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Why the Filet-O-Fish Sandwich Has Been on the McDonald's Menu for Nearly 60 Years
BY Michele Debczak
McDonald's has introduced and quietly killed many dishes over the years (remember McDonald's pizza?), but there's a core group of items that have held their spot on the menu for decades. Listed alongside the Big Mac and McNuggets is the Filet-O-Fish—a McDonald's staple you may have forgotten about if you're not the type of person who orders seafood from fast food restaurants. But the classic sandwich, consisting of a fried fish filet, tartar sauce, and American cheese on a bun, didn't get on the menu by mistake—and thanks to its popularity around Lent, it's likely to stick around.
According to Taste of Home, the inception of the Filet-O-Fish can be traced back to a McDonald's franchise that opened near Cincinnati, Ohio in 1959. Back then the restaurant offered beef burgers as its only main dish, and for most of the year, diners couldn't get enough of them. Things changed during Lent: Many Catholics abstain from eating meat and poultry on Fridays during the holy season as a form of fasting, and in the early 1960s, Cincinnati was more than 85 percent Catholic. Fridays are supposed to be one of the busiest days of the week for restaurants, but sales at the Ohio McDonald's took a nosedive every Friday leading up to Easter.
Franchise owner Lou Groen went to McDonald's founder Ray Kroc with the plan of adding a meat alternative to the menu to lure back Catholic customers. He proposed a fried halibut sandwich with tartar sauce (though meat is off-limits for Catholics on Fridays during Lent, seafood doesn't count as meat). Kroc didn't love the idea, citing his fears of stores smelling like fish, and suggested a "Hula Burger" made from a pineapple slice with cheese instead. To decide which item would earn a permanent place on the menu, they put the two sandwiches head to head at Groen's McDonald's one Friday during Lent.
The restaurant sold 350 Filet-O-Fish sandwiches that day—clearly beating the Hula Burger (though exactly how many pineapple burgers sold, Kroc wouldn't say). The basic recipe has received a few tweaks, switching from halibut to the cheaper cod and from cod to the more sustainable Alaskan pollock, but the Filet-O-Fish has remained part of the McDonald's lineup in some form ever since. Today 300 million of the sandwiches are sold annually, and about a quarter of those sales are made during Lent.
Other seafood products McDonald's has introduced haven't had the same staying power as the Filet-O-Fish. In 2013, the chain rolled out Fish McBites, a chickenless take on McNuggets, only to pull them from menus that same year.
[h/t Taste of Home]
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10 Delicious Hot Chocolate Mix-Ins
BY Meredith Danko
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It's hot chocolate season—and while there's nothing wrong with plopping in a few marshmallows into your hot cocoa, there are many other ways to spice it up. Whether you're bored or just looking to try something new, these 10 ingredients will take your hot chocolate to the next level.
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If you're a fan of the peanut butter and chocolate combination, this recipe from One Ordinary Day is for you. Just add a few dollops of regular, creamy peanut butter right into your saucepan along with the chocolate and enjoy.
2. Nutella
For a hazelnut flavor, mix some nutella into the saucepan. This one goes best with a whipped cream garnish.
3. Maple Syrup
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For a New England twist on cocoa, add a couple teaspoons of maple syrup. If you need an extra kick, a couple pinches of nutmeg will do.
4. Cinnamon
A mere teaspoon of cinnamon in a saucepan of hot chocolate is all it takes to create a delicious mix of cinnamon hot chocolate.
5. Oreos
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You'll need a food processor or blender to chop up around four oreos until they're the texture of sugar. Add it to the hot chocolate mix, then top with whipped cream and more crushed Oreos.
For a batch of peppermint hot chocolate, all it takes is three drops of peppermint oil and a pinch of salt.
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To make hot cocoa taste like gingerbread, add one piece of ginger, 10 cloves, and two cinnamon sticks while cooking.
8. Chili Powder
If you really want to spice up the beverage, whip up a batch of Mexican hot chocolate. This includes a little bit of ground cinnamon and a pinch of chili powder.
9. Cherry
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For a full batch of hot chocolate to taste like cherry, it takes a few tablespoons of maraschino cherry juice.
10. Booze
There are many types of alcohol that go well in hot chocolate. Some options include brandy, Kahlua, peppermint schnapps, raspberry liqueur, tequila, amaretto, Bailey's Irish Creme, and even red wine.
101 Years Later: Remembering Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919
BY Ethan Trex
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On January 15, 1919, Boston suffered one of history's strangest disasters: a devastating flood of molasses. The "Great Molasses Flood" tore through the city's North End and deposited so much gooey residue that locals claimed they could still smell the molasses on warm days decades later.
While most of us probably think of molasses as a tasty ingredient in treats like gingerbread, the sticky stuff has quite a few other uses. With a little know-how, one can turn molasses into rum or industrial alcohol fairly easily, and the Purity Distilling Company had built the gigantic tank in Boston's North End in 1915 to supply its booze-making operations.
The steel tank was enormous: 50 feet tall, 90 feet across, and capable of holding 2.5 million gallons of molasses. (Although Prohibition kicked in with Nebraska's ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment the very next day after the 1919 disaster, the United States Industrial Alcohol Company, Purity Distilling's parent company, still had a license to distill alcohol for industrial applications.)
By Unknown - Anthony Mitchell Sammarco. Boston's North End. Arcadia Publishing, 2004, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons
The massive tank was nearly full on January 15, thanks to a recent infusion of 2.3 million gallons of molasses from Puerto Rico. Just after noon, something went horribly wrong. Witnesses later recalled hearing a noise like gunfire as the tank's rivets popped and the steel sides ripped open. Suddenly, 26 million pounds of molasses were tearing down Commercial Street in a 15-foot wave.
A shockingly destructive force
A giant wave of a sticky foodstuff sounds like something from a cartoon, but the surging molasses was a shockingly destructive force. The wave moved at upwards of 35 mph, and the power was sufficient to rip buildings off of their foundations. The molasses snapped the support girders from an elevated train track and smashed multiple houses. The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities's website claimed the property damage alone totaled around $100 million in today's dollars.
The human cost of the disaster was even more grim. The wave of molasses moved so quickly and so forcefully that anyone who was unlucky enough to be in its way didn't stand much of a chance. They were either knocked over and crushed or drowned in the goo. The flood claimed 21 lives, and another 150 people suffered injuries. Any flood would have been disastrous, but the viscous nature of molasses made rescue attempts even trickier. Medics and police officers arrived on the scene quickly but had to slog through waist-deep goo to reach victims.
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Even after the victims had been pulled from the muck, cleanup crews quickly learned that getting rid of 2 million gallons of molasses is no small task. In his book Dark Tide, Stephen Puleo wrote about one of the chief obstacles to the cleanup: firefighters couldn't just use their hoses to blast the molasses off of buildings and streets with fresh water. Eventually they realized that saltwater would cut the hardened molasses and enable them to hose it down the streets into gutters. Thanks to all the foot traffic of rescue workers, cleanup crews, and rubberneckers, the sticky mess quickly moved around the city via people's shoes. In all, the cleanup effort required over 80,000 man-hours.
How did this tragedy happen in the first place? The United States Industrial Alcohol Company was quick to blame everyone's favorite early 20th-century scapegoats: anarchists. The company claimed that since its alcohol was an ingredient in government munitions, anarchists must have sabotaged the tank by detonating a bomb. Another theory explained that the molasses had fermented inside the tank, which led to an explosion.
Investigators soon found the real culprit, though: shoddy construction work. The company had been in such a hurry to get the tank built back in 1915 that it didn't cut corners so much as it ignored the corners completely. Modern studies have found that the tank walls were both too thin and made of a steel that was too brittle to withstand the volume of molasses.
The man who oversaw the construction wasn't an engineer or an architect; in fact, he couldn't even read a blueprint. The tank needed to be an engineering marvel to hold all that weight, but the company never even consulted an engineer on the project. Basically, it threw up a gigantic tank as quickly and as cheaply as possible, skimped on inspections and safety tests, and hoped for the best.
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In light of these details, it's amazing that the tank held together for four years. Nearby residents reported that the tank had leaked since its construction. Rather than fix the problem, the United States Industrial Alcohol Company had painted the tank brown so the leaks would be less noticeable.
The largely working-class North End residents who had lost their homes and loved ones in the disaster predictably turned their rage toward the United States Industrial Alcohol Company. USIA soon found itself named as the defendant in 125 lawsuits, which led to a legal battle that nearly matched the flood's scale.
The Massachusetts Superior Court named Colonel Hugh Ogden as the auditor who would hear the evidence and report back on the cause of the disaster. It took Ogden nearly six years to hear testimony from 3000 witnesses. When he finally penned his report, he concluded that there was no evidence to support the company's theory of anarchist saboteurs. Instead, Ogden found that the "factor of safety" in the tank's construction and inspection had been woefully low. USIA was liable for the damage and paid around $7000 to the family of each victim.
The Great Molasses Flood still seems like a tragedy that could have been averted, but the disaster really drew attention to the potential repercussions of shaky construction. The case helped prompt Massachusetts and many other states to pass laws requiring that engineers and architects inspect and approve plans for major construction projects.
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Germany's Bayer chemical concern has launched a seed plant in the village of Pochuiky (Zhytomyr region) for $200 million, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has written on his Facebook page.
"Today on September 5 in Zhytomyr region, a new modern plant for the production of seeds of agricultural products of Bayer company was opened. These are 85 permanent and 220 seasonal jobs for Ukrainians. It is important that Bayer helps to solve social issues of the local community – supports the school and library, financed the construction of a new road and an outpatient clinic," he wrote.
Poroshenko said that $200 million of investment funds were attracted for the construction of the plant.
"This is more evidence that Ukraine is an attractive country for international investment," the president said.
Bayer is an international company specializing in life sciences, namely, health and agriculture. The company has been operating in Ukraine since 1992 in the form of Bayer LLC, is a major supplier of crop protection agents (pesticides, herbicides and fungicides) and seeds in Ukraine.


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Port of Seattle Restores Habitat and Removes Over 2,000 Creosote Pilings
Project started in October of 2017, scheduled for completion in March 2018
The Port of Seattle is restoring 4.5 acres of habitat along the shoreline of Terminal 5, while getting closer to its goal of removing 90 percent of creosote pilings from its properties. The 2,300 creosote pilings removed leave the Port with around 8,000 remaining out of a total of 18,000 estimated in 2000.
"Restoring shoreline habitat and removing creosote pilings is a great way to return natural vitality to our ecosystem," said Commissioner Fred Felleman. "The Port of Seattle is on track to remove thousands more creosote pilings by 2025."
"I want to thank the Port of Seattle for removing creosote-treated pilings, which harm the health of Puget Sound. By partnering with agencies like the Port, the Department of Natural Resources is leading efforts throughout Puget Sound to restore habitat and remove creosote pilings and debris from our waters. I look forward to further partnership with the Port and leaders like Commissioner Fred Felleman as we continue this important work," Hilary Franz, Commissioner of Public Lands.
"The Duwamish River Clean-up Coalition/Technical Advisory Group aims to further equity in the Duwamish Valley; improve the health and well-being objectives identified and prioritized by these disproportionately affected, predominately underserved communities; and promote a thriving economy in this geographic area," said James Rasmussen, Executive Director of the DRCC/TAG. "We support the Port of Seattle in these piling removal and habitat restoration efforts."
Creosote-treated pilings and timbers were used for more than 100 years throughout Puget Sound, as fundamental structural elements in marine cargo and transportation infrastructure. Present-day marine facility piers and docks have replaced creosote construction with inert steel and concrete pilings, and in many instances fender systems requiring no piling have been installed. This benefits wildlife since it requires less structural pilings and less over-water coverage. In addition, older and unused over-water structures and their creosote pilings and dock materials have been removed.
Since 1990, the Port has created, restored or enhanced over 100 acres of fish and wildlife habitat in the Green-Duwamish River Watershed and Puget Sound. The Port's Century Agenda goal for habitat restoration includes the creation of 40 additional acres of fish and wildlife habitat in the Green-Duwamish River Watershed and Elliott Bay. The Port of Seattle currently has three large projects totaling 34 acres in the design/permitting process.
The Port's habitat restoration program, called the PORTfolio, is focused on innovation. The Port is involved in several research/pilot projects with the University of Washington, King County, and a Puget Sound Restoration Fund that will explore new ways to improve habitat. These include the "Floating Wetland Islands" project and Smith Cove Carbon Sequestration Pilot Study.
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NSAC Cooperative Learning Network - What is a Cooperative?
Objective: This one-hour course is one of the modules contained in the NSAC Basic Accounting Course, taught at an introductory-basic level.
This one-hour course is one of the modules contained in the NSAC Basic Accounting Course, taught at an introductory-basic level. The course will describe exactly what a cooperative is, definitions, etc. It will discuss the rich history of cooperatives, and will point out cooperatives in the community today, many of which most of us did not realize were cooperatives. We will discuss the several ways coops are classified, and will end with a discussion of the benefits of cooperation.
Bill Erlenbush is retired as controller and compliance officer from GROWMARK, Inc. He is currently working part-time as the Director of Education for NSAC.
Bill spent his entire career working in cooperative accounting at GROWMARK. His work experience includes all aspects of order control and billing, accounts receivable/payable, financial accounting and tax. As compliance officer, he had responsibility for the administration of the compliance and ethics program at GROWMARK and its subsidiaries and retail divisions. In addition, he was been involved in negotiating major acquisitions for GROWMARK.
His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Illinois State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
Bill is an active member in many industry and professional groups. He also serves on the Mclean County United Way Board of Directors as well as on the Heartland Community College Foundation Board of Directors.


Green Vegan Living: I'm Moving!
A few weeks ago, D asked me to move in with him. I excitedly said yes, and life has been a whirlwind ever since. With applying to a place to live, scoping out furniture, and going to Kauai all happening practically simultaneously, I've felt just a bit frazzled.
I'm going from sharing a three-bedroom, one-bath with two other girls to sharing a four(ish)-story, two-bath house with my love. I'm pretty pumped. The downside is that the kitchen is much smaller than my current one, but now that it's basically all mine, I'm willing to make some concessions.
The house is located in a very centralized area of the city, meaning my commute will be just about the same, while D's will be even shorter and he could, conceivably, even walk to work. We're close to myriad fantastic restaurants, coffee shops, my favorite vegan + gluten-free pizza joint in all of Portland, and Queen Bee purses. We're in biking distance to Whole Foods, a library branch, and a hospital. Plus, the river is now merely blocks from where we're to live.
The best part of all this is that I get to live with D. He makes me laugh, supports me and encourages me in every part of my life, and looks pretty good in a pair of jeans. I already feel completely at home with him, and it makes perfect sense to combine our two homes into one.


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2017 Honda CBR1000RR SP and SP2 Unveiling
Honda steps it up and brings two contenders to the literbike war
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Just as we suspected, Honda today unveiled its much anticipated 2017 CBR1000RR at Intermot in Germany. We first reported on the new CBR last month as spy photos started to come out, but Honda still had a few surprises in store with this announcement. Two, actually. First, Honda decided to release its up-spec model, the CBR1000RR SP, ahead of the standard edition (Honda says to expect an announcement on that one come November). And second, there would be a second, limited-edition model, the CBR1000RR SP2, homologated strictly for racing purposes (more on that later).
We've been waiting a long time for an updated 1000RR to come out, and during that time it would seem Honda heard all of our cries, as the new CBR1000RR SP is loaded with the features we've been clamoring for. With a design focus centered on "Total Control" – the same words spoken by Baba-san, the Large Project Leader during the press unveiling of the CBR900RR back in 1991 – Honda had three objectives to meet with the new Fireblade:
Reduce weight/concentrate mass
Increase power
Incorporate the latest electronics
Nicky's smiling because Honda's finally coming out with a new CBR1000RR SP.
Incorporating the latest electronic rider aids and safety equipment is a relatively recent phenomena, necessitated by the outrageous power today's liter-class sportbikes are putting out. But the first two objectives have always been the emphasis for sportbike designers, yet as time marches on and global regulations change, sometimes vehicles have to put on some pounds in order to comply. The tightest set of regulations to date take effect on January 1, 2017, when Euro 4 standards kick in, but still, Honda has met the challenge with the new 'Blade, claiming it to be a whole 33 lbs lighter than the current (Euro spec) SP model while pumping out 10 more horses with 68% new parts.
If this weight claim holds true, then expect the new CBR to weigh around 430 lbs, fully fueled, which would undercut all of its Japanese and German rivals. For comparison, the Euro-spec Yamaha R1 is claimed at 438.7 lbs, Kawasaki's ZX-10R is 454.2 lbs, Suzuki's 2016 GSX-R1000 is 451.9 lbs, and BMW's is S1000RR 449.7 lbs. Only the Ducati 1299 Panigale weighs less, at 420 lbs. In all, the new bike has a 14% better power-to-weight ratio compared to the outgoing model. So, let's dive into the specifics.
New and old CBR1000RR SPs together. While not revolutionary, the new SP is a big step forward in the evolution of the CBR.
We start with the chassis because, as I noted in the spy photo story linked above, the frame looked very similar, if not identical to, the current model. That was done intentionally by Honda, as the current CBR1000RR was praised for its chassis, both by racers and publications worldwide, including MO. In keeping with the Total Control design ethos, Honda decided against reinventing the wheel, essentially taking the old 'Blade's chassis and reincorporating it for this new model. However, that's not the whole story. Portions of the frame walls were thinned down, resulting in 300 grams of shed weight and different chassis flex characteristics to give the rider better feel – and control – especially at the limit.
The die-cast aluminum subframe was overhauled as well, losing 600 grams. Meanwhile, swingarm section thickness was also adjusted, resulting in increased torsional rigidity while losing another 300 grams. Wheels, too, haven't been overlooked; the six-spoke design of yore giving way to a five-spoke design on the new bike (each spoke then splits into two at each tip, so you could argue it's a 10-spoke design). Weight drops 100 grams, aided in part to the aluminum spacers also used on the new bike.
Without its skin, we get a better look at the frame, subframe, engine and front suspension. Honda says all were optimized in order to give the rider Total Control.
Styling is generally a subjective issue, and while I think the new bike looks great (especially in person), objectively the new skin is both slimmer and lighter than before. Honda's focus in the styling department was for a more aggressive, yet minimalist design. Hence, more of the engine components are visible when viewing the bike from a side profile. The front of the upper fairing is now 24mm narrower than before, while the front of the middle fairing is 18mm slimmer.
The big news in the quest for weight savings is the use of a titanium fuel tank – the first time this has been done in a mass-produced motorcycle. Honda says the new tank is now 2.87 lbs lighter than before and is 30mm narrower at the seat/tank junction.
The rear view gives a better look at the titanium fuel tank (a first for a mass produced motorcycle) and exhaust canister, as well as the new subframe.
Honda emphasized the importance of the rider being in control, and how these improvements will help achieve that goal (ironic, considering Honda's MotoGP efforts have placed engineers over rider input, but that's beside the point). According to Honda, with the new chassis, yaw and roll moments of inertia have been reduced 15% and 10%, respectively.
The outgoing CBR was criticized for its lack of sensors and electrons, but that ends with the 2017 model. Inspired by technology seen on the RC213V-S, the new CBR1000RR SP is now littered with sensors, anchored by the five-axis IMU. First up on the list of electronic components is the semi-active Ohlins Electronic Control suspension – the first time semi-active suspension has been incorporated into a Honda production motorcycle. A 43mm NIX 30 EC fork is mated to a TTX 36 EC shock, and their signals are sent to the suspension control unit located just under the passenger seat section.
Where the previous CBR1000RR was scarce in the electronics department, the new CBR is littered with sensors. This schematic is just for the new Ohlins Electronic Control suspension.
Finally, the new CBR utilizes ride-by-wire, a first for a Honda inline-Four. This is necessary to incorporate the numerous aids facilitated by the IMU. Honda Selectable Torque Control (HSTC) is Honda speak for traction-control, and the nine-level system (plus off) is derived from the RC213V-S. Like most contemporary systems seen in competitor models, the Honda's traction-control system utilizes inputs from the wheel-speed sensors and IMU to determine slip rate and lean angle, using technology, boasts Honda, first developed for the ASIMO robot.
Depending on the level the HSTC is set to, when slip is detected, the software can react and have the bike totally eliminate any wheelspin, or it can electronically maintain throttle to allow a bit of spin before cutting in (regardless if the rider's right hand is asking for more throttle). As always, the system isn't a guarantee against highsiding, but it has been developed with lap times in mind, as a little bit of spin is sometimes necessary to finish a corner.
Placing the rider in control means more now than it has before. Instead of turning clickers and adjusting suspension settings, the new SP model allows its rider to fine tune settings at the push of a button.
With the addition of HSTC comes wheelie control and engine-brake control. The former also uses the IMU to predict and mitigate wheelies per the rider's settings. Like the HSTC, when a wheelie is detected via the wheel-speed sensors, the ECU can command the throttle valve to limit power and bring the front tire back down. The latter is adjustable to three different settings to suit rider preference.
More adjustability comes in the form of five-way adjustable riding modes, the first three modes suited to "fast riding", "fun riding," and "comfortable riding," with power, traction control, engine brake control, and electronic suspension settings set accordingly. The last two modes are able to be customized by the rider. To add a little confusion to the mix, the power modes are also adjustable to five different settings within these five riding modes; level 1 providing max power, with power output going down incrementally to level 5. Ride modes, HSTC, and suspension settings are all adjustable on-the-fly.
This chart illustrates the parameters set for the five different riding modes. Note the last two modes are completely customizable – you can have one dedicated track setting and another for your favorite canyon road.
ABS is another feature of the CBR1000 SP, and this time, it's linked to the IMU, giving the CBR rear-lift mitigation and, more importantly, lean-angle-sensitive braking, a.k.a. Cornering ABS. Unlike other Honda models, ABS is not linked on the CBR, and the rear ABS can be deactivated if the rider desires.
MO Tested: Cornering ABS
A technology we wish more bikes came with, the new CBR gets a quickshifter, usable and adjustable in both directions with an auto-blip downshifting feature. The BMW S1000RR and Ducati 1299 Panigale already come so equipped, but it makes Honda the first of the Japanese sportbikes to come so equipped, stock. (Of course, Suzuki has made a liar out of me with the announcement that the 2017 GSX-R1000 will also be so equipped. -TS)
Now that the new CBR1000R SP has gained a little extra power and is lighter than nearly all of its rivals, Nicky Hayden might have a contender on his hands for 2017.
Providing all the information to the rider is a full-color TFT display (another first for Honda) that's 50 grams lighter than the display unit on the 2016 model. It's switchable between three displays: Street, Circuit, and Mechanic, the latter providing a whole host of information on the performance of both man and machine. This includes things like maximum lean angle achieved and a scroll of lap times per session, among its many other features.
It's a sign of the times that the engine bay is the last stop in our tour of the new CBR1000RR SP. Liter-class sportbikes make more power than us mere mortals know what to do with anyway. Effectively putting that power to the ground is much more important, but nonetheless, if there's a way to squeeze out more power, Honda engineers were going to find it. Bore and stroke remain the same as before (76mm x 55mm), and the majority of the internals remain the same, too. The 10-hp increase was achieved with relatively simple methods. First, compression ratio is bumped to 13.0:1 from 12.3:1, while piston rings receive a Diamond Like Carbon coating. Camshafts haven't changed, but both intake and exhaust timing have been optimized for the CBR's increased rev ceiling – up to 13,000 rpm from 12,250 rpm.
The updated CBR engine isn't drastically different from its predecessor, save for lighter components, a higher rev ceiling, and increased compression ratio, but Honda says it makes 10 more horses and weighs 4.4 lbs less than before.
The CBR gets a new airbox and air-intake duct, and the throttle body is now 48mm, up 2mm from before. Fuel discharge pressure is up 14% to promote better fuel atomization and optimize combustion efficiency. That's really it when it comes to power adders on the latest CBR. The rest of the updates center around weight reduction, as Honda claims the new engine is 4.4 lbs lighter than its predecessor. Clutch cover is aluminum, while ignition cover – and oil pan! – is now magnesium. Both the pressure plate and clutch cams within the slip-assist clutch are now die-cast aluminum, also for weight savings.
While not an internal engine component, the new 'Blade's radiator is 30mm narrower than before, reducing its projected frontal area and its weight by 100 grams compared to before. Despite the reduced area, an updated high-density core allows the radiator to achieve the same level of heat dissipation as the outgoing model. Lighter hoses and clamps also contribute to the weight reduction. Continuing with the weight-loss theme, the exhaust canister is now titanium, resulting in 6.17 pounds shed compared to the previous bike and an improved concentration of mass.
According to Honda's power graph between old and new CBRs, the 2017 model bests its predecessor substantially in the low-mid rpm range, then pulls an advantage on top because of its higher redline. Interesting that the two bikes are relatively even in the midrange.
Pricing has not been set yet, but Honda America estimates the 2017 CBR1000RR SP will be under $20,000.
If you're wondering whether Honda is serious about going racing again (contrary to belief, the Ten Kate World Superbike team Nicky Hayden rides for is not a factory effort), the SP2 should put those worries to rest. A homologated version of the SP – U.S. reps predict a limited production run of 500 units globally to be built over the next two years – the CBR1000RR SP2 receives 1mm larger intake valves, 1.5mm larger exhaust valves, and a change in included valve angle to 10º on the intake side and 12º on the exhaust, versus 11º on both sides for the standard SP model. Forged aluminum Marchesini wheels are also part of the deal.
Honda's homologated racing special, the CBR1000RR SP2 will be sold in extremely limited quantities. If you want one, you better be one of the best – in the world.
Honda reps were tight-lipped about what's to come but stated the revisions to the cylinder head to receive the bigger valves and the updated included valve angles were part of a bigger plan to incorporate a suite of HRC parts.
Now the bad news: the SP2 will be difficult to get to begin with, and Honda reps stated the HRC parts won't be something the average racer can simply purchase from their dealer. The parts will be reserved for professional racing teams, with Honda/HRC determining who will get access to them. Simply put, if your name isn't Nicky Hayden, you're probably out of luck.
Forged aluminum Marchesini wheels. Yummy.
As for the good news: the CBR1000RR SP2 is estimated to cost less than $25,000.
For those wanting a standard version of the CBR1000RR, Honda will make an announcement come November regarding its availability. Those with keen eyes will have noticed from the spy shots linked to at the beginning of the article that the model seen in those photos is void of the Ohlins suspenders and Brembo brakes of the SP model. If history is any indicator, Showa will provide suspension on the base model, with Nissin brakes. American Honda reps didn't provide any information on the standard model, including pricing information, but expect it to be priced competitively with its rivals.
Now that we know more about the CBR1000RR SP, we're inclined to believe the early spy shots of the CBR1000RR we published earlier would be the standard model, not an SP edition.
Honda says we'll get to ride the new CBR1000RR SP around March 2017. Stay tuned for our riding impressions then.
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Thursday Justin hopped back on a plane for his return to Norfolk. His leave had come to end. I didn't get to spend a lot of time with him but I did share some. His mom had a list of requests plus there were other specialties while home including lots of salmon, elk and razor clams. I'm doubting those particular items are items the U.S. Navy furnishes for the sailors while on board ship. We hated to see him go but we hope to visit him in Virginia again later this year.
Ice and snow engulfed many areas of the country. However, Washington and Oregon didn't experience any of that. The weather was cooler and sometimes pretty nippy but many days, I could get by with a sweater. Arizona is definitely the place to be during the winter if it's the warm weather one is looking for.
Over the last few days we've been going through lots of old pictures and files. It's making me want to get my camera out again and start pictures. Oh …. I've been taking pictures but the vast majority I would never post. I've been amazed at some of the pictures that have been taken and ended up on Facebook. I guess my idea of what is appropriate and what others may think is appropriate isn't always the same.
One thing I did pick up was a few old super 8 movie reels. My next project is trying to get those converted to DVDs. Years ago I rented a super 8 projector and sat in front of it with another camera copying the movies. However, not so sure you can rent those things anymore. That's something I'll be looking into for sure.
Friday finally rolled around. That was my planned departure day. First, we had a memorial service at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland to attend .. the second ceremony in three days. . The short service was complete with a gun salute and Taps. Even though that in itself was an awesome farewell, the most touching part was the remarkable eulogy written and given by the granddaughter.
My plan was to catch the 3:15 flight from Portland. However thin gs clicked perfectly and Tammi had me at the airport by 10:30 which was just enough time to catch the 11:25 flight. Sometimes things can work out better than planned. The flight was uneventful and Terry was waiting by the curb in Phoenix. Where have the last three weeks gone? Well, it's behind and now it's time to get back to my world. The hard part is trying to remember where my world really is and where it left off.
I'll be in Q sometime next week. See you there. Now it's time for you relax and take care of YOU !
Enjoy the warn sunshine and relax!
I know the past 3 weeks have been hard. You will soon be able to be relaxing with friends. See you soon.
I bet Terry and Duchess were happy to have you back.
Oh gracious, how could that little one read that. I am sure y'all were very proud of her.
You have had a very emotional few weeks. Once you hit the Q,I hope you can sit back and relax with good friends.
Time to relax and enjoy the sunshine. You've earned it for sure.
Glad you had some time with Justin, he cuts a fine figure in his uniform.


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Always an Unexpected Grace Note
Excerpt: People Only Die of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley
By Steve Haruch | December 15, 2017
In 1999, a decade after he began writing for the Nashville Scene, Jim Ridley wrote a sentence in the paper's January 21 cover story that hung like a cloud over his newfound profession: "One week from today, Nashville's only art-movie theater will close its doors for good." The situation was beyond bleak. Unsustainable losses, an effect of miserable attendance, had driven the Belcourt to the brink.
I might as well share the moment that broke my heart: The Belcourt was showing an amazing double bill of Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt and François Truffaut's Day for Night — two movies available on TV and video only in the most washed-out, dispiriting condition. I was seeing a movie on the other screen, but I snuck for a moment into Day for Night, which I'd seen earlier. Onscreen was the scene in which Truffaut, playing a movie director, dreams that he is a child again, swiping stills of Citizen Kane from the lobby of a neighborhood movie theater. Truffaut the director deepened my love of movies; Truffaut the critic made me want to write. I wondered how many other people in the auditorium were sharing this impossibly perfect moment. The room held 400. I counted eight. I bought two more tickets, just to make it 10.
As it turned out, it was not the end for the Belcourt. A community of film lovers, Jim among them, banded together to save the theater, and with it, a vital pillar of the city's arts scene. Many consider his cover story ("Fade to Black," included here in Chapter 6) to be the spark that helped the Belcourt survive its darkest hour: "Local audiences don't receive better because they haven't been demanding or supporting it," he wrote. He led the way by doing both.
Jim Ridley
Jim's writing reminds aspiring journalists that the printed word can and should be used as a bully pulpit to demand better. During a period when the Belcourt was under corporate ownership, Jim sometimes wove his critiques of the theater's conditions into his reviews. In a 1997 assessment of Breaking the Waves, Jim decried "a great filmmaker's work kneecapped by indifferent projection and lousy facilities." He even included the phone number for Breaking the Waves' distributor so readers could complain. We don't often hear about critics in big cities contending with such conditions just to see movies worth writing about. To do the work he loved, in other words, Jim could not focus solely on film reviewing but also on coverage of the venues that mattered to him.
In the end, the Belcourt did more than just survive. In July 2016, just months after Jim left us, it reopened after undergoing a massive six-month, $5 million renovation that modernized the building, restored the facade and, importantly, added a third screen. Also among the many improvements: a seat bearing Jim's name, eternally reserved in the third row, where he always sat. (There are also seats for his wife, Alicia Adkerson, and his kids, Kat and Jamie.) They also named the lobby after him—a place he had spent countless hours discussing what he'd just seen, with everyone from film students to friends.
But Jim's work on behalf of the Belcourt is just a tiny piece of his film-writing oeuvre, which included some 600 reviews and reported features. Ninety-four are collected in this volume.
Add to this dilemma the relative smallness of Nashville as a film market in the 1980s and '90s, and it's not hard to see why the pool of reviews from which this book was drawn skewed heavily white and male. Even so, it's remarkable just how inclusive Jim's writing still manages to be. He strove to amplify marginalized voices when he could, as evidenced by his stories about small and upstart enterprises such as the International Black Film Festival of Nashville, which in its second year Jim observed as showing "signs of becoming a major boon to the city and its perpetually struggling film industry." The festival recently completed its eleventh run. As Jim's career advanced and Nashville's stature grew, the duties of running the paper limited the number of films he had time to review, but he used this as a way to encourage other writers, myself included, to cover movies that mattered and spoke to them.
On March 28, 2016, Jim collapsed in his office at the Scene. His heart had failed, and he was rushed to the hospital in a coma. A few days later, as doctors eased him off sedatives, his eyes fluttered when Alicia played Elvis Costello songs for him on her computer. So we flooded his Facebook page with songs we knew he loved, or hoped he would love enough to hear again. But Jim never regained consciousness. He died on April 8.
For days after his death, you could search the national trending topics on Twitter and find the name Jim Ridley there alongside the likes of Star Wars (the first Rogue One trailer had arrived) and Bruce Springsteen (one of Jim's heroes, who had just canceled a North Carolina date to protest the state's anti-transgender bathroom law). Nashville mayor Megan Barry called him "one of those rare individuals who effortlessly coupled genius and insight with infectious enthusiasm and unbridled generosity of spirit." In Washington, D.C., Nashville Congressman Jim Cooper entered a statement into the record of the 114th Congress that read, in part, "Jim Ridley made our city better, and it will not be the same without him."
As Noel Murray, a former Scene colleague, wrote in a tribute to Jim on Roger Ebert's website:
Critics around the country are mourning Jim because many of them were on the receiving end of phone calls or emails from him during some of the lowest times in their careers. If they'd just lost a gig, he'd ask if they wanted to contribute something to the Scene, and would make it seem like they'd be doing him a favor. Even after he had the responsibility of running the entire paper, Jim still edited the film section, and managed a stable of contributors that at times has included some of the best-known critics in the country: Bilge Ebiri, Mike D'Angelo, David Fear and Joshua Rothkopf. He paid attention to what his friends and colleagues loved, and tried to match them to reviews where they could shine.
Even as he worked to buoy the careers of others, Jim turned down numerous opportunities over the years to write for bigger audiences. He chose to remain committed to Nashville and to the Scene.
In his final blog post, Jim, in just a few words, vividly evokes the jittery feel of the comic-drama The Mend: "[John] Magary, making his feature debut, uses a jarring cutting style that keeps you edgy and off-balance, as if someone were tossing lit firecrackers with fuses of varied lengths." That's an image that stays with you. Here's another: "Like Burt Reynolds, his face got thicker and heavier, with a drugged lion's eyes," Jim writes, describing Eddie Murphy post–Beverly Hills Cop, "while he flashed his dimming smile like someone plugging in a beer sign." Watching Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels is "like looking at the world from the inside of a jukebox," a perfect summation of the movie's whirling pop delirium.
That is to say, Jim was able to pull seemingly disparate elements into the same review and make them sing—sometimes in unison, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in counterpoint. The farther apart in time and sphere of knowledge the references, the more delight the recombinant sentences yield. (A word of caution to budding critics: It doesn't matter how colorful or out-of-the-blue a comparison is if it doesn't illuminate something about the subject.) In a review of Stranger Than Fiction, Jim observes Will Ferrell's "Bullwinkle frame" and "those boyish, faintly blobby features that suggest an ice-cream sculpture of James Caan in hot August sun." Jim likens a sequence in Superman Returns, in which Superman uses his X-ray vision to follow Lois' elevator up the Daily Planet skyscraper, to the silent movies of Louis Feuillade—finding an unexpected grace note in a summer tentpole crowd-pleaser. Jim's analysis of The Matrix Reloaded uses imagery you might associate with the film anyway, but in a vividly new way: He likens the way it alternates jarringly between furious action scenes and not-at-all-furious talking scenes to "passing from one Philosophy 101 lecture to another through a campus full of somersaulting ninjas." And so on. It speaks to Jim's prolific phrase-turning that these examples are all taken from reviews that, for reasons of space or thematic cohesion, didn't even make it into this volume.
Steve Haruch's writing has appeared at NPR's Code Switch, The New York Times, and the Nashville Scene. He is the editor of People Only Die of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley, coming in June 2018 from Vanderbilt University Press.
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Edited by Steve Haruch
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By Heather B. Armstrong
"Breathtakingly honest, this story is a bridge to empathy and a bright beacon of hope. I'm telling everyone to read this book."
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Also by Steve Haruch
Colson Whitehead constructs an alternate route out of American slavery in The Underground Railroad
Planned community and contested motherhood collide in Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere
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Conflict-plagued North Idaho College faced with leadership void with four officials set to depart

Three senior leaders at North Idaho College are planning to retire in early January with another leaving by June, with some citing leadership differences amid tumultuous times for the college.

In response, a former NIC dean has agreed to return as interim provost to help fill the void.

Kassie Silvas – NIC's former dean of Career, Technical and Workforce Education – will serve as interim provost starting Dec. 6 to take on the responsibilities of the college's vice presidents for instruction and student services. Interim President Michael Sebaaly announced the selection to the campus community Tuesday.

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Current Vice President for Instruction Lita Burns and Vice President for Student Services Graydon Stanley have announced their intentions to retire by early January. While Burns' plans to retire Jan. 4 were long known, Stanley formally announced his decision to colleagues earlier this month.

Their impending retirements are compounded by the pending departures of Vice President for Finance and Business Affairs Chris Martin and Dean of Instruction, Workforce Education Christy Doyle. The two each sent emails last week formally informing colleagues of their plans.

The shuffle is the latest development for the Coeur d'Alene community college, which is roughly two weeks into Sebaaly's term. Sebaaly was selected by the college Board of Trustees through a controversial process to replace former President Rick MacLennan, who trustees ousted in September without cause.

Burns, Stanley and Martin are all members of the president's cabinet, while Stanley, Martin and Doyle all applied for the interim president position.

Departures driven by board conduct

One email Martin sent to his NIC colleagues came the afternoon after the Board of Trustees met Nov. 15. The Spokesman-Review obtained a copy of the email.

Trustees failed during that meeting to agree on a firm to assist with the presidential search, though the board plans to hold a special meeting before the end of the year to revisit the issue.

Martin described the meeting as "one of the hardest board meetings I have experienced during my time at North Idaho College."

"I have to tell you that I left the meeting last night completely defeated and resigned to the current state of affairs," Martin wrote, specifically referencing the presidential search process. "I also left with complete clarity."

If the Board were to completely "disregard a clear commitment that they made to Dr. Burns, who is easily the most respected member of the Cabinent on campus and in the larger community, they will do the same to any of us, our students, our community and Dr. Sebaaly," he continued.

Just over three hours later, Martin sent another email formally announcing his intent to explore other job opportunities. He plans to transition out of the role of vice president for finance and business by the end of the fiscal year in June.

Doyle announced her retirement the morning after the Nov. 15 meeting. Her last day is Jan. 4.

"Please understand I did not make this decision lightly; through much prayer and self-reflection, I have determined my values and leadership philosophy are not congruent with North Idaho College's new direction," she said in the email.

Stanley told the Coeur d'Alene Press that actions by the Board of Trustees have taken some of the joy out of his work. His last day is Jan. 3.

"It got to the point that going to a Board of Trustees meeting often felt like you were going into a place where there was a lot of conflict and disagreement and stress," he said. "When (MacLennan) was terminated, that had a lot of impact."

'Move the college forward'

Sebaaly said he is honored to have worked with all of the departing staff members.

"I think they've done a great service to the North Idaho College community and I wish them the best of luck as they move forward as they go on with their careers or their retirements," he said. "To me, I have to continue to move the college forward and make sure we're serving our community and our students, faculty and staff."

The provost position is a departure from the norm for NIC, which has employed an administration built partly on vice presidents to serve as the college's chief academic officers.

"It's basically filling in the gap," Sebaaly said of his appointment. "It's a unique situation in that our VP of instruction and VP of student services are leaving at the same time."

Whether NIC sticks with a permanent provost or returns to vice presidents is a decision Sebaaly said he will leave to the next full-time president.

With the college's vacant dean positions, Burns has appointed individuals to chair search committees to find permanent deans of general studies, enrollment services and workforce education, Sebaaly said.

Burns also selected two individuals to step up as interim co-deans of Instruction, Workforce Education to temporarily replace Doyle: Director of Nursing Erlene Pickett and Dean Miles, assistant professor of business management and entrepreneurship.

"The dean for enrollment services, we're hoping to have somebody here by March," said Sebaaly, who added that the college is employing a firm called the Pauly Group, an academic search consulting firm. "I think the timelines on the other two are a little bit longer, maybe to get through the academic year and have people transitioning in June or July."

'A familiar face'

Silvas came highly recommended by members of the campus community, Sebaaly said. That, and her willingness to help, prompted him to reach out to her.

"She's a known quantity, and she wants to come back to help with stability and care for our community at NIC," he said. "With all of the short-notice retirements, she was a great person to come in and provide some stability right away and help us move through the rest of the academic year."

Silvas worked at North Idaho College for around seven years after previously serving as a dean at Spokane Community College. She helped launch NIC's aerospace training program in 2013.

Beyond her work experience, three of Silvas' four children are NIC graduates.

"I'm a familiar face. I still have strong ties to my colleagues and my community," she said. "Many colleagues were calling me saying, 'We're going to need somebody. We've got administration retiring in January …' I rose my hand and said, go ahead and give (Sebaaly) my number."

As it stands, Silvas has agreed to stay on until at least June to serve as provost, during which the college's academic deans will report to her.

She will earn a $150,000 salary prorated over her service term, according to the college. In their vice president roles, Burns and Stanley each earn $138,184.

"I am deeply committed to the success of this college. I love this college. This is one of the cornerstones of our community," Silvas said. "What that college does for our community is so important, and so, if I'm needed, I will stay."

This is not the first time Silvas has been called into service post-retirement to fill a need at NIC. She served as the college's first COVID-19 response officer for several months at MacLennan's request.

Silvas said she wants to help provide stability as NIC faces issues including an ongoing investigation by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities into the college's regional accreditation status.

"They need some consistent messaging," she said, "and they need, I believe, somebody like me to come in and lead them through answering the questions that they need answered."

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Creating Jobs and Revitalising our CBD: Bringing Students into Darwin City
Darwin CBD revitalisation is one step closer with Chief Minister Michael Gunner today welcoming the Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility's (NAIF) conditional loan of $150 million to Charles Darwin University.
The NAIF loan will enable the City Deal Education and Civic Precinct to progress.
In 2018 the Darwin City Deal was signed by the Territory Labor Government, Commonwealth Government and City of Darwin.
One aspect of the deal was to create a Charles Darwin University campus in the Darwin CBD – bringing in more than 11,000 students to the City Campus by 2028, including an additional 1000 international students.
In partnership with City of Darwin a draft masterplan for the site, on the corner of Cavanagh Street and Garamilla Boulevard, has been developed seeing the precinct be iconic, vibrant and a world-class student experience.
With the conditional NAIF loan and $97 million already committed through the City Deals works are due to begin soon with:
The University undertaking building procurement and completing a range of other required plans and strategies prior to seeking an investment decision by NAIF, expected in early 2020.
An Expression of Interest process is already underway for companies interested in tendering for an Early Contractor Involvement contract to work with the project partners to design and develop the Precinct.
Construction works commence in late 2020 anticipated to take three years.
Ready for students semester one 2024.
The new campus will bring 600 new staff into the Darwin CBD and support an extra 54 jobs during construction.
The Darwin City Deal recognises the city as the gateway to the broader region and includes a new education and civic precinct; a Charles Darwin University campus; an art gallery; retail, commercial and community spaces as well as cooler and greener streetscapes.
Quotes attributed to Chief Minister Michael Gunner:
"One part of our $100 million investment to revitalise our CBD is to bring students into the city centre – this will support business and create jobs for Territorians."
"As part of the historic, $200 million City Deal our government signed with the Federal Government last year, a new Charles Darwin University campus in the Darwin CBD will position us to grow this market, particularly with our closest neighbours."
"There are 3100 international students studying in the NT and as an industry it contributes $81 million to the Territory economy."
"By attracting international students to the Territory to study, we are not only supporting local jobs in the education sector but across a wide variety of sectors, from hospitality and tourism to our service industries, which is good for the Territory economy as a whole."
Quotes attributed to Member for Port Darwin Paul Kirby:
"The Territory Labor Government continues to make our Darwin CBD a more vibrant and attractive place for people to enjoy."
"This landmark initiative will be a key driver in revitalising our CBD and making it a much loved destination for visitors, attracting new residents and encouraging broader investment. This is also a boost to local business and a boost for local jobs."
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Scotland's native apples saved by school pupils and communities
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15626887.scotlands-native-apples-saved-by-school-pupils-and-communities/
Now the bloody ploughman variety of apple is beginning to thrive again after a drive to create community orchards across the country has helped previously endangered types of fruit to flourish.
More than 800 schools and community orchards have been planted in the last three years and this has seen the revival of heritage varieties of apples such as the James Grieve, Cambusnethan Pippin and the Lass O'Gowrie.
Also making a comeback is the Clydeside which dates back to 13th century orchards at Glasgow Cathedral Over the last few years, community groups and schools from all over Scotland have banded together to set up their own orchards.
Pupils are playing a key part in the revival with 500 school orchards being planted across the country.
Over the past century, experts estimate, as much as 90 per cent of the UK's orchards have been grubbed up for development or agricultural use.
About 40 varieties of apple used to be grown only in Scotland, just a tiny number of the more than two thousand varieties across the UK.
But go to a supermarket, or even most greengrocers, now and you would be hard-pressed to find more than half a dozen different kinds of apple on sale. However thanks to people such as John Hancox, of the Commonwealth Orchard, communities across Scotland are now sharing the experience and are helping to revive the traditional varieties.
He said: "We're working with schools and community groups to plant new orchards. The idea is that people like having fruit growing near where they live. If you look at medieval maps of cities like Stirling, Perth, or Glasgow the centres of these cities used to have orchards growing in them.
"The Merchant City in Glasgow is built on the site of an old pear orchard. So there's a very long history of people growing food in urban areas. It's a shame that most of the apples you get are imported, and there's a very limited range. The other thing that really annoys me at this time of year is that there are loads of apple trees in Scotland, dripping with fruit that doesn't get picked."
Until recently it was common for country houses to have their own orchards and varieties.
Cultivated over centuries on the fertile soils of the Lowlands, Scotland's apples were once at the centre of a thriving industry before their existence was largely forgotten.
The drive to reinvigorate planting and consumption of native apple varieties, long lost under a tide of cheaper imports, has come in the last five years and decades-old orchards are being revived across the UK.
More than 70 per cent of apples on sale in British shops, a market worth £320 million annually, are imported, especially big-selling modern varieties such as Granny Smith's and Golden Delicious.
Nine varieties of pear were recently found at Threave Castle and one, the Longueville, is being reintroduced back to France after centuries. Mr Hancox added: "We have been planting orchards right across the country including Ardnamurchan which is not a traditional apple area. We use so few Scottish apples these days yet we have varieties as good as anywhere in the world."


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Author of Award-Winning Stein House, historical fiction set in the 19th C Texas seaport of Indianola that blew away in the 1886 hurricane.
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A MAN OF VISION
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Rasaca Converted to Irrigation Canal
The railroad and visionaries like Sam Robertson deserve much of the credit for development of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Before the arrival of the railroad, the Valley was a no man's land. Towns such as Brownsville and Matamoros, Mexico, relied on the Rio Grande and the
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Gulf of Mexico for access to the outside world. Travel from Brownsville to Corpus Christ took days of slogging through the Wild Horse Desert, the vast jungle of mesquite, cactus, chaparral and brush-covered country that was infested with bandits and cattle thieves.
In 1903, as Robertson fulfilled a contract to lay the first rails from Corpus Christi to Brownsville, he noticed that the peculiar topography of the area along the Rio Grande looked much like that of the Nile River—higher by several feet than the surrounding landscape. Unlike other river valleys that drain into nearby streams, years of flooding left behind silt, resulting in the Rio Grande flowing at a higher level than the surrounding terrain—ideal or harnessing the water for gravity irrigation into the fertile land along its banks. Robertson also observed dry riverbeds left behind after centuries of the Rio Grande flooding, then changing course, and cutting new channels. Locally known as resaca's, or ox-bow lakes, the 400-foot wide dry canals twisted through the area north of Brownsville offering readymade irrigation potential.
Robertson convinced local investors to join him in purchasing 10,000 acres to begin land development and laying out the town of San Benito along one of the curving resacas. The developers cut a canal from the Rio Grande to introduce irrigation water into the dry resacas and began selling land to northern farmers looking for new opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley. The farmers, forced to travel on dirt roads using horses and mules to get their produce to market, sought to buy land next to the railroad, which led to Robertson taking the railroad to the farmers. In 1912 the San Benito and Rio Grande Valley Railroad, an intricate network of lines and spurs snaked thirty-nine miles across the valley.
The train made two round trips daily at a grand speed of fifteen miles per hour, picking up both passengers and freight. Many farmers built tiny loading platforms beside the track, while others merely flagged the engineer to take on travelers or a few bushels of produce. The twisting route earned it the title of Spiderweb Railroad, and the train was called the "Galloping Goose" because it often jumped the track, forcing passengers to help lift it back on the rails.
By 1924 the Missouri Pacific took over the line, but the little railroad, whose track never extended beyond 128 miles, had served an important role in opening the rich Rio Grand Valley to worldwide markets.
Robertson's visions extended to establishing ice plants for refrigerated railcars carrying vegetables to city markets. He served as San Benito's first postmaster and two terms as sheriff before joining General John J. Pershing's army chasing the Mexican bandit Pancho Villa. During WWI, Robertson once again proved his competence building light rail lines to the front trenches and remained in Europe after the war to help rebuild Germany's rail system.
Upon Robertson's return to San Benito, he embarked on his final grand scheme—developing Padre, the barrier island paralleling Texas' southern shore, as a resort community. He built a "trough" causeway from the northern end of Padre to the mainland near Corpus Christi. A trestle supported four parallel wooden slots constructed wide enough to accommodate a standard car tire. With automobile wheels set firmly in each trough, traffic flowed both directions across the causeway
Wooden causeway.
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In his zeal to attract tourists, Robertson opened ferries at Port Aransas and at the south end of Padre Island. Then, he built a hotel and four houses on the southern end of the island and a fifth house near the causeway on the north.
Ferry tugging auto to the island.
Although the unusual trough causeway boasted 1,800 cars the first month and 2,500 cars the second, interest began waning, after the 1929 Stock Market Crash. By the next year, Robertson's dream appeared doomed; he could not pay his debts. He sold his interest in the development and must have watched in horror as the 1933 hurricane destroyed all the structures on and leading to Padre Island.
Sam Robertson died in 1938, twenty-four years before his dream came true. Congress established Padre Island National Seashore and President John F. Kennedy signed the bill into law on September 28, 1962.
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DMCC's free trade zone is also growing thanks to a joint crypto initiative with CV VC. Image credit: DMCC
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Zug/Dubai - The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) is in the process of establishing a crypto center in Dubai with the help of experts from the Zug-based organization Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC). The initiative is attracting ever more firms to the DMCC free trade zone. In 2021 alone, the DMCC licensed a total of 2,485 companies.
The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the largest free trade zones in the world. Its focus has now turned towards establishing an ecosystem for crypto firms. To this end, a partnership was agreed with Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC) from Zug and its subsidiary CV Labs during the World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos. Since then, the partners have opened the DMCC Crypto Centre in Almas Tower in Dubai, which offers a base to companies with a focus on crypto applications.
The initiative is attracting ever more firms to the DMCC, as an article published by "Gulf News" reveals. In 2021 alone, a total of 2,485 new companies were licensed in the DMCC free zone in Dubai, bringing the total number of members above the benchmark of 20,000 firms in the process. In a press release, the DMCC calls 2021 its most successful year to date.
"This year, I have seen first-hand how crypto interlinks across our industries, so I am proud that DMCC is championing the cryptographic space in Dubai", comments Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman and CEO of the DMCC, in the "Gulf News" article.
CV Labs offers Dubai-based crypto firms various funding programs. For example, start-ups are supported in their efforts to grow their presence in the UAE, among other aspects, further details of which can be found in a CV VC newsletter.
In addition to the branch office in the UAE, CV VC also opened a new office in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2021. Here, CV VC intends to support crypto start-ups in several African countries. To this end, the Zug-based company is collaborating with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).
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Magpie Ulysses
read & write
shows & tells
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teach & speak
Magpie is currently working on a writing project dissecting her experience as caregiver to her grandmother who lives with Alzheimer's disease. Her work so far seems to be a negotiation with her genetic memory and her present grief. At this time she can willfully say that she is not completely sure where this writing will go but that it is definitely going somewhere. She gratefully acknowledges all the support, both tangible and in spirit, from her family, from the living people of Norfolk County in Ontario, the remains and the ghosts of those resting ancestors in the cemeteries of Norfolk, Brantford and Brant Ontario, my new cousin friend Grant Smith for all his document and excitement sharing and the financial support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council For The Arts. More to come…
"Past Presence; Pleiotropy & the impossible cycle of being" is a collection of prose poems telling the stories of strangers and self from Magpie's experiences of hitchhiking over 25,000km across North America in her late teens and early twenties. The 40 minute piece is a condensed, yet expansive piece of writing exploring the themes of adaptations, space, fear, faith, place, othering and the act of storytelling while following a rich Canadian landscape. As a performance, the project crosses the boundaries between spoken word, performance poetry and theatre with a reflective yet explosive eclectic electric soundtrack composed by James Lamb.
A Live recording from the Kootenay Storytelling Festival 2014 available for purchase at:
https://magpieulysses.bandcamp.com/
Thank you to Gregor Asch and J Greg Walters at Kootenay Sound Studios in Nelson, BC
"…the most captivating and original spoken word performance I have seen in years. Years of hitchhiking, memories and life lessons are distilled in a series of stories that are simultaneously life-affirming, terrifying and simply brilliant. Go see this show. For the sake of all things poetry, go see this show."- Charles Hamilton, founder Tonight it's Poetry – Saskatoon
"Every time I leave a Magpie Ulysses show, I vow that I will start paying more attention to the things that happen around me. But try as I might, I will spend the rest of my life failing to extract as much as she can from the the smaller details of everyday living. In "Past Presence," Magpie stumbles across people and places that the rest of us would rank somewhere between mundane and odd, and finds within them stories that are startlingly close to universal, and intensely human.These stories teach us more about ourselves than we could ever hope to learn on our own. James Lamb's musical accompaniment provides the perfect counterpoint. Lamb's music moves through the words, tastefully filling the remaining spaces with the perfect levels of texture, emotion, and intensity. This is an exceptional piece of art that sets the bar for which we should all strive." – David Newberry, singer-songwriter, Vancouver, BC
These poems are dedicated in the honour of the missing and murdered women of the highway of tears. May there be rest and resolution for their friends and families.
Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Columbia Basin Trust, to the many North American spoken word, theatre, recording & literary artists for their time, love, and creative support, to my dear friends and family for their generous emotional, mental, and spiritual support during my three plus years of creating this project. Most of all, thank you, deeply, to all the people who have helped me get somewhere by thumbing it, especially for your stories and your grace.


The IBM Storwize V5000 is a midrange block-storage system capable of virtualizing all attached disks and other attached storage systems. The V5000 is a storage system based on the IBM SAN Volume Controller virtualization software named IBM Spectrum Virtualize and is best viewed a less expensive version of the Storwize V7000 with a few differences in the features that are enabled. The V5000 is a multi-controller system with up to 504 devices in a cabinet along with the ability to virtualize external attached storage systems. A second cabinet of disks and controllers may be added in a clustering arrangement to scale even larger – up to 1,008 devices. The V5000 has three models that differ in hardware configuration and software features, allowing for different prices to expand the V5000 to a larger segment of customers.
Differences with the Storwize V7000 include the V5000 offers SAS host interfaces are supported, there is no unified offering, and a limit of scaling to two pairs of controllers in the largest model.
Competitive storage solutions for the V7000 and V5000 include the EMC VNX, HDS VSP midrange G- Series, and HP 3PAR 8000 while the virtualization solutions competition includes Hitachi Data Systems VSP G-Series, NetApp FAS8000 with FlexArray, and DataCore. Additional information on these products is available in ESR to authorized subscribers.


A validated product in five days.
RBI is marketleader in fiscal products. To strengthen and enlarge their market share RBI set out to refine their product portfolio. By merging 'FiscaalTotaal' (a fiscal knowledgebank) and 'Nextens' (tax declaration software) into one product RBI expected to tap into a new market and serve their customers even better.
User Intelligence was asked to collect reliable user information and to translate that into a design concept, all in a particularly short time frame.
Through close collaboration with the RBI team we ensured efficiency and internal support.
In order to reach a validated concept in a short amount of time we proposed to do a Design Sprint. Prior to the Design Sprint we have conducted contextual research in order to get a clear understanding of the customer needs. This research formed a reliable starting point of our Design Sprint.
During the Design Sprint the team devised a concept, then validated this concept and presented it within the organisation.
In the weeks after the Design Sprint a senior designer from User Intelligence remained involved by coaching the team in the further development of the concept.
The validated concept from the Design Sprint was positively received by RBI's customers.
Because of our expertise in the combination between research and design we know how to bring a sense of tranquility in the Design Sprint and guard the essence: Finding the best solution.


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Michelin Truck Tyres clock-up 300,000km
A family owned and run motorcycle racing team competing in the British Superbike Championship has replaced the Michelin steer tyres on its 1995 Mercedes-Benz 814 transporter after more than 300,000km in service.
Used to carry the team and its equipment to circuits across the UK, Ireland and the continent, Phil Wakefield Racing has owned the 7.5-tonne truck since it was three years old, with the most recent set of 215/75 R17.5 Michelin XZE2 steer tyres proving faultless in service over a long life. These tyres were replaced as a precaution due to age; with the team selecting the next generation Michelin X Multi Z fitments to succeed them.
Commenting, joint owner, Peter Wakefield, says: "You really can't argue with having to buy a new set of steer tyres after 300,000km. For a 17.5" truck tyre that's pretty remarkable; we certainly got our value for money.
"As you might expect for a motorcycle race team, we pay very close attention to tyre inflation pressures and we make sure to rotate the truck's wheels to avoid flat-spotting if there's a big gap between races. It's certainly paid off and the tyres have continued to perform really well for us. The truck might be 25 years old, but we didn't hesitate in replacing like-for-like and investing in Michelins again," Wakefield adds.
The Mercedes-Benz doubles up as a transporter and living accommodation for the team at races, carrying the bikes, spare parts and offering accommodation on board for six, including a shower. Once parked at the track, the team unfurl a 14 x 4m awning from the side of the body, providing a covered area for working on the bikes.


Hello guys, do you have a mobile phone which your mechanic had said not repairable a long ago? Well, If the answer is yes, then VOLCANO BOX might be pretty helpful to bring back life to your mobile phone once again.
What the Volcano box can do?
Volcano box provides manual select Pinout.
Volcano box is one of the most popular devices used for flashing firmware, unlocking, repairing and servicing almost all types of mobile phones across the globe. It is crafted to meet every customer's demand.
Developers provide support for those models which are on the list of supported models. You can find the list easily on the official product page of volcano box.
Volcano box is operated by an interface called volcano tool or utility and the latest version of volcano tool set up V3.1.0 is available for download.
It supports almost all kind of operating system used in mobile. Such as Android, Windows, Bada(Samsung), Blackberry, iPhone, MeeGo, Garnet etc.
It works on almost all popular brands of mobile available worldwide.
This amazing flashing device can check IMEI service, local status, and carrier of iPhone mobile.
This tool supports Spreadtrum(SPD), MediaTek(MTK), Coolsand_RDA, Anyka, MSTAR, Infineon, and various other platforms.
It includes the ADB tool and Fastboot tool to hard reset some Android smartphones.
Baseband repair/ Baseband & IMEI null solution.
Auto format/Safety format/custom format/ Address format.
The updated Volcano box 3.0 A.K.A. INFERNO MTK V1.0A is now available. It comes with automatic activation and a trial period of one month.
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It supports MTK phones with both Rx Tx and D+ D-. Therefore, you can repair/service a mobile phone without opening it.
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For detailed procedure, download files from support forum in pdf format and follow it.
Volcano tool supports almost all variety of HUAWEI U Series Mobiles. You can easily unlock it. Put the mobile on Fast mode plug USB cable, select the desired model and unlock it in seconds.
It is safe and headache free task. The detailed manual is available with a full installer. You should follow the steps as described here.
Volcano box can unlock HUAWEI modem, irrespective of a new or old security system. Put the IMEI number to generate codes. Plug the wrong SIM into the modem and it will ask you to put unlock code.
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Q: Need help regarding animating position of multiple layers I am trying to animate balloons which are actually images. To do so, I have created sub class of CALayer which shows an image in its content and finally multiple objects of this sub class will added to view of viewcontroller.
Once I call a function "bounce" over the each object of this subclass. The position of all these layers (balloons) start animating in such a way that it create bounce effect around the view boundaries. It keeps on changing the position of layers until it stop it by calling method "stopBouncing".
Now the problem is, there is some flickering in layers and performance is also not good if the count of balloons is high.
Would be really grateful if someone can help me regarding efficient implementation of such requirement.
Note : This is for iPhone.
A piece of whole code:
-(void)bounce
 {
   self.position=CGPointMake(self.position.x+self.moveOffset.x,self.position.y+self.moveOffset.y);
   if(self.position.x>self.maxBoundary.x || self.position.x<self.minBoundary.x)
   {
      self.moveOffset.x=-self.moveOffset.x;
   }

   if(self.position.y>self.maxBoundary.y || self.position.y<self.minBoundary.y)
   {
      self.moveOffset.y=-self.moveOffset.y;
   }
}

Here, moveOffset is the the distance on x axis and y axis which would be traveled by layer in a time interval.

A: Do not use layers.
Use Sprite Kit instead.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/GraphicsAnimation/Conceptual/SpriteKit_PG/Introduction/Introduction.html

A: In here you want to specify balloon as layers instead of actually animating the UIImage. This code is a bit old, but in Swift 3 you want to make sure that a code like this is written:
let balloonImage = CALayer()
balloonImage.contents = UIImage(named: "balloon")!.cgImage
balloonImage.frame = CGRect(x: -50.0, y: 0.0, width: 50.0, height: 65.0)
view.layer.insertSublayer(balloonImage, below: username.layer)

The UIImage(named:"") should be whatever your image is called, the frame is how big you want your layer that is the replica of the UIImage. The view is then inserted inside the main view. The let flight allows you to perform animations to the layer that you created. You could have different set animations, such as CABasicAnimation, CASpringAnimation, and others, but beware because different animations have different set defaults, as you can't use provide values/times in CABasicAnimation. The keyframeAnimation is just using values for your animation to go. You could also have a different keypaths, as "position.x" or "postion.y". Other keypaths include: transform.rotation, position.x, position.y.
let flight = CAKeyframeAnimation(keyPath: "position")
flight.duration = 30.0
flight.values = [
    CGPoint(x: -50.0, y: 0.0),
    CGPoint(x: view.frame.width + 50, y: 160.0),
    CGPoint(x: -50.0, y: loginButton.center.y)

].map({
    NSValue(cgPoint: $0)
})
flight.keyTimes = [0.0, 0.5, 1.0]
balloonImage.add(flight, forKey: nil)
balloonImage.position = CGPoint(x: -50.0, y: loginButton.center.y)

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Jacksonville, Fla. (April 13, 2015) – Donations of food and cash are important to ensuring Feeding Northeast Florida (FNEFL) can distribute food to more than 322,000 people in 17 area counties each year – but it couldn't be accomplished without the volunteers the nonprofit agency needs to get the job done.
In recognition of National Volunteer Week this week, FNEFL is encouraging the community to help it fill all of its 600 volunteer slots for the month of April – with plans to honor its volunteers and give awards to its top volunteers at a celebration at the end of April.
FNEFL will be contacting all past volunteers and other supporters to reach its goal for the month. Volunteers already scheduled to assist the agency will be asked to post photos with the hashtag #wearefeedingnefl, and the value of their time commitment, to their social media pages to encourage participation from their friends and family.
"For those who can't volunteer their time but would like to help us reach our goal, they'll be asked to donate the equivalent of the hours they would like to work to Feeding Northeast Florida through our website," Ganger said.
Donations can be made at http://www.feedingnefl.org/make-a-donation.
Established in 1974 by the Points of Light, National Volunteer Week (April 12-18, 2015) is about inspiring, recognizing and encouraging people to seek out imaginative ways to engage in their communities. It's about demonstrating to the nation that by working together, the country has the fortitude to meet its challenges and accomplish its goals. For more information contact Jennifer Geckler at jgeckler@pointsoflight.org.


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Q: Is there a workaround for the error-insight bug in the IDE?
XE2 will mark an error in the editor, usually about missing member functions (as shown in the picture). However it wil compile OK and the code will run just fine.
If you ask for a list using CTRL + SPACE it will give the correct list.
Is there a workaround/solution for the above bug in the Delphi XE2 IDE?
In such a way that I don't get incorrect markings for errors in the editor?
Note that this question: Delphi XE2 background IDE compiler unable to find source path signifies why the error is there, but does not list a solution.

A: Solution, thats works for me in Delphi 2007, XE2 and 10.2.x Tokyo:

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*Compile/Build your project

*Close your project (Files -> Close all)

*Reopen your project

The wrong error marks should have gone away now, at least for a while... :-/


Denon AU-320 MC Stepup, mint for sale.
The best match for any Denon DL 103, but sounds fantastic with most low output MCs.
2 Tonearms or Turntables connectable at the same time!!
Mint from first owner. Impossible to find a better one. Time Machine Quality.


I live across the country from my 2 grandchildren, ages 4 and 2. I only see them one time a year. It has been many years since I have taken care of children by myself. And I feel uncomfortable babysitting them, even for an hour or two. Is this unreasonable? Is it ok to say no?
Thanks Shawnn. I appreciate your help. And in fact, when asked, my reply was "No, because I just don't feel comfortable being in charge of both of the children." They looked at me like I was an alien. I guess I should have added that I love them and want to spend time with them, but I don't feel that I can keep up with them. Also like you suggested, that I wouldn't want anything to happen to them while I'm in charge. But, I can almost hear my son's reply " What would happen? Nothing will happen. We'll only be gone 1 or 2 hours. What could happen? " This would be followed by more "alien-type" stares.
Yes, it's ok to say no. BUT make sure that you explain to your kids the reason...not because you don't want to spend time with the kids, but because you feel a bit out of your league, and you wouldn't want anything to happen.
Please be honest with your kids. Let them know that you love the grandkids, but you truly do not feel comfortable sitting for them.
Am I wrong for asking for help from the grandperants.
Should I pay my mother in law?
Am i being responsible, or unreasonable?
Issues with grandparents. Am I overreacting?
Should grandparents be paid to look after their grandchildren?
Q: Do you expect money when other people's children stay for a while?
Q: When are kids old enough to stay home alone?


Azerbaijani MP, vice president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) Azay Guliyev expressed his gratitude to Chairman of the OSCE PA's Sub-Committee on the Rules and Procedure, Vice-President of the organization Lord Peter Bowness, Trend reports on Dec. 6.
In his report Bowness touched upon the importance of resolving the protracted conflicts in the OSCE region.
However, Guliyev protested that in the report the conflict existing in Azerbaijan's territory is called the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
He added that it is very important to change the name of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
OSCE PA President George Tsereteli, Vice President Lord Peter Bowness and Secretary General Roberto Montella agreed with Guliyev's comment and said that they will take that into account in the future.
While speaking at a meeting of the Council of Ministers, Tsereteli used the term "Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict".


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Test ID: MHDZ
Methylmalonic Aciduria and Homocystinuria, cblD Type, Full Gene Analysis, Varies
Fees Several factors determine the fee charged to perform a test. Contact your U.S. or International Regional Manager for information about establishing a fee schedule or to learn more about resources to optimize test selection.
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Prospective clients should contact their Regional Manager. For assistance, contact Customer Service.
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This test was developed and its performance characteristics determined by Mayo Clinic in a manner consistent with CLIA requirements. This test has not been cleared or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
CPT Code Information Provides guidance in determining the appropriate Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code(s) information for each test or profile. The listed CPT codes reflect Mayo Clinic Laboratories interpretation of CPT coding requirements. It is the responsibility of each laboratory to determine correct CPT codes to use for billing.
CPT codes are provided by the performing laboratory.
81479-Unlisted molecular pathology procedure
Fibroblast Culture for Genetic Test
88233-Tissue culture, skin or solid tissue biopsy (if appropriate)
88240-Cryopreservation (if appropriate)
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MHDZ MMADHC Gene, Full Gene Analysis 94207-8
Result ID
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53992 Result Summary 50397-9
53993 Result 82939-0
53994 Interpretation 69047-9
53995 Additional Information 48767-8
53996 Specimen 31208-2
53997 Source 31208-2
53998 Released By 18771-6