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The Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut has now overturned the previous ruling on gay marriage, stating that it infringes upon the rights of their citizens. Connecticut is now the third state to legally validate the individual's right to a same sex marriage.
In his majority opinion, Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote that the court found that the "segregation of heterosexual and homosexual couples into separate institutions constitutes a cognizable harm," in light of "the history of pernicious discrimination faced by gay men and lesbians, and because the institution of marriage carries with it a status and significance that the newly created classification of civil unions does not embody."
And the deciding opinion was not without its dissent,
Opponents of same-sex marriage called for continued steps for a constitutional ban on the practice. "It's an outrage, but it's not unexpected," said Peter Wolfgang, the executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut. "We thought all along that the court would usurp the democratic process and force same-sex marriage on Connecticut."
Another noteworthy story is that of the proposed "Pride Campus of Social Justice High School" in Chicago.
Pointing to studies showing that gay high school students are at greater risk of dropping out because of stigma and fear of violence, Chicago Public Schools leaders said Wednesday that they will recommend opening a campus aimed at [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] students.
The proposal is brand new, however it is already making waves in the news media. During a Chicago meeting, citizens were encouraged to weigh in with their opinion.
most in the audience supported the proposed school. Some had questions about where it would be located, its curriculum and even how students would decide which restrooms to use. There were opponents — like LaShawn Greer — who praised the design work but had other concerns.
"It's not to take away my compassion for anybody here. I try to raise my children righteously via the word of God via the Bible because this is my belief," Greer said. "I cannot support with my own tax dollars paying for something that I don't agree with."
Others had different reasons for opposing the school. Hantas Farmer, a transgender, cited the ground-breaking Brown v. Board of Education school decision.
"Have any of you considered that this is nothing but de facto segregation? I support you in principle. School should be safe for everyone. But I'm not sure segregation is the way forward," Farmer said.
There is no denying that this has been a noteworthy week for crusaders of social tolerance and equity.

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7.3.2 Accepting Gifts for Heritage University
|Prepared by:
|Advancement Office
|Responsible Office:
|Advancement Office
|Approved by:
|President's Cabinet
|Date of Approval:
|May 10, 2016
|Date of Last Revision:
|May 10, 2016
|Next Review Date:
|May 2017
Policy Statement
Heritage University personnel responsible for the acquisition of gifts to the University will do so following the procedures articulated below.
All gifts received by Heritage University are the sole property of Heritage University.
Gifts are sought and accepted only for programs and purposes that have been approved by the Heritage University Board of Directors and which support the overall mission of the university. The availability or potential of a private gift or grant support does not determine the strategic initiatives of Heritage University.
Gifts to the University fall into the following categories: cash gifts and grants, pledges and letters of intent to fund, deferred gifts, stocks, real property, furnishings and equipment, insurance, in-kind donations.
Gifts of any kind shall not be reallocated or disposed of without adherence to the procedures listed below. Gifts received in the name of and for the use of Heritage University must be sent to the Business Office and the Advancement Office for official recording and acknowledgment. The Advancement Office of Heritage University is responsible for providing the donor with a gift receipt and other necessary documentation pertaining to the gift.
Heritage University is responsible for explaining [to the donor] the terms and expectations of the gift, including how it will be invested and administered, if applicable. Reasonable effort will be made by HU to inform the donor of both the potential for growth and the risks of the investment strategy to be employed.
Reason for Policy/Purpose
This policy covers all fundraising activity by university, including that done on behalf of the university by third parties.
Who Needs to Know this Policy
All members of the university community working directly with donors.
Website Address for this Policy
For more information about this policy, please contact the Advancement Office at 509-865-8587 or email@example.com. The Advancement Office is located in the Hitchcock Building on the Toppenish campus.
Gift Types and Guidelines
An outright gift is a contribution of cash or property to Heritage University in which the donor retains no interest. All unrestricted outright gifts will be allocated to the Heritage Fund. Gifts of cash, personal or bank checks and credit cards are considered irrevocable. Donors may also designate or restrict the uses and purposes of their gift to areas or units of Heritage University that they most wish to support; these gifts are allocated to the appropriate fund.
A. Pledges
Heritage University will accept both legally enforceable conditional and unconditional pledges, which could be either verbal (under $10,000 only) or written (all). An unconditional pledge is one that places no additional requirements on the university in order to receive the gift. A conditional pledge is one that requires the university to perform some task or take some action that it might not otherwise initiate. A conditional pledge may also depend on some future event over which neither the university nor donor may have control.
- Conditional pledges and verbal pledges are not recorded &/or tracked by the Business Office and are not included in annual fundraising revenue totals for audit purposes. Conditional and verbal pledges are, however, recorded in the donor database for stewardship purposes and for lead gift tracking in launching campaign silent phases.
- A written pledge is required for all pledges in order to be officially recorded by the HU Business Office. All written pledges must contain three key pieces of information: 1) specific assets or dollar amount, 2) purpose of the gift, and 3) the timeframe under which the pledge will be fulfilled. Heritage University will accept pledges that contain this information that are emailed or written as a letter with an original donor signature.
- Pledge longevity: in an instance in which a pledge has not been honored by the donor, or is superseded by another pledge from the same donor, the HU Advancement Office and Business Office will no longer track the pledge as income. The viability of a pledge is determined by Advancement Office and Business Office staff at fiscal-year end (June 30), or when pledges are twelve months old, or upon notification from the donor that they no longer wish to complete the pledge.
- Pledges that are paid by HU employee payroll deduction will be terminated if an employee is involuntarily terminated from their employment at Heritage University prior to the expiration of their pledge. Employees making a voluntary separation from Heritage University will be given the option to continue paying their pledge by a means other than payroll deduction.
- Should a donor become deceased before a pledge is satisfied, the encumbrance is on the estate of the donor to honor the remaining terms of the pledge.
B. Gifts-in-Kind
Gifts in kind are non-cash gifts of tangible personal or real property such as equipment, art objects, furniture, instruments, books, valuable papers, or real estate, etc., may be accepted by Heritage University provided that:
- Such a gift is consistent with the missions of the University, or may be liquidated and the proceeds used by Heritage.
- Acceptance of such a gift will not involve significant additional expense in its present or future use, display, maintenance, or administration.
- No financial or other burdensome obligation or expense is or will be directly or indirectly incurred by the university as a result thereof.
- If applicable, the University will be responsible for the completion of IRS Form 8283 and for the completion and submittal of Form 8282 of the areas relevant to the University if and when the property has been sold.
All donations received are the sole property of the University. The university will record the receipt of a gift-in-kind upon receipt of a donor-assigned value of said gift. Any correspondence between the University and the donor will refer to the gift-in-kind with a description only; no valuation will be attached to any correspondence per IRS publications 526 and 1771. Gifts of real property will be sold and converted to cash as soon as practical unless it is held for the use of Heritage University or there is some compelling reason for the university to retain ownership.
Requirements for accepting any Gifts-in-kind
Before any gifts-in-kind will be received by the University, the following will be determined:
- The appropriate college, school, department program or unit at Heritage University must declare that the gift-in-kind will be useful to meet its stated objectives and goals.
- The donor must make provisions for a qualified appraisal by a certified or qualified appraiser, which will satisfy his or her needs for tax purposes.
- Arrangements must be made in advance to transport, ship or deliver the gift-in-kind to Heritage University.
- Arrangements must be made in advance for space to house the gift-in-kind at Heritage University.
- Provisions must be made in advance for installation costs, if any, for the gift-in-kind at Heritage University.
- Arrangements must be made in advance for insurance coverage, if any, for gifts-in-kind during shipping and when housed at Heritage University.
- Arrangements for maintenance costs, if any, for the gift-in-kind must be made in advance.
- Determination must be made if there is any liability associated with receiving the gift-in-kind by the university.
- The Vice President for Advancement will make final determination regarding acceptance of any gift-in-kind.
- All real estate gifts offered to the university are to be reviewed by the Board of Directors.
- If applicable, the University will be responsible for the completion of IRS Form 8283 and for the completion and submittal of Form 8282 of the areas relevant to the University if and when the property has been sold.
C. Stocks
Gifts of stock/property are gifts of marketable securities, which include registered stocks and bonds, which are publicly traded on the open market, and not subject to restrictions on transfer.
Notification of a pending stock gift will be directed to both the Business Office and the Advancement Office. If unknown, the Advancement Office will determine who the donor is and the intent for the gift. The closing amount of the stock is credited to the donor; any fees are incurred by Heritage University
D. Life Insurance Policies
Policies Fully Owned by Donor
Donors may have a life insurance policy with built-in cash surrender. In such cases, the donor can contribute the policy and will generally receive a deduction approximately equal to the cash basis, subject to the following general guidelines and written approval from the Chief Financial Officer, Controller and Vice President for Advancement:
- Heritage University will accept a gift of life insurance provided that it is under no prearranged obligation to expend its assets to maintain the policy.
- No portion of the proceeds may be paid to anyone or any organization that is not qualified as a tax-exempt entity under IRS Code Section 501(c) (3) if Heritage University is owner of the policy.
Policies Partially owned by Donor
- Heritage University will not participate in split dollar or reserve split dollar plans, or other partial interest programs. In the event a policy is contributed on which premiums remain to be paid, the donor must pledge to continue paying premiums or give Heritage University permission to surrender the policy for cash value. If the donor elects to cease making gifts to cover premium payments on a life insurance policy owned by Heritage University, Heritage University may elect to continue to pay the premiums at its own expense, convert the policy to paid up insurance, or surrender the policy for its current cash value depending upon the options allowed in the insurance contract.
E. Deferred Gifts
The University shall not enter into agreements for charitable gift annuities or deferred payment charitable gift annuities nor shall it serve as trustee of any trusts which do not comply with the official policies of the Board of Directors, unless the Executive Committee or the Board of Directors grants specific approval.
Policy Standard/Procedures
See the definitions statements above.
Gift-in-kind acceptance form (completed by university personnel) – addendum
Gift-in-kind donation form (completed by donor) – addendum
Related Policies and Resources
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I hope I'm not alone in the fact that when I'm staring down a busy schedule, sometimes my health becomes an afterthought. It's a bit of a catch-22: as my personal or professional life takes flight, I should be most focused on being my best self. Instead, increased opportunities often mean less time for personal wellness.
I've found that simplicity is key to staying on a healthy path. Starting my morning with this small ritual not only aids in physical detox, but it also helps center me for the next day ahead.
The benefits of drinking warm lemon water are well-documented and include everything from clearing out skin impurities to boosting the immune system. Best yet, this mixture only takes a minute to prepare.
- 8 oz. warm (not boiling!) water
- Juice of half a lemon
- Dropper-full of turmeric tincture*
- Dropper-full of ginger tincture*
- Pinch of cayenne pepper
Drink the above on an empty stomach to jumpstart your day. Hopefully it will be just the boost you need to seize each new opportunity that presents itself.
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Colonia de los Angeles Madrid, Spanish Architecture, Picture, Building, A-cero Architect
Colonia de los Angeles, Madrid
New Spanish Houses: Arquitectura Espana – design by A-cero, Spain
13 Aug 2008
Colonia de los Angeles Houses
Design: A-cero Architects
Colonia de los Angeles Madrid
Architect Joaquín Torres, head of the spanish firm A-cero, has designed a amazing residential complex in Colonia de los Angeles, near Madrid, adding a new piece of modern architecture to the city's landscape, one of the most dynamic in Europe in the recent years.
Spain's capital is preparing for a new olympic bid, new skyscrapers are being built in the old terrains of the Real Madrid sport complex, the new Barajas airport has established itself as a main regional hub, the public transportation grid is under further development… Such a vibrant city asks for dwellings that keep with its path.
In this context, A-cero presents futuristic design houses with areas of 350 square meters comes with three bedrooms, kitchen, living/dinning room, parking with playing area for children and private garden with swimming pool. They are equipped with eco-friendly energy systems and ubiquous Wi-Fi internet connection. Each house is different with a particular design characteristic making it unique.
Colonia de los Angeles Madrid images / information from A-cero
Madrid Architecture – Selection
High Court of Justice and Supreme Court, City of Justice
Foster + Partners
image : Foster + Partners
City of Justice Madrid
Hotel Puerta America, Avenida de América
various interiors by famous architects & designers
image from Hotel Puerta America website
Hotel Puerta America
Madrid Architecture Walking Tours
Buildings / photos for the Colonia de los Angeles Architecture page welcome
Website: Visit Madrid
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GI & Veteran ResourcesDepleted Uranium PoisoningPost Traumatic Stress Disorder
We are an active Chapter of veterans and allies who abide by the Veterans For Peace Statement of Purpose and our motto - Peace at Home, Peace Abroad. There will never be international peace until there is domestic peace. The Chicago Chapter is working on many fronts to engage the community in dialogue about militarization and its human, financial and environmental costs. Look over the web site. Check our Chapter Facebook - ChicagoVFP. Check our main project Facebook and Twitter - DeMilitarizeCPS. See EducationNotMilitarization.org. Sign up for our email list. Join us! See "Calendar" for meeting dates.
VFP is an international 501(c)3 organization founded in 1985. VFP is the only veterans organization in the world that is recognized by the United Nations. The Chapter tax # is: 26-0064830. To donate or for questions, please contact the Coordinator ARNY STIEBER at 734-216-1814.
Veterans For Peace Membership
Veterans from any branch of the military are invited to join Veterans For Peace. Family members and friends are encouraged to join at the Associate Level. Please sign up or renew your membership below. Be a part of this growing movement!
The Chicago Chapter is taking applications for our annual scholarship. Follow this link for more information: https://vfpchicagoscholarship.wufoo.com/forms/q14pwe7b0pu9r7g/
Militarization of schools is a national epidemic with Chicago Public Schools being the most militarized. Over 10,000 Chicago children are learning the military model of conflict resolution by violence. www.EducationNotMilitarization.org There will never be international peace without domestic peace and children are the key.
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The main focus of VFP is to abolish war. People are incited into war (as a solution to conflict) based on fear, and superiority. War can be abolished (like slavery was) when people join together as equals - thereby reducing fear and superiority. By joining in the demonstrations against police violence, police militarization, and racial profiling, we, as VFP, are working to abolish the military model of conflict resolution by violence and therefore war.
Great article about JROTC by Ann Jones on Alternet. Check it out here
Get the military out of our public schools!
CPS is the most militarized public school system in the country with over 9,000 children receiving military training. In addition, military recruiters are given unfettered access to the schools. The myth is that the military teaches discipline. The reality is that the military teaches children to follow orders without question and to use the military solution to conflict resolution – that is, violence.
Chicago VFP Asks CPS Board to Demilitarize
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October 24, 2013
"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked.
We who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead."
- Gen. Omar Bradley


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Watson Supercomputer Goes to College
IBM's Watson supercomputer, the mechanical marvel famous for its 2011 win on Jeopardy against some of the gameshow's most noted champions, a showdown that would've made John Henry think he got off easy, is about to undertake an even more grueling task than simply answering trivia questions: enrolling in college.
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York will soon be receiving one of IBM's supercomputers for a period of three years, the first time that such a computer system has been allocated to any university, where it will be accessible to both faculty and students alike. While there, Watson will not only be studied as part of artificial intelligence (AI) research, but it will also be attending courses in both English and math like any other incoming freshman in order to increase its abilities in speech recognition and learning.
IBM and RPI hope to expand Watson's novel ability to decipher and comprehend natural language on two fronts. First, by improving its ability to not only solve arithmetical equations, but prove why a solution is correct, and then draw mathematical conclusions in abstract terms. Second, the researchers hope to further advance Watson's speech recognition skills by expanding its ability to intake unstructured information, such as extracting meaning and understanding from images and videos.
"Watson uses a lot of structured data, neatly defined and tabled," said Michael Rowinski, a spokesman for IBM. "But a lot of data being created today is unstructured and a lot of it is coming from videos and photos. In the health care world, think of all the data within health care images. The real future is being able to extract information from things like photographs and videos.
"Think about tweets and social media posts. Data coming from sensors — all that real-time data, they really want to try to help expand the types of data that a cognitive system like Watson would be able to parse and could put into its question-and-answer processing."
While the task of cultivating Watson's artificial intelligence to be on par with that of human intelligence is an substantial, the creators of the 15 terabyte supercomputer believe that it possesses great faculties for learning and growth. As its win on Jeopardy has already been called one of the biggest watershed moments in modern computer engineering, IBM believe that upgrading Watson's cognitive abilities are vital to both IBM's business model and advancing computer technology in general.
"It's a big step for us," said Michael Henesey, IBM's vice president of business development. "We consider it absolutely strategic technology for IBM in the future. And we want to evolve it, of course, thoughtfully, but also in collaboration with the best and brightest in academia."
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Since 2001, Caterpillar Music has provided a fantastic, creative learning experience for babies and young children across the UK. Our weekly themes, action songs, puppets and instruments stimulate your child as they develop their language, music and motor skills. Find out more about Caterpillar Music and our programmes here.
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Caterpillar Music is also thrilled to provide classes at nursery schools across the UK. Find out about our programmes for nursery schools here.


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Knockout Rat Models
For over 150 years, the laboratory rat has been a model for human disease research
What is a knockout rat?
A knockout rat or mouse is an animal model that has been engineered with a specific gene (or genes) disabled. They aid study of gene function and drug development in academic or pharmaceutical research into human diseases & genetic conditions.
We offer a range of pre-defined animal models for research including the areas of Neuroscience, Oncology and Cardiovascular disease.
The laboratory rat has proven an excellent model for human disease research due to its size, cognitive ability & physiology.
Find out why mice are losing their place to rats as the leading model for disease research
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This is a sweet, puff pastry with a filling, rolled into the shape of a snake. It is prepared from autumn until January, particularly for the festivities of All Saints and remembrance of the Dead. Although it is very similar to the strudel of the Trentino region, the Rocciata is typical in Foligno ad in other area like Assisi, Bastia Umbra, Spello, Bettona, Cannara and Bevagna. Its origin is probably linked to traditions inherited from the Nordic peoples who reached these areas after the fall of the Roman Empire. Rocciata consists of a thin layer of pastry made from flour, cocoa, sugar and oil, upon which a layer of thin slices of apple are placed, along with walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, raisins and various other types of dried fruit, like prunes, figs, etc. The pastry, with its filling, is then rolled up and bent into a horseshoe shape (thereby taking on the appearance of a snake) and is put into the oven.
Ingredients for the pastry: Flour, salt, water, eggs.
For the filling: Apples, figs, jam, nuts, sultanas, pine nuts, almonds, cocoa (optional), cinnamon, lemon and vanilla.
Preparation method: the ingredients for the pastry are blended in a mixer or by hand. The dough is rolled out either by hand or by an automatic pastry roller. The ingredients for the filling are then placed on the pastry, which is rolled to make a spiral shape, like a large snake, and is cooked in the oven.
Storage: this is a fresh product that should be kept at a temperature of about 6° to 8° C for no more than 2 to 3 days.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is a Chamber of Commerce?
A: The Chamber of Commerce works with the community promoting both small and large businesses. Our main objective is to give business owners as well as individuals an expansive number of opportunities to network with business people, potential clientele, and community leaders. This could be anything from large-scale events to smaller family-size groups. We also work hand-in-hand with the community and community leaders to enrich the quality of life in the Lake Murray area.
Q: Why should I join the Lake Murray Chamber of Commerce?
A: You will automatically be listed in our Lake Murray Business Directory and your business may be featured in local publications. You will also be rewarded with numerous opportunities to promote your business and get to know other area business leaders and community leaders as well. Through regular e-newsletters you will be the first to know about happenings in your community and any changes being made that might affect your business.
Q: What if I don't have time to attend any of the activities or meetings?
A: Being a member does not mean you are obligated to attend anything. Everything offered to you is there to benefit you and your business. If too busy, send a team member in your place or visit our staff at a time that is convenient to you. The chamber also utilizes electronic communication and social media to connect with our members in a number of ways.
Q: How does the Chamber directly help my business?
A: Networking one-on-one, even in the day of digital communication, is still the most effective marketing way to create new clients or promote your project or organization. The Chamber is actively engaged in promoting business friendly legislation and provides learning and growth through forums with speakers on a variety of subjects.


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Elecraft introduces the K4 high-performance direct-sampling SDR
The following is a cross-post from my other website, The SWLing Post: Today we learned about the latest addition to the Elecraft product line, the Elecraft K4. This fills a niche in the Elecraft product line and is certain to … Continue reading
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Elecraft discontinues the K1 and KX1
After rumors surfaced about the demise of the Elecraft "K1" line, Wayne Burdick (N6KR) made the following announcement on the Elecraft email reflector, specifically mentioning the original K1: We should have made a formal announcement here. Yes, we discontinued it … Continue reading
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Scott's Elecraft KX3 Go-Box
[Note: this article was originally posted on my shortwave radio blog, The SWLing Post.] Many thanks to Scott (AK5SD) who shares the following photos and bill of materials for his custom Elecraft KX3 go-box: Bill of materials The panel was … Continue reading
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Looking forward to the 2014 Dayton Hamvention and FDIM
Each year, I attend the Dayton Hamvention and much of the QRP conference, Four Days in May. This year, I'll be working our Ears To Our World table again, along with other volunteers, at booth 411 in the Ball Arena (BA411). … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Articles, Conferences, Events, FDIM, Hamvention, News Tagged Alpha Amplifiers, Bonito, Connect Systems CS7000, Elad, Elad FDM-DUO, Elecraft, Elecraft PX3, Icom, Icom ID-5100, Palstar, RF Concepts, SDR, Ten-Tec Leave a comment
Elecraft announces the new PX3 Panadapter
Last Friday, if you were lucky enough to attend the Visalia DX Convention, you would have seen the debut of Elecraft's new KX3 accessory, the PX3 Panadapter. (Many thanks to Eric (WD8RIF) and Michael (KD9AUR) for the tip!) The compact PX3 … Continue reading
A review of the Elecraft KX3 on The SWLing Post
Many of you know that I'm not only into QRP, but I'm an avid shortwave radio listener, as well. If you're an SWLer, too, you might might consider venturing over to my shortwave radio blog, The SWLing Post, where I just published … Continue reading
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Elecraft taking orders for the KXPA100; a portable 100 watt amplifier with built-in ATU
(Source: Elecraft) June 17, 2013 Now accepting orders for the Elecraft KXPA100 100 W Amplifier We have received FCC certification and are putting on the finishing touches and performing our field test on the KXPA100. We're now taking orders for … Continue reading
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Elecraft at the Hamvention
The Elecraft booth has been teeming with people. Of course, large crowds around the KX3–perhaps almost as many as last year, when they first introduced this hand held QRP magic. I know I want one.
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Thoughts on the Elecraft KX1 and comparing with the Ten-Tec HB1B
I've been meaning to write a post about my Elecraft KX1, because, of all of the rigs I own, it's the most-often-used, thus the clear favorite in my stable. But: this morning, I read John Harper's (AE5X) excellent assessment of the Elecraft … Continue reading
Building an Elecraft K3 in 7 minutes
This is a great time-lapse video of the assembly of the Midland Amateur Radio Club's Elecraft K3: See, that wasn't so hard!
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Asusis a brand company mainly from China which is focused on the manufacturing of the
computer hardware and various digital products such as motherboards, laptops, servers and the mobile phones. Asusis majorly a company which produces mainly themotherboards in an enormous quantity which in company terms is also known as Asrock. Asrock manufactured by asus has garnered a repution for good value with the other tech companies which are in a good competition with ASUS, especially Asrock. The most important reason for the growth of the growth Asrock is its user friendly nature, which in turn is the most importing turning point in this software and hardware market.
Various products from Asus: Asrock:-
The laptops with the asus landmark have been namely called as Eee, and the product has been a big hit most probably because of its good performance and for this credit has to be given to asus's motherboard i.e. Asrock and because of this had also been nurtured as the 'Forbes Asia's Best Product Of The Year'. Also the ASUS's Essentio desktop has been marketed as a home entertainment PC with HDMI port and the remote control. The asrock motherboard can also be booked online from its official website, although many pirated and at a cheaper rate are also available in the market but they are not that efficient as the original ones are.
Overall, it can be said that the Asrock from Asus is a well defined and a socially approved product as it is easy to install and a user friendly way of presenting itself. Hence , no other product can have a match to this.


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Definition of frankfrank - adj. clearly manifest; evident; characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; noun a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll; a member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century; verb exempt by means of an official pass or letter, as from customs or other checks; stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing.
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Henry Mancini was an award winning film score composer best known for The Pink Panther theme.
Mancini learned to play the flute and piano as a child, and went on to formal music education at the Julliard School of Music, although being drafted during the Second World War interrupted his studies. After the war he worked with the Glen Miller Band, although it was his move to Universal Studios that marked the beginning of the career for which he is renowned. During his time there, he worked on "Creature from the Black Lagoon," "This Island Earth," "The Glenn Miller Story" and over one hundred other films.
He set up his own writing company, and was approached by film director Blake Edwards to write for the TV series "Peter Gunn." This was the beginning of a long term partnership, and Mancini would go on to write for most of the directors output, including "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "10" and "The Pink Panther" series of films. He also wrote for other directors, with "The Glass Menagerie" and "The Great Waldo Pepper" amongst his credits.
The track "Here's Looking At You, Kid" comes from one of his coolest records--The Return of the Pink Panther. Grand Puba sampled this track for "I Like It."
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Questions About Being Catholic?
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Here at St. Francis, we believe that God made you to be His friend. We, too, have heard God calling in the middle of questions and doubts, desires and losses, joys and loves. Whether you feel hesitant or have just had an "ah-hah!" moment, we want to help.
From those who first heard of the Resurrection almost two millennia ago, to the neophytes received into the Church last Easter, people whose lives have been touched by Jesus Christ have turned to the Church He established for them. Young and old, wealthy and downtrodden, depressed and happy, people just like you pose hard questions to the Church, and find answers that work. Answers that make sense. The RCIA team at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Oklahoma City is a group of local Catholics, striving to follow our Lord with integrity, who are dedicated to handing on to others the riches they have received.
Want to find out what Catholics believe? Maybe you just have a few questions. Maybe you are searching for your heart's home. Maybe you just need to know where to begin.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2020
You are welcome to attend all sessions or only the ones that fit into your schedule. No RSVP is required, just come and introduce yourself!
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
R.C.I.A. meets in the Family Life Center on Sunday mornings following the 8:30 a.m. Mass. Our main study session takes place from about 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. From mid-October through the end of Lent, catechumens and candidates should plan to attend the 8:30 Mass; families, sponsors, and supporters may well find it equally easy to attend the 11:00 Mass. If you are uncertain about times and places, please come anyway, and we will be happy to help.
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The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults happens in four phases, each with its own proper methods of instruction and formation. At St. Francis, the pattern is like this:
- Inquiry and Pre-catechumenate: Year Round, culminating in the Pre-catechumenate classes leading to the Rite of Acceptance for catechumens (seeking Baptism) or Rite of Welcoming for candidates for reception into full communion (baptized but not trained as Catholics).
- Catechumenate: from the Rite of Acceptance (or Welcoming) in mid-October, through the beginning of Lent, those who are preparing for Baptism or reception meet weekly to pray, study, and discern God's call together.
- Period of Purification and Enlightenment: from the Rite of Sending and Rite of Election, through the Scrutinies, and down to the Easter Vigil, the catechumens and candidates set aside entangling cares and devote their attention to continuing conversion to Christ.
- Mystagogy: united with the Church, the newly baptized and received (neophytes) seek further instruction in what to do, how to pray, where to find a place to serve


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So, you bought one of those shiny new Penguin Computing BladeRunner systems, and were thinking to yourself: "I wish there were a good guide to getting Linux to do what it should on these things". Well, I'm going to try and cover two of the basics here: serial console configuration, and interface bonding. Everything else is pretty much stock stuff, but I had a heck of a time figuring out configurations that worked here. The discussion below assumes you're running RHEL or Fedora, but the idea should be fairly clear.
First step: learn about some of the remote management features of the BladeRunner. You have a couple of configuration commands that are useful here, related to console management and power. Log into the chassis, and type conf; for some reason, they put this under "configuration" rather than "management" or some other similar tree of the command set. Now, you can control power to individual blades with server-blade power <num> [cycle|forced-off|off|on] (where <num> is the number of the blade you're managing). on means exactly what it sounds like; power on the blade if it's currently off, just like it would if you hit the power button on the front. off sends an ACPI power vevent to the blade, advising it to shut down; it doesn't actually force power to be pulled; that's what forced-off does. cycle removes power to the blade, and adds it again; off the top of my head, I don't recall if it does so gracefully or not. Check the documentation, it might be there (but probably not).
The next command that's interesting here is server-blade console-redirect <num>: that grabs the serial console for that particular blade, and displays it to your current session. The serial console configuration appears to be set in stone, from what I can see: 57600 bps, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, with hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control. If you power up a blade fresh from the factory, you'll notice that the BIOS is already set up to redirect output to both the serial port and the built-in KVM in the chassis.
That's about all I'll say about the chassis management side of things, since they actually do cover this stuff fairly well in the documentation. The problem I found with the documentation was that it didn't cover host-side configuration of certain things, specifically interface bonding and serial console configuration. Maybe they thought it was out-of-scope for their documentation; I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the chassis is pretty useless without systems to run on it. ;-) (Here endeth the snide remarks, hopefully.)
Next up is host-side serial console configuration. This is fairly standard stuff, once you know what the settings need to be, but I'll spell it out here too. First is the bootloader; GRUB, in my case. You'll want to add a couple of lines to the GRUB configuration file (in the main stanza):
serial --unit=0 --speed=57600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=10 serial console
Optionally, you can also add hiddenmenu to the options; that reduces the amount of text being displayed at boot time to a minumum, unless you need it. Set the timeout on the terminal line to whatever is appropriate for you; 10 seconds before you're kicked to the primary display was good enough for my needs, since I didn't want the boot process to take much longer than it already did.
Next up, also in the grub configuration file (on the command line of each kernel you want to boot), are the kernel parameters that get your boot output sent to the right place. Adding console=tty0 console=ttyS0,57600n8r to the kernel command line seemed to do the job for me (display on /dev/ttyS0 at 57000 bps, no parity, 8 data bits, hardware flow control). If this is a stock Red Hat/Fedora installation, I suggest getting rid of the rhgb and quiet entries on that line as well; for server use, you really want to see that console output, so that when you inevitably get a kernel that has a bad day, you don't have to monkey with grub configuration via a 57600bps serial line to capture the panic.
The final step is making it possible to log in on the console. Adding the following line to /etc/inittab worked great for my needs:
co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -h ttyS0 57600 vt100
The co is an name for the entry, but it's become a defacto standard for the inittab name for the serial console entry. 2345 should be obvious (runlevels to operate in), respawn means run it again after you log out, not just once. The agetty command line just specifies hardware flow control (-h), linux device (ttyS0), speed (57600), and terminal type (vt100); change terminal type to anything appropriate for your environment, but vt100 is pretty safe for most folks.
That covers serial console configuration. For more details on that piece of the puzzle, I strongly recommend reading over the Remote Serial Console HOWTO; it discusses some of the ins-and-outs of other boot loaders, some other configurations you might be interested in trying, and some general advice for this kind of setup.
Next up is interface bonding; every blade has two Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5780S Gigabit Ethernet NICs built in, each connected to one of the two management blades through an internal backplane. I've been using the tg3 drivers for these quite successfully; the bcm5820 module is also available as a third-party add-on, but appears to be deprecated at this point. So, your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf (depending on version) will likely have a couple of lines in it like alias eth0 tg3 for each interface. Next up is bonding configuration: add the following lines:
alias bond0 bonding options bonding mode=2 arp_interval=500 arp_ip_target=10.0.0.1
Change 10.0.0.1 to whatever your default gateway is. You might be asking yourself why you shouldn't use MII instead of ARP on these systems, and it's a good question. The failure mode of the chassis internal network precludes it; you can end up with one management switch down, but the MII status of the ethernet interface still shows it being up. You can test this out by setting your bonding configuration to use MII instead, then yanking out one of the chassis management blades.
The next piece is very specific to RHEL or Fedora; please refer to your Linux vendor's documentation for details on how to do it elsewhere. In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, create a file called ifcfg-bond0 that looks exactly like a normal ifcfg-* file (in fact, you might want to just move your existing ifcfg-eth0 or similar file there); specify how you want this combined interface to behave. Then, for each of ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1, add a file that looks like:
DEVICE=eth0 TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes
(Change DEVICE= to the appropriate line for each device.) More information on interface bonding under linux is available from the OSDL Linux networking site.
That's the main stuff. Obviously, test all of these changes with a complete boot to make sure console redirection is happening the way you want it, and to be sure that your bonded interfaces are showing up as a single bond0 interface (and that you have connectivity to and from them). Good luck. :-)


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Audience's New Chip Promises Clear, Cheap Calls
BARCELONA—Cheap calls may become much clearer thanks to a new chip from Audience, which could bring much better noise-cancellation to inexpensive feature phones.
Audience makes noise cancellation and voice-quality-improvement technology for several of the top smartphone makers including HTC, Pantech, Samsung, and Sony. Its technology may also be built into the iPhone 4S, although the company steadfastly refuses to confirm or deny that.
But up until now, you've needed two microphones, and a few extra dollars, to play Audience's game. That lets the chip sort your own voice out from background noise, as well as do other tricks like enhancing the tones a specific listener can hear or even slowing down speech when it's too fast.
"It's not just noise suppression, it's a whole bunch of technologies," Andy Keane, Audience's Vice President of Marketing said. "If you're in a restaurant and you have this technology, you don't have to talk loudly, for instance."
That changes with the new ES110 chip, which will hopefully appear in phones by the end of this year. The ES110 is designed for the huge number of simple voice-and-text phones sold around the developing world, but we'll probably see it in texting phones and low-cost, prepaid smartphones in the U.S. as well.
"There's amazing penetration for these phones. They ship in huge numbers. But the primary problem is poor voice quality; it's terrible. [Manufacturers] aren't paying attention to the primary use case, which is voice; they just get the reference design," Keane said.
Processing sound from just one microphone means "we don't get all the cues from the two mics, but we get enough," he said. The ES110 uses Audience's algorithms to filter out "nonstationary noise," such as the surrounding noises on mass transit, he said.
"If someone's talking right beside you, this will filter out his voice," he said.
Audience's "Siri Mode"
Keane also wanted to talk up Audience's "ASR Assist" mode, which helps phones process voices into forms computers can understand.
This sounds to me like the technology widely considered to be built into the iPhone 4S's processor, to help Siri understand what people are saying.
Keane wouldn't confirm this, of course, but later said, "I can't say that it isn't enabled anywhere."
The mode happens to be built into Audience's ES305 chip, which has been appearing in phones since at least November 2011. But the "Siri mode"–that's my phrase, not Keane's–just hasn't been enabled in software on most of those devices. According to Chipworks, the ES305 is in Samsung's Galaxy Note. If more phones want to use electronic voice-recognition systems, firms should consider enabling this feature, Keane said.
"The handset maker can't simply turn it on and off," Keane noted. "We need a carrier spec, and for the OS provider and the speech recognition people to basically say, this is something we should do."
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50 Shades Darker is a sequel to the Fifty Shades of grey (released in 2015). This is the second movie in the Fifty Shades series. Folks are too much attracted to action, romantic and drama movies. The previous film of this series got a great success and people loved the movie. Fifty Shades Darker directed by great director James Foley with great love story and full of action. Folks are much interested in Action than love scenes. The movie Fifty Shades Darker has a star cast consisting 'Dakota Johnson' and 'James Dornan' as a lead actors.
Fifty Shades Darker Movie Release Date in India
The outstanding Hollywood romantic and action movie Fifty Shades Darker has been already released in foreign countries and it is going to release in India soon. At first, the sensor board of film certification has banned the most romantic and erotic series of Fifty Shades. The movie 50 shades of darker has smashed success and got most hits despite negative reviews. The film has achieved a good response from Hollywood fans and now releasing in India. Fifty Shades Darker movie release date in India is 7 July 2017.
Fifty Shades Darker Cast
The film star 'Dakota Johnson' as Anastasia Steele and 'James Dornan' as Christian Grey along with costar Eric Johnson as Jack Hyde, Eloise Mumford as Katherine Kavanagh, Bella Heathcote as Leila Williams, Rita Ora as Mia Grey, Luke Grimes as Elliot Grey, Victor Rasuk as Jose Rodriguez, Kim Basinger as Elena Basinger and Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Grey. The immense efforts of actors, director and complete cast pays off even after many negative reviews. You will see Action and full of romance in the movie. This erotic movie 50 shades darker has came with a new form of 50 shades of grey.
Fifty Shades Darker Budget
The complete budget for the movie Fifty Shades of Darker is $55 million. This is a complete budget including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue. The previous movie series has an financial estimate of $40 million and earned $571 million. This movie, Fifty Shades Darker is already released in foreign countries and has a gross income of 378.8 million.
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Fifty Shades Darker Love Scenes
Fifty shades of grey was well known for its love scenes and now the 2nd movie of fifty shade series has a bit more expectations as people have been acquainted with the fifty shades series now. Fifty shades darker love scenes have made people watch them again and again as the lift scene is worthy of watching which definitely gives a super adrenaline rush.


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If you're into art – illustrations particularly – it might not hurt to take a moment and look up #VisibleWomen on Twitter. A significant number of female artists have taken to social media to show their work:
I'm Maria, I really really love to make pictures~ #VisibleWomen
I'm currently making editorial illustration, comic books, posters and novel covers~
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— Maria Nguyen (๑ˊ▵ॢˋ̥๑) (@DTNart) February 12, 2018
Yes, these women are out there doing their work in places you actually know about.
Here's some from Disney:
Hi I'm Kiana! I'm 20 years old, a storyboard artist at Disney Television Animation and I love Team Rocket to an unhealthy degree #VisibleWomen pic.twitter.com/YZpZxkmNzf
— Kiana Mai (@kianamaiart) February 12, 2018
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— mabel (@mobblele) February 12, 2018
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— Leesha Hannigan (@LeeshaHannigan) February 12, 2018
Hi! I'm Abz and I am an illustrator and comic artist from York, UK.
Everything I draw turns into a lovingly warped and nightmarish reflection. it's tragic. 🖤🖤🖤 #VisibleWomen pic.twitter.com/UJ8RQS7z2j
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All I can say is drop by Twitter, check out #VisibleWomen, and keep scrolling to see the work from these remarkable women.
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Nominated for Computable Awards
We have been nominated for the Computable Awards 2015! BPM Company is delighted to announce its nomination for the Best ICT Project of the year in the SMB segment.
'The reasons to nominate BPM Company are knowledge of the solution, flexibility and expertise as a supplier to carry out such complex projects. In my opinion, none of the other submissions had to deal with such a complex project´, says Reza Sarshar, member of the Computable jury for the projects at SMB's.
Computable Awards is acknowledged as the most distinguished IT Awards in the Netherlands. Annually, an independent jury chooses the nominees per award category. The jury chooses in collaboration with the readers the winners, mind that each affects the final decision by 50%.
The winners will be announced on the 3rd of November 2015.
Early 2014, MKB Brandstof went live with a Pega application for its back-office. The company introduced the Nationale Tankpas (National Fuel Card) to let SMEs and freelancers easily pay their transactions and manage their records. 'Due to big success of the Nationale Tankpas, the business of MKB Brandstof grew very fast. The ICT architecture was fragmented organized and not fully supporting this growth', says Eelco Vissinga, managing director of BPM Company. The processes of checking customers by external parties, booking fuel transactions and sending invoices were not optimally working together. These processes are now done by Pega as middle layer between the front-end website systems and the back-end administration systems that take care of transactions and invoices. The middle layer of Pega provides more flexibility and scalability to the back-end systems in order to serve the growing number of customers of MKB Brandstof.
The big challenge of this project was the small size of MKB Brandstof and the large volumes of fuel they are administrating. A big IT change was not possible, the organization didn't have the time and money for that. 'BPM Company really tried to understand the business processes of MKB Brandstof', says Sarshar. 'In the next phase, the business processes have been rewritten, modeled and tailored to the BPM solution. The result: flexible and efficient business processes. Performing this phase, required vast knowledge of both sides: client-environment and the solution itself. BPM has proven to take on the color of DNA of its client fast and look at a solution not only from a supplier angle but also from customer perspective.'


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The Champagne Didier Chopin celebrates this year its 20 years !!
I was always passionate about wine, in 1989 I satisfied this need by elaborating my first bottle of Champagne in my name.
It is in Champlat-Boujacourt that I settled in the Vallée de la Marne 25km from Epernay.
Property :
Years after years I was able to acquire new plots, I own today a little more than 2 hectares and we produce about 80 000 bottles per year.
We are a family business, only my son and my wife work with me in the vineyards and in the cellar.
We welcome you every day with us, we will make you visit with pleasure our place of work and you will be able to discover our products.
We are now present throughout France, thanks to our presence on fairs, shows and our prospecting in the field. We are also present in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and we hope to be present internationally !!


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The Best Way to Store Coffee
Director of Training Michael Phillips on keeping your coffee fresh
Coffee storage is one of the perennial topics of our industry, and it's an issue we take very seriously—just look at the lengths we went to create Perfectly Ground, pre-ground coffee preserved at peak flavor and freshness.
And why wouldn't we? Whether you're tearing open a Perfectly Ground packet, sniffing the new single origin that just arrived in the mail, or standing in the doorway of one of our roasteries, the smell of fresh-roasted coffee remains one of the world's most distinctive; in our humble opinion, it's also one of the best.
Ensuring our beans retain their freshness is a priority in our cafes, and we want you to be able to enjoy them at home for as long as you can after they've been roasted (we recommend doing so within fourteen days). Though we offer basic coffee-storing tips on our website, we asked Michael Phillips, Blue Bottle's Director of Training, to add some depth.
Freshness Is Key
"The two primary enemies to coffee freshness are oxygen and light," says Michael. "The same two things that give us life take it away from coffee, ironically enough."
Keeping your coffee fresh means adhering to three principles: Decrease air movement, limit temperature fluctuations, and avoid exposure to sunlight. These are the principles by which we store coffee in our cafes, and luckily, they're easy to apply in your own home.
Simple as these are, however, it doesn't mean that certain myths about coffee storage haven't managed to persist.
Coffee Storing Myths
One of the most stubborn of these myths is that storing your coffee in the freezer prolongs freshness. According to Michael, this is untrue for several reasons.
"If you have a bag of coffee that is hermetically sealed and there's no way oxygen can get into it," he says, "there's maybe a loose argument to be made that keeping it in the freezer might help. But most coffee bags (including ours) aren't sealed, and if you put them in your freezer, it will actually do more harm than good."
"Coffee is like a sponge: Once it's been processed, it's dry, coarse, and absorbent. Besides being exposed to frostburn, in the freezer, it will start to absorb the flavors floating around in there," says Michael. This principle also applies to storing coffee in the refrigerator, where moisture levels will accelerate flavor loss even more.
Storing in your grinder hopper is also a bad idea. Most grinders aren't airtight, and besides causing coffee to go stale more quickly, it can also cause oil to build up inside the grinder. Storing it in your grinder doesn't make sense if you like to drink more than one kind; different coffees will inevitably mix in the grinder, making it harder to adjust to differing grind sizes.
Myths aside, there are a few very simple things you can do—and avoid—to make sure your coffee stays fresh.
Buy the Right Amount of Coffee
"The number-one golden rule of coffee storage is to not have too much to store in the first place," says Michael. "Make sure you're buying in small enough quantities so that you can use your coffee before it loses freshness."
For some, this means learning how to strike the balance between buying new beans every day, and buying so much you have to wait days, or weeks, before buying more. While there's nothing wrong with buying a lot of coffee at once, doing so means you have to come up with an elaborate container system to keep all of it fresh. This is a lot more complicated than buying only as much coffee as you need at a time, "unless you have fancy, high-tech equipment like we use for Perfectly Ground," says Michael.
"For the average person storing coffee at home," he goes on, "you're not necessarily buying it just by the cup. But if you keep your amounts small, you won't have to worry about wasting coffee."
Use Airtight and Lightproof Containers
"My recommendation for most people," says Michael, "is that they have an airtight storage container, weigh out the amount of coffee they want to use for a cup, and put it in the grinder to be ground."
Blue Bottle Coffee bags aren't hermetically sealed, but airtight containers—like mason jars, repurposed bottles, or a sealable plastic bag—are easy to come by.
While most of these will work to keep out air, if they're translucent, they are permitting light to get to your coffee. You can either store one of these containers in a place that's consistently dark, like a cupboard or a pantry, or you can find a container that's lightproof as well as airtight.
However you do it, abide by these three principles, and your homemade coffee will always be delicious.


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The opportunity to participate in a study abroad program, for a few weeks or for an entire year, can be a life changing experience. A program devoted to Anthropology can be especially rewarding. There is really no substitute for experiencing anthropology in the field. Department faculty offer a variety of opportunities abroad from time to time. Current opportunities include:
- Brazil Anthropology: Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Peoples
- Iceland:The NABO Gufuskaler Historical Ecology Fieldschool
- Ireland: The Archaeology of Ireland's Early Modern Period
The University of Maryland also offers a variety of year long, semester long, winter term, summer term, and spring break study abroad activities throughout the world. With advance approval, students can also participate in study abroad programs that are offered by other universities in the U.S. and abroad. Opportunities are available for students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Visit the Education Abroad website for more detailed information and program descriptions:
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1999 Oldenburg Stallion
SOPRANO, formerly Blue Hors Soprano ridden by Andreas Helgstrand, is a striking, modern, 17.1 h, homozygous black
stallion with proven world class performance bloodlines inherent in his pedigree. Possessing correct conformation and three excellent basic gaits that exhibit energy, activity, suspension, and elasticity, his ground covering, movement is effortless and impressive.
SOPRANO's pedigree demonstrates great depth and versatility. His sire, the legendary 1999 World Young Horse Champion and Bundeschampianate SANDRO HIT, passes on to his progeny the genes of numerous influential stallions. SANDRO HIT's sire, SANDRO SONG, a double graded champion in Oldenburg, is by SANDRO, an international show jumper who won the Danish Derby ridden by Franke Sloothaak. WELT AS, in SANDRO HIT's third generation, is famous for siring Anke Van Grunsven's Olympic Dressage Champion Bonfire and many other top horses.
SOPRANO'S damsire, the legendary CONTENDER, who won his 100 day test, is one of the most significant sires in Germany. CONTENDER's progeny are characterized by outstanding jumping ability, very good movement, and excellent rideability. SOPRANO's mare line (The Flattopia) produced many international stars such as dressage horse Rubioso ridden by Ellen Bontje; Lord Kem (Champion Stallion in 1989); Continue; Maffay; Calmiro; and Farmer.
Standing at Olde Country Farm.


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Background: The Wider Approach
The 'wider approach' enables Reporting Financial Institutions to capture and maintain information on the tax residence of Account Holders irrespective of whether or not that Account Holder is a reportable person for any given reportable period. The due diligence procedures in each of the agreements governing automatic exchange are designed to identify accounts which are held by the residents of the jurisdictions with which the UK is committed to exchange information. However, the number of these jurisdictions is not fixed and there is an expectation that under the CRS more jurisdictions will reach agreement with the UK over time. As a result, the regulations applying the due diligence rules have been designed to adopt a wider approach to recording the territory in which a person is tax resident irrespective of whether that territory is a Reportable Jurisdiction at the time that the regulations come into force.
Financial Institutions are required to identify the territory in which an Account Holder or a Controlling Person is resident for income tax or corporation tax purposes, or for the purposes of any other tax of a similar character that has been imposed by that territory. They are also required to maintain this information for a period of 5 years from the end of the period in which the account was last included in a return, or 5 years from the end of the period in which the due diligence process was last relied upon to treat the account as not being reportable. This effectively enables the financial institution to 'future proof' their processes such that when a new jurisdiction is added to the list of Reportable Jurisdictions the work in identifying where existing customers are resident has already been carried out. Reducing the number of times that due diligence processes have to be carried out should result in lower costs for the Financial Institutions in complying with their obligations. Financial Institutions will only need to revisit the determination of tax residence in those cases where there has been a change of circumstance.
The main concern is to provide Financial Institutions with the legal cover they require in the context of data protection law. The regulations impose an obligation on Financial Institutions without any discretion on their part to collect this information. In such circumstances it is the legislator that must consider the question of proportionality for Data Protection Act purposes. The obligation to identify the territory in which an Account Holder is tax resident and to maintain that information for 5 years from the end of the period in which the account was last included in a return, or 5 years from the end of the period in which the due diligence was last relied upon to treat the account as not being reportable, provides the necessary data protection cover for financial institutions to comply with their obligations. Financial Institutions are permitted to apply the same due diligence standards that are required to be applied to Account Holders resident in a reportable CRS jurisdiction to all Account Holders regardless of country of residence. This includes collecting information on country of residence and TINs for Account Holders, and entity classification, if relevant.


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Fermentation is central to Japanese cuisine 0
One of the first things you'll notice about Japanese cuisine is that most meals conclude with a small portion of rice and fermented vegetables, or tsukemono, as they're called in Japan. In fact, last night, we met up with one of my husband's former Japanese colleagues for dinner in Tokyo, and as the meal was ending, he insisted that we finish the meal with at least a small portion of rice and fermented vegetables. The meal just wouldn't be complete otherwise, he explained.
Tsukemono encompasses a wide variety of fermented foods, but it typically refers to fermented vegetables. When exploring any grocery store in Japan, you'll find an extensive and colorful selection of fermented vegetables, some packaged and some out in the open actively fermenting. Also, most food markets will usually have at least a few vendors whose specialty is fermentation. These vendors often have an assortment of fermented items for customers to sample prior to making a purchase.
The Nishiki market in Kyoto (below) has a wide variety of vegetables that are in the midst of the fermentation process in open-air barrels. The light brown, gritty-looking ingredient covering the vegetables is brown rice bran, which happens to be the bran that is left behind when white rice is polished.
Here is another vendor's fermented vegetable offerings at the Nishiki market.
This particular vendor, also at the Nishiki market, had a welcoming tray of fermented vegetables for customers to sample.
Chemically speaking, what exactly happens when a food is fermented?
Let's start with a simple example. If we were to ferment daikon, we're taking naturally occurring starches, sugars and carbs in that daikon, and we're converting them into lactic acid, using three things: a starter, time and a lack of oxygen, or anaerobic conditions. In the case of daikon, the "starter" happens to be bacteria that is naturally occurring in the vegetable. In some cases, a starter in the form of a controlled yeast or bacteria is introduced to kickstart the fermentation process.
The fermented soy bean is fundamental to Japanese cuisine and manifests itself in an array of food products.
Fermented vegetables and beans have been a part of Japanese cuisine for centuries. In fact, common ingredients, such as soy sauce and miso are fermented versions of soy beans. Natto, a distinctly Japanese fermented food, is just another version of the fermented soy bean. The difference is that natto is fermented using the starter culture, Bacillus subtilis whereas miso, soy sauce, sake, shochu, vinegar and mirin are fermented using the fungus, Aspergillus oryzae, or koji, as it is called in Japan.
Fermentation has a little something to do with that fifth flavor called umami.
When koji is used as the starter, proteins are broken down to produce amino acids, including glutamate. It is through glutamate receptors that we are able to taste "umami," one of the five tastes. Unlike our taste receptors for sweet, sour, salty and bitter foods, foods with umami have a savory taste. However, it's important to note that when translated directly from kanji characters, "umami" means "delicious taste."
Beyond the typical soy bean-based fermented Japanese products mentioned above, you'll find an array of vegetable-based fermented foods readily accessible throughout Japan and incorporated into breakfast, lunch and dinner. Other vegetables that are commonly fermented in Japan include carrots, different varieties of cabbage, beets, bamboo, radish, ume (Japanese plum), burdock root, lotus root and eggplant.
Today for lunch, my cold soba was served with a small dish of fermented red cabbage, hakusai (Napa cabbage) and cucumber (below).
The fermented daikon and ume onigiri below (triangular shaped rice filled with ume and wrapped with seaweed) were served alongside an udon lunch set.
Many locals will tell you that they start their day with a breakfast of rice and fermented vegetables, such as the breakfast pictured below. Natto tends to be a popular fermented breakfast item.
So why should I consider adding fermented foods to my diet?
In summary, while fermented foods are by no means a cure-all, here are three key health benefits that you can enjoy when incorporating small amounts of fermented foods into a nutrient-rich, plant-based diet:
- Support the immune and lymphatic systems through the production of amino acids, probiotics, isoflavones and essential enzymes
- Help to breakdown the fermented food before it enters our digestive system, thus aiding the digestive process and maximizing nutrient absorption
- Promote increased regularity by helping the gut to get rid of waste. A culinary instructor at the Natural Gourmet Institute in NYC put it rather simply, "the goal here is to strengthen the food entry and exit process."
Interested in fermenting your own vegetables at home?
Even though the selection of prepared plant-based fermented products might be limited to pickles, sauerkraut and kombucha in the U.S. and Europe, the great thing is that you can easily ferment your own vegetables at home. Check out The Art of Fermentation for in-depth reading on the topic. If you're looking for some easy-to-follow recipes, Wild Fermentation is a great place to start.