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Hello guys. It's Librarian Husky here today, going League Of Legends here I thought I would do kind of like a special guide for you guys, which we haven't done before. We're going to talk about champion pools and how you actually go through selecting your champions and hopefully are going to do. It's going to provide you with a really invaluable insight into how the best coaches in the world. Pick the champions for their teams and also how we should think about picking our champions in solo queue as well.
So when we queue up for ranked games, lots of people think that the game starts when you hit the riff. Well, really, it doesn't. It starts in champ selection because the champion selection process is the first part of the game. And I'm sure you've heard before of people saying it's gg and champ select champ selective. This sometimes can be the case, especially if matchups are so one-sided that the enemy team doesn't even matter if they play perfectly. It's just over because of how their champions interact with the enemy champions. So we certainly have to take champ selection seriously, and this is what this guide is about. so in my opinion, there are two ways to go about thinking about picking your champions.
1v1 champion
First of all, you have the 1v1 champion. So all you're looking at on the enemy team. is who your opponent is picking, so if you're a top planer, you're looking at the enemy top laner. If you're a mid laner, you're looking at the enemy mid laner and so on. Picking like this is good for you of course because you're doing what's best for your lane. Even if you're blind picking, if you're in the mid lane, you can Picari. She doesn't have any hard counters.
So you know you're going to be useful in the 1v1, but when this can get tricky is when you start picking champions who have lots of counters, and you don't even have a chance in the 1v1. So let's say you're picking a very notorious lane dominant champion like an Urgot, for example. Well, even though he is good in late. There are certain matchups that he's going to struggle with and because Urgod has a big weakness in team fights because he can get kited so easily, and it's not like you're playing Malphite. There is so much pressure on you to win the lane when you pick this champion because you don't really bring anything to the mid to late game 5v5s. So these are really strong dominant lane champions.It's a very high risk. You're picking one of these champions to dumpster your opponent in the first 10 minutes, and that's where you snowball and take over. but the issue of these champions Darius might be another one maybe said. Is that if you don't win your lane, the game could well be over just because of the champion you're picking.
So what I'm trying to say here. If you're picking one of these champions that do not bring a lot to the 5v5 parties, then you have to be very careful about blind picking a champion like Darius or blind picking your champion like set because they definitely have bad matchups. Same thing if you're picking Kaiser in the bot lane. There are 80 carriers who you just don't want to go against. If you're blind-picking Lucian, you do not want to see Draven locked in on the enemy team. So by thinking about winning your lane sometimes, you can actually cuck yourself because lots of these champions can get counted. So, in my opinion, the best way for you guys to think about blind picking in sham selection is to pick a balanced champion. So someone who can win lane but also someone who brings something to the team environment because team fights are gonna happen, scuttle crap skirmishes are going to happen. So how do we then pick a champion who's going to be useful for our team? well, what I'm really getting at here is utility.
Utility Champs
So someone who brings some sort of Crowd control or set up to a team. This could be something like movement speed, so maybe a clad ultimate this could be something like a Sivir ultimate as well, maybe an ash arrow for the hard Crowd control a Malphite ultimate, of course, these are the popular ones but. If we mention Malphite, some lanes he really struggles in because he's not a dominant lane champion like a Darius, let's say. But there are matchups where Malphite does very well, so into attack speed champions like Tryndamere and Jax, for example, and of course, he's going to be more useful than these champions in team fights. So Malphite is a very nice balanced champion for the most part. But there are going to be champ selects were picking this utility.
So if you're picking a Malphite top lane, if you're picking Sivir as an ad carry, really just for the ultimate, this leaves you vulnerable during the laning phase and what it might also mean is that if your team doesn't have enough damage or too much utility, for example, You might have a twisted fate mid a Malphite top a civil radio carries like where is the damage going to come from in a team composition like that. So you also have to take into account. Does this team need damage, or does it need utility? If it needs a bit of both, then that's what you have to take into account. But then the next question we have to ask, and you can already see how complex kind of champ select can be, especially in the pro scene. Then we have to take into account what type of damage the team needs.
I pick fight into a Jackson, Tryndamere. Well, I've already got an Ability power jungle. And I've got an ap mid laner and my supporter Leona who does magic damage. So if the enemy team builds any sort of magic resist, this might come in the form of heck string can murk treads banshee's veil would be a big cuck against that team. Then Malphite is just not the answer even. It's really good into the enemy top lane and like a Jax or a Tryndamere. You are going to reduce the effectiveness of your teammates, which is what you have to think about as well.
So, in that case, you know you need to go an attack damage champion to give your team mixed damage in the damage output. You don't just want one source of damage because it makes it very easy for the enemy champions to itemize against. So you might even be an Attack Damage Carry, but being an Attack Damage Carry sometimes your teammates are gonna lock in three attack damage champions in the top jungle and mid-lane rolls. This leaves you really with no choice but to pick something like a Veigar or Cassiopeia or a Ziggs, an ap carry champion who can work in the bot lane. Or you're just really leaving it to your support like a brand or a Zyra to be locked in, and sometimes these support players won't even play these champions. So having a champion pool that answers all of these questions is going to leave you bulletproof and champ slick because as players in jam selector picking, their champion's weaknesses grow and strengths grow. So what you're really trying to do is cover all of your weaknesses, and even the lose conditions you might have. So if you just ask yourself in champ select. How do we lose this game? Well, this game becomes infinitely harder if I lock in X champion. But if I look in y champion well, that actually balances out our damage and also gives us some setup that we kind of desperately need. So you might have a Zed in the mid lane and Nidalee jungle, and you might have a bot lane like Samira and maybe Alistar.
Now Alistar, it's all on him really to provide the setup for that team, so you could even consider something like a Camille locking the enemy champions down in her ultimate is going to allow the Alistar to come in. landing her hook shot is going to allow the Nidalee to land her spear. And all of a sudden, we have a team composition because the team fights, you know games are going to last like at least 30 minutes on average they are going to happen. So instead of just tunnel visioning our lane, which, don't get me wrong. It is a viable strategy, especially in solo queue, because winning lane is the first thing we have to do. But sometimes, it's not always the best thing because the other champions our teammates have picked might not even need you to win late. So I know this might sound kind of complex, and it might be a little in-depth. But these are just general ideas we need to think about and maybe in a future guide. I can even go through some drafts and talk you guys through what the best picks are during each phase of the champ select process.
Early and Late
Now the last thing we really have to touch on is this idea of the early and late game because there are champions who obviously prosper in the early stages of a game. So a champion like Wukong and the top lane a Kalista, a champion like an attack damage Shaco with halo blades that ignite in the jungle. These champions pack a punch in the early levels and when level 6 comes around. But there are other champions in the game who excel when the late game hits, so champions like vega kale, a champion like Yone, attack damage carry like Jinx, or supports like Sona and Soraka. When the game gets the late game, so you release two to three items deep, that's when these champions can pop up. But you don't really want a team full of late-game champions because of the chances of you actually getting to 25-30 minutes. They're very small, especially if you're playing against a very strong early-game team composition. So the enemy team might have Darius top Rek'sai in the jungle, and then they might have a strong laning Ability power mid laner like a Syndra.
Who can work around the wreck signs set up kills for, and they might even have a bot lane like Kalista and Alistar. This is a very early game kill dominant snowball team composition. So let's say against this team, your teammates have already picked some late-game champions. You might have a Kayle in the mid lane, you might have a fiddle six in the jungle in the top lane, you might have an Aatrox, and in the bolt lane, we're still waiting to pick our champions. So in that team competition, you would really have to pick something that does well in the early game to protect your team. You do not want to have five late-game champions going against five early-game champions because, let me tell you, that is only going to end one way. Suppose everyone is at the same skill level, of course, so you can gap them in terms of skill. But we just have to trust riot's matchmaking system that everyone in the game is going to be around the same skill level. So this is why champ selection is going to matter even more, and on the flip side of that, if you have a very early game team, well, that is when you can afford to pick a late-game champion. So let's just say from the jungle to the support role, there's a bunch of early game champions, and the bot lane is probably going to be the side your jungle paths awards.
Well, in that case, you can pick a top laner, maybe like Ornn or a Gangplank or a Camille, someone who is just going to happily scale into a game they don't need their teammates or their jungle to come top because they're always going to be fine that would be an excellent pick, and it doesn't even matter how bad the 1v1 is because you're always going to be useful in a game like that. So also be aware, guys, not just of the profile of the champion you're picking. So are they attack damage, are they magic damage, are they early, are they late game-oriented. But also be aware of your team because the best teams work when each individual player is complementing one another. it doesn't matter if you have the five best champions in the meta. They might all be late-game champions, so the team isn't going to be that cohesive, and it's not going to have the champion synergy to give them the best chance of winning. So hopefully, this general champion pool champion selection guide was useful to you guys.
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I hope everyone who celebrated Easter had as lovely a holiday as I did! Although last week's weather here certainly didn't feel like spring, my family and I began our Easter preparations anyway, hard-boiling and dyeing eggs, baking Easter egg bread, and buying Wardynski sausage for Sunday brunch.
Judging by many other blog posts I've read over the past couple of days, I know I'm not the only one who overate on Sunday, but I still wanted to bake yesterday. The placek was almost gone, and the cupcakes had all been given away (luckily!) There are still jellybeans in a glass bowl and chocolate bunnies sitting in a basket filled with plastic green grass, but those will last and be a reminder of the holiday. I wanted to preheat the oven, crack some eggs, measure sugar and flour into bowls, stir things together and smell something baking. So I made these biscotti. Nothing indulgent, but enough to satisfy that sweet tooth after dinner.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar and extracts and set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, almonds, cinnamon, baking soda and salt until well mixed. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and stir until a dough forms. Divide the dough in half and knead slightly until it comes together into a soft dough, forming two 12" ropes and place them side by side on the parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until the tops are golden brown and slightly cracked, 25 to 30 minutes.
Let the logs cool for about 10 minutes, then transfer to a cutting board. Slice into 1/4" to 1/2" thick slices and lay them on the baking sheet and bake in a 325-degree oven for 10 minutes on one side, then 10 minutes on the other side.
Let them cool completely and store in an airtight container for a week.
I used the buttery orange cake and orange curd recipes from the Orange Grove Cake in The Cake Book by Tish Boyle. I don't get to use this book as often as I'd like because it makes big layer cakes, cakes that would take my family a very long time to finish. I decided to divide this cake batter into cupcakes (and a small 6" layer cake) and fill them with the curd. Instead of the Swiss meringue buttercream recipe used in the book, I iced these with cream cheese frosting, which I think most people find more palatable anyway.
While falling asleep last night I decided to get kitschy with the decoration and go all-out green-dyed Easter coconut grass and M&M's to represent little eggs, but on any other occasion I would have whipped up some homemade candied orange peel, perhaps dipped in white (or dark) chocolate, to go on top.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and line a cupcake pan with papers.
Sift together the cake flour, baking powder and salt and set aside. In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until very light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each one is added. Mix in the orange zest, then the dry ingredients alternating with the orange juice and milk, mixing until everything is well incorporated at the end.
Divide the batter evenly among the cupcake pan, then bake until light golden around the edges and a toothpick inserted comes out clean, 15-20 minutes. Let the cupcakes cool completely before filling and icing.
In a medium-sized saucepan, stir together all of the ingredients and place over medium-high heat. Bring the mixture to a boil and let it get thick. Cook and stir constantly for 1 minute, then remove the pan from heat and scrape the mixture into a bowl. Cover the surface with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled, about an hour.
In a mixing bowl, mix the cream cheese and butter together until very creamy, then add the sugar, salt and vanilla extract. Increase the speed to medium-high and beat until very light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
When the cupcakes have cooled, cut out small cones from the tops of them and fill with about a tablespoon of the orange curd. Replace the cone tops, then ice with the frosting and decorate as desired.
I've been searching for a great gluten free sugar cookie for at least 3 years now - since my brother and sister-in-law got engaged. I attempted to make engagement cookies in wedding cookie shapes, conjoined heart shapes, even little tiny hearts. I could get them off of the baking sheets if I was incredibly careful but decorating was an entirely different story - they crumbled to bits and pieces at the merest sight of wet icing. Quite disappointing, to say the least!
I've literally dreamt about making gluten free Easter cookies now for about a month. I'm not saying this recipe is perfect, but it certainly works. I don't get along well with tapioca starch for some reason (I've always felt it leaves a slightly metallic aftertaste), but for now, this will do nicely.
My requirements while researching a gluten free sugar cookie recipe were pretty slim: it had to call for separate gluten free flours, rather than a mix, and I had to have all the flours in my house. We spend a lot of money buying gluten free flours and I couldn't justify going out and buying 2 or 3 more just for this purpose. The only other requirement was that the recipe had to include a picture on the blog or site I found it from so I knew their structure was up to handling and decorating. Luckily, I found this one at one of the best gluten free blogs out there - The Baking Beauties.
They could be a little thicker and hold their shape better while baking, but I'm not complaining. They're tender, buttery and delicious and if you're looking for a great gluten free sugar cookie, try this one!
In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter, shortening and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla and milk, then mix again until fully combined.
In a small bowl, whisk or sift together the flour, starches, gelatin, baking powder, salt and xanthan gum, then add this to the creamed mixture, making sure everything is well mixed. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2-3 hours or up to 3 days.
When you're ready to cut out the cookies, take the dough out of the fridge to soften for about 10-15 minutes and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Roll out the dough on a rice flour-dusted surface (or on wax paper) to about 1/2" thick and cut out desired shapes, placing them on the baking sheet. Bake until the edges are golden brown, about 8-12 minutes, depending on how thick your cookies are. Let them cool completely before icing and freeze up to a month in an airtight container.
Decorate your heart away with royal icing or a simple confectioner's sugar frosting :) I realize the dots on mine give them a chicken pox-look but I swear they look more appetizing in person! Inspiration for the egg-chicks came from the lovely and talented Glorious Treats.
These are light, springy muffins that go perfectly with tea or coffee for breakfast and brunch. They reminded me of what graham crackers would taste like in muffin form, I suppose from the honey-oat combination, and they were delicious.
The original recipe for these gives 18 as the yield - I got 12 and I always get more cupcakes or muffins out of a recipe! I also left out the orange zest because I didn't have any on hand, but feel free to add the zest of any citrus as well as any dried fruit or nut you'd like.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. and grease a 12-cup muffin pan or line with papers and set aside.
In a small bowl, whisk together the egg and ricotta cheese. In another bowl, whisk the softened butter with the honey until creamy, then stir in the ricotta mixture, oatmeal, baking soda and flour and stir until everything is just combined. Divide the batter among the muffin cups and bake for 15-20 minutes, until golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let cool on a wire rack, then store airtight up to 3 days.
While on a search for traditional Easter recipes, I found this one. I have to say, I like these more than the last batch of hot cross buns I made a couple of years ago! They're called biscuits, but because it's a British recipe, this means cookie in America. The dough is put together like a biscuit dough, however, and they come out with an amazing combination of chewy dried fruit and tender cookie.
If you're looking for something new to bake this Easter, I highly recommend these. The dough is a bit sticky but just make sure to use plenty of flour when rolling and cutting and you'll be fine. If you don't want to glaze them, I think a sprinkling of turbinado or regular granulated sugar would also be pretty. Although the recipe states 18 biscuits, I got 21 easily, and probably could have squeezed out a few more if I felt like rolling the dough another time. Since I had raisins on hand and they're much less expensive than currants, I just chopped them finely, but feel free to use currants instead.
In a small bowl, toss the raisins and brandy together, then let the raisins sit for 10 minutes.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine the flours, spices, salt and sugar until everything is well mixed. Cut the butter into the dry mixture until crumbly, then stir in the egg, vanilla extract and brandy-soaked raisins. Stir until a smooth dough forms, then turn out onto a floured surface and roll to 1/4" to 1/2" thick. Using a 2" cutter (or any shape you'd like), cut and transfer the shapes to the baking sheet and bake for about 18 to 25 minutes. The biscuits should be golden brown around the edges.
Whisk the confectioner's sugar and milk together to make a thin glaze. Brush the glaze over the warm cookies, then let them dry. Brush the cookies again with a second coating, creating a shiny covering. Let the cookies cool completely before storing up to 5 days.
Sometimes I take for granted what a luxury it is to bake. Baking ingredients aren't a necessity like vegetables and fruit are for healthy, substantial meals. Butter, sugar, flour, chocolate, nuts - these ingredients are an indulgence to keep in the cupboard and sometimes it takes an unfortunate instance to bring us back to reality. It's not that anything earth-shattering happened but last night before bed I thought "Hmm, brown butter blondies with toasted coconut, dried pears and pistachios... " So this morning I woke up, made a batch, portioned them into mini cupcake pans (because I apparently have to make everything miniature), put them in the oven and you know what happened? The tops expanded and became crispy and dark while the insides sunk and were raw in the middle. I couldn't bear to throw them away, so they're sitting on a piece of foil right now, waiting to be dealt with. Blondie cake balls, anyone?
This cake was perfect for a rainy Wednesday with a cup of tea. Lightly spiced, soft and comforting.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and lightly grease a 9" cake pan or square pan and set aside.
In a medium bowl, combined the flour, cinnamon and cloves and mix with a fork. Add the molasses and melted butter and use a large spoon to mix into a smooth batter. Stir the baking soda into the warm water and then add it to the flour mixture, stirring until you have a smooth and thin batter. Quickly pour into the prepared pan and bake for 20-30 minutes. The cake should be very golden brown on top with a slight shine and a toothpick inserted in the middle will come out clean when it's done.
Let the cake cool on a wire rack or kitchen towel before serving. Store leftover cake, wrapped in plastic, up to 3 days.
I had to get my chocolate fix in somehow ;) I added peanut butter and milk chocolate chips just to use up half of a bag I had in the cupboard, but feel free to add semisweet, bittersweet, white, mint chips, toasted walnuts or pecans, dried cherries, whatever makes you happiest! I like to make these tiny for some reason but I imagine they'd make amazing ice cream sandwiches if you're feeling indulgent.
I LOVE chewy cookies, especially when I'm craving chocolate and I found lining the cookie sheets with foil instead of parchment paper actually resulted in chewier cookies, but the trick is just to not overbake these. Take them out of the oven as soon as they start to develop slight cracks on top if you want chewy, leave them in a tad longer if you want crunchier cookies.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and line baking sheets with parchment paper or foil.
In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add in the egg and vanilla extract. In a smaller bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt then add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, stirring until almost completely mixed. Stir in the chips or add-ins and mix until a dough forms.
Today is my brother Andy's birthday!!! We had a celebration for him over the weekend and he requested carrot cake again this year and I used the gluten free carrot cake recipe from last year, with a few minor changes as well as my go-to cream cheese frosting. This is one recipe I feel like I have nailed down for good - I prefer this carrot cake over one with wheat flour any day and I urge you to try it this spring. It would make a perfect dessert for Easter Sunday or any warm-weather occasion popping up on your calendar!
I took the recipe I found last year and decreased the amount of oil and sugar and I can honestly say neither was missed. I also didn't add any coconut this year, just because I didn't have any on hand, but do feel free to add in 1 cup of it. This amount of batter does make a bit much for 2 layers of cake, so you can make about 8 extra cupcakes with it, or just cut the recipe in half if you'd prefer. But I promise you none of it will go to waste. I love this cake and I hope any celiacs and non-celiacs out there will love it too!
In medium bowl, combine the oil, sugars, eggs and water. In a larger bowl, whisk together the cornstarch, potato starch, baking soda and baking powder, spices, salt and xanthan gum until everything is well mixed. Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients, adding in the walnuts, raisins and carrots and combine well.
Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 15 (cupcakes) minutes to 45 (cake layers) minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let cool completely on wire racks before icing.
Cream the butter, cream cheese and salt together in a mixing bowl until very well mixed. Add the sugar and combine, stir in the vanilla extract, then increase the speed to medium-high and beat for a few minutes, until very light and fluffy.


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Melania Trump mocked for wearing high heels to Hurricane Harvey disaster zone
"Nothing says "disaster" like stiletto heels," one Twitter user wrote.
President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, gives a thumbs-up as they walk to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then onto Texas to survey the response to Hurricane Harvey. (Photo: AP)
New Delhi: Looks like The First Lady of the United States Melania Trump's outfit for her tour in Corpus Christi, Texas to see the damage caused by , did not go well with the people around.
Melania was savaged on the social media after she choose to wear a black stilettos while travelling to Texas. The former model was seen wearing a black cigarette pants, an Army green bomber jacket, aviator sunglasses, and high pumps, while heading to Air Force One on Tuesday morning.
As soon as her look was revealed, Twitter exploded with jokes over her choice of footwear.
Some of the tweets read as:
"Melania taking off for Houston on AF1.in stilettos," Comedian Chelsea Handler tweeted.
Actor Zach Braff tweeted, "Melania headed to a disaster zone in stilettos is my Halloween costume."
"And here we have Melania Trump modeling what NOT to wear to a hurricane: 5-inch stilettos," tweeted another one.
Meanwhile, Melania Trump's office fired back at the trollers terming the attention to her outfit "sad."
According to Fox News, the first lady's Communications Director Stephanie Grisham told, it is sad that amidst the ongoing natural disaster in Texas, people are worried about her shoes.
However, the U.S. first lady's heels didn't last long!
After landing in Corpus Christi, she was seen wearing a black trousers and a white button up shirt, with a pair of 'white tennis shoes.'
She also wore a black baseball cap that read 'FLOTUS,' which is an abbreviation for 'First Lady of the United States,' which set another round of bashing of Melania on Twitter.
Nothing says "disaster" like stiletto heels. pic.twitter.com/XTIhGxkldM
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 29, 2017
POTUS and FLOTUS en route to Texas. A word to the wise Melania - you're gonna need new shoes #HoustonFloodspic.twitter.com/s3IehKZ6as
— Emily Purser (@EmilyPurser) August 29, 2017
Not an expert, but are stiletto heels the best footwear for a disaster zone? https://t.co/pkALTnKvz0
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) August 29, 2017
Topic: #trump #high heels
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The word "linen" has become a generic term, as in "hope chest linens", "household linens" or "table linens". But today many of the pieces loosely included in these terms are not technically linen. Does it matter? Does anyone really care? Maybe.
Linen threads come from the flax plant, also known as linseed. Flax is native to the region extending from the eastern Mediterranean to India, although it is now cultivated in other areas. The flax plant is an annual, from 12 to 36 inches tall with a blue flower. The fibres are extracted from the bast, or skin, of the stem and go through several processes before they are spun into thread, including a long and smelly process called retting.
Linen is the strongest of all vegetable fibres, two to three times as strong as cotton. During WWI it was used for military kit, bags and tents. Butcher's aprons withstand constant and vigorous laundering. Its natural wax adds a soft luster and it achieves a lint-free polish to fine china and glass. You can usually identify linen fabric with the naked eye as its varying-thickness threads add a subtle, irregular texture to the weave.
Linen became the fabric of choice for fine home furnishings and handwork of all kinds, destined to be handed down from generation to generation. The names "Irish Linen", "Italian Linen", etc. refer not to the country in which the flax was grown, processed or spun; but to the country in which the fabric was woven.
Italian linen is frequently naturally shaded, ecru or off-white. Italian linens are especially prized for bold cutwork lace and showy fringes.
Once a widespread cottage industry in Ireland, linen weaving has been refined to produce fine quality fabric of luxury status. Irish linen is usually white and very closely woven. Irish linen damask or double damask table linens are generally agreed to be the best of the best.
Huck linen towels, sometimes with damask-woven patterns were once to be found in every kitchen and bath, often decorated with handwork, lace or embroidered monograms. Extremely popular Irish linen pieces were sold in packages of hanky-size squares, called hanky blanks, to which were added handmade lace borders.
Note: Rice linen is NOT the same as linen made from flax. Pieces woven from rice linen are sheer white, usually with exquisitely delicate white hand embroidery. The fabric is fragile. It must the handled with TLC; it will not withstand frequent use or launderings.
Returning to the original questions....Yes, sometimes. You care if you want the best. You care if you are choosing for lasting quality. You care if you plan that beautiful handwork applied to the fabric will become a family heirloom.


A journalist in Peru has been fined $24,000 and given a one-year suspended jail sentence on charges of aggravated defamation of a local archbishop in reporting related to an ongoing abuse scandal.
ROME – On Monday night Peruvian journalist Pedro Salinas, who had been accused by an archbishop with the crime of aggravated defamation related to an ongoing abuse scandal, was found guilty and slapped with a hefty fee and one-year suspended prison sentence.
Judge Judith Cueva Calle of the First Unipersonal Criminal Court in Piura, Peru, ruled April 8 that Salinas was guilty of aggravated defamation of Archbishop Jose Antonio Eguren Anselmi, who runs the Piura archdiocese, and ordered him to pay roughly $24,000 in addition to his suspended jail sentence.
Carlos Rivera Paz, Salinas' lawyer, said they're planning to appeal the decision during an April 22 hearing when the full sentence is read.
"We are going to reject the arguments, and we hope that the appeals court has a little more sense and makes a better evaluation of the evidence," he said.
Salinas and fellow journalist Paola Ugaz, also being sued by Eguren Anselmi, co-authored the 2015 bombshell book Half Monks, Half Soldiers, detailing years of sexual, psychological and physical abuse inside the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV), a controversial Catholic organization that originated in Peru and whose founder, layman Luis Fernando Figari, has been accused of physical, psychological and sexual abuses and was prohibited by the Vatican in 2017 of having further contact with members of the group.
The complaint against Salinas was made in relation to the publication of a series of articles and interviews he published in early 2018 comparing Eguren Anselmi to Chilean Bishop Juan Barros, who resigned from his post in the diocese of Osorno after facing accusations that he helped cover up the abuse of his longtime friend and Chile's most notorious abuser, ex-Father Fernando Karadima.
Salinas had also charged that Eguren Anselmi, who is a member of the SCV, was part of an alleged land trafficking scandal in Piura, which the archbishop has denied.
Ugaz was charged for her role in a documentary series by Al-Jazeera she helped to produce which also named Eguren Anselmi as part of the land trafficking scandal. She's also being sued for her coverage of Salinas's case and for a series of tweets that she sent ahead of Pope Francis's January 2018 visit to Peru in which she described Eguren Anselmi's history with the SCV, saying he knew of the founder's abuses and did nothing.
Although Salinas and Ugaz's alleged defamation happened in Lima, the cases are being tried in Piura. Ugaz is currently embroiled in a legal battle to have her case transferred to Lima, and is awaiting an appeal after her first request was denied.
He insisted that his lawsuits against Salinas and Ugaz were a personal initiative and had nothing to do with their joint investigation of the SCV.
In a letter to Crux in February, he that he had also requested the three-year prison sentences be tossed for each, and that money from the fines would be given to a center for needy and disabled persons run by the order Saint John of God.
"It feels like a nefarious precedent, because it is clear that, after me, Paola will follow," as well as any who have written openly about the SCV, he said, calling the entire legal case an act of "revenge" on the part of the SCV for the book he and Ugaz published.
"We are seeing that they use the judicial power of Piura to try to frighten journalists, but they will not intimidate us, frighten us or silence us," he said.
On Sunday Juan Carlos Cruz, Jose Andres Murillo and James Hamilton – all victims of Karadima in Chile who recently won a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Santiago – issued a video supporting Salinas and Ugaz together with lawyers and other representatives working with victims of clerical abuse.
Salinas and Ugaz's case also has been flagged by Amnesty International. On Feb. 28, the group issued a statement saying that to use criminal defamation laws to prevent legitimate criticism contradicts the right to freedom of expression and arguing that defamation lawsuits ought to be prosecuted in civil rather than criminal courts.


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Georgia Today: A UGA student journalist reflects on witnessing the Bulldogs' win over Alabama
Athens, Ga., is preparing for a parade this weekend to honor the University of Georgia Bulldogs. The team's big win Jan. 10 against Alabama's Crimson Tide handed the Bulldogs their first national title since 1981. Hear how the Bulldogs made Georgia football history.
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Georgia Today: Liberty County and the cost of Georgia's 'Great Resignation'
Liberty County outside Savannah is one place where the number of people quitting their jobs has been extraordinary, even amid the national so-called Great Resignation that's seen record numbers of people quit. Why Liberty County is so hard hit and how the employee exodus is changing the fabric of the community, is the subject of this week's Georgia Today.
Georgia Today: Is coal ash poisoning water In Juliette, Ga.? Residents say yes and they want answers
On this special episode of Georgia Today, we're revisiting one of our favorite episodes of 2021. This is the story of a grassroots fight in Middle Georgia for clean drinking water. GPB reporter Grant Blankenship and photojournalist Evey Wilson, an assistant professor at the Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism, followed the effort for the recent documentary Saving Juliette.
Georgia Today: Looking back at some of our most memorable stories of 2021
On this special year-end edition of the Georgia Today podcast, we look back at some of our most memorable episodes from 2021.
Georgia Today: An effort to memorialize a historic Atlanta factory and mark its brutal Jim Crow past
A Northwest Atlanta brick factory that helped rebuild the city after the Civil War using the free labor of mostly Black prison convicts will be reborn as a park and memorial, supporters hope.


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'What the hammer?' A detail from Blake's 'Jerusalem'.
Another image appears below
Grave of William and Catherine Blake
in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London:
see below for the messages.
Still inspiring disciples: messages left
at Blake's grave, June 2005.
William Blake (1757-1827)
Blake is a particularly good poet to find on the Web, because so much of a true appreciation of his work involves looking at the artwork as well as the text. Some of these websites have wonderful examples of this, and it is worth following them and comparing your reactions to the text alone and to the text when seen with a picture.
Blake on the Web
You might find these sites useful for AS and A Level. For texts and additional reading, see below - and try out the interactive Blake context page too. See also the page on Romanticism in English literature.
This superb hypermedia archive includes a huge resource of Blake's pictures, engravings and manuscripts.
Blake Online at Tate Britain
Tate Britain has a number of important Blake pictures. Of particular interest to teachers is the William Blake online section, with background information, detailed explorations of both the illustrations and the text of some of the The Songs of Innocence and Experience, which was designed to accompany an exhibition in 2000. The site is easy to navigate and informative, with a section for teachers and students.
The Blake Digital Text Project
This contains the complete works online. The graphical hypertext section on The Songs of Innocence and Experience is particularly useful. It contains many graphics (including images for each stanza), audio (including song settings), annotations (just click on the images for notes on each stanza) and bibliographies. You might want to jump straight to the index of titles.
Web Concordance of Songs of Innocence and of Experience
This valuable tool from Dundee University allows you to explore in detail how Blake uses words, putting them in context. The site also contains a workbook which demonstrates the value of this approach.
Guardian and Observer articles in response to Tate Britain's William Blake exhibition in 2000:
Twixt heaven and hell: Blake's life was one of squalor and frustration; most people thought him mad. No wonder he dreamed of a green and pleasant land, says Jonathan Glancey - The Guardian 9 November 2000.
Into the mystic: Visions of paradise to words of wisdom... an homage to the written work of William Blake - Neil Spencer: 'You might think that as one of England's finest and most-quoted poets Blake has never been away, but it isn't so. He was roundly ignored in his lifetime....' With comments by Iain Sinclair, Andrew Motion and others - The Observer 22 October 2000.
Blake's progress: 'Like today's YBA's, William Blake felt compelled to shock and provoke. But that's where the similarity ends..... He lived through the rise of industrialisation, commercialisation and rationalism. He was against all three. He was for ancient knowledge, spiritualism and mysticism.' Matthew Collings: The Observer, 22 October 2000.
William Blake - items from the Preston Blake Collection on the MOTCO site, including interesting contemporary comments (1806) on William Blake by Benjamin Heath Malkin.
Lost Innocence - Teaching Blake at A Level by Mark Brassington
This useful introduction for teachers is available to download as a PDF in Part 2 of the last issue of The English and Media Magazine.
Books on Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience edited by Richard Willmott: this edition contains useful notes and study material.
Peter Ackroyd: Blake - Vintage: this excellent biography provides a great deal of valuable contextual material.
Judy Cox: William Blake: The Scourge of Tyrants - Redwords: this readable little book (under 100 pages) places Blake firmly in his political context.
Morris Eaves (Editor): The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Heather Glen: Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's Songs and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (Cambridge Paperback Library) - recommended by Dr Alistair Cormack of the University of East Anglia as "the best book I've ever read on Blake and also the best book I've ever read on Wordsworth". Unfortunately it seems currently to be out of print so either try a library or a second-hand seller such as Abebooks or through the Amazon link here.
Saree Makdisi: William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s - University of Chicago Press. "According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to seriously reconsider ths history of the 1790s - the turbulent and revolutionary decade in which they first emerged."
Nicholas Marsh: William Blake: The Poems (Analysing Texts Series)
Blake in song
Blake would often sing his own songs, but the music (if it was ever written down) has not survived. However, there have been many settings of his work.
The Blake Digital Text Project is a good place to start - you can hear samples of settings by several composers for each of The Songs of Innocence and Experience.
The American composer William Bolcom created a huge work based upon the Songs, first performed in 1984 and recently issued as a Naxos recording on three CDs - you can read the review which appeared in the Guardian here.
Vaughan Williams set Ten Blake Songs, available sung by Ian Partridge, John Mark Ainsley, James Bowman and others.
Singer Patti Smith featured Blake's songs in the Meltdown festival on London's South Bank during June 2005 - read more in the Guardian page here.
'Continually Building, Continually Decaying because of Love
& Jealousy': a detail from 'Jerusalem'
Blake context
Context activity
Lamb and Tyger
AQA A Level A
Books for A Level
Literary Drinkers
Modern literature
Moon poems
Revision guide
Edwin Morgan
R B Sheridan
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Stiff Competition at Day One of the 2019 Ontario Bantam (U15) Championship
Ajax, ON — Warm and clear skies welcomed the players as they took to Deer Creek GC for the 2019 Bantam Championship. The best bantam boys and girls all came out to today's round to try to get an early lead in the tournament.
Ontario Bantam Boys Championship
The boys portion of the tournament kicked off at 8:00am Monday morning, and as the weather continued to heat up throughout the day, so did their play. By the end of 18, it was Carter Jarrett (Renfrew GC) and William Lin (Station Creek GC) who were able to climb ahead of the pack however and take the lead heading into the final day tomorrow.
With scores of even-par after the first round, the duo showcased some impressive play throughout the entire day, proving their ability to play a steady game. Both Lin and Jarrett carded three bogeys and three birdies alongside a handful of pars, leaving them in a good position heading into the final day tomorrow.
Trailing closely behind is Andreas Diogenous (Whistle Bear GC), who sits only one stroke behind the two leaders at +1, and with only five strokes separating the top 13 players, tomorrow's round will without a doubt prove to be as competitive as can be.
For future scores, results, and information on the tournament, visit the official tournament page HERE
For photos from the tournament, CLICK HERE
Ontario Bantam Girls Championship
The girls got their portion of the tournament underway at 9:30 shortly after the boys. Entering the day, all eyes we're on Ella Weber () after her championship run at the Junior's just a week earlier. The first round saw some impressive play throughout the entire field, but it was Alexa Ouellet (Credit Valley G&CC) and Krystal Li (The Summit G&CC) who came out above the rest.
With a score of +1, Ouellet was able to claw above the competition with some steady putting and solid play. With only four bogeys on the challenging course, the 13-year-old made sure to play it safe and control her shots, giving her a solid score to enter the final day with.
Similar to Ouellet, Li showed an impressive understanding of patience and incredible skill at putting. Playing her drives safe down the center of the fairway and hitting some putts many would find astounding, the 14-year-old Li sits tied with Ouellet for the lead, giving herself a great opportunity to come out on top as well.
"Tomorrow I'm just going to have to continue being consistent," said Li when asked about her gameplan heading into tomorrow. "I'll have to play both a strong long and a strong short game. Hopefully I can continue my momentum from today."
Winning won't be easy with players like Isabella Ferguson (Kanata G&CC) following closely behind however. Ferguson sat at -2 for a majority of the day until a rough patch near the end of her round. She will likely be returning tomorrow with hopes of making up some ground, and retaking the lead early.
About the Ontario Bantam Boys' Championship
The Ontario Bantam Boys' Championship is a 36 hole competition featuring the top 60 Bantam (U15) male Golfers from across the province.
About the Ontario Bantam Girls' Championship
The Ontario Bantam Girls' Championship is a 36 hole competition featuring the province's top 30 Bantam (U15) female Golfers from across the province.


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All's Well That Ends Well?
So the U.S. and Russia has struck a deal, and the UN Security Council signed on. Syria will fork over its chemical weapons – probably – for destruction, eventually. The "international community" will destroy them. Problem solved.
But is it?
Assume Assad, the mass-murdering international outlaw with friends in high places, means to comply with this agreement, and not secretly transfer his lethal contraband to confederates such as Hezbollah or Iran to commit further war crimes. Assume this ruthless killer will be disabled for the foreseeable future from obtaining or using outlawed weapons of mass destruction, even as he becomes better assured of staying in power. Other would-be criminals against humanity will witness this outcome and draw appropriate lessons.
What's wrong with this picture? This chemical castration, if carried out, incapacitates Assad somewhat. Perhaps the memory of almost being degraded by U.S. missiles will convince him not to commit further war crimes, by either repeating this particular offense, or committing the next with nuclear or biological weapons. Imagine, and it's a stretch, that other would-be murderers, similarly situated – say Iran, in the midst of its own charm offensive – feel deterred from their own contingently planned criminal behavior.
Let's stretch the scenario beyond the outer limits of reason. Imagine this new deal and near miss with U.S. missiles causes Assad to regret and repent the hundreds of children he gassed to death. He suddenly feels transformed with a new set of values that will hereafter restrain him from future mass murders of innocent civilians.
According to this rosy but unrealistic picture in classic terms, the deal now struck between Russia and the U.S. at the UN incapacitates Assad, specifically deters him, generally deters others, and rehabilitates him. Furthermore, the vaguely written final text of an artfully crafted UN resolution denounces his despicable behavior in poison gassing a village while not specifically attributing responsibility to him. All traditional purposes of the criminal law have been served.
Except one.
"What about the murderer Bashar who gave the order?" Gen. Salim Idriss, the Syrian rebel commander, demanded of the powers that be, when both sides first announced the possible U.S./Russian deal. "Should we forget him?" Gen. Idriss rejected this dirty deal for one simple but deep-seated reason: It fails to punish the mass murder retributively.
The past counts.
We too easily forget that justice means more than deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and denunciation. Justice for the worst of the worst requires retribution – actual, proportionate punishment. The vague UN resolution does threaten someday to punish 'those responsible' for the August attack without assigning blame. Likely, after Assad's regime has crumbled, if he's left alive, he'll be punished for this or a thousand other crimes.
Meanwhile, by setting a timetable for weapons' destruction that assures Assad at least another year in power, the UN resolution rewards this crime against humanity — while the world rejoices at the peaceful resolution, without much caring whether the criminal gets his just deserts.
Robert Blecker is a professor at New York Law School, a nationally known expert on the death penalty, and the subject of the documentry Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead. He formerly prosecuted corruption in New York's criminal justice system as a Special Assistant Attorney General and has been the sole keynote speaker supporting the death penalty at several major national and international conferences. A post-graduate Harvard fellow in Law and Humanities, Blecker wrote the stage play Vote NO! which premiered at the Kennedy Center. Profiled by The New York Times and The Washington Post, the subject of a USA Today cover story, and recently featured on ABC's Nightline, Blecker frequently comments for national media. He lives in New York.
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Mary Maggioncalda is never surprised when she hears about another senior citizen in New Hampshire who has chosen to suffer in silence in their homes instead of reaching out for help.
"It is an ongoing problem" said Maggioncalda, the policy planning director for the Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services in Concord. "People don't want to call us or check out what's available until they are faced with a crisis."
She said it is difficult to estimate how many seniors could use help, but are not receiving assistance for food, fuel, prescription drugs or housing.
The state's 13 ServiceLink Resource centers, located in all 10 counties, received and responded to nearly 55,000 inquiries from seniors and other adults in 2007, which is 15 percent higher than in 2006, she said.
She predicted those calls and the number of seniors going it alone would rise as more baby boomers retire.
New Hampshire is the sixth-oldest state in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The ServiceLink centers are staffed with people who provide information about local and state services available to seniors, and they help coordinate needs, Maggioncalda said. There is never any shortage of work for them to do, she added.
The state and many local agencies it partners with, such as Community Action and the Friends Program, try and get the word out about services available for seniors. But some seniors choose to keep to themselves and don't tell anyone they don't have enough food to eat or enough home heating oil, she said.
They also are unable to buy all the medications they need and often don't follow through on filling out federal Medicare health insurance forms to apply for benefits. Many times neglected seniors often end up alone, depressed and in dire straits by the time social service agencies get involved, Maggioncalda said.
Mike Scarpone, director of the Rockingham Community Program in Portsmouth and Exeter, said he encounters cases like that all the time.
"There's a lot of folks out there who don't know where to turn," he said.
Scarpone said his agency serves several thousand seniors in Rockingham County. Besides Meals on Wheels, his agency also provides heating fuel assistance and has a fix-it program through which volunteers will go into seniors' homes and complete minor home repairs and maintenance.
The agency has volunteers to help seniors fill out paperwork to obtain Medicare Part D benefits and prescription drugs as well as affordable, assisted-living housing, Scarpone said.
He said New Hampshire is blessed with many agencies that want to help seniors, though there is only so much they can do.
"There are a lot of resources out there, but when you put them all together, there are still some holes there," he said. "There's a huge need for housing for seniors in Rockingham County."
His agency tries to do as much outreach as possible to let seniors know help is available. He said his group does mailings and encourages neighbors and family members to contact the agency on behalf of loved ones.
Donna Odde, director of the Friends Retired Senior Volunteer Program in Portsmouth, which is affiliated with the Friends Program in Concord, said she and her 476 volunteers help seniors with paperwork and support.
She said seniors tend to respond better to their peers when it comes to asking for help. Many of the Friends' volunteers are seniors themselves.
"I think it's probably one of the most valuable public resources we have given the funding constraints," Odde said. "There are many people that would fall through the cracks if they did not have someone to guide them."
Lisa Morris, manager of the ServiceLink Resource Center of Belknap County in Laconia, said her staff fields roughly 500 calls from seniors each month, and 20 percent of those calls are from new clients.
She said the staff is trained to not only give a senior or family member the information they request, such as who to call for the nearest meals on wheels program, but also tries to learn as much as they can about a senior's situation so they can recommend the best course of action and refer them to the right agencies.
Morris said her ServiceLink office does outreach that includes everything from running a bi-weekly newspaper column to doing presentations at local businesses.
The resource center also works closely with Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia, she said.
"People need to think proactively about what they will need," Morris said.
If a senior enters retirement at age 65 and has to live on a fixed income, Morris said they need to think about what they will need five years later. If they know they will not be able to drive, they need to line up transportation to get back and forth to doctor's appointments or to and from a supermarket.
If they know they will have to transition from a health insurance plan provided by an employer to Medicare, there are people who can guide them through that process.
The challenge to get seniors to contact them before they face a crisis is always daunting, Morris said.
She said the Belknap County ServiceLink office plans to launch a "neighbors helping neighbors" initiative in the fall, encouraging people to check on a senior who lives nearby to ensure they are OK and contact ServiceLink if they discover a senior in trouble.
Morris said programs like that could be even more critical this winter, when seniors will struggle to stay warm with high heating fuel costs. She hopes seniors will not hesitate to pick up the phone and seek assistance.
"Every single one of us needs help sometime," Morris said.
The Bureau of Elderly Services' Maggioncalda said some seniors fear they will be forced to live in nursing homes if they seek help.
She said they also view the services "as a handout," possibly shameful to accept.
Maggioncalda said the seniors who overcome those stigmas end up living longer and maintain their independence.
"People do get better sometimes after receiving services for a while," she said.


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Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul Face Off in Apple's Truth Be Told Trailer
The cast also includes Lizzy Caplan, Elizabeth Perkins, and Ron Cephas Jones
Amanda Bell Oct. 10, 2019, 9:00 a.m. PT
Apple has released the first trailer for its upcoming streaming drama Truth Be Told just in time for the Aaron Paul hype machine to kick in (courtesy of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie), and it looks like he'll be playing another character in a sticky criminal situation.
The Apple TV+ series, based on the Kathleen Barber novel Are You Sleeping, stars Octavia Spencer as Poppy Parnell, a journalist whose articles helped convict a young man named Warren Cave of a high-profile murder decades ago. Paul plays Warren in the present, more than 18 years into his sentence. Now, Poppy is beginning to wonder whether Warren was wrongfully convicted -- and if, by extension, she helped the real killer get away with it.
"I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it's for or against," she says in the trailer.
Poppy might be on a mission to clear her conscience, but Warren doesn't seem to believe her motives. "You portrayed me as a privileged psychopath," he says. "Now, I live in a house full of men who breathe to lie. And I can smell yours before you even started talking."
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The trailer also teases the fishy circumstances surrounding the murder: On the night the victim was killed, his wife (Annabella Sciorra) and two daughters (played as adults by Lizzy Caplan, doing double duty) somehow managed to sleep straight through the attack, and the murder weapon mysteriously went missing. Plus, there's the small matter of mommy dearest burning something in the fireplace and proclaiming, "You have no idea what I've done for my daughters."
Elizabeth Perkins, Michael Beach, Mekhi Phifer, Tracie Thoms, Haneefah Wood, and Ron Cephas Jones also star.
Truth Be Told premieres Friday, Dec. 6 on Apple TV+.
Aaron Paul, Truth Be Told


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A study of the anatomy and physiology of animals with reference to pathological changes of the component parts of the body.
Designed for students who plan to own and work with domestic animals. Its purpose is to develop student competence in disease management and to foster an intelligent working relationship with their veterinarian. The course will cover a systematic study of infectious and noninfectious diseases of domestic animals from the standpoint of economy and public health.
Credits and hours by arrangement, up to 15 credits. Prerequisite: Instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
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Credits and laboratory periods by arrangement. May be repeated for credit.
Special problems in connection with departmental research programs and diagnostic procedures for diseases of animals. Some suggested topics are histopathologic laboratory procedures, clinical hematology, diagnostic bacteriology, and diagnostic parasitology.
Designed for students in biologic, paramedical and animal sciences, its purpose is to integrate histologic and cellular structure with function, utilizing human tissues and those from other vertebrates.
Structure and classification of viruses, cultivation and multiplication, pathogenesis and epidemiology of viral infections, host response, oncogenic viruses, immunization against, and laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases.
A systematic study of metabolic, nutritional, genetic, and infectious diseases of commercial poultry, avian wildlife, and caged pet birds. Emphasis is placed upon diagnosis and disease prevention. For each system of the body, pertinent anatomy, physiology, histology, pathology, and histopathology will be discussed.
Theoretical basis and practical exposure to modern laboratory methods used in the biomedical sciences for disease diagnosis.
Mechanisms of emergence that different pathogens have used to cause disease in new hosts.
Designed to cover important concepts and pioneering strategies currently being used to develop novel antibacterials.
The body's response to chemical, physical, and microbial injuries including the functional and morphologic alterations in disease of the major organ systems are discussed.


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Q: How to give a Openshift container's unprivileged user read access to /root/.ssh for spring cloud config server SSH authentication? I want to use SSH Authentication with Spring boot cloud config server.  Up to now, I've been running the config server in a docker container on docker swarm with no issues.
My organization recently decided to move everything to Openshift 3.  I am trying to get the config server deployed however I'm running into issues authenticating to Gitlab using SSH.  In the docker image, I used before I just copied the public and private SSH keys into /root/.ssh and it worked but it's not working at all in my Fabric8 generated S2I image on Openshift.
In Openshift I created a generic kubernetes secret called cfgssh which consists of the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub keys (base64 encoded)
I then mounted the secret to /root/.ssh in my deployment config/containers.  This doesn't work I'm guessing as to the user that the application is run as doesn't have read access to /root/.ssh?  This always ends up in configServer crashing after an auth exception.
I am able to run spring cloud configserver locally and on docker swarm without any auth issues so it's definitely not a cloud configserver config issue.
Has anyone else encountered/found a way around this?
My config is below.
Maven fabric8 deployment fragment:
spec:
  replicas: 4
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - env:
          - name: SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE
          value: qa
          volumeMounts:
            - name: cfgssh
              mountPath: ~/.ssh
              readOnly: true
          livenessProbe:
            httpGet:
              path: /actuator/health
              port: 8080
              scheme: HTTPS
            initialDelaySeconds: 180
            timeoutSeconds: 5
          readinessProbe:
            httpGet:
              path: /actuator/health
              port: 8080
              scheme: HTTPS
            initialDelaySeconds: 60
            timeoutSeconds: 5
          resources:
            requests:
              memory: "64Mi"
            limits:
              memory: "256Mi"
          env:
            - name: JAVA_OPTIONS
              value: "-Xms64M -Xmx256M"
      volumes:
        - name: cfgssh
          secret:
            secretName: cfgssh
            items:
              - key: id_rsa
                path: id_rsa
              - key: id_rsa.pub
                path: id_rsa.pub

A: Assuming that it's using the ssh client in the container (you didn't specify the image that you are using), my guess is that whatever user that you are running as is not root. You can just check what the default user is for the container by exec-ing into it
$ kubectl exec -it <pod-name> -c <container-name> sh
$ whoami

Having said that, mounting on ~/.ssh should work (you check when you exec into the pod/container). So I think you might have the wrong permissions for your id_rsa file. (They need to be 0600). Make sure of that in your volumes section:
      volumes:
        - name: cfgssh
          secret:
            secretName: cfgssh
            defaultMode: 0600 <= add this
            items:
              - key: id_rsa
                path: id_rsa
              - key: id_rsa.pub
                path: id_rsa.pub

Reference: secrets file permissions.

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Fungicidi so kemična sredstva, ki se uporabljajo za zatiranje gliv. Večina fungicidov človeku ni nevarnih. Kljub temu obstajajo fungicidi, ki so zdravju škodljivi in se danes v kmetijstvu ne uporabljajo več.

Po načinu delovanja ločimo:
 Kontaktni fungicidi - delujejo samo ob stiku fungicida z glivo (kurativa)
 Polsistemični fungicidi - delujejo ob stiku fungicida z glivo in tako, da preko por preidejo v rastlino, od koder delujejo še več tednov (kurativa in preventiva)
 Sistemični fungicidi - delujejo samo iz sistema rastline (preventiva)

Po kemični sestavi ločimo:
 Anorganske fungicide
 Organske fungicide
Največji delež predstavljajo fungicidi na osnovi žvepla in bakra, ostalo so organski sintetični fungicidi, manjši delež pa je na osnovi parazitskih gliv.

Po vrstah ločimo fungicide še v pet skupin:
 heksaklorobenzen,
 ditiokarbamati,
 ftalimidi,
 organske spojine živega srebra,
 pentaklorofenol

Podatki porabe fungicidov v Sloveniji:

Vse podatke o proizvodnji in prodaji FFS v Sloveniji zbira in ureja Fitosanitarna republika Slovenije.
Ker je v Sloveniji značilen velik odstotek trajnih nasadov, kot so sadovnjaki in vinogradi, je poraba FFS na hektar precej večja, kot na primer v državah kjer večji del poljščin predstavljajo žitarice.
Vseeno je poraba FFS v Sloveniji na hektar podobna ostalim državam EU-15 s podobno strukturo gojenih rastlin in podobnimi pridelovalnimi razmerami.

Glej tudi
 Zatiranje škodljivcev v kmetijstvu
 insekticidi
 herbicidi

Pesticidi

Mikologija

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A new Wounded Warrior Project survey of more than 33,000 Post-9/11 veterans found that 51.7 percent of the respondents were obese, according to their body max index, or BMI. Of that total, 6.2 percent were rated as "morbidly obese." (Getty Images photo)
Military.com | By Jim Absher
Obesity cannot be considered a service-connected disability, according to a new ruling by the Department of Veterans Affairs General Counsel expected to be published in the April 8, 2019, edition of the Federal Register.
The new ruling, among several precedent opinions set to be included, reinforces the VA's long-standing opinion that obesity isn't a disease or injury according to the law for wartime or peacetime compensation and can't be considered directly related to military service for compensation purposes.
So why does the VA reject obesity as a service-connected disability if Medicare covers obesity treatment and the Centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health both say obesity is a disease?
While the VA treats obesity as a disease for which treatment is warranted, the distinction is in the words "service-connected." The VA simply does not see it as a condition that was a result of military service, and therefore for which compensation is payable.
The VA estimates that 78% of veterans are obese, and it does offer several treatment programs for obese vets. However, the new opinion means it won't pay compensation for it anytime soon.
But the determination could be a good thing, at least for the current force. We all have heard of people getting kicked out of the military for being overweight. This ruling by the VA means that obesity can't be considered willful misconduct when making line-of-duty determinations for other disabilities.
And blocking it as a service-connected disability doesn't mean that it isn't what's known as an "extra-schedular rating," or a rating that can be tagged onto an existing disability, the General Counsel has ruled.
For example, you may be rated 40% because of Agent Orange related diabetes but the diabetes may cause obesity so you may be able to get an extra-schedular rating and increase your disability to 50%.
Also, obesity may be so bad that it has life-altering consequences. That may be considered when determining an overall rating if there are other qualifying disabilities. It may be considered an "intermediate step" between a non-service-connected and service-connected disability when considered with other disabilities.
In their ruling, the lawyers said that since obesity "occurs over time and is based on various external and internal factors, as opposed to being a discrete incident or occurrence, or a series of discrete incidents or occurrences," the condition may be reversed by treatment before it becomes disabling.
So while obesity can, and should, be considered a disease since it is a treatable condition that results in other, more serious health conditions, it shouldn't be considered a disease when you are trying to blame it on your military service.
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While I have a lot of eyeshadow, I am still tempted by palettes (sometimes, once in a while), which have the timeless appeal of compelling, immediate* shade combinations. I wonder if I even care that they are eyeshadow, in a way. I suspect part of the temptation is the pure visual pleasure of certain shade combinations, a harmonious whole greater than the sum of its parts.
*The convenience and mobility of multiple shades built to work together in one small compact is meant to be a big mark for the pro column but eyeshadow isn't one of those things I tend to carry around anyway, and I do not allow myself to use this as a personal selling point.
Usually, though, I really cannot justify acquiring them, as in the case of two that have been calling to me quietly, stubbornly, for the last year or more.
This is about $65, which I could almost stretch to—so glowing are the reviews, so gorgeous are the colors, so unflagging is my interest—but Charlotte Tilbury's line, relatively new, doesn't yet ship to the US and can only be had through Selfridges, the luxe British department store now of Masterpiece fame (I find Jeremy Piven awful in it, incidentally). They will deign to ship to the US for about $50, which I just cannot see my way to paying.
I like the combination of colors so well here, though, the saturated russett, the shimmering bronze, the warm champagne, the rich earthy brown…I decided to approximate it myself, with a bit of poetic license. I found this little 4 pan, no-fuss Japonesque compact, and chose some individual shadows to populate it. And (perhaps the best part) gave it a name.
Courtesy of a Sharpie gold metallic paint pen. I knew I'd need that one day.
The compact was something like $8 (with promo code, always with promo code), and it was around $10 for each shadow here (less for a few I found a deal on). I'm going to value this at around $45. It could have been less if I'd opted for shadows from SMH or Makeup Geek, say, around $6 each, and with pretty good reviews (though worthwhile to get reviews on individual colors under consideration, as quality is not consistent across a range – this goes for any brand, really).
Stunning, but $78 at the moment, plus tax, and I just can't quite approve it in the budget: an impeccable warm neutral palette with one of the best formulas on the market, buttery smooth pigmentation, unparalleled blendability….and no. I cannot buy this now.
This one could use some fiddling, I think. The first color a bit too pale? A work in progress.
For about $38? Something like that. Not exactly cheap, but acceptable (approve-able, do-able) to me in a way that $78 is not (for now…). It's only a loose translation but one I like a lot, so what does it matter the point of departure?
One appealing aspect of these palettes is that I could switch any of the colors out for others (I have several shades in the bronze/gold/burgundy range, and any number of successful combinations might be made, a fun color exercise). I also could have gone to an INGLOT counter to do this for around the same price, which I was tempted to do, and which I reserve the right to do at some point in the future.
There's an undeniable appeal to this kind of customization, and it's no surprise that the consumer industry is leaning more and more toward incorporating the hand of the customer. You entirely sidestep that unfortunate scenario in which you pay for a palette but only intend to use some fraction of the colors, tolerating the duds and writing them off in the cost-benefit analysis. Basing your selection, even if loosely, on an existing palette you admire, is a way to capitalize on the knowhow that went into the color selection while injecting a bit of your own style; these colors are going to work, and they're going to work especially well for you.
Have been browsing for a pair of leather driving gloves for a good 5 years or so, always finding it difficult to find them in a brick and mortar to try on, especially women's gloves with their sleeker fit and more delicate fingers. The most promising options were in British menswear shops with understandable-yet-still-galling postage fees, and I delayed. A few years ago a glove shop opened on Newbury St, Sermoneta gloves, selling Italian-made gloves, and I finally gave it a proper browse last week.
I found the salesperson pleasantly tolerant of my endless trying on (I have large hands, and glove sizing is been pretty inconsistent in my experience, making it quite a risk to buy a pair without trying them on first,* not to mention feeling the quality of the leather first).
*As there is variation in each pair, this means not only trying on multiple sizes, but trying on multiple pairs within the nearest size.
I pronounce the visit a success.
I do not always feel that my shopping is a success, reader. I return a fair amount (though, too, there is some amount of returning built into my shopping methods re: sizing and comparison, etc.), and have to sometimes resell or eat the cost of something I changed my mind about. My whims are fallible, my tastes are sometimes—only really in retrospect, inconveniently—questionable. Often I return something because I recognize that I have made a compromise (of fit, construction, quality, adherence to some vision) I did not want to make, and should not make. It's a steady stream of stuff coming in and stuff going out again over here.
It's all the more satisfying, then, when there are no doubts and no reservations. White 1/2 finger driving gloves? Don't mind if I do. I was looking for basic turquoise gloves but…that's how it goes. These were the ones that sang.
There is something about a pair of sublimely fitted gloves that is as sensually tempting as it gets.
*Like, in the sense of 'I'm all over this'…not like 'I acquired this'…though you do technically now have it…oh never mind.
I don't mind a ready-made cinnamon bun now and then, perhaps because I grew up having them on Christmas and other special occasions (other holidays featuring elaborate breakfasts, overnight guests, etc.)? One cannot always be rolling out pastry dough. This one is from Trader Joe's.
Plate and mug from Jars ceramics, stunning glazes from this brand.
Lately I make this kind of pseudo-latte with a base of coffee and about 1/3 c of melted vanilla ice cream poured over the top, drizzled with caramel. [Then I drizzle anything else that seems promising with caramel as well.] Sometimes I'll add a dash of Monin Hazelnut syrup, if I've woken up with a sweet tooth and am feeling really decadent.
Rosie Assoulin is a young (29) New York designer who has been mentioned more and more in the press in the last year as someone to watch. She researched and interned for several years (and this after helping her jewelry designer mother from 14 on) before her first collections, all built on noticing, decade after decade, patterns of long, floor-brushing pieces, generous volumes of fabric, sashes, and bold solids. The results are clean and sweeping, with an appealing blend of boxy and fitted elements.
Here are some of my favorite looks from her Resort 2014 collection.
While the concept of a resort collection kind of cracks me up sometimes (a line you would theoretically wear at a resort, or on vacation…or in the summer… but I guess 'summer' was already taken in 'spring/summer' and these things are immutable), I often like them anyway, if only for their heavy use of white (and other bright colors), of which I approve.
These structures strike me as regal and yet fully modern (if not a bit of the future). Their silhouettes are cousins of silhouettes many centuries old in some cases (sashes with giant, bustle-like bows, trains, floor length skirts, complex draping), but the textures and the complete lack of embellishment are current, and these designs do not read as old-fashioned in anyway to me.


The National Certifying Board of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses (NCBOHN) endorses the concept of voluntary, periodic certification by examination for all otorhinolaryngology and head-neck registered nurses. Certification is one part of a process called credentialing. It focuses specifically on the individual and is an indication of current competence in a specialized area of practice. Board certification in otorhinolaryngology and head-neck nursing is highly valued and provides formal recognition of basic otorhinolaryngology and head-neck nursing knowledge.
The Certification Program is sponsored by the National Certifying Board of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses (NCBOHN). The Certification Examination for Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses is administered for the NCBOHN by the Professional Testing Corporation (PTC), 1350 Broadway – 17th Floor, New York, New York 10018, (212) 356-0660. Questions concerning the examination should be referred to PTC.


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See the cover of 'Consumed' by David Cronenberg
By JoJo Marshall
March 04, 2014 at 09:00 PM EST
Check out the cover of Consumed, the first novel by Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, due out in September 2014. This book promises to be quite a trip. Cronenberg has directed over 40 films with critically acclaimed hits like Eastern Promises, A History of Violence and Crash, all stories of intense emotion, twisted human impulse, ambiguous morals and well, violence. And from the synopsis of this novel — I'm guessing Cronenberg has penned something very similar for his first piece of fiction in book form. See for yourself:
Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitors—nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows.
Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide has disappeared. Police suspect him of killing her and consuming parts of her body. With the help of an eccentric graduate student named Hervé Blomqvist, Naomi sets off in pursuit of Aristide. As she delves deeper into Célestine and Aristide's lives, disturbing details emerge about their sex life—which included trysts with Hervé and others. Can Naomi trust Hervé to help her?
Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltán Molnár, once sought by Interpol for organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of Molnár's patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe's. Nathan then travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret.


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Chrissy Teigen Live Tweets Horrific Post-Holiday Flight Ordeal
Katrina Nattress Published: December 27, 2017
Charley Gallay / Stringer
We've all been on that flight from Hell — where something either goes wrong on the way to the airport, at the airport or on the aircraft (or god forbid, all of the above) — but have you ever had a flight completely turn around four hours in? That's what happened to Chrissy Teigen and John Legend the day after Christmas.
The couple was en route to Tokyo from Los Angeles when their pilot announced the plane would be turning around and landing back at LAX because the flight was stowing a passenger who wasn't supposed to be onboard. They were four hours in to their direct flight, which meant they were soaring over the Pacific Ocean.
Luckily, Teigen can always find the positive in any situation and immediately started tweeting:
The pregnant model and her crooner hubby spent eight hours and 20 minutes in the air, just to have to start the trek all over again. Other people began to get involved:
But Chrissy being Chrissy couldn't even be mad at the situation, tweeting "I don't know why I'm not more upset about this. The pleasure I get out of the story is worth more to me than a direct flight to Tokyo."
The couple did indeed make it to Tokyo after all the literal up and down, and decided to stay in the city rather than take the connecting flight then driving to Nagoya, and from the sounds of it the couple couldn't be happier!
As always, thanks for the entertainment, Chrissy!
Source: Chrissy Teigen Live Tweets Horrific Post-Holiday Flight Ordeal
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Untangled Threads presents:
SAWDUST HEARTS
Original Music by John Pattison
John Pattison has created an original musical
score to accompany the Untangled Threads
1568 Sawdust Hearts Project.
In the spirit of this contemporary reimagining
of the First World War sweetheart pincushions,
John has chosen to create a four-movement piece
of classical music using modern musical
technology. This new score has elements of
homage to some of the great British composers
and music from this period. The intention of the
composer is to complement the visual aspects
of this exhibition and to enhance the experience
through sound.
Four Years by John Pattison
1st Movement 1914 - 1915 Lento
2nd Movement 1915 - 1916 Allegro
3rd Movement 1916 - 1917 Scherzo
4th Movement 1917 - 1918 Andante Con Moto
The whole suite will accompany the 1,568 Sawdust Hearts exhibition.
John studied composition at Dartington College of Arts with composer Helen Glatz.
Helen had in turn studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams and through her, the latter's music came to be a major source of inspiration to and influence on an eager young Pattison!
Vaughan Williams was inspired to write his third symphony following his time as a stretcher bearer in France and Salonika. Composer Arthur Bliss was wounded twice and gassed once. His wartime experiences, particularly the death of his younger brother had a huge impact on his later music. George Butterworth, composer of the quintessentially English 'The Banks of Green Willow' was tragically shot by a sniper during the battle of the Somme in 1916. Vaughan Williams dedicated his own post war 'London Symphony' to Butterworth. In 1918 Scottish composer Cecil Coles, a protégé of Gustav Holst was also killed whilst recovering casualties. Stretcher bearer was the traditional role of army bandsmen and musicians when not performing.
Having written for full orchestra and traditional instruments in the past, John has a long-held fascination with creating convincing and realistic scores with sampled instruments and more recently with physically modelled instruments. For this score, John will be using a combination of physically modelled piano by the French company Pianoteq, violin and cello by the Italian company SWAM and a full sample based Orchestra programmed by the composer from an original set of samples by Polish music producer Peter Siedlaczeck. The SWAM Cello features heavily in the music for this exhibition. This is played using another recent technology, the Seaboard, which was developed originally in London by the American musician and entrepreneur, Roland Lamb in 2009. This instrument takes the concept of the piano keyboard to a new dimension, allowing the player to manipulate its spongy silicon surface with five different types of touch.
John Pattison has written numerous score for Theatre and Film. He has worked extensively with British playwrights Alan and Ayckbourn and John Godber composing incidental music and co-writing several original stage musicals. He has composed two film scores for French Film director Alain Resnais, created a new score for 'The Balloonatic' by Buster Keaton and composed a full-length ballet for York City Council about alcoholism. John Pattison and Alison Watt are Joint Artistic Directors for Beach Hut Theatre Company CIO who create outstanding, innovative and entertaining performances in both traditional and non-traditional playing spaces, using original writing, music, technology and theatrical experimentation in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. www.beachhuttheatre.co.uk
"Delighted to be back doing what I love the best, composing, Old School, with some manuscript paper, a bunch of 2B pencils and a Bechstein Grand. I couldn't be happier."
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