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Men are more likely to contract COVID-19 and be admitted to hospital. Compared to women, they are 40 % more likely to die from the disease.
Professor Mike Kirby, a specialist in urology and men's health explains the reasons why – and points out that testosterone plays a key part.
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, the UK has been hit particularly hard. This difference in the number of men dying compared to women has been referred to as the 'lethal gap' by some.2
The scale of the problem
The death toll in August 2021 stood at 130,701 across Great Britain. Two-thirds were men.1
Rates in patients younger than 85 are 50.6 per 100,000 for men. This compares to 25.5 per 100,000 for women.
When considering broad groups of occupations, men who worked in elementary occupations (those involving simple, routine tasks which mainly requiring the use of hand-held tools and often some physical effort or caring, leisure and other service occupations) had the highest rates of death involving COVID-19.
These shocking stats seem to be repeating a similar pattern from the SARS virus outbreak. Men had a higher case fatality rate of 21.9 % as compared to 13.2 % for females, and twice as many male-to-female deaths in the zero to 44-year age range. 4
A large-scale global statistical analysis showed that whilst males and females are at equivalent risk of infection, men develop more severe disease. As a result, they are nearly three times more likely to end up in intensive care – and they are 40 % more likely to die.
Men are more like to already have underlying health risks
The following conditions have all been shown to increase the risk from COVID-19 – and they are more common in men:
Type-2 diabetes
Respiratory disease.
The role of testosterone
The fact that COVID-19 is associated with a fall in testosterone levels may increase the risk of dying.5
Low levels of testosterone is also associated with several age-related conditions, notably:
Long-term pain killers (codeine etc).
Men who contract COVID-19 with low testosterone are more vulnerable to the effects of the disease.
The problems with low testosterone:
Association with an increased risk of dying prematurely.
As there's such differences in COVID-19 outcomes between men and women, and evidence points to testosterone as very important.
Why are men hit harder?
There may be less virus entry into female cells because two X chromosomes protect them. Men only have the one. (Men XY, women XX).
The virus gets into the testes but does not infect the ovaries in women.
Female patients may be able to clear the virus significantly earlier than males, because the testes may be a reservoir.
Can COVID-19 affect future fertility?
Once again, we can compare to the earlier SARS virus outbreak. It was linked to infection of the testes and the prostate, inflammation of the testes, infertility and testicular tumours.
Because of the potential link between the virus and the health of the testes, there may be a long-term impact on fertility. The virus could also be transmissible in semen. Experts recommend that you should use precautions like condoms during intimacy until further research clarifies an answer.
If fertility is an issue, performing a sperm count could be a good idea
Treatment options for men could include medication for erectile dysfunction
The COVID-19 virus induces inflammation of the blood vessels in multiple organs. So, it makes sense that drugs that improve the health of arteries – like statins, blood pressure treatments and drugs like Viagra – could help men infected with COVID-19.
It's worth noting that many of the vulnerable patients will already be on these drugs because of their previous medical problems. We know a combination of testosterone and drugs like Viagra are usually very effective in restoring erections in men with low testosterone who have not responded to Viagra alone.
Viagra-like drugs have a protective effect on the heart and blood vessels and other organs. If testosterone is low, replacing it reduces the risk of heart problems.7
It may be that a combination of Viagra and testosterone could help a significant COVID-19 infection.
The bottom line: Check testosterone levels
The virus is associated with very low testosterone, which often occurs in addition to pre-existing low testosterone related to other chronic conditions.
Multiple studies suggest that men admitted with COVID‐19 have significantly lower testosterone levels than with other acute hospital admissions.
We should check testosterone levels in men affected by COVID-19. This is due to the known negative impact of low levels of testosterone on the circulatory system and heart failure.
Men with low testosterone may be at high risk if they are infected, as testosterone reduces inflammation of the blood vessels.9
In non-COVID-19 patients who have been treated with testosterone replacement therapy to restore levels, evidence shows a significant reduction in hospital admissions and death.
Diabetes treatment involving testosterone may have a role in men who develop low testosterone with COVID-19 infection. It may also in those who develop Long Covid. 10
We're missing a trick by not measuring testosterone. There's now an opportunity for an intense testosterone treatment to boost men's resistance to the acute inflammation associated with COVID‐19 infection.
There's a pre-existing population of men with chronic medical conditions causing low testosterone. They may have survived the current pandemic but continue to be at considerable risk from a subsequent wave of infection, or future viral pandemics.
Current medical guidelines already recommend screening, diagnosing, and treating men with low testosterone in high-risk groups. These include those with diabetes who are overweight and men with erection problems.
Two recent reviews highlighted the cardiovascular and prostate safety of testosterone replacement therapy, together with a recent study demonstrating the safety in COVID-19 patients.11 Using steroids has also been very beneficial in seriously ill patients.12
Using drugs that improve the health of blood vessels and the heart, such as statins, blood pressure treatments, drugs like Viagra and Cialis and inappropriate patients anticoagulants could also be very important.
Prevention of COVID-19 is best
Avoid exposing yourself to the virus (especially indoors)
Vaccinate.
Stay fit and active
And work hard on weight control.
If you think you may have low testosterone due to a medical condition or your symptoms e.g.:
Erection problems
Depression etc.
Coronavirus Disease Statistics. Available here.
Márquez EJ, Trowbridge J, Kuchel GA et al. The lethal sex gap: COVID-19. Immun Ageing. 2020;17(1):13.
Peckham, H, de Gruijter, NM, Raine C et al. Male sex identified by global COVID-19 meta-analysis as a risk factor for death and ITU admission. Nat Commun 11, 6317 (2020).
Ahmadzadeh J, Mobaraki K, Mousavi SJ et al. The risk factors associated with MERS-CoV patient fatality: A global survey. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2020;96(3):114876.
Schroeder M, Tuku B, Jarczak D. The majority of male patients with COVID-19 present low testosterone levels on admission to Intensive Care in Hamburg, Germany: a retrospective cohort study. medRxiv 2020. doi.org/10.1101/2020.05. 07.20073817.t
Wei X, Xiao Y-T, Wang J et al. Sex Differences in Severity and Mortality Among Patients With COVID-19: Evidence from Pooled Literature Analysis and Insights from Integrated Bioinformatic Analysis. arXiv (Preprint). 2020;
Aversa A, Duca Y, Condorelli RA et al Androgen Deficiency and Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Expression Changes in Aging Male: Therapeutic implications. Frontiers in Endocrinology published: 11 April 2019 doi: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00225
Shastri A, Wheat J, Agrawal S et al. Delayed clearance of SARS-CoV2 in male compared to female patients: High ACE2 expression in testes suggests the possible existence of gender-specific viral reservoirs. medRxiv (Preprint). 2020; 1–13.
Mohamad NV, Wong SK, Wan Hasan WN et al. The relationship between circulating testosterone and inflammatory cytokines in men. Vol. 22, Aging Male. Taylor and Francis Ltd; 2019. p. 129–40.
Yassin A. Haider A, Haider K, et al. Testosterone Therapy in Men With Hypogonadism Prevents Progression From Prediabetes to Type 2 Diabetes: Eight-Year Data From a Registry Study. Diabetes Care 2019;42(6):1104-11. doi. org/10.2337/dc18-2388.
Rambhatla A, Bronkema CJ, Corsi N et al. COVID-19 Infection in Men on Testosterone Replacement Therapy. J Sex Med 2021;18:215-218.
Lamontagne F, Agoritsas T, Macdonald H et al. A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid‐19. BMJ 2020;370. 10.1136/bmj.m3379.

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Mapping Segregation - MIT's Atlas of Inequality
This week, The Atlas of Inequality, a joint project from MIT Media Lab's Human Dynamics Group and the Department of Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, was launched. The project explores behavioral patterns and investigates segregation, an ongoing and large-scale issue, and how it is impacted and exacerbated by personal choices and decisions.
Tackling Inequality and Segregation
The team behind The Atlas is led by MIT and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid's Esteban Moro and MIT's Alex Pentland. Guided by the understanding that we, as a society, tend not to interact outside of our respective bubbles, The Atlas of Inequality team's research seeks to visualize and inform viewers as to the places in their lives where they are actively segregated.
In his recent TEDx talk, Moro notes not only the negative impacts on health and education, and the crime rates faced by segregated lower-income communities, but also the interpersonal costs on individuals and the creative costs for companies. He notes that on average, an individual interacts personally or professionally with only 5000 people in their life. Because of our habits and behaviors we tend to exacerbate segregation, leaving the large majority of those 5000 individuals very similar to ourselves.
In his talk, Moro defines the positive impacts, not just for people but for communities and companies as a whole, that come from increasing diversity in our day-to-day interactions. It is his hope that The Atlas of Inequality can serve as a tool that doesn't just educate users on how diverse their interactions (and the venues, shops, and restaurants they visit) are, but also as a guide, showing viewers that more diverse options and experiences are right next door.
The Map - Data and How It Was Built
The Atlas of Inequality uses aggregated and anonymized location data from Cuebiq from October 2016 through March 2017, provided through their Data for Good Program, to examine human mobility patterns, reflecting roughly 3% of the population of the Boston metropolitan area as a sample. Using the anonymized data, the Atlas team pinpointed home locations as the most frequent location between 8 PM and 4 AM. They then estimate income using the median household income level of the surrounding census block group for those home locations.
By matching this data with visits to approximately 30,000 locations, they created a diversity index, visualizing segregation as a function of how many visitors are coming from each of four distinct income buckets.
The Atlas has a built-in interactive category widget that allows users to quickly filter by location categories, allowing users to look at inequality specifically at restaurants or art venues, for example. There is also a button that allows for on-the-fly styling by category.
The histogram to the top right of the maps shows distribution of the segregation percentage across all locations that are currently visualized in the viewport of the map. This histogram also acts as a filter, so users can take a look at all locations landing at a specific segregation level.
The Atlas also has informational tabs that share resources, walk through methodology, answer frequently asked questions, and more.
What's next for the Atlas?
At the moment, The Atlas of Inequality represents segregation in the Boston metropolitan area. Its creators hope that it can act as a handy tool to help people and businesses to make the small behavioral changes that can, over time, reduce segregation in our daily lives, popping social bubbles and leading to greater outcomes for all.
They hope to continue to expand the project and provide a similar resource to more metropolitan areas where segregation continues to be an issue that stunts economic growth and limits the opportunities of low income communities.
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The Baptist Union > The Baptist Times > Latest News > Regional News > Eastern > 'God's been here, and he has provided'
S Norfolk church overcomes Goliath task of rebuilding
With faith, joy and unity, the congregation of a small Baptist church in rural South Norfolk has overcome the enormous financial and practical challenge of rebuilding their chapel after it was found to be at serious risk of falling down. Jenny Seal reports.
Carleton Rode Baptist Church in South Norfolk sits on a country road linking Bunwell's hamlets and the village of Carleton Rode. A string of horses its nearest neighbours, the timber-framed chapel is surrounded by picturesque farmland.
Somewhat surprisingly, given this unlikely location, the church currently being in-between ministers and their building having undergone major structural work, Carleton Rode Baptist Church is thriving.
On the overcast morning of Saturday, May 11 around 80 people gathered in the courtyard of Carleton Rode Baptist Church to see and give thanks for the reopening of the building after an 18-month quest to replace the chapel's rotting timber frame.
Addressing the gathering the church's Moderator, the Revd Neil Walker, said, 'The story of how this place has been restored is legendary. What a refreshing change when so many country chapels are being sold off to become private houses.
'This one is not only up and open but very much in business.'
Architect Rob Pearce, before cutting the ribbon to great applause and declaring the building open, said, 'When I was asked for an interview in August 2017, Richard Chapmam [of Carlton Rode Baptist Church] had set a very, very tight deadline for the project. At the interview I said to Richard that it was not impossible, but it was very, very unreasonable!'
Rob continued: 'When I said to Richard it wasn't impossible you guys here made this project possible by raising all the funds, and that is a fantastic achievement.'
In 2017 the timber frame of the chapel was found to be disintegrating and the building unsafe. The timber work, including the base plate and windows needed to be replaced.
But it wasn't a straightforward task for the builders from R&J Hogg. The timber structure was hidden beneath brick cladding. In the service of thanksgiving that followed the ribbon cutting ceremony,
Barry Gotts explained, 'We couldn't take the walls off to get to the timber because the whole place would've fallen down. The walls were holding the roof up but they weren't ever designed to do that.'
The chapel building had to be closed and in September 2018 the congregation of 50-60 people moved to Bunwell Village Hall for Sunday services as the work was carried out.
Carleton Rode Baptist Church has a precedent for overcoming adversity. In 2009 an arson attack devastated the church's adjoining stable and school room. The church took the opportunity to convert the stable into a community coffee shop. Now open on a Tuesday afternoon, Thursday morning and Saturday afternoon, it can sometimes welcome over 80 people a session.
The cost of the current rebuilding project was just under £106k. While this was initially a daunting prospect the church met the challenge with characteristic faith. The Revd Beth Powney, the Regional Minister for the Eastern Baptist Association (EBA) recalled, 'The first encounter I had with this church, when I was very new to this job, was sitting in a Leader's meeting where they were describing this problem. I said: 'You have a church that is falling down, are you serious? It's going to cost a lot of money and you're quite small'. It was just the faith of that leadership and Richard [Chapman] in particular, saying, 'Well the Lord will provide'.'
She continued, 'There is a verse in Nehemiah which says, 'the joy of the Lord is your strength'. And I think that is such a strong verse for this church. This community of people have the joy of the Lord, and that is their strength. And that's why this building is still standing.'
In an emotional introduction to the thanksgiving service Church Secretary Angie Bennett said, 'God's been here, and he has provided for us. As a fellowship we really have united together; it has been amazing. The people who have stepped up, come forward and gone over and above their jobs, thank you to all of those. I'm just overwhelmed. I'm just amazed and just so grateful to be back here.'
The church raised the money from a range of sources. Almost £34k was raised from seven grant making bodies, a Gift Day saw church members donate £8k, the EBA's Project of the Year fund raised £2k and members of the community including customers of the café filled up small bottles with coins and raised an additional £2k. Along with Gift Aid, legacies and existing reserves, the cost of the repairs was met.
Beryl Dawson, Church Treasurer said, 'People have just been so generous in supporting us in this way. Thank you so much for everybody for the support you have given. We are just so grateful.'
'This is more than just a building. It is a building, where through the ages, people have come together to learn about God and to try to follow in his way. And more than anything else our prayer is that we will continue to learn about Jesus, to follow him more closely and to be a building that is open for everyone to come and feel God's love and God's welcome through everything that we do.'
Image | The Revd Neil Walker looks on as Architect Rob Pearce cuts the ribbon on Carleton Rode Baptist Church's renewed building
Visit the church's website for more photos
This story first appeared on Network Norfolk and is republished with permission


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Berkeley's new vegan deli offers delicious, hearty sandwiches and Italian-American specialties typically reserved for omnivores.
The Butcher's Son specializes in vegan "meats" and "cheeses."
Having been vegan for nearly five years, I've come to learn that certain places are simply off-limits to someone with dietary proclivities such as my own. Italian restaurants, for instance, are usually a no go unless I want to eat skimpy noodles while everyone else dines on meat and seafood dripping with melted cheese and butter. Same with Korean barbecue and Brazilian steakhouses — neither of which typically have much to offer for herbivores.
But rather than staying away from supposedly prohibited cuisines, the team behind Berkeley's brand new vegan deli, The Butcher's Son (1941 University Ave.), sees them as a challenge to innovate. The freshly minted establishment is the brainchild of chef Peter Fikaris, who honed his skills with faux meats at The Source in San Francisco, and his sister and business partner, Christina Stobing. Fikaris, who is vegan, came up with the concept for The Butcher's Son after a trip to New York, where traditional Italian-American delis abound. The lack of vegan options he encountered inspired him to create a deli catered to those with plant-based diets.
Stobing and Fikaris' father was the owner of Michael's American Vegetarian Diner, which was in business on Telegraph Avenue in the 1990s, and Italian cooking was one of his specialties. While the siblings were raised vegetarian, they wanted to create vegan versions of their favorite Italian-American foods that don't cut out any of the richness.
"You can get vegan food in different cuisines, but Italian is hard," she said. "It's more of a challenge to make these delicious, vegan Italian foods filled with ricotta and other delicious cheeses."
Furthermore, one of the hardest things about going vegan isn't necessarily forgoing certain foods: It's missing out on social rituals that are based around particular meals. And one such experience most vegans must bid farewell is visiting an old-school, Italian-American deli and choosing items to take home by the pound — something The Butcher's Son seeks to remedy.
Because the deli officially opened in late February, its menu is still limited, but features a rotating selection of decadent sandwiches in addition to bulk items behind the counter. According to Stobing, its offerings will expand soon. When I came in last week, I saw pulled "pork" and a teriyaki pineapple roast available in bulk in the display case, as well as a selection of plump, vegan croissants — plain and chocolate — and egg- and dairy-free cannolis miraculously oozing with rich cream.
While the deli counter was surprisingly somewhat bare (I was looking forward to bulk vegan cheeses, which are coming soon), the sandwiches were the main attraction, and customers lined up eagerly during the entirety of my midday visit. The lunch menu was informally tacked onto the glass display case with a piece of tape and featured vegan takes on such classics as a fried mozzarella meatball sandwich, a Philly cheesesteak, and a pulled-pork sandwich.
Almost all of the fake meats at The Butcher's Son are made in-house using a blend of seitan (a wheat gluten-based protein), mushrooms, and textured vegetable protein. I sampled the "meatball" sandwich with "mozzarella" sticks — which was exquisitely rich, with mushrooms, marinara sauce, and grilled bell peppers adding a complexity of textures and flavors to its salty and fatty main components. On the other hand, the "pulled pork," which was made out of yuba (a tofu skin culled from the congealed layer that forms atop boiled soy milk), was somewhat chewy, especially when served on a tough ciabatta roll — though coleslaw lent the sandwich a refreshing coolness.
The Grinder, which may soon become a menu staple according to Stobing, was the best sandwich I tried, with spicy jalapeños and crunchy lettuce accenting the tender "beef" and "chicken" seitan on a flaky baguette.
While people become vegan for a variety of reasons — eating better, decreasing their carbon footprint, concern for animal welfare — The Butcher's Son isn't for the health-nut crowd. This a place where vegans can enjoy the delicious experience of falling into a carb-induced food coma. And while the fake meats are genuinely tasty, the amount of glutinous ingredients renders the majority of the menu a bit heavy and bready.
Still, The Butcher's Son is in its soft opening phase, and Stobing said that, soon, its menu will include salads, lasagnas, and ravioli, as well as more types of sandwiches and bulk faux meats and cheeses. It's off to a strong start so far and, with the recent closure of long-running vegan restaurant Café Gratitude, is a welcome addition to the East Bay's plant-based food scene.


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Az erdővidéki Olasztelek jelentős műemléke a Daniel-kastély a falu központjában található reneszánsz stílusú  épület.

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A falu neve először 1333-ban szerepelt a korabeli dokumentumokban, Olazteluk néven. Az (Anjou) Károly Róbert király által letelepített olasz mesteremberekről kapta nevét, emléküket ma is őrzik a Markó és Kolumbán családnevek.

A Daniel-kastély helyén már a 16. század végén is állt egy udvarház, mely Báthory Gábor fejedelem adományaként 1609-ben került a vargyasi Dániel család birtokába.
Bethlen Gábor fejedelem 1621-ben megerősítette bizalmasa, Dániel (I.) Mihály (+1641) olaszteleki birtokjogát.

A lebontott udvarház anyagának felhasználásával épült fel, a mai kastély magjának számító központi épületrész alsó szintje, melyet magas kőfallal vettek körül.

Bethlen Gábor is gyakran időzött a kastélyban, nyaranta ott üdült, télen vadászni járt a környékre.

Az építkezéseket Dániel Mihály unokája, Dániel (II.) Mihály idején még két szakaszban folytatták, a század második felére alakult ki a kastély mai képe.
1668-ban Dániel János fiai felosztották egymás között az udvarházat.
Dániel (II.) Mihály 1668-1669 között a központi épületrészhez toldatta az északkeleti szárnyat, melynek emlékét őrzi a kastély keleti oldalán másodlagosan elhelyezett címeres kőtábla.

1680 körül a Daniel család újabb építkezéseket folytatott a kastélyon, ők rendelték meg a központi épületrész felső szintjét, erre utal a nagyméretű stukkódísz, mely szerint a munkálatok 1680. szeptember 20-án fejeződtek be.

Mivel a vargyasi Dániel család olaszteleki ága 1801-ben férfiágon kihalt, a birtokot Dániel Jozefa fia, br. Rauber von Plankenstein Károly örökölte, akinek leánya, Mária a vargyasi ágból származó br. Dániel (II.) Gáborhoz (1824-1915) ment feleségül, így 1853-ban a kastély újból a  Daniel család tulajdonába került.

A kastélyon az utolsó nagyobb méretű átalakítás az új tulajdonosok megrendelésére az 1880-1890-es években történt. Dániel Gábor és Rauber Mária megrendelésére épült a központi épületrészhez derékszögben csatlakozó északi, klasszicizáló szárny. Az emeleti részen két félköríves záródású ablak között terrakotta lapon a család címerét helyeztették el. Dániel Gábor alakíttatta ki az udvarra néző, nagyméretű, félköríves záródású ablakokat, illetve a másik oldalon a téglaépítésű lábakon nyugvó verandát is.
Az oszlopos udvari tornác szintén az ő megbízásukból készült a 20. század elején.

A két világháború közötti időszakban az olaszteleki birtok Szalacsi Béláné Dániel Anna (1883-1987)  tulajdona volt, tőle vásárolta meg 1946-ban két helyi család.

1949-ben a kastélyt államosították, melynek következtében az eredeti bútorzat elkallódott, az épületben irodahelyiségek kaptak helyet. A későbbiekben magtárként és vegyszerraktárként használták, állapota pedig folyamatosan romlott.

A rendszerváltást követően az egykori vásárlók örökösei visszakapták, majd eladták a kastélyt. Az új tulajdonosok, a háromszéki Rácz Attila és Rácz Lilla a szakszerűen felújíttatott épületben kezdetben kulturális rendezvényeket tartottak,  majd európai uniós forrásokból szállóvá alakították a kastélyt.

Leírása
A napjainkban látható kastély felépítése három szakaszra osztható.
A központi épületrészhez a keleti irányban rövidebb szárny kapcsolódik, az   északnyugati sarkához pedig derékszögben toldottak egy épületrészt.

Az épület legrégebbi része,  a központi épületszárny északnyugati végében található pince  a felette levő helyiségekkel. Ez tekinthető a Dániel Mihály által legelsőként megépített   udvarháznak.
A nyolc helyiségből álló ősi lak bővítése Dániel János idejében kezdődött, majd 1653-ban bekövetkezett halála után nagyobbik fia, Dániel (II.) Mihály folytatta az építkezéseket.

Az 1680-as átalakítások alkalmával a hosszabb épületszárnyra is emeletet építettek, ezen munkálatok emlékét örökítették meg az épület hosszabb szárnyának út felőli emeleti homlokzatán látható nagyméretű stukkódíszen, melyen az 1680-as évszám olvasható.
Az emeletes rövidebb szárny alsó szintjén eredetileg kapubejáró volt.
A díszes 1-est követő 6-os számjegyben az MD iniciálék láthatók, ezt követi a 8-as számjegybe beszerkesztett "DIE 20 SP.TMBRIS" dátum, mely szeptember 20-át jelöli, a 0-ban a HI kezdőbetűk foglalnak helyet.

Az 1669-es építés emlékét őrzi a kastély belső udvaráról az épületbe nyíló vörös andezitből készült egyik ajtó kerete is, melynek szárköveit befelé forduló  késő reneszánsz profilozás díszíti. Szemöldökkövének fogrovatos párkánya alatti pajzsán a címert is készíttető házaspár MD és HI monogramjai az 1669-es évszámot fogják közre.
A fülkének a timpanon alatti részét a család jelmondata és a készítés éve tölti ki:

DEUS PROVIDEBIT / ANNO 1669.

A timpanon két oldalán egy-egy csonkagúla alakú tagozat emelkedik, ennek felső végeit levelek díszítik. Az igényes kivitelezésű, faragott címer az 1980-as években került vissza eredeti helyére, egy ideig a  székelykeresztúri múzeum kőtárában őrizték.

Az út felőli homlokzaton befalazva néhány reneszánsz ablakszemöldök-kő látható, mindezek valószínűleg másodlagos elhelyezésűek.

A tornáctól keleti irányban lévő ajtó feletti befalazott szemöldökkő profildíszébe középen bevágva egy levéldíszen az MD iniciálékat, a profilozás fölött az 1680-as évszámot jeleníti meg.

Az épület az emelet felépítése után egészen a 19. század közepéig megőrizte formáját.
Báró Rauber Nándor tulajdonába kerülve, átalakították az épület emeletén lévő termek beosztását, és más kisebb felújításokat  is végeztek.

Az utolsó nagyobb méretű javítás Dániel Gábor nevéhez fűződik, felesége Rauber Mária révén került újra az épület a Danielek tulajdonába.
1884-ben Dániel Gábor csatoltatja az épület központi részéhez az északkeletre néző klasszicizáló szárnyat, a félköríves ablakokkal, a háromszögű oromfalon a család címerében szereplő terakotta lapon megjelenített hattyúval. Ugyancsak ő falaztatja be a kapubejárót is, akkor került oda az 1649-es évszámot és ID monogramot viselő ajtókeret, valamint annak két oldalára az 1884-es építkezésről megemlékező két feliratos kőtábla:

V. D. G. / UDVARHELYMEGYE / FŐISPÁNJA és R. M. / UJITATTÁK / AZ 1884-IK ÉVBEN.

Valószínűleg akkor kapta az épület az udvarra néző nagyméretű félköríves ablakait is.
A kastély utcafelőli homlokzatához az 1890-es évek elején épült hozzá a Draskóczy Jenő mérnök által tervezett veranda.
Az alsó szinten árkádosan kiképzett építmény emeletének faszerkezete aprólékos faragást és igényes  kivitelezést mutat.

Az épület végső formáját a 20. század elején nyerte el, amikor az udvari, élszedett andezit oszlopokkal kialakított tornáccal egészítették ki. Az 1988-as  felújítási munkálatok során került elő az utcai homlokzat stukkódísze.

A Daniel-kastély keletkezésének idejétől késő reneszánsz formákat őriz, a 19. század folyamán klasszicista ízlésű épületrészekkel bővítették ki.

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Biró József: Erdélyi kastélyok. s.l., s. a.
Vofkori László: Székelyföld útikönyve 2. kötet. Budapest, 1998.
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Bicsok Zoltán, Orbán Zsolt: "Isten segedelmével udvaromat megépítettem..." Történelmi családok kastélyai Erdélyben. Csíkszereda, 2011.

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There is a seamless quality to her soundscapes. The moving images become musical chords that dip into this poignant fluidity of audio. Her work is visual music and visceral moving images. The videos are zones of emotional reception, punctuated by moments of criticality and cerebral focus.
In Seraj's work metaphor is air, is water -it seeps into meaning, into agency and then back out again, leaving its echoes, its residues on the materiality of the subject. There is a recognition that stories unfold into many stories. We believe in what the video camera is showing us because the images (the places, the objects, the people, the atmosphere) are passing across the lens on their own accord. Her camera moves through space; exists in space. It wills itself to live with the same integrity of presence as the images that materialize before the lens: the birds, the staircases, the doors, the humans, the traffic, the light. The video camera as a participant is neither greater nor less important then the subjects depicted. This aspect of Seraj's work touches on emotional states of existing that in turn bring the experience of her videos back into the body of the viewer and into the materiality of the viewing space.


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Joseph Bowie (born October 17, 1953) is an American jazz trombonist and vocalist. The brother of trumpeter Lester Bowie, Joseph is known for leading the jazz-punk group Defunkt and for membership in the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble.

Career

Bowie was greatly influenced by his older brothers, saxophonist Byron Bowie and trumpeter Lester Bowie. His first international tour was with Oliver Lake of the Black Artists Group in 1971. During this time in Paris, he worked with Alan Silva, Frank Wright, and Bobby Few. He also worked with Dr. John in Montreaux in 1973. He moved to New York City, and with the help of Off Broadway Theater impresario Ellen Stewart he established La Mama children's theater. He performed with Cecil Taylor, Human Arts Ensemble, Nona Hendryx, Leroy Jenkins, Vernon Reid, Stanley Cowell, Sam Rivers, Philippe Gaillot, Dominique Gaumont  and Ornette Coleman. In 1976 he moved to Chicago, where he led bands for Tyrone Davis and other R&B artists.

Returning to New York City in 1978 he began singing with punk and funk musician James Chance and the Contortions. Defunkt was born during that time. During the next 25 years, Defunkt recorded 15 albums. Bowie has collaborated with Jean-Paul Bourelly and Jamaaladeen Tacuma. He has performed "big band funk" arrangements with Ed Partyka at Music School Lucerne, Barbary Coast Ensemble at Dartmouth College, JazzArt Orchestra, and the HR Frankfurt Radio Big Band. The first Defunkt Big Band debuted in 1999 in New York City at the Texaco Jazz Festival sponsored by the Knitting Factory.

In 2003, he moved to the Netherlands where he met Hans Dulfer and was introduced to the Dutch music scene. He has performed performs with Hans and Candy Dulfer and also performs as guest with the Saskia Laroo Band, Naked Ears, Monsieur Dubois, Emergency Room, Funkateer, Seven Eleven, and Almost Three.

In 2014 he produced Sax Pistols Allergy for the U.S (ZIP Records) with lyricist Hilarius Hofstede and musicians Yuri Honing, Luc Houtcamp, Chazzy Green, Bart Wirtz, Koen Schouten, James White and Defunkt rhythm section of Kim Clarke, Tobias Ralph, and Rocco Zifarelli.  In 2009 he created Defunkt Mastervolt with Paris-based musicians Linley Marthe, Rocco Zifarelli, Emma Lamadji, Michael Lecoq, and Jon Grandcamp. The album Defunkt Mastervolt was released in 2015 on ZIP Records.

Robin van Erven Dorens directed the documentary In Groove We Trust about Bowie's life.

Discography

As leader
 Heroes (DIW, 1990)

As sideman
With Lester Bowie
 1974 Fast Last!
 1999 American Gumbo

With James Chance
 1981 Live in New York
 2000 White Cannibal
 2003 Irresistible Impulse

With Defunkt
 1980 Defunkt
 1982 Thermonuclear Sweat
 1988 In America
 1992 Crisis
 1994 Cum Funky
 1994 Live & Reunified
 1994 Live at the Knitting Factory NYC
 1995 A Blues Tribute: Jimi Hendrix & Muddy Waters
 2016 Live at Channel Zero

With Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
 Ancestral Song (Silkheart, 1988)
 Hang Tuff (Open Minds, 1991)
 Dance with the Ancestors (Chameleon, 1993)
 21st Century Union March (Silkheart, 1997)
 The Continuum (Delmark, 1997)
 Papa's Bounce (CIMP, 1998)
 Freedom Jazz Dance (Delmark, 1999)

With Oliver Lake
 1975 Heavy Spirits
 2003 Cloth
 2017 Live at A-Space 1976

With others
 1972 Red, Black & Green, Solidarity Unit, Inc.
 1973 In Paris, Aries 1973, Black Artists Group
 1975 For Players Only, Leroy Jenkins
 1975 Fresh, Frank Lowe
 1975 The Flam, Frank Lowe
 1976 Ntu: Point from Which Creation Begins, Oliver Lake
 1977 Streets of St. Louis, Charles Bobo Shaw
 1992 Under the Wire, Michael Marcus
 1993 Highlights: Live in Vienna, Vienna Art Orchestra
 1994 Sacred Common Ground, Don Pullen
 1997 Junk Trap, Charles Bobo Shaw
 1999 Inspiration, Sam Rivers
 1999 Culmination, Sam Rivers
 2000 Beyond the Sky, Yusef Lateef
 2001 Funky Donkey, Vols. 1 & 2, Luther Thomas
 2002 Just Add Water, Bobby Previte
 2002 Trance Atlantic (Boom Bop II), Jean-Paul Bourelly
 2003 H.Con.Res.57/Treasure Box, Alan Silva
 2007 Transmigration, Kahil El'Zabar
 2009 Funked Up!, Candy Dulfer

References

External links

 Official website

Musicians from St. Louis
American jazz trombonists
Male trombonists
1953 births
Living people
DIW Records artists
American Buddhists
Nichiren Buddhists
Jazz musicians from Missouri
21st-century trombonists
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble members
Human Arts Ensemble members
Sackville Records artists


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CourseSmart, a privately held company headquartered in San Mateo, California founded in 2007, was a provider of eTextbooks and digital course materials. It was acquired by Ingram Content Group subsidiary VitalSource Technologies in early 2014, and was integrated into the parent company under the VitalSource name and platform by 2016.

Company history

Launch and growth
CourseSmart was founded in 2007 by the higher education publishers Macmillan, Cengage Learning, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson.

CourseSmart offered access to e-textbooks via web browser from its foundation in 2007. The company allowed readers to rent e-books, rather than buying physical textbooks at an increased cost. Readers had access to both downloadable and online versions of texts. In August 2009 CourseSmart launched an iPhone app, followed by an iPad app in August 2010, and an Android app in April 2011. By September 2011, its eTextbooks catalogue had more than 20,000 digital titles, and purchased books could be printed at no extra charge.

By 2014, the company had partnered with around 50 publishers and provided an estimated 90% of the e-textbooks used in higher education. Despite being one of the two largest ebook providers at the time, CourseSmart had remained fairly small at the time of its acquisition by VitalSource Technologies.

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External links
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A Family Supper The Japanese fighter pilots in WWII committed suicide attacks on allied forces aka kamikaze; it was considered an honorable service to the Empire of Japan. Death instead of defeat and shame is the primary tradition in the Japanese samurai culture. They lived with the bushido code: "Loyalty and Honor before death". The short story in discussion is "A Family Supper" written by Kazuo Ishigoru.
This story tells us about an evening when the son-the protagonist and the narrator of this story, returns to Japan to meet his family after spending two years in United States, and the unsaid tension between him and his father. This story is about loss; Loss of family, friends, love and hope. The author shows the father as lost, hopeless and desperate. The loss of his wife, firm and children and the hopelessness leads him to consider suicide. The setting of the story symbolises the father's worries and disappointments.
The dusk, dimly lit rooms, the garden and the ghost story is a major part of the setting that the author wants the reader to imagine in order to predict how the story will unfold. The narrator's state of mind is never really told directly, but the readers can judge it by the way he behaves with his family. The repetition of death and loss; the mother's death, the fathers loss of firm, his friend's mass family suicide, the loss of his son and his daughter which he probably foresees, results in father's depressed and disappointed state of mind.
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The author starts the story with death of the mother by fish poisoning, usually if death is mentioned in the beginning, the reader braces himself for a story involving death, and the way the story unfolds there had to be at least a death if not a mass suicide. The setting of the story symbolises the father's worries and disappointments. The narrator describes his father as a "formidable-looking man with a large stony jaw and furious black eyebrows" (338) tells the reader about the generation gap between the father and son.
The story is set in dark and dimly lit backgrounds; the sun was setting by the time they reach home. The Garden in which Kikuko, the sister and the narrator take a stroll is probably the darkest part of the setting, they discuss their childhood memories of the ghost in the garden; at that time he casually finds out about his sister's plans to leave Japan to be with her boyfriend, perhaps the father foresees her intensions, it is not conclusive. The dark garden symbolises the anxiety of the sister, the mother's beliefs in ghosts and her disappointment to the narrator's actions.
She blamed herself as she thought she was not a good parent, though this matter was not elaborated by the siblings as they thought it was useless to bring it up and won't change anything. The narrator says "My relationship with my parents had become somewhat strained around the period of time. "(338). Later, when the narrator looks around the house, the large dark empty rooms, or overly cramped room shows how the father has acted all these years by keeping off his emotions and secluding himself from the rest of the family.
The awkward long pauses between him and the father, the father's inquisitiveness about his (sons) future plans, demonstrates the unsaid tension between the father and son. By this setting, the author wants the reader to feel the menacing effect of the story. The narrator's character can be judged by his thoughts. By his conversations it can be said that he does not feel the love and emotions that one should feel for family.
The battleship shows that the father had a lot of time in his hands, but when he says: "these little gunboats here could have been better glued, don't you think"(342), he is perhaps comparing the battleship to his broken family , and asking if it could have been better, but the son did not realize this or perhaps he may have understood what his father was asking and answered "it looks fine"(342), Later in the story he looks at his mother's photograph but he cannot recognize his mother and asks, "who is the old women in the white kimono? (343), first he mentions that his mother looks a lot older, later he says, "it's dark. I can't see well" (343). These incidents show that he has truly been an irresponsible son, nobody talks about their dead mother like he just did; he does not care about his family, their love that his parents expect from him and he fails to see the misery of the father.
Moreover, the father looks like he is willing to forgive his son, though the story does not give any hint of his compromise on the Japanese values and traditions, it does show that he wants his children to be a part of his life. Death was mentioned repeatedly in the story. Starting with the mother's death by fugu, the partner Watanabe's suicide was mentioned three times at different scenes in the story. The father acknowledges that he likes Watanabe's ethics in general; he calls him "a man of principle and honor" (339).
The father says he wishes to be a pilot because "in an airplane there is always the final weapon", this shows that the father's state of mind was no different from that of his partners, the father thought dying in an airplane by kamikaze was a better way to go, this shows that his father is considers death as a means to unite the family. The Japanese traditions do not look down upon suicide. In the Japanese culture people don't live in shame and dishonor. It's far honorable die then to live in shame. The dead business partner has been glorified by the father in more than one occasion. A family supper" is not a story of just one family, it is a story that separates two generations, and it is a story of the father who was once a hero to his children. This story tells us about the older generation's honor and sacrifice to their values, culture and traditions on the other hand it demonstrates how the world today has changed to be practical and not tied up with relations; how the younger generation sees today's seniors as empty and dimly lit rooms. In this story the father was lonely, he lost his wife, his firm, his son and very soon he will be losing his daughter.
The father always wanted his children to be with him, he offers the narrator to stay with him, he is desperate to see his family united, and is afraid that his family can never be happy as he wanted. This desperation mixed with the Japanese philosophy of pure blood samurai; leave the father an option of suicide. This way he can be with his family and leave this disgraceful life. The need for love and bonding is demonstrated in this story. Japanese traditions like many Asian traditions dictate that you satisfy the elders with respect and happiness and never leave them to be alone.
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A few years ago, my friend Jeff Bakalchuk and I were seated in a somewhat dimly-lit, private-party, second-floor section of an Irish restaurant/bar in midtown Manhattan. We were among 50 or so invitees of Mary Cousins, who runs the Chicago Toy and Game (CHITAG) show, and we were all, at the time, attending the annual Toy Fair show at the Jacob Javits Center, out by the Hudson River.
Jeff was carrying a copy of a dice game he'd designed called Busted, and was using the informal gathering opportunity to network and hob-nob with as many game publishers as he could. He and I managed to get ourselves seated near Mike Gray, a VP of product development with Hasbro, which is about as close to the Holy Grail for game designers as it's possible to get.
Out came Busted. It wasn't an intrusive move on Jeff's part; not like he was disturbing Gray in a private moment. In addition to just plain representing Hasbro at Toy Fair, Gray was at the party to network, as well. Jeff ran through a quick explanation of the game and a small group of three or four of us, Gray included, played the game until someone (I forget who) won.
Everybody (again, Gray included), enjoyed the game. Gray settled back into the little booth alcove and told Jeff in detail why Busted was not the sort of game that Hasbro would be likely to publish. Had nothing to do with the game itself, which Gray said he actually liked. It was more, Gray went on to say, that Hasbro had its own set of products and dice games and that Busted, in a way, would put the company in a position of competing against itself. He let Jeff down smoothly and professionally in a way that boosted Jeff's confidence, rather than tearing it down for having been rejected by Hasbro.
Now, all these years later, Busted has been published by Ideal (a division of Alex Brands) as one in a set of eight Dice Slide games, which feature a plastic box that serves as a storage container for the game and a dice tower. A panel drops down when the lid of the box is opened, and becomes a tray for the dice dropped in at the top.
I had requested a copy of Busted for review purposes, but knowing that the game was one of many, I suggested that with their approval, I'd be happy to review the entire set. They sent them; all but one, as far as I could tell. In addition to Busted, I received Tripoley Dice, Pig Out, Unusual Suspects, Red Hot Yot, Blackout, and Word Speed. Only Swipe was missing.
We'd be here 'til morning if I attempted to provide an explanation for all seven games, so instead, I'll tell you about two of them; the one I'm (full disclosure) inclined to like at the outset (Busted), and one I played and liked during some off-duty time I spent at the World Boardgaming Championships (Unusual Suspects). The other seven games have their packaging, and simplicity in common.
Busted, which is a nominee for a 2015 Creative Child (magazine) award, is a push-your-luck dice game, playable by 2-8 players, with a suggested age range that starts at eight years old. Eight dice bear faces with either numbers (10, 20, 30) or the letters in the word "busted." A card with the word printed on it in block letters, each of which can accommodate one of the dice, is placed at the center of the playing area, and the start player drops the dice into the plastic tower.
From the rolled dice, the player will remove dice showing any of the letters in the word "busted," placing them in the appropriate spot on the card (ignoring duplicates), and make note of the total amount of points on the remaining dice. At this point, the player can either score those points (on a provided score sheet), or re-roll the point and any duplicate 'letter' dice in an attempt to score even more points. The player continues to do this until he/she either opts not to continue to roll, or dice have completely filled up the word "busted" on the card, in which case, the player loses all of the points earned to that point. Play shifts to another player, and play continues until one player has scored 1,000 points and is declared the winner.
Though not explicitly stated in the rules, it would seem fair to assume that all players have the same number of opportunities to take a turn with the dice. When one player reaches 1,000 points, other players in the game, who've yet to roll in the round, should have an opportunity to match or exceed the first person's attainment of the 1,000-point goal.
The eight dice all have three faces bearing points (10, 20, 30) and are evenly divided between dice bearing the letters B, U, and S (4), and T, E, and D (4). This means that in a situation where five of the six letters are already exposed, two of the three remaining die will have the missing letter. In other words, the risk to continue when you're missing only the single letter is heightened by the carefully-designed distribution of the letters on the dice faces.
Unusual Suspects, while also a clever design, is marred somewhat by some strange choices, related to the color design of the dice faces and the deck of 54 character cards; nine each of six different characters. Each character card has a colored border which is supposed to match one of the colors on the faces of the six dice, designed to look like a fingerprint. So there's a blue character (Bill Sleetersnow) and a blue, fingerprint face on each of the six dice. A purple character (Tabby Cattail) matches up with a purple, fingerprint face on each die. The problem arises with the character that features what looks to be an orange border (Chip Nightingale) for which there is no matching die face. When you first start to play this game, there's likely to be some confusion about this. Seeing Chip Nightingale in your hand of cards, you might mistakenly assume that the 'red' die face (something of a cross between red and orange) matches, when, in fact, the 'red' die face matches Chef E. Clair. Chip's matching die face is yellow. This confusion won't last long, as you grow accustomed to the game and its color scheme.
Okay, so you drop your six colored (fingerprint) dice into the dice tower. Once rolled, you take the six dice and transfer them, without altering the rolled result, to an Evidence card with a slot for each die. From the shuffled deck of 54 character cards, each player will draw a card, randomly, which becomes his/her 'secret identity.' This card is placed in a provided plastic holder that makes it stand up, and is kept secret from other players. Now each player is dealt six cards from the remaining deck, and play begins.
On a player's turn, he/she has two choices: Draw a card from the character deck and discard one from his/her hand, or take one of the six die on the Evidence card and re-roll it, placing it back on the Evidence card when done. What you're trying to do is match the colors of the six cards in your hand with the colors of the six dice on the Evidence card. However, none of the dice, nor any of the cards in your hand, can match the color of your 'secret identity' card.
It makes for an interesting challenge, because while you're trying to adjust the 'evidence' (the faces of the six dice and cards in your hand) to suit your own goal, your opponents are doing the same in pursuit of their goal. Often, your attempt to alter a die face by re-rolling it can be beneficial to an opponent.
It should be noted, as well, that while the rules indicate that on your turn, you may select a card from the draw pile, or the discard pile (at the start, a card is turned over to begin that discard pile), it does not indicate that you can only select the top card in either the draw deck or the discard deck. It would, though, seem to be a safe assumption. Though I have yet to see it occur, it would appear that Unusual Suspects is a game with potential to never end. If players are continually changing the face of the dice on the Evidence board, they could repeatedly frustrate player attempts to match cards in hand with the six dice on the Evidence card.
Some of these eight games are listed on BoardGameGeek. Some are not. Many are listed with their original publisher (Fundex) and a couple – Blackout, and Unusual Suspects – are shown in the same, dice tower packaging. None, due to a combination of their simplicity and randomness, get a lot of love out there. Unusual Suspects, for example, has been rated by 38 respondents, none of whom gave it a rating over 6.5. A search for Busted will take you to a game of the same name, which is about marijuana selling.
They're an assortment of relatively simple, portable dice games that come with a dice tower that have been marketed as something of a set, geared toward a younger set of players; age range begins at 8. You'll find them on the shelves of the super retailers like Target and Walmart for under $15 (bargains can, of course, be found). For those of them whose rules I have not detailed here, you'll find a simple explanation for each on the side of the box.


Christmas just came out of nowhere for me this year. I had been working like a dog and busy with the family and kids and the next thing I knew it was Christmas Eve and I still had shopping to do! Thank goodness for gift cards and shopping malls.
Growing up, I looked forward to Christmas with such excitement and wonder, I loved the thought of Santa Claus, I loved the whole idea of wanting a gift really bad, but not knowing if you were good enough to actually earn it. I loved the family dinners, I loved getting up early, I loved the stockings, the wrapping paper, the thrill of breaking out your gifts and playing with them all day and all night and waking up on the day after Christmas and checking out your gifts again to make sure it wasn't a wonderful dream.
This was the Christmas that I was most excited about, I couldn't wait to see that look in Winston's eyes, I knew he would just love the presents more than anything. I knew he'd love Christmas just as much as I did when I was little. Dalia liked Christmas too, she got beautiful clothing and My Little Ponies, but of course, she mostly enjoyed all the food.
Thank you to all the family members who shared the holiday with us, my family loves you all and appreciates everything you do for us. We had fun. I really loved Jaclyn's dinner on Christmas night, she's the real deal, makes a meal that you might never forget. When she puts her mind to something, she is the best at anything she does.
Here are some photos from the holiday. The last couple are of a hiking trip I took yesterday in the town of Jim Thorpe. We hiked up a trail called Glen Onoko Falls. The trail is only a mile and a half, but it is grueling and steep, but had some spectacular views. The gentleman in the photo is San Diego Dave, he's back from San Diego for about a week, what a pleasure catching up with him. Miss having a fellow adventurer around all the time.
Me with a new hat and a new Call of Duty Strategy Guide!


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Years ago, PBS launched a reality show about frontier life, and a fellow Los Angeles-based friend thought it a good idea that we apply – pitching ourselves as a "modern" family of 20-somethings who could create community, grow food, harvest crops and live off the land.
For someone who names her bathtub spiders before she rescues them with a cup and sets them free, it was a definitive moment. It was then that I decided I could be a vegetarian if needed. And it was also then that my friend and I realized that NONE of our L.A. friends were down with living the hard prairie / farm / homesteader lifestyle.
How does one homestead in the city? A friend jokes that to live in Echo Park means to own at least one chicken. Do you have farm fresh eggs delivered to you from your backyard hen?
If you're hankering toward homesteading – check out a few sites to see how other city-dwellers are doing it. Urban Homestead began in 1969, in search of a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Read the history and follow what is, in the face of our ready-made lifestyle, a truly pioneering way of living via their blog. And check out WebEcoist for 14 steps to an urban homestead.
How about it? Are you a modern day Laura Ingalls Wilder? Let us know – tweet us your photos, struggles, success stories @TheCityFarm!
Rebecca–thanks for the shout out!
You're welcome, Erik! Happy to highlight and follow all you're doing and growing!


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Take the Verrazano Bridge to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (North) to the Grand Central Parkway (West) and the Triborough Bridge. Exit at 125th Street, proceed west along 125th, and turn left on Park Avenue. The Center is between Park and Madison Avenues, on 124th Street.
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Business briefs: More seeking jobless benefits
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By Monterey Herald |
PUBLISHED: April 18, 2013 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 am
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The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits increased by just 4,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 352,000. The slight gain kept applications at a level consistent with solid hiring and suggests March"s sluggish hiring may be temporary.
The Labor Department report released Thursday also noted that the four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose only 2,750 to 361,250. Because the four-week average changes less than the weekly number, many economists say it better captures the pace of layoffs.
Applications are a proxy for layoffs. They jumped three weeks ago to a four-month high, but then plummeted the next week.
near historic lows
Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages fell closer this week to their historic lows, making home ownership more affordable and refinancing more attractive.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate for the 30-year fixed loan dipped to 3.41 percent from 3.43 percent last week. That"s not far from the 3.31 percent rate reached in November, which was the lowest on records dating back to 1971.
The average rate on the 15-year fixed mortgage slipped to 2.64 percent from 2.65 percent the previous week. That nearly matches the record low of 2.63 percent, also reached in November.
Nokia cuts losses but sales keep declining
Nokia has reported a first-quarter net loss of 272 million euros ($357 million), down from a loss of 928 million euros a year earlier, mainly thanks to cost cutting. Sales, however, fell 25 percent to 5.8 billion euros.
— Herald wire services


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Evidence for an Association Between Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy and Bronchial Asthma: Retrospective Analysis in a Primary Care Hospital
Leonardo Glutz von Blotzheim1, 2, *, Stefan Christen1, Stephan Wieser3, Silvia Ulrich4, Lars C Huber3, 4
1 Division of Cardiology, Waid City Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Citizen's Hospital Solothurn, Switzerland
3 Division of Pulmonology, Waid City Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
4 Division of Pulmonology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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We investigated the prevalence of bronchial asthma in patients with Tako-Tsubo Syndrome (TTS).
This retrospective case-series study was conducted in a primary care hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. Data of all patients with newly diagnosed TTS (2002 - 2012) were assessed electronically by the use of ICD-10. Asthma prevalence was compared to published epidemiologic data.
Bronchial asthma is characterized by airway inflammation and, during attack, release of endogenous catecholamines. Sympathomimetic drugs are the mainstay of treatment for asthma patients. Likewise, catecholamine mediated diffuse microvascular myocardial dysfunction seems to be of critical importance for the development of TTS.
20 cases of TTS were identified. 90% were female, showed a median age of 70±13y [25y - 90y], an apical and/or midventricular ballooning pattern with preserved basal function and a median initial LVEF of 34±9% [25% - 55%]. 65% of patients underwent coronary angiography to rule out significant coronary artery disease. Hypertension was present in 45% of patients, 35% were smokers, none was suffering from diabetes. Prevalence of asthma in patients with TTS was significantly higher compared to the normal population (25% vs. 7%, p=0.012). In 30% of the TTS patients an iatrogenic cause for development of TTS was identified.
Prevalence of asthma was significantly higher in patients with TTS compared to epidemiologic data from an age-matched population. Phenotypes of patients developing obstructive ventilatory disease and TTS might share common pathogenic mechanisms beyond the use of bronchodilatators. In addition, we identified other iatrogenic etiologies in patients with TTS.
Keywords: Bronchial asthma, sympathomimetic drugs, Tako-Tsubo-Syndrome.
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A strange combination of superhero action and comedy that is pretty decent, especially in it's first half.
The Green Hornet is actually fun. I say it like that, because who would think Seth Rogen would make for a good superhero. The casting of him in the title role is very odd, considering that he is known as a pudgy stoner comedian. But then again, the choice for director here is odd too, with Michael Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind) being brought on boar to helm the film. And the funny thing is that it is only because Rogen is the star that the movie works. The comedy here is the number one best thing about this picture.
Rogen plays Britt Reid, a wealthy son of a newspaper tycoon. His father, played by Tom Wilkinson, owns his own paper and is a jerk about the way he does things. Early on in the movie, we see a flashback of Wilkinson ripping the head of his son's toy because Britt got in a fight at school. It doesn't seem to matter to the father that Britt was helping someone who was being bullied. We meet the adult Britt, played by Rogen, with a refrigerator getting thrown through a glass window and off a balcony at a party. Then we go into the party and see this guy having fun.
This is not your typical superhero movie. Normally the father is some larger than life moralistic character who can do no wrong and the son isn't far behind. Here, both father and son are flawed. But like all those other superhero films, the father dies early on in the movie and it's up to Britt to take over. He takes over the paper, and what's funny about that is that he doesn't have a clue how to do it.
Britt is also used to having everything done for him around the house, and we learn quickly that he has fired everyone who worked there. Why we don't get to see this or get a reason for why he fired them, I still don't understand, but none the less, he now wakes up to a crappy cup of coffee (who put it there, beside him, while he was sleeping?), and goes out to find the guy who used to make his coffee for him every morning. That guy is Kato.
While Britt is getting his life together, we also join the storyline of the movie's villain, Chovnofsky, played by Christoph Waltz. This guy is a lot of fun. As an actor, he is perfect playing a villain, just as he did for his Oscar winning performance in Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds. That movie was, of course, Waltz's breakthrough, and a hell of a casting job of scouting him out by Tarantino. Here, in the green hornet, Waltz is again, a total blast. Like Rogen, he plays for the comedy here, having an early scene with James Franco, where he shows concern about his name and being considered scary by his enemies. Franco has only got this one scene, but he has a lot of fun with it, giving Chovnofsky suggestions before watching his men get gunned down.
What really makes this movie work, more than anything else, is the dynamic between Britt and Kato. Britt is the big, blundering fool, and Kato is the quick, quiet Chinese guy who is immensely talented and a hell of a martial artist. Kato was played by Bruce Lee in the TV show of the green hornet, and in a lot of ways this actor playing him here, Jay Chou, reminds us of him. In fact, Jay Chou in this movie seems to be a combination of Bruce Lee and Jet Li. he moves like Bruce, but he talks and acts like Jet.
And Britt is blown away by everything this guy shows him, starting with the massive coffee machine in the kitchen of the mansion where he lives. Kato's primary job for Britt's father was always to maintain and do work on the cars. And so, he builds Britt a new car and they discuss how much they both hated Britt's father. They go out to cut the head off the statue of the father (what superhero would ever do this?) That's when they come across someone getting mugged and go into superhero mode.
There is a new style of action designed for this movie that is being called Kato vision. It basically means the weapons that bad guys are holding light up as a bright red and then fly at the screen, showing us that Kato is processing them. While that is happening, he goes to work beating bad guys up, primarily by disarming them as quickly as Possible and then using their weapons he. It is a very cool technique. There's a lot of slowing down the movement speed here, where the villains move in slow motion while Kato runs all over the place kicking their buts at normal speed. I don't really like that technique, and haven't liked it since The Matrix, but here since it is combined with the Kato vision, it works.
The action in this movie is pretty good. Kato is great, and I love Rogen's reactions to things. For example, the knife-like contraption that comes out of the wheel of their car and destroys other cars that are next to them, Britt refers to as "the Ben-Hur thing," referring of course to the chariot race. Cameron Diaz is in this movie too, as the love interest, and she's fine, but hardly memorable compared to everyone else involved.
As the movie goes on, it does lose our interest, and that's unfortunate since it's first half was so promising. When Kato and Britt go at it for a lengthy fight in the mansion, it is just stupid. And the villain changing his name and appearance towards the end of the movie is kind of dumb too. Especially when he comes up with a line to say to people before he kills him that takes time just for us to process. Basically, the comedy that worked so well in the first half kind of falls flats in the second half. I think by the second half of this movie; we were ready to get deeper into the plot and the action. Now there are new plot developments in the second half, such as a Potential corruption deal that Britt's father might have been involved in, but it all seems convoluted as opposed to breezy and light. Even the action, as the movie heads to a climax, becomes forgetful and over the top, causing us to lose interest. This movie had a lot of things going for it, and was often a great deal of fun, but by the end it definitely ran out of steam.


Scouts were busy this weekend!
Saturday the Chattooga County Cub and Boy Scouts finished up their annual Scouting for Food. Almost 1000 pounds of food was collected for the county's food bank.
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The Galbraith Tennis Center opens on Sept. 4 in Tacoma, offering year-round tennis opportunities.
Galbraith Tennis Center is named in honor of Tacoma tennis player Patrick Galbraith. Galbraith grew up playing tennis in Tacoma and eventually developed into a top-ranked world tennis player. The United States Tennis Association Pacific Northwest is the nonprofit group responsible for bringing the six-court public facility back to life after it had been closed for eight years. The facility at 1680 S. Mildred Street is the same location Galbraith played at many years ago.
"The Galbraith Tennis Center offers an amazing opportunity for the community of Tacoma to play tennis in the very same facility in which I grew up playing. I am so thrilled to be a part of USTA PNW's effort to keep my hometown playing the sport I love so much," said Patrick Galbraith.
There is a lack of local indoor courts and publicly accessible courts. The group believes people are interested in tennis in the Pacific Northwest, so they also are opening another facility, the Vancouver Tennis Center, next week.
By creating more opportunities, they hope to fulfill their larger mission of recruiting more tennis players in order to grow the game in the Pacific Northwest for years to come.
The Tacoma facility will offer a viewing lounge, coffee bar, pro shop, and instruction for all ages and skill levels, memberships, and competitive programs. More at pnwtenniscenters.com.


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Check out Trance master Armin Van Buuren and one of his top downloaded tracks "Not Giving up on Love" . Its been hitting the charts hard since its release! The track is one of his best yet, Take a listen and add it to your music playing devices! Its great to chill and listen or for any dance floor or rave party.


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Our Value Statements
Approved by the Community Farm Land Trust Board of Directors, August 14, 2018
We believe in:
1. Perpetuity: We believe that sustainable farming practices support people, the local economy, soil health now and for future generations and benefits all creatures. We pledge ourselves to acquire or preserve farmland for economic and social benefits to the community.
2. Community: We believe in working collaboratively with farm owners seeking to leave their farm as a working farm legacy and with farmers who seek affordable access to land. We also believe that:
The community is seeking a deeper connection to local farmers.
Our organization can facilitate that connection.
We can help the community work to preserve some of our rich farmland for affordable long-term lease to future generations of farmers.
We value the opportunity to work in partnership with like-minded organizations to strengthen the results of our common work toward a more sustainable future.
*Our application of the Community Land Trust model to farmland involves keeping the cost of access to land low for farmers without the wealth needed to purchase land, providing a means for farmers to hold equity in the farm, and including the larger community in the commitment to assure success of local farming.
3. Equity: We are committed to equity of access to farmland by working to overcome the affordability barrier that some farmers face as they reach for secure land tenure. The Community Land Trust model* allows farmers to develop financial equity in farm buildings and the right to lease land for farming. We believe in promoting land security, affordability, and the opportunity to build farm assets for farmers, regardless of social status.
4. Farming: We believe in the viability of local small scale farms and that when farmers follow best farming practices their work benefits not only their farm family but the community. The community gains from a strong local agricultural economy and a healthier environment.
5. Creativity: We are committed to the creative/innovative approach of the shared equity community/private-owner land tenure strategy of the community land trust model for making land affordable and farmed, forever. We believe the model's innovative strategies keep our community's farming heritage and quality of life. We willingly take on the challenging decisions ahead of us with a creative and innovative spirit.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy
Adopted May 21, 2019
The Community Farm Land Trust is committed to incorporating the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the governance and operations of this corporation. This commitment stems from a multitude of factors that call for organizations like the CFLT to represent a change from the past. Factors include:
Tribal Lands: Our recognition that the farmland in our regions is ceded territories of the Medicine Creek Treaty Tribes, which include the Squaxin Island Tribe, the Nisqually Indian Tribe, and the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. The area at the south of the sound was historically a center for trade and exchange among many Salish Sea tribes, including Chehalis, the Skokomish, and others. With this awareness, we honor the ancestors, pay respect to elders past and present of the Medicine Creek Treaty Tribes, and to all Native peoples of this land. We're grateful for this opportunity to support farmers on their lands. We express appreciation for their care that has allowed the land and waters to be as diverse and productive as they currently are. [adopted from language framed by the Eco-Ag faculty at TESC – Pitra Lal and Martha Rosemeyer]
History of discrimination: The US Department of Agriculture has acknowledged and documented its historic pattern of discrimination that pushed African-American, Native American and other minority farms off the land through decade of racially biased laws and practices. As a result, for example, while more than 10 percent of all farms were operated by African Americans 100 years ago, today just 1 percent of farms are operated by African American. (Summary article in The Nation, July 2010)
Valuing Equity: In our values, we state that: "We are committed to equity of access to farmland by working to overcome the affordability barrier that some farmers face as they reach for secure land tenure. The Community Land Trust model allows farmers to develop financial equity in farm buildings and the right to lease land for farming. We believe in promoting land security, affordability, and the opportunity to build farm assets for farmers, regardless of social status."
The CFLT is committed to:
Diversity: We welcome diversity of age, color, ability, gender identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or any classification protected by federal, state or local law.
Equity: We align our policies, practices, and resources so that people of all races, ages, cultures, socioeconomic statuses, religions, sexual orientation, gender identity, veterans status or any classification protected by federal, state or local law have genuine opportunities to thrive.
Inclusion: We create an environment in which everyone feels valued and respected.


Karachi – 07 February, 2018: HUAWEI has inaugurated its first-ever Experience Store in Pakistan. Nestled in the vibrant city of Karachi, the store is HUAWEI's biggest and most-advanced sales + service center in the country. The outlet offers tremendous convenience for people who would love to indulge in the amazing HUAWEI experience.


Studying or working abroad as part of your degree is the opportunity of a lifetime.
Traditionally, British students would go abroad during their second year of university and would transfer back to Bangor the credits they had gained. Bangor has introduced a new system whereby you can take an 'International Experience Year'. On successful completion of your four-year degree you will graduate with 'with international experience' added to your degree title.
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Free, Family Friendly 'Park Party' With Giant Thanksgiving Parade Balloons in Stamford This Sunday
By DARIENITE.COM | November 15, 2021
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A free, family-friendly "Parade Spectacular Park Party" with giant parade balloons, entertainment and photos with Santa, will take place throughout Mill River Park in downtown Stamford this coming Sunday afternoon, Nov. 21.
The party is a replacement for the city's traditional giant balloon Thanksgiving parade, which was also cancelled last year.
The event, from 12 noon to 3 p.m. (but will "loop, in hour-long segments" according to this report in the Stamford Advocate) is sponsored by the Stamford Downtown Special Services District, which has been sponsoring downtown holiday events for decades. No tickets or pre-registration is required.
"Join us at a family-friendly event designed to safely accommodate an audience of young and old," the district says in an announcement. "The event will feature giant helium balloons, Cirque-tacular aerialists, photos with Santa and Friends and more."
The performance schedule features local marching bands and dance groups, including:
—Flippenout Extreme Trampoline
—Center Stage Dance Studio
—Hoop Girls
—Locust Performing Arts Center
—The Pulse Performing Arts Studio's nova jazz
—Stamford High School Marching Band
—Westhill High School Marching Band
Organizers say the event has been planned "in close consultation with public health officials and community leaders."
Also Coming to Downtown Stamford
On Dec. 5, starting at 5 p.m., the "Heights & Lights" event will take place, with Santa, some other Christmas characters as well as Darien resident Brian Cashman, the general manager of the Yankees, rappelling down the 22-story Landmark Square building.
The event continues with a fireworks show, and a march up Bedford Street to Latham Park, where Stamford's "Holiday Tree" will be lit and holiday music will be played.
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