"Basically married" is how a friend described her relationship with her live-in boyfriend on Valentine's Day a few years ago. The combined age of this "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" was over 80. She'd always played her "basically married" card in a casual and well-practiced sort of way.
But it was a bluff. Like most women (no, not all), she wanted to have a family. She could half-convince her friends that she was "basically married," but she could not convince even herself that she was basically a mother.
The game was getting old, and so was she. Biological clocks don't bluff, and hers told her it was almost too late for a winning hand.
She's had lots of company. A recent study summarized in The Atlantic shows that a majority of the women among cohabiting couples say that they're "almost certain" their relationship with the man is permanent, notwithstanding the conspicuous absence of a marriage proposal from the man. It is no surprise (except perhaps to those women) that the men say the opposite.
The guy in this game thinks he's holding five aces. When the chips are down, or his needs aren't met, he can just move out. If she gets pregnant with that baby she wants and refuses to "take care of the issue," he can just move out.
The woman can move out, of course, but she seldom does. That's because the woman imagines that this game brings her closer to her goal of having a family.
She's mistaken. The study showed that of unmarried couples who commence living together, 80 percent are not even a couple five years later. The few who get married are more likely to later divorce.
In a curious irony, gays and lesbians for decades fought for society to legally recognize their sacred promise to "love, honor and cherish" one another forever. Meanwhile, straights cowering from commitment have abandoned that very same legal and spiritual status for which courageous gays and lesbians fought so hard.
Straight guys think they've stacked the deck with this arrangement. They have a mom/girlfriend/housekeeper/roommate/financial supporter to come home to. The guy doesn't have children, but hey, the only child he's capable of loving is the one in the mirror.
For the guy, it's like penny-ante poker. It's amusing, but the stakes are low. He knows when to walk away and when to run. The commitment is modest. It seems safe.
But something happened with my friend's boyfriend. He came to realize that in the long run, his crappy little penny-ante poker game was not safe at all. He saw that indeed he never lost much, but he never won much, either. Uncommitted year by uncommitted year, lousy little hand by lousy little hand, penny-ante by penny-ante, his small-stakes game frittered away his shot at the big pot — it frittered away his mojo, his soul and his manhood. He was playing a good little game but living a lousy little life.
Real men, you see, don't play it safe. They know that the big rewards in life are not in low-stakes poker; the big rewards are at the dangerous high-stakes table.
So my friend's boyfriend married her. Not to make an honest woman out of her. She was already that. The reason was to make a man out of himself.
He decided to grow up, man up and marry up. He stopped playing house and started building a home. He stopped taking and started giving. He stopped being a child and, later, became a father to one.
He went all in, he put his cards on the table, and he let the chips fall where they may.
I came out of City Market the other afternoon and found my rear window had been smashed. Nothing was stolen, and there wasn't even a scratch on the car. Weird.
At the table next to me on the Sundeck atop Ajax the other day sat a man of 70-something all alone in a onesie.
He unbuckled a fanny pack and fished out an orange, a brownie and a Tupperware container holding a bologna sandwich. He ambled to the restaurant and poured himself a cup of free water (not the foo-foo stuff with lemon), returned and ate his lunch. Oblivious to the neck masseuse, the designer goggle store, the yoga sessions and the tourist skiers drinking champaign, he then closed his crinkly eyes as he sat in the sun daydreaming of how he used to ski the big lines. And probably still does.
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1번 문제의 1번을 올바르게 고치면 "I asked the mailman to be as careful as possible delivering the package."가 된다고 설명되어 있는데요.
The mailman is(was) as careful as possible delivering the package.
가 되는건데, delivering 앞에 of 등의 전치사를 쓰지 않아도 되나요?
※be careful of/about STH : ~에 주의하다.
I asked the mailman to be as careful as possible when he delivers the package. 에서 when ~ 이하가 분사구문이 됐다고 보자니 주절의 주어(I)와 접속사절의 주어(the mailman = he)가 달라서 주어가 생략되면 안 될 것 같아서 질문드립니다.
그리고 I asked the mailman to deliver the package as carefully as possible의 형태로 고치는 것도 가능할까요?
1. 해당 문장에서는 '소포를 배달할 때' 또는 '소포를 배달하는 동안' 이라는 시간을 나타내는 부사절 역할을 하므로, delivering 앞에 전치사 of가 아닌 when/while이 생략된 분사구문 문장으로 볼 수 있습니다.
이때, 문맥상 소포를 배달하는 주체가 the mailman 이므로, 분사구문의 주어를 the mailman으로 보아 delivering the package로 표현한 문장입니다.
즉, 아래와 같이 바꿔 표현된 문장에서와 같이, 분사구문의 주어를 the mailman으로 보는 것이 자연스럽습니다.
I asked that the mailman should be as careful as possible delivering the package.
The mailman was asked by me to be as careful as possible delivering the package.
다만, 독자님께서 말씀하신 대로 분사구문의 용법을 보다 정확하게 드러내는 문장으로 수정하는 것을 검토해보겠습니다. 교재 개발에 도움이 되는 소중한 의견을 주셔서 감사합니다.
2. 추가로, 독자님께서 말씀하신 것과 같이 I asked the mailman to deliver the package as carefully as possible. 로 바꾸어 표현해도 맞는 문장입니다.
안녕하세요, 독자님. 합격동행 해커스입니다. 교재 관련 독자님의 문의사항을 확인했습니다. 1. 해당 문장에서는 '소포를 배달할 때' 또는 '소포를 배달하는 동안' 이라는 시간을 나타내는 부사절 역할을 하므로, delivering 앞에 전치사 of가 아닌 when/while이 생략된 분사구문 문장으로 볼 수 있습니다. 이때, 문맥상 소포를 배달하는 주체가 the mailman 이므로, 분사구문의 주어를 the mailman으로 보아 delivering the package로 표현한 문장입니다. 즉, 아래와 같이 바꿔 표현된 문장에서와 같이, 분사구문의 주어를 the mailman으로 보는 것이 자연스럽습니다. I asked that the mailman should be as careful as possible delivering the package. The mailman was asked by me to be as careful as possible delivering the package. 다만, 독자님께서 말씀하신 대로 분사구문의 용법을 보다 정확하게 드러내는 문장으로 수정하는 것을 검토해보겠습니다. 교재 개발에 도움이 되는 소중한 의견을 주셔서 감사합니다. 2. 추가로, 독자님께서 말씀하신 것과 같이 I asked the mailman to deliver the package as carefully as possible. 로 바꾸어 표현해도 맞는 문장입니다. 앞으로도 공부를 하시다가 궁금하거나 이해가 잘 되지 않는 부분이 있을 시 언제든지 질문을 남겨주시기 바랍니다. 시험에 합격하시는 그날까지 저희 해커스 공무원학원과 공무원시험연구소에서 항상 힘이 되어드리겠습니다. 감사합니다.


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ANJ SMITH
Event type: Exhibition
Saturday, November 9, 2019 - 10:30 to Sunday, March 1, 2020 - 16:00
We are pleased to present the first solo exhibition in a UK institution by British artist Anj Smith.
Working primarily with painting, Smith's work reflects on the very possibilities and limitations of the medium itself. Her work excavates often overlooked art histories which she combines with her lived experiences to form the layers within her work. Exploring the very edges of representation, Smith's intricately rendered paintings explore issues of identity, eroticism, mortality and fragility. Wildly feral landscapes, ambiguous figures, textiles, flora and fauna are intricately depicted.
Drawing upon sources as disparate as the works of Lucas Cranach, and the couture of Madam Grès, Smith weaves archaic traditions and contemporary signs together into a personal cosmology. Her paintings are rich in detail, colour and texture, collapsing strict definitions of portraiture, landscape and still-life whilst allowing elements of each to coexist.
Anj Smith (born in Kent, England, in 1978. Lives and works in London) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and Goldsmiths College in London. Smith has exhibited internationally in museums and galleries such as the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany; Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy; Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands; The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN; Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, Peekskill NY; Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India; La Maison Rouge, Paris, France, and Me Collector's Room, Berlin, Germany. Smith's work is also displayed in the collections of many leading international museums and collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA; DRAF David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK and the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.
Image Credit: Anj Smith, Untitled (Nothing Makes It Through), 2012. © Anj Smith Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Private Collection, London.
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Q: How to import Cloudant module to manipulate existing documents via IBM cloud server less function python 3.9 actions? I am new to Cloud SDK, and I tried to invoke the following action, but I get error : " stderr: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cloudant'",.

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*Console ==>  IBM cloudant python 3.9 SDK: No module named 'cloudant'"

*CLI ==> Python 3.86 : accepted the module without error

*Question :==> I need to know how to do it using the CLI.
If you have a solution please let me know in time. Thank You!!.
from cloudant.client import Cloudant
import requests
import json

dict = {"COUCH_USERNAME": "--bluemix",
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Yes I did. I have used Python 3.7 and it works. However, it is depreciated on IBM cloud

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You should migrate your action code to use ibmcloudant instead of cloudant. If you can't want to migrate your code then you could force it to use the 3.7 runtime with --kind python:3.7 or create a custom 3.9 runtime with the cloudant module installed.

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Operatronica dance party gives EDM an operatic twist
Carolyne Zinko Oct. 4, 2017 Updated: Oct. 4, 2017 4:46 p.m.
1of4L-R, Dan Gahr, Jennifer Szeto, Aria Umezawa, and Anthony Reed at Mezzanine in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, October 1, 2017. The group will be putting on Operatronica, an operatic dance party which combines opera and electronic dance music.Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
2of4Aria Umezawa discuses Operatronica at Mezzanine during an inteview at Cavalier in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, October 1, 2017. The group will be putting on Operatronica, an operatic dance party which combines opera and electronic dance music.Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
3of4Dan Gahr discussing Operatronica at Mezzanine during an interview at Cavalier in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, October 1, 2017. The group will be putting on Operatronica, an operatic dance party which combines opera and electronic dance music.Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
4of4L-R, Aria Umezawa, Anthony Reed, Jennifer Szeto, and Dan Gahr, at Mezzanine in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, October 1, 2017. The group will be putting on Operatronica, an operatic dance party which combines opera and electronic dance music.Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
There's nothing like an offbeat collaboration to get people to pay attention to things they might dismiss with a shrug. Croissants and doughnuts. Rihanna and Puma. Lady Gaga and Metallica. And now, opera and electronic music. The San Francisco Opera Lab, in its fifth nightclub pop-up aimed at bringing classical music to new audiences, pairs nine young singers with two DJs for an event called Operatronica on Thursday, Oct. 12, at Mezzanine nightclub. Over drinks at the Cavalier bar, co-hosts Anthony Reed, 28, a bass vocalist from Minnesota, and stage director Aria Umezawa, 29, of Toronto, talked about their hopes for the mash-up with fellow performers Jennifer Szeto, 29, a pianist from Calgary, and Dan Gahr, 39, a DJ with Loves Company collective in San Francisco. The interview has been edited for length.
Q: Why try this type of event?
Umezawa: S.F. Opera Lab had booked Mezzanine, and I thought of electronic dance music because back at McGill University in Montreal, where I studied, DJ Tiesto did a remix of an opera — (Purcell's) "Dido and Aeneas."
Q: Why co-host?
Reed: Aria put my name forward because she knows about my pop alter-ego, "Roehn." It's a duo with a friend in Philadelphia, Adam Pangburn, a folk-techno blend. And two other people who are singing in the event (tenors Pene Pati and Amitai Pati) have a band in New Zealand with a brother. They've gone platinum in New Zealand with their album.
Umezawa: They're called Sol3 Mio. It's pronounced Sole Mio. They're really famous.
Reed: They sold out a stadium the same weekend that Lorde couldn't sell out a stadium.
Q: Do DJs study classical music?
Gahr: I played baritone and valve trombone in middle-school jazz band. I wanted to play saxophone, but they said my hands were too small. It's a classic BS teacher's line. They just needed more kids to play baritone.
Q: Is it the opera audience that's coming or the EDM audience that's coming?
Gahr: People are there mostly for the opera. The venue may draw some folks more interested in the DJ portion. Making it cohesive is really important, so it's not like "opera!" and "electronic music!" It's gotta have a flow, like any good show. I'm gonna try in the next week to listen to what they're going to be singing and try to sample those and try to maybe create something new for the evening that embodies that fusion of styles. It may fall flat, but I don't think so. The challenge is making things that seem disparate connected — it's interesting.
Q: Do opera singers go to EDM festivals? A lot of people probably think classical musicians are eggheads who don't listen to other music.
Umezawa: I spent more time in a mosh pit listening to metal — Blood Brothers and Coheed and Cambria — and emo and rock. I lost my shoe once, crowd surfing. I was once punched in the face, which is totally against mosh pit etiquette! I punched him back.
Szeto: I think eggheads exist in every genre. What's cool about an event like this for me is (that) genres of music have a lot in common. It's exciting for people like ourselves to dress down what we do and take the art into a different space.
Q: What are you drinking?
Gahr: The Barrister. It's pretty close to a Manhattan, but with Amaro. It reminds me of a bygone era of cocktails and sophistication.
Reed: The Lexington. It has rye whiskey, citrus and bitters. It reminded me of an Old Fashioned. I grew up in a rural area of Minnesota. When I drink an Old Fashioned, it makes me feel like I'm by a fireplace in a cabin.
Umezawa: A Pimm's Cup. I like bright and refreshing cocktails.
Szeto: Freshly squeezed water. I drank too much last night.
Q: How is opera similar to electronic music?
Szeto: We play in extremes. Nothing we do is casual — extreme emotions, extreme dynamics.
Gahr: It's all dynamics. You need to provide disparity between the lows and the highs. The tensions and the release. Because otherwise it's one thing, a plateau. It's flat.
Q: What's more nerve-racking, going onstage to sing opera, or a blind date?
Reed: Oh my god. I would be so much more nervous on a blind date. And then if you don't like the other person …
Szeto: We have years of training in classical music. There's no training for blind dates!
Carolyne Zinko is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: czinko@sfchronicle.com
Operatronica 8 p.m., Oct. 12, Mezzanine, 444 Jessie St., San Francisco. 21 + over; $20 advance, $25 door; www.sfoperalab.com
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Carolyne Zinko, a native of Wisconsin, joined The San Francisco Chronicle in 1993 as a news reporter covering Peninsula crime, city government and political races. She worked as the paper's society columnist from 2000 to 2004, when she wrote about the lifestyles of the rich but not necessarily famous. Since then, she has worked for the Sunday Style and Datebook sections, covering gala night openings and writing trend pieces. Her profiles of personalities have included fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Emanuel Ungaro fashion house owner Asim Abdullah, to name a few. In a six-month project with The Chronicle's investigative team, she recently revealed the misleading practices of a San Francisco fashion charity that took donations from wealthy philanthropists but donated little to the stated cause of helping the developmentally disabled. On the lifestyle front, her duties also including writing about cannabis culture for The Chronicle and its cannabis website, www.GreenState.com website.
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__doc__ = """
pyparsing module - Classes and methods to define and execute parsing grammars
=============================================================================

The pyparsing module is an alternative approach to creating and
executing simple grammars, vs. the traditional lex/yacc approach, or the
use of regular expressions.  With pyparsing, you don't need to learn
a new syntax for defining grammars or matching expressions - the parsing
module provides a library of classes that you use to construct the
grammar directly in Python.

Here is a program to parse "Hello, World!" (or any greeting of the form
``"<salutation>, <addressee>!"``), built up using :class:`Word`,
:class:`Literal`, and :class:`And` elements
(the :meth:`'+'<ParserElement.__add__>` operators create :class:`And` expressions,
and the strings are auto-converted to :class:`Literal` expressions)::

    from pip._vendor.pyparsing import Word, alphas

    # define grammar of a greeting
    greet = Word(alphas) + "," + Word(alphas) + "!"

    hello = "Hello, World!"
    print(hello, "->", greet.parse_string(hello))

The program outputs the following::

    Hello, World! -> ['Hello', ',', 'World', '!']

The Python representation of the grammar is quite readable, owing to the
self-explanatory class names, and the use of :class:`'+'<And>`,
:class:`'|'<MatchFirst>`, :class:`'^'<Or>` and :class:`'&'<Each>` operators.

The :class:`ParseResults` object returned from
:class:`ParserElement.parseString` can be
accessed as a nested list, a dictionary, or an object with named
attributes.

The pyparsing module handles some of the problems that are typically
vexing when writing text parsers:

  - extra or missing whitespace (the above program will also handle
    "Hello,World!", "Hello  ,  World  !", etc.)
  - quoted strings
  - embedded comments

Getting Started -
-----------------
Visit the classes :class:`ParserElement` and :class:`ParseResults` to
see the base classes that most other pyparsing
classes inherit from. Use the docstrings for examples of how to:

 - construct literal match expressions from :class:`Literal` and
   :class:`CaselessLiteral` classes
 - construct character word-group expressions using the :class:`Word`
   class
 - see how to create repetitive expressions using :class:`ZeroOrMore`
   and :class:`OneOrMore` classes
 - use :class:`'+'<And>`, :class:`'|'<MatchFirst>`, :class:`'^'<Or>`,
   and :class:`'&'<Each>` operators to combine simple expressions into
   more complex ones
 - associate names with your parsed results using
   :class:`ParserElement.setResultsName`
 - access the parsed data, which is returned as a :class:`ParseResults`
   object
 - find some helpful expression short-cuts like :class:`delimitedList`
   and :class:`oneOf`
 - find more useful common expressions in the :class:`pyparsing_common`
   namespace class
"""
from typing import NamedTuple

class version_info(NamedTuple):
    major: int
    minor: int
    micro: int
    releaselevel: str
    serial: int

    @property
    def __version__(self):
        return (
            "{}.{}.{}".format(self.major, self.minor, self.micro)
            + (
                "{}{}{}".format(
                    "r" if self.releaselevel[0] == "c" else "",
                    self.releaselevel[0],
                    self.serial,
                ),
                "",
            )[self.releaselevel == "final"]
        )

    def __str__(self):
        return "{} {} / {}".format(__name__, self.__version__, __version_time__)

    def __repr__(self):
        return "{}.{}({})".format(
            __name__,
            type(self).__name__,
            ", ".join("{}={!r}".format(*nv) for nv in zip(self._fields, self)),
        )

__version_info__ = version_info(3, 0, 9, "final", 0)
__version_time__ = "05 May 2022 07:02 UTC"
__version__ = __version_info__.__version__
__versionTime__ = __version_time__
__author__ = "Paul McGuire <ptmcg.gm+pyparsing@gmail.com>"

from .util import *
from .exceptions import *
from .actions import *
from .core import __diag__, __compat__
from .results import *
from .core import *
from .core import _builtin_exprs as core_builtin_exprs
from .helpers import *
from .helpers import _builtin_exprs as helper_builtin_exprs

from .unicode import unicode_set, UnicodeRangeList, pyparsing_unicode as unicode
from .testing import pyparsing_test as testing
from .common import (
    pyparsing_common as common,
    _builtin_exprs as common_builtin_exprs,
)

# define backward compat synonyms
if "pyparsing_unicode" not in globals():
    pyparsing_unicode = unicode
if "pyparsing_common" not in globals():
    pyparsing_common = common
if "pyparsing_test" not in globals():
    pyparsing_test = testing

core_builtin_exprs += common_builtin_exprs + helper_builtin_exprs

__all__ = [
    "__version__",
    "__version_time__",
    "__author__",
    "__compat__",
    "__diag__",
    "And",
    "AtLineStart",
    "AtStringStart",
    "CaselessKeyword",
    "CaselessLiteral",
    "CharsNotIn",
    "Combine",
    "Dict",
    "Each",
    "Empty",
    "FollowedBy",
    "Forward",
    "GoToColumn",
    "Group",
    "IndentedBlock",
    "Keyword",
    "LineEnd",
    "LineStart",
    "Literal",
    "Located",
    "PrecededBy",
    "MatchFirst",
    "NoMatch",
    "NotAny",
    "OneOrMore",
    "OnlyOnce",
    "OpAssoc",
    "Opt",
    "Optional",
    "Or",
    "ParseBaseException",
    "ParseElementEnhance",
    "ParseException",
    "ParseExpression",
    "ParseFatalException",
    "ParseResults",
    "ParseSyntaxException",
    "ParserElement",
    "PositionToken",
    "QuotedString",
    "RecursiveGrammarException",
    "Regex",
    "SkipTo",
    "StringEnd",
    "StringStart",
    "Suppress",
    "Token",
    "TokenConverter",
    "White",
    "Word",
    "WordEnd",
    "WordStart",
    "ZeroOrMore",
    "Char",
    "alphanums",
    "alphas",
    "alphas8bit",
    "any_close_tag",
    "any_open_tag",
    "c_style_comment",
    "col",
    "common_html_entity",
    "counted_array",
    "cpp_style_comment",
    "dbl_quoted_string",
    "dbl_slash_comment",
    "delimited_list",
    "dict_of",
    "empty",
    "hexnums",
    "html_comment",
    "identchars",
    "identbodychars",
    "java_style_comment",
    "line",
    "line_end",
    "line_start",
    "lineno",
    "make_html_tags",
    "make_xml_tags",
    "match_only_at_col",
    "match_previous_expr",
    "match_previous_literal",
    "nested_expr",
    "null_debug_action",
    "nums",
    "one_of",
    "printables",
    "punc8bit",
    "python_style_comment",
    "quoted_string",
    "remove_quotes",
    "replace_with",
    "replace_html_entity",
    "rest_of_line",
    "sgl_quoted_string",
    "srange",
    "string_end",
    "string_start",
    "trace_parse_action",
    "unicode_string",
    "with_attribute",
    "indentedBlock",
    "original_text_for",
    "ungroup",
    "infix_notation",
    "locatedExpr",
    "with_class",
    "CloseMatch",
    "token_map",
    "pyparsing_common",
    "pyparsing_unicode",
    "unicode_set",
    "condition_as_parse_action",
    "pyparsing_test",
    # pre-PEP8 compatibility names
    "__versionTime__",
    "anyCloseTag",
    "anyOpenTag",
    "cStyleComment",
    "commonHTMLEntity",
    "countedArray",
    "cppStyleComment",
    "dblQuotedString",
    "dblSlashComment",
    "delimitedList",
    "dictOf",
    "htmlComment",
    "javaStyleComment",
    "lineEnd",
    "lineStart",
    "makeHTMLTags",
    "makeXMLTags",
    "matchOnlyAtCol",
    "matchPreviousExpr",
    "matchPreviousLiteral",
    "nestedExpr",
    "nullDebugAction",
    "oneOf",
    "opAssoc",
    "pythonStyleComment",
    "quotedString",
    "removeQuotes",
    "replaceHTMLEntity",
    "replaceWith",
    "restOfLine",
    "sglQuotedString",
    "stringEnd",
    "stringStart",
    "traceParseAction",
    "unicodeString",
    "withAttribute",
    "indentedBlock",
    "originalTextFor",
    "infixNotation",
    "locatedExpr",
    "withClass",
    "tokenMap",
    "conditionAsParseAction",
    "autoname_elements",
]


In our many years of pest control, we've seen and heard it all when it comes to keeping critters at bay, from old wives tales to useless DIY methods. And thanks to the internet and social media, there's even more far-out rumors and bad pest control advice than ever before. To help put some of these misconceptions to rest, here is the inside scoop on the five most common pest control Surrey myths.
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Newsom hopes to help Small Business on Health Insurance
By Lawrence on Jul 24, 2019
While most businessmen ponder ways in which they can make more money, Sydney Winlock, a resident of Northern California, strangely was searching for ways to earn less money from his business. Not that he does not like making profits, but earning too much money from the business was making him and his wife ineligible for their current health insurance policy. Winlock and his wife earn too much from their business to receive aid from the California government for paying the premiums on their health insurance every month.
Without aid from the government, the couple will now have to shell out $18,000 annually to maintain coverage under their health insurance. However, if they reduce their earnings, they would receive subsidies for their insurance on health and get help from the federal government for the monthly insurance.
"Last year, we had a great year. What did it do for us? It kicked us right out and we no longer get the subsidies," said Winlock.
Just like Winlock, Laneesha Senegal, 42, is also struggling to keep her blood sugar levels from rising in the absence of insulin provided by health insurance. The 42-year old is the owner of a nonprofit that helps other businesses plan for the future, and just like Winlock, makes too much money to qualify for Medi-Cal but not enough to buy the Covered California health insurance. Senegal is prediabetic and tries her best to keep the blood sugar levels under control so as to avoid an expensive medical appointment thanks to the absence of a health insurance plan.
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Democratic Governor Newsom to Bring Good News for Small Businesses Owners in CA
California Governor Gavin Newsom's latest economic plan can make it easier for small business owners like Winlock and Senegal to buy health insurance from the state's insurance marketplace that was created under the Affordable Care Act. If this plan is reinforced, it would also help the employees of small businesses, as they would also be offered health insurance coverage through their employer.
According to Newsom's plan, small business owners would get paid from the California government, making the state the first to offer subsidies to people who earn as much as 600 per cent of the federal poverty level, to pay for their health insurance.
This means that individuals earning around $72,000 a year and a family of four earning approximately $150,000 annually would be able to avail subsidies of up to $100 per month from the government to pay for their health insurance premiums. Similarly, people earning between $24,000 and $49,000 annually would also get assistance from the state government along with the federal subsidies.
Currently, the federal government offers help only to those who earn up to 400 per cent of the federal poverty line. This proposal is part of the new Governor's budget, which is currently being negotiated by lawmakers.
How Would This New Healthcare Plan Affect California?
The UCLA conducted a California Health Insurance Survey and stated that out of the 2.84 million citizens of California who did not have health insurance in 2017, 16 per cent or 444,000 were self-employed. Currently, the people enrolled under the Covered California health insurance policy earning less than $49,000 get subsidies from the government to reduce their insurance costs.
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However, according to the federal Small Business Administration, the median annual income earned by small-business owners is approximately $57,000, which makes it impossible for them to qualify for Medi-Cal and get government subsidies on their monthly healthcare insurance premiums.
How Will the Money to Fund the Subsidies be Generated?
While Newsom is trying to get more healthy people to buy health insurance plans by offering subsidies, many people are asking where the money would come from to fund so many subsidies, in case this law gets passed. Well, according to Newsom's plan, the California government would pay for the new subsidies by fining uninsured individuals.
Governor Newsom plans to impose fines on uninsured individuals under a proposed statewide insurance requirement to cough up the money for the subsidies. He estimates that the fines alone would raise around $330 million each year to fund the subsidies.
Larry Levitt from the Kaiser Family Foundation stated that the irony of the situation is that the subsidies that would help a section of people get health insurance would be funded by the people who live without it
This irony of the plan was not lost on the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office either. The office cautioned that as more Californians would sign up for health insurance, the pool of uninsured people would decrease and hence it would generate less and less money in the upcoming years.
However, Newsom has avoided this potential problem in his budget by eliminating new subsidies after three years, which means that the lawmakers will have to cast votes to keep them in action. Newsom stated to the press that while this is not a perfect solution for the problem, it is a pragmatic one and would be a great way to make more people buy health insurance policies.
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According to the California Department of Finance, approximately 840,000 people would be receiving subsidies on their health insurance premiums if this plan floated by Gov. Newsom comes into being. While the state of California would be the first to help self-employed small business owners buy health insurance by offering financial subsidies, it would not be the first state to re-establish the individual mandate. Massachusetts and New Jersey have already restored the individual mandate method before.
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Zainudin Maidin is not fit or qualified to lecture about good citizenry unless he sets a model example of a good citizen who is imbued with the qualities of justice, fair play, responsibility and love for truth
(Petaling Jaya, Tuesday): The newly-promoted Deputy Information Minister, Datuk Zainudin Maidin gave a most interesting interview which appeared in yesterday's Star under the report titled "National schools produce good citizens".
In the report, Zainudin said Malays should choose national schools for the religious education of their children to prevent the new generation of Malays from being isolated from the national mainstream of education and development.
He said public religious schools did not provide suitable social and educational foundation needed in a multi-racial society but only led them to be isolated with an inferiority complex.
He said these religious schools had been coloured by politics and had the potential to create narrow-minded jingoism, creating a "backward class" of anti-establishment people "not fit to be useful Malaysian citizens".
He said: "This type of people will only be able to propagate Islam in an old fashioned manner using cruel terrorist tactics, labelling others as non-believers, and in the process frighten not only the non-Muslims but Muslims as well".
I do not know enough about the People's Religious Schools (SAR – sekolah agama rakyat) which have become the target of government attacks and the recent decision of the the 88th meeting of Mentri Besar/Chief Ministers (with Kelantan and Terengganu excluded) in Putrajaya last Tuesday (3.12.02) to support the Federal Government decision to end government support for the SAR and absorb its 126,000 pupils into the national school stream to make an informed judgment on the allegations.
However, if Zainuddin is right that the SARs breed terrorists to use "cruel terrorist tactics", then they should be closed down – but Zainuddin and the Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Norian Mai should make out a public case for their closure on national security grounds in a responsible, accountable and transparent manner and not by smear tactics and a campaign of falsehoods.
Nonetheless, Zainudin's comments are a matter of grave general concern to all Malaysians not related to the SAR issue alone for two reasons:
Firstly, Zainudin seems to belong to the increasing numbers in UMNO and among establishment educationists, including former top Education Ministry officials, who regard all other school systems apart from national schools like religious, Chinese and Tamil primary schools, as seed-beds of unMalaysian and unpatriotic sentiments not conducive to the production of "good Malaysian citizens", leading to the pressure for a "single-stream school system" in the country; and
Secondly, what is Zainuddin's right or qualification to lecture about good citizenry when he has failed to set a model example of a good citizen who is imbued with the qualities of justice, fair play, responsibility and love for truth ever since his appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Information Ministry in January last year?
Yesterday, PAS leaders had condemned the latest RTM propaganda feature entitled "Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan", depicting the sufferings of the rural poor in Sik, Kedah - deliberately parodying the title of the internationally-famous novel of the national laureate Shanon Ahmad, now PAS MP for Sik.
In their joint press statement, Shanon and the two PAS Assemblymen in the constituency, Mohd Isa Shafie (Belantik) and Yahya Abdullah (Jeneri) deplored the dishonest clippings, as those interviewed were Umno members and not from PAS as claimed in the documentary.
The trio said Sik had been backward since Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Othman, the Prime Minister's "spiritual advisor", led the constituency before the last general election. Hamid was defeated by Shanon and failed to retain the Sik parliamentary seat in 1999.
DAP is still waiting close to a month for a proper and satisfactory accounting from Zainudin for his gross abuse of power and public breach of trust in the holy month of Ramadan for the biased, tendentious and malicious propaganda feature attack on DAP and Dong Jiao Zong in the documentary "Bahaya Cauvinisme" camouflaged as prime-time news for three consecutive nights over public television falsely painting them as anti-national, unpatriotic and anti-Malay.
There are no signs that Zainudin Maidin is prepared to be a good citizen who cherishes justice, fair play, responsibility and love for truth, as to give the DAP and Dong Jiao Zong the right to reply on television to the unfair, tendentious and malicious attacks or even to correct the multitude of factual inaccuracies and misleading statements in the feature.
For instance, the second segment of the three-part "Bahaya Cauvinisme" carried an excerpt of the Prime Minister's speech at the National Patriotism Congress where he said there was no assimilation in Malaysia, unlike the United States and Western countries which he said practised assimilation where "Sekurang kurang nya, your home language must be that language".
This is inaccurate and untrue. According to the 1990 US Bureau of Census, about one in seven people in the United States spoke a language other than English at home. The major non-English mother tongues spoken in the American homes in the 1990 US Census were:
Spanish 17.3 million
French 1.7 million
German 1.5 million
Italian 1.3 million
Chinese 1.25 million
Ever since the 1990 US Census 12 years ago, the proportion of immigrants in the US population has grown further with a higher percentage of Americans who do not speak English at home.
Is Zainudin prepared to correct on public television such false and misleading statements in the RTM propaganda features?
Zainudin is not fit or qualified to lecture about good citizenry unless he sets a model example of a good citizen who is imbued with the qualities of justice, fair play, responsibility and love for truth.


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Glasgow Has Been Named One Of The 'Most Festive' Cities In The UK
Laura Rogan • November 23, 2021
Glasgow is fully in the Christmas spirit!
If there's one city that knows exactly how Christmas is done, it's Glasgow – as evidenced by a brand new study which named the Scottish city one of the most festive in the UK. The study confirms that Glasgow puts the jingle in jingle bells and the jolly in holly jolly Christmas.
Undertaken by the team at boohooMAN, the research revealed exactly which cities were the best to visit during Christmastime, using a variety of factors – including 'average monthly online searches for 'Christmas', 'average amount spent on gifts per person during the Christmas period' and 'number of Instagram hashtags for local Christmas markets' – when pulling together their facts.
Topping the scales for the highest amount of online searches for 'Christmas' and other related terms over the past 12 months, shows that us Glaswegians are ready for the festivities and are on the lookout for gifts ideas, events, and more to get us into the Christmas spirit. Plus, the people of Glasgow apparently spend a whopping amount on gifts during the Christmas period with an average of £500.12 spent per person.
Unfortunately, it was Manchester who stole the throne from Glasgow who came overall second, then narrowly followed by Liverpool. Scoring an impressive 62 out of 100 in the final rankings, Glasgow's Christmas Markets came highly recommended from the findings, with many flocking to St Enoch Square since its November 21 opening this year.
Ranking least festive in the UK was poor old Nottingham, with Cardiff and Wakefield also trailing behind in the list.
Here are the most festive cities in the UK:
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It is not officially winter time in Texas, but we have been cold! This time of year after the fall back of the clock, the days seem shorter and the nights longer. This time of year is nice, because it feels cozier around the farm. We rush home from our jobs to get our farm work done before nightfall, often doing chores by flashlight. We still got animals to tend to, eggs to collect, and wood to gather to heat the house. Our weekends will be spent bottling the homemade wine and preparing for the winter slaughter to feed our family.
But this time of year offers a rest from a long, hot summer. With shorter days and less outside work to do, we have time to visit with friends and family more, sit around the fire, play board games and puzzles, and do more crafts. I am making my first quilt. I have been cutting our old outgrown clothes into fat squares and now have enough to complete a quilt. I also will start a new crochet project.
There is still a lot of indoor work in preparation for visitors for the holidays. I need to dust the whole house, plan holiday menus, and make some homemade gifts. But, oh how time seems to slow down and give us time to reflect on all we have to be thankful for! And indeed I am thankful for my family and friends, our freedom in our great country, our jobs, our farm and our health. May you too have lots to be thankful for!


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Home Industry News Releases Introducing Wonderful Nurseries
Introducing Wonderful Nurseries
Vintage Nurseries Rebranded with New Name
Wasco, CA (January 3, 2017) – Vintage Nurseries, the largest grapevine nursery in North America, officially changed its name today to Wonderful Nurseries. The move recognizes the synergies between the company's successful, growing nursery business and its parent The Wonderful Company's agricultural businesses.
Fully committed to a "Growers First" philosophy, Wonderful Nurseries provides the highest level of personal service, coupled with extraordinary selection and quality. Since being acquired by The Wonderful Company in 2013, it has changed the culture of the vine industry, providing greater choices for its long-standing customer base. This philosophy also closely reflects the strong service-oriented approach found across all of The Wonderful Company's business units.
"Joining The Wonderful Company has enabled us to leverage all of our resources toward becoming the premier grapevine nursery in the industry," said Dustin Hooper, Wonderful Nurseries Director of Sales. "The Wonderful name is well-respected in the agriculture industry, and we are excited to be more readily identified under The Wonderful Company brand."
The company recently invested $25 million to build a new greenhouse on its property, which boasts an eight million-vine capacity. The greenhouse features an advanced screening process utilizing positive/negative air pressure at doorways and connecting buildings to prevent pest entry. Specialized lighting systems, in combination with an expanded mist propagation system, ensure a controlled, optimal growing environment. The multi-faceted greenhouse focuses on entirely avoiding material waste and modular flexibility to expand as needed.
Wonderful Nurseries' new lab, only 20 minutes from the nursery itself, adds to these expanded capabilities. Located in Shafter and headed by the highly respected Dr. Tefera Mekuria, Ph.D., this advanced internal lab uses qPCR (Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction), the most sensitive and precise commercial vine-testing technology available. Following protocols established by Foundation Plant Services, University of California, Davis, the lab has built-in safeguards to maximize the cleanliness of the operation for testing both internal and external product.
Wonderful Nurseries has also assumed the role of good citizen within the local community. Besides using eco-friendly plastic bins, pots and trays, the company also saves additional resources through its innovative new Root Sock product line. There is a company-wide commitment to maintaining the highest industry standards while preserving the natural environment.
About Wonderful Nurseries
Situated in Wasco, California, on the edge of the southern San Joaquin Valley, Wonderful Nurseries prides itself on its reputation for personal attention, outstanding selection and some of the cleanest grapevines in the industry. Known for its "Growers First" philosophy, Wonderful Nurseries has become the largest grapevine nursery in North America and established itself as an innovative vine-growing force, with breakthrough products saving labor time and costs. This pacesetting nursery continues to expand, both in product and visionary technology.
About The Wonderful Company
The Wonderful Company is a privately held $4 billion global company dedicated to harvesting health and happiness around the world. Its iconic brands include FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios & Wonderful Almonds, Wonderful Halos, Teleflora, JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery, and Landmark Wines.
The Wonderful Company's connection to consumers has health at its heart and giving back in its DNA. The company has a long-standing commitment to corporate social responsibility, including more than $120 million invested in environmental technologies and sustainability research, $45 million in charitable giving and education initiatives every year, $30 million toward the construction of a new charter school campus in California's Central Valley, and innovative health and wellness programs, including two new, free primary care clinics for employees and their dependents.
To learn more about The Wonderful Company, its products and core values, visit www.wonderful.com, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Islamabad, Sept 19 (ANI): The world's leading independent NGO for kids - Save the Children- has warned that Pakistan faces a major hunger crisis, as the number of acutely malnourished children is set to rise steeply in the wake of unprecedented floods in that country.
"The number of malnourished and critically sick children will rise dramatically in October and November as the food crisis takes its toll," the Daily Star quoted the NGO's country director in Pakistan, Mohammed Qazilbash, as saying.
"These children have weakened immune system because of the shortage of food, making them very vulnerable to disease," he added.
According to UN statistics, over 12,000 children have become severely malnourished since heavy monsoon rains devastated large parts of the country in early August, but experts suggest that the true figure could be higher, as many vulnerable young survivors in remote areas might have missed the count.
Around 21 million people have been affected by the floods, of which, approximately three million are under the age of five, according to Save the Children.


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Grand Prix legend Geoff Duke has died
02/05/2015. Six-time world champion Geoff Duke OBE has passed away at the age of 92.
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29/05/2015. Cal Crutchlow has said he doesn't know why fellow MotoGP stars Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaro are participating in this year's Suzuka 8hr with the GP schedule so hectic.
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30/05/2015. Valentino Rossi has said he is confident of being competitive in tomorrow's Italian Grand Prix despite qualifying on the third row of the grid.
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$12,000 collected for Legacy at Waratahs vs Rebels match
Published on 26 March 2014 SBLT Bianca Wise (author), ABIS Jake Badior (photographer)
Location(s): Sydney, NSW
Topic(s): Rugby Union, Legacy
Warrant Officer Robert Van Eldik stands with Kerry Morris, left, and Hannah Carling in front of the Legacy tents outside Allianz Stadium, Moore Park in support of Sydney Legacy.
Royal Australian Navy personnel from the shore establishments HMAS Kuttabul and HMAS Penguin collected donations from generous match goers at the Weary Dunlop Shield rugby game between the Waratahs and Melbourne Rebels last Friday, in support of Sydney Legacy.
It was the sixth time the two teams had gone head to head for the shield, which was named in honour of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, who represented Australia and Victoria in rugby union and served as a medical officer in World War II.
The match, which is known as 'Armed Forces Night', annually recognises those from New South Wales and Victoria who served and who currently serve in the armed forces. It also specifically honours 388 New South Wales Rugby Union players who lost their lives in World War I, including the then President of NSW Rugby Union, Major James McManamey.
Armed with collection buckets, Kuttabul and Penguin shipmates lapped Allianz Stadium to raise funds for Legacy, which will be used to support the families of veterans. Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel also formed an Honour Guard with Junior Legatees as the rugby players ran onto the field prior to kick off.
Lead by Ship's Warrant Officer, Warrant Officer Robert Van Eldik, it was the third year Kuttabul members have been involved in Armed Forces Night. WO Van Eldik was grateful to see rugby fans reach deep into their pockets and contribute towards Legacy.
"Our people regularly assist Legacy to support families that have lost a loved one due to ADF service," he said, "it was great to see that sense of support extended by the public who attended the game."
As an added bonus, the rugby enthusiast and Queensland Reds supporter was grateful for the opportunity to watch the Waratahs versus Rebels match after the coin collection had concluded.
"Being an old rugger myself, it's great to be able to reminisce the old days and watch such professional athletes compete," WO Van Eldik said.
Navy members from Kuttabul and two from Penguin participated in Armed Forces Night.
Following the success of last year's event, which raised approximately $6900, all eleven personnel were thrilled by the final sum raised during the 2014 event, which was more than twelve thousand dollars.
The rugby match was the first of many remembrance activities planned for Sydney in the lead up to Anzac Day this year.
Navy Sailors and Officers will be collecting donations prior to the AFL match between the Sydney Swans and Fremantle Dockers at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday 19 April.
Legacy representative Kerry Morris said there was a long history of mutual support between Legacy and the Royal Australian Navy.
"Legacy is there to support the families of RAN personnel that have given their lives or health," she explained.
"Legacy Sydney currently supports a number of young RAN families and contemporary widows.
"In Sydney we are very lucky to receive generous support in the form of volunteers from HMA Ships Kuttabul, Watson, Penguin and Waterhen.
"When ever the call is put out to Defence for volunteers, Navy people are always the first to put up their hands and are always willing to do anything; from collecting donations, distributing rosemary or selling badges during Legacy Week," she said.
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] You have to be ready to welcome the unexpected".
Born in Antwerp in 1938, Martine Franck grew up in the UK and the United States as part of a family of collectors. A polyglot, history of art student and passionate about sculpture, it was during a long trip to the Orient in 1963 that she discovered photography. On her return to Paris, she worked for Time-Life and became the assistant of Gjon Mili and Eliot Elisofon before becoming an independent photographer. Collaborating with the major American magazines, her reportages and portraits of artists and writers have been published in Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times and Vogue. Quickly giving up fashion photography, she was involved in the adventure of the Théâtre du Soleil troupe from the start, with her friend Ariane Mnouchkine, and helped set up the Vu agency, then Viva. In 1970, she married Henri Cartier-Bresson, an accomplished artist, who encouraged her to follow her own way. She later joined the Magnum cooperative, which still handles her work today.
In addition to her accomplished life as a photographer, the creation of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in 2003 was a high point. Very conscious of the enormous legacy that would be left to the family if nothing was done, Martine Franck enthusiastically embarked on the creation of a public foundation to house and share both her husband's and her work. She explains that this was the moment she finally felt proud of the means she had been left by her family. For her, this foundation built with Henri Cartier-Bresson and their daughter Mélanie represented a final step towards freedom: freedom to create, preserve and collect. She had finally crossed the line, and gently implemented this transgression which continued the family tradition of sharing art.
The work on the exhibition and accompanying book was begun a long time in advance, in 2011, by Agnès Sire with Martine Franck, when she knew she was ill. The photographer wanted to entrust the creation of the book and the curating of the exhibition to the person with whom she'd been managing this Fondation for many years. The selection of photographs, the more chronological sequence, punctuated with texts, and the interview with her friend, the writer Dominique Eddé, were the main features of this vast project. In it, you can follow the thread of her engagement through series of portraits, quasi-abstract landscapes, which are bound to surprise, and a sort of remote chronical of political life. Consisting of photographic prints, books and documents taken from the Fondation's fund, the exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne and the FotoMuseum in Antwerp which will present the exhibition in 2019.
The exhibition has been curated by Agnès Sire, artistic director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.


Below is the recipe! It's so delicious and easy to make that you might as well take a trip to the store after work and make it tonight!
Pat steaks dry and season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Heat a large skillet or dutch oven on medium-high with 2 tbsp olive oil. Add squash and sauté for about 3 minutes. Add tomatoes and garlic and sauté for another 2 minutes, or until squash is tender. Set aside.
In the same pan, heat 1 tbsp olive oil over medium-high heat. Add steak pieces when oil shimmers and cook until browned, about 2-3 minutes per side for medium-rare. Set aside and cover with foil for about 10 minutes to let steak rest before slicing.
In the same pan, add vinegar, sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1/2 tsp black pepper and cook over medium heat until reduced by half, about 5 minutes.
Slice steak when well rested. Serve drizzled with sherry/balsamic glaze and with squash and tomato sauté on the side.
Sometimes your best meals are impromptu and deliciously unexpected. Adrian and I were really hungry, but weren't sure we had anything on hand to make for dinner. That is… until we saw a bunch of ripe tomatoes and fresh basil in our garden, begging to be cooked up into a sauce!
We found that we had a partially used box of fettuccine noodles, a little bit of parmesan, and frozen guanciale from a lovely farm in Davis. Scouring our pasta recipes, we adapted one by by Scott Conant featured on Serious Eats, but simplified it a bit. I'm not kidding when I say that this is definitely the most delicious pastas we've ever made and possibly ever eaten (sorry Scott!). I can't quite vouch for this being the healthiest thing you'll eat all week, but that's okay on occasion! A little guanciale or bacon every now and then is perfectly fine. Just serve this one with a side salad, and this Diet Assassinista says you're good to go.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Have a large bowl of ice water nearby. Cut a small X on the bottom of each tomato. Ease about 5 tomatoes in the pot and cook. Let boil for about 15 seconds or until skins appear loose and promptly move them into the waiting ice water. Do this with remaining tomatoes.
Pull off the skin of the tomatoes with the tip of a pairing knife. Cut the tomatoes in half, squeeze tomatoes to take the seeds and a little juice out. Reserve juice if needed to thin pasta later.
In a wide pan, heat olive oil and butter over medium heat until hot. Add garlic and sauté until soft, 30-60 seconds. Add the tomatoes. Stir in basil, guanciale, a pinch of red pepper flakes, and season very lightly with the salt and pepper. Let the tomatoes cook for a few minutes to soften and then use a potato masher to break them up finely. Cook the tomatoes for 20 to 25 minutes, until the tomatoes are tender and the sauce has thickened.
Cook fettucine noodles in separate pot to 90% of doneness, reserving ½ cup pasta water. Add noodles to tomato sauce and cook for about 3 minutes, until sauce is incorporated. If dry, add some reserved tomato juice and/or pasta water. Serve pasta garnished with parmesan and freshly ground black pepper to taste.


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Population Testing Is Critical To Managing The Coronavirus Pandemic
March 23, 2020 Blog, Coronavirus, Innovation
As the United States ramps up rapid testing for the coronavirus, the results will surely show a sharp uptick in the number of cases of coronavirus-caused COVID-19. Those tested will learn whether they are infected, but, paradoxically, the public – and public health officials – will not know whether the overall results are encouraging or discouraging, because the rates of the coronavirus infectivity and mortality will remain poorly understood. The existing tests will not identify the potentially large numbers of people who were...
A Simple Lesson from a Hockey Great for Coping with the Coronavirus
March 23, 2020 Blog, Coronavirus, Policy Proposals
As the coronavirus pandemic wreaks more and more medical and social havoc worldwide, we need to recall the observation of The Great One—no, not Dr. Tony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health—the other one, hockey player Wayne Gretzky, who said, "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." Anticipating what's coming is especially important in confronting an emerging infectious disease whose dynamics and possible impacts we don't yet know. If we react too...
Testing for Coronavirus Is Testing Our Mettle.
Even for a nation as mighty, wealthy, and innovative as the United States, some problems don't have ready solutions. Instead, we need to try to gather information, limit damage, and perform the needed course corrections. That's where we are with the outbreak of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (the illness caused by which is designated COVID-19). There are some harsh, even frightening realities. First, we are past the point at which "containment" (the prevention of spread beyond known sources, such as travelers to China or...
Some Reality Testing of Rosy Predictions About A Coronavirus Vaccine
When President Trump met with drug-company executives at the White House on March 2, at the top of the agenda was the development of a vaccine to prevent COVID-19, the respiratory infection caused by the Wuhan coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (the World Health Organization's designation for the virus). "We've asked them to accelerate" work, the president told reporters. As the coronavirus outbreak accelerates, with cases now found on every continent except Antarctica, and the world is hit with widespread social and economic disruption,...
As U.S. Sees COVID-19 Infections Spike, Some Worry About 'Grave Errors'
March 2, 2020 Blog, Coronavirus, Industry Trends
Title: As U.S. Sees COVID-19 Infections Spike, Some Worry About 'Grave Errors' By Adam Smith In the beginning, the few reports of a newly discovered virus seemed inconsequential and distant. The coronavirus was causing pneumonia in scores of people, but those patients were in a faraway province of China, Hubei, that most outside that nation had never heard of. "There is no evidence that the new virus is readily spread by humans, which would make it particularly dangerous, and it has not been...
Nothing's 'Impossible' When It Comes To Innovation
March 2, 2020 Blog, Coronavirus, Policy Proposals
The Green New Dealers want us to think we have to either live more austere lives under coercive government policies or destroy the planet. Opponents of their plan, the theory goes, are willing to sacrifice the environment for short-term financial prosperity for the elite few. Nothing could be further from the truth. Meeting Americans' needs, especially those of the neediest, requires free markets that can realize and reward the benefits of technological innovations, big and small. Big innovations are those such as the...
The Coronavirus Numbers Are Not Quite What They Seem
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Dr. Henry Miller Featured in Fox News Story on Coronavirus Coming to the United States
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CDC warns on coronavirus in US: Should you start to worry? By Madeline Farber, Fox News Federal health officials this week warned that community spread of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. is seemingly inevitable, with one Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official saying it's no longer "a question of if, but when, and how many people in this country will have severe illness." In the same vein, officials have maintained that the immediate threat to the public remains low. So how worried should you be?...
The John Batchelor Show Talks U.S. Response to Coronavirus with Dr. Henry Miller
February 26, 2020 Blog, Coronavirus, Industry Trends, Issues, Radio
Dr. Henry Miller, PRI's senior fellow for the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, joins the John Batchelor Show to offer analysis on the search for a vaccine for the coronavirus. Dr. Miller says the United States has a steep learning curve ahead for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and talks about the latest developments from the World Health Organization. ...
Dr. Henry Miller Shares Expertise on Coronavirus Cases in Italy, South Korea on the Lars Larson Show
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Coronavirus Just the Latest Example of U.N. Incompetence and Failure
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Fox News Interviews Henry Miller on Coronavirus Outbreak in Italy
February 24, 2020 Blog, Coronavirus, Issues
WHO says coronavirus 'absolutely' has potential for pandemic status as Italy, Iran brace for surge By: Alexandria Hein Health officials stressed on Monday that while Iran and Italy have reported a surge in coronavirus cases over the last several days and raced to cancel public events, the outbreak, which originated in China, has not yet met the criteria for a pandemic, although it "absolutely" has the potential to get there. "Using the term pandemic now, it doesn't fit the facts, but it may...
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February 20, 2020 Blog, Coronavirus, Issues, Radio
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Is a coronavirus vaccine on the horizon? Antiquated FDA regulations make it unlikely one will emerge in the US
As Coronavirus Infections Top 72,000, 'We Are Learning About This as We Go' By: Adam Smith The Street As the coronavirus continues its rapid spread throughout China and the rest of the world, one thing is becoming increasingly certain: There's a lot that's still unknown about the newly discovered and sometimes deadly pathogen. We have no idea how far and for how long it will spread or how many it will kill. We don't know when a vaccine will be created and even treatment...
A Vaccine For The Wuhan Coronavirus? Don't Hold Your Breath
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As the outbreak of a novel coronavirus accelerates in China, and sporadic cases appear elsewhere in Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe, there is intense interest in the development of a vaccine, and several U.S. drugmakers have begun working on them with the National Institutes of Health. As the Wall Street Journal noted in a Jan. 30 editorial, "It took scientists 20 months to develop a SARS vaccine to test on humans, but the NIH hopes to have a vaccine ready for human trials...
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Calmodulin binds to caldesmon in an antiparallel manner.
Two of the five tryptophan residues (W659 and W692) in chicken gizzard smooth muscle caldesmon (CaD) are located within the calmodulin (CaM) binding sites in the C-terminal region of the molecule. When these Trp residues are replaced with Gly in either recombinant fragments or synthetic peptides of CaD, the affinity for CaM is decreased by at least 10-fold, suggesting that both of these residues are important for the interaction of CaD with CaM. To gain information about the topography of the CaM-CaD complex, we have carried out fluorescence titrations of CaM with Tb3+ as a substitute for Ca2+ in the presence of wild-type or mutated CaD variants. By exciting Trp residues of CaD fragments or peptides while monitoring the enhanced luminescence of CaM-bound Tb3+ ions via resonance energy transfer, we were able to estimate the relative proximity between the bound metal ions in the two domains of CaM and the Trp residues of CaD. Our results suggest that in the CaM-CaD complex the metal-binding sites III and IV in the C-terminal domain of CaM are very close to W659 of CaD; the N-terminal domain of CaM appears associated with the region of CaD in the vicinity of W692, although sites I and II are relatively far away from this Trp residue. These findings are consistent with a model in which CaM binds to CaD in an antiparallel manner. Such a binding mode, however, may be flexible enough to accommodate alternative spatial arrangements when the preferred binding sites are either altered or rendered unavailable.


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CIA/US Military Perpetrated Most of Iraq's "Suicide Bombs"! (tags)
...in Baghdad when an Iraqi driver had his license and car confiscated at a checkpoint, after which he was instructed "to report to an American military camp near Baghdad airport for interrogation and in order to retrieve his license." After being questioned for a short while, he was told to drive his car to an Iraqi police station, where his license had been forwarded, and that he should go quickly. "The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling that his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also became suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the back seat and along the two back doors. The only feasible explanation for this incident is that the car was indeed booby trapped by the Americans and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite district of Baghdad. The helicopter was monitoring his movement and witnessing the anticipated 'hideous attack by foreign elements."[17]
Rafik Hariri and the Salvador Option in Beirut (tags)
Suppressed evidence of US-Israel role in Lebanese PM Hariri's Killing
This War on Terrorism is Bogus (tags)
"The plan shows Bush's cabinet intende3d to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power."
US: The origin of the mysterious 9/11 'melt down'? (tags)
"There was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the Hudson River in New Jersey, a handful of men were dancing. As the World Trade Center burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes."
Better than I ever did (tags)
It should also be noted his faithful wife, spends her days, phoning wives of other potential bush bitch nazi whores, encouraging them to support the war crimes of her husband, by not mentioning the treason that foreigner Saudi blount has dedicated the sacrifice of American soldiers for.
So it is written, so it shall be done (tags)
Traitor evil lawless bushite enemy, die for us instead of our good families of innocent men women and children.
Contracts will be signed, and bushites will die (tags)
No respect for the American flag, nor the Constitution, while acquiescing to the, oh well, unaddressed rapes and torture of those evidenced innocent, while PUBLICLY claiming the rights to steal most everything, as the official definition of being lawwlessly "pro-Iraqi", while attacking any or all those demanding fair representation, or who honorably hold truces. Just imagine what the bushite's pro-Amerka will be like,
JFK and the 9/11 Cover-Up(amsellem) (tags)
cartoon © 2003 by charles amsellem. all rights reserved. activists may reproduce for non-profit use only
He's An Anti, She's an Anti, You're an Anti Too (tags)
As the neocon foreign policy fiasco plays out like a slow motion viewing of the car wreck scene from The Blues Brothers, the neocons are backing into their burrows like frightened, angry wolverines. Like any other mustelid, when cornered they'll attempt to make their opponent stink, in the case of neocons by employing the smear. And their favorite smear of all is to call opponents "anti-Semitic."
Dancing Israelis (This story won't go away.) (tags)
heir discovery and arrest that morning is a matter of indisputable fact. To those who have investigated just what the Israelis were up to that day, the case raises one dreadful possibility: that Israeli intelligence had been shadowing the al-Qaeda hijackers as they moved from the Middle East through Europe and into America where they trained as pilots and prepared to suicide-bomb the symbolic heart of the United States. And the motive? To bind America in blood and mutual suffering to the Israeli cause.
Israel plans to invade Syria, says Malaysian PM (tags)
Israel plans to invade Syria, says Malaysian PM
The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination.
40 lies of Bush the Bastard (tags)
Look at what I found @ Portland IMC.
Soldiers fear they're acting illegally (tags)
BRITISH soldiers fear they could be acting illegally while serving in Iraq and could face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court.
Rage. Mistrust. Hatred. Fear. Uncle Sam's enemies within (tags)
A few things have happened recently that show just how powerful -- and, perhaps, unstoppable -- is the march of the right-wing machine in the US. This month the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a right-wing think tank umbilically tied to the Bush administration, declared open warfare on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) deemed too left-wing and set up an organisation called NGOWatch to monitor these liberal pressure groups.
Carving Up The New Iraq (tags)
Carving Up The New Iraq By Neil Mackay The Sunday Herald Tuesday 15 April 2003
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HOLOCAUST 2003 - The ONLY Solution is The Final Solution
USUK use of DU is genocide and a war crime (tags)
BRITISH and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction. DU contaminates land, causes ill-health and cancers among the soldiers using the weapons, the armies they target and civilians, leading to birth defects in children.
THE DEATH CERTIFICATE FOR OUR REPUBLIC (tags)
"I, like many other supporters of the Constitution, have been asking since the 2000 election; exactly what drives the foreign policy of the Bush Administration. The answer is revealed in the doctrines of the Policy for the New American Century, (PNAC) "
War in Iraq: Selected Articles (tags)
The following is a selection of relevant and poignant articles that I have found, or that have been recommended to me while researching the history and motivations of US involvement with Iraq. I have tried to highlight articles that refer directly to primary sources or first hand experience, while representing a solid alternative to the mainstream understanding.
Part 2. No Bomb? Your Screwed. Gotta Bomb? We're Cool. (tags)
It's been an amazing week and a half of watching the Bush administration's own foreign-policy bite Bush in the ass so hard you could see him wince every time the showed his miserable face in public this week.
No Bomb? Your Screwed. Gotta Bomb? We're Cool. (tags)
Well, it is my opinion that someone just made the biggest horse's ass out of this Bush administration
Christ I'm Actually Rising! (tags)
Chirst has like, actually come to take out the evil bushmob single handedly! He walks and talks like he's just human... Wow! Don't miss this incredible revelation!!
How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them (tags)
THE US and Britain sold Saddam Hussein the technology and materials Iraq needed to develop nuclear, chemical and biological wea pons of mass destruction.


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The sacrament of marriage is a covenant relationship by which we live out our commitment to our spouse as a reflection of God's love. Therefore great care must be taken to prepare for this lifetime vocation. The prospective bride and groom are to make arrangements with the priest or deacon at least six months prior to the suggested wedding date. This meeting must occur before a wedding date can be scheduled. Wedding Guideline Packets are available at the Administration Center to assist in planning the ceremony.


Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Anderson has a glass right eye. He has a scar near his left eyebrow, discolorations on both his arms, a five-inch diagonal scar in the middle of his back, and pierced ears. His upper front teeth are missing. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A white t-shirt, a gray hooded sweatshirt, black Dickie shorts and white sneakers.
Anderson was last seen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 10, 2006. He has never been heard from again. His brother believes he met with foul play; he theorizes Anderson witnessed a murder and was killed because of what he'd seen. Few details are available in his case.