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human advocacy by mcdonalized organizations.
separate its features through the use of the cultural diamond (Wendy Griswold 2005).
globalization and the emergence of a tendency to a direct management of public affairs.
expression of the people's sovereignty.
instance, the people of United States, on which it has based its nation.
together with their cultural background and their experience of day-to-day life.
the process of McDonaldization cannot overall avoid the agency of individuals.
globalization, thereby leaving open the possibility of multiple images of globalization.
are able to give and receive what they want to, in a certain manner and in a certain time.
of emulation that tends towards isomorphism, and for a variety of ends.
characteristic of the healthy democracies.
bribes to the highest public authorities, the so-called Tangentopoli (Bribesbury) scandal.
unconstitutional by the end of 2013.
competitive abroad, a tough challenge to re-legitimize representative democracy.
higher taxes, and thus its ratio with the GDP.
other in an environment of symbolic uncertainty, and thus did states during the crises.
build rational mathematical models in which to fit irrational actors (human beings).
inflation 'ring' its technocrats must adopt policies aimed to fit it back within its limit.
accusing them to be all part of a giant fraud burdening to the italian's expenses.
seats during the election which came next.
December 31st 2013 "we're going to Europe and we're going to change the Europe".
1400 candidates with a ratio of 24 vote per deputy (Il Fatto Quotidiano 12/07/2012).
political actors who allowed its formation.
exercised through the ancient principle of the agora.
maintain the international cooperation within Europe.
Winter's Global America? The cultural consequences of globalization.
External Literature and official statistics.
- Paul Krugman (2012) - End This Depression Now!, W. W. Norton & Company.
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## The Motivation for this package

You might have a feeling of boring when plot a lot of drafty figures(scatters, contourfs ...) with NCL, matlibplot, or other packages, manually configuring longitude, latitude, levels again and again with codes modified little.

So I provide a wrapper of matlibplot in Julia to plot a drafty figure with one command, once with configuring longitude and latitude once autonomously and without configuring levels most time.

## Examples and Documents
In progress

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Q: Alternative defaults with a different table name Say the original table has DEFAULT nextval('some_sequence'). I'm looking for a way to specify DEFAULT nextval('another_sequence') on a table view/alias so that I can just insert into the alias as usual instead of repeating int_col = nextval('another_sequence') with every insert. In other words, the user/application only needs to be concerned with a table name and not whichever sequence is being used. Is this possible?

A: Found a clean solution thanks to a_horse_with_no_name for the idea and the syntax example set in this answer
CREATE VIEW tbl_view AS
    SELECT * FROM tbl;

ALTER TABLE tbl_view ALTER int_col SET DEFAULT nextval('another_sequence');

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All the time I'm asked about the most effective workouts. Which lifts develop the most mass? Which exercises are most effective for burning fat? Well, as usual, my answer sounds something like, "it depends." It depends on goals, body type, age, and tons of other factors. However, one thing always holds true. Never get comfortable. Whether you're lifting weights, pedaling a Spin® bike, or doing squat jumps, you have to get outside your comfort zone to get better. Too many people do the same thing, with the same weight, for the same length of time, and wonder why they stay the same.Get tired. Get uncomfortable. Do a little bit more than you think you can and soon enough, you'll be doing a lot more than you used to do.


Metal Maniacs spoke with Gary Holt of Exodus about the band's latest album 'Exhibit B: The Human Condition', asking the guitarist if he believed classic thrash is enjoying a revival period. "I think so for sure," Holt said. "We're the guys who have been there from the beginning and we know it best. We all learned from our mistakes, realized things we did wrong on past records, and kept making albums for ourselves and not to please others. I can tell you, when we wrote 'Bonded By Blood', we did that thing because it's what we wanted to hear." Check out the entire interview here.


The success of Vermouth Carpano has far-reaching origins. It was in fact the year 1786 when Antonio Benedetto Carpano created it in Turin. In his winery in front of the Royal Palace, sure of the quality of his product, he decided to send a basket to King Vittorio Amedeo III. He liked it so much that it soon became the aperitif for excellence and the favorite drink of Turineses.
And the story, we know, has led us to this day.
Let's go back to tell the story of this product from the inimitable recipe – also grown thanks to the love and abilities of Fratelli Branca Distillerie – for such a simple and important reason: Vermouth Carpano took part in the process which led to the legal definition of the denomination " Vermouth of Turin ".
As a historical representative of the category, Carpano has supported this project, reaffirming its focus on product quality, territory, and people.
The Institute will, in fact, support, promote and enhance the quality of the Turin Vermouth and its diffusion on markets, including internationals, thanks to the synergistic work of all producers.
In this sense, the close collaboration with the Agricultural Associations, the Department of Agriculture of the Piedmont Region, has been crucial, since they have strongly supported, with the producers, this new life of Vermouth in Piedmont.
Among the founding members are companies the likes of Berto, Bordiga, Del Professore, Carlo Alberto, Chazalettes, Cinzano, Giulio Cocchi, Drapò, Gancia, La Canellese, Martini & Rossi, Mulassano, Sperone, Torino Distillati, Tosti.
The headquarters of the Vermouth Institute in Turin will be in the Piedmont capital, just where it all began.
Do you want to know more? Read the article that the magazine Bargiornale has dedicated to the theme on the May issue.


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Q: how to change tree view node text after label edit? I create a tree view in my form and added some nodes and there child. I enabled the label edit property and make the edit begin in after edit event I write a code to save the label text in my database and after that i disable the label edit. but after all of this I want to change the text of node that its label is edited. I write this code:
Private Sub TreeView1_NodeMouseDoubleClick()
    TreeView1.LabelEdit = True
    TreeView1.SelectedNode.BeginEdit()
End Sub

 Private Sub TreeView1_AfterLabelEdit()
     Dim obj_customers As New Clas1_customers
     Dim Entity As New tblCustomers
     inputText = e.Label
     Entity.C_type= inputText

     obj_customers .Update(Entity)

     TreeView1.LabelEdit = False
     e.Node.Text = e.Label & e.Node.Index
 End Sub

But the node text did not changed at last and only show the label in tree view. What can I do?

A: Private Sub m_pTreeView_AfterLabelEdit(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.NodeLabelEditEventArgs) Handles m_pTreeView.AfterLabelEdit

    e.CancelEdit = True ' Switch OFF standard edit-end and set values manuell.

    If IsNothing(m_pTreeView.SelectedNode) Then Return ' Unknown error - impossible.
    If IsNothing(e.Label) Then Return ' Canceled from user.

    If 1 > e.Label.Length Then ' Set x.Text = F(x.Name)
        m_pTreeView.SelectedNode.Text = "NodeDefaultText_" + m_pTreeView.SelectedNode.Name
    else
        m_pTreeView.SelectedNode.Text = e.Label ' Same as by "standard edit-end"
    End If

End Sub

A: I'd been looking at a solution to label edit problem with treeviews and came out with a workaround.
When you want to edit a label, Treeview creates a textbox and using user32.dll you can get the handle to the dynamically created textbox. You can declare functions and event handlers using this handler.
I preferred, creating an invisible textbox, positioning it as treeview would just do to edit the treenode, therefore using its all methods and event handlers.
Therefore treeview's labeledit properties set to false, just initiating visibility and positioning the textbox over selected node saved me.Below there is sample vb code,
    Private Sub treeview1_NodeMouseDoubleClick(sender As Object, e As TreeNodeMouseClickEventArgs) Handles treeview1.NodeMouseDoubleClick
        ShowLabelTextBox()
    End Sub
Private Sub ShowLabelTextBox()
    Dim x, y As Int32
    x = CInt(treeview1.Bounds.Location.X) + CInt(treeview1.SelectedNode.Bounds.Location.X)
    y = CInt(treeview1.Bounds.Location.Y) + CInt(treeview1.SelectedNode.Bounds.Location.Y)
    LabelTextBox.Text = treeview1.SelectedNode.Text
    LabelTextBox.SetBounds(x, y, LabelTextBox.Width, 8)
    LabelTextBox.Show()
    LabelTextBox.Focus()

    LabelTextBox.SelectAll()

End Sub

Private Sub LabelTextBox_KeyDown(sender As Object, e As KeyEventArgs) Handles LabelTextBox.KeyDown
    'User pressed enter, update treenode
    If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then
            treeview1.SelectedNode.Text = LabelTextBox.Text
            treeview1.Focus()
'user pressed cancel, just leave node as it was
    ElseIf e.KeyCode = Keys.Escape Then
        treeview1.Focus()
    End If

End Sub

Private Sub LabelTextBox_LostFocus(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles LabelTextBox.LostFocus
'User clicked anywhere, just leave everything as it was
    LabelTextBox.Hide()

End Sub

Hope it might help


She didn't enjoy posing for these. "Blah blah, do you know who I am, blah blah, I'm a member of the Dark Council!, blah blah". The only part of this set I don't care for is the waist thing that goes under the sash, but it's part of the chest piece so…/shrug.


The eBook edition of The Second Untrue Trilogy is available under ; to the extent possible under law, Teel McClanahan III has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to The Second Untrue Trilogy, (i.e.: Book Four, Book Five, and Book Six of Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction – Recollections of an Alternate Past), including the cover image.
The Audio version of The Second Untrue Trilogy was recorded and podcast in 2010-2011 as three individual titles on the Modern Evil Podcast and on Podiobooks.com as Book Four, Book Five, and Book Six, in 30 parts (10 per book). The MP3 Audiobook version contains the same basic recordings, but without intro/outro on every file.
The second half of the Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction – Recollections of an Alternate Past series is a journey of discovery that leads from forgotten memories, through bureaucracy beyond imagining, into a world of unknown enemies, and possibly to the point of discovering the life you know is not what you thought.
Brace yourself for a story where it's coming out of rabbit holes that takes you places you've never expected, where enemies can quickly become trusted friends and allies, and where one man's unconditional love for his wife may be able to save humanity and destroy the universe at the same time.
The Second Untrue Trilogy follows Trevor as he gets to know the story behind his exile on Earth, regains his memories while losing something much more precious, then finds a few friends to face off with him against a universe-spanning corporation – only to have to convince them to confront an even worse enemy instead.
This is a trilogy which features a narrative that moves forward by going backward, characters who don't become themselves until they look like someone else, challenges to the nature of the real and the virtual, of gender and identity, and where there are mysteries that won't be finished unravelling until the very last page.
Teel has stated publicly that contrary to what the AIs in charge of the simulation may want you to believe -and to the thoughts they may have implanted into your mind without your knowledge- the Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction series is not based on his own attempts to escape high school by fleeing first the planet and then the universe altogether. A simple fact-check of the true nature of reality against these memoirs should not be seen as a contradiction, when Teel's life bears no resemblance to reality.
Teel would like to remind his readers that even if it were true that they're all only virtual people populating his own private simulated world, a claim he has purported to have refuted time and again, he has no intention of deleting them and their world from existence, out of boredom, on a whim, and without a second look. Teel insists he'd first have to access the simulation at least one more time to retrieve a copy of the Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction series, as he's never made a backup of it in the real world. Then he could delete you.
Book Four picks up at the moment Book Three left off, with Trevor, his wife and daughter he's just met, and his best friend Nirgal having been whisked away from Earth in a space craft and escorted to the captain's office. Most of Book Four is concerned with Toni's explanations of what Trevor's life was like before he was exiled to Earth.
Book Five continues from the very moment Book Four concludes, with Trevor and Toni on their way back to Earth to recruit an army from among the exiles there, first to save Nirgal and Neyal'h from a corporate prison built into the heart of a black hole, then to keep the corporation from ever exiling anyone again.
Book Six continues from the shocking revelation which concluded Book Five, and follows the story of why the simulation was created, how Trevor and Toni found their way inside without its creators' knowledge, through waking everyone up and then on to face the alien forces who wiped out what they thought at the time was the last remnants of humanity.


Pasta night is always an occasion worth celebrating, and this recipe has plenty to cheer about. First there are the fusilli pasta spirals, which bring the fun with their bouncy shape. Then there are the pieces of tender chicken and bites of zucchini, which make things wholesome and hearty. But just in case that wasn't enough, everything gets tossed in a creamy tomato sauce with Parmesan that coats it all in deliciousness.
Wash and dry all produce. Adjust rack to upper position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Trim ends from zucchini, then halve lengthwise. Slice crosswise into ¼-inch-thick half-moons. Halve, peel, and thinly slice onion. Cut tomatoes into 1-inch-thick wedges. Mince garlic.
Toss zucchini and onion on a baking sheet with half the garlic, ½ TBSP Tuscan heat spice (we'll use more in step 4), a large drizzle of olive oil, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Roast in oven until just softened, about 10 minutes. Remove from oven and carefully push slices toward one side of baking sheet.
Toss tomatoes, a large drizzle of olive oil, and a pinch of salt and pepper on empty side of baking sheet. Return to oven and roast until all veggies are browned and tender, 5-7 minutes. Meanwhile, add fusilli to pot of boiling water. Cook until al dente, 10-12 minutes. Reserve 1½ cups pasta cooking water, then drain and set aside.
Heat a large drizzle of olive oil in pot used for pasta over medium-high heat. Add chicken and season with a pinch of salt and pepper and 1 TBSP Tuscan heat spice (save the rest for another use). Cook, stirring occasionally, until browned and cooked through, about 5 minutes.
Add 4 TBSP tomato paste (we sent more) and remaining garlic to pot. Cook, stirring occasionally, until fragrant, 1-2 minutes. Stir in cream cheese and 1 cup pasta cooking water. Add fusilli, veggies, half the Parmesan, and 2 TBSP butter. Stir until well combined. (TIP: Add more pasta cooking water, a little at a time, if needed to achieve a creamy consistency.) Remove from heat; season with salt and pepper.
Divide pasta between bowls. Sprinkle with remaining Parmesan and serve.


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Do you feel that there is too much to do yet you have very little time? Have you ever wished that you had more hours in a day? A Time Management training course from PD Training in Hong Kong can help you overcome these struggles. Although we cannot provide you extra hours in a day, this course teaches you how to prioritise things, and how to divide and consume your time wisely.
This Time Management training course can help you manage your time effectively, overcome procrastination, improve your concentration, deal regular distractions and prioritise tasks. At the end of this training, you will be able to do more work in lesser time, find balance in your life, get on top of your to-do list and feel better about your day.
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Most of us have, at one time or another, felt daunted and overwhelmed by the number of tasks and commitments that have been pushed in our direction. The key to tackling this situation is effective time management.
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One skill that is prevalent in all leaders of repute is time management. People who use these techniques routinely are the highest achievers in all walks of life, from business to sport to public service. Managing time well enables you to be in control of your life; it allows you to act on situations rather than react to situations.
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This Time Management Training course is about doing the right things and doing them better.


Cork Airport has confirmed that long-standing airline partner Aer Lingus will introduce flights to Dubrovnik and Nice from Summer 2019.
The new commitment by Aer Lingus to Cork means that the airline will operate 20 routes from the airport next summer. The new services to Nice and Dubrovnik will be flown twice-weekly using the airline's 174-seat A320s. Services to Nice will commence on 1 May, operating on Wednesdays and Sundays, while Dubrovnik will begin on 4 May, with departures being offered on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
More than 2.4 million passengers will travel through Cork Airport this year, flying to destinations across the UK, Continental Europe and the USA to Boston Providence with Norwegian. Furthermore, along with the announcement is the launch of its year-round services to Lisbon from the city.
The latest news with Aer Lingus comes on the back of a successful few weeks for Cork.
Recently, Ryanair confirmed that for Summer 2019 it will begin flights to Budapest, Malta, Naples and Poznan. On 28 October, it will launch a new five times weekly service to London Luton, with the latter route resulting in capacity to the UK capital growing by 4.1% this winter.
Adding to this, Air France, Cork Airport's new airline partner for 2018, has confirmed it will continue its successful route to Paris CDG into winter, having launched a daily service in May. Its investment in the Cork market means that overall, the capacity to Paris from Cork in Winter 2018/2019 will increase by 71% versus the same period last year, with Air France providing connections to a network of 180 destinations via its hub at Paris CDG.


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Nearly everything around you is covered by copyright and patent law, these are laws which have evolved over the last few hundreds years and now create a massive regulatory burden on our society. At some point we need to ask the question: are these laws really accomplishing the purpose they were created for? We're here to warn you, they're not.
Intellectual property is a legal concept which refers to creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are recognised. Two primary forms of intellectual property exist:
Copyright laws create a monopoly over a creative work. Copyright holders have the right to control use and distribution, and to claim moral ownership.
Patent laws grant monopoly control over the expression of an idea, and rights-holders can prevent others using an idea, or demand fees for licensing it.
These laws were originally intended not only to ensure compensation for the time, energy, and money invested into creation of new ideas and original works, but also to ensure a progressive commons, a cultural centre to our society where everyone has fair access to the latest advances of the sciences, from new inventions and discoveries to access to the latest works in the arts, music, literature and theatre. These laws were enacted hundreds of years ago to increase our access to knowledge, culture, and information while also ensuring a reasonable incentive was there to create and share.
Copyright reform. Because sharing turns content into culture.
Why is there a problem?
Unfortunately, intense lobbying by the monopoly copyright industry has led to a dramatic expansion in the scope of intellectual property laws, and restrictions are beginning to threaten many human and civil rights. The negative effects that have already been observed in Australia include:
Australia now has an internet censorship regime which was legislated in 2016 allowing copyright holders to take down entire domain names without any serious consideration of the collateral damage.
Rights-holders are continuing to demand internet service providers monitor private communications in the name of copyright enforcement, invading personal privacy so they may threaten to disconnect households and families from the internet
Increases in copyright duration and added restrictions to fair use is stunting cultural growth and causing the permanent loss of creative works through the narrowing of the public domain. No creative works will enter the public domain in Australia until 1 January 2025, and only then if copyright lengths are not extended again by legislators and new supposedly free trade agreements, which has happened many times before.
Gene patents ensure private interests are valued over medical research, and enable the imposition of huge costs on sick and dying patients.
The worst example is where intellectual property laws have become a threat to life itself, where drug patent holders use their monopolies rights to demand unaffordable prices for AIDS and cancer treatments, particularly affecting poorer countries, but also the Australian budget through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Putting the balance back in intellectual property law
The creators of this world have lost their rights to middlemen, the publishers and distributors (which we call the copyright industry), while fair and reasonable access to culture has fallen heavily against the public. We are all being denied fair access to the cultural and scientific works of our age. Successful intellectual property laws will allow society to progress, and basic rights to endure, while adequately protecting inventors and creators. Currently most creators aren't getting rich off of their endeavours, although a lot of middlemen rights-holders are, it's time for reform and that is what the Pirate Party is here to do.
Protecting culture and creators
Protection of artists and creators is paramount, as they are the only legitimate beneficiaries of copyright. Changes to copyright have for a long time negatively impacted on creators, as draconian enforcement has caused the general public to lose respect for copyright laws. The Pirate Party supports the decriminalisation of all non-commercial file-sharing and similar practices, as the sharing of culture is an innate human behaviour. For further detail on how file-sharing and respecting creators can be balanced, please see Artists and the Internet (link).
Pirate Party Australia suggests copyright duration should be contained to around 15 years, as this is calculated to be the optimal term to drive maximum creative endeavour. Fair use needs to be protected and creative remixing and reuse of existing content must be allowed.
A patent law to drive innovation
Patent duration and scope needs re-alignment to the fit the reality of the modern world, such as explicit protections for public research, and requirements that patent litigants demonstrate active use of patents as grounds for their legal defence. First principles of patent law (which ban patents on products of nature) should be observed, and patents on organisms and genes overturned. We also support the replacement of pharmaceutical patents with less harmful incentives to engage in pharmaceutical research. The intention is to ensure the rights of the public are balanced with those inventors without whom innovation would stall.

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Gary Hamel Quotes
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Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes—while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
Only after Southwest Airlines became the most profitable airline in America did United and American challenge their long-held assumptions about how to compete. At worst, laggards follow the path of greatest familiarity. Challengers, on the other hand, follow the path of greatest opportunity, wherever it leads.
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
Acquired through business schools and other educational experiences and from consultants and management gurus, absorbed from peers and the business press, and formed out of career experiences, a manager's genetic coding establishes the range and likelihood of responses in particular situations.... All of us are prisoners, to one degree or another, of our experience.
New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight... The essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight — a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision.
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation, and encourages perseverance. In so doing, it transforms great talent into exceptional accomplishment.
There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.
Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
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Bio: Dr. Gary P. Hamel is an American management expert. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago.
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Siasat.com/News/Former US presidential candidate dies after battle with coronavirus
Former US presidential candidate dies after battle with coronavirus
IANS| Published: 31st July 2020 8:08 am IST
Washington, July 31 : Herman Cain, a former US Republican presidential candidate, died at age 74 after battling the coronavirus, or COVID-19, a spokesperson said.
"We knew when he was first hospitalized with COVID-19 that this was going to be a rough fight," Cain's website editor, Dan Calabrese, wrote in a post on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported.
Calabrese said there were hopeful indicators, referring to that doctors said less than a week ago that "they thought he would eventually recover."
"We were relieved to be told that, and passed on the news via Herman's social media," the editor explained. "And yet we also felt real concern about the fact that he never quite seemed to get to the point where the doctors could advance him to the recovery phase."
Cain, a stage 4 cancer survivor, was diagnosed with the coronavirus last month and admitted to a hospital in Atlanta, southeastern state of Georgia, earlier this month.
"Although he was basically pretty healthy in recent years, he was still in a high-risk group because of his history with cancer," Calabrese said.
A former businessman and chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, Cain unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
Last month, Cain, who had campaigned for US President Donald Trump, tweeted a photograph of himself at the Tulsa, Oklahoma rally, showing him surrounded by other attendees, none of whom wore a mask.
Several members of the staff who helped prepare the Trump rally, the first of its kind in more than three months during the pandemic, tested positive for the coronavirus, while a spokesperson said there is no way of knowing for sure how or where Cain contracted the disease.
Trump tweeted his condolences for Cain and his family on Thursday.
"Herman had an incredible career and was adored by everyone that ever met him, especially me," the president wrote. "He was a very special man, an American Patriot, and great friend."


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Man arrested following crash which caused 'significant damage' to three shops
The incident in the early hours of the morning closed the road for nearly six hours
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The vehicle is removed from the scene
A 23-year-old man has been arrested following a car crash which caused "significant damage" to a row of shops.
Police confirmed that a BMW had smashed into three shops on Abergele Road in Colwyn Bay.
The incident is believed to have happened at around 3am this morning (Monday, December 27).
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Officers from North Wales Police closed the road in both directions while an investigation was launched, the car was recovered and debris was removed from the street.
By 5.35am the vehicle had been recovered, but the road remained closed for clean up. It reopened before 9am.
The damaged shop fronts in Colwyn Bay
According to earlier reports, the car is believed to have lost control and mounted the curbside causing damage to shop fronts on the high street.
Police have confirmed that a local man has now been arrested following an investigation.
In a statement, officers from NWP said: "A 23-year-old local man has been arrested following a road traffic collision on Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay during the early hours of this morning (Monday).
"The collision involved a BMW which has caused significant damage to three shop fronts.
"Enquiries are ongoing."
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The genome of some icosahedral RNA viruses plays an essential role in capsid assembly and structure. In T=3 particles of the nodavirus Pariacoto virus (PaV), a remarkable 35% of the single-stranded RNA genome is icosahedrally ordered. This ordered RNA can be visualized at high resolution by X-ray crystallography as a dodecahedral cage consisting of 30 24-nucleotide A-form RNA duplex segments that each underlie a twofold icosahedral axis of the virus particle and interact extensively with the basic N-terminal region of 60 subunits of the capsid protein. To examine whether the PaV genome is a specific determinant of the RNA structure, we produced virus-like particles (VLPs) by expressing the wild-type capsid protein open reading frame from a recombinant baculovirus. VLPs produced by this system encapsidated similar total amounts of RNA as authentic virus particles, but only about 6% of this RNA was PaV specific, the rest being of cellular or baculovirus origin. Examination of the VLPs by electron cryomicroscopy and image reconstruction at 15.4-Å resolution showed that the encapsidated RNA formed a dodecahedral cage similar to that of wild-type particles. These results demonstrate that the specific nucleotide sequence of the PaV genome is not required to form the dodecahedral cage of ordered RNA.


A prominent Islamic university rector who was a leading candidate for governor of Aceh, a province roiled by secessionists, was assassinated early today, underscoring the violence that has plagued the region and all Indonesia in recent months.
The police said two unidentified men shot the rector, Tengku Safwan Idris, in the neck at his home in the outskirts of Banda Aceh, the provincial capital. Mr. Idris, 51, director of the State Institute of Islamic Studies, was taken to a hospital, where he died, the police said. Mr. Idris was an outspoken critic of the use of military force to settle the secessionist issue in Aceh.
The Free Aceh Movement, angry over what it says is the central government's economic exploitation of Aceh's rich oil and gas resources, has been fighting to create an independent Islamic state since 1976. The movement has gained strength in recent years as a result of an aggressive military campaign to crush the separatists. Up to 5,000 people, mainly civilians, are estimated to have been killed in the past decade.
The violence has intensified in recent weeks, with thousands fleeing their homes. Mr. Idris's murder raises to 120 the number of people killed in Aceh since an internationally brokered cease-fire was reached between separatist guerrillas and the military in May. The shooting came a day after the central government postponed talks in Switzerland on a permanent extension of the truce, which technically ended on Sept. 2.
In a telephone interview from Banda Aceh, a leading human rights activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, called the assassination of Mr. Idris a ''national tragedy.'' He called on foreign nations to condemn the violence, which he said was being instigated by the military seeking to retain lucrative business interests.
Mr. Idris was a popular and well-respected figure in Aceh, which is on the northern tip of Sumatra, about 1,100 miles northwest of Jakarta. The former Indonesian president, B. J. Habibie, had appointed him to a committee established to investigate the unrest in Aceh.
In another development, the son of former President Suharto denied any involvement in a series of bombings in Jakarta, including one on Wednesday that killed 15 people at the stock exchange.
The accused, Hutomo Mandela Putra, who is Mr. Suharto's youngest son and is known as Tommy, met voluntarily this morning with the Jakarta police, who questioned him for more than two hours.


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Redneck Rampage is a first-person shooter game developed by Xatrix Entertainment and published by Interplay. The game is a first person shooter with a variety of weapons and levels, and has a hillbilly theme, primarily taking place in a fictional Arkansas town. Many of the weapons and power-ups border on the nonsensical, and in some ways the game is a parody of both first person shooter games and rural American life. The game has been re-released on GOG. Redneck Rampage is a first-person shooter and offers a variety of ways for the character to regenerate health or hit points.
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Maine is a far east place, Down East they say - but it's not down at all, it's up in the Northeastern US corner, practically in Canaduh as they say. Maine is filled with characters who speak their own special language. Folks from away don't always get what the heck Mainahs are sayin, but that's ok. It aint nothin' a lobstah roll won't cure. If you are visiting Maine, or if you're what we call a transplant, from away but you are now residin' heah, this list of Maine terms, local slang, and wicked Maine accents, might help you out should you find yourselves in a bit of a sticky wicket.
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Scurvy is a metabolic disease caused by a lack of dietary vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin found in fresh fruits and vegetables that contribute electrons to enzymes that participate in collagen synthesis. Since humans can't synthesize vitamin C and don't have the ability to store it, we need a constant supply of it in our diet to avoid nutritional deficiencies (Waldron 2009).
Defective collagen caused by a lack of vitamin C can result in impaired skin, join, bone, and blood vessels. Medical symptoms of scurvy include shortness of breath, bone pain due to swelling of the long bones, skin that easily bruises, bleeding gums, tooth loss, irritability, and impaired wound healing. The effects of scurvy on bones are directly related to defects in collagen, defective osteoid formation, and increased bone resorption (Waldron 2009).
Scorbutic rosary: expansion of the costochondral junctions.
Image credit: Dr Matt Skalski from Radiopedia. Click here to see full size image.
Pathologic fractures: broken bones caused by disease that has weakened the bone.
Porosity on the maxillae and mandible from scurvy-induced dental problems.
The need for constant vitamin C was a real problem during times of famine, long sea voyages, or when the supply of fresh fruit and veggies became scarce. Once vitamin C is reintroduced to the diet, the recovery is fast.
In 1494 Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) and 1,500 colonists founded the settlement at La Isabela. La Isabela was the first permanent European town in the Western Hemisphere, but was abandoned within four years due to disease (such as smallpox, influenza, and malaria) and a lack of supplies.
A team of forensic archaeologists published an article in the April 2014 issue of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology in which they explored the damaging effects of scurvy on Columbus' second voyage and the short-lived settlement at La Isabela, in modern-day Dominican Republic. The study authors argue that scurvy plagued Columbus's first colony and significantly contributed to the illnesses behind the colony's failure (Vergano 2014).
Since the 1980s, archaeologists have been exhuming the bones of La Isabela's first inhabitants from burials in the small graveyard behind the church in the abandoned village and storing the bones at the Museo del Hombre Dominicano in Santo Domingo. The article's authors found that the remains of 20 of the 27 individuals had subperiosteal bone deposits and striations on the external surface on weight-bearing bones. The morphology, distribution, and healing stages of most of these bone lesions suggest the presence of scurvy (Vergano 2014).
The research team believes that the when the settlers arrive on Hispanola they were weakened by the two-month long voyage, and likely already suffered from scurvy when they arrived in 1494. They argue that the Spaniards who were buried at La Isabela had suffered from scurvy but also healed from it before they died, and this severe nutritional deficiency may have weakened the colonists and contributed to deaths and the eventual demise of the colony (Vergano 2014).
Study author Vera Tiesler, an archaeologist at Mexico's Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán, acknowledged that these findings were met with doubt at a 2010 bioarchaeology meeting. Archaeologists that had reservations about the findings of this article did not see evidence of scurvy in the colonists' written accounts from the time (Vergano 2014).
Waldron, T. (2009). Paleopathology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.


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Archive | March 2015
Getting Good Data, Part II (of many)
Okay, so by now you've heard dozens and dozens of times that you guys produce really good data: your aggregated answers are 97% correct overall (see here and here and here). But we also know that not all images are equally easy. More specifically, not all species are equally easy. It's a lot easier to identify a giraffe or zebra than it is to decide between an aardwolf and striped hyena.
The plot below shows the different error rates for each species. Note that error comes in two forms. You can have a "false negative" which means you miss a species given that it's truly there. And then you can have a "false positive," in which you report a species as being there when it really isn't. Error is a proportion from 0 to 1.
Species specific error rates.
We calculated this by comparing the consensus data to the gold standard dataset that Margaret collated last year. Note that at the bottom of the chart there are a handful of species that don't have any values for false negatives. That's because, for statistical reasons, we could only calculate false negative error rates from completely randomly sampled images, and those species are so rare that they didn't appear in the gold standard dataset. But for false positives, we could randomly sample images from any consensus classification – so I gathered a bunch of images that had been identified as these rare species and checked them to calculate false positive rates.
Now, if a species has really low rates of false negatives and really low rates of false positives, then it's one people are really good at identifying all the time. Note that in general, species have pretty low rates of both types of error. Furthermore, species with lower rates of false negatives have higher rates of false positives. There aren't really any species with high rates of both types of error. Take rhinos, for example: folks often identify a rhino when it's not actually there, but never miss a rhino if it is there.
Also: we see that rare species are just generally harder to identify correctly than common species. The plot below shows the same false negative and false positive error rates plotted against the total number of pictures for every species. Even though there is some noise, those lines reflect significant trends: in general, the more pictures of an animal, the more often folks get it right!
Error rates vs. species commonness, measured by the total number of pictures of that species
This makes intuitive sense. It's really hard to get a good "search image" for something you never see. But also folks are especially excited to see something rare. You can see this if you search the talk pages for "rhino" or "zorilla." Both of these have high false positive rates, meaning people say it's a rhino or zorilla when it's really not. Thus, most of the images that show up tagged as these really rare creatures aren't.
But that's okay for the science. Because recall that we can assess how confident we are in an answer based on the evenness score, fraction support, and fraction blanks. Because such critters are so rare, we want to be really sure that those IDs are right — but because those animals are so rare, and because you have high levels of agreement on the vast majority of images, it makes it really easy to review any "uncertain" image that's been ID'd as a rare species.
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Check out Mammal March Madness!
For some reason I missed this in 2013 and 2014. Maybe it was because I was finishing up my dissertation the first time and then recovering from a cross-country move the second time. But now I am totally excited about 2015's
Mammal March Madness
What is Mammal March Madness? I'll let organizer Katie Hinde explain:
In honor of the NCAA College Basketball March Madness Championship Tournament, Mammals Suck is featuring *simulated* combat competition among mammals. … Battle outcome is a function of the two species' attributes within the battle environment. Attributes considered in calculating battle outcome include temperament, weaponry, armor, body mass, fight style, and other fun facts that are relevant to the outcome.
As a spectator to Mammal March Madness, you fill out a bracket and then follow along on Twitter or on the Mammals Suck … Milk! blog. The first game is on Monday, March 9, and direct elimination games continue until the championship on March 26.
I'll note that the 2014 winner was Hyena who defeated Orca in the championship game. This year, we've got some Serengeti representation as well. But with Lion, Baboon, and Vervet monkey ranked just 8th, 12th, and 13th in the 'Sexy Beasts' division, they're going to need all the cheering-on they can get.
So head on over, print out a bracket, and tell me who you think will make it all the way to the top this year.
(And just to be clear, I am not involved in Mammal March Madness in any way except as a participant. But it looks fun!)


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Education • India
Padma Award 2018 in the field of literature and education
by Mrinalini Mahajan
Written by Mrinalini Mahajan
Padma Award is one of the highest civilian award of the country. This award is given in various fields like art, literature, education, science, engineering, trade, industry, medicine, sports, civil service. This award is given on the Republic Day each year. This award is conferred in three categories i.e. Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri. Padma Vibhshan is the second highest civilian award of the Republic day of India. Padma Bhushan ranks the third one in the most honorable civilian award of India.
Padma Vibhushan awards is given for exceptional and distinguished service. No specific gender, caste or background is set for achieving these awards. Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran (Kerala) was awarded the Padma Vibhushan award 2018 in fields of Literature and Education. Due to the unique and distinguished behavior, this award was given to him. This award holds the national platinum Emblem of India placed in the center with the national motto of India. Padma Bhushan is awarded for the distinguished service of high order. This award is next to Padma Vibhushan, The award was given to Shri Ved Prakash Nanda in field of Literature and Education.
Many people were awarded Padma Shri in the field of literature. The people who were honored by this award were Shri Prafulla Govinda Baruah (Assam), Shri Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi (Chhattisgarh), Shri Arup Kumar Dutta (Assam), Shri Arvind Gupta (Maharashtra), Shri Digamber Hansda (Jharkhand), Shri Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous) (Uttar Pradesh), Shri Piyong Temjen Jamir (Nagaland), Ms. Malti Joshi (Madhya Pradesh), Ms. Joyshree Goswami Mahanta (Assam), Shri Zaverilal Mehta (Gujarat), Shri Krishna Bihari Mishra (West Bengal), Shri Tomio Mizokami, Shri Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar (Madhya Pradesh), Shri Habibullo Rajabov, Shri Chandra Sekhar Rath (Odisha), Shri Maharao Raghuveer Singh (Rajasthan), Shri Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi (Uttar Pradesh), Shri Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji (Maharashtra), Shri A Zakia (Mizoram ). These all were awarded with Padma Shri during Republic day.
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The "Shape-Shifting Sheik" and the "Sydney Siege"
by Tony Cartalucci
Suspect had multiple aliases, granted political asylum by Australian government, interviewed by Australian media, spent years as fake pro-Western "Shia'a cleric" condemning Iran and Syria before recently "converting" to Sunni and supporting ISIS.
Another embarrassing chapter has unfolded for Western intelligence and security communities in the wake of the so-called "Sydney Siege." The suspect named by the media as "Man Haron Monis" also has gone by the names "Manteghi Boroujerdi" and "Mohammad Hassan Manteghi" and was an individual now confirmed to have long been on the radar of the Australian government, media, law enforcement, and court system since his arrival on Australian shores almost two decades ago.
Image: Anti-Western ISIS Wahabi terrorist, pro-Western "liberal" Shia'a cleric, and secular common man. As with any long-time actor, the "Sydney Siege" suspect has been cast for many diverse roles, with many different names, and an extensive wardrobe. He had played both the hero and the villain. It is beyond bizarre that he has remained in the spotlight across Australia's political stage for nearly two-decades with a growing criminal record, increasingly disturbing and disruptive behavior, and yet somehow "eluded" Australia's indiscriminate and all-invasive surveillance network and multiple terror sweeps made just in the past several months. It appears that this "shape-shifting sheik" played a central role in manipulating the Australian public at integral junctures of the West's "War on Terror."
Claiming he was a "lone wolf" attacker whose violence and extremism could not have been foreseen is betrayed by an extensive criminal record including murder, preceded by the suspicious circumstances that brought him to Australia to begin with.
Two-Decades in the Spotlight
He fled Iran in 1996 for unknown reasons, claiming in a 2001 Australian ABC interview that he was formerly of Iran's "Ministry of Intelligence and Security." He claimed in the same interview to have been in contact with the UN about "secret information" he had regarding the Iranian government.
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Q: Serverless lambda Global Environmental Variables I am playing with serverless, and I am trying to figure out how to rewrite this serverless.yml file so I don't duplicate the environmental variables for each function. Is there a way to set environmental variables globally?
service: test-api
frameworkVersion: ">=1.2.0 <2.0.0"
provider:
  name: aws
  runtime: nodejs12.x
  timeout: 30
  stage: dev
  memorysize: 2048
  region: us-east-2
  logRetentionInDays: 21

functions:
  doCreate:
    handler: functions/do-create.handler
    environment:
      DB_PORT: ${ssm:/${self:custom.stage}/db_port}
      DB_URL: ${ssm:/${self:custom.stage}/db_url}
      API_KEY: ${ssm:/${self:custom.stage}/api_key}
      ENV: "${self:custom.stage}"
      SEARCH_ARN: ${ssm:/${self:custom.stage}/search_arn}
  doUpdate:
    handler: functions/do-update.handler
    environment:
      DB_PORT: ${ssm:/${self:custom.stage}/db_port}
      DB_URL: ${ssm:/${self:custom.stage}/db_url}
      API_KEY: ${ssm:/${self:custom.stage}/api_key}
      ENV: "${self:custom.stage}"
      SEARCH_ARN: ${ssm:/${self:custom.stage}/search_arn}

A: You just simply move them into the provider section. They will be applied to all functions in the same service.
service: test-api
frameworkVersion: ">=1.2.0 <2.0.0"
provider:
  name: aws
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functions:
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A: Use the Globals section in the SAM template
Globals:
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    Environment:
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It was the year in which, despite everything, CoinGeek managed to bring BSVers together in Zurich and New York for two magnificent three-day conferences. Both online and in person, they showcased the vibrancy of entrepreneurship around BSV, featuring a host of new projects like Peersend, Haste and Project Babbage, while also digging into its history with blockchain pioneers Stuart Haber and Scott Stornetta and cryptography guru Ian Grigg.
Then, of course, there was that trial: the seemingly endless drama in a Miami courtroom in which Dr. Craig Wright successfully defended himself against accusations of fraud from the brother of his late friend and colleague Dave Kleiman.
And it was the year in which the world learnt, to its bafflement, about blockchain technology through the extraordinary prices being paid for NFTs.
So how to sum it all up, from the perspective of the 48 editions of CoinGeek Conversations that were aired in 2021?
In the final show of the year Charles Miller was joined by the two founders of the Women of BSV group, Diddy Wheldon and Ruth Heasman and his reporter colleague, Claire Celdran. Their choice of highlights led to discussion that included Teranode, Ira Kleiman's emailing habits, Craig Wright's audiobooks and those ubiquitous NFTs.
On that subject, Ruth Heasman was happy to trumpet the advantages of BSV: "Comparing the differences between BSV and other blockchains, there's really no one else doing it the way that BSV is doing it at the moment," she said. "The fees mean, on Ethereum, that generally artists, unless they sell an awful lot or at a very high price, then they're not making any money from their artwork. But on BSV of course, transaction fees are often less than a cent, or certainly less than a few dollars anyway."
Claire Celdran picked a clip that told us something about Craig Wright which had nothing to do with Bitcoin. He was talking about his huge consumption of audio books, sometimes through the night. For Claire, it was a welcome insight into his personality: "He has a certain charm about him because he's smart. And from what I've learnt in the many interviews that I've seen of Craig is that he loves to learn. He's had this never-ending journey, picking on all these courses from different universities. So that's something I admire about him."
It was the potential of Teranode that Diddy Wheldon wanted to highlight, choosing a clip from the Zurich conference in which BSV Infrastructure team Technical Director Steve Shadders performed a live demo of scaling on the BSV blockchain, which Diddy believed, "proves the point of the scaling debate." Indeed, Steve's demo showed 50,000 transactions per second, with the promise of at least double that being possible.
Finally, Charles Miller picked a moment from Kurt Wuckert Jr's daily livestream reports during the Kleiman-Wright trial in Miami. Charles praised Kurt's shows for providing "a wonderful mix of factual reporting and some character-building descriptions." His fellow guests agreed that Kurt and Patrick Thompson's Miami shows had been essential viewing during the trial—often keeping U.K. viewers up past their bedtimes!
As for the prospects for 2022, Ruth Heasman confessed she was up for more of the same: "More intrigue. I love it, it's like being part of a soap opera almost, following Bitcoin. But it's fascinating. It's ever changing. It's exciting. And I just couldn't imagine not being in the middle of it. I really couldn't. I love it."
Happy 2022 from CoinGeek Conversations!
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Isaiah Townsend Burden (February 21, 1838 – April 23, 1913) was prominent American member of New York Society during the Gilded Age.

Early life
Burden was born February 21, 1838, in Troy, New York, the fifth son of Helen (née McOuat) (1802–1860) and Henry Burden (1791–1871), the founder of Burden Iron Works. His siblings were Peter Abercrombie Burden (1822–1866), Margaret Elizabeth Burden (1824–1915), Helen Burden (1826–1891), Henry James Burden (1828–1846), William Fletcher Burden (1830–1867), James Abercrombie Burden (1833–1906), and Jessie Burden (1840–1917).

Burden received a public school education and completed studies at Russell's Academy, a private academy in New Haven, Connecticut.

Career
Following his studies, at age 19, he began working for his father's company, Burden Iron Works.  His father was known as the "Ironmaster of Troy."  The company was reorganized in 1881, ten years after his father's death, and he became an almost 50% owner, with his brother James A. Burden, until his death in 1913. After his brother James's death in 1906, his nephew, James A. Burden Jr., became more heavily involved in the company.

He also served as president of Port Huron Iron Company and was one of the organizers of the Knickerbocker Trust Co. of New York, of which he held a large ownership interest.  He was also a trustee of the Lake Champlain and Moriah Railroad Company, and president of Bailey's Beach in Newport.

Society life

Burden and his wife were members of the infamous "Four Hundred" of New York Society, as dictated by Caroline Schermerhorn Astor and Ward McAllister and published in The New York Times on February 16, 1892. His wife was credited with introducing Harry Lehr to high society at their home in Newport. He was also a member of the Union Club, the Newport Casino, and was President of the Spouting Rock Beach Association of Newport.

He purchased former Vice President of the United States and New York Governor Levi P. Morton's residence, designed by Seth C. Bradford and built in 1852-1853. The home was known as "Fairlawn" and was located on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.  In 1870, Morton had Richard Morris Hunt, designer of Ochre Court, add a ballroom to the house for a visit by Ulysses S. Grant shortly after he became president.  In 1881, McKim, Mead and White designed family rooms on the second floor over the ballroom and added Tiffany & Co. stained glass windows to the Great Hall.  When Burden bought the home from Morton in 1900, he commissioned Peabody and Stearns to add a curved porch.  After his death, the home was passed to his children.

Personal life
On April 18, 1871, he was married to Evelyn Byrd Moale (1847–1916), a daughter of William Armistead Moale (1800–1880) of Baltimore, Maryland, who was a descendant of the Carter and Byrd families of Virginia. Her sister Judith Carter Moale was married to Robert Livingston Cutting Jr., a prominent banker. Together, they were the parents of four children:

 Evelyn Byrd Burden (1874–1968), who did not marry.
 Isaiah Townsend Burden Jr. (1875–1953), who married Florence Sheedy (1888–1949) of Denver in June 1911.
 William Armistead Moale Burden Sr. (1877–1909), who married Florence Vanderbilt Twombly (1881–1969), a daughter of Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly and Hamilton McKown Twombly, in 1904.
 Gwendolyn Townsend Burden (1884–1935), who married David Dows (1885–1966) in December 1911.

Burden died on April 23, 1913. Following his death, he was buried at the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.

Descendants
Through his son William, he was the paternal grandfather of William Armistead Moale Burden Jr. (1906–1984), a banker who served as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1959 to 1961, and Shirley Carter Burden (1908–1989), a prominent photographer.

References

External links

1838 births
1913 deaths
19th-century American businesspeople
Businesspeople from Troy, New York
People included in New York Society's Four Hundred

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Whoever the mage was, he sure talked a lot for someone who'd lost a lot of blood. He was also… terribly handsome, even pale and high on elfroot oil and the elfroot-nug soup. Dark hair, and his eyes had been blue like the sky on a clear day. Even passed out, mouth slightly open as he snored, Fenlin couldn't get over how people could just look like that. Naturally.
Feeling her cheeks warm, Fen rolled her eyes at herself. It wasn't like she was some shy elf who was hiding away from the clans and- okay that was exactly what she was. Exactly why she'd volunteered to take on the patrol out here in the middle of nowhere. No elves to worry about, no shems to worry about, just keeping an eye on the movements of the Qun.
Originally posted by heavydynamics
Fenlin had been riding a thermal over the water when she'd spotted the frigate flying Ferelden colours. Watching the dreadnought lie in wait with her hawk's eyes, helpless to stop the attack. Still, she'd dove into the water, shifting again to a more robust shape to help drag the survivors to safety. She'd managed the one. One out of a whole ship of sailors.
That's why she was so invested in making sure he survived the wound on his leg, Fenlin told herself. He was the last one, the only one she'd pulled from the water. Even if she had been able to go back for others, even if he hadn't panicked and slashed at her, the Dreadnought had torn the ship to pieces. Even if- but those had all happened, and she hadn't realised how badly he was hurt until she'd seen the chunk of wood sticking out of his leg.
If she had gone back, he very well might have bled out, lying there on the shore. Fenlin had made the decision on instinct, but she didn't regret it. She just wished there'd been some way to save the others… somehow.
With a sigh, Fenlin crept over to where the man lay sleeping, and gently rolled her blankets back from his hurt leg. The bandage wrapped around his thigh was neat, but already showing red through the linen dressing. Fenlin frowned, gently resting the back of her hand against the skin next to the bandage to feel if it was hotter than the skin a few inches away. Nervous, she glanced up at the man's face to make sure she didn't wake him up.
At the gentle touch, he groaned, brow knitting together, but he stayed asleep. Letting out a shallow breath of relief, Fen turned back to her work. As gently as possible, she unwound the strip of linen from his leg, wincing every time he groaned or shifted.
The wound itself was still angry and severe, but as Fen leaned in to get a close look at it, she could see that the worst of the bleeding had stopped. That was good, and so was the edges of the wound. They were swollen but no sign of infection.
The handsome man was going to have one hell of a scar, despite Fenlin's clumsy attempts at healing spells. If they were closer to a town, she could bring him in to the local healer, but they weren't close to anything but rocks and caves and spiders. She was also running low on linen, so sooner or later, Fenlin was going to have to pay a visit to some of the more spidery caves and steal some of the silk. Not one of her favourite places, but between his leg and her side, they'd used up her stores of bandages.
Fen hovered her hands over the wound and closed her eyes, pulling the healing spirits close to help her as she worked.
Time passed, but how much, Fenlin wasn't sure. It was maybe close to dawn, and healing the mess of torn flesh had exhausted her. Fen was many things, but talented or skilled healer was not one of them. She'd gone slowly, careful to get each step right so the man wasn't accidentally crippled. Now, rocking back, she rubbed the heel of her left hand into her throbbing forehead and looked down at the scab she'd left behind. It would still take another few nights of healing before the wound was gone completely, replaced by shiny pink scar tissue.
At least now the man wouldn't be in severe pain whenever he woke next.
She redressed the scab so it wouldn't catch on the blankets, then pulled them back over him. What was left? something… Fenlin squinted, eyelids heavy. She'd rest once the sun was up, there were just a few more things left to do.
Originally posted by coldrainy
Rahlen woke slowly, with the heavy feel of cottonmouth and steady ache on his thigh. At first he was sure he was about to fall forward, into the green tarpaulin, and he started, grabbing onto the sides of the mossy bed he lay on.
Eventually the world readjusted to normal, and he looked over to see the elf was still there, curled up around what looked like his shirt. On the ground. Next to her, his trousers were folded neatly by the coals of the fire.
It was day, but the skies were grey, and Rahlen could hear a lazy patter of rain on tarp over their little camp.
Gingerly, Rahlen eased himself up to sit. The world tilted a little, but he breathed through it until the stars around his vision faded. Pulling the Blankets with him, Rahlen eased himself over on his hand and good leg to sit next to the elf. The effort moving even that much was enough to bring back the prickling of stars in his eyes.
He'd sit for a while, Rahlen reasoned. Then he'd pull on his trousers and shirt. If she'd let it go, that was. Rahlen pulled gently at the shirt that the elf was clutching. She groaned, and curled around it even more tightly.
Odd… but he wasn't in a position to fight over it right now. Instead, he pulled one of the blankets off him and tucked it over her so she wouldn't be cold. she'd been sleeping on the rocky ground, there was no way she could have been comfortable like that.
With his saviour asleep, and his leg too achey to move just yet, Rahlen took a moment to look at her without the fuzz of the pain killing whatever of earlier. Tan skin speckled with freckles and small branching designs tattooed over her cheekbones.
Dalish, he supposed. Though the elves had slowly been disappearing from Thedas, so where had this one come from? Her hair was white, or had been before she'd gotten moss and bits of twig and gravel in the braids. Reaching out, Rahlen started pulling the worst bits of detritus free, tossing them into the fire's coals.
Something tugged at her hair.
Fenlin frowned, opening her eyes to see if the local nugs had returned. She didn't mind the little critters, but they had a habit of plopping their hands on her face and Mythal only knew where //those/ things had been.
But no. It was not a nug.
Sitting by her was the handsome man and he was gently tugging at her hair.
Letting out a surprised gasp, Fenlin sat upright and clutched at her hair. Equally surprised, the man pulled back, hands coming up to show her his palms.
"Sorry! You had a twig in your hair," he said. "I was just trying to get it out."
Narrowing her eyes at him, Fenlin probed the bun of braids for this supposed stick. When she found it, half tugged free but still stuck in her hair, Fenlin felt her entire face grow hot.
The man lifted his eyebrows, and his lips pulled into a smirky sort of smile that was both annoying and devestating to her composure.
"Let me get it out for you, it's the least I could do after you've been taking care of me," he said. "I'm Rahlen, and you are…?" he waited, watching her. Fen watched him back before lowering her hands with a sigh and tilting her head his way.
"The strong silent type I guess," Rahlen said.
Fen shrugged a shoulder, shifting so the slash along her side wasn't tugging her skin more than it had to. To her surprise, she felt Rahlen undoing her braids. When she tried to look at him, he turned her head back so he could keep working.
"Some of these aren't coming out unless you take the braids out," he said. "My sister used to make me play with her hair, I won't yank chunks out, if that's what you're worried about."
Well… Fen hadn't been worried until he mentioned that was even a possibility.
"So, why won't you tell me your name? Is it a Dalish tradition?" He asked. True to his word, he was being careful, and Fen slowly let herself relax. She shook her head ever so slightly, at the question.
How was she supposed to explain that she'd traded a spirit her voice for help in healing him? She couldn't exactly write it out on a scrap of parchment. Fen chewed on her lip, thinking.
"It's okay, you don't have to. I just don't want to be rude and think of you as 'elf'," Rahlen was saying. her hair was down now and she could feel him plucking out bits of things. How many twigs had gotten in there? Her ears were still hot and getting hotter as she imagined a whole tree stuck in the white strands.
"All done, do you want me to braid it again?" Rahlen asked, combing his fingers through her hair. The touch felt nice, but shyness got the best of her. Fenlin shook her head, shifting to half-face him. Combing her own fingers through her hair, she started to braid the sections of hair like she usually did each morning. Well… most mornings. Every few mornings. Living as a hermit had not really made hair tidiness a priority.
When she was done, she chewed at the corner of her lip, then reached out and tapped the back of Rahlen's hand.
"Yes?" he said, lifting his eyebrows. This time his smile was less smirky and twice as devastating and Fenlin's ears were sure to burn up to ashes at the express. "Is it that you don't speak common?" he asked, looking at her.
Fen sighed, rolling her eyes with frustration. Not at him, just the situation. Reaching out, she caught his hand and gently placed his fingers against her neck. Then she tried to speak, to say a simple hello. The vocal chords buzzed against his fingertips, but not a sound came out.
Rahlen blinked.
"Oh," he said, the spark of realization catching in his eyes. "You can't speak."
Originally posted by zolita-xxx
Fen nodded, letting go of his hand. She shrugged, a way of apologizing. Then she realised the tips of his fingers were still resting against her throat. Turning red, she slapped his hand down.
At least she had the small satisfaction of seeing his ears turn pink, as he stumbled through an apology.
Waving it away, Fen picked up the shirt she'd almost finished mending, and tied off the last few of her stitches. It was stained but the holes from her bear's mouth were sewn closed. So too were the tears on his trousers. They weren't the smallest or most delicate of stitches, but they'd hold, and it was better than wearing tatters in this weather.
Thrusting both garments at him, Fen pushed herself up to her feet with a wince.
"Wait, I am sorry," he said, catching the clothes. "Please don't leave."
Annoyed now, Fen gestured at the clothes, then pointed at herself and then pointed at the empty pot of soup from the night before. They needed food, and they needed spider silk. The rest could wait, and she wasn't about to sit and watch him change.
"You'll be back?" he asked, and Fen nodded. She carefully pulled on her oilcloth poncho to keep off the worst of the rain and ducked under the edge of the tarpaulin.
Once out of view, she rested her fingertips against her throat, sure she could still feel Rahlen's gentle touch there.
As soon as he was able to walk, she decided, she was marching him to the nearest town and getting rid of him. Those smiles were dangerous.