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Often being shy away from film critics' awards, the drama film directed by Joe Wright proved to be the best as on Sunday, January 13, the HFPA hailed the movie as the 65th Globes' Best Dramatic Film.
Surprise came from Keira Knightley starrer-film "Atonement" as it was hailed as the Best Drama Motion Picture on Sunday, January 13 at the 65th Golden Globe Awards' press conference. The Joe Wright's war-drama film beat out the two critics' favorites, "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" that have dominated the current award season.
Still, despite nailing the top honor at the Awards, the Focus Features' film didn't manage to follow the success of garnering 7 nominations by bringing home as much as the nods given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Aside from the Best Drama Film, the adaptation movie from Ian McEwan's best-selling 2002 novel only won one other prize, that is Best Original Score for its composer, Dario Marianelli.
Under the category of Best Musical or Comedy fell Tim Burton's bloody adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's stage musical "Sweeney Todd". The film also brought praise for its leading actor, Johnny Depp, as the actor who is famous for his eccentric characters, including being Sweeney Todd, was also awarded a prize of Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Moreover, the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy award went to the rising star Marion Cotillard for her acclaimed performance in "La Vie En Rose".
Aside from giving Best Actress and Actor kudos to the two notable artists, the HFPA also shared the award for Best Dramatic Actress and Actor which were given to Julie Christie and Daniel Day-Lewis respectively. Christie got the Globe for portraying Fiona Anderson, a woman suffering from Alzheimer's in "Away From Her", whereas Day-Lewis for being Daniel Plainview, a greedy oil baron, in "There Will Be Blood". Further, Cate Blanchett and Javier Bardem were named the Best Supporting Actress and Actor respectively.
The topnotch for the director, in the meantime, was won by Julian Schnabel, the helmer of "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly". The biopic drama starred by Mathieu Amalric also garnered the Best Foreign Language Film overshadowing its contenders "4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days", "The Kite Runner", "Lust, Caution" and "Persepolis". Furthermore, the complete list of all Golden Globe Awards' winners can be seen on Goldenglobes.org or see the full movie list winners below.
The 65th Golden Globe Awards' winners for the movie category:
- Cecil B. DeMille Award: Steven Spielberg
- Best Motion Picture - Drama: "Atonement"
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama: Julie Christie, "Away From Her"
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
- Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy: "Sweeney Todd"
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Marion Cotillard, "La Vie En Rose"
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy: Johnny Depp "Sweeney Todd"
- Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"
- Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Javier Bardem, "No Country For Old Men"
- Best Animated Feature Film: "Ratatouille"
- Best Foreign Language Film: "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly" (France, United States)
- Best Director - Motion Picture: Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly"
- Best Screenplay - Motion Picture: "No Country For Old Men", Written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Best Original Score - Motion Picture: "Atonement", Composed by Dario Marianelli
- Best Original Song - Motion Picture: "Guaranteed" for "Into The Wild", Music & Lyrics By: Eddie Vedder


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problems with FindRoot: what worked with 4.2 does not work with 5.0
I have written a Mathematica program called PET (Petrological elementary
tools) for Mathematica
(Dachs, 1998, Computers & Geosciences, 24/3: 219-235) und worked out a
new version that I tested with Mathematica version 4.2. With 5.0, I now
find problems that several of my functions do not work any more,
obviously do to changes that have been employed between 4.2 and 5.0
concerning FindRoot.
Below is a little test-function that illustrates the problem: the
return-value of the function depends on the value of x, as in the much
more complex petrological functions that I have written, where
calculations depend e.g. on the value of the temperature.
test[x_] := Module[{y},
If[x > 0, y = x + 1];
If[x <= 0, y = x - 1];
With 4.2 FindRoot (using two startin values for x) could have been used
to solve for a special value, e.g.
FindRoot[test[x] == 5, {x, {8, 9}}]
with the obvious result: {x -> 4.}
With 5.0 the call
FindRoot[test[x] == 5, {x, 9}]
(only one starting value can be specified with 5.0) yields the error
message: FindRoot::nlnum "the function value {..} is not a list of
numbers with dimension {1} at {x} = {9}
I would be grateful if someone could help me solving this problem, at
the moment I don't know what to do, but it looks like a compatibility
problem between Mathematica versions 4.2 and 5.0.
Thanks in advance,
Dr. Edgar Dachs
Department of Mineralogy
University Salzburg

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The food banks of Canada have earned the right to lecture governments and the public about our economic system and our social safety net. They have earned that right by rolling up their sleeves to do the hard work of meeting the neediest families, hearing their stories and finding safe, nutritious food for them in the nooks and crannies of our advanced, industrial economy.
This does not make them all-knowing or all-wise. When they venture into large explanations of economic history and sweeping prescriptions for reform, they are just people with opinions, like any other Canadian. But they do know some things Prime Minister Stephen Harper does not know.
Though he could not care less what his critics say, as he told his party conference last weekend in Calgary in another context, he should take the time to read and digest the annual Hunger Count issued this week by Food Banks Canada.
Food banks, operated primarily by volunteers, gather surplus food from retailers, food processors and other donors. They offer that food free of charge to families who show they need it. Their national organization compiles statistics on their work, showing how things are going at the low end of Canada's economic totem pole.
Food banks served 833,098 people in March this year compared with 872,379 the year before -- a decline of 4.5 per cent. The number served by food banks had been much lower -- 675,735 -- in March, 2008. Statistics Canada had found an unemployment rate of 7.2 per cent in March this year, just the same as the year before. Employment in Canada has been slowly and fitfully rising from the low point of 16.7 million in July 2009 to reach 17.6 million in March this year. Food-bank users in Manitoba doubled in five years and then declined by five per cent from last year to this. Of the 60,229 people eating from Manitoba food banks in March, 45 per cent were children.
Mr. Harper reminded his party conference he had reduced the Goods and Services Tax and reached the outline of a free-trade treaty with the European Union. These were good things to do. And yet, 833,098 Canadians are still eating from the food banks. All the stupendous effort Mr. Harper has put forth in seven-and-a-half years as prime minister has only shaved 4.5 per cent off the queues at the food banks.
When the market system works well, some of the wealth generated by expansion trickles down to those who live on the fringes of the economy. An optimistic slogan teaches a rising tide raises all the boats. But the experience of Canada's food banks suggests the trickle-down is nowhere near enough to offer genuine hope to most of the people signing up for food banks. The tide has been rising slowly, but a great many boats -- 833,098 by last count -- have yet to feel the benefit.
This has been the experience of many societies in many periods of history: Economic cycles come and go, aided or impaired by government policy, but a certain number of people are always left out. The duty of government is not only to keep the taxes down and aid industry, as Mr. Harper has done, but also to assure sufficient opportunity and hope to those who are chronically left out -- the people for whom the food banks speak.
The food-bank report advocates an ambitious agenda of federal spending on affordable housing, employment training, Arctic food services and welfare reform. Mr. Harper is likely to find those plans unattractive, but he should recognize the reality from which they arise, and if he does not like those solutions he should offer better ones. The reality is the market economy does not serve everyone and probably never will.
The people on the fringes of the market economy are Canadians, too. They are our neighbours and Canada owes them a duty of support. Food banks are part of the solution, but our neighbours also need hope and opportunity. The food-bank numbers suggest they need more than is now offered.


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Withdraw entirely the stimulus of arterial blood, and the brain ceases to act, and sensibility and consciousness become extinct.
It may be noted that arterial anomalies are extremely frequent.
The present status is somewhat chaotic, some affirming and some denying that arterial changes follow the various methods employed.
Its shape has been discovered by deep borings in search of arterial waters.
Came a day when in the paddock Dan Crimmins had seen that fleck of arterial blood on the handkerchief.
Their arterial system is superior to man's—simpler and stronger.
The first of these is afforded by the arrangement of the arterial vessel supplying the liver.
Now, we add that the same is true of the arterial distribution.
First, the neck and head are of a deep brown, with a tinge of the colour of arterial blood.
arterial ar·te·ri·al (är-tēr'ē-əl)
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The West German entertainment industry has been mobilized to carry to the German people the truth about the Third Reich, the newspaper Variety reported here today. It said show business was "playing a major role via television, films, traveling exhibits and shows in intensifying the examination of the Third Reich."
The paper reported that at the recent Mannheim documentary film fest, "thousands of students saw films dealing with the Nazi era." It said the West German Government had bought prints of the French documentary, "Night and Fog, " dealing with the Nazi regime, and was showing the film to students and organized groups.
In Frankfurt, "10,000 shocked Germans" attended the first week of an exhibit, "Night Descended Over Germany," depicting the crimes of the Hitler regime, the paper stated. In Dortmund, an exhibit of newspaper clippings and documents on National Socialism was opened for schools by the Westphalian-Lower Rhenish Institute for Newspaper Research, it reported.
The West German television network recently carried a program dealing with the Jews who survived the concentration camps and now live in Germany. Another TV program dealt with the torture of the Jews under the Hitler regime. This fall, the paper reported, the West German network will carry a series of programs sponsored by the Cologne station and the South German network called "the road into the Abyss, 1933 to 1945."
On the stage, the paper said, Berthold Brecht's play, "Schweik in the Second World War," has been a sensation. The story is of a Czech soldier who defies the Nazis in an attempt to protect his Jewish friends.
The paper noted that "the film industry in Germany has yet to meet the problems of the Nazi era head-on with a true examination of Hitler and his henchmen." It criticized a number of recently produced films on the Nazi era which, it said, made the Nazis "the traditional 'bad men' and the non-Nazi Germans the 'good brave soldiers' playing out their roles in a war not of their making."


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Abidjan, Ivory Coast (AP) - United Nations and French forces prepared to attack Ivory Coast's presidential palace Tuesday after launching full assaults on the residence of the entrenched leader, the republican guard, two major military bases and state TV.
Fighters aiming to topple strongman Laurent Gbagbo had succeeded in taking nearly the entire countryside in just three days last week, but they faltered once they reached the country's largest city, where the presidential palace and residence are located.
With the help of international forces, the armed group fighting to install the country's democratically elected leader Alassane Ouattara pushed their way to the heart of the city to reach Gbagbo's home. They have surrounded it, and as of early Tuesday they were waiting for him to step down, said a close adviser to Ouattara who could not be named because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
Monday's offensive included air attacks on the ruler's home and on three strategic military garrisons and marked an unprecedented escalation in the international community's efforts to oust Gbagbo, who lost the presidential election in November yet has refused to cede power to Ouattara even as the world's largest cocoa producer teetered on the brink of all-out civil war.
A senior diplomat who could not be named because of the sensitivity of the matter said he had a map with blue stickers marking the six strategic points that needed to be taken out, and that five of the six had been hit by early Tuesday.
The five include Gbagbo's residence where heavy weaponry was destroyed, the republican guard, state TV, the Akban paramilitary base, and the arms depot at Akouedo which the diplomat said were bombarded by U.N. Mi-24 helicopters. A video posted on YouTube showed the depot being bombed. Tracers could be seen exploding from the burning core as Gbagbo's soldiers attempted to shoot down the helicopters.
"It's all over for Gbagbo -- except the shooting," said the ambassador.
At Gbagbo's residence, the troops had created a perimeter around the building, waiting to see if he would come out or respond. Ouattara's adviser said that he had been told Gbagbo had created a bunker inside his residence, locked from within.
U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy briefed the Security Council about the action in Ivory Coast on Monday and said international forces had targeted areas around the presidential palace where Gbagbo's forces were using heavy weaponry.
"There is no point to firing at the presidential palace if there are no heavy weapons," he said. "But we are seeing the heavy weapons very close and that is what we are firing on."
Postelection violence has left hundreds dead -- most of them Ouattara supporters -- and has forced up to 1 million people to flee. Ouattara has used his considerable international clout to financially and diplomatically suffocate Gbagbo and pro-Ouattara forces before launching a dramatic military assault last week.
On Monday, the U.N. fired on the Akouedo military base at around 5 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) to prevent Gbagbo's forces from using heavy weapons against civilians, said the spokesman for the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations Nick Birnback.
Explosions resonated from the city's downtown core a few blocks from the presidential palace and near the base of the republican guard, and those living nearby barricaded their windows with mattresses. Flames could be seen licking the sky above the home of the staunchly pro-Gbagbo republican guard.
Just after the U.N. announced their attack, a resident in the Cocody neighborhood where Gbagbo lives in Abidjan said he saw multiple helicopters circling and could hear firing. Others said they heard what sounded like fighter jets.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement that he had authorized the 1,600-strong French Licorne force based here to help in the operation following an appeal from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who said that the use of force was necessary to prevent further attacks on civilians.
Ivory Coast gained independence from France in 1960, and some 20,000 French citizens still lived there when a brief civil war broke out in 2002. French troops were then tasked by the U.N. with monitoring a cease-fire and protecting foreign nationals in Ivory Coast, which was once an economic star and is still one of the only countries in the region with four-lane highways, skyscrapers, escalators and wine bars.
Following four months of attempts to negotiate Gbagbo's departure, the U.N. Security Council unanimously passed an especially strong resolution giving the 12,000-strong peacekeeping operation the right "to use all necessary means to carry out its mandate to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence ... including to prevent the use of heavy weapons against the civilian population."
Gbagbo, 65, has stubbornly refused every olive branch extended to him since last November, when he lost the presidential election to International Monetary Fund economist, Ouattara. Gbagbo insisted he had won, even though his country's own election commission declared him defeated and the United Nations certified his opponent's victory.
Many people in Abidjan have not left their homes since last Wednesday, when Ouattara's fighters arrived on the perimeter of the city, and heavy clashes ensued.
Barricaded inside her home, new mother Joceline Djaha, 24, said by telephone that she had stopped eating two days ago, when her stock ran out. For several days, her only food was boiled spaghetti -- no sauce.
In the two days since she's been out of food, her breastmilk dried up. Her 1-year-old, she says, has become listless.
"Please let this stop," said Djaha. "I can hold out without food. But I'm not sure my child can."
Doctors Without Borders issued an urgent appeal Monday night for all warring factions to allow people to reach medical care.
In a statement, the organization said a team of its doctors had been trapped since Thursday "due to the extremely dangerous conditions" at the only hospital still functioning in the northern half of the city, which includes Gbagbo's residence.
They were treating 30 to 40 injured people daily, who made their way to the hospital by cart or other means, but gunfire and looting prevented helping others.
"We get telephone calls asking us to come pick up wounded people and patients, but it's impossible to move around," said Dr. Sal-ha Issoufou, head of the doctors' mission in Abidjan.
Associated Press writers Jenny Barchfield in Paris, Michelle Faul in Accra, Ghana, Edith M. Lederer and Anita Snow at United Nations headquarters in New York contributed to this report.


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NY Times editorial wrongly suggested that Congress eliminated "bridges to nowhere" funding
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A New York Times editorial wrongly suggested that Congress had defied Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and eliminated funding for two "bridges to nowhere." In fact, the money was sent to Alaska with no strings attached, instead of being specifically allocated to the bridge projects.
A December 14 New York Times editorial incorrectly suggested that Congress had defied Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and cut from a spending bill $442 million originally given to Alaska to finance the construction of two widely derided bridges there. The bridges, according a November 17 Times article, included "a mile-long, 200-foot-high bridge connecting Ketchikan to a sparsely populated island and regional airport and a second one linking Anchorage to a port nearly two miles across an inlet."
Here's what the Times wrote in its December 14 editorial, titled "The Senator Who Cried Wolf":
Alaska drilling should never be palmed off as a money-saving measure, but that is the sleight-of-hand being attempted. House moderates who oppose the drilling as well as the welfare cuts must stand fast.
They should keep in mind the senator's earlier melodramatic vow to resign from public office if pork money was rescinded for Alaska's notorious bridges to nowhere. An embarrassed Congress nevertheless scuttled the requirement to build the bridges. Alas, Senator Stevens remains at work.
The editorial brought up the bridges to attack Stevens's steadfast support of drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), which is currently banned. Stevens has said he will not approve any budget bill compromise that does not include it. In encouraging House Republicans to call Stevens's bluff and vote against drilling in ANWR, the Times recalled Stevens' October 20 threat to resign if the funding for the two bridges were cut. But the editorial wrongly implied that an "embarrassed Congress" acted in defiance of "the senator's melodramatic vow to resign" if the earmark were rescinded. In fact, Congress did not defy Stevens. What Congress did, as the Times' November 17 article reported, was to simply eliminate the requirement that the money be spent on the two specific bridges. According to the news article, "The change will not save the federal government any money. Instead, the $442 million will be turned over to the state with no strings attached, allowing lawmakers and the governor there to parcel it out for transportation projects as they see fit, including the bridges should they so choose." Rather than defying Stevens, Congress actually gave Alaska more, in the form of greater latitude to decide where to spend the money.
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At least once a year ESTOFEX comes together to talk and make decisions about forecasting procedures, verification, plans for our future, and outreach. The last meeting was from 3-6 November 2006 in Linkenheim, Germany. Four of the five forecasters were attending and one active member.
A lot has happened over the year. In January 2006 we had a meeting in Toulouse where we decided to use newly defined risk levels and a new colour scheme to go with it. Pieter Groenemeijer has been very active programming a forecast map drawing tool, storing the coordinates, a major step that helped both uniformity of the look of our maps, as well as offering possibilities to do verification. It went into use on April 29th. Pieter has started a first verification based on lightning data from the British arrival-time difference system, the well-known SFLOC reports. This covers a large part of Europe, and is reasonably reliable, enough to use it for our purpose. The results will soon be available under a special section of our site.
We decided to make a change to the forecasting scheme (see FAQ). We simplified it by not making a distinction between tornadoes and other severe weather anymore, and we adjusted the unit area and number of events expected for the threat levels. We will likely make another adjustment to facilitate verification, by using a unit radius around a point within which at least one event should happen to verify the point as true. This is not likely to affect the meaning of our threat levels much, but may influence the style of drawing thunder and threat areas.
Other things we discussed were forecast text uniformity (necessary elements, correct grammar, no abbreviations), and the possibility of adding a severe convective weather FAQ, case studies, longer and shorter term forecasts (rejected: lack of forecasters!), outreach, offering workshops, and organizational aspects.
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The city of Sherwood will pay $5 million, plus fees, for the North Hills Country Club and in turn the owners, Club Properties, will drop all lawsuits against the city.
The Sherwood City Council approved the agreement, reached late last week, at a special meeting Monday afternoon by unanimous vote.
There is, however, still a public hearing at noon Monday in the citys council chambers, on the public facilities boards agreement to obtain up to $6.1 million, at 6 percent, in short-term financing from Twin City Bank to cover the cost of the 106-acre golf course property.
The public facilities board would be the entity that actually buys the acreage and then will lease it to the city for the amount of the monthly payment, which would be about $39,000 if the board borrowed the entire $6.1 million. Payments are based on an amortization of 25 years at 6 percent.
The council, at its regular meeting 7 p.m. Monday, will then approve the facilities boards actions and give it the go ahead to purchase the golf course, culminating almost two years of deliberations over the green space.
Im glad that we have a resolution, said Mayor Virginia Hillman, and it will be a very nice place, but Im still very concerned about the financial liability.
Hillman said what will become of the 106-acre property will be decided in the citys ongoing park study which is looking at all parks and green space in the city, including the recently annexed Gravel Ridge. She said once it officially becomes city property, the city would go in and deal with the overgrowth and see if the clubhouse, with some work, can be used as a rental facility for meetings and other activities.
The ordinance approved by the council authorizes the settlement of the litigation for $5 million, plus ancillary expenses of closing, including sums and fees required for financing and title insurance and closing service. The ordinance says payment will be made within 45 days.
The ordinance also states that the property should be preserved as a public park, including green space, and for other public purposes to be developed, including without limitationsparks, recreational facilities, hiking and biking trails and other purposes for the betterment of the city.
Stuart Hankins, attorney for the owners of the golf course, issued this statement after the properties agreed to the settlement,
Club Properties, Inc. confirms that it has agreed to accept the sum of $5,000,000 in return for the conclusion of the state court condemnation case and the dismissal of the federal court civil rights case subject to the citys ability to complete its financing arrangements.
Hankins went on to say, While the principals of Club Properties, Inc. are not particularly happy about this resolution, they believe that it is in their best interests to bring an end to this expensive and time- consuming litigation process.
Sherwood, which condemned the property earlier this year through eminent domain, would have been in court this week and next week to haggle over the fair market value of the property, but the agreement makes that trial moot.
The city has had the property appraised at $2.2 million, but the owners have a $5.5 million appraisal and had a valid offer of $5.1 million before the city put a building moratorium on the property in May 2007.
Club Properties also had a federal lawsuit against the city for the building moratorium placed on the property by the city, which was a catalyst in a $5.1 million deal the owners had with a developer falling apart. The judge put that trial on hold, pending the outcome of the condemnation trial. Club Properties, according to the agreement, will now drop that suit.
Current plans call for the city to pay the facilities board through franchise fees the city collects from various utilities.
Last year, the city collected $481,000 in franchise fees. It will need up to $468,000 a year to cover the cost of the bank note.
Franchise fees collected from North Little Rock Electric are currently frozen and a point of contention in a lawsuit between Sherwood, North Little Rock and First Electric. That amount of franchise fees, according to City Clerk Angela Nicholson, is not included in the $481,000 amount. Earlier this year, Alderman Becki Vassar said the aldermen decided using its eminent domain authority and condemning the property was the fastest, most economical and most beneficial for all of Sherwood if we were going to have to spend the money anyway.
The use of eminent domain and the facilities board also prevented any sort of public vote on the issue.
This way we are not looking at 203 homes on the property, but probably not a golf course either, but desired green space. We just need to save it, the alderman said earlier this year.
On Friday she said she was delighted with the settlement. Court cases are scary as they can go either way.
Vassar added, We so desperately need to keep it as green space, not housing. Theres only so much green space available and we need to preserve this special place for generations to come.
Like the mayor, Vassar wants the city to start a cleanup of the acreage as soon as possible. Id also like to see some of the fencing taken down and have it be more city-friendly, she said
Vassar explained that if a subdivision was built on the property it would cost the city about $2 million or so to upgrade sewer lines, other utilities and area streets. The aldermen agreed that if they were going to have to spend that kind of money the city should just go ahead and buy it, and approved the use of eminent domain to take the property back in May.
Buying the property will not settle a number of questions including what to do with the property and how much those plans will cost.
Vassar, at a recent workshop, suggested turning the acreage, or at least part of it, into a water park like Jacksonvilles Splash Zone. The Splash Zone cost Jacksonville about $2.5 million to build four years ago and was financed through a one-cent sales tax. Since May, the acreage has become unsightly and overgrown with weeds as neither the owners nor the city spent money to keep the grounds in shape.
The moratorium the Sherwood council approved that generated the federal lawsuit came after businessman Ray Campbell had submitted plans to build a high-end gated community of 200 homes on the property. The homes would have sold in the $300,000 to $400,000 range.
The citys moratorium thwarted Campbells efforts to finance the deal.
In early January, Club Properties presented a subdivision plan to the Sherwood Planning Commission to have 92 acres of the golf course property rezoned to allow the company to build 203 homes on the property. The plan met fierce opposition from the commission and was tabled indefinitely. The commissioners also tabled a public hearing on Club Properties request to rezone 14 acres of the golf course property bordering Highway 107 from R-1 (residential) and C-2 (shopping center) to C-3 (general commercial).
We needed to do something, Rodgers explained back in December, rather than just sit here on the property.
The financing obtained by the facilities board through Twin City Bank is for three years, and the agreement contains penalties for an early pay-off. Twin City Bank was the only facility to submit a proposal to the facilities board. Chairman Linda Napper said that Simmons bank officials had told her that the current climate was not conducive to their institution submitting a bid.
The facilities board will also continue to look for longer-term financing as in a bond issue. We dont want to wait until the three years is almost up and not be able to secure funding, Napper said.
After the public hearing and the council approval Monday, state law requires a 30-day referendum or waiting period. After that time the board can have access to the funds and pay the owners of the golf course the agreed upon $5 million.


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Nur Meiyati
My First Preaching - Poem by Nur Meiyati
Someone in his twenties sent me a message
Please give me a wisdom
What? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Oh hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
Do you think I am prophet who delivers a prophesy
Do you think I am a goddess with angelic voice, revealing wisdom
Do you think I am an angel who spread my wings to help the needy
Do you think I am a hero to become a model
So funny
I am not the one who has done much for my country or humanity
I am just an ordinary person
I am not always peaceful
Even sometimes I am full of anger
Seeing the craziness of the world
Stupid war, injustice, bullying, genocide, corruption, manipulation, ignorance or hypocrisy
So weird is the world …..or is it the people?
The youngsters dwell in their memories of heroic films they watched in their childhood
As the real world is too disappointing even just to be accepted as it is
The older people …...............................
With the stories of imaginary magical holy people
Creating heroes and heroine that match or made to be matched with the characters they have in their fantasy:
Imaginary heroes and heroines
Imaginary...as in the real life there are no such people
Who are perfect and have no flaws
Listen! Listen! Listen!
I have no wisdom for you or anyone
You can get them from any holy books
You can get them from famous quotes from famous people or proverbs
You can just follow them if you are lazy to use your mind
But one wisdom may contradict with another
And sometimes even are very dangerous for the simple minds
So the best wisdom is from you yourself
Train your heart and mind to choose any wisdom suitable for you
That can only be done if you remember this:
No ''MUST" before you test them … for you
Free thinking is a must
I know how it is very well
As I experienced it in my life, from No to Yes
So my first preaching for you is: I can't preach and have no wisdom for you
(Indonesia,15 November 2013)
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Unsafe medicine
Laudanum in the 19th century – by Ruth Levitt
A careless mishap killed Sarah Newbery on 28 May 1843. She was a widow in her late 80s living in the parish of Hampton Wick near Hampton Court with her son, John Robert Kensett, who had returned from America to be with her in her old age. Due to recent stomach trouble, that morning she had taken a medicine she believed to be tincture of rhubarb, a common purgative. In reality she had swallowed a massive dose of laudanum. Three or four drops of laudanum (tincture of opium) were sufficient to kill a baby; an adult medicinal dose might have been up to 30 drops; seasoned addicts could cope with at least 200. She had taken a fluid ounce – over 550 drops.
The day before, John Kensett had been unable to find an old medicine bottle in a cupboard of home cures and so he picked up another empty one without checking its label, taking it to Mr Jones's chemist shop a few minutes' walk away in Kingston upon Thames. He handed the bottle to the chemist's assistant, William Fothergill, and asked for two ounces of tincture of rhubarb. Fothergill asked if he was to put it in that bottle and John replied, "Yes, never mind the label." Fothergill dispensed two ounces of a liquid into it, wrapped it and gave it back to John, who paid one shilling and waited for his change. Fothergill did not offer him any, prompting John to ask for it. "We always charge sixpence per ounce," was the reply. John accepted this, but maintained he had always had change out of a shilling before.
At home his mother asked him if there was any tincture of rhubarb in the house. He said he had just bought some, but advised her not to take it until morning in case its purgative action disturbed her during the night. He gave the bottle to their servant, Mary Lassam, without examining the contents or the label, and told her to give one-half to his mother at seven the next morning, which Mary did. Sarah told her that it tasted very nauseous. John came downstairs an hour later, feeling under the weather, and decided to have the other half of the medicine himself. He too found it very nauseous. He began his breakfast but soon felt too ill and lay down on the sofa in the parlour.
A little later, Mary saw Sarah and John deeply asleep. After another hour she looked in on Sarah and was "struck by [her] wild and singular appearance". Mary had great difficulty waking John, who was extremely groggy and feeling dreadful. She helped him up the stairs to Sarah's room, where he could see his mother was in a very bad way. He then checked the bottle's label, which said "Laudanum – Poison". They immediately called the doctor, who pumped Sarah's stomach while John swallowed emetics and large amounts of warm water. John recovered, but his mother died that afternoon. The inquest took place four days later at the local King's Arms Inn, conducted by William Baker, the Middlesex coroner, with a jury. The Times reported the evidence and the verdict: accidental death from laudanum administered by mistake.
Exactly the same conclusion had been reached by an inquest jury two years earlier, following the fatal administration of laudanum in place of tincture of rhubarb. Elie Galloway, 32, was married to a provision dealer in Newcastle. She had been unwell with digestive problems and by 31 January 1841 she felt much worse. Her husband sent two of their children to the druggist Mr Tinn for three-pennyworth of tincture of rhubarb, with a cup for the medicine and a piece of paper on which he had written "six drachms of the tincture of rhubarb" (one fluid ounce was eight drachms).
The children returned with the medicine, Mrs Galloway drank it down and remarked that it tasted like laudanum. Her condition deteriorated rapidly and the doctor was sent for. He confirmed that drops left in the cup were laudanum, and Elie died that evening despite having her stomach pumped. At the inquest the druggist admitted the piece of paper said "tincture of rhubarb" but denied he had dispensed laudanum, because he was "always so particular in selling [laudanum]…and enquired what the drug was for and labelled the vessel". The Gateshead Observer concluded in its report that "druggists should keep poisons apart from other drugs. A fatal mistake…can hardly be regarded as a 'pure accident,' unless proper precautions have been taken to guard against error. In the present case, it does not appear to us that Mr Tinn's arrangements afford adequate security, for his customers."
When Sarah and Elie were poisoned, few truly effective medicines were available and the sale of dangerous drugs and poisons was not legally controlled. Numerous concoctions, powders, mixtures and elixirs, tinctures and pills were on sale in shops and from all kinds of 'experts', their extravagant and unverifiable claims advertised in papers and posters. Itinerant quacks could do good business at local fairs and door to door. Several patent medicines contained the poisons opium, mercury and antimony. The training and skills that doctors, apothecaries, chemists and druggists possessed was limited at best. Most people were their own diagnosticians, physicians and prescribers; some sought advice from family and friends, or from qualified and unqualified doctors and chemists, or took their chances with patent medicines, but it was guesswork for everyone.
A handful of substances were known to be useful for some conditions. Rhubarb was a purgative, while opium was a sedative that also suppressed coughing and diarrhoea. Opium itself is extracted from poppy sap, and has been known and used for more than 2000 years. It contains morphine and codeine; it is addictive and a powerful poison. Laudanum is powdered opium dissolved in wine with added saffron and cinnamon. It was sold in stoppered glass bottles and was easily available from druggists for about sixpence for one fluid ounce (a very small fee at the time). Laudanum was widely recommended for cholera symptoms.
Laudanum had long been a drug of choice for suicide. In 1743, William Hogarth had depicted a laudanum- induced suicide in the final scene of his series 'Marriage à la mode', showing the Countess expiring, the empty laudanum bottle by her foot.
Sarah and Elie were not alone in their fate. A report to the House of Commons on the causes of death recorded at coroners' inquests in England and Wales in 1837–38 had already demonstrated that laudanum and other opium preparations were responsible for a third of the deaths investigated – and almost all the child deaths – whether by overdose or accidental substitution for another medicine, including syrup of blackthorn, Godfrey's Cordial (laudanum, sassafras and molasses), paregoric (opium, alcohol, camphor and honey), antimonial wine (tartar emetic and alcohol) and, of particular interest here, tincture of rhubarb. Furthermore, there would have been additional laudanum deaths not seen by coroners, or attributed to other causes. In 1861, Mrs Beeton recommended readers of her Book of Household Management to include opium powder and laudanum in their home medicine cupboards, but not to use Syrup of Poppies or Godfrey's Cordial to get their children to sleep.
Despite rising public concern, Parliament was not inclined to protect people from unsafe prescribing, careless chemists, or hazardous and adulterated remedies. It was more responsive to practitioners' demands for exclusivity. The 1815 Apothecaries Act, the 1852 Pharmacy Act and the 1858 Medical Act became law through hard lobbying by those groups to secure statutory powers of self-regulation, thereby protecting their own sectional and commercial interests. Although advocates claimed that customers would benefit from these measures too, anyone could still buy or sell opium and laudanum, and deaths from accidental and intended poisoning continued throughout the 19th century.
The 1868 Pharmacy Act included a two-part schedule of poisons, reflecting the chemists' success in protecting part of their market share. All listed substances had to be labelled with the contents of the container, the word 'poison', and the name and address of the seller. Chemists now had to keep a record of sales of substances in Part I, including preparations of arsenic, cyanides, mercury and strychnine, stating the date, substance, quantity and intended purpose, purchaser's details and signature; and purchasers had to be known or recommended to them. "Opium and all preparations of Opium or of Poppies" were relegated to the end of the lighter-touch Part II list (only needing a label), together with chloroform, belladonna, oxalic acid and oil of almonds. Chemists flouting these rules risked a modest fine of up to five pounds (about half a week's wage for the average day labourer at the time – expensive but not prohibitive) for a first offence. The Act entirely excluded patent medicines sold by a registered apothecary or chemist, as well as all exports and wholesale supplies. British legislators had already lagged behind several other countries and did not revise this law until the very end of the century.
These historical cases alert us to how long it took to regulate over- the-counter medicines and why, by the end of the 19th century, it was necessary to do so. In an internet era when self-dosing is once more rife, the challenge facing all consumers is: how much can you trust the e-quack? Unsafe medicines remain as much a danger to modern consumers as they were to Victorian ones.
Dr Ruth Levitt is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of North American Studies, King's College London (firstname.lastname@example.com).
June 3, 2013 12:15 pm
Surely there is a big mistake in the statement that five pounds was equal to "about half a week's wage for the average day labourer at the time [1868″]? – £10 a week would have been beyond the aspirations of most British unskilled workers even decades later. In the late 1920s a man's wage for a rural day labourer in the Western Isles, for example, was five shillings, that's one and a half pounds for a six-day week, and even sixpence was not such a minuscule sum as the article suggests.
Perhaps this is related to the problem many younger researchers have with the notation for pre-decimal currency (LSD): I've noticed that scanning of older texts sometimes leads to money in shillings being transcribed as pounds, i.e. multiplied by twenty.


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SPORTS >> Red Devils gave fans run to remember
Free throws won Jacksonville its first state basketball championship on March 14, but there was nothing free about them.
The Red Devils and hero guard Deshone McClure earned every shot.
McClure sank 2 of 3 free throws with 1.2 seconds left to lift the Red Devils to a 63-62 victory over Little Rock Hall at Summit Arena in Hot Springs. The teams 6A championship is The Leaders top sports story of 2009.
Jacksonville won its final 15 games of the season and avenged a regular-season loss to Hall in January. The rematch in the final was a thriller that would satisfy fans of just about any program with perhaps the exception of Hall.
These guys showed a lot of heart, Jacksonville coach Vic Joyner said.
Jacksonville rushed to an 11-1 lead, but the score was 15-14 Hall by the end of the first quarter. Jacksonville took a 27-26 lead at halftime and outscored Hall 18-10 in the third quarter to make it 45-36.
Stanley Appleby scored seven straight points to give the Red Devils their biggest lead, 52-39, midway through the fourth quarter. But the Warriors pressure defense began to have an effect against the turnover-prone Red Devils, who lost the ball 24 times during the game leading to 28 points by Hall.
Halls A.J. Walton had made two free throws for the 62-61 lead with 7.8 seconds left as the Warriors came completely back from their 13-point deficit.
But McClure, now a senior, split two defenders and got to the top of the three-point line to launch his last-second shot that missed. But David Rivers, behind McClure and reaching over, was called for the foul that sent McClure to the line for his game-winners.
Coach told me to get the ball and dont stop, McClure said. I almost lost it and I almost passed it, but Coach told me to go and dont stop. If were going to lose, were going to lose it because of me.
Instead, McClure won the game and the most valuable player award for his heroics and 17 points.
I had to do it for my teammates I had to, said McClure, who made his first free throw, missed the second and put the Red Devils ahead to stay with his third. After I missed that one I was thinking that I couldnt miss another one or were going into overtime. I knew if we went into overtime that it was going to be a battle, so I had to hit it.
Joyner said overtime, with Walton still on the court for Hall, would not have been a savory prospect. Walton, now at Baylor, scored a game-high 24 points, 15 over the final 5:48.
Hes got no quit in him and he almost single-handedly carried his team to a state title, Joyner said.
But Joyner and the Red Devils countered with a group effort.
Demetrius Harris was 9 of 14 for 20 points with 10 rebounds; Appleby had his solo run to give Jacksonville its biggest lead and his brother Raheem also contributed points; Cortrell Eskridge and Darrius Morant had two key assists apiece; Antonio Roy had seven rebounds and Antwan Lockhart made all of his three shots, including a dunk, while adding three rebounds and a block.
It was a satisfying championship because it was the Red Devils first, but it was also pleasing to Joyner after his teams struggles the previous season. Jacksonville opened 3-9 but reached the state tournament, only to lose in the quarterfinals.
We had a lot of infighting, a lot of things we were trying to work through personally, Joyner said. But for the most part, all year, these kids have given it up for each other. They respect each other and theyve grown closer as teammates.
But theyre still competitive. They want you to stop this guy, they want you to get up there and get this rebound. And theyll get up in each others face and tell each other. And theres nothing wrong with that as long as you handle it the right way.
Clearly, the Red Devils did.
The Lonoke Jackrabbits overame a 2-3 start to reach their first state championship game since 1994.
The Jackrabbits had to win 3 of 4 playoff games on the road and gambled on two intentional safeties in a playoff victory at Warren just to get to Little Rock and War Memorial Stadium, the site of the championship.
Senior running back Brandon Smith, The Leader offensive player of the year, rushed for 1,953 yards and 24 touchdowns while senior quarterback Michael Nelson emerged as a threat to run and throw.
The storybook run ended one victory short as the Jackrabbits drew private school power Shiloh Christian in the championship.
The Saints roughed up the Jackrabbits 56-20 to win their sixth title, but the loss didnt do much to mar the season for Lonoke.
It was still fun for us, Smith said. We enjoyed ourselves. We were just happy to be one of the last two teams competing for a state championship.
A court case involving Lamars eligibility delayed the 3A football playoffs by one week and kept Harding Academy on ice for three because of the first-round bye the Wildcats earned for winning the 2-3A Conference.
Lamar initially had to forfeit five of its six victories because it used an ineligible player, but an injunction granted by Fifth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Gordon McCain overturned the decision and returned the victories to Lamar.
As a result of the delay, the 3A championship game had to be moved to Conways Estes Stadium because of scheduled renovations at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.
As it turned out, Harding Academy wouldnt have earned a trip to either venue as it suffered its first loss in the semifinals at Fountain Lake.
Lamar was also a playoff casualty.
Cabot and Jacksonville met at Cabots Panther Stadium on Sept. 1 in the states first high school football game to be broadcast on commercial television.
It was the latest installment of the Backyard Brawl between the next-door rivals and anyone who couldnt make the game had a chance to tune in.
A crew of 20, with two trucks, seven cameras and 3,000 feet of cable, decked out Panther Stadium for the broadcast on KARZ-TV Channel 42, sister station to KARK-TV Channel 4 in Little Rock.
I think theres been some cable access kind of stuff, KARK assistant news director Jeff Whatley said. But this is the first time on commercial television.
Whatley is the brother to Jacksonville coach Mark Whatley, but the family relationship had nothing to do with the selection of Jacksonville-Cabot as the premiere matchup.
We just know this was a good rivalry, Jeff Whatley said.
Though renovated over the years, Panther Stadium still needed a rented generator to help handle the power needs of KARKs production and microwave trucks.
Concerns over a possible dip in attendance at the 5,000-seat stadium were offset by a guarantee of $500 to each team.
But a near capacity crowd showed up to see Cabot beat Jacksonville 35-6 in the non-conference season-opener.
While Jacksonville was on its way to a 6A state basketball championship, crosstown rival North Pulaski was coming up short in its bid to be the 5A state champion.
It might have been impressive to some that the city of Jacksonville produced two state final qualifiers, but that was far from satisfying to North Pulaski, which was beaten 39-34 by Greene Co. Tech.
The Falcons shot just 19 percent (11 of 57), though Kyron Ware was a bright spot with 19 points.
Behind Ware, the Falcons rallied from a 24-13 deficit with 3:47 left in the third quarter to within 24-23 with 12 seconds to go in the period.
But North Pulaski missed all five of its fourth-quarter three-point attempts.
Of course it was our goal to win it, North Pulaski coach Raymond Cooper said after his team finished the year 25-7. But they have nothing to be ashamed of. Im just as proud of them as I could be.
Getting to a state championship game once is quite a feat.
Getting there three times would have to be considered something special, except after their third straight trip the Lonoke Lady Jackrabbits still went home without the winners trophy as Shiloh Christian won 51-45 on March 12.
Lonoke became the seventh Arkansas girls team to go to the final three straight years.
Only two other teams, the Greenland girls and the Harrison boys, reached three consecutive championships and lost them all.
This years setback came largely because of Shiloh Christian power forward Megan Herbert, who had 26 points, 14 in the fourth quarter.
Lonoke led 37-35 after a basket by Ashleigh Himstedt with 3:25 to go, but Lonoke was already in foul trouble and Herbert took over and put her team ahead to stay with a layup with 2:05 left.
All I know that we can do is dig, scratch, claw and fight to come back, Lonoke coach Nathan Morris said.


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"He laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, 'Thou art Christ the Son of God.' And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: For they knew that he was Christ." (Luke 4:40b-41)
Some people think Jesus behaved very mysteriously when He lived on Earth. They think He could have been more clear about Who He was and why exactly He came to Earth. But often, people see only what they want to see. This was true in Bible times, and it is still true today.
Before Jesus died on the cross, He did many supernatural miracles and preached many amazing sermons. People were surprised by Him all the time! The Bible says over and over that the people "marveled" or that they were "astonished" or that they were even speechless! These are all ways of saying that Jesus amazed and surprised crowds of people with His words and His actions.
The Bible also says that many people understood Who Jesus was and believed in Him. But many people did not. They could not seem to understand, or else they did not want to understand. They wanted a glorious king to rescue them from the Roman empire. They wanted a wonderful leader to rule over them and restore them as a nation. They wanted someone around to heal all their diseases and fix all their earthly problems.
Jesus was not here to fix all their earthly problems. If He had come for that reason, He would have fixed all of the sick people and broken situations. Jesus did what He came to do. That is why He told demons not to possess (take hold of) people. If a demon (devil) was bothering someone, and that someone was brought to Jesus, Jesus would tell the demon to get out and go away. Demons are angels who have rebelled against God. So Who created angels? Jesus did. Jesus knew every one of these demons, and they knew exactly Who He was. They were afraid of Him. They wanted Him to leave them alone. And they knew right away that He was GOD.
Even the demons believe Jesus is Who He says He is. They are not going to heaven; they are rebelling against God. Jesus did not come to Earth just to get rid of all the demons and diseases and hunger and political problems. He did help people, especially in ways they needed to be helped. But those miracles were supposed to help people understand Who He was and what His bigger purpose in coming was: "To seek and to save that which was lost."
During His time here on Earth, Jesus gave many clues and open messages about Who He was and why He came. He came to die on the cross for sinners, to take away their sins and to give them His righteousness instead. Do you believe Jesus is Who He says He is? "The devils also believe, and tremble." It is important to take what you know in your head about Jesus and make it count for something in your heart. Do you really believe He is both the Son of God and the only Savior of sinners? Are you trusting in Jesus Christ as your God and Savior?
For those who were listening, Jesus made it clear Who He was and Why He came to Earth.
My Response: » Am I trusting in Jesus as both my God and my Savior? » Am I too busy looking for Jesus to help me that I am missing what He wants to teach me? » How can I explain to my friends and family Who Jesus is and why He came?
"I esteem it the duty of every Christian to seek the advancement of the cause of Christ more truly than they are wont to their own favorite objects."
Marcus Whitman, who became a famous pioneering medical missionary, was born in New York on September 4, 1802. He was just 7 years old when his father died. Whitman wanted to become a doctor and a missionary. Unable to decide between the two, he chose both! He felt called of God to go to the West – states such as Montana and Idaho were just being developed – and he wanted to take the Gospel to those who had never heard.
One weekend, he met a woman named Narcissa Prentiss who wanted to travel to the West as a missionary but was unable to go because she was single. He agreed to marry her that weekend – and together, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman became one of the most famous missionary teams in history.
In 1836, the Whitmans, along with a group of other missionaries, joined a caravan of fur traders traveling to the West. They traveled farther west than any American group had traveled before, setting up several Christian missions and sharing the Gospel as they went.
Whitman built missions, led Christian meetings, and served as a doctor. Narcissa ran her household, helped her husband, and taught school. Along with being used by God to share the Gospel, the Whimans became famous for leading the first party of wagon trains along the Oregon Trail. Thousands of immigrants followed in their footsteps to make the West what it is today.
Sadly, the Whitmans and their motives were misunderstood. They ended up being killed by the same people they had desired to help and tried so hard to reach. But God used them to spread His Gospel and to encourage pioneer missionary workers in the future.
Courage can be contagious. Do you have the courage to serve God and to do what it takes to advance His cause? Do you think His Gospel is worth giving your life to share?
Deuteronomy 31:6 – Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.
The Firstfruits of Those To Rise From the Dead
1 Corinthians 15:20 – "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept."
No. The teaching of the Trinity is unique to Christianity.
During Bible times, "fasting" was the act of not eating certain foods, or not eating at all, for a certain period of time. During a fast, people would often use the extra time (the time they normally would have spent eating) to pray for a specific need, to worship, to meditate on Scripture. Today, many believers still practice fasting. In Jesus' day, He talked to His disciples about how he wanted them to fast, when they fasted. He did not want them to make a big show of it so that people would think they were spiritual. Instead, they were to fast in secretly and for a godly purpose. Matthew 6:16-17 – "Moreover when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face."
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Peter B.Hill wrote:
> Deeds can also be very explicit. Quoting from a deed in front
> of me at the moment dated 3 July 1672, it reads in part: "....Isaac
> Dotey allias Doutey... of the towne of Plymouth in the Collonie of New
> Plymouth in New England in America...." This is only one example: I
> have seen a number of deeds from the late 17th century with the same
> hierarchy of place names. About 1686, the governmental structure
> changed; and the "Collonie" of Plymouth became the "County" of Plymouth.
This AFAIR, because the Colony of New Plymouth was merged into the the
Massachusetts Bay Colony. New England was never political area.
bob gillis
> Pete Hill
> At 09:00 PM 9/21/2005 -0500, Bobbie Hall wrote:
>> Perhaps it would help your quest for perfection in place-naming to
>> look at some of the wills for your locality in the time period you're
>> examining. As an example:
>> "On the thirtyfirst day of Jan: 1710, ... John Chadwick of Watertown
>> in the County of Middlesex in her Majesties Province of Massachusetts
>> Bay in New England" wrote his will.
>> Some of these wills become very geographically explicit. I've been
>> scanning thru a few of mine to see if there is more of a "country"
>> designated, but it seems that once they proclaim New England (in the
>> only early examples I personally have at hand) they go no farther.
>> Cheers,
>> Bobbie Hall
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Now, many (but not all) authorities on the gluten-free diet say that distilled alcohol sourced from the gluten grains wheat, barley and rye will be gluten-free, since the distillation process removes the gluten protein. (Some of us nonetheless have reactions to alcoholic beverages made from gluten grains — for more details, see my article Is Alcohol Gluten-Free?)

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Baileys Irish Cream Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 Serving (100 g)

Per Serving	% Daily Value*

Calories 327

Calories from Fat 117

Total Fat 13g	20%

Saturated Fat 8g	40%

Polyunsaturated Fat 0g

Monounsaturated Fat 0g

Cholesterol 0mg	0%

Sodium 0mg	0%

Potassium 0mg	0%

Carbohydrates 25g	8%

Dietary Fiber 0g	0%

Sugars 20g

Protein 3g

Vitamin A 0% · Vitamin C 0%

Calcium 0% · Iron 0%

*Based on a 2,000 calorie diet

You probably won't be surprised to learn that Baileys Irish Cream is fairly high in calories, carbohydrates, and fat, given that it's made from cream and alcohol. A 1.3 ounce serving of Baileys (about what you'd get from the average shot glass) contains 327 calories, 13 grams of fat, and 25 grams of carbohydrates (20 grams of which is sugar)

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If you're someone with celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity who does tolerate alcohol made from gluten grains, can you drink Baileys?

It looks like the answer is yes. That being said, however, the company keeps the details on the rest of the ingredients it uses to make Bailey's Irish Cream under close wraps, which makes it difficult for you to judge the risk.

Anecdotally, Baileys is a mixed bag—some people report that it's fine, but others say they have had reactions to it. It's not at all clear whether those reactions were due to the distilled gluten-based alcohol, or to something else. Based on all this, you'll need to use your own judgement on whether to consume Baileys Irish Cream when you're following the gluten-free diet.

Potential Gluten-Free Substitutes for Bailey's

Bailey's offers another product which actually carries a "gluten-free" label: Baileys Almande Almond Milk Liqueur. It's not clear whether Baileys Almande contains alcohol distilled from gluten grains or not (again, Baileys doesn't disclose the ingredients, beyond saying it's "gluten-free" and "contains no dairy"). However, it almost certainly does not contain gluten grain-based alcohol, because U.S. law prohibits labeling any product "gluten-free" that contains wheat, barley or rye ingredients. So Baileys Almande may work for you as a substitute for original Baileys.

There's also a Baileys alternative that might work for you if you find you have problems with original Baileys but can handle distilled gluten grains: Carolans Irish Cream. In its Frequently Asked Questions, Carolans reports that it's gluten-free.

Note that the whiskey in Carolans is still made from distilled gluten grains (as I said above, Irish whiskey most commonly is made from barley). However, if you don't react to distilled gluten-grain-based alcohol, you should be fine, since Carolans has verified the rest of its Irish Cream ingredients to be gluten-free.

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Two manufacturers—RumChata and Sangster's—make commercial rum creams (Cruzan discontinued its version).

RumChata publishes this statement about its product: "No ingredients containing gluten are used in the manufacture of RumChata. However, certain ingredients in RumChata are processed on equipment that may come into contact or may have been used to process ingredients containing gluten."

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Defense Official Finds Logistics for Success at Corpus Christi Army Depot
by Brigitte Rox, CCAD Public Affairs
James C. Dwyer (left to right), Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics G-4; Bill Andrews, Deputy Commanding General, AMCOM; the Honorable Alan Estevez, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics & Materiel Readiness) and Moheb Assad, Director of Manufacturing/Process Production discuss future efforts for the Bearing Reclamation Facility. Photo by Kiana Allen (RELEASED).
Corpus Christi, TX (January 11, 2013) – The federal government is not typically seen as a business, but Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD), the Army's only rotary wing maintenance and repair facility has caught the attention of one high-level Defense official who thinks that this is exactly what the government needs.
Mr. Alan F. Estevez, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness paid CCAD a visit to see how they're driving down the cost of sustaining some of Department of Defense's (DoD) most critical helicopters, January 8-9, 2013.
Mr. Estevez is responsible for providing world-class military logistics support to the United States armed forces, both in current operations as well as in the future. He came down to CCAD because he understands the criticality of the military's organic base. It is something he intends to make clear on Capitol Hill.
"Most people do not understand what is done in our depot structure. Depot structures are a crown jewel of America's defense capability. What is being done here at CCAD is a prime example of the best of the best – just spectacular work. The depot system is not going to go away because we need them. We need it for the next generation" he told Colonel (Col.) Christopher B. Carlile, CCAD Commander.
"In order to sustain the force structure we'll need [in the future], we'll have to do things from a logistics perspective at a lower cost," he said. "I think the things you're doing are exactly what needs to be done in order to do that. If you can't deliver a Black Hawk for less, then you're not going to get that Black Hawk. That's the reality."
Defense leaders understand that the future of defense helicopters is sketchy. Budget concerns and a changing operational tempo have stalled any efforts to replace the current fleet but Mr. Estevez makes one thing clear: "We'll have to sustain them if you want to buy them."
While there is still no word on the next generation of combat helicopters, a venture that would cost billions of dollars to execute, the military makes do with what they already have – the Black Hawks, Apaches, Kiowa Warriors, the Air Force Pave Hawks. Those helicopters come to CCAD to get repaired, modified, upgraded and reset for another round of use. It's the most cost-effective solution to replacing worn aircraft with brand new birds each time a helicopter has a hard landing or needs a modified engine or component.
In recent years, however, the Army depot has been looking for ways to drive down the cost and time it takes to reset the fleet. That's when depot leaders began to look at processes, logistics and even the paperwork involved in getting helicopters back in the air. What they needed was a business make-over.
CCAD instituted a new way of doing business as a DoD maintenance facility by implementing efficiency and cost reductions at every level. Namely, through the adoption of an effective Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, the Logistics Modernization Program (LMP), CCAD has made strides in reducing the cost of maintenance support while maximizing production to sustain vertical lift operations. Similarly, the Electronic Shop Production System (ESPS) streamlines the logistics of traveling parts and components throughout CCAD's 2.3 million square feet of industrial space.
Leaders at the depot credit the commercial sector for showing them how to do business smarter. ERPs are something used by every major corporation, it turns out. It could be that federal entities need to shift their perspective to something that can balance better business practices with the Nation's needs on the Nation's dime. It's certainly the way Mr. Estevez sees the future of Defense.
"ERPs are critical to our [DoD's] ability to monitor our workload, determine our cost and, in fact, increase our productivity," he said. "It's the same thing that's done in the civilian sector. It's critical to our ability to return value to the American taxpayer and, more importantly, to return value to the Warfighters."
"The initiatives that Col. Carlile is driving in this depot to lower cost and increase production are the types of action that needs to be taken by all our industrial sites," said Mr. Estevez. "These are the types of actions that we owe the American taxpayer, that we owe to the Warfighter in order to sustain the best military in the world. At the end of the day, I think you're doing what this country needs."
Mr. Estevez also highlighted a parallel need that the industrial base needs to accept more joint work from other areas of government. Though most of the programs at Corpus Christi Army Depot are specifically for Army, they accept work from other armed force helicopters. CCAD has an entire hangar dedicated to the Air Force Pave Hawk, a variant of the Army's UH-60 Black Hawk and they are looking to accept more work from Coast Guard and Homeland Security. But the future of defense, Mr. Estevez says, will require even more cooperation between services – a concept that truly embodies the concept of One Team, One Fight. America needs to emphasize the need for more joint work and for sustainment to achieve a fiscally conservative government.
During Mr. Estevez's visit, he had the opportunity to tour CCAD's production facility and the offices responsible for all the technical aspects of logistics, production schedules, and process improvement.
"[When] you walk along the floor, you see increasing production of Black Hawks, increasing production of [rotor] blades, increasing production in components – all at a lower cost than it was four or five years ago or even seven or eight years ago. You see a drastic [cost] decrease," said the Assistant Secretary. "This is what it's about. It's about taking great production techniques, taking lean six sigma techniques, taking continuous process improvement and continuing to get better and then using the backbone of LMP to increase that as a multiplier effect."
"It's a great return on investment for the American people," Mr. Estevez said. "Work doesn't go to the depot because we have one. We go there because it's costing what it needs to cost at a competitive rate. We need to sustain that."
But contrary to the idea that government facilities will stand head-to-head against the private industrial base, CCAD demonstrates that the two could co-exist symbiotically. In fact, most Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) maintain that they derive just as much benefit from working with CCAD because they augment their workload through some of CCAD's most unique capabilities when times get tough.
"There are things that the commercial sector does very well and there are things that we do well in the organic base. We need an industrial base in the United States. The next generation of helicopters is going to come from the innovation that comes out of our industrial base," said Mr. Estevez. "When you get those great partnership agreements is when we marry up what they do well. What [CCAD] does well is the touch labor and repair and you bring that best value right back to the community.
That community includes the nearly 6,000 civilians that make up CCAD. They're American taxpayers, nearly half of them are veterans, but all of them are patriots. They work around the clock because they know a soldier out there is waiting to see that helicopter dot that horizon to take them home.
But this is not the kind of workforce the media writes about. This is not the image they would paint of a federal employee but Alan Estevez says that this perception couldn't be further from the truth.
"No one in our workforce is twiddling their thumbs waiting and expecting their paycheck. We need to recognize that and carry that message back to Capitol Hill."
Roy Hollins (kneeling), Director of Aircraft production identifies some of the distinguishing feature on a OH-58 D Kiowa Warriors to the Honorable Alan Estevez, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics & Materiel Readiness). Photo by Kiana Allen (RELEASED).


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Bah Humbug
Even in my secret identity as mild-mannered
reporter teacher I'm not a huge Christmas fan. I mean, I understand the ideas and all, both those based around the solstice and the way the traditions have been pinched more recently by the Christians, but I just don't like it much. (For those of a Christian tradition, how about an assignment: compare and contrast 1 and 2.) Blame whatever you like, I just try not to get too grumpy as I've two kids of my own and around 250 by proxy. And as my similarly-atheist spouse has taken the seven year old out to a carol service, it seems appropriate to share a few festive thoughts and links. It's that or get depressed about the loss of Christopher Hitchens.
Tim Minchin's White Wine In The Sun is a good place to start. I've put the link to open in a new window/tab so you can play it while you read the rest of the post. Or instead of reading my wittering, you could check out @alomshaha's Cif article last year in the Guardian about enjoying Christmas as an atheist. Better written than I'd manage, but pretty close to my own views.
As a parent I've struggled with the ideas of Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy (and yes, I'm also familiar with the idea that all teachers are de-facto 'liars-to-children'). One of my proudest moments this year was when a car journey with my son turned into an impromptu philosophical discussion. In the summer he wasn't quite seven and was newly gappy, for the third time. He asked, hesitantly, if he'd still get money under his pillow if he didn't believe in a fairy that took his tooth away. Fifteen minutes and paraphrased explanations of Pascal's Wager and Occam's Razor later, I knew we were doing something right. I'm now wondering if he'll ask about Santa before or after the 25th. Whatever happens, I'm glad I read this piece by Myra Zepf in New Humanist about why atheists should let kids believe in Santa.
Okay, if you need something to do in school, I will make a token link to last year's Adaptations of Santa and Rudolf activity.
Finally, it's probably too late to buy it for this year unless you read as fast as I do, but I strongly recommend Roger Highfield's The Science of Christmas. This is usually on loan to one or other of my students. Personally, I tend to reread Hogfather each December, as it's the closest I get to feeling seasonal. And let's face it, who can go wrong with Terry Pratchett?
Whatever you do, and whatever your religious faith or lack of it, I hope you enjoy some time with your family (or possibly away from them) this winter.
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Nice post mate. Been so busy I hadn't even noticed hitchens had died :p
I have to take issue with the lies to children thing. As a teacher I don't lie to kids (except very occasionally for the craic)
The idea of an electron orbiting like a solar system is called a model and it's no more a lie than the tube map. I think we're good at getting kids to evaluate models in ks3 but so little time in ks4 it just gets left by the side.
Any teacher who starts an A level lesson by saying. "ok we lied to you in ks4, this is how it REALLY is" doesn't belong in the profession, for a number of reasons.
As for Santa, if I had kids, I think I'd toe the line 🙂
I'm a fan of the "I think you'll find it's a little more complicated than that" way of bridging the gap between GCSE and A-level – everything they've learnt is "right" in that it is, as Declan says, a model. Dot and cross diagrams work perfectly. Lines to indicate bonds are standard nomenclature. Atomic structure is perhaps one of the best examples of "lies-to-children", and it is a simplified model. But at KS3 and for all but the most able KS4 students, I think orbitals as an electron density map is a bit too advanced (probability of finding electrons in that location is as far as I got with 1st year undergrad chemistry and now it's taught at AS – I shudder to think what the undergrads are learning!).
In my subject, the equation for respiration is a massive oversimplification. But it works. And without that simple equation, the students wouldn't be able to build on that when they look at the numerous reactions that take place during respiration.
I'm not entirely sure what my point was now, but the phrase "lies-to-children" does not mean we're lying to them, just that we're only explaining things at the level they are able to understand with models and analogies that they can deal with.