"This subpoena relates to an investigation of drug offenses, crimes against financial institutions, or money laundering crimes," the subpoena says.
The subpoena was signed by U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray, an appointee of President Donald Trump who oversees federal trials in Charlotte and the rest of Western North Carolina. He was previously the elected district attorney for Mecklenburg County.
Lindberg's donation represented about half of the $200,876.63 in total donations the Chatham County Republican Party received from individuals in the first six months of the year, according to a campaign finance report.
The party had started 2018 with $27,153.64 and had $150,813.63 on hand June 30 when the second quarter reporting period ended. The next report showing third-quarter donations and expenditures is due Oct. 29.
By comparison, the Chatham County Democratic Executive Committee finished the second quarter with $34,971.77 after beginning with $34,579.64, according to its report.
The executive committee of the Chatham County Republican Party met Tuesday night at Central Carolina Community College, where Lindberg's donation was discussed.
Treasurer Gayle Daniel would not comment on the meeting.
Terry Schmidt, acting chairman, when reached by phone Wednesday said "No thanks" and hung up.
Brian Bock and Neill Lindley, who are running for county commissioner, went to the meeting but were asked to leave with others who aren't executive committee members, Bock said. They got a few minutes to speak at the beginning of the gathering. Bock, a commissioner from 2011-14, served as chairman of the local party until 2016.
He said his campaign has received some money from local fundraisers with party for this election cycle. But he added that neither he nor Lindley want to get any money linked to Lindberg's donation. Bock said the party should return the money to Lindberg or donate it to a Chatham County nonprofit organization.
John Palermo was GOP chairman when the party received Lindberg's donation and also made smaller donations where he listed Eli Global as his employer. Palermo stepped away from his leadership role with the Chatham County Republican Party in September, Bock said. The NC GOP has informed the local party that a new chairman needs to be elected, said state executive director Dallas Woodhouse. The next local party meeting is Nov. 13. Efforts to speak with Palermo for this story were unsuccessful.
Individuals are limited in how much money they may donate to candidates. The limit to individual candidates is $5,200. But donations to political parties, which can distribute money to candidates, can be made in unlimited amounts.
Local political parties must file quarterly financial reports with the State Board of Elections. These reports are public records and can be found on the SBOE's website.
Chatham County has 13,032 registered Republicans, about a quarter of the 53,504 registered voters. There are 20,898 registered Democrats and 19,336 unaffiliated voters in the county, according to the Chatham County Board of Elections.
Editor's Note: This story was updated with information about local fundraisers in Chatham County for the benefit of candidates.
Staff writer Will Doran contributed to this story.


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Q: What does 'server down' mean? Many times i/we heard from our ISP that their servers are down so i cannot use internet for some moments.
According to me this is a server.
So my question here is:

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*Do they use computer servers to send and receive data?
OR

*ISP use Routers to send and receive data?

A: Or 3. Their infrastructure requires some server resources to be available. If their DHCP server is down, your computer cannot register with their network. If their DNS server is down, you cannot resolve host names. If they use a HTTP proxy server, you cannot connect to external web sites when it's down. Etc.
However, any serious ISP would have managed their infrastructure so as to avoid Single Points of Failure. In other words, a properly planned network has a fallback in place for when an individual piece of equipment fails. If outages are a recurring problem, you may want to shop around for a competently managed ISP instead.

A: They are using the more general of the two terms (server versus router) such that-

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*it's easier for the general audience to understand. You're likely not the only one complaining to the ISP at that particular moment.

*it prompts less questions. Since 'everyone' knows what a server is, it shuts the conversation down faster. "Well what's a router?" and all the following questions get avoided in a sly, conversational manner.
Your ISP, no matter how small, has some form of a 'script' for support personnel to follow when services are interrupted. Constructing these are targeted towards getting the customer off the phone or finished with the email/chat exchange as quickly as possible, while attempting to leave the customer with the sense that they got their question answered. And since, as stated above, DNS servers are required to have the router's packets do any good, it's not always entirely inaccurate.

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This hotel is located next to the fine sand beach of Playa Bávaro, in the bay of Cabeza de Toro. It comprises of 467 rooms, of which 8 are suites. The rooms are arranged throughout five 3-storey buildings, surrounded by a tropical garden. Facilities on the complex include a foyer with 24-hour reception desk, a shop and a hairdresser. Guests are also offered a further 7 bars (including one swim-up poolside bar and one piano bar), nightclub, open-air theatre, a casino and a buffet restaurant as well as a number of a la carte restaurants.
The comfortable rooms come with an en suite bathroom with hairdryer, a direct dial telephone, satellite/cable TV, air conditioning, a minibar/fridge, a hire safe, a king-size bed, a ceiling fan and a balcony/ terrace area.
The restaurants at the Be Live Hotel Grand Punta Cana invite you to taste the best of the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Brazil, the Mediterranean and Asia. With five à la carte restaurants and en exquisite international buffet you can travel around the world without leaving the hotel, eating in a different place every day, trying out tasty dishes and gourmet delicacies. All are open from 06:00 to 22:00 and the only places where a reservation is required are the Asian restaurant and the Brazilian Rodizio.
In the outdoor complex guests will find a swimming pool with children's pools, as well as a sun terrace with sun loungers and a hot tub (adults only) in the pool. Sports enthusiasts may like to play tennis (2 courts, floodlights included, tennis lessons), table tennis, basketball, beach-volleyball, billiards, or try out aerobics, stretching, windsurfing, catamaran sailing, kayaking and Merengue lessons. They may also enjoy the in-house gym, entertainment and activity programme, horse riding or motorised water sports (extra fee).


The Rock to Polzeath footpath is arguably one of the most beautiful coastal walks in the country. Covering 2.9 miles, the walk starts at the end of Rock Road and takes around two hours and 30 minutes. From the car park in Rock take the SW coastal path over the dunes, or during low tide walk along the beach to Brea Hill, where you can see stunning views of Padstow, the famous Doom Bar, the quarry and St Enodoc Church where poet John Betjeman is buried. There are plenty of other stunning coastal walks to choose from, and if you'd like to make an informed decision about where to blow away the cobwebs, the SW coast path website is great to help you decide.


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Teague Financial Insurance Services Assists Customers Faster with ImageSilo®
Client: Teague Financial Insurance Services, Inc.
Digitech Systems Reseller: Docusure
Problem: Implement an ECM system that would improve document security, increase staff productivity and require no IT resources
Solution: ImageSilo® and PaperVision® Enterprise Tools
Recognized Benefit
Improved document security without additional IT resources and provided the productivity and process efficiency needed to gain a competitive advantage
Teague Financial Insurance Services (TFIS) was becoming increasingly frustrated with their paper-based filing system. Retrieving, copying and sending files was time consuming. Misplaced files were always a problem and slowed document processing. Employees didn't want to share in the filing responsibilities, because it was tedious, clerical work. Plus, federal regulations required their health and life insurance applications to be secured at all times. President of TFIS, Jean Strouf could see their paper processing delay was becoming a risk to the business, and this risk was one she couldn't insure.
After implementing ImageSilo, TFIS has a new advantage over its competitors. They turn insurance applications into coverage faster than others. They have 319 more hours of productivity every year for selling and serving customers, and they save $24,000 each year in file management.
The Situation
Founded in 1986 by two top insurance professionals, Jean Strouf and Walt Johnston, TFIS has grown into a leading independent agency for medical and dental insurance, employee benefits and financial services in California. As a full-service agency, TFIS assists businesses, families and individuals in finding the most appropriate and affordable health insurance.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was the driving force behind their search for a new way to manage information. HIPAA requires companies to provide administrative, physical and technical safeguards for protected health information, and violations can result in severe civil and criminal penalties. TFIS' compliance strategy was simple but not comprehensive. A locked file room protected files from unauthorized access, but once documents left the room, they were hard to secure and copies of documents were equally as difficult to protect.
File system accuracy, document retrieval and record sharing were the biggest frustrations of the paper system. On average, employees spent more than 300 hours every year searching, retrieving and returning documents to the file room. Forty of those hours were spent searching for misplaced files. When it was time to send insurance applications to underwriters, TFIS couldn't fax documents because of image distortion. They had to copy and expedite files via mail, which cost the company $1,200 each year.
"I was terrified of the maintenance, time, and cost needed to manage our own data storage, because I have seen what happens to companies when they don't have access to the information they need to run their business. I was so relieved to find out ImageSilo could manage it all for us with a secure and reliable system."
– Jean Strouf, President
Strouf was reluctant to investigate an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system, because she thought it would require IT resources to manage a server and data storage. As a small company, TFIS did not have an IT department, nor the time and resources needed to take on new IT responsibilities. They wanted a system that could convert paper documents to electronic files and help them manage records efficiently—without all the IT burdens.
In 2006, Docusure, a Digitech Systems top reseller, met with TFIS to evaluate their problems and recommend solutions. Strouf was surprised that she could outsource ECM services and achieve company goals without costly capital investments in hardware, software or IT personnel. "We chose ImageSilo, because it could help us comply with HIPAA and keep the weight of data management off our shoulders," she said.
With an on-demand system, implementation took no time at all. Docusure set up ImageSilo and trained all 10 users in less than a day. TFIS is charged based on how much storage space they use, and the monthly operating expense is tax-deductible. Plus, TFIS never has to worry about running out of storage space, because it automatically scales to meet their needs.
Recognized Benefits
Today, TFIS employees return from a client meeting with a handful of signed insurance applications and scan them at the office. PaperVision Enterprise Tools provides out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft® Windows Explorer and enables them to upload files directly into ImageSilo. Then, users access the internet from anywhere, log into ImageSilo and use powerful search capabilities to retrieve documents in an instant. As a result, employees save more than 300 hours of filing time and $24,000 in labor costs every year.
Documents stored inside the system are protected by five levels of system security, helping TFIS comply with HIPAA regulations. Users must log in to access protected health information and a session timeout feature requires users to log in again after a set period of inactivity. In addition, encryption ensures security while documents are transmitted over the internet. "ImageSilo helps us protect client privacy and confidentiality and enables us to carry out company compliance strategies," said Strouf.
With the option to email documents, TFIS can share information with general agents and underwriters quickly and affordably. Instead of copying and mailing applications, they securely email them using document grant technology that allows third parties limited access to specific documents. Applications are no longer mailed, saving $100 every month."
"In insurance, the price is fixed. It's the service that distinguishes one company from the next. ImageSilo saves us 319 labor hours and $24,000 each year, allowing us to better serve customers and grow our business without hiring more administrative personnel."
The new system has provided a competitive advantage and benefited customer service. "With ImageSilo, we can move documents more quickly," said Strouf. "As a result, we get a faster turnaround than our competitors." With the speed of an electronic system, TFIS is able to initiate insurance coverage and issue insurance ID card information earlier.
By outsourcing ECM, TFIS has avoided capital and IT personnel costs required by an in-house solution. With the time and money savings, Strouf is able to delegate more resources to serving customers and bringing in new business. Thus, TFIS has experienced a 10-15% revenue and volume growth each year. "We have grown faster since the implementation of ImageSilo. With our efficient system, we have been able to increase business without hiring new people," said Strouf.
About Docusure
Founded in 1993, Docusure is a top performing Digitech Systems' reseller and 2008 Circle of Excellence member. Docusure enables organizations to reduce paper storage, minimize costs and improve customer satisfaction. By converting paper documents to digital images, indexing and storing documents, Docusure manages the complete document lifecycle.
– See more at: http://www.digitechsystems.com/teague-financial-insurance-services-assists-customers-faster-with-imagesilo/#sthash.oRVVCcCZ.dpuf
Date : September 12, 2015
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Victorian Coal royalties increase in State Budget
April 25, 2016 at 5:07 pm John Englart	Leave a comment
Loy Yang A and B power stations
The Andrews Government will increase coal royalties in the 2015/16 budget to approximately match the rate levied in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. This should be welcomed.
The rate will increase three fold from January 1st 2017 and is estimated to raise $252 million over the forward estimates over the next 4 years.
This will prove useful for helping to fund the health support for the LaTrobe Valley, as well as health and education expenditure for the state. $51.2 million was promised in the state budget to implement the recommendations of the Mine Fire Inquiry and improving health outcomes for the Valley.
Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas said, "We are ensuring Victorians get a fair return for the use of our state's natural resources."
The royalty is paid for access, use and extraction of a resource the mine operator manages on behalf of the community. In other words, it is payment to the public for the profits made in extracting and burning our coal.
According to Pallas, the royalty rate has not increased for over a decade, "This will simply bring Victoria into line with the other states." he said.
The rate charged per gigajoule of energy will rise from 7.6 cents to 22.8 cents. This compares to New South Wales which charges 25.2 cents, and Queensland, which charges 21.5 cents.
Tim Pallas warned that Electricity generators are expected to absorb this cost as part of their margins. He argued that the royalty increase, which will contribute about $70 million a year on average, should not affect electricity prices.
"Power companies can easily absorb this change, and there is no reason for it to be passed onto consumers. The Government will brief the Essential Services Commission accordingly." said Pallas.
According to the Australian Energy Market Commission, Victoria has the cheapest household electricity prices in Australia.
"Last year it [Hazelwood] ended up with $291 million a year in revenue, so certainly our view is that the increase wouldn't have a significant impact on the operating costs of the coal mine or the electricity generators," Pallas told The Age.
Electricity Operators, as part of the implementation of the 2014 mine fire Inquiry, will have their rehabilitation bonds also increased in a phased rise, while a permanent and independent mechanism for evaluating end-of-life mine rehabilitation costs is currently being worked on.
At last it seems the inherent massive government subsidies to the companies responsible for mining brown coal are being wound back.
Two weeks ago health proffesionals urged the Andrews Government to prescribe LaTrobe Valley coal closure for our health and a safe climate.
A report prepared by Harvard academics for Environment Victoria in April 2015 estimated the annual health costs of coal-fired power for Victoria at $831.5 million and the annual social carbon costs at $2.882 billion, according to The Age: The hidden cost of the Hazelwood coal power plant.
Social costs of Victorian Coal (2015)
This article says #Hazelwood coal mine plans to apply for an expansion. Is that a good idea on any level?https://t.co/DnbMS5w13Q
— Nicholas Aberle (@NickAberle) April 20, 2016
Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas, Media release 23 April 2016 – Delivering A Fair Share For Victorians
Josh Gordon, The Age, 23 April 2016, Victoria's own mining tax to triple as treasurer gouges brown coal for revenue
Entry filed under: Hazelwood, news, Victorian Government. Tags: coal, Daniel Andrews, Hazelwood, State budget, Tim Pallas.
Poll: Most Australians want more climate action this election	Greg Hunt signs the Paris Agreement at UN in New York


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Urządzenie zostało wynalezione w drugiej połowie lat 50. XX wieku przez francuskiego inżyniera André Cassagnesa, który nazwał je L'Écran Magique (Magiczny Ekran).

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What's left to fix housing market?
March 21, 2010 by Best Growth Stock in News
By Emily Kaiser
WASHINGTON (BestGrowthStock) – The United States has thrown trillions of dollars at the slumping housing market and it still looks wobbly.
The government seized the two biggest mortgage finance companies and offered as much as $8,000 in tax breaks to entice home buyers, while the Federal Reserve has bought more than $1 trillion in mortgage-related assets as a way to drive down borrowing costs.
Yet a series of reports this week will likely show home sales remained weak in February. Although bad weather is partly to blame — snowstorms struck the densely populated East Coast last month — it does not fully explain the poor demand.
If Tuesday's report shows a drop in existing home sales for February, as economists polled by Reuters expect, it would mark the third consecutive month of declines and push the sales pace back to levels seen last summer, when mortgage rates spiked.
Wednesday's report on new home sales, which represents only a sliver of the housing market, is expected to show a slight increase. However, the new home segment remains moribund. Builder confidence is near an all-time low and both housing starts and permits fell in February.
Housing was at the heart of the global recession, and plays a crucial role in the U.S. economy. During the boom years, rising home values left Americans feeling flush, and they were able to tap home equity to boost spending. The bust has taken a $10 trillion bite out of household wealth, and spending has suffered.
As poorly as the housing market has performed so far this year, some economists think it may soon get worse. The tax credit, which was expanded and extended late last year, expires in April, the Fed is wrapping up its mortgage asset purchases by the end of this month, and millions of homeowners are behind on payments, leaving them vulnerable to foreclosure, which tends to drive down prices of neighboring homes.
Sal Guatieri, an economist with BMO Capital Markets in Toronto, said the economic recovery was grinding along instead of gaining momentum, and a "precarious" housing market was a big reason why.
"Witness February's 6 percent pullback in (housing) starts and a surprising setback in homebuilder confidence in March," he said. "This wasn't supposed to happen until after the homebuyer tax credit expired in April."
WHAT MORE?
The tax credit has been a pit of a puzzle. It spurred huge demand late last year, when buyers rushed to close deals before the originally scheduled expiration. Congress then extended and expanded the credit, but the second installment has not generated the same demand.
As for the Fed's efforts, between cutting interest rates to near zero and buying up mortgage-related assets, the central bank has successfully pushed mortgage rates down. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage has hovered near 5 percent in recent weeks, but that has not been enough to spark much activity.
What happens to rates when the Fed wraps up its asset-buying program at the end of this month is a big question mark. Fed officials expect minimal market reaction, but the central bank has never embarked on such an ambitious buying spree and cannot be certain what will happen when it ends.
Some economists think this uncertainty may be one reason why the Fed signaled last week that it would keep its benchmark interest rate near zero for the foreseeable future. Perhaps officials want to see how the housing market behaves before dropping a hint that borrowing costs may soon rise.
Economists at IHS Global Insight offered other reasons for concern about the housing market's path.
"Economic conditions remain dire, with unemployment likely to remain stubbornly near 10 percent for some time," the firm wrote in a quarterly housing market report on Friday. "In addition, the federal tax credit for first-time buyers played a significant and temporary role in bolstering the market."
The report found that the national housing market was 8.9 percent undervalued at the end of 2009, and not a single metropolitan area was considered "extremely overvalued." Contrast that with 2005, the height of the housing bubble, when 52 metro areas were judged to be extremely overvalued.
Since that peak, 10 metro areas have seen home prices fall by more than half, and 31 have recorded drops of more than 40 percent. That is a big reason why household wealth has dropped by $10 trillion since 2007.
No matter how hard Washington tries to speed up the process, housing market repair is likely to take a while.
"We see this sector improving slowly and not nearly on the scale that might be expected after four-plus years of correction," Citigroup economist Robert DiClemente said.
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A judge in Montgomery County sentenced a 31-year-old man to six months in jail for felony animal cruelty after he assaulted two pit bull puppies while on PCP. In June 2015, James E. Jones of Wheaton abused two pit bulls that were 6 weeks old. While on PCP, Jones grabbed the dogs by their necks, causing them to foam at the mouth. Police eventually used a Taser on him which had no effect, and it eventually took five officers to take him into custody. The dogs have since recovered and were adopted.


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This 2020 Infiniti Q50 is all-new intended for 2014. Actually, simply the hybrid and then a real 3.7 V6 by way of 328 horse power and even 269 lb-toes about torque have been presented. Found in 2019, Infiniti exchanged all the 3.7 V6 together with the car's present collection of machines which includes your turbocharged a number of-tube and additionally V6s. Infiniti in addition improved the car's directing and suspensions who year. All the 3.0t is without a doubt loaded in the same manner on the 2.0t toned, even though the Reddish Sport 400 offers special 19-in . tires, changeable suspensions configurations, quilted leather material furniture, warmed entrance chairs and far off engine start off.


Originally from Coquitlam, BC, Dr. Dewji studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 2002 in BioPsychology. He further graduated from Medicine at the University of Manitoba in 2008. He continued on at the University of Manitoba for his Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery residency and served as Chief Resident. He also studied at the University of Iowa, University of Michigan and the Atlanta Sleep institute. He has a special interest in sleep apnea surgery, snoring, hearing loss, treatment of skin lesions and medical cosmetics. He has published and presented on many subjects related to his specialty, and is currently involved in several tech research projects.
He is Canadian Board Certified in Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, currently a Clinical Instructor for the UBC Department of Surgery and has affiliations with the BC and Canadian Societies of Otolaryngology, International Sleep Surgery Society and is certified to interpret Adult Polysomnography in BC.
In 2013, Dr. Dewji and his young family returned to his home in BC, settling back into Coquitlam. He has since established office based practices in Coquitlam and New Westminster, serving patients from around British Columbia.
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Life in the 1500s
A list purported to offer the origins of numerous common English-language sayings dating to the 1500s.
Snopes Staff
The numerous current sayings listed in a "Life in the 1500s" article sprang from ordinary living conditions in that era.
An article about "Life in the 1500s" was nothing more than an extended joke, someone's idea of an amusing leg-pull which began its Internet life in April 1999. All of the historical and linguistic facts it purported to offer were simply made up and contrary to documented facts:
Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. She married at the age of 26. This is really unusual for the time. Most people married young, like at the age of 11 or 12. Life was not as romantic as we may picture it. Here are some examples:
Anne Hathaway's home was a 3 bedroom house with a small parlor, which was seldom used (only for company), kitchen, and no bathroom.
Mother and Father shared a bedroom. Anne had a queen sized bed, but did not sleep alone. She also had 2 other sisters and they shared the bed also with 6 servant girls. (this is before she married) They didn't sleep like we do length-wise but all laid on the bed cross-wise.
At least they had a bed. The other bedroom was shared by her 6 brothers and 30 field workers. They didn't have a bed. Everyone just wrapped up in their blanket and slept on the floor. They had no indoor heating so all the extra bodies kept them warm.
They were also small people, the men only grew to be about 5'6″ and the women were 4'8″. So in their house they had 27 people living.
Most people got married in June. Why? They took their yearly bath in May, so they were till smelling pretty good by June, although they were starting to smell, so the brides would carry a bouquet of flowers to hide their b.o.
Like I said, they took their yearly bath in May, but it was just a big tub that they would fill with hot water. The man of the house would get the privilege of the nice clean water. Then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was pretty thick. Thus, the saying, "don't throw the baby out with the bath water," it was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.
I'll describe their houses a little. You've heard of thatch roofs, well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, "it's raining cats and dogs,"
Since there was nothing to stop things from falling into the house they would just try to clean up a lot. But this posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings from animals could really mess up your nice clean bed, so they found if they would make beds with big posts and hang a sheet over the top it would prevent that problem. That's where those beautiful big 4 poster beds with canopies came from.
When you came into the house you would notice most times that the floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, that's where the saying "dirt poor" came from. The wealthy would have slate floors. That was fine but in the winter they would get slippery when they got wet. So they started to spread thresh on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on they would just keep adding it and adding it until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. So they put a piece of wood at the entry way, a "thresh hold".
In the kitchen they would cook over the fire, they had a fireplace in the kitchen/parlor, that was seldom used and sometimes in the master bedroom. They had a big kettle that always hung over the fire and every day they would light the fire and start adding things to the pot.
Mostly they ate vegetables, they didn't get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner then leave the leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew would have food in it that had been in there for a month! Thus the rhyme: peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."
Sometimes they could get a hold on some pork. They really felt special when that happened and when company came over they even had a rack in the parlor where they would bring out some bacon and hang it to show it off. That was a sign of wealth and that a man "could really bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and they would all sit around and "chew the fat."
If you had money your plates were made out of pewter. Sometimes some of their food had a high acid content and some of the lead would leach out into the food. They really noticed it happened with tomatoes. So they stopped eating tomatoes, for 400 years.
Most people didn't have pewter plates though, they all had trenchers, that was a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. They never washed their boards and a lot of times worms would get into the wood. After eating off the trencher with worms they would get "trench mouth." If you were going traveling and wanted to stay at an Inn they usually provided the bed but not the board.
The bread was divided according to status. The workers would get the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family would get the middle and guests would get the top, or the "upper crust".
They also had lead cups and when they would drink their ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. They would be walking along the road and here would be someone knocked out and they thought they were dead. So they would pick them up and take them home and get them ready to bury. They realized if they were too slow about it, the person would wake up. Also, maybe not all of the people they were burying were dead. So they would lay them out on the kitchen table for a couple of days, the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. That's where the custom of holding a "wake" came from.
Since England is so old and small they started running out of places to bury people. So they started digging up some coffins and would take their bones to a house and re-use the grave. They started opening these coffins and found some had scratch marks on the inside.
One out of 25 coffins were that way and they realized they had still been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. That is how the saying "graveyard shift" was made. If the bell would ring they would know that someone was "saved by the bell" or he was a "dead ringer".
"Most people married young, like at the age of 11 or 12."
This is just plain wrong. Even in the 1500s, nearly the only people who wed that early were the progeny of royalty, and those unions were formed for political reasons and thus were much more paper marriages than real ones. A "bride" of tender years might be called upon to travel to her new homeland, where she would take up residence with her husband's family and live like their daughter
until such time as both kids were deemed old enough to advance the state of their union into full-blown matrimony. To put it more directly, though the teens might call each other "husband" and "wife," they didn't begin cohabiting and having sex until their mid-teens at the earliest, and only when both families agreed the kids were ready to take this step.
A perfect example of such a union was the 1499 marriage between Catherine of Aragon (Spain) and Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII of England. They were married by proxy in their native lands when Arthur was 14 and Catherine was 15. Catherine did not arrive in England until 1501, when the young royals were wed again, this time in person. Although controversy exists as to whether they might have had sexual congress before Arthur's death in 1502, if they had done so, they accomplished it by sneaking behind everybody's back. Both sets of parents were of the opinion the youngsters should not begin this aspect of marital life too early, and they worked to prevent such a change in affairs by housing the youngsters separately, as well as by charging Catherine's Spanish duenna to maintain a watchful eye on the pair. It was said Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort, was ruined by early childbirth (she bore Henry at age 13 and did not afterwards have other children though she was married four times), and Henry was not about to risk the succession of his line on another one-child mom. Equally as important was the thought common to that time that early sexual excesses could fatally weaken the health of young men. A teen prince who bedded too often, it was feared, was digging himself into an early grave.
Some other "delayed consummation" marriages of that general era were:
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, illegitimate son of Henry VIII, was married off to Lady Mary Howard when he was fourteen. The marriage remained unconsummated at his death at age 17.
Thomas, Earl of Surrey (Mary Howard's brother) lived with Lady Frances Vere for three years after they were wed before consummating matters when they were both 15.
As stated earlier, though early marriages were common among the royals of that era, they were far from the norm among ordinary citizens. Granted, there might have been a few such early unions, but the practice was not as portrayed in this e-mail, which states that "Most people married young, like at the age of 11 or 12."
According to Stephanie Coontz, who wrote in the 2005 bestseller Marriage: A History, "In England between 1500 and 1700 the median age of first marriage for women was twenty-six."
"Everyone just wrapped up in their blanket and slept on the floor. They had no indoor heating so all the extra bodies kept them warm."
This statement would hold true in 11th and 12th century England, when it was common practice for every member of the great households to bed down on the reed-strewn floor of the main hall. (Some of the more fortunate had flock mattresses to cushion them.) Northern Europe was at that time experiencing warmer-than-usual temperatures, which made such sleeping arrangements livable. The pendulum soon swung the other way, with the coming of a "little ice age" at the beginning of the 13th century.
This startling turn of climatic events (which was to last for the next 200 years) spelled the end to that style of communal living and brought about major shifts in building styles to better protect people from the horrendous cold. The advent of the chimney made it possible to warm smaller spaces, which led to the concept of sleeping singly or in pairs in bedrooms. All this is to say that by the 1500s one would have been hard pressed to find any homes that were not heated, or where the inhabitants shivered piled up together in a communal dogpile.
Although the modern practice of full-immersion bathing was a long way off in the 1500s (among other reasons because filling a vessel large enough to hold a person with heated water was rather impractical given the effort required to collect fresh water and fuel for heating it), people did still "bathe" in the sense of attempting to clean themselves as best they could with the resources at hand.
Although today's brides carry flowers simply because it is now the custom to do so, at one time bridal bouquets were symbols of sexuality and fertility. Covering up anyone's bad smell played no part in why this custom came into being.
Although the admonition against throwing the baby out with the bathwater dates back to the 16th century, its roots are Germanic, not English. Its first written occurrence was in Thomas Murner's 1512 versified satirical book Narrenbeschwörung, and its meaning is purely metaphorical. (In simpler terms, no literal babies or bathwater, just a memorable mental image meant to drive home a bit of advice against overreaction.)
"I'll describe their houses a little. You've heard of thatch roofs, well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, 'it's raining cats and dogs.'"
Mice, rats, and bugs definitely take up residence in thatch roofs — to them it's a highrise hay mow. Cats and dogs, however, don't go up there.
The saying it's raining cats and dogs was first noted in the 17th century, not the 16th. A number of theories as to its origin exist:
By evoking the image of cats and dogs fighting in a riotous, all-out manner, it expresses the fury of a sudden downpour.
Primitive drainage systems in use in the 17th century could be overwhelmed by heavy rainstorms, leading to gutters overflowing with debris that included dead animals.
In Northern European mythology, it is believed cats influence the weather and dogs represent wind.
The saying might have derived from the obsolete French word catadoupe, meaning waterfall or cataract.
It might have come from a similar-sounding Greek phrase meaning "an unlikely occurrence."
Canopied four-poster beds were the province of the well-to-do, not the ordinary folk. Possibly their origin had to do with a desire to display wealth conspicuously by showing off rich tapestries and fabrics. Beautifully thick wall hangings were likewise a way of dressing up a room while at the same time putting on the dog a bit. (The hangings also served to keep the warmth of a room in.) Such fripperies were not the norm in lesser households where available funds would more likely be directed to keeping people fed and clothed than to decorative flourishes.
"When you came into the house you would notice most times that the floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, that's where the saying 'dirt poor' came from."
"Dirt poor" is an American expression, not a British one. Claims that the saying grew out of British class distinctions as measured by style of flooring are therefore specious. As mentioned briefly above in the "everybody slept on the floor" discussion, floors of that era were rarely bare dirt anyway: fresh reeds were laid on them every day and thrown out every night, with another fresh set brought in for sleeping on. In the summer months, aromatic herbs might be added to this vegetative underfooting.
"The wealthy would have slate floors. That was fine but in the winter they would get slippery when they got wet. So they started to spread thresh on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on they would just keep adding it and adding it until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. So they put a piece of wood at the entry way, a 'thresh hold.'"
As stated above, the reeds used on floors were typically changed daily. Besides, who ever heard of calling reeds, rushes, or sheaves of grass "threshes"? One threshes plants to separate stalk from seed, but no part of the plant is called the "thresh."
The "thresh" part of threshold apparently comes from a prehistoric source that denoted "making noise" and is related to the Old Church Slavonik tresku, meaning "crash." By the time it reached Germanic (thresk-), it was probably being used for "stamp the feet noisily" (something that's a good idea to do in a doorway if you're wearing muddy boots).
Mostly they ate vegetables, they didn't get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner then leave the leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew would have food in it that had been in there for a month! Thus the rhyme: 'peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.'"
This entry might claim a bit of legitimacy, as even some cooking practices of today call for tossing whatever's on hand into the stewpot, with new ingredients added each day to whatever is left over. French bouillabaisse, for instance, is sometimes made this way, as are any number of "peasants' stews."
"Sometimes they could get a hold on some pork. They really felt special when that happened and when company came over they even had a rack in the parlor where they would bring out some bacon and hang it to show it off. That was a sign of wealth and that a man 'could really bring home the bacon.'"
Some linguists believe the saying "bring home the bacon" long predates the 16th century, stemming from the 12th century and referring to a time when a slab of bacon was awarded to the happiest married couple (a practice referred to by Chaucer in The Wife of Bath's Tale and Prologue). A man who "brought home the bacon" therefore wasn't showing how good a provider he was but rather demonstrating the success of his marriage. Other linguists believe the "bacon" might refer to the pig used in the greased pig chase common to many local fairs: the winner's prize was the pig itself, thus the skilled pig catcher got to "bring home the bacon."
"They would cut off a little to share with guests and they would all sit around and "chew the fat.""
Usage of the term "chewing the fat" hasn't been documented prior to the latter part of the 19th century, so it certainly wasn't a phrase that originated during the 1500s. Theories have linked it to sailors attempting to chomp on the tough rind found in salt pork sea rations, Native Americans chewing animal hides during their spare time, and farmers in Britain chewing on smoked pork, but there is no solid linguistic evidence proving any of these theories. As Richard Lederer put it, "What seems clear is that chewing the fat, like shooting the breeze, provides little sustenance for the amount of mastication involved."
Tomatoes are not native to Europe and thus were not spread to that continent until after the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Although tomatoes were first cultivated in Britain in the late 16th century, it wasn't until about the mid-18th century that they became common fare in that region. The slowness of their adoption as a staple food was not due to discovery that tomatoes were acidic and that lead from pewter plates therefore leached into them, however. Many people believed tomatoes to be dangerous to eat because they resembled other plants known to be poisonous, such as henbane, mandrake, and deadly nightshade, so for a long time the tomato was considered primarily an ornamental plant; eating its fruit was considered to be distasteful and potentially harmful.
"Most people didn't have pewter plates though, they all had trenchers, that was a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl."
"Trencher" is a medieval word that comes from the French trancher, "to slice," which shouldn't seem all the remarkable when viewed in the light of the earliest ones being made from sliced bread and used at banquets to receive morsels taken from a central dish and for soaking up any dripping sauces. Food that needed to be pierced or cut was not placed on a bread trencher. Trenchers started to receive pewter or wooden underplaques (also called trenchers) in the 14th century. Though these underplaques were sometimes used as plates to eat from, by custom the more common use called upon them to support a bread platform for food until sometime in the 16th century.
"They never washed their boards and a lot of times worms would get into the wood."
By the mid-16th century, what had been the wooden underplaque was coming to be viewed as dinner plate in its own right. Wooden trenchers that could hold both solid and liquid foods came into vogue, with some having separate hollows to house diners' salt. Wooden trenchers were typically washed after every use, though.
"After eating off the trencher with worms they would get 'trench mouth.'"
"Trench mouth" wasn't a term until 1918, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, and the "trench" part of the term referred to the trenches of World War I. Trench mouth is a bacterial infection of the mouth called "acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis." Soldiers sharing water bottles (as they did while cooped up for months at a time under enemy fire in the trenches of World War I) passed the disease to each other in record numbers, hence the simpler name this disease came to be known by. Worms never played any part in this.
"If you were going traveling and wanted to stay at an Inn they usually provided the bed but not the board."
No matter how you parse "board" in the previous sentence, inns were in the business of providing it. Travelers paid extra for their meals, but food was to be had at any place that deemed itself worthy of the name "inn." (Those that wanted only a room could get just that too.)
The "board" in "bed and board" (or "room and board") refers to the board table or sideboard where food was laid out, not an eating utensil. Common usage came to shift this meaning away from the furniture itself and to encompass the food served from it.
"The bread was divided according to status. The workers would get the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family would get the middle and guests would get the top, or the 'upper crust.'"
Although an admonition to "Kutt the upper crust [of a loaf of bread] for your soverayne" can be found in a 1460 work, the term 'upper crust' didn't come to be used figuratively to refer to persons of the higher classes until the 19th century. Many have speculated that the phrase "upper crust" originated with a custom of slicing the choice top portion off a loaf and presenting it to the highest-ranking guests at the table, but there is no documentary evidence supporting this as the phrase's actual origin.
"They also had lead cups and when they would drink their ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. They would be walking along the road and here would be someone knocked out and they thought they were dead. So they would pick them up and take them home and get them ready to bury. They realized if they were too slow about it, the person would wake up. Also, maybe not all of the people they were burying were dead. So they would lay them out on the kitchen table for a couple of days, the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. That's where the custom of holding a 'wake' came from."
Waking the dead is an ancient custom that extends around the world and has existed in Europe for at least the past thousand years. The term refers to the practice of watching over the corpse during the period between death and burial. Partly, this had to do with making sure someone was always around in case the corpse woke up (see our Buried Alive page for numerous stories about premature interments), but the watchers were also there to make sure household animals and assorted vermin were kept off the deceased.
Some so feared the possibility of live burial that they left instructions for special tests to be performed on their bodies to make sure they were actually dead. Surgical incisions, the application of boiling hot liquids, touching red-hot irons to their flesh, stabbing them through the heart, or even decapitation were all specified at different times as a way of making sure these people didn't wake up six feet under.
"Since England is so old and small they started running out of places to bury people. So they started digging up some coffins and would take their bones to a house and re-use the grave."
Burying the dead in previously-used graves happened with some frequency throughout Europe, both before, during, and after the 1500s. It didn't have to do with any particular country being too small to hold all the dead bodies, though: it had to do with the shortage of space in established cemeteries. The family of the deceased would habitually look to inter the loved one in the graveyard attached to their parish and, like any other piece of land, graveyards were finite; they could be used to house only so many before they filled up and older tenants had to be moved out.
Sometimes remains were dug up, and sometimes what was left was pushed aside, with the newcomer loaded in on top of whoever was already there. Most folks accepted this practice, provided the old bones remained near the church. When bones were disinterred, they were taken to a charnel house, in a process termed second burial.
English common law states a grave is held only temporarily (not owned) and its use terminated "with the dissolution of the body." Grave inhabitants are granted "the right of appropriation of the soil to the body interred therein until its remains shall have so mingled with the earth as to have destroyed its identity." In other words, once you're bones, you've lost your rights.
Modern cemeteries in many countries routinely rent graves for two to thirty years. At the end of that period, the bones are disinterred and reburied in accordance with that country's cemetery laws. Vancouver, British Columbia, successfully uses a 30-year-renewable lease for its graves. In London, England, the wealthy have for many years obtained 99-year leases on their graves in prestigious cemeteries. (Graves for purchase, though, are scarce.)
"They started opening these coffins and found some had scratch marks on the inside. One out of 25 coffins were that way …"
Scratch marks have been found on the inside of some coffins and tombs, as detailed in Our Buried Alive article. Such marks, however, were a relatively rare find, certainly nothing on a level even remotely approaching the "one out of 25" figure presented here.
"… and they realized they had still been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell."
Premature burial signaling devices only came into fashion in the 19th century; they weren't around in the 16th. Some of these 19th century coffins blew whistles and raised flags if their inhabitants awoke from their dirt naps. (Once again, our Buried Alive page provides information about a number of these devices, including ones available in modern times.)
"That is how the saying 'graveyard shift' was made."
The earliest documented uses of the phrase "graveyard shift" dates from the late 1800s, not the 1500s, and simply references work shifts that took place in the middle of the night and early morning hours, a time of day when work environments could be dark, quiet, and a bit spooky. The similar phrase graveyard watch originated at about the same time and refers to a shipboard watch covering the hours between midnight to 4 AM. It's unlikely that sailors aboard ship were in any position to be overseeing the graves of the newly-interred.
"If the bell would ring they would know that someone was 'saved by the bell' or he was a 'dead ringer.'"
"Saved by the bell" is a late 19th century term from the world of boxing, where a beleaguered fighter being counted out would have his fate delayed by the ringing of the bell to signify the end of the round. Need we mention that although fisticuffs were around in the 1500s, the practice of ringing a bell to end a round wasn't?
Likewise, "dead ringer" has nothing to do with the prematurely buried signaling their predicament to those still above ground: the term means an exact double, not someone buried alive.
"Dead ringer" was first used in the late 19th century, with "ringer" referring to someone's physical double and "dead" meaning "absolute" (as in "dead heat" and "dead right"). A "ringer" was a better horse swapped into a race in place of a nag. These horses would have to resemble each other well enough to fool the naked eye, hence the term came to mean an exact double.
To sum up, though it's entertaining to toy with mental images of cats and dogs falling through thatch roofs and shudder deliciously over the thought of our forebearers dining off wooden platters that had worms waving out of them, that's about as far as one should take this craziness. No matter how many inboxes this popular e-mail has landed in, it never once enlightened anyone. Indeed, it probably left more than a few looking like utter fools when they tried to pass this "knowledge" along to friends better versed in phrase origins.
As always, the bottom line is to take such missives with a grain of salt.
A later version of this piece was prefaced with a putative explanation of origins of the term "piss poor," which we have covered in a separate article.
Phrase Craze
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New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990. ISBN 1-559-70214-1.
Burke, James. Connections.
London: Duckworth, 1998.
Fraser, Antonia. The Wives of Henry VIII.
New York: Vintage Books, 1992. ISBN 0-769-73001-X.
Hendrickson, Robert. Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins.
New York: Facts on File, 1997. ISBN 0-86237-122-7.
Iserson, Kenneth. Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
Tuscon, Arizona: Galen Press, 1994. ISBN 1-883620-07-4.
Koontz, Stephanie. Marriage: A History.
New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. ISBN 0-670-03407-X (p. 125.
Mieder, Wolfgang. "(Don't) Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater."
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Hofstra newspaper sued for 'truth' in sex assault story
NEW YORK — Hofstra University's student newspaper asked a New York state court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against it in June, claiming that writers accurately provided information on a sexual assault incident on campus.The newspaper said it reported, without error, on the arrest of law student Michael Liebgold for third degree sexual assault in March 1995."True facts, no matter how unflattering, cannot give rise to a libel claim," states the newspaper in its motion to dismiss the case. "The express statements in the articles and editorial are undeniably true."Liebgold claims the paper depicted him as a rapist through its stories and editorial. The paper claims the accusations were the result of a "distorted and unreasonable" reading of the articles and editorial in question."The assertion of a false fact is an essential element of Liebgold's defamation claim," the newspaper stated. "The facts reported by The Chronicle are concededly true." The paper claims the editorial is a "classic" example of "constitutionally protected opinion."The situation began in March 1995, when, according to court documents, Liebgold invited an undergraduate student to his campus dorm room. She left "abruptly" after arriving and the following morning Liebgold was arrested and charged with third degree sexual assault, according to court documents.At the time of Liebgold's arrest, he denied any wrongdoing had taken place and said all contact with the woman had been "consensual." Liebgold was permitted by Hofstra's dean of students and law school dean to continue living in his campus home and attend classes.Approximately two weeks after Liebgold's arrest, The Chronicle published an article about the alleged assault, along with an editorial about the incident, according to court documents. Three other news stories followed.The editorial criticized Hofstra for inaccurately publicizing alleged criminal incidents on campus. It also stated that the school had been "inexcusably tardy in providing information to the public."A decision on The Chronicle's motion to dismiss the case is expected in September, said the newspaper's attorney, Craig Bloom.
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Off the Record: Notes From My Career
Event Time 09:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Location Virtual
Contact Email amberw@sfsu.edu
Marcia will talk about her professional journey and highlight some of the things that she learned in each role that they did not teach in college.
Marcia L. Allert joined The Dallas Morning News as Director of Visual Journalism in 2016 and oversees a team of award-winning visual journalists and editors. The team works closely with the editorial department to produce compelling visual journalism that diversifies and deepens the DMN's storytelling. She's worked at the Associated Press, ABC News, The New York Times, and The Daily Beast. Allert is also a TEDxSMU speaker, served on the Pulitzer photo jury, and was on the judging committee for CPOY and POYi. She serves on the board for the National Press Photographers Association and the W Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.


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Q: Listar objetos Javascript em uma tabela Boa tarde. Tenho um objeto:
var relatorios = [
        { "Data": "28/08/2015", "Descricao": "Visita a Cliente", "Classificacao": "Class.2", "Valor": "R$435,00", "Verba": "RH", "Comentario": "Cliente A" },
        { "Data": "15/05/2013", "Descricao": "Apresentação", "Classificacao": "Class.4", "Valor": "R$328,00", "Verba": "Financeiro", "Comentario": "Cliente S" },
        { "Data": "19/10/2014", "Descricao": "Visita e Apresentação", "Classificacao": "Class.7", "Valor": "R$548,78", "Verba": "Diretoria", "Comentario": "Cliente D" },
        { "Data": "11/04/2015", "Descricao": "Proposta", "Classificacao": "Class.34", "Valor": "R$369,22", "Verba": "Comercial", "Comentario": "Cliente F" },
        { "Data": "12/12/2015", "Descricao": "Visita", "Classificacao": "Class.2", "Valor": "R$120,20", "Verba": "RH", "Comentario": "Cliente G" },
        { "Data": "25/06/2015", "Descricao": "Evento", "Classificacao": "Class.1", "Valor": "R$125,00", "Verba": "Comercial", "Comentario": "Cliente H" },
        { "Data": "29/07/2015", "Descricao": "Fechar Venda", "Classificacao": "Class.9", "Valor": "R$333,33", "Verba": "comercial", "Comentario": "Cliente J" }
        ];

E gostaria de lista-lo em uma table, na verdade, só colocar dentro de um tbody. Mas nao encontro solução onde quer que eu procure.
Att.

A: Vais precisar de iterar essa array e ir adicionando elementos.
relatorios.forEach(function (relatorio) {
    var tr = document.createElement('tr');
    for (var campo in relatorio) {
        var td = document.createElement('td');
        td.innerHTML = relatorio[campo];
        tr.appendChild(td);
    };
    tbody.appendChild(tr);
});

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/gsupdtp9/
Assim, uma vez que relatorios é uma array, percorres um a um com o .forEach() e a cada linha/elemento dessa array crias um novo tr para a table.
Depois iteras também o objeto que cada relatório é, e criando uma nova td inseres o valor com td.innerHTML = relatorio[campo];.
Depois é só inserir o elemento criado no elemento onde ele pertence.


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Gerlan – Paul Rowlinson (Plaid Cymru) wins with 439 votes.
Hendre – It was a historical moment to decide the Councillor who would represent this ward. Richard Medwyn Hughes (Independent) tied with John Wynn Jones (Plaid Cymru) on 132 votes each. The winner was decided when Dilwyn Williams pulled Richard Mewdyn Hughes' name out of a pot.
Hirael – Keith Jones (Independent) wins with 216 votes.
Llanberis – Kevin Morris Jones (Independent) wins with 519 votes.
Llanllyfni - Craig ab Iago (Plaid Cymru) kept his seat with 245 votes.
Llanwnda – Aeron Maldwyn Jones (Llais Gwynedd) retains his seat with 481 votes.
Marchog – Nigel Pickavance and Dylan Fernley (both Independent) won the seats here with 376 and 257 votes respectively.
Menai (Bangor) – Two young Councillors, Mair Rowlands and Catrin Wager (both Plaid Cymru) win seats with 218 and 175 votes respectively.
Menai (Caernarfon) – Ioan Ceredig Thomas (Plaid Cymru) retains his seat with 568 votes.
Ogwen – Rheinallt Puw (Plaid Cymru) wins with 355 votes.
Peblig - A very close call as Jason Parry (Independent) beat present Councillor Tudor Owen by 311 votes to 308, with 8 votes rejected.
Penisarwaun – Elwyn Jones (Independent) beat Plaid Cymru's Hefin Williams with 335 votes.
Penygroes – Judith Humphreys (Plaid Cymru) wins with 512 votes.
Talysarn – Dilwyn Lloyd (Independent) retains his seat with 377 votes.
Waunfawr – Edgar Wyn Owen (Plaid Cymru) wins with 288 votes.
Y Bontnewydd – Peter Garlick (Independent) wins with 361 votes.
Y Groeslon – Eric Merfyn Jones (Independent) wins with 564 votes.
Plaid Cymru dominated the overall voting in the area with 21 councillors being voted in.
Independent has 10 representatives whilst Labour and Llais Gwynedd have just the one representative each.


When I created my site I started it in Asp. net 1.0 because I needed to learn it if i ever wanted to work at a decent job.
THe original coder, who is hell on wheels for getting stuff done fast, I will give him that, was basically pulling all records from the database and filtering them in Asp. net before displaying, this was for an employee table with 30000 records.
In this analysis, we found that the allergens previously described as Asp f9 and Asp f16 corresponded to the same open reading frame (ORF).
Also, in this study, recombinant antigen Asp f9 (mistakenly identified as Asp f16 in earlier studies) induced IFN-γ responses with weaker recognition by IL-4 or IL-17-secreting T-cells.
But the means by which she destroyed herself, is said to produce the easiest of deaths: the Asp is a small serpent found near the river Nile, so delicate that it may be concealed in a fig; and when presented to the vitals of the body, its bite is so deadly as to render medical skill useless, while at the same time it is so painless, that the victim fancies herself dropping into a sweet slumber, instead of the arms of death.
The police video, released by Mr Whatley's lawyer, shows an officer taking a run up with a telescopic "Asp" baton.
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On MSNBC's website, Karen Asp writes, Superwoman syndrome fuels pill-pop culture, and it's about how "Overwhelmed overachievers turn to prescription drugs for an edge."
Worried About Popping Pills If You're a Superwoman?
Witnesses on the scene said around 9: 30 p.m., a car was driving the wrong way on Asp Avenue, south of Michael F. Price Hall, when the car took out a few traffic barriers, popped its tires and jumped the curb, stopping in front of the library.


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How Farmers Can Use Data to Push Back Against Big Ag
Issie Lapowsky
For decades, farmers have had to rely on seed companies for information about how well their seeds grow. This Google-backed startup is helping farmers share that data with each other.
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Say you're a farmer and you want to test a new brand of seed that one of your vendors has been hyping. You may plant a test plot in spring, but you won't see results until fall, and then, of course, you'll want to test it again for a few more seasons to ensure you're seeing a pattern and not a fluke. After three years pass, you make a judgment call, but you're still left wondering whether it really was the seeds that made a difference, because it could have been the new fertilizer you used. Or maybe the crop spacing. Or the land quality. Or any of the dozens of variables that can impact a harvest.
"As a farmer, it takes a long time to learn," says Steve Pitstick. He should know. He's been growing corn and soybeans on a 2,600-acre plot of land in Maple Park, Illinois for years, often operating on a hunch, a slick sales pitch from Name Your Big Agriculture Conglomerate, and what limited data he gets from his own farm.
But a few months back, Pitstick was at a conference where he heard about a startup called Farmers Business Network, which aggregates data from farmers across the United States to help them learn from each other. "Within a minute of the presentation, I said, 'I'm in.' It was exactly what I'd been looking for," Pitstick says. "My thinking was: If I can see a larger dataset, I can learn more quickly."
Pitstick, apparently, isn't the only one who thought so. Farmers Business Network now has data on nearly 7 million acres of farmland across 17 states. That may be just the beginning.
Today, Farmers Business Network is announcing a $15 million round of funding led by Google Ventures. According to Andy Wheeler, a partner at the search giant's investment arm, data is becoming ever more important to agriculture. That's one reason why the firm also invested in a company called Climate Corporation, which uses weather data to provide insurance to farmers and eventually was acquired by Monsanto.
The best way to empower farmers and help them make the best decisions is to make information more transparent.
"Agriculture has gone through waves of productivity increases in the past," says Wheeler, who comes from a family of farmers in Iowa. "Now we're entering the period of data being one of the primary drivers of that increase."
Among its 37 employees, Farmers Business Network has plenty of farmers on staff, but its founders, Amol Deshpande and Charles Baron, are straight out of Silicon Valley. Before launching the Network, Deshpande was a partner at Kleiner Perkins, while Baron was working as a product manager at Google. Baron says he always has been fascinated by his brother-in-law, who grows corn and wheat in Nebraska, and the sheer number of variables that went into his job. And yet, as a proud Googler, Baron says he couldn't get over the fact that all of this information was siloed, inaccessible to other farmers.
"Google's mission of organizing the world's information is very much how we think of ourselves in organizing agricultural information," he says. "We believe the best way to empower farmers and help them make the best decisions is to make information more transparent."
Baron took this idea to Deshpande and, after speaking with farmers across the country together, they launched Farmers Business Network in 2014. For $500 a year, farmers can submit their data, benchmark it against other farms nationwide, find the best seeds for their soil, and see a Consumer Reports-like review of hundreds of agricultural products, among other services.
Pitstick says these tools have not only given him more confidence in his decision-making, but they've helped him cut through the often misleading claims of vendors. For instance, one type of seed he had been planting was underproducing, a problem the vendor---no surprise---said he could overcome by buying more seeds. But when Pitstick checked that seed on Farmers Business Network, he found that none of the farms in the network had seen the results the vendor was promising, a problem Baron says is all too common.
"It's like if ExxonMobil were to sell cars, they'd always sell you Suburbans. That's the same dynamic farmers have had. They've had to use the information the seed company has," Baron says. Now, FBN is giving these farmers a chance to talk to each other at scale and separate the wheat from the chaff. Or in this case, the wheat from the wheat.
Issie Lapowsky is a senior writer for WIRED covering the intersection of tech, politics, and national affairs. Lapowsky covered startups and small business as a staff writer for Inc. magazine before joining WIRED, and before that she worked for the New York Daily News. Lapowsky received a bachelor's degree from... Read more
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I am looking for a schematic for the Dual Caliber DC-2b footswitch. It should be the stereo one because it will control both the lead/rhythm and the contour.
I just don't think it should cost me 60 bucks to get one.
This should work fine for the DC-2b. I've used it for other footswitches in the past. It's the same as the provided link sans cool Boogie logo. Adjust the resistors to how bright or dim you want them. 1.4k seems like it would be very bright. I lean towards 2.2k.


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Tomlin struck out one over two perfect innings of relief in Friday's loss to the Mets.
The veteran right-hander has been used sparingly so far, but Tomlin's 2.45 ERA and 0.55 WHIP in three appearances show he's gotten the job done when required. He'll continue working in a low-leverage role for Atlanta, giving him limited fantasy appeal.


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Half Marathon Winner Hamish Carson's Run for Research
Having been a short-mid distance competitive runner until AMI Round the Bays 2013, Run for Research entrant Hamish Carson's debut half marathon ended up being one incredible achievement! Not only did his time of 1:08:51 secure him first place in AMI Round the Bays Half Marathon, but also first place in the Athletics New Zealand National Half Marathon Championships.
We caught up with Hamish post event to find out more about his 'running' life and why he believes in supporting medical research:
I started athletics when I was six but only got into it seriously when I started college - before then I'd been much more interested in skiing! When I was 12 I lived down in Wanaka and did a season of cross-country skiing and got really fit, so to start with running was just a way to keep fit when there was no snow around.
These days I run both because I love the competitive aspect and because it's so enjoyable being fit and able to run through the wilderness on long training runs. Thus far my main achievements have been winning two NZ senior 1500m titles and one 3000m title so to add the half marathon title to that was a bit of a surprise.
I've represented New Zealand once before in 2011 in the 1500m at the World University Games in China where I finished 10th. I was hoping to qualify for the Olympics last year but missed out on the selection standard of 3.35.5 by 2.5 seconds. Hopefully I can make it to Rio and the Commonwealth Games in Scotland next year.
I entered AMI Round the Bays through the Malaghan Institute's limited Run for Research entries and was really happy to support medical research by entering the event. I became familiar with the Malaghan Institute when I started studying at Victoria University in 2007 and in my opinion scientific research in general deserves more support because it leads to knowledge that benefits people in their everyday lives.
It was great to see so many people taking part in AMI Round the Bays this year. Keeping active is so important to leading a healthy life and everyone I saw out there seemed to be having a great time. The cheers from the other runners and walkers coming around the peninsular really spurred us leading guys on running into the head wind on the way to the finish.
Having never raced a half marathon before I wasn't quite sure what to expect but I soon settled in to the pace and was able to hang in there despite numerous surges from Dr Dougal Thorburn and out sprint him in the last couple of kilometres. I felt pretty good at the end but it was a long way and don't think I'll be running a full marathon any time soon!
Thanks Hamish for supporting the Run for Research and congratulations on a fantastic achievement!
For those of you interested in seeing Hamish's personal bests – have a look at these speedy times:
800m 1:50
1500m 3:38
1 mile 3:59
5000m 14:00
Results from AMI Round the Bays 2013: