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May is High Blood Pressure Awareness Month
May is High Blood Pressure Awareness Month
By Kay Coles James
n What you dont know could kill you
Could you be the next victim of the silent killer that claimed the lives of nearly 43,000 Americans in 1999 alone?
I am referring to high blood pressure or hypertension, a disease with no identifiable symptoms. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in four American adults this condition, and more than 31 percent do not even know it.
We all experience things that send our blood pressure soaring from time to time; in fact, our blood pressure rises and falls throughout the day. For many Americans, however, those highs are too high and last too long, and that can be life threatening.
High blood pressure increases the risk for heart disease and stroke, two leading causes of death in the United States. In addition to the deaths directly attributable to hypertension, this silent killer contributes to more than 200,000 deaths a year.
Optimal adult blood pressure is 120/80 mm HG or lower. The top number, the systolic pressure, represents the pressure while the heart is beating. The lower number, or diastolic pressure, represents the pressure when the heart is resting between beats. A consistent systolic pressure of 140 or higher or diastolic pressure of 90 or more is considered high blood pressure. The higher the pressure rises, the greater the risks.
So it is important to measure and monitor your blood pressure. The Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure recommends adults have their blood pressure checked at least every two years. If you have been diagnosed with hypertension, check your blood pressure more frequently. Seeing your physician is crucial. Recent studies show that taking prescribed blood pressure medication can lower your pressure and postpone or prevent cardiac problems.
As is the case with so many health conditions, we can reduce our risk of high blood pressure through healthy lifestyle choices. If, like me, you know your day is going to be pressure filled, you might want to explore stress-management techniques. And yes, the basics apply. Smoking and carrying around excess weight put you at greater risk for high blood pressure. Start exercising and eat healthy foods. The DASH Diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) found on the National Institutes for Health (NIH) Web site is low in salt and sodium and rich in fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy foods.
As we are telling federal employees throughout our HealthierFeds campaign, better health begins with personal responsibility. So do not forget to exercise, eat right, and get that blood pressure checked. You do not want to be the silent killers next victim.
Kay Coles James is the director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which oversees the federal workforce and manages the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program that provides coverage to 8 millin federal employees, retirees and their dependents.


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Yugi has just called a shadow game because Peeves dropped a water balloon on him.
Swarming over Yugi's head are a million flying keys like the ones that protected the Sorcerer's Stone. Above Peeves are 99 Kuriboh duplicates and the original Kuriboh, with Multiply in effect.
"Here are the rules," declares Yugi. "If you find the original Kuriboh before I find the right key, you win and go free. If not, you get trapped in a room with the Bloody Baron for as many days as there are Kuriboh duplicates when the game ends. Now... Game start!"
Immediately, Peeves floats up to look for the original Kuriboh. After a couple seconds of observation, he shouts, "They're all the same! Gaaah, fine." He pouts and reaches a hand towards the nearest Kuriboh. Right as he puts the hand down, he hears Yugi's voice. "Oh, by the way, Kuriboh attacks by self-destructing upon contact with the enemy."
Boom! "Whaaaaatt!?" Peeves looks around. "Hm, that one!" he calls, launching himself at one halfway across the room. "Graaahhh! Wrong again!"
After 97 more explosions, Peeves chases down what he thinks is the last possible Kuriboh. "What? Not again! You said there were only 99 of the duplicates!"
"And at the time, there were," Yugi replies, snickering madly. "Each time you messed up, two more appeared! Meanwhile..." Yugi pauses and reaches his hand out and snatches one particular key out of the air, the first one he's touched all game. "I win."
A/N: I had no idea what to write for this week's chapter until I thought of going back and doing another follow up. Thus I decided on Yugi vs. Peeves. But then I was stuck on what the shadow game should be. Eventually, with the help of a friend, I though of combining this with the idea I had of Multiplied Kuriboh vs. the Flying Keys.
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meeting Mr. Jean-Marc Ayrault, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development of France, at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD-2017) celebrations, in Bengaluru, Karnataka on January 08, 2017.
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault who is on a state visit to India has aired his country's interest in boosting defence ties with India. On Monday, Ayrault met PM Narendra Modi where both the leaders in-depth discussed about enhancing the robust Indo-French ties.
Ayrault is being accompanied by a high-level delegation which comprises of industrial leaders and intellects. The delegation is on a three-day visit to India and is on a mission to not just boost strategic and economic ties but also to promote cultural and people-people relations.
The delegation began its visit by attending the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas – 2017 (PBD) which was organised by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in India's IT capital – Bengaluru.
After his brief meeting with PM Modi, Ayrault briefing the media said that they discussed a wide range of issues, including defence and terrorism. He has also said that France stands committed to provide India with more arms as the country needs to protect itself.
The visiting minister while briefing the media said "I spoke about different aspects of our partnership. We spoke about defence because India needs to protect itself. Therefore, defence is an important area. I also shared with him [PM Modi] concerns about terrorism and how we are together in fighting it. India has various defence needs, like Rafale fighter aircraft, submarines, helicopters and other things."
India and France have traditionally shared a warm relationship and have one of the most robust defence and strategic ties. Both the countries in September last year had inked a multi-billion dollar government-to-government deal for 36 Rafale fighter aircraft. The deal which was stuck on the negotiation tables for years was finally concluded at about Rs 59,000 crore.
India will by 2022 be getting 36 highly-capable Rafale fighters in fly-away condition from France. The Rafale fighter jets are medium multi-role fighter aircraft which are capable of mounting punitive and crippling strikes deep inside enemy territory.
India has an imperative need for at least 200 medium multi-role fighters and outgoing former Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha only last week, had said that the French-made Rafales were a possible choice for IAF.
France has been one of the leading defence equipment providers to India and in the past has offered its capable Mirage-2000 multi-role fighters to IAF. France has stood by India during testing times and was one of the only countries that did not impose sanctions following the nuclear tests by India.
India's leading shipbuilder MDL based out of Mumbai in partnership with France's leading maritime solution provider DCNS is building six Scorpene-class diesel-electric submarines for the Indian Navy. On January 12th, MDL will launch Khanderi, the second of six submarines, marking a major milestone in Indian Navy's Program – 75.
MDL and DCNS expect to complete the tender by 2022 and are expecting a follow-up order for three more submarines of this class. DCNS remains confident of bagging the multi-billion dollar Project 75I.
The visiting delegation also discussed about the civil nuclear energy co-operation agreement which India and France concluded in November, 2008.
The leaders also addressed issues of French companies which are investing in India in various domains such as transport, energy, smart city, automobile and waste management. Ayrault speaking about the developments said "We spoke about multiple aspects of our investment. Many French companies are present in India. We would also like Indian companies to invest in France. We must have the principle of reciprocity,"
Ayrault is slated to meet Modi again when both the leaders attend the 'Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit' in Ahmedabad. France has a large presence in the event and CEO of Dassault Aviation – Eric Trappier – is also expected to attend the event.
India and France are working closely to develop several advanced space technologies. Both the countries have in the past launched multiple satellites of each other's using their respective launch vehicles. The visiting Foreign Minister on Monday also visited Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and will be concluding a much awaited deal between ISRO and French Space Agency (CNES) for satellite launch technology.
France has remained one of India's crucial allies which has provided the country with the latest defence equipment and technologies. France remains committed to making India self-reliant in the defence sector and with the visit of Ayrault the country has renewed its commitment to its long time ally India.


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Gov. Jerry Brown, who is known to break out the occasional Latin phrase during stump speeches and news conferences, said he liked the language because "it's obscure and makes you smarter than everybody."
The quip came during a free-flowing speech to about 1,000 state business leaders and others at a breakfast hosted by the California Chamber of Commerce that also covered Brown's rebellious youth, his wife's management of his career, his presidential ambitions and the state budget.
Brown downplayed differences in economic forecasts about the state future between his department of finance and the state's legislative analyst, which recently estimated the state will have $2.8 billion more to spend next year than Brown's team is predicting.
"One thing we know about economists, they can't predict the future," Brown said, calling the differences between the two predictions relatively insignificant.
The rest of the speech was vintage Brown, with the governor riffing on a series of topics, both personal and political, in an almost stream of consciousness.
"The new comes out of the random," Brown said, as the crowd munched on fresh fruit and quiche. "I'm not going to explain that. That's a Jerry Brownism."
(The quote actually comes from anthropologist Gregory Bateson, whom Brown appointed to the UC Board of Regents in 1980 and inducted into the California Hall of Fame this year.)
The governor credited his wife, Anne, for his recent political success, albeit in terms that would make a grammar teacher shiver. "My wife manages me. That's why I'm doing so good now," he said.
He also mentioned he was once kicked out of school for being "willfully defiant," but said he was let back in the next day because his father was attorney general at the time.
Brown's speech to some of the state's top business leaders came less than 48 hours after his commencement address at UC Berkeley on Monday, in which he quoted a professor, Sheldon Wolin, who has railed against corporate power.
Such is the duality of Brown, who has proved deft at moving between audiences throughout his more than four decades in public life.
Brown reflected on those years, noting his past presidential primary victories. "Time is kind of running out on that one," Brown said, before hinting strongly that he would seek reelection in 2014. "I guess I'll just have to stay and do the work of being governor."
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Past Posts in this series
The last post was about …
|In the last post I illustrated how to create a RESTful service using .NET technologies. Here is the diagram from the last post:
This post is to illustrate that you can go directly to the Storage Service with HTTP bypassing .NET
|Although it is not recommended for this particular application, it is possible communicate directly with the Storage Service. Direct communication with Azure tables requires some advanced techniques, working with request headers and request bodies. Later in this post you will learn what makes this technique somewhat challenging.
We need to able to:
We need do this using all standard http without any .NET whatsoever. We will use Fiddler to get this done. We can also use the Azure Storage Explorer.
Azure Storage Explorer
Azure Storage Explorer is a useful GUI tool for inspecting and altering the data in your Windows Azure Storage storage projects including the logs of your cloud-hosted applications.
All 3 types of cloud storage can be viewed and edited: blobs, queues, and tables.
Login to http://windows.azure.portal and choose Hosted Services, Storage Accounts & CDN.
Now you need your storage access keys.
Copy the storage access keys to the clipboard.
Now are are ready to configure the Azure Storage Explorer.
As expected, there are no tables and no data. That is the next step.
Adding a Table Object with Storage Explorer
|Follow these steps to add a table object:
1. Click Tables
2. Click New
3. Enter a table name
Adding Entities
|Each table can have many Entities. You can think of an entity as a row in a table. But in reality an entity is a collection of name-value pairs. Notice under the Storage Type panel you can see the Tables button. Click tables before following the rest of the steps.
Querying the table
|You can also hit the query button to see the entities in the table. Later, when we create the Android client, you will be able to use LINQ to query the entities.
Using http to interact with Azure Tables
|Http is the most generic way to interact with Azure tables. I will be using Fiddler add new records and to query the data in Azure tables.
You can download Fiddler here:
More information can be found here
The Request Header is going to require you to generate a Shared Key Lite.
Viewing the Result in Fiddler
|After hitting Execute in Step 4 above, results will appear.
Generating the Request Header
|If you look carefully, you will notice the SharedKeyLite authorization signature. This isn't trivial to generate, since you need to compute a Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) using the SHA256 hash function.
Luckily I've done that for you.
A Simple Windows Forms Application
|You are looking at a custom application that I wrote. I am providing the code below in case you want to do this yourself. You typically would use the ADO.NET Data Services library in C# or VB.
But if you want to interact with Azure Tables from non-.NET clients, you will need to master the techniques I am illustrating here. You can learn more at the link below.
The trick is understanding the code behind the Make Request button, which fills in all the boxes you see above. The ones to paste into fiddler are:
public partial class Form1 : Form { const string uriTemplate = "http://{0}.table.core.windows.net/{1}"; const string uriTemplate2 = "http://{0}.table.core.windows.net/{1}/{2}"; string _sharedKey = "== your shared key from the portal goes here=="; string _accountName = "fastmotorcycle"; string _tableName = "fastbikes"; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void cmdMakeHeader_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { var account = _accountName; var sharedKey = Convert.FromBase64String(_sharedKey); this.txtAccountName.Text = account; this.txtSharedKey.Text = _sharedKey; this.txtTableName.Text = _tableName; // Fill datetime field string datetime = DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("R", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); this.txtDate.Text = datetime; // Fill uri field string uri = string.Format(uriTemplate, _accountName, _tableName); this.txtURI.Text = uri; // Create request object WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(uri); // Add date header request.ContentLength = 0; request.Headers.Add("x-ms-date", datetime); // Get resource var resource = request.RequestUri.PathAndQuery; // Sign date, account and uri string stringToSign = string.Format("{0}\n/{1}{2}", request.Headers["x-ms-date"], account, resource ); this.txtMessageToSign.Text = stringToSign; // Sign the string using shared key var hasher = new HMACSHA256(sharedKey); string signedSignature = Convert.ToBase64String(hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(stringToSign))); this.txtSignedMessage.Text = signedSignature; // Add authorization header string authorizationHeader = string.Format("{0} {1}:{2}", "SharedKeyLite", account, signedSignature); request.Headers.Add("Authorization", authorizationHeader); // Show the signed message this.txtSignedMessage.Text = request.Headers.Get(0).ToString() + "\r\n"; this.txtSignedMessage.Text += request.Headers.Get(1).ToString() + "\r\n"; // Show the entire header this.txtHttpHeader.Text = "x-ms-date:" + request.Headers.Get(0).ToString() + "\r\n"; this.txtHttpHeader.Text += "Authorization:" + request.Headers.Get(1).ToString() + "\r\n"; this.txtHttpHeader.Text += "Content-Type:" + "application/atom+xml" + "\r\n"; if (this.txtPartitionKey.Text == String.Empty || this.txtRowKey.Text == String.Empty) return; this.txtResponseBody.Text = string.Format(Strings.response_header, this.txtPartitionKey.Text, this.txtRowKey.Text); } private void cmdClip2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Clipboard.SetData(DataFormats.Text, (Object)this.txtResponseBody.Text); } private void cmdClip1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Clipboard.SetData(DataFormats.Text, (Object)this.txtHttpHeader.Text); } }
You can even add data using this technique
|Notice that this time I added a PartitionKey and RowKey in Steps 1 and 2 below.
Now we need to copy the Response Body in addition to the previous fields. The XML below was generated by my tool. Notice the partitionkey and rowkey from the form above.
3. Request Body
When adding date, you will need to do a POST. Here is a table that explains the HTTP verbs and how they relate to operations:
Notice that we have added the data. You can see the GSXR1000 data in Azure Storage Explorer.
|This post was important for several reasons. First, it introduced the Windows Azure Portal and addressed the Hosted Service and Storage Account and how they related to your RESTful service and to your infinitely scaled Azure Table Service Storage.
Typically, you will access Azure Table Storage through the ADO.NET Data Services API, found inside the Azure SDK Download. But there may be situations where you want to access Azure table storage outside of a Windows environment, such as from Java or PHP or any other non-MS platform. Remember, Azure tables are incredibly scalable, cost-effective, and performant. And Azure tables are also available from a purely http world.


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Lifecycle Environmentalism
European Union regulations have the world hopping to comply at the beginning and end of the product lifecycle, to design without banned substances and meet new disposal requirements. In addition to disposal payments, use of non-lead solder, and the redesign of injection molds to match flow characteristics of plastics without banned substances, those involved are defining and refining some vagu...
European Union regulations have the world hopping to comply at the beginning and end of the product lifecycle, to design without banned substances and meet new disposal requirements.
In addition to disposal payments, use of non-lead solder, and the redesign of injection molds to match flow characteristics of plastics without banned substances, those involved are defining and refining some vaguely written regulations.
This means you
For disposal, the following players could be held as responsible as the equipment manufacturers themselves:
System integrators may become responsible for systems they assemble;
Distributors, who represent manufacturers, import, and serve as point of sale;
End-users who may receive higher fees for purchase of equipment to recoup higher costs of manufacturing and end-of-lifecycle disposal, and those who assemble their own systems.
Several existing regulations restrict use of certain materials, but a number of undefined terms have manufacturers conferring among themselves, with industry groups, and with regulators about two in particular.
Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) covers design of electrical and electronic equipment containing lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and the polybrominated biphenyl flame-retardants PBB and PBDE; and
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) aims to prevent waste of electrical and electronic equipment and encourage reuse and recycling and other forms of recovery of such wastes to reduce disposal requirements.
Remove hazardous substances
RoHS has the goal to reduce hazardous substances from leaching out of landfills into waterways or groundwater and prevent incinerated items from releasing toxic chemicals into the air. Details regarding minimums haven't been set for each substance covered, although some expect the need not to exceed 0.1% by weight for lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, PBB and PBDE and 0.01% for cadmium. Here, too, some exceptions are offered, like some servers, which can contain lead until 2010. Monitoring and control instruments may be extended from 2006 compliance until perhaps 2010, suggests Iain Lindsay, Global Standards & Trade (Europe) for Rockwell Automation. How percentages apply is under discussion, but the most likely outcome is thought to be at the homogeneous material level (rather than for components), he says.
End-of-life disposal
WEEE Directive's 10 categories include IT and telecommunication equipment, electrical and electronic tools, and monitoring and control instruments. Member states each will publish disposal requirements for the February 2003 directive, which will be made into national legislation in August 2004; producer responsibility begins in August 2005. Among requirements will be a wheeled-bin trashcan symbol with a line through it, showing that, within EU, special disposal requirements apply.
Products will need to carry a mark to identify specific manufacturers, Lindsay says. One method under discussion is simple weighing of the disposed equipment, with a charge back to the original manufacturer. Clarifications are required; for instance, large-scale, stationary industrial tools are exempt, but not defined. With assembled components, however, the end-user or system integrator could be responsible, but there's a question of how far something should be taken apart and who'd be responsible for each piece. Local distributors, or importers also could be on the line for disposal fees, Lindsay suggests.
Under a proposed amendment, for items in place prior to Aug.13, 2005, the manufacturer winning the next contract would be responsible for disposing of what was there before, even if from a different manufacturer, says Lindsay. After the 2005 date, the producer (or integrator) would be responsible. "Alternatively, producers and users can agree contractually who is responsible," he says. If the manufacturer doesn't have staff in a particular member country, distributors would be responsible. Producers may need to register or provide financial guarantees in a particular member state. In addition, information may need to be given to recycling facilities about how to disassemble components within one year from when the product is put on the market.
Depending on the application, a particular device or technology might fall into different WEEE categories. Also, if a display is resold, it's unclear if disposal responsibility remains with the manufacturer or transfers to the reseller. Non-compliant inventory is another point yet to be resolved, suggests Dr. Ferdinand Quella, Siemens head of product-related environmental protection.
Plan ahead to save money
Incorporating current and upcoming regulatory requirements into normally scheduled product redesign remains the most cost-effective means of compliance. Quella says Siemens has been reworking "a lot of products" using lead-free solder because of the RoHS directive.
"Lead-free solder is not such a problem as we thought at first." Because a higher melting temperature is required to optimize solder conditions, board designers had to check if components would be stable at higher temperatures. Some exceptions, such as for sandwich components, which could remelt, have been helpful. "Every three months or so, we come up with another problem. The commission has been open-minded," Quella says, when technical limits are explained.
Siemens, like other manufacturers, has made roadmaps for transitioning product lines to comply. "We expect to finish six to 12 months ahead," Quella says. Cost for transition has not been calculated, he says, because it's integrated into ongoing product redesign and recertification.
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) helps express the collective views of manufacturers, says Omron Electronics' Pete Walthers, standards and safety manager. As Omron liaison for the NEMA Industrial Automation components section, he leans toward diplomacy, saying, "while regulators have good ideas, manufacturers can help on details and implementation" to comply in the most practical means possible. When designs change solely to comply with regulations, costs obviously are higher, he says, and may get transferred to customers.
Environmental thinking
Schneider Electric's roadmap seeks RoHS compliance by July 1, 2005, a year ahead of time, in part to ensure its supply chain moves existing inventory ahead of the deadline, says Rich Widdowson, director of safety, real estate, and environment for North American Division of Schneider Electric. Hexavalent chrome principally is found in plated steel products, such as screw fasteners—and that involves working with suppliers he says.To integrate environmental thinking, Widdowson helps train engineering teams to look at designs and processes as product designs evolve. One example is making the switch to cathodic paint booths to avoid use of hexavalent chromium.
Internal company working groups often address how directives relate to "products, components, and production stages," says Arnold Offner, who heads up the Phoenix Contact Inc.—USA International Committee Area, and is a product manager for Varioface wiring interfaces. Offner says some global players (including Japanese companies) in the electronics market are looking at making the directives "a global standard, just like the CE Mark. As the July 1, 2006, deadline approaches, he expects North American electronic component suppliers and distributors to be "inundated with inquiries from customers and manufacturers."
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Regulations are among primary products created by the European Union (EU), which expands from 15 member states and 375 million people to 25 member states and about 450 million people in 2004. Counting like-minded countries, the population of the region could top 500 million people this year, according to Iain Lindsay, Global Standards & Trade (Europe) for Rockwell Automation.
And while he suggests that directives aim to do good things, because they're part of a political process, how they're formed is not always exact or predictable. The process involves the European Commission, each of the EU countries, and the European Parliament. Lindsay says, "When legislation is proposed, sometimes it's a problem to figure out with whom to talk. Securing changes in directives can be very difficult."
The Technical Adaptation Committee—chaired by the European Commission and comprised of Member State representatives—gets proposals from associations and industry on how to solve outstanding issues, then will decide, explains Dr. Ferdinand Quella, Siemens head of product-related environmental protection. To track regulations and advocate solutions, most major manufacturers seem to have multiple persons tracking development and impacts, and seeking to work with all parties for the most cost-effective compliance. Manufacturers such as Siemens, says Quella, also have been working within their supply chains to educate distributors and system integrators and customers, so there are no surprises. Some requirements were already met: "We've removed cadmium from products for 10 years in Europe." (Also, Siemens Gammasonics banned cadmium plating of metal parts in the mid-1980s.)
Lindsay says Rockwell Automation started RoHS plans in 2002 and expects to comply with most products before or during 2005. Lead circuit boards are a problem still under investigation, while eliminating cadmium plating and pigments was completed in 1992. Lindsay covered the topics during "Market Access Requirements for Europe: The Implications of New Environmental Legislation," at Automation Fair, Milwaukee, WI, Nov. 20, 2003, and in comments to Control Engineering .
Other directives restrict hazardous substances, one for dangerous substances and preparations, another for batteries, and another for packaging. Some actions capture headlines, such as the November 2003 action from Dutch officials, who halted shipment of 1.3-million Sony PlayStation game consoles because the cables reportedly contained too much cadmium. High-profile examples underscore the need for companies to continue to educate their partners; track directives, regulations, and standards; as well as participate in European trade associations and meet with EU officials and with representatives of national governments.
Those involved in the transition roadmaps know where things stand on the journey to compliance. For instance, areas of study within Phoenix Contact, include:
Semi-finished products and surface coatings on metal body parts of connection/termination products;
Plastic material including material used in terminal block housings, electronic enclosures and plastic accessories;
Electronic components and printed circuit boards (PCBs); and
Lead-free soldering in the reflow furnace, wave-soldering bath, and with selective soldering systems. "Many electronic components are not available as lead-free products, so we will only change once they are commercially available," says says Arnold Offner, who heads up the Phoenix Contact Inc.
USA International Committee Area, and is a product manager for Varioface wiring interfaces.
Plastics used by Phoenix Contact do not contain any cadmium, PBB, and PBDE (polybrominated biphenyl flame-retardants). Conversion to lead-free soldering and surface systems without hexavalent chromium are in process. Offner says, "Our first product that fulfilled many of the above requirements was our PLC-Relay launched in 1997 that did not use the usual silver cadmium oxide power contacts, and now uses AgSnO (silver-tin-oxide)." Existing products that fulfill requirements of the directives include ST family of spring cage terminal blocks; feed-through and installation modular terminal blocks in screw version; PCB/Combicon family; and printed circuit board terminal blocks.
Rich Widdowson, director of safety, real estate, and environment for North American Division of Schneider Electric says his company already has largely eliminated cadmium except for some products manufactured in other global regions and sold in Europe. Schneider Electric also took steps several years ago to eliminate mercury and polybrominated biphenyl substances, he says.
Key Dates for WEEE and RoHS
Feb. 13, 2003
European Commission (of the European Union) publishes Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and EC Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS).
Aug. 13, 2005
Producer responsibility for financing commences alongside retailer take-back.
July 1, 2006
RoHS substance ban commences.
Dec. 31, 2006
Collection and recycling targets to be achieved.
Source: Control Engineering with information from U.K.
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More information, links
The January 2004 Control Engineering "Lifecycle Environmentalism" article summarizes what the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive covers; the 10 categories for electrical and electronic equipment follow. As sources suggest, more specific definitions are needed.
1. Large household appliances;
2. Small household appliances;
3. IT and telecommunications equipment;
4. Consumer equipment;
5. Lighting equipment;
6. Electrical and electronic tools (with the exception of large-scale stationary industrial tools);
7. Toys, leisure, and sports equipment;
8. Medical devices (with the exception of all implanted and infected products);
9. Monitoring and control instruments; and
10. Automatic dispensers.
In addition to vendors' Web sites, the following links provide additional information.
—Mark T. Hoske, Control Engineering , editor in chief
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Shrews dealt Disley blow
Shrewsbury midfielder Craig Disley is facing around eight weeks on the sidelines with a broken ankle.
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Shrewsbury midfielder Craig Disley is facing around eight weeks on the sidelines with a broken ankle.
Disley caught his ankle after going in for a challenge in the 1-1 draw at Rotherham on Monday night and X-ray results revealed he had suffered a break.
"It is a massive blow for Craig as he was just getting back into the side after a couple of other injuries," boss Paul Simpson told the club's official website.
"We are booking him in to see a specialist and once we have the results from that we will know the long-term implications.
"The X-rays revealed a break to the ankle and the early prognosis is that Craig will be missing for around eight weeks but until the swelling has gone down we won't know for sure."
Meanwhile, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff picked up his 10th booking of the season at the Don Valley Stadium and he now faces an automatic two-match ban.
Simpson added: "Shane picking up a 10th booking is another blow for us but we are lucky in that we have other players who can come into the squad."


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Hotel Astoria Bled, Bled
- Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 72 guestrooms
- Restaurant
- Full-service spa
- Fitness center
- Business center
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Garden
- Front desk safe
- Laundry service
- Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
For families
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Garden
- Terrace
What's around
- St. Martin's Parish Church (7-minute walk)
- Bled Castle (11-minute walk)
- Lake Bled (18-minute walk)
- Church of Sv Marika Bozja (30-minute walk)
- Mala Osojnica (2.2 mi / 3.6 km)
- Vintgar Gorge (2.7 mi / 4.3 km)
- Church of the Assumption of Mary (2.9 mi / 4.6 km)
- Hunting Museum (3.1 mi / 5 km)
- Katzenstein Mansion (5.4 mi / 8.7 km)
- Lake Bohinj (16.8 mi / 27.1 km)
- Tscheppaschlucht (26.2 mi / 42.2 km)
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 72 rooms
- 24-hour check-in
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Pets allowed *
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
In the hotel
- Free buffet breakfast
- Restaurant
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Cross-country skiing nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Business center
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 3
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
- Terrace
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- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Satellite TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Special features
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa, Wellness Astoria. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body treatments. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a steam room.
Children under 15 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision.
DiningHotel Restaurant - Onsite restaurant. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
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Also known as
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- Astoria Hotel Bled
- Bled Astoria
- Hotel Astoria Bled
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Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
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You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- Resort fee: EUR 1.27 per person, per night
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for EUR 50 per day
Cribs/Infant beds are available for EUR 10.00 per day
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The West Bay area is so deeply original, that it defies conventional labeling. Located on the western side of Narragansett Bay, it exists as so many different things to different people, yet maintains a high level of unity and civic pride. In many ways the West Bay is one of the last few "pure suburbias." Its communities are well suited to those who like a bit of space from the pace of the city, while enjoying the convenience of multiple transportation options. This is why some like to think of the West Bay as the inter-modal hub of Rhode Island. The West Bay Community Action group has made partnerships and worked extensively to support and develop useful services for the area's citizens. To those who desire an affordable, yet modern, suburb with rural touches, the West Bay is a great option, providing a life of quality, serenity, and versatility.
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MindTree Ltd., a global IT solutions company, has announced that it is stepping up its efforts to leverage the growth of the Middle East IT services market, which is expected to hit USD 3.5 billion by 2011, according to recent reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Identified by the Company as one of its fastest growing regions, the Middle East forms part of MindTree's 'Rest of the World' (ROW) market along with Japan, Australia and Singapore, which collectively contributed 10.8 per cent to its total earnings in Q3 FY '09-'10. MindTree sees the Middle East region to play a key role in its plan to become a USD 1 billion organization. MindTree is taking particular interest in the UAE, with EIU forecasting that the country's IT services market will grow annually by 13 per cent to reach almost USD 1 billion by 2011. MindTree is gearing up to address the need by further strengthening its alliance management, boosting its sales force, initiating and reinforcing strategic partnerships with local companies, and focusing on key sectors such as the government and the manufacturing industry. "After a decline in 2009, the IT services market in the Middle East region is poised for another round of growth in 2010. Companies in the region are becoming increasingly interested in deploying high-end technologies to gain competitive advantage and save costs," said MindTree President and CEO, IT Services, Anjan Lahiri. "Through the years, MindTree has partnered with leading technology players in the region, and delivered leading edge solutions to our customers." The demand for decision-makers to have access to accurate intelligence at their fingertips is also driving the growth of data warehousing and business intelligence in the Middle East, particularly in the UAE. Going beyond the UAE, MindTree has also outlined specific plans to work with strategic local partners for markets such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait following its success in Oman and Bahrain. Specializing in IT services and ERP, independent testing, Infrastructure Services, and Analytics, MindTree has completed a number of high-profile implementations for several prestigious organizations in the region. The company also maintains strong relationships with Oracle (Oracle Partner), SAP (Partner Edge Status), IBM and Microsoft (Service Ready Partner). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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It's no secret that floods ruin your carpet, furniture, appliances and walls. They can cause mold, mildew, water stains, shorts in electrical systems, and make a house unlivable. In order to deal with such catastrophes, AAA AUGER Emergency plumbing services Dallas would like to share some advice with you on what to do should a plumbing flood happen in your home or office.
First, find the cause of the leak. This sounds easy, as water is usually shooting out of the leaky area, yet some leaks can be hard to find, especially if you arrive at the scene after the leak starts pooling. A leak can come from sinks, showers, toilets, water heaters and appliances. Some leaks can even be hidden behind walls or ceilings. Appliance malfunctions from dishwashers and refrigerators can cause flooding, as well as clogs in pipes.
Once you have located the location of the leak, turn the water off at it's source. If you're having trouble locating the source, turn off the water supply to the entire house until you can locate the leak. It's important to know where all of your shut-off valves are located in your house.
Shut-off valve locations:
• The shut-off valve to the entire house is outside next to the water meter, or on the house side of the pressure tank if you use a well. Your water meter might be found near the street or in the backyard.
• Your water heater shut-off valve is on the cold water outlet connected to your hot water heater.
• The toilet shut-off valve is usually oval shaped and can be found under the toilet tank.
• The dishwasher shut-off is usually under the kitchen sink.
• The water supply to the laundry machine is found behind the appliance.
• Sink shut-offs are underneath the sink.
You may need to call AAA AUGER emergency plumbing services Dallas because homes differ in their placement of shut-off valves. Be sure to keep people and pets away from the flooded area. The water can carry disease as well as create a slipping hazard. Be very careful to stay away from electrical outlets and appliances. Never turn on wet electric appliances. If possible, try to remove as much water from the flooded area as you can.
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Killer owning Morgana
What you should do in order to succed:
-Your lane: Mid(or solo lane 1v2)
-Your combo: R - > E - > Q - > W - > Normal atk
This combo should always kill if you fightning aginst squishis or you just nice fed and stayed in lane well / trying to gank.
-In teamfights: When you get Zhonya Ring, Combine it with your Ulti - Use your ulti + Black shield, After 1 sec use Zhonya(When everyone around you) . All should be stuned and get huge damage if you did well early game.
-Buy Mejai Soulstealer only if you going well. If you feel sux, Skip it.
-Get golem when you reach level 11 and higher. It will help you because of the mana regen, and the cooldown reduction! It's awesome! (You can say some1 to help u but u can get alone if u Q and W , It will take a bit long but worth it )
-1st trip: Get Tear of the Goddes and Boots of Speed. it will cost 1.6k gold.
-2nd trip: Sorcerer's Shoes
-3rd trip: Blasting wand OR Mejai Soulstealer [if going well] OR Nedlessly Large Rod[if u have money and u dont kill]
-Complete your Zhonya
-Get Deathfire Grasp for your CDS and AP.
-Get Archangel for your MP and AP.
-Rylai's for your AP,HP and for slow. That's all! You will be awesome.
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AutoCAD Sheet set manager is just like any normal palette of AutoCAD but it also has very powerful features in it.
With the help of Sheet Set, you can organize layouts of your project in meaningful subsets. You can plot multiple sheets or entire project files with just a few clicks and with consistent page setup. You can plot layouts with override templates that can have different page setup too.
A typical sheet set Manager palette looks like the image 1 shown below.
Sheet set manager can be used to organize layouts, drawing views and other project related information in meaningful categories called subsets. Each subset of the palette can have project layouts related to a particular discipline.
Using sheet set you can also reduce dependency on windows explorer or other third party tools for file management and it can be used even when you have hundreds of layouts or drawings to manage.
Creating sheet set from scratch:
If your drawing is in model view then you need to prepare layouts from that for using in the sheet set. Before creating layout views it is also advisable to make title block, label and callout blocks with fields and attributes that can be used to build intelligence in the layouts and for cross-referencing data.
For this case, I will assume that you have already prepared a set of layouts containing title block and views and you have all of these layouts in a single folder on local or network drive. For this example, I have placed all of my layout drawings in the SheetSet folder on the desktop.
Now open a blank drawing and type SSM on the command line and press enter. Sheet Set Manger palette will open, click on the drop-down menu at the top of this palette and select New Sheet Set from the list. Select Existing drawings radio button from Create sheet set wizard and click on next.
Enter the name of your sheet set in the Name Field and also a description if you want, I am naming it as Example Sheet. Click on the box next to Store Sheet set file field and specify the folder where you want to save this sheet set file, I am specifying the SheetSet folder of the desktop for saving Sheet set file.
The sheet set file is saved with DST extension and it contains all the information related to your sheet set.
Now click on Sheet Set Properties button as shown in the image above. Specify Project number and Project name in Project Control panel of Properties palette and click OK then click Next.
Now click on browse and add the SheetSet folder containing all layout views to it. You will see a list of all drawings with layout views in a hierarchical order.
Uncheck the layouts which you don't want to include in the sheet set and click Next then click Finish. The sheet set will be created and a list of all layouts will be populated in the sheet Set Manager palette.
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Creating Subsets:
Currently, you will see a list of all layouts in the Sheet List tab, you can organize these layouts in subsets. To make a subset right click on the Sheet set name and select New Subset from the contextual menu. Specify the name of the new subset and click OK.
You can now move layouts under the subset by selecting them and moving then under the subset by simple drag and drop. You can select and move multiple layouts by pressing CTRL key as well.
Sheet creation templates:
You can specify some properties to the Sheet Set as a default template and override template, when a new sheet is created in the Sheet Set Manager it will take the properties from the assigned template.
To set the default Sheet Set template select the sheet set then right click and select properties from the contextual menu. Locate the Sheet creation template option and specify the template which you want to use.
You can also assign the Page setup override template in the Sheet Set panel of properties palette as shown in the image below.
Publishing Sheet Set:
To Plot all of these layouts select the sheet set then right click and select Publish then publish to Dwfx, pdf, Physical plotter or any other format which you require. You can also publish layouts selectively, for that select the layouts which you want to publish using CTRL key then right click and select Publish option.
Getting more from Sheet set:
There are more great features of this tool which you can explore in this AutoCAD Sheet Set course from Pluralsight.
If you have questions related to this article let me know in the comments below.


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Murder of
Wesley Foulke
in 1897
Lincoln Beacon
, July 22, 1897
"Wesley Foulke Murdered"
"A Theory of Suicide Entertained by Some"
There has lived in Lincoln for two or more years Mrs. L.M. Foulke, who came here from Scott township. Several years ago her husband deserted her and left for parts unknown, leaving her a large family of children, and a farm which she disposed of about the time she came to Lincoln. Since moving to town Mrs. Foulke's three oldest children, John, Wesley and Charles, have worked out for different parties, generally at farm work. They were large, strong, industrious and perfectly temperate, and unusually reliable and trustworthy young men.
These young men were practically the only support of their mother, and the younger children, and their mother controlled most of their wage earnings, with their consent.
Wesley Foulke was probably the older of the three older brothers, but this is not certain to us. His mother avers that he would have been 21 years of age August next. He believed himself to be about three years older, and had told employers that the school registers in Scott township would show that he was 23 or 24 years old. Old settlers in Scott township may be able to recollect his age. We think all the family except a married daughter in Iowa were born in this county.
Wesley's education was very limited, and those for whom he worked call him peculiar to the verge of insanity though strong, active, intelligent about farm labor and very industrious. He was honest to the point of being exacting with himself in meeting the little obligations which he had occasion to incur. Generally he was good natured and quite affable, but his oddities often made him the butt of his companions. Up to a certain point his good nature while being teased was imperturbable. Beyond that point he ordered proceedings stopped and his warnings were usually heeded, as he was six feet 2 inches tall, would weigh about 190 pounds and was strong as an ox.
He worked for J.B. Hill of Prosser creek a year and a half, leaving him January last. Mr. Hill says he was a first-class hand and a model of behavior and deportment.
Since leaving Mr. Hill he has worked for C.B. Daughters on the latter's farm and at whatever he was directed to do. Mr. Daughters speaks of him in the same terms as does Mr. Hill and others who have employed him.
Disappearance of Wesley Foulke
Wesley spent Sunday last at his mother's home on Court street in Lincoln. At 8 o'clock in the evening or a little later he told the family he "was going up to Lonny Fitzgerald's" two and a half miles north of town, near a farm belonging to Mr. Daughters, upon which he had been working. He gave his mother a 25 cent piece, all the money he had, took his revolver, an 88-calibre bulldog, cheap pattern, and went away. Before leaving he stated that he wanted the pistol for the benefit of cross dogs or to shoot rabbits if he had a chance. He frequently carried this pistol, always with this declared purpose.
It appears that he did not go to Fitzgerald's as Mr. Fitzgerald testified at the inquest; perhaps because it was dark by the time he reached Mr. F.'s place, and as there was no lamp lighted there at any time during the evening Wesley probably thought they had either retired or were not at home.
The next seen of Wesley was by the Brazier family as they were on their way home from church about 10 o'clock. They recognized him. This was in the road nearly a mile north of the northeast corner of the townsite. The Braziers were going north in vehicles, Wesley was headed south afoot.
The Man in the Road
About 10:20 Willard Lyons was on his way home on foot from church in town. After church he met with the young people to discuss Y.P.S.C.E. matters, which threw him behind the Braziers about half an hour. At a point about half a mile north of town, in the road exactly opposite where "the Shriner house" (which was burned) used to stand, he came upon the body of a man stretched across the road. (This point was about half a mile south of where the Braziers met Wesley.) It was not very dark, and he saw the figure in the road when about 50 feet distant, and might have seen it sooner had he been looking up instead of down. The figure was that of a tall man in rough garb, a white felt broad brim hat on his head, lying flat on the face and stomach and with the arms stretched upward and the hands apparently close together under the front brim of the hat. Lyons thought he recognized the figure as that of Wesley Foulke, but knowing that Wesley was very peculiar and liable to misunderstand other people, he thought best to continue on his way, supposing that if it was Wesley the latter chose to be let alone. Lyons had no thought that the prone figure was that of a dead man and said nothing and did not touch it, being prompted simply to mind his own business. If it was a drunken man and not Wesley, he did not feel particularly concerned as the night was neither dark nor stormy and there was no risk for the strange in leaving him where he lay, drunk or sober.
Lyons kept up on the road. "About 400 yards beyond" he heard a pistol shot directly behind him. This satisfied him that the man in the road was a drunk. He went on up the road. Half a mile from where the man in the road lay Lyons came to P.M. Zeigler's place and seeing people in the yard he turned in. Mr. Zeigler, his daughter Maude and Julian McCanles were there. Together the four talked over the incident of the man in the road and the pistol shot, which they had all heard. Zeiglers and Mr. McCanles had heard the shot and spoke of it before Mr. Lyons came up, though they knew nothing of the man lying in the road.
After stopping at Zeigler's a few moments Lyons went on home. He set an alarm clock for 4:30 the next morning and made up his mind to go down the road in the morning and see what might be found, if anything.
Mr. McCanles left Zeigler's a short time after Mr. Lyons did. He was on foot. He came "straight down the road south about 200 yards" and then left the road and took to the prairie to the right about a fourth the way from Zeigler's to the place where Lyons saw the figure in the road. Mr. McCanles "diagonaled" back to town, leaving the road to his left and at no time could have been nearer than two or three hundred yards of the spot where Wesley Foulke was found dead in the morning. McCanles neither saw nor heard anything in the least degree suspicious.
Finding the Body
Mr. Lyons arose at 4:30 and went first to Mr. Fitzgerald's, then to Mr. Zeigler's. Neither had arisen yet and it was about 5 o'clock when they reached the place where Lyons saw the man in the road.
They found Wesley Foulke lying dead, in exactly the position of legs, body, head and arms that Mr. Lyons noted in the semi-darkness the night before. The head was in the dirt just outside the wheel track and the shoulders, body and legs lay at right angles with the roadway. The feet were within a foot of the opposite wheel track. The head was to the west, slightly up hill. The face was downward, the features embedded in the loose dirt. The hands were almost touching under the hat brim, and in the right hand was the pistol he left home with. The shoulders, back and legs were covered with road dust, as thought he had laid first on the back and then been turned over. A wide pool of clotted blood trailed out from under the body and out into the road. Lyons came immediately to town to notify the sheriff. Zeiger and Fitzgerald stayed to "watch" and went off in the field about a hundred yards to look at some fodder belonging to Zeigler. While they were in the field W.R. Sexton came along in a buggy, accompanied by a young son of Rev. McDade. Sexton was headed toward town with several cans of milk for the creamery. He believed himself and the boy to be the first persons to see the body. He alighted and took the pistol from the dead man's hand, brought it to town immediately and turned it over to the sheriff.
Mr. Sexton testified that instead of the pistol being held in a death grip a very slight pull released it. This is a very important feature of the testimony, as it confirmed the theory that Wesley was murdered and the pistol placed in his hand to mislead observers. Either Zeigler or Fitzgerald saw Mr. Sexton take the pistol, but neither interfered.
In a short time the sheriff, Coroner Strange and a large number of other people were at the scene. No attempt was made to control the crowd and in a few moments all tracks or possible signs of a scuffle in the road dust (that might have thrown light on the affair) were obliterated.
A bullet hole exactly on the median line and just above the eyebrows was plainly seen by all who looked and was supposed to be the only injury the body had received.
Post Mortem
The body was brought to town and laid out in Gragg's undertaking establishment. The coroner ordered an inquest, which was conducted by Drs. Hall and Newton. The coroner, jury, undertakers and a few others were witnesses as to results, but a very serious error was made in not securing the attendance of all the physicians of the community, for the value of their trained observation and opinions.
The pistol ball had followed an absolutely straight line from between the eyes to a pit half an inch to the left of the media line and lay loosely in the extreme base of the skull at the nape of the neck. All the percussionary force of the explosion had been expended outside of the skull and just at the pit of entrance, showing that while the pistol was close to, it was not actually against the flesh when discharged. The brain was not in the least lacerated off the direct line of puncture made by the bullet, which had passed through the pons varoli and the corpus calosum, and causing as absolutely an instantaneous death as is possible.
Upon the right side of the head, directly above and close down upon the ear, the skull had been driven in until the suture between the parietal and temporal bones was completely spread apart, giving the appearance, to an untechnical eye, of an original fracture. This fracture was entirely disassociated with the irregular hole made by the ball in entering the skull. (The base of the skull was not fractured at all, the ball spending its force against it.) The flesh and ineguments of the skull over an area exactly corresponding with that of the injured bone, were bruised to a pulp, but the skin was not broken, and the thick curly hair had, until the autopsy, hidden all evidence of foul play. A quantity of blood had collected between the skull and the brain, but the brain itself showed no injury until the course of the bullet was reached, on the median line.
The positive side of the scalp, skull, and membranes was in a perfectly normal, healthy condition.
The conclusion immediately reached by Drs. Hall and Newton was that prior to being shot Foulke had received a terrific blow from a sandbag or some other weapon which produced contusion but does not lacerate. In this opinion we concur.
Divers theories are entertained: of a quarrel and fight was some unknown person; of some night traveling tramp who saw a chance to pick a man by the roadside and take his chances of securing booty and of discover and detection; of mistaken identity.
The first theory is possible, but the obliteration of tracks and evidences of a scuffle by spectators and by the heavy rain which fell the next night make it almost foolish to attempt to follow it.
The second theory is worthless, as the young man's silver watch was upon his person unmolested, and anyone who had the nerve to return to finish the murder would be certainly self-possessed enough to take the watch. He had no money upon him and there is no evidence that his pockets were rifled.
The third theory is as good as any other, but we cannot see that it is worthy any more, in the absence of all confirmatory testimony aside from the post mortem itself.
The theory of suicide we consider as disposed of by the evidence of the post mortem. We agree with the surgeons in the claim that the wound on the side of the head was absolutely disabling and would have caused instantaneous unconsciousness and perhaps immediate death from concussion; that it was entirely disassociated from the pistol shot wound; that it (the blow on the side of the head) must have been inflicted first, and that the victim therefore as a matter of course could not have shot himself.
The rational probability is that he was sandbagged just before Lyons came along and shot after he had passed, to make a thorough job of intentional murder.
The Inquest
The above is compiled (as to statements of facts) from the testimony given at the inquest by the parties variously mentioned above. The coroner's jury was composed of Geo. Hawkins, L.J. Dunton, Marion Pace, W.D. Morgan, Thos. Ramsay and J.W. Shick. It was in session from Monday a.m. until Tuesday p.m. The verdict was as follows:
"We find that Wesley Foulke came to his death on the night of July 18, 1897, by a severe blow to the right side of the head, causing a factor of the skull and by a pistol shot fired by some person unknown to us."
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I've been watching this place go in to the space where Sage used to be on Hayes at Gough (next to the former Pendragon bakery), and it opened sometime in the last week or so. Short version: potentially a good inexpensive addition to the neighborhood, with some wrinkles to be ironed out.
The biggest wrinkle was the 15 minute wait for 2 wrap sandwiches to go. There are lots of tables but no obvious place to wait for to-go orders. We ended up standing by the cash register watching the manager move food to tables and to-go customers in super slow, unphased motion as orders and customers stacked up on either side of him. As my friend commented, "Right here--this is the scene they'd show in Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares."
I had a veggie wrap. The bread was fresh and good, as were the veggies which consisted of grilled zucchini, mushrooms and eggplant. They were unseasoned, but tasty enough. Tomatoes, raw onion and shredded lettuce were also in there. Tomatoes in January, why bother? A light dressing was nice, but some tahini or other sauce would have been welcome.
The last comment goes for my friend's falafel as well, which she declared to be a little bland but basically good. Would've been better with sauce.
The music was screechy torture to our Western ears (and there's plenty of Middle Eastern music we both like) so I'm not tempted to sit and eat. But I'll certainly give the food a second chance after they've had a couple of weeks to settle in.


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Ormskirk Vintage Fair
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Just wanted to write a quick blog about the great day I had at Ormskirk Vintage Fair today. I had such a busy day, which is a good job because I think if I had had one minutes break I would have fallen asleep, as I've had a few late nights and early mornings, in the run up to the fair, preparing for it! The fair was based in Ormskirk town centre with outdoor market stalls and indoor stalls at the gorgeous Chapel Gallery http://www.chapelgallery.org.uk/
I had a lovely space on the top floor of the gallery right next to a giant chess board! We were offering free sewing workshops where people could make fabric corsage brooches. We also had our new craft kits and covered buttons for sale as well as promoting our hen do party workshops and new kids sewing parties! Needless to say after a busy busy weekend I'm sitting here with glass of wine and chocolate at the ready!
The thing I love the most about doing the craft workshops and fairs is all the lovely people I meet, the reaction I get when I tell people about our workshops and how proud everyone always is with their creations! Today we had a great mix of ages and abilitys, the youngest being 4years old and a BOY! He loved it, he had a bit of help from mum but he was very good at folding the circles of fabric to make his corsage.
Can't wait for our next fair 'An Oasis In the City' http://www.4manchesterwomen.co.uk/events/ Bowdon, Cheshire 13th July then another Ormskirk Vintage Fair 28th July!
So here are the pics from today!
Thanks for reading!
Hannah x
My Mini Craftea Days
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Something I've been dying to find time to blog about is my first childrens party that I did back at the beginning of May!! I'm so excited about this as I think this is really going to help me expand My Craftea Day, to promote craft to a wider audience and also help children learn life long skills! I've still got a bit of work to do before I can launch My Mini Craftea Days properly but I'm almost there!
The party I did was for a good friend of mines little girl Meg. It was her 6th birthday and being a very clever arty type she was very excited about having a craftea day for her birthday party!! After weeks of pushing ideas backwards and forwards between myself and Heidi, Megs mum, the day finally arrived and armed with mini china cups with jelly set inside them, 10 felt owls cut out and ready to sew and all my craft equipment, child safe scissors and thick tapestry needles (less pointy and sharp) I was welcomed by Meg dressed in the prettiest party dress ever with the biggest smile and lots of excitement in her eyes!! Heidi (who is also a very clever arty type and who's house makes me jealous as it ooozes style and simple vintage/scandi chic) had set the dining room up perfectly. Lots of room for me to get around easily so I could help the children and once I had laid out a few pink (of course) tablecloths, put some bunting up, laid the owls out, put my huge jar of threads and scissors on the tables and positioned the cat and dog pin cushions we were ready to go!! Meg was so cute sitting in the window waiting for her friends to arrive but we were a bit early so I let Meg have a little head start on everyone else and let her have a practice sewing on some spare felt. She was a little star and sewed in a very straight line for someone who is 6 and had never sewn before! Pretty soon all her little friends all dressed in their party gear turned up, there were lots of giggly girls and a few very coy and shy ones that I knew would soon be won around with my hilarious jokes! Ok so not many of them laughed at my jokes but they were all very good at paying attention to my instructions and demonstrations of how to sew! They all picked which owl they wanted to sew -I had pre cut the owls out of different coloured felts and had pre sewn co-ordinated printed fabric hearts on the owls tummy's and their beaks as these are small and fiddley. Once everyone was happy with their choices we set to work. From this point on I learnt a LOT of lessons, tips and do's and don'ts for future workshops I do which is one of the reasons I wanted to do the trial for a friend in the first place! My biggest one was to make sure that I always have help at hand whether that be mums of the kids to stay at the parties or I have to bring people along with me! Luckily some of the mums did stay behind and they were an amazing help with things like re-threading needles, unpicking and de-tangling threads, stopping the girls all wanting to go to the toilet all at the same time and making sure that all the girls actually had a finished sewn up owl by the end of the party! The other thing I learnt was that things tend to take a little longer than I had estimated so I now know to add more time in! It made me have even more respect for school teachers than I already had, being able to control and teach classes of 30 children at a time-I am in awe of you!!
Once everyone had finished their owls we cleared away the sewing stuff and had the vintage tea party with little sandwiches, cupcakes, the jellys in vintage tea cups and all served from vintage china look paper plates that I had sourced! All the girls thanked me afterwards and I even got a hug from one of them which was sweet! Also one of the mums thanked me as she had learnt how to thread a needle and now said she had no excuse not to sew buttons back on that fall off! Meg said that she had really enjoyed her party and that she liked sewing and still had a huge smile on her face! I had such a fab time it was a totally different experience to teaching at the hen parties that I do and made me realise that my little business has so much more potential! Thanks to Heidi for allowing me to use Megs party as a guinea pig run and also to Megs friends and their mums for allowing me to use photos from the day on my blog and website. For information on booking a childrens party please email email@example.com and watch this space for the official launch! See the photos below ........
The Birthday girl!
All set and ready to go!
Waiting for everyone to arrive!
The kitty pin cushion
Getting down to business
Stuffing the owls
messing around with the stuffing for the owls!!!
Well deserved afternoon tea!
Jelly in vintage tea cups
Candle time!
A finished owl
Some more finished owls-didn't they do well?!
Crafty Hens!
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I'm writing this on a train in an attempt to try and get a bit more on top of my social networking duties. At the moment it's proving a bit of a struggle as the wireless connection is a bit slow. I'm overdue as always on my blog posts but today I have a treat for you -2 blog posts! I have 3hrs 13 mins of internet access left so I'm making the most of it!
I wanted to write and tell you about a hen do that I did back in April for 25 hens! They had hired a lovely B&B farmhouse cottage in Wokingham for the weekend. I had a lovely space and a large table in the conservatory to set up all my craft stuff and fabrics and the girls set up all the vintage china I supplied in the lounge with a gorgeous spread of cakes and afternoon tea. I felt a little underdressed or dressed in the wrong era as the girls were all in 1980's disco/aerobics wear I was glad I had brought the neon pink tulle and ribbon with me!
I started by demonstrating 2 techniques of fabric corsages that they could choose from or make both if they had time. Then as with all our workshops they had time to choose the fabrics ribbons and trims they wanted to use from a large selection that I had taken along. This is one of my favourite parts of the workshop as it's really interesting to see the fabric/colour combinations that people choose and I like to help and advise if people don't know where to start! It also gave me a good opportunity to try my new purchase out - a gorgeous wooden stand that I have painted and use it to store all my gorgeous ribbons in colour order!! I think its a good way to keep a bit more organised in my craft room too and keep my eye on stock levels! What do you think?.....
The hens all did brilliantly even the ones who said they hadn't sewn since school and I think they had a nice relaxing afternoon drinking champagne, eating cake, chatting and sewing! As always it was really great to meet everyone and see all their finished creations. I've attached a photos of the day below!


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"The restaurant "Pri Lojzetu" is fatefully connected with Slow Food movement.
Autochthon cuisine with autochthon ingredients had been nourished in Dornberk long before Carlo Petrini established this world movement in 1987 in Paris. Therefore it was more than obvious that in December 1995 the founding dinner of Slovenian movement took place at "Pri Lojzetu".
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The rest of my photos are ones that I also wanted to share today, just because.
Gregg holding up that overhanging tree branch.
I loved the bronze leaves that people have added their names and messages to loved ones.
I am sharing this wonderful quote from Chief Seattle, a very wise man. I found it along my walk. I know the quote well.
The inscription was below the artwork above.
I am not sure the story behind this work of art as the photo I took of the description didn't come out clearly enough to read.
So there you go, that's the end of the photos from the rainforest biome. This was the only one I got to see that day, even though I was eager to see the rest. Well, why didn't I? Because I am a klutzy lady and went over on my ankle for the second time in just over a week. The first was my left ankle that I twisted badly tramping over Dartmoor. The irony of that is that after going up and down hill and dale, when I got onto the flat road that's when I did it. It blew up like a balloon afterwards, but after resting the next day I felt I was ready to continue with the site-seeing. However, in this beautiful place I did the same thing on my right ankle. Fortunately we were almost at the end. I tend to do this as Gregg will tell you, and have had a problem every couple of years since I was about 13 years of age when I originally did a number on both of them playing netball (basketball here) and they've never really been the same since. So that's why I went all that way and didn't get to see the rest of this beautiful place, and that's why I fully intend to go back again one day to see the rest of it.
Instead, and after reassuring my niece and nephew I was okay and that they should continue their walk around the other biomes, Gregg and I, making our way very slowly, headed towards the cafe where my reward was this lovely cup of coffee, while I nursed my other ankle that was also slowly getting puffy and pitching a fit (it did not spoil my holiday I hasten to add, as though I didn't go on any more major hikes, I had a real good time with my family for the few days we had left together). Isn't that coffee neat? I have seen these designs in photos, but it's the first time I have ever been given one. It was a shame to spoil that pretty leaf but I was more than ready for a little comforting caffeine. Yes, I know, maybe not wise but what the hay, I felt like I needed it and it was a great cup of coffee. In fact, we had lunch next to the biome earlier and that was also excellent..
I have one more post from The Eden Project and that will be it.
I am linking with SkyWatch Friday and Today's Flowers. You can click on their names to visit beautiful skies and flowers from around the world.
If you have missed any of my Eden Project posts they can be found if you click here (Part 1) and here (Part 2).


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Sugar KICKS a daring OC by WhiteDove-CreationsWatch
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its a plushie dats cool
This isn't an original character it just a character.
There is a difference between an original character and an original species. A character consists mainly of the personality/backstory/looks. I didn't create the griffon species but if I made a griffon character it would be an OC.
the women who commissioned this said it was her OC. So I guess it is
It's based on my little pony there for it is not original.
Her mane is really neat!
Brilliant work. I love OC plushies.
Love the patterns on the tail.
Ooh, she's so cool!
O.o...I don't have word for that!..is,....amazing!
The mane looks awesome and the bodyshape is cute
I like her mane and tail, especially her tail.
thank you, that tail was a challange
So cute!
She is simply adorable :3
Cuuttee!! >w<
so cute an cool too
Love the tail, very nice job
That's AWESOME!!!
Very awesome!
such a cute and interesting design! I love how you make fillies =3
That hair is adorable
The colors used are really nice. They really just work so well together!
Ha. Pretty neat OC actually.
That is overflowing with cuteness.


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Bengaluru, April 06: House of Kalam on Wednesday handed over some of the personal belongings of former President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam to Delhi Culture Minister Kapil Mishra.
At a low-key event held at Rameswaram, A P J M Maraikayar, 99-year-old elder brother of Dr Kalam handed over a number of items to Mishra and his team.
As promised earlier, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has initiated the process of setting up a Knowledge Centre in Delhi, in honour of Dr Kalam.
Sheik Saleem, one of the Spokespersons from House of Kalam told OneIndia that the family is extremely satisfied with the development.
"We flagged off the items today and they should reach Delhi within a week. The Knowledge Center should be operational in July this year and the final date will be announced later. We are sure that the move by Delhi government will inspire many youngsters," says Saleem, grandnephew of Dr Kalam.
The Knowledge Centre is being established at Dilli Haat at INA. The first death anniversary of Dr Kalam will be observed on July 27 this year.
Among the personal items that were transported to Delhi included around 1000 books, pens, Presidential Suit, paintings, mementoes, shawls, digital copies of his speeches to name a few.
Dr Kalam's family had written to Delhi government asking for a Knowledge Centre last year.
"This is a positive development and we are happy," says R K Prasad, Dr Kalam's longest serving Private Secretary
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