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Chinese, Japanese, South Korean scholars discuss Lu Xun's legacy
140th birth anniversary of great writer celebrated
Shaoxing to celebrate Lu Xun's 140th birthday
About Lu Xun
Lu Xun was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a famous Chinese writer, thinker and revolutionary. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature.
Zhou was born into a large and wealthy family in Shaoxing, 1881. He eventually left Shaoxing to receive a Western-style education in Jiangsu province's capital, Nanjing. He departed from there to study Western medicine in Japan in 1902.
Livestreaming show held at Luxun Native Place
The Douyin Shaoxing livestreaming show took place in Yuecheng district, Shaoxing, Zhejiang province on Oct 1.
Polish director to bring A Madman's Diary to life
Polish director Krystian Lupa will bring to life A Madman's Diary by the late Chinese writer Lu Xun at Shaoxing Grand Theater at 6:30 pm on Sept 27.
The opening ceremony of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Lu Xun, the pioneer of modern Chinese literature, was held in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province on Sept 25.
The "Lu Xun's Hometown, Our Hometown" literature dialogue attracted scholars from China, Japan, and South Korea to Shaoxing, Zhejiang province on Sept 24.
Shaoxing in East China's Zhejiang province will celebrate the 140th birthday of Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the most influential Chinese writers, on Sept 25.
Exhibition on Lu Xun and his communist friends held
The Shaoxing Lu Xun Memorial Hall held an exhibition themed on Lu Xun, one of China's most influential writers, and his communist friends on June 14.
Luxun Museum
Village Opera
Special ice cream
Exhibition on Lu Xun
Festival celebrated
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Hybrids are hot. Or are they cool?
Either way, they are the toast of the times because they save gas and emit less carbon dioxide. And nothing is as hip as zipping around in a Toyota Prius, so how about taking the concept to the water?
The idea is as simple as it is effective: If you can use electric power some of the time instead of gasoline all of the time, you end up going farther on each tank. That means you have to refuel less often and you emit a lot less CO2 into the atmosphere. Following Toyota's success, other automakers are rushing hybrid vehicles to market to improve their image and boost sales to eco-minded consumers. Will boats be next?
Steyr Motors, an Austrian firm, is betting this concept could become a winner for marine engines, combining the convenience and power of a diesel with the clean and quiet ride of an electric motor. To avoid confusion: It is different from diesel-electric hybrids offered by Lagoon catamarans or Glacier Bay (manufacturer of the OSSA Powerlite system), which use generators to power electric motors.
Steyr rolled out its hybrid at the 2008 Düsseldorf boat show in Germany, becoming the first manufacturer to offer a production hybrid system for boats. The technology was originally meant for the European market, where gas prices are pegged closer to an ounce of gold than to a barrel of crude and local boating laws restrict powerboat operation on many freshwater venues. Hence, the hybrid system was co-developed by Steyr and Frauscher, an Austrian boatbuilder that specializes in high-end runabouts.
These vessels are popular on Alpine freshwater lakes, where authorities have clamped down on gasoline- or diesel-powered pleasure boats by banning them during the busy summer months, or by refusing to issue new registration numbers to prevent overcrowding. The exception: electric boats. Frauscher built those, too, and they were neat but not exactly exciting. So the company pushed for a solution that could go fast and go clean, satisfying legal requirements and keeping customers happy. And changing between diesel and electric modes had to be as simple as flipping a switch. It had to work like a Prius on the water.
"Manufacturers have an obligation to provide consumers with technology that will allow them to pursue boating as a hobby while adapting to the new realities," says Stefan Frauscher, who handles marketing and sales.
Steyr's hybrid concept consists of a monoblock diesel and an electric drive unit that sits on the flywheel behind the diesel (an inline arrangement), where it couples and decouples from the drive shaft. There are four modes of operation for the electric drive: as a starter for the main engine, in zero-emission electric cruise mode for trolling or for quietly slipping in and out of the marina, as a charger for the battery bank when the boat moves under combustion power, and as a torque-intense booster for the diesel turbo during acceleration. Steyr says the hybrid is available in various sizes from 55 hp to 295 hp and can be equipped with fixed shaft, sterndrive, jetdrive or Saildrive.
There are two important differences when comparing a hybrid boat to a hybrid automobile. First, boats can't regenerate energy from braking like a car. Second, the aerodynamically shaped Prius has a distinct appearance, which makes a clear statement about the operator. That's awfully hard to replicate with a hybrid power plant that's tucked away in the engine room of a pedestrian-looking powerboat. But with a focus on performance, Steyr claims its system delivers more horsepower per pound than other units of comparable size.
But, besides Island Pilot, Steyr did not name any U.S. power- or sailboat builders that have signed commitments for the hybrid. Sea Ray has been evaluating the technology in a 240 Sundancer. Even though Steyr has been successful with repowering projects and has a long list of reference installations on its various Web sites, pricing in North America is an issue. Currently, the 6-cylinder, 250-hp Steyr monoblock diesel is around $44,000, and the hybrid unit adds around $17,000. But Alley remains optimistic.
These article originally appeared in the April 2009 issue.


There are many scenarios where a mailbox and its access can become "untrusted". Preventative solutions abound, but this article will focus on the following worst case scenarios for the quickest way to shut down access with the least amount of impact and administrative effort.
Outlook or MAPI connections can remain connected to Exchange for up to 2 hours even after the AD account has been disabled. For performance reasons, active connections to store or RPCClientAccess are cached in this manner.
Outlook Web Access, Exchange Web Services, and Activesync also have caches. Activesync devices with their long heartbeat intervals and token cache can still allow access up to 24 hours after an AD account has been disabled.
2. Set a Send Prohibit Quota to quickly prevent sending off any messages.
4. Office 365 mailboxes or other hosted/cloud solutions may not allow moving the mailbox quickly, so disabling protocols at the CASMailbox level will accomplish a similar solution.
2. Add all existing device partnerships to the individual blocklist for the untrusted mailbox user.
3. Remove all device partnerships. Any attempt to reconnect the device will force the device to be reprovisioned, triggering a new check for Activesync enablement and the individual blocklist entries.
A real world scenario: Untrusted mailbox but no device wipe.
Dfunker just won the lottery! At lunch he announces he's leaving the company to pursue his lifelong dream of blogging funny cat stories. Someone brings in a cake and pretty soon it's a party. Things move quickly and by the end of the day DFunker has his site up and is sending and receiving ideas and images for his new career still using his corporate email account. Unfortunately, the HR lead is a staunch dog lover and insists DFunker's mailbox and BYOD Activesync connection must be shut down immediately. Your manager however is truly excited for DFunker's new endeavor and has promised to forward along any pictures and ideas DFunker isn't able to glean after he's gone and access has been cut off. How do you satisfy these requirements while respecting the personal BYOD property of DFunker?
A. Immediately disconnect Dfunker's device and access to his mailbox.
B. Don't disturb any personal data on Dfunker's personal device, just corporate data.
C. Keep the mailbox active so coworkers can continue to contact him with ideas, and his manager can access later to collect last minute messages to forward as appropriate.
D. Prevent Dfunker from sending any more cat stories from his corporate mailbox.
E. Disable Dfunker's access to other Active Directory resources.


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Rives, William (1712 VA - 1786 VA)
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Rives, William
Family of Timothy Ryves » Rives, Timothy » Rives, George » Rives, William » Rives, William
Father: William Rives
Mother:Elizabeth Foster
Birth: 1712, Prince George County, Virginia
Birth Source: Reliques of the Rives
Death: 1786, Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Death Source: Reliques of the Rives
Spouse1: Mary Pegram
Children of William Rives and Mary Pegram:
Thomas Henry Rives, b. 1740
Robert Rives, b. 1750
Son Rives, b. abt 1752
William Rives was born presumably in Prince George county, Virginia, about 1712, the son of Col. William and Elizabeth Rives, of the same county. With Benjamin Rives, he patented on January 10, 1735, upon payment of 50 shillings, 500 acres of land "lying and being in the County of Amelia (formed on September 30, 1734, from Prince George and Brunswick counties) on the lower side of the Lazaretta Fork of the Little Nottoway River." In a deed dated November 12, 1746, and recorded in Amelia on March 20, 1746/7, "William Rives and Benjamin Rives of the County of Prince George" deeded for £ 70 to George Currie, of Amelia, the above-mentioned 500 acres, to which John Bridgeforth, Arthur x Leath, and Robert Ferguson were witnesses.
He evidently resided in that part of Prince George county from which Dinwiddie county was formed in 1752: for, in a survey made in Dinwiddie on March 28, 1771, of 1,312 acres "lying on both sides of and near the heads of Saponey Creek and in the Parish of Bath and County of Dinwiddie," reference is made to "two white oaks near William Reeves's."1 In 1782 he appears as the owner in Din widdie of 466 acres of land, valued at £175, and of 11 slaves, 8 horses, and 33 head of cattle. In that year and in 1783 he was one of 633 slave owners in his county, of whom 95 had one slave only, 66 had two, 71 three, 45 four, and 50 five slaves. No less than 60 had twenty-one or more negroes ; so that, while William Rives possessed considerably more than the average number of slaves, he was not one of the large slaveholders of the county. It must be remembered, however, that in 1782 he was already within his alloted three score years and ten, and that after the custom of the time he had no doubt reduced his slaveholdings by gifts to his children as they successively established their own homes or removed, as his son Thomas had done, to another county. He died in Bath Parish in 1786 "about 25 miles south of Petersburg," and left a will which has perished in the destruction of the Dinwiddie county records.
His sons Thomas and Robert Rives were made the executors of his estate, as appears from a number of suits, brought by "Thomas and Robert Rives, Exors of William Rives decd" in 1789 and 1790, and recorded in the Dinwiddie Order Book, the sole record book of that county surviving from the 18th century. In the Dinwiddie Quarterly Sessions Court for August, 1789, there is notice of the abatement by the death of the defendant Hardaway of a suit brought by Thomas and Robert Rives against Joel Hardaway and John Smith "Defu in Debt." Again in November of the same year, in a similar suit brought against John Scott Coleman and Joseph Fowler, it is noted that "this suit abates as to the def* Fowler by his death" ; but the surviving defendant "relinquishing his former plea acknowledges the Pet8 action to be just" and judgment was accordingly given for £31 :7 together with costs. It was ordered, however, that the judg ment (with costs excepted) was to be discharged "by the Payment of £15:18:6 * * * with Lawful Interest thereon from the 25th day of November 1786 to the time of payment." Again, in January 1790, judgment was given in a suit brought by Thomas and Robert Rives "Exors of Wm. Rives decd" against William Scott and Frederick Jones for £3:10 with interest from November 25, 1786, and at March Court, 1790, judgment of £35:9:1 was awarded against William Hardaway, administrator of Joel Hardaway, with interest from the same date. It has been stated that William Rives married a Miss Pegram, and to this I am disposed to give some credence on the strength of the unusually authentic testimony preserved by his descendants of the family relationships and which, whenever tested, has disclosed none of the customary chaff of untrustworthy tradition.
From Pegram family website:
MARY PEGRAM3 (Daniell, George') evidently went to Prince George County, now Dinwiddie, along with her brothers.
Records in Amelia County show William Rives patented some land. When he sold the land his wife signed with him, and her given name was Mary (38). In the 1782 personalty tax list of Dinwiddie County the only titheable of William Rives was a man by the name of Thomas Parham. In Hughes' book on Dinwiddie County (39), Thomas Parham is listed in the records of a doctor in Dinwiddie, as a son-in-law of E. Pegram. This was in the 1780s. Edward Pegram4 married Ann Harper Parham, after his first wife, Mary Lyle, died. Actually Thomas Parham was not a son-in-law of E. Pegram, but was the son of Edward's wife, who had previously been married to a Parham (19). This is additional information of the relationship between William Rives and the Pegram family.
Reliques surmised that Green Rives of Lincoln and Marshall Counties in Tennessee was a grandson of William, son to his unnamed son.
1746 Deed - William & Benjamin Rives to George Currie - Amelia County, Virginia Deed Book 2, p469
Pegram family website
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Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by Stoutwood, Sep 7, 2006.
Yeah, I just fired up the 1977 F-150 for the first time in a month. I had forgotten how much I love that car. Who else has an automobile with a V8?
what v8 is in there? i think in 77 you could get a 302 a 351 a 400 and a 460...the 460 big block came with a 4 barrel.
It was a 460 when I first bought it. There's a 351W in there now.
327 cid Chevy in the ole 68 Camaro.
My bimmer has the 4 litre V8 in it. I can be going up a 6% grade and floor it and you can feel yourself being pulled back into the seats. I can do 100 without even feeling it.
I have had a 71 Torino with a BOSS 302 (pulled out of a mustang). And a 69 Cougar with a 351W in it. Both were real POS cars but the engines more than made up for it.
I also had a 65 and a 69 Mustang but both of them had straight sixes in em. They looked great but the lack of engine had me wishing for a V8. The 65 was stolen and the 69 I sold off when I had my son for a more economical car.
i saw a bimmer last week that has a corvette LS1 under the hood...the headers were a work of art.
I have a v8 in my Tundra, but it doesnt sound as good as the one I had in my 74 Z28.
I thought V8 was a drink - haha. Shows how much I know about vehicles!
Well, I love V8 Splash too, so I suppose it does count.
Argh, I was so close to being able to make the V8 drink joke..
I sold my Tundra. Next time I get a truck it will have more brass.
Getting about 50mpg in the Jetta these days.
It's the first joke that I've actually thought of that no one else said before me... if that makes sense.
No joke, I wouldn't want to have to pay the insurance on that.
I can have 8 cylinders if I put my motorcycle in the bed of the truck.
But it is purrrrty! I actually saw it in town the other day... the guy to whom we sold it lets his 16-year old granddaughter drive it.


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When Federal Agriculture and Water Resources Minister David Littleproud rolled into the region last week, it's likely he would have known what to expect.
He had just arrived from a visit further south to another south basin community, the Goulburn Valley, where irrigators, local government and local water leadership aired a similar message to the one he heard in Deniliquin last Thursday.
That the region is approaching a "tipping point," the "edge of a cliff", and that no further water can be recovered from the system without further socio economic impacts.
These messages were coupled with loud and clear calls for criteria, or tests, to determine where a controversial 450 Gl is to be recovered.
The impatience and frustration was palpable.
And the sentiment that the community feels like they have not been listened to completely understandable.
Mr Littleproud himself moved to admit concerns around the 450 Gl and the level of recent consultation, including the amount of notice given to communities.
As to where the "mature" discussion between states hoped for at the next ministerial council meeting gets to is yet to be seen.
But we strongly hope that a mutual recognition can be demonstrated for the impacts various basin communities are dealing with.
For now, we commend Mr Littleproud for paying a visit, and for listening to the concerns locally.
It is now fair to say he is under no allusions as to the feelings of this part of the country about what is needed.
And it is now some decisive action that is needed.
This will not be easy. Especially concerning what is widely regarded to be the "elephant in the room"; the 450 Gl.
On the one hand, there has been some assurance that where significantly negative socio economic impacts are concerned, that would be taken into account.
Parcel this together with comments from communities like Shepparton and Deniliquin, both of whom's stakeholders have done some work themselves around an appropriate criteria — both are saying clearly that no more water can safely be recovered from the heir regions — and questions arise about steps forward.
For now, we thank Mr Littleproud for his visit, especially after hearing that communities had felt like they had not been properly heard nor consulted by the department. And we look forward to seeing the next steps.
The loud voice of locals on this issue is to be commended. With your strong advocacy and clear messaging, it is fair to imagine the department is understanding of the feelings of Riverina basin communities.


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The Richest Tech Billionaires In The World Right Now
By Amy Lamare on March 19, 2017 in Articles › Billionaire News
If you want to become a billionaire, tech is a good industry to enter. About one third of the 30 richest billionaires in the world have earned their fortunes in technology. From Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg to Steve Ballmer, American tech billionaires top the list of the world's richest, but don't count Asia out, just yet. China's Jack Ma and his Alibaba have been a hot commodity for years now. All of the nine men (yes they are all men) on this list are self-made. Without them we would not have Microsoft, Google, Amazon, or Facebook.
#9. Ma Huateng
Net worth: $17.6 billion
Source of wealth: Tencent Holdings
Nicknamed "Pony", Ma Huateng is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and executive board member of Tencent Holdings, Ltd., one of the biggest telecommunications companies in China. Pony earned his B.S. in software engineering in 1993, and, in 1998, founded Tencent with four friends. Tencent soon became the largest instant communications service network in China. Tencent grew in popularity with the introduction of such popular online multi-player games as, "League of Legends". Billed as "the Chinese AOL", Tencent now encompasses web portals, e-commerce, and multiple social networks as well.
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#8 Steve Ballmer
Net worth: $24 billion
Source of wealth: Self-made; Microsoft
Steve Ballmer dropped out of Stanford's MBA program in 1980 to join his old Harvard friend Bill Gates at Microsoft. He was the company's first business manager and drew a $50,000 salary. He also got a large stake in the company. Ballmer was eventually made CEO of Microsoft. In 2014, Ballmer paid $2 billion to acquire the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers.
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#7. Jack Ma
Source of wealth: Self-made; Alibaba
Just 20 years ago, Jack Ma was a modest English teacher in China who never could have even dreamed of the riches that would befall him in the following decades. In 1995, Ma visited the United States for the first time. He had recently started a side business, a translation company, to help capitalize on the recent Chinese export boom. It was during this visit to the U.S. that a friend showed Ma the Internet for the first time. This friend told Ma that anything he wanted could be found on the World Wide Web in an instant with the click of a button. So, Jack searched for beer. In 1999, Jack brought 18 friends and family members together in his apartment and spent two hours pitching them his vision. Every single person bought in, giving Ma $60,000 to start Alibaba. On September 19th, Alibaba.com officially became the largest Initial Public Offering of all time.
#6. Sergey Brin
Source of wealth: Self-made; Google
Sergey Brin co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998, after meeting at Stanford a few years earlier. Today, Brin oversees Google's parent company Alphabet as its president. He is working on a way to provide WiFi to rural communities using high altitude balloons.
#5. Larry Page
Larry Page is the slightly wealthier Google founder. These days, Page is CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet. It was Page who came up with the algorithm at the heart of Google's search engine, which compiles results in a specific ranking. Page also led Google's acquisition of Android.
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#4. Larry Ellison
Source of wealth: Self-made; Oracle
Larry Ellison is the founder and CEO of Oracle, one of the largest software companies in the world. He is so wealthy that he owns Lanai—one of the Hawaiian Islands. Ellison lives in a $200 million house on 45 acres in Silicon Valley. The mansion is modeled after a 16th century Japanese estate.
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#3 Mark Zuckerberg
Industry: Technology
Source of wealth: Self-made; Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg famously developed Facebook while he was a student at Harvard. He subsequently dropped out and moved to Palo Alto to concentrate on Facebook. He and his wife Priscilla Chan have joined The Giving Pledge and vowed to give away 99% of their wealth during their lifetimes.
#2. Jeff Bezos
Source of wealth: Self-made; Amazon.com
Jeff Bezos wrote the business plan for what would become Amazon during a cross country road trip with his wife. He single-handedly revolutionized the way we buy books—and after a while, also everything else under the sun from deodorant to chandeliers to scripted streaming television series. These days his focus is on the Washington Post, which he owns, as well as his space exploration company Blue Origin.
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#1. Bill Gates
Bill Gates isn't just the wealthiest tech billionaire; he is the richest man on the planet. Gates has been a billionaire since Microsoft went public when he was 30. He is the co-founder of the software giant and one of the architects of The Giving Pledge. These days, he is a member of Microsoft's board and focuses his time on his philanthropic work. He has been vocal about his desire to not leave his children much of his fortune so that they are forced to make their own way in the world rather than live off his billions.
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Liverpool have contacted Portuguese club Benfica over the potential signing of their 21-year-old centre-back Francisco Reis Ferreira.
Jurgen Klopp is looking to bolster his defence for next season and sees the Portugal Under-21 international as a target for the summer. The youngster, known commonly as Ferro, is seen as one of the most promising talents in European football, and since making his debut in February, has been a mainstay of Bruno Lage's team.
According to a report from Record (via Metro), Klopp's Liverpool have been interested in the defender for some time, and made a loan offer with a £10m option to buy in 2017 but were rejected by Benfica.
Their interest this time around has yet again been rejected as Benfica look to keep hold of their talented centre-half and make him a key component of any future Benfica side.
Despite only making four senior appearances for the Portuguese club, Ferro recently signed a contract extension keeping him in Portugal until 2023, with the club inserting an £85m buy-out clause. This is unlikely to deter Liverpool, but they will have to break their own transfer record if they are to bring the young defender to Merseyside and partner him with current record signing Virgil van Dijk.
Liverpool will have to fight it out for the player's signature with fellow Premier League side Manchester City and German club Borussia Dortmund, but if they succeed they will have the most expensive back line in history.


On behalf of Fischer Legal Group posted in False Claims Act on Tuesday, January 23, 2018.
San Diego-based Scripps Health, a health care system, has agreed to settle False Claims Act allegations for $1.5 million. According to the Department of Justice, Scripps Health violated the Act by billing Medicare and TRICARE for physical therapy services performed by un-enrolled therapists. A former employee blew the whistle on the unlawful billings against the two federal health programs, and she will receive a $225,000 reward in return for her service.
Medicare and TRICARE, the health insurance program provided to uniformed military service members and their dependents, only allow healthcare providers who are enrolled in the network to bill for services. Other services can be provided, but those services must be billed as "incident to" services provided by an enrolled provider. When an un-enrolled service provider wishes to bill as incident to an enrolled one, he or she must be directly supervised by the enrolled provider.
"These requirements help protect patients from unscrupulous or unqualified medical professionals," explains the acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Division.
According to the whistleblower's complaint and the Justice Department's allegations, Scripps Health billed Medicare and TRICARE for services provided by physical therapists who were neither enrolled providers nor directly supervised by an enrolled provider. This violated the programs' rules and allegedly resulted in false claims against the program.
"Patients rightly expect qualified medical providers, or at least professionals working under the supervision of authorized providers," said the special agent in charge for the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "As charged, these billing practices cheat patients, taxpayers, and the Medicare program."
Under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, whistleblowers can obtain a reward. That reward is a percentage of the false, fraudulent, wasteful or abusive claims against government programs that they uncover. In this case, the whistleblower received 15 percent of the total settlement. In some cases, whistleblowers may be entitled to as much as 30 percent of the false claims they uncover.


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This is Part II of an editorial I did in May 1997, entitled "Platinum: The Rich Man's Gold" (click the title to read that analysis.)
The cardinal characteristic of platinum is its extreme SCARCITY. Consider:
The annual supply of platinum is only about 130 tons - which is equivalent to only 6% (by weight) of the total Western World's annual mine production of gold - and less than 1% of silver's yearly worldwide mine production. Another amazing platinum trivia is the fact that more than twice as much steel is poured in the U.S. in only one day than the total world's platinum production in one year – platinum is indeed scarce!
Platinum-Group Metals Production by Country (Kilograms)
(Note: Platinum-Group Metals include Platinum, Palladium, Iridium, Osmium, Rhodium & Ruthenium)
Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program
Two countries account for 82% of worldwide yearly supply of Platinum-Group Metals. Russia accounts for 43% and South Africa for 39% of global production.
Platinum Supply and Demand
Platinum Demand by Region
Platinum Usage Categories
By far the most important platinum usage is by the global automotive industry
Heretofore the greatest automotive platinum demand came from then USA, Europe and Japan. However, China's accelerated growth in its economy and per capita income will soon dramatically change the stats below.
Passenger cars per 1,000 people in 2013:
However, China's total auto use and annual vehicle production has begun to go viral in recent years.
In light of China's parabolic vehicle production vis-à-vis 1.3 Billion population, one may project an increasing supply deficit level for this critical industrial metal used in all cars worldwide, which has been in deficit since 2012. China car production has gone viral with a CAGR of nearly 20% since 1990 (by far the highest in the world).
China New Auto Sales 2013: Chinese Consumers Bought Over 20 Million Vehicles In 2013 As Foreign Automakers Jockey For Market Share
China's market for new passenger cars and light trucks far outpaced the U.S. in 2013. In January Chinese consumer bought twice as many vehicles. In February and July, the two months where the U.S. and China came closest to each other in terms of monthly sales, Chinese bought about 200,000 more vehicles. Chinese buyers bought an average of about 527,000 more vehicles per month between January and November.
Hence, the price of platinum will eventually go ballistic in the not too distant future, reflecting acute platinum shortages and growing government pressure to reduce air pollution caused by cars.
HSBC Bullish On Platinum, Palladium Prices
HSBC Maintains Bullish Forecasts For Platinum Group Metals, forecasting an average of US $1,595/ounce in 2014 and $1,850 for platinum and $900 for palladium in 2015. Furthermore and based on the above mentioned Future Platinum/Palladium Price Accelerators, the price of platinum may well go parabolic into orbit in future years as China's exploding automotive industry fuels absolute global total demand.
Another Factor To Contribute to Continuing Production Deficits And Soaring Prices: Perennial Labor problems in South Africa. South Africa holds about 80% of the world's known platinum reserves, accounting for about 70% of global output, used for catalytic converters in vehicles, jewellery, oil refining and as a key source of hard currency for the country, among other applications.
"South African production in 2014 is either going to stagnate or decrease further. The platinum industry is in crisis for a second year going and there is no end in sight," Guzek told Mining Weekly Online. The following recent alarming news headlines describe the dire situation for Platinum/Palladium production in South Africa today.
Geopolitical and Labor Crises Will Continue To Drive Palladium Prices Higher
Amplats to declare force majeure
Palladium Prices Pushed Higher By Geopolitical And Labor Crises
Amplats mulling whether to keep Rustenburg mines amid strike
PLATINUM mines warn they can't serve suppliers
AMPLATS - Strike causes Amplats to declare force majeure
IMPLATS - Platinum Lifted By News Impala May Buy On Open Market To Supply Customers
Anglo American considers closing platinum mines in South Africa (world's largest)
Future Platinum/Palladium Price Accelerators:
Continuing yearly deficits
Escalating South Africa labor problems with fear mines may shut down
Exploding investment demand via more Platinum/Palladium ETFs
China's viral auto growth
US government minting more platinum coins in view of recent sales success
To be sure, the growing demand for platinum remains unabated…Ergo, its price must inevitably rise.
Investors Will Soon Be Piling Into The Platinum & Palladium Markets
In light of all the above, Platinum could conceivably appreciate to $5,500-$6,000/oz during the next 5 years. And Palladium might conceivably revalue to $4,500-$6,000/oz by 2020. Moreover, global currency contagion devaluations will surely play a timely role in how fast the values of Platinum and Palladium increase.
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Part I: Listen and Read: Listen to the recording about fishing trips, answer the questions, and then read along with the audio recording.
What does the man use for bait?
The man says, "I usually fish with traditional baits like worms or salmon eggs."
Where does the man go fishing?
The man says, "Every summer, I go on several fishing trips to lakes and streams a few hours from my house."
Where did the man cook the fish?
The man says, "When I have caught my limit of fish, I gut and clean them at the cleaning station, put them on ice, and take them home to cook."
Every summer, I go on several fishing trips to lakes and streams a few hours from my house. First, I have to get a fishing license and review the fishing proclamation to check on the fishing limits and rules for each body of water. Then, I have to prepare my fishing gear: my fishing rod and reel, my tackle box, and my fishing net. I usually fish with traditional baits like worms or salmon eggs. If I am fishing at a lake, I usually fish from the bank. I put the bait on a hook, add a sinker and bobber to the fishing line, and then cast the line out into the water. If I feel a fish biting, I tug on the line to set the hook in the fish's mouth, and then reel the fish into shore. I use the fishing net when the fish is near shore, remove the hook from the fish's mouth, and then put the fish on a stringer in the water. When I have caught my limit of fish, I gut and clean them at the cleaning station, put them on ice, and take them home to cook.
Describe your past experiences fishing in and around your hometown. Did you go alone or with a family member or friend? What did you catch? What baits or lures did you use?
Fishing techniques, baits, and conditions vary from place to place around the world. Search online for specific hints on how to catch fish in your area and report on what types of gear you need for fishing.


Flipkart is currently among the top e-commerce websites in India. The site, known for excellent services has often introduced exciting deals which benefits the customer. 'Big Billion Days' is a special sale which is offered by the e-commerce giant.
In the current ongoing 'Big Billion Days' sale, Flipkart is offering exciting deals on different products, especially in electronics. Here are some special deals handpicked by us for your more significant benefit from the sale.
With this media streaming device, you can watch all the content available on your phone, on the big TV screen.
Just connect the Chromecast to your device and TV's HDMI port and stream videos and audio on your TV.
What device has connectivity with Google Chromecast 2?
Devices attachable to it are iPhone, iPad, Android phone and tablet, Mac and Windows laptop and Chromebook.
The smart product which comes with a 1-year warranty was earlier available at Rs. 3399, but it is now available at just Rs. 1999 and enjoys 4.5 stars with 65,970 Ratings & 10,171 reviews on Flipkart. You can find more details about the device here.
Vu is among well-known brands in the TV manufacturing industry. The company is offering high discount rates on Flipkart.
The TV comes with 20W speaker output for clear sound and 1366 x 768 HD Ready LED display for clear picture quality.
It was earlier priced at Rs. 16000, but it is now available at Rs. 9000 and enjoys 4.3 stars from 35,166 Ratings & 7,298 Reviews.
One more special offer by Vu is that you may get up to Rs. 4000 off on exchange. You can find more details about the product here.
Redmi is among the leading mobile manufacturing companies in the world, especially in India where it enjoys millions of customers. Redmi's Note 5 Pro which was launch a few months ago is on mega sale from October 11.
For the uninitiated, Redmi Note 5 Pro comes in 4 GB and 6 GB RAM variants, 64 GB ROM, and 5.99-inch Full HD+ screen display.
The phone supports 12MP + 5MP rear and 20MP Front Camera and a 4000 mAh Li-Polymer Battery.
The smartphone with Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Processor is available in black and white color variants. The phone will be available at Rs. 12999 on sale starting from October 11. You can find more details about the product here.
We will keep you updated with more products with great deals as the sale is from October 10 to 15. Stay tuned to The Telescope for latest updates.


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Welcome aboard, Tiffany! It sounds like you're setting sail on the Disney Magic's seven-night Very Merrytime Western Caribbean sailing from Miami! I'm so excited for you because not only do you have some beautiful ports of call to visit and lots of the magical Disney activities to enjoy onboard, but you'll also be experiencing the thrills of a holiday cruise with Captain Mickey!
Don't worry! You will not miss out on Pirate Night just because this is a Christmas cruise. Your seven-night sailing will include Mickey's Pirates IN the Caribbean Deck Party, so be sure to pack some pirate gear for even more swashbuckling fun! As far as dinner attire, besides Pirate Night, which is also a Cruise Casual dress night for those not wearing pirate gear, you'll have four other Cruise Casual nights onboard. Then, you'll get to enjoy both a Formal night and a Semi-Formal night. On the Very Merrytime Cruises, on Semi-Formal night, many of the Disney characters will be out in their Christmas best, though schedules could change and they may wear their Christmas outfits another night instead. But, if you have Christmas clothes for your family, bring them along, because you'll have lots of great opportunities for photos to use for Christmas cards! Even Santa will make an appearance onboard to meet with guests!
So, have fun packing, and enjoy all the planning before you head out to sea this winter, Tiffany!


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What to Drink with What to Eat
What to Drink with What to Eat Dornenburg, Andrew
Dornenburg, Andrew
HK$349.00 34900
Winner of the 2007 IACP Cookbook of the Year Award Winner of the 2007 IACP Cookbook Award for Best Book on Wine, Beer or Spirits
Winner of the 2006 Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year Award
Winner of the 2006 Gourmand World Cookbook Award - U.S. for Best Book on Matching Food and Wine
Prepared by a James Beard Award-winning author team, "What to Drink with What You Eat" provides the most comprehensive guide to matching food and drink ever compiled--complete with practical advice from the best wine stewards and chefs in America. 70 full-color photos.
BY (AUTHOR) Dornenburg, Andrew, BY (AUTHOR) Page, Karen
PUBLISHER : Little, Brown & Company PUBLICATION DATE : October 01, 2006
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States IMPRINT : Springboard Press
PRODUCT FORM : Hardback
DESCRIPTION : Winner of the 2007 IACP Cookbook of the Year Award Winner of the 2007 IACP Cookbook Award for Best Book on Wine, Beer or SpiritsWinner of the 2006 Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year AwardWinner of the 2006 Gourmand World Cookbook Award - U.S. for Best Book on Matching Food and WinePrepared by a James Beard Award-winning author team, "What to Drink with What You Eat" provides the most comprehensive guide to matching food and drink ever compiled--complete with practical advice from the best wine stewards and chefs in America. 70 full-color photos. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9780821257180 BY (AUTHOR) Dornenburg, Andrew, BY (AUTHOR) Page, Karen PUBLISHER : Little, Brown & Company PUBLICATION DATE : October 01, 2006 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States IMPRINT : Springboard Press LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Hardback PRODUCT CATEGORY : Lifestyle, Hobbies & Leisure


Own the new and improved Mazda2 SkyActiv V+ with P49,000 All-in Downpayment. Buyers will then have to pay P21,092 for a 60-month financing period.
This offer is exclusive to BPI and is available in all Mazda dealerships nationwide. Priced at P975,000, the Mazda2 SkyActiv V+ has received a number of updates such as LED fog lamps and new seat material. It has sleek looks coupled with superior performance and outstanding features.
Inside, it has ample space for 5 passengers and has a 7-inch touchscreen LCD monitor with a single-CD player and MP3. You can connect devices via Aux-in, USB or Bluetooth Function. For convenience, this variant comes with keyless entry and push start/stop button.
The Mazda2 SkyActiv V+ is powered by a 1.5L SkyActiv gasoline engine, with a maximum output of 107 hp and 139 Nm of torque. It's then connected to a SkyActiv-Drive 6-speed automatic transmission with sport mode and paddle shifters. New to the Mazda2 is the G-Vectoring Control (GVC) technology for better handling and ride comfort.
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Devilman
Brett Summers August 4, 2019
Based on the manga created by Go Nagai, Devilman arrived on Japanese television in in July 1972 and ran for 39 episodes. In the anime Akira Fudo and his father are killed by demons while hiking in the Himalayan Mountains. Demon Lord Xenon orders three demons to fight to the death. The victor will possess Akira's body, assume his identity and begin their plan of global conquest. Devilman reigns victorious, and begins his quest. However, time passes and he seems to forget his original mission and no longer follows the wishes of the Demon Tribe. Instead he wants to save humanity!
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Santa Claus: The Movie was supposed to be the holiday hit of 1985. Such was the confidence that father and son producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind had managed to get Read more
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In a time when the world was over exposed to glamorised American teenage dramas where teens were being played by thirty years olds a dramatic shift happened. The seeds of Read more
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Directed by Coleman Francis, The Beast of Yucca Flats follows a Soviet scientist named Joseph Jaworsky (Tor Johnson), who defects and flees to a Nevada Test Site called Yucca Flats. Before Read more
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Written and directed by Art Moore, The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole ran for 150 episodes between 1958 and 1961. The show followed a little boy named Spunky (voiced by Read more
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0:05Skip to 0 minutes and 5 secondsIn 1998, the neuroscientist Eric Kandel published a very influential article arguing that fundamentally biological and neurological science should be at the basis of psychiatry. Kandel argued that since every action, every behaviour, every emotion that we feel involves changes at the level of the synapse, the connection between two nerve cells, then it has to be the case, Kandel argues, that neurological science can explain human behaviour. Kandel even argued that when somebody goes for therapy, if the therapy is effective at changing their emotions or changing their behaviour, then that change must represent changes in the synaptic structure of the brain, the associative network that the person is using.
0:58Skip to 0 minutes and 58 secondsSo Kandel would even argue that when somebody with mental health problems goes for therapy and receives some benefit from that therapy, the benefits has accrued because the neurological structure of their brain has changed as a result of the therapy. And Kandel is absolutely right that those synapses are controlled by the machinery that handles the neurotransmitter. And the amount of those is constantly fluctuating as entering our adulthood. But they can dramatically change if the trauma or environment, which could be good for environment, changes those when you're very young. Because if you can lay down those epigenetic changes when you're young, they'll be stronger.
1:46Skip to 1 minute and 46 secondsI hate to use the word everything, but certainly our current knowledge would strongly suggest that it's about controlling those synapses. And that will be a physical thing if it happens early in development where I said the grey matter, white matter. So you can have those changes, those differences in male female brain structures and size, and that can be down to circulating hormones. So you can build a structure based on the environment. But once you've made that structure, you can also modify it on the basis of the neurotransmitters that work within those structures that you've laid down in the foetus or early in development of the child. So I would wholeheartedly agree with Eric Kandel.
2:29Skip to 2 minutes and 29 secondsHowever, I often find that the word everything can be quite misleading when we start to know more. I guess winning the Nobel Prize doesn't necessarily mean that you'll have to be right. But it probably does mean that his papers are worth reading. There's a link to Kandel's very influential paper on the website for this course just below this video.
This brief video introduces the seminal 1998 paper outlining a 'new intellectual framework for psychiatry' by Eric Kandel.
We'll look at Kandel's paper in more detail on the next step.


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Where to say 'goodbye' to summer…
Things To DoRestaurants Food and Drink
Where to say 'goodbye' to summer and 'hello' to school with a family meal
The jungle-themed Rainforest Cafe makes families feel like explorers during dinner. (Photo courtesy Rainforest Cafe)
The patio at Golden Road in Atwater Village is a popular spot for families. (Photo courtesy Golden Road)
At Au Fudge, the chefs are ready to teach kids how to cook and bake. This class takes place every Friday. (Photo courtesy Instagram)
Au Fudge in West Hollywood was made with families in mind. This is the playroom where kids can hang out after dinner. (Photo courtesy Au Fudge)
By Richard Guzman | riguzman@scng.com | Press Telegram
PUBLISHED: August 25, 2017 at 7:05 p.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 11:59 a.m.
Summer is just about over, and school is getting underway again.
For some kids this is a total disaster, while others may enjoy hitting the books, or at least seeing their school friends.
What's certain is that the end of summer and the start of the school year are special family occasions that should be celebrated, or at least acknowledged, with a special meal.
Here are some family friendly restaurants in the area to mark these occasions.
Au Fudge
9010 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood; 424-288-4268, www.aufudge.com
Don't let the chic French country house look here fool you. This trendy spot, owned by actress Jessica Biel, was created specifically for families.
There's a play area, a tree house, arcade games and a calendar full of activities for kids, like cooking classes, movie nights, freeze dance parties and even kids yoga.
The food is seasonal and organic with kid items like the Snackable, made with grilled chicken and pita bread, as well as mini burgers and grilled cheese sticks.
Adults can order things like the grass-fed Angus burger and snapper tacos, although they're pricey at $16 each.
And the dessert menu is ginormous with things like shakes, sundaes, DIY smores and ice cream cookie sandwiches.
Golden Road Brewery
5410 W. San Fernando Road, Los Angeles; 844-452-2337, www.goldenroad.la
Besides having great beer and hefty food choices like big beefy burgers, sandwiches and a bacon-topped mac n' cheese baked in a pretzel bowl, this Atwater Village spot could be the most kid-friendly brewery in the area.
On weekends it's filled with families who head outdoors to the patio where there are games for kids like cornhole and oversized Jenga blocks.
It does get crowded quickly, so if you have a big family get there early to get a table outside, where you can see the kids play as you eat and drink.
Michael's Pizzeria
210 E. Third St., Long Beach; 562-491-2100, www.michaelspizzeria.com
This Long Beach restaurant serves some of the best pizza in the city, and probably the whole county too.
The star here is the basic Margherita, a Naples-style thin crust pie topped with a subtle and delicious tomato sauce with mozzarella made in-house, basil and extra-virgin olive oil.
It's a good place to take the kids not only because they learn about authentic Naples-style pizza, but they can learn how to make it too, since they get their own dough at the table for shaping and forming their own pizza.
Once kids are happy with the shape of their dough, the waiter takes it, adds the goodies and throws it in the oven.
And even if your kids are picky eaters, you'll probably notice how for some reason, making the pizza themselves suddenly makes it the best pizza they've ever had, and it's usually devoured to the last piece.
Lazy Dog Cafe
Locations include: 240 S. State College Blvd., Brea; 278 Los Cerritos Center, Cerritos; 8800 Apollo Way, Downey; 13290 Jamboree Road, Irvine; 172 West Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks; 1440 Plaza Drive, West Covina; and 11560 Fourth St., Rancho Cucamonga; www.lazydogrestaurants.com
Because dogs are part of the family too, you'll want them there when you say goodbye to summer.
That's where Lazy Dog Cafe comes in since it's a dog-themed and dog-friendly growing chain.
Dogs can eat on the patio, and there's even a menu for the pups, with things like a grilled hamburger patty or chicken with brown rice, accompanied by a complimentary bowl of water.
For the kids, there are dishes like hand-breaded chicken nuggets and, of course, burgers, pizza and mac n' cheese.
For adults, there's everything from small plates like street corn grilled with lime to steaks, fish tacos and, yes, burgers and pizzas.
Papa Pizza Pie
855 E. Alosta Ave., Azusa; 626-815-1366, www.papapizzapieazusa.com
If your family likes its space, this is the place for to go, thanks to long booths that let you eat without being on top of one another.
The salads are family-sized and can be shared.
They offer pitchers of sodas for the kids and beer for the parents, while the food includes pizza, sandwiches, pastas and ribs.
1515 S. Disneyland Drive, Anaheim; and 4810 Mills Circle, Ontario; 714-772-0413, www.rainforestcafe.com
Welcome to the jungle because that's what the Rainforest Cafe is all about.
This forest-themed restaurant is an explorer's dream, with plants, waterfalls, mist and animals (not real except for the fish tank) all over the place.
Eating here can feel like you're taking a break during a wild jungle adventure, but with some good food and none of the dangers of becoming someone else's meal.
The menu offers the basics, pastas, burgers, seafood, steaks and chicken.
The real star is the Sparkling Volcano. This huge dessert is a mountain made out of brownies, ice cream, whipped cream, chocolate and caramel sauce served with a "sparkler" on top.
It's big enough to feed the whole family.
Richard Guzman | Entertainment Reporter
Richard Guzman writes about music and pop culture. He has previously written for the El Paso Times, The Desert Sun in Palm Springs and was City Editor at Los Angeles Downtown News. He graduated from Cal State Northridge with a Bachelor in Journalism.
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I love the holidays, I do. But among the plethora of things I detest, snow is one of them.
You may ask, how so? It's pretty, it's soft, it's the stuff of poetry and song.
Yes, it's all those things, but for a girl who grew up not particulary fond of it, driving in it scares me spitless.
There are these wonderful things called slick spots, black ice, and those crazies who don't know how to drive in snow any better than I do. EEEEEKKKKK!
As Susan Powter would say, Stop the Insanity.
In my case, it stops with me.
No, I haven't taken ant driving in snow courses. (DH keeps trying to teach me since he lives for snow and practically salivates when the first flake of the season falls, but the silly man...at least he tries.) But I do try to not be out in it whenever possible.
My idea of fun in the snow is watching it fall from my living room window.
Grief, I can't wait for April to come around. At least then it's mostly rain.
Ah, come on NASCAR girl! Get out there in a big o'parking lot and let her slide baby!! oh, yeah. That's how you learn to drive in the snow. Um, just make sure there aren't any light poles in said lot!!!! Although, I kinda like the watching it snow, with a large hot buttered rum!!
I'm the first to say, I'm a pansy. Yes, i'm NASCAR girl, and I like to watch them slide on the dirt, but not when I'm driving my loan-not-paid-off truck. I know how to save it if it slides, but i'd rather just watch the pros.
Ooh, on the top of a mountain... yikes. I'm glad i just live on a borring old back country road. A flat road.
They are predicting upwards of 40" of snow here over the next four days.
I am SOOOOOO sorry. I feel your pain.


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13 Secrets of Rare Book Dealers
BY Rebecca Romney
In the digital age, the rare book trade might seem like an antiquated trend from a bygone era, known for its dusty tomes and pedantic old men. But e-books have actually awakened readers to the fact that a printed book is more than just the written text—it's an historical object itself. Thanks to the internet, information on this esoteric subject is now widely available, and more people than ever are learning about book collecting. Dealers are also handling a wider variety of material, and these fresh perspectives are electrifying a once-sleepy, rarified world. With these developments, the trade has changed more in the last 20 years than in the last 200. Rebecca Romney, a rare book dealer based in Brooklyn, shares some secrets and surprises of this quirky corner of book culture with Mental Floss in this list.
1. AN OLD BOOK ISN'T NECESSARILY A RARE BOOK.
In book collecting, supply and demand are king. A book becomes "rare" when it's both hard to find and highly sought. If the supply side or the demand side isn't extreme, it doesn't qualify. This means a book from 1850 isn't necessarily "rare" if no one wants it. And no, a book from the 1800s isn't automatically desirable because it's "old." In rare books, the word "old" is relative: Within the 500 years of printed history we handle, a book from 1850 isn't really that old. The only books old enough to be highly sought-after just for their age are those printed in the 1400s, from the earliest years of printed books in the West.
2. IT'S NOT JUST BOOKS.
Yes, our profession is called the rare book trade, but that's because it's easier to say. In fact, we handle manuscripts, scrolls, etchings, and other prints, archives—even sometimes ventriloquist dummies from itinerant woman preachers. Is there text? Or does the item have a connection to books in some way? That's good enough for us.
3. YES, DUST JACKETS REALLY ARE THAT IMPORTANT.
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"Completeness" is a key standard of book collecting—the idea is that a book should retain all the parts with which it was historically issued. In modern books, this often means the dust jacket: A first edition's price can rise or fall exponentially based on the original dust jacket. An extreme example is The Great Gatsby: Without the jacket, a first edition currently runs around $4000-$6000. In a decent, unrestored original dust jacket, the price leaps closer to $100,000.
4. WE LITERALLY COUNT EVERY PAGE OF A BOOK.
This is especially true for books from before about 1800, in what we call the "handpress" period. The earlier in print history you go, the more likely you are to discover missing pages. Objectionable passages are torn from banned books. Stunning engravings are excised to be framed and put on a wall. The blank pages in the front or back of a book are often missing, too: Historically, paper was an expensive commodity, so owners would tear out those blank pages for use. Dealers must go through a book page by page to make sure that everything has remained intact. We even have a specialized method of counting based on how the book was formatted by the printer. And we hate being interrupted in the middle of counting a 500-page book. One of my friends puts a sign on her desk that reads, "Don't bother me: I'm counting."
5. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A LOT OF MONEY TO COLLECT.
The books that make the headlines are the $6 million Shakespeare First Folio or the $150,000 first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. But often the most interesting collections—the ones that end up housed at some prestigious institution—are built by people who aren't buying the most expensive books. In 2015, Duke University acquired the collection of Lisa Baskin, which documents women at work through the past five centuries, to much fanfare. Baskin formed this world-class collection for a fraction of the expense one might expect—because for most of the 40 years she was collecting, she was purchasing books that weren't popularly sought. Today we say, "an 18th-century woman entomologist who published her own drawings of her scientific observations? Yes please!" But in the 1980s, such works were met with a shrug.
This year my company established a book collecting prize for women aged 30 and under with an eye toward demonstrating that great collections don't have to be valuable tomes kept behind glass. Our first winner collects romance novels.
6. WE HATE IT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A BOOK'S SMELL.
We've all held a beloved old book and smelled the pages, taking in that vanilla-like aroma. It's cozy. It's peaceful. It reminds us of rainy days, blankets and tea, secret gardens. And it's not relevant to most rare books. That particular smell comes from the lignin in cheaply produced paper, a chemical introduced when wood pulp was added to papermaking processes in the 1840s. For most of the history of printed books—over 500 years—a book with a smell means mold, or dirt, or any number of unpleasant materials that have been rubbed into the pages over the years. Smells are a red flag that something is wrong. We do not want our books to smell. Walking into our shop and remarking on the smell is like exclaiming, "Your books are gross!"
7. WE DON'T USE WHITE GLOVES. AND WE'RE NOT SORRY.
This is probably the single biggest misconception about rare books. Random strangers yell at me for it all the time. In fact, it was established years ago that gloves weaken your tactile sensitivity. That means you're much more likely to tear a page, or otherwise damage the book (like, heaven forbid, dropping it) while wearing them. Instead, conservationists simply recommend handling them with washed and well-dried hands. This myth has been perpetuated by the exceptions: A very small percentage of materials, like metal bindings and photographic film, do require gloves. But rare book curators from such institutions as the Harvard library system and the British Library [PDF] have made it very clear that white gloves have no place in a rare book room.
8. DIFFICULT CLIENTS DON'T GET OFFERED THE BEST MATERIAL.
Say you've acquired the find of a lifetime. You know there are at least three collectors who would jump for the chance to add it to their library. Who gets the first offer? The guy who beats you up about your price and denigrates the material as part of his haggling strategy, or the guy who smiles and asks you how you've been before you get to the serious talk? Many collectors think haggling gets them the better deal, but it's a dangerous game: Become too difficult or stressful to work with, and you will get fewer phone calls from the dealers who find the material you want to buy.
9. THERE IS AN ASSOCIATION OF ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS, WITH BYLAWS AND A CODE OF ETHICS.
If you're a new rare book dealer, one of your most important goals is getting into the ABAA, or the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America. You must demonstrate a record of professional dealings for at least four years in order to apply. Current members are surveyed and asked whether new applicants pay their bills, accurately describe their material, and run their business ethically. Once you join the ABAA, there are a number of important perks. Besides carrying the seal of approval in the American rare book trade, you are eligible to showcase your inventory at the ABAA-organized book fairs, including the biggest one in the country, at the Armory in New York City. For some dealers, the sales from the New York book fair alone can make up 25 percent to 50 percent of their annual revenue.
10. IT'S NOT JUST OLD WHITE MEN. BUT IT IS PRETTY MUCH ALL WHITE.
In this business, dealers in their 40s are considered the young whippersnappers. But the new generation of younger dealers is making its presence felt, especially in handling material outside the traditional canon of dead white men: LGBTQ material, African Americana, women's history, pulp publications, punk ephemera [PDF], and more.
Women are making significant inroads as well. While there have always been formidable women at the top of the rare book trade, we're seeing an increasing number of women running their own businesses or being offered equity in established firms. We also recently established a successful schedule of networking events to provide support, mentoring, and business opportunities for women in the trade.
We still have a major problem with racial diversity, however. The trade is taking steps to attract and train people from underrepresented groups, but we have a long way to go. One of the most important new developments is the Belle da Costa Greene scholarship, named after J.P. Morgan's brilliant book buyer and librarian, who was African-American. It is awarded annually to a person from an underrepresented or disadvantaged community to attend the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar, commonly known as "Bookseller Bootcamp" for dealers.
11. MANY RARE BOOK DEALERS ARE ALSO SCHOLARS IN THEIR CHOSEN FIELDS.
Many of the best rare book dealers specialize in particular subject areas. Because of their endless research with primary source materials, they earn a reputation of expertise in that topic. One famous example is the 20th century rare book dealer Madeleine Stern, who tracked down Louisa May Alcott's pseudonyms in her search for material to sell and discovered that the author of Little Women had for years been writing sensational "blood and thunder" stories—19th century pulp fiction—under a pen name.
12. MOST COMPANIES ARE PRETTY MUCH MOM-AND-POP SHOPS.
Many rare book dealers are one- or two-person operations. Only a small fraction of companies have three or more employees. A company is huge if it has over ten people. On the one hand, this gives the job a decidedly anti-corporate atmosphere: Many of us joke that we are unemployable elsewhere. On the other hand, it also means we do everything needed to run the business, from shipping to website design, on our own. Besides the bootstrapping, it also means living with the risks of a small business. For example, I know of only a handful of rare book firms who offer health insurance or some kind of retirement plan. Frankly, most of us plan to keep dealing until we drop dead mid-sale.
13. RARE BOOK DEALERS ARE ONE BIG FAMILY.
This is a small world. We all know each other. The ABAA is made up of perhaps 400 active members across the nation. Many of my best friends are fellow dealers, even if they live across the country. We see each other a few times a year, mostly during book fairs, where we celebrate our regular reunions with lots of alcohol. We know which dealers have chronic money problems, which are most likely to be casually sexist, and whom we can go to in a crisis. We know each other's strengths, so we'll often refer people with books to sell to a colleague who specializes in that subject. ABAA book fairs, in many ways, are like Thanksgiving dinner with extended family. We may not all get along, but we all made the same decision: to try making a living in this odd world, risking our livelihood to help save and preserve history.


Rome Archer is as far from perfect as a man can be. He's stubborn, rigid, and bossy. And he's returned from his final tour of duty more than a little broken. Rome's used to filling many roles: big brother, doting son, supersoldier—but none of those fit anymore. Now he's just a man trying to figure out what to do with the rest of his life while keeping the dark demons of war and loss at bay. He would have been glad to suffer through it alone, until Cora comes sweeping into his life and becomes a blinding flash of color in a sea of gray. Perfect may not be in the cards, but perfectly imperfect could just last forever . . .
Thank you to the author for making each person their own story. I see a trend where the author breaks up a book into 3-4 parts. It's only for $. Thanks again for not doing that. I can't wait for this book. The other two were great!!
This is one of my favorite stories within the series. The connection between Rome and Cora is heart warming as they fight to stay together.


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Birding at Black Swamp Nature Center
Paulding, Ohio
Visiting this Site
Site Maps & Info
Information about the site.
Black Swamp Nature Center
Closed hours/season
Open all year from dawn until dusk.
Paved parking lot.
Fees/Permits
Basic facility with no running water. Better restrooms at Reservoir Park located on the other side of Creek (entrance off County Road 107).
Harmful Insects, Poisonous Plants, or Animals
Poison Ivy.
Keep an eye out for groundhog excavations on trails.
Restaurants in the Area
Red Owl Inn, 401K, Los Gallitos in downtown Paulding. McDonalds, Subway, Dairy Queen, China Wok and Marco's Pizza at north end of Paulding on U.S. 127.
Other Birding Spots in the Area
Paulding Reservoir (just south of Black Swamp Nature Center), and Thomas Wetlands (5.5 miles west and 3 miles north of center of Paulding at intersection of County Road 176 and Twp. Road 61).
Corner of County Road 107 (Scott Road on DeLorme map) and County Road 132.
County/Counties
DeLorme Page Number and Coordinates
(7th Edition and earlier) Page 34, C-3
Nearest Town or City
At southwest corner of Paulding Village.
Directions from Nearest Town or City
At southwest corner of Court House square in downtown Paulding, go south on Williams Street and continue on road past fairgrounds. Black Swamp Nature Center is to the west, just past the fairgrounds. To get to entrance, turn left (south) on County Road 107 and drive south about two hundred feet to driveway on left, which is marked by a sign.
About Black Swamp Nature Center
This 55-acre property, formerly known as the Paulding Ponds, was once managed by the State of Ohio as a hunting and fishing area. Located on Flat Rock Creek, it consists mainly of mixed deciduous woodland, especially in the creek floodplain. There is a large, shallow pond of 5-6 acres, an approximately 4-acre marshy area, and three smaller ponds.
A brushy field, located next to the parking lot, provides some habitat for field species. The trails are good and generally well-maintained. Since 1985, 190 species have been recorded at this location. – See more at: http://www.ohiobirds.org/site/library/sites/showsite.php?Site_ID=42#links
Birds of Interest by Season
None- common resident and winter visitors.
Excellent for migrant songbirds (34 species of warblers recorded), including Connecticut, Hooded, Worm-eating, Prairie, Cerulean and Kentucky warblers. American and Least Bitterns have been found in the marsh.
The marsh has hosted nesting Common Moorhens and Pied-billed Grebes.
Good for migrant songbirds- warblers, vireos, kinglets, thrushes, etc.


Home » Tru Family Dental Blog » Oral & Dental Health Tips » Does breastfeeding affect a child's oral health?
While the long-term effects of breastfeeding for both mom and baby have shown to be numerous for those who choose and are able to breastfeed, until recently few studies have looked at the effects of breastfeeding on the oral health of babies. Two recent reports, however looked the ramifications on alignment and cavities, with two very different conclusions.
In 2015, a study published in the journal Pediatrics found that the more babies breast-feed, the less likely they will develop misalignment in their teeth later on, noting that pacifiers can however, negate some of that potential benefit.
The researchers from University of Adelaide in Australia, tracked just over 1,300 children for five years, including how much they breast-fed at 3 months, 1 year and 2 years old, and looked at how often the children used a pacifier, if at all, at 3 months, 1 year, 2 and 4. About 40 percent of the children used a pacifier daily for four years.
Studies have looked at the effects of breastfeeding on the oral health of babies. Two recent reports provide insights into oral health and breast feeding.
The study showed that the risk of overbite was one-third lower for those who exclusively breast-fed for three to six months compared to those who didn't, and 41percent less likely to have moderate to severe misalignment of the teeth. If they breast-fed at least six months or more, the risk of overbite dropped by 44 percent and the threat misalignment was reduced by 72 percent.
Karen Peres who led the research team said the association may be explained by development of the orofacial structures in children who are breast-fed, such as proper muscular tone and nasal breathing. "Unlike feeding with a bottle, breast-feeding requires the baby to move her jaw and tongue in ways that help develop the oral cavity," Peres said. "So long before baby breaks her first tooth, she is creating the foundation for proper alignment of the teeth." Others have suggested that the findings may also demonstrate the benefits of getting regular jaw exercise through the act of breast-feeding, which stimulates more jaw muscle tone than bottle-feeding.
The study also found that children who mostly breast-fed but also used pacifiers, were slightly more likely to have an misalignment issue. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents consider using a pacifier for an infant's first six months because pacifiers are associated with a reduced risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), but should wean them between six and 12 months.
A 2017 report in the American Academy of Pediatrics journal, found that prolonged (two years or more) breastfeeding actually increases the risk of a child having tooth decay or cavities in the future.
The study, which took place in Brazil, followed 1,129 children who were breastfed until 3, 12 or 24 months, until they were 5 years old and looked at the average number of decayed, missing, and filled primary teeth, as well as severe early childhood cavities.
Children who were breastfed for 24 months or longer had a 2.4 times higher risk of early childhood cavities than those who were breastfed for less than a year. Children who were breastfed between 13 and 23 months did not have a higher chance of cavities.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding babies for a year, and longer if both the mother and child want to continue, but these findings show how crucial it is to take care of children's teeth at an early age to offset any negative effects of breastfeeding in favor of the many benefits.


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Home » News » Natural Gas Power Plant for Thailand
Natural Gas Power Plant for Thailand
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$ 170 million loan to support the construction of a 1600 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Thailand.
The new plant will be built in Nong Saeng district north of Bangkok under a public private partnership arrangement, and is the first independent power producer project to reach financial close in Thailand since the 2008 global economic crisis, according to the ADB.
A subsidiary of J-Power - Japan's largest wholesale power supplier - will develop and operate the plant, with the electricity to be sold to the state-owned Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand under a 25-year power purchase agreement.
Thai energy firm PTT Public Company will supply the gas, and a consortium of contractors led by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will build the facilities. The overall cost of the project is US$ 1.1 billion.
The ADB said the new plant - which is scheduled to begin operating in 2014 - would provide clean, affordable electricity to help meet the country's rapidly increasing appetite for electricity.
The news comes just days after the Bank approved a US$ 465 million loan to support the construction of a 440 MW hydropower plant on the Nam Ngum River in the northern part of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR).
This plant is also planned to supply power to the Lao PDR's energy-hungry neighbour, Thailand, as well as generating upwards of US$ 770 million to fund poverty reduction programmes in the Lao PDR.


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