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A Tree Limb From Family's Farm Adds to Historic Day in Des Moines
Posted 10:59 pm, January 13, 2020, by Dave Price
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A gavel is an essential piece of equipment for a speaker of the House to demand attention while presiding over legislators. On Monday during the first day of the 2020 legislative session, that wooden gavel also sounded a personal connection.
"That's kind of neat," said new Speaker of the House Pat Grassley, a New Hartford Republican, "...and special...pretty special thing."
It was so special for Grassley on his first day as speaker because it came from an old walnut tree on the family farm in New Hartford. His father, Robin, found the limb.
That family connection was only part of what was a day full of family connections. Grassley's grandfather escorted him before his swearing in and sat in the House chamber as he gave his first remarks as speaker. His grandfather is Chuck Grassley, Iowa's longest-ever serving United States Senator. Grandpa Grassley told Channel 13 that he never expected a day like this.
"Of course, I'm proud of Pat," the elder Grassley said, "I've seen him develop from a person who never discussed politics with me ever until he was about 22 years old (14 years ago) when he says, 'I want to run for the Iowa House ... what do you think?' Since then, it's all been politics."
Politics has been part of the Grassley family for the past 61 years, when Chuck Grassley got elected to the state legislature. He served there until 1975, when he left to begin his career in Congress. That career has included three terms in the U.S. House before his current streak of 39 years in the U.S. Senate. That is a streak that no other Iowan has ever matched.
Pat and Chuck Grassley also celebrated a link to another historic Iowa family. Pat Grassley replaced Linda Upmeyer as speaker. Upmeyer retired from the position and plans to leave office after her term expires in 2021.
She is the first Iowa woman to serve as speaker and part of the first-ever, daughter-father combination to the office. Her father, Del Stromer, served as speaker from 1981-1982. In one more connection, he and Chuck Grassley both held seats in the house from 1967-1975.
In her closing remarks as outgoing speaker, Upmeyer said that she hoped that her tenure inspired girls across the state and that she hopes to be able to talk with her late father in Heaven one day.
"Some day, God willing, I'll have a discussion with my dad. I'm sure that he will be very proud of what we have accomplished on behalf of Iowans," Upmeyer said.
She added without elaborating, but with a smile, "I'm also sure there will be a couple things where he will say...'Girl, what were you thinking?'"
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This seminar will discuss the ways in which gender has been embedded within Sri Lankas experience of migration-underdevelopment. It begins by outlining the local and macroeconomic implications of Sri Lankas dependence on temporary labour migration, before examining how double burdens at the intersection of womens work and care roles have been leveraged and reinforced through this process.
In Sri Lanka, female migrant domestic workers are caught between the emerging reality of being female breadwinners amidst declining masculine livelihoods, while still being expected to shoulder the full responsibility of unpaid domestic care work. A key part of the work/care crisis of migrant domestic workers in Sri Lanka is that reproductive labour remains largely unrecognised as an economic activity and is devalued as an inherently feminine form of work.
The International Labour Organisation has promoted decent work as an avenue of redress to a multitude of exploitative labour practices, while singling out temporary migrant workers as a particularly vulnerable demographic. However, without recognising the developmental importance of decent care arrangements to support working women, and therein a redistribution of care obligations, the decent work agenda risks becoming an inherently patriarchal framework for labour rights in emerging economies like Sri Lanka.


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ISDS in TPP and TTIP Negotiations – Lessons for the EU
by Prof. Loukas Mistelis, QMUL*
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and, in particular, its Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions (ISDS) have been the focal point of an intense and polarising debate within the EU. Opponents of TTIP, on the one hand, reject the very idea of a new multilateral trade and investment agreement and see this as a threat to democracy and unconditional surrender to global commercial interests, a development that fully undermines sustainable development and growth. Proponents of TTIP, on the other hand, argue that globalisation of trade is a fact and a developmental process so that the focus should now be on better treaty making; they suggest that globalisation empowers consumers and new multilateral agreements can effectively promote a social and human rights agenda.
In relation to ISDS (or what it used to be called Investment Treaty Arbitration) the attack is even more aggressive. While the negotiating parties consider whether TTIP should offer the opportunity to an investor to sue in arbitration a state signatory to the agreement (since the state is deemed – by virtue of the signature of the treaty and the relevant provisions of the treaty – to have consented to such arbitration), a number of NGOs and a good part of the press, including several well-established newspapers left-of-centre argue that ISDS is a threat to national sovereignty and a vehicle for further privatisation of justice for the benefit of few very wealthy arbitration lawyers and arbitrators. It is also suggested that ISDS cases are designed for the benefit of investors. This, however, is not corroborated by facts.
The EU itself, in its discussion of ISDS (pp. 7-8) summarised that:
37% (132 cases) had been decided in favour of the State, with all claims dismissed either on jurisdictional grounds or on the merits;
28% (101 cases) had been settled;
25% (87 cases) were found in favour of the investor, with monetary compensation awarded;
8% (29 cases) had been discontinued for reasons other than settlement or for unknown reasons;
2% (7 cases) had found in favour of the investor, yet no monetary compensation had been awarded.
In other words in 73% of the cases the state prevailed or settled the cases while in only one in four cases (25%) a damages award was rendered.
In relation to EU Member States the data is even more compelling:
In 44% of the cases, all claims were dismissed or jurisdiction was declined;
In 36% of the cases, the dispute was settled or otherwise discontinued;
In 20% of the cases, the dispute led to an award upholding claims in part or in full.
In 80% of the cases involving an EU Member State as a respondent the state prevailed or settled the matter while only in one in five cases a damages award was rendered.
It is noteworthy that the arbitration community as well as the business community have not been particularly vocal or proactive in this debate, save for a few specialist conferences. It has also been rather impossible to bring together a wider and open public debate despite several efforts of EFILA and other organisations to engage in constructive discussions with NGOs.
In the recently published report of the US-EU TTIP Negotiations, which took place in Washington, D.C and Miami in October 2015, there is no reference to ISDS. This is particularly interesting given that the EU through Commissioner Malmstrom published on 16 September 2015 a comprehensive proposal for a permanent Investment Court System. I suspect that the EU Commission proposal was published too late to be tabled for and discussed during the October negotiations. From the EU press release one can draw the conclusion that the EU Commission is confident that it had addressed various concerns voiced by parts of the press and NGOs. It will be significant to see the reactions of Member States and the EU Parliament. See, for example, the brief report which indicates that the UK government appears to favour a traditional ISDS mechanism but also note that this is not the official UK government response.
This post does not address the merits and disadvantages of a permanent investment court but addresses the question of negotiation strategy and policy. The investment court system proposal was discussed in another EFILA Blog post on 14 October 2015. It perhaps useful to add here merely that the reaction of the USTR Ambassador Froman to the EU suggestion was lukewarm.
While the EU was authorised by the Member States in 2013 to conduct the TTIP negotiations it seems that the negotiations will take some time to conclude. The US presidential elections in 2016 will slow down the negotiations at least until mid or late 2017. A conclusion of TTIP will not be on the agenda for a few years to come.
This is in stark contrast with the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP text) which the US accelerated and recently completed. TPP has been signed by Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the US in Atlanta a few days ago. The TPP negotiations started in 2008 and it took good seven years to conclude.
The text of TPP will be scrutinised by the EU negotiators, the EU Commission and the Member States. It would suffice to say here that TPP is largely a typical US Trade and Investment Agreement with some variations from previous texts and that ISDS is included. It contains substantive protections found in many investment agreements and essentially mirrors the provisions found in the 2012 US Model BIT. As such TPP differs from the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) and the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. For example, it grants minimum standard of treatment in accordance with customary international law. It is also reported that TPP includes a code of conduct (code of ethics for arbitrators) while at the same time more power is conferred upon arbitrators to dismiss summarily frivolous claims. There is also an exclusion for tobacco companies from using ISDS, further enhancing and strengthening the regulatory space of states.
The key conclusion to draw from the ISDS provisions in TPP is undoubtedly a strong and unequivocal endorsement of the current practice of private arbitration of investment disputes (traditional ISDS) where the focus has moved to substantive protection rules rather than arbitration as a method. In this respect TPP dispelled ISDS myths and focused on facts.
In light of the recently concluded TPP it is tactically unhelpful that the EU has published an alternative ISDS Model at this stage of negotiations. One could easily argue that the TPP model for ISDS is "state of art", widely accepted by a number of developed economies such as Canada, the US, Australia, Japan and Singapore (in fact 40% of the world's GDP) and that the EU should also operate in a similar system, increasing multilateralism rather than introducing further fragmentation of international investment law. It is also expected that both the EU and the US take a central role in promoting free trade and investment promotion and protection and it would be awkward, to say the least, to have different standards of investment promotion and protection depending on who the counterpart is. The introduction of "formal" discrimination could have negative impact of the global role of the EU as a preferred trading partner of developing countries.
Tactically a very early announcement of the EU basis of negotiation on ISDS in TTIP looks very much like a game theory faux pas. Or it may well be a very shrewd tactic. Any draft which is proposed to merely satisfy domestic or regional needed of the proposing side can be used by the other side to the proposing side's detriment if the need for a quid pro quo settlement arises. Alternatively it may a tactic to silence the opponents of ISDS by proposing something that can easily be rejected so that both sides would, for example, be satisfied with a permanent investment appellate body while retaining private arbitration at first instance. In such a case the EU could argue that they fought hard for a permanent two-instance investment court and the permanent appellate body is a great success.
Rejecting private arbitration while the statistics are clear that most cases are in favour of states rather than investors and while it is also widely accepted that we should not be depriving investors the access to arbitration (or ISDS) seems to parochial rather than modern and protectionist rather than liberal. The attention should move to improving ISDS and private arbitration by drafting clearer treaties, better procedural rules and enforceable codes of conduct. Polarising the debate does not allow space for regulatory nuances nor does it help to create a convergent if not harmonised investment protection and promotion regime.
* Prof. Loukas Mistelis, Clive M. Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law.
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Katie's Bakery
Posted by Lisa Dupuy | Feb 9, 2017 | 0 |
Valentine's Day is meant for romantic lovers, true. But at this time of year, I like to ponder love in the broader sense or as '90s girl group En Vogue asks, "Love, love. What is it? What is it?"
I would put forth that the person who really loves you is the one who actually wants to hear about your stomachache or your bad hair day. It's the one you call when you had a scary tire blow out on the freeway. It's the person who accepts your gluten-intolerance and takes it into consideration when buying you a treat.
Lynn Griffiths, owner of three-month old Katie's Bakery in Pasadena, understands this impulse to care for the special needs of loved ones and has dedicated her life to creating delicious treats for people with dietary restrictions. Lynn's daughter Katherine (Katie for short) became sensitive to gluten about 12 years ago. Symptoms like stomachache, rashes, even purple ears were the telltale signs.
Then Griffiths learned her daughter was also lactose intolerant. Back then, there was little on the market for those with sensitivity to gluten, let alone lactose. Griffiths, a trained pastry chef, started coming up with ways to make snacks her daughter could eat without feeling like she was missing out. She also didn't want her daughter to feel like an outsider at school carrying weird-looking bags of kibble.
Glutens are basically the glue that holds a baked good together — navigating that was challenge number one. Without butter or milk to bind the gluten-free flours, she had a second challenge. She was not a fan of the taste and texture of the gums (such as guar gum) other bakers used as binding agents. It took Griffiths three years to figure it out, but she found a way to hold a gluten-free, dairy-free baked good together. And Griffiths' famous tea cake was born. Looks like a muffin, tastes like heaven. There's a delicacy to the crumb and a vigor to the flavors — flavors like orange, banana, chocolate and coconut — that make these treats really special ($3.25). She won't reveal her "million-dollar secret" but it has to do with the special grinding technique of her brown rice flour.
To test her limits even further, Griffiths strove to meet yet another dietary restriction, that of vegans. No gluten, no dairy and now no eggs. Grape seed and coconut oil became her friends. According to Griffiths, vegans are a tight bunch with a strong social media network. They've been coming steadily to her shop to try her vegan cookies and cupcakes. My son's vegan girlfriend and I were not overly impressed with the oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies, perhaps because they're made with gluten-free millet and oats which may impart the unusual, slightly medicinal flavor. But we loved the chocolate chip nut brownie and chocolate frosted cupcake. A plate of these would be a good choice for an office party (12 minis for $27). Those that care would appreciate that they're vegan and gluten-free. Those that don't care would never know the difference.
Besides the tea cakes, cupcakes, cookies and bliss balls (what Griffiths calls the "mother lode" since they're gluten-, dairy- and egg-free), Katie's Bakery serves up a mean cup of coffee. Jaguar is a Mexican artisan coffee brand and they have it in drip form, Americano, cappuccino, latte, etc. I sprang for their breakfast special one morning, which features three scrambled organic eggs, a cup of drip coffee and a tea cake for $10. I enjoyed eating it at their outdoor cafe tables and felt comforted afterward.
At this point, the eggs are the only savory item on the menu but that's soon changing. Griffiths has found a local chef who makes gluten-free Jamaican patties (pronounced pat-TEES). Both chefs hail from the West Indies and patties are something Griffiths has sorely missed, she tells me. I was able to try a sample, and they are tasty little bites. Caribbean spices permeate the moist, generous ground beef filling. The turmeric-laced crust breaks apart like a good pie crust should, not heavy and doughy as empanadas can be. About the size of a large pocket watch and with the look of a small meat pie from Simple Simon's time, one or two of these with a spicy chai tea latte would keep you going all afternoon.
There are a few smoothies on the menu at Katie's as well ($7.50). The Almond Butter smoothie is particularly good with house made almond milk, almond butter, banana, golden flaxseed and stevia or agave. The freshly squeezed lemonade is all organic.
For Lynn Griffiths, Katie's Bakery is a labor of love. Knowing how scary it can be to see your child suffer, she is happy to be an honest resource for all those concerned about dietary restrictions. She guarantees that Katie's is a dedicated gluten-free bakery, one of only a handful in Los Angeles. Not one speck of wheat flour touches the kitchen. Every ingredient is organic and non-GMO. She's a "bit of a nut" about cross-contamination and thoroughly vets every product used and sold in the store.
She tells the story of a woman who came in with Lyme disease. "On top of the pain," the woman said, "my doctor says I can't have baked goods, which are my favorite." After asking Griffiths to swear it was safe, she took a bite of a product and started to cry. "I never thought I could enjoy this again in my life," she said.
"There's a very real connection between joy and food," says Griffiths. "I feel I'm doing something worthwhile. I'm grateful I could figure it out."
This Valentine's Day, consider giving your sweetheart or loved one a box of goodies that will bring joy to their heart, not pain to their tummy. Katie's Bakery products come in pretty brown paper packages too, ready to be tied up with strings. Happy Valentine's Day!
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Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival Celebrates 51 Years with New Accolades
By Amanda Eckelbarger on Jul. 08, 2013
Nappanee, IN - July 8, 2013 - Amish Acres Historic Farm & Heritage Resort will host the 51st annual Arts & Crafts Festival from August 1 through August 4, 2013. For the fifth time, Amish Acres has been selected by the American Bus Association (ABA) as a TOP 100 event in North America solidifying the festival's standing in the top echelon of America's festivals dedicated to the creative arts. In addition, the Arts and Crafts Festival was recognized for the first time as a top ten event in the state of Indiana by AmericaTheBeautiful.com and Top Events USA.
The event's 2014 "Proud as a Peacock's Plumage: The Colorful World of Art" theme is derived from the new "It's A-Peeling" apple art, an Interactive outdoor art exhibit placing four-foot-high fiberglass apples designed and painted by local artists around Nappanee and funded through individual and corporate sponsorships. Amish Acres apple features a peacock in full plumage promoting Amish Acres historic Kuhn's Apple Cider Mill, ranked one of the Top 10 Cider Mills in America.
Over 300 artists and crafter's from 35 States, surround Amish Acres pond to ply their trade and sell their wares. The event brings to this northern Indiana historic farm a marketplace filled with the creations of artists and artisans from every corner of the country. Nearly 60,000 visitors, many representing third generations, descend on the farm annually for the celebration that includes live strolling musicians and entertainment on four stages throughout the day, festive food from apple pie to zucchini bread, and $5,000 in cash prizes awarded by professional judges from 900 entries in the competition tent.
The fourth generation of the founding family is now involved in the festival's planning and production. Richard Pletcher, founder of the festival and Amish Acres, remains CEO and Jennifer Pletcher Wysong is the festival director. The event started as a clothes line show in downtown Nappanee during sidewalk days in 1962. Amish Acres was created and grew out of the demand from the early festival's visitors for Amish-related experiences and products.
Over $250,000 in cash prizes have been awarded over the last five decades. The Best of Show collection is on permanent display in the new Arts & Crafts Best of Show Museum located in the Barn Loft Wine Room of Amish Acres Restaurant.
In recognition of last year's Golden Jubilee event, a Senate Resolution from the Indiana General Assembly was awarded by Senator Ryan Mishler. Representative Rebecca Kubacki presented commendations from the Indiana House of Representatives, and founder Richard Pletcher was named a Distinguished Hoosier by former Governor Mitch Daniels. Additional recognition to the half-century achievement included a key to the City of Nappanee presented by Mayor Larry Thompson and recognition from the Nappanee Public Library and the Elkhart County Convention and Visitors' Bureau.
Festival hours are Thursday-Saturday (August 1-3) 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sunday (August 4) from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission price is $7.00 for adults, $6.00 for seniors (60 & older), active military, and students 12 – 17 and free for children under age 12. Parking is free with several parking areas and six entrances for visitors' convenience.
Amish Acres is located on U.S. Highway 6, one mile west of downtown Nappanee. Pre-event tickets and four-day passes can be purchased online. More information on Amish Acres, the Arts & Crafts Festival, and The Round Barn Theatre can be obtained online at AmishAcres.com
For more information contact Janis Logsdon of Amish Acres, (574) 773-4188 ext. 240.
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The following are some of the most notable Gaelic footballers.  For a complete list see :Category:Gaelic footballers and :Category:Gaelic football managers.

Team of the Millennium
This was a team chosen in 1999 by a panel of GAA past presidents and journalists. The goal was to single out the best ever 15 players who had played the game in their respective positions, since the foundation of the GAA in 1884 up to the Millennium year, 2000. Naturally many of the selections were hotly debated by fans around the country.

Vodafone Footballer of the Year

See also
 List of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning captains

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Q: How to add floating window to my silver light dynamically? I have list of Activity in my Database which shows in treeview nodes in Ajax, after clicking each nodes it calles different webpart and add to my Ajax screen App.
Want to know is it possible to do the same thing with silverlight floating window?
which I want to show task on treeview, and by clicking node invoking childwindow or floatingwindow in silverlight.
In Ajax we have webpart URL which by passing the url we can add it to main page.
Anybody can help plz.

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If you want to open a child window when clicking a node, this how you need to show up your child window,
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Authorised form of name Harcourt; Augustus George Vernon (1834 - 1919)
Surname Harcourt
Forenames Augustus George Vernon
London, England (24 December 1834)
His house, St Clair, Ryde, Isle of Wight (23 August 1919)
Harrow School; Balliol College, Oxford
Assistant to Sir Benjamin Brodie (FRS 1849); Lee's Reader in Chemistry, Christ Church, Oxford (1859); Tutor of Christ Church (1864-1902); published researches with William Esson (FRS1869); Metropolitan Gas referee (1872)
Bakerian (jointly) 1895
Relationships Elder son of Admiral Frederick Edward Vernon-Harcourt and his wife Marcia, daughter of Admiral John Richard Delap Tollemache; married Rachel Mary Bruce, daughter of Sir Henry Austin Bruce (FRS 1876)
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1920 vol 97 pp vii-xi, plate, signed by H B D
Sir Kenneth Hutchison, 'The Royal Society and the Foundation of the British Gas Industry' in NR 1984-85 vol 39 pp 245-270
Edmund J Bowen, 'The Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, Oxford 1853-1940' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 227-236
EC/1868/14 Harcourt, Augustus George Vernon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/001933 Harcourt, Augustus George Vernon nd
AP/68/7 Stellar Photometry 1892
IM/001935 Harcourt, Augustus George Vernon nd
RR/14/224 Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'An experimental research on some standards of light' by Joseph Ernest Petavel nd [October 1899]
NLB/11/955 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 8 November 1895
NLB/4/138 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 21 February 1890
NLB/4/50 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augusts George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 28 January 1890
NLB/4/155 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augustus Vernon-Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 26 February 1890
NLB/5/32 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augustus Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 19 February 1891
NLB/11/762 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harrison & Sons 1 October 1895
NLB/8/1032 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augustus Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society, Cowley Grange, Oxford 13 February 1894
NLB/10/973 Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt 15 March 1895
NLB/11/140 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Editor of 'Nature', 29 Bedford Street, Strand [April 1895]
NLB/23/1/111 Copy letter from A H White, to Professor Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 24 September 1901
NLB/11/216 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 15 May 1895
NLB/11/260 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings [May 1895]
NLB/11/378 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings 18 June 1895
NLB/12/525 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 6 March 1896
RR/16/91 Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'The evaporation of water in a current of air' by Edgar Philip Perman April 1903
NLB/24/415 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Augustus George] Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 12 May 1902
NLB/23/1/460 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society, Cowley Grange, Oxford 15 November 1901
NLB/25/293 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Augustus George Vernon Harcout, Fellow of the Royal Society, St Clare, Ryde, Isle of Wight 11 October 1902
NLB/24/593 Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 6 June [1902]
NLB/24/631 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 10 June 1902
NLB/24/756 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Augustus Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 4 July 1902
NLB/24/619 Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 9 June 1902
NLB/25/690 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 10 December 1902
NLB/28/161 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Augustus Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 22 January 1904
NLB/27/307 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 4 August 1903
NLB/27/442 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 25 September 1903
NLB/28/112 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 12 January 1904
NLB/28/159 Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 21 January 1904
NLB/46/55 Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Augustus Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 5 June 1912
RR/19/56 Referee's report by William Augustus Tilden, on a paper 'On the variation with temperature of the rate of a chemical change' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt 25 May 1912
NLB/54/11 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Augustus George Vernon] Harcourt, FRS 19 January 1917
RR/7/97 Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'On a law in chemical dynamics' by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe 25 October 1871
NLB/57/381 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor HB [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS, CBE, 29 October 1919
RR/6/139 Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On the laws of connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson 31 January 1866
RR/7/113 Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'On the chemical activity of nitrates' by Edmund James Mills 1871
RR/7/182 Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'On some properties of anhydrous liquefied ammonia' by George Gore 6 September 1872
RR/9/72 Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'Researches on chemical equivalence. Part IV and V' by Edmund James Mills 31 December 1882
RR/9/178 Third referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'On a new standard of illumination and the measurement of light' by William Henry Preece 18 July 1883
RR/9/322 Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Colour photometry' by William de Wivelesile Abney and Edward Robert Festing 12 April 1886
RR/10/351 Referee's report by William Pole, on a paper 'Investigations into the effects of training walls in an estuary like the Mersey' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt 8 February 1890
RR/12/324 Referee's report by George Downing Liveing, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the laws connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount.—III. Further researches on the reaction of hydrogen dioxide and hydrogen iodide' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson 10 April 1895
RR/12/327 Letter from William Esson, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding the Bakerian Lecture 'On the laws connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount.—III. Further researches on the reaction of hydrogen dioxide and hydrogen iodide' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson 24 June 1895
RR/12/325 Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the laws connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount.—III. Further researches on the reaction of hydrogen dioxide and hydrogen iodide' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson 19 May 1895
RR/12/326 Letter from Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding the Bakerian Lecture 'On the laws connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount.—III. Further researches on the reaction of hydrogen dioxide and hydrogen iodide' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson 23 June 1895
RR/19/55 Referee's report by Jospeh Larmor, on a paper 'On the variation with temperature of the rate of a chemical change' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt [May 1912]
NLB/55/594 Copy letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Augustus George] Vernon Harcourt, FRS 21 June 1918
RR/9/176 Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'On a new standard of illumination and the measurement of light' by William Henry Preece 9 July 1883
RR/9/177 Second referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'On a new standard of illumination and the measurement of light' by William Henry Preece 10 July 1883
NLB/57/428 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent 7 November 1919
MS/373/1/52 Letter from Augustus Vernon Harcourt and others, Oxford, to the Editor of the Chemical News 1 July 1908
NLB/2/904 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society] 14 December 1888
NLB/11/342 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 7 June 1895
NLB/23/1/555 Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society 2 December 1901
RR/9/201 Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'Conditions of chemical change in gases: hydrogen, carbonic oxide, and oxygen' by Harold Baily Dixon 29 July 1884
RR/6/140 Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the laws of connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson 27 September 1866


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Nominations Now Open for 2023 FFA Board of Directors
By FFA Admin posted 11-04-2022 15:53
Film Festival Alliance is seeking new Board Members to begin service in January 2023. A slate of candidates will be presented to the membership for voting in January and announced at the Annual Meeting. Nominations are open now through November 18th.
Every year, we are excited to welcome a new group of Board members to serve on the Film Festival Alliance Board. The FFA Board members participate in, and advocate for, moving the organization forward, especially as film festivals and the film exhibition industry in general moves towards recovery. The Film Festival Alliance has been a crucial and driving force in the industry, and especially recently as the recovery efforts have also led to discussions of change and sustainability.
As FFA looks to 2023 and beyond, there is a focus on financial sustainability, industry advocacy, and continuing to build community. With that in mind, the Nominating Committee is particularly interested in folks with backgrounds in development, membership, and marketing + communications to bring their skillsets to the board. Further, the FFA Board is strongest when it represents the diversity of experiences in the festival community. In particular, the Nominating Committee strongly encourages people at all levels within their organization to apply, not just those at a Senior level.
Nominations closed on 11/18/2022.
About joining the board:
PARTICULARS:
• As a non-profit organization, our bylaws state that Board Members must reside in North America (USA, Canada, Mexico) and be at least 21 years-of-age.
• Term of service is 3 years, with an optional second term.
• Meetings are held monthly (12 per year) over zoom.
BOARD EXPECTATIONS:
• Attendance at 75% of monthly Board meetings.
• Participation in one or more Board / event committee(s).
• Recruit or fundraise at a minimum $500 yearly level.
DEADLINES: October 21, 2022 – Nominations open November 18, 2022 – Nominations close December 1, 2022 – Proposed slate sent to membership December 31, 2022 – Petitions for change closed, slate approved (or petitions heard) January 2023 TBD – Announcement of 2023 board roster and executive committee at Annual Members Meeting 2023
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Pastor Jyothi Benjamin of the CLCI sent a brief report and pictures from a recent 9 day visit by Missionary David Koenig and his wife Mary.
Cordial greetings to you in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow His steps.
It was a great blessing for the eleven newly established CLCI congregations to meet honorable missionary Rev. Koenig and Sister Mary. The Lord has used Rev. David in a great way in this evangelism tour.
During the 9 days from 26th February to 6th March 2010, we have visited 11 new CLCI churches in the districts of Guntur and Prakasam. During this tour of outreach, many hundreds of members heard the good news of the Gospel. The glory of God was there in all the nights. Many people were touched, encouraged and equipped with the Lord's strength.
We have distributed New Testaments to the children and John's Gospel to the elders in all the congregations. Rev. David prayed for many sick people in most all the congregations. We give God all glory for this wonderful mission. Surly the CLCI was blessed by this outreach.
Praying that Lord bless you all richly always.


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Red Before Black ist das vierzehnte Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Death-Metal-Band Cannibal Corpse.

Entstehungsgeschichte
Das vierzehnte Werk der Band wurde in den Mana Recording Studios in Saint Petersburg von Erik Rutan  aufgenommen und enthält 12 Lieder.

Titelliste
 Only One Will Die – 3:24
 Red Before Black – 3:12
 Code of the Slashers – 4:46
 Shedding My Human Skin – 3:29
 Remaimed – 4:14
 Firestorm Vengeance – 3:43
 Heads Shoveled Off – 3:37
 Corpus Delicti – 3:29
 Scavenger Consuming Death – 4:33
 In The Midst of Ruin – 3:26
 Destroyed Without A Trace – 4:01
 Hideous Ichor – 4:34

Rezension

Manuel Berger von laut.de bewertete das Album mit vier von fünf möglichen Punkten. Obwohl "nicht alle Songs das gleiche überhohe Level halten" können, "gehört Das Gros der zwölf neuen Tracks allerdings zum besten Material, das die Todmaschine in jüngerer Geschichte fabriziert hat – wenn nicht gar karriereübergreifend" so der Kritiker weiter.

David Drenic von Metal.de bewertete das Album folgendermaßen:

Einzelnachweise

Album (Death Metal)
Album 2017
Cannibal-Corpse-Album


A total scam! We ordered a Label Printer but they sent us a Label Maker which is only worth less than U$ 4. I called their number but all are not working. Their website is down. I sent an email to 'Nest Gadgets' (support@nestgadgets.com) but it bounced back!!
I just learned a lesson (but an expensive one).
Do a thorough research first of the online website before purchasing, look for its trust ratings if you can.
Scammers nowadays are sneaky & clever , it is now hard to spot whether the online store is legit or not.
I also order the Label Printer for $65 and got the $2 label Maker, can't get any one from this site to answer.


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Some Smartwatches May Be Able To Diagnose Diabetes
Posted by Emerson Yerian On February 20, 2018
That smartwatch you're wearing might save your life. Literally.
A new study conducted by the University of California San Francisco, and a healthcare startup called Cardiogram revealed that smartwatches and other wearables were able to detect diabetes in previously diagnosed patients an impressive 85 percent of the time.
The study monitored health statistics of more than 14,000 smartwatch wearers (both Android and Apple) over the course of several months. All health data that was collected was fed into a deep neural network which compared the collected data to samples taken from people both with, and without diabetes.
Obviously, while 85 percent is good, it falls short of greatness. Then again, the AI routine (dubbed "DeepHeart") is still in its infancy and is all but certain to continue improving over time.
That's important, given how many people in America have diabetes. It is estimated that there are more than 100 million Americans who either have the disease or who are prediabetic, and many of these haven't been diagnosed yet.
Given these results, and in a bid to further improve DeepHeart's accuracy, the company plans to incorporate the AI into the next update of its app on both iOS and Android platforms.
All that to say, if you currently have and wear a smartwatch or other wearable, it may help you in ways you can't even begin to imagine. This is the bleeding edge of a segment of the market that is only just beginning to emerge. At this point, it's so new that it would be difficult even to say it's in its infancy. Although we can't know for certain what new revelations and advances wearable technology will bring to the medical field, based on what we've seen so far, we can say there will be a bunch of them, and they'll all be exciting.
If you've been considering getting one but haven't yet, this is a pretty solid reason to do so.
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Citizen Vince (Paperback)
By Jess Walter
Kobo eBook (May 28th, 2012): $12.99
From the highly acclaimed new crime novelist: a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder—set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1980 presidential election
It's the fall of 1980, the last week before the presidential election that pits the downtrodden Jimmy Carter against the suspiciously sunny Ronald Reagan. In a seedy suburban house in Spokane, a small-time crook formerly from New York, Vince Camden, pockets his weekly allotment of stolen credit cards and heads off to his witness-protection job at a donut shop. A the shop he takes a shine to a regular named Kelly, who works for a local politician. Somehow he finds himself and the politician in a parking lot at three in the morning, giving the slip to a couple of menacing thugs. And then he crosses the path of a young detective—and discovers his credit-scam partner, lying dead in his passport-photo office with a Cheerio-size bullet-hole in his head. No one writing crime novels today tells a story or sketches a character with more freshness or elan than Jess Walter. Citizen Vince is his funniest and grittiest book yet.
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— Chicago Tribune
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— Sunday Telegraph
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1st Place, General Trade-Jacket, New York Book Show
— No Source
Series: P.S.
Fiction / Historical
Hardcover (April 1st, 2005): $24.95


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The museum was assembled as a private collection of Islamic art by Kuwait's first minister of antiquities and his British wife. A pair of ornate doors from Cairo and Carl Haag's 19th-century painting of Lady Jane Digby El Mesreb of Palmyra, who lived in tents in the winter and a Damascus villa in the summer, mark the entrance to an Aladdin's cave of beautiful items.
Many stories arose from the brutal Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait in 1990, many of them too painful or tragic to tell. But there is one good-news story that is remarkable in its simplicity. While the National Museum was being looted by Iraqi soldiers, the custodians of the Tareq Rajab Museum bricked up the doorway at the bottom of the entry steps and littered the steps with rubbish. The Iraqis questioned why the stairs led to nowhere but mercifully didn't pursue the issue and the collection survived intact.
The museum is in Jabriya, near the intersection of the Fifth Ring Motorway and the Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Expressway (also known as the Fahaheel Expressway). There is no sign on the building, but it is easily identified by its entrance – a carved wooden doorway flanked by two smaller doors on each side. All four of the door panels are worked in gilt metal.
Allow an hour to visit, although anyone with a passion for textiles will inevitably want to stay longer. Bus 102 stops at the nearby Hadi Hospital. It's a 10-minute walk from here, south along the Fahaheel Expressway and turn right just after the Iranian School. Walk for a further 50m and the museum is on the left.