Synadenium compactum var. rubrum (African Milk Bush) - A upright semi-evergreen to deciduous (in California) shrub that grows typically to 6 to 15 feet tall but in habitat to over 20 feet. It has thick 5-8 inch long leaves that can be entirely red or green, or a combination of both on the upper surface and purple-red beneath. Occasionally blooms with minute red flowers (bracts). Plant in full sun to light shade. Give occasional to little irrigation. It is frost tender but leaves re-emerge without stem damage after mild frosts and the plant can resprout from base if top is frozen at short duration temperatures much below 25 F. As with most plants in the Euphorbia family the sap is toxic but this plant produces a copious amount of sap or "milk" and care needs to be taken when cutting or working with the plant that it not be allowed to get in the eyes. It is native to rocky slopes in open bushland in the Kaivasha District in Kenya. It is also known as the "Purple Leaf Brown Jug Plant" or "Red Milk Bush" and is often confused in horticuluture with the larger and greener Synadenium grantii that also grows in Kenya but also in Uganda and further south. This description is based on our research and observations made of this plant as it grows in our nursery, in the nursery garden and in other gardens that we have visited. We will also incorporate comments received from others and always appreciate getting feedback of any kind from those who have some additional information about this plant, in particular if this information is contrary to what we have written or if they have additional cultural tips that would aid others in growing Synadenium compactum var. rubrum.


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Q: Highlight hits within attachment content with ElasticSearch I'm having trouble getting ElasticSearch to highlight hits within attachment content indexed using the elasticsearch-mapper-attachments.
My data at /stuff/file looks like this:
{
    "id": "string"
    "name": "string"
    "attachment": "...base 64 encoded file"
}

My mapper configuration put to /stuff/file/_mapper looks like this:
{
    "file" : {
        "properties" : {
            "attachment" : {
                "type" : "attachment",
                "path" : "full",
                "fields": {
                    "name": { "store": true },
                    "title": { "store": true },
                    "content": { "store": true },
                    "attachment": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "term_vector": "with_positions_offsets",
                        "store": true
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

And when I query it at /stuff/_mapper/file I get this returned:
{
   "stuff":{
      "mappings":{
         "file":{
            "properties":{
               "attachment":{
                  "type":"attachment",
                  "path":"full",
                  "fields":{
                     "attachment":{
                        "type":"string"
                     },
                     "author":{
                        "type":"string"
                     },
                     "title":{
                        "type":"string"
                     },
                     "name":{
                        "type":"string"
                     },
                     "date":{
                        "type":"date",
                        "format":"dateOptionalTime"
                     },
                     "keywords":{
                        "type":"string"
                     },
                     "content_type":{
                        "type":"string"
                     },
                     "content_length":{
                        "type":"integer"
                     },
                     "language":{
                        "type":"string"
                     }
                  }
               },
               "id":{
                  "type":"string"
               },
               "name":{
                  "type":"string"
               }
            }
         }
      }
   }
}

And my query looks like this:
{
    "size": 30,
    "query": {
        "multi_match": {
            "query": "{{.Query}}",
            "operator": "and",
            "fields": ["id", "name^4", "attachment"],
            "fuzziness": "AUTO",
            "minimum_should_match": "80%"
        }
    },
    "highlight" : {
        "fields" : {
            "attachment": { }
        }
    }
}

When I search for a term that is in the attachment, it returns the correct result but there is no highlighting.  There was a similar question from a few years ago that swapped attachment for file in a few places but there were comments that this has changed again... What's the right configuration to get the highlighting to work?

A: Turns out that you can't overwrite mapper configurations using PUT.  You need to delete the existing configuration first (I actually had delete the entire database, DELETE on the configuration didn't seem to have any effect).  Once the mapper configuration was actually updated, highlighting works fine.

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This program can be used to determine the IR range, determine which keys equal which code, confirm the operation of SONY standard remotes, confirm the operation of Penguins infrared receiver, adjust the infrared receiver, test bank switching in remotes, troubleshoot off brand remotes, check the functions of a Parallax remote, confirm remote battery conditions and add remote function to your own programs. If you are looking for more information regarding remotes and tv take a look at http://www.tvbydirect.com/ to find further answers.
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Fall has definitely arrived at our house, and I can't seem to stop. I'm afraid I may not get all of the Fall décor put away in time for Christmas!
Some of you may remember that, since I am a wannabe crafter with two left hands, I purchased somebody else's home-made placemats at an estate sale a couple of years ago.
This is the underside of the placemat. I really think that even I could have crafted these, but it sure was easier just to buy somebody else's craftiness!
Salad plates (Estate sale): Hand painted; Dinner Plates (Church Rummage Sale): Ridgways, England, Apple Blossom; Chargers: Wal Mart; Napkins: Pier One Sale long ago; Stemware: Wedding gift. That's all I remember.
I had some requests for recipes when I recently posted our snack dinner. Since I'm always eager to please anyone who takes the time to read my blog, I am sharing these simple recipes on this post.
My Note: This makes a HUGE amount. Unless I'm having a big party, I half the recipe. I also use regular Ranch Dressing Mix, because I have a hard time finding the buttermilk ranch. I think the Robusto Italian Dressing is important. I've been told it isn't as good with regular Italian dressing.
Mix together, spoon into greased 1 1/2 quart baking dish.
We like to dip this with those Baked Ritz Chips.
I love all your Fallen decorating! Cute leafy placemats no matter who made them! Love the recipes! Happy Fall!
you always have the most lovely items for every season..
Its a joy to view your posts and look at every detail..
What a pretty Fall table setting ! Loved seeing your Fall decor - I really slacked this year. Thanks for sharing the recipes. I plan to copy them for future use.
Laurie, what a great fall table! So much vibrant color and whimsy! I love everything that you have done here. Very pretty!
Laurie you set a beautiful table, no matter what the season! This is especially lovely because of all the lovely, warm Autumn colors!
I am ALWAYS in need of a new dip or finger food recipe to take places. These are both new to me so thanks!
And I love your fall table! My favorite little thing of all was the napkin ring. That is SO CUTE, and I want to copycat it.
Laurie, I could kiss you.
Pimento cheese isn't even SOLD up here in New Jersey. Except in those little tiny glass Kraft Old English jars, and that's just not the same thing.
Bless you -- this is going on my next appetizer table!
PS LOVE the Fall table stuff -- we could have a contest as to who gets her Fall stuff put away quickest after Thanksgiving. I'd bet on anyone BUT me.
Love you Fall decorations. Lovely as always. Thanks for the recipes.
I love this gorgeous table Laurie!
It just glistens with fallen Autumness!
Love that hurricane centerpiece and the foliage, so, so pretty!
My what a bountiful fall display love your header. Everything is perfect. Love the napkin holders and leaf place mats. Lucky find on the plates.
Oh Laurie! What a lovely tablescape! It just looks like autumn is glowing there. Just beautiful.
Yep, Laurie, that is our TEXAS CAVIAR!! Love all your Fall decor. I feel exactly the same way, afraid I'll still have too many pumpkins out and it'll be time for Santa!!!


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A private investigator, acting on behalf of a West Coast law firm that represents the Church of Scientology, placed a full-page advertisement that appeared yesterday in The Boston Globe offering a $100,000 reward for information about a $2-million counterfeit check.
The ad seeks information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever forged and attempted to pass the check drawn on an E. F. Hutton Cash Reserve Management Account at the Bank of New England.
The incident dates back to June 7, 1982, according to the ad, when a man using the name Abdulamiar tried to open an account with the check at the Middle East Bank of New York City.
Eugene M. Ingram of Los Angeles, the private investigator who signed the ad, declined to say whose account the forged check was drawn on because, he said, he wants to screen out crank telephone callers by asking for the name of the account.
Sources say the account belonged to L. Ron Hubbard, who founded the controversial Church of Scientology in the late 1940s and who has not been seen in public since 1976.
David Aden, a vice president with the church in Boston, said he had no knowledge of the ad before reading it in The Globe yesterday. "I have no record of this thing," he said.
Ingram said the check was counterfeit, copied from a legitimate check which passed through the Hutton section in the Bank of New England on March 11, 1982. In the ad, Ingram contended that "efforts to obtain relevant information" from the bank have been futile.
Questions were immediately raised about the check, Bank of New England spokeswoman Denise Lane said, and it was not honored. The owner of the account did not lose any money, she said, and the man known as Abdulamiar never returned to the Middle East Bank.
Lane said the bank has cooperated fully with an FBI investigation and also conducted an internal investigation, "which reached no definite conclusion." She added that the bank rejected Ingram's request to make staff available for questioning.
The genuine check was first processed through the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston without incident, said assistant general counsel John Kimball. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston conducted an internal investigation that absolved the bank of any wrongdoing, Ingram said.
"Then the check was processed through the Bank of New England. That was the check the suspects used as a master," Ingram said.
Lane said, however, that several other scenarios are possible. "It has not at all been determined that (what Ingram has charged) was the case," she said. The bank processes about 600,000 checks daily, Lane said.
Ingram said a former Bank of New England employee identified a photograph of a person who did not work for the bank but who was in the bank's check- processing section several times. Ingram said he has has an affadavit to back up his accusations, but that the person in question has refused to cooperate with the investigation.
FBI special agent Glen Prinsze in New York confirmed that the agency is conducting an investigation based on interstate transportation of stolen property. He declined to comment further while the investigation is in progress.
Ingram also approached the District Attorney's office in Boston, said spokesman David M. Rodman. The office declined to cooperate, but felt Ingram's "investigation should continue and we told him if he has any other information to get back to us," Rodman said.
Alan G. Brower, Hutton senior vice president and deputy general counsel, said the securities firm "considers this a dead issue as far as we're concerned." He said Hutton cooperated with law enforcement authorities, but did not know whether the securities firm had held an internal investigation. Ingram said Hutton cooperated with his investigation earlier.
The ad in The Globe cost about $14,000. A quarter-page version of the ad will run through Friday, Ingram said.


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Brisbane Kids are spoilt for choice these school holidays, with a number of fantastic shows on offer. From fun musicals to TV favourites on stage AND a dinosaur zoo, there is definitely something for everyone. Check out the Brisbane Kids' list of the top 10 shows for this year's Summer school holidays, appearing in order of starting date. Tickets are still available for each of these amazing shows, so make sure you book your tickets now before they sell out.
The Lion King is a magical production that is a must see for every Brisbane family. The show captivates the audience as they witness the wonderful colours and music of the Serengeti Plains come to life in this tale about a little lion named Simba coming into his own. You will enjoy all of your favourite Lion King songs, including Circle of Life, Can You Feel the Love Tonight? and Hakuna Matata, as the animals dance and perform in an uplifting stage show that your family will never forget. If you haven't yet seen The Lion King, you simply must find the time these school holidays before the season ends on the 25th January 2015.
Rapunzel follows the story of a girl who was kidnapped and kept in a tower by the evil witch Gothel. When the handsome Prince Gunther tries to free Rapunzel, Gothel hears the Prince below the tower and cuts off Rapunzel's hair. He falls from the tower and Rapunzel is banished to the Land of Eternal Winter. The Prince must find Rapunzel so they can live happily ever after. This is a play full of drama and interesting characters that is sure to delight Rapunzel fans aged 5 years and over these school holidays.
Carols in the Reservoir is magical Christmas carol experience. Taking place in the 150 year old Spring Hill Reservoir, the audience will go on a journey through the ages, with everything from the Renaissance to the Romantics to popular Disney songs. The carols are performed by Australia's most exciting professional singers and concert pianists, with an original story-line by a charismatic narrator. Listening to the amazing carols as snow falls from the rafters in this unique venue makes this an extraordinary experience for the entire family this Christmas.
Be part of a Brisbane Queensland Christmas tradition and take your Brisbane Kids to see the Queensland Ballet perform The Nutcracker. This timeless ballet follows Clara and her enchanted Christmas gift on a journey to the Land Of Snow and the Kingdom of Treats where she must dance for the Sugar Plum Fairy. Beautiful dancing, gorgeous sets and stunning costumes make this a must see ballet for the entire family.
This crazy Christmas musical sees Santa and the Elves re-locate to a space station where they will have more room to prepare for Christmas as the North Pole is just getting too small. However, things do not run smoothly and the evil mad scientist Ralph tries to destroy Christmas. Hopefully Santa and the Elves can beat Ralph and make sure Christmas goes ahead as planned. This is a fun Christmas musical that will have kids of all ages singing and dancing along with the carols and Santa.
Come along and dance, sing and laugh with Emma (Yellow Wiggle), Lachy (Purple Wiggle), Simon (Red Wiggle) and Anthony (Blue Wiggle). The show will include all the classic Wiggle songs like Hot Potato and Rock-a-Bye Your Bear, as well as new favourites Emma (with the bow in her hair) and Do the Propeller. Of course, joining The Wiggles on stage will be all their friends Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus and Captain Feathersword. This fantastic show will be big on fun, big on music, big on dancing and big on entertainment – suitable for Wiggles fans of all ages.
Join Giggle and Hoot as they bring their giggle-icious live stage show to Brisbane for the holidays. But they have not come alone! Giggle and Hoot will be joined by Hootabelle, Bananas in Pyjamas and Hoopla Doopla's Zap, Mimi and Jango. This 50 minute stage spectacular will feature everyone's favourite songs, dancing, acrobatics and, of course, lots of fun and laughter. This is a must these school holidays for Giggle and Hoot fans of all ages.
Erth's Dinosaur Zoo is the ultimate dinosaur experience. The intimate group setting gives children a chance to get up close and personal to these amazing creatures that are brought to life by electronics and theatre presentation. The show takes you on an amazing educational journey through time, with everything from cute baby dinosaurs to the feared huge carnivores. Erth's Dinosaur Zoo, with amazing life like creatures, will delight all dinosaur fans aged 5 years and over.
Watch an all time classic brought to the stage these school holidays. Wind in the Willows is a one man adaption staring Luke Caroll (from Play School) that explores the adventures of 4 woodland friends Ratty, Mr Toad, Mole and Badger. All the characters come to life in this fun and entertaining show that looks at the value of friendship and is recommended for kids aged 4-12 years.
Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald are in Brisbane these school holidays as they present Disney Live's newest production, Three Classic Fairy Tales. Join them for this wonderful live stage musical where Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast are brought to life before your very eyes. Disney will take you into a world of wonder, where wishing is only the beginning and dreams really do come true. This fantastic show will feature amazing storytelling, beautiful music, stunning costumes and special effects in a production that is sure to entertain and delight Disney fans of all ages.
To find more exiting events for your Brisbane Kids make sure you check out our Brisbane Kids event calendar and our workshops and activities for kids over the Summer Holidays.


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Massimiliano Allegri Reveals Desire to Work in Premier League
Former Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri has confessed that he wants to be the next foreign coach to take the Premier League by storm.
Allegri has been out of work since leaving the Allianz Stadium in 2019, meaning he's had plenty of time to watch the likes of Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho impress in England's top tier.
Allegri won 5 league titles with Juventus | Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images
Speaking to The Times, Allegri admitted he believes English football has improved greatly because of the multi-cultural nature of its coached, and he revealed that he hopes to try his hand at leading a Premier League side in the near future.
"For me, English football is improving now because there are a lot of foreign trainers," he said. "There are more tactics compared to ten years ago.
"England now is more sophisticated, and more tactical, but is also respecting the tradition of English football. It's a good balance of the spirit of English football and the new quality and new tactical approach of the new coaches.
Allegri believes foreign coaches have made the Premier League better | Visionhaus/Getty Images
"I would like to experience the Premier League. In Italy, I was in Milan four years. Five years in Juventus. Now I expect [to work again] in Italy, but it is difficult, or in England."
Allegri has been linked with a whole host of English sides since leaving Juventus, with links to Manchester United or Arsenal perhaps stronger than most. He admitted to have been learning English in the hope of boosting his chances of a move, but refused to be drawn on where he would like to land specifically.
However, he has clearly been keeping up to date with what is going on in the Premier League, and he seemed to suggest that he may know the key to success in England.
"The important thing is every country has its own history," Allegri added. "England is different from Italy, which is different from Spain, from Germany. It's difficult to change the history of the country.
"It's difficult to change the history of the club. For example, Manchester United played for 50 years the same style. When [Louis] Van Gaal arrived, he had a different mentality. Van Gaal wants to play with possession. But Manchester United are 'get in the box, attack, attack, cross, cross'.
"Arsenal are different to United. In Italy, the same, Juventus different to Milan. The history of Juventus was every year with one big player for the team, [Zinedine] Zidane, [Alessandro] Del Piero, [Omar] Sivori, [Michel] Platini with other players to work every day hard [alongside]. In Milan it is different."
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'Lincoln Castle is to close its gates for more than three months while a £22m project to build a new vault for the Magna Carta is completed.
The four-year Lincoln Castle Revealed project draws to a close on 1 April 2015, when the castle re-opens.
It includes a high-security underground vault, where an original copy of the Magna Carta will be displayed alongside the Charter of the Forest.
Lincoln's copy of the Magna Carta – one of only four surviving originals – will be stored in the vault as part of a "widescreen cinematic experience", charting the story of the document, which is 800 years old in 2015.


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Goliver Therapeutics, partnering the Paul Brousse Hospital in Villejuif
Home > Goliver Therapeutics, partnering the Paul Brousse Hospital in Villejuif
REGENERATIVE MEDECINE – AN ALTERNATIVE TO LIVER TRANSPLANTS
In Nantes, on 9th December 2019, GoLiver Therapeutics, a start-up and member of Atlanpole Biotherapies specialising in the development of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products, announced the signature of a memorandum of understanding with the Paul-Brousse Hospital (AP-HP – Public Assistance – Paris Hospitals, Villejuif, France) that specialises in treating hepato-biliary pathologies, and that has already conducted clinical trials on advanced liver therapies. This memorandum of understanding aims to design and set up phase I/IIa clinical trials for the treatment of acute liver failure.
A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON REPAIRING DAMAGE TO THE LIVER
The study's primary endpoints will be to demonstrate that the GoLiver Therapeutics treatment is well tolerated and to provide initial proof of its efficacy in humans in order to alleviate the shortage of transplantable livers in terms both of the numbers of organs available and of providing transplants within the required times. The first therapeutic indication to be studied will be acute liver failure, after which the trials will be extended to include other diseases of the liver such as decompensated cirrhosis.
Tuan Nguyen, President of GoLiver Therapeutics states, "We are delighted to be partnering the hepato-biliary unit at the Paul Brousse Hospital, the leading liver transplant centre in France (around 1,701 transplants in 2018) and third-ranked in Europe. Our collaboration with the hospital's organ transplant specialists will allow us to design and set up the clinical trials scheduled to begin within the next four years".
Professor Didier Samuel, Medical Director of the liver transplant unit at the Paul-Brousse Hospital continues "GoLiver Therapeutics is set to embark on a major new phase of its development and we are very proud to be working alongside them to provide assistance with the specifics of setting up a clinical trial. The advanced therapy that the company is proposing promises great benefits to patients presenting with acute liver failure. To have access to an unlimited in vitro source of hepatocytes without having to use donor livers would genuinely revolutionise the organ transplant sector. Particularly as, in the long term, this suggests the potential for broader therapeutic indications such as cirrhosis, cancers, NASH (Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis otherwise known as fatty liver disease)".


I just arrived in Hebron 2 days ago, a city filled with dozens of humiliating checkpoints for Palestinians, designed to keep the illegal Israeli settlers "safe."The most notorious of them is checkpoint 56 at the entrance to Shuhada Street. The front of the checkpoint looks like a maximum security prison. You wait outside a turnstile until the light turns green and you are allowed to move. You then walk through bars, metal detectors, and armed soldiers before you finally reach more gates and another turnstile where you again have to wait for a green light to exit. Children go through this on their way to and from school and Palestinian families must pass through these checkpoints every time they want to buy milk, bread, and other essentials.
David Friedman, Donald Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel, is a supporter and funder of the settlement movement that makes such things part of daily life for Palestinians. Friedman wants to give the West Bank entirely to Israel. He has raised millions of dollars for Israeli settlements, and wants to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, an action that will destroy the last bit of hope Palestinians harbor for a better life. We must stop Friedman from being confirmed as US ambassador to Israel.
Sign our petition asking the US Senate not to confirm Friedman. We will deliver this petition during Friedman's confirmation hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations committee on Thursday, February 16, the day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Trump in Washington DC. RSVP: Facebook Event.
In order to be confirmed, Friedman needs 11 of the 21 Senators in the Foreign Relations Committee to vote for him. To prevent this, we need at least one Republican Senator to vote against him. Our best chance is Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who has an anti-interventionist position. Senator Paul has not released a statement regarding Friedman. Please call Rand Paul at his DC office 202-224-4343 and his Kentucky office 270-782-8303.
There will be protests across the US while Trump and Netanyahu are meeting in DC. I will lead one at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, along with the Israeli organizations Coalition of Women for Peace and the All That's Left Collective. Can you join us in DC or attend one of the protests being planned around the US or in Tel Aviv? For help organizing a protest in another city contact palestine@codepink.org.
On February 19, the trials of Palestinian human right defender, Issa Amro of Hebron, will continue, with 18 bogus charges related to his human rights work. He is at risk of going to prison for years simply for campaigning nonviolently for Palestinian human rights. Issa spends his life fighting for human rights and equality. The appointment of David Friedman will make his struggle immensely harder. For the sake of Issa, and for the sake of all Palestinians, Israelis, and all people around the world, please help us stop Friedman from becoming US ambassador to Israel.


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Liverpool fight Aston Villa for exciting Brazil star transfer
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Liverpool are the latest team to be linked with Brazilian full back Gerson Magrao, after Aston Villa and Sporting Braga were rumoured to be making moves by Portuguese publication Abola.
The quest of Kenny Dalglish to bring a new left sided defender to Anfield has certainly been well documented, but Magrao has not been mentioned nearly as often as the likes of Aly Cissokho and Jose Enrique.
The 26 year-old Gerson Magrao is an exciting force on the left.
Strong in defence, but also potent in an attacking role on the left wing, he is thought to be available for less than £5m, which could make him the bargain signing of the summer transfer window.
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"Effect of low-level CO2 on innate inflammatory protein response to or" by David Schneberger, Jane M. DeVasure et al.
Background: Organic hog barn dust (HDE) exposure induces lung inflammation and long-term decreases in lung function in agricultural workers. While concentrations of common gasses in confined animal facilities are well characterized, few studies have been done addressing if exposure to elevated barn gasses impacts the lung immune response to organic dusts. Given the well documented effects of hypercapnia at much higher levels we hypothesized that CO2 at 8 h exposure limit levels (5000 ppm) could alter innate immune responses to HDE.
Methods: Using a mouse model, C57BL/6 mice were nasally instilled with defined barn dust extracts and then housed in an exposure box maintained at one of several CO2 levels for six hours. Bronchiolar lavage (BAL) was tested for several cytokines while lung tissue was saved for mRNA purification and immunohistochemistry.
Results: Exposure to elevated CO2 significantly increased the expression of pro-inflammatory markers, IL-6 and KC, in BAL fluid as compared to dust exposure alone. Expression of other pro-inflammatory markers, such as ICAM-1 and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), were also tested and showed similar increased expression upon HDE + CO2 exposure. A chemokine array analysis of BAL fluid revealed that MIP-1γ (CCL9) shows a similar increased response to HDE + CO2. Further testing showed CCL9 was significantly elevated by barn dust and further enhanced by CO2 co-exposure in a dose-dependent manner that was noticeable at the protein and mRNA levels. In all cases, except for ICAM-1, increases in tested markers in the presence of elevated CO2 were only significant in the presence of HDE as well.
Conclusions: We show that even at mandated safe exposure limits, CO2 is capable of enhancing multiple markers of inflammation in response to HDE.


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Crossing Rivers for the Gospel
How far have you journeyed to spread the Good News?
Pastors in Angola, Madagascar and Brazil all have one thing in common: they've crossed deep, dirty and dangerous rivers to share the Gospel.
Wading Through Waist-High Waters in Angola
Pastor Peter Kambulo from Zambia would bag up his belongings and hoist them over his head to keep them dry as he waded through swamps and flooded river plains to reach the unreached people of Angola he cares so much about. He was determined to share the Gospel at any cost!
Through dedication, hard-work and a passion to see lives transformed by the Gospel, he planted a church in a nearby town of Kasupa – which is actually over the border in Angola.
Peter has now relocated permanently to Angola with his family, continuing to reach the lost for Christ.
Long Journeys Down the Amazon River
Pastor Marcos da Silva, in the Amazonas region of Brazil, is trained in the Harvesters methodology of church planting. Now he travels along the mighty Amazon River evangelising to unreached tribal communities.
As his small boat chugs down the vast river corridor between walls of trees, he listens to every splash bringing him closer to people who are so sheltered that they have never heard the Name above every other name: Jesus.
"Hundreds and hundreds of kilometres are travelled in small boats on the mighty Amazon to reach thousands of souls and plant churches where there are none," says Francois Rauch, Harvesters' Regional Director for South America, as he presents a photo of dozens of people crowded together in a small rural hut listening to the Gospel. "Eighty percent of villages along the banks of the Amazon River have no church or Christian community."
Crossing Crocodile Infested Waters in Madagascar
Pastor Alain Moreno is a Bible college lecturer in Madagascar. Many of his students travel from far away to join his classes. He noticed one in particular who was different in her serving, her faithfulness, and her attitude and commitment. He wanted to know why, and the Lord prompted him to visit her home village.
Alain travelled 600km to the nearest town, then 40km on a bus to a closer village, then walked a further 10km to reach his student's home! "There is no access for the car, and it was hard and hot," recalled Alain. "We had to climb mountain by mountain – going up and down. The walk took 8 hours."
In the middle of this treacherous journey, Alain and his companion were halted by a river blocking their way. "You have to pray if you are afraid," said the elder who was travelling with Alain. "Why?" Alain replied nervously. This river was home to crocodiles.
The elder was prepared. "We have an old technique to distract the crocodile," he said. They threw a large rock to the left side of their path, causing a huge splash to grab the creature's attention – providing an opportunity for the pair to rush through the waters. They emerged on the other side unharmed!
Alain continued his travels to his student's home. Because of the crocodile river, the inhabitants only travel to market twice a year, when the waters are low. Alain was welcomed with generous hospitality, but he only ate a little as not to use up their reserves. Many had not left the village their whole lives.
"When we finished eating by candlelight around 8pm, the people are coming one by one joining the place where I was seated in the yard. They were asking questions," remembered Alain. "I thought this is very good occasion to tell them about God and humanity."
Alain stayed with the people of that village for 5 days sharing the Gospel. Before he left, he baptised three people in the rice field.
These men and women of God are dedicated to the mission of Christ's Church. Pray for all our pastors as they lead more souls to Jesus Christ. You can support the work today. £100/$120/R1,800 provides a student pastor with three years of ministry training, during which they plant three churches through evangelism.
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Stacey Gaudette promoted to associate athletic director and senior woman administrator
Elphena Elsar, Contributing Writer
Stacey Gaudette, formerly Assistant Athletic Director, has been promoted to the positions of both Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator within the Mercyhurst Athletics Department.
Gaudette was previously the Mercyhurst Field Hockey head coach prior to deciding to step down for the upcoming 2020- 2021 season.
Gaudette brought home a total of 123 wins within her eighteen seasons with the team.
Among those wins included three over Indiana University of Pennsylvania, including the historical 2-1 victory by shootout on Sept. 25, 2019.
Gaudette has shown dedication and love for the game but most importantly, she values the academic achievements of her players.
She is known for pushing her student athletes to go just as hard academically as they do on the field. As much as she and her players enjoy the game, studying and academics are one of her top priorities.
As triumphant as her role as Field Hockey head coach has been, all good things must come to an end. For Gaudette, stepping down from her position as head coach opened a new door as the associate athletic director and senior woman administrator.
Gaudette is excited for her new position and her co-workers have shared in her great excitement.
"There's no one more deserving of the position than [Gaudette]," said Andy Simon-Wambach, assistant athletic director of Athletic Training Services and Finance.
Gaudette stated that the new roles allow her to continue to provide the Laker student athletes with an outstanding experience during their time at Mercyhurst.
"The administrative staff works in concert to provide a multitude of services for the student athletes, from keeping them eligible, to keeping them healthy and ready to represent Mercyhurst," said Gaudette.
Mercyhurst athletic director, Brad Davis, has provided a clear vision for the success for Gaudette's department and they are all working to reach these goals.
With Gaudette's promotion comes the possibility for less interactions with her student athletes. She spoke to her ability to be present for them regardless of this change.
Gaudette said, "Although I will have less daily interaction with them I will be here to support them in this transition."
Despite stepping down from her more actively involved role with her players, she is still very excited to watch them in action once the Pennsylvania State Atheltic Conference games resume again.
"I am very excited for the field hockey program and the direction that they are going and [I am looking] forward to watching them in action in the spring," said Gaudette.
Of course there is some sadness with stepping away from the position that has brought so much joy and excitement to her life.
"I am excited for my new role here at Mercyhurst and will be excited for the next chapter of Mercyhurst Field Hockey! The new coach will be a part of a great legacy of field hockey here at Mercyhurst – the original sport on this campus and I anticipate that they will find great success, both in the classroom and on the field," said Gaudette.
Gaudette leaves her student-athletes with words of encouragement:
"Stay true to yourselves and your vision and calm through the chaos of COVID-19. Remember to take some time each day for YOU!"
Advice worth considering for everyone including non-athletes, faculty and staff members alike.
Elphena Elsar


LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The Islamic Movement in Nigeria charges the military is burying the bodies of hundreds of victims of an alleged massacre of Shiite Muslims to hide the death toll.
Wednesday's allegation comes as human rights advocates and the United States called for an investigation following the army's raid on Nigerian Shiites in which hundreds of people were reportedly killed and Shiite leader Ibraheem Zakzaky suffered four bullet wounds.
Details of the weekend violence in Zaria have been slow to emerge because the three attacked areas of the northern town have been on lockdown with no one allowed to enter or leave.
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Buying a new home means you get to start fresh. I am not a naturally organized person but I'm slowly getting there. One thing I knew I wanted in this house was one place for mail to land, a family calendar, and a place to put notes/reminders. I was inspired by the beautiful command center pictured.
Mine cost about $75 (buying all items at 50% off). This is phase 1 because I have a few more things to do. I might add this galvanized mail holder (or I love this one from Target) for each of the kids' homework, and some art. The hutch seriously needs to be refinished. I plan to paint it dark grey. I've seen the color "gray" by Benjamin Moore in a friend's home and it looks amazing so that's my top choice before researching. And because hand lettering is not my forte, I plan to order some vinyl months for the calendar.
For the table top, I plan to add a tiered tray and/or a dough bowl and maybe a small crate or bin of cookbooks. But my West Elm chalk flower pot will stay- and hopefully so will the lone surviving plants from the grouping Joe got me for Mother's Day. (What's the opposite of a green thumb? Because that's what I have). So it's not complete but it's a start!
Unfortunately the Hobby Lobby pieces aren't available online but I've included the Pottery Barn pieces and some affordable options below so that you can create your own command center!


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Home Racing News Gibbs beats Jones to win Xfinity at Martinsville
Gibbs beats Jones to win Xfinity at Martinsville
Ty Gibbs took no prisoners Saturday with a winning run that dramatically changed the makeup of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship 4 field.
On the final lap of the third overtime attempt, Gibbs rammed soon-to-be former teammate Brandon Jones so hard that the contact damaged the hood of Gibbs' No. 54 Toyota.
A look at the finish of Saturday's race at @MartinsvilleSwy. #NASCARPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/QzJGs9y4js
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The contact sent Jones, who had led the previous lap, into the outside wall in Turns 1 and 2, and Gibbs was leading when NASCAR called the race's 14th caution for the crash.
By then, Gibbs had already clinched one of the two remaining spots in Round 4 of the championship, but the bulldozing move denied Jones the opportunity to challenge for the title next Saturday at Phoenix Raceway.
As boos rang out from the stands, Gibbs had no regrets about his tactics, which earned him his sixth race win of the season, his first at Martinsville and 10th in 50 Xfinity Series starts.
"It certainly wasn't a clean move," Gibbs said. "I definitely didn't want to crash him, but I definitely wanted to move him out of the groove so I could go win it. I felt like we lost the spring race getting emotional from him.
"He's my teammate, but I definitely want to win here. It is important to win. And now we go to the championships. That's cool. I hope I won't be hit with cans or anything else.
"We got pulled off the road earlier this year, so that's part of it."
Jones won the pole and led 98 laps to Gibbs' 102, but finished 23rd, the last driver on the lead lap.
"I know Ty enough that he doesn't care what he did," said Jones, who will move to JR Motorsports next season. "He's pretty much, well… he wasn't 'quite' – he was shut down in the next round. So really, what did it do?
"I don't really understand this step. I understand trying to be aggressive – you want to win the race. But to just destroy a race car, I don't see it. I don't get any pleasure out of it. Maybe it does. Maybe he likes to win like that? But I've never felt and have never felt strong in racing like that. So let's take it and go."
Jones' misfortune pushed veteran Justin Allgaier, his soon-to-be JR Motorsports teammate, into the Championship Final 4. Jones needed a win to clinch a spot, but Allgaier was able to move up in the points, which he did with a 12-point advantage over regular season champion AJ Allmendinger.
Allgeier finished fifth and Allmendinger 16th after contact between their cars clipped Allmendinger's left rear tire as the drivers played bumper and swapped places in the closing stages of the race. Allgaier was happy to move on, but not thrilled with how it went.
"I can't even describe it," Allgaier said. "Unfortunately, it's gotten to the point where, unfortunately, it's easier to drive past someone than to drive past them. Really proud of our team. We never gave up until the checkered flag fell. Had a lot of damage (from a collision on lap 262 in the second overtime), but made it to the final round."
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After the race, Allmendinger sought out Allgaier on pit road and congratulated him.
"You get to the end, (Allmendinger) was very pushy," Allgeier said. "He decided to run into us enough times that you got to the point where you had to go for it. When he turned left, he knew we were going to hit.
"I hate it for these guys. I don't know if we would have been able to run 25 laps fighting as hard as we did at the end. They had a great season. We had a great season. It's so hard when it comes down to the last race, especially at a place like Martinsville."
Gibbs and Allgaier will battle for the series championship in Phoenix against Josh Berry and Noah Gregson, who earned their spots in the Championship 4 with respective wins in Las Vegas and Homestead-Miami in the round of 16.
Non-playoff drivers Sheldon Creed and Riley Herbst finished second and third after a close battle late in the race, followed by the JR Motorsports trio of Gregson, Allgaier and Sam Meyer. Nick Sanchez, Daniel Hemrick, Austin Hill and Blaine Perkins rounded out the top 10.
Along with Allmendinger and Jones, Hill and Mayer were eliminated from the playoffs.
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Guardalavaca is a town in the Holguín Province of Cuba. It is a tourist location due to its white sandy beaches and warm waters.
It is located on the northern shore of Cuba, bordering Bahia Naranjo (Orange Bay), on Cabo Lucrecia, and is part of the municipality of Banes. Beaches in Guardalavaca include Guardalavaca Beach, Playa Esmeralda, Don Lino and Bahia de Naranjo.
"Guardalavaca" literally means "keep the cow" in Spanish. The local farmers of latter days were targeted by pirates - the area has reasonable grazing land and the pirates were after the cattle grazing in the area. As pirates were spotted the local farmers would shout, "Guardalavaca" - hence the area's name - keep the cow. The Cuban government has attempted on several occasions to change the name of the area as they deem it not to be very appealing; they have so far been unsuccessful.


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Home NEWS SPORTS NEWS Badgers slide back to No. 9 in AP top-25 poll
Badgers slide back to No. 9 in AP top-25 poll
The Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team dropped one spot to No. 9 in the latest Associated Press top-25 poll, released Monday.
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Wisconsin improved to 10-2 after defeating Indiana 80-73 in double overtime Thursday. It was the Badgers' only contest of the past week.
After taking down Minnesota on Wednesday, undefeated Michigan (10-0) passed up Wisconsin in the rankings, sliding up three spots to No. 7 overall.
The Badgers and Wolverines collide at 6 p.m. Tuesday night at the Crisler Center.
Elsewhere in the poll, Gonzaga and Baylor remain atop for the seventh consecutive week in the regular season.
The Zags received 63 of 64 first-place votes from a national media panel, and the Bears had the other one. Villanova, Texas and Iowa rounded out a top 5 that remained the same from last week.
Gonzaga (12-0) had two games last week and turned both into routs, beating BYU 86-69 and Portland 116-88. The Zags have won 16 straight, dating to last season.
Baylor (11-0) beat Oklahoma and TCU last week to hold at No. 2.
No. 25 Connecticut moved into the poll for the first time since reaching No. 18 in 2016-17.
Ohio State returned to the rankings at No. 21, while Rutgers and Florida State tumbled out from Nos. 15 and 25.
AP TOP 25 POLL — WEEK 8 (released Jan. 11)
RANK TEAM PV RANK
1 Gonzaga (12-0) 1
2 Baylor (11-0) 2
3 Villanova (8-1) 3
4 Texas (10-1) 4
5 Iowa (11-2) 5
6 Kansas (10-2) 6
7 Michigan (10-0) 10
8 Creighton (10-2) 7
9 Wisconsin (10-2) 8
10 Tennessee (9-1) 9
11 Houston (10-1) 11
12 Clemson (9-1) 19
13 West Virginia (9-4) 14
14 Illinois (9-4) 12
15 Texas Tech (10-3) 18
16 Louisville (8-1) NR
17 Missouri (7-2) 13
18 Virginia (7-2) 22
19 Duke (5-2) 21
20 Virginia Tech (9-2) 19
21 Ohio State (9-3) NR
22 Oregon (9-2) 17
23 Minnesota (10-4) 16
24 St. Louis (7-1) 23
25 Connecticut (6-1) NR
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>1. Kitty Flynn has tracked down some more James Marshall material from our archives.
The Foundation for Children's Books presents a panel discussion "What Happens Next in Children's Books? On Tuesday evening, January 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Vanderslice Hall, Boston College. Roger Sutton, editor-in-chief of the Horn Book, talks with a panel of senior editors from publishers small, medium and large–Judy O'Malley of Charlesbridge Publishing, Elizabeth Bicknell of Candlewick Press and Margaret Raymo of Houghton Mifflin–about the changing nature of publishing books for children and youth. Topics will include the reign of fat fantasy, the decline in picture books, and the future of the new kid on the block: graphic novels.
Please join us for what promises to be a stimulating evening. At-door registration is $15. For more information, including directions and other events in our evening speaker series, please visit our website at www.thefcb.org.
3. Watch my head explode over at Seven Impossible Things before Breakfast.
>Oh …. if only to be at Boston College and attending this panel discussion. Be sure to give us the scoop tomorrow in regards to the decline in picture books (really?) and the future of graphic novels (not necessarily for kids!). Inquiring minds.
Maybe a podcast of the event?
So, you want to be a weather man? Interesting, very interesting.
>Roger, any thoughts on what your committee's excellent decision means for the Wilder speech at the Newbery/Caldecott banquet? I know some hope this means a shorter evening…but I'm rather hoping for good speech by a Marshall aficianado…someone, perhaps, like Maurice Sendak?
And you will, of course, be coming as George?
>As head-explosions go, it's fairly entertaining.
Thanks for submitting to our interview. Really, though… you like ALL sounds?
>I love the adulation they're giving you, and agree with it all. Roger, I can't get through a day without checking your blog several times, always hoping for fresh (as in new, but sort of as in the other way, too) words from you.
>So, if we're bored and in Boston tomorrow, a panel on the decline in picture books and the future of graphic novels. I dunno. The next round of auditions on American Idol sounds more unpredictable. It's all so cyclical. Remember when YA fiction was dead?
>Whew, thanks Jeanne B. It's good to know I'm not the only one who checks back here a couple of times a day to read post comments and hope for a new entry.
>If that doesn't beat all. I just read a bio of James Marshall and learned that he got the idea for Martha and George because he was lying in a hammock outside his house one day, and heard the TV inside, on which his mother was watching "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" and the voices started those wonderful books off.
For such a dreary movie to have helped spawn such hilarious books… Marshall's the best. I'm so glad he was honored this year.
>The long fantasy novels – it's because of computers. Soon you will see longer novels of all kinds. Longhand manuscripts induced longer wordier books. Typewriters made for shorter manuscripts because too much of a pain to edit too much and took too long to get final product out. There's only so long one can stay with a ms without being driven crazy. Longhand didn't get edited so time span was about the same as shorter edited typed book. But computers, ah, comuters, fast to write, easy to edit, speed speed speed makes for run on thoughts and ideas and dont have to worry about staying with the book forever stuck in same book hell because so fast to edit. Only person who can bear to stay with book forever is Shirley Hazzard. Everyone else wants to move on which can do with speedy cmputers, write long novels, edit fast, leave big clunking book with no regard for poor reader who may want to move on himself but should have thought of that before picking up big clunking book. If all computers died and writers had to go back to typewriters, would have shorter books again, guarantee.
>And I know you're asking, yeah, but why FANTASIES so long in particular. Because those writers seriously kinked. Novels with ideas – only so long you can go on until idea exhausted. Content controls form to some extent. But fantasy writers mostly there to play in head and can continue to play in head endlessly if allowed and computers allow it.
>This also accounts for the dearth of middle reader novels and the number of YA instead because its easier to write longer books and if its that much longer one thinks this should be YA, a ten year old wont have that kind of attention span and so the heroines get older as well. And that leads librarians to despair of the lack of middle reader novels which accounts for this years newbery picks and four honor books because when librarians say they want more middle reader novels what they mean is chiefly what was picked, heroine of an age, books of alength, their message whether they knew it or not was, you write 'em, we'll sticker 'em. Computers have so much to answer for.
>Reader attention span has much to do with book quality and reader interest level. Recent Harry Potter books (Half Blood Prince @ 652 pages)were huge and did not seem to stop children from reading them.
I must respectfully disagree with the last anonymous comment regarding what librarians want and middle reader novels. Readers are more sophisticated than in years past in regard to topic and length. I am not sure the output of published middle reader novels have kept up with the readership demand. I don't disagree that the Newbery novels did fit in with a certain criteria and lacked diversity, but that does not take away from the quality of the literature.
>And watch my eyes glaze over at the intro. Zzzzzzzz….
>actually those long novels were coming in before computers – even before xerox. the boys were TYPING their mss. with CARBON PAPER, if anyone remembers that antique product.


April, 1899. After a year of mourning her philandering husband, Reggie, American heiress Frances Wynn, Countess of Harleigh was finally able to leave the crumbling family manor and money-grubbing in-laws to start a new life for herself and her young daughter in London, just in time to sponsor her younger sister Lily Price for her first London Season. When Inspector Delaney of the Metropolitan Police informed her that her husband's death was being investigated as a possible murder, she turned to her new neighbor and brother of her best friend, George Hazelton for support.
Then a string of mysterious burglaries, a murder in her garden, and a clumsy attempt on her life convinced Frances that one of her sister's aristocratic suitors might not be whom he claimed to be, and a killer was in their midst.
A suggested read-alike : A Useful Woman, the first in the Rosalind Thorne series by Darcie Wilde (a pseudonym for Sarah Zettel) is inspired by Jane Austen's works. It introduces a charming and resourceful heroine,&nbsp privy to the secrets of high society—including who among the ton is capable of murder.
All AADL locations will be closed on Monday, September 3 for Labor Day.
Regular hours resume on Tuesday, September 4.
This fun and surprising story follows a rabbit as it walks out from its local public library, its nose buried deep in a book. Tension grows as it learns about the most terrifying thing a rabbit can imagine: WOLVES!!
Emily Gravett's clever illustrations and unique story-telling style are sure to keep your little one entertained. While it's definitely designed to create a feeling of suspense, this fantastic picture book is just the right amount of scary for young children. Will Rabbit realize the danger in time? There is only one way for you to find out. You'll find the answer in our youth picture book section.
Do you have children starting kindergarten this year? Older kids going back to school? Well, here are some books to read to get you in the back-to-school-spirit.
By searching our public lists, I found a wonderful collection of Back To School books.
London, 1940. Emmeline Lake, typist by day and a volunteer telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services by night, answered a want-ad for a "junior" at London Evening Chronicle, finally realizing her dream to be a lady war correspondent. In actual fact, she was hired as a junior typist for Mrs. Henrietta Bird, the advice columnist of a weekly women's magazine in the same building. Emmeline could almost overlook the overbearing and rude Mrs. Bird if not for her long and unreasonable list of UNACCEPTABLE TOPICS that would not be published or responded to. Feeling sorry for these women who were often lonely and faced with difficult decisions, Emmeline began answering their letters in secret.
For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and Chris Cleave's Everyone Brave Is Forgiven.
Louisa Pieper, longtime Ann Arbor Historic Preservation Coordinator, local historian, and friend to the Library passed away on Wednesday, August 15, 2018.
After coming to Ann Arbor in 1968, Louisa spent years with Ann Arbor's Historic District Commission, first as staff director and then as Historic Preservation Coordinator for the last 17 years of her career. In these positions she fought to preserve the fabric of Ann Arbor's past through architecture, helping to establish 12 of the city's Historic Districts. Many of the buildings in these areas would long since have disappeared or been changed beyond recognition were it not for her tireless efforts. She was also a founding member of the Michigan Historic Preservation Network, which works on legislative issues at the state level to protect and restore Michigan's architectural heritage.
On April 14, 1845 the editors of the Signal of Liberty (1841-1848), a weekly Ann Arbor antislavery newspaper, ran an apologetic notice stating that "Last week our whole advertising page was knocked into pi, and we were obliged to insert some advertisements in two places, while others did not appear at all." While twenty-first-century readers may wonder whether they dropped the page into someone's dessert (or a geometric formula), the term meant something quite different to a nineteenth-century printer. Newspapers such as the Signal of Liberty relied on a laborious technique of arranging individual pieces of cast metal type into lines, columns, and page-sized "forms" before they could be inked and pressed. Types became "pied" if they were mixed up, dropped, or otherwise jumbled to the extent that each letter and punctuation mark had to be manually resorted into cases before the printer could resume composing. For a whole page of a 4-page issue to be "knocked into pi"—that's up to 56,000 pieces of type!—was quite a disaster, indeed.
Second acts for 2 chef/entrepreneurs; a glimpse into the fine-dining industry; and a delight for foodies.
The first in a food-centered series, The Saturday Night Supper Club by RITA Award winner Carla Laureano opens with the hectic kitchen scene at Paisley, one of Denver's hottest fine-dining restaurants under Chef Rachel Bishop. When a negative review and a subsequent editorial went viral, she was forced out by her business partners.
Guilty and contrite over his part in the whole debacle, essayist Alex Kanin wanted nothing more than a chance to help rebuild Rachel's career, and urged Rachel into using his gorgeous loft apartment to host an exclusive supper club. As the pair worked together closely, they found their interest in each other was more than business.
The Booklist reviewer called Hot Mess * by Emily Belden, "an exhilarating debut...(f)ull of heart, heat, and passion".
Badge Drop #9: Finally!! A Badge Drop Post with REAL and IMPORTANT CONTENT!
It's crazy to think that this time two months ago, Summer Game was just a twinkle in our eye and now we are ALL THE WAY IN at badge drop NINE!
And we know that by the time badge brop number NINE rolls around, many of you have run out of energy to read these EXCESSIVELY ENTHUSIASTIC posts! We're GRATEFUL for this, because we have almost run out of energy to WRITE these posts! We tapped our reserves of BEAR and TREE and WOOD JOKES weeks ago, but THAT'S OKAY because we know that it's incredibly unlikely that you'll even bother to glance at this OBNOXIOUSLY DENSE paragraph before you commence CLICKING FRANTICALLY through the catalog in search of CODES! We're pretty sure that by AUGUST no one will BOTHER TO CHECK whether we write real words or, for example, just a series of nonsense phrases, like LOG your UNDERWEAR! REVIEWS are WALLABIES! PANTS for CANADA!!! As long as we display the RIGHT amount of UPPER CASE ENTHUSIASM, we are ALMOST POSITIVE that no one will even NOTICE that we have said NEXT TO NOTHING in this ENTIRE POST! In fact, we hope if we keep BOMBARDING YOU with EXCLAMATION POINTS that you will simply GIVE UP on finishing this LONG-WINDED NOVELLA and HAPPILY SETTLE for a THINLY-VEILED DISTRACTION!!
Hey, look over there! It's BADGES!
That's IT! I mean, we would be HAPPY to write more nonsense things for you--like, RATE your DALAI LAMA! CODES are MAYONNAISE! SHOP plus SOUP equals SHOUP!--but we are pretty sure our EXCELLENT distraction has worked and you are already in the CATALOG, searching for CODES and thinking about how ADORABLE it is that your Summer Game Makers are still bothering to write stuff in their badge drop posts AT ALL!
With so many new, buzzed-about books coming out all the time, it can be easy to forget about the oldies but goodies. In Throwback Thursday, we celebrate some of the books that are just as enjoyable now as they were when they were written years ago. This week, we take a look at Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo's 1993 novel, Nobody's Fool.
I was a little skeptical when my partner first recommended Nobody's Fool to me, partly because it's a somewhat daunting tome—the copy I have comes in at just under 550 pages—and partly because he said about Donald Sullivan, the main character: "He's a dirtbag with a heart of gold—you'll love him." Within the first ten pages of the book, however, I was drawn in by Russo's amazing dexterity with words and his incredibly personable, full characters.
Within days of his apparent suicide (a string of live Christmas lights in the hot tub), Hazel Severy receives a cryptic message from her adopted grandfather, the renowned mathematical genius Isaac Severy, urging her to track down his last equation, safeguard it from a shadowy organization determined to profit from it, all without seeking help from the extended Severy family, including her brother Gregory, a LAPD detective.
Hazel, the owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore feels ill-equipped for the task until she stumbles unto an unlikely ally, but not before death claims 2 more members of the Severy family.
It's CLASSIC SHOP DROP #2: TOYS!
It's Friday at 7 PM, and that means another CLASSIC SHOP DROP! We've got a handful of great toys from the DEEP and MEANINGFUL history of the Summer Game Shop for you to spend your CLASSIC SHOP BALANCE on! Plus, items from Classic Shop Drop #1 that are still available have been INCREMENTALLY MARKED DOWN! Whether you draw inferences about future events from this ocurrence is entirely up to you. (Inferences not included.) So, head over to the very bottom of the Summer Game Shop, and GET SHOPPING!
Badge Drop #8: Let's Review!
What, dear Summer Gamers, has this summer brought us? Let's review!
There's been BUNCHES of badges, PILES of points, prizes of ALL sizes, pun FUN, games with GOBLINS, and LOADS of codes!!!
It's also brought REAMS of reviews, and next week, it will bring us something new!!!
This AMAZING tool will allow you - YES, YOU - to rate other players' reviews to help us determine what's HELPFUL and also to weed out the rubbish. Should we REVIEW what makes a review helpful?
Title: Summer Game, Heck Yes!
Review: The Summer Game is so great! I like finding codes at the branches but the badges are super fun too!
Here's the best review advice of all - if you're not sure if your review is good and helpful, just WRITE SOME MORE! More helps!
And now, let's get to those badges!!
Stay tuned for a SHOP DROP this evening! We'll see you in the comments, and the reviews, and the Review Reviewer (coming next week!), and the libraries, Summer Gamers!
And as always, THANKS FOR PLAYING!!!!!!!
When you need points and summertime seems so pointless you can always go DOWNTOWN! When you need points, all the codes in the joints seem to help, I know. DOWNTOWN.
DOWNTOWN! Things will be GREAT when you're DOWNTOWN! No finer place for sure: DOWNTOWN! EVERYTHING'S WAITING FOR YOU!
Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there's Stamps Gallery DOWNTOWN! Maybe you know some little places to go to like the Art Center DOWNTOWN!
DOWNTOWN! Take a quick walk around DOWNTOWN! Where all the codes are found! DOWNTOWN! This joke has run aground...DOWNTOWN! DOWNTOWN! DOWNTOWN!
The Summer List * by Amy Mason Doan.
Seventeen years after fleeing her home in Coeur-de-Lune, Laura Christie is lured into returning to this small lakeside town by an invitation from Alex, her estranged friend Casey Shepard's free-spirited mother with the promise of one last scavenger hunt.
The Queen of Hearts, Kimmery Martin's debut is "a medical drama executed with just the right balance of intensity, plot twists, tragedy, and humor." Narrated in turns by pediatric cardiologist Zadie Anson and trauma surgeon Emma Colley who remain each other's best friend through college, med school, tragedies and heartbreaks while balancing demanding careers and growing families.
But when Dr. Nick Xenokostas re-enters their lives, Zadie's brief but complicated relationship with Nick forces the women to grapple with a potentially friendship-ending secret.
Badge Drop #6: Pre-Shop Drop!
It's SHOP DAY! Not like, right this second, but SOON! It will be GRAND! It will be OPEN! It will be a GRAND OPENING!
Dying to know what to expect in the new and improved Summer Game Shop? Enjoy this handy-dandy post that just happens to be All About the All-New Summer Game Shop!
Please enjoy some fresh-baked BADGES while you wait!
And don't forget that the Goblin Game is AFOOT! Visit any (or all!) of the branches to take on the challenge and untangle those goblin riddles!
If you're prone to crying when reading a touching story, then do not read the end of Lisa Genova's Every Note Played in a public place. If you're like me, you will be reading through blurry eyes as you wipe away tears. Genova's latest book is like her others, Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony and Inside the O'Briens, in that she writes about a neurological disease, this time ALS. Richard is a world famous pianist, divorced from Karina and an absent father to Grace, who is stricken with ALS at the height of his career. When Karina takes on the job as his caretaker, a story of forgiveness and self realization for both characters emerges.
With the San Francisco Michelin-starred restaurant closing abruptly, sommelier Kate Elliott was at loose ends. Anxious over her upcoming final try (she failed twice) at the Master of Wine Examination, she returned to the vineyard in Burgundy that has belonged to her mother's family for generations, intent on bolstering her shaky knowledge of Burgundian vintages. The domaine is now run by her cousin Nico and his wife Heather, Kate's UC Berkeley roommate and best friend, who recruited Kate to help clear out the enormous farmhouse cellar. Behind an armoire, Kate discovered a bricked-up cave filled with valuable wine, her great-aunt Helene's diary written during the Nazi Occupation, and eventually, the family's buried secret.
"(A) charismatic blend of mystery, romance, and post-WWII French history... Mah's engaging story resonates on many levels and will appeal to readers who enjoy the family sagas of Kate Morton and Kristin Hannah." (Booklist) In the Author's Note, Mah suggests A Train In Winter: An extraordinary story of women, friendship, and Resistance In Occupied France for the often forgotten role of French women during the war; and Agnès Humbert's memoir, Résistance : A woman's journal of struggle and defiance In Occupied France that deeply influenced the character of Helene.
After her mother had a stroke, Tessa Fontaine felt the need to do something brave with her life. Worried about losing her mom, but inspired by the lively, fearless, pre-stroke woman she remembered, Fontaine left behind her mother and step-father to join a traveling sideshow, one of the last remaining, The World of Wonders. After taking an introductory class in fire eating, Fontaine joined up with the show in Florida and spent a season with them, eating fire, charming snakes, swallowing swords, setting up and taking down the show and meeting and befriending a varied group of "geeks." She chronicles this incredible journey in The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts. Alternating chapters between memories and stories of her mother before and after her stroke, and life on the road with The World of Wonders, Fontaine delivers an enthralling, moving, unusual coming-of-age type tale that is ultimately a tribute to her radiant, strong mother.
This week features the all-new LOG MASTER series! With the Log Master series, you get a badge and a bump for every 10 days you log something.
You HAVE been visiting your My Player page every day and logging your reading, watching, and listening (and getting your 50 daily bonus points), right? NO?? IT'S OKAY, no need to start pining for earlier days of summer and wishing you'd started logging sooner: you've still got time to log enough days to make it to SUPREME LOG MASTER status! We know you can do it! You just need to find your log-a-rhythm and then you can really get your grove on and start scoring!!
And, as a bonus this week, CATALOG RATINGS HAVE MADE THEIR TRIUMPHANT RETURN!! Time for all players to branch out from writing reviews and get to rating all of those things you loved (or things you only kinda liked). Stumped on what to rate? Try rooting through your checkout history!
Let's take a look at the drop!
Maybe some of you have started to feel like Summer Game 2018 is just a day at the beech, sitting at your plum spots atop the leaderboard. Our advice to you is: don't be a sap! With a badge drop like this, other players can start running rings around you anytime and where would THAT leave you?
The Balcony * by Jane Delury, a novel in 10 interconnected stories (some previously published), is a "breathtaking century-spanning portrait of the inhabitants of a French village, revealing the deception, despair, love, and longing beneath the calm surface of ordinary lives." ~ Jennifer Egan.
Readers are first introduced to the Léger country estate just outside Paris in 1992, through the eyes of American au pair Brigitte who found herself falling for Hugo, a tortured academic who was about to take up a teaching position at an East Coast college. The narratives came full circle in the last story when we meet Brigitte's young charge as an adult. In between, we followed intimately a century of inhabitants of the manor and the servant's cottages - from a courtesan who threw herself off the titular balcony; a Jewish couple in hiding from the Gestapo; to the village schoolmaster and a hero of the Resistance, who bullied his own family, while bearing witness to layers of family secrets and generations of human drama.
WHAT'S UP, SUMMER GAMERS?? Seriously, what is up? This is a test, and yes, spelling counts. Luckily, it's multiple choice. So, spelling won't really count.
D) Beautiful banners borne by branch buildings!
And the answer, intrepid gamers? Ah HA! You guessed it. You are too clever!
E) ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!!!!
Let us return for a moment to multiple choice option C: Badges! A brand new batch of brilliant badges are ready and waiting for you to DECIPHER their riddles, ABSORB their unusual facts, and CHORTLE at their wordplay. This week's badge drop brings you PANDAS! PUFFERS! PARKS!
This week's badge drop also gives you PURPOSE. No, not a reason to live (though Summer Game is an excellent reason to live) but a PURPOSE to go visit Zingerman's Bakehouse and Food Gatherers!
Now then, let us return for another moment to the pop quiz. Multiple choice options A: The sun! and B: The temperature! are NO JOKE!
It's gonna be HOT, hot as the fury of a summer gamer who missed a program code by 10 minutes. Temperatures are rising like POINT TALLIES around here!
Enter multiple choice option D: Beautiful banners borne by branch buildings! No better time to make a grand tour of AADL buildings and COOL OFF COLLECTING CODES!!!!
Let's close things out with one last pop quiz.
True or false: THANKS FOR PLAYING!!!!!!!!!!!
All AADL locations will be closed on Wednesday, July 4.
Regular Library hours will resume on Thursday, July 5.
The Ensemble * * * by Aja Gabel is an intimate look at the high-stakes, cutthroat world of classical music and what it takes to survive.
The 4 members of the Van Ness String Quartet met as students at the SF Conservatory of Music. They would never have been friends but were imperfectly bound to one another for their love of playing together. Jana, the first violin is a natural leader, "flinty"and driven; Daniel, a viola prodigy, has the making of (and the constant temptation to become) a soloist; Brit, the second violin, quiet and steadfast, suffers from her on-again, off-again relationship with cellist Henry, the oldest of the group - an angry skeptic who sleeps around. Over the next 2 decades, they stayed together in the face of professional temptations, dueling egos, rivalries, injuries, and bad judgment. Along the way, they also managed to become husbands, wives, and parents, and ultimately, a family.
Julián LOVES mermaids. In her book about him, Jessica Love uses colorful, dramatic illustrations to show us how Julián sees and imagines mermaids in the world around him. While he is swimming with his grandmother, he envisions his own transformation into one of these beautiful, aquatic beings. He tells his grandmother he is a mermaid and then sets off to create a costume worthy of the picture in his mind's eye. When his grandmother finds him, he fears she will be angry, but instead she offers him the perfect accessory to complete his ensemble. Then she proudly shows-off her spectacular mermaid of a grandson to everyone. Love's book warmly conveys a message of acceptance and individuality. Enticed by her detailed, vibrant images, readers will celebrate Julián and his loving grandmother.
Donald Hall, one of the last major poets of his generation, former University of Michigan professor, and 14th Poet Laureate of the United States, died June 23 on his farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire, where he'd been in declining health.
Last year, AADL celebrated Hall's poem "Eating the Pig" with a website chronicling in poetry, prose, photographs, and paintings the now-famous Ann Arbor literary dinner that inspired his poem.
Listen to Donald Hall reading his poem "Eating the Pig."
Jett is angry. He has just finished a "rotten bad year," which involved his father being sent to prison and Jett starting a new school in a new town where his one friend is the class bully. To escape the remnants of this rotten time, Jett leaves home to spend the summer with his grandmother, a funny, wise, bright blue-haired, understanding source of relief. In Ebb & Flow, Heather Smith's middle-grade novel in free verse, Jett and his grandmother trade stories, Jett hesitant at first to spill his secrets. The reason for his father's imprisonment weighs heavily on Jett, but through the gentle care of his grandmother, Jett is able to return to kindness and head toward forgiveness. Jett comes to realize that it's possible to love someone without conditions and that his own wrong-doings don't define him. Using sparse but poetic language, Smith creates realistic, relatable characters who tell an emotional and powerful story.
It's the second badge drop but it might already be too much! As we are writing this post, you have already earned 17,374,510 points in this year's Summer Game! And we've only been in the second week of Summer Game 2018 for couple of hours! There've been over 1.1 MILLION points scored JUST TODAY! If that doesn't make you do a double-take, we don't know what will!
You might be tempted to think that a couple of players just decided to double their efforts or grew another pair of hands, but it isn't just that! 4,337 players have scored points so far this year. That's not double digits, that DOUBLE double digits! Again, let me say it a second time, THE SECOND WEEK OF SUMMER GAME 2018 HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN.
Oh no, I thought as I lifted the book of the hold shelf. I'm not sure what I expected from a book entitled 1,500 Stretches, but for some reason I didn't expect it to weigh five and a half pounds. (Make sure you've got a light load and a sturdy bag before taking this one home.) Hollis Liebman's new book, 1,500 Stretches: the Complete Guide to Flexibility and Movement is pretty much what it says on the tin. Liebman opens with a brief introduction on the benefits on stretching, but after that, the book is nothing but pictures and descriptions of stretches.
Daunting as it was, I dove in anyway. I've spent a lot of time flipping the book open and just trying the stretches. Results vary from, "Nope, no way this is happening" to "Oh wow, this is surprisingly easy!" It's been fun to move my body in new ways, see what my abilities are, and push myself further. If you are looking for a book that will help you build a stretching routine, be prepared to do the work yourself. Liebman gives no specific advice about how sequence the stretches or how to use basic stretches to build up to more advanced ones. But, if you're willing to experiment, the book provides the raw materials to create an almost infinite number of sequences.


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"""
Print detailed information about a process.

Author: Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola@gmail.com>
"""

import datetime
import os
import socket
import sys

import psutil
from cStringIO import StringIO

from scouter.lang.pack import *
from scouter.lang.value import *

def convert_bytes(n):
    symbols = ('K', 'M', 'G', 'T', 'P', 'E', 'Z', 'Y')
    prefix = {}
    for i, s in enumerate(symbols):
        prefix[s] = 1 << (i + 1) * 10
    for s in reversed(symbols):
        if n >= prefix[s]:
            value = float(n) / prefix[s]
            return '%.1f%s' % (value, s)
    return "%sB" % n

def print_(a, b, result):
    #if sys.stdout.isatty() and os.name == 'posix':
     #   fmt = '\x1b[1;32m%-17s\x1b[0m %s' % (a, b)
    #else:
    fmt = '%-15s %s' % (a, b)
    result.write(fmt + '\n')
    # python 2/3 compatibility layer
    #sys.stdout.write(fmt + '\n')
    #sys.stdout.flush()

def run(pid, result):
    ACCESS_DENIED = ''
    try:
        p = psutil.Process(pid)
        pinfo = p.as_dict(ad_value=ACCESS_DENIED)
    except psutil.NoSuchProcess:
        result.write('No Such Process')
        return

    try:
        if p.parent:
            parent = '(%s)' % p.parent.name
        else:
            parent = ''
    except psutil.Error:
        parent = ''
    started = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(
        pinfo['create_time']).strftime('%Y-%M-%d %H:%M')
    io = pinfo.get('io_counters', ACCESS_DENIED)
    mem = '%s%% (resident=%s, total=%s, virtual=%s) ' % (
        round(pinfo['memory_percent'], 1),
        convert_bytes(pinfo['memory_info'].rss),
        convert_bytes(psutil.virtual_memory().total),
        convert_bytes(pinfo['memory_info'].vms))
    children = p.get_children()

    print_('pid', pinfo['pid'], result)
    print_('name', pinfo['name'], result)
    print_('exe', pinfo['exe'], result)
    print_('parent', '%s %s' % (pinfo['ppid'], parent), result)
    print_('cmdline', ' '.join(pinfo['cmdline']), result)
    print_('started', started, result)
    print_('user', pinfo['username'], result)
    if os.name == 'posix' and pinfo['uids'] and pinfo['gids']:
        print_('uids', 'real=%s, effective=%s, saved=%s' % pinfo['uids'], result)
    if os.name == 'posix' and pinfo['gids']:
        print_('gids', 'real=%s, effective=%s, saved=%s' % pinfo['gids'], result)
    if os.name == 'posix':
        print_('terminal', pinfo['terminal'] or '', result)
    if hasattr(p, 'getcwd'):
        print_('cwd', pinfo['cwd'], result)
    print_('memory', mem, result)
    print_('cpu', '%s%% (user=%s, system=%s)' % (
        pinfo['cpu_percent'],
        getattr(pinfo['cpu_times'], 'user', '?'),
        getattr(pinfo['cpu_times'], 'system', '?')), result)
    print_('status', pinfo['status'], result)
    print_('niceness', pinfo['nice'], result)
    print_('num threads', pinfo['num_threads'], result)
    if io != ACCESS_DENIED:
        print_('I/O', 'bytes-read=%s, bytes-written=%s' % (
            convert_bytes(io.read_bytes),
            convert_bytes(io.write_bytes)), result)
    if children:
        print_('children', '', result)
        for child in children:
            print_('', 'pid=%s name=%s' % (child.pid, child.name), result)

    if pinfo['open_files'] != ACCESS_DENIED:
        print_('open files', '', result)
        for file in pinfo['open_files']:
            print_('',  'fd=%s %s ' % (file.fd, file.path), result)

    if pinfo['threads']:
        print_('running threads', '', result)
        for thread in pinfo['threads']:
            print_('',  'id=%s, user-time=%s, sys-time=%s' % (
                thread.id, thread.user_time, thread.system_time), result)
    if pinfo['connections'] != ACCESS_DENIED:
        print_('open connections', '', result)
        for conn in pinfo['connections']:
            if conn.type == socket.SOCK_STREAM:
                type = 'TCP'
            elif conn.type == socket.SOCK_DGRAM:
                type = 'UDP'
            else:
                type = 'UNIX'
            lip, lport = conn.laddr
            if not conn.raddr:
                rip, rport = '*', '*'
            else:
                rip, rport = conn.raddr
            print_('',  '%s:%s -> %s:%s type=%s status=%s' % (
                lip, lport, rip, rport, type, conn.status), result)

def process(param):
    result=StringIO()
    pid = param.getInt("pid")
    run(pid, result)
    pack = MapPack()
    pack.putStr("result", result.getvalue())
    result.close()
    return pack

def main(argv=None):
    result=StringIO()
    if argv is None:
        argv = sys.argv
    if len(argv) == 1:
        sys.exit(run(os.getpid(), result))
    elif len(argv) == 2:
        sys.exit(run(int(argv[1]), result))
    else:
        print "invalid argv length"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main())