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Why Mint Marks?
Mint marks date from the days of ancient Greece and Rome. The practice was inaugurated in the United States by an Act of March 3, 1835, which established the first branch mints in this country. This Act provided that the Director of the Mint prescribe regulations for identifying the coins stamped at each institution, thus assuring central control of all coinage so that production from the different branches of the establishment should be exactly standard. The use of a mint mark on branch Mint coins also insured recognition of the Mint of issue when received in circulation or returned to the Mint. Thus responsibility for the coinage was established. Currently, all circulating coinage produced at the Philadelphia Mint has a "P" mint mark except for the one-cent coin, or "penny."
Philadelphia Mint Marks
Philadelphia was the only mint in operation in those earliest years, and identification of the coinage was not necessary. The practice was continued even after the branch mints were established. In 1942, however, when World War II restrictions upon the use of metal made a change in the 5-cent piece necessary, a substitute alloy composed of 35% silver, 56% copper and 9% manganese was adopted. In order to more easily distinguish between the regular copper-nickel alloy and the substitute composition, the mint mark was moved from its usual position at the right of Monticello and placed above the dome of the building on the wartime 5-cent piece. The letter "P" appeared for the first time on Philadelphia coinage. After the war, when a return to the regular alloy was made, the mint mark was restored to its former position and the letter "P" on Philadelphia coinage was discontinued.
In July of 1979, the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin was introduced, replacing the standard 1 1/2 -inch coin. Once again, the "P" mint mark was placed on Philadelphia production, this time on the dollar denomination.
Denver Mint Marks
Denver coins have always carried the letter "D" except during the date freeze mentioned later in this text. (See: The Coinage Act of 1965.)
San Francisco and West Point Mint Marks
The "S" Mint mark was used on San Francisco coins until 1955, when production there was suspended. Operations were resumed in 1965, but on a limited basis. A supplemental coinage of cents for circulation was produced from 1968 through 1974; nickels were struck in 1968, 1969 and 1970. All bore the letter "S," as did a coinage of dimes in 1975. Cents were manufactured at San Francisco for general circulation, as well as the West Point Bullion Depository, under auxiliary authority of the Congress in the early 1980's. However, in order to assure maximum circulation of this small production, no mint marks were used. Special Mint Sets were produced for collectors at San Francisco during 1965, 1966 and 1967. Due to the restrictions on coin identification in force at that time, no mint marks were used. Proof coin operations were moved from the Philadelphia Mint to San Francisco in 1968, and the letter "S" identifies that special numismatic coinage. In addition, all proof coinage produced by West Point carries a "W" mint mark.
The Coinage Act of 1965
The coinage Act of 1965 prohibited the use of mint marks for a period of five years. This, together with the date freeze, eliminated distinguishing features on our coins which could tend to cause their removal from circulation during a critical period when the Mint was striving to build up coin inventories. No mint marks appear on coins dated 1965, 1966 and 1967. Congressional authorization permitted resumption of the practice in 1968, at which time the mint marks, usually positioned on the reverse of the coins prior to 1968, were permanently relocated to the obverse side.
All master dies, including those used in the Mint's numismatics and medals programs, are manufactured in the Die Manufacturing Division of the Philadelphia Mint. Mint marks are placed in the hub at Philadelphia. This hub is the tool that produces the working dies used to stamp the coins. Working dies are then delivered to the appropriate Mint facility for coinage purposes. In addition, all working dies needed for the Denver facility are produced by the Denver Die Manufacturing Division along with some of the dies for the for the United States Mint at San Francisco. Because of its secondary position in any coin designs, it has been the custom to make the mint mark as inconspicuous as possible and still be functional.


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GRANBY — During Tuesday's meeting, the Granby City Council heard about a water study grant from TJ Whitley with Olsson Associates of Springfield.
"All that I can say is that it pays for engineering expenses that we may need to get the water study done to find out what we need done to improve our water system," said Paula Carsel, city clerk. "It is waterlines, they are old, and they break all of the time."
The council authorized Whatley to do the paperwork for the grant. Carsel will assist him.
"We have to have it in to [the DNR] by March 15," she said.
In other news, the council:
• Hired Christina Borstadt as a school crossing guard "She is there in the morning to cross the kids across the highway (60) and then bring them back across from the school to the north side of town," Carsel said.
• Hired Don Slaughter as recycling center operator, and;
• Tabled the cemetery mower maintenance bill until next meeting.
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Harper Government Approves Foreign Acquisition of Nexen, Progress Energy, Affirms FIPA Concerns
Carol Linnitt | December 7, 2012
By Carol Linnitt • Friday, December 7, 2012 - 17:21
Today Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the approval of two major acquisitions of Canadian energy companies by foreign state-owned enterprises. The Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) will commence the $15.1 billion takeover of Nexen Inc., a Canadian company with major holdings in the Alberta tar sands. Malaysia's Petronas will proceed with the purchase of Progress Energy Resources Corp., a Calgary company with considerable shale gas plays in British Columbia, for $5.2 billion. Petronas has plans to construct an $11 billion liquified natural gas plant in Prince Rupert to prepare gas exports for Asia.


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Missouri man charged with stalking wife in Maine
Police: Guns, ammo, tape and more found in suspect's car
A Missouri man federal authorities say drove to Maine with a car full of guns intending to kill his estranged wife has been ordered held without bail.
Benjamin Lee was ordered held pending a detention hearing at his initial appearance Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland on a charge of interstate stalking.
The 52-year-old Lee was arrested in September.
Authorities say Lee was stopped after his estranged wife called police to say she saw him drive past her home in Limerick.
Police say they found five guns and more than 200 rounds of ammunition, a machete, a bayonet, a folding knife, handcuffs, duct tape, rubber gloves, camouflage face paint, a map of Maine with Limerick circled and other items in his car.
Lee's lawyer could not be reached.
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Who's ready for stacking fun? Check out these two new stacking toys for toddlers, recently added to our wooden toy collection at Melissa & Doug!
This colorful new creature is a wonderful playtime companion for your child. With the Wooden Owl's seven wooden pieces and sturdy base, your child can practice:
- Color identification
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Recommended Ages: 18+ months. Available for $12.99 at Melissa & Doug.
Stacking Cars Toy
Little hands will love these colorful stacking cars, with a clever contour that stacks in any combination, and easy-roll wheels that are simple for babies and toddlers to spin. Playing with these cars will help your child practice:
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Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology
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The Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology (MPWC) is an interdisciplinary cooperation between the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Leipzig, Germany, and the Weizmann Institute of Science WIS) in Rehovot, Israel. View more ...
- 06/07/2016: Federico Becerra presents his latest research on bite force and biting behavior in rats at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) in Brighton. In his study conducted at MPWC, rats bred to be aggressive towards humans bit often and with lots of force, whereas tame rates never bit at all. These findings will allow to better assess the effects of domestication in other animals as well.
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- 29/06-03/07/2016: MPWC members attend this year's International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM) in Washington D.C., contributing with various talks and posters:
- Kornelius Kupczik will give a talk on bite force generation and chewing efficiency,
- Ellen Schulz-Kornas is invited speaker at the Mammalian Feeding System session presenting on tooth wear, textures and feeding biomechanics,
- Adam van Casteren will give insight into the interplay between tooth materials, tooth structures and foods, and
- Michael Berthaume will speak on modelling microscopic tooth wear.
- Federico Becerra will present a poster on the domestication effect on skull morphology and biting performance in rats, and
- Maximilian Bemman will contribute with a poster on a novel experimental approach on bite force measurments in vivo.
- May to June 2016: Kornelius Kupczik gives three talks at academic institutions in Santiago de Chile: at Universidad de Chile at the Departamento de Antropología and the Facultad de Odontología, and at the Facultad de Odontología of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Under the seminar title of "Antropología Dental: ¿Qué podemos aprender (todavía) de estudios de forma y función en dientes?", he explores the lessons we can (still) learn from studies on the form, function and genetics of teeth.
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- 22/04/2016: Today the latest paper co-authered by Adam van Casteren is published. It focuses on dental abrasion as a cutting process.http://rsfs.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/6/3/2016000814/04/2016: Michael Berthaume presents his latest research on masticatory cranial deformations at the 85th AAPA's Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA05/04/2016: Ellen Schulz-Kornas holds a keynote speech on the 5th International Conference on Surface Metrology in Poznan, Poland.
- 01/04/2016: Our new technical assistant Tina Kottek will support Silke in the lab from now on. A good start to Tina!
- 31/03/2016: Kornelius Kupczik co-authored a new paper on "Dynamic Modelling of Tooth Deformation Using Occlusal Kinematics and Finite Element Analysis" published today on PlosOne.http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.015266330/03/2016:
- Adam van Casteren and Michael Berthaume attend the Spring Meeting of the British Primate Society presenting on "Physical properties of plants consumed by Chimpanzees" (Adam) and "Sexual differences in masticatory cranial deformations within Orangutans" (Mike et al.).
- 02/03/2016: The latest paper co-authored by Ellen Schulz-Kornas is published in Ecology and Evolution. She and her colleagues found that "Tooth wear patterns in black rats (Rattus rattus) of Madagascar differ more in relation to human impact than to differences in natural habitats".
- 12/02/2016: Many thanks to our guest Mona Le Luyer who shared her latest research results giving a talk on the subject of "Dental evolution in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene human populations: a whole crown perspective?"
- 02/02/2016: We are delighted to have Prof Callum F. Ross (University of Chicago) as a guest. He will give a talk discussing the topic of "Jaws! What are they good for?".
- 07/12/2015: Talk by Julie Lawrence (University of Cambridge) on the subject of "Mosaic morphology: variation and covariation in the jaws of South African australopiths and their extant relatives."
- 10/09/2015: Edwin, Ellen, Kornelius and Mike present the MPWC's ongoing research at the ESHE 2015 Meeting in London.
- 24/07/2015: Dr. Lumila Menéndez (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) is our guest, presenting on "The peopling and morphological diversification of South America: random and non-random processes in the last continental region peopled by humans."
- 21/07/2015: Our guest Dr. Stephan Lautenschlager (University of Bristol) gives a talk on "Reconstructing the past – digital approaches to restore form and infer function in fossils."
- 15/07/2015: The MPWC in Leipzig welcomes its latest member, Linda Schuchardt. For her PhD project, Linda will explore the feeding kinematics in Ponies.
- 24/06/2015: Talk by Dr. Ian Corfe (University of Helsinki) on "Teeth, trees and time - evolutionary, developmental, ecological and phylogenetic insights from fossil and living mammals" at the MPWC in Leipzig.
- 01/06/2015: Maximilian Bemmann, our new doctoral researcher, has joined the MPWC. Max will explore the technical biology of the chewing apparatus in mammals.
- 23/04/2015: We are excited to have Dr. Laura Fitton (Hull York Medical School) as our guest at the MPWC in Leipzig, giving a talk on "Functional Integration within the Skull of a Hard Object Feeding Primate."
- 20/04/2015: Federico Becerra has joined the ranks of the MPWC. In his postdoctoral research project, Fede will investigate the cranio-mandibular apparatus in rodents, combining bite force measurements with lab research, bone geometry analyses and digital reconstructions from high resolution scannings.
- 15/02/2015: Our new postdoc Michael Berthaume has arrived. Mike's research at the MPWC involves the simulation of tooth function and wear in primates, which is crucial for reconstructing fossil hominin diets.
- 01/02/2015: Edwin Dickinson has joined our team. Edwin's PhD research will focus on the developmental trajectory of primates and its impact upon overall masticatory performance.
- 02/12/2014: Meeting and project talks of MPWC co-directors Prof. Jean-Jacques Hublin (Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) and Prof. Steve Weiner (Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot) with the two track leaders Dr. Elisabetta Boaretto (Track 1: Timing of Cultural Change at the WIS) and Dr. Kornelius Kupczik (Track 2: Physical Anthropology Through Bone/Tooth Structure-Function Studies at the MPI EVA).
- 28/10/2014: Dr. Stefan Schlager from the University of Freiburg is our guest presenting his current research in a talk on "Statistical shape models, surface registration and their application in an anthropological context."
- 15/10/2014: Dr Adam van Casteren co-authored a new paper on the remarkably high toughness of otter teeth and how this may relate to enamel microstructure
- 13/09/2014: Stefan Curth presents work from his PhD at the annual meeting of the German Zoological Society in a poster entitled "Covariation of skull and dentition in domestic dogs - a geometric morphometric study."
- 02/09/2014: Dr Ellen Schulz-Kornas co-authored a talk presented at the annual meeting of the German Society for Mammalian Biology entitled "Characterisation of functional traits in the carnassials of the wolf (Canis lupus) using 3D surface texture analysis."
- 01/08/2014: We are happy to welcome our newest group member Emily Gelipter who starts her PhD in dental ecology.
- 16/07/2014: A new paper co-authored by Dr. Ellen Schulz demonstrates, using feeding experiments, how diets effect tooth length and wear in guinea pigs.
- 07/07/2014: We welcomed Prof Germán Manríquez (Universidad de Chile) to Leipzig and enjoyed his talk on "Assessing interaction and social identity in archaeological populations from San Pedro de Atacama (northern Chile) from an interdisciplinary perspective".
- 23/06/2014: Max Planck Weizmann Center opens it's doors to other members of the Max Planck institute and outside visitors during it's first open day allowing people to see our new labs and facilities.
- 20/06/2014: A new co-authored paper by Dr. Ellen Schulz presents a novel approach for analysing mesowear in small mammals.
- 17/06/2014: Members of the Max Planck Weizmann Centre travel to the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot to meet counterparts, discuss science and plan future collaborations.
- 02/05/2014: A warm welcome to our new staff members: Ellen Schulz, Adam van Casteren and Stéphane Montuelle (postdoctoral researchers), and Silke Brauer (lab technician).
- 19/02/2014: Visit of Prof Steve Weiner from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and co-director of the MPWC.
- 20/01/2014: Move into lab and office space in Biocity, next to MPI-EVA building.
- 15/01/2014: Franziska Pfab joins the MPWC. From now on she supports the research team as administrative assistant.
- 01/01/2014: Establishment of the MPWC research group at MPI-EVA led by Dr. Kornelius Kupczik after his move from the Department of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Jena.


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Live After 5 to spotlight Crush
Published: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 10:22 a.m.
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You can enjoy free live music in downtown Houma at the regular concert series Downtown Live After 5.
The local band Crush performs 5-10 p.m. May 31.
The outdoor concert is held the last Friday of the month in the Courthouse Square in downtown Houma.
The concert, sponsored by the Houma Downtown Development Corp., was started 12 years ago as a way to bring people to downtown Houma.
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Below is an article i wrote for some international article service for professional wedding photographers, just thought i share them with you all
Hope it makes for some meaningful readings
If you got into wedding photography solely for the financial rewards, you probably are not successful at what you do, and if you are, you probably are not as successful as you should or could be.
Gone are the days when wedding photographers were looked at as mere handy men, that perception has since changed, we now have celebrity wedding photographers who command just as much media attention as the movie stars they shoot.
The advent of digital has also helped many take up wedding photography as a profession.
So what make one a great wedding photographer in Nigeria?
Personally i have shot with some of the finest photographers on the planet both back home in Nigeria where wedding photography is entering a new phase and also outside my home country. Interacting with this great minds led me to come up with some key points that should be taken quite seriously if you are to move to that next step in your quest to be a top, highly sort after wedding photographer.
1. Consistency: Probably the most important point here. A great photographer needs to be consistent, needs to be able to turn out amazingly breathtaking pictures and albums on regular basis. You can not afford to produce an outstanding album for client A while at the same time being unable to deliver a comparable quality to Client B. Consistency comes from experience, consistency comes from knowing your equipment, consistency comes from knowing the basics of photography. You might want to pickup that dusty camera manual up and give it a good reading.
2. Character: Successful wedding photographers are know to have great likable characters. You need to express a lovable character not only to the bride and groom but also to people you come across, you never know where your next wedding is coming from. Brides tend to relax when being photographed by photographers they like and are comfortable with. A comfortable bride makes for awesome images. You need to be approachable as a wedding photographer to achieve greatness, this way people will talk about you. While it is very easy to get very angry while shooting a Nigerian wedding one has to be in control of his emotions. Nigerian weddings can get very unruly and over crowded.
3. Self Development: You need to constantly be up to date in your area of specialization. This does not mean going out and buying all the newest cameras and gear the minute they are announced, but you need to be constantly be in search of new ideas, strategies, solutions, techniques that will stand your photography apart. Nobody wants to see the same sort of images again and again, you need to be able to consistently bring something fresh to the table. A couple of old photographers in Nigeria still shoot only film, while this is not such a bad thing if you are based in America, it is not the same case here in Nigeria where all you can get in ASA 200 films and bad quality development chemicals. Access to digital has helped even the playing field to a large extent for the best wedding photographers in Nigeria
4. Concentration: To make great wedding photography, you need to be totally immersed in any wedding you are shooting. As a wedding photographer in Nigeria, this is not always the easiest point to achieve. The reason for this is that Nigerian weddings usually have numerous wedding photographers shooting the same wedding, try eight wedding photographers covering the same event, it tends to get very crazy. But if your goal is to attain greatness in this discipline, you need to concentrate, loss of concentrations will mean you losing those spontaneous images that leads to greatness.
Good wedding photography is all about interaction and expression
Kayode Martins is a leading wedding photographer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He shoots for Xsightn Photography one of the new breed of top wedding photography outfits springing up in Lagos. Internationally trained Kayode has a massive internet presence in Nigeria and can be reached at the following addresses.
Website: http://www.xsightn.com
And because a picture is worth a thousand words, here's one from my archives, my baby boy, Ayobamidele.


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Cisco ® announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the CISCO 7401ASR-BB, CISCO7401ASR-CP, CISCO7401ASR-CPT3. The last day to order the affected product(s) is December 30, 2004. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin. Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product(s). Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement. For customers with active and paid service and support contracts, support will be available until the termination date of the contract, even if this date exceeds the Last Date of Support shown in Table 1.
Table 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the CISCO 7401ASR-BB, CISCO7401ASR-CP, CISCO7401ASR-CPT3
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Table 2. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement
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The recommended replacement for the Cisco 7401 is the Cisco 7301. The Cisco 7301 offers a high performance general purpose processor with increased performance for a wide range of Cisco IOS#xAE Features.
Customers can use the Cisco Technology Migration Plan (TMP) to trade in products and receive credit toward the purchase of new Cisco equipment. For more information about Cisco TMP, go to: http://www.cisco.com/go/tradein/. The Cisco TMP application requires all users to have a Cisco.com user ID.
Customers may be able to continue to purchase the CISCO 7401ASR-BB, CISCO7401ASR-CP, CISCO7401ASR-CPT3 through the Cisco Certified Refurbished Equipment program. Refurbished units may be available in limited supply for sale in certain countries on a first-come, first-served basis until the Last Date of Support has been reached. For information about the Cisco Certified Refurbished Equipment program, go to: http://www.cisco.com/go/eos
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FORT BRAGG -- The brother of a man fatally stabbed after a San Francisco Giants game told a Bay Area television station that he, not his brother, had thrown a chair at the alleged assailant's group of friends, but that the suspected killer's claim of self-defense was not accurate.
The victim, 24-year-old Jonathan Denver, died Sept. 25 after a fight in an alley near Third and Harrison streets, about four blocks from AT&T Park. The fight occurred around 11:35 p.m., about 90 minutes after the end of a game between the Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers; witnesses told San Francisco police that the incident started after the exchange of trash-talking between groups of Dodger and Giants fans.
Denver, whose father works as a security guard at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, was fatally stabbed by Lodi resident Michael Montgomery, 21, according to San Francisco police. Montgomery was arrested Sept. 26, but released the next day after San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon said his office needed more evidence before deciding whether to file charges.
Robert Preece Jr. told ABC7 News that the chair in question was "an aluminum beach chair," a gift from his father, but questioned why Montgomery was carrying a knife if he wasn't "looking for trouble."
Police are still asking for any witnesses to the incident to come forward.


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|Creating Color in Yarn:
An Introduction to Natural Dyes
Try naming two colors that occur in nature and clash when next to each other. Chances are, you can't.
Re-creating these colors in fiber isn't just a matter of tossing a batch of strawberries and yarn in a big pot of boiling water.
Colors to Dye For
Once you begin to experiment with dyes, you'll discover an entire other world of creative freedom. You can try dyeing your own handspuns or simply use a commercially spun white yarn.
You can even experiment by dyeing already colored yarns in your stash -- a process known as "overdyeing."
Chemical or Natural?
There are two schools of thought where fiber dyeing is concerned: chemical or natural. As is the case with most chemical vs. natural processes, chemical dyeing is generally regarded as easier with more consistent, durable results.
However, chemical dyeing involves using toxic ingredients that aren't always good for the environment or for the person doing the dyeing.
A renewed interest in natural dyeing has resulted in several new natural dye companies that offer more reliable and durable colors.
The Mordant Merrier
Both natural and chemical dyes depend on one, potentially toxic additive to make the fiber absorb the dye fully. This additive is called a "mordant."
The most common, least-toxic mordant is alum, or potassium aluminum sulphate.
Other mordants include chrome, which leaves fibers soft but must be stored away from light; iron, which can be potentially fatal if swallowed; and tin, which is expensive and highly poisonous but produces brilliant yellows, oranges, and reds.
Vinegar has also been used as a mordant, with varying success. Nanney Kennedy of Meadowcroft Farm uses a mordant of sea water for her natural dyes.
Substantive Dyes
Only a few natural dyes will take permanently without the addition of a mordant.
Those that do are called "substantive dyes." Some examples are annatto seeds, which produce an orange color; lichens, which produce a range of shades from reddish browns to yellows; and walnut hulls, which produce rich shades of brown.
Intriguing Indigo
The process for dyeing true blue, or indigo, is called "vat dyeing." Indigo requires an exact pH level and very little oxygen to dye properly.
The fibers being dyed will look dull and grey until near the end of the process. This is when they are lifted out of the dye pot, exposed to oxygen, and miraculously take on their blue shade.
In earlier days, indigo was dyed in a solution of urine. That's because urine contains a bacteria that naturally reduces oxygen, and it has an ideal pH level.
Although a few diehard organic dyers still practice this technique with their own fibers, commercial blues are achieved today using more amenable ingredients.
Infinite Options
When you begin to combine dyes and mordants, things get tricky. That's because each mordant will produce different color results on the same fibers using the same dyes.
For example, cochineal with allum will appear crimson on natural dibers. Yet a copper mordant will turn those same fibers burgundy.
Don't let this overwhelm you. Any good dye book will explain these color variances, so I strongly recommend you get at least one reference book before you begin. Many natural dye manufacturers will also indicate these variances in their color cards or booklets.
Fiber Variances
The next tricky part about dyeing involves fibers. Each fiber type absorbs and reflects dye differently.
For example, if you apply madder with an alum mordant to animal fibers, you'll get a reddish orange color. Apply the same materials to cellulose fibers and you'll get pale pink.
Some manufacturers use this difference to their advantage, dyeing blended yarns to produce a multicolored effect. Others will simply dye the different fibers separately and blend them before spinning.
Other Natural Dye Sources
Contrary to what you'd expect, most berries and fruits won't produce strong, durable colors. They are the most likely of all natural dye sources to fade in sunlight.
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... Blocks and Layers.
Maybe it is a problem of the newest release - maybe not.
I can't purge unused Layers in one pass and also Blocks needs at least two runs to get rid of all unused blocks. It seems also to be important to purge first the blocks and then the layers.
Andrew - if you need a corresponding drawing - I have one


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OAKLAND -- Fentons Creamery on Piedmont Avenue is throwing a 120th anniversary party on Sunday -- and guests can be assured there will be plenty of ice cream. After all, Fentons sells a "ton" of ice cream every day.
"Fentons is the oldest family-run creamery in California," said owner Scott Whidden, a third-generation Oaklander who bought the business in 1987. "We're honored to serve the community and continue a tradition now in its 12th decade. We hope to continue for another 100 years."
Elbridge Seth Fenton founded the dairy business in Oakland in 1894 on 41st near Howe Street, where it stayed for 67 years before moving to its current location. The restaurant and soda fountain were added in 1922. In the beginning, Fentons delivered milk using a horse-drawn carriage (two favorite horses were named Vanilla and Strawberry) and also made cheese and cream.
Elbridge's grandson, Melvin, is credited with persuading his grandfather to make ice cream at the creamery. Melvin grew up to be an ice cream maker and created the creamery's famous flavors -- Toasted Almond, Swiss Milk Chocolate and Rocky Road, according to Whidden, who has been in the ice cream business since he was 16.
"As a 'wee' boy I had the good fortune to serve as an apprentice at Jack Botts ice creamery in Berkeley," said Whidden, who later bought the business. "There was something about making ice cream using pure, fresh ingredients that just resonated with me."
The ice cream portion of Fentons eventually became the centerpiece of the creamery, which continued in the family until another dairyman, Bill Morison -- who was married to Elbridge's granddaughter Virginia -- convinced the Fentons to sell to his employer, Golden State Dairy (later Foremost).
Foremost discontinued Fentons' full dairy operation in 1961 and moved the creamery, restaurant and ice cream production facility to Piedmont Avenue. In the mid-1980s, Whidden began negotiations to purchase Fentons and return it to a locally owned, family business. In 2007, he opened another Fentons in Vacaville at the site of the old Nut Tree.
"Our reason for choosing this location was pretty simple -- the Nut Tree represents nostalgic times, much like Fentons Creamery does," Whidden said.
On a recent Saturday morning, two old friends met at Fentons Creamery on Piedmont Avenue for breakfast -- and to share a Dutch chocolate and mint cookie sundae.
"I used to go to Fentons as a child when it was at the old location on 41st Street, right across from my house," said Kathy Borgogno, who lives in Fremont. "The ice cream is amazing. I also like that they give a portion of their Sundae of the Month sales to good causes."
Borgogno's friend, Nancy Taylor, who lives in Moraga, said Fentons food is great and the service is "spectacular." However, the ice cream is the biggest draw.
"Ice cream is trendy now -- there's lots of good ice cream, but none better than Fentons," she said.
One of the many causes that Fentons supports is the Alameda County 4-H Club. On a recent Saturday, the club set up a booth in Fentons parking lot. People stopped by to learn about the club and to pet the chickens and rabbits -- and Maggie the dog -- which the club members brought along.
"Fentons teamed up with 4-H for the whole month of July," said club leader Jeff Robbins, who remembered going to the ice creamery as a child 40 years ago. "If you purchase a Junior Sundae or Sundae of the Month, a portion goes to 4-H."
July's Sundae of the Month is aptly named "Ode to Melvin" with Toasted Almond and Swiss Milk Chocolate topped with homemade caramel sauce, roasted almonds and, of course, a cherry on top.
The Sunday celebration -- which coincidentally falls on National Ice Cream Day -- will include Fentons' signature Junior Black and Tan sundaes for $1.20 (regularly $9.25), free scoops of their trademark ice creams, barbecue, crafts and visiting animals from the 4-H Club.
What: Fentons Creamery's 120th anniversary celebration
When: noon to 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Fentons Creamery, 4226 Piedmont Ave., Oakland


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Quote: In the cable sent to Washington, Jones said that Yadlin [Israel's then-Military Intelligence chief] had been quite satisfied with Hamas' seizure of the Gaza Strip.
If Hamas managed to take complete control then the Israel Defense Forces would be able to relate to Gaza as a hostile territory and stop looking at the militant group as an undiplomatic player, Yadlin apparently told Jones.
Quote: A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for President Medvedev by Russian Space Forces (VKS) 45th Division of Space Control says that an upcoming WikiLeaks release of secret US cables details that the Americans have been "engaged" since 2004 in a "war" against UFO's based on or near the Continent of Antarctica, particularly the Southern Ocean.
According to this report, the United States went to its highest alert level on June 10, 2004 after a massive fleet of UFO's "suddenly emerged" from the Southern Ocean and approached Guadalajara, Mexico barely 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) from the American border. Prior to reaching the US border, however, this massive UFO fleet is said in this report to have "dimensionally returned" to their Southern Ocean "home base".
The fears of the Americans regarding these Southern Ocean UFO's began, this report says, during the unprecedented events of July 11, 1991 (referred to as 7/11) when during the Solar Eclipse these mysterious aircraft appeared by the hundreds over nearly all of Mexico, even their Capital city. Most notable about the events of 7/11 were that as millions of Mexicans were watching on their televisions the National broadcasts of these UFO's over Mexico City, the American media refused to allow their people to view it.
Since 2004, this report continues, fleets of Southern Ocean UFO's have continued to emerge from their bases, with the latest such event being this Friday past when another of their massive fleets was sighted over the South American Nation of Chile.
The "immediate danger" to our World when these massive UFO fleets emerge from the Southern Ocean, this report warns, are the massive waves caused by their sudden eruption from what are believed to be their underwater base, or bases. In the past week alone, the Clelia II, an Antarctic cruise ship with 160 people onboard, was nearly capsized when hit by waves generated by these UFO's emerging from the Southern Ocean, and just today the Number One Insung has been reported sunk with only 20 of its 42 member crew said saved due to the same cause.
Interesting to note in this report is its confirming our October 14th report US Shuts Down New York City Airspace Over UFO 'Threat' that these same Southern Ocean UFO's were responsible for the closing of the airspace over New York City this past fall (October 13th) when they "appeared" openly and were witnessed by tens of thousands of people, and which, coincidentally, occurred during the same time frame as the mysterious Crystal Skulls of the ancient South American peoples were being exhibited there too.
Even more interesting to note is that the mysterious earthquakes being reported in the Gulf of Aden (where another "extraterrestrial" event is currently ongoing and we had reported on in our December 1st report Mysterious 'Vortex' Warned Is Creating Global Weather Catastrophe) are now being reported occurring in the Southern Ocean too.
This report goes on to state that after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warned last week that he would begin releasing secret US cables relating to these Southern Ocean UFO's, and the Americans "war" against them, he was immediately arrested by British Police on trumped up charges issued by the Swedish government which in our December 8th report, Global Rebellion Erupts After "Unprotected Sex Meets Disrobed Governments", we noted were engineered against him as a "classic" CIA "Honey Trap".
Note: Since our last report on the EU-US frame-up of Assange it is now being reported that one of his two accusers, Anna Ardin, has fled Sweden and is now in hiding in the Palestinian territories.
To if Assange, or his WikiLeaks website, will survive to see the whole release of these Southern Ocean UFO files it is not to our knowing, nor does this report say.
What is in our knowing, however, and when coupled with the information we reported on in our December 10th report Massive Earthquake Fears Rise After Mysterious Object Moves Nearer To Earth, suggests that the timing of these events, as we near the December 20/21 Total Lunar Eclipse, and as Mercury turns retrograde and joins Mars as it forms a conjunction with Pluto, that the ending of this year, 2010, truly marks the ending of this age as prophesied by the ancients.
In the Sorcha Faal's seminal work published in 2007, Battle Begins For Throne of This World: The Return of the Einherjar Warriors, she notes that in these "last days" the "guideposts" to what the future will hold for humanity does, indeed, rest hidden to the discerning reader in the words handed down to us by the ancients, none being more important in this case than those of Nostradamus, who in writing of this coming Lunar Eclipse and feared conjunctions warned:
"The arms to fight in the sky a long time,
The tree in the middle of the city fallen:
Sacred bough clipped, steel, in the face of the firebrand,
Then the Monarch of Adria fallen." Quatrain 3:11
Most ominously for our World today, "the tree in the middle of the city" has, indeed, "fallen" with news from Glastonbury that the 2,000-year-old Holy Thorn Tree, one of Christianities oldest and most revered symbols, has been cut down by vandals. With the great tree now "fallen", the battle for this Earth now moves to the "sky" until the "Monarch of Adria" (Pope Benedict XVI) has "fallen" too.
Quote: How WikiLeaks Just Set Back Democracy in Zimbabwe
Last year, early on Christmas Eve morning, representatives from the U.S., United Kingdom, Netherlands, and the European Union arrived for a meeting with Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Appointed prime minister earlier that year as part of a power-sharing agreement after the fraud- and violence-ridden 2008 presidential election, Tsvangirai and his political party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), are considered Zimbabwe's greatest hopes for unseating the country's long-time de facto dictator Robert Mugabe and bringing democratic reforms to the country.
The topic of the meeting was the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by a collection of western countries, including the U.S. and E.U. Tsvangirai told the western officials that, while there had been some progress in the last year, Mugabe and his supporters were dragging their feet on delivering political reforms. To overcome this, he said that the sanctions on Zimbabwe "must be kept in place" to induce Mugabe into giving up some political power. The prime minister openly admitted the incongruity between his private support for the sanctions and his public statements in opposition. If his political adversaries knew Tsvangirai secretly supported the sanctions, deeply unpopular with Zimbabweans, they would have a powerful weapon to attack and discredit the democratic reformer.
Later that day, the U.S. embassy in Zimbabwe dutifully reported the details of the meeting to Washington in a confidential U.S. State Department diplomatic cable. And slightly less than one year later, WikiLeaks released it to the world.
The reaction in Zimbabwe was swift. Zimbabwe's Mugabe-appointed attorney general announced he was investigating the Prime Minister on treason charges based exclusively on the contents of the leaked cable. While it's unlikely Tsvangirai could be convicted on the contents of the cable alone, the political damage has already been done. The cable provides Mugabe the opportunity to portray Tsvangirai as an agent of foreign governments working against the people of Zimbabwe. Furthermore, it could provide Mugabe with the pretense to abandon the coalition government that allowed Tsvangirai to become prime minister in 2009.
It's difficult to see this as anything but a major setback for democracy in Zimbabwe. Even if Tsvangirai is not charged with treason, the opponents to democratic reforms have won a significant victory. First, popular support for Tsvangirai and the MDC will suffer due to Mugabe's inevitable smear campaign, including the attorney general's "investigation." Second, the Prime Minister might be forced to take positions in opposition to the international community to avoid accusation of being a foreign collaborator. Third, Zimbabwe's fragile coalition government could collapse completely. Whatever happens, democratic reforms in Zimbabwe are far less likely now than before the leak.
To their supporters, WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange are heroes of the democratic cause. Assange himself has claimed that his organization promotes democracy by strengthening the media. But in Zimbabwe, Assange's pursuit of this noble goal has provided a tyrant with the ammunition to wound, and perhaps kill, any chance for multiparty democracy. Earlier this month, Assange claimed that "not a single person, as far as anyone is aware, has been harmed" by Wikileaks' practices. This is no longer true, if it ever was.
Any damage to democratic reforms from WikiLeaks likely comes not from malice but naivety. Assange is probably not best described, as Vice President Joe Biden recently put it, a "high-tech terrorist." Rather, he, his organization, and their activist supporters believe that they can promote democracy by making an enemy of secrecy itself. What we're seeing in Zimbabwe, however, is that those methods won't necessarily be without significant collateral damage.


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Advancing Medical Research for Neurological Diseases
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The New York Times this morning unveiled a few details about a new Obama initiative that could help further medical research for neurological diseases. While the initiative isn't fully baked, we at PhRMA have a few preliminary thoughts about the importance of collaboration in this space.
There should be no doubt that collaboration among partners in the entire medical innovation ecosystem is critical to help advance scientific understanding of some of the most complex diseases facing patients. Federal research institutions, academia, biopharmaceutical companies and patient communities all play an important role in furthering research, particularly in the neurological field.
In order to conquer devastating and costly conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, we must foster this scientific ecosystem and work to overcome these challenges by putting the pieces of the research puzzle together. If you recall, PhRMA held an awards program last September (the Research and Hope Award) that recognized the importance of the ecosystem and honored scientists in industry and academia as well as patient advocates who all have contributed to the advancement of research for Alzheimer's. (Stay tuned for more information about this year's Research and Hope Award theme)
There have been a lot of blog posts recently on the Catalyst about a new report we released highlighting the fact that biopharmaceutical companies are currently researching and developing more than 5,000 medicines for a wide range of diseases. Included in this figure are more than 600 medicines for neurological diseases alone.
The report also found that 84 percent of neurological medicines in the pipeline are potential first-in-class treatments that can help patients with serious unmet medical needs.
All I can say at this point is that the biopharmaceutical industry is eager and proud to be part of the solution to help meet some of the greatest health care challenges before us today and tomorrow.
But it is important to recognize that public policies at all levels of government have a tremendous impact on how successful all of us are in reaching new medical innovation milestones. For this very reason, a consistent public policy framework is needed to provide an environment that is conducive to advance biopharmaceutical research and discovery.


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10up wrote:I just don't see where the stop-gap QB is bad for Minnesota right now. They need some time to rebuild the defense and replace some ageing vets. Let him hold a clipboard for a couple years. You don't think he'll learn a thing or two? and if he does get the start after a couple years of filling in, 2nd team workouts, playbook analysis, etc. and DOES suck? You'll be all the better for it. They'll be right in time to draft #1 QB Prospect James Vandenburg, coming off a Rose Bowl Victory MVP.
I respect your stance, but my main issue is that enough is enough with these chucking short term solutions. We've had a stop-gab QB ever since Tommy Kramer. Culpepper was the closest thing we've had since then as a QB to call our own. Your statement of "sit for 2 years then play, if he sucks draft another one" could only prolong this dilemma for us Vikings fans. I'd rather find out sooner than later if he's got the chops or not and then move on if we have to. Sure I want to give him a chance to develop but I also don't want to prolong going through this again, and again, and again, and again, if he wasn't the one.
Long story short. I'll get over it and support D-Bag because he is/will be a Viking (gotta support your team). However I'd really like to see Ponder show that the job is his and earn the #1 spot over McNabb soon than later (like sometime this season).


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Paul Ryan's Budget Plan: Five Things to Watch
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) is going to propose the GOP vision of a budget plan on Tuesday, offering a sharp contrast to the budget that President Barack Obama offered several weeks ago.
Mr. Ryan's plan is expected to be very similar to the package that House lawmakers approved in 2013, but it will face different tests as it comes in an election year with big implications for Democrats and Republicans.
Here are five things to watch:
1. Will Ryan Help Or Hurt GOP Momentum?
Republicans carry a lot of momentum heading into the November midterm elections, with a good chance of winning a number of Senate seats, and possibly even control of the Senate. Mr. Ryan's budget was seen by some as a bit of a gamble, as it would test GOP unity at a time when Democrats are looking for any sort of political opening. A unified GOP budget plan could further solidify the party going into the mid-terms, but a divisive debate about tax and spending measures could lead to second guessing.
2. Will The Centrists Hold?
Mr. Ryan has for years been able to bridge the more conservative wing of his party with GOP moderates, a crucial talent during recent budget battles. He has promised to propose a budget that will eliminate the deficit within 10 years. Last year, 10 House Republicans and all House Democrats voted against the plan, allowing the proposal to narrowly pass. But 62 House Republicans voted against a bipartisan budget plan co-authored by Mr. Ryan several months ago that reworked some of the sequester cuts. If Mr. Ryan loses even 20 Republicans on his newest proposal, it would be very difficult (if not impossible) for it to pass in the House and create some handwringing leading up to the election.
3. Entitlement Cuts
A hallmark of past Ryan budgets has been major changes to entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the Supplementation Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps. The changes Mr. Ryan has proposed in the past would essentially turn a lot more control of Medicaid and SNAP over to the states and create a type of premium-support structure to rework Medicare. These changes save money but have proven politically divisive. Mr. Ryan is expected to stick to his proposals, however, as many GOP lawmakers believe they are necessary in order to eliminate the deficit in 10 years.
4. Balanced Budget
The toughest part of Mr. Ryan's budget (in addition to getting the votes he'll need to pass it) is finding a way to eliminate the deficit over 10 years without raising taxes. The White House's budget proposal would lower (but not eliminate the deficit) so that it would be $434 billion, or 1.6% of gross domestic product, by 2024. And that would be done through pretty sizable tax increases over that time. Mr. Ryan has in the past made up the difference by including major cuts in spending, but this year, according to two people familiar with the plan, Mr. Ryan will also take credit for a type of "dynamic scoring" that would attribute deficit reduction to economic growth, which would further reduce the deficit by bringing in more revenue.
5. Poverty Push
Mr. Ryan has made anti-poverty programs like Medicaid and SNAP a major focus in recent months, and many in the GOP are talking about the programs differently than they have in the past. Mr. Ryan, who was the 2012 GOP vice presidential candidate, has signaled that he will offer new proposals for how to rework anti-poverty programs later this year. Will his budget reflect his new proposals, or will it include similar changes to what he has proposed in past years?


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Sustainable Shindig's goal is to get families involved
Published: Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 2:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 2:35 p.m.
MANATEE COUNTY - Any time Jenn McAlister even acts as if she might throw away a plastic bottle in a receptacle not for recycling, her 5-year-old twins speak against it.
What: Fourth annual Sustainable Shindig
When: Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Bradenton Riverwalk Pavilion
Cost: Free
"My daughters will get on my case," said McAlister, board member for the U.S. Green Building Council Florida Gulf Coast Chapter. "They don't understand completely, but they know where the right place is."
McAlister is hoping other children and families get in that mindset Sunday at the fourth annual Sustainable Shindig in Bradenton.
"Turn off the lights. Make sure they shut off the faucet at home while brushing their teeth," McAlister said. "Then it becomes ingrained in them."
Local bands from the Del Couch Music Education Foundation will perform. Artists using recyclable materials will display their work. And vendors will explain simple steps that businesses and families can take to be more energy efficient.
"We're promoting it as local bands, local foods, local partners," said Johnette Isham, executive director of Realize Bradenton. "It is the environment, and also sustainability to local economy."
The event, previously held in Sarasota County, will move to the Riverwalk that opened in October. The stretch along Manatee River boasts sustainable features like a tidal discovery zone in place of a retention pond, permeable surfaces and LED lighting.
McAlister said the Sustainable Shindig teaches families how to integrate products commonly used commercially into their homes.
People should complete weatherization of the homes, resealing windows and doors, McAlister said. Families can plant a garden or start a compost in their back yards.
"Composting with a worm farm is fun for kids," McAlister said. "They get to see the entire process. Put a banana peel at the top, and at the bottom it comes out dirt. Plant seed in the dirt, and then they have a banana tree."
McAlister said sustainability groups are also looking to increase awareness about hot gas reheat that takes hot air emitting from the air conditioning coil, and uses it to heat water.
"We want to make it a fun thing that people enjoy," McAlister said. "It's not heavy content. It's at your leisure."
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Dear W.C., I am writing to ask for help for my three children and myself. At the present time we are living in a motel, but will soon be living out of my car if I can't pay the rent on our motel room. The problems started a year ago when I came to live in the area from out of state to help care for my dying sister. Her husband pleaded with me to come care for her part time with the promise that I could live in their home with my children. I gave up my job and apartment to move here.
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January 20, 2011
Dear W.C., I know a family that is having a very hard time. I know they are late on their rent. They have two young children. The father lost his job last summer. The mother was hit by a hit-and-run driver and was left handicapped. They do not receive enough assistance from disability and unemployment. Due to all the medical bills and threats from the bill collectors they have been left broke. I have known this family for many years and know they are good people. They have always lived frugally and have a devout belief in God. They do not have gas for their car. I have offered to drive them on several occasions but they have declined. I think they are too embarrassed to accept any help. They have even declined my requests to visit due to their embarrassment of not being able to afford heat. I do not know how they are feeding everyone and keeping a roof over their heads. Please help this deserving family.
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May 17, 2012
Dear W.C.,My husband and I should be retired, but will never be able to afford to. We need to work in order to pay our bills and health care. A few months ago my 73-year old husband had a stroke and will be in need of several more months of medical care and rehabilitation. He was working part-time and looking for a full-time job when this happened. I work part-time and wish I could do more, but I have a heart condition that prevents me from working long hours, and who would care for my husband while I am at work? We are really in a bad position financially as we have used our small savings to pay for my husbands medical bills. We owe on our utilities and are in fear of disconnection. Scared Seniors
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May 10, 2012
From time to time Time is Now reports on where the donations went and some of the major grants its received. Here is the most recent report:The Montei Foundation $20,000 Matching Grant = $40,000 in Poverty AssistanceThank You to everyone that participated in The Montei Foundation $20,000 Matching Grant. We are very grateful to The Montei Foundation and our wonderful supporters for providing $40,000 in poverty assistance. These funds were put to use immediately to alleviate the pain and suffering of the many working poor, children, senior citizens, and handicapped turning to us for assistance. The following shows how every penny of the matching grant was spent to provide shelter assistance/rent, utility assistance, auto repairs, gas, food, toiletries, household necessities, and beds. Thank you for caring and sharing for your fellow Americans.
Woman care for handicapped son
May 03, 2012
Dear W.C.,I am writing to see if you can help my friend. She cares for her handicapped son fulltime. Last month I noticed they did not have enough food and brought over some when I could. I am a single mother feeding three children myself so this is not something I can do for them on a regular basis. I would gladly do this for them if I could afford to. I noticed my friend always feeds her son before she will even touch any of the food that I bring over. Her small apartment is always cold and they are both wrapped in blankets most of the time. She keeps all the lights off. I know from reading your column that these are all signs that my friend is having trouble keeping up. Could you please check on them?
The voices of those who have been helped
April 26, 2012
Dear Readers, I would like to share with you some of the many thank you notes we have received in the past weeks. So many are grateful for our helping hand and I felt you should all know what our assistance means to those struggling in poverty. I thank you from the bottom of my heart daily, but thought you would also like to hear directly from the fellow Americans we have helped to ease the pains of poverty for.
Woman behind in bills gets eviction notice
April 19, 2012
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Woman in need feels shes burdening parents
April 12, 2012
Dear W.C.,I am a young woman that has been diagnosed with cancer. I was working and living on my own until this diagnosis. I have had to stop working due to my harsh cancer treatment. I sold most my belongings and moved back home with my parents. I am very worried because my parents are having such a hard time both financially and emotionally with me moving back home. They dont like to share with me what is going on financially but I know they are struggling. My father was laid off a year ago from the job he worked at for 30 years. My mother has always worked part time in retail. They do not have enough income to support themselves since their savings ran out. Could you please help them so I do not feel like such a burden to them?
Man in need reluctant to take help
April 05, 2012
Dear W.C.,I am writing to see if you would be able to check on my neighbor. He is an elderly man that I have a feeling really needs your help. I have tried to ask him how he is doing several times since his wife passed away two years ago, but he will not admit to me he is having a hard time. I can see he has lost weight and I noticed his lights are off all the time. I have not even heard the television on for the last few months. I brought a plate of food to his door yesterday in hopes he would ask for help. At first he refused the food but I told him I would not leave unless he took the plate. He finally took the plate and shut the door right away. In just those few minutes I could feel the chill coming from his apartment and see it was very dark inside. Please see if this man needs your help.A concerned neighbor
Couple is crippled by bad health, lack of income
March 29, 2012
Dear W.C.,My husband and I are both disabled. I have an eye condition that is causing me to slowly go blind. My husband has a heart condition that he has been struggling with for the last five years. He has had surgeries and is on several very expensive prescriptions. I have not been able to see my ophthalmologist for the last year because we did not have the money. We have two mentally disabled children. We are trying to survive on my husbands disability. I applied for disability last year and I am still waiting for approval. My vision keeps getting worse and I am so afraid I will go blind. I was working as a waitress but can no longer work due to my poor vision. We have fallen behind on our electric, gas, and rent. I am so sorry to ask, but we have no one else to turn to. Can you please help us?
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A small or medium-sized songbird, typically having a brown back, spotted breast, and loud song.
- Subfamily Turdinae (the thrush subfamily), family Muscicapidae: many genera, in particular Turdus, and numerous species. The thrush subfamily includes the chats, robins, bluebirds, blackbirds, nightingales, redstarts, and wheatears.
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- The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
- The migratory songbirds, the thrushes and warblers and tanagers and orioles that summer in the Pacific Northwest, spend their winters in the forested highlands of southern Mexico and Central America.
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1Infection of the mouth and throat by a yeastlike fungus, causing whitish patches. Also called candidiasis.
- The fungus belongs to the genus Candida, subdivision Deuteromycotina, in particular C. albicans.
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- In newborns, it usually shows up as diaper rash, but new babies can also develop oropharyngeal candidiasis, or thrush, in the mouth and throat.
- These are recommended for some people with gum disease and for people with other mouth infections such as thrush.
- Patients who had HIV infection, oral thrush, lymphadenopathy, chronic cough of more than one month duration, fever, or weight loss were more likely to have mycobacteraemia.
1.1Infection of the genitals with C. albicans fungus.
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- Cystitis or vaginal irritations such as thrush, vaginitis, and genital warts are also likely to cause soreness.
- The juice extracted from the fresh flowers is a natural antiseptic that can be used externally to treat bacterial infections and vaginal thrush.
- In men, lichen planus can affect the penis, with purple-coloured or white ring-shaped patches, which may be confused with thrush but are often not itchy.
2A chronic condition affecting the frog of a horse's foot, causing the accumulation of a dark, foul-smelling substance. Also called canker.
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- Learn to identify, prevent, and treat thrush in horse's or pony's hooves.
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Mid 17th century: origin uncertain; (sense 1) possibly related to Swedish torsk and Danish troske; (sense 2) perhaps from dialect frush in the same sense, perhaps from Old French fourchette 'frog of a horse's hoof'.
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FRENCH CAMP - A stretch of southbound Highway 99 was closed for about three hours following a traffic collision shortly before 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, the California Highway Patrol said.
According to officers, the collision occurred just south of French Camp Road when a 24-year-old Stockton man in a 1999 Mitsubishi made an unsafe lane change and struck a dump truck. The Mitsubishi veered off the highway and overturned. The truck lost control, rolled onto its left side and dumped sand on the highway. There were no injuries, but the highway was closed for cleanup until about 6:30 a.m., officers said.
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Wednesday's letters: Like little kids
Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 6:04 p.m.
To the editor: The people we elected to go to Washington, D.C., are supposed to solve problems, not cause them. They sound like little kids arguing over a trivial toy.
We should start an anti-social network for them, to be called 2-FacedBook, where they can unfriend each other and alienate the electorate on a daily basis.
Irving Kasner
Not about color
To the editor: Just how many race cards are in the deck from which liberals deal?
In the Feb. 23 letter Why Republican?, the author only shows he is well versed in regurgitating the talking points of the Democratic National Committee. His statement, Republicans, mostly in the South, find it difficult to accept a black man in the White House is in itself racist. The Democrats are the party that insists on injecting race into every dialogue.
The distaste for the present administration is based on policies, not skin color. Barack Obamas blatant disregard of the Constitution a law designed to protect Americans from tyrannical rulers such as himself is evidence of bad policy. Other bad policies include funneling taxpayer money to campaign donors in the guise of green energy, giving automatic weapons to drug cartels, ignoring current immigration law, promoting welfare and food stamp dependency, and the list goes on.
The premise that we must abandon democracy and accept socialist/Marxist transformation because nobody may criticize a black person is absurd.
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To the editor: Nature is the foundation of all things and the essence of life itself.
Humans once lived in harmony with nature. Some still do. We call them indigenous, aboriginal, uncivilized and even heathens. Yet, they did not violate nature as we do today. With all our intelligence and technology, we have learned to ignore the laws of nature. We have set ourselves above and superior to it, thus ignoring the fruits of some of human natures most valuable gifts that are not necessarily apparent.
We have let our lust for power, greed and world dominance blind us from those natural attributes that really enhance life, not only for ourselves but for all life on our planet.
If we really wanted to rule the world, we might try understanding universal and human nature. Therein lies power such as we have never seen. But it isnt dominating power it is a foundational power. A power, when in cooperation with the natural laws of the universe, produce all the basic virtues that we all hope for, such as kindness, honesty, fairness, caring, respect, appreciation, affection and love. But these will only be realized when we humble ourselves and seek a new set of values.
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- Includes 4 minifigures with assorted accessories: 2 policemen and 2 crooks
- Features a Helicopter Transporter, dirt bike, dune buggy and an opening rock hideout
- Helicopter Transporter features an articulated, detachable trailer with a portable helipad and removable helicopter
- Accessories include a walkie talkie, 2 gold crystals, 2 money notes, a fire extinguisher, oil drum and a bush
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There are three things you can generally expect from emergency medical calls in central Contra Costa County: 1) A fire truck, with three firefighters, will be dispatched to the scene; 2) a two-person American Medical Response team will arrive in an ambulance; and 3) neighbors will watch intently, wondering why both units are necessary.
Of all the proposed solutions to cut Contra Costa Fire District staffing costs, the most frequent is to eliminate medical response. Critics say leave it to AMR, the company the county contracts with.
Um ... it's not that simple.
Firefighter staffing needs are dictated by the manpower required to fight a major fire -- often units from several stations at once. Medical calls are a bonus, not the reason firefighters are on the clock. Besides, medical calls often require more than two sets of hands.
"If you respond to a cardiac arrest," said AMR General Manager Leslie Mueller, "it takes a large number of people to handle it."
She explained that one person applies the airway (forced breathing apparatus), while another administers CPR, a third reads the heart monitor and a fourth hooks up an intravenous drip. When a victim needs more treatment en route to the hospital, a firefighter climbs into the ambulance to help the AMR paramedic while his partner drives.
Similar teamwork is required for setting broken bones, preparing splints, administering pain medication, lifting and transporting victims. "We train together, we work together, we follow the same protocols," Mueller said. "It's a ... team of coordinated efforts."
Different communities have different first-response models, she said, with varying responsibilities falling on public and private entities. The ConFire model anticipates the most extreme cases. If a victim is unable to open the door, firefighters can make a forced entry. If he's trapped under a structure or inside a car, they perform extrication. If hazardous materials are involved, they know what to do. If bystanders are too close, they're trained in crowd control.
"There's some overkill for sure," said fire Capt. Vince Wells, president of local firefighters union Local 1230, "and efforts are being made to minimize it, but the system is designed to handle the worst-case scenario."
Another question is why firefighters arrive in fire trucks. It's the same reason police wear guns while directing traffic -- so they're prepared for other developments.
"If we go on a medical call, and it's under control, and there's a fire," Wells said, "we don't have to drive back to the fire station to get another vehicle."
Medical emergencies are automatically relayed to one of 24 strategically located district fire stations and any of 35 to 40 mobile units that AMR typically has on call. "We move the ambulances throughout the day, based on traffic patterns, supply and demand and where we anticipate volume," Mueller said.
Sometimes an ambulance crew is first on the scene. Sometimes firefighters are. Each team has a paramedic, so the order doesn't matter.
"The system is designed to get the appropriate resources where they belong in a timely manner," Wells said.
The recurring question is whether a less costly approach can achieve the same results. Mueller said new models are being explored, but one thing is certain not to change.
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Hummingbird Moths have been spotted in large numbers recently in the St. James area.
Hummingbird Moths, unlike other types of moths, can be spotted on clear sunny days and are easily mistaken for Hummingbirds because they have a similar flight pattern and coloring. They often live in forests or gardens and feed on nectar of flowers.
Hummingbird Moths can be one to two inches in length with a wingspan about the same size. These moths have a great memory and will often visit the same flowers over and over again.
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Nine days out from a third attempt at a winter ascent of Denali in Alaska, Lonnie Dupre is about ready to leave his training spot in Summit County and head north to the land of dark days and tall, steep mountains.
Dupre will be attempting what only nine expeditions totaling 16 people have ever done: Reach the summit of Mount McKinley, also called Denali, in winter. According to Dupre, who has earned the attention of the likes of National Geographic throughout the years of this quest, those expeditions resulted in six deaths. Just one team of three Russian climbers has ever made the summit in the dead of winter - January.
January is the darkest, coldest time in Alaska. And with the full moon not coming back until late January, Dupre won't even have the pale moonlight to help.
It's also the time when Dupre plans to spend at least 30 days - if not up to 45 in the case of inclimate weather - on the back of the 20,320-foot Denali, wooing the mountain into allowing him to summit solo in those cold, dark days. If he succeeds on this third try, he'll be among four other solo winter summits, though none of those was in January.
Before Dupre heads to Alaska, he'll stop off once again on his circuitous route from his home base in Minnesota to Alaska by way of Summit County. He plans to spend the holidays with family in Oregon and arrive in Talkeetna, Alaska, on Dec. 27. He'll begin the climb on Dec. 28 or 29, weather-dependent.
Summit has become Dupre's training grounds because of the ease of accessing altitude and rough terrain. Training consists mostly of long hikes high in the mountains (this time, on Loveland Pass, which "gets you up there in a hurry") and sleeping at elevation at a 10th Mountain Division hut.
"It's not just easy access, it also gives you a bunch of things to pick from to keep things interesting," Dupre said. "It's not only your Fourteeners, but your mountain huts, which are wonderful. We also still need to, as we're preparing for the expedition, be able to do the natural office-type things that need to be done so close to the start of the expedition."
Dupre communicates with the outside world via satellite phone, which can export photos and video as well as voice and text messages from remote parts of the world. He's hoping to piece together footage from his three Denali attempts along with clips from other Arctic or near-Arctic adventures such as circumnavigating Greenland via kayak and dogsledding to the North Pole to create "Cold Love," a documentary that will educate on climate change and share Dupre's passion for the snow and ice.
"My heart goes out to folks who own and invest in ski resorts. What's coming down the pike in terms of climate change, we've only seen a little bit of it so far," Dupre said. "(Carbon dioxide) is a greenhouse gas that lasts 100 years in the atmosphere. The temperatures are going to keep ramping up and it's going to keep changing the climate. Our culture and way of life, our love of sports ... is going to be lost. ... The only thing we can do is do our part in reducing climate change."
"We can adapt somewhat. The things we cannot adapt are ski resorts, animals," he said, adding, "This is a personal challenge for me and also a way to talk to people about our need and love for snow and ice and why it's important for the planet, because snow and ice is basically the thermostat that regulates our planet and keeps it cool. I love snow and ice and I'm here to promote having that around for a long time."
When anything above 68 degrees gives you a headache, it sort of makes sense to want to brave temperatures that can drop to -60 degrees Fahrenheit and winds that are so powerful that using a tent is impossible. A seven-hour climb is, instead, followed by at least two hours of constructing a snow cave in the dark, which is then followed melt snow into drinkable water and eating freeze-dried nourishment.
Dupre will live so close to the edge of death, he says to spend one night above the snow is death.
Equipment is important, too.
"How important is our equipment? You lose your shovel and you lose your life. A stove breaks down, you have 2.5 days to live before you die of dehydration," he said.
Dupre seeks efficient, lightweight materials, but we're still talking about a 200-pound pack. Dupre first carries it on a sled as he traverses the lowlands on long skis that protect him from falling in crevasses. At 11,000 feet, he switches to crampons while dragging the sled, and at roughly 14,000 feet, he will sling his pack onto his back to ascend the remaining 6,320 feet.
As you consider living, eating and sleeping in consistently sub-zero temperatures for a month or more, not having a hot meal for that same time period and cringe at the thought, consider this: This is one of Dupre's shortest cold-weather expeditions.
Kayaking around Greenland involved several six- to eight-month legs, for example.
As such, Dupre said working his way up Denali is, in some ways, easier.
"I can see my objective. I can see the summit," he said. "The mental game is the key game. I know where I'm at. I can see my objective. I know my terrain. I know approximately how long it will take."
But exploring in the ice is far from unfamiliar to Dupre, who has spent the last 25 years running around the Arctic Circle.
"I was born and raised on a farm in Minnesota," Dupre said. "We had really cold winters, and many days well below zero. Growing up on a farm, we played outside all the time. We explored all the surrounding areas. In winter, when the lakes and creeks froze over, it gave us twice as much space to explore."
Dupre has been denied a Denali summit in January twice so far, in both cases, high winds keeping his climb at bay.
The mountain isn't a highly technical one, but its proximity to the Arctic Circle and Bering Sea means the mountain sees extreme weather. If the jet stream drops onto the upper reaches of the mountain, winds can exceed 100 mph.
"It wasn't too bad the first year until 17,000 feet. You can only stay at 17,000 so long before your body starts atrophying," Dupre said.
"When you're up at 17,000 feet waiting for a week, just being in that low-oxygen environment tends to weaken you considerably," Dupre said in a National Geographic interview. "You get atrophied and it becomes even after five days very difficult to climb further up after that, so it's best to come back down."
In 2012, low-pressure system after low-pressure system pounded Alaska, dumping 35 feet of snow on Cordova alone.
"I managed to get to 15,500 feet last year, but it was really an effort," Dupre said. "This year, we're thinking (the weather) is going to be more stable. ... We're feeling really positive."
In each try, Dupre holed up and waited as long as he could for a break in weather. All he needs is 13 hours of stability to ascend from 17,000 feet to the 20,320-foot summit.
"If you climb fast and light, you can do it in 12 or 13 hours," Dupre said.
What two failed attempts does is help Dupre fine-tune his gear. Boots that can handle many layers of insulation. Two ice axes. Good crampons. Rations of one pound to nearly two pounds of freeze-dried material. Clothing that has been tested and proven to perform in extreme weather conditions.
"Every time you go up and down a specific route, you're more aware of your challenges and you have an opportunity to fine-tune your equipment," Dupre said.