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A candlelight vigil in memory of Carly Ferro was held Thursday evening on the front lawn of Rutland High School where Ferro was a student.A hundred or more students, teachers and administrators gathered in front of Rutland High School tonight to honor one of their own, Carly Ferro.
Ferro was killed Wednesday night as she walked out of work at the Discount Food Store & Liquidation Center on Cleveland Avenue and toward her father Ron Ferro in his car, as he waited parked in the parking lot for his daughter to finish.
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U.S. Imposes Sanctions on China, North Korea
Yang, Jonathan, Arms Control Today
IN JULY, PAULA DeSutter, U.S. assistant secretary of state for verification and compliance, testified that China has so far failed to implement and enforce acceptable export controls. Meanwhile, the United States imposed sanctions on five Chinese companies for exporting materials that could be used for producing weapons of mass destruction or missiles.
DeSutter told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission-an advisory body that reports to Congress-during a July 24 hearing that China is not doing enough to enforce its missile nonproliferation commitments. The State Department has repeatedly accused Chinese state-owned companies of transferring missile technology to countries such as Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, and Libya. China often defends the companies, denying the alleged proliferation activities occurred.
In 2002, China issued new export control laws aimed at curbing the spread of biological and chemical weapons technology and missiles and related technologies. (See ACT, November 2002.) DeSutter, however, said that China is not living up to the commitment it has made on paper. China is not properly enforcing its borders, and "it must establish a system of end-use verification checks to ensure that items approved for transfer are not diverted," she stated.
Meanwhile, on July 3 the United States imposed sanctions on one North Korean and five Chinese companies for exporting materials to Iran that could be used for weapons of mass destruction programs. According to the sanctions, the exports occurred during the first half of 2002. The sanctions, imposed pursuant to the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000, took effect June 26 and will last for two years. The sanctions limit the dealings that these entities may have with the United States.
Additionally, the North Korean company-Changgwang Sinyong Corporation-was sanctioned July 25 pursuant to the 1976 Arms Export Control Act and the 1979 Export Administration Act (EAA); those sanctions last three years and eight months. …


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Arizona Cardinals: Former NFL quarterback Byron Leftwich and former NFL cornerback Willie Williams have joined the Cardinals staff as a coaching interns. Both were Steelers players when Bruce Arians was an assistant in Pittsburgh. They will be with the Cardinals through training camp.
Philadelphia Eagles: The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the Eagles are expected to name Bears scout Joe Douglas for their head personnel job. Douglas interviewed last week. He's spent one year with the Bears after 15 with the Ravens.
San Diego Chargers: The Chargers are restructuring the front office and scouting staff, and at least one unnamed scout will not return, according to Fox Sports' Alex Marvez.
Open jobs: There are still two open FBS assistant jobs.
Delaware: Cornerbacks coach Henry Baker has been selected for the Bill Walsh Minority Fellowship Program with the New York Giants. Baker has been at Delaware since 2011.
South Carolina: Former South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore has joined the staff at Heathwood Hall (SC) as an offensive assistant and B-team head coach, according to The State. Lattimore had planned to join the Gamecocks staff in an off-field role, but the NCAA wouldn't allow it.
Houston: Alabama director of ticketing Peter Heim has joined Houston as associate athletic director for ticket sales and operations, according to the Houston Chronicle. Heim spent one year at Alabama and previously spent six years at Duke.
Houston Texans: Area scout Rob Kisiel has been promoted to national scout, following the retirement of national scout Ed Lambert, according to the Houston Chronicle. Kiesel has been with the Texans since 2012 in his second stint. In addition, former Patriots area scout Frantzy Jourdain has been named Texans southeast area scout. Jourdain worked for the Patriots from 2003-16.
Arkansas-Monticello: Per source, Cordova High School (TN) defensive coordinator / defensive backs coach Dominique Bowman has joined the Arkansas-Monticello staff as defensive backs coach.
Hamilton Tiger-Cats: McMaster University (Canada) head coach Stefan Ptaszek has been named offensive coordinator for the Tiger-Cats. Ptaszek has spent the last 10 seasons at McMaster.
Nicholls State (LA): Louisiana College defensive line coach Brock Hays has accepted the running backs job at Nicholls State, according to Sports Illustrated's Thayer Evans. Hays spent one season at Louisiana College.
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SEC: There are 16 new coordinators in the SEC for 2016. Here's a breakdown of the changes.
NFL: Former News Corp Chief of Staff Natalie Ravitz has joined the NFL as senior vice president of communications, according to Politico. Ravitz worked at News Corp from 2012-15.
New Mexico State: NMSU will be a football independent after its Sun Belt membership expires in 2017, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News. Idaho announced last week it will drop to FCS when it leaves the Sun Belt.
Alabama: Nick Saban said Thursday he has interviewed multiple candidates for the defensive line job, but didn't indicate a hire would be made official soon. AL.com reported last week that former NFL defensive line coach Karl Dunbar is expected to get the job.
Southeastern University (FL): Per source, former SMU graduate assistant A.J. Smith has joined the Southeastern staff as quarterbacks coach. Smith worked at SMU in 2014 and previously worked at Louisiana-Lafayette and Northwestern State.
Virginia State: Sidney Lanier High School (AL) head coach Reggie Barlow has accepted the head coaching job at Virginia State. Barlow was Alabama State's head coach from 2007-14. He became the head coach at G.W. Carver High School (GA) in January, but later moved to Sidney Lanier.
Detroit Lions: Kansas City Chiefs regional scout Jay Muraco has joined the Lions as a regional scout. Muraco spent the past four years with the Chiefs and previously worked with Bob Quinn with the Patriots. In addition, former Wofford on-campus recruiting coordinator Steve Neal has been named BLESTO scout with the Lions. Neal is a former assistant at Wayne State (MI).
Trinity Bible College (ND): University Christian School (FL) inside linebackers coach Darren Jackson has been named head coach at Trinity Bible. Jackson spent one season at University Christian and previously coached at The Apprentice School (VA).
Southern Illinois: Warhill High School (VA) assistant Carl Franks has joined the Southern Illinois staff as cornerbacks coach. Franks coached with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2013, coached at Western Illinois from 2009-11 and has also coached at Northern Arizona, Utah State and Montana.
Detroit Lions: BLESTO scout Alan Anderson has been promoted to area scout, according to MLive. Anderson joined the Lions in 2010 and spent three seasons as a pro personnel assistant before promotion to scouting.
Arizona Cardinals: Bruce Arians tells The Arizona Republic that he doesn't know how much longer he will coach, but the Cardinals job will be his last job. Arians is 34-14 in three seasons with the Cardinals.
Texas: The school will begin a search for a permanent athletic director in the fall, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Mike Perrin has been the interim AD since last fall. It's unknown if Texas will use a search firm.
NFL: Head of security Jeff Miller will leave the league at the end of the month, according to CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora. Miller has been with the NFL since 2008.
Missouri: Barry Odom says defensive coordinator DeMontie Cross will have full control of the defense and call plays.
Tennessee Titans: Panthers assistant college scouting director Ryan Cowden has accepted the director of player personnel job with the Titans, according to the Charlotte Observer. Cowden had been with the Panthers since 2000.
Carolina Panthers: College scout John Peterson will retire, according to the Charlotte Observer. The 67-year-old Peterson has been with the Panthers since 2008 and has been in football for four decades, including stints as head coach at Frostburg State and Bemidji State.
Mississippi State: Dan Mullen tells the Daily Journal that he has "no intention of ever leaving" Mississippi State. Mullen is 55-35 in seven seasons at MSU.
Tennessee Titans: Scouts Mike Yowarsky and Marv Sunderland will not return, according to ESPN. Yowarsky spent the last three seasons with the Titans. Sunderland spent the past nine with the Titans and has scouted for nearly 40 years.
San Francisco 49ers: ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer shot down rumors he could join the 49ers organization. Dilfer is expected to leave ESPN, but he tells the San Jose Mercury-News that he plans to continue in broadcasting.
Kentucky: Charlotte tight ends / assistant head coach Dean Hood has declined an offer to join the Kentucky staff, according to WKYT. Hood joined Charlotte in December and spent the previous eight seasons as Eastern Kentucky head coach. Keep track of open FBS assistant jobs here.
Stonehill (MA): Head coach Robert Talley has stepped down after nine seasons and accepted a job at California State Chico as director of development for the athletic department. Talley posted a record of 48-46. Defensive coordinator / defensive backs / assistant head coach Eli Gardner has taken over as interim head coach.
Montana State: New athletic director Kyle Brennan will earn $185,000 annually, according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Previous AD Peter Fields earned $155,000.


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Definition of Shanks's pony in English:
Shanks's pony
(North American also Shanks's mare)
Used to refer to one's own legs and the action of walking as a means of conveyance: you can use the chairlifts, cable cars, or the ever trusty Shanks's pony! 'How do I get back?' 'Shanks's pony,' he replied
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- Surely one might expect the health minister himself to practice what he preaches to those of us who are not blessed with a personal chauffeur: extensive use of Shanks's pony.
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SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- The financial regulator said Tuesday it will put more highly-indebted large firms on the watch list next year to prevent sudden corporate failure following the collapse of some major conglomerates here.
The Financial Services Commission (FSC) said by February 2014 it will lower the lending threshold that classifies a big enterprise as a primary debtor.
A primary debtor refers to a large company with the amount of bank loans equivalent to 0.1 percent of the total lending by local financial institutions.
Under FSC's plans, the loan threshold will be lowered to 0.075 percent to include most likely another 15 firms on the watch list.
The FSC picks the list of primary debtor companies every year, with 30 large firms selected in April for the 2013 list.
If qualified, a debtor company is placed under constant watch by its creditor banks, which can instruct the firm to take measures to reduce debts.
The regulator's move came as South Korea has seen a spate of unexpected defaults by a major conglomerate since last year, with the latest default by Tong Yang Group rattling the local financial market and inflicting heavy losses on individual investors.
The 38th-largest firm in Korea has been placed under debt restructuring after it failed to repay its debts in late September. That came only months after STX Group, the 13th-biggest conglomerate, went under in April on cash shortages.
Following the bankruptcies, it became a matter of the utmost importance for the financial authorities to overhaul the corporate debtors since they faced criticism that the list doesn't reflect the companies' finances that entail potential and imminent risks.
As part of efforts to beef up the system, the regulator will also push for requiring debtor companies to post details on their borrowings they raised through direct financing such as commercial papers.
Until now, any types of debt other than bank loans were excluded from the regulator's evaluation on the primary debtor companies.
The FSC will also create a secondary corporate watch list, besides the primary debtors, as a potential debtors group that may need a preliminary assessment by creditor banks to prevent a worsening in their finances, according to the regulator.
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New Baltimore, Virginia is a suburban unincorporated community located in eastern Fauquier County, Virginia. Although the community has existed since the early 19th century, it has had its most significant growth since the 1980s. It is the portion of Fauquier County with the easiest access to Washington, DC and, as a result, many people who live in New Baltimore commute into DC. Other major communities close to New Baltimore are Warrenton, Gainesville/Haymarket area, and Manassas. The area officially considered to be New Baltimore expanded significantly in 2006 with Fauquier County's designation of service districts, of which New Baltimore is one. The service district designation provides added access to utilities such as water and sewer, and targets the area for growth.
Historically, the original New Baltimore, which is northwest of and slightly off the highway from what is generally currently considered New Baltimore, was a thriving early 19th century community which is only a shadow of its past. The original New Baltimore was an incorporated town dependent on what was then known as Alexandria Turnpike, now known as Lee Highway, which went right through it. When Lee Highway was routed around New Baltimore in the early 20th century, the town became just an enclave of houses from varying periods. The original central point of the town, James Hampton's Tavern, built 1823, still stands at the intersection of Old Alexandria Turnpike and Georgetown Road. It is currently a private residence.
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Tokyo Game Show
The Tokyo Game Show is an annual trade show for video game developers held at Makuhari Messe convention center just outside of Tokyo. Held since 1996, it is one of the world's biggest game shows, which companies use as a venue to launch new products and show off their latest innovations and technology. The show is held over four days. The first two days are business days for invited members of the industry and media, while the third and fourth day are open to the general public.
Throughout the trade show you can see the latest game debuts and trailers, as well as try out the newest demos from your favorite developers such as Sony, Microsoft, Konami and Square Enix. Although Nintendo does not attend the Tokyo Game Show (until 2001 they held their own trade show, and since then debut their new products at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles), they are well represented by the many game developers that create games for Nintendo platforms.
The Tokyo Game Show is split up into different areas:
Developers' Area
The trade show is attended by many big names in the video game business including Sony, Microsoft, Konami, Sega, etc. Each company sets up a booth to show off their products, with the larger companies setting up extravagant booths with stages, huge movie screens, live shows, playable demos, trailers and celebrity appearances. For those looking to discover new games by lesser known developers, independent game developers also have an area where they can showcase their games of all platforms.
Mobile Content
A number of developers show off products designed specifically for mobile platforms such as cell phones and smart phones. Additionally, the three major cell phone companies (Docomo, au and Softbank) each have booths in the Developers' Area where you can try the latest in mobile phone gaming.
Game School Area
The Game School Area features booths by a number of Japanese universities and colleges which have programs in animation, digital art, computer programming and other fields related to the video game industry. The displays at their booths show off their teaching programs and students' work.
Sales Area
The sales area contains a number of shops of game developers as well as merchandising companies that sell anime and video game related products such as character merchandise, souvenirs and costumes.
In addition to the areas mentioned above, the Tokyo Game Show also has a Kids' Area with content aimed at children including video games, a play area and a live stage. There is also an Overseas Pavilion where developers from all over the world have booths. The Tokyo Game Show is also known for its booth girls who often dress in costumes to promote the different games.


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MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK — Rescuers on Mount Rainier spent a third day Saturday searching for well-known, 70-year-old outdoors writer Karen Sykes, who hasn't been seen since she separated from her hiking partner on Wednesday.
The National Park Service said six ground crews, including two dog teams, were combing an expanded search area near the Owyhigh Lakes Trail on Rainier's east side. Rescuers also searched by air.
Sykes was reportedly working on a story when she and her partner encountered snow at about 5,000 feet. Her partner stayed as she went on, with the idea that they'd reconvene, but she never turned up.
The partner, who made it safely back to the trailhead, reported her missing at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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Sykes had adequate survival gear to camp overnight in an emergency, said Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman Patti Wold.
Her friends remained anxious but hopeful that searchers will find her safely sheltered.
Safety concerns for Sykes and search crews include snow bridges, tree wells and steep, wet, slippery terrain, Wold said. A searcher was hurt Thursday when he punched through a snow bridge and was airlifted out of the search area.
Sykes is well-known in the Northwest hiking community and has written numerous hiking stories for online publications and newspapers, including The Seattle Times. She is also a photographer and has written or collaborated on more than one hiking guide.
Her disappearance comes weeks after six climbers are believed to have fallen to their deaths while attempting to climb a challenging route to the summit of the 14,410-foot peak southeast of Seattle.
Close friend Lola Kemp had planned to hike with Sykes this weekend.
"She is the guru of trails," Kemp said Friday in an email, adding that Sykes hiked at least twice a week and has a background in climbing and scrambling. "I find it difficult to imagine that she would get lost. I think it's more likely she's injured and waiting, perhaps impatiently, to be rescued."
Greg Johnston, a former outdoors writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, described Sykes as an avid, strong hiker who knew the mountain extremely well.
"She's the last person anyone would expect to get lost, particularly on Mount Rainier," said Johnston, who recruited Sykes to write a weekly hiking feature for that newspaper, which ran for more than a decade. "If anybody can survive it, it's her. She's really tough and really savvy."


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Meilani Turns One Month Old!
Happy one month to my angel! For my baby's one month birthday we decided to go visit Roger's family in Maine aka paradise! Meilani got to meet her cousins and grandparents and all of Roger's family! It was her first road trip and she was perfect throughout the entire trip! She is such a daddy's girl and when we go to dinner she loves cuddling with Roger in his hoodie, which I call a makeshift kangaroo pouch, LOL!!! Life couldn't get any better, LOVE MY LITTLE PEANUT!!!


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By Alexandra Burlacu | Feb 12, 2014 08:12 AM EST
Google is reportedly pushing OEMs to use more recent versions of Android for their devices if they want Google Play support.
In an apparent bid to gain more control over its popular operating system, Google is now taking more steps to ensure newer versions of Android are being used. While Android is currently the most popular operating system, its fragmentation is a well-known issue and Google is making efforts to reduce it.
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Just last month, news emerged that Google urged Samsung to tone down its custom Android user interface (UI) and apps, leaving more room for Android. It now looks like the company is moving a step forward with its Android push.
According to a new report from Android Police, Google is pressuring OEMs to use newer versions of Android, if not the latest version, on their new devices. Google's new policy reportedly states that in order to qualify for Google Mobile Services (GMS), aka Google Apps, OEMs should preload the most recent version of Android out of the box on new devices.
If this report proves to be accurate, Google will no longer authorize devices running OS versions older than Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Android Police points out that OEMs will no longer be allowed to launch devices running Android 4.2 after April 2014, or devices running Android 4.3 after July 2014.
"Each platform release will have a 'GMS approval window' that typically closes nine months after the next Android platform release is publicly available. (In other words, we all have none months to get new products on the latest platform after its public release)," reads a purported memo cited in the report.
While OEMs may not be very pleased with Google's decision to force their hand into using newer versions of Android, this move should considerably help reduce Android fragmentation. Mid-tier and high-end devices already ship with recent versions of Android, but low-end, budget handsets are usually a few OS versions behind. With this new policy, low-end device makers will have to come up with devices past Ice Cream Sandwich if they want Google Play support, which would greatly benefit end users.
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Fresh Fruit With Vanilla Cream Recipe
For a simply pleasing dessert, nothing beats this tempting treat of fresh fruit topped with cream. Each bite is absolutely irresistible.
- 4 cups fresh fruit (raspberries, blueberries, strawberries and/or peaches)
- 1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 to 3 tablespoons half-and-half cream
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon orange or almond extract
- 1. Place fruit in a serving bowl or individual dessert dishes. Using a whisk, mix the cream cheese and confectioners' sugar. Gradually add cream and extracts; stir until smooth. Pour over fruit. Yield: 4-6 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1 each) equals 126 calories, 6 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 18 mg cholesterol, 49 mg sodium, 18 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 2 g protein.
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Wine Pairings
Sweet White Wine
Enjoy this recipe with a sweet white wine such as Moscato or a sweet Riesling.
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The health benefits of taking Sodium Ascorbate are remarkable and have far reaching implications for many health conditions. Following a Sodium Ascorbate regime over a period of around 12 months or so, will tend to completely rebuild the structural integrity of your body via collagen renewal.
This includes your arteries thus reversing the development atherosclerotic disease, helping to prevent heart attack, also resolving hardening or blocking of the arteries and helping to prevent stroke due to arterial or vascular rupture. In addition sodium ascorbate has a leading role to play in the elimination of chronic and acute infections.
Why do we need Sodium Ascorbate?
The GLO Gene is absent in many people, scientists believe that this happened around 60 million years ago. The absence of this gene makes us unable to biosynthesise a specific enzyme L- gulonolactone oxidase. This is an end stage liver enzyme that bio-converts blood glucose to Ascorbate, this means our bodies cannot produce any Ascorbate. In the long term, a lack of Ascorbate causes our bones to dissolve and teeth to fall out - in other words sub-clinical scurvy and a tendency to development of cancer.
Ascorbic Acid has mistakenly been called Vitamin C - it is actually a liver metabolite rather than a vitamin. It is produced in large quantities in almost all animals, e.g. 6 grams a day in a goat, or up to 100grams daily if the goat is stressed. But it is not Ascorbic Acid that our body requires, rather a SALT of Ascorbic Acid.
A daily supplementation of Ascorbate several times a day is a simple way to make up for this genetic defect.
Ascorbate is also essential for the hydroxylation of the amino acid Proline which forms hydroxyproline - a major component of collagen. Collagen is an essential structural protein in the body accounting for around a quarter of all the protein in our bodies and is critical to the structural integrity of our bodies.
Linus Pauling PhD (Twice Nobel Laureate) stated "It is highly probable that most people in the world would only receive 1- 2% of the amounts of Ascorbate that would keep them in the best of health".
In the 1970s, Dr Irwin stone released a classic book "The Healing Factor - Vitamin C Against Disease" - this is unfortunately no longer in print. Dr stone dedicated his life to researching the benefits of multi-gram consumption of Ascorbate and was the author of over 120 scientific papers including over 50 on Vitamin C. He received many awards and honours during his lifetime.
In the 80s he published a paper "Scurvy, the most misunderstood epidemic Disease in 20th Century Medicine", this paper has considerable implications for cancer patients. "Because of the poor and inadequate full correction of the human defective gene for GLO (too little Ascorbate daily intake), every cancer victim was born scorbutic, after a 9 month intrauterine bout with scurvy.
This poor correction, due to grossly inadequate daily intakes of Ascorbate, continues throughout the lifetime of the victims, exposing them constantly to the deleterious physiological insults of Chronic Sub clinical Scurvy (the CSS Syndrome). This is a large factor in the genesis of the cancer.
How Much Sodium Ascorbate is Required?
Every individual is different; the amount will depend on personal physiology. Everyone has an ideal dose that will be discovered through an element of trial and error. By ingesting a series of incremental does every four hours, your body will reach a tolerance level known as the Bowel Tolerance Threshold.
This is a state where the tissue cells have become fully saturated with the maximum amount needed for the body to heal itself. The Bowel Tolerance Threshold is not diarrhoea as it is not acidic and will not create the burning associated with diarrhoea. At this point, the dose is reduced by small amounts to come below the threshold.
We recommend that you begin with half a teaspoon (approx 1 gm); each subsequent does should be increased by a further half teaspoon. The increases should not exceed this amount.
The four hourly regime does not need to be continued during the night, simply begin again in the morning. This regime can be followed preventatively for long term tissue and organ healing.
The following people should take Ascorbic Acid instead of Sodium Ascorbate:
It is a myth that Sodium per se will raise blood pressure, but for a very small minority of people who are truly hypertensive, sodium MAY raise blood pressure, dependant on many factors including the ratio to potassium, in such cases ascorbic acid can be taken instead of the salt of ascorbic acid. It should be noted that sodium ascorbate contains only 10% sodium.
Anyone deficient in Gastric HCI (stomach acid) (if taking more than approx 3 grams a day).
Anyone diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure.
** An interesting question arises when researching sodium ascorbate, how much are our various health disorders underpinned by chronic ascorbate deficiency and related metabolic stress?
Relation of Sodium Ascorbate and other forms of ascorbate to bioflavonoids:
Bioflavanoids work with pure vitamin c (ascorbate in various forms) to produce more and more complete anti-oxidant. It would seem logical that the addition of sources of bioflavonoids to the diet or as a supplement with complement and broaden the action of sodium ascorbate.
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More than 10 years ago, a man accused of shaking a baby, causing injuries that killed her, left Franklin before police could put him in handcuffs.
Officers spoke to family members to find out where he had gone. They checked with his friends. Police investigated tips that came in after he was featured on an episode of "America's Most Wanted." But Raul Ortiz Gonzalez has never been located, and police believe he might have fled to Mexico.
The prosecutor filed a single charge of battery causing death, and an arrest warrant was issued in March 2003. Gonzalez is one of more than 3,500 people police have warrants for who have not been arrested.
The number of homes police will visit, family members they will interview or hours they will spend searching Facebook will vary depending on the type of crime someone has been charged with.
The majority of people wanted on warrants — more than 3,000 — have been charged with misdemeanor crimes, such as battery or driving while intoxicated.
If a person isn't at the address on the warrant or police don't have a good idea where they work or are staying, the search might end. If they continue to break the law, they'll be arrested on another charge or when they're stopped for speeding or failing to use a turn signal.
For a more serious crime, police will seek out relatives and friends, monitor social media and enlist the help of the U.S. Marshals Service. Just because someone leaves the city, state or country doesn't mean police will never find them.
In 2006, Greenwood police weren't able to arrest a man charged with child molesting before he fled to Sweden, then China.
Detectives knew he was overseas but couldn't make any headway in getting him brought back until the headmaster at a Chinese school noticed something odd about the man, searched his name on the Internet and discovered he was a registered sex offender, Detective Patti Cummings said.
That started a process with the U.S. Marshals, leading to the man being deported and sent back to the U.S., where he was arrested the minute he landed in the country, she said.
"Being on the run is very expensive. You have to have a support network, and that's typically your family and friends. With cellphones with GPS and all that, social media, there's a lot more ways to track someone," Greenwood Assistant Police Chief Matt Fillenwarth said.
Detectives start by checking the last known address, which is listed on the warrant. If the person isn't there, police may come back later in case the resident they spoke to is not telling the truth, or they may try to get more information on places the suspect might have gone, Sheriff Doug Cox said.
If it's not a serious crime, such as child molesting or an incident where someone was badly hurt or killed, that may be the end of the search if officers can't find the person. Police don't have enough officers to track every single case, and they expect the suspect will eventually be caught.
That means thousands of people wanted for criminal charges continue to live free. But if they continue to break the law, they'll eventually be sent back to face the original charge, Fillenwarth said.
"There are too many. But typically if they present an immediate risk to people, you don't really sit down until you find them," he said.
When a warrant is issued, whether it's for missing a court hearing or being charged with a serious felony, each is entered into police databases for both the state and National Crime Information Center, Cox said.
Any officer who checks that person's ID for a traffic stop, another arrest or even if they call to report a crime can see that the person is wanted in Johnson County, he said. For the most serious felonies, the warrants never expire. The county has a warrant for a woman charged with burglary and theft from August 1991, for example.
"Wherever they go, wherever they run, they'll still get that kickback, that they're wanted, on us," he said.
Nationwide reporting helps police find people long after police have given up the search or last track of a person, such as Gonzalez. Police have his fingerprints on file, but Gonzalez was in the country illegally, so he doesn't have the same kind of documents such as a Social Security number that would make it easier to find a U.S. citizen, Ketchum said.
Police don't know where he went and have no new leads, but his warrant from 2003 remains on file so if he is ever found in the U.S. again, he'll be brought back to Franklin, he said.
"Whenever we hear about it or see a family member, and we're reminded of how awful we feel about the crime itself and that he fled the area before we could arrest him. Any case involving serious injury or death would certainly qualify as one we would constantly be open to tracking down any leads or information that might come in," Ketchum said.
Police believe Gonzalez went to Mexico, which makes it more difficult to track him because it is across an international border. Communicating across international lines is one challenge, but a warrant issued by one country isn't valid in another, so even if detectives found him, the U.S. Marshals office would have to work with Mexican authorities to investigate and send him back.
Within the U.S., police departments will cooperate with each other if they get a tip about a wanted person, Cox said. An investigator might call a city in another state and give them an address where a person might be staying, and those officers will go check it out, he said.
The sheriff's office will make long trips to pick up people facing serious charges in Johnson County from other states. Last year, two corrections officers drove to Alabama to pick up a man wanted on a charge of sexual misconduct with a minor, and in another case officers flew to Wyoming to get a man wanted for a probation violation.
Catching a person states away from where they are wanted doesn't always mean they'll be sent back to go to court, though.
Distance can be a factor, depending on the charge. Some states won't extradite, or transport, a criminal found in Johnson County if it's too far away.
For example, a Johnson County deputy stopped a couple who were wanted for burglary in Utah, but the prosecutor in Utah didn't want to pay to travel to Indiana to pick them up, so the deputy had to let them go, Cox said. A short time later, police arrested the couple, who were accused of breaking into houses here, he said.
"That's a problem they're leaving for us. A few days later they're out here burglarizing our district," Cox said. "We've seen this quite often where states will not extradite people that are wanted."


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God Fettered in Jail? Heschel, Rilke, and the "Vollendung"
Coetsier, Meins G. S., Modern Age
There was never a time in which individual expression was so much in evidence. Over the past decade, mass media and the Internet have played a major role in world politics: MSN, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and the wide-ranging blogosphere have not only altered election campaigns but also pushed the integration of technology into the process of field organizing, affecting Western politics significantly. As the first American president with a Facebook page and a YouTube channel, Barack Obama has, according to some, successfully integrated technology with a revamped model of political organization that stresses volunteer participation and feedback on a substantial scale. Moreover, that part of ethics that had to do with the regulation and government of a particular nation or state has now become an online stage, a political arena, for worldwide interaction. The preservation of our civilization, its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights, has become not only dependent on but also susceptible to the matrix of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Yet despite ongoing developments of communication technology, there was never a time in which true personal expression was so rarely achieved, in which there was so much pressure to adjust oneself to convention, to media cliches, and to the latest trends, opinions, and similar news flashes. The irony is that in an age of excessive communication, or rather information, we are losing the power for relationship. Since genuine relationship (Martin Buber's "I-Thou"--in German, "Ich-Du") and individual expression provide an answer to an ultimate question, we face an additional predicament in our modern age: we do not hear the ultimate question anymore. (1) There is too much "noise pollution"--a surplus of unwanted data devoid of meaning, an overload of headlines, images, and emotions.
Conversely, the soul or "consciousness"--the "something" in our humanity that is the site and sensorium of the divine presence--has been "silenced." (2) Words are recurrently empty, opaque--that is, literalized to the point of losing their original meaning--or even dead. Consequently the inner life of man is a deserted landscape, a forgotten language waiting to be rediscovered. In addition, if words or symbols are just "artificial signs"; if meaning is but a "contraption," a "piece of equipment"; if there is no echo of experience, of the torment of a fear-ridden world; if man is alone and unaided; and if the world moves in a vacuum, of what ultimate worth is technology and (political) expression? (3)
Modern man is in danger of becoming a forgotten "thing" among things (of dwelling exclusively in Buber's realm of "I-It"--in German, "Ich-Es"), (4) a lost object in space and time. Man's deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair--i.e., "anxietas" (Cicero), "dread" (Kierkegaard), "fear of death" (Hobbes), or "Angst" (Heidegger)--shows how a shift has taken place from the classical experience of joyful participation in a theophany to the hostile alienation from a reality perceived as hiding rather than revealing itself.
Today we might know our desires and feel our whims and our failings, but we do not know our ultimate commitment. We may be conscious of the effect of our actions, but we do not understand what they mean. We stand in awe of many things, yet deep down we do not know what we stand for. God is exiled in the human heart: "fettered in jail." (5) We have lost any appreciation of what could be our highest concern, in Eric Voegelin's terminology--that is, of our ultimate fulfillment in the "divine ground"--because such fulfillment is found not merely through psychological "self-inspection" but also through our rational and spiritual attunement to the One who is concerned with man.
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) are perhaps unlikely figures to associate with the philosophy of Eric Voegelin, but they also seek to find the divine ground. …


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Conclusion: The Role of the
Political Psychiatrist
Lasswell presented positive models for leaders, citizens, and political discourse, but in focusing on the potential pitfalls of these models, most of his analysis centers on the pathologies that can undermine these models. Ultimate goals are neither rational nor irrational, but the concrete objectives that individuals set for themselves—and the strategies they choose to pursue them—may be irrational in terms of achieving the individual's interests, whether selfish or altruistic. Healthy political and policy discourse requires minimizing the irrational. If individuals act contrary to their own interests, the societal impact will often be destructive.
In light of Lasswell's pervasive emphasis on these pitfalls of psychopathology, human destructiveness, and the character deformations caused by deprivation and anxiety, one might be tempted to think of Lasswell as a Jeremiah. Yet, Harvard psychiatrist Miles Shore (2001) called Lasswell "one of the most hopeful and influential political scientists exploring ways in which [political science and psychiatry] might benefit one another" (p. 192).
What accounts for this positive, optimistic assessment of Lasswell as "hopeful"? Shore recognized that in identifying the deepest sources of unproductive, irresponsible, or undemocratic behavior, Lasswell held out the promise of being able to address and rectify these behaviors. He promised that the application of scientific approaches to political psychology would provide freedom from destructive compulsiveness and thereby from destructive behaviors (1951). However, the crucial questions are: How should these behaviors be addressed, and by whose authority? The answer hinges on the concept of self-insight, which is also a key to addressing the controversy over the use of the concept of the unconscious.
In this concluding chapter, we link Lasswell's fundamental diagnosis of political psychopathologies with his prescriptions for minimizing


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This week, scientists at the European Planetary Science Conference (EPSC) in Nantes, France are busy with the mysterious crater structures and fascinating views of the multifaceted dwarf planet Ceres. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is involved in the NASA Dawn mission and, among other things, is responsible for the mapping and naming of regions and striking surface features, in collaboration with the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Shaped like a rubber duck – this was the talk upon the discovery of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's surprising shape in July 2014. Scientists were amazed at the celestial body's extraordinary shape, which was revealed by the European Rosetta spacecraft.
Gas and dust streams from the 'neck' of Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Since its arrival at the comet, Rosetta has observed jets of gas and dust. Numerous gas eruptions have been observed originating from the 'neck' of the comet. Using the measurements performed by the VIRTIS spectrometer, it has been possible to recognise a day/night cycle of cometary activity and identify the mechanism responsible.
Over 60,000 guests visited the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Cologne-Porz site on 20 September 2015 for German Aerospace Day. DLR and the European Space Agency (ESA), together with their partners, exhibited current research projects and missions in the fields of aeronautics, space, energy, transport and security.
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is opening its doors to their laboratories and institutes on German Aerospace Day, offering visitors an insight into the ongoing research. Teaming up with the event partners – the European Space Agency (ESA), Cologne Bonn Airport and the German Air Force – DLR will showcase a major aircraft exhibition alongside the astronaut training facilities in the EAC (European Astronaut Center).
From 9 September 2015, test flights are taking place on three consecutive days in a simulated disaster scenario as part of the EU's 'Driving Innovations in Crisis Management for European Resilience' (DRIVER) project. Harrowing scenes are being simulated in Braunschweig on those days. A major flood has covered a wide area around the Tankumsee, a lake near Gifhorn; surrounding roads are also affected and people are stranded in the water.
The north face of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps is legendary; mountaineers consider the steep walls of the 1800-metre drop to be a difficult and challenging climb. But 326 million kilometres from Earth, the sheer cliffs of the Eiger find their match on the dwarf planet Ceres, where at some points, the wall of the Occator crater towers precipitously at a height of almost 2000 metres.
Nine seconds is not a lot – those who are nine seconds late for an appointment are, so to speak, on time. But when it comes to the rotation of a planet around its own axis, nine seconds is not insignificant. On Mercury, this means that a spot at the equator would, in four years, not be where one would expect it to be; it would have shifted by 700 metres.
Taxi companies, car-sharing providers, company cars – vehicle fleets play an important role when it comes to bringing electromobility to the roads and making it visible. But replacing traditionally fuelled vehicles with electric vehicles must also make sense financially. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have developed an online tool that fleet operators can use to calculate the conditions under which the use of electric vehicles will be worthwhile.
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), together with partners from science and industry, have developed a new method for producing hydrogen from diesel and biodiesel as part of the EU NEMESIS 2+ project. In future, this could be used in areas where decentralised hydrogen production is needed – for example, for filling up fuel cell vehicles, or for processes used within the glass and steel industry. During the project, a prototype was also built and successfully tested – it is the same size as a shipping container and, as such, can be integrated into existing infrastructure with relative ease.
For the next few weeks, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) :envihab research facility will be home to 12 men in good health, aged between 20 and 45 years. The men are test subjects for a long-term bedrest study – they will be confined to bedrest for two months with two weeks of experimental investigations and tests. Their beds will be tilted at an angle of six degrees below the horizontal, so that their bodily fluids shift towards the upper body; the bones and muscles in their lower part of their bodies will lose strength as a result of the lack of movement. "In this way we simulate the effects of microgravity on the human body," says Edwin Mulder, leader of the study and a scientist at the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine, about the study, which is being carried out by DLR on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). "Our volunteers are, so to speak, terrestrial astronauts." Half of the test subjects will undergo reactive jump training several times a week, which involves lying on a specially positioned training device. "We want to see whether this very intensive training can be an effective countermeasure to the deterioration of the bones and muscles."
On 20 September 2015, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and its partners, the European Space Agency (ESA), Cologne/Bonn Airport and the German Air Force, will be hosting German Aerospace Day (Tag der Luft- und Raumfahrt) in Cologne. On the day, DLR researchers will open the doors to their institutes and laboratories and allow the public to take a look at their work. There will also be a major aircraft exhibition, where visitors will be able to see DLR's unique research aircraft, German Air Force aircraft and an Emirates Airbus A380.
The lower the Dawn space probe flies over the dwarf planet Ceres with its on-board camera, the more puzzling – and exciting – the celestial body appears. "Some of the things we are seeing have never been seen anywhere else in the Solar System," says Ralf Jaumann from the German Aerospace Center (DLR). "Except for on Earth." Dawn is now looking down onto the surface of Ceres from an altitude of just 1470 kilometres. The first images acquired from its High Altitude Mapping Orbit (HAMO) show a 'pyramid' with unusual landslides, unstable crater walls and chains of mountains. "We can only speculate about these things at the moment." Where the bright stripes along the pyramid-shaped mountain come from and whether the surface of the dwarf planet is comprised of different materials are questions that the planetary researchers are still trying to answer.
The International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS 2015 is being held in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, from 25 to 30 August 2015. This is the sixth time that the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is exhibiting at the biennial Russian aerospace exhibition. With an exhibition space of 100 square metres, DLR will be presenting its concepts and technologies for the space and aeronautics of tomorrow. DLR satellite technology is the main focus of the exhibit.
Although only about 400 kilometres separate the Kontur-2 joystick and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) ROKVISS robot, the remote control operations that took place on 18 August 2015 were truly special: Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, flying aboard the International Space Station (ISS) over Earth at 28,000 kilometres per hour, controlled the robot on the ground while in microgravity. The connection between space and Earth is not one-directional – the ROKVISS (Robotic Components Verification on the ISS) sends data back to the joystick when contact forces occur on the ground. At 16:37 CEST (ISS orbit 3775), the metal fingers of the robot moved for the first time – controlled remotely from space. "At that moment, Kononenko not only saw what was happening using a camera, but, through the joystick, felt exactly what was happening with the robot in our laboratory," says Jordi Artigas from the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics. In autumn 2015 the first 'tele-handshake' will be performed between the ISS and Earth with this technology, when the DLR Robot 'Space Justin' remotely shakes hands with someone on Earth from space – with force feedback.
Pascale Ehrenfreund took office as Chair of the Executive Board at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on 17 August 2015. This places her at the head of one of Europe's largest research institutes and its 8000 employees.
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are researching a morphing wing trailing edge that can be smoothly transformed into any shape and will make conventional flaps redundant. The flaps on the wings of today's commercial airliners are actuated via a complicated mechanism. Their arrangement and the resulting gap when they are extended compromises the aerodynamics, increases fuel consumption and contributes to inflight noise. The new technology, on the other hand, is flexible, its movement being based on that of carnivorous plants. This enables the gap between the wing and the flap to be eliminated.
For weeks, comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been active, hurling dust and gas into space – but it will not reach the closest point to the Sun in its orbit, the perihelion, until 13 August 2015 at exactly 4:03 CEST. It will take another six-and-a-half years to get this close to the Sun once again.
On 12 November 2014, as the Philae lander slowly descended onto Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the first instruments on board began to take measurements. Philae touched down three times during the first ever landing on a comet, scraped against a crater rim, and finally arrived at the unforeseen landing site, called Abydos, at 18:31 CEST.
Acting on behalf of the NASA Dawn mission team, researchers from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) chose 17 of approximately 150 fertility deities to name the most prominent craters on Ceres, which they presented to the International Astronomical Union (IAU). These names were chosen because the dwarf planet bears the name of the Roman goddess of agriculture.


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The Good Dinosaur (2015)
The Good Dinosaur SynopsisThe Good Dinosaur asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.
The Good Dinosaur Release Date
In Theaters November 25, 2015
The Good Dinosaur Credits
Starring: Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Zahn, AJ Buckley, Anna Paquin, Sam Elliott, Frances McDormand, Marcus Scribner, Jack Bright
Written by: Meg LeFauve
Directed by: Peter Sohn
Produced by: Denise Ream
MPAA Rating: [ PG ]
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
External Info: The Good Dinosaur Official Website
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In the new world of credit crunch, reduced income and job losses, many of those who made money in the last boom will be thinking of bailing out and starting afresh. The idea of the good life - the lure of reconnecting with the land, growing your own veg, keeping your own pigs and chickens, getting mud on your wellies - has more appeal these days than it did when it was made famous by the slurry-in-suburbia television sitcom that coined the term.
It is in the muck sweat of fear that comes with sinking bank balances and the threat of redundancy that seeds of dreams are sown and grown. Experian Business Strategies predicts that as many as 20,000 workers may lose their jobs in the City - it is estimated that about 2,000 London-based financial jobs have gone already this year. It is no longer a lonely path. The pioneers have shown the way - former Fleet Street editor Rosie Boycott chose to recover from personal tragedy with the aid of Gloucester Old Spots and duly published a memoir; Jimmy Doherty in the television series Jimmy's Farm showed us how to raise rare breed pigs in Suffolk; and, 20 years ago, advertising executive Peter Mayle famously excited us with his Year In Provence.
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Property search agency Stacks reports that it is already beginning to see a stream of buyers in search of a life on the land. "Rising food prices are encouraging home owners to produce their own meat and vegetables," says Stacks' managing director James Greenwood.
"The Jamie and Hugh chicken trend is spreading, with pigs and sheep taking up residence in fairly small patches of land. The demand for allotments is increasing, too. Alpacas, sheep, bullocks, ducks and donkeys are all in demand with the new breed of very smallholders."
Perhaps within us all there still beats the heart of primitive man. One City high-flyer, who prefers not to be named, for years has been commuting to the Square Mile from his acres in Hampshire. His family, including four children, has grown up with cows, chickens, ferrets and sheep. "We have worked our way through the meat of six cows and have five freezers filled with what we have grown," says his wife.
But the life is exhausting, and newcomers more accustomed to following the stock markets than keeping an eye out for foxes have many skills to learn. This is why Steve and Yuki Barnett are offering sheep-keeping lessons to the buyer of their small farm on a remote hillside in Snowdonia National Park, which is for sale at £850,000 through Carter Jonas.
"Steve is offering to teach anyone who wants to buy it how to care for the sheep," says Yuki. "It is not just the farm and house for sale, it is a whole lifestyle."
They know because they did it. "It was a big leap," says Yuki. The couple moved from the Kingston area of London five years ago when Steve was a university lecturer in philosophy and she was studying for a Masters in history. "We were on a short visit to Wales and we picnicked by these derelict barns. We fell in love with the view," she says. "My husband was keen to make a career change at the age of 47, and I was pregnant. Since he was a boy, Steve had always wanted to have land, so he read books, talked to neighbours and learnt what to do."
Cae Gwyn Farm and Nature Reserve consists of a four-bedroom house, a four-bedroom stone and slate barn for B & B guests, and a 10-bedroom bunkhouse with a shower block for walkers. There are 190 acres of organic mountain-grazing on the slopes of Snowdonia, classified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Otters, salmon and freshwater pearl-mussels can be found in the streams. It borders Coed y Brenin forest, known for its bike trails.
Their first year was a big struggle. "We did it up very slowly," says Yuki. "We had to let the farmhouse in order to run the B & B, and we lived in a caravan for a while. It was hard, but we believed in the project."
Bureaucracy was another horror. "But we benefited from the changes in government subsidies, which switched from headage to acreage. As we had more acres than animals, we did well from it."
The farm came with just a few sheep which were thin and old. "The first spring we had terrible lambs. So we bought around 200 pure Black Welsh Mountain sheep," she says.
City-bound people yearn to live by the seasons. In winter, Steve and Yuki feed and nurture the sheep; in spring, they handle the new lambs and hunt out distressed ewes; in the summer, they shear and sell to the Wool Marketing Board; and in the autumn, they sell the ram lambs. "We don't make any money on the sheep, but we get subsidies and the sheep do shape the landscape." The B & B, on the other hand, brings in £60,000 a year. "People just come all the time," says Yuki.
Since they took over Cae Gwyn they have had two children. Lewy is now four, and such is their passion for the farm that they have named their youngest, just seven months old, Cae Gwyn. But they are leaving because they want to move to Japan to be close to Yuki's relatives.
The Barnetts happened on their farm by luck. Finding a smallholding can be hard - they lurk like little nuggets of gold in the estate agents' windows, disguised as a house with paddocks or derelict barn with land. So when Claire and Alan Taylor moved five years ago to a house with 20 acres near Honiton, they asked Stacks for help with the property search. Alan is a renewable energy engineer and was too busy for extensive property-hunting. Claire now does most of the work on the smallholding, but she was used to the rhythms of rural life as she had looked after her mother's sheep for years.
Her worry is that new ruralists will approach such a challenge without realising what they are taking on. "It concerns me that it is seen as fashionable because people think they can just have four sheep in a paddock," she says. "But they still have to watch for fly strike, trim their feet if they are lame, worm them, worry about mastitis or whether a fox is taking the lambs."
She, too, keeps Black Welsh Mountain sheep and has a Dartmoor hill pony, which her eight-year-old son Samuel rides. There are chickens and ducks, which produce eggs. "The yolk is a gorgeous colour. I don't think I could buy a shop egg ever again," says Claire.
The vegetable garden bears a harvest of beans, asparagus, peas, potatoes, garlic, onions, carrots and parsnips, and the tiny hamlet of Tale, where they live, has set up a website where residents can barter their goods. "I can swap half a lamb for a quarter of a pig, riding lessons or gardening," says Claire. "Even my cleaning lady is keen to be paid in lamb. It is organic meat and people know where it comes from, the field it has eaten in, and that it has been treated really well, which is what people really care about."
- Cae Gwyn Farm and Nature Reserve, Snowdonia National Park, includes a four-bedroom house, a four-bedroom barn for B & B guests, and a 10-bedroom bunkhouse with a shower block for walkers. Guide price £850,000 through Carter Jonas (01248 362536).
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Rock Cottage, Sidmouth, Devon, is a Grade II-listed "cottage ornée" with six bedrooms, two summerhouses, terrace and direct access to the sea. For sale at £1.5 million.
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Tips for buyers
1. You don't need a lot of land, but you do need good fencing and outbuildings to store supplies - 10 acres may be enough. Don't take on more than you can handle, says Stacks Property Search (01594 842880).
2. Be mindful of the neighbours - remember Tom and Barbara's problems in the television sitcom. It can be difficult. You will work long hours and are tied by your commitments. You occasionally need someone to hold the fort so that you can take a break.
3. Check Defra regulations on what you can and can't do - there are rules on animal movements, for instance. You may need to be Defra registered to apply for subsidies.
4. Read up on the life in Country Smallholding, a monthly magazine for smallholders (www.countrysmallholding.com), or visit the accidental smallholder website (www.accidentalsmallholder.net).