There is a Baptist Church in East Orange, New Jersey that celebrates Football Sunday to draw the menfolk in. Complete with a tailgate party after the service, this event may boost numbers, but the winner of this divine gridiron has not yet been determined. Not being a fan of football (or any other sport — oh, the heresy!) this particular tactic would not appeal to me, but knowing that when guys get together the topic of sports always seems to come up, well, it just makes sense.
According to the canonical Gospels, Jesus never played football. (The Gospel of Judas, however, does mention a quarterback-sneak, I believe.) The few times I've watched games on television (generally under duress) I see a bunch of men trying their physical best to beat some other guys up. Rampaging after a pig-skin (definitely not kosher), they attempt to score and prevent the other team from doing so. This is my amateur analysis of what I am told is a very complex game.
Rewind. Stop. Replay. The Baptist Church. Founded to protest against the vicissitudes of the Church of England, the Puritan-inclined Baptists wished to establish a church free from the constraints of the formalism inherent in the staid worship of either Roman or Anglo-Catholic England. Breaking from tradition was an honored principle here. Like our football heroes, they joined a team against the competition for that Super Bowl in the sky. Will the men stick around for the post-season slump? Maybe not, but as Notre Dame has always known, the divine man is a big fan of the Catholic team.
A recent edition of Science Illustrated ran an article about a potentially revolutionary understanding of mammalian evolution. Reponomamus robustus, a large mammal from the Cretaceous Era has been found with dinosaur bones in its stomach. The implication, of course, is that this early mammal may have eaten dinosaurs instead of the conventional reverse of the scenario. Science is open to such radical ideas, but my thoughts turned to the culture war being waged on automobile bumpers across the United States.
Several years ago the Jesus Fish or ichthus symbol began appearing on the backend of cars in what seemed at first to be a "baby on board" tactic with a don't-ram-me-I'm-a-Christian subtext. Some drivers, however, associated the Jesus Fish with an evangelical power play, a showing of numbers that indicted all other drivers as "non-Christian," and therefore, by implication, accident-worthy. The Darwin Fish showed up soon thereafter, a counter-symbol for those who seemed to be declaring that Christians could be evolutionists as well. Sensing a challenge — which always appears as a threat in neo-con eyes — the Jesus Fish or Truth Ichthus swallowing the Darwin Fish swam onto car posteriors. Then the dinosaur eating a Jesus Fish came out, and I am certain that I once saw a Jesus Fish eating a T-rex on some oversized vehicle hind-end.
A friend once asked me why I spent my time arguing with those who are so obviously wrong (the anti-evolutionists). The unfortunate answer showed up in the White House at the turn of the millennium and the radical restructuring of society encouraged by the "religious right" gains credibility from the sheer number of people willing to adorn their cars with Jesus Fish. The real victim in this volley of statements in chrome is a guy who said nothing about evolution and who, I'm sure, would be amazed at how misrepresented he is. As the love-hate relationship between Jesus and dinosaurs continues to wax and wane, I'm staying out of it, but I'm more frightened by the fish than by the dinosaur.
"Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go," is an assertion to be taken literally in my case. Crossing the Delaware River and trekking through the forests of Pennsylvania are the only means to reach my childhood home from New Jersey. Each time I make the trip I am amazed at how strident the highway preaching along the way has become. Signs on both the interstates and the backroads announce the truths of a certain vociferous brand of Christianity that maintains that everyone must think that way or spend an eternity in hell. Having experienced this kind of fear-driven faith firsthand, I can't protest too much without being labeled a hypocrite, but some of what I observed over the river and through the woods leapt out at me anew this Thanksgiving.
Firstly it seems that Jesus saves big rocks. Several large, obtrusive boulders worthy of the land time forgot bear the message that Jesus Saves. Locally this form of homiletics can be as persistent as the Trust Jesus notes spray-painted on just about every interstate overpass between here and Illinois. A religiously aware lumber company in rural Pennsylvania hosts a sign declaring, "Read, Heed, Live & Obey the Bible!" When I think of lumber, I think of 2-by-4s and of their standard use of knocking sense into others who look at things differently. This sign said more than its owner might have intended. A few miles down the road I read, "Why not try Jesus? If you don't like Him the Devil will always take you back." The assumption, naturally, is that anyone reading the sign is already devil's food.
One of the great things about freedom of religion and freedom of expression is that such messages declare their writers' fervent beliefs, but they hold no force beyond the rhetorical. Having met many sincere believers in other faiths over the years, I do wonder what kind of good news such non-negotiable advertisements really send. Some of the writers, I believe, are railing against the godless world they see around them (although the number of churches along these backroads would seem to testify to religion a-plenty) while others can't accept any form of any religion that differs from their own, even if it be a different flavor of Christianity. Perhaps it is time I put up a sign advocating a vegetarian version of Thanksgiving — no turkey need die for anyone's sins. In some religions such a message is considered trustworthy indeed.
From the moment I saw Stephen Asma's On Monsters summarized in the Chronicle of Higher Education, I knew I had to read it. Having been fascinated by monsters as a child, and then having grown out of that fascination, this book is a respectable way to indulge my juvenile interests while learning something. The book's subtitle, An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, reveals perhaps why I was so compelled by this particular volume. Those of you who follow this blog know that I contend that religion and fear are very closely related, well nigh inseparable even. As Asma delves into the origins of our monsters, he pauses for a while on the Bible.
The ancient fascination with monsters very likely has religious roots. These beings appear to stand outside the rationally created order and lurk in places where the divine is not. The fear they engender leads to the very religion that shuns them. Vampires fear a crucifix, demons are banished at the name of Jesus, and even the headless horseman shuns a church. People run to their faith to protect them from monsters, and monsters, in their turn, provided early believers with a rationale for their faith.
Once again the headlines tell the story of a child molested by a "celibate" priest now suing the church as an adult. That money dropped in the collection plate goes to cover the cost of sin. The disclosures continue to find the light of day not only in the Catholic Church, but across the religious organizational spectrum. It is an extremely unfortunate situation, but I can't help wonder if religions are naturally susceptible to sexual expression.
Sexuality and religion go back a very long way. I have suggested elsewhere on this blog that some of the earliest evidence for religion, all the way back to the Paleolithic era, is sexual in nature. One of the blatant aspects of our own cultural conditioning is that we can no longer see the connection. We inhabit a post-Victorian world, a world that strenuously repressed sexuality and removed it from the sphere of human discourse. One of my favorite examples of this is when the standard classical Hebrew-English dictionary (Brown-Driver-Briggs, for those of you who need to know!) makes reference to sexual activity in the Bible (and it is abundant), the editors delicately slip from English to Latin, so as not to offend the sensibilities of clerics and other gentleman-scholars reading the entry. This antipathy to the human condition can be traced even further back to the Greeks who felt that the physical body was much more base than the spiritual, or intellectual aspect. Sexuality was a source of embarrassment and perhaps even shame.
Ancient sects were not sexually depraved. Stephanie Budin (The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity, Cambridge, 2008) has done a good job showing that the case for sacred prostitution in the ancient world has been grossly overblown. Nevertheless, sexuality had a natural place in ancient religions. Any number of nervously giggling teenagers who've just discovered the Song of Songs in the Bible know that! The problem arises when our religious culture refuses to acknowledge the obvious. We bottle it up and try to keep it hidden, but when it finally appears the price tag is very steep indeed.
Directly across the fold from each other on pages 4–5 of today's New Jersey Star-Ledger are two articles that my brain comprehends as related by more than mere proximity. On page 4 the headline reads, "In sunless depths, marine life thrives." In an Associated Press article bi-lined New Orleans (where many of my colleagues are currently enjoying the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting), scientists reported that over 17,000 deep-seas species have been found below the point where sunlight ends. What was thought to be a barren zone just decades ago, it turns out, is teeming with organisms adapted to living without light.
One page 5 the headline reads "Bishop admits barring Kennedy from sacrament." In a ploy that has become distressingly frequent of late, the Roman Catholic bishop claims that Representative Kennedy's political views on abortion effectively excommunicate him. I find it unconscionable that clergy feel that they have the right to direct public policy when they are not publicly elected officials. Any clergy attempting to coerce officials democratically elected are guilty of abusing their putatively divinely appointed trust. The millions of Catholic laity who privately support freedom of choice they may rhetorically chastise from the pulpit or by some papal bull but they do not deny them the sacrament. Let's be honest here, this is about politics, not theology.
I have been reading Max Blumenthal's Republican Gomorrah, perhaps the scariest book I've ever read. In it Blumenthal demonstrates how the Catholic Church got onto the pro-life bandwagon in the intricate political maneuverings of the "Religious Right." They quickly learned techniques up to and including lying to get their agenda across. It should distress all members of a democracy that their leaders are being led by dishonest clerics of all stripes. Those who mix their religious views with politics seek to end the religious freedom that allowed them to be born in the first place. They practice late-term religious freedom abortion.
What does this have to do with the wondrous world of the great deeps? They represent, to my mind, two forms of life that thrive far from the enlightening rays of the sun.
As the economy rolls along like a marble on a pebble beach and the stock market continues its own bumpy road to recovery, apocalyptic thought is again on the rise. It is when times are bad that apocalyptic comes in most useful. Individuals who feel that this world has run out of possibilities generally look to a new future world where things will be radically different. That's why people flock to movies like 2012 and dream of a new day, a new era.
That's the way it has always been. Jews being tortured to death under Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Seleucid tyrant, looked for that day when Michael would take on the "Prince of Persia" and the new world would gush in and overtake this one. Almost two centuries later the early Christian movement, suffering at the hands of Roman emperors such as Nero and Diocletian, reveled in the visions of Revelation — the new world coming. Rental property is free in the New Jerusalem! The earliest exemplars of apocalyptic thinking appear to go back to the ancient Zoroastrians. This early Iranian religion (which may have originated in Afghanistan) took comfort in a dualistic world where good and evil constantly struggled until a cosmic conflict would result in the ultimate destruction of evil. It helped to explain why things could be so bad for good people in the here-and-now.
2012, however, derives from concerns that the Mayan calendar seems to have run out of space at that time slot just over three years from now. Otherwise intelligent people panic; this is an apocalypse of the secular kind! Experts on the Maya (among which I am not) explain that the Mayans use(d) many calendars (there are still Mayans around). Their large-scale, 5000 year calendar may run out on December 21, 2012, but that doesn't mean the end of the world. In fact, that calendar only began on August 11, 3114 BCE, about 4.5 billion years after the creation of the earth. It was not meant as a road-map to the cosmos. The real apocalypse is in the minds of those suffering from their own private ills in this world. Ever since Zarathustra spoke, people have had an alternative, better future to anticipate.


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TARDIS Transfer: Catherine Tate Returns to "Doctor Who"
While the episode that featured her character may not have yet aired in the States (catch it tomorrow night), comedian Catherine Tate has been tapped to reprise her role as Donna, the uppity runaway bride, in the fourth season of Doctor Who.
Tate, known for her hilarious eponymous sketch comedy series (which aired last year on BBC America), will return to Doctor Who as Donna, the aforementioned runaway bride who found herself aboard the TARDIS rather than preparing for her nuptials.
Tate will appear alongside series lead David Tennant in all thirteen installments of Season Four as the Doctor's companion. (Yes, fortunately, David Tennant WILL be back after all.)
Lest you worry about the fate of Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman), who joined the Doctor at the beginning of Season Three (also airing this Friday night, natch), she'll be returning to the series as well, following a three-episode stint on Who spinoff, Torchwood.
"We are delighted that one of Britain's greatest talents has agreed to join us for the fourth series," said executive producer Russell T. Davies. "Viewers can expect more ambitious storylines and a whole host of guest stars in 2008."
The casting announcement for Tate follows that of another high-profile casting on the series: as previously reported, Kylie Minogue will appear in the Season Four Christmas special, entitled "Voyage of the Damned."
The third season of Doctor Who kicks off this Friday on Sci Fi.
What's On Tonight
8 pm: Big Brother 8 (CBS); My Name is Earl/30 Rock (NBC); Smallville (CW); Ugly Betty (ABC); Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? (FOX)
9 pm: Pirate Master (CBS); The Office/Scrubs; Supernatural (CW); Grey's Anatomy (ABC); Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? (FOX)
10 pm: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS); ER (NBC); Men in Trees (ABC)
What I'll Be Watching
8:30 pm: 30 Rock.
On a repeat episode of my absolutely favorite new series ("The Break-Up"), Liz finally dumps her beeper-salesman boyfriend (Dean Winters) and tries to enter the the dating world of Manhattan with Jenna, while Jack has some romantic issues of his own when he begins seeing a high-ranking government official.
9 pm: Pirate Master.
On tonight's episode ("Lambs to the Slaughter"), the pirates may actually consider mutiny (chance would be a fine thing) after the Captain becomes enchanted with their rank and privilege, while members of the crew form a secret society.
9 pm: The Office.
On tonight's repeat episode ("Initiation"), Dwight takes Ryan on his very first sales call but they get sidetracked by Dwight's rather, um, innovative approach to initiating Ryan into the brotherhood of salesmen.
10 pm: Hey Paula on Bravo.
I won't be watching (wild horses and all that), but if you want to find out if drugs/alcohol/crazy pills were to blame for Paula's erratic behavior on her vanity reality project, find out here.
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The CineManiac said…
I think this is good news, honestly Tate wasn't my favorite but she did a good job and I look forward to seeing what she'll do with the role over an extended period.
And Thank God Tennant is back, seeing as he's Amazing and constantly makes me love him all over again.
Be sure to catch all of this Amazing Season, but especially keep an eye out for Episodes 2,8,9,&,10 (The Shakeaspeare Code, Human Nature, The Family of Blood, and Blink, respectively) as they rank up there with Season Two's The Girl in the Fireplace in my book.
Dani In NC said…
I am SO happy that Doctor Who starts back up tomorrow night here in the States! It took tremendous willpower to avoid using illicit means of watching the series early :-).
I'm glad that Catherine Tate will be back but I am THRILLED that David Tennant is confirmed for the next season. A lot of fabulously talented men have played the Doctor but now I can't imagine anyone else in the role other than Tennant!
I'm with Danielle. I thought I would miss Eccleston terribly, but Tennant brings extra gusto to the role.
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EM-08.info Forum :: PANINI COMICS!
Verfasst am: 30.04.2018, 05:56 Titel: PANINI COMICS!
Seriously, do you have any information regarding the Marvel UK comics AFTER Italian brand Panini acquired it in 1994 or so?
I'm sure that the series Spectacular Spider-Man Adventures, for instance, contains some original material, but... does some of you know if ALL the issues contain such material?


The subject premises is a 2,100 sq. ft. residence located in Moonlight Bay CondoVilla, Batu Ferringhi, Penang island.
The fully furnished and well maintained home comes with 3+1 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a spacious living, dining, and kitchen. Breath-taking sea view from the subject premises which is located on the 3A level of block A of the development. 2 tandem car parking lots are alloted.
Now available to let at MYR 4,800 per month.
Moonlight Bay is a beautifully designed and a unique condominium development located in Jalan Moonlight Bay, Off Jalan Batu Ferringhi, Batu Ferringhi, Penang. The construction of this project was done by a famous development company known as the Ivory Properties Group Berhad and the development of this project was completed in the year 2010. It is considered to be a great addition to the Penang property. The property is going to boom in the future, making it ideal from an investment perspective.
Moonlight Bay Condovilla is indeed a great place to live in. The development offers many great facilities and features that the residents of many new developments only dream of having. The residents of the development can enjoy a landscaped garden facility in the development where the residents can enjoy some fresh environment. There is a beautiful barbecue area and a clubhouse in the development where the residents can spend some unforgettable time with their family and friends. The development company did not forget about the children and has developed a lovely children's playground in the development where the children can enjoy while remaining in the development and without worrying the parents.
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The development company of the Moonlight Bay Condovilla made sure that there was no cost cutting done on the project. The development company went a step ahead to make sure that the residents do not have to face any kind of issue in the development. The starting selling price of the units in the development starts from RM 1,500,000 and rises accordingly to the view and the design of the unit. The rent of the units in the development starts from RM 3500 per month.
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Mazes of Fate
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Tags: RPG
Developer: Sabarasa Entertainment
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Marc Golding says: "MoF has a grand story of course, telling of mankind's greed and other sins against God, and of hatred nurtured between us and a race of goatmen. I can't say that the tale did anything for me other than give me a chuckle at the word 'goatmen', but it could be that fantasy fans live for this stuff. "
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Spiceworks Ecosystem Shows The Power Of A Market Orientation
Justin Warren Contributor
Justin is Founder and Chief Analyst at PivotNine Pty Ltd.
A Spiceworks logo sculpture on the show floor of Spiceworld 2018
Justin Warren
A refreshing discovery at Spiceworld 2018, Spiceworks' annual tech conference, was vendors with an excellent market orientation.
A quick refresher on what market orientation means: It's about focusing on the needs and desires of your customers, not on yourself. (Get a more technical definition over at Investopedia if that's more your speed.)
This sounds obvious, but I see so many products that are created by engineers or marketers who mistake what they think is important for what customers actually care about. A lot of the pitches at the big tech conferences are all about what makes the company's products great, but it's often detached from customer benefits, and when it isn't, those benefits are frequently somewhat detached from reality.
The Spicies awards at Spiceworld 2018
So it was an extremely pleasant experience to hear Spiceworks CEO Jay Hallberg talk about customers for the first two thirds of his keynote opening the conference. Awards (called Spicies) were given to Spiceworks community members who had made significant contributions, and the feeling in the room was one of supportive cheerfulness. The audience not only agreed that these people deserved to be recognised, they enthusiastically joined in.
This is the kind of stuff I usually only see at the more progressive developer conferences, and it's no coincidence that Spiceworld had a far higher proportion of women in attendance than most tech conferences. Not just vendor sales people, actual customers who were there to learn and meet with people.
The theme continued with vendors I interviewed.
Backblaze is a company I've tracked for a while, since writing about how they shucked disks due to tight availability after the 2011 floods in Thailand. They're also famous for regularly releasing a surprisingly readable report on hard drive reliability based on data from their own datacenters.
"We would love other companies to release this kind of data," said Backblaze Director of Marketing Yev Pusin. "We believe this kind of transparency would benefit the entire industry."
Backblaze is privately funded, apparently quite profitable, and apparently not motivated by purely making money. Profit is a means to an end: providing even better products and services for customers. It's rhetoric we hear from many other companies, but their actions don't match their words. The impression I get from Backblaze customers is that the company does indeed live up to its promises, and has a loyal following as a result.
Remote monitoring company Pulseway, a company I'd never heard of until meeting CEO Marius Mihalec, is also quietly focused on its customers and achieving great success. Its freemium model aimed at small- to mid-market customers means it has racked up over 4,500 customers since being founded in 2011.
"We basically didn't spend anything on marketing," said Mihalec. "We once got a positive mention on the XDA Apps forums (a website dedicated to mobile app development) and that drove quite a lot of traffic, but we've only just started coming to shows like Spiceworks." Growth has come mostly from word-of-mouth and an impressive 30% conversation rate from the free product to a paid offering.
"We just want to make IT Pros heroes," Mihalec added.
Mid-market backup specialist Carbonite is also listening carefully to its customers. Norman Guadagno, Senior Vice President of Marketing, stressed that feedback from customers was at the core of its recent rebranding efforts. "We'd made several acquisitions—EVault, DoubleTake and more recently Mozy—and needed to ensure customers got a consistent, integrated experience," he said.
Norman Guadagno, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Carbonite
The approach is working, with yearly and quarterly revenues trending up. The most recently quarterly results of $77 million indicate Carbonite is likely to substantially exceed FY2017 revenues of $239.5 million in FY2018.
It seems like such a simple recipe for success: listen to your customers and build something they find valuable for less money than they're willing to pay. Rinse and repeat.
So why aren't more companies doing it?
I attended Spiceworld 2018 as a guest of Spiceworks. You can read my full disclosure about the trip here.
Justin is Founder and Chief Analyst at PivotNine consultants and advisors. He covers enterprise IT, cloud, and information security.


It has been reported that around 70% of problems associated with damp in the home are as a result of condensation, however few are aware that condensation is the problem, instead blaming it on issues such as rising or penetrating damp.
Condensation occurs when there is a considerable imbalance between heating and ventilation within the home, resulting in higher than optimum levels of humidity, or moisture in the air. In the evening, when the temperature drops, the moisture in the air turns to liquid and is often deposited on windows and walls in the form of condensation.
How can you tell if you may have a problem with excessive condensation? Well, you may have opened your curtains in the morning to discover "steamy" windows, have noticed mould growing on your walls, window frames or even furniture, mildew accumulation in the bathroom, or even peeling wallpaper and damp plaster.
Left unchecked, this regular accumulation of condensation can lead to multiple problems. Damage to furniture, walls, woodwork, carpets and curtains can leave you with a large bill for replacement, not the mention the health issues, particularly respiratory problems, that are also associated with high condensation levels.
What can you do about condensation? Well, many people choose to run a dehumidifier in their home, which extracts the moisture from the air. This can be effective, however running one long term is not only costly, but is merely treating the symptoms rather than finding the cure.
Condensation can be reduced by ensuring that homes are always well ventilated, particularly in areas where high levels of moisture are put into the air such as kitchens, bathrooms and utility rooms. Installation of extractor fans is often a recommended action, as these will remove moisture from the air quickly and effectively at the point of use.
If issues with condensation are seen throughout the property, a whole house condensation control solution may be recommended. Whole house condensation units ventilate the property with clean filtered air, diluting the level of humidity and contaminants in the air, thereby creating a healthier living environment.
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The book by Volkmar Koch
The company of the future combines purpose and profit, technological change and humanity, recent knowledge and the wisdom of our hearts. It is a "Holistic Company."
Love is "the only reasonable and satisfying solution to the problem of human existence". This is how Erich Fromm put it. In his groundbreaking book Holistic Company, Volkmar Koch, a long-time executive, coach and consultant for organisational and digital transformation, shows how this profound insight of Fromm could also become reality in our companies.
Volkmar Koch is convinced that, against the backdrop of current challenges and an increasingly complex world, a different kind of leadership is needed. One that is grounded in a higher level of awareness and in which authentic leadership is the results of being able to connect to our inner truth, combining our hearts and minds.
In his book, he sketches a promising picture of the future for the company of the 21st century. In doing so, he shows how leadership changes on the basis of a higher awareness and an attitude of love and how it can help to lead companies into a better and more successful future. After all, sustainable success is based on loving ourselves and others.
In this way, the Holistic Company combines purpose and profit, serving all of humankind and creation as a whole – profoundly and not only superficially. It opens up previously untapped potentials of future success and a completely new perspective on corporate management – a paradigm shift.
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The Mandolin Player
United States (Allegheny City, PA, 1844 - 1926, Le Mesnil-Théribus, France)
Medium and Support: Drypoint
Although Cassatt began her artistic training in Pennsylvania, from an early age she frequently traveled and lived in Europe. She settled in Paris in 1874, where she became a close friend of Edgar Degas. She soon became affiliated with the French Impressionists and exhibited with them from 1879 until 1886.
Here, the mandolin player holds her instrument as though she were actually playing it while looking at the music on the stand. She is seated on an upholstered settee in a room with a framed picture and a fan on the wall behind her.
[Label copy from Monet: Vision and Process exhibition, 2018]
General references: The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1967, p. 25, no. 35, repr., where the work is dated to 1889; Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Graphic Work, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, p. 58, cat. No. 130, repr.; Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: Graphic Art, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981, p. 16, cat. no. 22, repr.
Alexis Rouart (1855-1911), France; Aladar Loewy, New York (dealer); purchased from him by the Gallery in 1954
30 Portraits: prints from the permanent collection Memorial Art Gallery 11/19/1977 - 2/12/1978
Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas 10/15/1981 - 12/15/1981
American Painters & Etchers Memorial Art Gallery 7/27/1983 - 9/28/1983
Survey of American Printmaking Memorial Art Gallery 5/2/1987 - 10/18/1987
Master Prints from Upstate New York Museums Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art 3/17/1995 - 7/20/1996
Meanwhile: Works by Contemporaries of Edgar Degas Memorial Art Gallery 9/13/2002 - 1/5/2003
In Pursuit of Light and Leisure: Impressionist Masterpieces Memorial Art Gallery 3/14/2008 - 6/29/2008
Monet's Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process 10/7/2018 - 1/6/2019
Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995.
Article Scope: Entry. Sandra Haller Olsen. A Survey of American Printmaking from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1987.
Article Author: Breeskin, Adelyn D.. Article Title: The Graphic Works of Mary Cassatt. Article Scope: Mention. Prints. New York, NY Volume Number: VII, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: December 1936. Page Number: 69
Article Scope: Exhibition Checklist. Nancy Mowll Mathews. Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. San Jose, California: San Jose Museum of Art, 1981.
In Pursuit of Light and Leisure


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Saint-Marcel-lès-Sauzet (okzitanisch: Sant Marcèu de Sauset) ist ein Ort und eine Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Drôme in der südfranzösischen Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Lage
Saint-Marcel-lès-Sauzet liegt im Tal der Rhône in einer Höhe von ca. 110 m ü. d. M. etwa acht Kilometer nordöstlich von Montélimar.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Der Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts einsetzende Bevölkerungsanstieg ist im Wesentlichen auf die Nähe zur Stadt Montélimar und die auf dem Lande deutlich niedrigeren Immobilienpreise zurückzuführen.

Wirtschaft
Die Einwohner des Ortes lebten jahrhundertelang als Selbstversorger von der Landwirtschaft (Feldbau und Viehzucht). Auch Wein wurde angebaut; der Ort besitzt auch heute noch das Recht zur Vermarktung seiner Weintrauben über die Appellationen Comtés Rhodaniens, Mediterranée und Drôme;, doch wird wegen kaum noch Wein angebaut. Stattdessen finden sich in kleinerem Umfang Oliven-, Aprikosen-, Kirsch- und Apfelbäume. Seit den letzten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts spielt der Tourismus in Form der Vermietung von Ferienwohnungen (gîtes) eine wichtige Rolle im Wirtschaftsleben des Ortes.

Geschichte
Die Geschichte von Saint-Marcel reicht mindestens bis ins 10. Jahrhundert zurück; im 11. Jahrhundert wird ein Benediktinerpriorat unter der Führung von der Abtei Cluny erwähnt, welches der weiteren Entwicklung des Ortes neue Impulse gab. Im Mittelalter gehörte Saint-Marcel zu den Baronnies. Im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert geriet der Ort in die Wirren der Hugenottenkriege (1562–1598) und weiterer religiös motivierter Konflikte; er gehörte ab 1642 zum Besitz der Familie Grimaldi. Zu Beginn der Französischen Revolution wurde das Priorat aufgelöst; der Ort nahm vorübergehend den Namen Beauvallon an.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Die ehemalige Prioratskirche Saint-Marcel ist ein spätromanischer bzw. frühgotischer Bau des ausgehenden 12. Jahrhunderts wie er in den Baronnies ansonsten unbekannt ist. Der gesamte Kirchenbau zeigt ein regelmäßiges Mauerwerk aus exakt behauenen Steinen. Die drei Apsiden haben große maßwerklose Rundbogenfenster und sind durch Strebepfeiler stabilisiert. Ähnliche Fenster finden sich auch in den Wänden des Langhauses und in der Fassade, an deren Spitzbogenportal die gotischen Stileinflüsse am deutlichsten werden. Die drei Kirchenschiffe zeigen Spitztonnengewölbe; die Vierung schließt mit einer oktogonalen Kuppel auf Trompen. Die Kirche wurde bereits im Jahr 1846 als Monument historique anerkannt.
 Von der mittelalterlichen Burg (château) stehen noch ein Falltor sowie einige Mauerreste.

Weblinks

 Saint-Marcel-lès-Sauzet, Geschichte – Infos (französisch)
 Saint-Marcel-lès-Sauzet, Château – Fotos + Infos (französisch)

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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BACKGROUND: To facilitate the clinical implementation of genomic medicine by next-generation sequencing, it will be critically important to obtain accurate and consistent variant calls on personal genomes. Multiple software tools for variant calling are available, but it is unclear how comparable these tools are or what their relative merits in real-world scenarios might be. METHODS: We sequenced 15 exomes from four families using commercial kits (Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform and Agilent SureSelect version 2 capture kit), with approximately 120X mean coverage. We analyzed the raw data using near-default parameters with five different alignment and variant-calling pipelines (SOAP, BWA-GATK, BWA-SNVer, GNUMAP, and BWA-SAMtools). We additionally sequenced a single whole genome using the sequencing and analysis pipeline from Complete Genomics (CG), with 95% of the exome region being covered by 20 or more reads per base. Finally, we validated 919 single-nucleotide variations (SNVs) and 841 insertions and deletions (indels), including similar fractions of GATK-only, SOAP-only, and shared calls, on the MiSeq platform by amplicon sequencing with approximately 5000X mean coverage. RESULTS: SNV concordance between five Illumina pipelines across all 15 exomes was 57.4%, while 0.5 to 5.1% of variants were called as unique to each pipeline. Indel concordance was only 26.8% between three indel-calling pipelines, even after left-normalizing and intervalizing genomic coordinates by 20 base pairs. There were 11% of CG variants falling within targeted regions in exome sequencing that were not called by any of the Illumina-based exome analysis pipelines. Based on targeted amplicon sequencing on the MiSeq platform, 97.1%, 60.2%, and 99.1% of the GATK-only, SOAP-only and shared SNVs could be validated, but only 54.0%, 44.6%, and 78.1% of the GATK-only, SOAP-only and shared indels could be validated. Additionally, our analysis of two families (one with four individuals and the other with seven), demonstrated additional accuracy gained in variant discovery by having access to genetic data from a multi-generational family. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that more caution should be exercised in genomic medicine settings when analyzing individual genomes, including interpreting positive and negative findings with scrutiny, especially for indels. We advocate for renewed collection and sequencing of multi-generational families to increase the overall accuracy of whole genomes.


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NuScale's SMR Costs Hit Hard by Inflation →
Posted on January 22, 2023 by djysrv
NRC Certifies NuScale 50 MWe SMR
Michael Goff, Ph.D., Named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
DOE Increases Consent-Based Siting Funding Opportunity to $26 Million
NIA Report Offers Vision of a 'Whole Government Effort' for Nuclear Reactor Deployment
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this past week certified the design of the first small modular reactor in the US. The 50 MW design is an advanced light water reactor developed by NuScale Power which is based in Oregon. The decision takes effect on 02/21/23.
The importance of the certification means the reactor can be built for customers in the US. NuScale's first customer is UAMPS, which is a consortium of utilities in rocky mountain states. The site of the first six units is located on the grounds of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) about 50 miles west of Idaho Falls, ID. The first module is expected to be operational by 2029 with full plant operation the following year.
NRC spokesperson Scott Burnell told the Associated Press that another reason the certification is important is that it's the final determination that the design is acceptable for use, so it can't be legally challenged during the licensing process when someone applies to build and operate a nuclear power plant.
Diane Hughes, NuScale's vice president of marketing and communications, said in a press statement that the design certification is a historic step forward toward a clean energy future and makes the company's VOYGR power plant a near-term deployable solution for customers.
She added the NRC's approval of the NuScale design's safety aspect has led to customers like mining company KGHM Polska Miedz S.A.in Poland and state nuclear power corporation S.N. Nuclearelectrica S.A. in Romania to take steps over the last two years toward deploying rthe firm's SMR power plants to meet their clean energy needs.
NuScale is also working on a 77 MW design. The NRC is currently engaged in pre-application activities for NuScale's SMR standard design approval application for a unit that can generate 77MW per module (gross), resulting in about 924 MW for the flagship 12-module power plant, with options for smaller power plant solutions in four-module (about 308 MWe) and six-module (about 462 MWe) sizes.
In a statement to the Associated Press Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Kathryn Huff said that small modular reactors are no longer an abstract concept.
"They are real and they are ready for deployment thanks to the hard work of NuScale, the university community, our national labs, industry partners, and the NRC. This is innovation at its finest and we are just getting started here in the U.S."
In a press statement the Department of Energy said it provided more than $600 million since 2014 to support the design, licensing and siting of NuScale's VOYGR small modular reactor power plant and other domestic SMR concepts.
NuScale's design and licensing effort were funded in part by a cost-shared program with DOE. In 2013 DOE awarded NuScale $217 million in matching funds over a five year period. The company used the funds to perform the engineering and testing needed to support the NRC Design Certification Process.
Subsequently, in 2020 DOE awarded $1.36 billion, which will be allocated over the course of a decade, to UAMPS to build the UAMPS Carbon Free Power Project at the INL Site. The award will pay for the plant's one-time costs, as funds are appropriated by Congress, reflecting "what second and subsequent NuScale plants would cost," according to a press release from UAMPS. The funding serves to manage risk to the UAMPS, which is a wholesale power provider and a political subdivision of the state of Utah.
The final cost of electricity from the plant is targeted to make the plant competitive with other dispatchable energy sources, including combined cycle gas plants, according to the release. The project will generate power to replace aging coal plants.
NuScale Power design certification process with the NRC.
Competition Coming from Other Reactor Developers
In the near term NuScale has a clear field to book new customers. However, two other US firms, which have light water SMR designs in prelicensing design dialogs with the NRC, are targeting US and international markets.
GE Hitachi's (GEH) BWRX300 SMR and Holtec's SMR-160 are pursuing licensing in the UK via the Office of Nuclear Regulation generic design review. In the US GEH has inked MOUs with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to build its SMR for them. Significantly, the two utilities have inked an MOU to collaborate on a joint effort to deploy the BWRX300 at their respective sites – Darlington for OPG and Clinch River for TVA.
All three SMR developers are promoting their designs as being candidates to replace coal fired power plants taking advantage of existing switchyards and other non-nuclear infrastructure. Additionally, these firms are touting their potential to keep the grid stable for solar and wind projects and to even co-locate renewable power plants at reactor sites.
Behind the cadre of light water designs, the Department of Energy is engaged in a multi billion dollar cost sharing Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) to field two first of a kind advanced reactors.
The first is TerraPower, which has selected a current coal fired power plant in the remote southwestern corner of Wyoming for its first of a kind sodium cooled 345MW reactor which also features an energy storage system to synchronize power production with renewables.
The other plant is X-Energy's XE-100 which is an 80MW helium cooled HTGR that is expected to be deployed in "packs" of four units each. The first of a kind installation is destined for a site near Richland, WA. X-Energy has also filed for licensing in the UK.
These two advanced reactors are slated for operation towards the end of this decade and much depends on them getting specialized high assay low enriched uranium fuel (HALEU) for their first loads. Both firms are investing in fuel fabrication plants to insure reliable deliveries. Unlike the conventional light water fuel that will be used by NuScale, GEH, and Holtec, the Terrapower design will use unique uranium metal fuel and X-Energy's design will use TRISO fuel.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Dr. Michael Goff as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE). Dr. Goff previously served as senior advisor to the office and held several management and research positions across DOE, the national laboratories, and the White House.
He was selected through a competitive, nationwide search and will help manage NE's $1.8 billion research and development portfolio,
"Dr. Goff is a seasoned professional who has distinguished himself as a leader in nuclear science and energy both domestically and abroad," said Dr. Kathryn Huff, DOE Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy. "It's been a joy to work with Mike as a senior advisor. I have come to trust his knowledge and judgement immensely and I feel fortunate that we'll be able to lead this office together."
Dr. Goff has more than 30 years of professional experience working in the national laboratories and across the federal government. He served three separate terms as senior advisor to NE and previously worked as assistant director for nuclear energy and senior policy advisor in the Office of Science and Technology Policy for the President of the United States.
Dr. Goff held several research and management positions over his career at Idaho and Argonne national laboratories and has authored more than 70 publications related to the nuclear fuel cycle, including separations technology, high-level waste development, and safeguards.
"I am honored to be chosen for this position," said Dr. Goff. "Because of strong support for nuclear energy and the vibrant leadership of Dr. Huff, now is an exciting time to be joining the outstanding NE team as we expand this clean energy source."
Dr. Goff has a bachelor's degree, Master of Science, and Ph.D in nuclear engineering from Georgia Tech.
Additional award winners possible for communities interested in learning about federal interim storage.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has increased the funding level for its Community Engagement on Consent-Based Siting Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) from $16 million to $26 million. The additional funding was included in the FY23 Appropriations Bill and raises the number of awards that can be competitively selected to communities interested in learning more about consent-based siting for spent nuclear fuel. The previously extended FOA application period closes January 31, 2023.
The additional funding allows up to 16 awardees to support tasks in the following areas:
Organization, leadership, and maintenance of meaningful, inclusive community engagement processes related to the management of spent nuclear fuel.
Identifying public values, interests, and goals to promote and enable effective collaboration and community-driven feedback on the consent-based siting process for a potential consolidated interim storage facility.
Developing, implementing, and reporting outcomes and strategies that support mutual learning among stakeholders, communities, and experts on spent nuclear fuel-related topics.
While DOE is not soliciting volunteer sites to host consolidated interim storage facilities as part of this funding opportunity, the Department hopes to encourage engagement, open dialogue, and build capacity among interested stakeholders and communities about the consent-based siting process.
Two interim storage sites for spent nuclear fuel are under development, one in Hobbs, NM, and another just across the NM/TX border in Andrews, TX.
Prospective partners may apply for funding HERE. Learn more about DOE's Consent-Based Siting program.
The Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA) released a new report, "Transforming the U.S. Department of Energy: Paving the Way to Commercialize Advanced Nuclear Energy."
According to NIA this new publication provides recommendations on how DOE can be significantly more effective in helping to commercialize advanced nuclear energy technologies.
NIA's goal is to better position DOE to help deploy advanced nuclear energy in the effort to fight climate change and increase energy security. The report's recommendations include developing an advanced nuclear energy 'earthshot,' adopting a more businesslike approach, and improving DOE's program integration efforts.
NIA Executive Director Judi Greenwald said in a press statement the relevance of this work is specifically related to ongoing efforts to help DOE deploy advanced nuclear energy:
"The commercialization of advanced nuclear energy is essential for meeting our climate and energy security goals. DOE must now broaden its current focus on research and development to incorporate full-scale commercial deployment of technologies such as advanced nuclear reactors."
"This transition will require a concerted effort and coordination across DOE, including the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, Office of Nuclear Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy, Loan Programs Office, and DOE's National Labs. NIA's report provides an outline of a potential path forward to achieve this goal, with multiple recommendations to better position DOE to work with private industry to reach full-scale commercialization of advanced nuclear energy."
The report emphasized, "the entrepreneurial culture of the emerging advanced nuclear energy industry is an American strength. But as has been the case for all successful US energy technologies, it needs a well-suited federal partner. The government should provide public support because the entrepreneur's final product will meet needs for the whole country, or even the whole world."
In a webinar held on 01/20/23 to discuss the release of the report, Kathryn Huff, DOE Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, said: "The Office of Nuclear Energy recognizes that this is a historic moment in the transition to a clean energy future. We're grateful for the insights in this report and will seriously consider these recommendations as we aim to meet the moment for the nation and the world."
Historically, the Department of Energy (DOE) has primarily been a research and development agency. More recently, emphasis is shifting toward technology deployment to meet climate and energy security challenges. In particular, NIA wrote in its report that DOE now has an additional task: to incubate and position innovative advanced nuclear technologies for commercialization.
"Catalyzing advanced nuclear energy deployment will require a dramatic transition at optimum speed. DOE will need to coordinate across many segments of the industry as they co-evolve (as with new fuels for new reactors, for example) to allow deployment at an immense scale, and to at least double the domestic nuclear energy capacity that is online today."
"This will be a whole-of-government and whole-of-society effort dependent on successful
public-private partnerships. The recommendations in this report provide a path for DOE to play a key role in creating the conditions necessary for success in commercializing advanced nuclear energy. "
Key recommendations for the DOE include:
Establish an Advanced Nuclear Energy Earthshot to support integrated fuel cycle, advanced reactor and supply chain innovation, and to establish the United States as a global leader in advanced nuclear energy.
Play a leading role in inter-agency coordination to devise and implement a comprehensive national strategy for exporting advanced nuclear energy.
Hire more staff, including individuals with business expertise and align with the operations of entrepreneurial businesses, and streamline, standardize, and optimize its contracting, communication, and staffing, to promptly deploy the products that are the most viable.
Ensure companies have the resources to bridge the gap for demonstration projects "between initial deployment and full commercialization.
Fund the licensing fees for start-ups seeking Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses.
Establish a fast neutron testing capability to support future reactor technology.
Launch an integrated effort to support common supply-chain needs for advanced reactors and determine what incentives the private sector would need to certify and produce the components.
The NIA report also calls for the appointment of a Senior Director for Civil Nuclear Energy at the White House "to coordinate among all the government entities needed for the successful deployment of a new generation of nuclear reactors.
To read the report, visit the NIA website here: Transforming the U.S. Department of Energy: Paving the Way to Commercialize Advanced Nuclear Energy (link provided here).
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The 50 MWe model has already been abandoned by NuScale so that they can have the 77 MWe model. This SDA application was submitted in late 2022. So in essence, the NRC has certified a model that will never be used. By the way, the latest estimate for the UAMPS 462 MWe plant is now at $9.3 billion with a LCOE of $89/MWh. My guess is that it will never be built.


This FAQ is a compilation of remedies and suggestions sent in by subscribers to URG, along with a few links to other resources.
I've tried to correctly attribute what was actually said, and cover all of the suggested remedies, but if you find a mistake or an omission, let me know.
Alan Holmes suggested, "Lots of slug pellets! It's the only way."
Jon Rouse gave up other methods of control and opted for blue pellets of death. He writes, "the effect has been dramatic. Some pots in which we thought things had long since died have suddenly sprung into life, surrounded by slug corpses. Even my gorse bush, the mate to which I threw out last year 'cos it seemed to be dead, now has new growth at its tips, and a surround of slug and snail bodies.
Incidentally, did anyone hear about the snail trail theory? Evidently something in the slime of older snails stops younger snails from maturing. If you kill the bigger snails, the trails disappear and younger snails mature to take the place of their late departed brethren."
But Richard Roocroft noted, "I hate using slug pellets because we've got pussytats & occasional Harry the Hedgehog visitor. If you're using plastic drinks bottles, why not try just 2 or 3 pellets inside the bottle, so any subsoil baddies can die without subsequently poisoning goodies ??"
Amanda Beck's solution, "Go out at night with a torch and some salt and watch them sizzle!!"
Jill Bell mentioned "aluminium sulphate granules" which are available from chemists, apparently. "Growing Success Slug Killer - contains AlSO4 - though it doesn't say how much. Maximum dose 25g/m². Works for up to 4 days - unless it rains - then it doesn't."
Clive Lea-Swain came up with, "There is a product on the market called Slugsure which I understand is a soil drench. It does not have any harmful effects on pets or wildlife so maybe that would work."
Chris French replied, "It's a nematode which parasitises the slugs. Slugsure is the name of the Defenders version. These and other suppliers in the FAQ.
They can also kill off water snails, so shouldn't be used near ponds."
He continued, "They really do work, and this year, slug depredations are much less than last, and still plenty of frogs, toads and hedgehogs!"
Soraya chipped in with, "I have found that nematodes have got rid of 90% of the blighters; but these can be quite expensive; also those free cd roms that you get in the post come quite handy. I break mine up and put them round my hostas and it seems to keep the slimy creatures at bay."
Jane Ransom reminded me about, "bran - buy it cheap from pet food shops not health food shops - slugs and snails love it, gorge themselves on it, the greedy beggars. It swells inside them and does for them; kills them well and truly dead - and serve them right for being so greedy and forgetting their manners !!!!!!!!!!"
Louise Cooper said, "try scattering some cat biscuits on the soil in the vicinity of your precious plants. The theory is that slugs LOVE them, but take a heck of a long time to (a) eat and (b) digest them. They won't die of it, unfortunately, but they might just be distracted from your plants."
Other urglers were not so sure about the cat bickies, but Louise had a second tip, "lay garden fleece, such as Agryl, flat on the soil around your best plants; rather like putting down a layer of grit or cinders. I heard this one on BBC Radio Cornwall's gardening prog this evening - the panellist reckons that the molluscs get on to the fleece, then either can't or won't move once they're on it, and you can pick them up and dispose of them in the morning."
In a similar vein, Andrea added, "I'm putting melon skins out, half a melon skin upside down like a millennium slug dome . They fill up with slugs, then in the morning I tip it upside down and kill the little b*st**ds with salt."
Caroline Strike suggested, "Try soot - just scrape some out of the chimney and sprinkle around the plants, they hate it. Or try bran, sprinkle down bran, the slugs love it, eat it and then it expands inside them and then they explode!!!"
Clive Lea-Swain came back with, "There is a product on the market called Snail Ban I believe, which is made from crushed rock from Australia and is highly absorbent, probably Pumice. You just circle the plants with it and when the the blighters put a foot on it they get so dried up so they turn round and go to someone elses garden. It is not affected by rain and if not disturbed will last through the summer."
Ivy from Gloucester added, "I have tried putting beer into small containers here and there - this gets about 14/15 per container. I then tip them out for the hedgehogs to eat (hopefully). Where I have got pots standing on gravel I put salt on the gravel."
Tony Collins declared, "I've found that sharp sand - not soft yellow sand, keeps slugs at bay, put a collar of sand around each plant 4-5 inches wide."
Miko Coffey wrote in to tell us, "A friend back in the States uses the copper tape you can get for making stained glass windows: it's got a strong adhesive, making it perfect for putting around the base of pots."
Chris Bishop came up with a tip straight from the kitchen, "Ground coffee grinds? Apparently it works Hostas CAN have a future!!"
Trevor Rimmer, not known for his squeamishness said, "Put 'em in a bucket with copious salt in the bottom. Or cut with scissors. Slugs are tough beggars to squash underfoot - designed that way by nature."
David from Abacus Nurseries replied, "Most of the small and medium sized ones can nicely be squashed into to parts using your thumb and first finger crooked and a quick flick and there they are in 2 halves and well separated...Try it."
Susie offered another kitchen waste solution, "I gather that egg shells work very well for deterring slugs - they don't like walking over them.
I've also had some sucess with beer traps. Fill jam jars or old yoghurt pots with cheap beer (they like bitter best) and press them into the soil. The slugs/snails smell it and fall in - must be a better death than being snipped in half!
I've also heard that growing garlic puts them off too. This sounds plausible as none of my spring onions have been chewed (yet!)"
Chris Jones said, "There's a thing called SAS Slug & Snail Repellant (Roebuck). It is an air aerosol containing a natural yucca extract which will withstand light rain but not a downpour. At £4.25 it is probably worth you sticking a yucca leaf in the blender I reckon."
Sally Holmes reported, "Seems some biologist in Cambridge had a garden heavily endowed with the b*****s. She was chucking them over the back wall onto a tow path to get rid of them, but decided to mark some first to see if any made their way back.
After about 10 weeks, 60% of them had 'homed'."


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In human anatomy, the posterior communicating artery is a one of a pair of right-sided and left-sided blood vessels in the circle of Willis. It connects the three cerebral arteries of the same side. Anteriorly, it is one portion of the terminal trifurcation of the internal carotid artery. The anterior cerebral artery and the middle cerebral artery are the other two branches of the trifurcation. Posteriorly, it communicates with the posterior cerebral artery.
Aneurysms of the posterior communicating artery are the second most common circle of Willis aneurysm[1] (the most common are anterior communicating artery aneurysms) and can lead to oculomotor nerve palsy.[2]
↑ Beck J, Rohde S, Berkefeld J, Seifert V, Raabe A. Size and location of ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms measured by 3-dimensional rotational angiography. Surg Neurol. 2006 Jan;65(1):18-25; discussion 25-7. PMID 16378842.
↑ Dimopoulos VG, Fountas KN, Feltes CH, Robinson JS, Grigorian AA. Literature review regarding the methodology of assessing third nerve paresis associated with non-ruptured posterior communicating artery aneurysms. Neurosurg Rev. 2005 Oct;28(4):256-60. PMID 15947958.
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Israeli AG fails to respond – for two years - to appeals against closure of investigation into Bakr boys' killings during 2014 Gaza war
Israeli missile attack killed four children playing soccer on Gaza's beach during 2014 war; Israeli delays and investigative failures threaten any chance of bringing to justice those responsible for killing of civilians.
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Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Gaza), and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (Gaza) sent a letter on 20 August 2017 to senior Israeli legal officials demanding that they respond to the appeals submitted against the closure of the investigation into the 2014 killing of four children on a Gaza beach and order the military to hand over materials from its investigation.
On 16 July 2014, during the military offensive that Israel termed "Operation Protective Edge", the Israeli forces fired missiles that killed four children of the Bakr family - Ahed (10 years), Zakaria (10 years), Mohammed (11 years) and Ismail (10 years) – while they were playing soccer on Gaza City's fishermen's beach. Six other civilians were also wounded in the missile attack, including four children from the Bakr family.
Paramedics and media crews at the location minutes after the attack on the beach that killed the four Bakr children as they were playing on the beach. (Courtesy of Al Mezan)
This incident was witnessed by foreign journalists covering the 2014 Gaza war and it received widespread global media coverage.
Paramedics evacuating one of the Bakr children after the attack. (Courtesy of Al Mezan)
Two days later, Adalah and Al Mezan sent a letter to the Israeli defense minister, the military advocate general, and the attorney general, demanding an investigation into the killing of the Bakr boys. Almost one year later, on 11 June 2015, the Israeli army announced the closure of the investigation without further measures. Two months after that, in August 2015, the organizations filed an appeal on behalf of the victims' families demanding access to investigatory materials and a reopening of the probe. The Israeli authorities have failed since then to respond to the request.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza also submitted a complaint and later an appeal to the AG against the MAG's decision to close the case in August 2015. Despite providing the military with additional materials, sending several reminders and requesting access to the investigatory materials, PCHR was also unable to get any response from the MAG or the State Attorney regarding this case.
In their 20 August 2017 letter to Osnat Mendel, director of the Supreme Court Department in the Israeli State Attorney's Office, the three human rights organizations also demanded Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit issue a decision on the appeals against
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A member of the Bakr family showing a screen shot on his mobile phone showing the Bakr children running on the beach after the first missile was launched. (Courtesy of Al Mezan)
Attorneys Muna Haddad and Tamim Younis wrote in their letter that this case exemplifies Israel's flawed investigation system and unwillingness to genuinely carry out an investigation:
"This is an unreasonable delay highlighting a lack of willingness on the part of [Israeli] authorities to conduct an effective investigation. They are essentially thwarting any possibility of conducting such an investigation. The obligation to investigate any suspicion of war crimes is anchored in international law. An investigation must comply with the universal principles of independence, effectiveness, promptness, impartiality and transparency… The nature of this investigation and the unreasonable foot-dragging when it came to responding to parents' appeals are a gross violation of these international standards."
The human rights organizations also stressed that the ineffective nature of the Israeli investigative system grants de facto immunity to military figures involved in the incident:
These unjustifiable delays and investigative "failures threaten to thwart any chance of bringing to justice those responsible for the killing of civilians and the violation of international humanitarian law."
Three days after the attack, members of the Bakr family sit in a room without electricity in their home in Al Shati' (Beach) refugee camp, fearing further attacks. (Courtesy of Al Mezan)
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Frank Ocean (born Christopher Lonny Edwin Breaux on October 28, 1987 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and producer. His music is typically categorized as R&B but covers a wide range of styles and influences, and he is considered one of the leading artists in the PBR&B genre. He started his music career in the late 2000s as a songwriter before joining the Odd Future music collective in 2010. He released his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, in 2011, followed by his debut album Channel Orange in 2012, both to critical acclaim. After much delay, he released his second and third albums, Endless and Blonde, just one day apart from each other in 2016.
He is also notable as one of the relatively few openly LGBT male stars in R&B music. Around the time of Channel Orange's release, Frank came out as bisexual in an open letter ◊ on his Tumblr account, where he stated that his first love was a man. A significant amount of his music, especially on and following Channel Orange, can be interpreted to reference his experiences as a bisexual man.
Since his coming out, he has often been considered an icon for the LGBT community. Frank Ocean's music has consistently earned critical acclaim and accolades as well as commercial success, making him one of the most successful R&B artists of the past decade.
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Advertised Extra: Inverted on "Pink + White". Beyoncé contributes some fairly noticeable backing vocals to the end of the song, but isn't credited as a feature (something most artists would be jumping to do to boost publicity of the song.)
Ambiguously Bi: Earlier in his career, various lyrics in his songs led to speculation about his sexual orientation. Averted as of 2012, when he officially came out as bisexual.
Be Yourself: Played for laughs in "Be Yourself", which starts off as this but goes off message:
"[...] Listen, stop trying to be somebody else. Don't try to be someone else. Be yourself and know that that's good enough. Don't try to be someone else. Don't try to be like someone else, don't try to act like someone else. Be yourself. Be secure with yourself. Rely and trust upon your own decisions. On your own beliefs. You understand the things that I've taught you. Not to drink alcohol, not to use drugs. Don't use that cocaine or marijuana because that stuff is highly addictive [...]"
Break-Up Song: A lot of his songs are these. Usually they're written in retrospect about a relationship that's already ended, rather than the moment of the breakup itself.
Drugs Are Bad: In "Be Yourself", Rosie Watsonnote the mother of one of Frank's friends delivers an anvilicious speech about this:
"Many college students have gone to college and gotten hooked on drugs, marijuana, and alcohol. [...] You understand the things that I've taught you. Not to drink alcohol, not to use drugs. Don't use that cocaine or marijuana, because that stuff is highly addictive. When people become weed-heads they become sluggish, lazy, stupid and unconcerned. Sluggish, lazy, stupid and unconcerned. That's all marijuana does to you, okay? This is mom. Unless you're taking it under doctor's... umm... control. Then it's regulated. Do NOT smoke marijuana. Do NOT consume alcohol, do NOT get in the car with someone who is inebriated. This is mom, call me, bye."
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"Pyramids" is just under 10 minutes long.
"Device Control (Reprise)" clocks in at 7:04.
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All 3 of his studio albums have a number of short interludes between songs.
Of the 20 tracks on Endless, half of them are less than 2 minutes long.
The Big Easy: Born and raised in New Orleans. He moved to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his recording studio. "Pink + White" uses imagery from the aftermath of the hurricane in its verses.
The Oldest Profession: In the second half of "Pyramids", the "Cleopatra" character is a stripper who works at a club called "The Pyramid". She is implied to be a prostitute as well:
But your love ain't free no more...
Unrequited Love: A theme in a number of his songs.
In "Thinkin Bout You" he reflects on a past relationship that failed, wondering if the other person still has feelings for him the way he does.
"Forrest Gump" is inspired by Frank's feelings from his (unrequited) first love (Ironically, the song is sung from the perspective of Jenny, while in the film she was the one not to reciprocate Forrest's feelings for most of the film.)
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I had the displeasure of reading Keith Crain's Jan. 27 column, "Diesels in American Cars? Ridiculous." I own a Volkswagen Golf TDI, and I live in America. As one who benefits from the advantages of diesel, I disagree with Crain.
He said: "Diesel fuel costs more than gasoline." I live in Maryland. The cost of diesel fuel is between that of unleaded and premium, depending on diesel grade.
He opined that "the downside of fewer fuel stations * overshadows the improved fuel economy." I never have trouble finding fuel.
I've had gasser cars getting 25/35mpg (city/highway) and trucks with large fuel tanks. I remember thinking, "Do I need to fill up?" "Am I going to run out?" "Should I fill up on the way to work or on the way home?" I don't think about that anymore. I just drive.
Crain scoffed at "the idea that millions of Americans are waiting for diesel engines in their passenger cars." According to a J.D. Power and Associates report, 22 percent of survey respondents say they "definitely will" look at clean diesel for their next car.
Crain stated that diesel cars in the United States don't make sense. They don't offer as much incentive as in other countries, but they do offer considerably lower fuel expenses and reduced importation of foreign oil. Americans ARE ready for diesel in ALL forms of personal transportation. Unfortunately, they are misinformed of the advantages because people like Crain fill their heads with nonsense.