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Paul Ghanouni, Founder and criminal defense attorney of Ghanouni Teen & Young Adult Defense Firm, answers the question "What happens if I violate my special conditions of bond?". Reach out to our Woodstock office today at (770) 343-3935 to schedule a consultation if you are facing a criminal charge. www.pglawoffice.com/videos/
Closing session of the International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 13 December 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Maaike Arts
Lawrence Grummer-Strawn
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation
Cornelia Loechl, IAEA Section Head, Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies
Seventh grade students from Trinity Lutheran School visited UI Health Care to learn about DNA, cancer and genetics. Students learned the role of genetics behind their physical appearance. This opportunity allowed students to take what they are studying in class about cells and DNA and connect the dots to how it is applied in real world situations and careers.
Students first visited a genetics lab to see what life as a researcher is like and what they look at to study genetics. Students then visited with a genetic counselor who informed them of the duties a genetic counselor performs on a typical day. Finally students visited with a graduate research assistant and learned about Cystic Fibrosis research and looked at HeLa cells which are used in cancer research.
University of Iowa Health Care is committed partners with formal and informal educators and community organizations across the state to advance STEM literacy to inspire the next generation of health care professionals and build a foundation for children to understanding their own health. In FY2015, more than 16,000 school age children were engaged in hands on learning provided by 260 faculty, staff and students.
06 June 2015, Rome, Italy - (left to Right) Mr. Patrick Gomes, Secretary-General ACP and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Secretariat of the ACP Group of States and FAO, FAO Headquarters, (Green Room). FAO Conference 39th Session.
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Rules for an Understanding of Conceptual Art, 2000
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Novembergruppe, 2011
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Witte de With, Rotterdam 2012
Niets is wat het lijkt in Angela Bullochs werk. Haar solotentoonstelling SHORT BIG DRAMA in Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art speelt met de bedrieglijke eenvoud van haar werk en benadrukt Bullochs theatraliteit. Met de nadruk op drie soorten kunstwerken – monumentale muurschilderingen, kleurrijke pixel-installaties en interactieve tekenmachines – toont SHORT BIG DRAMA een combinatie van bestaande en speciaal in opdracht gemaakte werken.
There is more than meets the eye to Angela Bulloch’s work. Her solo exhibition SHORT BIG DRAMA at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art plays with this red herring – the illusion of simplicity – and highlights the theatricality of Bulloch’s practice. Focusing on three types of works – namely her monumental wall paintings, colorful pixel installations and interactive drawing machines – SHORT BIG DRAMA presents a selection of existing works together with specially commissioned new pieces.
Environment Minister Terry Lake signs a Memorandum of Understanding with representatives of the Comox Valley Project Watershed and Vancouver Island University to support blue carbon projects in BC.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2013/04/unlocking-coastal-bcs-blue...
Closing session of the International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 13 December 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Maaike Arts
Lawrence Grummer-Strawn
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation
Cornelia Loechl, IAEA Section Head, Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies
Secwépemc Chiefs, the Honourable Katrine Conroy, British Columbia Minister of Children and Family Development, and the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Federal Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on jurisdiction for child and family services. This MOU provides a framework that charts the path forward in recognizing and implementing Secwépemc jurisdiction.
Read more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2018IRR0058-001451
In January 2014, three Australians won the opportunity to travel to a cattle and sheep farm in Tasmania to have their questions answered as part of the Target 100 sustainable farming initiative.
It became the subject of a three-part documentary, The Journey of a Bettertarian. The documentary was funded by Target 100 as an initiative by Australian cattle and sheep farmers to deliver more sustainable farming by 2020.
This 3-minute video takes the viewer on a trip to Bangor organised by chef TV personality Darren Robertson and sustainable food advocate Rebecca Sullivan. They are joined by three inquisitive everyday Australians - Joanna Baker, Brett MacLachlan and Rebecca Stokes - who won a competition to learn first-hand about how their beef and lamb is produced, and have their questions answered.
In this episode, we see the participants in the program enjoying a meal prepared at Bangor by Darren Robertson. All reflect on their time together and discuss sustainable farming practices. There is a general consensus to become betternarians - to become better informed about where our food comes from and that we should eat with understanding.
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Photo showing an impression of the exhibition Understanding AI.
Credit: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair
Launch of the Global Nutrition Report at the International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 10 December 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Panel:
Jessica Fanzo, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Emorn Udomkesmalee, Thailand
Obey Assery Nkya, United Republic of Tanzania
Lawrence Haddad, GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition)
Sometimes a single image can change one's understanding of a person, place or thing.
Here, seeing a photo of Joe Knowles standing next to his car, one of the most advanced vehicles of the era, transformed my view of the pioneering reality star who was known in his day as The Nature Man from coast to coast.
Yes, Americans are notorious for living beyond their means, and that may have been the case here. Or perhaps Joe Knowles was just enjoying the rewards of his hard work.
As newspapers of the era liked to point out, Joe Knowles became famous for his ability to abandon the trappings of civilization and survive in the wilderness, but he was equally well adapted to the comforts and luxuries of city living.
Proving a point about humankind's ingenuity under primitive conditions was Knowles' passion, but he was also a hard-working entrepreneur and promoter. This photo suggests that Knowles not only made good money but was able to hang onto it.
As soon as Knowles returned from the forests of the Siskiyous in 1914, he began making personal appearances in Oregon and California to demonstrate his survival skills. In time he added a tame bear to his act. Then he landed a movie deal that took him back to the Siskiyous, There, his encounters with a cougar and perilous rapids put him back in the headlines.
Turning up In New York, Knowles announced the next chapter in his wilderness adventures: he would mentor two intrepid women in his woodcraft! To prove he was serious, Knowles sat for a publicity photo with the two "Eves" that graced the pages of many a publication.
This twist was hardly surprising. By then, several women had already made their own bids for the limelight by publicly professing their intention to emulate The Nature Man on their own. Almost from the outset, the press had evinced a coy preoccupation over how Knowles's female imitators might be attired on Day One. Victorian prudishness had receded far enough by the teens of the 1900s that reporters could write that Knowles planned to enter the forest nude, though not far enough that they could publish photos of Knowles in the altogether. Today, some might call that state of affairs titillating.
The story behind Joe Knowles' announcement that Elaine Hammerstein (a cousin of the hugely famous Oscar Hammerstein II) would be joining him in the Adirondacks for a reprise of his earlier exploits in the woods is surely worthy of a movie. Nothing in Elaine's basic biography even hints that such a feat might have interested her. Nothing more appeared about the project in the New York press after the splash of the announcement. An item in a Western newspaper reported that an early winter had forced the two of them to call off their plans. Joe himself said that Elaine found her grass skirt not up to the challenge of keeping her warm.
When America's entry into the Great War in 1917 muted the public's enthusiasm for Joe Knowles' nature act, he reinvented himself as the West's leading instructor on woodlore at scout gatherings.
It was his first such event that brought him to the North Beach Peninsula for the first time around 1916. By 1917 Joe Knowles had settled in the village of Seaview, where was immediately hailed as a regional celebrity and accomplished artist. In other words, he was the classic local character. Knowles was famous for being famous, making him a celebrity, but unlike many of that ilk, he had solid accomplishments to his name. By then, "Knowles" had entered the American lexicon as a metaphor for nudity or a penchant for roughing it.
His stature led him to secure numerous commissions, including a series of murals in 1924 for the newest theater in Astoria, Oregon, which was just then rebuilding its downtown after a devastating fire. That year he also painted portraits of the chief justices of the Supreme Courts of Oregon and Washington. The former was received with great fanfare in the press and in real life.
It's at that juncture that we catch up with Joe Knowles standing next to his flashy new car in Portland. This was as much a publicity shot for Knowles as it was for the auto dealership.
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About the Rickenbacker Vertical Eight Superfine
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By
David Conwill
Updated
August 27, 2024
in Classics, Hemmings Classic Car, Magazine
Too Much, Too Soon – 1925 Rickenbacker Vertical Eight Superfine
The creative genius of car enthusiasts and the cold calculations of businessmen are the age-old yin and yang of the automobile industry. Think of the car enthusiast as an artist, driven to create the purest expression of his or her vision in steel, glass, and rubber–regardless of expense. The businessmen are there to make sure that the unfettered vision doesn’t bankrupt the company. Both the artist and his or her fans may decry the artificial limitation on mechanical genius, but the graveyard of the car business is littered with nameplates that went too far, too fast, and were unable to sustain themselves.
By the time he was approached to append his appellation to the eponymous company in 1921, Eddie Rickenbacker’s car-enthusiast credentials were already well-established: He first rose to prominence as a race-car driver in the 1911-’17 era, having appeared in every Indianapolis 500 race before World War I, and as a driver for the factory teams of Peugeot and Maxwell.
During the war, he was the United States’ “Ace of Aces,” having shot down a confirmed 26 enemy aircraft at the controls of his Nieuport and SPAD biplanes. He was promoted to the rank of major at the end of his service, but throughout his life preferred the rank he felt he had earned, that of captain. By 1918, “Captain Eddie” was already a household name in America.
Rickenbacker wasn’t merely a good driver and pilot. Before his skill at the wheel was recognized, Rickenbacker had seen to his education via a correspondence course in engineering. An early internal-combustion enthusiast, he had also worked for the Columbia Buggy Company selling its Firestone-Columbus automobiles.
Further, Rickenbacker was already associated with General Motors founder Billy Durant, thanks to a marketing arrangement wherein Rickenbacker promoted GM’s Sheridan division. In 1922, he would actually marry Durant’s ex-daughter-in-law. So when Barney Everitt, William Metzger, and Walter Flanders– three men with enormous experience in the auto industry– joined with Rickenbacker, they were getting far more than just a famous name.
Everitt, Metzger, and Flanders are best remembered for the E-M-F Company, which was eventually folded into Studebaker– though that was far from their only accomplishment. They were, respectively, a body man, a salesman, and a production man. All three had good reputations as auto executives, though their companies usually did not survive long after their personal leadership had departed. Rickenbacker was, sadly, not to be an exception.
Captain Eddie himself had initially wished to stay in aviation after the war. Unfortunately, the postwar recession, combined with a glut of surplus aircraft, meant that the fledgling aircraft industry was struggling. Instead, he reverted to his prewar enthusiasm for the automobile. In the 1920s, the line between automotive technology and aviation was far thinner than today, and the disciplines cross-pollinated liberally.
What Rickenbacker wanted in his own new car was to bring the high-performance technology of military aircraft and racing cars to the street. He was not alone in this, with the Chevrolet brothers (who had previously sold their family name to Durant) making similar plans at the same time to turn their Frontenac racing team into a producer of road cars. Rickenbacker got further, however, and while Frontenac was forced to produce speed parts for the Ford Model T, Rickenbacker really did produce what the company termed “a car worthy of its name.”
The biggest technical triumph of the original Rickenbacker Six was its “tandem flywheel.” Captain Eddie had been impressed by the smoothness of the liquid-cooled inline engines of his German opponents in the skies over France. When he was able to inspect the inner workings of crashed or captured airplanes, he discovered that their crankshafts had flywheels at both ends, greatly reducing the vibration transmitted outside of the engine.
What most people remember about Rickenbacker, however, was its pioneering use of four-wheel brakes in the medium-price field. Even the prototype chassis, displayed at the 1922 New York Auto Show, had front-wheel brakes present, a major departure for the time. In June of 1923, both Duesenberg and Rickenbacker announced that four-wheel braking would now be standard. For Duesenberg, a race-bred, high-performance, luxury car, this was not much of a surprise. For a less-expensive car like Rickenbacker, it was remarkable in the extreme.
Other companies soon followed suit, though Studebaker actually launched a smear campaign attempting to paint front brakes as unsafe, and Rickenbacker felt the pressure to continue to update its product line. For 1925, the year of our feature car, the original 58-horsepower, 218-cu.in. straight-six was upgraded to a 236-cu.in. engine with seven main bearings, producing 68 horsepower. The six-cylinder engine was also joined by an L-head, 80-horsepower, 268-cu.in. straight-eight with nine main bearings. The six retained the traditional 117-inch wheelbase, but the eight received a lengthened 121.5-inch wheelbase. The lines were otherwise quite similar.
This “Vertical Eight Superfine,” as the new-for-1925 eight was called, was an excellent car–smooth and powerful. The details are outstanding for a car at its price point, right down to the “hat-in-the-ring” logo, borrowed from the United States Army Air Service’s 94th Pursuit Squadron, Rickenbacker’s own unit, cast into the rear axle housing where only someone crawling underneath the car could see it. In bringing luxury-car features to the mid-price field, it was arguably five years ahead of the competition.
Unfortunately, just as the company seemed to be finding its footing, Flanders–a crack production specialist who had helped Ford Motor Company on its way to the moving assembly line– was killed in a car accident. At the same time, dealers began fleeing the fold, possibly due to Studebaker’s hatchet job (though it wouldn’t stop newcomer Chrysler from adopting four-wheel hydraulic brakes that year) or possibly due to word of the kind of executive infighting that had brought down other efforts by the founders of E-M-F.
It was in this environment that Captain Eddie left the automotive firm bearing his name in 1926. Soon after, he would buy the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which he would own until 1945, and embark on a career as an aviation executive that would keep his name in the public eye until his death in 1973.
Rickenbacker, the company, kept trying, promoting its Super Sport boat-tailed coupe as the fastest four-passenger automobile for sale (faster models from the likes of Duesenberg seated only two) and introducing dual-carburetor engines for 1927. But it was not enough, and the firm did not survive to sell 1928 models.
It is said that after the company folded, Captain Eddie personally repaid all debts he had guaranteed for the company, despite a bankruptcy discharge, burnishing his reputation as an ethical businessman. Everitt went on to help found the Verville Aircraft Company in the same Detroit factory building that had housed Rickenbacker. Metzger also got into aviation, helping form Stinson Aircraft in 1926.
As an interesting aside, the tooling for both the six-cylinder and eight-cylinder 1927 Rickenbackers was sold to a Danish businessman in Germany named Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen who had planned to produce the engines for sale to European automakers. When no orders were forthcoming, Rasmussen instead shopped his designs to Audi, in which he was the majority shareholder. This resulted in the Rickenbacker 6-70 becoming the Audi Type-T “Dresden” and the eight-cylinder Rickenbackers becoming the Audi Type-SS “Zwickau.” Both were produced until 1932.
That makes the four-passenger coupe on these pages a rarity to begin with. In fact, it is believed by the Rickenbacker Club of America to be the only surviving 1925 eight-cylinder coupe. It should come as no surprise, then, that for the past 48 years it has been a part of the Automobile Gallery of the Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The Automobile Gallery has as its nucleus the collection of pharmaceutical heir J.K. Lilly III, and the Rickenbacker was acquired by Lilly in 1966.
We spoke with Director of Collections and Exhibits Jennifer Madden, and she told us that Lilly acquired the car from a Dearborn, Michigan, collector named J. Walter Heater. We don’t know if there is a connection, but Heater was an executive with a Detroit firm called Fleet Supply Corp. (“parts and supplies for trucks, trailers, and cars”). The address for Fleet Supply, 2896 Central Avenue, was less than a mile from the still-extant former Rickenbacker factory at 4815 Cabot Street–could that have sparked Heater’s interest in finding a Rickenbacker?
Heater found the car in 1960 in what the Detroit Free Press described as “an abandoned garage on Ferry Park Avenue near the Lodge Freeway.” The previous owner, a man named Gauss, was a retired Army engineer. According to a letter in the car’s file at the Heritage Museums, Gauss had sold his home and actually lived in the car in his garage for 15 years!
Heater restored the Rickenbacker, completing the job in 1962. The coupe was immediately recognized as Grand Champion at the Henry Ford Museum’s Old Car Festival in the division for cars built between 1917 and 1925. While it was in his care, it was reunited with Captain Eddie for a television show apparently called On the Street.
Sometime around 1966, Heater and Lilly happened to encounter one another, and Heater told Lilly about his Rickenbacker. The two men corresponded that summer regarding the car, and eventually it was settled that Lilly would purchase it for $5,000 (a little more than $37,500 adjusted for inflation).
Heater even offered to drive the Rickenbacker from Dearborn to Boston for Lilly to take delivery. In a letter, he noted “it runs very well at 55-60 mph, which means two days on the road from here.” Eventually, it was settled that Heater would meet a representative of Lilly’s in Syracuse, New York, about half way between the two men. Heater apparently took the Greyhound home.
It’s not recorded why the Rickenbacker caught Lilly’s fancy. Perhaps it was just the excellent restoration that the car still wears today–having been museum-kept since 1969 and undriven since sometime in the 1970s, although the museum intends to get it driving again soon. It is worth noting that the Lilly family’s roots are not in Boston, or Cape Cod, but rather in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the Rickenbacker name and the speedway are icons. It’s not impossible that Lilly, who was six when this car was built, recalled the excitement associated with Captain Eddie and his airplane-inspired car way back when.
Though it survived only a brief six model years, and only an estimated two dozen examples remain, the Rickenbacker is well remembered today, thanks to its technical sophistication and its association with one of America’s greatest aviation heroes. If you are lucky enough to see or experience one, linger awhile and soak in the details, quality construction, mechanical elegance, and handsome styling. You will be glad you did.
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Introductory Remarks:
Pranay Verma
Minister (Political)
Embass yof India, Washington, D.C.
Panelists:
Anil K. Gupta
Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Girija Pande
Executive Chairman
Apex Avalon Consulting Singapore
Haiyan Wang
Managing Partner
China India Institute
Respondents:
Richard Rossow
Senior Fellow and Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Christopher Johnson
Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Launch of the Global Nutrition Report at the International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 10 December 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Panel:
Jessica Fanzo, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Emorn Udomkesmalee, Thailand
Obey Assery Nkya, United Republic of Tanzania
Lawrence Haddad, GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition)
I've crocheted my Mum a new cover for a little pillow her eldest great-Granddaughter gave her, as the original cover is becoming a little tatty & Mum loves it.
It's just that good little size for propping up an arm or just adding height while sitting in bed or in her chair etc...
I wonder if Mum, as a 95 year old, will understand my aryty choice of buttons to finish her pillow case off with as I remember she would wait weeks to get the exact same size, shape & colour buttons for her projects... I wonder if she will think this choice is a bit remiss of me...
Memorandum of Understanding Signing Agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) on Exchanges and Cooperation held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 14 October 2021.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
CIDCA (Virtual):
Luo Zhaohui, Chairman, China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA)
HE Mr Wang Qun, Resident Representative of China to the IAEA
IAEA:
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General
Hua Liu, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation
Jane Gerardo-Abaya, IAEA Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation
Shota Kamishima, Senior Coordination Officer, Director General Office for Coordination
Diego Candano Laris, Senior Advisor to the Director General
Ruzanna Harman, IAEA Chief of Protocol
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Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch, USA, Ibrahim Kalin, Special Adviser to the President of Turkey, Deputy Secretary-General, Presidency, Eduardo Martinez, President, The UPS Foundation, USA; Global Agenda Council on Humanitarian Response, Falah Mustafa, Minister of Foreign Relations, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq and Raul Rosende, Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Gaziantepe at the World Economic Forum - Special Meeting on Unlocking Resources for Regional Development 2014 / Benedikt von Loebell
Keurig announced at the end of 2014 that they were recalling almost 7.2 million of their MINI Plus Brewing Systems. These machines were reported for causing burn injuries (some very severe) to the face and extremities. There were a total of 6.6 million machines in the United States and over 500,000 in Canada recalled by the company in December. The recall was issued after Keurig received over 200 reports of liquid leaving the machine and causing severe burns. So far there are over 90 burn injuries reported.
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★What IS THE INTERNATIONAL FIBER COLLABORATIVE?
As the leading voice for collaborative public art projects around the world, the International Fiber Collaborative is dedicated to promoting understanding and appreciation of contemporary art & craft through educational experiences. We are committed to developing vital education programs that elevate, expand, modernize and enhance the image of collaboration and education today.
★WHAT IS THE DREAM ROCKET PROJECT?
The Dream Rocket Team is collecting nearly 8,000 artworks from participants around the globe. The artwork will be assembled together to create a massive cover in which will wrap a 37 story Saturn V Moon Rocket at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. We will also be displaying submitted artwork in dozens of national venues prior to the wrapping of the Saturn V. Additionally, we are posting images of submitted artwork & their stories on our Website, Flickr, and Facebook.The Dream Rocket project uses the Saturn V Moon Rocket as a symbolism of universal values of the human spirit. Optimism, hope,
caring for our natural resources, scientific exploration, and harnessing technological advancements for a better quality of life while safeguarding our communities, are all common desires across national and international boundaries. Participants are able to express and learn about these values through this creative collaboration. With the completion of each artwork, participants are asked to write an essay explaining their artwork, and the dream theme in which they chose.
★How can I Participate & Have my Artwork Displayed?
The Dream Rocket project would like to challenge you to ‘Dare to Dream’. To dream about your future and the future of our world through dream themes such as health, community, conservation, science, technology, space, peace, and so on. We would like you to use your selected Dream Theme to express, explore, and create your vision on your section of the wrap. We hope that you are able to express and learn through this creative collaboration. With the completion of each artwork, you are asked to write a brief essay explaining your artwork, and the dream theme in which you chose.
“The Saturn V is the ideal icon to represent a big dream. This rocket was designed and built as a collaboration of nearly half-a-million people and allowed our human species to venture beyond our world and stand on ANOTHER - SURELY one of the biggest dreams of all time. ENABLING THE DREAMS of young people to touch this mighty rocket sends a powerful message in conjunction with creating an educational curriculum to engage students to embrace the power of learning through many important subjects”
-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, New York
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The International Fiber Collaborative is able to share the power of a collaboration and art, thanks to the support of generous individual donors. We welcome any amount of donations and remember the International Fiber Collaborative is exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, making this gift tax deductible.
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Will I ever understand it all? I've been taking 'photographs' for 10 years... I thought it was time to get to know the camera a little better. The course is finished... now on with the practice!!
I've relied on the safety of the "Auto" setting for most shots, basically bypassing the art of photography and every now and then hitting on a 'good' shot.. I'm slowing moving off the auto setting, I would like to achieve effects that I thought were only possible to do with an enhancing program, or those only professional photographers can take...
Is that asking too much???... we'll see!
Cosplayers at Leipziger Buchmesse / Leipzig Book Fair 2014
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Michiru-Fair (Janine) 755412 as Kagura Gintama from ___
Photos posted are 1024x768 pixels in size. Higher resolution (3000x2000) for models only, sorry.
Thank you for any group invites which I will gladly accept. However, if I can't check the content of such groups ("This group is not available to you") I'd rather not add any of my photos. Thanks for your understanding.
Pathophysiology is a complex, though essential, component of all undergraduate nursing courses and there is an identified need for a text tailored specifically for the Australian and New Zealand student. The entrenched bio-medical terminology can often be difficult to relate to nursing practice. To overcome this, the authors have presented pathophysiology in an accessible manner appropriate to undergraduate students, providing a balance between science, clinical case material and pharmacology.
This adaptation prioritises the diseases relevant to nursing students and presents them according to their prevalence and rate of incidence in Australia and New Zealand. This focused approach prepares students for the presentations they will experience in a clinical setting.
Each body system is explored first by structure and function, then by alteration.This establishes the physiology prior to addressing the diseases relative to the system and allows the student to analyse and compare the normal versus altered state. A lifespan approach is incorporated in the Alterations chapters, as each chapter addresses childhood diseases through to the aged with respect to each body system.
A new section on Contemporary Health Issues examines the effects of an aging population and lifestyle choices on the overall health of our society. These are explored through specific chapters on Stress; Genes and the Environment; Obesity and Diabetes; Cancer; Mental Illness and Indigenous health issues.
Concept maps are used to assist students to understand the basic concepts of each chapter and are used as a foundation for more complex discussions. Clinical case studies are also included in each chapter to bring pathophysiology into practice. Each patient case study will highlight relevant symptoms of a given disease within a clinical setting. This is analysed with respect to the relevancy of each given symptom, their respective affect on body systems and the best course of pharmacological treatment.
This adaptation of Understanding Pathophysiology 4e by Huether & McCance builds on the strengths of the US edition while tailoring it to the specific needs of Australia and New Zealand undergraduate nursing students. As such it is an invaluable text which will compliment your suite of Elsevier nursing titles.
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Understanding the Importance of Krebs /TCA Cycle in Our Bodies
IIn 1953, a British scientist, Professor Hans Adolf Krebs won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with his discovery that is now called the Krebs Cycle Theory.
The Krebs cycle (TCA Cycle or Citric Acid Cycle) is our body's energy production house and it makes the majority of energy in our body to keep us alive. It is essential and without it we would not exist.
According to Krebs theory, the starch and sugar in the food we eat is converted into glucose, the fats are converted into fatty acids, and the protein in meat and beans is converted into more than 20 types of amino acids. All these nutrients must be combined with acetic acid (from vinegar) before they can enter the citric acid cycle. In this citric acid cycle, these nutrients are converted into energy (adenosine triphosphate, ATP) that can be utilised by the body. During the conversion process, the food is continuously converted into citric acid, which is then converted into cis-Acotinate, isocitrate, a -ketoglutarate, succinate, fumarate, malate and oxaloacetate. The cycle repeats itself when the acids are converted back to citric acid.
Maintaining this Krebs Cycle is very important, but the cycle cannot function properly if the body is tired or restricted by an improper diet. When the nutrients are not fully synthesised, the incomplete combustion residue will be converted into pyruvate, which will break down into lactic acid when exposed to hydrogen ion. The accumulation of lactic acid in the body results in muscle aches, pain in the nerves and lethargy. The accumulation of lactic acid in the blood stream results in an acidic body.
Boost Your Kreb's Cycle!
The great news is, if you have a sluggish Krebs Cycle, you can now bring your health back on the right track by improving your Krebs Cycle by using a good energy accessory and supplementing with these natural herbal supplements:
It is nearly ten years since I started the Kent church project, and in that time have visited 292 churches, give or take, and seen and photographed inside most of them. And in that time, I have gone from knowing nothing about churches to having a basic understanding, meaning I need to revisit those I visited early on to record the features I missed.
Lenham is a large market village, and seems to be in rude health, as finding a parking space on a weekday morning was difficult, but it was nearing lunchtime, and the village is blessed with two fine pubs on the village square, and also has a new fish restaurant which was already producing fine aromas.
St Mary stands a little of the square, its tower dominating the view.
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A village centre setting where the church is approached from the north. This side shows ragstone and flint construction. Although the building contains work of earlier periods it is on the whole a fourteenth-century structure. The memorable feature is the size of the internal door which fills the tower arch - although it is not as old as it at first appears. On the south wall of the nave is a faded mural of St Michael. The pulpit is Elizabethan with a slightly later tester that carries the date 1622. Next to the pulpit is a good window in the style of Kempe, signed in the inscription with the `greyhound` symbol of H.W. Bryans who set up his own studio in competition. The other glass is mid-nineteenth century and of poor quality. The lectern, of wood, with nicely carved feet, may be as early as the fourteenth century, and has a crude and rural feel about it. The medieval stalls, which are returned along the west side of the chancel arch, are much restored. On the north wall of the chancel is an extremely strange monument which shows a fourteenth-century priest lying obliquely in two halves! The Royal Arms over the north door date from the reign of Queen Anne.
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LENHAM.
NORTHWARD from Boughton Malherb, close at the foot of the chalk-hills, lies Lenham, written in the book of Domesday, Lerham and Lertham, no doubt corruptly for Leanham, by which name it is called in most of the antient charters and deeds, as well before as since that time. It takes its name from the stream which rises in it, and ham, which signifies a town or village.
The western part of this parish is in the lath of Aylesford, hundred of Eyhorne, and the western division of this county, that is all of it which lies westward of a line drawn from the centre of Chilston-house, northward to the east end of the church, and thence to Warren-street, on the summit of the chalk hills.
The residue of it, including that part of it called East Lenham, is in the lath of Shipway, and hundred of Calehill, and the eastern division of the county.
THE PARISH of Lenham is of large extent, being upwards of five miles in length from east to west, and four in breadth from north to south, where it encompasses the whole width of the valley from the chalk to the quarry hills. However healthy it may be it is far from being a pleasant situation, owing to its untoward soil, which towards the south and west is mostly a deep sand; near the foot of the chalk hills a cludgy chalk mixed with flints, the whole a poor unfertile country, the fields of which are in general large, having but few trees round them, and those of a stunted unthriving aspect; above these hills northward is Downe-court and Warren-street, beyond which the parish extends more than a mile, as far as Ashden and Syndal, in the valley between Hollingborne and Doddington, a poor country and a flinty barren soil.
The town of Lenham stands in the valley between the quarry and chalk hills, which is here about two miles wide, rather nearer the latter, in a damp and moist situation, owing to the springs which rise near it, of which further mention will be made hereafter. It is rather a dull and unfrequented place, and of but little traffic, in short I cannot give a better description of it than in the words of the inhabitants themselves, who, on travellers passing through it, and enquiring if it is Lenham, in general make answer, "Ah, Sir, poor Lenham."
The church stands at the south end of it, and being westward of the line which separates the two divisions of the county, the town itself, as well as the parish, is esteemed to belong to West Kent, and all the parish business is transacted at the Maidstone sessions accordingly; the market, which was granted to the abbot of St. Augustine's, as has been mentioned before, to be held within his manor here, has been discontinued many years, but in 1757 there was an attempt made to revive it for the buying and selling of corn, and other such commodities, and it was ordered by the lord of the manor to be held on a Friday weekly, but I am informed it has been but little resorted to. The fair, which has been mentioned as having been granted likewise to the abbot, is now held yearly by the alteration of the stile on June 6, for horses and cattle, and there is another fair held on October 23, for the like purpose. A market is likewise held at Sandway, in this parish, for bullocks, upon every Tuesday after Allhallows-day, Nov. I, until Christmas.
Near the foot of the chalk hills lie the three estates of Shelve, on the opposite or southern part of the parish, where the soil is mostly a barren sand, there are several small heaths or fostalls; through this part of the parish the high road from Ashford runs over Lenham, formerly called Royton heath, and by Chilston park pales and Sandway, over Bigon-heath, towards Leeds castle and Maidstone; southward of this heath the parish extends westward, taking within its bounds the estate of Ham, the house of which has been rebuilt in a handsome manner within these few years, and thence southward to Runham-place, Platt-heath, and Leverton-street, at the boundary of it, near the quarry hills, where it joins to Bought on Malherb.
The western and south-east parts of this parish are watered by two several streams, for at the eastern extremity of the town of Lenham, at Streetwell, there rises a spring, which is accounted the head of the river Stour, which flowing from thence southward by Royton-chapel, at about a mile distance from its rise, receives into its stream two other small ones from the north-west, which rise in the grounds at Chilston, at a small distance from each other, and then flowing in one stream through the hamlet of Water-street south-eastward, it turns a mill in its way to Little Chart, and so goes on in its way to Ashford and Canterbury.
A head of one of the branches of the river Medway likewise rises at Ewell, adjoining to Bigon-heath, in the western part of this parish, whence it is frequently called the river Len; from hence this stream directs its course first westward, then northward by Runham, and so on to Holme mill in Harrietsham, in its way towards Leeds-castle and the main river at Maidstone.
LENHAM has been supposed by several of our learned antiquaries, among whom are Camden, Lambarde, and Gale, to have been the Roman station, mentioned in the 2d iler of Antonine, by the name of Durolevum, corruptly, as they say, for Durolenum, and the latter, in the British language, signifying the water Lenum, induced them, together with the situation, to conjecture this place to have been that station.
And Camden is further confirmed in this opinion, from this place being situated on a circular way of the Romans, which formerly, as Higden of Chester affirms, went from Dover through the middle of Kent. (fn. 1)
The aqua Lena, or the spring at Streetwell here, so, called perhaps from the strata of the Romans, which led hither, is thought to have been meant by the water Lenum, and that this, might give name to this station; and indeed Roman remains have been from time to time discovered from Keston, by Comb Bank, Stone-street, Oldberry camp, Ofham, Barming, Maidstone, Boxley, &c. in a continued and almost strait line, to within a few miles of this place and Charing.
¶But there having never been any Roman antiquities found at Lenham, induced Mr. Somner and others to look elsewhere for this station. That learned antiquarian, as well as Mr. Burton and Dr. Thorpe, have fixed it at or near Newington, in the great road from Rochester to Canterbury, near which great quantities of urns, and other relics of Roman antiquity, have been dug up.
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Every morning he wakes up and immediately looks for an ‘inroad’. A note, a few lines, a diatribe, a correspondence of, perhaps, at least two words, preferably more, from someone his devious neediness has designated a ‘loved one’. It can even be a loved one he has never met, someone he has mutually ‘catfished’ into being, that chimera called a fellow-traveller, a soul-sister or brother, a potential everyone else, someone who might proffer understanding and that elusive feeling of camaraderie. Of course, he wandered why he had nurtured this hunger, though he saw that it was almost universal, that this was a by-product of the ever-present now, magnified even, in that 'now' we currently tolerate on this information superhighway. He would have said it was man-made, or woman-made even and equally, but then he also thought that the human mammal is no different from anything else, so perhaps it was just better to think of it like any other ‘construct’, one of those permanent, and moving, constant and frivolous, featureless features of being. It was, not so simply, insecurity made manifest in one of its countless variations on the theme of itself.
He wondered what might happen if he just wrote to himself, for a change. He knew that the ‘I’ would be writing to him, but there was really f*ck-all he could do about that anyway. That’s always the problem, and the solution, that ghost in the solid-state hard-drive, on the cloud, in the clear-blue sky, the machine having sloped off towards the end of the last century, the 20th one that is, heading towards Bethlehem and all that literary effusion.
He, obviously, knew nothing about cricket or 'innings', but he loved Yeats, Joyce, Shields, ‘Catfish’ on MTV, ‘The Ru-Paul Drag Race’, ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ and ‘Yellowstone’, somewhat indicating his cultural hodgepodgery, making him more-or-less like everyone else, a modern he/she/they and it.
He/she/they and it didn’t dissect why he loved them; he didn’t have to. He knew why he loved them, so dissection wasn’t necessary. Everything else would be put under the knife, scalpeled to the bone, from which the marrow would be extracted and collected for further investigation. His obsession with ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ confused him a little, but he was willing to just let it be. It was just one of those idiosyncrasies.
He also didn’t usually play with pronouns, I say play, or rather he does, but he doesn’t actually mean that. He didn’t think anyone plays with that sort of thing, it is, sadly and celebratorily, a ‘no choice’ situation manifesting itself. It is Mr Darwin at work, an early indication of an evolving change. He knew he was ‘cisgender’, though he hated the term with a vengeance. He didn’t hate being ‘cisgender’, he hated the bloody word itself. It reminded him of art-speak from the last two decades of the last century. It made as much sense, to his sensitive ears, as the ‘Integrity of the canvas’, or ‘Art Practice’, in a ‘give me a f*cking break’ sort of way. Perhaps that language would sort itself out in due course, when in some glorious future we would realise we have all morphed into bifurcatory beings and shame relative to body-parts has become a strange thing we used to indulge in, partially generated by religion and self-loathing.
But that was sometime off yet.
That he was a cisgender shirt-lifter only complicated the matter. He loved the term ‘shirt-lifter’ to describe himself, and it would take an army of cultural, gender-neutral, semioticists to prise it from his cold dead fingers, but he guessed that at some point they would. Have at it, he thought, he would be dead, so who cares? Eat him, he’s yours. He would love to be devoured and is only sorry that his disease might make him less attractive as a good meal. But then everything we eat, everything we devour, is laced. That dressing, that lacing or whatever, has an infinite number of variations, permutations beyond our ability to compute. Perhaps ‘loaded’ is the best word for it, cocked and loaded, even. It can run the gamut from PFAs to HIV, from fear to joy, from love to hate, all available in a sandwich closeby, fast fooded or handmade with love, or malice. The greatest ‘shock’ of all is, perhaps, that these are all equal. That’s where he finds hope.
To find ‘hope’ anywhere is a joy. He knew that was why he made art and wrote, and he was somewhat sorry that he didn’t write to himself more often. He thought to himself that he might get around to addressing that negligence.
About time too, he ruminated, in that mulch-mulch, manure, yum-yum sort of way of his.
He knew that he could change these scribblings every day, tweak them until they were 'right', or they, at the very least, said what he wanted them to say. He could do it every day and no one would notice. He was giving himself four years to sort that out. He would also do some of it privately, to document those thoughts, those ideas, that traversed that boundary, thoughts that were most definitely beyond the pale, utterly disregarding notions of decency.
Four years, how's that for optimism? He thought to his ho-hum self.
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