift and every day driving. Eventually, the team hopes to bring the full scale car to flight speeds of over 300 km/h.
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'Unprecedented' Progress on a Rare Genetic Condition
An experimental treatment using repurposed cancer drugs has brightened the prognosis for two infants with Noonan syndrome.
As far as rare diseases go, Noonan syndrome is not all that rare. A genetic condition that affects development in one baby in every 2,500 births, it's the most common incurable rare disease. It usually appears in features of the face, but more dangerously affects the anatomy of the heart, growth and nutrition, and triggers developmental delays.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most lethal symptom of Noonan syndrome. It's an unusual thickening of the heart that, in its most severe form, kills 70 percent of babies before their first birthday.
Pediatric cardiologists Gregor Andelfinger (Université de Montréal and Saint-Justine Hospital) and Bruce Gelb (New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital) reversed this lethal symptom for the first time by repurposing a cancer drug.
Left unchecked, the thickening walls of the heart make the heart stiffen. Unable to relax, it gets harder and harder for the heart to fill up and pump blood.
Lyana Deslauriers was born with a particularly severe case of heart defects due to Noonan syndrome. She had severe heart thickening that affected both sides of her heart, and all four of her heart valves were improperly formed. Her hands and feet were blue as her heart struggled to deliver blood.
At first, doctors started her on the standard treatment to try to stop her heart from growing even thicker; propranolol is a drug that reduces the force of the heart's contractions when it pumps, but even at the highest dose it wasn't enough. Her heart continued to grow.
The other possibilities for standard interventions were risky. Implanting a mechanical pump to help take some strain off her heart would be difficult given its tiny size, and surgically shaving off some of the heart muscle would come with a high complication rate.
Instead, her dire condition meant she was eligible to try something experimental. She would become one of the first to successfully try trametinib, a targeted anti-cancer drug that inhibits pathways that are hyperactivated in Noonan syndrome and other related genetic mutations called RASopathies.
The same genes can also be affected in about a third of solid cancers, like breast cancer or lung cancer, which is why the same drug can have benefit for such diverse conditions.
"The findings described in this report suggest that a life-threatening form of heart disease affecting young infants might be treatable, which, if true, would be unprecedented and so meaningful for the families whose lives this devastating problem touches," said Gelb in a statement.
Deslauriers and a German patient with a mutation on the same gene were both treated with trametinib, and the normalization of their heart tissue is remarkable. Three months in, both their hearts were shrinking. Now, after 17 months of treatment, their improvement has been sustained, their cardiac hypertrophy has regressed, and both are still alive.
The results are still limited to only two patients, but the team plans to expand to a larger trial. For now, this is very promising news for two young toddlers who are beating the odds.
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Karyn Ho is a science animator and engineer who thrives at the interface between science, engineering, medicine, and art. She earned her MScBMC (biomedical communications) and PhD (chemical engineering and biomedical engineering) at the University of Toronto. Karyn is passionate about using cutting edge discoveries to create dynamic stories as a way of supporting innovation, collaboration, education, and informed decision making. By translating knowledge into narratives, her vision is to captivate people, spark their curiosity, and motivate them to share what they learned.
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William MAXWELL was born on 28 Nov 1797 in Ashe Co. NC. He died on 26 Feb 1839 in McLean Co. IL. He was buried on 1 Mar 1839 in Woodland [Rhodes] Cem., McLean Co.IL. Parents: John MAXWELL and Jane BRASELTON.
He was married to Theodocia SANDERS on 24 Sep 1819 in Orange Co.IN.
He was married to Elizabeth EVANS on 9 Apr 1829 in Tazewell Co. IL.
Erc MC CRIOMTHAN Ruler of Oriel [or Oirghialla], Ant died about 502. He was born in Northern Ireland. Parents: Criomthan [Eoghan] MACEOCHAIDH Ruler of Oriel [Oighialla], Antrim,.
Children were: Fergus Mor MACERC King of Dalriada, Lorne MAC ERC , Angus MAC ERC.
Ruth MCALEER(28) (29) was born in 1904. She died in 1987.
Children were: Tricia PhD MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN.
King MCBETH of Scotland / Mormaer of Moray Parents: Unknown .
Gary MCCAMMENT died on 4 Dec 2001 in Evansville, IN. Gary William McCamment, 56, of Newburgh, died Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2001, at his home of an apparent heart attack. He and his wife of 11 years, Cathie, owned The MAC Group Agency, he was a member of the Advertising Club of Evansville and an Army veteran.
He attended Indiana University and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Evansville.
He was a golfer and member of Rolling Hills Country Club.
Also surviving are a daughter, Jennifer Lowe of South Bend, Ind.; a stepdaughter, Kelly Harmon of Newburgh; a son, Mark of Newburgh; his mother, Esther McCamment of Washington, Ind.; a sister, Brenda Stradtner of Vincennes; and a niece.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Ziemer Funeral Home East chapel, the Rev. Edward Wilkerson officiating, with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, with military rites.
Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Shriners Hospital for Children or the Santa Clothes Club.
Thadeus MCCARTHY(1) died on 13 Jan 1952 in Tacoma, WA.
Paula MCCARTY(34) was born in 1965. Parents: Leroy MCCARTY and Mariette DEISHER.
He was married to Beverly June SCHAEFFER about 1971 in Montgomery, PA.
Rosa E. MCCAUL(28) (29) was born in 1849. She died in 1891.
Children were: Emma Mary MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Charles d. MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Dameron MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN , Carl MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, John Sylvester MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN.
Barbara MCCAW(34) was born on 29 Aug 1949. Parents: Perle MCCAW and Velma Jean DEISHER.
Judy MCCAW(34) was born on 9 Mar 1959. Parents: Perle MCCAW and Velma Jean DEISHER.
Linda MCCAW(34) was born on 28 Aug 1952 in Wabash County Mt.Carmel, Illinois. Parents: Perle MCCAW and Velma Jean DEISHER.
He was married to Velma Jean DEISHER on 9 Sep 1948. Children were: Barbara MCCAW, Linda MCCAW, Judy MCCAW.
Andrew MCCLAIN Though not provable, it appears that the McClain/McLane family resided first in Rowan County, NC, where the Court Minutes of Rowan show that Andrew died interstate, prior to 5 November, 1772 (Book 3, page 380) and that Sarah, Andrew's widow, declined administration in favor of Henry Sloan and Alexander Dobbins. Andrew McClain's inventory was returned 3 February 1773. Sarah died prior to 5 May 1774 (Book 4, page 23) when Andrew McClean was appointed administer with Francis Luck and Andrew McCollum, securities. The deeds of Rowan show that Robert Mclane, James Mclane, Matthew Woods (intermarried with Rebecca McClane), Joseph Mclane, Andrew Mclane, and probably John Mclane of Loudon County, VA (Deed book 9, pg 13-14) were all heirs to the personal estate of Andrew and Sarah Mclane, who originated in Morris County, East Jersey.
The elder Andrew doesn't appear to have owned any land in Rowan but perhaps he died shortly after arriving in Rowan and before he could acquire any. Andrew Mclane, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth, however owned tracts on James Cathey's and Giant Creeks (Rowan Deed book 8, pg 57, 279, 358). A Joseph Mclain with widow Rebecca died in about 1775 (Minutes Book 4, pg 82, 211, 215) and Andrew McClain was his administrator. He seems likely to be Robert's brother. It appears that Robert moved east of the others.
Internet source lists children as: James McClain; Andrew McClain, Jr., born about 1734 and died 1821 in York County, SC; Joseph McClain born about 1736 and died after 2 August 1775 in Rowan County, NC; Robert McClain born 1738 and died April 1806 in Knox County, TN; and John McClain born 1738 in Lochbuie, Scotland, and died 4 January 1818 in Butler County, OH.
Children were: Rebecca MCCLAIN, John MCCLAIN, James MCCLAIN, Andrew MCCLAIN, Joseph MCCLAIN, Robert Andrew MCCLAIN.
Andrew MCCLAIN. Parents: Andrew MCCLAIN and Sarah.
Andrew Francis MCCLAIN was born about 1774 in NC. Parents: Robert Andrew MCCLAIN and Susannah MARSHALL.
Isaac MCCLAIN Parents: Stephen MCCLAIN and Susannah CONN.
James MCCLAIN Parents: Andrew MCCLAIN and Sarah.
John MCCLAIN Parents: Andrew MCCLAIN and Sarah.
John C. MCCLAIN was born about 1803 in Knox co Tenn.. Parents: Stephen MCCLAIN and Susannah CONN.
John Richard MCCLAIN was born on 26 Feb 1776 in NC. Parents: Robert Andrew MCCLAIN and Susannah MARSHALL.
Joseph MCCLAIN Parents: Andrew MCCLAIN and Sarah.
Joseph MCCLAIN was born in 1766 in NC. Parents: Robert Andrew MCCLAIN and Susannah MARSHALL.
Martha Charlotte [Patsy] MCCLAIN was born on 8 Dec 1817 in Tennesse. She died on 4 Aug 1872 in Crawford Co. Ind. She was buried in Radical City, Kansas. book "Knox County, Tennessee Marriage Records, 1792-1900"
LDS film 7224120 sheet 31 she is listed as Charlotte McLain Parents: Stephen MCCLAIN and Susannah CONN.
She was married to Henry KARNS on 22 Mar 1837 in Knox County, Tennessee. Children were: Minerva Jane KARNS, William Anderson KARNS, Sarah Elizabeth KARNS , Henry Jack KARNS, Joseph N. KARNS, Jessie Scott KARNS, Mary Ann KARNS, Margaret G. KARNS, Francis I. KARNS, Nancy E, KARNS.
Mary MCCLAIN was born about 1782 in NC. Parents: Robert Andrew MCCLAIN and Susannah MARSHALL.
Mary Polly MCCLAIN was born about 1805. Parents: Stephen MCCLAIN and Susannah CONN.
Rebecca MCCLAIN Parents: Andrew MCCLAIN and Sarah.
April Session 1807. ROBERT McLAIN.
Executors by me in anyways before named Willed and bequeathed, satisfying and confirming this and no Other to be my last Will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & Six.
ROBERT X McLAIN Signed sealed in the presents of us. WILLIAM COUPLAND, JOSEPH WOOD.
January session 1808. Ordered that the perishable part of the Estate of ROBERT McLAIN be sold.
NOTE: Ann was Robert's second wife and given the wording of his will she is probably the mother of the three youngest children in as much as they are listed separate from the older children whose mother would have been Robert's first wife.
Parents: Andrew MCCLAIN and Sarah.
He was married to Susannah MARSHALL in 1765. Children were: Joseph MCCLAIN, Sarah MCCLAIN, Andrew Francis MCCLAIN, John Richard MCCLAIN, Mary MCCLAIN, William MCCLAIN, Stephen MCCLAIN.
Sarah MCCLAIN was born on 19 Mar 1772 in Randolph Co. NC. Parents: Robert Andrew MCCLAIN and Susannah MARSHALL.
Stephan Jr. MCCLAIN was born about 1807. Parents: Stephen MCCLAIN and Susannah CONN.
Stephen MCCLAIN was born about 1785 in NC. He died on 22 Dec 1829 in Knox co Tenn.. info from World Family Tree - Deeds 358, 390, 636, 637 for Knox County, TN; will of Robert McLain Parents: Robert Andrew MCCLAIN and Susannah MARSHALL.
He was married to Susannah CONN on 2 Nov 1802 in Knox co Tenn.. Children were: Isaac MCCLAIN, John C. MCCLAIN, Mary Polly MCCLAIN, Stephan Jr. MCCLAIN, Martha Charlotte [Patsy] MCCLAIN.
William MCCLAIN was born about 1784 in NC. Parents: Robert Andrew MCCLAIN and Susannah MARSHALL.
Eva MCCLINTOCK(196) was born on 13 Mar 1851 in Zanesville, OH. She died on 27 Jun 1899 in Walsenburg, CO..
She was married to Elisha HIGGENS on 24 Nov 1873 in Newton, KS. Children were: Maud HIGGENS.
He was married to Mary LOVE. Children were: Elizabeth Jane MCCOOL, John MCCOOL.
Elizabeth Jane MCCOOL Parents: Adam MCCOOL and Mary LOVE.
She was married to Duncan Benjamin MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN age 16. Children were: Agness MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Elisebeth MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN , Adam MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Benjamin Franklin MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Benoni MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN.
John MCCOOL Parents: Adam MCCOOL and Mary LOVE.
Gina Rae MCCORMICK(29) was born in 1984. Parents: Ray Colvin MCCORMICK and Margaret Lorena CORAM.
Jessie Laura MCCORMICK(28) (29) was born in 1987. Parents: Ray Colvin MCCORMICK and Margaret Lorena CORAM.
Ray Colvin MCCORMICK(28) (29) was born in 1957.
Children were: Gina Rae MCCORMICK, Jessie Laura MCCORMICK.
Carolyn Eva MCCRARY(11) was born on 21 Jul 1924 in San Bernardino, CA. She was an Art Teacher. Parents: Leo MCCRARY and Frances Willard POPPETT.
She was married to Ollie AIDE on 16 Jun 1946 in San Bernardino, CA. Children were: Mitch Thomas Mithell AIDE, Monica Jeanne AIDE.
He was married to Frances Willard POPPETT on 19 Jun 1921 in Highland, CA. Children were: Carolyn Eva MCCRARY.
Margaret MCCREE\MCRAE(29) was born about 1780. She died about 1834.
She was married to James Jr. MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN about 1800. She was married to James Jr. MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN. Children were: Joseph Andrew MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Stewart MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, James Harris MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN , Elias A. MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Jane MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Mary MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN , Martha MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Elizabeth MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN.
Lucinda MCCREED\HENDERSON(29) was born in 1808. She died in 1866.
She was married to Joseph Andrew MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN. Children were: John Wilson MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Mary Jane MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, Margaret 'Ellen' MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN , Laura L. MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN, James S. MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN.
He was married to Jane MCRAVEN ALSO MCCRAVIN on 20 Feb 1827.


Following extensive interviews and research, Cure Violence is releasing its assessment for the City of Jacksonville. The assessment visit was performed between February 18th and 21st of 2019.
The City of Jacksonville Environmental Quality Division reminds Duval County residents that as they set their clocks forward one hour for Daylight Savings Time, they should once again set lawn and landscape irrigation schedules to no more than two days per week.
Last year, more than 6,000 kittens were served by Animal Care and Protective Services and the Jacksonville Humane Society. In an effort to reduce the growing pet population that occurs during the spring and summer, citizens are encouraged to spay or neuter their cat(s), including outdoor community cats.
The application for the Mayor's Youth at Work Partnership Summer Jobs Program is available online now through March 30. The program is open to young adults ages 16-21 who are interested in gaining valuable career skills and experiences.


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Q: IBM x3550 Unrecognised progress code I have an x3550 M4 in our lab that will not boot past the 'System Initializing...' message. This happened after a power loss. I unplugged for an extended period and have removed/reseated the two different kinds of memory and each of the two CPUs one at a time and an installed memory cache. One thing I'm noticing is the 'Light Path Diagnostics' panel never lights at all where normally a blue 'i' light, only the green power light on the panel works fine. I did push the reset button. The panel cable does have a crease in one spot where rubbed against the frame, but does not look cut.
The memory cache has lit green light. The four board lights behind the power supply show solid green for PWR, slow blinking green light for RTMM Heartbeat, a rapid blinking green light for IMM2 Heartbeat while connected cable to IMM2 port not lit and no light on SYS BRD ERR light. The IMM2 is configured and not responding. The error displayed is:
(0x 2) Unrecognised progress code

What would be my next steps to diagnose this issue? I cannot seem to find an official diagnostics CD or other downloads.

A: Forgot about the CMOS battery. After pulling for several minutes and put back, the system is booting. All okay.

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This cute little bunch - Gorillaz - made a record I just can't stop listening to.
10 great records of 2018
This year would have been my 30th or so voting in the respected annual Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. Despite the fact that the Voice ceased publication this summer, I will make my list for 2018 and check it twice.
By Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer Published Dec 24, 2018 at 9:02 AM
(UPDATE: Pazz & Jop lives to see another year and my ballot has been submitted!)
This year would have been my 30th or so voting in the annual Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll, which for years was a labor of love of the dean of rock critics, Mr. Robert Christgau.
For a budding young music writer like myself in the 1980s to know that Christgau knew my name, at least in passing from seeing my ballot even momentarily, was a thrill.
While I might be embarrassed to see some of my previous ballots – we all have our flirtations with guilty musical pleasures – I've never given up on Pazz & Jop, even as the number of voters has skyrocketed. There were more than 400 ballots last year. It was always the most respected poll out there – like a Grammys for good music.
Despite the fact that the Village Voice ceased publication this summer, I will make my list for 2018 and check it twice, and at the moment, barring any last-minute revelations, here's my ballot.
Critics in the poll had 100 points to share any way they pleased among 10 "albums," but I have always just given 10 points to each and will do the same this year. In later times days, unlike in earlier years, reissues were not separated out into their own category, so they're integrated here, too.
The Beatles – The Beatles (White Album) deluxe reissue
On its 50th anniversary, this lengthy classic gets the much-more-extended treatment it deserves, with a new mix of the original double LP by George Martin's son Giles, a disc full of demos and more. While "Sgt. Pepper" always gets the credit, the Beatles were endless tinkerers and inventors in the studio and the so-called "White Album" was perhaps their most ambitious in spirit and quirkiest in results, with everything from the tender "I Will" to the raucous "Helter Skelter" to the playful "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" to the seemingly random "Why Don't We Do It in The Road" to the loop madness of "Revolution No. 9." If there had ever been a real Beatles v. Stones debate, the Fab Four used the backs of their shovels to tamp down the dirt with this one. I'm enjoying comparing the alternate versions, the new mixes with the old and trying, at the same time, not to think about how 50 years before 1968 was 1918.
Tracey Thorn – Record (Merge)
Fans who worried that the end of Everything But the Girl would mean the end of hearing Thorn's unique voice and her melancholic melodies have been proved wrong on a regular basis thanks to her solo records that are, in some cases, at least the equal of her band's best moments. This one is, again, a solid mix of pop and dance, fueled by literary lyrics and THAT voice.
Field Report – Summertime Songs (Verve Forecast)
I like to think this record would've made this list even if Field Report wasn't a Wisconsin band, but that's moot because it is. "Summertime Songs" is here for its great songs, for its basic, honest performances, for the perfect arrangements and sympathetic production and for the gorgeous cover photography, too.
Paul Weller – True Meanings (Parlophone)
Weller has been in the center of my radar since about 1979 and I've followed everything he's done and I give him credit for doing whatever he wants to do; following his muse. This mostly acoustic set is something he's said he has no plans to do again, but the arrangements, he added, best suited the material. That's definitely true for great moments like "Aspects," "Gravity" and "The Soul Searchers," and the rest is fine, too. Is it his best? No. Is it good. Yes.
Durand Jones & The Indications – s/t (Dead Oceans)
The retro R&B wave continues with this slightly longer than an EP disc that sounds like it could've been recorded in the 1960s. Jones' voice is stellar, the songs memorable and the drumming quite nice, too. Can't wait to hear more.
Gorillaz – The Now Now (Parlophone/Warner Bros.)
This CD has spent so much time in my car that I'm thinking of getting it a booster seat. The mix of breezy '70s soul pop (thanks George Benson) with hip-hop, dance, electronica and rock has proved so infectious that I sometimes hear my kids humming or singing these songs. I especially adore what I consider side two: "Idaho," "Magic City," "Fireflies," "One Percent" and "Souk Eye."
Hollie Cook – Vessel of Love (Merge)
British singer Hollie Cook's third record is an airy and breezy U.K. reggae record with some roots undertones and pop overtones and, interestingly, all the drum tracks are sampled from another record, which has surprisingly nice results and never fails to make me ponder how they accomplished the arrangements. Cook, of course, is the daughter of Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook, and was briefly a member of The Slits (which you know if you saw The Slits rock-doc at the Film Festival recently). There's great bass playing by Jah Wobble, who (along with Keith Levene) made Public Image's best records great, and it was produced by Youth, who – similarly – helped make the best Killing Joke records great. I'd love to hear some Adrian Sherwood mixes of these tracks.
Death Cab for Cutie – Thank You For Today (Atlantic)
The first DCFC record I've really listened to since 2005's "Plans" has been in heavy rotation in my listening station, aka car. That's not because it's groundbreaking or an amazing new direction. No, these days I think DCFC is sort of alternative adult contemporary – especially considering the sort of mid-life issues up for discussion in the lyrics – with great melodies and just the right amount of melancholy for the morning commute.
Various Artists – Natural High: The Bongo Man Collection (Studio One)
Yep Roc hasn't been churning out the Studio One reissues at a rapid pace and I think that's good. Instead, it's working hard to create quality reissues of classic sets and slipping in themed compilations of long-unheard – and sometimes unreleased – music like the roots reggae gems that populate this double LP and CD. Please keep them coming.
Neko Case – Hell-On (Anti-)
Neko Case knocked me off my feet with "Furnace Room Lullaby" at the dawn of the new millennium and I've remained a fan ever since. I didn't quite get "Hell-On" until I saw her play the songs live at The Pabst and those performances opened the door for me and this is now one of my favorites of hers in recent years.
I don't generally vote for too many singles these days, because back when I did I felt there was too much overlap with my albums votes. But I always vote for a couple that aren't reflected in the long-playing ballot. No points are allotted here.
Coo Coo Cal – Home
Sade – The Big Unknown (Sony)
Iron & Wine – Waves of Galveston (Sub Pop)
Pazz & Jop Poll, music, best of 2018, Paul Weller, Field Report, Hollie Cook, Death Cab for Cutie, Durand Jones, Neko Case, Gorillaz, Tracey Thorn, Studio One, Beatles, White Album, Village Voice
Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer @BobbyOnMKEcom
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He can be heard weekly on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories.


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On Air: Cyber Chat
Federal pay freeze Q&A
Federal News Network Staff
The federal pay freeze has officially been signed into law. So, what happens next?
Many questions remain about the implementation of the pay freeze. More guidance from the Office of Personnel Management is expected in the next few weeks.
You've been emailing Federal News Radio with your questions about the pay freeze. We've put together a list of your most commonly asked questions and the answers to them.
If you have a question that isn't addressed below or isn't answered in our pay freeze story, please email us or post a comment and we'll do our best to get an answer for you.
We will continue to answer your questions in this space, so check back often to see what's new.
For complete coverage from Federal News Radio on the proposed federal pay freeze and pay debate in general, click here.
Unanswered Questions:
Federal News Radio continues to work on answers to the following questions.
How will the pay freeze affect employees under the National Security Personnel System (NSPS)?
How will the pay freeze affect hiring?
January 4, 2011 Update:
The Office of Personnel Management has issued a memo further detailing the pay freeze, which is now in effect, and for the first time also provided exclusions to the pay freeze. According to OPM's memo: "[e]mployees of the United States Postal Service and the Postal Regulatory Commission are not covered, nor are members of the uniformed services (as defined in 37 U.S.C. 101(3), i.e., Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Public Health Service). Except for Legislative branch employees covered by the General Schedule, the pay freeze legislation does not apply to employees outside the Executive branch."
Q: What impact will the pay freeze have on raises negotiated under collective bargaining agreements?
A: The pay freeze will not affect any pay raises required by current collective bargaining agreements. The OPM memo states, "The pay freeze policy in the Presidential memorandum may not, as a matter of Federal sector labor law, apply to any increase that is required by a collective bargaining agreement that has already been executed and is in effect as of the date of the Presidential memorandum."
Q: Are performance awards/bonuses affected by the pay freeze?
A: No. According to the OPM memo: "[e]mployees may continue to receive additional payments such as performance awards/bonuses; recruitment, relocation, and retention incentives; and premium payments (e.g., overtime pay)."
December 23, 2010 Update:
Read more: Pay
The White House has issued a memo with more details on the pay freeze, which will go into effect on January 1, 2011. According to the memo, "[t]he Act freezes statutory pay adjustments for all executive branch pay schedules for a two-year period." OPM provided the adjusted rates of pay.
Q: Are performance-based pay systems affected by the pay freeze?
A: Yes. According to the memo released by the White House, the Act "generally prohibits executive departments and agencies from providing any base salary increases at all to senior executives or senior level employees, including performance-based increases." It goes on to say, "To the extent that an agency pay system provides performance-based increases in lieu of general increases, funds allocated for those performance-based increases should be correspondingly reduced to reflect the freezing of the employees' base pay schedule."
Q: Will federal employees still be eligible for within-grade step increases?
A: Yes. The Office of Management and Budget tells Federal News Radio that feds will still be eligible for step increases and the increase in pay that comes with those step increases. (See Pay Rate chart.)
The pay freeze was passed by Congress on Dec. 21, 2010 as part of the continuing resolution. More guidance on the implementation of the pay freeze should be forthcoming in the next few weeks from the Office of Personnel Management.
See how the pay freeze is worded in the continuing resolution by clicking here (Pages 1-2, SECTION 1, SUBSECTION 147).
Q: How will the proposed pay freeze make its way through Congress?
A: The pay freeze is now a part of the continuing resolution being considered by the Senate. The Senate is expected to vote on the CR Tuesday, Dec. 21. It would fund the government through March 4, 2011.
Q: How will the pay freeze affect contractors?
A: Some contractors are starting to feel the pain of the proposed pay freeze as well. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that his department will also freeze salaries and bonus pool increases of contractors who operate Energy's facilities. The freeze will cover 28 locations and 75,000 contractor workers. They perform maintenance, operations and research. The freeze for contractors would begin January 1, 2011.
A: The Senate has dropped its push for an omnibus spending bill that would have funded the government through FY 2010. This bill included a two-year pay freeze for federal employees. The House has already passed a continuing resolution that includes the proposed pay freeze and keeps spending at 2010 levels. The current CR runs out at midnight on Sunday, December 19, 2010. A new CR must be passed to keep the government running.
A: The Senate is expected to vote this week on an omnibus bill that includes a two-year pay freeze for federal employees. The House bill also includes the two-year pay freeze proposed by President Obama. However, unlike the Senate omnibus bill, the House bill is a continuing resolution that keeps spending at 2010 levels.
Questions from December 6, 2010:
Q: When a pay freeze is instituted, what happens to feds whose raises have been negotiated by union contracts?
A: This answer comes to Federal News Radio from the Federal Labor Relations Authority – "Federal employees generally do not have the ability to negotiate over their pay and/or the annual cost of living pay increase. There is a very limited number of Federal employees that have the ability to negotiate pay matters, and their pay is not governed by the GS pay system – they have their own pay authorities and system. As a result, it really depends on the terms of the legislation freezing pay – if it covers only the GS, WG, etc employees, then it would not affect those who have negotiated their 'raises;' if it is broader, then it could potentially render portions of the contract unenforceable. Again, it really depends on the legislation."
Q: Are lawmakers trying for an omnibus before the calendar year ends? Also on the CR: why December 18 vs. funding gov't at least beyond the holidays? (Updated – See Above)
A: The answer comes to us from a few places. First from a Democratic aide in the House,"Q 1: a year-long vehicle is being sought," and "Q2: because we are trying to get a year-long vehicle." Then congressional watchers Chuck Marr, the director of federal tax policy at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, and Ian Swanson, news editor at The Hill newspaper, told Federal News Radio the December 18th target date was to give Democrats (currently in control of Congress) more time to try to pass an omnibus package before handing over the reins.
Q: Are the salaries of congressional staffers affected by the pay freeze?
A: No. Congressional staffers are paid out of legislative branch funding dictated by the Speaker of the House.
Q: When will Congress vote on the pay freeze? (Updated – See Above)
A: To be determined. It is unclear if the pay freeze will be voted on in the lame-duck session of Congress or if it will be passed off to the 112th Congress. It is also uncertain how the pay freeze proposal will make its way through Congress (attached to an existing bill or introduced as a separate measure.)
Q: Will there be a job freeze as well?
A: The President's proposal does not include anything about a job/hiring freeze.
Q: Why are U.S. Postal Service employees exempt from the pay freeze?
A: Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says, "Short answer is that since the 1970s the highly-unionized postal workers have bargained separately over wages and some working conditions. The USPS is not a high-wage federal operation and it's been having money problems for years. The contract between the USPS and the American Postal Workers Union expired Dec. 1, 2010. The Postal Service is seeking concessions. So, while postal workers are 'exempt' from the freeze, they aren't exactly basking in sunshine either."
Q: Will pay increases negotiated by the National Treasury Employees Union still be awarded if the pay freeze is passed?
A: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley tells Federal News Radio, "The answer to that is unclear. NTEU has not yet seen the pay freeze legislation." NTEU plans to update Federal News Radio as soon as more information is available.
Q: What are the locality pay rates for Hawaii and Alaska in 2011 and 2012?
A: The locality pay rate for federal employees in Hawaii has been set at 11.01 percent in 2011 while feds in Alaska will see a 16.46 percent locality pay rate. In 2012, the locality pay rate for federal employees in Hawaii will be 16.51 percent and feds in Alaska will get a 24.69 percent locality pay rate. Feds in Alaska and Hawaii are on a phased in locality pay scale. Under the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009, feds in Alaska and Hawaii were granted a locality pay increase in phases starting in 2010 with a 33 percent increase each year through 2012. Check out the full list of locality pay rates and read the President's letter about alternative pay plans.
Q: Are congressional salaries included in the proposed federal employee pay freeze?
A: No. But Congress will NOT be getting a pay raise in 2011. Congress's pay raises are automatic, however Congress voted this year to nix its automatic raise. It's the second year in a row that Congress acted to not receive its cost-of-living increase.
Q: Does the pay freeze affect cost-of-living adjustments?
A: No. Cost-of-living adjustments are a separate issue from the pay freeze. COLAs are applied to retirement pay and are based on inflation statistics. It had already been announced that there will be no COLA in 2011.
Q: Does the pay freeze affect civil service retirees?
A: No (see above.)
Q: If Congress does pass the pay freeze, will health insurance rates still go up?
A: Yes. Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this is the perfect time to take a look at your health insurance and decide if your current plan gives you the best bang for your buck. Federal employees have until Dec. 13, 2010 to make changes to their health plans during open season.
Questions from November 30, 2010:
Q: Is the pay freeze a done deal?
A: No. The pay freeze is a proposal by President Barack Obama that still needs to be approved by Congress. So, how likely is it to pass? Federal News Radio senior correspondent Mike Causey says it's essentially a "done deal."
Q: What does the pay freeze mean for my locality pay?
A: If the pay freeze is passed, locality pay will remain at 2010 levels while the pay freeze is in effect. So, if a fed's base pay includes an extra 15 percent for locality pay, they will continue to get that same 15 percent during the pay freeze.
Q: What does the pay freeze mean for step or within grade (WGI) increases? Will they be affected by the pay freeze?
A: An Office of Management and Budget official tells Federal News Radio, "employees will still be eligible for step increases."
Q: What does the pay freeze mean for promotions?
A: The pay freeze would not affect an employee's ability to receive more money through a promotion.
Q: What does the pay freeze mean for bonuses?
A: According to an OMB official, "OMB and OPM are evaluating the system of performance awards and in no case will the total amount of bonuses for 2011 exceed the 2010 level."
Q: Which federal employees are affected by the pay freeze?
A: The pay freeze would apply to all civilian federal (non-postal) employees, including those in various alternative pay plans and those working at the Department of Defense – but not military personnel.
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Rustic it is, with a wooden interior and wood-fired pizza oven.
: Café Rustica has been a locals' favorite for years. The food is tasty and indeed rustic --- think hearty salad topped with chicken-apple sausage, blue cheese and caramelized onions. Sit at the bar and watch the goings-on in the open kitchen, or eat on the patio. Don't miss the thin-crust wood-fire-roasted pizza in a variety of offbeat flavor combinations (we like the smoked salmon, onions and capers on crème fraîche). Entrées propose a popular Hungarian paprika beef goulash and a variety of pastas. The dessert list is small but mighty, and includes a rich and tangy lemon pudding cake. Tip: The kitchen will accommodate allergies, but the menu requests you don't ask for substitutions or modifications. Service is cheerful and prompt, portions are generous and the drive from the Peninsula is beautiful.


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Fermilab's Neutrino Detector Sees Its First Particles
The entire experiment is 500 miles long, stretching from northern Illinois nearly to Canada.
Electronics get installed onto a Fermilab's neutrino detector.Photo by Fermilab
They've traveled 500 miles underground, passing through soil and rock as easily as Casper the Friendly Ghost glides through walls. They've gone straight through the Earth, reaching their destination without needing any guidance—no tunnels, no cables—along the way. What are these little ghosts? They're neutrinos, particles scientists created at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago and then aimed at a 14,000-ton detector located in Ash River, Minnesota, near the Canadian border. Fermilab announced today it saw its first neutrinos arriving at Ash River.
The detector isn't even finished yet. When it is, it will be part of the longest neutrino experiment in the world from end to end. The experiment is called NOvA, short for—deep breath—Neutrinos from the Main Injector Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance. Scientists expect to finish NOvA's Ash River detector, along with a smaller detector located closer to Fermilab, this summer, according to the laboratory.
NOvA will let physicists learn more about neutrinos, subparticles that are abundant in the universe, but difficult to detect and study. Neutrinos don't tend to interact with matter, which is why scientists are able to send them between Illinois and Minnesota underground. Physicists only recently calculated what neutrinos' masses must be. At first, scientists didn't even think neutrinos had any mass, although an experiment in 1998 proved otherwise.
Detector Block
A worker with one block of Fermilab's Ash River neutrino detector. The overall detector is made up of 28 such blocks.Photo by Fermilab
Long-distance experiments, like this one from Fermilab, aim to give neutrinos time to do something called oscillate. Scientists know neutrinos come in different types, scientifically called "flavors" (Yes, as in ice cream). As neutrinos travel, they change flavors, and that's what NOvA wants to see.
Neutrinos travel at nearly the speed of light, however, so to have time to see oscillations, scientists need to create facilities where the neutrino and the neutrino-detector are really far apart.
Other cool long-distance neutrino experiments in the world include those housed in Japan and Italy, which works with Switzerland's CERN. Plus there's the IceCube Observatory, buried under the Antarctic ice, which observes neutrinos coming in from space.
Fermilab
There's a bizarre group of shapeshifting objects at the center of the Milky Way


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Dani Levy (Basileia, 17 de novembro de 1957)  é um cineasta, encenador e ator suíço.

Trabalho
É um dos fundadores da associação criativa alemã X Film. Foi casado com a atriz alemã Maria Schrader, Judeu, Levy disse que foi influenciado pela teoria da psicóloga Alice Miller, publicada em 1980, que algo deve ter acontecido de mal com Hitler em sua infância.

Filmografia
 1986 - Du mich auch
 1989 - RobbyKallePaul
 1992 - I Was on Mars
 1993 - Ohne mich
 1995 - Stille Nacht
 1998 - Meschugge
 1999 - Das Geheimnis
 1999 - Aimée & Jaguar
 2002 - Väter
 2004 - Alles auf Zucker!
 2007 - Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler

Ligações externas
 X-filme.de

Theater-basel
Comedy on Hitler turns him into a clown

Atores da Suíça
Cineastas da Suíça
Judeus da Suíça
Naturais de Basileia

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Staff Edition: Shaping Society
Personal character is more powerful in shaping society than the legal-political environment.
by Lawrence W. Reed
In a recent hour-long program examining "The Great Food Stamp Binge," Fox News told the story of hardscrabble North Carolinians resisting the dole. Like generations before them, they wouldn't stoop to taking handouts, preferring instead to tighten their belts in tough times. Then government social workers went to work on them and eventually broke down what was locally called "mountain pride." The do-gooders were subsequently given awards for their "success" in turning those self-respecting, self-reliant citizens into taxpayer dependents.
Is this a case of the legal-political environment overwhelming personal character? It would seem so.
There's a big chicken-or-egg component to this question. I think strong arguments are available to both sides. When Max first asked me to pick a side, it wasn't easy and it took some time and thought. In the end, I've opted to put the premium on character, so here's my case.
There's more to the North Carolina story than the system corrupting character. Why should we assume that the only people in the story with character were the proud, independent mountaineers? Didn't the social workers have character too? Of course they did, but arguably it was lousy.
Part of the problem here stems from the multitudinous meanings of the term. "Character" can be a mere description of personality, as in, "He is reserved and studious," or "She is energetic and optimistic." Whether those qualities are good or bad can depend on the circumstances. What would you say if someone asked you, "How would you describe the character of Adolf Hitler?" You wouldn't reply by asserting he had none. You'd more likely respond this way: "Hitler had an evil, scheming, power-lusting, disreputable, and reprehensible character."
Then there is the most positive sense of the term, in which a person's character is composed of indisputably good traits almost universally admired. "Wow! What a man of character!" is an exclamatory statement that is nearly always synonymous with the highest praise. You would use that statement if you meant to suggest that the man is consistently (not occasionally) and deliberately (not unthinkingly) honest, responsible, caring, reliable, trustworthy, or fair.
So everyone has his or her own character. It may be characterized (is that a pun?) by traits that are mostly and widely regarded as good, or mostly and widely regarded as bad, or a mix that's somewhere in between.
I approach the North Carolina story with some settled truths I accept as unassailable fact: It's a good thing to work hard, to accept nothing from others but what they choose to provide willingly, to respect the property of your fellow citizens. Likewise, it's not a good thing to take property by force and redistribute it, or to pressure self-reliant people to be party to such behavior. It's a bad thing when you undermine good character traits in others and an even worse thing to accept the government's loot to do it.
Character was overwhelmingly at work on all sides of the North Carolina story. Sadly, the side that won out was the one with the rotten (though perhaps well-intentioned) character because it had a powerful ally—other people's money.
You don't check your character at the door when you go to work for the government. That means that the legal-political system is itself a reflection of the character of those who made the laws and those who are employed to carry them out. A people of the highest character won't write laws that undermine it, nor will they take other people's money to corrupt and destroy it. People of questionable character may do both, and there's no question that their power to do harm is greatly magnified when they have the force of the State in their grasp.
The only truly unwilling parties in the North Carolina story were the taxpayers whose money was taken under threat of force for the do-gooders to pass around. The mountaineers ultimately did not have to succumb to the temptation to take it, and they don't have to allow it to permanently corrupt their character. Likewise, nobody put a gun to the heads of the social workers, who could have chosen a more honorable profession.
Only in the most extreme situations where free choice is impossible might there be a case that the legal-political system is more powerful than character, and that requires you to assume that the system doesn't reflect the character of those who created or tolerate it. The late Viktor Frankl, a prominent neurologist and Holocaust survivor, might well argue that there is one dimension in which character ultimately triumphs over the most vicious and all-encompassing compulsion. He wrote in his 1946 book, "Man's Search for Meaning," that "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
To accept the notion that the legal-political environment is more powerful in shaping society than character is to accept the rationalization, "The system made me do it." I think that's rarely the case, and it certainly wasn't in the instance of the social workers in North Carolina. "But they didn't understand that what they were doing was a bad thing," you might say. Ignorance is regarded as no excuse for breaking the law, so why should it be accepted as an excuse for upholding it when the law is rooted in error, theft, demoralization, or injustice?
I hope this is much more than just semantics, but I believe that character shapes everything, and everything is a mirror image of it.
An old proverb teaches, "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." I can't quite assign the same degree of indispensability to the legal-political system.
Lawrence W. Reed, economist and historian, is president of FEE and author of the forthcoming book, Are You Good Enough For Liberty?
Lawrence W. Reed is President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Ambassador for Global Liberty at the Foundation for Economic Education. He is also author of Real Heroes: Incredible True Stories of Courage, Character, and Conviction and Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism. Follow on Twitter and Like on Facebook.
The legal-political environment is more powerful in shaping society than the personal character.
by Max Borders
Somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains, good people are growing marijuana. Just like people who toil to bring up tobacco or turnips, these folks work hard to support their families. They make their living supplying a market—marijuana users. The activity creates no victims.
But the Drug War—our legal-political environment—turns these good people into de jure criminals. One might argue that a marijuana grower is someone who lacks character. And certainly there are circumstances under which he may lack character. Maybe he has threatened another grower over "territory." Maybe he has lied to his neighbors about his work. But we have to ask: Would these character deficiencies exist in a different legal-political environment—such as one in which marijuana is legal? This grower, while he may have other character flaws, would be far less likely to threaten or lie if marijuana were legal.
Now consider Janet. People think she's lazy. And maybe she is. She hasn't worked for two years. When asked why she doesn't work, she says "there aren't any jobs." But when you press her, it turns out a few positions are available nearby—jobs for which she's qualified—only she would have to work the second shift. Adjusting her justification, Janet says she's waiting for the "right" job. It turns out there are plenty of jobs across the state line, 100 miles away. Janet doesn't want to move. Still, why doesn't she just take what work she can get?
Janet is on unemployment. She is being paid the same amount to do nothing as she would be to work the second shift or to move out of state. The incentives of the legal-political environment are powerful. Her laziness is real. But it is a byproduct of a legal framework that guarantees generous benefits for inaction. Some people of good character can overcome these incentives, but most cannot. The welfare state will write a million more such stories.
Personal character is no doubt a powerful determinant in the health of a society. Our legal institutions and our mores are interrelated. But I urge you to think about Ice-T's words:
"Don't hate the player, hate the game."
The rules of the game (the legal-political environment) are a more powerful determinant of society than the better angels of our nature. Eventually, the rules overwhelm a people. Again: we need people of character. We'll need them to help us rebuild from our economic malaise. When Martin Luther King, Jr., changed minds about Jim Crow, legal changes followed. If Ron Paul can vote his conscience for 30 years, other legislators can be inspired to so the same.
But these are the exceptions. The rule is: rules matter.
The legal-political environment is powerful even within a single organization. Consider the Freeman interview of Paul Green, Jr., a "colleague" at a company with no structural hierarchy. There are leaders, but no bosses nor managers—and no employee is kept back by a title. People are rewarded for their effort and ideas, so the sky's the limit. No one can tell you what to do, but people will tell you when you need to pull your weight.
At Morning Star there are two guiding principles: "Don't harm or threaten harm against another colleague" and "Honor your obligations." When people sign on with the company, they commit contractually to these principles and to a culture of "total responsibility." Total responsibility means that if you see something you think needs changing so the company will achieve its mission, you have total responsibility to act. Given these rules, how do you think the employees behave?
Paul Green, Jr., says:
People recognize immediately that success will come only as a result of what you do: You are generally unimpeded by bureaucracy or stifling regulation that might keep you from whatever measure of success that you want to achieve…. It all flows out of your drive, commitment, hard work, and ingenuity.
And—surprise—we've found that that kind of success, the kind that is unquestionably the result of your blood, sweat, and tears, is incredibly invigorating. Our colleagues fall in love with it, and embrace it almost universally. And, anecdotally, I see that it affects the way they live their daily lives outside of work—their relationships with others in the community, friends, families, and other businesses.
One can guess that in organizations that are bureaucratic, top-down, and layered with managers, there is a lot of buck-passing, shirking, backbiting, and politicking. These environments are rarely conducive to cultivating personal character.
Now, let me leave you with a thought experiment—one I hope will test your ideas about character in a crony-capitalist world.
Pretend you own a flange company. You have $1 million to invest. In his book Government's End, Jonathan Rauch writes:
For $1 million you could hire one of the best lobbyists in Washington. This fellow is a former staff member of the House Valve and Flange Subcommittee: He knows the legislators, he knows the issues, and he is persuasive and ingenious. With his help, you could invest some of your $1 million in campaign contributions to members of the Valve and Flange Subcommittee. Though you can't count on buying anyone's vote, your money would buy you access, which your competitor might not enjoy. Your lobbyist and your PAC might win you a tax break, a subsidy, or, best of all (because it's least visible to the public), a law or regulation hobbling mini-flange mills. Any such tax break, subsidy, or regulation could easily be worth, say, $10 million a year.
So here's the question: Are you going to invest in capital improvements or in a lobbyist?
Before you answer, let me add something to Rauch's thought experiment. Suppose you know your competition is already paying a lobbyist. The bill could kill your business. The prize for successful lobbying is $50,000 for every dollar invested. Whatya gonna do? Like it or not, you're in a lobbying arms race. It's winner-take-all. Does character tell you to fight for your business, or refuse to play the game?
The rules of the game—the legal-political environment—are a powerful set of incentives. They can make or break people of character. It all depends on which rules are in place.
Max Borders is the editor of The Freeman and the author of Superwealth.
Max Borders is author of The Social Singularity. He is also the founder and Executive Director of Social Evolution—a non-profit organization dedicated to liberating humanity through innovation. Max is also co-founder of the Voice & Exit event and former editor at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Max is a futurist, a theorist, a published author and an entrepreneur.
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Mel Gibson Returns to the Battlefield with 'Hacksaw Ridge'
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—One-time box-office golden boy Mel Gibson has been keeping a low profile for the past few years following a series of embarrassing incidents, including an anti-Semitic rant following a drunken driving arrest. But now…
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Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles
Morganucodon (left) and Kuehneotherium, Original painting by John Sibbick, 2013. Copyright: Pam Gill
Pioneering analysis of 200 million-year-old teeth belonging to the earliest mammals suggests they functioned like their cold-blooded counterparts - reptiles, leading less active but much longer lives.
The research, led by the University of Bristol and involving scientists from University of Southampton, published today in Nature Communications, is the first time palaeontologists have been able to study the physiologies of early fossil mammals directly, and turns on its head what was previously believed about our earliest ancestors.
Fossils of teeth, the size of a pinhead, from two of the earliest mammals, Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, were scanned for the first time using powerful X-rays, shedding new light on the lifespan and evolution of these small mammals, which roamed the earth alongside early dinosaurs and were believed to be warm-blooded by many scientists. This allowed the team to study growth rings in their tooth sockets, deposited every year like tree rings, which could be counted to tell us how long these animals lived. The results indicated a maximum lifespan of up to 14 years – much older than their similarly sized furry successors such as mice and shrews, which tend to only survive a year or two in the wild.
"We made some amazing and very surprising discoveries. It was thought the key characteristics of mammals, including their warm-bloodedness, evolved at around the same time," said lead author Dr Elis Newham. Dr Newham, now Research Associate at the University of Bristol, led this study that was conducted during his time as a PhD student at the University of Southampton, supervised by Dr Philipp Schneider and by Dr Neil Gostling with Dr Pam Gill and Dr Ian Corfe from the University of Bristol and University of Helsinki respectively.
"By contrast, our findings clearly show that, although they had bigger brains and more advanced behaviour, they didn't live fast and die young but led a slower-paced, longer life akin to those of small reptiles, like lizards," he added.
Using advanced imaging technology in this way was the brainchild of Dr Newham's supervisor Dr Pam Gill, Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol and Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum London, who was determined to get to the root of its potential.
"A colleague, one of the co-authors, had a tooth removed and told me they wanted to get it X-rayed, because it can tell all sorts of things about your life history. That got me wondering whether we could do the same to learn more about ancient mammals," Dr Gill said.
By scanning the fossilised cementum, the material which locks the tooth roots into their socket in the gum and continues growing throughout life, Dr Gill hoped the preservation would be clear enough to determine the mammal's lifespan.
To test the theory, an ancient tooth specimen belonging to Morganucodon was sent to Dr Ian Corfe, from the University of Helsinki and the Geological Survey of Finland, who scanned it using high-powered Synchrotron X-ray radiation.
"To our delight, although the cementum is only a fraction of a millimetre thick, the image from the scan was so clear the rings could literally be counted," Dr Corfe said.
It marked the start of a six-year international study, which focused on these first mammals, Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, known from Jurassic rocks in South Wales, UK, dating back nearly 200 million years.
"The little mammals fell into caves and holes in the rock, where their skeletons, including their teeth, fossilised. Thanks to the incredible preservation of these tiny fragments, we were able to examine hundreds of individuals of a species, giving greater confidence in the results than might be expected from fossils so old," Dr Corfe added.
The journey saw the researchers take some 200 teeth specimens, provided by the Natural History Museum London and University Museum of Zoology Cambridge, to be scanned at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and the Swiss Light Source, among the world's brightest X-ray light sources, in France and Switzerland, respectively.
In search of an exciting project, Dr Newham took this up for the MSc in Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol, and then a PhD at the University of Southampton.
"I was looking for something big to get my teeth into and this more than fitted the bill. The scanning alone took over a week and we ran 24-hour shifts to get it all done. It was an extraordinary experience, and when the images started coming through, we knew we were onto something," Dr Newham said.
Dr Newham was the first to analyse the cementum layers and pick up on their huge significance.
"We digitally reconstructed the tooth roots in 3-D and these showed that Morganucodon lived for up to 14 years, and Kuehneotherium for up to nine years. I was dumbfounded as these lifespans were much longer than the one to three years we anticipated for tiny mammals of the same size," Dr Newham said.
"They were otherwise quite mammal-like in their skeletons, skulls and teeth. They had specialised chewing teeth, relatively large brains and probably had hair, but their long lifespan shows they were living life at more of a reptilian pace than a mammalian one. There is good evidence that the ancestors of mammals began to become increasingly warm-blooded from the Late Permian, more than 270 million years ago, but, even 70 million years later, our ancestors were still functioning more like modern reptiles than mammals"
"It was remarkable to be able to tell stories about the life history of these tiny mammals, which died 200 million years ago. Although it is not a new to suggest that these little creatures evolved their mammalian characteristics in a stepwise fashion, it is not necessarily expected that they evolved big brains before a faster mammalian metabolism," said Dr Gostling, Lecturer in Evolution and Palaeobiology at the University of Southampton.
While their pace-of-life remained reptilian, evidence for an intermediate ability for sustained exercise was found in the bone tissue of these early mammals. Dr Schneider, Associate Professor in Biomedical Imaging at the University of Southampton explained: "Bone is a living tissue, containing fat and blood vessels, and the diameter of the canals comprising the vessels can tell us about the maximum possible blood flow available to an animal, critical for strenuous activities such as running."
Dr Newham said: "We found that in the thigh bones of Morganucodon, the blood vessels had flow rates a little higher than in lizards of the same size, but much lower than in modern mammals. This suggests these early mammals were active for longer than small reptiles but could not live the energetic lifestyles of living mammals."
'Reptile-like physiology in Early Jurassic stem-mammals' by E. Newham et al in Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18898-4
Scientists count fossilised growth rings in teeth like tree rings
Synchrotron micro-CT scan of a fossil Morganucodon tooth root
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Scientists count fossilised growth rings in teeth like tree rings to find out how long the earliest mammals lived. Graphics: Nuria Melisa Morales Garcia. Morganucodon based on Bob Nicholls/ Palaeocreations 2018 model
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Synchrotron micro-CT scan of a fossil Morganucodon tooth root from 200 million years ago. Image Credit: Elis Newham
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In the tango every part of the body is used to express the emotion -- even the hands.
Perhaps nothing says Argentina more than tango music and tango dancing. Here they say that tango is the "vertical expression of a horizontal feeling" -- and after spending an evening watching very good tango -- I am now a believer.
Since cameras were not allowed, not to mention a flash, I had to take these images under poor lighting conditions and manipulate them later to better express the various moods of the evening.
I am fascinated by latin dancing. I have had this unexpressed (before now) desire to learn how to tango. The ability to use every part of your body to express emotion and passion is exhilerating to watch ... and to do it, must be amazing.


Evil has just pulled the covers of its latest model, an enduro rig called the Insurgent. This new model takes design cues from the 26in Uprising and 29in Following and blends them into an incredibly low and slack 27.5in mountain bike.
The Insurgent, which was being showcased at Eurobike this week, features 151mm of suspension travel and is designed to be paired with 160mm suspension forks. The full carbon frame uses a combination of internal and external cable routing. For now at least, the Insurgent sticks with the 142x12mm rear axle standard, rather than the wider 148mm option that is gaining traction.
Evil founder Kevin Walsh likes his bikes low and slack. Since the beginning, his company has pushed trail bike geometry well into the realm of gravity bikes.
When adjusting the geometry from low to really low, the head angle slackens 65.6 to 64.4 degrees and the bottom bracket drops from 13.6 to 13.2in. Geometry can be further adjusted through the use of an AngleSet. Chainstay length is 430mm / 16.9in.
The 1x-specific Insurgent features an integrated — and incredibly sleek —carbon chainguide. According to suspension designer Dave Weagle, when installed, this chainguide actually bolsters rear end stiffness. The Insurgent also has ISCG-05 tabs, should riders want to run a bashguard as well.


The Newton Brothers' score for Zack Parker's psychological thriller Proxy is being compared with the classic scores of Pino Donaggio for Brian De Palma films (e.g., Carrie, Dressed To Kill, Passion) and, perhaps more worryingly (in terms of expectations for the score), with Bernard Herrmann's scores for Alfred Hitchcock; particularly Psycho. It's not particularly surprising that Andrew Grush and Taylor Stewart's (aka The Newton Brothers) score does not live up to hype. However, I do think that the strings-heavy music for Proxy is an interesting and worthwhile score that is a solid addition to the psychological thriller/horror film music genre by shying away from soundscape ambience (that are frequently pretty unlistenable away from the film) and instead taking a limited sound palette and using it in interesting ways that are worthy of isolated and repeated listens.
A great interview of IFMCA member Jon Broxton in a recent issue of film music magazine Cinema Musica by fellow IFMCA member Basil Böhni. An informative insight to the workings of the IFMCA.


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KOTA BARU: A police lance corporal was remanded for seven days beginning today to facilitate Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigations into a corruption case involving RM4,700.
Kelantan MACC director Ramli Ismail said the remand order was issued by the magistrate court on the 32-year-old suspect.
The suspect was picked up at the MACC office in Jalan Lundang here at 6.50pm yesterday.
The detention follows the apprehension on Tuesday of two other policemen.