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A nonprocessed food is any type of food found in its natural state that has not been altered. Fresh fruits and vegetables are perfect examples of nonprocessed foods. Some foods are processed more than others. Typically, the longer the ingredient list is and the more unfamiliar the ingredients are, the more processing was involved to make the food. Nonprocessed foods are typically healthier options, but you need to take precautions to prevent food-related illnesses.
Fruits and Vegetables
Fresh fruits and vegetables are nonprocessed foods. Other than being picked from the plant and washed, they are ready to eat. When you enter the grocery store, you often encounter the produce section first. This is where you will find the majority of your nonprocessed fruits and vegetables. Frozen and canned fruits and vegetables are processed to some degree in order to increase shelf life.
Eggs fresh from the farm are nonprocessed. The eggs you buy from the grocery store have undergone pasteurization, which kills bacteria present on the eggs. If you do decide to consume fresh eggs, you need to take special precautions to decrease your risk of salmonella infection. Scrambled, fried, poached, baked and boiled eggs should be cooked until firm and no longer runny. If you are using fresh eggs in casseroles, make sure the center of the dish reaches 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Raw nuts and seeds are nonprocessed, but most of the ones you'll find in your local market have been heated or pasteurized, making them a processed food. Dried beans, also a good source of protein, are a nonprocessed food as well.
All dairy is processed unless you buy raw milk. Before being sold in the grocery store, dairy undergoes pasteurization to kill bacteria present. According to the Food and Drug Administration, raw milk can be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria such as campylobacter, listeria, salmonella and E. coli.
Most grains undergo some type of processing before arriving on the grocery store shelf. Whole grains are the ones that have been processed the least. They contain the entire kernel, including the endosperm, the germ and the bran. Even when whole grains are crushed, cracked or flaked, they still contain the same proportion of germ, endosperm and bran.
Honey is sold without being processed. Honey isn't pasteurized, so children under age 1 should never consume honey because of the risk of botulism. Botulism contains spores that can grow in an infant's intestinal system, leading to constipation, poor sucking and feeding, a weak cry, weakness, loss of muscle tone and respiratory distress. All other types of sugar found in the store have been processed in order to be used in food preparation.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration: What Is the Meaning of "Natural" on the Label of Food?
- Wellsource: Eat Unprocessed Foods
- Foodsafety.gov: Eggs and Egg Products
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Food Safety and Raw Milk
- PubMed Health: Botulism
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Carbohydrates


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You don't need to do EVERYTHING when it comes to launching or planning your launch strategy.
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Marilyn Bridges
Marilyn Bridges
Marilyn Bridges, 2003
|Rochester Institute of Technology
|Known for
|Aerial photography
Marilyn Christine Bridges (born 1948) is an American photographer noted for her fine art black and white aerial photographs of extraordinary ancient and modern landscapes. She has photographed sacred and secular sites in over 20 countries, including Peru, Mexico, France, Britain, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Australia, Namibia, Indonesia and India.[1] Bridges is a licensed pilot and a Fellow of the Explorers Club. She lives in New York.
Bridges' work has been exhibited in over 300 museums and galleries, including solo exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Moscow House of Photography in Russia, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and the International Center of Photography in New York.[1] Museums with extensive collections of her work include the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the International Center of Photography in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, and the Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi in Belgium.[1] Her photographs have been published in major magazines, including Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveler, Time, Life, Archaeology, Smithsonian and The New York Times Magazine.[1] She is the author of eight books.
Marilyn Bridges studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1979) and a Master of Fine Arts (1981).[2]
She began her career in aerial photography in 1976 in the Peruvian desert.[3] Bridges hired a small airplane to fly over the mysterious Nazca Lines, the largest concentration of earth drawings in the world.[4] "At RIT she printed her Peruvian negatives as her first school project. Her technique was not yet polished, but the deep shadows, the eloquent light, and sense of time standing unnaturally still were present in every print. Bridges already had her style ... Cornell Capa, the dean of American photography, saw her work, admired it, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York gave her an exhibition."[2]
In 1982, after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship, Bridges flew in a small single-engine Cessna from New York to the Yucatán, where she photographed ancient Mayan sites, some still partially overgrown by the dense jungle.[2] Many of these photographs appeared in her 1986 book Markings: Aerial Views of Sacred Landscapes, which also includes photographs of Nazca, Native American archaeological sites, and megalithic monuments in Britain and Brittany. Bridges returned to Peru on a Fulbright Scholarship and published many of the resulting photographs in her 1991 book Planet Peru: An Aerial Journey Through a Timeless Land. In Egypt in 1993-94 she obtained unusual permission to fly over the Valley of the Kings and along the Nile. Leaning out of an old Russian military helicopter, she photographed dozens of ancient sites.[4] The result was a unique collection of aerial photographs in her 1996 book Egypt: Antiquities from Above. Closer to home Bridges photographed ancient and contemporary sites across the United States, from Pre-Columbian mounds in the Midwest and geoglyphs in California, to lava flows in Hawaii and glaciers in Alaska. Many of these photographs are in her 1997 book This Land is Your Land: Across America by Air. Bridges also received a grant from the French government to make aerial photographs of historical and contemporary sites in the Calais region to document the changing environment in connection with the Channel Tunnel, as seen in her 1995 book Vue d'Oiseau. She received a similar grant from the Belgian government to document the landscape of Wallonia from the air, resulting in the 1999 book Vol au-dessus de la Wallonie. Both collections of photographs appeared in solo exhibitions in major museums throughout Europe. She has also photographed the ruins of classical cities and temples in Greece and Turkey.[5] In 2009, she flew over Minoan sites in Crete, and the Onassis Foundation exhibited these photographs in New York City.[6]
Bridges uses a medium format film camera, and takes photographs from a small airplane or helicopter with the door removed, usually from an altitude of 300 to 1000 feet. Her photographic prints are handcrafted, silver gelatin, and selenium toned.[2]
Awards and honors[edit]
- Guggenheim Fellowship (in Yucatán), 1982
- CAPS Grant, 1983
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1984
- Elected Fellow of the Explorers Club, 1988
- Fulbright American Scholars Grant (in Peru), 1988–9
- Eastman Kodak Photography Grant, 1990
- Medal of Arles, Recontres Internationals de la Photographie, Arles, France, 1991
- Mission Photographique Transmanche Grant (in France), 1995
- Musée de la Photograpahie à Charleroi, Grant (in Belgium) 1999
- Wings Trust, Women of Discovery Award, 2003
- Institute for Aegean Prehistory Grant (in Crete), 2009
- Markings: Aerial Views of Sacred Landscapes (New York: Aperture, Inc., 1986; 2nd Edition, 1990). German Edition: Für die Götter: Luftaufnahmen heiliger Landschaften (Frankfurt: Zweitausandendeins, 1990)
- The Sacred & Secular: A Decade of Aerial Photography (New York: International Center of Photography, 1990)
- Planet Peru: An Aerial Journey Through A Timeless Land (New York: Aperture, Inc., 1991). German Edition: Planet Peru: Reise über ein zeitlosen Land (Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins, 1991)
- Vue d'oiseau, la mission photographique transmanche (Douchy, France: Centre Regional de la Photographie, 1996)
- Egypt: Antiquities from Above (Boston: Bulfinch Press, Little Brown & Co., 1996). German Edition: Ägypten: das Reich der Pharaonen aus der Luft betrachtet (Munich: Kindler, 1996). French Edition: L'Egypte vue du ciel (Paris: Editions du Seuil)
- This Land Is Your Land: Across America by Air (New York: Aperture, 1997)
- Vol au-dessus de la Wallonie (Charleroi, Belgium: Editions MET, Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, 1999)
- Flights Through Time (Revere, Pennsylvania: Lodima Press, 2007)
- In the footsteps of Alexander: An aerial adventure. Explorers Club Journal 85(3), pg 44-53 (2007)
Reviews and commentaries[edit]
Aside from their documentary value, the photographs are beautiful in themselves, taken with an artist's eye for shapes and patterns. – Grace Glueck, New York Times[7]
Her work combines an exquisite sense of composition and form with an appreciation of the cultural significance of the subjects she photographs. – Craig Morris, Dean of Science, American Museum of Natural History[8]
Marilyn Bridges' aerial photographs . . . testify to an irresistible combination of artistry, technical competence and gung-ho tenacity. – Jane Richards, The Independent (UK)[9]
Marilyn Bridges, photographer, pilot and explorer, illuminates the bonds between the mark-makers of 3000 BC and the builders of our modern cities. Ancient or contemporary, Bridges' landscapes serve the dual role of interpreting the power of extraordinary sites and creating visual records that may prove to be the only means of preserving these sites against the eroding elements of time and neglect. Bridges' work itself is about time, both geological and human. – Willis Hartshorn, Director, International Center of Photography[10]
For me, there's no other way to understand her photography without comprehending her continual hunt for secrets and mysteries. For her, the face of the earth is one glyph after another shrouded in shadows to be exposed and interpreted . . . Indeed, her hallmark is shadow, the sharp delineation of absent light. One could easily turn the etymology of photograph on its ear and call a Bridges aerial landscape an umbragraph, where darkness explains things – or at least exposes them – far more comprehensively than light does. – William Least Heat-Moon, author of Blue Highways[11]
Marilyn Bridges has been hanging out of open airplane doors, suspending herself over space, shooting landscapes from above . . . like some combination of Ansel Adams and Indiana Jones – artist and adventurer, the coltishly attractive photographer has been drawn to ancient, sacred sites . . . Shot in black and white, her pictures are marked by a melancholy that hangs over the scene, a kind of mournful poetry. There is an isolation, a longing in her images. – Robert Goldberg, Wall Street Journal[12]
From the ground, they [the Nazca lines] are nothing, invisible; from Ms. Bridges' elevated view they gain coherence and project an imaginative grandeur and whimsicality that leave most other art, and photography, looking distinctly earth-bound. – Holland Cotter, New York Times[13]
Marilyn Bridges' quartet of images from Egypt powerfully convey the immense scale of the pyramids and of Karnak, the vast temple of the pharaohs, letting us fully appreciate their dominance of the landscape. Bridges also playfully marries the solid and the insubstantial, as vast shadows extend from or cover the funerary architecture and its ground-burdening bulk. – Mark Feeney, Boston Globe[14]
For me these photographs do what every photographer (and traveler) strives for – they show us the world from so fresh an angle that our home looks like another planet, and the things we take for granted seem curious to us . . . as if seen through the eyes of a roaming Martian. They make us strange and haunting to ourselves. – Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler[15]
Like the Andean condor, Marilyn Bridges has agile wings and penetrating eyes. Her book Planet Peru would have been impossible without her extraordinary ability to hover above her objects and capture them with a lens of exceptional fidelity . . . From high above we see legendary Peru, this immense cemetery of dead cities, this land of sparks of genius and of unfinished works . . . Peru remains a mysterious country. Bridges' important and sensitive photographs will, it is to be hoped, act as a catalyst to tempt investigators to search for other unexposed treasures from Peru's past. – Fernando Belaunde Terry, President of Peru[16]
These photographs are extraordinary, beautiful; after looking at them, it is difficult to come back to earth. – Ann Morrow Lindbergh[16]
- ^ a b c d Marilyn Bridges Photography
- ^ a b c d Goldberg, Vicki (November/December 1991). "An intimacy with the land: The aerial photography of Marilyn Bridges". Archaeology 44(6), pg 32-39.
- ^ Foerstner, Abigail (January 3, 1992). "Pictures of sacred places let us glimpse the unseen". Chicago Tribune
- ^ a b Liebenson, Bess (September 14, 1997). "The play of light among monuments of ancient Egypt". New York Times
- ^ Buckland, Gail (Winter 2006). "Marilyn Bridges: Flights over ancient Anatolia". Aperture, no. 185.
- ^ Bouzali, Leda (July 2008). "Minoan Crete from above: Marilyn Bridges' aerial photography exhibition in New York City". ΑΩ International, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
- ^ Glueck, Grace (February 5, 1982). "Peru's Nazca lines as seen from the air". New York Times
- ^ Morris, Craig (December 1995). "Airborne archaeology". Natural History, vol. 104, pg 70-72.
- ^ Richards, Jane (May 17, 1994). "Inside the temple of zoom: Marilyn Bridges hangs from low-flying plane to take aerial pictures of archaeological sites". The Independent.
- ^ Hartshorn, Willis. International Center of Photography, Collections, Marilyn Bridges
- ^ Least Heat-Moon, William (1997). "Shadows on the American landscape: The photography of Marilyn Bridges". In: Bridges, Marilyn, This Land is Your Land: Across America by Air.
- ^ Goldberg, Robert (April 23, 1987). "The Indiana Jane of landscape photography". Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine The Wall Street Journal
- ^ Cotter, Holland (October 3, 2003). "Marilyn Bridges – Markings". Art in Review, New York Times
- ^ Feeney, Mark (September 30, 2007). "Soaring exhibit takes in the view from above". Boston Globe
- ^ Iyer, Pico (September 1996). "Above and beyond: Marilyn Bridges showcases America from the air." Condé Nast Traveler, pg 126-137.
- ^ a b In: Bridges, Marilyn (1991). Planet Peru: An Aerial Journey Through A Timeless Land. New York: Aperture.


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The budgetary axe has swung at Cumulus Classic Hits 94.9 KCMO-FM and Talk 710 KCMO/103.7 K279BI Kansas City.
As KCMO-FM made its annual move to Christmas music yesterday it parted ways with morning host Dick Wilson. Wilson had been in mornings at KCMO-FM since 1986 and also spent eight years co-hosting mornings at Rock "KY 102" KYYS from 1975-83. Wilson also briefly hosted the short-lived Camp Midnite for USA Network and Dick Clark Productions in 1989.
Over at 710 KCMO, morning hosts Greg Knapp and Tom Becka have exited. Knapp had rejoined KCMO in January to host 5-9am. He had previously hosted afternoons at the station from 2011-2016. Also exiting is 9-11am host Tom Becka, who had joined KCMO in May 2016 during a lineup change that led to Knapp's first departure. Becka is continuing to do television commentaries for KPTM Omaha, the market he worked in prior to coming to Kansas City.


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Our Team in Argentina Posted on 13 May 05:32 , 0 comments
Our team in Argentina
For nearly 15 years, Casa de Mesquite has partnered with The San Vicente de Paul Adult Training School in Anatuya, Argentina to harvest and help process mesquite. The school is operated by the Diocese of Anatuya that is in one of poorest regions in Argentina. The Diocese of Anatuya covering 16 million acres, most of which have Argentine mesquites, and 23 parishes capable of networking to supply pods, is an ideal position to provide whatever quantity of pods are required.
The mission of the Adult Training School is to provide free training in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, clerical and computers to young adults from low income families. Students who work at the mesquite manufacturing facility receive stipends and the revenues are a great help in maintaining the school.
A photo under a large mesquite tree, of the mesquite flour production team is shown below.
San Vicente de Paul Adult Training School, mesquite flour production team. Patricia Lopez, Director of the School and the Mesquite flour processing project, is second from the left.
For local families, the supplemental income earned from collecting and selling the mesquite pods greatly assists families to purchase school supplies, repair homes and provide basic necessities.
Mesquite, known as algarrobos in Argentina, is highly valued and provides many benefits for the local people. The nodules on the roots (they are legumes) help improve soil quality, the wood from the tree is used to make high quality furniture, and the sweet pods are a food source for humans and livestock. In addition, the trees provide shade for humans and animal which is essential as summer temperatures can reach 110° F or higher in the summer. In the original Indian Quechan language the mesquite trees were known as "taco" which translates to "The Tree" expressing the importance native people gave the mesquite trees.
Unfortunately, over the last 80 years mesquite trees have been overharvested for their wood to make fine furniture and flooring with little efforts being made towards reforestation and sustainability. In addition, in the region of Argentina where the mesquite production facility is located, nearly 700,000 acres of native forests have been bulldozed to plant GMO soybeans. Increase demand for mesquite flour is one way to help slow the continued destruction of the mesquite forests and protect the trees.
Since 1980 Casa de Mesquite partner Peter has been providing technical assistance to universities and government agencies in Argentina in the preservation and genetic improvement of the Argentine mesquites. A very strong collaboration has been developed with Mauricio Ewens, Director of the Forestry Station of the Catholic University of Santiago del Estero. After 20 years research, Peter and Mauricio have established a replicated trial of 12 different grafted mesquite trees that have been selected for flavor, high production of pods, and rapid growth. A video of the incredible pod yield obtained at 8 years of age is shown in the video below.
Additional crosses have been made between the best grafted trees for form, insect and disease resistance. Molecular genetic techniques are currently being used to more rapidly develop improved varieties. There are 50,000 acres of agricultural land that has been abandoned in this area due to irrigation mismanagement that has resulted in soils that are too salty for traditional row crops but that are perfectly fine for these mesquites. The mesquite are rejuvenating these soils and improving the sustainability of agriculture.
As the market for mesquite flour grows these new grafted trees and plantation management techniques will be of great importance in guaranteeing a continual supply of wonderful tasting mesquite flour and ensuring the viability of a sustainable industry for families with scarce resources


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A 62-year-old man was critically injured in an accident in Norwich Friday night.
Norwich police said three vehicles collided just before midnight near the intersection of Washington Street and Arnold Place. When first responders arrived the 62-year-old old driver was unresponsive but breathing. He was taken to Backus Hospital by ambulance and then airlifted to Yale-New Haven Hospital for further treatment. Police said he is listed in critical condition.
The driver of the second vehicle was transported to Backus Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. The third driver was not injured. None of them have been identified at this time.
U.S. & World
The Norwich Police Accident Reconstruction team is investigating. Washington Street was closed for several hours but has since reopened.
Anyone with information on this crash is asked to contact police at (860) 886-5561 extension 6.


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3rd International Conference of the
International Childhood and Youth Research Network
Call for Papers - Theory and Method in Child and Youth Research
We are pleased to announce the 3rd international conference of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network (ICYRNet) which is organized by the Center for the Study of Childhood and Adolescence and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, European University Cyprus.
Dates: 10-12 June, 2015
Venue: European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Jo Boyden, Professor and Director of Young Lives, Oxford University
Dan Cook, Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University
The Networks mission is to promote, internationally, the inter-disciplinary study of children and young people in order to further raise awareness and understanding of issues that affect their well-being. The Network which was established in 2008 has a global membership of both organizations and individuals and has so far organized two international conferences. The first conference of the Network was also organized in Nicosia and was attended by over 250 delegates from around the globe. The 2nd conference, organized in Preston, UK at the University of Central Lancashire, was similarly successful and also notable in that we had a parallel conference planned and organised by children and young people. In this 3rd international conference of the ICYRNet, we focus more explicitly on theory and method in child and youth research using a critical lens to examine the epistemological frameworks which have guided so far the production of knowledge about children and youth and to reflect on the new, emerging possibilities for producing knowledge in the future.
Though the conference focuses on theory and method and will clearly appeal to academics, the organizers are also interested in how epistemological issues impact policy-making and practice and how in turn the work of policy-makers and practitioners impacts the development of theory and method in child and youth research. In this light, the conference organizers welcome proposals for presentations from academics/researchers, policy makers, practitioners and others who work in childhood and youth studies locally, nationally and globally.
Although there is no parallel conference on this occasion, we do want to encourage contributions from children and young people (with or without adult collaboration) and will extend a friendly welcome to any children and young people who wish to attend all or part of the conference. We are also hoping to arrange a keynote presentation by children and young people from Cyprus.
The conference welcomes paper proposals on any theoretical and methodological topics of interest to child and youth research (including but not limited to: agency and structure; voice; participation; citizenship; childrens identities; childrens rights; space and place; generation/inter-generational relations; consumption; representation; reflexivity; child/youth-led research; ethnography; visual methodologies; and ethics). Though purely theoretical and methodological papers are welcome, the conference also encourages the submission of abstracts which illustrate and critique particular theoretical and methodological approaches through the use of empirical data and case studies.
The conference envisions to provide a platform for childhood and youth scholars to engage in critical discussions of theory and method and to debate productive and innovative directions for future research through interdisciplinary inquiry. The conference organizers welcome proposals in any of the following formats:
1. Individual Papers: Please provide an abstract of no more than 250 words and up to three keywords to help organizers assign accepted papers to thematic groups.
2. Panels: Please provide a panel abstract of no more than 400 words and individual abstracts of no more than 250 words. Each panel may have up to a maximum of four (4) papers.
3. Poster Presentations: Authors are requested to submit a 250 word abstract clearly indicating their interest in a poster presentation.
4. Post-graduate Student Workshop Sessions: Post-graduate students who are at any stage of their studies and are working on a research project may submit an abstract (of no more than 250 words) of their work clearly indicating their interest to participate in a workshop session. In workshop sessions the audience provides feedback and constructive criticism to students to help them with their work. Post-graduate students should focus on presenting their work in progress as well as the challenges and areas where help is needed.
Paper presentations should not exceed 20 minutes.
The language of the conference will be English.
Selected papers may be published in special issues of journals and/or edited books.
Abstract Submission: EXTENDED DEADLINE
All abstracts should be submitted to email@example.com by February 7th, 2015.
To submit an abstract please use the appropriate conference submission form:
To download the individual paper submission form, click here or click the "Abstract Submission Form for Individual Papers.docx" from the Attachments Section at the bottom of the page.
To download the panel submission form, click here or click the "Abstract Submission Form for Panels.docx" from the Attachments Section at the bottom of the page.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by February 28th, 2015.
FOR CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT, TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION PLEASE CLICK HERE OR SELECT AND CLICK THE FILE "ICYRN2015_Info_7Jan15.pdf" FROM THE ATTACHMENTS SECTION BELOW.
For any questions, please contact Spyros Spyrou at email@example.com
For additional information related to your travel in Cyprus please visit the website of the Cyprus tourism organization at www.visitcyprus.com
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Overview. This
example demonstrates how to specify control charts for variables in the
Control Charts module. It is based on the Cover.sta
data file. Open this data file via the File
- Open
Examples menu; it is in the Datasets
Let's assume that we are manufacturing plastic cover plates that have
to be integrated into an instrument panel. The width and the length (both
measured in millimeters) are important quality characteristics, since
the cover has to fit into a predefined frame. We will first use an X-bar
and R chart in order to monitor the width. At a later point we will create
a control chart for the length. Overall we have collected 20 samples of
3 observations each. Those data could have come directly from a measurement
device or from a database.
Specifying the Analysis.
Select Quality Control Charts
from the Statistics - Industrial
Statistics & Six Sigma submenu or from the Data Mining - Process Optimization - QC
Charts submenu to display the Quality Control
Charts Startup Panel. Then select X-bar
& R chart for variables on the Quick
tab (or the Variables
tab). Click the Real-time
tab and select the Auto-update
option button. Now click the OK
This will display the Defining
Variables for X-bar & R Chart dialog. On the Quick
tab, click the Variables
button and select the variable Width
as the Variable with measurements and
click OK. Enter a value of 3
in the fields for Constant sample size
and Minimum number of observations per
sample. This will ensure that STATISTICA
takes consecutive sets of three values and identifies them as belonging
to the same sample. Note that the Quality
Control module assumes that your data come from a measurement device
or database that takes samples of constant size from the on-going production
process. Therefore, specifying a sample identifier variable is optional.
Reviewing the Charts.
Click OK to produce the chart
and display the Results
Note that the chart is displayed as a stand alone window because of
the selection we made on the Real-time
tab of the Startup Panel. We could have chosen to display it in a
workbook instead.
STATISTICA will produce a compound
graph that consists of an X-bar chart in the upper part (for monitoring
the process mean) and an R chart in the lower part (for monitoring process
variation). Both charts are accompanied by histograms that display the
distribution of the quality characteristics (sample means and ranges,
respectively). The dialog to the right allows you to control different
aspects of the control chart.
In general you need to ensure that the process variation is under control
before you can evaluate whether the process is "on target."
Therefore, we will inspect the control chart for the process variation
(R chart in this case) first. You will notice that the second sample is
out-of-control since the range for the second sample exceeds the upper
control limit.
Now we turn to the X-bar chart. Here the 19th sample (not shown above)
seems to be out-of-control as it falls below the lower control limit.
In order to check for non-random patterns of adjacent samples we check
the runs rules tests. Click the Runs
tests button on the Charts
tab of the results dialog. This will perform runs rules tests with
the default settings. If you would like to change the settings for the
runs rules tests you can edit them by clicking the Runs
tests button on the Specs
tab of the results dialog to display the Runs Tests for Control
Charts dialog.
When you click the Runs tests
button on the Charts
tab of the results dialog, STATISTICA
will display two spreadsheets (one for the X-bar chart, one for the R
chart). Both spreadsheets indicate no runs rules violation (all cell entries
in the spreadsheet are OK).
Process capability.
If we know that our engineering specifications (tolerances) are +/-10
millimeters around the target width of 100, we can use this information
to perform process capability studies and have process capability indices
displayed in the graph.
On the X
(MA..)-specs tab click the Process
capability button to display the Specifications
for Capability Analysis dialog. Make sure the Type
is Nominal+-delta, enter 100
in the field for Nominal and
10 in the field for Delta.
Then click the OK (compute)
button. STATISTICA will display
two spreadsheets with process capability indices and process performance
indices, respectively.
By inspecting the process capability indices, we can conclude that the
process seems to be capable and centered overall (although we have out-of-control
conditions). You can also request a process capability histogram by clicking
the Histogram button under Process capability on the Charts tab.
Now, click the Options button
on the Results dialog to display the Options dialog and
select the Stats
tab. Under Include (display) capability
indices in graph, Normal select the check boxes for Cp,
Cr, Cpl,
Cpu, and Cpk.
Then click OK. The graph will
be updated and show the process capability indices in the upper left corner.
Note that you can also have the engineering specifications (upper and
lower spec limit) displayed in the X-bar chart. Click the Options
button and select the Show process specifications
and specification limits in chart check box on the Layout tab.
See also QC Chart Examples.


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This piece was made for an article
in Woodcraft Magazine's Holiday 2005 issue. The articles provides plans and instructions on how to make this automaton for yourself.
When the hand-crank is turned, Santa works out on the parallel bars. Going up and down
millions of chimneys requires some very strong triceps. Though the mechanism is
fairly simple, the figure's articulated joints create a convincing lifelike motion.
This automaton is the first of its kind, and sure to be duplicated by others in years
to come. This is the original, signed by the artist, that was featured in the pages of a
woodworking magazine with nationwide distribution.
This piece now resides in a private collection. To enquire about
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Salt & Pepper is situated in Philadelphia's popular Passyunk Square neighborhood. Over the years, this eatery has established quite a name for itself with elegantly simple dishes that are full of flavor, and always prepared with the freshest ingredients. The food offerings are deliciously eclectic, and draw inspiration from the world over.
For starters, try the outrageous fried plantains served alongside a chilled sardine and onion salad with habanero peppers, or go for the roasted beet and pineapple salad, or the potato gnocchi with porcini mushrooms, crisp prosciutto, and truffle oil — all get rave reviews from diners. If you need a recommendation for your entree, opt for the pan-seared salmon with horseradish mash, or if you're craving a mouth-watering burger, order the 10 ounce beef topped with cave-aged Gruyere cheese — it's phenomenal. To round out the menu, there are also excellent daily specials, all of which are as creative and delicious as the mainstays.
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I had such a nice afternoon exploring Kennebunkport. It is an easy downtown to walk through and just a short drive to the Bush estate. They have a Shipyard Brewery which I would love to visit another time.
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Launching of the global digital cash network in the next month. Upon the launch of Abra, users will be able to send and receive money in over 50 currencies, includes Bitcoin. The startup Abra raised $14 million in Series A funding round from venture firms, including Arbor Ventures, RRE Ventures and First Round Capital. Abra has already launched its application in the Philippines and the United States and got a large remittance market of over $500 billion.
Bloсkchain could change the global financial system. The Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen said about this during the speech at the forum of the Commonwealth Club. Earlier, at a meeting of the representatives of 90 central banks in Washington Yellen called on her colleagues from the central banks of other countries begin to explore new financial technologies more actively.
The economic situation of the continent has effect to use of Bitcoin. Most people in rural Africa can not afford a laptop, smartphone or the Internet to read the news about Bitcoin and use it in their lives. Coinidol.com spoke to George Sagala, the president of e-Currency, he said: "The problem in Africa is fundamental development is not yet realized". The working class do not trust the stability of the bitcoin and see the cryptocurrency as an experiment which can vanish at any time.
The purchasing of Blue Ocean Financial Technology firm was in the plans of TØ for improving informational services. The Blue Ocean Financial Technology from Singapore,is a data service provider, with a special focus on delivering information related to US securities issuers. TØ president Joe Cammarata said in an interview for CoinDesk: "This concept is the first of its kind, and has already attracted the attention of several large market-making clients."
The one of the world's most technically advanced cities. Dubai and Blockchain Company are partnering up for an interesting project meant to place all of the city's government documents and transactions on a blockchain platform. In a recent press statement, the CEO of Blockchain, Peter Smith mentioned that: "I am very optimistic about the Middle East, and we plan to invest big there". Let us know in the comment, what do you personally think about the partnership between Governments and blockchain companies.
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3 million dollars for blockchain-powered eBay. OpenBazaar, the open-source marketplace protocol powered by bitcoin, have raised $3m in new funding. OpenBazaar connecting buyers and sellers directly through an application-based marketplace. According to coindesk.com, instead of PayPal or credit cards, the market utilizes bitcoin as a medium of exchange.
New approach to games - full ownership of game items. Card Games Coin Project has launched the crowdfunding. CGC Project game engine is designed to be a general purpose core for several modules, each defining a specific game behavior. Minimum investment allowed is 0.0102 BTC. Official release reports - Money collected with this crowdfunding will be used for financing software development: in a future release CGC currency will be used as an in-game means of exchange.
Imperial College London is adopting blockchain. Imperial College London in collaboration with Blockchain sets up Digital Asset Research Lab. The new Research Lab will allow the graduate students of Imperial College to get a better understanding of blockchain technology. The students will be involved in research and development, so will be more prepared to handle the demanding requirement for blockchain-based solutions across a variety of industries.


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Why fear holds you back
Atychiphobia; the fear of failure, the fear of not being good enough
Everyone is afraid of something. Some people are afraid of the dark and some are afraid of heights. More than half of the world's population at one point in their lives are afraid of failure, the fear of thinking your best isn't good enough.
I think this is because most of the time we are so concerned and caught up with what other people think about us and not what we think of ourselves. We keep evaluating our lives based on other people's progress when we should be evaluating our lives based on our progress. This is what causes the fear of "I'm not good enough" or "I'll never be as good as she is". Well, it doesn't matter, you don't have to be as good as the other person, as long as you are a better person than you were yesterday, that's great.
A lot of us start out with amazing and awesome dreams but halfway into it we start focusing on others, we forget our dreams and we start living out our fears. The greatest prison that you can live in is the fear of what other people think. Forget what anyone thinks of your dreams no matter how small, big or crazy they are, they're your dreams and you should do everything in your power to make them come true.
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WORCESTER - The New England School of Acupuncture and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences announced Monday they have agreed to combine their programs.
"With NESA, we would gain world-class expertise in holistic medical practice that will add breadth to our well-established programs, spark the development of new inter-professional majors, and strengthen our existing collaborations with universities in China and Japan," said MCPHS President Charles F. Monahan Jr.
NESA President and chief executive officer Susan L. Gorman said, "We are excited to potentially combine our unique program with one of the world's leaders in health care education. NESA would continue to fulfill and extend its mission of integrating acupuncture and oriental medicine with western allopathic therapies, bringing acupuncture into the mainstream of modern medicine. "
NESA, with its campus in Newton, offers master's degrees in acupuncture and oriental medicine, including a dual masters degree in pain management in collaboration with Tufts University School of Medicine. MCPHS, with campuses in Boston, Worcester and Manchester, New Hampshire, offers undergraduate, first-professional and graduate degrees in pharmacy, nursing, physician assistant studies, optometry, physical therapy, premedical and health studies and more than 60 other healthcare programs.
Founded in 1823, MCPHS is the oldest university in the city of Boston. NESA, founded in 1975, is the first school of acupuncture in the United States.
In addition to its degree programs, NESA operates a Chinese Herbal Dispensary and Professional Clinic at its Newton campus, as well as satellite clinics at several Boston area hospitals and health centers, serving over 20,000 patient treatments annually. According to the agreement, New England School of Acupuncture will retain its name as one of the 10 constituent schools that make up MCPHS University. The combined institutions will enroll over 7,000 students drawn from 48 states and 42 countries.


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Dish Network, the satellite provider, is trying to lure younger viewers back to paying for television with the start of a web-based offering that includes ESPN and a number of other popular networks for $20 a month, about a fifth the cost of the average household bill for cable and satellite service.
Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday, the new service is called Sling TV, and provides live and on-demand television delivered via an Internet connection to television sets, computers and mobile devices.
Dish executives said that the service was cheaper and more convenient than traditional cable service. And they boasted that it delivered more choices for viewers looking to pay for a slimmed-down group of television networks and programs they want to watch, as well as more options as to when, where and how they want to watch them.
"It is the launch of a whole new industry here," Joseph Clayton, Dish's chief executive, said in an interview. "We are innovators. We are disrupters. We don't always make people happy because we challenge the status quo."
Sling TV is part of a growing wave of offerings expected from tech, telecom and media companies in the coming year, posing a threat to the established television business, which takes in $170 billion a year. Meanwhile, the streaming outlets of Amazon, Hulu and Netflix continue to pour resources into developing more robust offerings. Sony, CBS and HBO and others are starting Internet-only subscription offerings.
The companies are trying stay relevant in the face of growing numbers of so-called cord-cutters, who have canceled their cable or satellite packages in favor of cheaper streaming alternatives, and "cord nevers," who have never paid for a traditional cable service. The number of American households that pay for broadband service but not television increased 16 percent, to 10.6 million, in 2014, from 9.2 million in 2012, according to SNL Kagan.
Viewers are also spending more time watching streaming video. Roku, which sells popular streaming devices, said more than three billion hours of content were streamed using its devices in 2014, nearly double the amount in 2013.
"A lot of people are starting to use it essentially as their full-time TV platform," said Jim Funk, Roku's senior vice president for product management and strategy.
Dish executives said the new service would not cannibalize the company's current business because its current offerings do not appeal to Sling TV's target audience of 18- to 35-year-olds.
"We are not hitting the 18- to 35-year-old market today; we just aren't," Mr. Clayton said, adding that he knows from experience with five children between the ages of 18 and 28.
While the Sling TV service does not allow subscribers to choose specific networks, it offers a less expensive version of the typical cable bundle with 12 of some of the most popular cable networks available at the start. Those networks include ESPN, the Disney Channel, Food Network, HGTV, TNT, TBS and CNN. The Maker Studios network of YouTube stars will also be included. Not included are broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox.
Mr. Clayton said including sports in the package was essential for an offering aimed at younger adults. Some analysts have said that one of the major reasons people hold on to their cable packages is to continue to watch sports.
For $10 a month, Sling TV subscribers will be able to buy add-on packages for specific genres of programming, like children's shows and news. Dish executives said Sling TV would complement streaming services like Netflix and Hulu.
The service also requires no long-term contract, no equipment, no credit check and no scheduled installation.
Media analysts expect the start of such new services to bring broader change in the TV industry. Established cable and satellite groups are likely to continue introducing more flexible offerings to woo subscribers.
Television network groups, meanwhile, could consolidate to protect the business of selling highly profitable bundles of channels.
"It's possible smaller networks combine in some form in an effort to protect bargaining leverage for the pay TV bundle, or larger conglomerates could conceivably look to smaller networks as similar support," Tim Nollen, an analyst at Macquarie, said in a recent report.


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Prof. Odjugo Peter Akpodiogaga-a Ovuyovwiroye was born in his village Okpara Inland, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria on the 13th February, 1964. He attended Urhuegbe Primary School, Okpara Inland (1970-1977), James Welsh Grammar School, Emevor (1979-1984), Bendel State University (Now AAU), Ekpoma (1985-1989) where he had his first degree in Geography Science Education (B.Sc. Ed); M.Sc. (1992) and Ph.D (2003) in Geography (Climatology) from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Other Certificates obtained include; Certificate in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Applications, National Centre for Remote Sensing, Jos, Nigeria. 2007. Certificate in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Application for Sustainable Development, UNIBEN, Benin City, Nigeria, 2008. Certificate in customized training in Geographic Information Systems for application in Climatology and Vegetation analysis. Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace Surveying (RECTAS), OAU, Ile Ife, Nigeria, 2010.
Certificate in Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Abuja, Nigeria, 2010. Quality Management System (QMS) Awareness Training, Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET), Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria, 2017. Prof. Odjugo is a teacher and a researcher. He was employed as a Secondary School Teacher of Geography by the then Bendel State Post Primary Secondary Board, Asaba. In 1993, he moved to the College of Education, Agbor, Delta State, as Lecturer III. In 1998, he was employed as a Lecturer 1 in the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Benin, Benin City and he rose to the position of a Professor of Geography (Climatology) in 2010. Prof. Odjugo joined the services of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency in August 2017 as the Director of Meteorological Research and Training.
The Director is a Member of the Association of Nigerian Geographers, Nigerian Environmental Society and Nigerian Meteorological Society. The Director is an Applied Climatologist and his research interest is in the areas of Climate Change, Agro climatology, Hydro climatology, Atmospheric and Environmental quality Assessment and Tourism. He has 62 papers to his credit and they are published in International, National and Local Journals, Monograph and Edited Conference Proceedings. He is also an adjunct Research Professor with the Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED), Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria since 2009 and has carried out researches with Institutions, National and International Ministries and Organizations like SPDC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IDRC among others. Prof. Odjugo has served as an External Examiner (for undergraduate and post graduate programmes) to 10 Nigerian Universities. He has also served as an External Assessors (Professorial Cadre) to 12 Nigerian Universities and Research Institutes. He has attended several local, national and foreign conferences, workshops and seminars. The Director is married with children.


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Check it out, it's a hackathon for SecureDrop, the software that Aaron Swartz worked on to give whistleblowers a secure method of dropping off files to newspapers on the web. A lot of news organizations have a SecureDrop website that can be accessed through Tor to hide your IP address. Excellent piece of software to hack on.
The hackathon is on Saturday November 5th and Sunday November 6th in San Francisco. Aaron's 30th birthday would have been next week Tuesday, November 8th.
There are also speakers scheduled after the first day of the hackathon.
Now a bit about Aaron Swartz. He co-authored an early version of RSS and helped launch Creative Commons, and worked on a piece of Python code called web.py (which was one of the web servers Reddit used).
Aaron Swartz's ideals and all his awesome hackery and coding to support them is something we can all learn from. Instead of simply discussing and debating endlessly, he would at some point sit down and write new tools to build a better future. SecureDrop, Creative Commons, they are all tools in support of the open web, and fundamentally in support of freedom.
SecureDrop is possibly the most important software. It lets journalists receive data from whistleblowers securely. Among the news organizations using SecureDrop are The New Yorker, the Washington Post, VICE Media and the Globe and Mail.
So if you are in San Francisco check out the hackathon. If you are anywhere else in the world, you can still work on SecureDrop, just fire up your favourite text editor and download the code.


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We should have a flag that honours our past, but without the strong presence of Britain's Union Flag which takes up the dominant position on today's flag.
Modern New Zealand is in fact multi-cultural, and our new flag should incorporate well-known symbols, and be of a design that represents all of us, not just segments of our society.
There are, however, a number of myths around changing the flag that we want to address.
New Zealanders in the two world wars fought for the NZ Flag
Soldiers fought for the freedom of their family, friends, and country and not just for a flag. Troops in the two world wars generally rallied around the Union Jack, and not the NZ Ensign. Our first soldiers to fight overseas – who went to fight in the Boer War in South Africa – had the United Tribes flag on their service medals.
Changing the flag is an insult to military personnel who served.
53 Commonwealth countries changed their flag after World War Two, including Canada who changed their flag a mere 19 years after World War II. In 2015 Canada celebrated 50 years of having its own beautiful and distinctive flag, while the Canadian British ensign still a legal flag of Canada and is often flown on days of historical significance such as Remembrance Day, which still brings out thousands of Canadians each day to pay respect to the sacrifices their soldiers made. Changing their flag hasn't diminished the respect Canadians have for those who served, and neither would it diminish respect for our soldiers either.
A new New Zealand Flag will have to be immediately updated on sports and military uniforms, driver licences and flags nationwide.
Existing licences will still be valid until the date of expiry shown on the licence – just like when newly designed bank notes are issued the old notes remain legal tender – it would follow that uniforms and flags, would be updated only as they wear out, there would be no need to throw out our the nations entire stock of older flags, as they would still have legal status and be flown on days of national historical significance.
Our flag is a unique and timeless symbol of our nation.
The New Zealand flag has changed several times in our national history. Our first internationally recognised flag was the United Tribes flag, approved by King William IV in 1836. It was replaced by our second flag – the Union Jack in 1840. Our third flag of 1867 was an unimaginative British blue ensign with unattractive red letters NZ and only intended for use on the colonies' merchant vessels, and was replaced swiftly by the existing ensign in 1869 – again only intended for merchant vessels, and was only made official in 1902 due to the Seddon Government reacting to Kiwis turning up to farewell and welcome back soldiers going to the Boer War who flew the United Tribes flag in great numbers.
The 1869 Blue Ensign flag is hardly unique and was a generic British flag used by dozens of British colonies.
If we change the flag, NZ has to become a republic
Canada is a Commonwealth country yet they changed their flag 50 years ago, the flag and republic debates are completely separate. In fact, many other Commonwealth countries have changed their flag to remove the Union Jack but haven't changed their other constitutional arrangements.
Our soldiers are buried under our flag
This isn't necessarily true. Our soldiers buried in Commonwealth War Graves are buried with head stones that don't feature our flag, but the silver fern instead, as it's been the enduring symbol of our armed forces ever since they first served overseas.


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Martha, You are so awesome, sweet, and caring!! You are such a supportive friend! Thank you! **HUGS**
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Running back of the year: Will Sheskey (Scituate)
On an offense with a quarterback like Aidan Sullivan, it would be hard for most running backs to stand out. That was not an issue for Sheskey. Sheskey finished his junior campaign by running for 1,785 yards on 240 carries. He scored 28 touchdowns (24 rushing, four receiving).
On Saturday, Sheskey scored three times, ran for 206 yards and hauled in a pair of receptions for 78 yards. His 206 yards was enough to break the program's single-season rushing record. With Sullivan graduating, Sheskey looks to be the focal point of the Sailors offense next fall.
Honorable mention: Robbie Gomes (Plymouth North), Robby Violissi (Marshfield)
Gomes was among the player of the week nominees three times this fall. His best performance may have come early in the season as he scored a trio of fourth-quarter touchdowns to lead the Blue Eagles past Weymouth, 31-20.
The Rams' offense struggled at times, but that didn't stop Violissi from having a strong junior season. Violissi scored a touchdown in seven consecutive games and finished the year with 15 touchdowns. The junior's best games came against Dennis-Yarmouth (134 yards, two touchdowns), Quincy (three touchdowns) and North Quincy (202 yards and two touchdowns).


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Via an Anonymous Source, Posted by Aubin Paul Go Kart
Looks like Journey is popping up in more places than just incredibly frustrating finales. The band's singer Steve Perry has apparently collaborated on some songs with Go Kart act Guff. Their label explained:
While Guff was in the studio, Steve Perry, the legendary lead singer of Journey, walked in to visit a friend. He was so impressed with Guff that he showed up unannounced two days later and asked Guff to cover an unreleased Journey song. Steve not only produced the song "I Can See It In Your Eyes" but also sang on it!
The cover will appear on the band's upcoming album. The record is titled Symphony Of Voices and is due out June 26, 2007.


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Study confirms it's hard for Obamacare customers to find doctors: Health insurance plans offered both on and off the Obamacare marketplaces fall far short in helping patients access doctors, a new study finds.
When researchers directed secret shoppers to call doctors listed on directories provided by California Blue Cross Blue Shield, they were unable to set up appointments with nearly three in four of the providers, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Health Affairs.
Out of 743 doctors listed, the callers weren't able to reach nearly 20 percent using the contact information listed. Ten percent of the doctors were no longer with the group listed or had never been with the group at all. Another 10 percent weren't accepting new patients.
In another 30 percent of the cases, the specialty listed in the provider directory didn't match the specialty stated by the receptionist at the practice.


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DAYTONA BEACH — The wildest Daytona 500 ever began with water and featured smoke rising into the night sky.
For champion Matt Kenseth and the rest of the field.
Kenseth overcame 36 hours of rain and fire delays, plus radiator and communication problems to edge Dale Earnhardt Jr. and teammate Greg Biffle and claim his second Daytona 500 victory early Tuesday morning in a green-white-checkered finish.
"I wasn't expecting to win when I woke up this morning," Kenseth said.
But he and his Roush Fenway Racing team stood in victory lane early Tuesday morning, with a tired Kenseth hoisting his second Daytona trophy almost 36 hours after the race was scheduled to begin.
Rain postponed Sunday's 1 p.m. start until noon Monday for the first time in the race's 54-year history. More showers delayed the green flag again, until 7 p.m. A fiery explosion from Juan Pablo Montoya's crash into a safety truck and track-drying its jet engine added a two-hour delay but injured no one.
"It's been a long night," Earnhardt said of the Great American Race's first primetime run.
A six-car wreck on the second lap made the night longer for Danica Patrick, who finished 38th in her Sprint Cup debut. Jimmie Johnson got a nudge from Elliott Sadler and ended the five-time series champion's run. The ensuing crash collected Patrick and defending race champion Trevor Bayne.
"Unfortunately we've got another crashed GoDaddy car," Patrick said after her third accident of the week.
Things didn't start well for Kenseth's No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford, either.
He fell into 32nd position by lap 70 when a radiator problem sent water shooting from his hood like a fountain. His car's communication was down, too. He could listen to his crew, but they couldn't hear him.
"We had a lot of problems," Kenseth said.
So did the track after a wicked explosion.
With 100 miles to go, Montoya's No. 42 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Chevy lost control on the backstretch during caution. He had complained of vibrations in his car, but his team found nothing wrong during a pit stop.
Moments later as he dropped into fourth gear to catch up to the pack, Montoya felt the rear of his car slip. It slid 180 degrees and slammed into one of the three safety trucks equipped with track-drying jet engines near the entrance of Turn 3.
"I have a hit a lot of things," Montoya said, "but a jet dryer? I mean, no."
Orange flames shot to the sky, but Montoya and the truck driver emerged from the accident safely. Both were checked out at area hospitals but sustained no serious injuries.
Their vehicles and track were not so lucky. The blast destroyed the front of Montoya's car and burned his helmet. It damaged the truck's trailer beyond recognition. Track president Joie Chitwood III estimated that 200 gallons of jet fuel spilled onto the track.
"It got your attention really quick," NASCAR president Mike Helton said.
Almost three dozen safety vehicles gathered near the turn to hose down the blaze as black smoke billowed past the speedway's lights and into the dark sky. Red flashing lights lined the corner long after the flames died out and a forklift carted off the vehicles' remains. Workers spread absorbent material and laundry detergent on the asphalt and spent most of the two-hour, five-minute delay to get the track ready for the last 40 laps.
When the red flag came out, Dave Blaney was in the lead because he hadn't yet pitted a final time.
Blaney wasn't even the top driver on his team - that was Patrick, who took Tommy Baldwin Racing's automatic spot in the field. Blaney needed a 12th-place finish in the Gatorade Duel II just to qualify, but his car led the field with 40 laps left.
"After you do this stuff, long enough, you always think, 'What's next?"' said Blaney's crew chief, Ryan Pemberton. "You see some of the darnedest things."
Blaney lost the lead when he fueled up around midnight, and Kenseth's quickest final pit stop gave him the lead. The 39-year-old survived three late wrecks that included 19 cars, including a caution on lap 198 that forced Daytona's sixth green-white-checkered finish in the last eight races.
He held off a late charge as Earnhardt pushed Biffle - Kenseth's teammate - before taking the 22nd checkered flag of his career.
"It's like the 17 had more motor at the end," said Biffle, who edged Denny Hamlin and Jeff Burton. "We couldn't catch him."
In one of the wildest races in NASCAR history, no one could catch Kenseth, who led 50 laps, including the last 38. Only Hamlin (57 laps) led more.
In 2009, Kenseth took the checkered flag here at a rain-shortened Daytona 500. Three years later, he was celebrating at another soggy weekend, smoking his tires outside Turn 4, as early-morning fog began to roll over the lights of the sleepy speedway.


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Pick up shredded pork from your favorite restaurant, or use one of the ready-to-serve products from your supermarket. The flavor profiles of commercial barbecue sauce can range from sweet to smoky, so use whichever brand you prefer.
How to Make It
Stir together shredded pork and remaining ingredients in a Dutch oven; bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes. Serve with desired toppings. (See "Toppings for Chili" below.)
Toppings for Chili: Good choices to add to your bowl include sour cream, salsa, diced plum tomatoes (they have a meatier texture and are easy to find in winter), shredded lettuce or spinach, shredded cheese, diced onion, sliced green onions, chopped cilantro, chopped avocado, sliced jalapeño peppers, cornbread croutons, and tortilla chips.


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I'm blessed to be surrounded by women who encourage, support and inspire me. On this Ada Lovelace day I'd like to acknowledge some of these women and pass on my gratitude for all that they do. Women like Mags Amond, Susan Nic Réamoinn, Catherine Cronin, Mary Loftus, Leigh Graves Wolf, Pam Moran and Hellie Bullock. What started as an online connection with all of these people has, over the past few years, developed into real friendships that have sustained me through good times and bad.
I've been involved in CoderDojo and the Youth Media Team over the past few years. In both of these groups I have come across girls who inspire me with their sense of enthusiasm, fun and a dedication to get the job done.
I think it's fair to say the future is in safe hands … 🙂
Of course a blog post about inspiring women wouldn't be complete without mentioning the one and only Bianca Ni Ghrógáin. It's a bit surreal to be referring to Bianca as someone who is no longer with us, because over the past few weeks I have felt her impact in so many events that I have attended, from DojoCon to Féilte to MegaDojo. Her legacy lives on in so much of what we do …


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Granite is an excellent choice for kitchen countertops. It is extremely hard, resistant to scratches and is not sensitive to acids like marble. The colors and patterns that granite offers range from neutral to absolutely breathtaking.
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Stone Name Almond Mauve Stone Type Granite Origin China (Fujian) Color Pink-violet, greenish, brown, ivory Water Absorbtion 0.15-0.4% Hardness Geologic Age Jurassic -Cretaceous Petrographic Type quartz syenite to quartz monzonite (varieties up to granite) Hide


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"The ranked-choice voting ("RCV") proposal recently presented to the Legislature by the Committee for Ranked Choice Voting is constitutional."
"The ranked-choice voting ("RCV") proposal recently presented to the Legislature by the Committee for Ranked Choice Voting is constitutional.
First, some background. Constitutional questions turn on the text of the Maine constitution and relevant case law, not on political soundbites or isolated words. In the heat of political battle some commentators have unfortunately used shorthand phrases to frame the discussion – using terms that appear nowhere in the Constitution – and/or taken individual words out of context.
Some skeptics have also misunderstood the relevant history. In 1879, Governor Garcelon attempted to engineer a victory for himself in the wake of an election that had yielded no majority winner. The Constitution at the time handed the determination to the Legislature, the membership of which Garcelon was able to manipulate. Section 3 of Article V stated:
. . . [I]f no person shall have a majority of votes, the House of Representatives shall, by ballot, from the persons having the four highest numbers of votes on the lists, if so many there be, elect two persons . . . of whom the Senate shall, by ballot, elect one.
Me. Const. art. V, part I, § 3 (1871) (emphasis added). In short, at the time, the Legislature got to choose the Governor. The Legislature proceeded to pick a minority candidate. People panicked. After the crisis abated, in 1880 the framers proposed Article XXIV, amending Section 3 to eliminate the possibility of the Legislature picking a Governor. In 1963, Section 3 was amended again (adopting the current language) to clarify that the Legislature's role was limited to tie-breaking in the impossibly rare circumstance of a true statewide tie. See generally State of Maine, 101st Legislature, Legislative Record—Senate, June 21–22, 1963, passim, Legislative Record—House, June 21–22, 1963, passim). Hence the current language:
Section 3. Election [of Governor] . . .The meetings for election of Governor shall be notified, held and regulated and votes shall be received, sorted, counted and declared and recorded, in the same manner as those for Senators and Representatives. . . . The Secretary of State for the time being shall, on the first Wednesday after the first Tuesday of January then next, lay the lists returned to the secretary's office before the Senate and House of Representatives to be by them examined, together with the ballots cast if they so elect, and they shall determine the number of votes duly cast for the office of Governor, and in case of a choice by plurality of all of the votes returned they shall declare and publish the same. If there shall be a tie between the 2 persons having the largest number of votes for Governor, the House of Representatives and the Senate meeting in joint session . . . shall elect one of said 2 persons . . .
Me. Const. art. V, part I, § 3 (emphasis added). It is worth noting what Section 3 does not say. It does not prescribe a particular method of voting. It does not prescribe a method of counting. It does not prohibit optically-scanned ballots, Braille ballots, mailed ballots, ranked ballots, or any number of other recent developments. Nor does it prohibit any system that, in the process of finding the largest vote-getter, happens to yield a majority. (Current elections often yield a majority-vote-winner and no one questions their legitimacy.) Section 3 is also agnostic as to how a plurality is reached. Any system that yields a plurality after the votes are received, sorted, and counted will pass constitutional muster.
RCV yields such a plurality. In each round of tabulation, the lowest vote-getter is eliminated and the ballots are re-tabulated. At the end of the tabulation process, one of the two remaining candidates has the highest number of votes. That highest number is the plurality for that election. See, e.g., Blacks Law Dictionary (9th ed. 2009) ("The greatest number (esp. of votes) regardless of whether it is a simple majority or an absolute majority").
Often the winning candidate also gets a numerical majority, but sometimes not – if the number of exhausted ballots leaves the highest vote-getter with less than a majority. Either way RCV yields a "choice by a plurality" exactly as the Constitution requires. This is precisely where RCV opponents' use of phrases like "plurality system" and "majority system" misses the mark. The Constitution never uses those terms. It never prescribes a "system." No one should be making constitutional arguments based on terms and phrases plucked out of thin air.
There is nothing untoward or difficult about RCV from a legal standpoint. RCV captures voter preference and yields at least a plurality. One election is held. One electorate is consulted. One ballot is distributed and collected. Those votes are tabulated. One candidate gets the highest number. That person is elected.
Critically, RCV is not a return to the bad old days of the Legislature picking winners. Nor is it a return to the old "majority" system used in the 19th century. I would encourage all of us to keep focused on the text of the proposal, the text of the constitution, and the future of our state. The current RCV proposal squares with the text and history of the Maine Constitution. It is clearly constitutional."
Timothy R. Shannon
Partner, Verrill Dana LLP