Today I can't help but think of the thousands of people who have been forced from their homes because of the rising flood waters and the thousands of people who are giving of their time and energy to help in the flood fight. As a Winnipegger it's easy to not give a thought to what's happening to the west of the city because I'm safe, warm and dry within the protection of the floodway. But the reality is that many of our fellow Manitobans are suffering because of the relentless rain and flooding rivers.
As you may have heard in the news the province is planning a controlled breach near Portage la Prairie to release some of the water flowing down the swollen Assiniboine River. This action will affect hundreds of homes and acres of farmland. Some Manitoba farmers, including large vegetable producers, will lose valuable farmland. Provincial compensation will not begin to cover their losses. Most Manitobans don't realize that this will have far-reaching impacts on our economy. This will probably mean less locally produced veggies in your supermarket. Rather the supermarkets will have to import more produce.
Livestock producers are also feeling the pain. Thousands of livestock have to be evacuated from certain areas because of flooding. Many producers are having problems finding enough feed for their animals, and this concern could extend into the summer. Some producers have already lost animals due to the extreme weather.
I realize that the province had a difficult decision to make. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. They hope that a controlled breach will prevent a massive flood to many more properties in the area. I suppose it's a matter of sacrificing some for the greater good. But try telling that to the homeowners and farmers who are losing their homes and livelihoods.
I'm praying for my fellow Manitobans and hoping that we'll soon see blue sky.
Great post Teresa! Yes, let's pray for blue skies and nooooo rain!
I visited farms in the Shoal Lakes area last week and was amazed at how hard folks there are fighting to keep their homes and livelihoods going.
He's right to a point. Once the lakes top over the water will move down the Grassmere drain towards the Red River. By then over 65 landowners will have lost as much as half their land.
My soggy city back yard doesn't seem worth mentioning anymore.
It certainly puts everything in perspective. Thanks for commenting, Anne!


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Can't believe it's Rondy week already. One last training run Tuesday before the big race. Dogs are looking pretty good. Most are finally over being sick. We are really getting excited about the race. It will be fun to see how the dogs do.
So, this has been a tough month for us. We lost our beloved Fancy earlier this month. She was just shy of 16 years old. She had a great long life and will always be one of the greatest lead dogs to ever live at this kennel. Almost every dog here is related to her. Our best leaders right now are her pups. She will be dearly missed forever. We also lost another old guy, Fancy's son Spencer. He was my limited class leader for many, many years. We'll dedicate this Rondy race to them!
The draw is tomorrow night so we'll find out how many teams will be there for sure. Since it's our Rookie year we go out at the back of the pack-bummer....... Looking to just survive all 3 days, we don't really care how we place just want to finish the race. We'll try to update the blog but life gets pretty busy with work & dogs.
Well the summer went by like that and I(Nathan) finally got a day off work, well at least half a day. We've been running dogs pretty regularly since Oct 1st but the weather hasn't cooperated. Warm all fall and now no snow but maybe that will change this week for us. All the dogs are still running on the 4-wheeler but they are doing 14 miles and doing it well. This year has been one of the hardest years for us so far when it comes to training. We are training 42 dogs off the truck, 3 to 4 times per week. Due to noise restriction where we live, we have to get up at 6:30 get water ready and go out at 7 and water dogs and clean up poops, then we come in and eat our breakfast, get the rest of the last minute stuff ready and load the dogs on the truck at 9 am and leave the house 9:30 to 10:00. Drive over 1 hour just to get to the place we go to train, train all day get done around 5 pm, drive home feed and finish chores get back into the house around 8pm. We do this Tuesday, Thursday and on the weekends. The other three day we both work all day and on Wednesdays we have to go back to work till 1 am. It would be nice to get on a sleds soon so we can go farther.
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BOISE, ID / ACCESSWIRE / August 17, 2020 / Truckstop.com, the first online freight marketplace, announced today that Kendra Tucker, has joined the company as chief revenue officer (CRO).
"We are delighted that Kendra has joined the executive team," said Paris Cole, CEO of Truckstop.com. "Her track record for growth and stellar leadership across sales, marketing, and customer success will further our company's mission to provide carriers and freight brokers with innovative, easy-to-use tools to help them make more money."
Prior to Truckstop.com, Tucker served as CRO at Upserve, a leading full-service restaurant management platform, where she worked closely with customer experience teams to expand the company's role as a partner for creating and growing successful hospitality businesses.
"Truckstop.com customers are the backbone of our economy," said Tucker. "They are on the road and on the phones every day making sure the food, fuel, and critical supplies we take for granted are delivered. While we depend on men and women in the freight industry, they rely on critical technology to keep their businesses running smoothly. I look forward to helping deliver innovative tools that keep the freight industry moving forward."
For more than ten years Tucker has grown and led teams across a variety of business models and industries. In her role as director of Vista Consulting Group's go-to-market, she worked closely with portfolio companies to implement more effective and sustainable growth strategies and specialized in pushing customer teams to over 90% net-retention through superior support and contracts that incentivized long-term partnerships.
Tucker graduated with a degree in international studies from the University of Chicago and spent her early career at Gallup and CEB (now Gartner), working in research and moving up to product marketing and sales leadership, scaling teams and closing deals with companies like BMW and Chanel. Tucker also served as SVP of audience and platforms at Axios, a political news organization.
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If it wasn't obvious from the title, we're going small this week in the gaming sector. Handheld, to be specific. Zen Pinball HD is a mobile game available for free in both the Apple and Android Play Stores. Pinball is a game that is tailor-made for mobile control schemes. It's easy because there are only two buttons, left and right. There's no getting shot to death while you try to find the 'right' button with your thumb. Tap the screen in the bottom left corner, the left flipper(s) go off. Tap the screen in the bottom right corner, the right flipper(s) go off. Simple, right?
Zen Pinball HD comes free with a pretty fun game called Sorcerer's Lair (seen above). If you manage to get a ball up to the sorcerer, he vaporizes it with, I'm assuming, sorcery. There are multi-ball portions once you've plugged enough balls into a particular hole (I know, I know, but you think of a better way to say it!). Ghosts appear at one point that you must defeat in a period of time for a bonus by rolling them over with the pinball. There are even some mini-games that I only half understand. Something about gears and a green ball? Anyway, for a free game, I haven't played a better mobile pinball app.
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Although I'm sure it came as a great shock to you, dear readers, they also offer add-on tables for $1.99 each. I'm a Star Wars nut and I was unable to withstand the Dark Side. I was born the same week Star Wars Episode IV came out so I really didn't have a choice in the matter. I'm the definition of a Star Wars baby. Short story long, I bought the Episode V: Empire Strikes Back table and the Boba Fett table. All I've done is play these games for the last two weeks. I've turned off my 360 just to play this game, which is rare for me with mobile apps. Zen Pinball also offers Star Wars: The Clone Wars for fans of the newer movies. I probably enjoyed them more than most people, but even a die-hard fan like me knows the first three movies were better.
They also boast several tables based on Marvel characters including Thor, Wolverine, the Hulk (or the Credible In-Honk as I referred to him at the tender age of 3), X-Men, Avengers, Captain America, Ghost Rider, and then a few others I didn't recognize. My point is, you could end up blowing almost fifty dollars on tables if your habit is bad enough. I may end up grabbing Wolverine and Hulk once I've mastered Empire and Boba Fett.
The Empire Strikes Back table has tons of references to the consensus best of the Star Wars films. If you manage to put the pinball through a door in the middle of the table five times, one for each letter (V-A-D-E-R), Darth will rise up out of the table and roll off quotes from the movie. "Join me, and together we can rule the universe as father and son." If you hit the pinball at him, he quickly dispatches it with his light saber.
If you manage to hit certain spots enough times, you're offered six different story lines that bring up memorable parts of the movie. One scene brings out asteroids and two tie fighters that fly around shooting at your pinball. Another has Yoda training Luke by doing a handstand while lifting rocks with the Force. A third brings out a storm trooper who fires at your ball with a blaster. For fans of the movie, each one brings back fond memories of George Lucas' classic film. On top of that, it's a top-notch pinball game that's as good as any real-world table that I've played.
The Boba Fett table could also be called Return of the Jedi, although there are a few quotes sampled from Episodes I-III. At the top of the table is the Sarlacc pit. Shooting three balls into Slave I, Boba Fett's ship, will bring on multi-ball. You start the game with one missile, but by increasing your score you can gain more. These are fired by Boba Fett at one of the "job" spots. By hitting these you take on a bounty and have to hit specific spots to complete the job.
Boba constantly flies around the table using his jetpack. He does his best to avoid being hit by the pinballs. He also fires at your ball as it rolls around the table, but unlike Vader's light saber, it doesn't destroy the balls. As you can see above, one of the "spinners" on the table is Han Solo frozen in carbonite as he appeared as Jabba's finest decoration in his palace. Jabba sits in the upper-right corner of the table and also appears in a cutscene when you're given a bounty job, again drawing direct connections with Return of the Jedi. I still haven't managed to get the Sarlacc pit to pull Fett down as it is doing in the above picture, but I'm not going to stop until I get it to happen!
I'm not the biggest mobile gamer in the world. I usually prefer my Xbox 360 to my GS3 for gaming, for obvious reasons. The Samsung has a nice, big screen, but it pales in comparison to my 50-inch HDTV, nevermind the difference in controller abilities. However, every once in a while a mobile title grabs a hold of me and won't let go. Zen Pinball HD, especially the Star Wars tables, have done just that. I'm a big fan of real-world pinball and I plan to have several tables in my house once I'm rich and famous. Until that day comes, Zen Pinball HD is a pretty good substitute. If you're looking for a fun mobile option other than Angry Birds and Temple Run, try out the Zen Pinball HD free table. But don't come crying to me if you end up spending a bunch of money on their other 22 pay tables. That's on you.
Bonuses: +1 for the realistic physics that recreate the experience of playing real-world pinball tables very well. +1 for such a large number of table options, especially the multiple Star Wars tables.
Penalties: -1 for charging two bucks for each new table. It's not that I don't think they're worth it. It's just a bit high when compared to the average price of most mobile titles, especially when you consider you can spend nearly $50 to buy all the available tables. I could see some mad parents out there reprimanding their kids when they get the phone bill.
Nerd coefficient: 8/10. Well worth your time and attention.


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I wouldn't want to say that the write-ins are bad for my writing, because it's totally the opposite. They're great for my writing, but not because they help me get any writing done. The write-ins, to me, are an opportunity to socialize with other people who are interested in writing. People who, by extension, also like to read, game, and watch anime, movies, and TV shows. Most of the people I know at NaNoWriMo, because it's an Internet-based community, are also nerds. I shunned nerds for a long time, but now I'm back.
In a lot of ways, I feel like I've come home. I've had sort of a love-hate relationship with the various nerd communities throughout my life: I'm really into lots of things, but not as much as other people. I'm really open to the idea of reading further into the stuff I like and criticize it, compare it to other, similar works, and eventually, create something to show off my utter devotion to nerdy things: some sort of original work.
This is a roundabout way of saying that my daily average word count took a dive after the big surge because it so happened to fall on a Friday night, and I simply didn't have any more time to write. Maybe I'll be able to make up for it today. As long as I don't let myself go a few days in a row … who am I kidding? I made almost eleven thousand in a day, I'm amazing! I can do anything!


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Inspirational Ageing
What Dame Joan Collins Taught Me
by Penny McCormick
Femme fatale, feminist, fashion icon … Dame Joan Collins has been an inspiration for seven decades. How does she do it? …
I have Darina Allen to thank for my introduction to the never-a-dull-moment world of Dame Joan Collins. Some 20 years ago, having completed a three month certificate course at Ballymaloe Cookery School, I applied for a summer job in the south of France. My employer, Dame Joan Collins, remained a mystery until the last possible minute, at which point I whooped in delight. Dynasty, in which she starred and received a Golden Globe, Emmy and People's Choice awards for her portrayal of Alexis Carrington, was one of my favourite TV programmes – so much so I even named our Irish terrier Dex Dexter after one of the cast members.
Some might say this fortuitous job was evidence of the law of attraction: I spent my formative years watching black and white movies and reading about Hollywood stars. In retrospect, the experience was another unofficial post graduate education – the opportunity to learn from a true professional why and how she has such star power.
In her memoir The World According To Joan, she says, "With classic outfits, excellent grooming and a strong sense of self, practically any woman can become, if not a charismatic Hollywood goddess, then attractive and worthy of admiration and some envy for her unique style."
Having worked with Dame Joan for almost two decades on both a part time and full time basis (I called her "JC"), I've distilled what I observed at close quarters into eight rules, as follows …
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Find Your Own Style
Collins is a self confessed shopaholic and fashion lover, though she does not follow trends slavishly. I've accompanied her on shopping sprees from Selfridges to St Tropez and witnessed firsthand how adept she is at mixing high street staples with bespoke pieces, while staying true to her own aesthetic. Glamorous, playful and sparkling are three words to describe her style often associated with maximalist 1980s dressing. Arguably she and Nolan Miller – the costume designer on Dynasty – created a signature look of pared back suits with defined shoulders and embellishment that was synonymous with the decade, and which has recently undergone a renaissance.
She knows her body: whatever she is wearing will either accentuate Collins' fabulous legs or her enviable embonpoint. She favours square necklines, long sleeves, peplum waists and sequins – lots of sequins!
Collins also loves white and knows that it brightens the complexion and wears the hue on important occasions. For the Met Gala in 2019 she was dressed in a white frou frou Valentino gown by Pierpaolo Piccoli channelling the gala's Camp theme. Last month, she chose a white feather and sequinned Jenny Packham gown to a charity ball, and when she was presented with a damehood for services to acting and charity by Prince Charles, she wore a knee length white suit with a Philip Treacy hat to the investiture at Buckingham Palace.
A committed royalist, Collins has been vocal in her admiration of the Duchess of Cambridge's "recessionista chic" and like her, often recycles outfits giving them a new lease of life by using different accessories. She especially favours rhinestone and diamanté earrings which are so flattering when they catch the light. Favourite accessories are by Kenneth Jay Lane and Alexis Bittar or from jewellers Butler & Wilson.
Wear Lipstick
Collins was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958 and has remained a knockout for seven decades. While she's written The Joan Collins Beauty Book, launched her own "Timeless Beauty" brand on QVC and been a recent Charlotte Tilbury ambassador, central to Collins' allure is her effervescent joie de vivre and her trademark make-up. Base not Botox, skill not surgery are the tenets on which her beauty routine rests.
"If I was shipwrecked on a desert island, lipstick would be the one thing I'd want," she has said. She favours a smokey eye and strong lip – preferably red. On hand for press appearances is her longstanding make-up artist Alyn Waterman, who says: "Before doing her make-up for an event, Joan always starts by making sure she hasn't got puffy under-eyes. She soaks cotton pads in a bowl of ice, then lies down and places them over her eyes for a few minutes." Other tips include using silver eyeshadow in the middle of her eyelids, to give her eyes a brighter look.
I've interviewed Collins several times; for a feature in Coutts magazine, she told me: "I do not tolerate fools lightly, I can't stand being bored or being around bores and I try to live each day to the utmost with passion. I want every day to be a mini lifetime in which I achieve something and enjoy something."
This translates as having a very full diary – planning regular activities (virtually or in real life) with friends and family and always doing some form of exercise whether it's stretching, walking or dancing. No wonder her mother called her "Miss Perpetual Motion"; her one-time fiancé Warren Beatty called her his butterfly.
Collins has many interests including Scrabble and she is a formidable poker player. It's easy to see the correlation between staying active and mentally agile and being young at heart. As she so rightly said, "Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine." Just for the record, she's 88 but has the energy of someone decades younger.
Read As Much As You Can
"Don't talk to me until I've had my first coffee," was one of the few unofficial rules I recall in my tenure chez Joan and who can blame her? Central to this morning ritual was reading the Daily Mail from cover to cover. She devours glossies (and was one of twelve "Women of the Year 2021" as selected by Harper's Bazaar), is a regular contributor to The Spectator, Daily Telegraph, The Lady and The Times among others, and a voracious reader. Biographies and thrillers are favourite genres (when she travels she often brings stronger light bulbs so she can read properly in hotels). Like her high-low fashion choices, she reads everything from bestsellers to obscure art monographs. In this way, Collins is always up to date, as au courant with society gossip as she is with politics, which is probably why she is never short of conversation, or a pithy judgement on most subjects. Most recently she slammed cancel culture "for closing down debate" and weighed in on the Chris Noth scandal. "Who knows what he did? I know him, and I'm not going to judge him, because who knows who these women are? But his career is wrecked, absolutely wrecked, in doing what he did."
Keep a diary
Collins has been a diarist from the age of twelve, and this childhood love of writing has evolved – she is an established author with 19 books to her name including two autobiographies (Past Imperfect and Second Act) seven lifestyle titles as well as novels such as the bestselling Love and Desire and Hate. I've been on the sidelines when she writes (long hand, in pencil) and her latest book My Unapologetic Diaries (published by W&N in trade paperback, €14.99) documents her life between 1898 and 2009, the entries for which she dictated in real time into a mini-tape recorder at the end of the day. Whether it is an encounter with a superstar or a member of the royal family, Collins is honest. She describes one party as "a complete crush of hags, facelifts and ancient old men in flashy suits". Catherine Deneuve is "stuck up" and "a bitch". Special revulsion is reserved for those with bad plastic surgery – in Collins's eyes, "almost a moral failing". Ardent fans will love it, others have found the timelines dubious and the constant name dropping tedious.
"I don't deprive myself – I eat chocolates, cookies and nuts: I drink wine and the occasional vodka tonic," Collins has said. I can definitely testify this is true; I called her food preferences the C-food diet (croissants, chicken, caviar, cashew nuts, chocolate …). Like most women who look good, Collins is not on a diet per se, rather she eats and drinks in moderation and enjoys nutritious food at home and in restaurants. In her Little Black Book, (which is not so little), Craig's in LA, The Wolseley in London and Club 55 in St Tropez are favourite restaurants which are fascinating for people watching too. She's also a friend of the A-list nutritionist Gabriela Peacock (read her recent book 2 Weeks To Feeling Great) who endorses intermittent fasting.
Get Over It!
If you watched the recent feature-length documentary This is Joan Collins (directed by Clare Beavan, BBC2) in which Collins narrates her life story against a backdrop of rarely seen home movie footage, you will know that she talked frankly about her rollercoaster marriages to Maxwell Reed, Anthony Newley, Ron Kass, Peter Holm and Percy Gibson. While many said it would never last, she and Percy celebrate 20 years of marriage in February this year – I was at their wedding in Claridge's – a fun-filled event when the bride wore a lilac ensemble by Nolan Miller.
Collins has certainly had her share of relationship dramas. Rather than being diminished by, or dwelling on, emotional turbulence she has remained positive and upbeat, astute and clear thinking. She moves on and has said her motto is "just get over it". Comparing herself to an ostrich "with my head in the sand", Collins said she was able to get through "a lot of things that have not gone well" by "waking up the next morning with a smile on my face" when interviewed on Women's Hour recently.
Be a Radiator
Collins is a loyal friend. Tracey Emin, Julian Clary, Christopher Biggins, Michael Caine, George Hamilton and Piers Morgan are some of her starry inner circle as are former publicists, directors and assistants. Contrary to the supposed sibling rivalry, she was also very close to her sister Jackie and together they were fun and fabulous – the epitome of that iconic Annie Leibowitz photograph of the duo in the back of a limousine which I always admired in her home in St Tropez.
Collins definitely believes in surrounding herself with positive people and edits her acquaintances. "There are two kinds of human beings. There are drains and there are heaters. Some people drain you and some people warm you. If people become too much of a drain, I say, 'That's it. Time to say goodbye'."
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Q: Can I get all command line arguments that are not used by Qt? I am developing a Qt application that I want to accept command line arguments.
I do not want to use a QCommandLineParser with QCommandLineOptions, because it does not support choices like the builtin argparse, and because it requires the QApplication to be initialized before the QCommandLineParser.
But, I cannot simply use the arguments from sys.argv, because these contain Qt-specific arguments such as --style, too.
Has Qt a builtin function to give me just these arguments that are not used by Qt itself, or will I have to filter them out myself one by one ?
I did find QCoreApplication.arguments(), but that doesn't fit my needs. Quote from the docs:

On Unix, this list is built from the argc and argv parameters passed to the constructor in the main() function

From that, I deduce that the list of arguments returned by QCoreApplication.arguments still contains Qt-specific options such as --style.

A: As per the comment, the code...
app = QApplication(sys.argv)

will remove recognized args from sys.argv, after which you can perform your own processing of sys.argv as you please.
Note that while this doesn't appear to be stated explicitly in the python documentation the c++  docs. state...

Note: argc and argv might be changed as Qt removes command line arguments that it recognizes.

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{{Curated}} [[Category:Pages edited by students of Tyrrell Conway at the University of Oklahoma]][[Image:OULOGOBIANCO.JPEG|thumb|400px|right|University of Oklahoma Study Abroad Microbiology in Arezzo, Italy[http://cas.ou.edu/study-abroad/]]] [[File:Adultvolvulus.jpeg|320px|thumb|left|Picture of Adult Onchocerca volvulus worms from the World Health Organization. [[#References|[10]]] ]] ==Etiology/Bacteriology== ===Taxonomy=== | Domain = Animalia | Phylum = Nematoda | Class = Secernentea | Order = Spirurida | Family = Onchocecidae | Genus = Onchocerca | species = O. volvulus {| | height="10" bgcolor="#FFDF95" | '''NCBI: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=6282] Genome: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/?term=Onchocerca%20volvulus]''' |} ===Description=== Onchocerciasis, also known as "River blindness" is an eye and skin infection caused by the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. It is considered to be among the list of neglected tropical diseases. According to the CDC a neglected tropical diseases are a group of parasitic and bacterial diseases that attribute to substantial illness for more than one billion people globally [[#References|[1]]]. The symptoms of onchocerciasis include nodules under the skin, debilitating itching, and eventually blindness. Onchocerciasis alone is believed to currently affect over 25 million worldwide with 300,000 completely blind and another 800,000 with substantial vision impairment [[#References|[2]]]. The filarial worm is transmitted to human hosts through the bite of infected black flies from the genus Simulium. These flies tend to live around wetlands and large river basins, hence the common name "River blindness." The majority of the population affected by the disease (99%) reside in the World Health Organization Africa Region while cases have been documented around the world including Central and South America [[#References|[3]]]. ==Pathogenesis== ===Transmission=== [[File:ovulvcycle.jpeg|275px|thumb|left|Life Cycle of O. volvulus.[[#References|[3]]] ]] Transmission of the parasite O. volvulus is via a Simulian black fly vector. When the Simuliid black fly takes a blood meal from a an infected human host, O. volvulus larvae are present in the blood meal. A few days later the larvae has developed in the midgut of the fly and is able to travel in the saliva from the fly into a new host human when the fly feeds again. This period usually lasts about ten days from the first host to the new host. Once in the new host the maturing worm takes up residence in the subcutaneous tissue usually forming nodules or causing joint pain. Here it will mature and become filariae, the mature stage of the parasite. These filariae can live for up to 15 years and grow to be up to 80cm (32 inches) in length[[#References|[4]]]. Once mature these filariae will produce anywhere from 700- 1800 microfilariae a day, averaging 1,600[[#References|[3]]]. It is these microfilariae (larvae) that will cause most of the damage to the host in their attempt to reach the skin surface to be part of another Simuliid's meal. Microflariae can live in the larval stage in a human host for 3-5 years[[#References|[5]]]. . ===Epidemiology=== Onchocerciasis is considered endemic across the tropical areas of Latin America, Africa and Yemen.[[File:onchoepi.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|Epidemiology of Onchocerciasis [[#References|[3]]] ]] Usually found near large rivers or wetland areas. The tropical climates in these areas are perfectly suited for the Simuliam fly's mating habits. The Simuliid flies have aquatic larvae. This means that for the flies to complete their lifecycle the larvae require fast-flowing water in which the larvae can attach to submerged rocks or vegetation. Due to this part of the fly's life cycle, endemic areas usually coincide with the path of rivers and streams. This fact has been confirmed with Onchocerciasis mapping[[#References|[6]]]. Approximately 99% of infected people live on the African continent. The other 1% are located in Latin America and parts of the Middle East. It is commonly believed that Onchocerciasis was brought to the Americas by way of the slave trade. The parasite Onchocerca volvulus has become almost completely zoonotic in the areas it is known to exist in Latin America [[#References|[6]]]. ===Infectious Dose, Incubation=== The actual infectious dose of O. volvulus required to cause Onchocerciasis is unknown, but it is believed to take hundreds of bites from infected Simuliids to contract the disease[[#References|[4]]]. The incubation varies from host to host and by the amount of bites from infected vectors. The generally accepted incubation period ranges from 3 months-2 years. This is considered the time from initial infection to the time that the mature filariae produce larvae. ===Virulent Factors=== O. volvulus is a naturally parasitic hookworm. The reason it is so virulent to humans is the worm's ability to circumvent the innate immune response. The microfilariae that the filariae produce are capable of arresting complement action in the innate immune response[[#References|[9]]]. This is accomplished by the presence of a factor that cleaves the C3b molecule to an iC3b that will not contribute to C3 convertase. This inhibits the complement cascade from completing. Inhibiting the innate immune response also disrupts the adaptive immune response allowing the parasite to continue to thrive. ==Symptoms== Onchocerciasis causes a wide array of symptoms. These can include but are not limited to: ===Nodules=== Skin nodules are where the adult worms reside. Normally nodules only contain 3-5 adult worms, but in extreme cases there has been up to 50 adult worms found inside a single nodule. These nodules tend to form in subcutaneous tissues over bony areas as a form of protection from the immune system. These areas include areas such as the hips, pelvis, ribs, shoulder blades, and skull[[#References|[3]]]. If ruptured it is possible that these nodules will trigger a very painful immune response. [[File:onchoderm.jpeg|175px|thumb|left|Onchocercal Dermatitis.[[#References|[3]]] ]] ===Onchocercal Dermatitis=== Skin lesions known as Onchocercal Dermatitis are formed by the microfilariae of the parasite. Onchocercal dermatitis is characterized as an intense pruritis. It causes premature wrinkling, enlargement of femoral and inguinal lymph nodes, obstruction of the peripheral lymphatic system, and localized edema[[#References|[2]]]. A specific form of onchocercal dermatitis has shown in Yemen known as "Sowdah." Sowdah is considered to be a form of hyperactive onchodermatitis. It causes uncontrollable itching and de-pigmentation of the skin that is commonly called "leopard skin"[[#References|[7]]]. ===Onchocercal Ocular Disease/Blindness=== Blindness is the most notable symptom of Onchocerciasis, but it is not immediate. As the microfilariae try to make it towards the skin in order to continue the life cycle, some of the organisms make it into the cornea of the eye. The eye is not a common spot for a Simuliid to feed. Therefore the microfilariae that make it to the eye tend to die. The corpses of the microfilariae trigger an inflammatory response that leaves scar tissue in the eye. This makes blindness very gradual, but inevitable without proper treatment. For this reason it is very rare to see anyone under the age of 30 to exhibit serious ocular deficiency. This scar tissue causes multiple issues within the eye including punctate (snowflake) keratitis, sclerosing keratitis, and iridocyclitis[[#References|[2]]]. ==Morbidity/Mortality== The morbidity of Onchocerciasis varies by region due to the epidemiology of the disease. In the Americas there has been a conscious effort to eradicate the disease since 1991. By 2012 the only cases that had ocular degeneration occurred in southern Venezuela. There have not been any new cases of blindness in the Americas attributed to Onchocerciasis since 1995[[#References|[8]]]. Unfortunately this is not the case on the African continent. That leaves more than 99% of the affected population in Africa, or approximately 18 million people as of 2007[[#References|[6]]]. This includes almost all of the cases that are showing ocular degeneration and/or blindness. The mortality rate of Onchocerciasis is practically zero unless the disease is couple with another serious condition such as HIV. ==Diagnosis== Diagnosis of Onchocerciasis is possible through a variety of different methods. These methods include:

• Palpation of the nodules present on an individual. Taken into account the living/travel history of a suspected individual this is a commonly described method.

• Skin snips is the most common method described. A tool is used to scrape a razor thin piece of skin from an individual's arm. This primitive biopsy is combined with saline and examined under a microscope to view microfilariae[[#References|[6]]]. This method needs to be done on individuals that have been infected for years or the microfilariae will not be present near the epidermis.

• Slit Lamp. This method also must be performed on particularly advanced individuals. It is the examination of the eye in search of ocular microfilariae.

• Mazzotti test. This test is a dose of antibacterials that kill local microfilariae if a skin snip test is negative. the result kills local microfilariae and induces dermatitis that will recede in a few days due to the inflammatory reaction[[#References|[6]]].

• DEC patch test is the same as the Mazotti test except with topical antibiotics. Antibiotics are applied and then covered with a bandage for days. Then the patch is removed and checked for dermatitis caused by dead microfilariae.

• An antigen dipstick assay is also available. This is the most promising, least invasive procedure. It tested 100% of positive patients plus almost 90% of future patients before any other method. This method is still in the testing phase at the time[[#References|[5]]].

• Nodulectomy. While the most invasive of the diagnostic techniques it is the most precise. Directly removing the adult worms from a nodule can provide an idea of the advancement of the infection and not just a diagnosis[[#References|[6]]]. ==Treatment== [[File:Walkingblind.jpeg|200px|thumb|left|Children lead men affected by Onchocerciasis. [[#References|[11]]]] ===Traditional=== Traditional treatment of Onchocerciasis varies by region. Most of the treatments before pharmaceutical drugs were based on treating the symptoms of the disease and not the cause. The few attempts of treating the disease with traditional methods were based on a zoonotic approach. The cattle parasite  O. ochengi  causes very similar symptoms in cattle as O. volvulus does in humans. This caused one of the common treatments to be vedgetation and fruit that the cattle tended to eat[[#References|[12]]]. ===Merck & Mectizan Donation Program=== On October 21, 1987 Merck Pharmaceuticals announced a break through in the treatment of Onchocerciasis. The company announced that it had developed a drug virtually free of side effects(not necessarily true) that would stop the production of microfilariae, thus preventing blindness and other severe side effects of the disease[[#References|[13]]]. The drug would also sterilize the existing filariae. This means that after approximately 15 years of treatment the patient would be parasite free. Merck then took the initiative and developed a program call the Mectizan Donation Program. Under this program any country affected by the disease that can show a financial need and the stability to distribute the drug appropriately will receive the drug for free[[#References|[3]]]. This program is working under the World Health Organization and is responsible for almost completely eradicating the illness in the Americas. The Mectizan Donation Program is Merck's largest global donation initiative reaching more than 60 million people a year in Africa, Latin America, and Yemen[[#References|[14]]]. ==Prevention== There have not been any drugs found that can protect against an infection from O. volvulus. Annual preventive treatment with ivermectin has displayed the ability to decrease transmission[[#References|[2]]]. The best preventive measures are to prevent bits from the Simuliid vectors. Bug spray and avoiding large bodies of water during the mating season are good ideas in practice, but not always practical in everyday life of indigenous communities. ==Host Immune Response== Damage Response Framework [[File:DRF.jpeg|450px|thumb|Right|Damage Response Framework]] ==References== [http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/onchocerciasis/ 1] Onchocerciasis. Center for Disease Control. [http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious-diseases/nematodes-roundworms/onchocerciasis-river-blindness 2] Pearson, Richard D. "Onchocerciasis" [http://www.neglecteddiseases.gov/target_diseases/onchocerciasis/ 3] Onchocerciasis or River Blindness. USAID. [http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/onchocerca-eng.php 4] Onchocerca volvulus. Pathogen Safety Data Sheet. Public Health Agency of Canada. [http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/1/53.long 5] Udall, D. "Recent Updates on Onchocerciasis: Diagnosis and Treatment" Clinical and Infectious Diseases. Vol 44 Issue 1. 2007. [http://web.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2006/Onchocerciasis/ 6] Goverman, D. Bass, J. Smith, S. "Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)" 2007. [http://www.tropmed.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/chapter10-2.pdf 7] Goldsmid, J Melrose, W. "Parasitic Infections of the Skin." The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine. 2005. [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6220a4.htm 8] "Progress Towards the Elimination of Onchocerciasis in the Americas". 2013.CDC [http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/185/12/1786.short 9] Meri, T. et al. "Onchocerca volvulus microfilariae avoid complement attack by direct binding of factor H" 2002. [http://www.who.int/apoc/media/adult_worms.JPG 10] Mature Onchocerca volvulus. WHO [https://www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/3969963699/in/album-72157622366709345/ 11] Atlas of Tropical and Extraordinary Disease. National Museum of Health and Science. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3588050/ 12] Ndjonka, D. et al. "Natural Products as a Source for Treating Neglected Parasitic Diseases." 2013. [http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/22/world/merck-offers-free-distribution-of-new-river-blindness-drug.html 13] "Merck Offers Free Distribution of New River Blindness Drug." 1987. New York Times. [http://www.mectizan.org/sites/www.mectizan.org/files/attachments/resources/MCT-2007-PA-003-BK.pdf 14] The Merck Mectizan Donation Program-River Blindness. 2007 Created by Tyler Potter, student of Tyrrell Conway at the University of Oklahoma.
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Thread: SpaceX
2015-Jan-18, 06:16 PM #301
A likely explanation for the strange angle it came in at, would be that they lost control of the grid fins when the fluid ran out.
starrs
The platform was unmanned as well? Do they tow it?
I wonder if adding more hydraulic fluid is the right thing to do. Are there any sensors measuring how hot the fins and their support equipment got?
We saw flames creeping up the sides of the Saturns--the exhaust filling in that low around the body of the vehicle--but on descent, you have it even worse.
Now that inflatable skirt we saw on the saucer like shell, maybe something like that to mitigate flames--or would that ruin the airflow needed for the fins.
Speaking of fins, I seem to remember control surfaces within the exhaust of early liquid fuel rockets before gimbaling.
Perhaps having both systems would allow the stage to move a little more quickly.
At the low speed near landing, the exhaust is the only moving fluid any fin can really bite into.
Gimbaling may not be enough.
As for getting into the comsat business--Musk could alienate the very folks he wants to launch for. You don't want both ULA and SES against you.
cjameshuff
...I'm assuming they have already addressed the thermal issues, considering that they haven't had problems with the LOX tank exploding due to excessive heating during a retro burn.
It's going at least 25 m/s at 1 s before landing, at a bit over 12.5 m from the platform...about half the span of the legs. There's plenty of air for them to bite into. The fins are also at the top of a hollow structure with almost all the mass at the bottom, and they provide attitude control independent of the engine at the bottom, something that no additional amount of engine thrust vectoring could give you.
He's targeting a market that they're making no serious attempt to provide services to, and giving them substantially cheaper launches. How is this going to alienate them?
Wouldn't fast intenet eliminate their need to get regular pay TV from typical Clarke belt?
docmordrid
More like augment it by adding value added low latency internet based products for those providers who partner with him. One of the problems with satellite internet is the latency. It could also be faster than fiber since the speed of light through optical fiber is 40% slower than through the vacuum of space.
SpaceX now has at least one major partner in the satellite venture: Google, and there are others.
Background: Google CEO Larry Page and Elon Musk are old buddies from way back, and an investor in Tesla.
In May 2014, Page said he'd rather leave his money to Elon Musk for SpaceX than give it to charity.
Now for the meat,
Link....
Google Nears Major Investment in SpaceX to Bolster Satellites
Google is close to investing in rocket maker SpaceX, according to several people familiar with the talks, creating a formidable alliance in Silicon Valley's accelerating Internet space race.
The purpose of a deal, which is still in the works, is to support the development of SpaceX satellites that could beam low-cost Internet around the globe to billions who don't have it.
The price and terms Google and SpaceX are discussing couldn't be learned although one person familiar with them said Google has agreed to value SpaceX north of $10 billion and that the size of the total round, which includes other investors, is very large.
SpaceX's investors include Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Valor Equity Partners. The company, which has been developing rockets to lower the cost of space travel, hasn't raised a primary round of funding in several years.
The takeaway: Google is in the final stages of investing in SpaceX after its own effort to create an Internet-beaming satellite constellation unraveled.
2015-Jan-20, 12:00 AM #308
According to Universe Today, he wants a similar system at Mars as well!
Yes, it would be very useful for a colony there, and NASA may also get involved. Last year NASA put out an RFI (request for information) for commercial data relay services between Earth and Mars.
NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to investigate the possibility of using commercial Mars-orbiting satellites to provide telecommunications capabilities for future robotic missions to the Red Planet.
"We are looking to broaden participation in the exploration of Mars to include new models for government and commercial partnerships," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.* "Depending on the outcome, the new model could be a vital component in future science missions and the path for humans to Mars."
The RFI details possible new business models that would involve NASA contracting to purchase services from a commercial service provider, which would own and operate one or more communication relay orbiters. The solicitation is open to all types of organizations including U.S. industry, universities, nonprofits, NASA centers, and federally funded research and development centers, in addition to U.S. government and international organizations.
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Dragon 2 pad abort postponed to later this year. NSF source:
they want to move the Dragon 2 pad abort from LC-40 to being launch #1 out of LC-39A. This because of the crowded manifest at LC-40.
As a result, there is now a full-court press to complete LC-39A enough to fly, even if it means postponing the removal of the shuttle Rotating Service Structure (RSS - see below.)
Complicating the removal of RSS is that SpaceX wanted to remove it using controlled explosive demolition, but the range wouldn't let them. Now it has to be done the slow way.
Last edited by docmordrid; 2015-Jan-20 at 08:52 PM.
spjung
Originally Posted by starrs
The autonomous spaceport drone ship is unmanned, but there's a crewed support ship nearby during operations. According to this article in Universe Today, it sails under its own power.
ASDS #1 (KSC) & #2 (Vandenberg) get names, both being those of Mind Ships in s/f writer Iain M. Banks' 'Culture' series.
@elonmusk
Repairs almost done on the spaceport drone ship and have given it the name "Just Read the Instructions"
West Coast droneship under construction will be named "Of Course I Still Love You"
Dragon V2 SuperDraco thruster pack (2 engines) test.
Dragon V2 uses 4 of these packs, 8 deeply throttleable and redundant engines at 16,000 lbf each, for launch escape and propulsive landings.
https://vine.co/v/OTBtbH9Bxzm
Busy bees there at SpaceX!
NSF user JimNtexas did a fly-by of SpaceX McGregor and shot some nice pics. Jim's notes below the Google Drive link.
Most are of the tripod test stand area and show progress on the Falcon Heavy vertical test stand and it's HUGE flame trench. This should be getting some use in late spring or summer. Others are of the F9R Dev test pad and others are of an engine test stand building (lots of tanks around it.)
The very first image is NOT a SpaceX building. Some company nearby.
Google Drive link....
Jim's notes,
I did another light plane photo run near McGregor today. It was really bumpy, I made myself a bit airsick taking these!
The usual caveats apply:
1) At no time did I overfly the SpaceX facility.
2) At no time did I descend below 1500 above ground level, and was mostly above 2500 agl feet because of the turbulence.
3) If anyone at SpaceX management want me to cease these flights, all they need do is contact me and ask.
4) Observations:
- This is the first time I noticed the permanent entrance gate on Plant Road.
- Lots of construction going on around the big test stand.
- Three big red cranes.
- Nothing interesting near the hover pad.
5) Consider these images to be public domain. I'd appreciate credit if you want to use my images. I haven't had time to process or mark today's images in any way.
LowRes thumbnail of one image
NASA commercial crew presser today.
Dragon V2 flies the pad abort test in February 2015 from KSC. If all goes well it'll be re-used for the full flight abort test at Vandenberg.
Pictures of the abort test vehicle to be posted later today.
Extremely busy days at SpaceX it seems, could be a very big year if they pull everything off.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SpaceX/st...76530178170880
@SpaceX
Major test of Crew Dragon's abort capabilities coming up - first look at the pad abort vehicle. pic.twitter.com/xmYvUvwjX5
10:21pm - 27 Jan 15
Elukka
Nice. Is the heat shield one piece now, or is it just not mounted on this one yet? Like the one in the reveal event, it doesn't have the curiously irregularly shaped tiles that Dragon V1 has.
galacsi
Pontoise France
Fraser has posted a cool video on Universe today , it is about the Falcon Heavy :http://www.universetoday.com/118549/...cex-animation/
NEOWatcher
N.E.Ohio
Originally Posted by galacsi
That's the same video that started the Falcon Heavy thread.
Originally Posted by NEOWatcher
Named for the Mind Ship 'Just Read the Instructions' in the Culture novel series,
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/560913448058380288
Elon Musk @elon musk
Painting the name on the droneship ... http://t.co/X8R8O4KjPx
Originally Posted by docmordrid
Which for those not familiar with it, paraphrases a popular saying of computer technicians, which I won't quote here because it's not family friendly.
Culture is one great series of books if anyone is looking for something to read.
If he was going to name it after Mind ships, he should have chosen "Funny, it worked last time..." for this barge.
The DSCOVR launch is Sunday Feb 8 at launch at 1810 EST. The backup opportunity is Feb. 9 at 1807 EST.
The static fire test was completed today. Waiting for data.
The ASDS Just Read the Instructions location will be 31°6′10″ N , 74°33′38″ W for the Falcon 9R first stage landing attempt.
Streaming on NASA TV, spacex.com, YouTube's SpaceX Channel and Livestream SpaceX. NASA TV usually starts about 1 hour before launch, and the others about 20-30 minutes carrying the SpaceX webcast.
2015-Feb-02, 07:50 PM #328
Dragon V2 undergoing tests
Why the fins?
Dynametric tail fins to look cool?
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Engaging with Local Government – Examples from Turkey, Brazil, Australia, US, UK and Latvia
2 February 2015 16 February 2016 ~ Giselle Weybrecht
Over the past couple of years I have seen a significant increase in business school partnerships with government, and in particular local government. These partnerships are becoming more structured and focused, engaging not just faculty but students and staff, providing meaningful learning opportunities for students while contributing to moving the city's sustainability strategies and policies forward. Here we feature a few such partnerships from Turkey, Brazil, Australia, US, UK and Latvia.
Yalova University in Turkey and the local Yalova Municipality recently signed an agreement to work more closely together. The local Municipality now funds and sponsors thesis projects related to issues of particular interest to the city. In Brazil, the National Service of Industrial Apprenticeship in Parana is working with the City of Curitiba, and a range of universities in the city to provide and share knowledge, innovative ideas and skills around how to create a more sustainable city. This provides an exciting opportunity for the university to connect students with planning and decision-making processes in sustainable urban management.
University of New South Wales in Australia signed a Sustainability Agreement with its local city council, Old Randwick City Council, one of the only continuing agreements of its kind between a local council and a university in Australia. The Agreement is intended to establish a formal working relationship between both organisations for the express purpose of progressing, sharing and collaborating on joint projects or initiatives intended to deliver key sustainability outcomes or changes of mutual benefit to both organisations, within or adjacent to the area comprising Randwick City. George Washington School of Business (GWSB) in the US partnered with the Office of the Mayor of Washington, D.C. to provide consulting services, including a first of its kind project to research and develop an economic development strategy for the city of Washington. The months-long project resulted in a highly regarded economic development plan, developed by 17 MBA students under the guidance of GWSB faculty.
Several schools are also engaging with their local city councils around special, sustainability-focused events. For example Royal Holloway School of Management in the UK has taken over the hosting of the Commission for Sustainable London 2012 website. The Commission was an independent body that monitored and assured the sustainability of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games—the first of its kind for an Olympic Games. In Latvia, Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration participated in Riga European Capital of Culture events, which took place throughout 2014. The school joined forces with the city council and local organisations to prepare and participate in the events and activities of the year.
Bristol Business School in the UK is a key partner in Bristol European Green Capital 2015. Students and staff will be playing a role in a range of initiatives and events planned around the year. The University itself played an active role in securing the prestigious designation for the city. Students on Bristol's Green Internship Scheme on placement at the Bristol Green Capital Partnership, which submitted the original proposal) supported the bid. The US Government has recently selected Berkeley-Haas Centre for Responsible Business to host one of four national dialogue sessions to help develop a National Action Plan for responsible practices by American corporations operating in other nations. The purpose is to spur robust discussions by stakeholders from business, labour and civil society.
Does your school have projects with your local government? Share your experiences in the comments below.
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John Leopold
John Leopold King, another of the pre-World War I generation of barristers, was born on March 8, 1870, in Gayle, St Mary, the son of Mr and Mrs J. W. King. He was educated at Mount Angus Day School, and at the Calabar Day School when T. B. Stephenson was the headmaster; he remained there as a Pupil Teacher for two years before entering Mico College. After successfully completing his course at Mico he became the master of Whitefield Boys' School in Porus. He later taught at Mannings School, Mico College and Titchfield, before deciding to leave the teaching profession. During and between teaching posts he continued his studies locally, obtaining scholarships to the University College at Hope, which functioned between 1889 and 1903. He passed the intermediate and final examinations for the London University B.A. degree, and in 1902 spent several months on leave from Mico, in England, Scotland and France continuing his studies, and observing schools and their work.
Daily Gleaner, December 15, 1896
AMONG THE SCHOOLS
A STEP UP. There is as good mind in Jamaica as anywhere else. This thought is always present to our mind, when we hear of proposals to lower our educational standards, that is to say, our working ideals. Some would lower them in the elementary school and in various other relations, foolishly pleading that Jamaica children are not like others. When, however, these children are tested by Cambridge Local standards, College of Preceptor standards, or Royal Drawing Society or other standards, they do not fail to make a good showing, and yet, the cowardly croakers would beg for lowered tests, to be applied to our children. The London University Standards are not too high for Jamaica as the results of their examinations show. The Gazette of Thursday last contained another proof of this, when it announced that Mr. J. L. King, one of the Assistant Masters in the Mico Training College had passed the Intermediate examination in Arts, at which he sat at midsummer. After serving as a pupil teacher in the practising school of Calabar College, he entered the Mico College. He passed all his examinations there with high credit. Thus he took charge of the Whitfield Boys' School, Porus. While teaching there he gained the "Teachers' Scholarship," offered by the Schools Commission, by which he was enabled to spend a year at University College, preparing to matriculate in London University. His high pass in this examination entitled him under the regulations to return to University College to read for his degree. He did not remain there for the whole of the period to which he was entitled, but accepted at the beginning of the current year an appointment as Assistant Master in the Mico. He continued his studies for the late examination privately; and we are pleased to observe that Mr. King has passed in the first division. We mention these particulars with pleasure, especially as an encouragement to a number of others in different parts of the island who are preparing for the examinations referred to. It is most desirable that they should succeed, as we need all the educated element in the population that can in this way be secured.
In 1907 he went to London to pursue his ambition to become a barrister. He worked for the London University LLB which he passed in 1909, and completed his bar examinations at Gray's Inn in January 1910. He was called to the bar in London, and admitted to the Jamaican bar when he returned to the island in June 1910.
Although he left teaching, he remained concerned with education. He had been President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association in 1903, and was made an honorary member. He edited the 'Jamaica Teacher' and was a member, and later chairman of the Teachers' Mutual Aid Society. He served on the Cambridge Local Examinations Committee, the Wolmer's Trust and the Kingston School Board.
In 1910 he made a brief excursion into journalism as the literary editor of the Daily News, which lasted barely a year in 1910-11.
In 1912 King was elected to the City Council of Kingston, and served on that body throughout the 1914-18 war, during which time general elections were suspended. When elections were held once again, in June 1921, he was not a candidate.
Although King built a solid reputation as a defence lawyer, he did on occasions appear for the prosecution, In 1922 he was appointed acting Resident Magistrate for Clarendon, a post which he held until mid-1925.


With a stretch of ever more-impressive films that includes Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, and the excellent recent release Mud, director Jeff Nichols has been a sort of indie king. But he's just made the jump to studio pictures, by selling a movie pitch to Warner Bros. Or he's in the process of making the jump at least, as Deadline reports that Nichols has sold his next movie, which shoots early next year, to the studio.
Update: A new report says that Michael Shannon will star, and calls the film a "sci-fi chase film," which pegs it as Midnight Special. More below.
So what's the film? This report doesn't say. We know that Nichols has been writing one film called Midnight Special, which he has called a sci-fi picture inspired by John Carpenter — Starman in particular — and which he calls "a government chase film" and his own take on a sci-fi genre picture.
So if the WB project is any of those, it probably won't be the last one. The real identity of the film will probably be revealed soon, and no matter what the project is, I hope Nichols finds the same sort of support WB has given a director like Ben Affleck, and that he's able to continue his development as a storyteller without the uncertainty of working in the indie realm.
Update: Variety reports that Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter lead and Mud cameo player Michael Shannon is cast in the film. Perhaps Shannon's experience with WB on Man of Steel helped this deal along? The trade doesn't have a title for the film, but says Nichols is writing and Sarah Green and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones are producing. The description ("a present day sci-fi chase film") pretty much locks it as the aforementioned Midnight Special.


This bible based-baptism is a vital part of every person's freedom and choice.
Why would you or I let anyone make this decision for us?
It is our estimation that this baptism is being neglected, unpreached, dismissed, and minimized in favor of more easy-pleasy gospels, such as the prosperity gospel, or churchianity, like my church saves me.
Christians are all over the theological map regarding the need for baptism. But while this is so, my testimony is that this discussion is still fruitful and rich in grace, so long as we don't get tribal, cultish and argumentative about it. The gospel is written for us and yes we can understand it with a little patience and some good faith and prayerful study.
I am so thankful that the Lord brought me to the waters of full immersion baptism after having some of these biblical insights. All I now teach about water baptism is in hopes that others will have the same life-changing (cosmos changing), bible experience of water baptism (and Holy Ghost Baptism) that I and millions of others have had.
Before I attempt to add something more about water baptism in terms of 1Peter3,21's assertion that water baptism is our 'answer' of a clean and obedient conscience towards God and man, perhaps a short overview would help.
Some see baptism as a mere symbol of salvation. Yes it's an act of obedience, but hey just a symbol (like the Lord's Supper), not part of the gospel of salvation itself. This symbol dialog does not go far enough in our assessment. Others like some modern evangelicals are cutting it out of their practice almost entirely, often by merely quoting the great German reformer Martin Luther's phrase "faith alone" as being the only requirement for salvation.
This latter development is arguably a man made philosophical construct, that ignores the fact that God always backs up what he commands us to do, if we do it with faith, with the grace of the Holy Ghost, in terms of further wisdom, further healing, further understanding of his word, etc etc, that Spiritually complements our actual obedience to his word. In other words, God doesn't command us to do things in his word without gracing us with greater revelation and blessings from our obedience to it.
Nobody in the early church separated out or deleted faithers baptism from the gospel of salvation as proclaimed by the Apostles. It's what everbody did.
The Vatican State Church sees infant baptism as an effectiing grace to the baptized on the basis of the faith of the Godparents and the church, which is capable of dispensing God's grace, with or without, the personal faith of the person being baptized, or doing the baptism.
This ministry sees baptism as part of the ongoing Apostolic and biblical faith mandate given by Jesus immediatly before he ascended per Matthew 28,19. We assess it to be an integral part of the gospel itself, Mark16,16, and vital witness to the gospel itself. It requires a personal faith. It is to be proclaimed publicly, as the apostle Peter did on the day of Pentecost (Acts2.36-39) when asked by folks what they had to do to be saved.
Furthermore, a faithful baptism, done with the actual repentant personal faith of the one being baptized, is according to Acts2,38 connected to the actual remission, the wiping out, of our sins, and thus vitally connected to our lasting Spiritual health. It is also an identity marker of who we are in Christ, as Jesus was marked as God's son in whom God was well-pleased, and also a strengthening by the Holy Ghost, for his, and our, mission(s).
Acts 19 depicts the apostle Paul coming to Ephesus and encountering folks who knew nothing of the Spirit of God, and so he baptized them in water in Jesus NAME, after which they received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. This proves the ordinary first-in-time relationship between water baptism and Holy Ghost baptism per Acts 2,36-39. This also demonstrated and proved that one is 'born again' by both being faithfully "washed" in the water of baptism, and by the Spirit that shows up at a faithful water baptism, and then Holy Ghost Baptism itself (John3,5), and that these two baptisms are really 'one baptism,' effectuated by our 'one faith,' 'One Spirit,' within the one body of Christ (Ephesians4,4-5).
In short, we at Zion Pentecost Mission see faither's baptism as a vital part of rooting ourselves fully in the salvation of Jesus Christ, a threshold milestone to the fullness of salvation, and the faith moment (again only if we have personal faith) when we change from the fallen team of the world, the devil and the flesh, and are raised up and onto Jesus' salvation team (Colossians3,1-3, Colossians1,13, Romans 8).
I played a lot of hockey as kid and it's possible to walk on ice with regular shoes. But to develop any power and balance there, to play the game right, you put on skates. The new covenant power and strength that comes from a faither's baptism in Jesus' NAME is like the difference between walking on ice in shoes or putting on skates.
Now 1Peter3,21 adds something more to the frothy and recreative and faithful waters of baptism.
It tells us that our water baptism is a vital part of our pledge to God and others, or our "answer" to God and others, that we have a clean conscience, that we are obedient to Him, that we have done 'all we have been asked' in serving him. Like the hymn says "after you have done all you can, just stand."
In the specific context of 1Peter, it was their "answer" or "pledge" that their suffering is for "doing good", serving on Jesus' team, 1Peter3,17 and 22.
When we were kids, we recited the Pledge of Allegiance, every day, to the flag and to the United States of America. Who could forget this? This is about civic allegiance. Well, our public baptism in Jesus Name is our pledge in the religious realm, to serve and follow Jesus, not just profess and believe, but to live according to his Lordship and saviorship (sic) of our lives.
Are we forgetting the pledge we made at baptism?
Are we even making one?
Or put it another way, wouldn't our conscience toward God and others be much stronger if we all got baptized as adult faithers, as scripture says?
Acts 19- the 12 disciples had no strength in the pagan town of Ephesus, a town spiritually dominated by the false cult of Artemis, a Greek Amazonian goddess. They needed both baptisms for the answer of a clean and strong conscience!
1Timothy1,4, is also about Ephesus. Paul has been run out of town after trying to clean house of all the false teachers that are not accepting the full gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul exhorts Timothy to surpress the remaining false teachers, teaching the myths and geneologies of their ancestral Jewish families, perhaps saying "we come from priestly or Levite families, why should we get baptized in Jesus NAME?" (John Gill notes 10 different ancestral-family hierarchies post Babylonian exile, biblehub.com 1Timothy1,4).
"We still have the law of Moses." (cf 1Timothy1,7-8).
"We don't need a pure conscience or a sincere [gospel] faith." (cf 1Timothy1,5 and 11).
But Paul is telling Timothy, just as Peter is exhorting Christians in this same part of the world at 1Peter3 and verse 21, that they must have a good conscience to persevere and represent Christ well.
We don't know exactly all that was going on in Ephesus, but we do know from Acts19,7 that 12 leading folks had not received water baptism. We also know from Acts19,13-15 that the seven sons of Sceva did not have the power to exorcise demons, suggesting that they too were not baptized.
So, Acts 19 and 1Timothy1 fairly suggest that there were probably folks, who for various reasons like today, dismissed or minimized the gospel requirement to get baptized in Jesus NAME.
"We might sort of believe in Jesus, as a prophet, but get baptized into his death and resurrection in His NAME for salvation?"
"Now you are going too far?"
"Get baptized and follow a guy who we have never seen?"
"Pledge ourselves forever to an invisible Lord?"
There's no way to shape an easy-pleasy gospel that includes a faither's water baptism as our "pledge" or "answer" of a clean conscience toward God and man.
But, even so, 1Peter3,21 says God does reward those who follow through with this biblical water baptism in that it affords an unshakeable and fully rooted confidence in being right with God and man, of having done what Jesus said to do.
Praise the Lord Jesus, that sounds like the true gospel.


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A timeless keepsake with a vintage appeal and touch of sparkle. Glittering pavé stones are embedded into the round locket creating a cross design. Make it your statement piece worn alone or layered with any of our linked chains.


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Q: In GNOME/gdk/gtkmm/cairo, a equivalent series of codes for MS Windows "TransparentBlt()"? How can I port MFC
TotalDC.TransparentBlt(position.x, position.y, width, height, &image1DC, 0, 0, width, height, RGB(255, 255, 255));

to GNOME/gdk/gtkmm/cairo?
I know that MFC "BitBlt();" can be ported using
image1->copy_area(0,0,width,height,Total,position.x,position.y);

But this function does not designate the transparent RGB(r,g,b).


Experience a fun-filled, faithful weekend with other Catholic Men at the upcoming 2017 Men's ACTS retreat. The retreat will be held on June 22-25th at the Down Home Ranch In Elgin, Texas. Transportation, lodging, meals, snacks and supplies are all provided. This is a great way to get away from all the hustle and bustle of everyday life and refresh and retreat for a weekend out in a peaceful setting. Contact Damien Gray, retreat director at damien@adchaos.org for additional information. The cost of the retreat is $175.00 with a $50.00 deposit required to hold your spot. Only thirty spots are available, so do not delay being a part of this amazing retreat. ACTS is celebrating its thirtieth year and serves over 650 dioceses worldwide! Registration available online at www.st-louis.org/acts.


Having looked at the chemistry behind beer previously, it seemed only fair to also take a look at cider for all the cider drinkers out there. On a hot summer's day, the cool, refreshing taste of cider is hard to beat. But what are the chemicals behind this flavour?
Before we look at the chemistry, let's briefly discuss how cider is made. Obviously, it starts with the apples being picked from the tree. The type of apples is, of course, a major factor in the taste of the finished cider. Bittersweet cider apples are low on acidity, but high on tannins, whilst sharp apples are the opposite. Sweet apples, meanwhile, are low in both departments, whilst bittersharp apples are high in both.
Once the apples have been picked, they're left to mature for a time before then being scratted, or ground down, into a pulp. The pulp produced by this process is known as pomace. This pomace is then pressed to squeeze out all of the juice, which is collected into either vats or casks. At this point, it is then slowly fermented, and yeasts convert the natural sugars in the apples into alcohol. These yeasts can be the natural yeasts present in the apples, or yeasts that are added specifically for fermentation.
After fermentation is complete, the cider will often be left to mature for several months. At this point, extra sugar is sometimes added to the cider to allow fermentation to continue, and produce a small amount of carbon dioxide to carbonate the cider. However, commercially carbonation is often primarily accomplished via direct injection of carbon dioxide. In the manufacture of some ciders, they may be blended with other, older ciders, to ensure consistency of taste or to alter the flavour.
Carbon dioxide can also be produced by one of the acids present in apples. Malic acid is the main acid in apples, and a process called malo-lactic fermentation converts it into lactic acid. You've probably heard of lactic acid before – it's also the acid produced by anaerobic respiration, the process our body resorts to to supply our muscles with extra energy when it can't get enough from aerobic respiration alone. When you get a stitch, lactic acid in your muscle tissue is to blame.
In cider, the conversion of malic acid into lactic acid lowers the overall acidity of cider, and leads to a rounder flavour. Depending on the cider in question, this process can be desirable or undesirable. Some cider manufacturers will add extra malic acid after fermentation has completed in order to increase acidity and modify the flavour.
Another class of compounds which can influence the taste of a cider are the tannins. We're more acquainted with the idea of tannins being present in red wine, but they're also found in apples, and by extension, ciders. Chemically, they're polyphenols – these are formed from phenolic compounds, such as epicatechin, chained together. In terms of taste, they contribute a bitterness and astringency. Whilst their levels are higher in traditional ciders, they're still present in lower quantities in mainstream ciders.
Sweetness is also an important factor, particularly in popular ciders. However, if fermentation is allowed to go to completion, all of the sugars contained in apples are fermentable, so the result is a dry cider. In order to achieve sweetness, either the fermentation must be stopped before completion, or a sweetening substance must be added afterwards.
Stopping the fermentation prematurely, a process known as 'keeving', is less common. Instead, sugar can be added. The problem with sugar, being fermentable, is that it can kick-start fermentation again. Commercially, this problem is often circumvented by filtering and pasteurising the cider to remove any remaining yeast, preventing further fermentation from occurring. On a small scale, this is harder to achieve; manufacturers can either wait several months after fermentation, to ensure the yeast is dead before adding sugar, or resort to other methods. The main alternative to sugar for sweetening is non-fermentable artificial sweeteners. Saccharin has been used in some ciders, but has an noticeable aftertaste. Instead sucralose is now an oft-used alternative.
So, we've covered a number of the compounds contributing to the flavour of cider, but what about the aroma? Of course, the two are closely related, and ester compounds in the cider will contribute to both. These tend to have fruity flavours; ethyl-2-methyl butanoate is a particularly prominent fruity ester in ciders. The compound suggested as one of the main contributors to the aroma of cider is 2-methyl-4-pentyl-1,3-dioxane; it's thought that this compound is produced when acetaldehyde, generated as a byproduct of fermentation, reacts with 1,3-octanediol, an alcohol naturally present in apples.
Of course, we've barely scratched the surface of the huge number of compounds present in ciders here, but the next time you're enjoying a cider, be it one of the commercial or the more traditional variety, you can reflect on the medley of chemical compounds necessary to produce its distinctive flavour. There are also plenty of links below to delve deeper into the chemistry of cider and cider making!


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American Girl Dolls, Risk And Sand Inducted Into Toy Hall Of FameAmerican Girl Dolls, the board game Risk, and sand were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame Thursday.
Sand, Cabbage Patch Kids, Piñatas Among Toy Hall Of Fame FinalistsSand, Cabbage Patch Kids and American Girl Dolls are among the nominees for the National Toy Hall of Fame.
Baby Nancy, Jenga, Sidewalk Chalk Inducted Into National Toy Hall of FameBaby Nancy, the first Black baby doll to have an Afro and other authentic features, along with Jenga and sidewalk chalk were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday.
Toy Hall of Fame 2019 Inductees Include Matchbox Cars, Coloring Book, Magic: The GatheringMatchbox Cars, the coloring book and the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering were inducted Thursday into the National Toy Hall of Fame, recognized for an enduring appeal that keeps them on store shelves today.
Toy Hall Of Fame Finalists Include Smartphone, Care Bears, JengaThe smartphone earned a place among the 12 finalists because of its status as a platform for countless mobile games.
Magic 8 Ball, Uno, Pinball Inducted Into Toy Hall Of FameThis year's inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame were announced.
Toy Hall Of Fame Finalists Include Tickle Me Elmo, American Girl DollThis may be the year that chalk makes its mark on the National Toy Hall of Fame, or American Girl outmuscles He-Man for a place of honor.
Wiffle Ball A Finalist For The National Toy Hall Of FameA staple of backyard entertainment has a real shot to be inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in upstate New York.
Operation, Rubik's Cube Among Finalists For Toy Hall Of FameAmong the 2014 nominees are the American Girl Doll, the game Operation and the Rubik's Cube.