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Amish Acres Threshers Dinner in Nappanee, Indiana is like taking a break from the harvest season while sitting outside under a big oak tree, passing around platters piled high–but without the harvest or sitting outside.
It's bowl after basket after plate of food. The sides and entrees are simply delicious.
Threshers Dinner at Amish Acres
What's on the menu for the Amish Acres Threshers Dinner?
The menu at Amish Acres hasn't changed for fifty years. You can expect to dine on:
Your Choice of Two Entrees:
Broasted Country Chicken
Honey-Baked Hickory-Smoked Ham*
Festive Roast Turkey or
Tender Roast Beef *
These Side Items:
Iron Kettle of Thick Ham and Bean Soup
Basket of Freshly Baked Hearth Bread *
Churned Butter
Apple Butter *
Last of the Garden Relish *
Sweet & Sour Cabbage Slaw
Green Beans with Side Meat
Beef & Egg Noodles *
Mashed Potatoes & Giblet Gravy
Sage Dressing *
Choose One Dessert (including seasonal desserts):
Shoofly Pie
Pecan Pie Chocolate Cream Pie
Cherry Pie Coconut Cream Pie
Pumpkin Pecan Pie Old Fashioned Cream Pie
Peanut Butter Cream Pie
See the asterisks? Those denote items that have been locally sourced. These foods are also available for sale in the area you will pass through before heading in to dinner. The meal comes with a beverage and a slice of pie.
Dessert at Amish Acres
After a great Old Order Amish style dinner, we came to the best part of the whole evening. For those that are new to little Indiana, that would be the part where we get to pick out our dessert. Oh, the choices.
Our server brought around a giant tray of pies. It was a plethora of pies. I chose the Coconut Cream (and choose well) while my husband, Jeremy, went for Pecan Pie. We should have chosen the Shoo-fly Pie! It's an Amish thing.
If you want a lighter lunch, you can opt for "Lunch on the Farm" served Monday – Saturday 11 AM – 2 PM.
Amish Acres Shoofly Pie Recipe
Shoofly pie is a favorite Amish dessert. Where did the name Shoofly Pie come from? It's called Shoofly pie because, as the story goes, that when the pie was completed and cooling on the windowsill with the fruit pies, it was always the sweetest.
You see where this is going, right? It was the pie that flies would hover near and would have to be shooed away. Hence the name "shoofly."
Amish Acres Shoofly Pie
- 1 1/4 Cup Flour
- 1/2 Cup Sugar
- 3/4 Cup Water
- 1/3 Cup Dark Corn Syrup
- 1/3 Cup Maple Syrup
- 1/4 Cup Light Molasses
- 1 Egg, Beaten
- Preheat oven to 375*.
- Mix together Flour and Sugar. Set aside.
- Put Water in pan. Mix in Dark Corn Syrup, Molasses, and Maple Syrup. Add Egg.
- Sprinkle 1/2 Cup of Flour Mixture into Unbaked Pie Shell.
- Cover with Liquid Filling.
- Top with the rest of the Flour Mixture.
- Bake 375* for 25-30 minutes or until set.
Here's a hint–don't pass on the pie. If you are stuffed (like we were) ask for a "to go" container for your slice of pie before heading out of this great Nappanee, Indiana attraction.
Small Towns: Destinations, not Drive-Thrus! I'm Jessica Nunemaker and THIS is Little Indiana.
Just don't forget to tell them that Little Indiana sent you.
Amish Acres
1234 West Market Street
Nappanee, IN 46550
Amish Acres is Closed Seasonally from January to March.
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Thanks to Elkhart County for hosting our stay. Opinions, as always, are mine and mine alone.
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Located in northern Europe is the beautifully scenic and charming country of Norway. One of the most beautiful countries in the world with stunning cities such as Oslo and Bergen and also breathtaking scenery. Although Norway is a large country its population only numbers around five million. So unless you are in one of the major cities, Norway can seem like a very quiet place, but that isn't a bad thing. It gives you the opportunity to leave the stress of everyday life and take in some breath taking views and fresh Scandinavian air. Use the HAPPYCAR comparison portal to compare the best rental cars Norway, where we will compare the price and conditions of each provider and give you the best deals and vehicles to explore Norway with a rental car that fits your specific vacation needs.
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Norway, the home of the Vikings, gained in its independence from a union with Sweden in 1905, Norway is not a member of the European Union. Although a northern country, the weather in Norway is not as cold as you would presume. During summer months the weather can be hot however during winter months you can experience very cold weather. It should also be noted that hours of daylight vary depending on where you are in the country, if you are up north in towns such as Honnigsvaag, you are likely to experience daylight for an extended amount of time, and sometimes daylight hours last for 24 hours in the summer months. Whereas during the winter months, you will experience a decreased amount of sunlight. Taking a hire car Norway is the best way to experience everything the country has to offer, whether it is the cities, towns or the not so populated countryside. It is advisable to get winter tires and have a spare tank of gas as distances between gas stations can be long.
As well as beautiful scenery, Norway has some interesting cities to offer its visitors, Oslo the capital, population 650,000, offers numerous attractions and museums to visit as well as some nice buildings like, the Royal Palace, the Cathedral and the National Theater.
Take your hire car Norway to the second city of Bergen, surrounded by mountains, which you can take a hike up or take the cliff railway. The city is one of the most beautiful in the country. Everyday Bergen puts on a market in the center where you can buy fresh fish to take home or eat at one of the many food stalls. Here you can also buy many Norwegian souvenirs like reindeer and whale meat. Bergen offers some stunning architecture, such as the Bryggen area, A UNESCO World Heritage Site, where has these are old traditional wooden Norwegian houses next to the docks.
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4:45 pm: Terry McCauliffe tells Wolf Blitzer Hillary absolutely will not drop out tonight.
He says he and Hillary are making superdelegate calls. She has more voters than any other candidate in presidential primary history. "We're still going."
Laugh of the segment: Going into a commercial break, Wolf says: "But could the superdelegates still sway her way? Come back and we'll ask our expert, Donna Brazile."
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CLAYTON — Northmont's varsity girls basketball team will open the 2016-2017 season Friday at Butler. This year's team will be anchored by returning players MaKayla Cooper, Jenna Hoschouer, Anna Mangen, Antonette Dorsey, Erin Mangen, and Shalaya Heath.
Erin Mangen, a 5-foot, 8-inch senior guard, earned 2nd Team Central Division last year while younger sister, junior Anna Mangen, also a 5-foot, 8-inch guard and 5-foot, 10-inch sophomore forward Shalaya Heath both earned special mention.
The Lady Bolts lost their leading scorer, Denissa Sly (8.9 points per game) to graduation.
Last year Northmont finished 4-6 in conference play and 10-12 overall. The team has some new faces this year that could help the Lady Bolts improve upon last year's record.
Two freshmen, DJ Shepherd and Gabby Kline, and junior Salena Roberts will also play key roles on the team this year, according to Coach Bethany Kincer.
"Those three will definitely play a key role for us this year," Kincer said. "Roberts is definitely a scoring threat from the outside. Shepherd has a great drive and will be a threat taking the ball to the hole and Kline gives us another presence in the post and does a great job cleaning up the rebounds. Erin and Anna Mangen are both scoring threats from the outside as well as Jenna Hoschouer."
Shalaya Heath, Kline and Haley Jones will see action at center with Shepherd, Erin Mangen and Kline playing forward while Cooper, Hoschouer, Dorsey, Roberts, Anna Mangen, Hannah Dranschak, Wafaa Hamdi, and Maddie Auxier will rotate the guard duties.
Kincer feels Butler will prove to be a worthy opponent for the Lady Bolts opener.
"Butler always plays hard and they came out last year and beat us in our first game at The Thunderdome, so that is definitely something on the minds of our returning players who would like to come out and take that victory back," Kincer stated. "Overall, I am really excited about our team. The girls are really meshing and playing really well together. They are making that extra pass on offense. No matter who is scoring at the time this group plays as a team. Defensively we are helping each other out. We are just really starting to mesh, working hard and playing well together."


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A 52 year old man is under arrest after Limassol police found a large quantity of tobacco and cigarettes believed to have been brought over from the Turkish occupied north in his car.
The Cyprus News Agency said that police stopped the suspect's van at around 8.15 pm on Monday evening.
It added that the man is known to authorities for similar offences.
Police found 3,200 euro in cash, 955 packets of cigarettes and 14 kilos of tobacco. The duty due on the tobacco is 6,620 euro.
The man was taken in for questioning and reportedly told police that he had obtained the tobacco from the occupied north.
The tobacco and money were confiscated. The man said he was unable to pay an out of court fine and is expected to appear before Limassol district court today to be charged with illegal possession of tax free goods and failing to pay duty.


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Hey Soldiers! Battlefield Pirates is here! Get it now! Great Job Battlefield Pirates Dev Team and Good Luck on other mods! Happy Fragging Everyone!
Read me beta .31 -SkullClan Carpenter now has StoneAxes like he should instead of the PegLeg Throwing Knives. -Fire delay for both the StoneAxes and Throwing Knives now reduced slightly. Seems there is a problem with the netcode where the delay could end up being so long that you could kill your oponent before you ever saw the knife. -Shark Frenzies now do 50% more damage. They've sharpened their teeth and are now hungrier than ever. -And the one major bug: In Beta3, you could actually sink a Galleon by slicing an ammo keg about 30 times with your cutlass! Yaar! That thar exploit be no more! Map Changes/fixes: Tides Of Blood: -Sloops spawns fixed to prevent beaching. -Center now contains dinghys instead of additional sloops. Capture the center to allow your side the ability to use the dinghys to sneak up on enemy-held islands. (The docks now also show up correctly) -Various other small tweeks to the terrain and objects. Tortuga: -Fixed a terrain exploit. -Pruned some objects from the city to reduce rendering lag on some machines. Domes of Doom: -No more CTF wackiness while playing a Conquest game. -Added just a few more cottages to provide a tiny bit more protection from those pesky bombs. Scurvy Cove: -Wall hitpoints reduced by 25%. Blasting the walls should be an intregral part of gameplay, not an afterthought. Mr Coconuts Island Getaway: -SkullClan now drops kits, as was originally intended. PegLegs can now steal those kits in order to get better weapons. (the kits were actually not dropping for the red assault class on any map. It was just most noticable here.) Mysterious Mountain: -Various small fixes/tweeks/improvements. New map! BFP_CutThroat_Creek: This is mainly an "artillery" map with GrenadeMortars and 8pdrs a-plenty. This map was by Bunnysnot, who also created BFP_Shiver_Me_Timbers and parts of BFP_Mysterious_Mountain and should be especially good for things like clan matches. This brings our total of custom maps up to 20, for those of you counting. ------------------------------------------------------------- bfPirates Alpha0.03 Full Update To install: This is a full install. However, there is no need to delete or uninstall your current version of Pirates, if you have one, because the installer will just replace all necessary files. It also will not delete any custom maps you may have installed, though they probably will not work with the new version. Normally this is where one would post the changelog for the release, but since every single file has been changed, instead I'm just going to post a Quick list of what's in this version, so here goes: Teams: Blue - "PegLeg" Pirates. Red - "SkullClan" Skeletons. Classes: Huntsman Raider Cannoneer Carpenter Drunkard Handweapons (not sorted by class): Musket Musketoon Blunderbuss 8pdr deployable cannon Tankard (Yes, you can fight with a mug of ale!) Throwing Knife(blue) Stone Axe(red) Pistol Ducksfoot Pistol Grenade PowderKeg Wrench (the one weapon we still haven't changed) And of course the actual "main" weapon of any self-respecting Pirate, The Cutlass. Units: Dinghy Gnat (Dinghy with huge cannon) runabout Sloop Privateer Galleon Montgolfier Balloon 10pdr Cannon Tower (non movable) 12pdr Cannon Tower (non movable) 8pdr mobile Cannon (spawned as a normal unit on BlackBeards Booty) Falconet 24pdr GrenadeMortar FortressCannon KomodoDragon Maps: BFP_Black_Sand_Buccaneers BFP_Blackbeards_Booty BFP_Cannonball_Coast BFP_Dead_Calm BFP_Domes_Of_Doom BFP_High_Tide BFP_Iron_Seas BFP_King_Of_The_Carribbean BFP_Komodo_Island BFP_Mr_Coconuts_Island_Getaway BFP_Mysterious_Mountain BFP_Penninsula_of_Pain BFP_Prison_Isle BFP_Scurvy_Cove BFP_Shark_Haven BFP_Shiver_Me_timbers BFP_Tides_Of_Blood BFP_Tortuga BFP_Two_Forts All maps that aren't standard conquest have descriptions on how to play posted right in the description screen, so be sure to read them. In addition we have new sounds, textures, effects, and even a loading movie and music. I've probably forgotten a few things, so you'll just have to check it out for yourself. Yaar! Happy Pillaging, -The Captain
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Don't want to get up extra early to log a morning workout at the gym? Fine, stay in bed. You can still transform your body with exercises you can do right on your mattress. Choose a few of them, or complete every move, and perform as many reps as you can in 30 seconds. You'll burn more calories than you would by repeatedly hitting the snooze button.
1. Marching Hip Raises: Lie on your back with your knees bent, heels near your butt, and arms along your sides with palms facing down. Press into your heels as you lift your hips up so your body forms a line between your knees and shoulders. Without extending your leg, squeeze your butt as you lift your right foot up off the bed and bring your right knee directly over your right hip. Place your right foot back on the bed and repeat on the left side. That's one rep. Continue to alternate.
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WHITE HOUSE TRANSITIONS: "Melissa Rogers will serve as Special Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Rogers previously served as director of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at Wake Forest University Divinity School and as a nonresident senior fellow in the Governance Studies program of The Brookings Institution. Prior to her time with Wake Forest University and Brookings, Rogers was the executive director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. In 2008, Baylor University Press published a casebook co-authored by Rogers, 'Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court.' In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Rogers to serve as chair of his inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In 2011, she was named to a subgroup of the State Department's Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group. Rogers has testified before subcommittees of the U.S. Senate and House Judiciary Committees. She earned her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Baylor University.
This is good news. Rogers, a Methodist, really understands Catholics - indeed, in some ways, she understands Catholics better than some prominent Catholic politicians! I have heard Rogers speak several times and she always focuses in on the heart of the matter, analyzes issues fairly, and brings a great reservoir of knowledge to any discussion. This is very good news.


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The Quest of the Sparrows by Kartik Sharma and Ravi( Nirmal Sharma) is a religious and a spiritual fiction which enlightens our minds. For a change it is not a love story and this genre actually got my attention as I have rarely read this type. I am glad that I picked up this book.
The cover of the book is simple and elegant. It somewhere serves the motive of the authors and their message. The sparrows serve as a symbolic figure.
The title is relevant and has some sort of symbolism in it. Sparrows play as a catalyst in it.
A seemingly ordinary young man forced to become a guru takes a leap of faith and sets off with his followers on a taxing journey that changes their mindsets and lives forever. Inspired by the carefree life of a sparrow, reluctant guru Partibhan takes off on a 600 kilometre expedition on foot to test his theory of practical spirituality. He believes that human beings can become powerful creators, but the desire to secure the future makes them mere survivors. However, survival isn't the only goal of life. A much bigger role, a higher calling awaits us. Will Guru Partibhan and his disciples complete the journey? Will they discover their true potential and find everlasting joy? Looks at the importance of spirituality in today's fast paced world. A must read for all those feeling burnt out and wondering about the 'higher purpose' of their lives. The story of a young man who finds his calling in life, written in a relatable manner.
The story is beautifully woven. The authors have kept in mind the thought process and at times we feel they are playing with ur minds. The use of multiple point of views makes it interesting. Every story has some significance and they can be used as separate stories as well. Basically is focus on a man and even Guru Partibhan who through his ways gives us a purpose of living. The delineation is apt. The characters are fantastic and easy to understand though the authors tried to make it complicated.
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Congressional Conferences on Civic Education
"Democracy needs to be reborn in each generation and education is its midwife."
Preparation for citizenship and the workplace are the twin missions of public education in the United StatesRecognizing that individuals do not automatically become responsible participating citizens but must be educated for citizenship, the founders of our universal system of free public education made education for citizenship a core part of the mission of public education, equal to workplace preparation. This determination to educate young Americans about their rights and responsibilities as citizens is known as the civic mission of schools.
Each state's constitution or public education establishment statutes and codes acknowledge the civic mission of schools.
Americans profess that the civic mission of schools is an essential, if not the essential, purpose of education. Over the course of 33 years of Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup polling on American attitudes on education, Americans have overwhelmingly concurred with the statement that "educating young people for responsible citizenship" should be the primary goal of our schools. Their conviction that the school's central mission is educating young people for citizenship has not wavered over time, and it is consistent whether or not respondents have children in school and whether or not their children are in public or private school. (Annual Gallup/Phi Delta Kappa Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools)
In a 2004 poll 91% of adults responded that they were more likely to support policymakers who support strengthening civic education in the schools. ("Citizenship: A Challenge for All Generations," available at www.ncsl.org, 'Trust for Representative Democracy')
Civic education helps form the attitudes of students in ways employers report seeking in their employees. Students who experience high quality civic education are more tolerant of others, more willing to listen to differing points of view and take greater responsibility for their actions and to improve their communities.
In recent years, civic education has been increasingly pushed aside. Until the 1960s, three courses in civics and government were common in American high schools, and two of them ("civics" and "problems of democracy") explored the role of citizens and encouraged students to discuss current issues. Today those courses are very rare. What remains is a course on "American government" that usually spends little time on how people can, and why they should, participate as citizens.
This remaining course is usually offered in the twelfth grade, which is both too little and too late. And, it completely misses the large number of students who drop out before their senior year and who are arguably in the greatest need of understanding their rights and responsibilities as citizens.
In the elementary grades civic education used to be woven through the curriculum. Today, slightly more than a third of teachers report covering civic education related subjects on a regular basis. ("Civics 2006: the Nation's Report Card," National Assessment of Educational Progress, administered by the National Assessment Governing Board)
Two-thirds of students scored below "proficient" on the last national civics assessment administered in 2006, and 72% of 8thgraders surveyed could not identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence. ("Civics 2006: the Nation's Report Card," National Assessment of Educational Progress, administered by the National Assessment Governing Board)
Although all states but one has adopted Standards of Learning in civics and government or Standards that address civic education in other subjects, a 2003 study by the Albert Shanker Institute found that the majority of what passes for state standards in the subject are overly broad, concentrate too much on the historical aspects of civic education rather then the relevance of citizenship and civic participation to students lives, and are unrealistic to cover in the amount of time a teacher is allowed to spend on the subject. ("Educating Democracy: State Standards to Ensure a Civic Core," by Paul Gagnon)
In a 2005 study of school district policies and practice, the New Jersey Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools found that only 39% of districts had a required course in civic education. The same survey found that just 35% of districts offered in-service training opportunities for teachers in civic education.
Arguably, the greatest factors undermining high quality civic education in schools today are the requirements of state assessments and the Federal 'No Child Left Behind' Act (NCLB) which largely ignore the civic mission of schools in favor of concentrating on Math and Reading:
High quality civic education courses and programs work effectively
When students receive a sustained and systematic civic education they become more knowledgeable about their government and how it affects them; more interested in politics, the news, current events and government; more capable of identifying public policies that do or do not serve their interests and the common good; more consistent in their views on policies; more critical of politics and government, developing a healthy skepticism that does not alienate them from participation but instead motivates them to participate in improving the system; more likely to participate in political and civic activities; more committed to fundamental democratic values and principles; and more tolerant of those who differ in their opinions. (Research at www.civiced.org)In a 2004-2005 study of alumni (ages 18-34) of the Center for Civic Education's We the People: the Citizen and the Constitution program, 92% reported voting in the 2004 elections (in contrast to the under 40% of their peers who reported voting); and 85% of the alumni reported voting in all previous elections for which they were eligible to vote.
The same study showed that 83% of the alumni held it was essential or very important to keep current with the news and political affairs in contrast to just 34% of college freshman that felt the same way.
In a 2003 study undertaken by the Alliance for Representative Democracy on the attitudes of students who experienced civic education courses versus students who reported not being offered civic education courses (aged 15-26), 55% of students who took civics stated that it was important to take personal responsibility for making things better in their community and nation vs. 32% of those who did not have a civics course; 54% of those who took a civics course agreed it was important to contact elected officials on issues vs. 39% of those who did not take civics. (Available at www.ncsl.org, 'Trust for Representative Democracy')
In 2003, over 40 leading civic education, social studies, and civic engagement organizations joined in the publication of "The Civic Mission of Schools," a consensus report on the problems confronting civic education along with recommendations for policymakers and educators on how to restore the civic mission of schools. The Report is available at www.civicmissionofschools.org.
To spark a nationwide movement to restore the civic mission of schools, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Center on Congress at Indiana University, and the Center for Civic Education have joined together, acting as the Alliance for Representative Democracy, to sponsor a series of national summit conferences on the critical role civic education plays in fostering civic engagement. These summit conferences, known as the Congressional Conferences on Civic Education, are funded by the United States Department of Education, and the four leaders of the United States Congress serve as co-hosts.
Delegations from all fifty states have attended the Congressional Conferences. These delegations are comprised of elected officials, policymakers, and educators. The Congressional Conferences have resulted in fifty state campaigns to restore the civic mission of schools and promote civic education.Every state delegation has formed inclusive active state coalitions, with membership that includes the delegation, other policymakers, representatives of education and civic engagement organizations, front-line administrators and teachers, representatives of higher education, students, interested members of the media and concerned citizens.
Twenty-nine delegations have held state summits, conferences, joint legislative sessions and symposiums on civic education modeled on the Congressional Conference. These state summits have generally included small group discussion on the current and desired state of civic education in the state and agreement on ambitious plans of action to restore the civic mission of schools.
Twenty-six states have conducted thorough surveys of the current policies affecting civic education as well as existing district and state practice. These benchmark surveys have identified deficiencies the state coalitions have decided to correct through advocacy to policymakers at the district and state level.
Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Virginia have created officially sanctioned state Commissions on Civic Education or Civic Literacy.
Legislators attending the Congressional Conferences, and other legislators supportive of civic education, from 36 states have introduced legislation to strengthen civic education during the 2003-2007 legislative sessions. Thirty-five pieces of legislation have passed into law. These measures have included directives on specific course requirements, funding measures, creation of official state commissions on civic education, and legislation calling for increased attention to civic education.


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"I am sure that this book will give great pleasure to any who open its covers." —Julian Fellowes, from the Foreword Stately, grand, and a testament to the generations who have cared for them, the 10 English country houses featured in this volume are architecturally distinctive and filled with evocative family memorabilia, from commissioned portraits to monogrammed heirloom dinner services to the bells that once summoned the downstairs staff. Like the fictional Downton Abbey, these real homes are still in the hands of descendants of the original owners.
From Kentchurch Court, which has been the seat of the Scudamore family for nearly 1,000 years, to a delightful Gothic house in rural Cornwall to a charming ducal palace to Goodwood House, England's greatest sporting estate, this beautifully illustrated book showcases a wealth of gardens, interiors, and fine art collections. James Peill, coauthor of Vendome's The Irish Country House, recounts the ups and downs of the deep-rooted clans who constructed these homes and illuminates the history and legends behind these marvelous estates, many of which have never before been published. Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey, contributes a foreword. Praise for The English Country House: "For hundreds of years generation after generation of the families that built these rarely seen houses, has added to the delights seen within and without." -Min Hogg
"Whatever virtues one assigns to the English country house (. . . .a daunting coffee table book just out from the Vendome Press), coziness is not one of them. . . .And yet the drafty beauty of the estates is such that it would clearly be worth enduring centuries upon centuries of emotional remoteness just to hang on to all that pomp and silver and canopied beds and coffered ceilings and graceful balustrades nestled in the sheepy hills." — TownandCountryMag.com
"There's something mysterious about a stately home in the English countryside. . . . Peill takes a closer look at 10 such homes. . . . As if the beautiful photographs of the interiors and vistas weren't enough, Peill's text also looks at the histories and legacies of the families who occupied these estates." — MarthaStewart.com
About the Author
James Peill is the curator of Goodwood House and a former vice president of Christie's. Julian Fellowes is an actor, novelist, film director, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of Downton Abbey. James Fennell is the photographer of The Irish Country House and The Scottish Country House.


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Strategic argumnents on the high frontier have been smothered by the decade of war that exposed the underbelly of the West. Hunkered down in the Muslim world left the United States distracted whilst China built up its confidence and began to dominate its periphery, through the development of "core interests". These have now expanded to the South China Sea and the Senkaku (Diaoyu) islands: an aggressive approach designed to create facts on the ground: a Chinese presence that counteracts the rhetoric of Obama's pivot to the Pacific (described by its security critics in South East Asia as more of a useless pirouette).
China, as yet, is unable to challenge US military dominance in a straight fight. Therefore, they rely on asymmetric skills to leverage their power. The use of hacking, aggression against poorer neighbours and a desire to dominate space. To this end, they have set their sites on establishing a new space race with the United States and developing satellite weapons that could seriously damage America's capability to make war.
More worrying are the cultural differences between China and the West in regards to deterrence. China defines deterrent actions as a form of coercion: designed to compel an opponent to submit through a an escalating strategy of force stopping short of war. The West's traditional vision of deterrence is a chess game: an open strategy designed to avoid compulsion or any form of action: reinforcing the status quo. The potential misunderstanding between a revisionist and a stationary power are clear.
There is no doubt that Chinese dominance of the high frontier would radically alter the international system and undermine the rules based liberal order promoted by the West. Such actions need to be deterred as pre-emption will not be viewed as an order to submit by the United States.


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Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and the author of "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World." His work on the brain is shaped by a deep questioning of the role of art and culture.
McGilchrist is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise - the culture which helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains.
The left hemisphere manipulates the world, the right hemisphere understands the world
McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch, who now lives on the Isle of Skye, off the coast of North West Scotland, where he continues to write, and lectures worldwide.
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Casino Stocks Poised for 'Huge' Year in 2021: Jim Cramer
Posted on: December 15, 2020, 02:06h.
Last updated on: December 15, 2020, 03:08h.
The public's pent-up demand for travel and a potential for better US-China relations point to a "huge year" for casino stocks in 2021, according to CNBC's Jim Cramer.
The television host said once enough people are vaccinated, "The economy goes back to normal, travel resumes, and people start gambling in-person again."
That's why the casinos should have a huge year in 2021," Cramer said. He added, "Vegas, here we come."
Cramer is an economic analyst on CNBC and hosts a stock-investing show, Mad Money, on the financial news network. Cramer said casinos have had "absolutely terrible numbers lately."
As an example, Las Vegas Sands lost 76 percent of its business in the first nine months of 2020, he said. Among the company's holdings are the Venetian and Palazzo on the Las Vegas Strip, and the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. He noted these resorts rely "heavily on travel and tourism spending."
Negative financial numbers are expected to turn around as travel picks up. "The pent-up demand is absolutely enormous," Cramer said.
Health professionals this week began administering the first vaccinations nationwide. Widespread vaccinations are months away, according to health experts.
Opportunities in China
President-elect Joe Biden's swearing-in next month should give investors optimism about casino companies operating in China, Cramer said.
The CNBC host said Biden is expected to be more diplomatic toward China than President Donald Trump has been. A diplomatic tone will be less likely to spook investors, he said.
Cramer said he thought Trump's "trade war with China was the right move." However, "Wall Street hated the trade war every step of the way, so money managers are giddy that Biden's going to lower the temperature," he said.
"Americans are ready to gamble again, and perhaps more important, Biden will have a very different attitude toward China," Cramer said.
Sports Betting Goes Mainstream
Cramer also has expressed optimism about opportunities for the companies involved in sports betting. In November, Cramer said on Mad Money that sports betting is "taking the country by storm."
He made this remark after voters approved legal sports wagering in the three states that had it on the Election Day ballot. These states are Louisiana, Maryland, and South Dakota.
Cramer noted sports betting is spreading because states want the tax revenue that comes from legalization. "Right now, it's going to bookies," he said.
Legal sports betting is taking place in 19 states and the District of Columbia, according to the American Gaming Association website. Sports betting has been approved in six other states but is not yet up and running.
"Sports betting has gone mainstream," Cramer said.
The voting results in November were a "huge victory" for the industry, with "market-moving implications," he said. DraftKings, Penn National Gaming, and MGM Resorts are in a position to benefit from the recent spread of sports betting, Cramer said.
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Amila Withanaarachchi alludes to the opportunities that Industry 4.0 offers
The world faces a serious issue in the wake of a fading global economy. Over the last 50 years, the pace of global economic growth has waned. According to the World Bank, annual global GDP growth in 2016 was only 2.4 percent with more than a two-fold decline over the last half-century (i.e. compared to GDP growth of 5.6% in 1966).
Considering the ever increasing global population (7.4 billion by the end of 2016 compared to 3.4 billion in 1966), this is a serious issue. And escalating climate concerns such as global warming reinforce this critical situation.
Industrial revolutions fuelled the major growth waves of the last two centuries. For example, the introduction of steam-powered mechanical manufacturing in the mid-19th century (the first Industrial Revolution), intensive use of electrical energy (the second Industrial Revolution) at the beginning of the 20th century and widespread digitalisation (the third industrial Revolution) in the 1970s uplifted the world economy.
These three industrial revolutions injected massive productivity improvements in different forms into every sector of the economy.
Since the third Industrial Revolution, engineering and science have come a long way. However, over the last half-century, countless attempts to revitalise productivity failed to lift the declining efficacy of the manufacturing sector. For example, industrialised nations relocated their factories offshore to reduce costs and take advantage of cheap labour. Such attempts inspired productivity but only lowered costs for a short period because labour didn't remain cheap for long.
Following the last Industrial Revolution, we made all the tweaks to the model that were possible – and hit the limit. When all our attempts to fix the manufacturing model failed, we assumed that growth could originate elsewhere. For example, we hoped that the internet could create growth. Indeed, it changed our lives, made big waves in the media, and the service and entertainment spaces… but it hasn't done much to enhance productivity. Surprisingly, productivity is on the decline despite all efforts to innovate.
We failed to reinvent the manufacturing space as massive technological innovations such as the internet moved away from it. But what if manufacturing and internet related technologies came together to create the next major manufacturing reinvention?
It is already happening and the world is on the verge of the fourth Industrial Revolution.
'Industry 4.0' as it is commonly known is more far-reaching than connecting our devices and machines through the internet, often referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). According to industry experts and research, the internet will facilitate communication between humans, machines and products alike.
In other words, machines will be able to acquire and process data, and control certain tasks, as well as interact with humans through interfaces. According to industry practitioners, the fourth Industrial Revolution will boost industrial productivity by more than a third.
For example, leading automobile manufacturers in Germany such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz already use advanced manufacturing robots that collaborate with humans, and can be programmed to perform complex nonrepetitive tasks.
Such technologies are already complemented by revolutionary technological innovations such as additive manufacturing, 3D printing, horizontal or vertical integration, augmented reality, the cloud and cybersecurity, big data and analysis, and simulation and the industrial internet, which will leverage on further improvements in productivity at the factory floor level.
The most exciting part of this new manufacturing revolution reaches beyond productivity. It is about producing better and smarter products, and scale customisation. The factory of the future (also considered a 'smart factory') will leverage on the advantages of novel production strategies such as agile manufacturing and mass customisation.
In the smart manufacturing environment, intelligent and customised products possess the knowledge of their manufacturing processes and consumer applications, and independently lead their way through the supply chain.
While Industry 4.0 revolutionises the factory floor and consumer behaviour, there will be greater implications for traditional business processes. Facilities will be smaller and more agile. Production scale no longer matters; flexibility does. Factories will be operating on a multi-product and made-to-order basis.
Globalisation will enter a new era and reshape itself to be more flexible. Traditional trade flows from West to East and East to West will be replaced by regional trade. The current business model has serious impediments such as piling up of stocks and necessitating products to be sent around the world before they reach end consumers.
This old model not only consumes a larger portion of profit margins but also results in serious issues such as global warming.
The new model, producing next to the consumer market, will be much cleaner and thereby better for the environment. It will create massive opportunities for developing economies by generating employment, enhancing productivity and increasing economic growth.


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More than eight months after the 9/11 anniversary attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, the CIA is still trying to find out how the attack that killed two former Navy SEALs at the agency's annex transpired.
The attack on the CIA base came more than seven hours after an armed mob stormed the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, setting the compound ablaze and killing U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and Sean Smith, a State Department communications officer who was with him.
On Wednesday, Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell—along with CIA officers who were at the agency's Benghazi base on the night of the attack—testified at a classified hearing before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In the closed hearing, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the proceedings, Morell was asked by Republican members about how the second wave of attackers knew to go to the CIA annex, which was a mile away from the diplomatic mission. Morell responded that at this point the CIA did not know whether the attackers had known the location of the annex or learned about it on the evening of the attack, according to these sources.
The attackers fired five mortar rounds within 90 seconds at 5:15 a.m. on September 12, according to the State Department's official review of the Benghazi incident known as the Accountability Review Board (ARB). The last three mortar rounds hit the roof of one of the CIA annex buildings, where two CIA contractors and former Navy SEALs, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, were keeping watch. Both men were killed by the mortar fire; another diplomatic security officer standing watch on the roof was severely injured, nearly losing a leg.
How the attackers knew about what was supposed to be a secret CIA facility is important. If the attackers had known for weeks about the facility and had staked out a position to fire the mortar rounds, it suggests the Benghazi attack was planned in advance and not the "flash mob with guns" that Obama administration officials described to reporters in the weeks following the attack.
If the attackers learned the location of the facility that evening, it would suggest the Benghazi assault was more of a target of opportunity and was therefore not planned well in advance of the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
One U.S. official familiar with the briefing told The Daily Beast that one working theory about the attack on the annex is that the militants that fired the mortars learned of the CIA annex location earlier that evening, when Woods and others rescued U.S. personnel from the diplomatic mission, and then drove a convoy through Benghazi to get to the annex. The convoy carrying the Americans was chased and fired on by attackers along the route back to the annex.
However, one U.S. intelligence official with detailed knowledge of the events in Benghazi disputed that view. This official said the Special Operations team that arrived by aircraft that evening from Tripoli was tailed by the attackers on the drive from the Benghazi airport to the CIA annex.
The State Department's own ARB says the Special Operations team from Tripoli arrived at the annex at 5 a.m. Benghazi time. "Less than 15 minutes later, the Annex came under mortar and RPG attack, with five mortar rounds impacting close together in under 90 seconds," it says.
When asked whether the Special Operations team from Tripoli was followed from the airport to the CIA annex, Morell said he did not have any evidence to support that claim, according to U.S. officials familiar with the closed hearing.


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Just got finished reading the latest in the Indiafile genre, which surprisingly, was not chick-lit. It was a bit boring though. Sorry. Magic Bus
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters by various
Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe
Asia On My Mind by Sally Hovey Wriggins
Dork Whore: My Travels through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin by Iris Bahr
Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Fear and Loathing in New Jersey by Debra Galant
First There Is a Mountain: A Yoga Romance by Elizabeth Kadetsky
A girls' guide to India – a survivor's handbook by Louise Wates
The God of Small Things: A Novel by Arundhati Roy
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald
Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East by Gita Mehta
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America by Stefanie Syman
Wanderlust and Lipstick: For Women Traveling to India by Beth Whitman, Amy Scott, and Elizabeth Haidle
Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton
Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives by Mark Singleton, Jean Marie Byrne
Yoga School Drop Out by Lucy Edge
The Yoga Teacher by Alexandra Gray


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A cytokine released by epithelial cells in the kidney, skeletal muscle, liver, lungs, heart, and bone marrow, which stimulates production of T cells, esp. cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cells. It can bind with interleukin-2 receptors and mimic IL-2's effects. See: interleukin-2
interleukin-16Abbreviation: IL-16
A cytokine produced by T lymphocytes that stimulates movement of monocytes, CD4+ T cells, and eosinophils to the area. It was previously known as lymphocyte chemoattractant factor.
interleukin-17Abbreviation: IL-17
A cytokine produced by memory T lymphocytes that stimulates the proliferation of T cells and the differentiation of neutrophils.
interleukin-18Abbreviation: IL-18
A cytokine produced by macrophages that stimulates the production of gamma interferon and other chemical mediators that enhance cell-mediated immune responses. It is similar in structure to IL-1.
interleukin-12Abbreviation: IL-12
A cytokine produced by mononuclear phagocytes and B cells. It induces interferon gamma production from T cells and natural killer cells, and enhances T cell and natural killer cell cytotoxicity.Synonym: natural killer cell stimulating factor
See also: interleukin
Medical Dictionary, © 2009 Farlex and Partners


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May 4th 2019 marked the 7th annual Harlem Derby Run for the Roses Gala and Watch Party Event at the Red Rooster in Harlem.
(Rob Owens: Founder of Harlem Derby)
The Elegant Classy Gentleman Magazine team returned this year to cover the event and party with the elegant guests and party goers who came out to celebrate the 7th year of the Harlem Derby Gala!
Also this year NBC News was on hand to shoot live footage from Harlem New York, and other cities that had watch party events of their own.
(Anthony McGowan: NBC News)
2019 was a big year for Rob Owens Harlem Derby Gala. Having three Harlem Derby Events leading up to watch party gala truly making it a Harlem Derby Festival indeed!
(Mike Strange and Marcus Samuelsson)
Celebrity Chef and Red Rooster owner Marcus Samuelsson was front and center, as well as in the mix of it all at Red Rooster admiring the well dressed men and women attending the event in Harlem Derby Style!
(Jean Germain, Sonya Hensley, Mike Strange, Marcus Samuelsson)
Harlem really showed up and showed out for the Harlem Derby 7th annual gala.
(Harlemwood Glamor Girl: Sheila D and her husband Michael)
(Jean Germain, Men's Fashion Designer: Andrei Giovanni, Mike Strange)
(Jean Germain and Sonya Hensley)
(Bartender: Diamond Roxy)
(Evan Stern)
(Sonya Hensley)
Movie & Broadway performer and Jazz artist: Sonya Hensley gave a stunning and energetic performance for the Harlem Derby Run for the Roses Gala at Red Rooster's Ginny's Supper Club!
(Yvette Wright Gauff and Barbara)
(Harlem Derby Run of the Roses Gala is Presented by Woodford Reserve)
Harlem Derby attendees awaited the fashion judges to announce the Best dressed: Man/Woman-Women's Hat/Men's Hat…etc. But this years gala was so huge they ran out of time. The winners will be announced on Facebook.
Meanwhile the founder of Harlem Derby received an award himself!
The Elegant Classy Gentleman Team will return to cover this wonderful event next year…..This gala was the best so far!
We will see you next year…….at the Races!
By the way I won Best Dressed Male!
Photos: Mike Strange, Jean Germain, Jessica Phillip
Elegant Classy Gentleman Team:
Mike Strange: Editor in Chief
Jean Germain: Logistical Executive
Jessica Phillip: Business Executive
Red Rooster Harlem: Venue
Marcus Samuelsson: Celebrity Chef/T.V. Personality/Owner of Red Rooster
Rob Owens: Harlem Derby Founder
Anhtony Mcgowen: NBC News
Sonya Hensley: Movie, Stage and Recording Performer
Woodford Reserve: Sponsor


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Breton's apartment in Paris, filled with objects he and Levi-Strauss bought while exiled in New York during the war.
As with any intellectual history, there is more to "the turn toward performance" than meets the eye: there is considerable buildup across a broad intellectual front, including the introduction of existentialism into the American academy and public culture. (E.g., William Barrett's The Irrational Man [1958] — see note below). A consideration of these broader trends would reveal that the acceptance of work by Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus following the second World War was anticipated by work in American philosophy, such as John Dewey's Art as Experience (1934) and Kenneth Burke's Philosophy of Literary Form (1941). Some of the effort to discern a particular American culture was in response to the rise of rich international connections (which manifested in politics as a concern over communism), many of which were brought about by displaced intellectuals who came to the U.S. in the thirties and forties. Some of them stayed and the result was that American intellectuals interested in work by Roman Jakobson found him referring to work by Vladimir Propp and Mikhail Bakhtin, and so American scholars found themselves confronted by an entire school of literary theory, now known as Russian formalism, which interacted somewhat with their emerging interest in structuralism as it had been developed in France by Lévi-Strauss, Piaget, Lacan, and others. (And all of this ignores the many contributions of the Frankfurt School during this time.)
Burke, Kenneth. 1973/1941. Literature as Equipment for Living. The Philosophy of Literary Form. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Pp. 293-304.
Jakobson Roman. 1960. Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics. In Style in Language, 350-377. Ed. Thomas Sebeok. MIT Press.
Lord, Albert. 1960. The Singer of Tales. Harvard University Press. (The link below will take you to an online version of book hosted by Harvard University.)
Note: If you have never had the chance to read Barrett's The Irrational Man, I highly recommend it. A survey of its chapter titles should prove reason enough: from "The Encounter with Nothingness" and "The Testimony of Modern Art" to "The Place of the Furies," the book was the gateway to existentialism, and thus also phenomenology, for many.
Hannah Arendt holding court at the New School for Social Research.


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Trailer Alert – New 'Fantastic Four' Trailer
With this new trailer we finally get a glimpse at some of the super powers and the super villain, Dr. Doom. I'm assuming Doom was the 5th person on that mission that "didn't survive". This movie already looks awesome and I can't wait to see it, but I have one reservation. I'm not sure I buy Miles Teller as Reed Richards. Reed is supposed to be this super intelligent doctor who crack inter-dimensional travel and I just don't see it because of the limited roles he has played prior. I'm sure my mind will change once I see it. I Just hoping he is the leader the Fantastic Four needs.
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Presenting our past
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry's Director, Vicky Carroll, tells Edwin Smith about some of the most important – and suprising – objects in UGLE's collection, and explains how she's taking them to a wider audience
Having worked at some of the best-known museums in the country, Vicky Carroll took up the role of Director of the Library & Museum of Freemasonry in November 2017. She admits that her target – of doubling the Museum's audience within five years – is 'ambitious', but Carroll's credentials suggest that she's the right person for the job. Having studied natural sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge, she stayed on to complete a Masters and then a PhD in cultural history before beginning her career at the prestigious V&A Museum in London. She went on to work at the Science Museum, the William Morris Gallery, Keats House in Hampstead and the Guildhall Art Gallery. Her passion, she says, is to give impressive collections the audience they deserve. 'It's seizing those opportunities to make stories and heritage more widely accessible, so that more people can benefit from them and enjoy them in a richer, deeper way.'
What was it about the role at The Library and Museum of Freemasonry that appealed to you?
When I first found out about the job, I didn't actually know a huge amount about Freemasonry or the Museum itself. But the subject was intriguing and I wanted to find out more. I think that's typical of a lot of people: they might not really know much about Freemasonry, but there's a mystery there which makes it appealing. I think having that public curiosity is always a great starting place for a museum.
What did you make of the Museum on your first visit?
I was really struck by the quality of the collections; not just the Museum collection, but the Library and the archive as well. The richness and beauty of the objects was compelling. You can see why it's been named as one of just 149 'designated collections' by the Arts Council of England. [These are exceptional collections that 'deepen our understanding of the world and what it means to be human'.] The combination of the public interest in the topic and the strength of the collection meant that there was a huge opportunity to engage a much wider audience – with the collection, with the stories, with the history of Freemasonry.
'A lot of people don't know much about Freemasonry, but it has a mystery which makes it appealing. I think that having that public curiosity is a great starting place'
Can you talk about the standout objects in the Museum?
We have documents showing the foundations of Freemasonry. They're very important from a historical perspective. On display is a first edition of Anderson's Constitutions from 1723. It's the first time that what it meant to be a Freemason was officially recorded. Even older are the Old Charges. These are rule books for stonemasonry and go back to the 1500s. There is also the Articles of Union, the deed marking the unification of the Antients and the Moderns Grand Lodges in 1813.
We've got Winston Churchill's apron, along with objects associated with royalty – as there have been so many royal Freemasons. An exhibit you can't miss on entering the Museum is the huge gilded Grand Master's throne made for the Prince Regent, who later became George IV. But just as important are the humbler objects with stories to tell. We have masonic jewels made from scrap materials by prisoners of war. And our 'Suitcase Stories' display explores how Freemasonry has shaped the lives of individuals from different walks of life.
Have you discovered anything about Freemasonry that has surprised you since you started the role?
I didn't realise that there were – and are – female Freemasons. I was particularly struck by a display of mid-20th-century jewels from the Women's Grand Lodge of Germany. They're decorated with New Age symbolism and the craftsmanship is stunning.
What do you want visitors to take away when they leave?
There are a lot of misconceptions about Freemasonry. Many people simply don't know what it is. We want to help our visitors gain a clearer understanding of Freemasonry's origins, traditions and values, and an insight into what Freemasonry has meant for individuals and our society up to the present day. For members, the Museum is a great way to show family and friends what Freemasonry is all about.
What attracted you to a career in museums in the first place?
It was something I became interested in whilst I was doing my PhD, when I was volunteering in various museums in Cambridge. One of the things that attracted me to it was the ability to reach a broad and diverse public audience and engage them with arts and heritage. Academic research is immensely valuable, but it has more of a niche audience. Whereas I was interested in creating things that had a wider public appeal.
'For our special exhibitions, we've been very proactive in engaging with the press – in line with what UGLE is doing more broadly'
How do you give exhibitions as wide an appeal as possible?
It's often just thinking about the subject from the audience's point of view. What reference points might that audience have that are relevant? How does the topic relate to something they already know about? Even if someone doesn't know a lot about Freemasonry, they might know about a particular period in time, or there might be someone they've heard of. Also, people like to hear stories about people. More traditional museum displays might tell you about an object: what it's made of, when it was made and so on. But often what people find engaging is who might have used it and what it might have meant to that person. And Freemasonry is great for that. It's all about personal experience and relationships – not just physical, tangible things.
How do you plan to double the audience in five years?
Our exhibitions and permanent displays must meet the needs of the audience, while raising our public profile. For one of our current special exhibitions, Bejewelled: Badges, Brotherhood and Identity, we've been very proactive in engaging with the press – in line with what UGLE is doing more broadly. We've expanded our social media and have an e-newsletter, which people can sign up to on our website. We're developing a new visual identity and, later this year, will launch a new website.
What's next for the Museum?
Our exhibition programme is obviously key in attracting more Freemasons as well as members of the public to come and visit. Our newest exhibition is called Decoded: Freemasonry's Illustrated Rulebooks. It unlocks the early history of Freemasonry through the illustrations at the front of the Constitutions. These 'frontispieces' tried to sum up what Freemasonry meant and its place in the world. You can see how, at various times in its early history, Freemasonry was being adapted to the local and historical situations.
Anything else to look out for?
We're a museum, but it's important to remember that we also have a library and an archive, so we're an amazing resource for members who are writing lodge histories, doing preparation for a visit overseas, or researching their own family history. We're also encouraging more students and academics to use our collection, hosting more public events, and soon we will be expanding our educational work and collaborating with artists to interpret the collection. It's a really exciting time.
For more details, visit www.freemasonry.london.museum


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Walmart Product Ecolabel Drive – The Good and the Impossible?
Walmat announced this week a drive to survey, and create from their supplies a comprehensive database and index of the environmental footprint of the products it carries.
Given the heft of Walmart and the ubiquity of its supply chain, I'd argue that its move may be the only way to bring such an index into being. For pushing for ecolabels they deserve a huge amount of credit.
But issues abound. The effort is essentially what is known as a lifecycle analysis (LCA), calculating for a given product or process the environmental footprint of the product and its own supply chain (its embedded or embodied energy, environmental or emissions content, as the case may be).
The problem is that with LCA the devil's always in the details, a combination of the three things 1) data quality, 2) what conversion factors to use, and 3) what is known as the boundary conditions, ie, what is appropriate to count.
You know the joke about economists, put 3 of them in a room, ask 1 question, get 10 correct answers. Well with lifecycle analysts, those same 3 people give you 547 correct answers, not 10. Because those three items, especially number 3, tend to have lots of shades of legitimate gray.
That's why rigorous lifecycle analysts generally shy away from using LCA techniques to compare 2 products or processes, as opposed to using them to assess trends in a single product. Because two products, both with perfectly reasonable assumptions as to what should be counted, often mean a "right" answer for one is not equivalent to a "right" answer for another. In fact, you know you have an idiot for a lifecycle analyst, if he or she tells you his or her answer is right, and product A is better than product B.
A simplistic example, let's say you have a plant in Thailand, that ships 1 mm cotton shirts a year to several vendors, including Walmart, and uses 1 mm kwh of energy a year. Should the energy allocation be then 1 kwh/shirt? What if 20% of those shirts are extra large? Should the XLs get a higher allocation because they're bigger? Do you make that allocation based on size, %, square footage, time to manufacture, or cost, or a combination? Even financial inventory accounting leaves room for differences. What if some shirts cost less than others to produce, should cost be included as a variable in the allocation, and if so, should average, LIFO, or FIFO be used? What if only 30% of the shirts go Walmart, and the others go to a place that doesn't have ecolabels? How do we account for shifting allocations over time if products in one batch come up with different labels, or get shipped by different ships? What if one ship is 20% full and the other 100% full? And how do you allocate the energy footprint for product returns, shrinkage, or wastage? What periodicity do you pick? Allocate quarterly, monthly, annually? Not every answer is material, and not every answer is difficult in every case. That's the whole point, it varies. All of these can have legitimately different answers depending on the nature of the business (and if we get comments on this article explaining the "right" answer, that will just highlight the point), and when you consider that multiple companies or plants supply components, and therefore part of the answer to each other to calculate the final footprint, the permutations of "right" blow out fast.
Part of the solution boils to down to better data and better standards, for which the Walmart effort will be a huge help. And don't get me wrong, the LCA community and hundreds of different LCA databases and models have been wrestling with these issues for decades, and have a lot of experience setting standards, and are always hungry for more data. Unfortunately, the standards as a matter of necessity leave enough room for judgement to be applied, so that eco comparability across products may always be in the eye of the beholder. Bottom line: know the limitations of your data.
So huge massive kudos to Walmart for driving the world forward, again, but the real devil is that comparability within the bounds of the margin of error is virtually impossible to achieve. And it's ripe for gaming.
Neal Dikeman is a partner at Jane Capital Partners, and has cofounded, run, invested in, or served as a director of multiple startups in cleantech and technology. He is Chairman of Carbonflow and Cleantech.org, and a Texas Aggie.


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Month: August 2016
Myrtle Beach State Park Shooting has Local Officer Under Investigation
August 6, 2016
The Horry County Police Department has admitted that a shooting episode at the Myrtle Beach State Park did result in one man being injured and that one of their officer's actions during the event are currently under investigation.
Officers first went to the Myrtle Beach State Park in response to a call of a person who was behaving suspiciously. The caller said the man had a rifle. The responding officers found the individual in questions sitting inside a vehicle. One officer walked up the car and asked the occupant to get out.
Not only did the man refuse to comply with the order, police reports indicate that he "acted in a way" that led the officer to firing his weapon, injuring the man, who was transported to the hospital for treatment. No word as to whether or not the man was actually armed. The officer in question has been placed on administrative activities until the conclusion of the investigation.
"It's my greatest hope that the investigation will reveal that the officer did nothing wrong, and that this was a case of him following police procedure and protecting himself in the proper and legal manner," said John Bales Attorneys, member of a top personal injury firm with an office headquartered in Florida.
Although they sometimes seem to forget it, police officers aren't above the letter of the law. Rules are in place to create a series of checks and balances that allow the officers to uphold the law without resorting to measures that would lead to a police state type of justice system. The problem is that sometimes even the best officers make a mistake that results in someone getting hurt, or worse.
When this happens, measures can be taken to encourage the officers to stop, think, and use more care the next time they're in a similar situation. One of these measures is done in the civil court system.
If someone has been injured as the result of a misjudgment a police officer has made, they are well within their legal rights to file a lawsuit against the officer, the police department, or anyone else who could have done something to prevent the incident from occurring. The terms of the lawsuit allow the injured party to seek financial compensation for the losses they sustained as a result of the incident. In most cases, the plaintiff chooses to ask for lost wages, medical expense, and pain and suffering.
It's important to remember that every single personal injury case is quite different. The only way to determine if you will be successful in a civil case is contacting an experienced law firm, such as Jhon Bales.
During a free consultation, they will listen as you describe the details of your unique case and offer their legal opinion about how they think you should proceed. If everyone determines that a lawsuit is the best course of action, your personal injury lawyer will support and guide you through each step of the process.
Settlement Reached Between Melissa Rivers and the Medical Establishment Responsible for Her Mother's Death
August 6, 2016
The medical malpractice case Melissa Rivers filed after the death of her famous mother, Joan Rivers, has been settled. Joan Rivers was a fashion icon and comedian who was admitted to a New York medical clinic, The Yorkville Endoscopy, for an endoscopy in 2014. After she passed away, an autopsy revealed that she'd died as a direct result of brain damage caused by a lack of oxygen during the endoscopy. Melissa Rivers filed the medical malpractice suit the following January. The amount of the settlement was not released, which is normal when cases are resolved outside of court.
Melissa River's handled her mother's medical malpractice case perfectly. She read the medical reports, she looked at the facts, and when she realized that her mother's death could have been prevented, she enlisted the services of a legal team who helped her resolve the matter. It's exactly what anyone who has lost someone as a result of a mistake made by a medical team should do."
When you enter a medical facility, you expect that the medical team will provide you with the best possible care and will do everything in their power to make sure you leave the clinic in better shape than what you were in when you entered it. Sadly, medical teams are human, and as such they're prone to making mistakes just like all people. The problem is that when medical teams experience a lapse in judgement or temporary shift in their focus, the results are all too often fatal.
A death caused by a mistake made by medical personal isn't something you just have to accept. While there's nothing that can be done to bring your loved one back, you can take legal steps to ensure that no one has to experience the same grief and sense of loss that you're going through.
Don't assume that the medical team will step up and simply take the blame for their mistakes and offer you a settlement. They rarely do. The best way to resolve the matter is with the help of a good personal injury lawyer who specializes in medical malpractice and wrongful death cases.
Not only will your personal injury attorney help you file the necessary paperwork, they'll also launch an in depth investigation that explores all the nuances of your case. Based on what they find, they'll offer advice about who should be listed as the defendants in the case and how large a settlement you should request.
Don't assume that just because you're filing a medical malpractice case, that you'll be forced to attend a trial. More often than not, these cases are settled outside a courtroom during the negotiation phase.
Contact us if you would like to speak to a good attorney about a wrongful death someone you suffered as a result of a medical mistake.