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'Forrest Gump' Turns 25: Where Is the Cast Now?
Run, Forrest, run ... to check out what's happened to the cast of the Oscar-winning film in the 25 years since it debuted on July 6, 1994
By Alex Apatoff
Published on July 5, 2019 05:00 PM
Forrest Gump: Tom Hanks
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Anyone know what happened to this guy after he took home the Best Actor Oscar for his role as the slightly slow but devoted and wise Forrest?
Just kidding! Hanks continues to be one of the most successful and visible actors of his generation, racking up more Oscar nominations for Saving Private Ryan and Cast Away, and most recently voicing Woody in Toy Story 4. He also has written a book of short stories, won a prestigious Kennedy Center honor and has been married to Rita Wilson for more than 30 years.
Jenny Curran: Robin Wright
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Robin, who played Forrest's troubled childhood friend and eventual bride, was well-known for her role as Buttercup in The Princess Bride. She worked steadily in films before achieving huge success in the role of Claire Underwood in Netflix's House of Cards, for which she has earned several Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe win.
She married Sean Penn in 1996, but they divorced in 2010; the two have two children, Dylan and Hopper. She was engaged to actor Ben Foster in 2014, but they subsequently split. In August 2018, she married Saint Laurent executive Clement Giraudet.
Forrest Junior: Haley Joel Osment
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Cast as Forrest and Jenny's son after the casting director saw him in a Pizza Hut commercial, Haley went on to become one of the biggest child stars of the '90s thanks to his role in The Sixth Sense.
After a few more major film roles, Osment slowed down a bit to attend NYU, though he still works steadily after graduating in 2011. His next movie is The Devil Has a Name.
Mrs. Gump: Sally Field
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Forrest's determined mama - the source of many of the movie's most-quoted lines - was played by the Oscar-winning actress.
Since that movie, she has been on TV (in Brothers & Sisters) and in movies (Lincoln) and remains one of the most celebrated actors working. She has three sons and has raised awareness for osteoporosis and gay rights.
Lieutenant Dan Taylor: Gary Sinise
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The actor played Forrest's long-suffering superior in the Vietnam War, and the use of CGI to portray the character after he lost his legs in combat was groundbreaking at the time.
The role inspired Sinise's ongoing work with veterans through the Gary Sinise Foundation. He also tours with his Lt. Dan Band and continues to act, costarring alongside Hanks again in Apollo 13 and spending nearly a decade on CSI.
Bubba Blue: Mykelti Williamson
Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection; Rachel Murray/Getty Images
The actor had a memorable turn as Forrest's shrimp-obsessed army buddy, in whose memory the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company is started.
Mykelti has worked in movies and TV since the film came out, including alongside Sinise on CSI: NY and most recently on the Lethal Weapon series. He married actress Sondra Spriggs in 1997 and has two daughters, Nicole and Maya.
Young Jenny Curran: Hanna Hall
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Hanna was cast from an open call as the young girl who inspires Forrest to run. She has continued to work in films including The Virgin Suicides and Halloween and as an assistant director on others, but maintains a low profile online.
Young Forrest Gump: Michael Connor Humphreys
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The bullied, lonely kid on the school bus who outruns his leg braces was played by Michael, who was cast at an open call in Memphis. He did not pursue acting, and in 2004, he enlisted in the U.S. Army.
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by Steve Salter
18 April 2018, 9:22am
the new gucci exhibition in china is all about copying
Even its title is borrowed as the provocative art prankster Maurizio Cattelan teams up with Alessandro Michele for an exhibition that promises to dismantle concepts of originality, intention, expression, and authorship.
"My job is to invent possibilities," Alessandro Michele explained backstage in the moments after presenting his Gucci autumn/winter 18 show. "We are all hybrids. It is something we have to cultivate and take care of on a daily basis." Building on spring/summer 18's "creation is a poetic act" statement, Alessandro suggested that his role as a designer was akin to that of a surgeon -- cutting and reconstructing materials and fabrics to create a new personality and identity. Developing this idea further, he has partnered with fellow Italian artistic-thought-provoker Maurizio Cattelan for Gucci's next exhibition, The artist is present. Now, If you're wondering where you've heard this title before, do you remember Marina Abramović's passive performance art meet-and-greet? Well, that's what it was called. In copy and paste mode, Gucci's version will focus on artistic projects that propose copying as a paradigm of global culture. The Shanghai-set show promises to explore how originality can be reached through the act of repetition, and how originals themselves can be preserved through copies. In a world in which we can buy official bootlegs, our influencers are CGI and our social feeds are manipulated by bots, the exhibition feels particularly apt for 2018.
"This is the story of a dream," the exhibition press release explains. "Imagine a world crowded with old master portraits, ancient Roman marble heads, gold reliquaries filled with zombies' hands and hearts, blooming carpets and colourful tapestry, baby dragons, and unknown creatures' skulls." As this could so easily be a Gucci show review, this dream belongs to Michele. Within it, he meets Cattelan, the "tireless artist, affected by a serious image hoarding disorder." As he has long declared originality an overrated and dated concept, he's the perfect partner to curate the exhibition. Both Michele and Cattelan delight in the duality that exists between image and reality, representation and presentation. With the dream shared, The artist is present will open in Shanghai -- homeland to "the copy is the original" thought -- in October. If you just can't wait, Yuri Ancarani's iPhone-shot film follows Cattelan to the Far East and shares a sneak peek inside his curation process.

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Gay Pastor To Participate In Inaugural Interfaith Prayer Service
The Presidential Inaugural Committee has included a gay pastor and a number of LGBT supportive faith leaders in the inauguration festivities this week.
According to LGBT media watchdog GLAAD, openly gay pastor theRev. Nancy Wilson of the Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC), a denomination with a specific outreach to LGBT communities, will participate in the interfaith prayer service at the National Cathedral on Tuesday.
"It is profoundly meaningful to read the Bible during President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden's second inaugural interfaith service," said Wilson. "As I read, I will remember the hands laid on me seven years ago in this very cathedral by faith leaders who called me to serve all of God's beautifully diverse children, including LGBT people. President Obama prayerfully and respectfully stood up for LGBT equality during his campaign, and I am proud to stand with him."
Wilson is not the only LGBT-friendly faith leader who is scheduled to participate in inauguration activities this wek.
Most visibly, Episcopal priest and LGBT supporter theRev. Luis Leon was chosen to deliver the benediction at President Obama's inauguration ceremony on Monday. Leon -- a priest at St. John's Church, which is located near the White House -- was the replacement for the Rev. Louie Giglio, the Georgia pastor who stepped down from the role after coming under fire for an anti-gay sermon he gave in the 1990s.
Editor's note: It's official: Molech has taken the U.S.
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Washington National Cathedral to wed same-sex couples
By Ben Brumfield, CNN
(CNN)— When laws went into effect in three states for same-sex couples to marry, many were quick to line up at their city halls to exchange vows. Now they may do so in one of the nation's most prominent churches - the Washington National Cathedral.
Most Americans know the house of God, also called the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, as a place where sacred rites are carried out on behalf of the nation. It has been host to the funerals of numerous presidents and of inaugural prayer services for four presidents, including Barack Obama.
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The Muslim Brotherhood: The Grand Deception
Right Side News
Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly: Well there's a new film coming out that takes a look at a group called the Muslim Brotherhood and its influence around the world and here at home. The documentary is called The Grand Deception and it describes what the film makers call the dual nature of the Muslim Brotherhood. To the outside world it tries to present a moderate image, claim the film makers, all the while hiding more radical goals including goals for America...
Learn more about the Muslim Brotherhood's quest for Islamic domination.
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UAE: Muslim Brotherhood Plots Overthrow of Arab States
(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has arrested an "Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood cell" that trained local Islamists in how to overthrow Arab governments, a Sharjah-based newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed source familiar with the investigation.
The oil-rich Gulf state - of which Sharjah is one part - has previously voiced strong distrust of the Islamist political movement which after long years of being banned took power in free elections in Egypt last year.
The cell, of "more than 10 people", had a defined organizational structure and was recruiting Egyptians in the UAE to join, al-Khaleej newspaper reported.
It said the cell had formed companies to send money illegally to Egypt.
Muslim Brotherhood: Israel will cease to exist within a decade
A senior Muslim Brotherhood official has said that Israel will cease to exist within a decade, the latest in a series of inflammatory comments by figures close to Egypt's Mohammed Morsi.
Essam el-Erian, deputy head of the Brotherhood's political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, was trying to lay to rest a controversy over comments he made in an interview last week, in which he invited Egyptian-born Jews to return to the country.
In an interview with the Saudi-backed newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Mr Erian said that the "ideology of Zionism" had ended in failure and that "Palestine's occupiers" should leave to make way for the return of Palestinians.
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Sehwag's wife files cheating case against biz partners
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag's wife Aarti has accused her business partners of forging her signatures to avail a loan of Rs 4.5 crore, police said on Saturday.
Aarti Sehwag, a partner in SMGK Agro, alleged that her partners in the firm took a loan of Rs 4.5 crore from M/s Lakhanpal Promoters and Builders Pvt. Ltd, by forging signatures and later defaulted on payments.
In her complaint, Aarti has alleged that the two partners influenced the other company by using her husband's name.
"It was alleged in the complaint that the accused did everything without any consent and knowledge of the complainant. The accused also forged the complainant's signatures and later defaulted on payment," said a senior police officer.
Both the accused had also issued two postdated cheques to the firm from which they took the loan.
The firm then took the case to court following which the complainant came to know about the loan and later found out that her signatures have been forged, police said.
"Following Aarti's complaint, a case under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered and investigation is underway," the police officer said.
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Akash Vijayvargiya out on bail, garlanded!
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You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.
AdviceToWriters - HOME - There's No Free Lunch
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Character is the very life of fiction. Setting exists so that the character has someplace to stand. Plot exists so the character can discover what he is really like, forcing the character to choice and action. And theme exists only to make the character stand up and be somebody.
AdviceToWriters - HOME - Character is the Very Life of Fiction
You can't wait to write until you're in the mood. My God, if you waited until you were in the mood, it would take forever. You have to sit down. The name of the game is to put it in the chair.
AdviceToWriters - HOME - You Can't Wait Until You're in the Mood
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Read voraciously, many books at a time. Only then will you hear the conversation taking place among them.
Ways of reading / from a working library
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From the RIP card set of strange phenomena ~ (1) Rain of fish (2) Psychic detective (3) Spontaneous combustion (4) Real life vampire (5) Fire ghost (6) Ghost hunter
Something Should Remain Unsaid
Narrative art must be clear, but it must also be mysterious. Something should remain unsaid, something just beyond our understanding, a secret. If it's only clear, it's kitsch; if it's only mysterious (a much easier path), it's condescending and pretentious and soon monotonous.
Red carpets, interviews and social networking are all alien to him. When a friend told him that he was trending on Twitter following his debut as Moriarty, he made a rare foray online. "So terrifying," he says burying his head in his hands. "I would never go on it again. Oh God, it just made me want to go to sleep for three weeks. People said lovely things but then people also said the most vicious, horrible things. It's an outlet for the angry. It's like going into a room and being punched, then kissed, then hugged, then kicked, then complimented and then slated."
A pin-up who is hard to pin down — www.independent.co.uk — Readability
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If you use willpower only to deny yourself pleasures, it becomes a grim, thankless form of defense. But when you use it to gain something, you can wring pleasure out of the dreariest tasks. Young people who seem hopelessly undisciplined in school or on the job will concentrate for hour after hour on video games because there's a steady series of prizes. That's the feeling to aim for in the real world.
New Year's Resolutions Stick When Willpower Is Reinforced - NYTimes.com
In order to move up the scale of emotions and become more
attractive to the things you want in life, all you need to do is
let go of your story - the idea that having what you want will
in any way change your life for the better or for the worse.
When you recognize that you don't need what you want, you're
free to have it - and freedom is perhaps the ultimate goal…
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The second secret, what they never tell you, is that yes, anyone can become a writer. Merely consider any novel by Judith Krantz and you'll know it's true. The trick is not to become a writer, it is to stay a writer. Day after day, year after year, book after book. And for that, you must keep working, even when it seems beyond you. In the words-to-live-by of Thomas Carlyle, "Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou has in thee: out with it, then. Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might. Work while it is called Today; for the Night cometh, wherein no man can work."
AdviceToWriters - Home - Two Secrets for Young Writers
"Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down, and they would kind of be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and what would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, that the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. And I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives that that's how things work.
If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but you're not one of them, you're just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life, where you say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, and start from unpromising beginnings. And I'm an unpromising beginning, and I could start something."
quoted in Brian Eno's Another Green World by Geeta Dayal (New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009), 31.
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Be Daring
Be daring, take on anything. Don't labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
Shirley is a frequent political commentator of the conservative Republican stripe (a biographer of both Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich), but he'll be puzzling to many ordinary human beings in that regard, since unlike virtually all publicly visible Republicans these days, he isn't stupid, he isn't vicious, and he isn't patently, observably insane. Certainly in terms of his historical writing, at least, he's the very last thing most Republicans currently are: responsible.
Book Review: December 1941 | Open Letters Monthly - an Arts and Literature Review
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After suggesting [that young writers] look into The Writer's Chapbook I recommend they keep a diary, at least a page a day, and faithfully, and also to get into the habit of letter writing to other writers. The advantages that come with doing this seem obvious—both are exercises which hone the communicative skills.
AdviceToWriters - Home - Keep A Diary
Alfred-Kazin/Journals/book
"We moved today to 415 Central Park West. Enormous business of packing and unpacking my books, which I have been carrying on my back for so many years. Lord, how I would like to get free of all these things sometime. I date my maturity from the day I realized there were books I could get along without."
Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"
ROBERT LIPSYTE
AdviceToWriters - Home - Are You Having Fun?
The problem with trying to escape from decision-making is that that's a decision, too. Or as the psychotherapist, Sheldon Kopp, puts it, in a line we should probably all have imprinted on the backs of our eyelids: "You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences."
This column will change your life: outsourcing ignorance | Life and style | The Guardian
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Winterson on the importance of books
I heard today that one in three kids in the UK does not own a book. I would be dead if I had never found books. So I wouldn't call them a luxury or a leisure item. I'd call them allies in the life and death struggle.
My old Jewish friend Mona Howard – nearly 90 and totally aware, says that we go through life carrying 2 bags: Time and Money. The Life and Death Struggle. When we are confronted, with difficulties or when we have personal problems, we have to know which bag to go to. Is it Time and Money, or is it more central to the core of who we are?
Books have always been central to the core of me. Fiction and poetry made me who I am; inevitable that I would start making the books in return.
The Guardian: Why do you think you inspire enmity?
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Number one, I don't know. Number two, I don't care. And number three, the pack always loses against a writer or an artist.
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The Case of the Florida Nutmeg: Empowering Research on Endangered Plants
April 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Organizations around the world have commemorated the occasion by participating in the global Earth Optimism movement — an initiative spearheaded by the Smithsonian to "turn the conservation conversation from doom and gloom to optimism and opportunity".
Throughout 2020, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and our partners are joining the movement by sharing conservation success stories from and made possible by the BHL collection. Follow our blog for conservation stories — past and present — and visit our website for more information and to explore our Earth Optimism book collection.
Florida nutmeg, Torreya taxifolia (male). This illustration, along with that of the female tree, represents the first published illustration of this species. Plate 232. Hooker's Icones plantarum, vol. 3 (1840). Contributed in BHL from the Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library.
On 5 June 1834, avid amateur botanist Hardy Bryan Croom wrote a letter to botanist John Torrey describing a gymnosperm tree in northern Florida that he was struggling to identify. In this letter, he postulated—with some degree of confidence—that the tree was Taxus baccata, the common yew, and he hoped to acquire some specimens to send to Torrey for investigation.
Torrey was one of the most important 19th century botanists in America. He corresponded with hundreds of scientists in North America and Europe, many of whom sent him specimens from their various explorations for study and identification. As such a well-respected expert and advisor on botanical science, it comes as no surprise that Croom sought Torrey's expertise regarding this mysterious Florida tree.
The next year, in a letter dated 18 November 1835, Croom wrote again to Torrey, stating:
"The letter which I wrote last summer has had the effect to procure me some perfect fruit of that remarkable Taxoid tree at Aspalaga. The result surprises me. It is an ovate one celled nut entirely enclosed in fleshy covering! as large as a pigeon's egg! Calix imbricated; thus agreeing neither with Taxus nor with Podocarpus. Besides, the tree, I think, is dioecious, but of this I am not yet certain. What will you do with it? Will it make a new genus?"
The following year, Croom again wrote to Torrey in a letter dated 18 May 1836 that he had determined that the tree represented a new genus. He proposed the genus name Torreya and provided a description and habitat details for "this fine tree," for which he remarked:
"It is so abundant about Aspalaga (especially on Flat Creek) as to have been sawed into plank and lumber. It is an elegant tree with dark green foliage."
With this letter, Croom provided the first recorded description of the habitat and abundance of the Florida nutmeg, Torreya taxifolia.
Sadly, Croom and his family drowned in a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Hatteras on 8 October 1837. As such, Torrey arranged that the new genus and species were formally named and described by botanist George Arnott Walker-Arnott in 1838.
While Croom characterized Torreya taxifolia as abundant in 1836, today the species is critically endangered. With a distribution restricted to the limestone ravines and bluffs along the Apalachicola River in northern Florida and southern Georgia, fewer than a thousand individual trees persist in their native habitat. The most significant threat to the species is continued reproductive failure resulting from fungal pathogens—a threat which is continuing but not well-understood [1].
Torreya taxifolia is one of the species highlighted in a recent study to be published in the Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Society. Authors Dr. Brian M. Boom (Curator Emeritus and former Vice President for Conservation Strategy and Bassett Maguire Curator of Botany at The New York Botanical Garden) and Susan Fraser (Recently-retired Thomas J. Hubbard Vice President and Director of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library) review John Torrey's botanical legacy, drawing heavily on Torrey's extensive correspondence, most of which, along with drawings, books, and artifacts from Torrey's collections, can be found in the holdings of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) [2].
In 2016, NYBG embarked on a project to digitize and transcribe Torrey's correspondence and make both freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). To date, more than 9,500 pages of correspondence—including those from Croom regarding Torreya taxifolia—are available in BHL, and over 7,000 of those pages have been transcribed.
The Torrey correspondence available through BHL was an invaluable resource during Boom and Fraser's research for their study, which highlights several rare, restricted-range, or threatened plant species for which Torrey was directly involved in the scientific discovery and description phases. This was especially true with regards to Torreya taxifolia.
"BHL was instrumental in researching the circumstances surrounding the discovery and naming of this species, particularly through access to the correspondence of Hardy Bryan Croom and John Torrey between 1834-1837," asserts Boom.
Dr. Brian M. Boom, Curator Emeritus and former Vice President for Conservation Strategy and Bassett Maguire Curator of Botany at The New York Botanical Garden. Photo Credit: The New York Botanical Garden.
Boom has been studying plant conservation, systematics, and ethnobotany for 40 years. His conservation work focuses on rare, restricted-range and threatened plant species in the American tropics and North Temperate areas, or, alternatively, on invasive species that pose threats to native flora in these regions. An important aspect of his research is aimed at understanding these species from the circumstances surrounding their discovery in the field and description and publication as a new species, through to subsequent documentation of their occurrence in the landscape, and with regards to the threats they are under, in the case of rare plants, or the threats they cause, in the case of invasives.
"Plant species with restricted geographic ranges, or that are rare or threatened, are of conservation concern because it could take relatively little perturbation to cause populations of such species to become further restricted, fragmented, or to become extinct," states Boom.
Understanding the history of a species' scientific discovery and subsequent changes in its population and distribution over time require access to historical data. As Boom articulates, BHL's collections are rich in such data and thus play a vital role in research on threatened species.
"Conservation-related research benefits greatly from BHL in terms of providing access to some of the classic and most iconic images of plant species and to the early texts and archival materials, especially correspondence, pertaining to the focal species," affirms Boom.
Torreya taxifolia. Plate 109. The North American Sylva, vol. 6 (1849). Art drawn by G. West. Contributed in BHL from New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
Beyond the published literature, correspondence and field notes are especially valuable as they may contain information that is not included in the published literature or on the herbarium labels of the specimens collected. For example, in the case of Torreya taxifolia, the type specimen is in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. While there is no collector indicated on the actual specimen, John Torrey is listed as the collector in the Kew specimen database. However, Boom stresses that he knows of no record of Torrey visiting Florida before he made a five-week trip to the state in 1872, during which he did not observe Torreya taxifolia in its natural habitat, although in March of that year he did collect a cultivated specimen of this species in a garden near Tallahassee that he believed had been planted there by Croom (NY Barcode 9506).
"It seems very likely that the holotype was in fact collected by Hardy Bryan Croom, and that Torrey passed a specimen that Croom had sent to him on to Scottish botanist George Arnott Walker-Arnott, who described the new species in 1838," explains Boom.
As further evidence for this hypothesis, the holotype specimen (K Barcode K000287662) contains a pencil notation, written in Croom's handwriting, stating: "New genus of Coniferae allied to Taxus. To be described in the next number of the Lyceum of Natural History."
Torreya taxifolia is a testament to the important role that BHL's open access collections play in research on endangered species. The historical conservation and systematics research conducted for this species was made possible by reviewing the John Torrey correspondence that is available in BHL and enhanced with crowdsourced transcriptions generated via From the Page. BHL also provided access to the first known published illustrations of Torreya taxifolia, which appeared in Hooker's Icones plantarum.
Florida nutmeg, Torreya taxifolia (female). This illustration, along with that of the male tree, represent the first published illustrations of this species. Plate 233. Hooker's Icones plantarum, vol. 3 (1840). Contributed in BHL from the Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library.
By providing open access to essential literature and archives, BHL is empowering the work of conservationists around the world. Easy and immediate online access to these materials allows scientists to conduct their research more quickly and efficiently—which is ever-more important as biodiversity faces unprecedented threats today, with at least one million species threatened with extinction [3].
"The BHL resources are the only or most readily available ones for accessing certain older titles and certainly for images of plants and correspondence of botanists involved with the discovery and description of new species and of their habitat," asserts Boom. "Such literature is important for conservation work because the historical materials often contain first-hand commentary about the collection and discovery of threatened species, including information about their population size at the place of discovery and of the habitat in which the species occurred at the time."
By providing conservationists with the information they need to help save biodiversity, the Biodiversity Heritage Library is improving our ability to respond to today's biodiversity crisis. As such, free and open access to biodiversity knowledge is a reason to be an Earth Optimist.
[1] Spector, T., Determann, R. & Gardner, M. 2011. Torreya taxifolia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T30968A9585489. Accessed on 4 February 2020. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T30968A9585489.en.
[2] The New York Botanical Garden. 2019. John Torrey: American Botanist. NYBG.org. Accessed on 4 February 2020. https://www.nybg.org/john-torrey-american-botanist/?_ga=2.197485295.1948631947.1568819719-1112387120.1548794658.
[3] Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. (2019). Nature's Dangerous Decline 'Unprecedented'; Species Extinction Rates 'Accelerating'. Available at https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment.
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Written by Grace Costantino
Grace Costantino served as the Outreach and Communication Manager for the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 2014 to 2021. In this capacity, she developed and managed BHL's communication strategy, oversaw social media initiatives, and engaged with the public to excite audiences about the wealth of biodiversity heritage available in BHL. Prior to her role as Outreach and Communication Manager, Grace served as the Digital Collections Librarian for Smithsonian Libraries and as the Program Manager for BHL.
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Here is my lapping tool adventure. I had to bring some 5mm (~0.197")O1 drill rod down slightly to an acceptable fit & finish. It will become an axle for the idler gear cluster on the model radial engine. The OD of the lap is 5/16", basically to match a nominal drill size. The smaller hole is a stress relief & springyness guestimate. My plan was to kind of keep the same basic design & grow progressively larger series of tools for larger laps maintaining a similar dimension of the lap annulus thickness. Too thick & its hard to compress & get a good feel. Too thin & its fussy to machine.
The lap is 6061 aluminum. I don't have copper which is supposedly better. Eventually I'll test against brass & CI but it works. I made simple slits in the lap ID with the scroll saw but forgot to put a fine blade in there so its not the best. I've learned these slots are quite important, it doesn't work as well just counting on the opening slit. The OD looks kind crappy turning but I tried to maintain a rougher finish to help with grip so the lap wouldn't slip, but now I think that's completely unnecessary.
The interesting thing about drill rod (at least the stuff I'm buying), is that it looks shiny & dimension-ally quite accurate, but when you first touch the lap to it with least amount of pressure, you can actually feel some 'oblong-ness'. I pre-blued it with a felt pen to try & take a pic hopefully showing rubbed off shiny hills, but the ink itself washed off. Anyway, after a few strokes which also conditions the lap, it feels quite constant. Just a matter of increasing pressure, stroke some more, clean, check, repeat. I bought a set of Aliexpress diamond lapping paste tubes quite inexpensive & just took a guess at the grit. It is quite creamy but a drop of oil makes it slide a bit better on finishing.
The intent of the one-piece bar with a slit was to make machining setup easier & keep the clam shell hole aligned. But the variable then becomes how much resistance to closure results. Mine was actually too stiff & its only 3/8" wide mild steel. So the relief hole should be bigger. I wanted the lap to be centered on the tool because it feels balanced in the hand & on the part while lapping. I made another tool for my valve stems last year which is much more un-symmetrical, like a squeeze handle off to one side. It has lots of mechanical advantage so you can gently tweak the pressure but it didn't feel balanced to control.
So this is my next iteration plan. 2 equal pieces of bar stock. Sandwich it up with some sacrificial filler say 1/16" thick. Bottom bar holes are threaded, upper bar holes are clearance hole. Then just put a bolt & locknut on one side & use the other side as the squeeze adjustment.
Thanks Peter for posting this.


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Safe ocean voyaging aboard a small vessel
Nick and Jenny at Puerto Williams, Chile.
Nick & Jenny Coghlan
Nick Coghlan started sailing as a schoolboy in open Wineglass dinghies on Britain's North Sea coast in winter, putting him off sailing for nearly 20 years. But when he and his wife Jenny moved to British Columbia, Canada, in 1981, they realized that the best way to explore their new home was by boat. They took a one-week "Cruise and Learn" course, then bought their first boat: an Albin Vega 27 called Tarka the Otter. After a jaunt around Vancouver Island, they took a passage on a friend's yacht from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, to see how they liked offshore sailing. The answer was "a lot," and in September 1985 they embarked on what would become a four-year circumnavigation of the world, via the Cape of Good Hope and Panama, aboard Tarka.
Finances cut their trip short. In order to travel and get paid for it, Nick joined the Canadian Foreign Service; diplomatic postings took him to Mexico, Colombia and Sudan. Here Nick and Jenny were able to sail again: in ancient steel-made Khartoum One Designs, which they raced on the Blue Nile as the muezzins called the rest of the city to prayer, and taking care not to capsize lest the crocodiles express interest. Posted onwards to South Africa, with a view of Table Bay from their apartment, they could no longer resist the call of the sea. In 2003, they bought another 27-foot cruiser: Bosun Bird, a rugged full-keeled Vancouver 27. Nick's duties as Canada's Consul General in Cape Town were not overly pressing, so it did not take them too long to fit up the boat for an offshore cruise and to choose a destination: Patagonia.
Nick and Jenny's voyage across the South Atlantic to Rio de Janeiro, then south to the Beagle Channel, where they spent a winter at the tiny naval base of Puerto Williams, is recounted in Nick's recently published Winter in Fireland: a Patagonian Sailing Adventure. From the Chilean mainland they sailed via Robinson Crusoe Island to Easter Island, rejoining the Pacific Milk Run at the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia. They sailed to Tonga and on to New Zealand. Then it was Vanuatu, Guam and Japan, reaching Kyushu in April 2011, just after the Fukushima catastrophe. They have been greatly enjoying the fabulous hospitality of the Japanese, wending their way east to Osaka through radiation-free Seto Inland Sea. Their travels are recounted at www.bosunbird.com.
Nick and Jenny Coghlan's Vancouver 27, Bosun Bird off Tanna Island, Vanuatu.
OV: How do you approach the subject of safety? Has your experience sailing offshore affected your thinking on safety?
N&JC: I have a suspicion that age, not just experience, makes you more cautious: it's not just on account of their physical fitness and strength that young men make the best front-line soldiers. But certainly, the various mistakes we have made when cruising, plus those we have observed in others, have caused us to place ever more emphasis on safety in both the planning and execution of our offshore passages. Especially salutary have been the deaths of several friends at sea.
Our first principle is that we depart on a passage only when we determine that we are ready and that the conditions are good. This sounds obvious, but it means in practice that we do not announce in advance our departure date, let alone an estimated arrival date; we make no commitments to meet people at given destinations and/or at given times; and we do not sail in company. Many landlubbing friends and relatives have difficulty with this approach, and some fellow sailors also find us to be standoffish or antisocial when we are deliberately vague in responding to their invitations to "buddy boat," the fact is, that by accepting constraints of this kind you surrender your control over your own safety.
A second principle we have observed is not to cruise in areas subject to extreme weather (e.g. cyclones) without realistic and practical "escape" plans. This approach slowed our progress through the gale-prone waters of Tierra del Fuego and the Chilean channels in such a way that it took us four months to sail the 1,200 miles from Puerto Williams, on the Beagle Channel at 55 degrees south, to Puerto Montt. When in doubt we stayed on the hook in one of the hundreds of tiny but secure nooks that characterize this route, as long as 13 days in one instance.
At sea, we observe a number of homemade rules. The first is that when either one of us thinks it may be time to reduce sail — however inconvenient — we do so without discussion. The second is that one of us is always in the cockpit on watch; in heavy rain they may be on the companionway steps and in the shelter of the dodger, but they must be scanning the horizon 360 degrees. A third rule is that we always wear harnesses and tethers when not inside the cabin, with a rigging knife in a small pouch on the harness; we do everything possible to minimize moves to the foredeck and, when doing so, clip on to jack-lines before leaving the cockpit. Our working assumption is that if you go overboard you are almost certainly done for.
Notwithstanding this, at night we wear old-fashioned life jackets, with a strobe light and whistle: if one of us should go over at night, recovery in the dark would surely take so long that enhanced flotation is a must.
A long-standing principle is that we do not enter ports or anchorages after dark, unless there are very pressing reasons to do so.
Generally, having grown up in the era of celestial navigation, when it was wise to assume errors of up to five miles in one's position — this assuming you had seen the sun that day — we are still distrustful of GPS and give invisible hazards almost as wide a berth as we did in those days.
When sighting a ship offshore, we never assume they have seen us. If and when we determine they may be on a converging course, we make every attempt to contact them (AIS is very useful in this regard); we have the rule that the person on watch may wake the off-watch to make radio calls if necessary.
Fire is a particular concern of ours. While in Patagonia we learned of a yacht that suffered a propane explosion and a subsequent fire that burned through their seawater-inlet hoses, sinking the vessel; they lived for two weeks in their life raft (on a beach) before rescue. In a second incident, one quiet morning in Opua (New Zealand) there was a huge "whoomp!" A yacht on the hard had blown up, sending its coach roof 10 meters in the air and its occupant to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Unusually, we use kerosene (which is not inflammable except under pressure) for both heating and cooking; we also carry three fire extinguishers and a fire blanket.
Prior to entering Patagonian waters, we found it very useful to envisage worst-case scenarios, including rolling over and losing the rigging. This exercise led us to secure our batteries more firmly, positively fasten all lockers and securely stow all loose items. We had a fourth reef installed — this in spite of the scoffing of our sailmaker; we used it. We practiced heaving to (in moderate winds); we used the tactic several times. Recalling the loss of our Navik windvane paddle in mid-Indian ocean and our subsequent jury-rigging of a self-steering system, we reminded ourselves of possible techniques and stocked up on bungee cord.
OV: How do you plan for medical emergencies? Did you receive any medical training before you began voyaging?
N&JC: We do have basic first-aid training, but it is probably quite rusty by now. Our medical kit emphasizes painkillers and antibiotics; we twisted the arm of our general practitioner to obtain painkillers that were stronger than those that would be usually available. We have no injectables, lacking the training for this. Nick gets seasick, so we have a good stock of Stugeron (cinnarizine), the only drug that works for him; it is not available in North America or Australia, but can easily be found in the U.K. We have insurance that allows us sophisticated treatment, plus separate insurance from DAN (Divers Alert Network) that would allow us to claim for an air medevac. It is our understanding that post-operative care is likely the main problem in the event of one needing emergency surgery in a remote location; thus when Nick suffered a hernia in the Solomons, we could have had the surgery performed in Honiara, but even the local doctors advised we fly down to Brisbane, Australia, for the better post-op care.
The well-equipped Bosun Bird under shortened sail, running before a rare easterly in the Strait of Magellan.
OV: What type of life raft do you have? How often do you have it serviced?
N&JC: When we left South Africa in 2005 it was with a four-man canister-packed Avon life raft; although this was at least 15 years old, it was certified by competent South African authorities. In New Zealand in 2009 it inflated when tested, but the experts judged that the glue was by now likely very tired and recommended we replace it. We did so, with an Ocean Safety four-man ISO raft, canister packed. We wanted a canister because when we had a valise-packed raft on our previous boat, we realized that in an emergency we would lose precious seconds retrieving it and manhandling it into the cockpit. Our choice was narrowed because we wanted to stow it in the cockpit, where the only space was a relatively small one on the transom, under the tiller; we did not want the raft on the coach roof or near the bows, where it would be exposed, inaccessible in a crisis and likely contribute to top-heaviness. We plan to have it serviced as per the manufacturers' recommendation: every three years.
OV: What do you have in your abandon-ship bag?
N&JC: Our grab-bag is a red and yellow plastic Poly Bottle. Contents as follows: 1) A selection of flares, including parachutes; some of these are expired; we keep the freshest on hand in the cabin; 2) Spare GPS with regularly-renewed batteries; 3) Handheld VHF with regularly-renewed batteries; 4) EPIRB — this is our old one, whose battery has theoretically expired; 5) Stainless steel signaling mirror; 6) Whistle; 7) Fishing kit; 8) Matches and lighter in waterproof container; 9) (If coastal) Pack of old newspaper for fire-lighting; 10) U.S. dollars in cash; 11) Photocopy of title pages of passports; 12) Pilot chart of the ocean currently being crossed; 13) Flashlight and spare batteries; 14) Plastic mug; 15) Sharp knife; 16) Two tin openers; 17) Sponge; 18) Two aluminum space blankets; 19) Assorted granola bars/energy foods; 20) Assorted tins: condensed milk, tuna, meat paste, fruit; 21) Water sachets recycled from life raft; 22) Seasickness pills; 23) Duct tape; 24) Compass. Pack the bag in such a way that it will float (i.e. leave some space).
In addition to this we also have an always-filled small jerry-jug of fresh water on hand, with a line and fishing float; again, leave some space so that it floats. Further, we have a roll-up fabric (waterproof) bag of extra clothing, most of it fleece. By the companionway we have a plasticized emergency procedure list, that reminds us also to grab the main EPIRB, credit cards/cash, extra water and a knife (to cut the raft loose). Also at hand is a set of bolt cutters, in case we need to cut rigging away.
OV: Do you have an EPIRB?
N&JC: Yes; a McMurdo Smartfind Plus (i.e. it's a GPIRB). As noted above, when the battery on an EPIRB needs replacing it is almost as cheap to buy a new one, so we have recycled our old EPIRB into the grab bag.
OV: Do you have an AIS unit? Is it receive-only or does it transmit as well?
N&JC: Yes, we installed a Comar AIS-Multi in New Zealand, coupled to our VHF antenna and Standard Horizon CP180i chartplotter. Receive only. We have been very pleased with it. In comparing AIS to radar the obvious disadvantage is that it does not display small targets (under 300 tons, in theory) or land, but it is cheap, consumes very little power and there is no windage or weight up the mast (which is important on a 27-footer). A real boon is that it displays the names of ships and their MMSI numbers, allowing you to interrogate them directly by voice or DSC on your VHF should you feel they are getting too close for comfort. We find the range can be up to 50 miles and have had up to 50 targets displayed at one time (the challenge is then to filter them). Warships often turn their transmit function off as do illegal deep-sea fishing boats.
OV: What types of weather services do you use when making an offshore passage? How do you gather weather info?
N&JC: Prior to passages we carefully consult the relevant pilot chart and our ancient (1973) copy of Ocean Passages for the World, this for a sense of what we can expect.
En route, there is a much greater quantity and quality of weather information available now than there was when we cruised in the 1980s, and the methods of accessing weather information are more varied. Previously the options were voice forecasts via VHF or SSB and possibly a dedicated radiofax receiver. Now there is a plethora of data available on the Internet: the trick is to be able to receive this information when you have no regular access to the Internet on a passage or in regions with no Wi-Fi, mobile broadband or Internet cafes.
We have an Iridium satellite phone hooked up to a laptop. We use an e-mail service provided by Global Marine Networks (www.gmn-usa.com) that compresses e-mails and also blocks large messages (which is important as Iridium airtime is not cheap). We find that 500 minutes of airtime is sufficient for one year, at a cost of approximately $600. We use the free Saildocs service (www.saildocs.com) to subscribe to the weather data we wish to receive as e-mails. Initially we used Saildocs canned weather data (or weather catalogs), but now we use Saildocs to send us the webpages we want via e-mail. Before each passage we research weather sources on the Internet, looking for relevant webpages that are small (generally without graphics) and also for the schedules of voice and fax transmissions via VHF and SSB.
Like most voyagers today, we use GRIB files — in our case from Saildocs. Some complain that GRIBs are not accurate. Generally we find they provide good information for passage planning and during a passage, but you have to accept their limitations: for two to three days out they are acceptable, less so the farther out you go in time. They tend to underestimate actual wind strengths. It must be remembered that GRIB files are derived from a computer model with no day-to-day human intervention; a forecast from NOAA or similar meteorological services is going to be better on account of the human element, but in these instances the graphic file containing the information is typically large; NOAA coverage is not universal.
If one of our access methods fails, we have a back up method. When we have full, land-based access to the Internet we use the same weather information sources as we do at sea, so as to get a feel for them.
Bosun Bird at anchor in Caleta Julia, Beagle Channel, Chile.
OV: Do you use a weather routing service?
N&JC: No. With so much information available to a voyager with a modicum of Internet access, why pay someone a continent away to scan the same data and then send you his ideas, with the consequent time delay? On board and on the spot, you are far better equipped than he is to make your own forecast: You can see what is actually happening, you can look at the barometer, the cloud patterns, the swell. And, most importantly, you know your own limitations and those of your boat far better than anyone else; you have a lot more invested than he does.
OV: What types of safety gear do you plan to purchase and why?
N&JC: We don't have any major new purchases planned, but pretty much everything on our current "to do" list has a safety dimension: we just had all of our sails looked over by a professional sailmaker; we are reviewing and replacing everything in our grab bag; we are re-sticking the dinghy floor; we are checking our engine spares for the most foreseeable eventualities; we are planning to test the DSC function on our new VHF (not so easy here in Japan where yachties don't have VHF); we are ensuring we have full chart coverage for the next passage...and so on.
In addition to our longer term list, we also have an immediate pre-departure list, which includes items such as climbing the mast to check on all rigging, testing all lights, testing the EPIRB and so on. It's a constant challenge when ocean voyaging not to become complacent.
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Man caught putting tools down his pants at Sears, police say | Crime Stoppers of the Lowcountry: 554-1111 | 1-888-CRIME-SC | Anonymous tips earn cash rewards with Crime Stoppers of the Lowcountry.
WALTERBORO, SC (WCSC) - Police have twice charged a man with shoplifting after surveillance video showed him placing tools inside his pants at a Sears department store in Walterboro.
Walterboro Police Department officers responded to the store on Bells Highway just after 12 p.m. on Friday, when store patrons said they saw 47-year-old John Lemon, of St. George, stealing tools.
The manager locked the doors and called police. Authorities said that video from Friday's incident. also showed Lemon trying to put the tools back on the shelves.
Lemon is also charged with stealing tools from the same store just a few days earlier, on June 25.


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I won a used Fernandes (Burny) RLG-90 Super Grade off Ebay on March, 27 from Japan. The guy was great, very helpful & fast service, and he sent the guitar through EMS (Japan's air mail service) the next day. The guitar arrived here in Italy at the "inward office of exchange" early in the morning of April, 1. Now it's April, 6 and still no guitar, even worse, the Italian postal service knows nothing about it, which means it's still at the customs after more than 5 days!
By the way, EMS's item tracking of my guitar reads "Arrival at inward office of exchange" on April, 1 h7.51 and "Awaiting presentation to customs commissioner" on April,1 h11.28, while his reads "Arrival at inward office of exchange" as last movement. Does this mean that I must wait some days longer AND pay the fees he did not pay? Are there any rules at all, or you just have to be lucky? This thing is driving me mad!
And sometime the guitar can stay a little long at the custom, yes. And sometime, they can ask you some reliable proof of your payment.
Most of the time, youy have to be lucky.
I live in the UK and I got a Burny LPC black beauty from e-bay last year, the guy in japan posted it the very day that i paid and it arrived in the uk the next day, then got stuck at Heathrow for a week. Then the geezer who delivered it stung me for another ?70-odd. By this time the guitar had doubled in price what with all the duty and what-not. But hey! I ain't complaining 'cos i got a real beauty for less than ?300!!
It's the price we gotta pay. The way i look at it, if i saw one in a shop over here at the price i ended up paying, I wouldn't think twice. Customs are a pain, but i'd rather it got held up than damaged.
whaddaya think of them apples?
And as I said on my first post the thing that really pissed me off is that my friend received his bass immediately... I mean, I'm happy for him, but it's just... unjust!
*Condition: There are a few slight dings on the edge of the headstock. The pickguard is missing.
... I paid 456 U$ (=378 Eu. at the time) plus shipping and customs... What do you think? Good deal? Are those specs right? The seller says this is just like any Burny Super Grades, it just has the Fernandes logo, is it true?
yes really good deal! Rlg-90 are good guitars!!
That is a beauty of a guitar at a good price!. I love the finish. If I get another LP replica I'm seriously thinking of going with an Edwards or Burny.
That is pretty sweet looking, though I can't make out what those black marks on the pickup surrounds are (if the even are anything! ) With the Super Grade I've always loved, more than some other LP style guitars, how they make the words resemble "Les Paul".
**IDLE SPECULATION WARNING** I can't comment on the fernandes logo on the headstock, I would guess it is possible they decided to make them that way and then changed their minds, or maybe it was made at a period of transition and they put it on there do differentiate between korean and japanese guitars.
Anyway, I was looking into buying a (new) Fernandes MIJ guitar recently, but Fernandes seem to be pretty scarce so I havn't really plaied one. If anyone knows where I can try Fernandes guitars (MIK or MIJ) in England I'd appriciate it!
That is one great guitar!...I have one that`s a Honeyburst colour...The black stickers say VH1..(Velvet Hammer)...really good knock off`s of the original Gibson PAF`s!
You will dig that guitar..awesome action and a very nice neck!
Mine has a sticker on the back of the neck..made in japan..Rocks!!!
Geez I hope u get it soon dude..my patience would be wearing out..that`s for sure!!
I've got one the same colour, with the "vh-1" stickers on the pup surrounds. Thinks it's a later model as the bell shaped truss rod cover has a sticky-out bit either side about 3/4 up the cover. Great guitar!! Awesome!!


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Getting Easier to Get Big Loans
Fannie Mae is removing its demand for higher down payments in areas it considers "declining," including Washington. (By Ken Cedeno -- Bloomberg News)
By Elizabeth Razzi
The gears of the mortgage market are starting to unlock for borrowers needing big loans. In expensive markets such as Washington, that covers most people looking to refinance or move up from an entry-level home.
Just in the past two weeks, interest rates on the new "conforming jumbo" mortgages -- for amounts between $417,000 and $729,750 -- have come down enough to make a difference to borrowers. And mortgages allowing down payments of just 3 to 5 percent are coming back to the market for borrowers who have good credit.
"The bottom line is rates are lower than they were," said Kevin Connelly, a vice president at BB&T.
Last week, for example, BB&T was offering 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages for a conforming loan, which is for $417,000 or less, at 6 percent interest with no points, a type of prepaid interest. A conforming jumbo cost only one-quarter of a percentage point more, 6.25 percent. Loans for amounts beyond $729,750, now called "jumbo jumbo" loans, were at 7.25 percent.
That 1-point difference is enough to matter in anyone's budget: On a $729,000 mortgage, the lower rate saves $484 per month.
Before you jump on one of these loans, though, check out FHA mortgages. Insured by the Federal Housing Administration, these loans are available for as much as $729,750, the same cap as on conforming jumbo loan amounts.
FHA's loan-amount cap has been raised through the end of the year so that the program can be more widely used in expensive areas, including ours.
Yes, the frumpy, old FHA program is now an attractive tool for most Washington area home buyers and refinancers. The beauty of the FHA program is that borrowers can still make a down payment of as little as 3 percent. Last week the interest rate on an FHA conforming jumbo was an attractive 6.38 percent.
"FHA has really, really been taking off," said Jim Foley, senior vice president of George Mason Mortgage's Bethesda branch. "You can have a lower FICO [credit] score; 620 and above is what they're looking for."
Major housing legislation that's being debated in Congress would make permanent the higher loan limits for both the conforming jumbos and the FHA program, with annual revisions as home prices change. But it's by no means a sure thing that the legislation will pass, and President Bush has threatened a veto.
As the law stands now, the higher limits will vanish as of Jan. 1, so don't dawdle.
Other good news for borrowers: Fannie Mae is removing its demand for higher down payments in areas it considers "declining markets," which includes most of the Washington area. Beginning June 1, Fannie will again accept mortgages with as little as 3 percent down.


It is not uncommon for Daily 5 behaviors to slip a bit throughout the year. Before and after holidays, after an absence from school, when spring is in the air, or any time there is a disruption to the school routine, behaviors of independence may deteriorate.
1. Bring those I-charts back out for a review. Revise and add new items to address current concerns.
2. Take a day to go back through the 10 Steps of Independence for each of the Daily 5 choices. We even have kids model the correct and incorrect behavior again.
3. We know that choice for students brings about optimum learning. However, pulling back for a few days and eliminating choice for a bit can bring an about-face regarding bumpy behaviors.
4. Stop small-group work for a couple days and focus exclusively on individual conferring. Proximity often facilitates more appropriate behavior.
5. If all else fails, set up a video camera during Daily 5 and let it run on its own. As a class, watch the video to see the behaviors taking place. Sometimes, seeing is believing.
Gail and Joan offer several tips for bringing off-task, bumpy behaviors back to calm, independent, productive ones.
When we keep expectations high and communicate them clearly, the class soon returns to the happy hum of purposeful work that we know and love.
Now is the perfect time to review the expectations and behaviors required to be independent and reach one's goals.
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Q: what is the diffrence betwean deepFreeze and true imutibility Hello and thank you in advanced.
I recently read about object.freez and deep.freez
And considering that js has no immutable structures, I'm now  left wondering how this differs from the standert term of immutability...
"quote: As said before JavaScript has no immutable structures, but immutability can be achieved by principles and rules."
how ever seeing: code  from :source
    function deepFreeze(object) {

    // Retrieve the property names defined on object
    var propNames = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(object);

    // Freeze properties before freezing self

     for (let name of propNames) {
       let value = object[name];

      object[name] = value && typeof value === "object" ?
      deepFreeze(value) : value;
    }

    return Object.freeze(object);
  }
  var obj2 = {
    internal: {
    a: null
    }
  };

  deepFreeze(obj2);

  obj2.internal.a = 'anotherValue'; // fails silently in non-strict mode
  obj2.internal.a; // null

I'm now left at a bit perplexed
I thought immutability meant not being able to mutate(change) the values of an object after it has bean created. And as far as i can tell deep.freez achieves exactly that... So what is the difference?
hope this question made sense as i was not able to find any information concerning deep.freez
Kind regards Lost.

A: Both points are correct - there are no data structures in JavaScript that are immutable by default. For example, there is no data structure you can create which is an "immutable object" at the time of creation.
However, Object.freeze is a method in the JavaScript/ECMAScript specification which freezes the properties of an object after it's been created, essentially making it immutable.
Your deepFreeze function, at its heart, calls Object.freeze. deepFreeze ensures that if an object has a property which is also an object, it will also be frozen.
The article you linked to actually mentions Object.freeze as a method of creating "immutable" objects.

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Q: Get adb log and grep it to a string in IF statement I want to grep a string to adb logcat and if it matches it should go inside if statement else exit.THe following code doesnot work
if[ ./adb logcat | grep --line-buffered 'Monkey aborted due to error.' ]; then
adb logcat -d > MONKEY_WORKING_DIR/logcat_MonkeyWithoutPackageName.txt
fi

A: You only use [ if you want to test the value of an expression, not if you want to test whether a command is successful. If you're testing a command line, you just put that command after if.
if ./adb logcat | grep --line-buffered 'Monkey aborted due to error.'
then
    ...
fi

Also, you need to have a space between if and [.


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    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <artifactId>RoutingTestAppServices</artifactId>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <name>RoutingTestApp-services</name>
    <description>Implementation of Routing Test App</description>
    <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform.apps</groupId>
    <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <parent>
        <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform</groupId>
        <artifactId>platformDependencies</artifactId>
        <version>0.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </parent>
    <!--Template application/service implementation POM.-->
    <profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>App</id>
            <activation>
                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
            </activation>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform</groupId>
                    <artifactId>apps.AppInterfacesRoutingTest</artifactId>
                    <version>0.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                    <exclusions>
                        <exclusion>
                            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
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                        <exclusion>
                            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                            <artifactId>spring-boot</artifactId>
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                    <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
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                        <exclusion>
                            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
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                        <exclusion>
                            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
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                        </exclusion>
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                <dependency>
                    <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform.apps</groupId>
                    <artifactId>RoutingTestApp</artifactId>
                    <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                    <type>test-jar</type>
                    <scope>test</scope>
                </dependency>
                <!--Your other plugins extending/overriding the parent build plugins go here or after.-->
            </dependencies>
            <build>
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>3.1.1</version>
                        <executions/>
                    </plugin>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>3.0.0</version>
                        <executions>
                            <execution>
                                <id>MyRoutingConnectorTest</id>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>iip.nodes.MyRoutingConnectorTest</mainClass>
                                    <classpathFilenameExclusions>transport.amqp-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar</classpathFilenameExclusions>
                                    <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                            <execution>
                                <id>MyRoutingSourceTest</id>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>iip.nodes.MyRoutingSourceTest</mainClass>
                                    <classpathFilenameExclusions>transport.amqp-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar</classpathFilenameExclusions>
                                    <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                            <execution>
                                <id>ParallelRoutingProcessor1Test</id>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>iip.nodes.ParallelRoutingProcessor1Test</mainClass>
                                    <classpathFilenameExclusions>transport.amqp-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar</classpathFilenameExclusions>
                                    <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                            <execution>
                                <id>ParallelRoutingProcessor2Test</id>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>iip.nodes.ParallelRoutingProcessor2Test</mainClass>
                                    <classpathFilenameExclusions>transport.amqp-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar</classpathFilenameExclusions>
                                    <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                            <execution>
                                <id>ParallelRoutingProcessor3Test</id>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>iip.nodes.ParallelRoutingProcessor3Test</mainClass>
                                    <classpathFilenameExclusions>transport.amqp-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar</classpathFilenameExclusions>
                                    <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                            <execution>
                                <id>RoutingProcessorTest</id>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>iip.nodes.RoutingProcessorTest</mainClass>
                                    <classpathFilenameExclusions>transport.amqp-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar</classpathFilenameExclusions>
                                    <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                            <execution>
                                <id>RoutingSinkTest</id>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>iip.nodes.RoutingSinkTest</mainClass>
                                    <classpathFilenameExclusions>transport.amqp-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar</classpathFilenameExclusions>
                                    <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                            <execution>
                                <id>App</id>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>de.iip_ecosphere.platform.examples.SpringStartup</mainClass>
                                    <arguments>
                                        <argument><put relative location of integrated, generated application here></argument>
                                    </arguments>
                                    <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                        </executions>
                    </plugin>
                </plugins>
            </build>
        </profile>
    </profiles>
    <dependencies>
        <!--Due to required exclusions, this dependency must be repeated as early as possible. Typically, it does not conflict with usual dependencies in profiles.-->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
            <artifactId>jakarta.el</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform</groupId>
            <artifactId>services.environment</artifactId>
            <version>0.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform</groupId>
            <artifactId>services.environment.spring</artifactId>
            <version>0.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform</groupId>
            <artifactId>kiServices.functions</artifactId>
            <version>0.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
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        <dependency>
            <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform</groupId>
            <artifactId>examples</artifactId>
            <version>0.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform</groupId>
                    <artifactId>services.spring</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
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            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
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            <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform</groupId>
            <artifactId>support.aas.basyx</artifactId>
            <version>0.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
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            <groupId>de.iip-ecosphere.platform</groupId>
            <artifactId>transport</artifactId>
            <version>0.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
            <type>test-jar</type>
            <scope>test</scope>
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Health Experts Offer Final Plea To Avoid Large Gatherings For Super Bowl
By Nicole Nielsen February 6, 2021 at 10:33 pm
Filed Under:Coronavirus, Covid-19, DFW News, Health, North Texas, Pandemic, Super Bowl, Super Spreader
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Health experts are warning that Sunday's Super Bowl could be a "super spreader."
The fear is that if folks gather for the game, it may undo precious progress North Texas has made in decreasing hospitalizations over the past two weeks.
"I hope people enjoy the Super Bowl, but at the same time I hope they don't let their guard down," said Steve Love, CEO and President of the DFW Hospital Council. "If people go to Super Bowl parties, even if it's your next door neighbor, you need to wear a mask, you need to physically distance, you need to wash your hands."
Today, Dallas County has 18 ICU beds, Tarrant has 35, Collin has nine and Denton County has three.
With no major holidays since New Year's Day, North Texas has seen improvement in hospitalizations.
It's a feat health experts don't want to go to waste.
"We are at about 2,477 COVID-19 patients in Trauma Service Area E, today. Compare and contrast that to two weeks ago, we were over 4,000," Love said.
But that progress, they fear, could easily be interrupted Sunday if folks head out to watch the game in large gatherings.
They say it's the traditions of the Super Bowl, like shared drinks, snacks and shouting, that could mean life or death.
Especially with the new, more contagious variant floating around.
"If the variant of the virus is there, it will spread exponentially," Love said. "If you're in a little bubble of people you're normally with that's one thing. But if you're in the company of people you're not normally with, you've gotta take precautions."
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Dear Students, Pupils, Lecturers, Teachers and Employees, 2020 was a year of hardships for the world, especially for Armenia. On New Year's Eve. . .
AN AGREEMENT HAS BEEN SIGNED BETWEEN NUACA AND NORTH-CAUCASUS FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF STAVROPOL
On December 25 at the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia, an agreement was signed online between NUACA and North-Caucasus Federal University of Stavropol on establishing "...
AN EVENT OF GLORIFICATION AND ADMIRATION AT NUACA HIGH SCHOOL
Where does patriotism come from? Do we become patriots still in the cradle, under the song of a nightingale, or in the arms of a serviceman father or grandfather, or do we learn about it from school n...
VIGEN GEVORGYAN — THE HERO WITH A BIG HEART AND BRAVE SPIRIT
It is difficult for Karen to talk about his brother, who fell in the war, but at the same time it is also exciting. He remembers his brother with a smile. Karen is silent for a long time, unable to fi...
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF OUR UNIVERSITY IN "ZAVODNOY APELSIN" COMPETITION
Due to being international and unique, "Zavodnoy Apelsin" («Заводной апельсин») has become a favorite competition for design students. This year as well, despite the obstacles caused by the Coronaviru...
THE HEROES WHO WON THE DEATH
"Yes, we lost the battle, but not the war," a second-year student Sasun Mkrtchyan is sure about it. During the war, he was on the border with Nakhijevan, and had previously transported food and clothi...
THE VISIT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF RA MESCS SCIENCE COMMITTEE TO OUR UNIVERSITY
Chairman of RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Science Committee, Sargis Hayotsyan and Deputy Chairman, Arthur Movsisyan, have paid a working visit to the National University of Arch...
THE WINNER OF JURGIS BALTRUŠAITIS AWARD RECEIVED HER PRIZE
The winner of Jurgis Baltrušaitis Jr. Award held on 13th of December, 2nd year graduate student of the Faculty of Architecture Anna Karamyan received her prize at the National University of Architectu...
AZAT- THE HERO WITH A SIMPLE AND HONEST LOOK
Azat is constantly remembered and described in the highest words, attributed to the most honest human qualities.
THE PROJECT WEEK WAS HELD REMOTELY
Distance learning and communication did not prevent the students from organizing and holding regular joint working days.
THE WINNER OF JURGIS BALTRUŠAITIS AWARD IS ANNA KARAMYAN
The competition named in the memory of the Lithuanian historian and art critic Jurgis Baltrušaitis is traditionally being held for already the fourth year.
THE OPENING OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE CENTRE AT NUACA SIGNING AN AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION BETWEEN SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY AND NUACA
Another manifestation of the Armenian-Russian friendship in the spheres of education, science and culture was at the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia.
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I am a retired public school teacher who is embedded in family life, and the search for beauty in nature and architecture.
So many of us operate in the surface-superficial realm of awareness, which is probably necessary as we "make our living" as practical humans. But right below the surface of our existence is an extraordinary world that escapes our everyday awareness. Perhaps if you ever meditated and broke through the illusion of everyday awareness, or escaped the world of words you have entered this wonderful, perhaps spiritual, world.
In my photography I attempted to break through the veils-curtains of everyday life and the world of words and live in this world of intuitive understanding.
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