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Strategies for Janice McGeachin to Become Next Idaho Governor
Bill Colley Published: May 19, 2021
Picture by Bill Colley.
Suddenly a lot of people want Brad Little's job. In a move that was no surprise, Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin is making it official. McGeachin has been rumored for months to be planning a primary challenge against the sitting Republican Governor. The two wouldn't be said to have a cordial relationship.
I would campaign against the cabal in charge of newsrooms and its efforts to turn Idaho into some Intermountain West version of their beloved Left Coast cities.
Let me tell you, the woman has defied expectations. I first met her several years ago during the Christmas season. After visiting a museum in Idaho Falls I dropped into a restaurant owned by the McGeachin family. We talked politics over lunch. I wanted to know if she planned at the time to challenge Representative Mike Simpson in 2018.
"I'm thinking about running for Lt. Governor," she replied without even a pause. Now, that was a surprise. She had served a decade in the state legislature but had left Boise for several years to concentrate on business.
Within months, there were five Republicans all involved in a primary for the seat. She came away with a plurality and then won the General Election.
Two things may be to her advantage running for Governor. One, the whining and overtly liberal media despises the woman. News media is incredibly out of touch with the state's culture and most voters. As a strategist, I would campaign against the cabal in charge of newsrooms and its efforts to turn Idaho into some Intermountain West version of their beloved Left Coast cities. How many people actually read an actual editorial page? This isn't 1973! The Internet and conservative talk radio have far more impact than some blowhard at the Lewiston Tribune. By the time the primary rolls around in 12 months, several Idaho newspapers will be defunct.
Her other strategy is she didn't play Scrooge and panic when the elites began psychological operations against the public with the arrival of COVID-19. She stood for liberty. I would also remind voters the news media liberals and the Democrats wholeheartedly approved when Governor Little followed the "science". And you lost your job, your home and your savings.
As another candidate relayed to me, there were people among the elites who believed and still believe you don't have the brains to conduct your own life and mind your own safety. One is named Brad Little.
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Three years ago, Touken Ranbu, an online game with personified legendary sword characters, kindled the Japanese sword trend, but the craze is even bigger today. The popularity is supported by young women known as touken joshi (sword girls with a passion for swords).
Exhibitions showcasing valuable swords are being curated all over Japan, including at Kasuga Taisha Shrine and Yakushiji Temple in Nara city. Both have been uniformly flooded with female visitors. With the trend, the touken joshi are deepening their knowledge and brushing up their eye for the craft.
So, what is it about Japanese swords that fascinate these women?
On February 24 the Yakushiji Temple premises was enveloped with vibes that were out of the ordinary.
The commotion was caused by some famous Japanese swords, including the Okurikara Hiromitsu, displayed at the special exhibition during the Uwasano Katana Ten III (Exhibition of Whispered Swords III) held at the temple's Shuhoukan (treasure museum) with special cooperation from the Nihontou Hakubutsu Gijyutsu Kenkyu Foundation. The exclusive two-day exhibition was a huge success, with more than 3,500 people flocking to the venue.
Another exhibition took place at the Kasuga Taisha Shrine museum until March 26. Titled Legendary Sword Masterpieces, it commemorated the 1,250th anniversary of the construction of the main shrine. It featured a Ko-hoki style sword, one of the earliest Japanese curved swords made in the late Heian Period, which was displayed for the first time 80 years after its discovery in a treasure house in 1939. Also showcased were a number of other mouth-watering swords which are registered as national treasures or important cultural properties.
Both venues were packed with predominantly female audiences. Mesmerized by the shiny blades on display, some women stood in front of them, captivated and unable to step away.
Often applauded as the soul of the samurai, Japanese swords have long been favored by middle-aged men. However, an online game called Touken Ranbu-ONLINE (abbreviation: TouRabu) is credited for accelerating the trend of increasingly young female enthusiasts in recent years.
The game anthropomorphizes legendary swords and depicts them as attractive young male characters called touken danshi (sword men) who battle and defeat evil. The good-looking characters made the game popular with young women, triggering their interest in the art of swords, and eventually leading to the crowding of exhibitions with female fans.
Museums, shrines, and temples hold high expectations for the keen eyes and aesthetic sense of the women behind the firmly-rooted trend.
"It's heartening to see young people interested. Through their fascination with swords, I hope it will give them an opportunity to take a closer look at other traditional arts and crafts as well," said Wakako Matsumura, chief curator at the Kasuga Taisha Shrine.
Several larger exhibitions are being planned. Until June, the Nara Prefecture Art Museum (Nara City) will host an exhibition of swords associated with the local region.
The trend extends to university campuses. Since 2015, the Nihon Touken Kenkyu Kai (Japanese Sword Research Club) has held a workshop at Kansai University. The workshop, established by Kawachi with the hope that it could become a platform for teaching young people the appeal of Japanese swords, also welcomes extramural students. Some enthusiastic touken joshi are participants.
A female office worker, 33, who became interested in swords when a friend invited her to go see one of the exhibitions, is a workshop participant. "At a glance, the swords all look the same, but they're not. By learning more about them, I thought I would be able to appreciate the swords with a better eye. I got hooked," she said.
With the trend firmly set in place, these passionate women are now not only observing the famed swords, but also digging deeper into their beauty and mystique.
Toshikazu Iwaguchi is a staff writer, The Sankei Shimbun Nara Bureau.


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Date: Monday, September 12
Location: Razzis Pizzeria 8523 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle WA 98103
Neal Jacques WSPE
Jason Salazar ASME
Art & Jude Moss ASQ
Chris Roberdeau AIAA
Grace Lefebre SWE
Mark Powers AIAA
Luis Leon ASMI
Steve Snelling IISE
John Schaufelberger WSPE
Beth Mende EWB
Ying Zhao EWB
Sam Gheesling ASME
Dave Butcher IEEE
Meeting started promptly at 6 pm. Brief Introductions of all PSEC reps. in attendance & guests (see above). Several Societies are having events in September.
Dave Butcher (IEEE), as new PSEC President, was also filling in as Secretary. The Meeting Agenda (on the PSEC website) was shown on the wall screen, and was approved.
Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes: All
The June Council Meeting Minutes were approved
2016-2017 PSEC Goals: Dave Butcher (IEEE)
Dave Butcher (IEEE), briefly reviewed some PSEC Goals for this program year, including trying to work on attendance of Inactive Societies. Steve Snelling (IISE), offered to help Dave with this activity, since he had worked on it some in past years.
Also wanted to do something this Program Year with the donation money not used for FIRST Robotics & STEM activities (around $2,000); after some discussion, decided to develop a simple grant/competition process to offer the money to any of the K-12 programs sponsored by the PSEC member Societies (like WSPE's Math Counts, or IEEE's Future Cities Competition, or ASCE's Popsicle Stick Bridge Building, etc.); several PSEC reps. offered to send Dave some sample forms their Society has used for similar grants/competitions.
Portland Student Banquet: Mark Powers (IISE)
Mark Powers (IISE), gave a brief introduction of the One Day of Activities that several Engineering Societies do as a group, in the Portland area for high school Sophomores that are active in STEM programs in their individual schools. Earlier Mark had sent the PSEC reps. the main website for the Portland events: http://www.oregonengineersweek.org/ (under the top heading "The Day" is a description of the Feb. 25, 2016 schedule and each of the 5 events; under the top heading "Photos" are pictures of the events, including the Banquet & several of the Field Trips).
Then Tova Peltz (from Portland, OR) called in to describe (over the speaker phone), the details of their annual program, using a few PowerPoint slides that Mark had prepared. This was their 53rd year of offering this high school oriented program, but it had basically been re- started about 10 years ago, after the program had declined considerably. The "Day" consists of five separate events: a small group of students in the special Morning Program, up to 15 Field Trips to active engineering sites, several Mini-Seminars & Workshops, an Exhibit Hall of engineering displays & company sponsor displays, and the main Banquet Dinner where all the students hear from a few speakers during a sit-down dinner. Over 600 people (2/3 students & 1/3 engineers) attend the Banquet. Usually the engineers & sponsors will pay for all the students' dinners. A budget of $30,000 is used to cover all the events (of which the Banquet is the most expensive, by far). A 15 person Planning Committee works on separate action items: getting sponsors, contacting local high school STEM programs, contacting local engineers, setting up Field Trips, organizing the Exhibit Hall, and organizing the Banquet Dinner. Her advice to PSEC, if planning a similar event, is to start small (maybe only a few high schools & form a strong Planning Committee to take on the separate tasks). Tova will send Mark some electronic files that they use in Portland, when planning the separate events.
Following the call, the PSEC reps. discussed the next steps: Mark will forward some of the info he receives from Portland; best not to try to do this event in Feb. (due to other current activities) so would pick another month; too late to do it this program year but may consider it for next program year; there will be further discussion at the Oct. PSEC meeting. Will need to see if the PSEC member Societies want to do this, including provide new volunteers for a Planning Committee (since this is too much work to absorb by the current active PSEC reps.). If approved, would probably start small, as Portland suggested.
Treasurer's Report: Julie Bennett (SWE)
No formal Treasurer's Report. Past Treasurer, Chris Roberdeau (AIAA), has just recently turned the Bank information & Treasurer files over to the new Treasurer, Julie Bennett (SWE). All current bills have been paid, and there is approximately $20,000 in the Treasury. Chris will help Julie send out annual dues requests soon, to the member Societies.
Website Updates: Stan Dyck (IEEE)
Stan Dyck (IEEE) was not at the meeting, so no website update, but Stan has posted a brief note for Sept. on the PSEC website.
Banquet: Sam Gheesling (ASME)
Sam Gheesling (ASME) has arranged for the Awards Banquet to be held at the Museum of Flight again this year, on Sat. Feb. 11th. He is taking any suggestions for the keynote speaker, and several were mentioned as possibilities. Chris Roberdeau (AIAA), said the K-12 Engineering Fair will be held at the Museum of Flight, again this year, on Sat. Feb. 4th (same location in the Museum). Hoping to get a few more exhibitors this year.
Awards: John Schaufelberger (WSPE)
John Schaufelberger (WSPE) will post the Nomination forms for the seven annual PSEC Awards on the PSEC website soon. He went over a handout on the Awards criteria for several of the Awards. The deadline will be Friday, Dec. 16, 2016.
He encouraged each Society to start thinking about some deserving engineers now, for each of the Awards. He will be forming an Awards Committee soon. He briefly covered some of the suggestions that came out of the Inter-Society Officers Workshop (ISOW), on the topic of submitting Nominations for Awards, that was led by Paul Grant (ASCE). John encouraged more Societies to actively nominate their engineers for any of the Awards. Use the criteria on the forms to present why their nominee deserves the Award (don't just send in their nominee's resume), and observe the 8 page max. length for submittals. Only one nominee can be submitted for each Award, from each Society. Two Awards did not receive any nominations, last year. The PSEC website has information on last year's Award winners, and the names of past year's winners (for each Award).
Jason Salazar (ASME) gave a brief overview of the Mentor Night program and showed that section of the PSEC website. As the new dates for this year's Mentor Nights are confirmed, they will be updated on the website.
It was suggested that last year's dates be removed and replaced with a "TBD" until the new date is known.
The Seattle Pacific U. Mentor Night is being Coordinated by Paul Grant and it is scheduled for Oct. 24th at 6 pm. An Eventbrite sign-up will be available soon.
Jason said there is a need for more volunteer Coordinators; two PSEC reps. volunteered to be new Mentor Night Coordinators at the meeting and will work with Jason offline to get some information about the events needing Coordinators.
ISOW: Dave Butcher (IEEE)
Dave Butcher (IEEE) will work with John Schaufelberger (WSPE) to set a date for the ISOW (Inter-Society Officers Workshop) event (probably in May again), at the same U.W. location in Magnuson Park. Three break-out topic discussions will be done again this year.
UW College of Engineering – Career Center: Gail Cornelius (UW)
Steve Snelling (IISE) gave a brief introduction for Gail Cornelius who is the Director of the U.W. College of Engineering's Career Center. Gail brought copies of a 2-page handout that she presented during the meeting. The handout was sent out to all PSEC reps., electronically, following the meeting, along with Gail's contact information. The Career Center works with 10 Engineering Depts. at the U.W. and helps individual engineering students with their career plans & internships. There are several "Opportunities for Collaboration" with PSEC, that were listed on the handout (the white- text list of 5 items, on the gold-background section). Additional follow-up will be forthcoming on some of these "opportunities". PSEC reps. are asked to forward the handout and Gail's contact information on to their local Society.
Handouts are here: Recruiting Cycle Handout PSEC Handout
There was no Open Discussion topic suggested.
No known Action Items from previous meetings.

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Drinking excess alcohol during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) due to the damaging effects of alcohol on a developing baby's brain. Despite its harmful effects, pregnant mothers continue to drink alcohol – up to 3 in every 1000 babies are born with FAS, which causes intellectual disabilities, behavioural problems, growth defects and abnormal facial features. How alcohol causes these effects is unclear, but researching the problem is difficult because of ethical barriers to studying human fetuses. Ulrike Heberlein and colleagues from the University of California San Francisco decided to study FAS using the fruit fly, a commonly used organism in biological research. Their results establish a new system for studying how alcohol causes harmful effects during development and open the door to further genetic and molecular studies of FAS.
When Heberlein and colleagues exposed fruit flies to alcohol during development, they found that the flies grew more slowly, had smaller brains, abnormal behaviour and were more sensitive to the effects of alcohol as adults. They also confirmed previous findings that the problems were caused in part because alcohol interferes with the function of insulin – a molecule essential for normal fetal development – in the developing brain. Heberlein commented, "It was pretty surprising that so many features of FAS were recapitulated in this model, including some of the molecular mechanisms."
The issue of how much alcohol, if any, a pregnant woman can safely drink – and during which trimester – has been hotly debated.
As expected, Heberlein and colleagues found that greater amounts of alcohol had more severe effects on fly development and behaviour. More surprisingly, they found that exposure to alcohol later during a fly's development was more harmful than at early stages. Fruit flies are only distantly related to humans, so it is not yet possible to draw direct parallels between this study and the effects of alcohol on human pregnancy. Heberlein says, "We can't truly draw analogies before we know exactly which biological processes are being affected at these different stages of development. But it's very clear that exposure to alcohol early, during a rapid phase of growth, has different effects than later, when the brain is getting put together."
An important aspect of this new model system is that fruit flies provide a research advantage that is not available in humans – they can be used to very rapidly find the genes that might increase FAS risk. Heberlein and colleagues are undertaking this task now: their hope is that by studying FAS at the genetic level using fruit flies, they can generate results that will guide FAS research in humans and facilitate a more targeted approach to developing new therapies.
This study establishes the fruit fly as a model to study FAS that can be used to find genes and environmental factors that could influence FAS severity in humans. Combined with complementary approaches and follow-up studies in humans, the fruit fly will be a valuable tool for identifying drug candidates that could prevent or treat FAS in at-risk fetuses.
REFERENCE: McClure, K. D., French, R. L. and Heberlein, U. (2011). A Drosophila model for fetal alcohol syndrome disorders: role for the insulin pathway. Dis. Model. Mech. doi:10.1242/dmm.006411
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Брі́ттон () — англійське топонімічне прізвище, пов'язане з назвою французької провінції Бретань ( або ), що вказує на походження предків носіїв прізвища.

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 Елізабет Гертруда Бріттон (, уроджена — Найт; 1858—1934) — американська ботанікиня.
 Зої Бріттон (, уроджена — Мішель Ара Мерфі, ;  1979) — американська порноакторка.
 Камерон Бріттон (;  1986) — американський актор.
 Кліфф Бріттон (; 1909—1974) — англійський футболіст, що грав на позиції півзахисника.
 Конні Бріттон (, до шлюбу — Вомак, ;  1967) — американська акторка, співачка і продюсерка.
  (;  1982) — англійський футболіст і тренер.
 Натаніель Лорд Бріттон (; 1859—1934) — ботанік і систематик, дослідник флори Карибського басейну.
  (, уроджена Армільда Джейн Оуен, ; 1923—1974) — американська акторка.
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Anyone here a Jeff Dunham fan?
Love, love, love him and his multiple personalities. I read today that he is going to have a wkly show on comedy central.Thursday nights, I think @ 8pm central time. The critic wrote "that it was just not funny"> another elitis a##&(*). I especially love achmed, funny and makes my day everytime i see him on the tube. Will try to watch tomorrow night and let ya'll know.
"The time to panic is when the government says not to panic" John Cusak's character in 2012 movie.
ok, my family and i watched, and i was disappointed. It seemed every other skit was funny, not hysterical, just ok funny, and the next one would make you groan, it was so bad. I kinda like the puppets having conversation with Jeff, not really having a life and conversations with other people, kinda creeped me out. Achmed was not even close to being funny, in fact he did not do any of his signature stuff if I remember correctly. I was really let down and will probably not watch again because it comes on the same time as Fringe (my fav). JMHO, what did ya'll think?
I haven't watched the videos above yet, but I did find a 5-page article in the NYT Magazine about him today.
It's called Comedy for Dummies (groan).
One thing the article notes is that not everybody finds him funny, although he does have a large fandom.


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Today's second generation Solar Hot Water Heaters offer dramatically improved efficiency, very good cost-effectiveness, and the price is much lower, allowing for cheaper, more widely available installations, and the return on today's Solar Hot Water Heaters, and the return on the initial investment has been significantly improved over the last 20 plus years.
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Appeals lodged on Psa case
Written by Pam Tipa
If the current ruling stands the government will be liable for many millions of dollars in compensation.
The Crown will appeal the High Court's decision that the government was negligent in allowing kiwifruit vine-killing disease Psa into the country.
Last month, the court backed 'The Kiwifruit Claim', a group of 212 growers led by Strathboss Kiwifruit and Seeka, in the first stage of the trial, finding the Crown breached its duty of care to growers.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) says the appeal, lodged by the Crown Law Office, "seeks to clarify the scope for government regulators to be sued in negligence".
"The ministry considers the High Court finding has the potential to significantly impact on the ministry's biosecurity operations," MPI says.
"MPI takes its biosecurity responsibilities seriously, and while the decision is being appealed, it must still be applied in the interim. The impact of this for importers and others will be delays in decision-making."
MPI says no biosecurity system in the world can prevent every pest incursion. A strong biosecurity system needs government, importers, industry and the public actively participating and acting to identify and manage risk, it says.
"As the matter will go before the Court of Appeal, we will be making no further comment," MPI says.
Michael Franks, chief executive of Seeka, told Rural News for them this has always been about accountability.
"Clearly in the appeal from the Crown they haven't got the point," he says.
Seeka will also be lodging an appeal "on aspects that went against us in the original decision".
"In the absence of a more sensible settlement discussion we have every intention of following it to its natural conclusion," Franks says.
If appeals do not overturn the original High Court decisions, the level of compensation has yet to be determined but reported estimates have been $500 million - $800 million.
The appeal documents lodged by the Crown Law office say that the imports decision (on pollen from China which the court deemed was the likely pathway for Psa) was "an exercise in judgment based on a range of inputs and relevant considerations (not least the absence then of any scientific evidence that kiwifruit pollen collected from hand-picked closed buds in China was likely to be a pathway for Psa)".
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The Past Is Not Even Past
By Jon Parrish Peede
ISSUE: Spring 2013
"I wish publishing was advanced enough to use colored ink," William Faulkner wrote in 1929 to his editor, Ben Wasson, regarding their disagreement over how to distinguish between time periods in the stream-of-consciousness opening of The Sound and the Fury. Wasson believed that the numerous time periods in the first section of the novel were too confusing for the reader, and he added extra spaces to signal chronological shifts. Faulkner refused to accept that approach—he argued for different colors to mark the eight time periods in operation.
His request for colors was denied.
"I'll just have to save the idea until publishing grows up," Faulkner said.
In 2012, more than eighty years later, the industry finally came of age—at least for well-heeled readers. For $345, one could have purchased the Folio Society's two-volume, slipcased, limited edition of Faulkner's Compson family saga, bound in vermilion goatskin and printed in fourteen colors. Yes, fourteen. The two scholars who consulted on the project—Noel Polk and Stephen M. Ross—found even more time periods than the author himself had tallied.
Since the 1,480 copies of the Folio edition sold out quickly, discussions are underway for a digital edition. Presumably, that edition will be made widely available, as there is no collector's market for e-books.
Until recent years, e-readers were no better suited to the affordable rendering of multicolored book pages than the massive printing presses that they have started to drive out of business. Now tablet devices are rapidly maturing in features and functionality, disrupting the publishing and bookselling industries. The transition seems at times as much biological as technological. For a new generation to grow up, a former one is always displaced.
In this issue, we have called upon innovative thinkers to write about where literature is headed as a field and business. We wanted essays that were well reasoned, however speculative in nature. We wanted them to be aggressive, even edgy, yet fair and defendable not just on their merits but their facts. Toward that end, we open with a thought-provoking lead essay by Richard Nash.
With his diverse background at the nexus of independent publishing and digital technology, Nash embodies the voices of both the insider and outsider, admitting his affection for the book as a physical object while praising the new opportunities abundant in digital publishing. He advances the idea of the printed book not as a cultural artifact in need of special protection, but as a perfectly evolved tool well aligned with its intended use. "The book is not counter-technology," he writes, "it is the apotheosis of technology—just like the wheel or the chair." It is not the book that must be changed fundamentally, Nash argues, but the publishing industry itself.
The traditional model of editorial gate-keepers, sizable advances against future royalties, and unsold remaindered books is inefficient and unsustainable—serving authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers poorly. And yet Nash is not worried about the survival of the book, in part because of the opportunities that he believes are inherent in technology. "Book culture is in far less peril than many choose to assume, for the notion of an imperiled book culture assumes that book culture is a beast far more refined, rarified, and fragile than it actually is," Nash concludes. "By defining books as against technology, we deny our true selves, we deny the power of the book."
The fate of the author in the digital age is explored in the second piece in our portfolio on publishing. Drawing upon the collective wisdom of industry leaders at Atavist, Byliner, Electric Literature, the New York Times, and Writers House, this free-flowing interview discusses the new publishing landscape where global online booksellers and nimble startups have morphed into publishers, opportunities for self-publication are boundless, and the transfer of risk and responsibility to the author is markedly increasing. Like Nash's essay, their discussion is encouraging in terms of what can be done with the presentation and consumption of the written word, especially long-form narrative, but it likewise makes clear that the old economic models no longer apply.
For those who look upon the empowerment of the author as a democratic breakthrough, we offer a cautionary tale about the proliferation of the fake memoir. Kevin Young mounts a forceful case about the damage done to the memoir as a literary form—and to the idea of truth itself—by fabulists such as James Frey and Margaret Seltzer. In his autopsy of fake memoirs, he finds a disturbing and pervasive tendency toward racial stereotyping that would rarely survive editorial review or reader criticism in a work of fiction but, as a memoir, receives a pass by virtue of its supposed factualness. With a poet's keen eye for language, Young delivers an essential, corrective essay.
Around the time that Faulkner was writing his early masterpieces, VQR was established at the University of Virginia. The magazine would later publish him as both rose in literary standing. For this special issue, we have turned to another acclaimed Southern writer, Richard Bausch, to serve as our guest fiction editor. We are pleased to announce that he has become a VQR Contributing Editor, too.
Bausch has brought together five acclaimed writers—Percival Everett, Randall Kenan, Bobbie Ann Mason, Danzy Senna, and Elizabeth Strout—to assemble a remarkable suite of stories. These writers were not given any instructions in terms of subject matter, but interesting patterns naturally emerged in and between their works, especially motifs of doubles and twins, the co-opting of another's identity, and the buried secrets of childhood. These stories remind us that Faulkner was right: "The Past is never dead. It's not even past."
There is no shortage of excellence in the remainder of the issue. From Dana Gioia's groundbreaking essay on Robert Frost, to Alice Munro's reflections on her life and work, to international reporting from across the globe, we have sought out works that speak to literature's true business—namely, to illuminate the world and enrich the reader's experience.
Jon Parrish Peede
Jon Peede is the publisher of VQR. From 2007 to 2011, he was Director of Literature Grants for the National Endowment for the Arts, where he directed funding to writers, translators, publications, and literary organizations. In addition to directing the Big Read program for two years, Peede served as Counselor to NEA Chairman Dana Gioia from 2003 to 2007. He was the founding director of the NEA's Operation Homecoming program, which resulted in the largest literary archive of US troop writing from Iraq and Afghanistan. He co-edited Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor (2008).
Issue: Spring 2013 Volume 89 # 2
Topics: Publishing, printing, Faulkner, book culture


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To be customer focused and giving the best customized solutions Technical service and Product development is key for UNIQCHEM. The lab on our previous location had become too small. Our new location for our lab and R&D in Shanghai has moved to the Institute for Nanotechnology in Minhang district. Here we have the potential to grow and expand for the future. Big advantage is our corporation with the institute to be able to use their equipment for analysis, like particle size analyzers, electronic microscopy, Contact angle measurement and many more.
The growth of UNIQCHEM didn't stay unrecognized. More and more colleagues have joined UNIQCHEM in the last years due to the natural growth of the company. The location for lab and office became too small. For that reason UNIQCHEM decided to seperate the lab facilities and office facilities. By Jan 1 2016 UNIQCHEM moved to Humin road (near Lianhua station, line 1) the new office in the Sovereign building on the 7th floor. Marketing, sales, admin and customer service is now located on this location.
To further improve and able to customize product for customers, UNIQCHEM has opened in Chan their R&D facilities in Shanghai as well in Xiaoshan. The facility in Xiaoshan will be mainly used for the development of new chemistries. Under supervision of Dr. Qian new products technologies and chemistries will be developed.
Uniqchem opens their new lab and office in Shanghai.
Last year Uniqchem opened their lab in Shanghai to support the Chinese market with their technical service. With the installation of the lab the office of Uniqchem Shanghai moved to be together on one location.By the excellent growth in China the lab and office facilities have become after 1 year too small and therefore the office and the lab has been expended so it will be ready for the coming years growth.In the short history of Uniqchem in China is this an excellent achievement.


Heating greenhouses this next winter will remind many growers of fuel costs during the 1970s during the Arab Oil Embargo. I have found reports from the Department of Energy that forcast the price of natural gas to be at $12.31 per dekatherm. If we have a cold winter, there may be gas shortages. During September, Hurricanes Gustav and Ike shut down 32 million barrels of crude oil and 165 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas production in the Federal Gulf of Mexico. Recovery is ongoing and expected to continue at least through October.
According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) most recent projection of heating degree-days, the Lower-48 States are forecast to be 2.4 percent colder this winter compared with last winter, but 1.7 percent warmer than the 30-year average (1971 to 2000). However, regional heating degree-day projections vary widely; for example, the West North Central region is projected to be almost 5 percent warmer than last winter.
What is the greenhouse owner/manager to do? Many buy gas on the open market as a coopertive to lock in prices. Others negotiate directly with their gas provider. Rregardless of what fuel you use and your fuel prices, we still need to make cropping decisions. Do we grow Easter lilies or just grow spring bedding plnats. Do we put in quick turn crop of cut flowers for Easter or do we start our own plugs and cuttings. These are just a few decisions a grower must make.
To ease some of these decisions and relate them to fuel, Jonathan FrantzUSDA-ARS@utoledo.edu of the USDA-ARS in Toldeo, Ohio has put together a modeling system that you can access help you make your decisions. Below is a discription of the product from the USDA-ARS website.
Virtual Grower is a decision support tool for greenhouse growers. Users can build a greenhouse with a variety of materials for roofs and sidewalls, design the greenhouse style, schedule temperature set points throughout the year, and predict heating costs for over 230 sites within the US. Different heating and scheduling scenarios can be predicted with few inputs.


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Q: Close TabItem from Popup Here I have a functional CloseTabAction using Prism 6 Toolkit found below:
class CloseTabAction : TriggerAction<Button>
{
    protected override void Invoke(object parameter)
    {
        var args = parameter as RoutedEventArgs;
        if (args == null) return;

        var tabItem = FindParent<TabItem>(args.OriginalSource as DependencyObject);
        if (tabItem == null) return;

        var tabControl = FindParent<TabControl>(tabItem);
        if (tabControl == null) return;

        var region = RegionManager.GetObservableRegion(tabControl).Value;
        if (region == null) return;

        if (region.Views.Contains(tabItem.Content))
        {
            region.Remove(tabItem.Content);
        }
    }

    static T FindParent<T>(DependencyObject child) where T : DependencyObject
    {
        while (true)
        {
            var parentObject = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(child);

            if (parentObject == null) return null;

            var parent = parentObject as T;
            if (parent != null) return parent;

            child = parentObject;
        }
    }
}

My problem is I want to close the TabItem only if the user selects 'Yes' (Saves to database and closes) or 'No' (Does not save but closes the tab).
I've created a custom popup window to do this however I'm not sure how to wire it up to the CloseTabAction. How would it know if the conformation is true or false?
This is a rough idea:
    if (region.Views.Contains(tabItem.Content) && Status)
    {
            region.Remove(tabItem.Content);
    }

    public bool Status { get; set; }

    private void RaiseClosePopup()
    {
        ClosePopupRequest.Raise(new Confirmation{Title = "Confrim", Content   = "Are you sure you want to close this view?"}, r => Status = r.Confirmed);
    }

A: I see you watched my Pluralsight course on mastering the TabControl with Prism :)
Why don't you just show a dialog before you call "Remove".  If the result of the dialog is valid, then continue to remove, if not then don't remove.  Then you just need to decide how you will notify your ViewModel of the action.  This can be done a number of ways; event aggregator, expose a property on your CloseTabAction trigger, expose a command on your trigger.  You can decide how you want to do that.
EDIT:  I actually though of a better way.  Just use an interface off of your ViewModel that you check to see if you can close a TabItem.  Maybe use the IConfirmNavigationRequest interface or create your own.  Then check that before removing he region.  That's even easier.

A: In the invoke method I added this block of code. It checks if it implements my custom 'IConfrimCloseRequest' Interface, then calls the 'ConfrimCloseRequest' Method based from that result close or cancel. If it doesn't implement the interface just close it anyway.
        var context = new NavigationContext(region.NavigationService, null);

        if (IfImplements<IConfirmCloseRequest>(tabItem.Content,
            i => i.ConfirmCloseRequest(context, canClose =>
            {
                if (!canClose) return;
                if (region.Views.Contains(tabItem.Content))
                    region.Remove(tabItem.Content);
            }))) return;
        if (region.Views.Contains(tabItem.Content))
            region.Remove(tabItem.Content);

    private static T Implementor<T>(object content) where T : class
    {
        T implementor = content as T;
        if (implementor != null) return implementor;

        var element = content as FrameworkElement;
        if (element != null) implementor = element.DataContext as T;
        return implementor;
    }

    private static bool IfImplements<T>(object content, Action<T> action) where T : class
    {
        T target = Implementor<T>(content);
        if (target == null) return false;
        action(target);
        return true;
    }

Here In my ViewModel I implement my custom Interface with the method 'ConfirmCloseRequest' which will be called when closing the tab.
    public void ConfirmCloseRequest(NavigationContext navigationContext, Action<bool> continuationCallback)
    {
        ClosePopupRequest.Raise(new Confirmation { Title = "Confrim", Content = "Are you sure you want to close this view?" }, r => { continuationCallback(r.Confirmed); });
    }

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Having a March birthday is a bit of a mixed blessing. You have lots of company; seems like March is kind of a human-birthing month, and in our family, we have a bunch of Aries women and one Pisces. Me. Which means the weather on your birthday is usually on the grey and grim side.


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