(MENAFN - Online PR News) The sale featured items ranging from a Chinese Hunan One Tael silver coin to a 150-year-old Idaho soda bottle to an antique wood ore car from a mine in Utah.
Online PR News 15-December-2018 RENO, Nev. An eclectic five-day auction that featured items ranging from a Chinese Hunan One Tael silver coin to a 150-year-old Idaho soda bottle to an antique wood ore car from a mine in Utah to Marilyn Monroe's signed autograph was held December 5th-9th by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, online and in the gallery at 3555 Airway Drive (Ste. 308) in Reno.
The auction was nicknamed "to die for" because it featured a massive offering of token dies from the Northwest Territorial Mint Liquidation, but there were many other items in a wide array of collecting categories, a staggering 3,500 lots in all. Nearly 3,700 people registered to bid online via the platforms iCollector.com and Invaluable.com. The auction grossed a total of $355,825.
"This was the second sale in what promises to be an exciting fall and winter season for us," said Fred Holabird of Holabird Western Americana Collections. Offered was more of the Ken Prag American stock certificate collection; a Texas token collection; the Joe Elcano Nevada History Collection; and the Ben-Tchahvtchavadze Collection (Native Americana, rugs, weavings, art).
Day 1, on Wednesday, December 5th, was packed with minerals, vintage and antique bottles, tokens from Alabama to Oregon, and a wide selection of numismatics, to include banks, books, catalogs, coins, counterfeit directories, currency, medals, scales and "so-called" dollars - a total of 582 lots for the day. Also in the mix were 67 lots of tantalizing bargains and dealer specials.
Star lots from Day 1 included the Chinese Hunan One Tael silver piece, weighing 35.6 grams ($6,875); and the circa 1866-1869 Idaho City, Idaho soda bottle, from Pioneer Brown & Co. ($2,625). The blob top bottle, just over seven inches tall, had a very rare light green color. It is one of only a few known specimens of a Territorial soda bottle (Idaho was not yet a state then).
Day 2, Thursday, December 6th, contained 663 lots of tokens (from Texas on) and dies. Sold was a token from the White Elephant Saloon in Mobeetie, Tex. ($1,813). The obverse said, "Good for A Drink, Berry & Co., White Elephant Saloon." The reverse said, "Chas. Peck & Co. / Chicago."
The general Americana was a virtual entire category unto itself, with autographs, badges, checks, circus memorabilia, firemen collectibles, music items, navigation material, automobilia, outlaw and lawman memorabilia, silverware and flatware, World's Fair & Expos collectibles and more.
Day 3 highlights included an unissued capital stock certificate #495 for the Alaska Commercial Company, Alaska's largest rural retailer, with a vignette of Russian church and miners ($4,000); and a group of eleven 1950s-era 25-cent red gaming chips from Dopey Norman's, one of the first gambling casinos in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, operated by entrepreneur Norman Reinburg ($2,000).
Day 4, on Saturday, December 8th, was jam-packed with 746 lots of mining material, to include artifacts, books, explosives, spoons and geographic sort from Arizona on. A top lot was a stock certificate #380 for Mass Mining Company of Pittsburgh, datelined Pittsburgh 1881 for a copper mine that is believed to have operated in Michigan. The certificate was for 120 shares ($3,375).
Also sold on Day 4 was the choice old wood ore car from a mine in Utah ($2,750). The 1870s-era car was three feet long, about two feet wide and had a payload area of about 11 inches deep. It held about one ton of high grade. Collectors are drawn to ore cars like this because of their tremendous character and "eye appeal". Plus, they're 50 times rarer than their iron counterparts.
Day 5, December 9th, featured textiles, Native Americana, jewelry and watches, entertainment industry items, furnishings, sculptures, art, railroadiana, imprinted revenue stamps and more.
Marilyn Monroe's bold ink signature was presented along with a beautiful black and white photo of the actress, as well as her 1953 payroll card from 20th Century Fox, nicely framed and matted ($1,250). Also, a 1984 watercolor painting of Dayton, Nevada, done by artist Jeff Nicholson, known for his renderings of the high desert of the West, particularly of Nevada, brought $1,000.
A stock certificate for The Silverton Railroad (Colorado), issued in 1904 to Charles Graham in the amount of 996 shares, signed by company president Otto Mears and featuring a train exiting a tunnel vignette, realized $1,125. Also, a fine collection of Indian arrowheads from the Great Basin area of the United States, 67 pieces in all, nicely housed in an octagon case, made $938.
All prices quoted include the buyer's premium.
Holabird Western Americana Collections' next big auction is planned for Jan. 25-28, 2019, also online and in the Reno gallery. Anyone owning a collection that might fit into an upcoming Holabird auction is encouraged to get in touch. The firm travels throughout the U.S., to see and pick up collections. Last year it visited Boston, Florida, Seattle, New York and other locations.
Holabird Western Americana is always seeking quality bottle, advertising, Americana and coin consignments for future auctions. To consign a single piece or a collection, you may call Fred Holabird at 775-851-1859 or 844-492-2766; or, you can e-mail him at . To learn more about Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, log on to www.fhwac.com.


•	Action Fraud campaign warns people about Computer Software Service fraud.
•	22,000 victims reported losing £21 million in 2017/18.
•	Action Fraud figures show that Computer Software Service fraud is in the top five most reported fraud types.
Today (24 September 2018), Action Fraud launches a campaign to warn people about the threat of Computer Software Service fraud, one of the country's top five most reported frauds.
Computer Software Service fraud can start with either a phone call, an email or a pop-up message appearing on your computer, stating there is something wrong with your computer or internet connection and that it needs to be fixed.
In 2017/18, Action Fraud received 22,609 reports of Computer Software Service fraud with a total of £21,365,360 being lost to fraudsters.
An intelligence report run by the City of London Police's National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) has shown that men and women are equally susceptible to being targeted and the average age of a victim is 63. Figures also show that those living in London and Bristol are most likely to fall victim.
Action Fraud is also encouraging businesses to warn their customers about this type of fraud so that people are aware that they will never be contacted in this way.
•	Computer firms do not make unsolicited phone calls to help you fix your computer. Fraudsters make these phone calls to try to steal from you and damage your computer with malware. Treat all unsolicited phone calls with scepticism and don't give out any personal information.
•	Computer firms tend not to send out unsolicited communication about security updates, although they do send security software updates. If in doubt, don't open the email.
•	Computer firms do not request credit card information to validate copies of software. Nor do they ask for any personally identifying information, including credit card details.


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Aharon Goldstein (hebr.: אהרן גולדשטיין, ur. 19 grudnia 1902 w Złotopolu, zm. 12 października 1976) – izraelski polityk, w latach 1963–1974 poseł do Knesetu z list Partii Liberalnej i Gahalu.

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Urodził się 19 grudnia 1902 w Złotopolu – obecnie dzielnica ukraińskiego miasta Nowomyrhorod. Uczył się chederze. Do Palestyny wyemigrował w 1921 roku.

W wyborach parlamentarnych w 1961 nie dostał się do izraelskiego parlamentu jednak 11 listopada 1963 objął mandat po Idowie Kohenie. W wyborach w 1965 oraz 1969 roku uzyskiwał reelekcję. Zasiadał w Knesetach V, VI i VII kadencji. Zmarł 12 października 1976.

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Weather Conditions Cause Road Accidents in New Jersey
Snow, ice, and freezing rain have led to hundreds of accidents and some fatalities in New Jersey.
During the first major storm of 2014, 250 car accidents were reported on interstates and major highways.
Police also responded to 900 calls from motorists who were stranded by the storm.
A New Jersey Transit bus, with only the driver on board, crashed backward through a building in Paterson, New Jersey after sliding on an ice-covered hill.The driver suffered only minor injuries.
In Springfield, a corrections officer was killed on his way to work at Northern State Prison in Newark, New Jersey.The road was icy when his car was struck from behind and crashed into a snowbank.
An 11-car accident caused the closure of a part of the Staten Island Expressway, and JFK Airport was also closed briefly when a plane skidded off a runway.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management, the leading cause of death during winter storms is transportation accidents.
If you're trapped in a car during a blizzard, you should turn on your emergency flashers and hang a piece of cloth or an emergency flag from your radio antenna or window.Display a trouble sign if you have one.
You should turn on the car's engine for about 10 minutes per hour, and run the heater while the engine is on.Be sure to open a downwind window slightly while the motor is on to help prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.
You may need to clear snow away from the car's exhaust pipe to prevent carbon monoxide from backing up into the car.
Stay warm by exercising, staying close to other passengers, and using maps, seat covers, and even floor mats to retain body heat.
Do not leave a car to search for help unless help is visible within 100 yards.You may lose your way in blizzard conditions.
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Sweden's justice and migration minister has accused anti-immigration party leaders of lying about Sweden after they wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Donald Trump was right in his comments about immigration.
He spoke hours after Sweden Democrat bosses Jimmie Åkesson and Mattias Karlsson wrote in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that "Mr Trump did not exaggerate Sweden's current problems" when he falsely suggested that immigration had sparked a rising crime wave in the country.
"If anything, he understated them. Sweden took in about 275,000 asylum-seekers from 2014-16 – more per capita than any other European country," they wrote, adding that "riots and social unrest have become a part of everyday life" and vowing to "make Sweden safe again".
"For the sake of the American people, with whom we share so many strong historical and cultural ties, we can only hope that the leaders in Washington won't make the same mistakes that our socialist and liberal politicians did."
Sweden's justice and migration minister Morgan Johansson told The Local on Thursday that the government would submit its own opinion piece to the newspaper to counter the claims.
"I note that it has gone so far that the Sweden Democrats are intentionally harming Sweden by lying about how things are. We can't let that go unchallenged. They're painting a picture of a country characterized by violence, when it's the exact opposite. Not to mention the risk of being the victim of deadly violence in the US is four times higher than in Sweden," he said.
A total of 112 people were victims of deadly violence in Sweden in 2015, according to the National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå). Deadly violence has decreased since the 1990s.
Åkesson and Karlsson wrote their opinion piece following a report on Fox News on crime and immigration in Sweden, which President Donald Trump said he had based his view of Sweden on.
"I would say that perhaps the US president ought to be a bit more critical of his sources and not get all his news from reports on Fox News," commented Johansson, but refrained from further criticism.
Riddled with factual inaccuracies (some of which were debunked by The Local), filmmaker Ami Horowitz' report on the US network was heavily criticized by many Swedes earlier this week, including two police officers featured in the video who said they had been misled and their quotes taken out of context.
"You should know that despite this kind of thing the image of Sweden is very positive abroad – it is no coincidence that we were elected onto the UN Security Council with a large majority," said Johansson.
"But every now and then these urban myths are spread in far-right media."
Sweden is not a country without its problems. For example, more than one in five of the foreign-born population is unemployed and it struggles with a critical housing shortage. But Johansson argued that cherry-picking statistics and exaggerating the issues faced by the nation risked harming the debate.
"We have problems like all countries that we have to deal with and it is then important to talk about them in a nuanced way," he said.
In their opinion piece, the Sweden Democrat leaders also commented on anti-Semitism in Malmö, a much-debated topic in the past few years. "Jews in Malmö are threatened, harassed and assaulted in the streets. Many have left the city, becoming internal refugees in their country of birth," they wrote.
However, Freddy Gellberg, the chairman of the Jewish Association, criticized the portrayal.
"Anti-Semitism in Malmö is a serious enough problem without, like the Sweden Democrats, grossly exaggerating and calling Jews moving from Malmö 'internal refugees'. Jews move from Malmö for various reasons and anti-Semitism is one of them," Gellberg told public broadcaster SVT.


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With the background of a first career as an interior designer, Liana Pattihis began her four year Jewellery Design course at Middlesex University with an open mind as to the kind of work she would make; at that point she had had no more to do with enamelling than to collect Chinese vases, including some cloisonné. In Liana's second year, Ros Conway, a tutor at Middlesex University, gave a one week introduction to enamelling, focusing on traditional jewellery methods. Although Liana found enamelling to be a beautiful and intriguing process she was a perfectionist by nature and felt frustrated that she was unable to get this method of enamelling quite right in the short period of time allocated. But when Elizabeth Turrell, a visiting lecturer, introduced the technique of sifting, Liana found that this was the area of enamelling that suited her.
Interested but not yet committed, it was a workshop with Bettina Dittlman, (see the Summer 2006 newsletter, pages 1,2, and 3), that opened up the way of making jewellery that Liana wanted to pursue. Bettina brought in a bunch of fresh flowers as a point of reference and directed the students to reproduce organic forms using copper foil and enamel. There was a 'lightness and a sense of freedom' in Bettina's work which really intrigued Liana and inspired her to continue experimenting with fine copper mesh and enamel for the following six weeks. A particular feature of Bettina's own practice, where enamelling takes hours and hours and time flies quickly, also exerted a great appeal. The result of all the hard work was a display of 38 enamelling samples arranged as an Imaginary Necklace in a group exhibition 'Wear It?' at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, in Hertfordshire, in May 2005.
at this point was to make wearable jewellery. This meant developing ways of incorporating fixings for the pins on brooches that were simple to use and, at the same time, did not interfere in any way with the design. Although initial sources of inspiration guided Liana, for her the aim was not replication. Each piece was treated as a 'final' - what started out as an experiment kept on evolving until something satisfying was achieved. The possibility of failure was not considered; discovery was the goal.
Continuing from her earlier experiments, for her final year's work Liana used two layers of copper mesh to create The Grey Kandinsky Brooch, inspired by Wassily Kandinsky's painting 'Yellow, Red, and Blue' (1925). A layer of fine mesh was folded over the edges of a layer of medium mesh, with the two being bonded together to create a border. Through her experimenting Liana discovered that when two layers of copper mesh were put through a rolling mill, a different mesh surface was created that affected the texture and appearance of the enamelled surface and even the resulting colour. This accounts for the grey colour which is, in fact, black enamel. Sifting blue flux over the surface produced the variations in the grey. The layers of enamel were applied thinly in order to allow the texture of the mesh to show.
The 'Kandinsky Reversible Brooch' was inspired by the same painting. Here Liana applied layer after layer of enamel, sometimes brushing on the grains like watercolour on paper and sometimes using enamel 'leaves'. She doesn't know precisely what caused the distinctive cracks to appear on the surface. As it was a very complicated piece to make; one can only assume that the cracks were caused either by the thickness of the enamel or by shrinking or movement of the mesh.
After finishing the brooches, Liana began work on neckpieces. Initially she made two-dimensional, interlinked, circular mesh forms. The necklace was then enamelled in its entirety (usually by sifting but at one point by rolling the necklace into dry enamel) and fired in the kiln in one piece, a complicated and difficult process. The results, however, were more interesting than if the links were enamelled separately because there was a uniformity in texture, colour and pattern in the finished item.
For another necklace, Liana made links by twisting silver wire and then covering parts of the necklace with copper mesh. When the enamel was fired on to this piece, it appeared to her as if the whole surface of the necklace had once been covered in mesh, and that somehow the mesh had rusted and fallen off to reveal, in places, the silver underneath. This was a turning point. From then on Liana's interest switched to being concerned with what was under the enamel and she began work on a series of pieces entitled 'Hidden Treasure'.
The first of these was made from 6.5 metres of continuous silver Snake Chain, which was twisted and covered in places with copper wire until it was reduced in length to 1.2 metres. It was then enamelled in its entirety. Other necklaces followed, starting from different lengths of continuous Snake Chain as she tried to see how much silver she could hide under the enamel.
Following her Hidden Treasure series, Liana addressed the fact that her enamelling had an earthy quality that caused her neckpieces look as if they were made of stones. In particular, before they were enamelled, the necklaces reminded her of the appearance of excavated jewellery, dug up during the explorations of Heinrich Schliemann and pictured in the book 'The Gold of Troy: Searching for Homer's Fabled City' by Vladimir Tolstikov and Mikhail Treister. This inspired another series of necklaces, entitled 'Unearthed'. Here, Liana reproduced the necklaces from Troy, but then covered them with enamel so that they would look as if they had just come out of the ground.
In her final six weeks of her course at Middlesex, Liana created 25 pieces, fourteen of which were exhibited at New Designers in July. They attracted a great deal of interest, with Galerie Marzee choosing to take nearly all of her brooches, as well as some of the necklaces, for the International Graduation Show 2007, at their gallery in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Eight of her pieces were sent to Studio Fusion in London which will be part of their exhibition Rising Stars.
Before graduation, Liana had already set up an enamelling studio in her home, and will, after New Designers, immediately begin to produce new work.
Pat Johnson is enameler and editor of the British Society of Enamellers Newsletter.
Appearing four times a year in full colour, the twelve page newsletter of the British Society of Enamellers presents achievements of enamellers in the UK and throughout the world. Articles cover the accomplishments of established artists as well as inventive student work. The aim of the newsletter is to provide a showcase for advanced techniques and contemporary artistic enamelling.
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This guide contains all the tips you need to start tiling. Including how to prepare surfaces, match the batch, and get your pattern design straight. We've also thrown in a few tiling patterns for inspiration.
Stick test strips of adhesive tape onto a painted wall before tiling it. Leave the tape overnight; if the paint pulls away with the tape, you'll need to strip the wall before tiling. If the paint bond is strong, with no paint coming away with the tape, sand the wall surface with a coarse abrasive paper to provide a good key for the tile adhesive.
Use 12mm exterior grade plywood for the walls of a tiled shower cubicle. Mount it on a firm timber framework and seal it with a wood primer. Unlike plasterboard, chipboard and MDF, the plywood won't distort if it gets wet, and because it is very stable, tiles stuck to it are unlikely to crack.
Tiles can be stuck straight onto bare plaster or plasterboard, but seal the surface with a plaster primer first. This makes it less absorbent so that the adhesive does not dry too quickly.
Large tiles are quicker to lay than small ones. However, they make a small space look even smaller, especially if a lot of cut tiles are required to cope with corners and features.
As long as old tiles are firmly fixed, new ones can be stuck on top of them. This is easier than removing the old tiles, which normally results in damage to the plaster that has to be made good. Wash the old tiles with sugar soap, then use double-sided adhesive pads to fix a starting batten to them.
Arrange the new tiles so that the joints are not directly above those of the old ones. Then if the old grouting cracks, the new grouting won't.
Use a straight batten to make a tiling gauge for positioning the first row of tiles. Draw evenly spaced marks on the batten—each one representing the combined width of a tile and one joint.
Using a tiling gauge to lay out tiles from the midpoint of a wall ensures equal-size cut tiles in the room corners.
If the wall has a major feature such as a window, tile out from its midpoint, using the gauge to equalise the size of the cut tiles on each side of the window.
To envisage what a tiling pattern will look like once it is on the wall, set out the tiles on the floor or a table first. This will give you the opportunity to work out exactly how many of each tile are needed, as well as to make changes to the design.
Try to buy boxes of tiles with the same batch number to reduce the possibility of colour variation. Then shuffle the tiles to disperse and hide any slight differences in colour. If there is a marked variation, try grading the tiles by shade, so that the differences in colour are 'lost' across the wall.
The edge of a tiled area can be finished off with a coloured plastic edging trim, tiles with glazed edges (sometimes the box contains a quantity of these), slim border tiles or a hardwood moulding.


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Czech health minister resigns as coronavirus poster child falters
Adam Vojtěch replaced by his former assistant, who was the architect of the country's earlier efforts to contain the pandemic.
Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtěch has resigned | Photo by Martin Divisek/EPA-EFE
By Siegfried Mortkowitz
September 21, 2020 5:06 pm CET
PRAGUE — Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtěch resigned Monday, in a sign that the country's effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic has gone sideways after gaining plaudits last spring.
Vojtěch has been replaced by his former assistant, the epidemiologist Roman Prymula, the architect of the country's earlier efforts to contain the pandemic.
The move came as the number of cases has soared. This past week, average daily infections have often been topping 2,000, which is more than six times the numbers reported on average in March.
With Senate and regional elections due to be held in two weeks, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš may have been partly inspired to make the change following a poll for Czech Television on Friday that showed his ANO party dropping almost 5 percentage points in the polls.
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Prymula is highly respected. Under his guidance, the nation went into an immediate and total lockdown in March, and was among the first EU countries to shut all schools, restaurants and non-essential shops; close all borders; and forbid travel into and out of the country. It was the first European nation to mandate the wearing of face masks, indoors and in public.
The severity of the second wave has raised questions about how the country has gone from being a model to a cautionary tale.
With case numbers contained, it was also the first country in Europe to begin easing restrictions, allowing some non-essential shops to open on April 7. On July 1, thousands of Czechs celebrated the end of the epidemic with a "farewell dinner" at a 500-meter-long table on Prague's Charles Bridge.
At the time, there were fewer than 12,000 infections in the country and only 346 deaths. Today, there are 49,290 confirmed infections and 503 deaths, while more than 500 are hospitalized.
In Europe, the Czech Republic now trails only Spain in infections per capita, with 193 per 100,000 registered over the past two weeks. By comparison, Italy, once Europe's sickest country, stands at a comparatively healthy 33.5, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Prague is especially hard-hit, with 217 infections per 100,000 people over the preceding week — the most affected region in Europe outside of Spain and France. The city's mayor, Zdeněk Hřib, has closed all universities in the city.
The situation has deteriorated to such an extent that the country has been declared high-risk by neighboring Slovakia, with all travelers from the Czech Republic required to self-quarantine.
Earlier this month, the Czech branch of the World Health Organization recommended that the government increase its efforts to track and trace people with the illness to contain the rising number of infections. In reaction, Babiš took a page from the playbook of U.S. President Donald Trump by pointing out the organization's own failures and telling it to "keep quiet."
Some critics point to the failure of the first track-and-trace app released by the government. Named eRouška (rouška is the Czech word for face mask), it drained smartphone batteries, raised privacy concerns and didn't work with iOS phones. These problems doomed the app's essential requirement that a majority of the population use it. A second, improved version was released on September 18.
Babiš himself suggested that it might have been an error to lift the mandate on masks in June. "Maybe we should have kept them all summer," he admitted to MPs last week. "But everyone was locked up at home and wanted to return to normal."
However, when cases began to rise in mid-August and Vojtěch suggested expanding the national mandate on masks to require them more broadly — including in shops, school corridors and indoor restaurants and bars — the prime minister rejected the suggestion "in order not to destroy our social, cultural [and] sports life," he told Czech Television.
It was a surprising decision by the self-appointed champion of face mask use. In March, Babiš told POLITICO in a message of a video he had on the efficacy of masks and had sent it "to Prime Ministers and Presidents for inspiration."
Babiš on Monday denied that he and Vojtěch had disagreed on the issue, saying, "The reports of the dispute are not true. I supported Vojtěch."
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš | Pool photo by Francisco Seco/AFP via Getty Images
Those face mask measures have now come into effect, with other restrictions on the horizon. Prymula predicted on Sunday that daily cases could rise to as high as 6,000 to 8,000 per day.
He also told Prima TV that declaring a state of emergency would be appropriate and that schools would be shut down again if the virus' reproduction number reached two. According to Prymula, it's currently approaching 1.8, meaning that each infected person will infect 1.8 more people.
However, Babiš remained optimistic. Speaking about the shake-up at a press conference Monday, he said he understands "we are the subject of criticism and the situation is not simple."
"But I am convinced that, as we managed the first wave, we will manage this situation as well," he added.
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I am starting a Global Change Biology lab at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I am currently looking for highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students. We will study how species respond to environmental change using an interdisciplinary approach including populations genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, GIS-based spatial analyses, ecological modeling, and field and experimental research.
Vanessa Russell is our new MSc student. She is interested in mammals and is developing a project that will involve Peromyscus mice.
Three undergraduate students are joining the Global Change Biology lab to explore the diversification of Oedipodinae grasshoppers. Steph Smith will lead the genetic and bioinformatic aspect of the project, Ying Liang will take care of outreach, and Addie Zeisler will be our curator.


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Bullalveolina es un género de foraminífero bentónico de la familia Alveolinidae, de la superfamilia Alveolinoidea, del suborden Miliolina y del orden Miliolida. Su especie tipo es Alveolina bulloides. Su rango cronoestratigráfico abarca el Stampiense (Oligoceno).

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Bullalveolina incluye a las siguientes especies:

 Bullalveolina boninensis †
 Bullalveolina bulloides †

Bibliografía

Géneros de Miliolida
Géneros de foraminíferos bentónicos


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Q: Can you SFTP a directory to a remote server with phpseclib library Does anyone know if you can move directories from a local environment to a remote environment with sftp phpseclib library.
I have this:
$ssh->put('/logs/file6.text', 'bfiles/file.text', SFTP::SOURCE_LOCAL_FILE);
But this makes a new file (file6.text) in remote environment and stashes the content of local file (file.text) in it.
I need to just copy a directory over. I have zipped files in a directory and just need to transfer them.

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Q: How to add attribute in shapefile guidedly I have a point layer (31 by 31 grid = 961 points) created by fishnet tool > feature vertices to point tool (but with duplicate points). NOx Concentration data are in an Excel file.  I want to populate an NOx Concentration field in the point layer using the corresponding values in the Excel file automatically.  How can this be done?
Excel File

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I am writing this question in connection with my previous post.

A: Your data are in a rectangular array.  Their locations are not explicitly given, but are implicit in their positions within the array (their row and column indexes).  You need to rearrange them with one value per record and you need to compute coordinates for each record.  The spreadsheet is the place to do this, not the GIS.
Here is an Excel example (using a smaller array to save space in the illustration):

The original data are shown in blue at the right.  At the left is the new "long" format, all ready to be imported into your GIS.  (Notice that rows 14 through 80 have been hidden.)  It is created from left to right, beginning with OID, which is just the sequence 0, 1, 2, ..., through one less than the size of the array.  (In your case it would stop at 961-1 = 960.)
The Row and Column fields are indexes into this array.  They are computed using INT and MOD (as shown below).  The X and Y fields convert those indexes into coordinates (also as shown below).  To do this, they use the information given in green in the middle: coordinates of the lower left corner point and the spacings ("Cellsize") between points.
It is important to name both forms of the data: the original data are called NOx and the new output (in A1:F81) is called Database.  Naming the data makes it easy to refer to them in a reliable way, while naming the output makes it easy to import into your GIS. It is also convenient to name the green "control" variables, again to avoid making mistakes: I have given them names similar to what you see in the Parameter column.
Here is the same worksheet showing the formulas:

These are all entered in the first data row (row 2) and then copied down through the remaining rows.  The important formula is in cell F2, which uses OFFSET to obtain the NOx value for its Row and Column entry.  (Note that OFFSET starts indexing at 0 rather than 1: that is why 1 is subtracted from each row and column index.)  This is a convenient automatic way to "unravel" a rectangular array of data into the "long" format needed by most other GIS, database, and statistical software: it's a good technique to know.  Once you study it and memorize it, you will have no trouble creating such spreadsheets from scratch within a minute or two.
The transfer of the data is easy in recent versions of ArcMap, provided you first close the workbook in Excel: when you navigate to the spreadsheet in the Add Data dialog, you will be shown the named ranges and worksheets.  Choose Database.  After it is added to the project, right-click on it and select Display XY Data....  Fill out the dialog.  You will see a new point layer in response.  Symbolize it as you see fit.

Other software may require you to save your output data in CSV or TXT format, which it will then read as input.  That works fine with ArcMap, too.

A: Well there are a few ways you could do this.

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*You could join (the help for 10.0 hasn't been loading for me lately) the two tables together based on a shared identifying column. I can't really tell in your picture, but there has to be some way that a particular number is connected to particular feature.

*You could save the spreadsheet as a csv file and read the contents into memory with the csv reader and use an update cursor to write the list of values to your field.
At any rate, you probably want all of your values in one column as I'm assuming you are only writing to one field.


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Skateboarding increases in popularity
April 30, 2022April 27, 2022By Dominic Danastasio
Skateboarding, a relatively new sport invented in the 1940s, made a comeback throughout the spring months with students riding them to and from school. This sport has become mainstream throughout the last few decades, and it made a boom in 2021. Kids picked up their skateboards and rolled to school. The incredible feeling of this sport, according to many people, contributes to the fact that its popularity flourished.
"I've played a lot of skating video games, so I've always wanted to try this," said Cara Bolvin, an eighth-grader, who has been skating for a month. "It's fun to go places on my board."
There are many different types of skateboards. Longboard skateboards, cruiser skateboards, Mini cruiser skateboards and carve skateboards. Most people use the double-kick popsicle skateboard. This skateboard most likely comes to mind when you think of a skateboard.
Skateboarders are not limited to just a few tricks either. You may think of tricks like kickflips or 900 and 1260 degree flips, the latter of which are air flips done at the end of the ramp that the skateboarder is using. However, there are other tricks that skateboarders perform quite often. These include, but are not limited to: ollie impossibles, grinds, hardflips and diamond flips.
"Don't do 60 on a longboard," said Nicholas Thompson, an eighth grader, who has used a longboard for about two years. A 60 is a type of trick that people on longboards, for example, can do.
The website allcitycanvas.com has a much more detailed list of tricks used by skateboarders. I would recommend checking out this list if you are interested in looking at things related to what I just discussed.
"My dad had skateboarded when he was a kid, and during summer vacation he asked me if I wanted a skateboard. I said yes, and he taught me how to ride it," said eighth grader, Justin Bossler, who has skateboarded for two years. "Skateboarding is a fun way to get out and enjoy some fresh air."
"If you want to try skating, do it; it's so much fun. It's better than walking around everywhere. I used to walk everywhere and take my bike places, but I had to haul it out. So, honestly, having your board is so much better just to go places," said Bolvin.
Photo credit: Dominic Danastasio
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Inside Redmond: Microsoft's City Of Geeks
Luke Hopewell
Jun 5, 2014, 10:00am
Over the last three decades, Microsoft has been working. Quietly. Not just on software, hardware and the ongoing mission of a computer in every home, but on a city inside a city. That city now has a new mayor in the form of CEO Satya Nadella, and as a result, the city is going through a revival as more buildings go up and more staff come on to work for One Microsoft, and it's quite a site to behold. Here's how the other half lives.
It's called Redmond, and it's around 25km North-East of the centre of Seattle. Inside it is the city Microsoft built for its 130,000 staff.
We were invited into Redmond this week to see what's happening in the new Microsoft, and it's a pretty impressive place.
The Commons: The Social Hub
The Redmond campus is divided into two sections: the East Campus and West Campus, divided by the main highway that brings employees in from Seattle and elsewhere.
At the centre of this buzzing tech metropolis is The Commons. While every building has its own cafeteria and coffee shop, The Commons is a place where stores that you'd see in the real world have set up to cater specifically to Microsoft.
The tech giant actually hand-picks local Seattle stores to come into The Commons and open a store, in a bid to support local business.
There's everything from coffee shops, international food vendors, bars and grills in The Commons, as well as more practical outlets like an Optometrist, bank, bike shop and AT&T store.
There's also an employee store for staff to come down and purchase branded Microsoft swag, bearing the logos of everything from Office to Bing (a section which is suspiciously full. #justsaying).
There's also a Visitor Center that anyone off the street can walk into and sample Microsoft's suite of products, which now includes Nokia.
The Library And The Maker Garage
The MS Library is exactly what it sounds like: a giant repository of books that any Microsoft staffer can walk into and rent for a spell. The library isn't the biggest you've seen, mostly because it's curated for Microsoft staffers based on company interests like marketing, leadership, management and programming.
The online library has a larger selection of general interest e-books for your tablet, and if you require a book, the physical library can order you in a copy of just about anything.
To encourage employees to build their knowledge, new CEO Satya Nadella has a reading list of his own that he gives to staff in the hope of building an Oprah's Book Club-style community within Microsoft.
In a pass-protected room off the library is something infinitely more interesting, however. It's called the Maker Garage.
The Maker Garage is meant to encourage Microsoft staffers to come down and build stuff. It has laser cutters, 3D printers, soldering equipment and every kind of tool you could want all packed into a quaint little workspace the size of a shed.
The guys and girls who run The Maker Garage for staff actually hold builder nights every week on everything from biohacking, through to 3D printing and the Internet of Things.
Studio B: Where Surface, Xbox and Accessories Are Built
Studio B is the home of Surface and Xbox development at Redmond. Other teams around the grounds also work on these products, but studio B is the design hub.
It consists of corporate offices, design team space and Model Shops for rapid prototyping of gear.
More: How Microsoft's Model Shop Prototypes The Future For Studio B
Elsewhere on the campus, you'll find all sorts of perks and bonuses designed to keep staff happy, healthy and productive.
There are a handful of soccer fields and basketball courts around the grounds, with an equipment shop available for staffers to book out sports gear for use both on and off campus. Every team leader actually has what's known as a "morale budget": an allocation of money to go and do team-building activities both on and off campus every month.
You'll also find deck chairs and umbrellas scattered around the campus which act as bookable outdoor meeting rooms.
Microsoft also has an extensively curated art collection, which includes completely in-tact panel from the Berlin Wall, gifted to Microsoft after the fall by the head of Daimler-Benz. The two companies have a strong business relationship.
As you make your way onto the East Campus, you head into what's colloquially known as "Old Town". These are the original two-storey buildings that Microsoft worked out of in the early days. Over the next few years, these buildings are slowly being torn down to make way for larger and more modern five-storey spaces.
To save cash on developing new land, Microsoft has also acquired several buildings in-between the East and West Campuses from an insurance company that had experienced layoffs during the global financial crisis. These buildings are now being knocked down and rebuilt for new employees and teams.
The campus isn't without its quirks, however. If you ever go to Microsoft, make sure you don't fall for the Building 7 gag.
When someone's on their first week at the campus or you want to play a trick on a visitor, you'll ask them to meet you at the cafeteria in Building Seven. The trick is that Building Seven doesn't exist.
There are many urban myths around Redmond about what happened to Building Seven, and a theory that it still exists like a secret development lab for the future of Microsoft. The real story however is slightly less exciting.
Contractors built the first six buildings on the Microsoft Campus back in the 1990's and simply forgot to add the seventh when they went on to build additional facilities. Seven was never included in the plans and hasn't been to this day.
With a campus this vast, Microsoft had to provide a way to get around on four wheels. Enter the Connect fleet.
It's a massive fleet of plug in hybrids (Ford Fusion, Toyota Prius and Nissan Leaf vehicles), as well as fleet of diesel- and natural gas-powered buses.
Employees can also reserve a spot on buses to get them from downtown Seattle to Redmond every morning. Gentrification protests commonly seen in San Francisco against such employee buses are now targeting Microsoft employees in Redmond, too.
Global Cybercrime Center
Microsoft's Cybercrime Center is a working facility that acts as the home base for researchers, lawyers, investigators and fraud experts around the world.
It employs 100 people around the world to take action against organised crime syndicates exploiting customers via Microsoft software.
It also acts on software piracy, tracking every single stolen key activation and bug report from pirated software around the world.
The Cybercrime team responds to 10 million threats a day, and sends around 2.5 million takedown requests every day.
At the center of the Cybercrime Center is a tank made of frosted glass and protected by 5-inch thick steel doors. The tank is where the Forensics Team works to gather evidence and maintain its integrity so that Microsoft's lawyers can successfully execute a bust.
More: How Taking Down One Botnet Killed 98 Per Cent Of Australian Wire Fraud
Lake Bill
In the centre of Old Town, amongst trees and two-storey buildings for Office staffers is Lake Bill. It's a man-made lake roughly the size of a basketball court, and it's been at the campus since the company anchored itself in Redmond.
Back in the 1980's and 1990's, projects shipped in two years as opposed to the Microsoft of today which ships software and hardware on a weekly basis. Finishing a project back then was a big deal, so the whole company would come out to Lake Bill and have a party. And then the bets started.
Employees used to bet their team leaders and managers that they could finish the project on time. If the employees won, the bosses would be forced to either have their head shaved or swim across Lake Bill. Both Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates have both swum the grungy-looking lake.
Across the way from Lake Bill is Building Eight where Bill Gates used to work. It's also where he met his now wife Melinda. The story goes that they both used to work late, and he eventually plucked up the courage to go and see the girl with her lights still on one night, and they've been together ever since.
Luke Hopewell travelled to Seattle as a guest of Microsoft
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Former England captain Andrew Flintoff is so unconvinced with the quality of fish and chips shops in London that he is now planning to open his own. The cricketer-turned-boxer is in talks with TV producers about a news series, where he runs a chippy in London with wife Rachael, the Daily Mail reports. Flintoff isn't impressed with the quality of fish and chips shops down south, and he wants to open his own up in London selling market-fresh fish, a source said. The sourced added that Flintoff would be front of house but his wife Rachael, who has a background in catering and events, would run the business.


Fresh basil and pears team up to offer a winning combination of delicate fruit and herbal notes to this bright, crisp salad.
Heat 1 Tbsp. olive oil in a small skillet over medium. Add hazelnuts and toast, stirring occasionally, until golden, 2–3 minutes. Season with 1/8 tsp. kosher salt. Remove from heat; set aside.
Finely chop garlic clove. Using the side of a chef's knife, mash garlic with 1/4 tsp. kosher salt to form a paste. Whisk garlic paste, vinegar, mustard, and 1/4 tsp. pepper in a medium bowl. Whisk in 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil in a slow and steady stream.
Place escarole, pears, Parmesan, basil, and about 1/3 of the reserved hazelnuts in a large bowl and drizzle with vinaigrette. Gently toss until salad is evenly dressed; season with sea salt and pepper. Top with remaining hazelnuts.
The dressing can be made up to 1 day ahead. Whisk well before using.
There was an odd bitterness without enough sweetness to balance it. It wasn't so bad that we were not able to finish it, but we will not make again.
I had my doubts -- thought the basil would be overwhelming -- but damn, this was delicious. Served it as a first course at Thanksgiving dinner, and it was a dazzler. If I end up hosting at xmas, it will be on my table again, maybe with the addition of a bit of frisee. A perfect winter salad.
Such a wonderful salad! Delicious, fresh, simple and clever combination of ingredients! Love the basil. Love the nuts. Great textures. Have made it three times in as many weeks. This one's a keeper.
I made this for an Ítalo-Alaskan dinner (long story) and added a tablespoon of birch syrup to the dressing and it was terrific. (Think maple syrup but tapped from Alaskan birch trees) The ratio of basil and hazelnuts seems high but was perfect. Love the stout texture of the escarole, will be using it more often for winter salads.
I made this for a progressive dinner group. The basil and dressing set this delicious salad apart from being just another ordinary salad. Used slivered almonds and worked fabulous. Will definitely make this one again.
A fantastic salad! Don't skimp on the basil as it is key to the wonderful combination of flavors. Other nuts (almonds, walnuts, etc.) can be substituted for hazelnuts. Dressing can use a little sweetness like honey or maple syrup. Everyone loved it. A great change of pace from your ordinary green salad!
Made this for a large dinner party and everyone loved it. Great combination. Highly recommend it. My only changes: I used a mix of escarole and endive, and I added some dried cranberries. All the flavors worked great together.
Fantastic salad! Even though I am an adventurous eater when I looked at the ingredient list I wondered about the combination of flavors, and about whether so much basil could possibly work. Well it works perfectly and the overall combination of flavors is scrumptious. I made this as a test before Thanksgiving to see if I would want to make it for the Thanksgiving dinner I am invited to and the answer is a resounding YES. Also it is a hardy salad and would be excellent as a lunch anytime.
I was surprised how much I liked this. I am a bit sheepish when it comes to salads, usually sticking with iceberg lettuce and ranch dressing, but this was a big hit. I made it on a whim for a dinner party and it was a smash hit. Everyone loved it and the proportions as written blended really well. I love nuts and cheese and with so much of both you cant go wrong. Paired it with a butternut squash pasta (also from the site) and it made a great autumnal meal.
This was delicious. I was surprised at first with the measurements for basil and hazelnut but it really worked. It doesn't hurt that I love basil either. This was the first time I cooked with hazelnuts so I was a bit worried I wasn't going to like it. But it was the complete opposite. It mixes perfectly with the slight peppery taste of the escarole and the basil and pear paired beautifully to make the whole salad a wonderful treat.
I wish we could do half-forks because I'd give this a 3.5. Not sure what the 1st reviewer's aim was - - rating a recipe before making it seems rather bold, especially if you are going to lambaste it. However, I was already planning on making this Butternut Squash Soup with Ginger recipe (which was delish!!!- http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/butternut-squash-soup-with-ginger-15572) and a salad when I got my recipe for the day in my inbox. This salad looked so good I decided to buy the escarole and Brazil nuts for it. I already had pear and the other ingredients on hand. I halved the recipe because there are only 3 of us (one of whom is 4-years old) and it was the perfect amount. The nuts were not overpowering at all, quite the opposite. We enjoyed them. I did reduce the basil leaves b/c my daughter can only handle so much of it raw. It was tasty that way and would have been just as tasty with more. I think it's a very nice change from the typical green salad I made everyday. It would make a great main dish for a luncheon with a hearty bread. Again, it's a shame that a 0-Fork rating will be counted from someone who judged it by a picture and an ingredient list. Boo!


Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock music that emerged during the mid 1980s in the American state of Washington (particularly in Seattle). The music scene was followed by a fashion trend. Grunge fashion mainly consisted of ripped jeans and flannel shirts. Doc Martens, combat boots, band T-shirts, oversized knit sweaters, long and droopy skirts, ripped tights, Birkenstocks, hiking boots, and eco-friendly clothing made were also popular items.
The grunge clothing look did not evolve out of a conscious attempt to create an appealing fashion style. It was basically an alternative apparel concept that blossomed from a particular lifestyle in Seattle. It was sort of a "lazy" person look. It took on the feel of the wearer simply not caring too much about a particular aesthetic. It has been said that the clothing of this genre was cheap, durable, and sort of timeless. Certainly torn jeans, boots, and flannel tops fit that description.
Grunge can possibly be defined as a thrift-store look or even a lumberjack look. Nothing too fancy. Essentially a slouchy and loose appearance.
Grunge fashion plowed against the grain of the flashy aesthetic that also existed in the 1980s. In mid-1992, grunge fashion broke into the mainstream for both sexes and peaked in late 1993 and early 1994.
Grunge became commercially successful in the first half of the 1990s, due mainly to the release of Nirvana's Nevermind, Pearl Jam's Ten, Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, Alice in Chains' Dirt, and Stone Temple Pilots' Core.
Grunge typically fuses elements of punk rock and heavy metal, such as the distorted electric guitar used in both genres, although some bands performed with more emphasis on one or the other. The music shares with punk a raw sound and similar lyrical concerns. However, it also involves much slower tempos, dissonant harmonies, and more complex instrumentation, which is reminiscent of heavy metal. Lyrics are typically angst-filled, often addressing themes such as social alienation, apathy, confinement, and a desire for freedom.
You may want to also learn about alternative apparel and punk fashion.
Plaid shirts had been an important fixture of grunge fashion.


The ISMAR 2018 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in the ISMAR 2018 main conference. The workshops will be held on 16th and 20th October 2018, in Munich, Germany.
The deadline for workshop proposal submissions is May 2nd, 2018, notifications will be sent out on May 10th. Workshop organizers will be expected to issue their calls-for-participation no later than June 10th and to issue any acceptance decisions to their participants no later than August 14th in order to allow sufficient time for travel planning and advance registration to the conference. All camera-ready material for the proceedings should be collected by September 4th.
Workshop organizers can choose one out of two options regarding the publication. (1) The workshop's papers will be published in ISMAR 2018 adjunct Proceedings and IEEE Xplore. OR (2) The workshop's papers will not be published but included in the supplemental material folder of the ISMAR 2018 USB memory proceedings.
Reasons why the workshop is timely and relevant for ISMAR 2018.
Interest to get the paper published or not.


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Judge says hospital can give pregnant teenager a blood transfusion
August 31, 2018 — 5.02pm
A pregnant Melbourne schoolgirl has lost her bid to potentially refuse a life-saving blood transfusion, after doubts were cast on her maturity to consider the full enormity of the decision.
The young woman said it was against her Jehovah's Witness religious beliefs to consent to the procedure but Mercy Hospitals Victoria applied to the Supreme Court seeking authority to give her blood, in the event that not doing so would threaten her life or cause serious injury.
She was originally booked in to have her labour induced on Wednesday but the procedure has been delayed until Sunday, with Justice Cameron Macaulay ruling on the dispute on Friday afternoon.
The court heard from experts who said that while the teenager had been very clear and consistent in her wishes she was influenced by a willingness to please her family and the community she was dependent on.
Associate Professor Campbell Paul, a consultant child psychiatrist at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, said the girl could have been trying to seek approval from those around her after committing the ''transgression'' of falling pregnant out of wedlock.
''To lose the support of her community would be a major blow to her,'' Professor Paul said.
He said while he did not believe she had a mental illness, he was concerned she had not thought enough about the impact of refusing treatment on herself and her baby.
It was an opinion shared by obstetrician Dr Jacqueline Van Dam who said while the schoolgirl was of average intelligence, she was still immature and may have been influenced by a desire to please her mother.
''She still believes that all will be well and whatever happens she will be protected by her faith,'' she said.
Dr Van Dam said the young woman, who is of small build and carrying a larger baby, was at heightened risk of having a longer labour or requiring surgical intervention.
''The biggest risk we have [with] patients having their first baby is that it is not always predictable if there will be a post-partum haemorrhage,'' she said.
Dr Van Dam said significant blood loss could lead to a stroke and if doctors were unable to stop the bleeding, death.
However the woman's mother, who cannot be identified, argued through an interpreter that if her daughter was forced into having a blood transfusion it would have a great psychological impact, akin to being physically attacked.
''She said that she would be forced to do that against her will would be something like having violence done to her or being raped,'' the interpreter said.
The court heard that the woman had given birth to nine children herself without needing a blood transfusion and that while she would always seek medical treatment for her children when they were unwell ''it's just this matter of blood transfusion that she is not able to agree with''.
In a fast-tracked decision, Justice Macaulay ruled that the court would allow the hospital to administer blood or blood products that were seen as reasonable and necessary by two medical practitioners to save the young woman's life during labour.
He said he was not satisfied that the teenager had sufficient understanding of the consequences of her choice and that essentially allowing her the choice to die was not in her best interests.
However he said a blood transfusion could only take place if the hospital had first undertaken to use all other reasonable strategies that would avoid the transfer of blood.


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8 Amazing Stories From People Who Have Met Aliens
Close encounters of the absurd kind.
You don't have to scour the internet all that hard to unearth a great fountain of alien abduction stories.
Unfortunately, in an age in which everyone has photoshop, the reliability of photographic evidence goes to zero and "I know what I saw" isn't a scientifically valid stance. Many "encounters", under closer inspection, turn out the be something else. That's not to say the person telling the story is a liar, but all sorts of things, from drugs to psychological trauma, can cause people to have mind-bending experiences. Often, the most mundane solution is unfortunately the most likely.
However, in a universe the size of ours, it's not beyond the realms of possibility, maybe they are travelling thousands of light years to stick probes in us after all.
If you do ever find yourself aboard a spaceship, however, try to nick something off a shelf as a souvenir. Anything aboard an alien lightship would completely turn the scientific community on its head.
Here we have a few stories from people who claim to have had "encounters". These are just a few archetypal tales, but there is a positive smorgasboard of stories and testimonies on sites such as Reddit (although we can't exactly vouch of their reliability) if that's what you're into.
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Family lawyers, social workers, mental health professionals and governmental social policy departments all have something critical in common: they work to protect and provide for the welfare of children. But they often approach this important work in different ways, which can lead to misperception and misunderstanding. This conference explores ways in which the various professions that work for children can collaborate to strengthen and enrich the services they provide to children and families, rather than to work in collision with one another.
The Suzie S. Thorn Foundation (a USA registered charity) was created in 1998 by Suzie S Thorn, Esq. The board members are Suzie S Thorn, Esq., Barney Whitehill, Barbara Burghart, Joe Thorn Jr. and Rhea Gong, CPA, executive administrator. The Mission of the Suzie S Thorn Family Foundation is to assist underprivileged women and children and support a variety of organizations, locally, nationally and internationally.
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A series of school education resources is now available for teachers about organ and tissue donation for transplantation for Year 8 and Year 9 students. The resources are aligned to learning descriptions in the Australian Curriculum.
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It's easy to train a person on how to be successful on the phone. It's much more difficult to train them to have a positive outlook, how to have patience with the person on the other end of the line, and how to think quickly on their feet. Instead of zeroing in on a person's experience, also analyze that individual's personality. Though they may not have worked at a call center before, if they have a cheerful disposition, a genuine interest in people, and plenty of patience, they will excel in this role far more than someone who has worked in a call center for years but is constantly cranky and irritated.
Speed is key when it comes to working in a call center, but it's important to reinforce to your employees that consistency is equally essential as they move through their work each day. They want to move quickly, without sacrificing quality and precision as they go.
Your employees need to be comfortable interacting with a variety of different types of customers. If you can go through and detail the different kinds of people that they may find themselves chatting with, you're helping to ensure that they're relaxed and calm in any situation. This kind of preparation is key when you want your team to be successful. Simply expecting your team members to adapt to any kind of situation isn't fair to anyone involved, and sets everyone up for failure.
In a high-speed environment like a call center, training often falls by the wayside. As a result, employees end up in over their heads, yielding high turnover rates. If you can take time to train new staff members and help brief them on what to expect, you can help to slash these turnover rates and ensure that your employees thrive in this kind of role.
What hiring practices do you put into place in order to ensure that you assemble the best team for your call center? Let us know in the comments!


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CBA: Christian store sales up in 2013
Written by Christine D. Johnson
Monday, 09 June 2014 02:48 PM America/New_York
New report says consumer buying patterns see dramatic market shift
Christian stores sales were up 2.9% in 2013 over 2012, according to the 2014 CBA State of the Industry Report, but consumer buying patterns shifted dramatically in 2013, according to the Christian retail association.
Fourth-quarter 2013 sales were down 6.9% in 2013, but sales were up 12.6% in the second quarter and 8.8% in the third, according to data from CBA's CROSS:SCAN sales-reporting service. The association noted several factors affecting Christian retail sales: earlier shopping for Christmas, economic uncertainty and limited fourth-quarter product-release performance.
The number of Christian store closings also rose. Closings increased to a 49 net loss in 2013 from 39 in 2012. The loss is less than 2011's peak of 63 stores. The loss of mid-level chains drastically cut store counts, including the closure of 38 Cokesbury stores that consolidated into one Internet-only store (not counting 19 seminary stores).
On the positive side, 18 new stores opened in 2013, up from 15 in 2012. A significant percentage of stores still have longevity; about 63% of Christian stores have been in business more than 15 years.
As with many retailers, store traffic and sales remain critical issues for Christian stores. Retailers reported using more social media, e-marketing and event marketing to drive traffic.
Retailers also are becoming more intentional about building mission and purpose into overall store strategies. The number of stores with dedicated church relations programs increased 9% in 2013 over 2012, and 73% of respondents said they support a ministry program in some way.
Overall product category shares remained constant in 2013. Stores reported books and Bibles as about 60% of total sales. Gift and specialty categories increased as a share of overall sales, up about 6% in unit share and about 3% in revenue share.
Church supplies had the largest category increase for the year, but other increases were attributed to increased lifestyle merchandising. Categories such as kitchen/dining and apparel saw increased share, along with ties, tote bags, backpacks, bags/purses, hats and bath and body items.
While observing the overall retail landscape, CBA President Curtis Riskey is encouraged to see what Christian retailers are doing differently to draw more traffic into their stores.
"We are happy to see sales up overall at Christian stores, although we realize that not all stores are seeing the same outcome. It is encouraging to see Christian stores committed to sharing their success with their local community and church causes, and to experiment with new retail approaches and lifestyle merchandising. It is a sign that retailers are seeking ways to innovate in challenging times."
CBA added select data to the report this year from a CBA Christian-supplier CEO survey. About 32% of CEOs responding reported flat or no growth. Most reported growth rates of less than 5%, and 28% of respondents reported 10% or more.
According to the report, future retailing is expected to be dramatically different from today as stores become more about personal engagement, in-store experience and missional purpose rather than competing on price.
New "click and collect" strategies in partnership with suppliers are forecasted to help retailers capture transactions from suppliers' direct-to-consumer marketing. Physical stores increasingly will support supplier fulfillment and warehousing in the value chain. —Johnson


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Seventeen Books For and About the Mature Woman
Woman In Her Sixties, Daydreaming
LOOKING FOR OLDER WELL-DRAWN WOMEN IN LITERATURE?
A COUPLE OF CLASSICS:
1. Passage to India, by E.M. Forster. I read this book when I was young, yet I never forgot the middle-aged Mrs. Moore. She understood the subtleties, and she did not approve of the racist victimization of Aziz. She got tired, though, mid-story, and ducked responsibility by going back to England. How I wished she hadn't done that! How I wanted her middle-aged female wisdom to prevail! Her energy for youthful indignation had waned. Sad but true. And interesting.
2. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway. Remember Pilar, the fearless woman who kicks her man out of being the head honcho and takes his place to run the guerrilla group up in the mountains, fighting the fascists in Spain? Probably only in her forties, but from a different time, and aged accordingly. Certainly no longer an ingenue. Completely formed and lovingly described, she is full of lust and loss and leadership capacity. I loved her!
MODERN FICTION NOT YET MENTIONED IN THIS BLOG:
1. Quartet in Autumn, by Barbara Pym. Pym specializes in maturity, and this book is worth tracking down. A quick read, it serves as a gentle poignant well-drawn portrait of four weary bureaucrats, facing redundancy in their lonely daily rounds. Letty and Marcia retire; the two men stay on for a while. The focus is on the women in this bittersweet tale of growing old during in the seventies, now the olden days themselves to the surprise of those of us who lived through them. Maybe this, too, is a classic by now…
2. The Good Parents, by Joan London. The mother Toni, in this fabulous novel about a missing daughter, is beautifully portrayed, not only in the back story about her own troubled youth, but also in the present, when her children are just about grown. This is a wonderful book, set in Australia and ranging over three generations, whose plot and subject matter is too complex to describe in one paragraph. There are many reasons to read it, and a main one is the mother, with her past that mirrors her daughter's present, her current long-term weary marriage, and her struggle through Buddhism to find comfort in her helpless fear.
3. How it all Began, by Penelope Lively. The linch-pin of the plot is Charlotte, an older woman, whose robbery and resulting injury kicks off her having to stay at her daughter's home, with consequences for all concerned. Well-drawn portrait of the aging of a conscious intelligent human being who happens to be a woman.
4. Carry the One, by Carol Anshaw. The mother here is back story to the main drama of the profound effect of an accident on the lives of three siblings. One is an addict who also happens to be an astronomer–or is it the other way around?–and I have never read a better fictional account of what this means for his life and those of the others around him. His narcissistic mother is sublimely unaffected, and gains no insight into how her husband's abusiveness and inappropriate sexuality messed up her kids. Unfortunately this depiction rang true to a certain type of person who continues to wreak havoc precisely because s/he will NOT change. This book is worth reading for its acuity regarding our modern (upper) middle-class society and its "first-world problems," to steal a phrase from my daughter's boyfriend.
5. Barn Blind, by Jane Smiley. Smiley's first novel, this is a terrific portrait of dictatorial mother who raises her children on a horse ranch. By the end, the reader really understands what makes this woman tick. She is monstrous in her controlling love, but exacts a reluctant admiration, at least from this reader, for the thoroughness of her horrible determination.
6. Capital, by John Lanchester. A multi-faceted description of one street in a modern and diverse London, caught in the money fever that brought about the recent recession (depression?). One of the many characters featured is Petunia Howe, and she may be my favorite. She is elderly; she is healthy and then she isn't; throughout her decline the author inhabits her mind and spirit, which also reflects the history of the row of houses where the rest of the action takes place.
7. Cion, by Zakes Ma. A South African author has written this unusual book about the contemporary American South. Ruth is an African-American matriarch who runs her husband, grown children, garden and kitchen with a formidable energy driven by an indomitable right-wing Christian perspective. All believable, amazingly enough, this character alone makes this book worth reading.
8. True Believers, by Kurt Andersen. Karen, the fantastical main character, is still sexy at sixty-five, a wise and wonderful grandmother, and such a prominent attorney that she has the luxury to turn down a possible Supreme Court appointment in order to tell the full truth about her own radical past. A goody-two-shoes once back in the fold, she seems no longer that bothered by the social issues that once drove her so far to the left. This character, described in detail, albeit in Hollywood fashion, serves as a reminder that not so long ago there were white kids so upset over their own privilege that they risked everything.
9. Ten Days in the Hills, by Jane Smiley. Jamaican Delphine is mother to a black movie star, and grandmother to the book's main character, a bi-racial girl determined, as the youth are wont to be, to get her way. Old-school Delphine and her friend Cassie function as a Greek chorus in this lively, nuanced and–believe it or not–wholesome novel about Hollywood. While not fully fleshed-out, their presence is a comfort.
10. Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann. One of the minor characters here is an older white woman who takes the kid of an underclass black woman into her own life and apartment with an unselfishness I both lack and admire. This kaleidoscopic novel, beloved by many, takes the reader on a long and crazy ride, where my lady is a bit lost in the voracious scope of the author's intelligent scrutiny.
MODERN FICTION MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ELSEWHERE IN THIS BLOG (click on the title and you'll get the post):
1. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel. A lovely portrait from a daughter's point of view, in drawings no less, of a self-centered imperfect mother, who, despite her narcissism, emerges as an interesting person in her own right. Thus, in the end, this story of profound mother-daughter conflict serves as a tribute as well.
2. Place Last Seen, by Charlotte McGuinn Freeman. The widowed grandmother in this chilling tale of a search for a lost child is a rancher, a stoic, and a fully functional person who provides help and solace. Yay for the grandmoms!
3. The Ministry of Special Cases, by Nathan Englander. Two parents so dedicated to finding out what happened to their son, that they will stop at nothing. This is a complete and valid portrait, albeit a bit stereotypical, of the grief of a mother who has no body to cry over, and will not believe that her son is dead.
FINALLY, JUST A BIT OF NON-FICTION:
1. In My Father's Country, by Saima Wahab. A non-fiction memoir written by an Pashtun woman who has emigrated to America and returned to Afghanistan as a translator with the US Army. This is a telling account of the attitudes about, and conditions for, women in that country. The author's mother is a small part of the story, yet well-drawn as she is forced by her husband's death to return to small-town culture which she has no choice but to embrace. At last, in her maturity, she shifts away from the patriarchy to understand her true interests are better served by an unconventional life with her rebellious daughter.
2. Happiness is an Inside Job, by Sylvia Boorstein. Simply put, the author, a Jewish Buddhist practitioner, is intelligent, honest, warm nd wise. This mature woman serves as a wonderful example of a fully-developed human being with much to say about bringing mindfulness into every moment.
Lisa Zuffi
January 22, 2013 at 5:49 pmReply
Great list. I would add Olive Kiddredge to it, as a great book about aging and being old with an interesting and complicated central character.
barbararhine
Of course, Lisa, you are right. "Olive Kitteridge," by Elizabeth Strout. I can't figure out how to link this reply, but there's a good review at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/books/review/Thomas-t.html?_r=0
Dorothy Bender
Some of my favorite books featuring strong women are:
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Away by Amy Bloom
and especially
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
Of these I have read only Olive Kitteridge, which I too loved. Will check out the others, starting with The End of the Land, which was already on my list. Thanks for the supplementary ideas!
WHo has read the poetry of Mary Oliver?
I have read Mary Oliver, Joan. My favorite is a collection of her works which includes "Wild Geese," possibly her most famous, which begins "You do not have to be good; You do not have to walk for a hundred miles on your knees, repenting…" And I do love that poem very much. But there are others in that collection, such as "When Death Comes," which I love equally. More recently, since her long-time partner died and she herself has aged, I find her poetry simpler, but less compelling (perhaps because I have aged also?). In any event, Mary Oliver–yes!
April 1, 2013 at 4:44 pmReply
Thank you for this! I also loved Olive Kitteridge and Away. And Mary Oliver–one of my heart's favorites.
May 27, 2013 at 1:00 amReply
Elizabeth Strout has a new book out, "The Burgess Boys." I definitely have it on my list to read.
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The operations brought together researchers from UCL working with NHS clinicians from GOSH and UCLH in partnership with University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium to carry out the operations in the UK for the first time.
"In spina bifida, the spinal canal does not close completely in the womb, leaving the spinal cord exposed from an early stage in pregnancy. This results in changes to the brain, as well as severe permanent damage to the nerves on the lower half of the body," said lead neurosurgeon Dominic Thompson of GOSH.
"Operating in the womb involves opening the uterus, exposing the spina bifida without delivering the baby, closing the defect and then repairing the uterus to leave the baby safely inside", said lead fetal surgeon Jan Deprest of UCLH and Leuven.
The GOSH and UCLH team has been training with Professor Deprest and his team in Belgium, where more than 40 operations, some on English patients from UCLH, have been conducted since 2012. They have also benefited from close links with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where the team led by N Scott Adzick pioneered this operation and has conducted more than 320 similar operations since 2011.
The 30-strong team involved in the first two operations was coordinated by fetal medicine consultant Anna David of UCL's Institute for Women's Health and UCLH. Professor David, who is also supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) UCLH Biomedical Research Centre, said: "We have been working for three years to bring this service to UK patients through the creation of a Centre for Prenatal Therapy at UCL, UCLH and GOSH.
"Our resolve to offer this service was based on the findings of a large, multicentre, randomised control trial in the US which compared prenatal closure to postnatal closure, and the observation that fetal surgery could be safely reproduced in Europe by proper training.
"The US trial authors found that prenatal closure was associated with a 50% reduction in the need for surgical shunt placement in the newborn baby and a significant improvement in motor function at 30 months of age.
"The reduction in need for shunts is particularly important," said Professor Paolo De Coppi of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, "as long-term follow-up of children that have undergone prenatal closure in the womb suggests that brain function, mobility, and total independence were higher in non-shunted than shunted children aged 5." Prof De Coppi is supported by the NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre.
For more information contact Sharon Spiteri at the UCLH press office on 020 3447 7542. For out of hours media enquiries, please call the duty press officer on 077 1249 0702.
While the baby is still in the womb, the mother undergoes a surgical procedure where her skin and then her uterus are opened using an incision in the bikini line; this is slightly wider than the cut used for a caesarean section but is in the same place in the abdomen. The uterus (womb) is then opened to allow the surgeons to access the baby. The spina bifida defect is examined and surgically closed by the paediatric neurosurgeon in exactly the same way as a postnatal closure. The mother's uterus and abdomen are then both closed. The baby remains in their mother's womb until approximately 37 weeks, before being born by caesarean section. This type of surgery is only suitable for some babies with spina bifida as not all babies will benefit from fetal repair.
UCLH (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) provides first-class acute and specialist services in five hospitals in North Central London. UCLH is committed to education and research and forms part of UCLPartners which in March 2009 was officially designated as one of the UK's first academic health science centres by the Department of Health. UCLH works closely with UCL, translating research into treatments for patients. Please see our website www.uclh.nhs.uk for more information, we are also on Facebook (UCLHNHS), Twitter (@uclh), Youtube (UCLHvideo) and instagram (@uclh).
No more details can be provided about the patients, to preserve their anonymity.


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The Minimalists discuss how living with less is…
The Minimalists discuss how living with less is really more
The Minimalists Ryan Nicodemus (left) and Joshua Millburn. (Courtesy)
By Diana Sholley | diana.sholley@inlandnewspapers.com |
Ryan Nicodemus packed up his 2,000-square-foot condo — every piece of furniture, kitchen gadget and bathroom toiletries.
The odd thing about his gesture was he wasn't moving.
"I just took out only the things that I needed to use," said Nicodemus. "After 21 days, 80 percent of my stuff was still packed."
This realization prompted Nicodemus to officially join his childhood friend Joshua Millburn in living a minimalist lifestyle, which by definition equates to less stuff in exchange for a more meaningful life. The duo are now known as the Minimalists.
For those who want to learn more about living with less, Nicodemus and Millburn will be at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles at 7 p.m. Friday sharing their journey and answering questions.
The free event is part of the duo's 100-city tour that introduces their latest book, "Everything That Remains." It follows up on their first book, "Live a Meaningful Life," which gives tips, techniques and a basic recipe for introducing the minimalist concept into any life or lifestyle.
"We had it all," Nicodemus said. "Six-figure income, new cars, big homes, all the trappings of what people would consider necessary to be successful, but we weren't happy."
Nicodemus also was working 70- and 80-hour weeks, always striving to get ahead and had accumulated a pile of debt.
"I kept buying things thinking that would make me happy," he said. "I couldn't wear all the clothes I had; so many of them even still had the tags on and still I kept buying more. I had probably more than $5,000 worth of shoes I would never wear."
The change came in 2010 when Millburn suffered the death of his mother and the end of his marriage.
"I went to my mother's house to pack up all her stuff and she wasn't a hoarder but she had a lot of stuff just from so many years of living," Millburn said. "I rented the biggest storage unit I could and the biggest truck that I could. When I was going through her things I found these four boxes under her bed labeled: "one," "two," "three" and "four." I opened them. Inside it was my school papers from grades one, two, three and four. I looked at them and realized I was doing the same thing to her stuff, just in a bigger box."
Instead of storage units and moving trucks, Millburn had an estate sale, gave everything that didn't sell to charity and donated the proceeds from the sale to causes his mother believed in.
"My memories weren't in those things, they were inside me," he said. "Now her things would be enjoyed by people who could really use them and the money went to help those in need. Everybody wins."
Millburn returned home and started the same process within his own life.
"Everything I do now is more deliberate, more meaningful," he said. "This lifestyle allows us to question, 'will buying this' or 'will doing this' add meaning to my life? If not, I don't do it or buy it."
Neither Millburn nor Nicodemus advocate for people to quit their jobs, give away all their stuff and start living on the streets.
"Wealth doesn't buy happiness, but neither does poverty," Nicodemus said. "Ultimately, it's contentment. When you are content with what you have, with what you do, it allows you to connect with what's important in your life. I was way too focused on the material things in my life. I didn't know what was important anymore."
In the past four years Nicodemus and Millburn have both rediscovered what they truly value and have been sharing it through their blog, website, essays and books with more than 2 million followers.
"If you ask people what's important to them, most will say friends, family, their health, but then see how they spend their time," Ryan said. "If they're at work, watching TV, on Facebook — make no mistake — that's what their priorities are, if they realize it or not. It's important to know what you value in your life and make them the priority."
Diana Sholley
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Series Preview: #15 Bowling Green @ Lake Superior State -Check.Slash.Survive & Senior Night
#15 Bowling Green: 2016: 21-18-2 2017: 14-8-6
Lake Superior State: 2016: 11-18-7 2017: 6-18-4
"The quality of a decision is like the well-time swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim." – Sun Tzu
This week brings the #15 Bowling Green Falcons to the Taffy Abel Arena for a two game set. The team is led in scoring by defenseman Alec Rauhauser (6-22-27), but it's the senior forward and captain of the Falcons Mitchell McLain (12-8-20) that leads in goals.
In net, Bowling Green has seemed to go with a full goalie-tandom. Sophomore Ryan Bednard has appeared in 17 games and holds a 7-4-4 record & has a GAA of 2.23 and a .914 Save %. Freshman eric Dop has appeared in 14 games and holds a very similar record at 7-4-2, with a 2.63 GAA and .899 Save %. Most weeks you hope to face off against the backup in at least one game to try and steal points, but not this weekend – both goalies will be tough opponents.
Bowling Green has been riding high since the Great Lakes Invitational, having won that tournament and sweeping two of the three series that has followed since that time, beating both Ferris State in Big Rapids and Alaska Anchorage. They did lose against Northern Michigan, but there aren't many who haven't this season.
"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort for each individual" – Vince Lombardi
Despite the results, the last two weeks has seen a resurgence of the Lakers in terms of effort and how they look out on the ice, which may bode well for coach Damon Whitten who will be looking for an extension at the end of the season, but the effort seems too little too late.
As it stands, the Lakers are currently out of the playoff picture, sitting in at #9 & 7 points being Ferris State, meaning even if they sweep the weekend, and Ferris drops both games against Michigan Tech, we will still be a point out of playoffs going into the final month of the regular season. The decision is largely out of the Lakers hands at this point, as they will need help from the teams above them in addition to winning.
The Lakers are led in scoring by senior J.T Henke (8-16-24) and led in net by junior Nick Kossoff (21GP, 5-10-2), who has a 3.16 GAA and a .907 Save %.
This weekend we will have two events happening, both on Saturday: The first is Check.Slash.Survive, which was previously known as Pink in the Rink. It was changed this season so that would help share awareness for more than just breast cancer. Apparel will be sold at the arena, along with a raffle and silent auction for jerseys that will be worn during the game. For more information on this event, please look for their Facebook, Twitter or Instagram pages.
The second is the Blueliners annual Senior Night celebration, which will once again be held (sadly) BEFORE Saturday night's game – between the pre-game warmups and puck drop. This year the club will be recognizing four seniors – the solo forward J.T Henke, and defensemen Kyle Chatam, captain Aiden Wright and assistant captain Ryan Renz.
Puck drops at 7:07pm both nights, and can be heard locally on 99.5 YesFM in the Sault, online at www.yesfm.net , or you can watch online at WCHA.tv
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