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Junius Smith
Sarah Allen Smith (April 9, 1812)
Junius Smith was the son of Major-General David and Ruth (Hancock) Smith. His father was a member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati as well as a successful merchant in Plymouth, CT. Junius was the third of four siblings to attend Yale and his brother Aaron also attended the Litchfield Law School. Junius Smith and Aaron Burr Reeve (Tapping Reeve's son) were members of the Yale Class of 1802.
After leaving Litchfield, Smith opened a law office in New Haven in 1804. A year later he was appointed to prosecute a claim against the British government for the capture of an American merchant ship. He pleaded the cause in the admiralty court in London and succeeded in obtaining large damages. Shortly afterwards, he and his brother Aaron both gave up the law to go into the mercantile ...business with their father and other brothers.
The Smith brothers established a successful mercantile business in New York and Junius was sent to London, England where he remained to represent the company for the next thirty-eight years. Smith also dealt in exporting British goods from the manufacturing districts of Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield England, to the American market.
In 1832, it took a packet some fifty-four days to cross the Atlantic. Frustrated by this slow travel, Smith obtained British investors and launched the British and American Steam Navigation Company in 1836. This was the first successful attempt to provide trans-Atlantic steamers. In 1839, the company launched the President, the largest ship ever built, which disappeared without a trace. That same year they lost the British mail subsidy to the Cunard Line.
In 1843, Smith closed the company and returned to the United States. He established a plantation in Greenville, SC called Golden Grove and made an unsuccessful attempt to establish American tea growing. His anti-slavery sentiments led to a brutal beating by his neighbors in 1851, from which he never fully recovered. He died in the Bloomingdale Asylum in New York in 1853.
Prepared for college with Rev. Azel Backus and then studied at Williamstown, MA. He later graduated from Yale College in 1802.
Lawyer; Business
Junius A. Smith
LLS (1791)
Sarah Allen Smith
Ruth Hitchcock Smith
Pond, E.L. Junius Smith, A Biography of the Father of the Atlantic Liner. 1927

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Gone but not forgotten: Ivory-billed woodpecker study skins at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic
Ghosts and tiny treasures
We are quick to condemn a hunter posing with his prey, but all too slow to cultivate a chronic passion for wild things
Bryan Pfeiffer
is a field biologist, writer, and lecturer at the University of Vermont. He is currently working on two books: one, a collection of essays about flight, and the other provisionally titled Pantala: What a Dragonfly Tells Us About Sex, Evolution and the Human Condition.
Edited by Brigid Hains
Ten years ago this spring, in the darkness before dawn, I switched on my headlamp, dialled in my compass, and set forth into a chilly Arkansas swamp. Dressed head to toe in camouflage and lugging an arsenal of camera gear, I wandered alone that day through lowlands of oak, cypress and sycamore, through muck and icy water, and through my own hopeful apparitions. After about 10 miles of this, in the golden hour before sunset, I found a dry rise in the land, propped myself against a fallen tree, and waited for a resurrection.
At the end of my tree, an orange-crowned warbler, drab as those leafless woods, foraged for insects. A white-tailed deer, a buck with an eight-point rack, sauntered by, sniffed the evening breeze but failed to pick up my scent. The evening's first few mosquitoes found me. No matter. I would not give up this spot, my focal point until after sunset: a hole about four inches in diameter high on the trunk of a sycamore.
This had been my routine every day for the better part of two weeks. I walked miles through the swamp, searching the skies and the naked trees, and listening for a telltale double-knocking sound or a distinctive tin-horn 'kent-kent' call – the sounds of a ghost. Along the way, I found wrens and butterflies, beaver skulls and turtle shells. I found time away from work and the glowing screens, time for daydreams, and for hope. And at the end of each day, I parked myself at a hole like this one so that I might, at long last, witness some sort of human redemption. On this final evening in the swamp, like every other, I waited for an ivory-billed woodpecker to return from the dead.
And on this day, like every other, the woodpecker never came.
After one of the most expensive and unsuccessful bird hunts ever, the ivory-billed woodpecker is almost certainly extinct and, when I was in Arkansas searching it, probably had been gone for decades. We logged and neglected this giant woodpecker into oblivion – not into the figurative oblivion of obscurity, but the literal oblivion of nothingness, a final flight from which there is no return.
It turns out that extinction is indeed forever. And in the time since a wing-flash of hope came from Arkansas, an apparition of this woodpecker in the swamp, we've learned so little about nature – and about human nature. With too many of us watching from the sidelines, extinction and ignorance march onward, including a kind of extinction in our own backyards.
It wasn't supposed to turn out this way. From Arkansas came news that caused birdwatchers everywhere to spit up their shade-grown coffee. Some of the most respected ornithologists and conservation organisations claimed to have discovered at least one ivory-billed woodpecker that had cheated extinction and was still living in those swamps. Their evidence was, in large part, a controversial, fuzzy 10-second video of a bird flying away. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology (CLO) and a battery of ornithologists announced their find in the journal Science in 2005.
When CLO organised search teams to get better evidence – including a decent photo – I helped assemble a crew of field-tested birders from here in Vermont. From late February into March 2006, as part of the official search party in Arkansas, we became actors in what amounted to a human drama – with the swamp as the stage and the woodpecker as a yearning and a plot.
The script would have it that the woodpecker was our shot at redemption, that maybe we didn't screw up after all. Maybe we could feel the actual pain of extinction but then get a second chance to make things right. In this plot, in death and then in resurrection, the ivory-billed woodpecker would be a saviour to expose our fraught and fickle relationship with wildlife and wild places. A bird so compelling that it had been called the 'Lord God Bird' would be just that.
The plot thickened. After taking a hard look at all the evidence, ornithologists concluded that Cornell and its colleagues got it wrong, that the video showed not an ivory-billed woodpecker but a more common (and similar) pileated woodpecker. The skeptics published a rebuttal in Science.
I joined the search party in Arkansas as a heretic. I agreed that the original sighting was no good – or at least not good enough to make the claim that a bird long thought to be extinct was still flying among us. Yet I went nonetheless into the swamp, in part out of selfishness. At the very least, I'd spend late winter in the wild menagerie of a southern swamp. And that particular year, the Arkansas River valley and environs were dry enough so that rather than sitting in a canoe all day, I could walk in woods that would normally be flooded. Walking is good for the mind. And as I walked, day after day, mile after mile, my doubt about the woodpecker gave way to hope.
With each new step, I hoped I was wrong about the video. I daydreamed of encountering a pair of ivory-bills in their swamp. (I even imagined finding them copulating.) The skills I had accumulated during nearly half a century as a boy explorer, in so many woods in search of wild things, would pay off. I would be the one birder who got the prized photo. I would prove the resurrection. Vanity infiltrated my fantasy. I envisioned myself at a news conference, heroic, beside a giant version of my woodpecker photograph. Everyone would ask: 'What was it like to witness the Messiah?'
Or so went the script of my fantasy. Reason had me convinced the woodpecker was gone forever; hope (okay, and vanity) kept me walking in the swamp and looking up to the trees and toward the heavens.
The woodpecker never came, not for me, not for anyone. Cornell wrapped up its searching in Arkansas in 2008. It's been quiet ever since. And in the decade or more since our flirtation with redemption we continue on a determined path of ambivalence or neglect for wildlife. We plod onward with a wonderful yet fickle relationship with animals – loving them and forever killing them off. And knowing so little of what we're losing.
A dead lion with a name, a Minnesota dentist who pulled the trigger, and the rise of an internet lynch mob: is this how we take action and measure our victories?
Now, seated before the glowing screen, we whip and zoom with white-throated swifts along the course of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, we migrate with wildebeests across the Serengeti, we swim among coral and dolphins at the Great Barrier Reef. Never have we been so figuratively close to wildlife – and yet so far. Our gadgets and electronic maps read our exact location and desires virtually anytime and anywhere. Never before have we been so located – and yet so lost.
Despite the distractions, yes, we do care. That is genuine. We care about big woodpeckers and giant pandas. We care about whales and baby seals. We cared about Cecil the lion – but for all the wrong reasons. Maybe the gratuitous killing of one lion in Zimbabwe did the world – and the lions – some good. That's not yet clear to me. But is this what it takes? A dead lion with a name, a Minnesota dentist who pulled the trigger, and the rise of an internet lynch mob? Is this how we take action and measure our victories?
Take your pick from actual chronic or acute causes of extinction or extirpation: invasive plants, pesticides, climate change, our own population bomb. How hard we work to tell the world about those actual threats. But a guy shoots a lion, and we have a target for our online opprobrium – a target other than us. So instead of reasoned action to deal with genuine threats, the masses grab their torches and pitchforks (Twitter and Facebook) and storm 'the cloud' demanding blood as vengeance for Cecil. Maybe they get some. Maybe not. And then the masses go back to watching cat videos or a rat carrying pizza into the subway; we go back to warming the planet, drinking factory coffee, and spraying chemicals on our lawns.
Perhaps our indifference is born of ignorance, owing to a steady retreat from the wild. In our youth, in books, culture and experience, we used to be closer to whatever swims, slithers, crawls, walks, flies or just sits there on life's long, green path. We were kids catching frogs in ponds and running wild with butterfly nets. We went outside instead of online. We got dirty in the swamps.
I don't doubt a persistent human passion for wildlife. Nor do I doubt the distractions keeping us from nature. What we need instead is a more measured passion, a chronic passion, a broader caring for wildlife beyond the charismatic. Sure, we need the pandas and the whales as icons, for posters and fundraising, and for our hearts to beat faster. But so much more wild is out there vanishing or in trouble. We're losing it from under our noses.
A park might become a shopping mall. We lost Jimi Hendrix but not his music. These are losses – but they are not extinction
Consider the Poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek). Most people don't. It has few Facebook friends or people crying out to 'Save the Skipperling'. Yet the skipperling is now one of the most rapidly declining animals in North America. In the decade since I visited the swamps of Arkansas, Poweshiek skipperlings appear to have blinked out from 96 per cent of their prairie sites in a range stretching from Manitoba to Michigan. This elegant animal, dying out on our own continent, might be more imperiled than pandas or lions. And you've probably never heard of it. The Poweshiek skipperling is a butterfly.
The Poweshiek skipperling butterfly. Photo by the author
As best I can tell, I've never witnessed extinction. Never have I known a plant or animal, only to see it vanish forever from Earth. The Poweshiek skipperling could become my first. Few of us know this kind of loss. It does not compare with the death of a friend or a family member. That is absolute and visceral loss. Nor is the loss of the skipperling quite like the closing of our favourite coffee joint. That is tolerable loss. A park might become a shopping mall. We lost Jimi Hendrix but not his music. These are losses – but they are not extinction.
To everyone now alive, the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker is an abstraction. None of us (except those who claim to have seen it) have witnessed the Lord God Bird and its flight into oblivion. So, yes, the loss of that woodpecker hurts – but not like losing something we know, something we've seen, something we love. I've met the Poweshiek skipperling in the prairie. If this species goes extinct, I will mourn it more than the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Once the skipperling heads to oblivion, I will have only the memory of spending the afternoon of 13 July 2003, in a prairie fen in Michigan, on my knees and on my belly with this tiny orange butterfly.
Even so, the Poweshiek skipperling is hardly charismatic megafauna. It flies not with the flash of a fritillary or the fame of a Monarch. Spend a day in the skipperling's prairie and you are more likely to watch wildflowers sway in the breeze or sense the curvature of Earth in an open space. Without the skipperling, the prairie will still be the prairie. But it won't be the same prairie. At least not to me. Without the Poweshiek skipperling, the prairie will be eroded and incomplete.
Unlike the extinction of the famous, the skipperling represents the extinction of the modest. Like the desaparecidos of Latin America, these species vanish with only limited public awareness and few advocates working on their behalf. Included among the modest are countless, nameless other species going extinct before we even know they exist.
And yet now, here in the Anthropocene, during the era of the new human distraction, comes a third kind of extinction: our fading awareness of the near and the common. I see it far too often, particularly among birdwatchers (who tend to be myopic in their pursuit of animals) and others who should know better. Too many of us know not when the spotted salamanders migrate by night for their once-a-year-orgy; we ignore the first aroma of balsam poplar in May; we leave this earth having never tasted the sweet wintergreen joy of creeping snowberries. These common events are threatened with a passive, chronic extinction – an alienation from nature that the writer and lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle in The Thunder Tree (1993) calls the 'extinction of experience':
The extinction of experience is not just about losing the personal benefits of the natural high. It also implies a cycle of disaffection that can have disastrous consequences. As cities and metastasising suburbs forsake their natural diversity, and their citizens grow more removed from personal contact with nature, awareness and appreciation retreat. This breeds apathy toward environmental concerns and, inevitably, further degradation of the common habitat.
So it goes, on and on, the extinction of experience sucking the life from the land, the intimacy from our connections. This is how the passing of otherwise common species from our immediate vicinities can be as significant as the total loss of rarities. People who care conserve; people who don't know don't care. What is the extinction of the condor to a child who has never known a wren?
What is the extinction of the Poweshiek skipperling to a child who rarely goes outside to play? As it turns out, lots of butterflies resemble the Poweshiek skipperling. Anyone can walk out the door and never be far from another species of skipperling or from members of a huge group of similar butterflies called grass skippers. Find them in your local meadow or scrubby field in July, glowing in the grass like little orange flames. My most recent skipper encounter came along the Rio Grande in Texas in January, where I photographed a Southern skipperling (Copaeodes minima), one of the smallest butterflies on the continent.
The frogs in our pond can help us know and care for the frogs of the tropics. The extinction of frogs in the tropics might cause us to care more about the frogs in our local pond
Knowing the Southern skipperling – and the high skipper diversity around the world – might make it easier to shrug off the extinction of the Poweshiek skipperling from the prairie. What's another skipper when they all look alike? We hear a lot of this from people who don't care much for wildlife. But what about the rest of us? Might we be culpable to a similar form of this thinking? What about those of us who have never seen or understood our local skippers or other animals in our own backyards?
We can discover more. The great unknown at our feet is a remedy for the extinction of experience. Those actual encounters with the wild outside, no matter how near or how common, help us relate to the wild far away, no matter how remote or rare. When we know our local skipperling, when we see it dart and flutter in the summer fields, when it dances like a marionette above the wildflowers, when it alights with dignity to take nectar from a purple coneflower, we've kindled another flame for nature. When we know our local skipper, we might care more about the skippers on the distant prairie or other faraway places. The frogs in our pond can help us know and care for the frogs of the tropics. And extinction should be fungible. The impending loss of a prairie butterfly might help us recognise and better care for our butterflies close to home. The extinction of frogs in the tropics might cause us to care more about the frogs in our local pond.
Then extinction will become less of an abstraction and more universal. And extinction will hurt. We'll feel it in our blood and in our bones. Even when we only read about it. It'll hurt like when the bees are gone and crops fail, or when a shopping mall obliterates our favourite wetland. Extinction anywhere will create a longing in us, like the yearning for whatever we love. When we know more about the wild in front of us we will care more about the wild we're losing.
By the time I went to Arkansas a decade ago, we had offered too little, too late to the ivory-billed woodpecker. When I was searching for it, this woodpecker had probably been extinct since before I was born. I knew it on that final night while watching my tree cavity in the swamp, waiting for a ghost to fly into its hole and roost there for the night. Even so, even as I waited in vain, as I knew extinction when I saw it, and even during my final retreat in the dark from the swamp that night, I clung to an irrational hope that the woodpecker still flew in these woods, and that before I left Arkansas I might still manage to see it, to somehow witness the resurrection.
Hope is a powerful thing. But the ivory-billed woodpecker was our false prophet. Reacting to a sighting that was most likely a false alarm, conservationists and the federal government had protected acres of bottomland swamp where the woodpecker supposedly still flew.
The rusty's status as 'just another blackbird' relegated it to an obscure path toward oblivion – an extinction of the modest
Almost every day in the swamp I noticed wintering flocks of rusty blackbirds marauding through the trees, fattening up on the fruits of a southern hackberry (Celtis laevigata). Basic black with an inelegant voice, this blackbird is hardly a celebrity. It nests in places we rarely visit – bogs, swamps, and other wetlands across Canada and just barely into the northeastern US. And it's in trouble.
For the past half century, the rusty blackbird has suffered one of the most dramatic population declines ever noted among North American songbirds. As bald eagles and peregrine falcons recovered, rusty blackbird numbers were plunging by an estimated 90 per cent. Causes might include mercury toxicity, warming and drying of wetland breeding sites, and the loss of these wintering sites among the swamplands of the southeastern US. It's likely that rusties face a year-round 'perfect storm' of threats. Only recently have we noticed the decline. The rusty's remote breeding sites, its lack of glamour, and its status as 'just another blackbird' relegated it to an obscure path toward oblivion – an extinction of the modest.
In Arkansas, we saved a swamp for a woodpecker that in all likelihood wasn't there. But in the process we saved swampland for rusty blackbirds. So maybe the ivory-billed woodpecker delivered some redemption after all.
Hope is indeed a powerful thing. It kept me walking and searching in Arkansas. And now, 10 years later, back home in New England, as winter retreats, the season's first northbound rusty blackbirds are arriving. Skippers close to my home will take their first flights in May.
Meanwhile, in the US Midwest, biologists are preparing a new rescue plan for the Poweshiek skipperling. This summer they will harvest eggs from wild females in Michigan, rear the hatched caterpillars through winter in the safety of a zoo in Minnesota, and then return them to the wild in spring 2017 – just before they pupate to fly free as adult skipperlings. It might be the butterfly's last hope. And I'll be back there in Michigan waiting for them.
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If I ever buy a house that requires a real reno, I will definitely add a hot water tap to my outdoor piping. My parents did so when they did their renovation, and it is soooo useful: washing the car, rinsing out a cooler, filling the kiddie pool.....no more frigid hands! This is an expensive add-on if you're not doing a reno, but if you're adjusting plumbing anyways it's a simple feature to include.
Here are a few pictures from my parents' back garden (in Vancouver). Everything is so lush here; quite a difference from the Ontario drought!
Yesterday we headed to Locarno beach in Vancouver and collected some beach glass and driftwood. For our post-nap craft we glue gunned the soft pieces of glass onto the cedar. It is now sitting on a plate stand on a shelf in Grandpa's office. Perfect...except for when my daughter's fingers got caught in the hot glue.
Yesterday while the kidlets were napping my mom and I hit the local Sally Ann. The prices were a bit higher than my Toronto Goodwill, but I still managed to scoop some deals: 3 vintage necklaces and a funky patterned Eaton's bed sheet which will be transformed into fabric gift bags. Paired with some decadent ribbon from Mokuba, they will be gooooorg.
Today we are headed to a thrift store run by the airport that sells all the lost and confiscated goods (firearms and drugs excluded, I'm assuming). Word is that it's $5 for as much as you can put in a shopping bag!
Today my mom and I did some cross-border shopping with the kids. I picked up these shoes for my daughter - they are called "BOBS", and are made by Sketchers. They look mysteriously like Tom's, and similarly give a second pair of shoes to a child in need....but I think these are cheaper....am I bad to buy the cheap brother of feel-good charitable shoes????
I am in Vancouver for a few weeks with the kidlets, visiting with my parents and brother. I snapped a picture of this display in a kitchen store in Kerrisdale village, near my parent's pad. It makes me want to decorate with more colour!! How fun would it be to have a set of rainbow dishes?
I have long been trying to figure out a fun way to display some of my daugher's art.
Today we took two cool knobs that I bought at a Zara Home store (in Barcelona - it was amazzzzzzing), afixed them to the wall (with special plugs for screws) with a satin ribbon in between, and hung some art using colourful clothes pins from Dollarama.
Colourful, cheap, personal, and easy. I love it!!
But I wanted to share a new super easy, super tasty recipe...I'm not even sure it can be called a recipe, it's so simple.
Take salmon, hot or cold, and top it with grainy mustard and horseradish.
Woohoo! It's got zing, and the flavours match beautifully with salmon.
Enjoy the salmon, and bask in the glory of having only 2 spoons to wash after dinner.
I'm in like, not love, with my new headboard.
For a long time I have lusted ove the Crate and Barrel Collette headboard....but it is way (and I mean wayyyyyy) out of the budget. I inquired about having one made by my go-to upolsterer, which was going to cost about $800 if I wanted the nailhead detail (which I did)...this seemed more reasonable, but still expensive for a room we don't spend much waking time in.
So I opted for one off Craigslist that I like but don't looooove.....and I'm totally comfortable with the compromise. It was only $50 (start the car!) and is a beautifully stained dark hardwood with a vintage circular design.
If I ever win the lottery I will go get that Collette headboard and not look back...after all, I am sure I can sell this baby for at least $75 on Craigslist next time around!
What do you think? Does this work well enough?
(and yes, that is 50 Shades of Grey on my bedside table....so far (up to pg 73) I'm pretty underwhelmed).
Yesterday was my husband's birthday. Pre-kids, we would have celebrated at a fun new restaurant. Things have changed a lot since then, but I think it's for the better!
This year I had our bikes outfitted with seats for the kids and we hit Carter's Ice Cream, just off the Danforth near Coxwell. It is an adorable shop selling Kawartha dairy ice cream (yum!) with pint-sized adirondacks for the kids outside.
Bike ride + ice cream = the perfect family night.
Last night I made this delicious summer salad. It is among the most interesting flavour combinations you'll experience, and is oh-so-easy to prepare.
Toss with olive oil and balsamic.
Salty and sweet, refreshing and creamy.
This salad has it all.
My husband and I have a competitive group of friends. ....very. competitive.
So as incentive to get healthy, we are embarking on the Fatty Get Skinny Couples Challenge (our own creation), beginning tomorrow. The rules are as follows, but in essence points are gained for exercise and lost for food infractions. The challenge runs until September 9th, when we will all celebrate at Hy's Steakhouse. The losing couple pays for 40% of the bill; 4th place couple pays for 35% of the bill, 3rd place couple pays for 25% of the bill, and the first and second place couples split the tip!
- At end of competition, additional points will be awarded for weight loss at a rate of 1 point for every 2% of initial body weight lost.
Let me know if you want the Excel point tracking sheet I created and you can start your own competition!
Yes, I have OCD.....and I have no desire for recovery. I revel in it.
Check out the 'ribbon' drawn in my newly purged office. ...more photos to come now that the purge is complete.
Now I can't wait to wrap a gift!
This weekend we were supposed to go camping with a group of friends, but we decided not to as there were thunder showers...not fun with kids! Since my husband and I were on point for dinner, we just relocated the troops to a friend's house.
This Toronto Star article about the plummetting price of lobster inspired me to cook some live ones with corn on the cob! The plan was to boil water over the camp fire, but they tasted just as good over a gas range!
The cheapest lobsters in the city that I could fine were at T&T Supermarket down in the portlands...if you haven't been, you should...it's famtastic: great produce, cheap milk, and tons of asian specialties, from dumplings to Peking Duck. Lobsters were a bargain at $8.99/lb! Do it!
I need a second house!
Do you like mid-century modern furniture? If so, this post is for you!
I just spied this gorgeous set at the Goodwill on Overlea - $65 for the hutch and $75 for the buffet--start the car!
The set is in excellent condition, has a TON of drawers, a heart-stopping curved front on both pieces and no knobs (clever wood in-sets for opening and closing). It's a gem.
I tried to convince my sister to buy it, but no dice. These pieces would be hundreds, if not thousands in any of those vintage Queen East boutiques like GUFF. Did I mention that this is a great deal????
My dream job would be wasting away hours at the Goodwill, scavanging and refinishing cool furniture....oh, to dream.
Is there anything worse than bathing suit shopping?
Change rooms without mirrors, forcing you out into a public area?
Racks and racks of bathing suits?
After I had baby #1, my friend Erin recommended that I visit Melmira at Yonge and Lawrence in Toronto. Best. advice. ever. You never see a rack of bathing suits. ...that's right. Your consultant talks to you about what you want and brings you a few suits at a time until you find the perfect bathing suit. It is pricey, but worth every cent. I walked away with two suits that I love and still wear.
UPDATE: Janice made a good point in her comment that I forgot to mention - the bathing suits Melmira carries are all sold as 'seperates', so you can get different sized tops and bottoms. Also, both the tops and one piece suits are sold in bra sizes - like 36C - so they really fit well.
As I blogged about here, our street planned a block party this year. We held it last night, and it was really, really swell! We had a fantastic turnout (about 40 adults and 15 kids) and it was a snap to organize (we kept it very simple for our first go at it!)!
Today my husband took the kids out, so I had a chance to tackle another room with my purging paws: my son's nursery!
I went through all of my son's clothes. Too-small items were packed away in sweater bags, while others were destined for the Goodwill or my garage-sale pile. I followed up by giving the room a much needed cleaning.
I started this blog on my second maternity leave to document some of the fun and interesting 'goings on' at our house....it was also in response to my brother in Vancouver lamenting that my regular email updates were filling up his inbox with large photo attachements.


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Dalton said administrators want to repurpose the New Deal-era Sirrine Hall — currently running out of usable space for the College of Business and Behavioral Science — to become overflow space for classes and offices displaced when other campus buildings are being renovated. A new, $100-plus million business college home overlooking Bowman Field has been proposed, but has not yet gotten the go-ahead from Clemson's board of trustees.
Dalton said the $2.5 million would go to the Emerging Scholars program to encourage high school students from poorer school districts to attend college, and Call Me MISTER, a program that helps pay for and train young men to get teaching degrees and work in public schools as teachers and mentors to young minority students. Clemson administers both programs, each of which has participants at universities around the state.
As for the state's annual contribution to Clemson's overall budget, Dalton said he didn't expect legislators to begin discussing that with university officials until May or so when the House and Senate have firmer ideas of how much tax money they'll have for colleges, roads, public schools and the like.
Tri-County Tech is part of the state's technical college system and, as such, its operations are included in a bigger budget that includes all 16 tech schools around the state; however, the Pendleton-based school does have some projects of its own that could use state help.
Tri-County President Ronnie Booth will ask legislators Tuesday to consider $12 million in new, one-time dollars for the school. It could use $6 million to put toward construction of the Student Success Center on the Pendleton campus, $4 million for the new Workforce Development Center planned near Walhalla and $2 million to expand its Industrial Technology Center in Sandy Springs.
Booth added that he and his fellow presidents are hoping the Legislature brings annual budget support for tech schools back closer to pre-recession levels — perhaps even as much as another $38.5 million annually "to close the gap from the 2008 cuts," he said.
At least two Upstate senators think higher education will get a sympathetic reception in this year's session, despite Gov. Nikki Haley's complaint in her State of the State address about tuition rates going up at the state's universities in recent years.
Senator Thomas Alexander (R-Walhalla) said he doesn't expect to see any serious Senate movement on higher education until sometime in March, at which time he hopes everyone is in a cooperative mood.
"We know funding has suffered as a result of the economic downturn (in 2008)," said Alexander, "but the universities are going to have to work with us because we don't want tuitions going up a disproportionate amount compared with the cost of living."
Senator Larry Martin (R-Pickens) acknowledged Haley's and Alexander's points; however, he said too many people think Clemson raises tuition dollars to pay for new buildings when, in fact, those dollars cover overhead costs. He added that fellow legislators need to recognize the role Clemson plays in the state's economy.
"Clemson has a wonderful underlying story, and we need for my colleagues to see what it's doing — not just for this region, but for the whole state of South Carolina," said Martin. "This is a world-class university that's on the cutting edge of a lot different things. We are so fortunate to have it in our backyard and we don't need to confuse the facts."
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Clemson University and Tri-County Technical College will begin their annual pitches for state budget dollars this week. Requests for the House Ways and Means Higher Education and Technical College are expected to include:
Tri-County Tech
$6 million to put toward construction of a new Student Success Center on the Pendleton campus;
$4 million to build the new Workforce Development Center planned in conjunction with the School District of Oconee County for a site near Walhalla;
$2 million to expand Tri-County's Industrial Technology Center in Sandy Springs.
$25 million toward construction of a new business school building and the repurposing of Sirrine Hall;
$25 million for a new "advanced materials innovation complex" on the main campus;
$2.5 million in new, annual funding for the Emerging Scholars and Call Me MISTER programs.


One of the mainstays of old school pickup was the false time constraint.
You would go up, deliver it on approach, and it would help you display high value plus remove any fear a girl might have of you being a social burden – some guy who shows up, gloms onto her, then never leaves and she can't get rid of him.
But what about situations where you mess up on the opener, or maybe for whatever reason this girl thinks she's better than you, or you're meeting women somewhere the competition is fierce and girls are flakey and non-commital – is it ever worth using an "FTC" to give yourself breathing room and show her what you've really got?


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California Supreme Court Confirms Validity Of Meal Period Waivers For Healthcare Employees
By Richard J. Simmons & Rachel Howard on December 12, 2018
Posted in Class Actions, Labor and Employment, Wage and Hour
On December 10, 2018, the California Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision in Gerard, et al. v. Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center, affirming the Court of Appeal ruling that voluntary meal period waivers are permissible for healthcare employees who work long shifts, even if they work more than 12 hours. By allowing healthcare employees to waive one of their two meal periods, the Gerard decision preserves a choice for employees who work 12-hour shifts. They continue to have the flexibility to work shifts that span 12 ½ hours with one 30-minute meal period or shifts that span 13 hours and include two 30-minute meal periods.
Sheppard Mullin argued this case before the California Supreme Court and has represented Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in the case since 2008.
Not only was this case hard fought throughout California courts for 10 years, but it also involved novel legislative action. Notably, it was the only wage-hour victory for an employer before the California Supreme Court in 2018.
Background on the Case and Relevant Laws
The lawsuit was filed in August of 2008 and initially alleged a variety of wage-hour claims, including meal period, rest period, regular pay, final pay, wage statement (pay stub), expense reimbursement, and unfair business practice claims. A claim under the Private Attorneys General Act ("PAGA") was also asserted. Sheppard Mullin successfully defended the lawsuit in the trial court by moving to deny class certification and obtaining summary judgment in favor of Orange Coast on all of the claims, including the PAGA claim.
The plaintiffs challenged the trial court's rulings, but directed the focus of their appeal on the meal period regulations contained in section 11 of Wage Order 5, a regulation issued by the California Industrial Welfare Commission ("IWC"). They argued that the meal period waiver regulation for healthcare employees differed in some respects from the Labor Code and was therefore invalid. It followed, they argued, that Orange Coast and any hospital that relied on the IWC's regulation faced liability for allowing employees to waive one their two meal periods on long shifts, even though they acted entirely in good faith and the voluntary waivers were revocable by employees at any time.
California's meal period rules for healthcare employees are the product of several overlapping legal schemes – the California Labor Code and the IWC Wage Orders. First, California Labor Code section 512 generally provides that employees who work over 10 hours are entitled to two 30-minute meal periods. However, employees can waive their second meal period if they work no more than 12 hours. Separately, Labor Code section 516 (which was added by AB 60 in 1999) permits the IWC to adopt or amend working condition orders with respect to meal periods, among other things.
Second, IWC Wage Order 5, section 11(D), permits healthcare employees to waive one of the two meal periods on long shifts, even if they work more than 12 hours. Wage Order 5 was adopted by the IWC on June 30, 2000, and became effective October 1, 2000.
After section 11(D) was adopted, but before it became effective, the Legislature enacted SB 88, which amended Labor Code section 516 to limit the scope of the IWC's authority after SB 88 took effect. It modified section 516 to state: "Except as provided in Section 512, the [IWC] may adopt or amend working condition orders with respect to break periods [and] meal periods." Before the SB 88 amendment, section 516 stated: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [IWC] may adopt or amend working condition orders with respect to break periods, meal periods, and days of rest . . . ." It was therefore clear that SB 88 changed the law, including the IWC's authority.
The Plaintiffs' Challenge to the Wage Order
Plaintiffs claimed that, as a result of SB 88, section 11(D) of Wage Order was invalid because it created a form of "additional exception" to the meal period waiver standard that was not in Labor Code section 512. The trial court rejected this theory and each of the plaintiffs' claims. It granted Orange Coast's motion for summary judgment and its motion to deny class certification. The trial court found, among other things, that the plaintiffs were provided meal periods as required by California law.
Gerard I & II
After the trial court ruled in Orange Coast's favor, the plaintiffs appealed. In Gerard I, the Court of Appeal sided with plaintiffs and found that section 11(D) was invalid based on SB 88 and the new language of section 516 that was enacted on September 19, 2000. The court found that the IWC exceeded its authority by enacting section 11(D) because it allowed meal period waivers for healthcare employees who worked more than 12 hours, whereas Labor Code section 512 did not. Shortly after Gerard I was decided in February 2015, the California Supreme Court granted Orange Coast's petition that it review the case.
In a novel approach, an additional avenue was pursued to address the serious industry-wide concerns that arose from the Court of Appeal's incorrect conclusions in Gerard I. After Gerard I was decided in February of 2015, with the backing of the California Hospital Association and the healthcare industry, a legislative solution to the problems caused by the decision was explored. The Legislature responded by unanimously passing SB 327 as an urgency measure that was signed by Governor Brown in October of 2015 to amend section 516. A new subdivision (b) was added, stating: "Notwithstanding subdivision (a), or any other law, including Section 512, the healthcare employee meal period waiver provisions in Section 11(D)…were valid and enforceable on and after October 1, 2000, and continue to be valid and enforceable."
After SB 327 was enacted, the Supreme Court transferred the Gerard case back to the Court of Appeal in 2016. This time, in Gerard II – the Court of Appeal acknowledged in a March 2017 opinion that it had erred both in its analysis and conclusion by focusing on the date section 11(D) took effect (October 1, 2000, i.e., after SB 88 was enacted) rather than the date it was "adopted" (June 30, 2000, i.e., before SB 88 was enacted). On reevaluation, the Court of Appeal accepted arguments that Sheppard Mullin had made throughout the case and concluded that the IWC's action in adopting Wage Order 5 when it did on June 30, 2000 was valid. The Court of Appeal thus affirmed the trial court's judgment granting the hospital's motion for summary judgment and subsequent motion to deny class certification.
The Supreme Court Decision
After the plaintiffs appealed Gerard II, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on October 2, 2018. The Supreme Court reviewed the history of the case and the evolution of the meal period rules in California. It traced the rules from 1993 (when the healthcare industry petitioned the IWC to allow 12-hour shifts with meal period waivers) through 1999 (when the Legislature enacted AB 60 to create the first statutory meal period requirements). As AB 60 authorized, the IWC adopted section 11(D) to allow employees working long shifts to voluntarily waive one of their two meal periods, even if they exceed 12 hours.
The Supreme Court agreed with the Court of Appeal in Gerard II and found that the timing of the IWC's adoption of Wage Order 5 on June 30, 2000, before SB 88 took effect, warranted the conclusion that the Wage Order was valid. Significantly, the Court also explained that this decision would have been the same whether or not SB 327 had been enacted. Thus, even though SB 327 supported the same conclusion, the validity of Wage Order 5 was determined based on the IWC's authority on the date it was adopted.
What the Decision Means for California Healthcare Employees and Employers
The Gerard decision will have a lasting impact on healthcare employers and employees throughout California. Healthcare employers can now be confident they can continue to use voluntary meal period waivers for healthcare employees, even when they work over 12 hours. This decision also means that healthcare employees can continue to benefit from flexibility with their shifts; shifts can be scheduled for 12 ½ hours with one 30-minute meal period, rather than 13 hours with two 30-minute meal periods, without violating California law. Collective bargaining agreements that incorporate these rules can also be used. In sum, the Gerard decision allows healthcare employees and employers to preserve the flexibility they fought to achieve 25 years ago.
Richard J. Simmons
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Rachel Patta Howard is an associate in the Labor and Employment Practice Group in the firm's Century City office.
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If you use Microsoft products, you've no doubt made at least some use of Cortana, the company's digital assistant function. If you're in the Apple camp, then Siri has become an increasingly important part of your life. These digital assistants began as small components of a much larger ecosystem, and in their earliest iterations, were of relatively little practical value. They're growing up now, and as they do, they're suddenly demonstrating much more value and are poised to become absolutely indispensable.
In two words: Artificial Intelligence. Both Cortana and Siri are becoming increasingly good at anticipating needs. This has been accomplished, by and large, via ever-improving contextualization of the data you touch.
Even last year, Cortana would have been incapable of doing much more than scheduling an upcoming meeting for you. Now though, she can not only schedule the meeting, but track the schedules of all the people you've invited to the meeting, and proactively let you know if anyone has any scheduling conflicts that would make them less likely to attend.
She also knows where you are, geographically, and if the meeting you've scheduled is in some other city, she will ask you if you'd like her to make travel arrangements to get you there. Then, she can troll through your files, using an advanced LSI keyword search to find and collect documents that may be relevant to you in terms of preparation for the meeting.
LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) is a technology developed by Google that allows computers to understand the contextualized meanings of words by looking at the other words used with them. This is the reason, when you do a Google search for "Apple Apps," you get a list of apps for your iPhone, rather than a collection of recipes for apple pies in the search results. The computer understands that if the word "app" appears with the word "Apple," what you're wanting is technology-related, as opposed to being dessert related.
It is this technology that is really taking Cortana's functionality to the next level. Don't be at all surprised if 2016 winds up being the year that you start regarding Cortana as an invaluable addition to your team.
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Plays 2
Original title: Teaterstykke 2
Publisher: Samlaget, 2001
Genre: Play
These seasonal plays are typical Fosse, imbuing mundane situations with an almost hypnotic intensity.
A Summer's Day (written in 1997)
Dream of Autumn (written in1998)
Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black (written in 1999)
Visits (written in1999)
Sleep My Baby Sleep
In A Summer's Day, an old widow remembers the day, many years before, when her husband went out to sea in a terrible storm and never returned. two old friends reunite in a play whose action takes place in two time periodes. It revives and dramatises the emotions of love, both now and in the distant past.
In, Dream of Autumn Fosse tells the stoy of ordinary lives that take surprising turns. In a series of continuousbut chronologically distinct scenes, the play shows a man unexpectedly coming across an old friend: she will become his second wife, and cause him to fall out with his family. While the encounter gives rise to tense scenarios that drive the narrative, the presence of death gives contour to the love and life within the play. Dream of Autumn is a timeless poetic story about the everyday and miraculous.
The short play Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black, displays Fosse's characteristic compression of theatrical time and space at its most concentrated. Here, Fosse explores the dilemmas of an errant husband, his young lover and his family.
In the oblique but psychologically penetrating Visits, a withdrawn teenager, apparently upset by the attention of her mother's boyfriend, turns to her brother for help. In order to unravel what is happening, he tries toget the boyfriend to open up and tell hos own story.
In Sleep My Baby Sleep, three people are in a strange unnamed place; through visual and linguistic association they try to decipher their predicament. As is common in Fosse's plays, the characters don't have names; in this play, it emphasises the mystical character of their dilemma.
In Winter a fascinating but mercurial woman tries to seduce a businessman, but once he has given up his family and career, he realises he may have mistaken her intentions.It is a chance intersection between strangers who become friends, lovers and strange sort of companions.
In Afternoon, characters come and go in a flat that is for sale; they will never understand each other; someone will always insist on one thing, while others will insist on something else. "A meditation on time and the fragility of the human condition" (HAyman Theatre Company) in which characters struggle to understand themselves and to embrace life.
Rights for plays performed at theatres world wide, contact Berit Gullberg in Colombine Teaterförlag, Sweden.
For plays published abroad, contact Winje Agency
Jon Fosse is widely considered one of the world's most important living writers. Born in 1959 in Strandebarm, a small village in the western part of Norway, he lives today in the Grotten, an honorary residence, as well as in Hainburg, Austria, and Frekhaug, Norway.
Fosse has received numerous prizes, both in Norway and internationally, and he is mentioned increasingly often as a likely contender for the Nobel Prize. He has currently finishing a major seven-volume work of what he calls "slow prose": Septology, to be published in three volumes in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Other titles by Jon Fosse
Someone Is Going to Come
Melancholy I, II
Plays 1 - 5
Collected Essays
Nightsongs
Dream of Autumn
I Am the Wind
Living Rock
Stone to Stone
The Dog Manuscripts
2018, (1995, 1996, 1997)
Shorter Prose
The Other Name Septology I - II


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The Nationwide Endowment for the Arts is an impartial federal company that funds, promotes, and strengthens the artistic capacity of our communities by offering all Individuals with diverse alternatives for arts participation. From bigger, city areas to uncharted rural areas, each California Cultural District helps develop and sustain genuine arts and tradition alternatives, improve the visibility of local artists, and promote socioeconomic and ethnic range via culture and inventive expression.
On April 1, be a part of Rick Brettell, artwork historian and former Information art critic, in dialog with Mark Lamster, architecture critic, to debate the way forward for North Texas arts institutions, the continued growth of the Dallas Arts District, and why we want a Museum of Texas Art.
The position of the architect, although changing, has been central to the successful (and sometimes lower than profitable) design and implementation of pleasingly built environments through which people stay.
All human creations could be divided broadly into three categories i.e. science, faith and arts. Throughout one of my martial arts courses, certainly one of my fellow students requested our sensei, "What attack should I make now?" He had simply completed practicing a collection of intense self-protection tactics on his associate, rendering him innocent.
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There are so many benefits of children doing arts and crafts it is laborious to record all of them proper right here so we'll concentrate on just a few of essentially the most useful. A scientific concept too starts with an creativeness or hypothesis made by the scientist. Design was emphasized more than the high quality arts, so schools of design have been founded all through Europe throughout the 18th century. Hitting these Marmas can freeze and disable sure parts of the body or make one unconscious.
Modern-day martial arts take the types of leisure and professional sports activities, law enforcement, self-protection practices, as also bodily fitness and spiritual disciplines. There are so many arts and crafts to select from, there is sure to be something that you will discover that will excite all of the family, a spotlight that may deliver you all together frequently.
Children love arts and crafts and so can mother and father, with infinite hours of enjoyable, focus and household bonding. A good understanding of art history, however, consists of more than memorizing artists, their works, and after they were created. Outstanding artistic power and artsy folks. The applied arts are the application of design and decoration to on a regular basis, functional, objects to make them aesthetically pleasing.
But perhaps there are other methods to cooperate with the graffiti artists reasonably than simply opposing them. 7 students of All American Martial Arts competed within the twenty sixth Annual Kansas State Martial Arts Championship on Saturday. To make clear the which means of the time period "martial arts", Webster's defines the phrase martial as "warfare" or "warrior", and arts as "a skill acquired by examine".
In today of budget cuts and restricted assets, it's often the case that high-quality arts lessons are the first to be cut. By and enormous crayons make up a large share of arts and crafts actions for children within the age group of four to 10. What's attention-grabbing about crayons is that as the years have gone by all the industry and never simply the namesake of the objects, Crayola, has switched from possibly-poisonous to non-poisonous virtually-edible markers.


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Dallas Temperatures: Averages by Month
The numbers here tell you how hot and cold the weather usually is in Dallas, Texas during each month of the year.
The average high and low temperatures are listed below by month and annually for Dallas, in both degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Maximums and minimums are only part of the temperature picture. To fill in the rest, there's information on how many days a month get above or below a given temperature.
To find out how often it rises over 80, 90 or 100 °F each month in Dallas, scroll down farther. There are also counts of nights with warm temperatures and days with cold weather.
The first set of high and low temperatures are averages for 2010 to 2019. Everything else here is based on 1991 to 2020 weather.
10-year temperature averages for Dallas, 2010 to 2019
High °F
Low °F
57 37 January 14 3
61 41 February 16 5
71 50 March 21 10
78 58 April 26 14
85 66 May 30 19
94 75 June 34 24
97 78 July 36 26
98 79 August 37 26
92 72 September 33 22
80 59 October 27 15
68 48 November 20 9
60 41 December 15 5
78 59 Year 26 15
Days of Hot Weather in Dallas
For most of May to September, Dallas has daily temperatures of at least 80 °F. Typically 22 of those days have 100-plus degree weather.
Days per month in Dallas of at least 80, 90 or 100 °F
100 °F
January 1 0 0
February 2 0 0
March 5 0 0
April 13 1 0
May 25 8 0
June 30 22 2
July 31 29 8
September 27 17 2
October 17 4 0
November 3 0 0
December 1 0 0
Year 184 108 22
Number of Warm Nights a Month
Most summer nights in Dallas stay above 69 °F. From April to October, the nighttime temperature remains above 39 degrees.
Average number of nights each month in Dallas that stay above 50, 60 or 70 °F
March 14 4 0
April 23 11 1
May 30 25 8
September 30 27 16
October 25 14 3
November 11 4 0
Year 238 178 111
How Often Dallas Has Cold Temperatures
Freezing overnight temperatures can happen in Dallas anytime from November to March, normally totalling 23 days a year. Typically one or two nights a winter, have lows that drop down to 20 degrees Fahrenheit or less.
Most frosty nights in Dallas are followed by daytime thaws. Only on one or two days a year, typically, does the day's high stay below freezing.
Days per month on average in Dallas when the minimum temperature drops to 20, 32 or 40 °F or below
January 1 9 20
April 0 0 1
May 0 0 0
June 0 0 0
July 0 0 0
August 0 0 0
September 0 0 0
October 0 0 1
December 0 7 18
Year 2 23 65
Jay Lawrimore, Ron Ray, Scott Applequist, Bryant Korzeniewski, Matthew Menne. 2016. Global Summary of the Month and Year, Version 1.0. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.
More on Weather in Texas
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Home » Devices » Analysis
Could a pain-free vaccine patch be used to immunise people against Covid-19?
DevicesDrug Delivery
By Jamie Bell 16 Oct 2020
Vaccine patch technology works by delivering hundreds of microneedles to the skin, and may provide a more convenient way of immunising against Covid-19
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh were among the first teams to begin developing a Covid-19 vaccine patch (Credit: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)
While the world's biggest pharma companies have entered into a race against time – and each other – to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, several smaller teams across the globe are working on an adhesive skin patch for immunising people against the virus.
Investigations into a coronavirus vaccine patch may be in the early stages but, if successful, they could lead to a more convenient, pain-free alternative to administering vaccinations via an injection.
We take a closer look at how these novel technologies work, which companies and research teams are attempting to bring them to the world, and when a Covid-19 vaccine patch is likely to be available.
How does a vaccine patch work?
A vaccine patch is a small, adhesive strip – not dissimilar to an everyday plaster – that can be self-administered by patients.
The most common method these patches use to deliver a vaccine dose is via numerous tiny, coated microneedles, which are only a few-hundred microns in length and are therefore just long enough to penetrate the skin.
Because these microneedles are made from water-soluble materials like sugars or polymers, they then dissolve quickly into the skin after use.
Many of the patches currently being tested by researchers use microneedles coated in a vaccine (Credit: The Lancet)
The main advantage of this is that it is painless, and could therefore offer people with a fear of needles a minimally-invasive alternative to traditional, injection-based vaccinations.
Another potential benefit held by vaccine patches is the fact that they don't need to be refrigerated – meaning they could be stored more easily in pharmacies and either purchased by, or posted to, patients – and could remove concerns around disposal or reuse of needles as well.
It has also been suggested that vaccine patches may be more suitable for immunising populations in poorer or developing countries where it's difficult to store traditional vaccines at a suitable temperature.
Initial trials of the technology
While scientists and researchers had been investigating the possibility of a 'needle-free' vaccine for several years beforehand, the first concrete indication that a patch may be the solution came in the summer of 2017.
Emory University – a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia – published the results of a small, phase 1, first-in-human clinical trial in which 100 people were administered with an influenza vaccine via a skin patch.
The results were largely positive, with suggestions that it was just as effective as a standard injection in terms of producing antibodies, and there were also no serious safety-related concerns – with the only adverse effects being faint redness and mild itching where the patch had been applied to the skin.
The researchers involved stated that larger studies would be required to fully ascertain if the vaccine patch was safe and effective, and confirmed they would move on to phase 2 clinical trials involving more people.
However, aside from a team from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York stating that its own alternative, microneedle-free vaccine patch had shown promise when tested on mice last year, there had been very few reports of further progress into developing an approved product of this kind – until the Covid-19 outbreak.
Who is trying to develop a Covid-19 vaccine patch?
Compared to the relative lack of movement on this front over the past couple of years, there has been an explosion of activity from companies and research teams attempting to produce a patch-based vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
In April 2020, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine said their vaccine patch containing 400 microneedles – significantly more than the 100 used by Emory University's – had been tested on mice, and produced Covid-19 antibodies within two weeks.
The team has now applied for an investigational new drug (IND) designation from the US FDA for its 'PittCoVacc' patch, and is thought to be moving closer to beginning phase 1 clinical trials involving human participants.
Applying a vaccine patch to a patient's skin is not dissimilar to putting on a regular, adhesive plaster (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)
Having received funding from US health department office BARDA (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority) in late-August, American biotech firm Vaxess Technologies announced on 14 September it was partnering with UK pharma company Medigen to develop a combined Covid-19-plus-influenza patch.
Other teams attempting to develop a successful coronavirus vaccine patch include Italian biopharmaceutical firm Verndari – which also received BARDA funding in August for its dermal VaxiPatch technology – and UK medtech company Innoture, which won a £200,000 ($258,000) grant from the Welsh government for its 3D-printed patch in July.
And, most recently, on 5 October, Australian medical devices firm Vaxxas also secured $22m from BARDA for its own HD-MAP (high-density microarray patch) technology.
While this particular funding is being used to initiate phase 1 clinical studies of its technology involving a flu vaccine, the company has said it is investigating opportunities to use its vaccination platform against Covid-19 as well.
How soon could a vaccine patch be available?
Right now, it is extremely difficult to tell when – or even if – any of these novel microneedle patches could make it through human clinical trials, gain regulatory approval and become available to the public.
It does, however, seem likely that the firms and universities working on them have significantly less manpower and money at their disposal than AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi and the numerous other pharma giants currently racing to develop a Covid-19 vaccine.
Those working on patch technologies are therefore likely to be some way behind these industry heavyweights in their own attempts to tackle the global pandemic.
This notion is arguably confirmed by the fact that several traditional vaccine candidates are now in Phase 3 clinical trials – the final stage of testing in humans – while many of the aforementioned Covid-19 patch devices are only just reaching Phase 1 assessments.
With the WHO (World Health Organisation) stating on 4 September that it doesn't expect widespread vaccination against the virus to take place until mid-2021, it's probable that a patch-based alternative will not be available until even later.
Having said that, many have already shown promising signs during pre-clinical testing, and the current climate – in which the entire world is desperate for any innovation that could halt the spread of Covid-19 – means they are likely to be accelerated through the necessary clinical trials and regulatory frameworks as quickly as possible.
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A Wales Under-21 international (3 caps), Giles commenced his career with Cardiff City gaining a full contract in June 1979 after working his way through the junior sides. He featured in 24 league matches for the Ninian Park club, scoring one goal.
Giles signed for Exeter City on loan in March 1982, just two days after appearing for the Welsh Under-21 side against Holland.
He made his Grecians' debut in a 4-0 defeat at Reading, but scored his only goal for the club in the very next match, a 3-0 home win over Chester.
The winger was not retained by Cardiff City on his return to the club and he signed for Excelsior, Rotterdam, before moving on to another Dutch team, SVV Dordrecht.
Returning to Wales in January 1984, Giles then contacted Exeter City and had a short spell training with the club in the hope of earning a contract again. A month later Giles signed for Weymouth.
In December 1984 he played for Newport County, but only made one substitute outing. In 1985-86 he was playing for Merthyr Tydfil, but then had another spell at Newport as he signed for them in March 1987, and this time he scored twice in 29 league games.
After yet another return to Merthyr Tydfil, where he scored the club's first ever goal in the Conference,
Giles later played for Inter Cardiff (1993-94), Barry Town (1994-96 as player-manager), Ebbw Vale (1996-98), Cwmbran Town (1998-99), Inter Cabletel (1998-99), Inter Cardiff for a second time and made one outing for Grange Quinns, whilst player-manager, in 2004-05. He left them a year later.
He took over as manager of South Wales Amateur League side Rhoose in 2012, winning promotion into the Welsh Football League and returned for a second spell with Dinas Powys between 2016 and 2017.
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Liverpool will have 16 first-team players back at Melwood on Saturday, as Jurgen Klopp and his backroom staff oversee preparations for the 2019/20 campaign.
The Reds begin with a depleted squad due to summer internationals and, for some, ongoing tournaments, which rule out the majority of Klopp's key men.
Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane are both still at the Africa Cup of Nations, while Alisson and Roberto Firmino are gearing up for the Copa America final on Sunday.
Fabinho was left out of the Brazil squad, however, and is among the 16-man squad Liverpool have confirmed to be back in training this weekend.
Joel Matip, Joe Gomez, James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Adam Lallana are among the senior names involved, while last season's loanees Nathaniel Clyne, Harry Wilson and Ryan Kent are included.
New signing Sepp van den Berg and fellow Dutch defender Ki-Jana Hoever are in, while an unfamiliar name for some is Colombian full-back Anderson Arroyo.
Arroyo is yet to receive a UK work permit, and therefore the 19-year-old has spent the last two seasons on loan with Real Mallorca and KAA Gent.
There is a noticeable lack of goalkeepers in the group, but Caoimhin Kelleher should back in time for the first friendly of the summer.
Liverpool begin their warmup at Tranmere Rovers on July 11, before a trip to Bradford City on July 14, ahead of the tour of the United States.
The likes of Jordan Henderson, Andy Robertson, Virgil van Dijk, Gini Wijnaldum and Naby Keita are expected back for that three-stop jaunt across the Atlantic, during which the Reds play Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla and Sporting CP.
Liverpool Squad Back for Pre-Season on Saturday
Defenders: Joel Matip, Joe Gomez, Sepp van den Berg, Ki-Jana Hoever, Nathaniel Phillips, Nathaniel Clyne, Anderson Arroyo
Midfielders: Fabinho, James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Adam Lallana, Ben Woodburn, Curtis Jones
Forwards: Rhian Brewster, Ryan Kent, Harry Wilson
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UPDATE: Two bits of good news - firstly having negotiated with the landlord the store isn't closing any more and pending planning permission will stay open, but secondly the sample sale is still happening!
Original listing: Unfortunately the Lowie shop at 115 Dulwich Road, Herne Hill will be closing its doors on 17th of September - but you get to help see the store off with a two day mega sample sale, where samples and archive collection pieces will start at just £5! Plus they'll also be selling furniture and other items they've adorned the shop with over the years.


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Potok płynie w Sudetach Środkowych, w Górach Suchych, w woj. dolnośląskim. Jego źródła złożone z drobnych wycieków znajdują się na wysokości około 700 m n.p.m. poniżej Przełęczy Trzech Dolin. Potok w górnym biegu spływa przez niezalesione tereny w kierunku północnym, w Rybnicy Leśnej skręca na wschód i płynie głęboką, załamaną wąską doliną, oddzielającą Góry Wałbrzyskie od Gór Suchych, Następne przepływa przez Grzmiącą i uchodzi do Bystrzycy w miejscowości Głuszyca. W górnym i dolnym odcinku potok płynie wśród zabudowań. W środkowym odcinku płynie przez obszar Parku Krajobrazowego Sudetów Wałbrzyskich. Zbiera wody z północno-zachodnich zboczy Gór Suchych i południowych zboczy Gór Wałbrzyskich. Potok w większości swojego biegu nieuregulowany o wartkim prądzie wody.

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'Plastic Garbage Guarding the Museum', the latest street intervention by spanish art collective Luzinterruptus is part of the 'Oh, Plastiksacki' exhibition at the Gewerbemuseum of Winthertur, a show evolving around the common plastic bag. The large-scale installation invites the inhabitants to bring disposable shopping bags to the museum in exchange for tickets to visit the institution's various exhibitions. This initiative enabled them collect more than 5,000 bags to create the colorful and illuminated work. They filled the bags with air and placed thousands within two large dumpster bins, each outfitted with a light, to form a mountain of rainbow hued plastic. The project is meant to help on the discussion about consumption and the reality of plastic bags. Displayed over the course of four months, the work was also a documentation of the plastic bags' evolution, sitting outside to face the elements demonstrating in a visual manner the reality of this common day object.
The exhibition is running until the 7th of October.


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Home » Lifestyle » 'Let's Make a Deal,' 'The Price Is Right' Delay Production Return Amid L.A. COVID-19 Spike
'Let's Make a Deal,' 'The Price Is Right' Delay Production Return Amid L.A. COVID-19 Spike
Game shows "The Price Is Right" and "Let's Make a Deal" are each extending their holiday hiatus and pushing back return-to-production dates amid spiking COVID-19 numbers in Los Angeles County. Both Fremantle-produced daytime shows air on CBS.
The Drew Carey-hosted "The Price Is Right" had restarted production in October at Television City after pausing in March as the coronavirus first hit Southern California; "Let's Make a Deal" had similarly gotten back into action in October.
Deadline first reported news of the extended holiday hiatus at "The Price Is Right" and "Let's Make a Deal."
The Fremantle game shows join CBS TV Studios, Disney's 20th Television and ABC Signature, Warner Bros. TV, Universal TV, Netflix and other major studios in halting active production while Los Angeles sees record rates of COVID-19. On Tuesday alone, 13,512 new cases were reported to the county, with a seven-day testing positivity rate of 20.5%, which means that one in five tests comes back positive for the coronavirus.
But as Variety reported Monday, industry insiders believe that a lengthy production shutdown akin to that of spring 2020 is unlikely, given the rigorous, often-expensive measures that have been taken to create safer on-set environments, as well as the jobs and revenue at stake, should another prolonged shutdown occur.
A number of daytime talk shows have resumed filming or plan to resume production soon. "The View" and "The Talk" have resumed remotely, "The Ellen Show" has pushed production by a week, while "Dr. Phil" will resume taping on Jan. 11 at Paramount Studios with a live Zoom audience.
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Q: MySql выборка по совпадению записей двух таблиц и сортировка по максимальному совпадению. Здравствуйте!
Есть две таблицы с одинаковыми полями.
profile1: id, id_user, height, width, color, education
profile2: id, id_user, height, width, color, education

Задача взять одну любую запись из profile1. R ней подобрать похожие записи из таблицы profile2 и сортировать по наиболее похожим.
Похожесть определяется по совпадению полей height, width, color, education.
A: Вам помогут CROS JOIN и функция IF(). Суть такова: вы получаете декартово произведение двух таблиц, для каждой строки вычисляете количество совпадающих полей и сортируете по количеству совпадений.
select p2.id,
       if(p1.width = p2.width, 1, 0) +
       if(p1.height = p2.height, 1, 0) +
       if(p1.color = p2.color, 1, 0) +
       if(p1.education = p2.education, 1, 0) as matching_fields
from profile1 p1
cross join profile2 p2
where p1.id = 6
order by matching_fields desc;

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This Syrian Activist Was Fighting to Expose Atrocities, and Now She's Been Kidnapped
ByBrett Scruton
Syrian activist Razan Zaitouneh, described as "the woman revolutionary in a male-dominated war" by a fellow activist, has been kidnapped along with her husband and two colleagues from a Damascus suburb. In addition to the physical loss of an active voice, Zaitouneh's kidnapping marks a symbolic loss for the increasingly shrinking, non-violent resistance to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Zaitouneh's work has been essential to understanding the extent of human rights abuses by various factions within Syria.
The perpetrators of the kidnapping are still unknown. We do know that Zaitouneh and the others were kidnapped by masked men in Damascus, from an office at the Violations Documentation Center, one of two nongovernmental organizations Zaitouneh co-founded to track deaths, disappearances and human-rights violations. Her work has investigated and condemned government forces and rebel factions alike, leaving little room for certainty on who might be behind the kidnapping.
Prior to the ongoing Syrian revolution against Assad's regime, Zaitouneh was an active human rights lawyer working within Syria. Her human rights work, which has garnered national attention, put her at odds with the government. She actively visited and wrote about political prisoners and other dissidents, putting her on the government's radar. Subsequently, she was banned from travelling in 2002.
Like so many other Syrians, Zaitouneh's life changed as dramatically as the country in 2011. Before the commonplace bloodshed that now dominates the news cycles, the early days of the Syrian Revolution were marked by non-violent protests in the spirit of the most effective uprisings in the Arab Spring.
Forced into hiding, Zaitouneh raised awareness of the government's atrocities through her own website, the Syrian Human Right Information Link (now down). The website was one of the best sources for documenting atrocities. Zaitouneh also actively used her Twitter account to let the world know what was actually happening on the ground.
Foreign Policy named her one of the global thinkers of 2011, before the Revolution escalated in casualties. Zaitouneh also stood out as a prominent female figure in a masculine monopoly of brutality. Incidents like the profiling of pregnant women for sniper targets and other cases of gender-based violence, like rape, emphasize the risks Zaitouneh has taken.
A heartfelt blog post by well-known activist Razan Ghazzawi, responding to the kidnapping, shows how important Zaitouneh is to the non-violence movement in Syria. Ghazzawi writes of Zaitouneh, "I want her back walking on the lands that deserve her. I want her to breath the air of freedom she works so hard to attain. I want her safe and I want her back."
Zaitouneh's work is paramount to the documentation of human rights abuses, and her kidnapping signals that these are far from over. Zaitouneh describes her own work:
"Discovering for the first time within decades our voices and personalities, and how it feels to bring down walls of fear as we stand for our beliefs."
May she return safely.