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The X-Ray Random series from the Turkish manufacturer Istanbul Mehmet convinces with its hand-hammered B20 alloy and above all the finely worked randomly arranged holes in various sizes, which are also made by hand. These cleanly worked holes interrupt the vibration of the entire pelvis and provide a shorter fading and a darker fundamental tone that comes across as trashy and spongy as well as thinner.
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When the tarpaulin she was sleeping under started rustling furiously in the darkness, Mustaba Khatun thought it was thieves cutting their way into her shelter on the edges of Bangladesh's Kutupalong-Balukhali refugee camp, where the city of bamboo and plastic meets the forest.
But these community responses, which can instantly draw out thousands in a camp of almost 600,000 people, could be part of the reason why 12 people have been killed, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which has now teamed up with the U.N.'s refugee agency, the UNHCR, to formally train special response teams.
Shaky video shot during an incident in February shows terrified refugees scrambling down the camp's naked hills and throwing sticks and stones at an elephant that ends up flattening several shelters in its confusion. This frenzied response, said IUCN local coordinator Mohammed Abdul Motaleb, illustrates why the refugees need help understanding elephant behavior.
"Basically they throw stones and firecrackers, which is really bad for the elephants … and the elephants attacked people because they don't like this kind of chaos," he said.
"Elephants are like human beings, they always prefer quieter places and that's why they always come at night. They have fixed routes that people never go to, which helps them to move freely." The problem, he said, was that the sprawling refugee camp now falls across those elephant corridors.
Protecting the community
"I am ready. I promise to protect my community," barked the first of the Rohingya refugees to stand up and make his pledge to serve in localized elephant response teams.
"Inshallah" — God willing — came the response from the 19 other men sitting crossed-legged on the floor of a bamboo-framed meeting room, all proudly wearing blue T-shirts marked with an elephant logo unmistakably identifying their new responsibilities.
The training was simple: presentations on the history and character of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), designed to increase their respect for the animal; some team-building exercises; and a mock elephant incursion with three of the trainees on their knees, lurching at their friends, while the others imitated guiding the elephants away and keeping back onlookers.
One of the Rohingya responders, Abdul Lateef, said he had seen 14 elephants since arriving in Bangladesh and had to improvise ways to chase some of them away.
"We didn't know what to do," he said. "Everyone was shouting and running in every direction, falling over each [other]."
After two or three incidents, they realized they needed to organize themselves. Each night, volunteers would sit by their tents, fixing their eyes on the unlit hills from which the elephants usually slipped in, raising the alarm when they spotted something.
"We didn't have lights or sticks with us, we were just shouting, creating noise to drive them away," Abdul Lateef said.
Motaleb's team has given the trainees flashlights, spotlights and whistles. Other programs in Bangladesh have proven these simple tools are enough to protect humans without harming the endangered animals, he said.
Motaleb said the key to training the elephant response teams was in teaching them to control the crowds and to ensure that groups of no more than 10 people were responsible for protecting the elephants and guiding them away from the camp. In the past, he said, the refugees would surround the elephants on all sides, aggravating them and leaving them no way to escape — and that's when they would lash out.
A wider environmental crisis
The first of the human-elephant clashes happened in September 2017, just weeks after the first refugees began pouring into Bangladesh and exhausted and traumatized new arrivals took shelter wherever they found space. But they have not let up as the main Kutupalong-Balukhali camp, which has existed since a previous Rohingya influx in 1991, grew into the world's largest refugee settlement. Motaleb warned more problems lay ahead during the imminent monsoon season, when elephants traditionally migrate.
An IUCN survey prompted by the refugee crisis, which studied elephant footprints and dung, estimated up to 45 elephants live in the area. They had been able to freely move along corridors between Bangladesh and Myanmar in search of food and shelter — until hundreds of thousands of new people arrived in the area.
Unlike the host community, who the new arrivals said warned them about the elephant presence, the refugees struggle to avoid the elephant paths because of the limited space given to them to settle in. That clash has only been heightened by the rapid deforestation caused by the crisis.
An estimated 20 square kilometers (7.8 square miles) of forest have been cleared to make space for the new settlements and by refugees needing to make almost daily excursions for firewood in the absence of any alternative fuel. The muddy, winding route they take into the forest becomes longer each day, constantly increasing the tension between them and the environment. At one of the stopping points, a group of children hauling heavy loads of firewood on their shoulders told Mongabay they had run into elephants before — and just like in the camp, tried to scare them away by shouting and throwing stones.
And as that thick forest has rapidly retreated, it has been replaced by a now barren, washed-out landscape of crumbling, pale-brown hills stripped of all vegetation and even their roots. That newly emptied space has also increased the entry points for the elephants, who in recent months have been scavenging for food during the dry season. This is where the IUCN plans to build 56 watchtowers to monitor elephant activity.
UNHCR spokesperson Caroline Gluck said some of the more recent video of panicked elephants stampeding through the camp convinced them of the issue's urgency, but this is just part of a longer-term plan to start dealing with the dramatic environmental changes caused by the crisis.
"The camp itself is not environmentally friendly. It's below international standards by any measure. The numbers of people there exceed the numbers of people who should be there," she said.
Work is currently focused on preparing for a potentially disastrous monsoon season because of the surge of people into the area. Gluck said they would also be working on providing alternative fuels to end the firewood crisis, providing new water supplies, and running a reforestation program to start reversing some of the damage that has been done.
"We want to work on creating a better environmental awareness, both among the refugees and the host community, to try and better preserve the fragile environment that they have at the moment," she said.


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From what I've read violence is random, in answer to your first question. I to, am no expert as I drive a truck after 18 yrs of burn out as a respiratory therapist. Anyway, violence can be concentrated in areas of low income and crowded conditions, but by-in-large it is random and can/does happen most everywhere. Would you agree with that?
In regard to the site you recommend, I like it also and is in my 'fav's' now.
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Gallery: Share Your Sweets: Latin American Desserts
Daisy's Pastel de Tres Leches
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Sara's Coconut Cupcakes with Dulce de Leche Frosting
"These cupcakes are based on alfajores cookies, which combine sugar cookies with dulce de leche filling and often a sprinkle of coconut around the outside. They're so tasty that I even made them for a friend's wedding reception!"—Sara C.
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Claire's Alfajores
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Haley's Mexican Chocolate Tart
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Rihanna, Kris Jenner, Kanye West and More "Turn Up" For Vogue's 95th Anniversary Party
Vogue recently turned 95 and to celebrate such a milestone, a fancy party was thrown in Paris by Emmanuelle Alt (Vogue's Editor in Chief)
Wait hold up, Vogue is 95? You know how long that is? Even if my grandparents were alive they would still not even be 90. Anyway back to biz, superstar's and socialites were all in attendance for the soiree. Here are a few snaps that caught my eye
Well apparently Zendaya Coleman, is the "it" girl and can't do no wrong. But don't you just hate it when celebrities spend tons of money on a not so pretty outfit?
Model Bella Hadid looked hot in this black Balmain sheer dress
Rihanna opted for an outfit by Dior.
Zoe Kravitz stepped out in Balenciaga.
Other celebs of the night included
Kris Jenner and son-in-law Kanye West
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It's Neo-Noir time. Let's strap into the back of a PI's car and follow them around on some cases!
u/Xenasty asked:
Private detectives of reddit, what is the most interesting case you ever solved?
Here were some of the coolest cases.
So I work for a company that investigates what look like insurance fraud. So someone has some type of accident and are saying that they can't work etc.
So we have this case where a man is saying his back is terrible. Like he can hardly walk, can't work at all, needs constant assistance for everyday life.
So we get an investigator to provide footage of them going around their everyday life, pretty normal thing for us to do.
So I pop this DVD in my computer and start to watch, he's walking, bending, twisting. All things that make it look like he isn't injured but then he does one thing that makes his claim fall in the toilet and flush itself down.
He did a backflip. He stood on a bench at a park and flipped off. Needless to say after we showed him the footage he withdrew his claim.
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I'm a PI
Been one for a long time. I gotta say that most cases I work on are pretty boring. The job is full of mild "gotcha" moments, but they're a product of long lonely hours on surveillance just to get a guy shovelling some dirt while collecting injury compensation benefits. A PI's greatest tools in the universe are Google and a telephone. I can call and ask anyone anything under the guise of anything I want. I even call the people I'm investigating sometimes or correspond via email when I need answers or information. It's ridiculous the amount of information people volunteer about themselves after some good natured banter.
Also, I'm sure most of you know this trick. But you really can go anywhere with a clipboard, high viz vest, and a hard hat.
The BEST case I was part of involved a security guard my firm hired to do night watch on an electronics store. I was part of a small firm that, at the time, provided security guards and private investigators. One night we get a call from the guard. He'd had the sh*t kicked out of him, been tied to chair, escaped, and called the cops and the office to report a robbery at the store. Three attackers managed to pry the back door open and subdue the guard and proceed to rob the place of about a 100k. The guard told a compelling story and looked like sh*t.
It took the police all of two days to track down the stolen sh*t. The thieves weren't being very careful when it came to offloading the goods. The thieves turned out to be the guard's brother and cousins and it was our guards brilliant idea for them to come and rob the place and make it look like an armed robbery. What a g*ddamn idiot. We still laugh about it.
It must have been one of those thoughts that sounded brilliant and sophisticated in his own head, only to have the epiphany that it was moronic hit him with same Mack Truck like intensity a little later on.
It was unusual to have such a dumb movie heist plot happen with people I worked with.
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I wasn't a detective, but I worked as a Skip Tracer for a credit card bank back in the early 2000s.
I was a bill collector, basically, but because of my ability to track people down who had "skipped out" on their debts, I was put on a "task force" to go after accounts that exclusively had zero contact information.
My favorite one was when I tracked down a guy in the middle of South America doing his religious mission. He had access to a phone literally one hour of one day a week. My job was to call around and get information on how to reach him -- at the time I was in my early 20s, and as long as I didn't break FDCPA, the bank let me do my thing.
When I got the guy on the phone he was flabbergasted that I was able to track him down and he wanted to know how, so I told him.
I called his mom, who told me about the mission he was on. Then, when I called again, instead of asking which church he was through, I had instead found a local church and said, "Oh, he went down there through [SUCH AND SUCH] church, right?"
Oh no, not that one. It was [OTHER CHURCH]. "OH OF COURSE! [OTHER CHURCH]! That was with pastor Smith! No? Oh, Pastor Davis!"
Then, called [OTHER CHURCH] and asked for Pastor Davis. Explained that I had just talked to his mom and she suggested I talk to him in order to get a phone number. Pastor Davis supplied me with the phone number and the day and hour that the debtor would be there.
It took me a couple of tries, but I eventually got him on the phone. He gave me permission to talk to his parents regarding the debt, I called them, explained what was up, and they worked out a payment arrangement.
I think he owed less than $10k to the bank, which was on the low-end of accounts that I worked.
I've been a PI for almost a year now. The job is definitely not as exciting as most people think. Some days it's busy and stressful, but a ton of it is just sitting and waiting. When people ask what's it like I tell them, "stare at something for 6-10 hours. That's your job most days".
Anyways as for the most interesting case, we don't necessarily "solve" but rather provide evidence. Most cases are workers comp or liability but we do have domestic (think cheating spouse etc.) Cases about 2-5 a month. I personally have been involved in undercover work buying illegal cell phones that my company gives me 5k - 10k cash to buy that have gone to court and testified afterwards. My all time favorite case involved me following a guy with a boat to a marina. He got on his boat and set out. Our client authorized getting footage by any means necessary. That means my company allowed me to rent a jet ski for 6 hours to watch him fish. After about an hour he left the "zone" I was required to stay in so for the next 5 hours I jet skied then fished on the docks all while getting paid.
If anyone wants to know more feel free to ask.
I thought of another experience that always stuck with me from my PI days-
I was tasked with doing surveillance on a wealthy geologist, who was in a very minor car accident but was collecting $5k+ month from the insurance company in lost wages because she supposedly couldn't work.
These cases were my specialty and I almost always got my person using my shady tactics. In this case the subject was a 60+yr old Chinese woman. The footage that helps me "win" these cases, is catching people doing physical labor, like yard work, as proof they are capable of working.
I thought this old lady would be hard to bust, but in the first hour she carried huge garbage bags of cans and bottles to the recycle depot, loaded about 20 large phone books into her trunk, took out the trash which looked heavy as hell, then went to a hair salon and was tossing her head all around (she claimed neck injury) to show the haircut she wanted. One hour of surveillance (some people take months!) and she was done! No shady tactics required. The insurance company should've given a bonus for that one...
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A young individual once hired me to investigate whether his wife was cheating. Needed the evidence in court for when he files for divorce. His wife and his sister-in-law were going to have a get together that weekend and my client wanted me to tail them. So I set up my dash cam to live stream my video feed to the client and start following his wife. Turns out his wife and sister in law were both heading to a hotel for a foursome. Got some pretty solid video and photo evidence for my client, who then confronted his wife later that night. She tried to deny it and said she only met up with some guy for kisses and touched his family jewels a little bit.
Set Up Two People
More of a casual couch investigation than anything.
I once received a text from an unknown number regarding a class project they were working on. Clearly they had thought I was someone else, but I thought I'd have fun with it like I normally do with wrong numbers.
Based on their area code and the name of the school building they had mentioned, I was able to identify the college. I then asked them what email address of mine I had given them, which supplied me with a name.
I used the name and college to track down the real person on Facebook they were trying to contact and that gave me a wealth of information.
I didn't let it play out too long because I didn't want to actually screw up any assignment, but it did seem like there may have been some chemistry between these two.
I never ended up confessing and just told the girl to contact me solely through email, so I sometimes wonder what ended up happening.
Wedding Bell Dues
Not a PI, but my husband is not on FB. He's introverted and did not keep in touch with any of his friends. It was important for me that he invite some to our wedding. He said he didn't know how to get in touch with them. He knew his 4 college roommates names. A few were on FB and I was able to friend them to get their addresses. The last one was not, and the other roomies hadn't been in touch with him either.
All my husband knew was a name (common) and "i think he lived in Lancaster PA". I couldn't find him off that on FB, so I ran a background check on him. It was around $25. Report had his mom's name on it. I fb stalk her, searched her friends with the same last name, and found a young lady. Fb message the girl asking if she is related the roomie and she was his sister who gave me his address. I felt pretty proud that I was able to track him down. And yes, he attended the wedding!
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Private Eye here. We usually get hired to document someone's day. We try and gather as much info on them and get as much video of them in public as possible, without losing them or getting caught onto. Not all of it is workman's comp, but usually along the lines of someone making a claim and we go out and see what their activity level is like.
We're not out to "catch" anyone, just obtain video and facts.
We may watch someone to make sure they are getting specific care during specific times and things like that. A lot of people do have certain restrictions, which they are always breaking.
I've been doing it 10 years and i don't know if everyone is full of sh*t, or they just give us the cases where they think there's some f*ckery afoot, but most of them are doing things they shouldn't be doing and we get it all on video. However, the clients don't even read the reports, and we rarely go to court.
The Case Of The Sketchy Day Care
Not a PI but want to be after this: I'm a single mom of two toddler boys. Their dad moved out of town forcing me to put them in daycare which I tried to avoid at all costs. Since I am a single mom I qualified for a program that pays for the care. Its a county program. I was to find the daycare, put them in contact with the program, the program's provider services are then to do background and licensing checks, etc, before they approve the care. 2 months into using this daycare service, I pick up my boys after work and my 1 year old has clear handprints and bruises on both sides of his face, bruised ears, lump on the back of his head and a cut.
She kept telling me that he ran into a sliding glass door... I took him straight to the ER, called social services and the police. The next day I take him to his doctor and the abuse center for evaluations. Their official diagnosis was that we was "repeatedly slapped and choked by an adult". Days pass with no call from the police, no calls from cps, and nothing from licensing. So I start to call around myself. CPS dropped the case as it did not happen at home and licensing was never forwarded the report. The police told me it would be a while before someone gets to my case. So I do my own due diligence for my son.
I file the report myself with licensing and when they asked for her name I give it to them.....but they have no one by that name in her system. I give them the address of the daycare.....not in their system. I'm beyond confused as I KNOW she is a licensed daycare facility because she was approved for use by the county. I call the county program and cut off the care and said while I am at it, could they provide me with the license number they have on file for her as well as the address she provided them with. They give me the license and a different address than the one I have been taking my son to. I call back Licensing and they put in the license number and it is not registered to her, but to her sister. Someone I have never met before.
The address they have on file for that license is the same address she provided to the county program. This is illegal and fraud. I ask them how I can get copies of records on this license number and it turns out there is a website that will provide all information in the last 4 years attached to the license. So I start digging. She was on the license at one point, before being removed in OCT 2017. She had 3 cases of abuse that were all dropped, and was finally removed last OCT when a baby died in her care!
I call police and they still tell me to wait! I am furious as to how this could all be missed. I continue to dig and do an online search of the license number. Multiple ads pop up. There are at least three daycares and three different addresses using this one license number (license for family daycares are for 1 address and persons named on license only) All sisters. So after three days I take to facebook and post the photos and my rant and they go viral! The police station called me the next morning! Different detective different station. The people made such a fuss and called so many times that they found someone to handle the case immediately. I handed them everything I found and said " this should save you some work".
During the investigation they ended up finding things that got the FBI involved. They put surveillance her house and saw things that led to a raid. They found lots of guns and drugs and arrested her husband (Which I was under the impression she did not have!) and seized their cars and phones and intercepted all mail. All of this while she is still running her daycare and being fined a few hundred every day she is opened. She didn't have a care in the world.
They arrested her yesterday for 3 felonies! With fighting this we have been able to reopen other cases dropped and get justice for 2 other babies as well! Her bail is set for $200,000 but her husbands was much higher and she bailed him out instantly. Guess you can afford it when you run a drug business and a daycare at once!


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On Wednesday 6th, Thursday 7th and Friday 8th July St John's College played host to three outstanding performances of Rodgers and Hammerstein's timeless classic, The Sound of Music.
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Author(s): Colin Huckstep
In the market for inexpensive studio headphones? Altec Lansing might have just what you need. We were impressed with the sound quality displayed here. Though it doesn't have any bells and whistles, it's price is right.
There is definitely something to be said for a good set of headphones. Or if you want to look at it from another angle, a bad set of headphones can ruin the listening experience. Headphones or speakers can be the difference between whether you love or hate a piece of music. I have a tendency to be very picky about my listening environment.
A lot of my listening is done on good quality speakers, or $100+ studio headphones. I have a few pair of ear buds that I keep in my backpack, but they don't really sound all that good, they just hold up well to the abuse.
Altec Lansing markets the AHP-524 Headphones for "Light Studio and Personal Audio Needs." After several weeks of use I must say they live up to the marketing from Altec Lansing.
The AHP-524 Headphones do not have much in the way of bells and whistles, but really none of the best sounding headphones have bells and whistles. They don't fold or rotate. There is no microphone attached. These are not gamers' headphones. All that is included in the package are the headphones and a stereo mini-plug to 1/4 inch stereo adapter.
The headphones have the longest cable I've ever seen on a set of consumer headphones; 10 feet. It also includes an inline volume control. I've never been a big fan of inline volume controls on standard headphones. They're just another moving component that can break or a bulge on the cable that can snag on something.
The AHP-524 Headphones are self-adjusting to fit the wearer's head.
I like to test headphones in a variety of environments, especially when they are labeled "studio" headphones. So, I took these on tour for a couple of weeks, giving me the opportunity to listen to them the tour bus, in a quiet room, and connected to the sound board during concerts.
I was very pleasantly surprised by these headphones. Every listening test sounded quite good. Not as good as a set of $200 studio headphones, but certainly better than a lot of cheap headphones I've listened to. On the bus I noticed two things, these headphones are comfortable for a long period of time, and they were able to cut out a good portion the road noise from the diesel engine. Not as good as noise canceling headphones but you can't get noise canceling headphones for $25 either.
I wore the headphones for the better part of 12 hours, and completely forgot I was wearing them. In a quiet room, these sounded great, certainly as good as some of the lower end studio headphones I've used. Where I was really surprise was how well these worked in a live concert situation.
I usually have a problem with bass distortion in my headphones when I run them off of the soundboard in a live room. Not so with these headphones. Part of this is due to the 40mm neodymium driver, which gives great bass response. The great noise isolation helped with this as well, because I didn't have to turn up the headphone volume nearly as much.
Everything just sounded good on these headphones. Deep bass with crystal clear highs and warm mids. My only real reservation is the build quality. I would have liked to see a bit heavier grade of plastic used on these headphones. I wouldn't really recommend these if they are going to be living in a backpack when not in use. I'm surprised I didn't break them while I was on the road. They are however great for a set of headphones too keep in the office or near the stereo or computer.
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In many ways, Billy Graham belonged to the whole world. But "God's Ambassador" always had a special place in his heart for his home country, the United States, where he lived for all 99 years of his life.
As the U.S. celebrates Independence Day, these 10 quotes are a reminder of how much Mr. Graham loved his nation and desperately wanted to see his fellow Americans know the peace and love of God.
"The secret strength of a nation is found in the faith that abides in the hearts and homes of the country." —From Day by Day with Billy Graham
"We have stood tall in America in most areas, but on this Independence Day I call upon Americans to bend low before God and go to their knees as Washington and Lincoln called us to our knees many years ago. No nation is ever taller than when on its knees. I submit that we can best honor America by rededicating ourselves to God and the American dream." —From Billy Graham's message on July 4, 1970
"As long as we are on this earth, we possess dual citizenship. On one hand we owe allegiance to our nation and are called to be good citizens. But we are also citizens of the kingdom of God. Our supreme loyalty is to Him." —From The Journey
"I do not see how anyone could study the history of America without recognizing religious influences that have helped mold this nation from the beginning. In no other nation's founding documents can we find so many declarations of allegiance to God. Time after time in our history there have been appeals to the 'Supreme Judge' in seeking to build a new nation. This idea of freedom as a right of all men everywhere is unique among nations." —From Billy Graham's New Year's Eve message in 1975
"Our nation grew strong in an era when moral standards were emphasized, and it will grow weak when we condone that which we once condemned." —From Billy Graham in Quotes
"I believe that every problem facing us as Americans is basically a spiritual problem. Crime is a spiritual problem. Inflation is a spiritual problem. Corruption is a spiritual problem. Social injustice is a spiritual problem. The lack of will even to defend our freedoms is a spiritual problem." —1975
"It is right and proper to honor our country, to rejoice in her liberties and to sing her praise. But this can be abused when we make it a substitute for God. We honor America but we do not worship her." —1970
"I would challenge every deeply committed American who is qualified to think about running for political office. I do not believe that we as Christians should withdraw. We need men and women of integrity and Christian commitment who will run for political office." —1975
"Lord … remind us today that You have shown us what is good in what You require of us; to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God. We ask that as a people, we may humble ourselves before You and seek Your will for our lives and for this great nation. Help us in our nation to work as never before to strengthen our families and to give our children hope and a moral foundation for the future. So may our desire be to serve You, and in so doing, serve one another." —From Billy Graham's prayer during the second inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1997
"I believe America has gone a long way down the wrong road. If we ever needed God's help, it is now." —From Billy Graham: God's Ambassador
Go Deeper
Watch Billy Graham's message to the American people from July 4, 1970.
Read Billy Graham's classic 1975 message, "Will America Survive?"
Read about how the United States honored the life of Billy Graham after his death on Feb. 21.
Make Peace with God
Billy Graham spent his life urgently sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with the U.S. and the world. See what's so important about the message he shared, and let God into your life right now.


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Catch The Waybacks and Po'Ridge at The Pour House
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San Francisco based band The Waybacks and local roots rock band Po'Ridge will be at The Pour House tonight, October 7, for kicking off an 8:30 p.m. show.
The Waybacks are a nice and easy band that throws some rock, roots, jazz and bluegrass into their songs. The singer has a laid back yet admirable voice that lends to the relaxed feel of the band. Po'Ridge will be hitting the late-night set and jamming hard.
Tickets are on sale for $12 online.
The Pour House is located at 1977 Maybank Highway on James Island.


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2 Chainz Gives Us a Taste of His Insane Jewelry Collection
"Most of the time I shower, do everything in my jewelry."
Following the release of his album Rap or Go to the League, 2 Chainz is now back, this time to showing off some of his jewelry to GQ.
In the 5 minute video, 2 Chainz dons a luxurious chinchilla fur coat and takes us through some of the history behind his stage name. 2 Chainz explains the orgins of Tity Boi, but since "it didn't go with rap," he changed it. Moving on, the rapper goes on to unveil some of his chains and iced out pieces, looking at some Cuban chains and an Egyptian-themed chain from Pristine Jewelers. As the show goes on, the rapper shows off his collection of watches stating, "I like to carry around 7 watches, because there's 7 days in a week, I like to switch em up everyday." 2 Chainz also plans to get a mural of his son and a Rap or Go to the League-inspired piece for his next piece.
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NEWTON, Mass. – Lasell College scored 21 runs on 24 hits Saturday afternoon as the Lasers swept a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) softball doubleheader from Anna Maria College at Taylor Field, winning the first game 12-0 in five innings before taking the nightcap in six innings, 9-1.
The Lasers improve to 8-29 overall and 4-11 in GNAC games, while the Amcats drop to 3-22 overall and 0-14 in conference play.
Lasell has been eliminated from GNAC play-off contention, but the unfinished game from Friday, April 26, against Albertus Magnus College could affect the play-off picture for the Falcons. A final determination regarding the completion of that game will be made following this weekend's games.
Game 1 – Lasell 12, Anna Maria 0 (5 innings)
Lasell took control of the game right out of the gate, scoring eight runs in the first inning. Junior Victoria Spellman (Rocky Hill, Conn.) started the scoring barrage with an RBI double, and sophomore Nicolette Genkos (Worcester, Mass.) followed with an RBI single. Junior Sarah Kline (Vernon, Conn.) had a two-run single to left in the rally, and freshman Brianna Gendreau (Warren, R.I.) finished off the inning with an RBI single up the middle.
The Lasers tacked on three runs in the third inning, two coming home on a bases-loaded two-run single by junior Arianna Genovese (Rocky Hill, Conn.). Gendreau brought home Lasell's final run with an RBI ground out in the fourth inning.
Anna Maria managed just one hit in the game, a first-inning single by senior Sabrina Carreira (West Hartford, Conn.). Sophomore Hannah Doherty (Hampton, N.H.) earned her third win of the season for Lasell with a complete-game one-hit shutout, striking out five.
Gendreau finished with three hits for Lasell, while Spellman, Genovese and sophomore Alexis Truesdale (Wakefield, Mass.) had two hits each.
Game 2 – Lasell 9, Anna Maria 1 (6 innings)
The Amcats came alive in the first inning, scoring a run when Carreira doubled to left center with one out and came around to score on a two-out double by senior Kayla Magierowski (Brimfield, Mass.). Lasell tied the score in the second inning on a bloop RBI single down the right field line by freshman Kelsey Scannevin (Harpswell, Maine).
The Lasers took control with a five-run third inning. Spellman and freshman Hailey Haskins (Franklin, N.H.) hit RBI singles, sophomore Bethany Hector (Jaffrey, N.H.) blasted a two-run double to center, and Scannevin added an RBI single down the third-base line.
The home team added two more runs in the fifth inning, starting with Truesdale being hit by a pitch, stealing second and third bases and coming home on an infield grounder. Gendreau then ripped a double down the third base line and Spellman belted an RBI triple to right center. Lasell closed out the game in the sixth on an RBI single by Genkos.
Haskins earned the complete-game victory for Lasell, allowing one run on four hits, striking out one. Haskins, Gendreau, Spellman and Scannevin had two hits apiece for the offense. Carreira had a pair of doubles for the visitors.
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Born in 1916, he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1937. Severely wounded in action in the Battle of France, he returned to combat flying in England in 1941, leading a Spitfire squadron on offensive sweeps over occupied France. In 1942 he was sent to the India/Burma theatre to revise their fighter tactics. Invalided home in early 1944, he was later posted to SHAEF Belgium, and ended the war as a Wing Commander Operations in the War Room of the 2nd Tactical Air Force in Germany. A dedicated Europhile, he was working on a history of Anglo-French relations when he died in 1969.
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No Better Bottle
S'well Bottles really do keep your drinks cold--like, cold cold. Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone says that about their bottle, but there is something magical about these bottles. I live in Florida and often forget my water bottles in the car. Sometimes I'm desperate and will take a sip from water that is on the verge of boiling in it's own container. I am genuinely startled when drinking from one of these bad boys after having left it in the car. THE WATER IS STILL COLD. It's almost unsettling. Disclaimer--you shouldn't make a habit of leaving your water bottles just laying around but S'well lets me live life dangerously.5


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Rich Miller: First big test for governor-elect is minimum wage increase
Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker was asked last week about the timeline for passage of a new minimum wage law. "That's very important to me," Pritzker said, "It's probably something we'll be able to get done in the first six months in office."
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I sat at the second ring to judge fights when I arrived at the second and last day of the Chicago City-Wide Boxing Tournament. During one of the matches, I overheard one of the officials stating that the fighters from LaFollette Park didn't show up. The fighters from the North Lawndale Boxing League who were "representing" LaFollette were nowhere to be found. I just shook my head, but I wasn't very surprised. Based on what I observed of Derek's fighters last spring, I didn't get a sense there was much motivation to stick to things and finish them. I deal with enough of that with the youths who actually are, for lack of a better word, eligible to sign up at the field house.
Maybe there was some resentment over the poor showing of Derek's fighters on Tuesday. I haven't forgotten the reports of those fighters throwing fits because they didn't get to take home winners' trophies last spring. The people they were supposed to fight last night got walkovers, which means they automatically received belts because their opponents didn't show up. Most fighters would rather win by participating in actual matches, not by default. I haven't heard any fallout from the coaches of those fighters as of this writing. If I do, I'm going to direct them to take up their complaints to Thomas. After all, Derek's fighters are not officially mine.
The bouts went faster than they did on Tuesday. Several of them were stopped by both Thomas and Gerald, who took turns being the referee of the fights in the ring where I was sitting near. I recognized a kid, Jordan, who fights out of Portage Park. I was impressed by his actions after he lost his match; no bad attitude whatsoever. He immediately shook the hand of the other youth and complimented him. Too many of the other kids who didn't do well were rolling their eyes and frowning up. One guy threw his hand up in a gesture that said, "Really? How did the other guy win?" Another kid walked off in a huff after his hand wasn't raised, and Gerald had to call him back to pick up the second place trophy.
Another tournament is over. I keep hearing that Derek's fighters will eventually have a gym opened up for them at one of the field houses. I hope so.


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Getty Images goes free
Original Link: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/5/5475202/getty-images-made-its-pictures-free-to-use
With so many people on the web using its images without credit or payment, Getty is betting that allowing broader free use can help the bottom line more than it harms it. But watch out: Ads may be on the way.
Getty Images is dropping the watermark for the bulk of its collection, in exchange for an open-embed program that will let users drop in any image they want, as long as the service gets to append a footer at the bottom of the picture with a credit and link to the licensing page. For a small-scale WordPress blog with no photo budget, this looks an awful lot like free stock imagery.
It's a real risk for the company, since it's easy to screenshot the new versions if you want to snag an unlicensed version. But according to Craig Peters, a business development exec at Getty Images, that ship sailed long ago. "Look, if you want to get a Getty image today, you can find it without a watermark very simply," he says. "The way you do that is you go to one of our customer sites and you right-click. Or you go to Google Image search or Bing Image Search and you get it there. And that's what's happening… Our content was everywhere already."
But there are some downsides, as Benjamin Mayo puts it in his post today:
This means that in the future Getty could replace your image blocks with other images, advertisements … or well anything. It also means that your site now has a dependency on Getty's CDN uptime. If their servers are down, your site has no images.
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Princeton Survey Research Center Celebrates 25th Anniversary
If a poll from a Princetonian has entered your inbox, chances are it has passed through an unassuming building at 169 Nassau Street: the Princeton Survey Research Center.
The Center is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week. Founded in 1992, this institution has helped the University's students and faculty conduct countless polls.
Although the Center's main focus is graduate and undergraduate research, dozens of faculty members have taken advantage of its resources. Over the past quarter of a century, the Center has helped publish five books and 48 journal entries, which have been cited approximately 20,000 times.
Edward Freeland, the associate director of the Survey Research Center and a lecturer in the Wilson School, has noticed a considerable rise in the number of students taking advantage of original polling, as digital techniques have streamlined the process.
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A Little Bit of Reaping
Welcome to the Lammas Tarot Blog Hop. This time, the theme is "Pentacles: The Fruits of the Harvest" and the idea is to connect with the Pentacles suit and write about which of the cards you can relate to right now.
When I first signed up at the end of June, I thought "Fab! The garden is taking shape nicely, by Lammas there will be very literally a harvest, so the 7 of Pentacles is obviously going to be the card for me!" Sure enough, I have a pumpkin plant bent on world domination, a courgette producing fruit on virtually a daily basis, the green stuff is growing well (peas, beans, lettuce, cauli,cabbage, etc), the tomatoes are just starting to swell and there are cute little knobbly cucumbers forming behind the flowers. Yes, indeed, I can definitely relate to the 7 of Pentacles – a little light weeding, liberal sprinklings of slug pellets and leaning on my hoe waiting to pick the fruits of my labours is the order of the day. You can see how my garden grows here.
Of course, that's not the whole story. Is it life ever that simplistic? You see, I don't really have a favourite Pentacles card as such. The Pentacles are almost the suit you can take for granted. They're always active, part of everyday life in a rather unassuming way, simply there, like…the toaster or…umm, windows – the transparent kind, not the sprawling, buggy, crashy software variety , (at least, they're transparent if you clean them now and again). Even the 5 of Pentacles has its place as a reminder that sometimes we need to take the rough with the smooth and the ups will be less 'uppy' without a few downs by way of contrast.
My 5 of Pentacles this month was being flooded out at Kelmarsh,thereby losing a substantial chunk of expected income, a bad situation compounded by car trouble and a problem with my sewing machine, necessitating a bit of 4 of Pentacles parsimony, combined with some careful 6 of Pentacles management of finances and energy. Fortunately, the Ace of Pentacles came to the rescue with several jobs coming in close succession and leading to something of a 2 of Pentacles week last week, as I juggled this work with preparing and collating my research material for the TABI Conference this weekend, where I was a speaker. Phew! Something of a Pentacle pile-up.
I hugely enjoyed both delivering my own workshop and participating in the other workshops and, of course, the social aspects of the weekend. It was a true 3 of Pentacles affair and I don't think anyone will contradict me when I say that everyone learned something in that supportive environment. It was also very much an 8 of Pentacles situation in terms of working at mastering one's craft and, for me, all the work involved in researching, preparing and delivering my own workshop (though the last part was mostly fun).
And what did I learn? Well, according to Richard Abbott's numerology workshop, it seems that my "magic number" is 1 which means "independence" (in fact, I have a double dose of that, apparently). I can't argue with that as independence has been a major theme throughout my life, but it is a characteristic, if that is the correct term, that I associate with the 9 of Pentacles, that confident, serene lady, living life at her own pace and in her own good time. I can live with that 🙂
In all, it was a thoroughly enjoyable albeit tiring weekend, so I was glad to get back to my 10 of Pentacles family home, which it must be said, is a much happier place than the one depicted in the RWS deck appears to be, though, sadly, with fewer dogs, (i.e., none :()
As for my Pentacles family, well, my King generally prefers the hop to the grape, but wouldn't say no to the latter; my Knight is a bit prone to needing a kick up the backside to get him moving and my little Princess is a smart little cookie, who enjoys her learning, even I have my Queenly domestic goddess moments (as long as it's in the kitchen and doesn't involve too much by way of cleaning, which fortunately my King had taken care of this weekend while I was away). So there you are – my Pentacles life in a nutshell. How have the Pentacles manifested themselves in your life this month?
Of course, that is the nice thing about Tarot: it all applies to everyday life so well, particularly the Minors. I have enjoyed this little exercise so much that I think I may have to repeat it for the other suits ;D


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Charles McGrath
June 28, 2017 10:57 a.m.
Buyouts a favorite in 2017; overall pension risk transfers down
Pension plans around the globe have offloaded $6.8 billion in liabilities so far in 2017. In 2016, $18.8 billion in liabilities were transferred from plan sponsors, a decline from 2015's $35.3 billion and 2014's $60.5 billion
Buyouts were the leading source of risk transfer, with about $3.9 billion in annuity contracts purchased. The largest buyout transaction so far in 2017 was Hartford Financial Service Group's $1.6 billion contract purchase from Prudential Financial on June 23. Accenture settled about $1 billion in liabilities on June 23 as well via annuity contracts purchased between AIG and Massachusetts Life.
Lump-sum payouts were about $2 billion in settlements. The largest lump-sum acceptance transaction so far in 2017 was the $685 million payout by UPS.
Pensions & Investments has been tracking data in this area since 2009.


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The top sportswomen of July
Laura Winter looks through July's nominations for the Action Woman of the Year 2016 award and finds the outstanding performances have come in tennis, cricket, rowing and athletics
Read about previous months' star performers: January / February / March / April / May / June
For overcoming the bitter disappointment of a first-round singles defeat to lift the Wimbledon mixed doubles title. Watson and Finnish partner Henri Kontinen beat Robert Farah and Anna-Lena Groenefeld 7-6, 6-4.
She said: "Who would have thought we're here as champions, especially me after such a horrible first-round loss? I made it to the last day of Wimbledon which has always been one of my goals. I couldn't have chosen anybody better than Henri. He made our time on court so fun. Off the court as well, it was just fun and easy. I'm just so freaking happy.
"Some people say, 'It's fun', but don't actually really have fun. I think we did. We didn't think about winning. We just wanted to go out there and enjoy our time and just try and play well. Now we're grand slam champions, Wimbledon champions. It's been a dream of mine since I was a little girl to be a grand slam champion. I would take anything: singles, doubles, mixed doubles. I've got one of those now and I'm just really happy."JORDANNE WILEY
For becoming Wimbledon wheelchair doubles champion with partner Yui Kamiji of Japan for the third time. Wiley gained a measure of revenge over Aniek van Koot, who knocked her out in the singles, as the Dutch girl, and partner Jiske Griffioen, were beaten 6-2, 6-2.
Top seeds Wiley and Kamiji have now won eight Grand Slam doubles titles, including two at the Australian Open and two at Roland Garros.
Wiley said: "We were both in a bit of shock. We never thought we could win three in a row as Jiske and Aniek are so strong. To win at Wimbledon is so special and the crowd were brilliant. We just love playing on court with each other."GUIN BATTEN
For skippering the first all-female crew to row the classic North Atlantic route west-to-east aboard an eight-metre boat called Liberty. The epic journey saw the five-woman crew battle stormy seas, gale-force winds, and unfavourable rowing conditions to complete the crossing from New York to Cornwall. They rowed two hours on, two hours off, and at times covered 80 miles a day.
Batten, who is also an Olympic silver medallist, said: "You could see the deterioration: the slowness of movement across the deck, every cut, rub or blister being infected as the immune system dropped. In addition, the hips, knees and back niggles became harder to ignore.
"The cold, damp living conditions in the cabins was the hardest thing to imagine. Mould was growing in cabins and the day after day wearing of wet oilskins has meant the smell was beyond description."EILIDH DOYLE
For winning the 4x400m relay at the European Championships and the 400 metres hurdles at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco, on the road to Rio 2016.
In her exclusive column for the Mixed Zone, Doyle said: "We went to Holland with the aim of winning gold. That was the only colour of medal that we wanted and we knew if we ran to our potential we could do it. I don't run the 400 flat too often and I wanted to remind the selectors I can still run a decent 400. It proved to me I'm in good shape over the flat. We've got a great squad and it's really fun to be a part of it.
"The Diamond League was a good night for me: I won the race and also set a personal best which I was really happy about. But when I crossed the line I was annoyed with myself. I'd put in an extra stride at hurdle 10 and as I finished I was thinking that it could have been better. But when I watched it back, I realised how good it was to have won another Diamond League meeting. It's also really encouraging to run a personal best and know that I've still got room for improvement."
For hitting an aggregate of 342 runs in the Royal London ODI Series – the highest in a three-match ODI series for any team, male or female.
Beaumont's efforts came as England completed a record-breaking summer of matches against Pakistan. They won all six internationals against the tourists and marked a new era for England women's cricket under the guidance of captain Heather Knight and coach Mark Robinson.
England also toppled five other records, including the highest ODI total of 378 for five, the highest IT20 total of 187 for five, the highest ODI and IT20 opening partnership of 235 and 147 respectively for Lauren Winfield and Beaumont, and Knight became the first player in the world to take five wickets and score a half-century in an ODI.
Knight said: "There was a fair amount of pressure on us coming into this series of matches against Pakistan, so it has been really pleasing that we have played with such positive intent throughout, and let our cricket do the talking.
"As a group we worked really hard to prepare for this summer, so to see records tumble in the manner that they have is fantastic. But this is just the beginning for us. Over these six matches we have laid some strong foundations on which to build ahead of what will be a challenging tour to the West Indies in October."
Laura Winter is a sports journalist, presenter and event host. She worked in sports communications for the International Rowing Federation for two years, before working and training as a journalist in Gloucestershire, covering a variety of sports including rugby, boxing, football, and triathlon. She then turned freelance at the end of 2014 and is part of the team who founded Voxwomen, a women's cycling show that seeks to give the female elite peloton the coverage they deserve. Laura's latest articles.


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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
That I feed the hungry, forgive an insult, and love my enemy…. these are great virtues! But what if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me, and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness; that I myself am the enemy who must be loved? What then?
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The North Suburban Conference might be breaking up.
The athletics group, comprised of 14 Lake County high schools, is currently split into two seven-team divisions — Lake and Prairie. The members of the Prairie Division announced on Monday that they are looking into the possibility of leaving the NSC and creating their own conference.
"They feel that by forming their own conference, they would be better serving their own communities," said Jim McKay, the NSC president and superintendent of Community High School District 117, which includes Prairie Division programs Antioch and Lakes.
McKay would not offer specifics regarding how a separation would benefit the schools that are considering a move, although the generally smaller enrollment numbers of the Prairie Division schools may be a factor.
He noted the competitive disadvantage lower-enrollment programs face in football. Lake and Prairie teams mostly play opponents from their own divisions; however, when the bigger schools kick off against the smaller ones, the larger schools win 87 percent of the time, according to McKay.
McKay noted that the conference — which has expanded steadily since it was created with four schools in 1956 — devoted a subcommittee in the last year to the idea of adding schools in Grayslake or Waukegan.
The subcommittee, chaired by Wauconda Community Unit School District 118 Superintendent Dan Coles, recommended keeping the conference at its current size. Wauconda is in the Prairie Division.
"The conference has been considering expansion for at least the past year," McKay said. "Staying intact might prompt others to consider other options."
The NSC has gone through a growth spurt since 2000. It added Vernon Hills, Grant, Round Lake and Wauconda in 2001 and Lake Zurich and Lakes in 2006.
McKay said revenue and funding had nothing to do with the possibility of a split.
"This really doesn't have a financial impact, per se," he said.
Eric Twadell, superintendent of Stevenson High School (a Lake Division member) mentioned the possibility to his School Board during its Monday meeting.
"It raises a lot of questions for us, about what the North Suburban Conference is going to look like," Twadell told the board.
Should the idea come to a vote, that decision would be made by the superintendents of the 14 members schools. At the Lake Division's Mundelein High School, athletic director Perry Wilhelm noted that the majority of each team's schedule is against members of its own division.
"All I'm hearing is speculation," Wilhelm said Tuesday. "I'm sure we'll make the best of it. We're competing in a very good conference, and I don't think that will change."
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Bioprospecting for new medicine – full Audio
Caitlin Carlson, Associate Research Specialist
Department of Bacteriology
UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
10:56 – Total Time
0:14 – What is bioprospecting
0:48 – Looking under rocks
1:11 – Many insects to collect
1:36- The search for new antibiotics/antifungal compounds
1:53 – Baking for microbes
2:28 – The adventure
2:48 – Products to market
3:09 – Patents to apply for
3:23 – Crushing bugs for science
5:03 – Thousands of microbes
5:38 – Creepy crawlies
6:22 – How to bioprospect
7:07 – Bioprospecting the new gold mine
7:41 – Surprises along the way
8:21 – How to get to the end result
9:52 – Novel discoveries
10:15 – The best insects
10:47 – Lead out
Sevie Kenyon: Prospecting for biology we're visiting today with Caitlin Carlson, Department of Bacteriology University of Wisconsin – Madison in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and I'm Sevie Kenyon. Caitlin, what is bioprospecting?
Caitlin Carlson: We are on the front line of the process of discovering a new antibiotic or a new antifungal. Bioprospecting is the search for plant, animal, and bacterial species from which medicinal drugs and commercially valuable compounds can be obtained. Bioprospecting to me is traveling to different locations throughout the United States and looking for insects that I can bring back to the lab.
Sevie Kenyon: Caitlin can you describe what it looks like when you're prospecting for an insect?
Caitlin Carlson: Well it's pretty simple, I basically decide which area to go to an area that I think will be interesting environmentally and then I see if there's areas where I can turn over rocks or take some bark or if there's a river bed. Just anything that looks interesting where I think there' going to be a lot of insects that I can collect.
Sevie Kenyon: And what kind of insects are you looking for?
Caitlin Carlson: So, we're really interested in grasshoppers, centipedes, we love ants, social insects such as bees or dragonflies. We trend towards exotic as well as the mundane. So, anything from a little housefly to something as exotic as a scorpion or a slug or a honey bee.
Sevie Kenyon: What is it about these insects that you are looking for?
Caitlin Carlson: We're looking at specifically for their microbes, and we're looking to culture them for those microbes as many different species as we can to see if they could possibly produce antimicrobial compounds.
Sevie Kenyon: Caitlin can you describe how you find these microbes on the insects?
Caitlin Carlson: So we have special recipes, I kind of think of it as baking for my microbes. We have a media that's made out of chitin that is basically the exoskeleton of insects, so the microbes grow really well on that. As well as, we have a media that is specifically for soil. We're looking for actinobacteria specifically which is a type of bacteria that is known for producing antimicrobial compounds.
Sevie Kenyon: And Caitlin, what kind of luck has your prospecting brought to you so far?
Caitlin Carlson: I've been very lucky. I've been able to travel to multiple places in the United States, I've transected all of Alaska, as well as New Mexico. We've also been to Florida, Hawaii, all over Wisconsin and we're adding more places as we can.
Sevie Kenyon: And what do you hope to gain from these microbes?
Caitlin Carlson: We're looking for new and novel natural products. That's where the bioprospecting comes in. These are products that could be commercially viable at some point. They could be turned into an antibiotic or some sort of antifungal that could be used in a clinical setting.
Sevie Kenyon: And have you been able to produce any of these compounds yet?
Caitlin Carlson: We have, we have been able to produce a couple. The project is only in the third year but we've already been able to produce and move forward in patenting of three.
Sevie Kenyon: Caitlin can you describe for us your work?
Caitlin Carlson: Well we like to tell a story about the insects that we collect. So, when I'm going an traveling to a location I'll collect an insect maybe from under a rock or a riverbed. And then from there, we'll bring it back to the lab where we will crush it kind of like an elementary school kid crushes a bug, crush it and we'll plate it onto that special media. Media that really makes the bacteria want to grow and then from there we will test those bacteria against a suite of human pathogenic bacteria. So, let's say MRSA or Pseudomonas aeruginosa or any sort of clinical isolate. Something that has been known to be resistant to current antibiotics. We like to test these strains, we want to test them and see if they can battle with the human pathogens and beat them and inhibit them. If we do see a really interesting inhibition profile then we hand it to the chemists and the chemists job is then to determine what is active in that bacteria that is causing that inhibition. So, we're seeing that's inhibiting the growth. So, we're just step one in a really long process of you know, I'm the one in the field collecting the insect but then culturing the bacteria and then someday if might be an antibiotic or an antifungal that ends up in your hospital room.
Sevie Kenyon: Caitlin, give us a sense of the scale of this project. How many insects are we talking about, how many samples, how many different bacteria samples?
Caitlin Carlson: We have collected well over one thousand insect hosts and from those over one thousand insect hosts we've cultured over 10 thousand bacterial isolates from these insect hosts. So, it's pretty large and you're sitting in a room full of petri plates right now and we're just growing. We're continually collecting and we're continually growing our library of bacterial isolates to test.
Sevie Kenyon: Caitlin, I want too actually about collecting theses insects, isn't that a little creepy?
Caitlin Carlson: I think it's fun. I always like to say to people I have the job that my 7th grade self would love. I love traveling to places, kicking over rocks, hiking upsides of mountains, just being out in the field and the adventure of it. Yes, it can get a little creepy, I'm not a fan of the spiders or the centipedes especially the centipedes, but I know that it's the work that I'm doing as fun as it is, it's also very important and I love it.
Sevie Kenyon: Caitlin, let's say you kick over a rock and there's multiple insects there, what do you do?
Caitlin Carlson: First we celebrate by saying "Yay, lots of insects" and then we have sterile conical tubes we take and we sterilize forceps as well, tweezers, and we try to pick up as many as we can and put them in individual tubes where we then have an elaborate field notebook with barcodes to make sure that we can catalog them and try to identify them to Order level. And we throw them in a bag and we keep going and we keep collecting until we get as many as we can in that one area and then we move on. At the end of the day you're pretty tired but that's when the real work starts and cataloging and making sure everything is organized.
Sevie Kenyon: Caitlin is there any similarities to the gold prospectors of another century?
Caitlin Carlson: Well I think so, I like to think that when I go to a new area that I'm foraging except that instead of gold it's insects. You probably get weirder stares from people when you enter into say a national forest and you have a ranger and they're like "Oh you're looking insects? OK" but yeah, I feel like I'm kind of paving the way forward. Exploring new worlds maybe of a smaller variety than a gold prospector.
Sevie Kenyon: So, Caitlin what's the biggest surprise you've ever gotten looking for these insects?
Caitlin Carlson: I guess the biggest surprise that I've encountered on one of my trips would be turning over rocks just recently in Arizona and seeing a scorpion and realizing that yes, we have to collect that. It was quite scary but, you know when you have a tube in your hand I'm surprised at how confident I feel. I know that it is not going to get me through the tube. So, I'm braver than I would be without one.
Sevie Kenyon: Can you draw us a picture between what you do and the end result?
Caitlin Carlson: We are on the frontline of the process of discovering a new antibiotic or a new antifungal. I'm just step one in let's say hundreds and the lab that I work in is part of a collaborative project, it would be way too much work for one lab to handle and there's many moving pieces in this puzzle, from the insect that I collect and the bacteria that I culture. Then we have to see if it's going to be useful as a new antimicrobial. So, from here we have to test it against human associate bacteria, bacterial pathogens, so that's going to be something like MRSA or the enterobacteria ACA, a wide array of bacteria associated with human disease. And then from there, I grow them together I like to call them my little cage matches, to see which one survives. If my experimental bacterial strain from the insect inhibits the human pathogen then there's something interesting there that could possibly lead to an antimicrobial agent and then from there we have to figure out what this bacteria is producing that is inhibiting this growth of this clinical pathogen. We move it forward and then that's where the chemists come in and the chemist's job is to figure out what is being produced to inhibit that pathogen.
Sevie Kenyon: And Caitlin, has your lab discovered some novel new things?
Caitlin Carlson: We have, we've discovered about 15 novel natural products from insect associated bacteria and we have multiple moving forward in the process of patenting so we have about 5 moving into clinical applications currently.
Sevie Kenyon: So, Caitlin are there insects that are better yielders than others?
Caitlin Carlson: We really are interested in ants, grasshoppers, bees, butterflies, we're actually really interested in maggots as well. Any sort of fly that is going to feast on decaying matter is also extremely interesting to us, remember we're not interested in the actual host we're interested in their microbes. So, if the microbes are exposed to decaying matter then they might be producing something really interesting.
Sevie Kenyon: We've visiting with Caitlin Carlson, Department of Bacteriology University of Wisconsin – Madison in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and I'm Sevie Kenyon.


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Hi, I plan a rather large mod (I guess) which focuses on earth and the ground. This means a lot of earth blocks will be added including a bit of interaction between them. The main reason for this is because I think default dirt etc. alone gets boring very quickly. =)
For Minetest version 0.4.9 or later.
License of everything: WTFPL
Dependencies: None!
Optional dependency: Internationalization Library [intllib]
Download version 3.1: download/file.php?mode=view&id=7979
Links for developers and interested users:
Project page: http://repo.or.cz/w/minetest_pedology.git
Long description
Concepts and ideas of this planned mod:
- Provide a basis for other mods to build upon. This is not intended to be a standalone mod, except as sandbox mod maybe.
- Introduce a lot of new ground blocks and replace the boring default ones: Clay, silt, sand, gravel, turf, snow and ice, most of them in several density levels, allowing for more variety.
- Solid ground block can become wet and transfer the wetness to other blocks.
- By default, most blocks do not drop themselves when mined, instead they give you lumps or pieces or whatever; possibly enabling more interesting crafting recipes.
For version 1, proper wetness and 10 basic ground blocks in several wetness levels are planned. They are, sorted by density/corn size:
- clay (5)
- fine silt (5)
- medium silt (4)
- coarse silt (3)
- fine sand (2)
- medium sand (1)
- coarse sand (0)
- fine gravel (1)
- medium gravel (2)
- coarse gravel (2)
Here is how the wetness is planned: Every ground block has a level of wetness from 0 to 5 (0=dry). Over time, they can slowly suck water from surrounding water blocks and can ooze water to other blocks. The wetness is preferably given to blocks below. If this is not possible, the wetness goes to the sides. Otherwise, the wetness level stays. Over time, wet blocks on the surface my dry out on their own.
It was also intended that wetness levels 4 and 5 are for mud, but I guess this idea has to wait a bit.
One important part of the wetness code has been implemented already, but it is not done. What is also missing for verision 1 are proper textures for all ground blocks for all wetness levels. But some are done already, see this screenshot:
URL: https://i.imgur.com/Vv7c35M.png
The gray blocks are 3 kinds of gravel, the darker ones in the front are actually wet. The light brown/red ones are clay. The brown ones in the background are dry silt. And the yellow blocks are of course sand. The grass is actually from minetest_game, ignore it. You also see transparent nodes. This is mud, but for now I have temprarily disabled it.
To test this, play this mod in creative mode. But remember, some textures are missing. The water is also very buggy, ignore it for now.
Long term plans
For version 2 planned are 3 types of turf:
- fibric turf (2)
- hemic turf (2)
- sapric turf (2)
For version 3, a variety of snow and ice blocks is planned as well, sorted by density:
- slush (wet snow)
- very soft snow
- soft snow
- snow
- packing snow
- firn
- white ice (opaque)
- pure ice (transparent)
If possible, two special blocks are planned:
Snow cornice: breaks into pieces when something steps on it. Variant of snow.
Quicksand (=watery fine sand).
However, it is unsure if these ideas are even possible with the engine.
Further long-term goals of this mod:
- Provide a solid framework for other mods to build upon
- Introduce a great variety of ground blocks, replacing the boring default ones
- Introduce turf
- Introduce snow and ice variety
- Introduce thin air and vacuum (done, but experimental!)
- Create individual images for each block and wetness
- Create individual sounds for each block and wetness
- Introduce the concept of "wet" blocks.
- Blocks can be wet
- Wetness wanders from block to block (oozing) (done!)
- Water blocks wetten ground blocks very slowly (sucking)
- Very wet blocks can be eroded when surrounded by a lot of water (erosion)
- Get rid of the dependency on the default mod. (done! It actually never depended on default. Silly me!)
- Questionable goal: Introduce quicksand and snow cornice.
- The variety of blocks can be the basis for great map generators
- The several kinds of ground blocks may be a good foundation for complex vegetation systems.
- The wetness system can be the foundation for more complex farming mods.
- The vacuum and thin air may be used by space mods.
- To create a fully standalone mod (It is intended for other mods to build upon)
- New stone types (maybe I'll do it in another mod!)
- Map generation
- New ores


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When idols die, we mourn days forever gone
A time, a style, a companion - something's lost because they shape so much of what we are
Writers are dying, singers gone quiet, boxers falling. A final bell is going for a generation. Idols are never as invincible as they promised to be when we were children. Prince has passed, David Bowie is silent, Harper Lee has gone and Muhammad Ali is showing off his footwork to the angels. Every month it seems that we - the older generations - must put on our figurative black armbands again. We mourn people and yet also a time forever lost.
Idol is a child's worshipful word for those we simply admire as adults, figures who we see as faultless when young only to understand as we grow older that they are beautifully imperfect. Blind adoration is absent of value but to see a person as a whole, to appreciate they are built of weakness and yet wondrous, is a lesson in itself. The activist we cherish will take a stance we disagree with and the writer we inhale will push ideas we don't believe in. I applauded Ali and yet abhorred his bullying.
They are not gods but our flawed and favourite humans, who slept on our bedside tables (writer Henning Mankell, died October 2015) and gave us an earful of satisfaction (blues guitarist B.B. King, died May 2015). They are inventors, an Archie-comic cartoonist, mountaineers, thinkers, orchestra conductors, chefs. In an overstuffed memory, they are guaranteed a place.
Idols - for want of a better word - were our pleasures, our inspirations and our chaperones on journeys; they affected us, provoked us, disappointed us and altered us; they opened minds, doors and possibilities. Some people are only touched by others, others are moved, and among the more poignant stories on the recent deaths was a collection of memories in The New York Times titled: "Thank You, Mr Bowie. You Changed Our Lives".
We've all been there as well to this place of gratefulness. Harper Lee introduced me as a boy to the injustice of racial inequality and writer Andre Brink, who died last year, took me on pensive wanderings to South Africa in a time of apartheid. His novels were sometimes banned but as he once reportedly said: "Even in chains the many voices of the writer must continue to speak."
From books you can learn phrasing and yet also courage. From rugby players you can learn about collisions and yet also decency. I met Jonah Lomu, who died in November 2015, in my 30s through a television in India and it was love at first flight. When he ran, the earth trembled and a massive lesson was administered: you could be so large and yet so fast. He died at 40 in November and left an image hard to delete: a man with dying kidneys creating mayhem with a smile.
So much of what we are, our language, our tastes, our beliefs, our sense of geography, our concept of beauty, is shaped by strangers. Often we are given gifts which we do not adequately understand till later. In old footage, as footballer Johan Cruyff - who died in March - swayed past defenders, he resembled a willow bending in the wind and it was, I realised later, an education into the ethereal beauty of sport. Ali would do this, too, convincing me that boxing could have poetry, conceit could be amusing and athletes could be moral.
We mourn because something is lost, a person, a time, a style but also a companion. My friend Priya grew up to old Bollywood singers crooning into her ear every night through a small silver and red transistor but as they passed on so did a particular type of voice. Something ended as they died and it was her youth.
The idol belongs to everyone and yet he is mine. The writer and athlete and actor speak to me, their influence is personal, and so in death I feel - as you must - a private pain. And yet the idol as a public figure allows us to mourn together, for they connect us and remind us of our common humanity.
Ali runs like a thread through the life of white, black, Jew, Muslim, Christian, Singaporean, Ugandan, Australian. He lets us weep over him together and ruminate on that left jab and smile as Kevin Cosby, the preacher, said at his funeral: "Before James Brown said 'I'm black and I'm proud,' Muhammad Ali said 'I'm black and I'm pretty'."
Grief over the idol occasionally morphs into silly spectacle as TV channels conduct a 24-hour lament and a flood of RIP tweets sweeps through social media. It is as if everyone is suddenly a fan and we must all be suitably mournful and public with our sorrow. Death of the famous has become a performance.
And yet even as we often airbrush the lives of the dead and sleazily pursue autopsy results of a deceased singer, the week-long discussions on idols serve a purpose. For the generations who never knew them, it is a history lesson. If you love music, you must know of Prince's need to defy convention; if you enjoy sport, you must know the details of Ali's rebellion. Only when you appreciate their beauty might you understand why your parent is weeping.
The death of idols is a time of reflection and gratitude and a passing thought to our own mortality. All eras end, so will ours. Yet even us, the greying, who have lost a dancer and miss a singer, will soon find new heroes for always we need someone to symbolise what we value in society and always we want someone to influence us to be better.
Yet before we embark on new journeys it's somehow fitting if we spend a few days in lonely remembrance. Perhaps you watched Prince's Purple Rain, pulled out dusty albums, immersed yourself in Bowie and belted out songs at home in tearful homage. I spent all week looking at Ali in photographs, documentaries, essays, books, listening to his voice and watching his feet, tracing his life and inadvertently also mine. When lives end, we tend to return to beginnings. We look back to who they were, where they took us and what all of us have become.


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