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This mineral, Torbernite, appears in my Photographic Periodic Table Poster representing protactinium, because this highly unstable element can't reasonably be photographed. The rock probably contains on the order of a few atoms of protactinium at any one time, as part of the complex decay chain of the uranium that makes up a much larger fraction of the sample. In no meaningful way is protactinium itself visible in the sample, but sadly that's about the best you can do with an element like this. The sample photograph includes text exactly as it appears in the poster, which you are encouraged to buy a copy of.


In Ashland we currently have one public library. EveryLibrary.com includes information on the following public libraries in Ashland, Maine. Choose a library in Ashland for more information on the resources available including books, digital media, movies, computer resources, budget information and directions.
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Polka-dotted Sky: Wanna party Pink Kitty style?
PK's gotten into online chatting while watching poli sci stuff on TV (ie. RNC nite o' the stars). If you are politically inclined (read: Libertarian or Republican...or a not-so-scary Democrat) and would like to chat online with other bloggers or lurkers during some of the debates or on election night, drop a comment over at Pink Kitty's Scratching Post with your ID. I think she's using Yahoo!, so you probably have to Yahoo! too in order to participate. But hey, what's another membership? Don't we all have, like, 50 gazillion of them?
It's amazing that we can all keep up with our usernames and passwords. Talented folk we are!
Thank you for your comments on my blog. I'm glad to read that you love P&P because just as "Single men of large fortune must be in want of a wife", I believe English teachers/writers must be a fan of Jane Austen! How could you not love her writing style, laced with wit and sarcasm and social commentary! :) I sometimes seriously regret my choice of majors in college and wish that instead of persuing marketing, I went with the English Major I wanted so that I could go to Oxford and become an Austen Scholar. Oh well. At least I can still reread the books as treats to myself.
Just had to also add that I noticed you like the BBC version of P&P. Have you watched the A&E Version? I ADORE the A&E version. I love love love it! But that's probably in part because I love Colin Firth! And I love Bridget Jones' Diary too! Have you read the book too?


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Lately, there's been a bit of a lament amongst some film and TV fans, about how a lot of the films being made today are either reboots or sequels or relaunches of earlier works; the Candyman series got a sequel this year, as did The Matrix and Halloween and Sex And The City and Dexter and The Wonder Years and even Doogie Howser, and on and on. But this isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened – in fact, I remember there being a similar relaunch/reboot/sequel craze in the 80s and 90s. In my review for Psycho I mentioned that I was already "spoiled" for a lot of it – part of how was spoiled was from remembering the reviews about the 1983 sequel, a much lesser-quality film. The 1980s saw sequels to plenty of other classics – Rocky, Grease, Alien, Caddyshack, and others – and while some caught the right spirit of the original (or in some rare cases even surpassed it), others looked a bit more like money grabs, leaning on the reputation of the more famous original to bring in viewers while simultaneously missing the point, and potentially ruining the originals for future viewers.
And I came very close to having had The Color of Money ruin The Hustler for me (see, that's where I was going with this). What maybe saved me is that I never actually saw that sequel – only the clips used in the music video for Eric Clapton's song from the soundtrack, which was in heavy rotation on MTV when I was about fifteen. From what I can see in those clips today, and what I've read since, it looks like that film is more about the pool playing and the hustle for money – and to my mind, The Hustler is about something quite different entirely.
Don't get me wrong – there is pool here. "Fast Eddie" Felson (Paul Newman) is a young-and-hungry player, teamed up with his partner Charlie (Myron McCormick) and traveling the country doing low-level hustles. But Eddie isn't into the money so much as he's into the love of the game – he is good at pool, and he knows it. He's just into the thrill of doing what he knows he's good at. In fact, he's so good that he's convinced he can beat the famous pool shark Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason), and turns up in Minnesota's pool hall to challenge him towards the beginning of the film. Minnesota ultimately beats him, of course – but it takes him 24 hours to do so, and Eddie goes down swinging, only dropping out when he has no more money to lay down as stakes for any further games. But Eddie later discovers Charlie withheld some of their money for safety's sake, and abandons Charlie, striking out on his own for New York.
Along with getting his feet wet in small pool halls, Eddie meets Sarah (Piper Laurie), a part-time student and part-time barfly who ultimately takes him in. Sarah seems to have him pegged pretty quickly – "I've got troubles and I think maybe you've got troubles," she tells him early on, wondering aloud if they should "maybe leave each other alone". But these two troubled people end up fitting together – he encourages her to give up drinking, she nurses him through some broken thumbs after rubbing some poolsharks the wrong way. She opens up to him about her sad past. He opens up to her about why he loves the game so much. They truly start to heal the broken bits in each other.
So that's why it's all the more tragic when Bert Gordon (George C. Scott) drops by; Bert is a professional gambler friendly with Minnesota Fats who heard about Eddie's game, and wants to bring him back out on the road. He'll be able to get Eddie back in on a game with Minnesota, for sure…
I know that still sounds like a lot of pool. But for me, the heart of the film is actually Eddie and Sarah's relationship, and how Eddie is torn between joy in what he does and disgust with what he has to do just to do it. There's a lengthy speech he has in the middle of the film, while on a picnic with Sarah, where he discusses how his love of the game is at odds with the hustling he has to do: "Just had to show those creeps and those punks what the game is like when it's great, when it's really great. You know, like anything can be great [….] brick-laying can be great if a guy knows what he's doin' and why and if he can make it come off." Pool playing is Eddie's flow state – but the only way he's ever known where he can exercise that flow state is to make a devil's bargain with gamblers who exploit him for money. Sarah comes close to making him realize he doesn't need to do things that way – but the lure is too great, and he gets pulled back towards his older habits, unaware what the cost might be until it's too late. That's the same story as The Red Shoes, in a way – and that's how it landed with me.
Piper Laurie and Paul Newman are of course heartbreakingly excellent here. But the real standout for me was Jackie Gleeson as Minnesota Fats – I'd only ever associated him with his TV role in The Honeymooners, all words and bluster, but here he is completely different – stoic, quiet, an oasis of perfect calm. He's a Poolroom Buddha who's obtained the very kind of enlightened state where pool is all he needs to worry about – the very state Eddie wants to reach. But Eddie misunderstands the path he needs to take to get there – which makes him a sucker for the tips and tricks and abuse that Bert and Charlie try to foist on him. But tips and tricks don't get you there – it's tapping into that flow state, only speaking when you need to and only doing what you need to, and knowing when to stop. Gleason speaks and does very, very little, but when he does, it's flawless – and so when Minnesota praises Eddie's playing, eventually, we know it's sincere. The tragedy is that it also comes too late.
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This is a very insightful review. I enjoyed reading it and now I feel like watching it again with your observations in mind. Thanks.

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Desertion by Doctor Ramona Matos Opens a Breach / Osmar Laffita Rojas / HemosOido
Dr. Ramon Matos shows her documents in Brazil on seeking political asylum. Photo from Internet.
HAVANA, Cuba. — The manipulation by the official press has no limits. The report published in the Granma daily on March 17 by journalist Diana Ferreiro carries a grandiose headline: "White Scrubs for a Better World."
In said article, it went so far as to say that the seventh delegation of Cuban doctors that left this week for Brazil "will lend international help."
The concealment of what is really behind the presence of Cuban doctors in Brazil is grotesque. These doctors do not go "to lend international help." They are simply health professionals hired by the Brazilian government in the "More Doctors" program through the Panamerican Health Organization (PHO).
After prior negotiation by the PHO, the Marketer of Cuban Medical Services S.A. will receive 4,300* dollars monthly for each of the 11,430 doctors who will work for a period of two years in the South American giant.
Ferreiro lies when she claims that of the 1,684 physicians of the seventh delegation, "a great part of them had finished their work in Venezuela and responded to the the new call." Really what determined that they "step up" is that they know that, after March, they are going to earn 1,245* dollars a month in Brazil, and not the 3,000 Bolivares (the equivalent of 35 dollars monthly) that the Cuban government pays them on the Venezuelan "mission."
The Cuban government keeps a third of the 4,200* dollars a month that the doctors who work now in Brazil receive as salary.
The official press has not said that the remaining 1,245* dollars will accrue entirely to the doctors. This was possible because of the pressure by the Brazilian authorities on the Cuban government which sees itself forced to put an end to the abusive and exploitative system of 1,000-dollar payments from which the doctors received 400 dollars a month and the remaining 600 dollars was deposited in an account which they could only access on return to Cuba after finishing their work in Brazil. The change became possible because of the notorious scandal caused by the desertion of Doctor Ramona Matos and other Cuban doctors; something that, of course, Diana Ferreiro does not mention in her article.
To that extent it can be said — although the Cuban people do not know it — that it was Brazil and not Cuba where for the first time a real increase was produced in the salaries of doctors who mostly earn 20 dollars a month on the island.
The Cuban government has seen a goldmine of hard currency income with the exportation of professional services.
The payment of the 11,430 physicians who will work in various Brazilian states, added to the 35 thousand that are in Venezuela, will mean an annual income of over 6 billion dollars.
With the 46,430 Cuban doctors in Venezuela and Brazil, the Cuban population will only have 32,192 professionals at their disposal located in 57 general hospitals, four maternal-infant hospitals, 468 poly-clinics and 11,486 Family Doctor clinics.
The Cuban health system, already plagued by deficiencies, with so few professionals that will remain in Cuba, without a doubt will worsen in the coming months.
Cubanet, March 20, 2014 / Osmar Laffita Rojas
ramsetgandhi@yahoo.com
*Translator's note: The dollar amounts reported in this text do not perfectly track, but it has been translated faithfully from the original.
Translated by mlk.
Author Misc AuthorsPosted on March 24, 2014 March 24, 2014 Categories Osmar Laffita, Translator: Mary Lou Keel
Neither Fresh Milk Nor Diet Milk / Osmar Laffita Rojas
Havana, Cuba, December, www.cubanet.org – Last year 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture reported the production of fresh milk at a level of 516,246,500 litres nationally. Out of this total, the province of Camagüey occupied the first position with 96,299,600 litres. Followed, at a distance, by Villa Clara with 51,794,100 litres; Sancti Spíritus with 49,923,100 and Matanzas with 44,352,800 litres.
As part of a long list of inefficiencies and unfulfilled commitments, the state was not able to fulfill its commitment dated July 26th 2007 to guarantee a daily litre of fresh milk to every child under 7 years.
With a few days to go to the end of 2013, this year's milk production is not known. That silence is a sign that things aren't going well.
In most of the provinces, they are continuing with the standard sale of 3 kilos a month of powdered milk, at the subsidised price of 10 cents a kilo. Every 10 days, children under 7 have the right to a kilo of this miik.
Not being able to guarantee the supply of fresh milk and in order to ensure the children get the diet they need, the state had no choice but to import thousands of tons of powdered milk whose price in the international market was over $4,000 dollars a ton.
That imported powdered milk is also for pregnant women and those diagnosed with chronic illness like diabetes, who get a voucher for a kilo of powdered milk a month, whose price is similar to that sold for children.
It seems like the milk production in the past year has not been what was hoped.
Last August 5th, the weekly Trabajadores, official publication of the Cuba Workers Centre (CTC) , announced the construction of a powdered milk factory in the province of Camagüey with capacity to produce 100,000 litres of milk a day, using milk from the dairies in the Camagüey area.
Production testing of the factory in question will be started at the end of September.
They are putting up the new factory in the place where the old factory was to have been in the 90's, which would have been the first powdered milk factory in Cuba. Construction was held up for lack of funding. Since then, the state has kept on importing powdered milk, thousands of tons, paying tens of millions of dollars.
The powdered milk factory which they are putting up in Camagüey is fitted with Chinese and Italian technology and its cost has reached 528,000 dollars. It should produced 2,350 tons of powdered whole and low-fat milk a year and 1,100 tons of butter.
The newspaper Granma, on 31st August, announced that work on the project was over 70% advanced and that at the end of September they will start assembly of the machinery and, if there are no holdups, they forecast completion for the end of December. But, up to now, they haven't given any more information on this.
At the beginning of December, they announced that pregnant women and the chronically sick in the provinces of Mayabeque, La Habana, Artemisa and Santa Clara, who received powdered milk for their diet, by way of an experiment, will, from January, instead of that, receive a new dairy formula made up of casein, lacto-whey, water, and animal or vegetable fat with different levels of protein.
On this point, the Vice Minister of Internal Trade, Bárbara Acosta, said that this measure was taken because of the over-consumption of powdered milk and assured the deputies that it would not be extended past the date indicated
It seems like there was a setback in the production of milk in the second half of this year.
In the Foreign Currency Recovery Stores* (TRD, from its Spanish initials) they have not offered butter or condensed and evaporated milk produced locally for months.
You only find cheese in certain supermarkets, and not always. The price is about $15 a kilo, which is in fact prohibitive for most Cubans, whose salary doesn't exceed $20 a month.
The official press keeps completely silent about the crisis in the production of fresh milk. It seems like the government has ordered that they don't touch on such a sensitive topic.
Translated by GH
*Translators note: This interesting name makes clear the government's interest in operating stores that sell products only in hard currency; their purpose is to "recover" the remittances sent to Cubans from family and friends abroad. Products in these stores are generally sold at significant markups.
23 December 2013 / Cubanet
Author Misc AuthorsPosted on December 26, 2013 December 26, 2013 Categories Osmar Laffita, Translator: GH
Cuba Imports Rice it Could Produce / Osmar Laffita Rojas
HAVANA, Cuba, October www.cubanet.org – Of the approximately 770,000 tons of rice consumed by the Cuban population last year*, 440,000 were imported from Vietnam, Brazil and the United States. As a ton of rice trades on the world market at $450, the Cuban government had to spend $200 million for the purchase of this food.
Two years ago, rice production was going through a severe crisis in Cuba. There were great difficulties in the harvest due to the advanced deterioration of agricultural machinery, lack of means to transport the grain and the total abandonment of the roads. Inability to harvest the rice at full maturity is a source of great losses.
There were few dryers, mills, silos and warehouses, and the vast majority were in pitiful condition, unmaintained for years. With limited industrial capacity and storage, some provinces were forced to send the harvested grain to other provinces that had dryers and mills for processing, thus incurring costs for fuel, wages, etc.
This situation resulted in low yields that did not meet the needs of the population. The deficit in rice production was offset by foreign imports.
But as of mid-2011, the Ministry of Agriculture launched an investment and retrofitting process to reverse the situation. The state allocated substantial resources for the purchase of agricultural machinery and means of transporting the grain. It embarked on a process of building new kilns, mills, silos and warehouses, while the existing facilities are being repaired and modernized.
Similarly, it undertook the rehabilitation of irrigation channels and roads.
Take the case of the new Guama River diversion in Pinar del Rio, which, with El Punto Dam in the town of Consolación del Sur, ensures irrigation of the Vuelta Abajo rice plantation through a more than 12-mile system of channels.
Since last year, the cultivation of rice in Cuba has undergone positive changes. The provinces of Pinar del Rio, Villa Clara and Cienfuegos reported 86,000 acres harvested in cold and spring sowings. Timely delivery of fertilizer, herbicides, fuel, more efficient water use, among other assurances made it possible for these three provinces to report a production of 42,000 tons of wet rice this year, which represents an increase of 35% relative to what was reaped by those provinces the previous year.
In Villa Clara a mill has been built that will process 220 tons of rice a day, and three silos were built, each with with a 1,100 ton capacity, plus a warehouse with a capacity of 1,980 tons. With these investments, by next year the province may end a daily transfer of 275 tons of wet rice to Sancti Spiritus and Matanzas for industrial processing.
But not everything is going smoothly. In Los Palacios in Pinar del Rio Province, the Air Services Company's failure to meet its commitments in rice planting, along with the delay in the application of fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides, caused severe damages to this year's production. Rice production was down 43,700 tons and there was a significant decrease in yields per acre.
The agricultural aviation executives argue that their priority is not the rice companies, but spraying against mosquitoes in Havana, in the tourist resorts of Cayo Coco and Cayo Largo, and in the city of Pinar del Rio.
Osmar Laffita Rojas, ramsetgandhi@yahoo.com
*Translator's note: Roughly 140 pounds per person
Cubanet, 31 October 2013
Author Translating CubaPosted on October 31, 2013 October 31, 2013 Categories Osmar Laffita
The Pittance That Cubans Earn / Osmar Laffita Rojas
HAVANA, Cuba, October, www.cubanet.org – After five years of the presidency of General Raul Castro, the country remains trapped by severe economic problems. Instead of improving, the economy is worsening.
The Cuban economy isn't even treading water. It's enough to look at the low salaries of the workers, which in the period of 2008-2012, according to the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), nationally averaged 17.70 dollars per worker.
The unions, directed by the government's Cuban Workers Union (CTC), limit themselves to suggesting that salaries will increase when productivity increases.
To that we add the dual currency system, in force for twenty years.
The disastrous results in the first half of this year have led to the decapitalization of a great part of the system of production and basic services. From the monetary and financial point of view there are no real conditions to proceed with the elimination of the Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC), leaving the Cuban peso as the only currency, and much less for it to circulate with parity to the U.S. dollar.
Enough already with the lies and fooling the Cuban people. End hunger, misery and poverty in Cuba.
Let's look at how wages behaved (in dollars) by province and sector in 2012.
According to the National Office of Statistics and Information, of the 15 provinces plus the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, those reporting higher average monthly wages per worker were Ciego de Avila ($ 20.60), Matanzas ($19.32), Cienfuegos ($19.00), Sancti Spiritus ($18.92) and Pinar del Rio ($18.84).
Those who reported the lowest monthly wages were Isla de la Juventud ($18.04), Guantanamo ($17.36) and Santiago de Cuba ($17.32).
The sectors with higher wages paid in 2012 were construction ($23.20), Mining and Quarrying ($22.64), Electricity, Gas and Water ($20.80) and Agriculture and Fisheries ($20.52).
The poorest paid sectors were Services Companies ($17.28), Community Services ($17.00) and Trade, Food and Hotels ($15.04).
Such miserable salaries, that aren't even enough to eat badly for two weeks, are the cause of the black market and corruption.
The salaries are even lower in Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo. In both provinces in the last five years there have been no new sources of employment, young people, on reaching working age, decide — at whatever cost — to emigrate to Havana, although they have to pass through a thousand and one nights.
Young people work miracles to get a place as a shopkeeper, a worker in a snack bar or restaurant or to achieve the golden dream of a being staff in a tourist hotel. The dollars they "find" (generally no less than $200 a month), not infrequently with shady under the table deals, allow them standards of living that are horrifyingly different from what a doctor or any other professional earns.
The monetary union that the government says it is going to carry out will change nothing about the miserable salaries Cubans earn.
Osmar Laffita Rojas ramsetgandhi@yahoo.com
Author Misc AuthorsPosted on October 23, 2013 October 24, 2013 Categories Osmar Laffita
Starting This Month, Thousands More Will be Unemployed / Osmar Laffita Rojas
Privately run clothing store.
HAVANA, Cuba , October, www.cubanet.org – Of the 436,342 Cubans reported, as of the end of June, to have licenses to practice in the private sector (with the greatest presence in Havana, Matanzas Villa Clara, Camaguey, Holguin and Santiago de Cuba), the number of contract workers accounts for18%. This is evidence that in the past two years small private businesses have been the main source of employment for men and women, mostly young, at a time when the State sector reported excess payrolls, with a million workers who will have to be dismissed.
Among that 18% of contract workers, are those who work as clerks in the thousands of stores that sell imported clothes — a very great number — after those working in small restaurants, pizzerias and cafes, and drivers of cars and trucks rented for the transport of passengers and goods.
For residents of the major cities of Cuba has become normal to see in the doorways of many houses and premises areas adapted for the sale of factory-made clothing brought from abroad, which is very popular with the public, given that the clothes are more attractive than those found in the State's Foreign Exchange Recovery Shops (TRD) — which is the formal name for hard currency stories.
The owners of these establishments, who are licensed as seamstresses or tailors, have paid their taxes monthly and submitted the affidavits of their sales, in which they state the number of employees hired.
In general, business was good, until Marino Murillo Jorge, vice president of the Council of Ministers, at meetings of the National Assembly of People's Power held on July 6 and 7, expressed alarm that the private sector, according to his remarks, "Is demonstrating indiscipline, among many of them, as is the case for those who have a license for one activity and undertake another." He gave the example of dressmakers and tailors, who are involved in selling imported clothes. He said that this can not continue, "It will have to be rectified with a new legal standard that fixes the scope of each activity."
On the first of September, without waiting for tResolution 42 to go into effect, the Administrative Councils of the provinces of Pinar del Río, Sancti Spiritus and Cienfuegos banned the sale of imported clothing in all their municipalities.
And most recently, on the 26th of the same month, in a special edition, No. 27, of the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba published Resolution No. 353/2013 from the Ministry of Finance and Prices, referring to the rules for the taxation of persons engaged in private activity and monthly minimum tax account payments. Resolution No. 42/2013 from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MTSS) was also published, setting out the rules for the authorizations of private businesses.
The MTSS Resolution clears up any doubts about activities that have been engaged in for a long time but that, according to Murilla, were never authorized by the license. It clarifies that the owners of seamstress and tailor licenses may engage in, "Making, fixing, and transforming clothes, performing simple and complex tailoring and sewing to measure, and this does not include trading in industrially manufactured or imported clothing."
But this issue, as it is raised, causes a huge problem: Of those who have a license to engage in private activity in Cuba, 68% had no State employment, and 32% were retired State workers, which makes clear the negative effect the prohibition of sale of imported clothing will have.
Starting this month, thousands of people will join the ranks of the unemployed and their families will be plunged into poverty.
All indications are that the enforcement of the above Resolution is the result of pressure exerted by the colonels and generals who control retail trade in dollars. Looking at the balance of sales for the first semester set off alarms about the low "recovery of dollars" in the State stores. The precipitous drop in sales in the majority of TRDs is attributed to small private businesses engaged in selling imported clothes, which had won — fair and square — more than 85% of the clientele.
From Cubanet, 11 October 2013
Agricultural Production Continues to Plummet / Osmar Laffita Rojas
HAVANA, Cuba, October, www.cubanet.org – Of the 6.5 million hectares of agricultural land is in Cuba, only 32 percent was cultivated in February 2008, when General Raul Castro assumed the presidency. There were 2 million acres covered with the invasive marabou weed or other weeds, and badly cared for. In other words, one third of the arable land was idle.
Twenty years after their creation, the Basic Unit Production Cooperatives (UBPCs), with the 1.77 million hectares of land they own, only managed to cultivate 219,100 hectares in 2012. With the exception of land used for growing sugar cane, coffee, cocoa and cattle breeding, these cooperatives reported 23% of their land to be idle, covered with marabou and other weeds.
To help turn around this deplorable situation, the government enacted Decree-Law 259, in July 2008, which authorized the distribution of land, in a form of leasing known as usufruct, up to a limit of 13 hectares per person, for a period of 10 years, with possibility of extensions. In the last five years, 1.7 million hectares has been distributed to 174,000 lessees. Of this figure, 53% is destined for livestock, 23% to vegetable crops, 7% to livestock breeding, with small areas under cultivation in tobacco, coffee and sugarcane.
But right now the process of distribution of land in usufruct is hampered and limited by of bureaucratic delays in the approval of applications. This is compounded by the slowness and delay in beginning to work the land, sometimes caused by the lessees' inexperience of the farm work. Also due to the fact that they face a shortage of the means of labor , their high prices and poor quality.
However, the major obstacles confronting the delivery of lands in usufruct come from the State farms, which hinder and are reluctant to declare vacant the 500,000 hectares of land that remain unproductive.
Of the total land owned by agricultural enterprises, cooperatives, farmers and the lessees, only 1,353,519 hectares were cultivated in 2012.
The poor results in agricultural production require the government to spend 1.5 billion dollars in food imports, most of which could be produced in Cuba.
The situation is such that between January and March of this year there was a drop of 7.8 % in agricultural production, reporting a significant reduction in the production of beans, potatoes, citrus fruits, eggs and milk.
Osmar Laffita Rojas, From Cubanet
Author Translating CubaPosted on October 9, 2013 July 7, 2016 Categories Osmar Laffita
The Eternal Wait for the Glass of Milk / Osmar Laffita Red
You finally brought me my glass of milk. // Hmm… no. It's sugar water. But it was made by a self-employed person. Try it, bobita… By Garrincha
HAVANA, Cuba , October, www.cubanet.org – More than six years ago, President Raul Castro announced that he would guarantee a glass of fresh milk to the majority of children as a result of the plan to distribute this food through a group of bodegas (ration stores), experimentally. He said that as production increased, it would be extended to the whole country.
As of today, it is unknown how many bodegas and municipalities are distributing daily milk to children. Something that did not work as expected.
At the end of 2012, nationwide milk production was 516,246,500 liters. Of that amount, livestock enterprises produced 62,660,200 liters, but it is unknown what really was the destination of this production, because in none of the bodegas in the major cities in Cuba, nor in the chain stores selling in hard currency, is fresh milk or butter produced in Cuba offered.
Of the remaining 453,586,300 liters, most of it was provided by farmers who delivered 341,834,400 liters. Agricultural Production Cooperatives (CPA) and Basic Units of Cooperative Production (UBPCs) produced 111,751,900 liters.
Given their dispersal throughout the country, both private producers and cooperatives were assigned the task of ensuring that fresh milk reaches the majority of the ration stores in the municipalities that are contemplating the sale of milk.
This would be very important substitution for imports, as the price of a ton of milk powder exceeds 4,000 dollars, but it's unknown if, in the last legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power, the issue was analyzed by the deputies and government.
It seems that substituting for milk powder, which costs so much, for domestic production, is not among economic priorities of the current Cuban government.
With regards to milk production, the official press does not provide any information. When it does, it is very general. Evidently they are not authorized to go into detail on the matter.
Nine months into the present year we do not know how many millions of liters of milk are produced, how much has been destined for industry, what number of bodegas directly distribute it in how many municipalities, total households that receive it and what this represented in foreign exchange savings through import substitution.
The latest data available are for the period January to March, when there were 84,778,800 liters of milk. Of these, livestock enterprises reported a production of 11,297,800 liters, the remaining 73,481,700 liters were collected by cooperatives and private producers. The latter produced the most, with a delivery of 55,233,200 liters.
An example of how rapid the decline in milk production in livestock enterprises has been, we have in the province of Camagüey the largest producer of milk nationwide. In 2012, its dairies reported a production of 96,299,600 liters. Of that total, livestock enterprises only produced 43,896,600 liters. Between January and March of this year, it was reported that 14,507,500 liters were produced in Camagüey. Livestock enterprises only produced 761,800 liters.
Historically, drought served as justification to hide the poor results, but since June it has rained continuously throughout the island. Those who tore out the marabou weed, prepared the land and planted king grass so there would be no shortage of food for cows, and also provided the dairies with water and lighting for twice a day milking so that they could meet their respective production plans with no complications.
From January to August, most livestock enterprises, despite the good performance of the rain, recorded very low milk yields. Serious organizational problems, the lack of control, lack of demand, lack of foresight, have adversely affected production and brought these poor results.
By Osmar Laffita Red / ramsetgandhi@yahoo.com
From Cubanet
Author Translating CubaPosted on October 2, 2013 October 28, 2021 Categories Osmar Laffita
Hurricane Season: Risk of Collapse, If There is Wood, There are No Nails / Osmar Laffita Rojas
Havana, Cuba, September, Osmar Lafitta, www.cubanet.org — For many Cubans, having a house or apartment, even fifty-four years after the current rulers came to power, is an impossibility. Repairing or building a home using their own resources remains the only option for hundreds of thousands of families.
And the start of cyclone season is a time of great anxiety for many in the population.
There are 3,000,000 homes making up Cuba's housing stock. Of this figure 61% are reported to be in good condition. The rest, which have not been maintained for decades, are in poor condition.
The government's home construction programs are showing signs of accelerated decline due to the ineffective economic model imposed on the country, which has led to inefficiency and corruption.
The sign reads, "No unauthorized persons in the warehouse." Below it is a list of building materials and prices.
The blame for everything
The official position is that the embargo is to blame for everything. However, responsibility for the housing shortage rests with the all-powerful State, whose micro-brigades — made up of amateur carpenters and bricklayers — had a monopoly on home construction for almost half a century, denying the public the chance to repair or build their own homes.
This absurd centralization is what led to the very serious housing problem now facing the country. In 2008 Raúl Castro changed his tune. Now houses can be bought and sold, and credits and subsidies are available for those who do not have the money for construction materials. But…
Most Cubans who want to repair their homes earn only twenty dollars a month and cannot afford to pay five dollars for a bag of cement, or three and a half dollars for a cubic meter of sand. Businesses that sell construction material remain empty in every city in the country.
There are also shortages of concrete blocks, bricks, roofing tiles, and flooring material. The suppliers, using various excuses, cannot guarantee that these materials will ever be in stock.
To find what they need, customers must make pilgrimages to various flea markets. And when they do find it, they have to add transportation costs to the high price of the product.
The 90 points of sale and 33 stores that sell construction materials in Havana province have very few products available most of the time.
The situation is just as disastrous in Holguín province. The shortage of many materials poses a serious problem for its residents, who have still not been able to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
According to management
"The shortage of building materials is due to a lack of transportation. The stone mills have stockpiles of different types of aggregates and the cement factories' warehouses are packed but there are no trucks to get the material to the points of sale."
Even a partial solution to the serious housing shortage would require building no fewer than 70,000 units a year. Last year 26,000 were built. Of those only 1,000 were built by the State; the rest were built by the owners themselves.
In Havana the housing deficit is even more alarming. 5,471 families have spent more than a decade in temporary shelters. This figure does not include those living in buildings that have been declared uninhabitable, some of which are in danger of collapse. To prevent their roofs from falling in on them requires building 28,000 homes to house these people.
The effects of Sandy
Last year Hurricane Sandy destroyed thousands of houses in Guantánamo, Holguín and Santiago de Cuba. Before the storm, Santiago de Cuba had a total of 329,129 homes, 40% of which were reported to be in fair to poor condition. Sandy left the city in a state of chaos. In Santiago de Cuba 171,000 homes were damaged. One year later only 44% have been repaired.
Many residents complain that "there are no materials." When there is cement, there are no concrete blocks. When lumber arrives, there are no doors. If there are no windows or roofing tiles, then it becomes a veritable ordeal, which no one explains and which is never resolved. Where are the materials that are supposed to be going to the storm victims?
What are the commissions set up to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba doing?
In the three eastern provinces 26,000 homes were completely destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. In the first six months of this year, only 4,690 were rebuilt, an average of 130 houses per month in each of the affected provinces.
The situation is very serious. Forty-thousand homes damaged by previous cyclones to hit Cuba have not yet been repaired.
Among the things destroyed by Sandy were 61,310 homes, whose inhabitants are losing hope.
Osmar Laffita Rojas
Author Misc AuthorsPosted on September 27, 2013 December 18, 2017 Categories Osmar Laffita
Reservoirs Overflow While Farms Lack Water / Osmar Laffita Rojas
HAVANA, Cuba , September, www.cubanet.org – In Cuba there are 242 reservoirs, administered by the Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INRH). Together, these reservoirs can accumulate 9 billion cubic meters of water. Not to mention hundreds of small dams belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture and Sugar (AZCUBA), which have the capacity to store 500 million cubic meters.
But of the total reservoirs, 106 are not used. Without having a convincing explanation for why, the INRH has assigned resources to undertake the required maintenance.
In these dams out of service today, serious problems have accumulated over the years, leading to the paralyzing of the diverters, the master channels, and the irrigation systems so needed for the crops.
The unjustified waste of water accumulated in reservoirs , throughout the whole country, and its negative effect on agriculture, highlights the fact that the Cuban government has to allocate 1.8 billion dollars for food imports, most of which could be produced in Cuba without any problem.
The underutilized reservoirs are located in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Artemisa, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Camagüey, Holguín, Las Tunas and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud. In these territories, the use of reservoir water is down 75%. And in another 35 of these reservoirs water use is down 25%. However, in the territories mentioned, accumulate 566 million cubic meters of water with virtually no destination. These provinces, until recently, were noted for their high agricultural production.
To the problem of under-utilization of the accumulated water in the reservoirs, we must add 778 million cubic meters of water that could be used for fish farming.
The other issue for which INRH has no solution in the offing, is the leaks in the hundreds of miles of major canals and their connection and distribution networks. Due to the deterioration of age and lack of maintenance, millions of cubic meters of the precious liquid are lost every day.
Cuba has no major rivers. Their courses, generally from north to south, are short. The rainfall has become more erratic due to the greenhouse effect. Therefore, the filling of reservoirs and groundwater in recent years has not been as reliable as in the past.
The water problem in Cuba is potentially critical. According to the index of the potential availability of water per capita, the country ranks 105th out of 182 countries, with a range of consumption of 3,404 cubic meters of water per capita.
At present, the government talks a lot about the need to achieve food security as collateral for the material welfare of the population, but it is pure slogan and talk, without concrete results.
Author Misc AuthorsPosted on September 10, 2013 September 10, 2013 Categories Osmar Laffita
Self-employment or Private Property / Osmar Laffita
HAVANA, Cuba, 30 August 2013, www.cubanet.org – Resolution No. 32 of 7 October 2010, issued by the Ministry of Work and Social Security, relaxed private work with the approval of 181 activities of self-employment.
According to the newspaper Juventud Rebelde, on 17 August of this year, at the end of July licenses has been issued by the National Tax Administration Office (ONAT) to 436,342 people.
In a year and a half there was an increase of 110,395 Cubans who established these private micro-enterprises or contracted as workers of these small businesses. The government has directed — in the official press and satellite organizations, like the unions — that what, in reality, is private activity with owners and employees, is to be called self-employment.
At the end of July, the private businesses with major expansions were the snack bars and restaurants, cars and trucks engaged in carrying passengers and merchandise, and the renting of rooms and houses. These businesses account for 29% of the total.
Wage earners working for private owners
Cuba already has an incipient sector of private micro-enterprises. Of the total licenses issued by ONAT, 18% are to contract workers. Of them, 68% did not previously work for the State. Now they work as wage-earners for owners of private businesses.
The greatest number of people with licenses for self-employment are concentrated in the provinces of Havana, Matanzas, Villa Clara, Camagüey and Santiago de Cuba, which account for 65% of the licenses awarded in the country.
In the capital, at the end of July 110,000 people were engaged in private activity. In the municipalities within the capital, the greatest number of licenses were in Central Havana, with 10,479; Playa, with 9,915; Plaza, which registered 9,724; and Rancho Boyeros, which reports 9,514.
Materials on the black market
The government has not guaranteed the opening of wholesale markets so that the proprietors of these small businesses and micro-enterprises can acquire inputs to make their activities less onerous. To be able to keep their businesses open and meet their excessive tax obligations, the self-employers have not other option than to acquire resources on the black market. This means that the prices at which they sell their products and services are not within reach for the majority of Cubans, whose salaries don't exceed 20 dollars a month.
One element that has contributed to the capitalization, expansion and sustaining of private activity in Cuba has been the sending of family remittances from abroad. In the great majority of cases, they have made it possible for locals to cover the expenses of their businesses, buying inputs under the table, or on the hard currency stores — called "Stores for Collection of Hard Currency" (TRD) — at prices with a mark-up of 250% of the actual value.
Though the government doesn't report it, at the end of last year the remittances from Cubans living abroad, principally in the United States, totaled 2.605 billion dollars.
If this amount is added to the value of others items sent — food, medicines, appliances, clothing, shoes and trinkets of all kinds — the figure would rise to 5.105 billion dollars.
Remittances exceed revenues from tourism
Last year, remittances to Cuba greatly exceeded the revenue from tourism (2.613 billion dollars), nickel (1.413 billion), and the sale of medicines (0.5 billion). Indeed, if the costs of each item were known, the difference might be significantly greater.
The Cuban leaders, although they remain silent, know that relaxing controls on private activity has exponentially fostered the sending of remittances. This money contributes to the financing and consolidation of private micro-enterprise in Cuba, which even with its limitations, and despite all the obstacles imposed by the State, today constitutes the only moderately successful element of the reforms.
Osmar Laffita, Holguín, 1945. Merchant marine for 20 years. In 1991 he began working in tourism and did so until 1994. In 1993 he joined the Democratic Socialist Current, and in 2007 linked to the Democratic Solidarity Party. Since then he collaborates with Cubanet and Primavera de Cuba. e-mail: ramsertgandhii@yahoo.com
Author Translating CubaPosted on September 8, 2013 September 8, 2013 Categories Osmar Laffita


In today's video we're super-sizing the trashcan foundry into a giant garbage can kiln!This is an overall view of my furnace. As you can see it is made from a steel garbage can.
Any 5-7 gallon metal container will do the job.This is a 6 gallon trash can bought at the hardware store.Furnaces shouldn't be significantly larger than the material they are trying to melt- a greater volume will take more time and fuel to reach working temperature.
The "King of Random", as Grant Thompson (previously) is known, recently shared a video on how to make a simple and inexpensive mini metal foundry for melting pop cans and casting aluminum.
Metal foundries can reach temperatures in excess of 1,000ºC, which is well above the melting point of hobbyists. This project should only be attempted with adequate knowledge and training, proper protective safety gear, and in a fire resistant area with adequate ventilation.


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How to Fix Windows 10's New Critical Security Flaw (March 2020)
Windows 10 has a new security flaw, and it's already being exploited in the wild. You could be infected with malware just from downloading a file, as File Explorer will automatically open the file and preview it. Windows 7 has the same problem.
Microsoft announced this security hole on March 23, 2020. Microsoft says it is "aware of limited targeted attacks" that use flaws in the Adobe Type Manager Library. "There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit the vulnerability, such as convincing a user to open a specially crafted document or viewing it in the Windows Preview pane," according to Microsoft's security advisory.
The flaw affects all versions of Windows in active use: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, and various versions of Windows Server. (Of course, if you're using Windows 7 and aren't paying for extended security updates, you won't get a security patch.)
Microsoft is working on a fix and expects it to be available on the next Patch Tuesday - that is, April 14, 2020.
Until then, they explain how to use a workaround that will protect your PCs from the security flaw.
How to Protect Your PC
To work around the flaw, all you have to do is disable the Preview and Details panes in File Explorer (or Windows Explorer on older versions of Windows.) Windows won't automatically display previews of OTF font files, which will protect you.
You could still be attacked if you open a malicious file. However, simply viewing the file in File Explorer won't be a risk.
To do this, open File Explorer and click the "View" tab at the top of the window.
Ensure both the "Preview pane" and "Details pane" options in the Panes section are disabled. Click them to toggle them on and off.
Next, click the "Options" icon at the right side of the ribbon bar. If a menu appears, click "Change folder and search options."
Click the "View" tab. In the "Advanced Settings" box, enable the "Always show icons, never thumbnails" option.
You're done. Click the "OK" button to save your changes. Close all open File Explorer windows (or reboot your computer) to ensure your change takes effect.
On Windows 7, you'll have to change these same options. They're in a slightly different place in Windows Explorer.
First, click Organize > Layout and use the options in the menu to disable the Details pane and Preview pane.
Second, click Organize > Folder and search options in Windows Explorer to open the options window. Enable the "Always show icons, never thumbnails" option in the same place.
This change will only be necessary until Microsoft issues a security update that fixes the problem. After the company does, you can re-enable previews. (However, on Windows 7 without security updates, you'll probably want to leave it disabled permanently.)
Netwise 25.03.20
Albox City Council chooses Cambium Networks for its wireless traffic management network, IP public address and public WiFi
Albox town hall, has become one of the first Smartcity Municipalities in Spain. The project, based on the deployment of a Wireless Municipal Network , developed by Next Communications with Cambium Networks technology, allows improving mobility in certain areas of the municipality, thanks to a network of cameras and an IP public address system, in addition to offering access Free WiFi to neighbours.
The video surveillance system allows a more efficient control of vehicle traffic and optimum compliance with regulations. The network of cameras captures images of the traffic lanes and license plates of the vehicles that transit them, creating a registry to detect, in real time or at a specific moment, traffic infractions and road safety.
The Wireless Municipal Network connects with the Security Control Center, located at the Local Police Headquarters and includes IP Public Address services, which allow interaction with citizens in each area and make announcements of interest. It also offers free WiFi access to residents, which places the Municipality of Albox, as one of the first to join the European initiative WiFi4EU, whose goal is that, by 2020, all public spaces in the EU offer free Internet access.
Advice: Please remember that free WiFi accessable by anyone means that anyone could access your device. Do not use these systems to log into websites that need your password or to transmit sensitive information. Since it is a public and free network, the Town Council recommends not exchanging data that could put the citizen's privacy at risk, such as bank account numbers, credit cards or personal photographs.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice security risk found.
LibreOffice, an open source clone of Microsoft Office, has patched a bug that allowed attackers to execute commands of their choosing on vulnerable computers. A similar flaw in Apache OpenOffice remains unfixed.
A Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability was discovered in LibreOffice on Windows and Linux, and users are now recommended to update to the latest versions, as patches have already been issued.
While the vulnerability has already been resolved in LibreOffice, it looks like other Office productivity suites are affected as well, including OpenOffice.
OpenOffice is still unpatched right now, with no ETA as to when a fix could be shipped.
The security researcher confirms that OpenOffice 4.1.6 is the one vulnerable to attacks and the parent company acknowledged the issue, only that no known release date is available just yet.
Users are thus recommended to update to the latest version of LibreOffice as soon as possible, while those using OpenOffice should try to stay away from documents coming from untrusted sources as much as possible.
According to sources, OpenOffice users can mitigate the risk by removing or renaming the pythonscript.py file in the installation folder.
Windows 10 Defender Anti-Malware Update Problems
Microsoft warns that Windows 10 may not start on some computers after installing the latest monthly updates of the Windows Defender antimalware platform.
Affected resources
Computers with Windows 10 operating systems (Enterprise, Pro and Home) or Windows Server 2016.
According to Microsoft, it is working on a solution to the problem that will be published in a future update.
If your computer has been affected, follow the recommendations they offer from the Microsoft support center. If you have questions, go to a technical support service you trust to help you solve the problem.
However, remember that antimalware products must always be active and updated to be effective and protect you from viruses and fraud.
It is a bug that would affect those computers that have the Secure Boot function (version 4.18.1901.7) active in the BIOS. Additionally, this update could generate problems due to a change in the location of the update file path, which would cause many downloads to be blocked when the AppLocker, application execution control program and files are enabled.


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Indium(I)bromide is een chemische verbinding van indium en broom met de formule InBr. Dit zout vormt rode kristallen die isostructureel zijn met β-TlI: een verschoven steenzout-structuur.

Synthese
Indium(I)bromide wordt in het algemeen uit de elementen bereid, door het verhitten in vaccuum van indium(III)bromide met metallisch indium, of door reactie van indium met kwik(II)bromide bij 350 °C.
2 In \ + \ Br2 \ -> \ 2 InBr
2 In \ + \ InBr3 \ ->[\ce{300 \ - \ 400^{o}C}][\ce{Vaccuum}] \ 3 InBr

2 In \ + \ HgBr2 \ ->[\ce{ \ 350^{o}C \ }] \ 2 InBr \ + \ Hg

Toepassingen en reacties
InBr is gebruikt in de zwavellamp. In de organische synthese bleek het de koppeling van α,α-dichloorketonen tot 1-aryl-butaan-1,4-dionen te bevorderen. Met halogeenalkanen worden in een oxidatieve additie-reactie alkylindiumhalogenides gevormd en met nikkelbromide-complexen worden adducten gevormd met een directe nikkel-indium-binding. In waterige oplossingen is het instabiel: er wordt metallisch indium gevormd en indium(III)bromide.

Wanneer indium(I)tetrabromoindiaat(III), (In^{I}[In^{III}Br4]) wordt opgelost in water ontstaat, denkt men, InBr als een rood, onoplosbaar neerslag dat vervolgens snel ontleedt.

Verbinding van indium
Verbinding van broom

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Today's been one of "those days". It hasn't been bad-although there've been bad parts; and it hasn't been good-although, there've been some good parts too. But it's one of the days that leaves me, at it's end, asking myself what I'm doing.
Sometimes, I look back at a day or a week, and wonder if I'll ever learn. Today had a few of those experiences--the ones that, if you'd learned your lesson the last time, or two times ago, or five times ago, you'd be smiling about, as opposed to crying.
I, apparently, am thick-skulled. I just can't seem to get it right. And I find myself, on what seems like the fourth or fifth hole, playing my sixth or seventh mulligan--saying, "Hey, self: I've messed up again. Gimme another ball." At some point, you hesitate to stick your hand in the bag for fear that it'll be suddenly empty.
I stop, and look back over the course I've traversed thus far, and see my shots gone awry strewn all about the course, and I realize that, above all else, I'm simply an embarrassement when it comes to the game of life.
And I'm tempted to despair. No, that's not true; I promptly dive-bomb, emotionally, into the deepest pits of despair. At times, it feels like a permanent fixture in my life.
I think that's probably the single greatest struggle that I face when it comes to a relationship with God; how in the world could a God really love someone as messed up as I?
Because, I'll be honest with you--perhaps this says something about me as a Christian--but, for the most part, I don't really "feel" loved by God. I'm certain that He does love me, but often, the disconnect between my heart and my mind is so severe, I can't force myself to trust it fully.
Especially on these days, when I start counting the stray balls and the mulligans.
I took a few moments tonight to gaze back down the course of my life, and began examining, from this great distance, some of those embarrassing shots that landed me in the sand-traps of life. Some of them were near enough that I could see. Others were distant-far enough back that they were no more than a speck on a field of green. Others were so far behind me, they weren't even visible any more.
And then it struck me: despite the fact that I look back over the game, and I can't recall a single excellent stroke, but can see, in plain sight, the evidence of dozens of horrible shots, I stand here, on this fourth or fifth hole, having made some headway.
And I stood, speechless, for a moment. How is it that I've not made a single decent shot, yet I've progressed nicely down the course?
"It was me," I heard.
"I've been making the shots for you; you refused to acknowledge it, and kept trying to play the game alone, and I let you play. But I played alongside you. It's because of me you're still here.
"And so, what right do you have to think poorly of yourself? You win the game," He continued. "I'm insulted that you can't get over yourself long enough to let go of the lack of self-worth, and realize that, if I weren't playing the game with you, you'd not have budged from your starting point. Why don't you forget you for a while, and just be a tool that I can use to accomplish what I want to accomplish THROUGH you?"
I can truly relate to your mulligans as so does many many others. If you look at all the people of success from the secular to the Christian world. You have people that succeeded with many defeats at times. Look at the Old Testament from Moses to David they did great things, but look at their mistakes. And in the secular there's the Donald Trumps and others with bancrupties to failure after failure at times, but the key thing they had was they did not give up. They tryed and tryed.
God has given you a lot of talents and ambitions PJ, but the hard part and the key part is to channel those for God's benefit not ours. The bible says those that want to be great must be servant of all.
Even Jesus learned obedience with the things he suffered.
Unfornately we are not perfect and must rely on God who is, that's one reason why I think God allows us to make mistakes, is to rely on His perfection not ours.
you are not alone by any means. However, like you, I have heard that same voice, and have seen the perverbal, "footprints in the sand". I am so glad I don't have to "feel" God's love. He loves me anyway. I have have a hard time with accepting His love and trusting in His love. Retarded as it sounds, the 16 inches between my head and heart cause me the most torment. But I thank God that over the last 2 months or so, He has done a great work, through counseling and me commiting myself to more prayer and Bible reading, I am seeing a change in my perceptions and reactions. Far from where I want to be, but we are in a constant growing process in this game called life. Just know that along with God, there are many people along side you that love ya (dispite ya)and understand more that you know the stuggles you've expressed.
What does it mean that people love me...despite me?
green and just thinking, what am I even doing out here. I don't know a thing about this game and to tell the truth I couldnt hit the ball if my life depended on it, and if I was to somehow hit the ball where would it go. I lack any talent and I'm definetly not a 'Tiger Woods', yet as I stand back looking and thinking, I too hear that voice saying 'of course you cannot do it on your own, its because of me that you've progressed like you have, what better way for me to demonstrate my glory and power in your life.
Those who lack talent and ability, yet somehow win the game, those, those are mine.' Thanks For the post, puts life in perspective.


Come one, come all to Renewable Roundup!
What started as a few people milling around Fredericksburg in the early fall has turned into a true festival full of renewable energy companies, advocacy groups, policy ideas, excellent speakers and all the latest gadgets, from electric cars to smart meters. So please come this weekend to the Renewable Energy Roundup and Green Living Fair, from Friday September 24th at High Noon to Sunday at 3 Pm, Market Square, Fredericksburg, just some 90 miles west of Austin and a similar distance from San Antone. Sierra Club will be there in attendance, promoting our green, clean energy solutions to our economic and environmental crisis. You can show up at the door and purchase tickets (not to mention a few cool items and great food), or you can preregister at the website, or YOU CAN GO FOR FREE by volunteering.


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One very talked-about pattern that will continue to grow is to have a green home. This permits a couple of cook to be able to maneuver round and get things achieved. In lots of contemporary house plans and in virtually any of the other house plans available, you can get way more storage inbuilt than ever earlier than. You can get solar or geothermal at certain places. In the event you want you can have a customized storage to your motor home along side your own home. When considering log house packages, it must be borne in mind that different manufacturers' log house packages differ significantly within the completeness of the materials and elements included; therefore it may be tough to check the completely different manufacturers' offerings. As many homeowners of log properties have identified for years, a log residence is cooler in the summer and hotter within the winter. Speaking of garages, they are getting greater and have extra storage than earlier than.
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For some lottery winners landing the jackpot was a dream come true but others have found that money truly can't buy you happiness.
Colin and Chris Weir scooped Europe's biggest-ever lotto jackpot when they won £161million in 2011.
The bighearted Scottish couple, of Largs, Ayrshire, immediately spent £5million setting up The Weir Charitable Trust.
They are believed to have ploughed even more money in the project, which allows individuals and charities to apply for grants.
In 2014 a woman who won £27million on the Euromillions promised to give away £26million of the windfall.
Margaret Loughrey, 48, of Strabane, Northern Ireland, announced plans to keep just £1m of the jackpot.
She was unemployed and bought her winning ticket on the way home from the Job Centre.
Nigel and Sharon Mather, of Sale, Manchester, scooped £12.4 million on a lottery draw in 2010.
However, the win was tinged with sadness and came just a few years after the death of their niece Shadia, 18.
They donated some of their jackpot to the Francis House Hospice, which helped the teenager before she died of cancer.
Adrian and Gillian Bayford won a EuroMillions jackpot of more than £148.6 million in August 2012.
But just 15 months after the win the pair, of Haverhill, Suffolk, had split up and they now have new partners.
Adrian also faced legal action from a landscape gardener who claimed he attacked him.
Michael Carroll, was just 19 when he scooped more than £9 million in 2002.
The former binman gave £4m to friends and family and bought a mansion in Swaffham, Norfolk.
But he squandered the rest of his winnings on drugs, drink and gambling.
He had two spells in prison was declared bankrupt in 2010.
Mark Gardiner, who won a half share of £22.6 million in 1995, claims landing the jackpot ruined his life.
The former glazier, of Hastings, Sussex, has endured three failed marriages and says he was betrayed by his own mother following the win.
He also ended up falling out with some of his friends, including one who he bought a house, and faced several court claims for a share of the cash.
Mark said: "Whatever your problems, money magnifies them."
A scientific study has confirmed something many of us hoped wasn't true -- that men feel threatened by their female partners' success.
Psychologists Kate Ratliff from the University of Florida and Shigehiro Oishi from the University of Virginia conducted five different experiments with 896 participants overall to see how the men in heterosexual relationships were affected by their female partner's successes. The results are detailed in a paper published in the August 2013 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology -- and it's not pretty.
In one of the experiments, researchers asked 32 different couples to take a test that supposedly measured their intelligence. The tests were not actually graded, but each participant was told that their partner scored in either the top 12 percent or bottom 12 percent of all university students. Men whose partners allegedly scored in the top 12 percent scored lower on an implicit self-esteem test than those with partners who allegedly scored in the bottom 12 percent. In other words, when men's female partners were shown to have high intelligence, the men felt worse about themselves.
For the final two experiments, researchers recruited 657 participants to take an online test. The 284 male participants were asked to recall a time when their partner was successful in a specific area, for example intellectually or socially. They then took an implicit self-esteem test. The results showed that regardless or the type of success a woman had, their male partners felt bad after thinking about said accomplishments. This was especially true when their partner had succeeded in an area where the respondent had failed.
"It makes sense that a man might feel threatened if his girlfriend outperforms him in something they're doing together, such as trying to lose weight," Ratliff said in a press release. "But this research found evidence that men automatically interpret a partner's success as their own failure, even when they're not in direct competition."
According to Men's Health, this insecurity stems from the fact that "males are more likely to interpret 'my partner is successful' as 'my partner is more successful than me.'" Laura Tedesco suggests that men respond to news of their girlfriend or wife's success with a good attitude instead of seeing it as an affront to their own accomplishments. "Go ahead, bask in your own private victory," wrote Tedesco. "You've managed to snag a driven, capable woman. We call that success."


I started this blog in 2007 with the idea that I could share my experiences raising a child with special needs. My hope then as it is now – that I can grow The Special Parent to be a real resource for parents and loved ones with special needs children of all ages. I want to give you, information and experiences I've gathered over 26 years of rearing a physically, developmentally, and mentally disabled child. This by harnessing the internet I, and others, can share resources and provide a shoulder to lean on for one another. I believe that this information could be a roadmap of sorts to help guide you through your journey.
You're pregnant, and you've found out that you're going to have a special needs child.
You're still reeling from the shock that life with your new baby isn't going to be as you had dreamed and planned.
You're grappling with new information about your special needs child.
Your child developed special needs after an accident or illness, and you are dealing with a whole new world.
You've been doing this for a long time but you're encountering new struggles.
You've made it to high school, and suddenly you realize that graduation is around the corner. "Now what?" is the question weighing on your heart.
You're getting older and afraid of what will happen when you're no longer here.
My mission is to grow The Special Parent to be a real resource for parents with special needs children of all ages. I know this blog won't be all things to all people. It can't possibly be. I hope that it will speak to you and your situation. Perhaps the review of a book or a retelling of one of many IEP meetings I've attended will give you a place to go – or a place to avoid! Most of all, I hope that we can take that journey together, and somehow it will make navigating the system of the special needs/disability world you're about to travel, just a little bit easier.


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Mild ale
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Mild ale originally meant a young ale, as opposed to a "stale" aged or old ale. It is now more often interpreted as being mildly hopped.
This style of beer originated in Britain in the 17th century or earlier, and has a predominantly malty palate. Modern mild ales are mainly dark-coloured with an alcohol by volume (ABV) of 3% to 3.6%, although there are lighter-hued examples as well as stronger examples reaching 6% abv and higher.
Light mild is generally similar, but pale in colour, for instance Harveys Brewery Knots of May. There is some overlap between the weakest styles of bitter and light mild, with the term AK being used to refer to both. The designation of such beers as "bitter" or "mild" has tended to change with fashion. A good example is McMullen's AK, which was re-badged as a bitter after decades as a light mild. AK (a very common beer name in the 19th century) was often referred to as a "mild bitter beer", interpreting "mild" as "unaged".
Once sold in every pub, mild experienced a sharp decline in popularity in the 1960s and was in danger of completely disappearing, but the increase of microbreweries has led to a modest renaissance and an increasing number of milds (sometimes labelled "Dark") being brewed.
The Campaign for Real Ale has designated May as Mild Month. In the United States, a group of beer bloggers organised the first American Mild Month for May 2015, with forty-five participating breweries across the country.[1]
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"Mild" was originally used to designate any beer which was young, fresh or unaged and did not refer to a specific style of beer. Thus there was Mild Ale but also Mild Porter and even Mild Bitter Beer. These young beers were often blended with aged "stale" beer to improve their flavour. As the 19th century progressed public taste moved away from the aged taste; unblended young beer, mostly in the form of Mild Ale or Light Bitter Beer, began to dominate the market.[2]
In the 19th century a typical brewery produced three or four mild ales, usually designated by a number of X marks, the weakest being X, the strongest XXXX. They were considerably stronger than the milds of today, with the gravity ranging from around 1.055 to 1.072 (about 5.5% to 7% abv). Gravities dropped throughout the late 19th century and by 1914 the weakest milds were down to about 1.045, still considerably stronger than modern versions.[3]
The draconian measures applied to the brewing industry during the First World War had a particularly dramatic effect upon mild. As the biggest-selling beer, it suffered the largest cut in gravity when breweries had to limit the average OG of their beer to 1.030. In order to be able to produce some stronger beer - which was exempt from price controls and thus more profitable - mild was reduced to 1.025 or lower.[4]
Modern dark mild varies from dark amber to near-black in colour and is very light-bodied. Its flavour is dominated by malt, sometimes with roasty notes derived from the use of black malt, with a subdued hop character, though there are some quite bitter examples. Most are in the range 1.030–1.036 (3–3.6% abv).
Light mild is generally similar, but paler in colour. Some dark milds are created by the addition of caramel to a pale beer.
Until the 1960s mild was the most popular beer style in England.[5] Pockets of demand remain, particularly in the West Midlands and North West England, but has been largely ousted by bitter and lager elsewhere.[6] In 2002, only 1.3% of beer sold in pubs was Mild.[7] Mild's popularity in Wales, in particular, persisted as a relatively low-alcohol, sweet drink for coal miners.[citation needed] Some brewers have continued to produce mild, but have found it sells better under a different name: for instance, Brains's mild was renamed Dark.[8] Outside the United Kingdom mild is virtually unknown, with the exception of Old in New South Wales and some microbrewery recreations in North America and Scandinavia. Some notable examples of Milds are: Bank's Mild, Cain's Dark Mild, Highgate Dark Mild, Brain's Dark, Moorehouse Blackcat, Rudgate Ruby Mild, and Theakston Traditional Mild
Brown and mild[edit]
A popular drink in the West Midlands, "brown and mild" (also known as a "boilermaker") is a half pint of draught mild served mixed with a half pint of bottled brown ale in a pint glass. In North West England, a mixture of half a pint of mild and half a pint of bitter is known as a "mixed". In Norfolk, the same mixture was called a pint of "twos".
Brewing[edit]
Mild ales are generally based on mild malt or pale malt. Most milds contain, in addition, a quantity of crystal malt; dark milds, meanwhile, make use of chocolate malt, black malt or dark brewing sugars. Milds tend to be lightly hopped compared to pale ale and are usually low in alcohol; strong mild ales used to reach six or seven per cent abv, but very few such beers are still brewed. Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild, brewed to a pre-World War I recipe, is a rare example of a strong Mild (6.0% ABV).
As part of the first American Mild Month, the project organizers challenged participating breweries to create a new variation on the mild ale style by brewing with American malts and hops. They defined American Mild as "a restrained, darkish ale, with gentle hopping and a clean finish so that the malt and what hops are present, shine through".[9]
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^ "American Mild Month". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
^ Sutula, David (1999). Mild ale : history, brewing techniques, recipes. Boulder, Colo.: Brewers Publications. pp. 35–37. ISBN 9780937381687.
^ Sutula, David (November 1997). "Brewing in Styles: Mild Ale - Back from the Brink of Extinction?". Brewing Techniques Magazine. 5 (6).
^ "Buy Amber Gold and Black, the British beer styles bible". 1 September 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
^ Good Beer Guide 2006, ISBN 1-85249-211-2, p28
^ Statistical Handbook 2003, British Beer and Pub Association, ISSN 1475-3545, page 21
^ Brains Dark Archived 2013-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
^ "American Mild Month: An American Mild?". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
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The Greatest Corvettes in Motorsports
The original Corvette was created by Chevrolet in an effort to steal some thunder from popular British sports cars, but the Vette itself wasn't much of a performer. It was saddled with a weak straight-six engine and a two-speed automatic gearbox. After a few years of mediocre sales, the Corvette would finally gain its trademark V8 and a four-speed manual. Successive generations of the car would go on to be campaigned in the likes of Le Mans and Daytona, and it's become a common sight at endurance races all over the world. Read on to learn about our favorite Corvettes to hit the track, from GM teams and from privateers.
'53 NASCAR Racer
As we mentioned, the Corvette was hurting in its first years on sale. For 1955, GM barely moved 700 examples of the car, so they turned to NASCAR and its rising popularity for a marketing push. Although this is a 1953 model Corvette, it wasn't converted a race car until early 1956, when the engineers gutted it. They replaced the old underwhelming driveline with a 256 cubic inch V8 and a three-speed manual. The body was given a streamlined speedster treatment, with a fiberglass panel covering up the passenger compartment.
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The Vette went on to be raced for three years, around stock car tracks in North Carolina. It also raced at Daytona Beach a few times, back before it even had pavement. The performance of this sports car must have won at least a few hearts, because it preceded a sharp sales increase for Chevy, and 60 plus years of Corvette models.
'63 Stingray Grand Sport
In 1963, team Corvette's head engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov wanted to put the Shelby Cobra in his crosshairs. To take on the lightweight roadster, he devised the Corvette Grand Sport: a stripped out racer based on the new Stingray design. The car featured advanced cooling systems, feeding an all-aluminum 337 ci V8 that put down 550 horsepower. The car was a formidable performer, and Zora planned to build more than 100 of them.
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GM execs unfortunately canned the Grand Sport program before it could properly hit the track, and only five were ever built. Each car had slightly different modifications, and two them were produced with roadster bodies. After the dismissal of the program their racing engines were scrapped, and the chassis were sold into private hands. A few of them were fitted with big block engines, and had semi-successful track careers through the mid-60's, but we can never really know what the full potential of the car might look like. Similarly to the Cobra, Superformance now produces full replica versions of the Grand Sport, so that's about as close as most of us will have to experiencing the real thing.
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'94 Callaway Supernatural
When GM pulled the Vette out of motorsports in '63, it was nearly for good. There wouldn't be a factory Corvette team again for over 30 years. In the meantime, third party tuner Callaway stepped in to fill those shoes, with highly modified examples of the aging C4 platform. The car was called the Supernatural, and featured brand new aerodynamic bodywork, almost looking forward to later Corvette production designs. The bubbly front cowl with fixed headlights didn't quite mesh with the C4's straight bodylines, but it provided its function.
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Underneath was a NASCAR-derived 6.3 liter V8 outfitted with electronic fuel injection. The engine was outfitted with all forged internals because Callaway intended it to be campaigned in the endurance races of Daytona and Le Mans. The Supernatural ran through 1996, taking a few podiums through that time, and paving the way for Chevy's big factory return to the circuit.
'99 C5.R
That big return was with the C5.R. Thanks to official backing from GM the race car was able to be developed concurrently with the production C5, and debuted a year afterwards. Compared to the street Vette, this C5.R was longer, wider, with more aggressive aero. At the rear was a large spoiler. Up front, the pop-up headlights were replaced with fixed plexiglass housings. Under the hood was an intensely tuned version of the LS1 V8, punched out to seven liters and putting down over 600 horsepower. With this car, Chevy saw success in both American and European endurance series, and team Corvette has been going strong ever since.
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This motorsports history culminates with the brand new C8.R. Like the standard C8 this car departs radically from previous Corvettes. The engine has been moved backwards a good three or four feet. The design of the powerplant is also new, ditching the old pushrod design in favor of a 5.5-liter V8 with dual overhead cams and a flat-plane crankshaft. It shoves 500 horsepower through a six-speed sequential gearbox and fat, slick tires. A wide track and diffusers all around keep the car stuck firmly to the ground, while weight saving materials let it shed 800 pounds off the road car. This design has already taken a few wins for Team Corvette, and is all but guaranteed to rack up more as the years go on.
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Margaret Sarah Welby1
F, #607011, d. 21 April 1948
Last Edited=6 Dec 2014
Margaret Sarah Welby was the daughter of Edward Montague Earle Welby and Sarah Elizabeth Everard.2 She died on 21 April 1948, unmarried.1
Reverend Philip James Earle Welby1
M, #607012, b. 28 July 1842, d. 25 August 1873
Reverend Philip James Earle Welby was born on 28 July 1842.1 He was the son of Sir Glynne Earle Welby-Gregory, 3rd Bt. and Frances Cholmeley.2 He died on 25 August 1873 at age 31.1
He was Rector at Stroxton, Lincolnshire, England.1
Hugh Richard Earle Welby1
M, #607013, b. 1845, d. 28 May 1862
Hugh Richard Earle Welby was born in 1845.1 He was the son of Sir Glynne Earle Welby-Gregory, 3rd Bt. and Frances Cholmeley.2 He died on 28 May 1862, aboard H.M.S. James Watt.1
He gained the rank of officer in the Royal Navy.1
Mary Greenhow1
Mary Greenhow married John Bowerbank, son of John Bowerbank and Mary Cannon, in 1791 at Skelton, Cumbria, England.1
From 1791, her married name became Bowerbank.1
Child of Mary Greenhow and John Bowerbank
Frances Bowerbank1 b. 1792
[S6629] Michael Twist, "re: Heward Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 2 April 2013. Hereinafter cited as "re: Heward Family."
Arthur Edward Copland-Griffiths1
Child of Arthur Edward Copland-Griffiths
Alice Desirée Copland-Griffiths+2 b. c 1878, d. 27 Feb 1969
Alice Desirée Copland-Griffiths1
F, #607016, b. circa 1878, d. 27 February 1969
Alice Desirée Copland-Griffiths was born circa 1878.1 She was the daughter of Arthur Edward Copland-Griffiths.2 She married Lt.-Col. Sir Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby, son of Sir Glynne Earle Welby-Gregory, 3rd Bt. and Frances Cholmeley, on 15 February 1898.1 She died on 27 February 1969.1
From 15 February 1898, her married name became Welby.
Children of Alice Desirée Copland-Griffiths and Lt.-Col. Sir Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby
Helen Cicely Desirée Gregory2 b. 14 Dec 1898, d. 25 Jun 1902
Amyse Mary Gregory+2 b. 5 Oct 1900
Major Rannulf Alfred Earle Gregory2 b. 23 Nov 1902
Desirée Ann Eda Welby+2 b. 17 May 1904
Major Rannulf Alfred Earle Gregory1
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Major Rannulf Alfred Earle Gregory was born on 23 November 1902.1 He was the son of Lt.-Col. Sir Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby and Alice Desirée Copland-Griffiths.2 He married Elizabeth Marjorie Buchanan Smith, daughter of James Smith, on 22 April 1938.1
He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England.1 He fought in the Second World War.1 He gained the rank of Major in the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army.)1 He was awarded the Territorial Decoration (T.D.)1
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Child of James Smith
Elizabeth Marjorie Buchanan Smith2
Elizabeth Marjorie Buchanan Smith is the daughter of James Smith.2 She married Major Rannulf Alfred Earle Gregory, son of Lt.-Col. Sir Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby and Alice Desirée Copland-Griffiths, on 22 April 1938.1
Troon.1 Elder.1 Her married name became Gregory. She lived Crosbie Tower.1
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F, #607020, b. 14 December 1898, d. 25 June 1902
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Helen Cicely Desirée Gregory was born on 14 December 1898.1 She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. Sir Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby and Alice Desirée Copland-Griffiths.2 She died on 25 June 1902 at age 3.1


Portsmouth have confirmed new contracts have been offered to England goalkeeper David James, defenders Hermann Hreidarsson and Ricardo Rocha as well as veteran forward Kanu.
The Fratton Park club - £138million in debt - are preparing for life in the Coca-Cola Championship and hope to come out of administration, which saw them docked nine points by the Premier League, for the start of the new campaign.
On Tuesday administrator Andrew Andronikou revealed the club hoped to retain some of their first-team squad to give Pompey a "firm base" on which to build.
While it remains to be seen whether manager Avram Grant, who is a target for West Ham, will be in charge next season, the south coast club hope Wednesday's news will provide a positive start going forwards.
James will turn 40 in the summer, and has yet to confirm his plans for after the World Cup.
Hreidarsson, 35, missed the end of the season and the FA Cup final at Wembley with an Achilles injury.
Rocha, the 31-year-old former Portugal international, and Kanu, 33, are seen as key to giving Pompey some much-needed experience next season.
Promising youngsters Lenny Sowah, Joel Ward and Marlon Pack will also be retained.
However, many of the on-loan players - like Jamie O'Hara and Aruna Dindane, a target for Bolton - will return to their parent clubs.
Anthony Vanden Borre, though, could come back if a deal can be agreed with Genoa. Veteran defender Steve Finnan is among those released.