A larger than average Semi-Detached Home set in the picturesque Development of Castle Meadows.
Main Lounge with Solid Oak feature Surround Fireplace with open fire; Seperate Family Room / Formal Dining Room.
Spacious Solid Redwood fitted Kitchen open plan to Dining Area.
One Ground Floor Bedroom and 4 First Floor Bedrooms one presently used as a study.
Ground Floor Deluxe Four piece Family Bathroom Suite and a Ground Floor Wet Room.
Gardens to front and enclosed rear in lawns with concrete pathways. Concrete ramp to front and rear.
Entrance Hall: Tiled flooring. Two wall light points. Hotpress. Single panel radiator.
Lounge: 18' 6" x 12' 7". Solid oak feature fire surround with cast iron / polished steel inset and granite tiled hearth.
Solid oak flooring. Two wall light points. Corniced ceiling. Double and single panel radiator.
Family Room: 13' 0" x 11' 0". Feature flooring. Single panel radiator.
Ground Floor Bedroom: 11' 7" x 10' 9". Feature flooring. Single panel radiator.
Wet Room: 10' 6" x 5' 5". White suite comprising low flush wc, wash hand basin and shower area. Part tiled walls.
integrated lighting over. Recessed lighting. Plumbed for washing machine. Tiled flooring.
Bathroom: 10' 9" x 8' 3". Four piece deluxe white suite comprising pine strip panelled bath, low flush wc, pedestal wash hand basin, electric fully tiled shower cubicle. Tiled walls. Tiled flooring. Wall mounted towel rail / radiator.
Landing: 6' 9" x 6' 4". Double glazed velux window. Solid oak flooring.
Master Bedroom: 16' 9" x 11' 0". Feature flooring. Single panel radiator. Double glazed velux window. Picture rail.
Walk in dressing room: 7' 2" x 6' 4". Eaves storage. Single panel radiator. Plumbed for ensuite.
Bedroom 3: 12' 7" x 12' 4". Feature flooring. Double glazed velux window. Picture rail. Single panel radiator.
Bedroom 4 / Study: 11' 0" x 8' 5" overall. Feature flooring. Double glazed velux window. Single panel radiator.
Bedroom 5: 12' 7" x 11' 8". Feature flooring. Eaves storage. Double glazed velux window. Single panel radiator.
Outside: Concrete drive with parking. Paved seating area. Garden in lawn to front with pebbled planter areas.
Concrete disabled ramp. Concrete area to side with gated pathway. Enclosed private rear garden.
Concrete pathway / ramp to rear. Garden shed with electric. Outside watertap.
Check out the property I found on PropertyPal.com: 1 Castlemeadow Avenue, Cloughey BT22 1GD.


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Q: Angular ngIf causes height CSS transition when toggling between two child components I have a "button" component in Angular, with has a loading input. If the value is false it displays the text of the button, as displayed via content projection (<ng-content>). If true, it hides the content and displays a "spinner" component instead.
This done in the template using an *ngIf:
<button class="btn"
  [ngClass]="{'loading': loading}">
  <ng-content *ngIf="!loading"></ng-content>
  <app-spinner *ngIf="loading"></app-spinner>
</button>

This works fine for toggling between the two views; if the Input on the button changes, the template renders it correctly.
However, when the input changes and the spinner is displayed, it causes a strange animation on the height of the button.
This happens when the button CSS has transition: all 0.25s ease-out;. If I comment that out, it's fine. But I want to keep the transition property if possible.
I've created a Stackblitz to demonstrate it:
https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-ngif-in-button-strange-animation
I am wondering if it's because for split second, both components are in displayed while Angular's change detection is working, but I'm not sure.

A: I have tested your stackblitz and removing the padding from the .btn class will stop raising the button size.
This is happening because in the first frame, this padding from the .btn is being applied, making the button raise it's height. After that, the second style is applied from the .loading class, which resets the padding to padding: 0 12px and then the height goes to the normal size.

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Physicians need to cultivate skills in conducting discussions on end-of-life care with patients, their families, and caregivers.
Many physicians take care of patients who are close to death. However, most have had little or no training on how to have a conversation about end-of-life care with a patient, his or her family, or caregivers.
Jennifer Rhodes-Kropf, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Hebrew Senior Life and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, is working to change that. She is providing tools to clinicians that detail how to address dreaded questions surrounding end-of-life decisions with patients and/or families of patients with dementia.
The program is supported by a grant from the Picker Institute/Gold Foundation Graduate Medical Education Challenge Grant Program, which funds the research and development of innovative projects designed to integrate successful patient-centered care and best practices initiatives into the education of future practicing physicians.
Rhodes-Kropf uses her video How Do You Have the Conversation? as a training tool in teaching sessions at BIDMC and four other Harvard-affiliated teaching programs. Clinician educators nationwide are now downloading Rhodes-Kropf's video and teaching materials via a link on YouTube as well as via a link on the Picker Institute's website.
• Should her mother continue to go to the hospital for care or remain at the nursing home when she has an acute illness?
• Can any measures be taken to improve intake when her mother is eating and drinking less?
• Why are a feeding tube and resuscitation not recommended?
• Should her mother be given antibiotics for infections?
During training sessions, physicians view the video and discuss the research data that support a palliative care approach for this terminal illness. Then attendees are paired up to role-play as a physician and a patient caregiver. Next, trainees become familiar with an instrument that scores trainees on how well they have communicated with the caregiver during the role-play. A debriefing with the whole group of trainees follows the session.
Just as a physician learns the steps of any procedure, such as taking a blood pressure or performing a lumbar puncture, there are certain skill sets a physician should have to conduct a family meeting. Rhodes-Kropf maintains that when having an end-of-life conversation, it's important to ensure a proper environment to avoid interruptions. There should be a structure in place to ensure that the meeting is held in a compassionate, informed, and professional way.
When a meeting begins, the physician should first introduce everyone in the room. Then the physician should note what will be covered in the meeting. He or she should also ask caregivers what they would like to cover and what their understanding of the illness is. Oftentimes, they are on a different page. "While this probably sounds like basic and common sense, it's easy to forget the order of things which will make for a better conversation," Rhodes-Kropf says. Physicians should present research data to support their recommendations.
Hospitalized patients are often cared for by medical professionals other than their primary care physicians. Unfortunately, under these conditions, if a conversation on goals of care did not occur in the outpatient setting, then family members must have these stressful conversations with a physician whom they are meeting for the first time.
During this moment of crisis, Rhodes-Kropf encourages trainees to ask caregivers what the patient was like when he or she was younger and in good health. What were his or her values? Did he or she ever have a conversation about specific wishes at the end of life? Often such a conversation has not taken place. But perhaps earlier in life the patient knew someone who was sick and dying; what was his or her opinion of that patient's end-of-life care?
Tia Kostas, MD, GRECC, a fellow of the VA Boston Healthcare System and an associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, feels more empowered to have end-of-life conversations with patients and their families after attending Rhodes-Kropf's teaching session on How Do You Have the Conversation?
She found the role-playing exercise was beneficial as well. "Practicing the conversation with others was a good way to solidify the information we heard and made conversations easier to have with my patients or families," Kostas continues.
In particular, Kostas found the discussion about tube-feeding data and why tube feeding is not beneficial for end-stage dementia patients to be quite useful. This has helped her to better communicate and respond to family members' questions regarding this topic.
Rhodes-Kropf encourages patients and family members to have end-of-life conversations upstream of crises. If the physician has had a conversation with a patient while he or she was minimally cognitively impaired, what did he or she relay as far as the quality of life that to him or her is worth living? By not having this conversation prior to advanced dementia, family members can experience extreme anxiety and stress as they are burdened with having to guess what a loved one would prefer for end-of-life care.
Kostas says the lecture indeed made her realize that having an end-of-life conversation prior to a patient's final days should be a priority. "If we feel more comfortable providing information, it will help us to initiate the conversation earlier," she concludes.
This teaching initiative, How Do You Have the Conversation? is part of "The Conversation Project," a national campaign geared to the general public that promotes having end-of-life conversations upstream of crises. Rhodes-Kropf is one of the founding members of the project, which has support from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
— Karen Appold is a freelance medical writer in Royersford, Pa.


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Types of Maps
Mapping Family Trees
Old Historical State, County and City Maps of Florida
Maps of Florida
Most historical maps of Florida were published in atlases. Within the atlases are historical maps, illustrations, and histories many of which contain family names ideal for genealogical research. Others are rare antique maps dating back as early as 1548.
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Map of Florida County Formations 1821 to 1997
Florida County Map Formation by Year
Florida Map Abbreviations
Old Historical Atlas Maps of Florida
1776 Map of Florida
1845 Atlas Map of Florida
1860 Map of Florida and South Carolina
1870 County Map of Florida, Mobile by S. Augustus Mitchell
1880 County Map of Florida with Mobile. Entered ... 1879 by S. Augustus Mitchell
External Florida Map Links
Florida County Map of Road and Highway's
Map of Florida state designed in illustration with the counties and the county seats
The Florida Territory was organized on March 30, 1821. The State of Florida was created as the 27th state on March 3, 1845. States bordering Florida are Georgia and Alabama.
Several types of maps are useful for genealogists. Some give historical background of the area or show migration routes such as roads, rivers, and railroads. Topographical maps show physical features, such as creeks and hills, and man-made features, such as roads, cemeteries, and churches. Plat and land ownership maps and other types of maps are described in United States Maps.
One of the biggest Caribbean and Florida map collections available are in Gainesville at the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, which is part of the University of Florida Libraries. Many of the maps are either prints or originals.
Many images of Florida maps from 1564 to 1926 can also be viewed online, which includes the Sanborn maps for the state. Many early to modern Florida maps can also be found in Florida Historical Society Library.
Maps from all the following sources are included in the PALMM World Map Collection:
The Sanborn maps were made between the late 1800s and the early 1900s. Urban areas may also have other fire insurance maps available. A set of original Sanborn map duplicate copies can be found at the University of Florida Libraries Map Department, where the Library of Congress transferred them. This collection is also available on microfilm in many libraries across the country. Online catalogs may list libraries that have the collection on file
Any Historical Florida Map can indicate who owned specific property in the state and which towns held the county seat at the time. This information is a valuable starting point for your research pointing you to the right location of records.
This Interactive Map of Florida Counties show the historical boundaries, names, organization, and attachments of every county, extinct county and unsuccessful county proposal from the creation of Florida in 1821 to 1997.
Florida contains 67 counties. Escambia and Saint Johns Counties was the first counties created in 1821. The last county to be formed was Gilchrist County in 1925.
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Al – Alachua County
Bak – Baker County
Bay – Bay County
Bra – Bradford County
Bre – Brevard County
Bro – Broward County
Ca – Calhoun County
Ch – Charlotte County
Ci – Citrus County
Cl – Clay County
Clb – Columbia County
Clr – Collier County
Di – Dixie County
DS – De Soto County
Du – Duval County
Es – Escambia County
Fl – Flagler County
Fr – Franklin County
Ga – Gadsden County
Gi – Gilchrist County
Gl – Glades County
Gu – Gulf County
Ham – Hamilton County
Har – Hardee County
Hen – Hendry County
Her – Hernando County
Hig – Highlands County
Hil – Hillsborough County
Ho – Holmes County
IR – Indian River County
Ja – Jackson County
Je – Jefferson County
Laf – Lafayette County
Lak – Lake County
Lee – Lee County
Leo – Leon County
Lev – Levy County
Li – Liberty County
Mad – Madison County
Man – Manatee County
MiD – Miami-Dade County
Mrn – Marion County
Mro – Monroe County
Mtn – Martin County
Na – Nassau County
Ocb – Okeechobee County
Or – Orange County
Os – Osceola County
Osa – Okaloosa County
Pa – Pasco County
PB – Palm Beach County
Pi – Pinellas County
Po – Polk County
Pu – Putnam County
Sa – Sarasota County
Se – Seminole County
SJ – St. Johns County
SLu – St. Lucie County
SR – Santa Rosa County
Sum – Sumter County
Suw – Suwanee County
Ta – Taylor County
Un – Union County
Vo – Volusia County
Wak – Wakulla County
Wal – Walton County
Was – Washington County
This Historical Florida Map Collection are from original copies so you can see Florida as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago.
Some Florida map years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the Florida researcher.
Thomas Jefferys' map of Florida and the Gulf Coast, from Jeffreys' West India Atlas.
Jeffery's map is the earliest obtainable large format map to treat Florida and the Gulf Coast region with such remarkable detail, including soundings and rhumb lines.
The map identifies the trade routes then being utilized by the English, Spanish, and other maritime sea powers, along the gulf coast, past the Florida Keys and through the channel separating Florida from the Bahamas.
Several important anchorage points are noted with ships along the coast line. The map shows many early place names, both along the coastline and the interior.
Engraved. Colored by county.Meridians Greenwich and Washington.
Swamps, shoals, banks, and rocks shown.
Rare first state of Finley's map of Florida, which first appaered in Finley's New General Atlas in 1831, one of the earliest maps of Florida to appear in a commercial atlas.
In place of the massive Mosquito County shown on the 1826 map, there is a large area (green) labeled Seminoles and Indian Reserve.
The remainder of the Florida peninsula is dominated by Alchua County (extending from Charlotte Harbor to the Georgia State Line and Roe County. There are a few other county updates along the Gulf Coast.
The 1831 map is also significantly more detailed than Finley's earlier map. The mythical river near the East Coast of Florida is gone, replaced by hills and and an number of early roads.
Many more towns and other features are noted. Large insets of Tallahasee and Pensacola.
Sites/facts specific to this historic state map are: Original Counties of: Escambia, Walton, Jackson, Washington, Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Madison, Hamilton, Columbia, Nassau, Duval, Alachusa, Mosquito, Monroe, and the Indian Reserve.
Inserts of: The Plan of Tallahassee, Harbor of St. Augustine, and Plan of Pensacola.
The following towns are featured in this map: Jacksonville, Dunns, Tallahassee, Richardson, Cape Canaveral, Volusia, Hickstown, Tolosa, and Quincy.
Detailed territorial map of Florida. Shows early counties (approximately 20), towns, roads, canals, forts, keys, islands, rivers, swamps, Indians, lighthouses, etc.
Scarce detailed map of Florida 3 years before it became a state. Large inset of Western Florida and nice treatment of the Keys, extending west to Tortugas Bank and including the vast majority of the Keys.
Sites/facts specific to this historic state map are: Original Counties of: Putnam, Escampia, Leon, St. John, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Levy, Walton, Jefferson, Marion, Holmes, Madison, Sumter, Washington, Hamilton, Hernando, Jackson, Columbia, Volusia, Calhoun, Nassau, Orange, Franklin, Duval, Hillsboro, Gadsden, Alachua, Brevard, Manatee, Monroe, and Dade. The following towns are featured in this map: Marianna, Holmes Valley, Thomasville, Tallahassee, Jasper, St. Mary's, Ocala, Tampa, and Bayport.
This is an 1861 Samuel Augustus Mitchell, Jr. map of Florida and South Carolina. The map depicts the region surrounding the state of Florida from eastern Louisiana to the Atlantic Ocean and from Georgia and Alabama to the Strait of Florida.
South Carolina, which is situated in the lower left quadrant, is illustrated from Georgia to the Atlantic Ocean and from North Carolina to Savannah, Georgia.
Individual counties are illustrated, labeled, and shaded different colors to allow for easy differentiation in both Florida and South Carolina. Cities, towns, and villages are labeled in both states as well.
Florida's nascent rail network is illustrated, with completed routes only in the northern part of the state, one of which connects Tallahassee with Jacksonville.
A spur line between St. Marks and Tallahassee also appears to be in service, allowing cargo to be shipped from Appalachie Bay to Tallahassee.
The rail network in South Carolina is much more extensive than the one in Florida, and the South Carolina Railroad and the Northeastern Railroad. The Northeastern was only completed in 1856 and connected Charleston, South Carolina with Florence, South Carolina.
The Georgia Central Railroad, which connected with the South Carolina Railroad at Augusta, Georgia and Hamburg, South Carolina (located across the Savannah River from each other) is also illustrated.
An inset map of Charleston Harbor is also present in the lower left corner of the South Carolina map. This map labels numerous locations in the vicinity of the city of Charleston, including Fort Sumter (Fort Sumpter), where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861.
This map was prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion in the 1861 edition of Mitchell's New General Atlas. Like many American map publishers of this period, Mitchell did not regularly update his copyrights, consequently this map is dated and copyrighted to 1860: 'Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.'
Sketch of the Public Surveys In Florida To Accompany The Annual Report of the Commessioner of the Land Office For 1866
Hand colored map with inset. Shows settlements, railroads, etc.; Mobile map shows wards. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.
A large detailed inset plan of the city of Mobile, Alabama is at bottom left. Within the city map are identified numerous specific buildings, such as the city jail, water works, Odd Fellow Hall, train depot, municipal offices, Customs House, etc.
Hand colored. Shows settlements, railroads, rivers, etc. Inset: Southern portion of Florida.
Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.
1822 Florida Map – Carey & Lea's map of Florida, one of the earliest obtainable separate maps of Florida following its admission as a Territory in July 1821.The map pre-dates all but St. John's County, with the only delineated divisions being East and West Florida. The interior river system is still largely anecdote and conjecture. Two roads lead west out of St. Augustine, one to Rollstown on the St. Johns River and the other to Ivitachua. A number of early northern forts are listed, including Ft. Barancas, Ft. Gadsden or Collinton, Ft. St. Marks, Ft. Poppa, Picolota Ft., and a British Fort erected during the war on the Appalachiola River.The map shows a small number of early towns. The surrounding text is very interesting, especially given the proximity of the publication of the map to Florida's admission as a Territory.
1823 Florida Map
The Florida Department of Transportation has prepared a series of county road maps. These maps contain more detailed information about man-made features than the geological survey maps.
In addition to roads and boundaries, these maps include rural communities, churches, and cemeteries. T
These maps are downloadable and are in PDF format. The main use of these are the locations of all known cemeteries in a county and of course the various roads and church locations. These Maps are Free to Download.
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Gilschrist County
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St. John County
FL State Facts
Territory: March 30, 1821
Statehood: March 3, 1845
Counties: 67
Capital: Tallahassee
Website: flgov.com
2017 Population: 21,312,211
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U.S. Politics: Impoverished In Squalor
By lokisnow, March 14 in General Chatter
Martell Spy
Critics of Holder's remarks, including at The New Republic, argue that if Democrats violate the "norm" of a nine-person court, Republicans will do the same once they return to power. This tit-for-tat allegedly will spell the end to an independent judiciary and our democracy.
Such end-time worries are nothing new. When Congress voted to increase the size of the Court during the Jefferson administration, one newspaper wrote that "the Constitution has received a wound that it will not long survive." Another lamented: "The independence of the judicial power is prostrated. A judge, instead of holding his position for life, will hold it during the good pleasure of the dominant party. The judges will of course become partisans, and the shadow of justice alone will remain in our courts." Despite these histrionics, a moment's reflection on the history of the Court shows that it remained fiercely independent after each of the seven instances in which Congress changed its size. It is difficult to believe that a future expansion of the Court would break this mold.
Far from leading to democratic death spirals, changes to the size of the Court have gone hand in hand with the most vibrant periods of our democracy.
Court-Packing Is Not a Threat to American Democracy. It's Constitutional.
Congress is allowed to change the size of the Supreme Court, and it has done so seven times. The country survived just fine.
https://newrepublic.com/article/153325/court-packing-not-threat-american-democracy-its-constitutional
Jace, Basilissa
Eh, Could Be Worse
8 minutes ago, Martell Spy said:
Eeeehhhhh....
Like I'm all for it. Pack it like this bong I'm 'bout to hit.
But it's a pretty severe step. Again, I say fill 'er up. "As if she were unconscious" as the Republicans say. But there's no need to play around and pretend we're not playing with knives here.
Takes out all the fun.
Varysblackfyre321
Location:Hell?
Days old news, I planned but forgot to bring up in the previous thread:https://www.businessinsider.com/julian-castro-blasts-bernie-sanders-slavery-reparations-2019-3
I genuinely don't see why Castro would think it wise to attack Sanders' on his very explanation for he's not in favor of reparations.
Edited March 16 by Varysblackfyre321
Fragile Bird
Snow Monkey, eh?
Location:Toronto
I am always curious to see how the hamsters in the cages in the WH basement are going to write responses to the latest obnoxious conduct of Trump.
Last night on Cuomo's show on CNN the Republicans actually put on a black guy (I think his name was Innis) who explained Trump has not called out white nationalists as a technique to diffuse and reduce their rhetoric. And he actually went on to say Trump 'pretended' not to know who David Duke was in order to cool things off as well.
This morning the Republicans were saying over and over that Trump always calls out terrorists.
Zorral
Guess what? Pete Buttigieg speak SEVEN (7) languages!
Anand Giridharadas on Twitter
"A true story about @PeteButtigieg."
https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1106955561248149510
Guess then this guy doesn't stand a chance to be elected. The most recent candidate to get elected can't speak even one language, much less read, write, or comprehend one.
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larrytheimp
void screamee
Location:NY 19
8 hours ago, Varysblackfyre321 said:
Castro says he'd set up a committee to investigate reparations and come up with some options. I agree that he's more or less in the same category as Bernie on the issue - he admits as much in your link, but says he'd look into other options. The article title is pretty click baity - didn't Tapper bring up Sanders? Then Castro wonders why this is the one time where Bernie's answer isn't "to write a big check". It's hardly an attack, I think it's a stretch for Business Insider to say Castro "blasts" Sanders.
Read your link again, or watch the original clip. It isn't what you think it is.
That'd being said, there's a large field of candidates and they will start to highlight their differences when given the opportunity to do so, why not point out some hypocrisy when you can?
DireWolfSpirit
Nymeria's Pack
Location:Green Bay, USA
Werent the emancipated promised 40 acres originally in the 19th century, or is that a myth? If its true and this government didnt keep its promise I propose that the U.S. hand over Texas to be parceled out to all Americans that trace their lineage back to slavery, they certainly couldnt make the place any worse.
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9 minutes ago, DireWolfSpirit said:
Before Appomattox there were proposals that the best manner to deal with the aftermath of the War of the Rebellion was to break up the big plantations and provide each previously enslaved family head or adult male 40 acres and a mule to get started with a life of freedom. It would also allow for resumption of the cotton trade with the great mills of Europe. But the sacredness of private property principles was never going to allow this (anymore than it did at the end of the War of Independence).
Then, with the battle between Andrew Johnson, who wanted the rebelling states and their power players readmitted to the union and the congress and senate as if nothing had happened at all in the intervening four years, and essentially reinstate the state-that-was for African Americans, and the opposition to this, a segment of which wanted some real punishment for the secessionists -- it never happened. And by the time Grant assumed the presidency, he was so busy defending Reconstruction, and fighting the KKK, and other lynchers, etc., it was no longer in play.
Frisky Trisky
2 hours ago, Zorral said:
Pete is so oriented towards the youth vote, and I just can't see him getting much traction overall, but in terms of being sharp and knowing policy he's tough to beat.
3 hours ago, Triskele said:
And Beto was an early hacker -- a Dead Cow, in fact. I remember Bruce Sterling talking about them a lot back in the day.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/15/18267468/beto-orourke-2020-cult-of-the-dead-cow-psychedelic-warlord
If you were going to be in a hacker crew like that and have nicknames Psychedelic Warlord is not bad. Probably doesn't hurt Beto too much.
Rippounet
3 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said:
It's not a myth, but it was a field order by general Sherman, who had the backing of the most radical Republicans at the time (like Sumner and Stevens). Congress as a whole however proved more than reluctant to make this an official policy. The Freedmen's Bureau did take a few steps in that direction, but ultimately politics, the challenges of Reconstruction, and the ardent desire for reconciliation with the South made this impossible. Not to mention, as Zorral said, the sacredness of private property, Johnson, and the many obstacles faced by Grant,
There's no denying that land redistribution would have helped the freedmen a great deal, since historian Foner proved that economics was ultimately what kept them in some sort of slavery or the other. OTOH, one has to wonder what could be done in the South after the end of the Civil War, since racism proved so intense well into the 20th century and up to this day. Generally speaking -and I'm still basing this on my reading of Foner and other great experts of the period- the problem was that abolitionists were rather naive as to the economic aspects of abolition. Their basic idea was apparently that abolition would force the South to industrialize and the freedmen would become factory workers ; when the industrialization largely failed to materialize, the freedmen were left to their own devices, with some abolitionists even blaming them for some of their woes.
It's interesting stuff because the main lesson that may be drawn from this period is that individual liberty is really dependent on economic liberty. The idea that abolition would magically transform the South proved -again- remarkably naive. In actuality, without any kind of economic power, the freedmen ended up largely depending on their former masters for subsistance, which of course had terrible consequences.
And yet, the mistake has been made since then, again and again. A few counter-examples notwithstanding, the idea that individual liberty is paramount and that everything else will spontaneously follow if the individuals are hard-working enough is still very much alive today, especially in the US. It's an unconvenient truth, because what it really means is that liberalism -in its literal sense, i.e. more liberty for individuals- is not enough. In order for individuals to be free, there needs to be a socio-economic structure that *allows* them to be free ; and such socio-economic structures are rarely seen as "liberal." To be clear: land redistribution has generally proved remarkably efficient where it has occurred, but such measures were more often than not implemented by regimes that are *not* described as liberal. So the problem in the end is that while pretty much everyone on both sides of the political spectrum agrees that liberalism is fundamentally desirable, one still needs to think about what must be done to get there, and this is where everyone disagrees.
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dornishpen
23 hours ago, Martell Spy said:
"Jexodus," the fake departure of American Jews from the Democratic Party, explained
It's not happening, but it's fun to pretend.
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/15/18267129/jexodus-trump-jews-democrats-israel
There are trolls or bots promoting this on Jewish social media, but people have been mocking them and most Jews I know who vote Democratic would not consider voting Republican, though if the Democratic Party becomes like the U.K. Labour Party in terms of antisemitism I'm not sure what would happen.
7 hours ago, larrytheimp said:
Castro says he'd set up a committee to investigate reparations and come up with some options. I agree that he's more or less in the same category as Bernie on the issue - he admits as much in your link, but says he'd look into other options.
I think there's a misunderstanding here; I don't think Sanders is in anywhere close to same category as Castro. Sanders has shown he's not in favor of the core idea of reparations. Castro at the very least is really open to it. I think you understand this, so I'm not sure what you mean by them being close to the same category.
The article title is pretty click baity - didn't Tapper bring up Sanders? Then Castro wonders why this is the one time where Bernie's answer isn't "to write a big check". It's hardly an attack, I think it's a stretch for Business Insider to say Castro "blasts" Sanders.
Castro is basically insinuating Sanders is being a hypocrite for not supporting reparations. It is clearly an attack.
That'd being said, there's a large field of candidates and they will start to highlight their differences when given the opportunity to do so, why not point out some hypocrisy when you can?
The differences each candidate should choose to highlight should be one where they have a chance of looking good.
Castro's highlighting of Sanders not being in favor of a really unpopular, and divisive idea because it'd being impractica as opposed himself whose open to it, l isn't in my mind particularly wise.
And I really don't see the hypocrisy here.
One doesn't have to see the same solution for every single large-scale societal problem.
Actualy thinking the reverse is problematic.
That's a critism that actually was is fair to lobby against Sanders in terms of addressing racism in this country.
1 hour ago, Rippounet said:
It's not a myth, but it was a field order by general Sherman, who had the backing of the most radical Republicans at the time (like Sumner and Stevens).
From my understanding Sherman wasn't the most progressive guy to say the least. He was simply a patriot. So why do this?
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1 hour ago, Varysblackfyre321 said:
There were tens of thousands of former slaves following Sherman's Army and the order was to deal with short term settlement of these refugees so the Army will no longer need to deal with them. The long term nature of this has been disputed.
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Senator Gillibrand has entered the presidential primary:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand officially jumped in the 2020 presidential race on Sunday by declaring her Democratic candidacy with a campaign video titled "Brave Wins."
"Brave doesn't pit people against one another. Brave doesn't put money over lives. Brave doesn't spread hate, cloud truth, build a wall. That's what fear does," Gillibrand says over news footage, including of President Donald Trump.
Gillibrand, 52, is one of six women seeking the Democratic nomination and one of six senators running for president.
At the rate this is going, there won't be even a moderately well known Democrat who isn't running for President.
13 hours ago, TheKitttenGuard said:
Not of all of what has been posted here is entirely correct. A concise, readable source of the origins and fate of 'forty acres and a mule" can be found here:
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/the-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule/
.... Here's how this radical proposal — which must have completely blown the minds of the rebel Confederates — actually came about. The abolitionists Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens and other Radical Republicans had been actively advocating land redistribution "to break the back of Southern slaveholders' power," as Myers observed. But Sherman's plan only took shape after the meeting that he and Stanton held with those black ministers, at 8:00 p.m., Jan. 12, on the second floor of Charles Green's mansion on Savannah's Macon Street. In its broadest strokes, "40 acres and a mule" was their idea.
Stanton, aware of the great historical significance of the meeting, presented Henry Ward Beecher (Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous brother) a verbatim transcript of the discussion, which Beecher read to his congregation at New York's Plymouth Church and which the New York Daily Tribune printed in full in its Feb. 13, 1865, edition. Stanton told Beecher that "for the first time in the history of this nation, the representatives of the government had gone to these poor debased people to ask them what they wanted for themselves." Stanton had suggested to Sherman that they gather "the leaders of the local Negro community" and ask them something no one else had apparently thought to ask: "What do you want for your own people" following the war? And what they wanted astonishes us even today.
Who were these 20 thoughtful leaders who exhibited such foresight? They were all ministers, mostly Baptist and Methodist. Most curious of all to me is that 11 of the 20 had been born free in slave states, of which 10 had lived as free men in the Confederacy during the course of the Civil War. (The other one, a man named James Lynch, was born free in Maryland, a slave state, and had only moved to the South two years before.) The other nine ministers had been slaves in the South who became "contraband," and hence free, only because of the Emancipation Proclamation, when Union forces liberated them....
It also provides a lot of the context of the knock-down, drag-out war between the Congress and Andrew Johnson that was to come about very soon after this meeting in Savannah.
Edited March 17 by Zorral
Pithy Witticism
It is still contentious whether Sherman intended the distribution to be permanent. That's why it is important to remember he was dealing with ~ ten thousand former slaves that followed his march to the sea because they had nowhere else to go - and they were dealing with starvation and disease, so...
33 minutes ago, Zorral said:
A concise, readable source of the origins and fate of 'forty acres and a mule" can be found here:
Sherman, on the advice of Secretary of War Stanton, had a novel approach to figure out what to do refugees - ask them. Picking up from where Zorral left off in the above link:
Their chosen leader and spokesman was a Baptist minister named Garrison Frazier, aged 67, who had been born in Granville, N.C., and was a slave until 1857, "when he purchased freedom for himself and wife for $1000 in gold and silver," as the New York Daily Tribune reported. Rev. Frazier had been "in the ministry for thirty-five years," and it was he who bore the responsibility of answering the 12 questions that Sherman and Stanton put to the group. The stakes for the future of the Negro people were high.
And Frazier and his brothers did not disappoint. What did they tell Sherman and Stanton that the Negro most wanted? Land! "The way we can best take care of ourselves," Rev. Frazier began his answer to the crucial third question, "is to have land, and turn it and till it by our own labor … and we can soon maintain ourselves and have something to spare … We want to be placed on land until we are able to buy it and make it our own." And when asked next where the freed slaves "would rather live — whether scattered among the whites or in colonies by themselves," without missing a beat, Brother Frazier (as the transcript calls him) replied that "I would prefer to live by ourselves, for there is a prejudice against us in the South that will take years to get over … " When polled individually around the table, all but one — James Lynch, 26, the man who had moved south from Baltimore — said that they agreed with Frazier. Four days later, Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, after President Lincoln approved it.
Ultimately, it does not matter whether Sherman thought the order should be permanent. He should and would have known that wasn't going to be up to him once the war officially ended - and certainly was going to be insanely contentious once the Confederates were reintegrated into the union with (most of) their rights restored. And while it's also easy to blame Johnson for the federal government not codifying the order, it never had support beyond the Radical Republicans.
Moreover, there's no indication I'm aware of that Lincoln would have supported making the order permanent if he survived, and indeed his public proclamation on reconstruction pretty explicitly contradicts such redistribution. The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was a solution to this that didn't dispossess landowners. But, of course, southern whites used extralegal means to deny freed slaves land even then, and it was repealed 10 years later.
I saw on my Facebook feed that Colorado is the 11th state to require electoral votes follow the popular vote in Presidential elections.
That's one way to geld the electoral college.
18 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said:
Actually, they'll be the 13th signatory, counting DC (so 12th state). Those account for 181 of the 270 needed EVs, or almost exactly two-thirds.


Mongolia is sometimes called "the land of the horse" and the country has the reputation of having the best horsemen on the planet. Mongol horses are one of the world's oldest known horse breeds which have been the origins of many other breeds around the northern hemisphere. They have helped conquer historic Asia, sometimes literally feeding an army of soldiers, and are vital to Mongolian nomads to this day.
It is believed that the Mongol horse is the original domestic breed in Asia which led to many other breeds across the continent including the Akhaltekin, Yunan, Japanese, and Cheju.
Mongol horses are most famously known as being used in medieval warfare under Genghis Khan. They were vital to the region's army as they provided fast transportation, food, milk, leather, oil for fuel, entertainment, and sacrifice in spiritual ceremonies. In war, they performed quite well because of their stamina, hardiness, and ability to provide food for themselves.
They are excellent forage animals and they would spend their days searching for grass in the wild when not in battle. For this reason, they were very easy to look after as they fed themselves.
Mongol horses are not as fast as other breeds, possibly due to their slightly chubby build. Soldiers road upon lactating mares so they could drink their milk, mixed with blood that would be extracted from a vein in their neck. This way they could cover more ground and be free from hunting and gathering.
At the peak of Genghis Khan's empire, he established breeding stations from Hungary in Europe to Korea in East Asia where horses could be picked up along the way. After conquering the Chinese empire, he and his grandson Khublai lost control of these strategic breeding stations and the Mongol empire began to fall apart.
Many people in 21st century Mongolia still rely on Mongol horses in their day-to-day lives. Of the country's 2.4 million inhabitants, many identify as nomadic, or at least semi-nomadic, and count on their horses for travel, for sport, for hunting, and for herding other animals like cattle, camels, goats and yaks.
In the capital city of Ulaanbataar, horse racing is the favorite sport and entertainment source. Children are often taught to ride as young as three years of age and continue with the sport throughout their life.
Mongol horses have, and continue to be an integral part of Mongolia's history and are a great example of powerful human-horse relations are as they have worked together to conquer a continent.
Vegan and eco-conscious, I travel the world absorbing culture and flavours. I am currently based in Toronto where I own a vegan pop-up.
From this photo, Mongol horses look like the healthiest ponies around. They don't look chubby, but are small compared to the riders who themselves don't look like big people, just bigger than their ponies. Interesting too to see placement of saddle and where the rider sits on the back. I think I have read somewhere that is the strongest point of the horse's back. They must have some innate sense of horsemanship from there nomadic culture.


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Bases-loaded walk lifts Randall over Canyon in bottom of 7th
Lee Passmore @lLee_Passmore
The first-ever meeting at Hodgetown between Canyon ISD rivals to start Friday's doubleheader really couldn't have unfolded any other way.
In the first game of a twinbill as part of the Randy Keller Memorial Tournament, Randall and Canyon engaged in the type of down-to-the-very-last-pitch sort of game associated with when they were in the same district. The stakes weren't as high, but it was every bit as entertaining.
Trailing by two runs heading into the bottom of the seventh, Randall rallied in unconventional fashion. The Raiders didn't get a hit in the inning, but Eli Velasquez drew a bases-loaded walk with two outs to push across the winning run as Randall escaped with an 8-7 victory.
While the ending may have seemed anticlimactic in the first game between the two teams played at Hodgetown, the experience was nonetheless memorable, playing on the field of the Class AA affiliate of the San Diego Padres, the Amarillo Sod Poodles.
"Just a hats off to the Sod Poodles," Randall coach Cory Hamilton said. "They didn't have to do what they did to get the field ready for us. It shows how much they've embraced Amarillo."
With two more games at the Keller scheduled for Hodgetown on Saturday, those could be the last games played there for well over a month, with Major League Baseball's decision to suspend spring training also effecting the minor league teams.
But the local kids showed they could provide an interesting product as well. Randall (6-7) didn't lead for the first six innings, and trailed 7-5 heading into the bottom of the seventh.
Randall had runners on first and second following a pair of walks and a force out against Canyon reliever Brandel Barrett. Base runners Miles Strobel and Preston Lowe both moved up on a wild pitch, and both scored when Canyon shortstop Tucker Livermore booted Hayden Smith's grounder to tie it 7-7.
Ryan McAffrey relieved and got Trey Frenz to ground to third for the second out, but then had trouble with his control, walking Mason Nurek and Trevor Scott to load the bases. That brought up Velasquez, the leadoff hitter who was already 3-for-4 on the day.
"I was really pumped in the dugout," Velasquez said. "I told everybody I wanted to be up there with the bases loaded and the game tied."
Velasquez got his wish and then some. The count got to 3-2 before McAffrey missed with the decisive pitch, bringing home Smith with the game-winning run.
"The atmosphere here was amazing," Velasquez said of playing at Hodgetown. "It was really loud and I loved it. It's always a great game against Canyon and I would love to see it again here."
Canyon (8-4) played the first high school game in Hodgetown last May in a Class 4A region quarterfinal series against Pampa. The Eagles appeared at home by taking a 3-0 lead in the second inning on Jonathan Peavey's two-run single. Peavey was 4-for-4 in the leadoff spot, scoring two runs and driving in three.
Randall mounted a two-out rally in the bottom of the third to cut it to 3-2 on Brayden Beck's RBI single and a subsequent error. In the fifth, Beck tripled home Cooper Brice and scored on a wild pitch to tie it 5-5.
The Eagles took a 7-5 lead in the sixth when Peavey singled home Ethan Doan and scored on an error, setting the stage for Randall's comeback.
"We took punches and (Canyon) took punches," Hamilton said. "I'm proud of our guys for not giving up. That's a good quality to have going into district."
For Canyon, it was a lesson about what to do in finishing games.
"Both teams played extremely hard and I'm proud of our guys and their effort in every inning," Canyon coach John Doan said. "I told the guys that we need to be built for moments like this."
Randall 8, Canyon 7
Canyon 120 202 0 - 7 9 2
Randall 002 120 3 - 8 10 2
Jackson Aragon, Keith Contreras (5), Brandell Barrett (7), Ryan McAffrey (7) and Trent Hefner. Hayden Smith, Hunter Phillips (5), Eli Velasquez (7) and Trevor Scott. W - Velasquez. L - Barrett. 2B - Canyon: Jack McKay, Ethan Doan. Randall: Smith. 3B - Randall: Brayden Beck. Records: Randall 6-7, Canyon 8-4.


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Franz Kapsner (Picture: private)
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Consultant and Coach Franz Kapsner
"The goal should be to turn fear into anticipation"
05. Apr 2022 |
In his work as a coach, TUM alumnus Franz Kapsner (Diploma in Mathematics 1977) helps others to tackle changes and master new challenges. He presents options for every period of life and helps people to identify their talents, inclinations and abilities and express them. KontakTUM asked the long-time mentor about the challenge of retirement.
You have been advising career starters for a long time. What do the challenges of career entry and career exit = retirement have in common, and how do they differ?
One thing they have in common is that the individuals in question are facing a profound change in their everyday lives. The career starters are – as the name already expresses – about to enter their working lives. After completing their education, they are ready to make their contribution to their own future and to the community. The prospective retirees, on the other hand, are ending their working phase. For both of them, the structure of their daily lives changes fundamentally.
There is a serious difference in terms of age. Here, the perspectives are very different. The young people are entering a phase of life in which they are shaping their lives – heading for the peak of their lives. On the other hand, those who have left the workforce usually have the "high" time of their lives behind them.
Another difference is the financial situation of the two groups: Those entering the workforce will generally build up a cushion for their later retirement, and those exiting the workforce will enjoy what they hope will be adequate provisions.
What advice would you give to someone who is dreading their first day of retirement?
It is quite understandable to be afraid of retirement, because a massive change is imminent in the accustomed daily routine with which one had come to terms admirably in the past. The goal should actually be to turn this fear or anxiety into anticipation. How do you do that?
The inner attitude must be prepared for this step: One must first accept the inevitability of the end of one's working life. This is not easy, but it is made easier by preparing oneself mentally for the new phase of life that now lies ahead.
In addition, it is necessary to identify the fears and evaluate their relevance. Creativity is required to develop a potential countermeasure or coping strategy for each of the fears. Examples could be the fear of loneliness (loss of social contacts from professional life) or the emerging boredom of retirement. Here, it helps to resolutely look for alternatives, for example, to take on an honorary position.
To mentally adjust to the upcoming change is a basic prerequisite to reduce anxiety. In many cases, this even gives rise to anticipation of the new, which can then be built upon to great effect.
What was the biggest challenge for you personally, and how did you manage it?
Since I wanted to start my own business and therefore left the workforce early, one of my biggest challenges was to develop a viable business model. After a highly successful career as an R&D manager in IT, I gained a lot of experience in the human resources field in the last few years of my career. My task was to open up new perspectives for people whose jobs were at risk or had even been lost. For many of these people, it was necessary to support them in the phase of professional reorientation through placement measures. This brought me into closer contact with my current topic of "retirement preparation" and I am now better able than ever to advise people on this subject.
Franz Kapsner
Diploma Mathematics 1977
Franz Kapsner studied Mathematics at TUM and graduated in 1977. He worked in industry for over 30 years before setting up his own business as a consultant and coach.
He is engaged in the TUM Mentoring by Alumni for Students and has accompanied seven students and alumni of TUM as a mentor so far. Today, he primarily advises people transitioning from professional life to retirement.
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Omesh Wijesiriwardene (born 10 March 1983) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He played 81 first-class and 33 List A matches between 2000 and 2016. He was also part of Sri Lanka's squad for the 2002 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.

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The Coach from The Ladykillers. You only see him twice and he only has a few lines, one of which is, "You couldn't catch a cold!', pretty much what he's saying in this illo.
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Query large databases of materials using similarity concepts.
Map the connectivity of materials space (i.e., as a materials cartograms) for rapidly identifying regions with unique organizations/properties.
Develop predictive Quantitative Materials Structure–Property Relationship models for guiding materials design.
We have introduced novel materials descriptors that encode band structures (B-fingerprints), density of states (D-fingerprints), as well as crystallographic and constitutional information of materials. We employed materials fingerprints to visualize large collections of materials as a contact network, or Materials Cartograms. In the cartogram, the nodes of the network are individual materials, and similar materials are connected by an edge. Two materials (nodes) are connected only when the similarity of their fingerprints is above certain threshold.
Notably, we have established that in the cartogram, materials with similar properties (e.g., superconductors) tend to cluster together (side image). We have color-coded all materials on the cartogram according to their critical temperature, Tc. All high-Tc superconductors were localized in a relatively compact region centered on a tight group of Ba2Cu3XO7 compounds (so-called Y123, where X=Lanthanides). Their close grouping manifested a significant superconductivity hot-spot of materials with similar fingerprints. Thus, this representation can identify regions with distinct physical and chemical properties, the key step in searching for interesting yet unknown compounds.
Topology of the D-fingerprint network representation for ~20000 inorganic materials.
Mapping band gaps of materials on B-fingerprint network. Points colored in deep blue are metals; insulators are colored according to the band gap value. Four large communities are outlined.


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Q: best approach to read a difficult XML into a list with C# I need to read the values out of following XML in C#. The XML here is just a small portion of the whole XML. It's a savegame. Deserialization probably won't work because of the complex nature.
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    </perceptionSkills>
  </PerceptionSkills>
  <FortitudeSkills>
    <fortitudeSkills size="1">
      <i0>
        <skillKey>500</skillKey>
        <skillLevel>2</skillLevel>
        <accuracyLevel>0</accuracyLevel>
        <damageLevel>0</damageLevel>
        <staminaLevel>0</staminaLevel>
        <chanceLevel>0</chanceLevel>
      </i0>
    </fortitudeSkills>
  </FortitudeSkills>
</Profession>

I am really struggling with this one. I hope someone here can help me. The problem is that the values have nodes ("i0", "i1", etc.) can't seem to find a good way to address them.
This was what i used for another portion of the XML, which did the job just fine:
public static List<GetSkills> SkillsList()
{
    return XDocument.Load(ProcessFile.tempFilePath)
      .Element("root")
      .Element("FamilyMembers")
      .Elements().Where(e => e.Name.LocalName.StartsWith("Member_"))
      .Select(p => GetSkillsForMember(p))
      .ToList();
}

But if I try the same for this part of the XML, I struggle with the <i0> part.
The goal for me is to put the values in a list, beeing able to change them, add new (ix) Nodes with new values, and put them back into that XML. It is very important that the Output XML follows the same build up.

A: I solved it by doing following:
var skillsAmount = xDoc.Descendants("Profession").Descendants(skillType + "Skills").FirstOrDefault().Attribute("size").Value;

var skillNum = new[]
{
    new {Nr = 14, Skill = "Str", Type = "strengthSkills"},
    new {Nr = 12, Skill = "Dex", Type = "dexteritySkills"},
    new {Nr = 17, Skill = "Int", Type = "intelligenceSkills"},
    new {Nr = 13, Skill = "Cha", Type = "charismaSkills"},
    new {Nr = 17, Skill = "Per", Type = "perceptionSkills"},
    new {Nr = 20, Skill = "For", Type = "fortitudeSkills"}

}.ToList();

foreach (var num in skillNum)
{

    for (int i = 0; i < Convert.ToInt32(skillsAmount); i++)
    {
        List<Skills> Skills = xDoc
            .Descendants("Profession")
            .Descendants(skillNum.Type)
            .Descendants("i" + i)
            .Select(q => new Skills()
                {
                    SkillKey = q.Element("skillKey").Value,
                    SkillLevel = q.Element("skillLevel").Value
                })
                .ToList();
    }
}


The Full Worm Moon (or Full Crow Moon) will light up the skies today (March 12) and it marks the last full moon of the winter season.
Tonight's full moon rises just eight days before the vernal equinox, or spring.
The full moon of March is known as the Worm Moon because it happens when temperatures rise and the earthworms start to reappear. It was also called the Sap Moon, as it's when the maple trees could be tapped to make syrup again after a long winter of frozen sap. Celtic people called the March full moon the "moon of winds." And, according to "A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language" (published in 1915), the Choctaw people called it the "big famine" – perhaps because it was the season when winter food stores would start to run low.
Names Given to the Moon by Different Native American Tribes: Rain (Diegueno). Bud Moon (Kiowa). Eagle Moon,Rain Moon (Cree). Green Moon (Pima). Deer Moon (Natchez). Moon of Winds (Celtic). Lizard Moon (San Juan). Death Moon (Neo-Pagan). Wind Strong Moon (Taos). Amaolikkervik Moon(Inuit). Little Frog Moon (Omaha). Little Spring Moon (Creek). Crane Moon (Potawatomi). Long Days moon (Wishram). Big Famine Moon (Choctaw). Moose Hunter Moon (Abenali). Whispering Wind Moon (Hopi). Little Spring Moon (Muscokee). Fish Moon (Colonial American). Snow Sore Eyes Moon(Dakota). Catching Fish Moon (Agonquin). Snow Crust Moon (Anishnaabe). Spring Moon (Passamaquoddy). Much Lateness Moon (Mohawk). Chaste Moon (Medieval English). Buffalo Calf moon (Arapaho, Sioux). Seed (Dark Janic), Plow Moon (Full Janic). Strawberry, Windy Moon, Lenten Moon (Cherokee). Worm Moon, Sugar Moon, Crow Moon, Crust Moon, Sap Moon. (Algonquin).
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May, 1968 — The one thing all soldiers looked forward to when they arrived in Vietnam, particularly those with an MOS of 11 Bravo (Light Weapons Infantry), was their DEROS date, Date Eligible for Return from Over Seas. We served our duty and survived, even though we may have physical and/or emotional wounds. Most of the physical wounds can be seen and treated immediately, but the emotional wounds can't be seen, and they may not be noticed until years after we left Vietnam. Many of the emotional wounds were never treated because the soldier may not have known the problem existed, or they knew they had a problem but no one would acknowledge or treat it properly.
I was originally notified with Special Orders Number 97 dated 6 April 1968 that my DEROS date would be 24 May 68, and that I was being assigned to the 1st Bn 41st Infantry at Fort Hood, Texas. However, a short time later, I received a form HQ CAV FL 22 (3 Apr 67), which was titled AVDAAG, Subject: Port Call – Air Travel. This form constituted an amendment to my orders, and I was then ordered to report to the 22nd Repl Bn VCR, AB in Cam Ranh Bay not later than 0230 on 20 May 68 for departure on Military Air Command (MAC) flight number N254 to depart at 0230 on 21 May 68. I was very happy to leave sooner, even though it was only three days earlier than my original DEROS date.
I arrived at the Replacement Battalion at approximately 1500 on 19 May 68. Shortly after my arrival, I purchased my ticket for my flight from Seattle, Washington to Love field in Dallas, primarily because the representative of World Wide Travel told me that it would be cheaper to buy my ticket in Vietnam because I would not have to pay any tax for the ticket. More importantly, I saw Edward House and we stayed together until we boarded the plane. Neither one of us got much sleep the first night because we were terribly excited that we were leaving Vietnam in less than 36 hours. We got virtually no sleep the second night because we had to board the plane at 0200 hours.
We boarded MAC flight number N254 on schedule, and Edward House, Larry Nunn and I sat in the same row of seats, just like we did when we flew from Oakland to Pleiku one year earlier. We set down in our seats and were very excited that the day we had been looking forward to for the past 364 days had finally arrived. As I sat in my seat, I was hoping and praying that the VC or NVA would not attack the plane or runway with mortars or artillery. Then, after what seemed to be an eternity, the plane started moving and taxiing toward the runway for the takeoff. I began praying even harder because I didn't want to get killed in the airplane while it was on the runway. The plane turned onto the runway and stopped while waiting for permission to takeoff. Then, the plane started moving and picking up speed, and I continued praying very hard because we were almost out of range for artillery shells. We picked up sufficient speed to take off and I could hear the wheels being raised and locked. I didn't feel safe and out of danger for about five more minutes until I knew we were totally out of range of any hostile fire and on our way back to The World!
Ed, Larry and I began talking, and I made up my mind that I was going to stay awake the entire trip back because I didn't know when, or if I would ever see my two very good friends again. After about an hour, I fell asleep and I didn't wake up until we made a refueling stop which, I believe, was in Japan. The stop was very brief and we did not deplane. After we took off, I made an effort to stay awake and talk, but I fell asleep again about an hour after takeoff. I just couldn't stay awake because I had very little sleep during the previous two nights, and I had come down from being so keyed up and excited about leaving Vietnam. Also, we were in darkness from the time we left Vietnam until a little less than an hour before we landed at Fort Lewis, Washington.
We landed at Fort Lewis at approximately 0600 on 21 May '68, the date did not change because we crossed back over the International Date Line. When I deplaned and stepped on the runway, I bent over and put my hand on the ground because I was ecstatic to be back in the good ole U S of A. Now, I was looking forward to that wonderful steak meal we had heard would be served on our return. We didn't get a steak, we were fed eggs and pancakes, but that was fine with me because I wanted to get to the Seattle airport and on my plane home as soon as humanly possible. Since we wore jungle fatigues and boots on the plane home, we were issued a set of dress greens, a necktie, a pair of dress shoes and socks, a blue infantry shoulder rope, and a rain coat. They also sewed our 1st Cav patch and our rank insignia on the coat.
I boarded my plane, and we made a short flight for a stopover in Portland, Oregon. We took off within 30 minutes of the time we landed, and we were now on our way for a non-stop fight to Love field in Dallas! One thing I noticed was all the other passengers were getting soft drinks and the stewardess was taking their liquor orders. However, she didn't offer me a soft drink, and didn't ask if I wanted any liquor. I finally had to ask for a coke, and the stewardess was very curt and rude when she finally brought it to me. The same thing happened when they started serving the lunch meal. All the other passengers got their lunch, and I had to ask for mine, and I got a very rude and hostile comment when my plate was delivered to me. Since the economy section of the plane was about one quarter full, the stewardess was not busy and had no reason not to serve me the same as she did for all the other passengers. The only difference between me and all the other passengers was that I was in my army uniform and all the other passengers were in civilian clothing.
We landed in Dallas at about 1445 and I got off the plane and started walking toward the terminal and baggage claim area. Shortly after entering the terminal area, I was again the object of protestors who were yelling "Baby killer," "Nazi dog," "Hitler henchman" and a few other comments. They also threw some objects at me but, once again, none were hard enough to hurt when they hit me. I finally got to the baggage claim area and my wife was there waiting for me. She took a picture of me as soon as I was close to her. Since she was living with her parents while I was in the army, my wife took me to a hotel so we could get reacquainted. After a couple of hours, and a shower, I drove my car for the first time in one year. I drove to my parent's house in Garland, which took about 15 minutes. As we arrived at the house I saw a big banner they had put over top of the garage door that said "Welcome Home Jerry." I finally was able to be around people who loved me, were glad to see me, and who were glad that I was finally home and out of danger.
All of the comments and actions of the protestors didn't bother me when I first returned from Vietnam. While we were still in the army, all the Vietnam veterans always had the support of other veterans. We understood and cared for each other because we were the only people who really understood what we had endured while we were in Vietnam. Also, we had developed a bond that would last a lifetime. When we were discharged from the army, we all lost that connection and we were on our own.
After a few years of negative reporting on television and in the newspapers, I began to get angry and depressed because most of the people in the United States had no idea of what was really going on in Vietnam, and what we had to endure. Also, when some people learned that I was a combat veteran, they distanced themselves from me and would have little or nothing to do with me.
Welcome home soldier. You answered when your government called, you didn't move to Canada or do something to yourself so you wouldn't be called to serve. We all paid a price a lot higher than anyone, other than other Vietnam veterans, will ever care, understand, or appreciate. We gave up more than just the one year of our lives, we gave up our innocence and, in many cases, we lost our wives or girlfriends. We all came back with various degrees of trauma caused by what we had to do and what we saw, as well as gunshot, shrapnel, or other wounds to our bodies. We were deprived of the opportunity to live our lives in our own country and do the things we wanted to do, go to places we wanted to go, and eat the food we wanted to eat. We gave up all the pleasures of life for one year, not because we wanted to, but because our government told us we had to.
Cam Ranh Bay — see these maps showing its location: South Vietnam, USAF Air Bases; Indochina, Air Fields.


The Cars and Cash is a new casino slot game which can take the player into an adventurous race for money. The graphics and sounds in the game are related to the theme depicted by it, which is represented by the name of the game. The player will spin the reels for the big race for money. The 20 bet lines give the player multiple chances to win in this modern, 3D casino slot game.
You can race on the reels of this game even when you are on the go, as it can be played on mobile devices as well as on computers, as technology now allows every modern device run 3D graphics at high standards. The 5 reels let the player try his luck in this modern game with wonderful graphics that take the player into the racing world where the prizes for winners are appealing. The game comes with plenty of features which increase the chances of players to be rewarded for spending their time playing this game.
The Cars and Cash game comes with multiple features, for the fun and reward of players. The first and most common feature in games of this kind is the wild symbol, which can be used to substitute the regular symbols in the game. Then there are scatter symbols which trigger the click me feature, in which the player will click on symbols to reveal and earn prizes. The extra cash symbol instantly rewards the player with extra cash. The bonus symbols trigger the bonus round, in which the player will enter a racecourse for prizes.
In order to start the game, the player needs to enter the game from a web browser on the player's computer or mobile device. Then, the player will select the bet coins and the number of coins per line, the number of bet lines and then click on the spin button, to let the reels do their trick and hope for a big win.


The management personnel and workforce of A-Tech Roofing Ltd. have gained their roofing experience throughout the Atlantic Provinces with various types and sizes of roofing projects. Their experience gained through the years brings the knowledge required to successfully complete projects with the client's needs in mind.
The Project Management team consists of 7 individuals with over 150 years combined of construction related experience consisting of over 115 years in the roofing industry. This gives a strong management team with over 20 years of average experience per manager.
Our 11 Site Superintendents and Foremen have over 240 years of combined roofing experience with an individual average of 22 years per individual. A-Tech Roofing Ltd. has the on-site experience needed to serve our clients.
Our workforce consists of various assistants, roof technicians, apprentices with many years of experience and roof knowledge. Their approach supplements the superintendents and foremen in our goal of building strong field roofing teams.


Mahal picks up 2 yellow gems.
Mahal drops 2 yellow gems.
Mahal is caught in the tower of flame!
Your scroll labeled VE FORBRYDERNE catches fire and burns!
Your potion of extra healing boils and explodes!
Your yellow potion boils and explodes!
and 0 pieces of gold, after 1885 moves.
You were level 2 with a maximum of 13 hit points when you died.


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Relationship between REST and APIs
REST approach gains popularity with software pros
Naming strategies for RESTful Web services
REST APIs more important in application integration design
More on REST uses
REST architecture in health IT
An ESB's role in RESTful integration
Deploying RESTful services: Think like a developer
This content is part of the Essential Guide: Guide: When and how to use REST
SOA and RESTful interfaces: When, why they should be combined
The debate between SOA and RESTful interfaces has raged for a while, but many application architects say they are confused as to which one is better.
Since the dawn of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) evolution, SOA has been compared and contrasted with...
the Web model of the "RESTful" interface. While a lot has been said about the differences, most of the discussions have been arcane, and enterprises still report they're confused about what makes one model better than the other.
Most application architects realize it's possible to combine representational state transfer (REST) and SOA under at least some situations and gain advantage by doing so, if the applications are suitable and the development practices reflect the goals and benefits of both approaches. The biggest question is whether the goal is to develop a RESTful interface throughout while meeting most SOA goals, or to create a hybrid of REST and SOA.
Breaking down SOA, REST
SOA is an architecture designed to facilitate the development of flexible, agile applications by reusing common components within a general model of workflow management. The components are loosely coupled, meaning components are located via a publish/subscribe registry process, and they are linked using a general object access mechanism (typically the simple object access prototol or SOAP) that uses a definition language (Web services description language or WSDL) to describe the features and interfaces that link user and provider. The model supports standard mechanisms for identity, security and recovery processes and so is functionally rich in supporting complex business-critical applications.
The classic approach to creating a REST/SOA symbiosis is to add a Web server front-end to a SOA application.
The RESTful model was designed for simple user access via a browser. While this hypertext markup language (HTML) look-and-click navigation approach has been expanded to allow for more structured (extensible markup language or XML) information exchanges between program elements and not just with users, the basic interface is the same; the components are represented as uniform resource locators (URLs) and decoded using Internet-compatible domain name system (DNS) mechanisms.
Component coupling, arguably, is beyond loose -- it's nonexistent except as the users themselves might select among links visually. RESTful services are easy to develop and deploy, lightweight, inexpensive to host and maintain, and ideal for typical online applications.
The classic approach to creating a REST/SOA symbiosis is to add a Web server front-end to a SOA application, which makes SOA applications directly Internet-ready and lets them be accessed by browser/thin-client tools. This is fine where it's determined that the value of SOA's application-composition flexibility is high, but the growing importance of thin clients, mobility and Web access has prompted some architects to look at applying more RESTful concepts within the applications themselves.
Keys to RESTful SOA
For application architects, the key in creating a kind of RESTful SOA is the definition of the objects that will represent processing elements/resources. In REST, each object is represented by a URL and the user of the object is responsible for including state information in each message so that the object's processing is always stateless. Objects that are too complex, in that they represent multi-stage processes, will be difficult to code in RESTful form and their use will require transformational design patterns or other adapting mechanisms.
The next-biggest issue in RESTful SOA is managing the composability and binding process. One of the biggest objections of enterprises to formal (SOAP-based) SOA is that this level of discovery and binding flexibility isn't useful enough to justify the complexity. They report most applications have relatively static components, and that where components are introduced dynamically, they're typically representing functionality exposed by another application or even another user via an application program interface (API) -- which ironically is often RESTful!
It is possible to provide directory-based component discovery processes for RESTful interfaces if this level of dynamism is needed, but such needs may mean that a hybrid approach that uses REST at the front-end portion of the application and SOA/SOAP at the back end is justified.
Overcoming concerns
Some application architects may have concerns about the security of RESTful interfaces. In a strict sense, the same encryption options are available for both, but in SOA/SOAP, the developer has more explicit control over security. However, RESTful applications can mandate secure connections and the developer can ensure this is done. The issues with auditing whether security has been imposed can be resolved by testing insecure HTTP calls to the interfaces to ensure no connection is permitted in that mode.
Orchestration and workflow threading are also sometimes cited as concerns when considering implementing SOA via RESTful interfaces. Of course, many message-bus protocols will support the use of RESTful interfaces (the specific support will depend on both the message bus and the selected programming language). What may be challenging is ensuring that backout procedures can be implemented if a transaction fails because of a component failure.
No explicit intermediary processes in REST and no specific mechanisms exist to ensure that a given RESTful process, having been successfully completed, can be reversed, much less what information is required to do that reversing. It is relatively easy to build a process map into a RESTful message and pass it from stage to stage so that a failure can be backtracked, but it may be necessary to develop this capability rather than to simply exploit a standard tool or capability.
The great majority of "services" implemented today are based on REST and not on SOA/SOAP, but enterprises have come to trust the formal SOA architecture for mission-critical applications. In applications where security/identity management, composability and compliance are absolutely critical, it may be difficult to reframe in RESTful terms. But for the average enterprise, the real question is whether the current application components demand SOAP or can be accessed in RESTful form.
Where REST is available, it likely offers a faster path to deployment, easier integration with customers, suppliers, and mobile workers, and more flexible GUI tuning for worker support. REST, as even its proponents will agree, is not a perfect solution, but for many SOA applications, it's the best solution.
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To offer quality application assistance for public benefits in Community Based Organizations (CBOs) across the state.
A focus on serving hard to reach populations.
Many CBOs have built trust within the community. We rely in this trust to reach out to clients that would otherwise not apply for public benefits.
We train our CBO partners so they become a reliable, trusted access point to public benefits, with up to date information, a powerful software screening tool that can check eligibility for 12 public benefits (SNAP, TFA, Husky A, B, C and D, among others ) and good, reliable data to track their performance.
The whole process should be seamless: the application is completed and sent to DSS by the CBO staff.
CAHS has steadily built a network of community partners across the state, from eight CBOs in 2010 to 35 sites this year. 2013 has been a year of growth, thanks to our partnership with the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut. Thirteen community health centers across the state use ABO to screen their clients for SNAP, Medicaid, Husky and other benefits, help them fill their applications and track enrollments. This has greatly increased the volume of clients we serve every month, from 266 screenings/month in 2012 to close to 800 this past year.
In 2013 CAHS and our partners screened more than 9,000 households for benefits covering more than 20,000 individuals. More than 8,000 were referred to DSS to apply for benefits. As the end of September, 3,709 households had been enrolled to at least one benefit, completing more than 6,200 benefit enrollments. ABO partners successfully focused on traditionally underserved groups: 46% of our clients were Hispanic, 17% African American. 28% spoke a language other than English in their household; 39% of them were under 18 years old.
Next year CAHS will continue working with our community partners and DSS to further improve and streamline benefit access in Connecticut. The Affordable Care Act will add many people to Medicaid, and CAHS will be there, helping them get the benefits they need.
To that, however, we need your help. Please support CAHS to help us provide these services that low income families rely on and have a better new year. With your donation we will be able to be in more place, help more families, make a bigger difference. And all with your help.


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Once a Rare Disease, Sarcoidosis Now Afflicts Nearly Three Percent of African American Women
Women, particularly those of African American descent, are most at risk of sarcoidosis, the most common fibrotic lung disorder in the U.S.
By AOA Media Team
Vague, common symptoms lead to under-treatment of sarcoidosis
CHICAGO, June 6, 2017—Women, particularly those of African American descent, are most at risk of sarcoidosis, the most common fibrotic lung disorder in the U.S. Osteopathic physicians stress that this once rare disease, now affecting more than 200,000 patients, can be tricky to diagnose because of its vague, varied symptoms.
Sarcoidosis is a multi-system inflammatory disease that affects one or more organs, most commonly the lungs and lymph nodes, and often goes untreated. In the U.S., African American women have a nearly three percent lifetime risk for developing it, says Daniel Culver, DO, director of the Sarcoidosis and Interstitial Lung Disease Program at the Cleveland Clinic.
"About 90 percent of patients have it in the lungs," says Dr. Culver. "The lung symptoms, which can include coughing, wheezing and chest discomfort, are often misdiagnosed as asthma." Other common symptoms include fever, joint pain, fatigue, rash, vision problems, headaches and abnormal heartbeat.
Women have a higher risk than men and tend to get it later in life than men. African Americans develop sarcoidosis at a higher rate than other races and about 2.5 times more often than Caucasians.
Don't Dismiss Symptoms if You're at Risk
"Awareness is essential, especially among the African American community," said Dr. Jen Caudle, a board-certified osteopathic family medicine physician and assistant professor at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. "While a lingering cough or flu-like symptoms may not seem threatening, these symptoms may be a sign of sarcoidosis. It's a serious, but treatable chronic disease."
Jacqueline Stewart was diagnosed with sarcoidosis after a bad case of pneumonia led her to the emergency room, where chest X-rays revealed granulomas in her lungs. She now relies on an inhaler to manage her asthma-like symptoms, and still experiences regular flare-ups that limit her ability to function for approximately two weeks at a time.
"I experienced periodic chest pain and flu-like symptoms, but I thought it would pass," says Stewart. "I was taught to be tough. I wish I'd gone to the doctor sooner."
An inflammatory disease, sarcoidosis causes abnormal nodules called granulomas to form in the affected organs, and can occur in almost any part of the body. No single test exists to identify the disease. An X-ray or biopsy will often reveal the disease and its location. In many cases, the patient will have granulomas in more than one organ, requiring treatment from multiple specialists.
Granulomas in Stewart's lungs limit her ability to walk distances or climb stairs. Her flare-ups—when not quickly treated with steroids—often require hospitalization.
African Americans tend to have more granulomas, causing their disease to be more severe.
Sarcoidosis symptoms often overlap with other illnesses, which can hinder diagnosis. Many people have very few or no symptoms of the condition, while others experience severe effects that can interfere with daily life. Your family physician can help determine whether additional testing is required.
Despite increased prevalence among certain subgroups, Dr. Caudle cautions that sarcoidosis can impact all ethnicities and genders.
About the American Osteopathic Association
The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) represents more than 129,000 osteopathic physicians (DOs) and osteopathic medical students; promotes public health; encourages scientific research; serves as the primary certifying body for DOs; and is the accrediting agency for osteopathic medical schools. Visit DoctorsThatDO.org to learn more.
Jessica Bardoulas
jbardoulas@osteopathic.org