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Edward Sparks (M)
b. before 1750, d. before March, 1786, #56159
Edward Sparks was born before 1750 at MD. He was the son of _____ Sparks. Edward Sparks married Elizabeth ______ circa 1770 at VA. Edward Sparks died before March, 1786 at Fluvanna County, VA.
Children of Edward Sparks and Elizabeth ______:
Jeremiah Sparks II+ b. 1773
Nancy Sparks b. July 19, 1775
James Sparks b. circa 1784
Millard Davis (M)
Millard Davis was born on October 14, 1874 at TX. He was the son of Jett Millard Davis and Sarah Amanda Lucinda Trimble Sparks. Millard Davis married Anna Neal on July 9, 1899 at Pike County, AR. Millard Davis married Malisa "Lissie" or "Lessie" Widener, daughter of Dallas W. "Dal" Widener and Lucinda E. Wisener, on March 18, 1906 at Pike County, AR. Millard Davis died on August 14, 1932 at Clark County, AR, at age 57.
Child of Millard Davis and Malisa "Lissie" or "Lessie" Widener:
Everett Lee Davis b. 1900, d. 1949
Gracie Davis (F)
Gracie Davis was born on November 1, 1888 at Pike County, AR. She was the daughter of Jett Millard Davis and Sarah Amanda Lucinda Trimble Sparks. Gracie Davis married James Riley Folsom, son of Jonathon Folsom and Susan Mollie [Polly] Vickery, on March 24, 1907 at Pike County, AR. Gracie Davis died on August 9, 1974 at Prescott, Nevada County, AR, at age 85.
Elijah L. Davis (M)
Elijah L. Davis was born circa 1879 at AR. He was the son of Jett Millard Davis and Sarah Amanda Lucinda Trimble Sparks. Elijah L. Davis married Sarah L. Henston on April 13, 1902 at Pike County, AR.
Mary Lafada Victoria Sparks (F)
b. September 4, 1890, d. July 12, 1899, #56165
Mary Lafada Victoria Sparks was born on September 4, 1890 at Choctaw Nation, IT. She was the daughter of Marion Jackson "Buddy" Sparks I and Caroline Luticia Lightfoot. Mary Lafada Victoria Sparks died on July 12, 1899 at TX, at age 8.
Elvira Sparks (F)
Elvira Sparks was born circa 1859 at AR. She was the daughter of Russell Jones Sparks and Sarah Caroline Osborn.
Noah P. Hall (M)
Jacob J. McWha (M)
b. May, 1889, d. 1970, #56168
Jacob J. McWha was born in May, 1889 at AR. He was the son of William M. McWha and Mary Elizabeth Sparks. Jacob J. McWha married Sarah Jane Whisenhunt, daughter of William Benjamin [David Ben] Whisenhunt and Ada F. Yarbrough, on September 7, 1911 at Pike County, AR. Jacob J. McWha died in 1970 at Amity, Clark County, AR. He was buried at Valley Grove Cemetery, Kirby, Pike County, AR.
Children of Jacob J. McWha and Sarah Jane Whisenhunt:
Elster McWha
Calvin H. McWha
Ada McWha d. 1993
Myrtrice McWha
Clara McWha
William B. "Bill" McWha
Martha McWha
James E. McWha (M)
b. August, 1877, #56169
James E. McWha was born in August, 1877 at AR. He was the son of William M. McWha and Mary Elizabeth Sparks. James E. McWha married Lola [Lala?] Alma Taylor on October 28, 1900 at Pike County, AR.
Children of James E. McWha and Lola [Lala?] Alma Taylor:
Iva D. McWha b. circa 1902
Bertie McWha b. circa 1904
William Earnest McWha+ b. circa 1907
James C. McWha b. 1909/10
Elizabeth Jane Sparks (F)
b. circa 1826, d. July 14, 1900, #56171
Elizabeth Jane Sparks was born circa 1826 at SC. She was the daughter of David Sparks and Rhoda ______. Elizabeth Jane Sparks married Robinson S. [aka Robert] Brown. Elizabeth Jane Sparks married William Tolbert "Tol" Greeson on March 19, 1869 at Pike County, AR. Elizabeth Jane Sparks died on July 14, 1900 at Pike County, AR. She was buried at Wall Creek Cemetery, Pike County, AR.
Child of Elizabeth Jane Sparks and Robinson S. [aka Robert] Brown:
Margaret Elizabeth Brown+ b. 1848, d. 1924
Elijah Kirkham II (M)
Elijah Kirkham II married Judith Hopkins.
Child of Elijah Kirkham II and Judith Hopkins:
James Hopkins Kirkham+ b. June 4, 1803, d. March 10, 1870
Judith Hopkins (F)
Judith Hopkins married Elijah Kirkham II.
Child of Judith Hopkins and Elijah Kirkham II:
Elizabeth ______ married Edward Sparks, son of _____ Sparks, circa 1770 at VA.
Children of Elizabeth ______ and Edward Sparks:
Wilson T. Lightfoot (M)
b. between 1805 and 1814, #56189
Wilson T. Lightfoot was born between 1805 and 1814 at KY. He was the son of Henry Taylor Lightfoot and Nancy Webster.
Amanda Evans (F)
Amanda Evans was born in February, 1860. She married William Jacob "Jake" Wisener, son of Francis Asbury Wisener and Lucinda Hanks, circa 1888 at Pike County, AR. Amanda Evans died in 1913. She was buried at Bethel Cemetery, Glenwood, Pike County, AR.
Prudy Alice Wilson (F)
b. April 13, 1879, d. September 19, 1959, #56193
Prudy Alice Wilson was born on April 13, 1879 at Pike County, AR. She was the daughter of William Wilson and Mary Ann ______. Prudy Alice Wilson married James Edward "Jim" Sparks, son of John Britton Sparks and Sarah E. Carpenter, on February 6, 1895 at Pike County, AR. Prudy Alice Wilson died on September 19, 1959 at Victoria County, TX, at age 80.
Children of Prudy Alice Wilson and James Edward "Jim" Sparks:
[infant] Sparks [twin]
[infant] Sparks
May Bell Sparks b. January 24, 1897
Albert Newton Sparks b. March 19, 1900
Carrie Melissa Sparks b. July 10, 1902
Fred Richard Sparks b. August 1, 1905
Esther Myrtle Sparks b. August 31, 1907
James Edward Sparks II b. December 31, 1910
John Kirkham (M)
b. November 28, 1871, d. October 31, 1895, #56195
John Kirkham was born on November 28, 1871. He was the son of Elijah M. Kirkham and Elizabeth Suzannah "Betsy Ann" Trout. John Kirkham married Mary Jane Bottoms, daughter of Henry E. Bottoms and Adaline [twin] Wingfield, on August 4, 1890 at Pike County, AR. John Kirkham died on October 31, 1895 at Pike County, AR, at age 23. He was buried at Delight Cemetery, Delight, Pike County, AR.
Child of John Kirkham and Mary Jane Bottoms:
Pearl Josephine Kirkham+ b. May 4, 1891, d. February 24, 1972
Hilery Holcomb (M)
b. November, 1883, #56196
Hilery Holcomb was born in November, 1883 at AR. He was the son of William P. Holcomb and Martha J. ______. Hilery Holcomb married Kate ______ circa 1907.
Child of Hilery Holcomb and Kate ______:
Elry M. Holcomb b. circa February, 1910
James Edward Sparks II (M)
b. December 31, 1910, #56198
James Edward Sparks II was born on December 31, 1910 at Victoria County, TX. He was the son of James Edward "Jim" Sparks and Prudy Alice Wilson.
[infant] Sparks [twin] (M)
[infant] Sparks [twin] was born at Pike County, AR. He was the son of James Edward "Jim" Sparks and Prudy Alice Wilson.
[infant] Sparks (?)
[infant] Sparks was born at Pike County, AR. [infant] Sparks was the child of James Edward "Jim" Sparks and Prudy Alice Wilson.
Larkin Langford (M)
Carrie Melissa Sparks (F)
b. July 10, 1902, #56202
Carrie Melissa Sparks was born on July 10, 1902 at Pike County, AR. She was the daughter of James Edward "Jim" Sparks and Prudy Alice Wilson.
Fred Richard Sparks (M)
Fred Richard Sparks was born on August 1, 1905 at Pike County, AR. He was the son of James Edward "Jim" Sparks and Prudy Alice Wilson.
Caroline "Callie" Sparks (F)
Caroline "Callie" Sparks was born circa 1872 at AR. She was the daughter of Russell Jones Sparks and Sarah Caroline Osborn.
Bonham John Sparks II (M)
b. November 11, 1898, d. June 13, 1971, #56206
Bonham John Sparks II was born on November 11, 1898. He was the son of Marion Jackson "Buddy" Sparks I and Caroline Luticia Lightfoot. Bonham John Sparks II married Alma Hattie Maxey on June 25, 1920. Bonham John Sparks II died on June 13, 1971 at age 72.
Edgar Allen McWha (M)
b. May, 1894, #56207
Edgar Allen McWha was born in May, 1894 at AR. He was the son of William M. McWha and Mary Elizabeth Sparks.
William Alma Sparks (M)
b. January 13, 1888, d. July 26, 1912, #56208
William Alma Sparks was born on January 13, 1888 at Choctaw Nation, IT. He was the son of Marion Jackson "Buddy" Sparks I and Caroline Luticia Lightfoot. William Alma Sparks died on July 26, 1912 at age 24. He was buried at Memorial Cemetery, Victoria County, TX.
William M. McWha (M)
b. December, 1853, #56209
William M. McWha was born in December, 1853 at AR. He was the son of James McWha and Amanda M. Buchanan. William M. McWha married Mary Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of William Erwin Sparks and Bede Caroline Osborn, on September 7, 1876.
Children of William M. McWha and Mary Elizabeth Sparks:
James E. McWha+ b. August, 1877
Willis J. McWha b. March, 1881
Rebecca J. McWha b. March, 1883
William Eldridge McWha b. February, 1885
Carrie M. McWha b. February, 1887
Jacob J. McWha+ b. May, 1889, d. 1970
Mary Myrtle McWha+ b. November 1, 1891, d. October 12, 1966
Edgar Allen McWha b. May, 1894
Russell Jones Sparks (M)
b. August 24, 1830, d. September 29, 1871, #56210
Russell Jones Sparks was born on August 24, 1830 at Gwinnett County, GA. He was the son of Henry S. Sparks and Martha "Marthy" Osborn. Russell Jones Sparks married Sarah Caroline Osborn, daughter of Jesse Osborn and Elvira ______, on November 5, 1852 at Clark County, AR. Russell Jones Sparks died on September 29, 1871 at age 41.
Children of Russell Jones Sparks and Sarah Caroline Osborn:
Linn Frank Sparks
William Wiley Sparks+ b. March 2, 1854, d. April 6, 1930
Nancy M. Sparks b. circa 1855
Sarah A. Sparks b. circa 1857
Elvira Sparks b. circa 1859
John Green Sparks b. circa 1862
Henry B. Sparks b. circa 1864
Cyntha E. Sparks b. circa 1866
Mary Sparks b. circa 1870
Marian J. Sparks b. circa 1870
James R. "Jimmie" Sparks b. circa 1872
Caroline "Callie" Sparks b. circa 1872
Ora Sparks (F)
b. October 5, 1896, #56211
Ora Sparks was born on October 5, 1896 at Branch, Franklin County, AR. She was the daughter of William Wiley Sparks and Penelope Keller.
Marion Jackson "Buddy" Sparks I (M)
b. February 25, 1859, d. December 5, 1943, #56212
Marion Jackson "Buddy" Sparks I was born on February 25, 1859 at Amity, Pike County, AR. He was the son of William Erwin Sparks and Bede Caroline Osborn. Marion Jackson "Buddy" Sparks I married Caroline Luticia Lightfoot, daughter of William Henry Lightfoot and Mary Ann King Childers, on January 16, 1887 at Clark County, AR. Marion Jackson "Buddy" Sparks I died on December 5, 1943 at Victoria County, TX, at age 84. He was buried at Memorial Cemetery, Victoria County, TX.
Children of Marion Jackson "Buddy" Sparks I and Caroline Luticia Lightfoot:
William Alma Sparks b. January 13, 1888, d. July 26, 1912
Mary Lafada Victoria Sparks b. September 4, 1890, d. July 12, 1899
Clarence Fredrick Sparks+ b. April 4, 1892, d. October 28, 1971
May Belle Sparks+ b. May 8, 1895, d. January 9, 1981
Bonham John Sparks II+ b. November 11, 1898, d. June 13, 1971
Myrtle Sparks+ b. April 11, 1900, d. April, 1983
Cadder Isabelle Sparks+ b. November 11, 1902, d. March 18, 1989
Paralee Gertrude Sparks+ b. March 28, 1905
Marian Jackson Sparks II+ b. July 8, 1907, d. July 17, 1987
Willis J. McWha (M)
Willis J. McWha was born in March, 1881 at AR. He was the son of William M. McWha and Mary Elizabeth Sparks.
_____ McDaniel (M)
Children of _____ McDaniel:
Elizabeth McDaniel+ b. April 13, 1827, d. October 28, 1901
Eliza A. McDaniel+ b. December, 1840, d. 1926
Marion Andrew Sparks (M)
Marion Andrew Sparks was born on February 28, 1882 at Branch, Franklin County, AR. He was the son of William Wiley Sparks and Penelope Keller.
Marian J. Sparks (M)
Marian J. Sparks was born circa 1870 at AR. He was the son of Russell Jones Sparks and Sarah Caroline Osborn.
Beth Edwards (F)
Beth Edwards married Jules Toussaint.
Johnnie [Johnia] Madison Trout (F)
b. July 13, 1900, d. 1988, #56218
Johnnie [Johnia] Madison Trout was born on July 13, 1900 at Pike County, AR. She was the daughter of John Henry Trout and Fannie Madison Garrett. Johnnie [Johnia] Madison Trout married Claude B. Wright, son of John Brauner Wright and Rosalee [Rosa L.] "Rosie" Copeland, on October 22, 1916 at Pike County, AR. Johnnie [Johnia] Madison Trout died in 1988. She was buried at Delight Cemetery, Delight, Pike County, AR.
Children of Johnnie [Johnia] Madison Trout and Claude B. Wright:
Carleton Bernice Wright+ b. January 18, 1918, d. November, 1987
[infant] Wright b. July 17, 1921, d. July 29, 1921
Carleton Bernice Wright (M)
b. January 18, 1918, d. November, 1987, #56219
Carleton Bernice Wright was born on January 18, 1918 at Shawmut, Pike County, AR. He was the son of Claude B. Wright and Johnnie [Johnia] Madison Trout. Carleton Bernice Wright died in November, 1987 at Little Rock, Pulaski County, AR, at age 69. He was buried at Pinecrest Cemetery, Little Rock, Pulaski County, AR.
[infant] Wright (M)
[infant] Wright was born on July 17, 1921 at Shawmut, Pike County, AR. He was the son of Claude B. Wright and Johnnie [Johnia] Madison Trout. [infant] Wright died on July 29, 1921 at Shawmut, Pike County, AR, at age 0. He was buried at Wood Cemetery, Shawmut, Pike County, AR.
Richard W. Hill (M)
Children of Richard W. Hill:
R. A. "Bunker" Hill
J. B. "Britt" Hill
R. A. "Bunker" Hill (M)
R. A. "Bunker" Hill was the son of Richard W. Hill.
J. B. "Britt" Hill (M)
J. B. "Britt" Hill was the son of Richard W. Hill.
John Henry Trout (M)
John Henry Trout married Fannie Madison Garrett on September 9, 1886 at Pike County, AR.
Child of John Henry Trout and Fannie Madison Garrett:
Johnnie [Johnia] Madison Trout+ b. July 13, 1900, d. 1988
Fannie Madison Garrett (F)
Fannie Madison Garrett married John Henry Trout on September 9, 1886 at Pike County, AR.
Child of Fannie Madison Garrett and John Henry Trout:
Joe B. Lucy (M)
Joe B. Lucy was born at Giles County, TN. He married Della J. Norton.
Della J. Norton (F)
Della J. Norton was born at IN. She married Joe B. Lucy.
James S. Thomasson (M)
James S. Thomasson was born circa 1848 at GA. He was the son of W. B. Thomasson and Mary A. ______. James S. Thomasson married Jane C. Waldrop on November 15, 1874 at Pike County, AR. James S. Thomasson married Dora [Ore'a] Lovine Wright, daughter of William M. Wright and Salina Elizabeth Brauner, on June 9, 1907 at Pike County, AR.
Children of James S. Thomasson and Jane C. Waldrop:
Laura Thomasson b. circa 1877
Blanche Thomasson b. circa 1879
Jane C. Waldrop (F)
Jane C. Waldrop was born at GA. She married James S. Thomasson, son of W. B. Thomasson and Mary A. ______, on November 15, 1874 at Pike County, AR.
Children of Jane C. Waldrop and James S. Thomasson:
Laura Thomasson (F)
Laura Thomasson was born circa 1877 at Pike County, AR. She was the daughter of James S. Thomasson and Jane C. Waldrop.


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package net.CyanWool.api.inventory.recipes;

import java.util.List;

import net.CyanWool.api.inventory.ItemType;

public interface RecipeManager {

    public boolean register(Recipe recipe);

    public boolean registerAll(List<Recipe> recipes);

    public boolean remove(Recipe recipe);

    public void clear();

    public List<Recipe> getAllRecipes();

    public List<ShapedRecipe> getShapedRecipes();

    public List<ShapelessRecipe> getShapelessRecipes();

    public List<FurnaceRecipe> getFurnaceRecipes();

    public ShapedRecipe matchShapedRecipe(List<ItemType> itemType);

    public ShapelessRecipe matchShapelessRecipe(List<ItemType> itemType);

    public boolean registerFuel(FurnaceFuel fuel);

    public boolean remove(FurnaceFuel fuel);

    public List<FurnaceFuel> getAllFuels();
}

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Your business will grow like magic when you give a customer or employee something far beyond their expectations. When you give them value in excess of what they felt they deserved or paid for, you have created a Magic Experience.
The aim of a Magic Experience is to make the transaction between you and your customers memorable. Magic Experiences leave a lasting positive impression, one that makes customers want to do business with you again. And Magic Experiences also make people very happy to tell all their friends about the fun, exciting, and remarkable experience of doing business with you.
To customers, a Magic Experience shows you care for them and what they do. To benefit from this, you must make Magic Experiences an integral part of your business – part of your systems – so they happen every time for every customer, so they appear to be a special event for each customer.
Each and every day, thousands of business transactions occur. You buy a paper, coffee, a bus ticket, gas for the car, a pair of shoes, lunch, an airline ticket, a table, and … Which buying experiences do you remember? The Magic Experience and the Murderous Experience. So many of these other transactions are forgettable. Why? Because they are just the same as all the others.
Usually, the only buying experiences you remember are the bad ones – the surly waiter, the twelve phone transfers to find the right person, the dismissive "that's – just – how – it – is" answer. These sorts are the murderous Experiences – because they murder your business. They're a thousand times worse than a forgettable one, because people never forget, they tell their friends, and they want revenge. On average, a person who is treated well in a transaction will tell two to five people. Treat someone badly, though, and they will tell an average of ten people! But provide a Magic Experience, and customers will become your most powerful, free, walking, talking advertisements.
All businesses can find a way to produce their own Magic Experience. How you do this depends on you and the type of business you're in. brainstorm ideas with your staff, friends, customers. Borrow ideas from other businesses that have impressed you. Be a little creative – a little different – because this is where the magic begins.
Health and Fitness Center. This centre provides towels, baby-sitting, and fully stocked showers and dressing rooms, all free of charge. What's more, its staff brings patrons cold, purified water while they are working out. They stop for a chat, not about exercise but about life and things they have discovered interest you. When you leave, they offer to wash your work-out clothes and have them clean and ready for you on your net visit free of charge. Would you pay a little more to work out here?
A Car Dealership. When the sale is made, the salesperson casually asks about the customer's music preferences. When the car is delivered, not only is it shiny, new, and smelling beautiful, but there is $200 worth of your favorite type of music (CD or cassette) in the car a s a gift – with a beautiful thank you note. Will you recommend them to your friends?
A Restaurant. There's a restaurant that gives a free drink and snacks to all patrons who are waiting for a table. Staff regularly brings out samples of its entrees and desserts, offering them to those who are waiting. Not only does this keep people happy when waiting, but it encourages the sale of items patrons rarely order.
Men's Clothing Store. The minute you walk in you are offered a comfortable chair and a drink. Not just the usual tea or coffee any drink you like: cola, cappuccino, and freshly squeezed juice. You are greeted like long-lost friend and never ever asked, "Can I help you?" if you simply got up and left after you drink and bought nothing. It would make no difference to their attitude. But I dare you to enter that shop and leave with nothing!
A Taxicab. Imagine getting into a cab and finding it comfortably air-conditioned, spotlessly clean, and well presented. A well-spoken driver offers you a piece of fruit or chocolate and a hand or face wipe. He also offers you a choice of newspaper or magazine and the use of a mobile phone if you need to call somebody. If you don't usually tip taxi drivers, you will this one.
Corner Store. Ever gone into a corner store hungry and arrived at the counter having eaten something while waiting in line? Imagine that when it's your turn to pay the cashier tells you that because you were so hungry, the item you just ate is free. Would you return to this store?
To create magic, you must be different – think outside the square. The rule is: Whatever others are doing, don't do that.
It pays off. I once referred a customer to a supplier. To say thank you, he sent me a gourmet hamper. It was quite expensive, I' m sure, but the sort of work he does is rarely under $8,000 to $10,000. The cost of a hamper looks pretty small next to that sort of money.
Push the boundaries of what you can offer and be meticulous on the detail. Near enough is not good enough anymore. Introduce fun into you business and have fun with your customers. Go one step further. If everyone is offering their customers a cup of tea or coffee, offer them a cappuccino or a freshly squeezed orange juice. If everyone else starts doing cappuccinos and orange juices, offer a cocktail@ it doesn't matter how – just be different.


Spring is on its way, the days are getting longer, the daffodils are starting to flower and there's now a warmth in the sun. So it's nearly time to replace the vitamin D supplements for the real thing – sunshine!
My previous blog (Sunshine on my Shoulders – pt 1) discussed why vitamin D is so important, supplements and Vitamin D3. I also raised the inevitable questions about how to get enough of it from the sun.
The amount of skin you expose – the more skin you expose, the more vitamin D you can produce.
Where you live – the closer to the equator you live, the easier it is for you to produce vitamin D from sunlight all year round. Also you make more vitamin D at higher altitude.
The colour of your skin – pale skins make vitamin D more quickly than darker skins.
How old you are – as you get older, your skin has a harder time producing vitamin D.
Environmental factors – cloud cover and pollution levels will also affect the amount of UVB getting through the atmosphere.
No. You can't make vitamin D from sitting indoors by a sunny window because ultraviolet B (UVB) rays can't get through & that's what you need to make vitamin D. So unfortunately sitting in a lovely conservatory may get you warm, but it won't help your Vitamin D levels. But you can still burn, so be careful.
Yes. To get your vitamin D intake go out into the sun without any sunscreen. Then cover up, go under shade or use a sunscreen (UVA & UVB protection) before you burn. The question about the health safety of sunscreens is a whole separate blog that I need to write!
Most people can make enough vitamin D from being out in the sun daily for short periods with their forearms, hands or lower legs uncovered and without sunscreen from March to October, especially from 11am to 3pm.
A 'short period of time' in the sun is about 10 to 15 minutes for most lighter-skinned people – and is less than the time it takes you to start going red or burn. Exposing yourself for longer is unlikely to provide any additional benefits.
How long it takes for your skin to go red or burn varies from person to person. Cancer Research UK has a useful tool where you can find out your skin type, to see when you might be at risk of burning.
In the UK, our skin isn't able to make vitamin D from October to March, as the sunlight hasn't got enough UVB radiation. During the winter, we get vitamin D from our body's stores, which are built up during the summer and food sources plus you can add supplements such as cod liver oil (see my blog: Sunshine on my Shoulders – pt 1).
But remember, the key to avoiding skin damage such as premature aging of the skin or the dreaded melanoma, is to keep sun exposure during these times for a short duration and definitely not long enough to burn.
Getting half the amount of exposure that it takes for your skin to turn pink.
So now you know why Englishmen go out in the midday sun – to get their vitamin D!


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In 1963, Mrs. Elizabeth Upton Vawter and her husband William bought 130 acres of land along what is now the River Trail. Their idea was to create a nature sanctuary similar to what they had seen at other area nature centers. After purchasing the land they contacted the Michigan Audubon Society to ask them to take possession of the land and manage it as a nature center, and Michigan Audubon Society immediately accepted. At the request of the Vawters, the nature center was named after Mr. Lew Sarett, a childhood friend of Mr. Vawter. Mr. Sarett, who grew up in Benton Harbor, was a well-known naturalist, poet, Native American expert, and professor of speech at Northwestern University.
During the first years the emphasis at Sarett was creating a number of ponds and developing a system of trails. In 1967, the first environmental education class was held at Sarett. It was taught by volunteers and had eight students. During each subsequent year, new programs were added. During that year, over three thousand students came to Sarett for environmental education programs.
The environmental education programs at Sarett have continued to grow and expand throughout the years. The nature center now offers a wide variety of half day and whole day ecology programs to area schools. In addition, the staff at Sarett has developed a number of unique programs for area students including classes in the summer, a traveling naturalist program, home school programs and scout programs.
Area students are not the only ones who have an opportunity to learn at Sarett. Over the years Sarett has developed a number of programs for adults. Night and weekend classes in bird biology, snowshoe making, plant identification, nature craft classes and many other subjects are offered each year. Sarett also sponsors weekend programs for adults and children alike. These programs include nature videos, guest lectures, slide programs, nature hikes and many others.
A final aspect of Sarett's environmental education offering is natural history tours. Each year, Sarett organizes and leads a number of tours to the most exciting natural locations in the United States and the world. Groups have traveled with Sarett to such captivating destinations such as Africa, New Zealand, Belize, the Caribbean, Scandinavia and the Galapagos Islands. Through visiting these natural areas and seeing the incredible beauty that nature has to offer, these people often come home with a new appreciation for nature and a renewed resolve to preserve the world's remaining natural areas.
Sarett hasn't stopped expanding in the last decade either. In 2008, Sarett expanded the main building to include a great room, conference room, new kitchen and two new classrooms. No more than a year later, the Treetop Walkway was built, a 55-foot tall lookout tower over the Paw Paw River Valley. In 2011, Sarett opened the Butterfly House. The Butterfly House is home to hundreds of butterflies from May-October and can be visited for a small fee. In 2014, the completion of the Nature Play Area allows children to connect with nature, through nature-made or inspired play equipment.

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Turlock main city page
95380 Zip Code (Turlock, CA)
95380 Zip Code (Turlock, CA) Detailed Profile
Cities: Turlock, CA (13.93%), Delhi, CA (0.47%)
Counties: Stanislaus County, CA (75.40%), Merced County, CA (24.60%)
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Tropical Tan
BC Signs
Black race population percentage below state average.
19,79648.8%Hispanic or Latino
1,3603.4%Asian
1480.4%Native Hawaiian and Other
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Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Turlock, CA (95380)
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Cars and other vehicles available in Turlock, CA (95380) in owner-occupied houses/condos
Cars and other vehicles available in Turlock, CA (95380) in renter-occupied apartments
9Less than $100
1,051$800 to $899
Occupied boats, RVs, vans, etc.: $173,369
3 or 4: 1,090
0.4%70Bus or trolley bus
0.5%82Bicycle
1,143Less than 5 minutes
6,652 spouses, 15,244 children (14,223 natural, 334 adopted, 689 stepchildren), 1,135 grandchildren, 911 brothers or sisters, 966 parents, 619 other relatives, 1,324 non-relatives
Size of family households: 3,502 2-persons, 2,092 3-persons, 2,178 4-persons, 1,424 5-persons, 587 6-persons, 341 7-or-more-persons
3,410 single-parent households (1,013 men, 2,397 women).
5.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% very well, 19% well, 21% not well, 8% not at all).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (44% very well, 15% well, 18% not well, 23% not at all).
2.4% of residents speak other language at home (47% very well, 19% well, 20% not well, 14% not at all).
Foreign born population: 11,096 (25.8%)
10%Italy
5%Portugal
5%India
1%Guyana
8%Portuguese
2%Assyrian
1,4242010 or later
CHEMLAND INCORPORATED (1298 S. WALNUT RD. in TURLOCK, CA)
ENFORCEMENT/COMPLIANCE ACTIVITY (Integrated Compliance Information System) - ICIS-09-1992-0068, FORMAL ENFORCEMENT ACTION
(Tracking inspections of insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide, and toxic substances) - ICIS-, ENFORCEMENT/COMPLIANCE ACTIVITY
Business SIC classification: SOAP AND OTHER DETERGENTS, EXCEPT SPECIALTY CLEANERS; SPECIALTY CLEANING, POLISHING, AND SANITATION PREPARATIONS
FOSTER TURKEY PRODUCTS PLANT 1 (545 C ST. in TURLOCK, CA)
Business SIC classification: POULTRY SLAUGHTERING AND PROCESSING; REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE; GENERAL WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE
Organizations: TOM FOSTER (CONTACT/OWNER)
Alternative names: FEEDSTUFFS PROCESSING COMPANY, FOSTER POULTRY FARMS, FOSTER TURKEY FARMS, FOSTER TURKEY PRODUCTS PLANT C
CAHFS-TURLOCK (C/O EH&S) (1550 SODERQUIST RD in TURLOCK, CA) . Federal Facility
Organizations: REGENTS OF UNIV OF CA (CONTACT/OWNER)
Alternative names: CVDL-TURLOCK (C/O EH&S), UCD ANIMAL HEALTH/FOOD SAFETY
CA STATE COLLEGE STANISLAUS (800 MONTE VISTA AVE in TURLOCK, CA)
Large Quantity Generators, more that 1000 kg of hazardous waste/month (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste))
Alternative names: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS
A&A TRANSMISSION (1200 N GOLDEN STATE BLVD in TURLOCK, CA)
ENFORCEMENT/COMPLIANCE ACTIVITY (Integrated Compliance Information System)
Organizations: ELDON BASE (CONTACT/OWNER)
GARTON FORD TRACTOR INC (WALNUT GOLDEN STATE BLVD in TURLOCK, CA)
Business NAICS classification: ALL OTHER MISCELLANEOUS STORE RETAILERS (EXCEPT TOBACCO STORES).
Alternative names: GARTON TRACTOR, INC
FOSTER TURKEY PRODUCTS PROCESSING PLANT 2 (711 F STREET in TURLOCK, CA)
Business SIC classification: POULTRY SLAUGHTERING AND PROCESSING
Alternative names: FOSTER FARMS, FOSTER TURKEY PRODS., PLANT 2
HIBMA DAIRY (13745 N. NEWPORT RD in TURLOCK, CA)
Business SIC classification: DAIRY FARMS
Alternative names: HIBMA, SIDNEY
MIRAZIZ TRUCKING (2330 MIRA FLORES DR in TURLOCK, CA)
TRANSPORTER (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste))
Business NAICS classification: SOLID WASTE COLLECTION.; HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION.
Organizations: JAKLIN ISHOUFAR (CONTACT/OPERATOR) , EELI ISMAEL (CONTACT/OWNER)
JORDAO DAIRY (6025 S CENTRAL in TURLOCK, CA)
Alternative names: JORDEO DAIRY
CHEVRON STATION 90510 (100 EAST GLENWOOD AVE in TURLOCK, CA)
Business SIC classification: GASOLINE SERVICE STATIONS
Alternative names: CHEVRON STATION #90510
JESTER AUTO WORKS (545 S CENTER in TURLOCK, CA)
Business NAICS classification: AUTOMOTIVE BODY, PAINT, AND INTERIOR REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE.
Organizations: NENIF HAIDAR (CONTACT/OPERATOR) , DAVID HAIDAR (CONTACT/OWNER)
EMC THOMAS GRAY AND ASSOCIATE (3106 SOUTH FAITH HOME ROAD in TURLOCK, CA)
Organizations: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT & CONTROLS INC (CONTACT/OPERATOR) , THOMAS GRAY & ASSOCIATES INC (CONTACT/OWNER)
Alternative names: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT & CONTROLS INC
51,874Law enforcement workers including supervisors
SIERRA GROUP, LLC (2740 VOLK AVE in TURLOCK, CA; small business) : $79,384 in 2 contracts from 2002 to 2003
$55,294 with Air Force for X-Ray Equipment and Supplies: Medical, Dental, Veterinary. Signed on 2002-11-21. Completion date: 2002-12-02.
$24,090 with Department of Defense for Radio and Television Communication Equipment, Except Airborne. Signed on 2003-01-06. Completion date: 2003-04-07.
ADVANTAGE ROUTE SYSTEMS INC (147 S BROADWAY in TURLOCK, CA; small business)
$8,120 with Air Force for Office Information System Equipment. Signed on 2005-09-24. Completion date: 2005-10-07.
Accommodation and Food Services: Limited-Service Restaurants (50-99: 5, 20-49: 14, 10-19: 7, 5-9: 5, 1-4: 8)
Accommodation and Food Services: Full-Service Restaurants (50-99: 2, 20-49: 10, 10-19: 5, 5-9: 6, 1-4: 9)
Construction: Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (250-499: 1, 10-19: 4, 5-9: 3, 1-4: 5)
Other Services (except Public Administration): Drycleaning and Laundry Services (except Coin-Operated) (250-499: 1, 20-49: 1, 5-9: 1, 1-4: 1)
Health Care and Social Assistance: Nursing Care Facilities (100-249: 2, 20-49: 1)
93 people in other noninstitutional facilities
7 people in residential treatment centers for juveniles (non-correctional)
52 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
LOANS ORIGINATED 356 $146,165 219 $131,487 320 $182,403 13 $150,726 1 $1,250,000 132 $100,727 2 $62,585
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 27 $146,080 31 $136,950 35 $165,335 9 $57,092 0 $0 12 $103,518 3 $84,990
APPLICATIONS DENIED 64 $151,389 79 $121,962 276 $193,792 21 $113,010 1 $300,000 59 $108,598 13 $123,258
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 42 $144,900 40 $129,597 94 $188,694 5 $103,074 0 $0 21 $125,497 1 $165,000
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 6 $170,670 16 $199,008 36 $187,534 2 $15,000 0 $0 4 $152,578 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 230 $181,065 317 $165,701 279 $182,062 44 $79,784 4 $916,400 136 $121,595 6 $75,532
APPLICATIONS DENIED 53 $176,781 116 $197,313 459 $232,243 80 $101,306 1 $250,000 79 $184,836 18 $74,352
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 24 $188,349 62 $205,672 138 $209,249 19 $172,222 0 $0 38 $163,663 1 $103,760
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 7 $157,099 21 $194,513 47 $188,278 8 $101,499 0 $0 8 $164,534 1 $18,000
LOANS ORIGINATED 7 $281,327 485 $231,428 898 $226,910 132 $123,018 10 $568,958 205 $213,867 21 $163,716
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 2 $275,000 106 $255,080 234 $239,560 47 $113,536 0 $0 42 $213,816 8 $102,761
APPLICATIONS DENIED 4 $202,685 227 $250,795 921 $259,904 182 $165,715 0 $0 104 $262,994 21 $175,222
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 1 $323,820 63 $246,077 324 $252,602 37 $164,782 1 $1,272,240 30 $211,032 10 $213,854
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 19 $230,934 140 $261,210 5 $168,222 0 $0 7 $244,970 2 $411,170
LOANS ORIGINATED 4 $277,460 928 $227,302 1,776 $235,708 308 $136,074 6 $4,262,848 301 $233,494 15 $123,079
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 1 $190,800 244 $221,846 384 $257,877 56 $155,291 0 $0 87 $258,192 11 $71,365
APPLICATIONS DENIED 0 $0 315 $234,995 978 $263,715 220 $126,574 3 $434,637 145 $256,163 12 $125,475
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 1 $310,640 156 $243,473 686 $255,596 66 $177,027 1 $720,520 61 $234,304 6 $164,073
LOANS ORIGINATED 0 $0 1,487 $209,854 2,201 $218,015 284 $131,969 15 $2,121,193 416 $222,673 17 $215,232
APPLICATIONS DENIED 1 $161,000 501 $223,638 959 $226,250 195 $109,420 5 $500,928 155 $232,707 37 $107,711
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 1 $218,000 252 $218,056 878 $227,313 123 $201,049 1 $4,029,000 96 $228,224 8 $139,301
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 59 $254,165 234 $218,616 19 $162,561 0 $0 17 $209,588 2 $347,090
LOANS ORIGINATED 33 $187,648 1,523 $171,914 1,940 $170,178 231 $112,499 13 $714,697 353 $181,091 14 $136,399
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 1 $168,000 322 $169,850 393 $173,807 26 $88,305 3 $495,667 46 $164,010 11 $95,515
APPLICATIONS DENIED 5 $182,868 440 $175,436 861 $171,257 126 $73,119 5 $375,800 98 $151,580 25 $78,522
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 41 $187,133 261 $177,487 9 $99,357 0 $0 30 $170,035 1 $62,580
LOANS ORIGINATED 74 $159,195 942 $164,053 2,955 $143,206 139 $45,038 7 $2,975,439 348 $149,259
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 4 $159,668 152 $162,049 388 $144,637 33 $51,920 1 $242,000 66 $153,370
APPLICATIONS DENIED 6 $146,575 203 $162,294 937 $143,504 108 $36,862 2 $757,500 76 $155,660
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 11 $142,039 116 $176,064 713 $153,409 23 $37,462 0 $0 41 $161,863
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 28 $166,626 123 $151,184 10 $31,080 0 $0 20 $152,941
LOANS ORIGINATED 150 $140,426 811 $139,717 1,755 $129,592 120 $35,420 9 $287,490 237 $119,226
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 3 $97,223 104 $134,060 281 $125,599 31 $30,956 0 $0 36 $125,194
APPLICATIONS DENIED 16 $146,566 191 $127,038 582 $118,677 88 $32,878 3 $260,000 64 $124,205
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 19 $142,635 120 $153,145 448 $128,993 17 $36,507 1 $149,000 32 $139,708
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 4 $106,838 27 $121,000 111 $124,319 3 $50,667 1 $11,308,800 13 $105,588
LOANS ORIGINATED 203 $129,082 687 $126,684 1,397 $122,602 60 $44,712 14 $589,507 181 $108,817
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 9 $113,036 77 $134,374 163 $115,869 27 $33,574 0 $0 20 $104,177
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 29 $119,676 96 $113,896 4 $33,460 1 $1,060,200 10 $135,205
LOANS ORIGINATED 258 $112,461 624 $106,778 283 $90,131 65 $31,727 3 $167,290 87 $88,186
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 9 $75,343 70 $113,745 79 $90,735 42 $34,007 0 $0 14 $102,961
APPLICATIONS DENIED 23 $105,775 149 $91,345 370 $93,023 97 $28,778 2 $162,610 26 $85,880
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 48 $103,385 121 $100,789 241 $84,849 22 $40,386 2 $162,000 15 $98,042
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 1 $77,000 10 $87,158 26 $93,251 2 $22,500 0 $0 1 $94,000
LOANS ORIGINATED 223 $106,904 310 $99,876 350 $88,195 42 $28,884 9 $133,169 78 $76,615
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 5 $122,742 34 $86,359 94 $82,647 24 $27,618 1 $152,730 21 $82,587
APPLICATIONS DENIED 24 $113,430 81 $103,973 312 $78,244 63 $26,733 4 $206,475 41 $79,158
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 40 $106,854 70 $114,930 186 $88,257 5 $27,446 2 $101,380 20 $65,731
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 4 $126,670 4 $113,118 56 $93,649 0 $0 1 $109,600 7 $93,609
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 14 $152,122 1 $240,000
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 1 $195,000 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 104 $207,573 20 $248,247 10 $157,751
LOANS ORIGINATED 74 $274,924 61 $293,464 7 $286,250 1 $456,460
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 11 $317,818 23 $305,993 1 $489,600 0 $0
APPLICATIONS DENIED 2 $265,195 7 $339,971 3 $407,040 0 $0
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 6 $297,095 4 $267,305 0 $0 0 $0
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 5 $329,112 12 $288,049 4 $320,180
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 0 $0 3 $359,193 1 $528,690
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 3 $264,863 2 $144,400 2 $152,985
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 2 $251,975 0 $0 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 132 $231,536 50 $195,180 11 $199,673 1 $119,060
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 1 $155,000 0 $0 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 191 $185,745 135 $170,689 13 $151,052
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 1 $135,000 1 $158,000 0 $0
APPLICATIONS DENIED 2 $150,835 6 $124,140 1 $76,000
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 17 $155,101 2 $156,235 1 $56,990
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 21 $104,524 7 $115,563 4 $75,750
LOANS ORIGINATED 94 $112,115 45 $103,351 10 $92,846
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 7 $101,266 8 $135,148 1 $40,650
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 1 $69,250 1 $115,650 0 $0
Manuel 93 75.9 years
Silva 51 75.8 years
Peterson 46 80.6 years
Carlson 42 82.2 years
Olson 42 83.4 years
Larson 41 80.5 years
7-Eleven 1 KFC 2
99 Cents Only Stores 1 Kohl's 1
AT&T 2 Kroger 2
Applebee's 1 Lane Furniture 1
AutoZone 1 Little Caesars Pizza 1
Baskin-Robbins 1 Lowe's 1
Bath & Body Works 1 Marriott 1
Bed Bath & Beyond 1 McDonald's 4
Blockbuster 1 Motel 6 1
Burger King 1 Nike 3
CVS 1 Panda Express 1
Carl\s Jr. 1 Panera Bread 1
Chevrolet 1 Payless 2
Chipotle 1 Penske 1
Circle K 1 Pier 1 Imports 1
Cold Stone Creamery 1 Pizza Hut 1
Comfort Suites 1 Qdoba Mexican Grill 1
Costco 1 Quiznos 2
Cricket Wireless 4 RadioShack 1
Curves 1 Red Robin 1
Dairy Queen 1 Rite Aid 1
Days Inn 1 SONIC Drive-In 2
Dennys 1 Sears 1
Discount Tire 1 Staples 1
Domino's Pizza 1 Starbucks 5
DressBarn 1 Subway 1
Dressbarn 1 T-Mobile 3
El Pollo Loco 1 T.J.Maxx 1
Famous Footwear 1 Taco Bell 1
FedEx 7 Target 1
GNC 3 The Room Place 1
GameStop 1 Travelodge 1
Holiday Inn 2 UPS 4
Home Depot 1 Verizon Wireless 1
IHOP 1 Vons 1
JCPenney 1 Walgreens 1
Jack In The Box 2 Walmart 1
Jamba Juice 1 Wendy's 2
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News + Politics Supes call for major cuts in police budget
Supes call for major cuts in police budget
Dramatic hearing leads to calls for spending reductions far beyond what the mayor has proposed.
By Tim Redmond
The Board of Supes Budget and Appropriations Committee moved toward some significant cuts for the Police Department today, with the chair, Sup. Sandra Lee Fewer, proposing that the next four Police Academy classes be cancelled and Sup. Shamann Walton calling for a 75 percent reduction in police overtime.
The move toward reducing police funding that the supes discussed went way beyond what the mayor is proposing.
The supes challenged Chief Bill Scott over his argument that any cuts in sworn officers will endanger public safety.
Along the way, the committee members challenged Chief Bill Scott, with Sup. Rafael Mandelman at one point saying that he didn't understand why the city can't fire bad cops. "If we have a bad city planner, then in the worst case we get some bad planning decisions," he said. "If we hire a bad cop, people die. We need to make it easier to fire a bad cop than a bad planner."
That, of course, is due in large part to the city's contract with the Police Officers Association, which makes it difficult, sometimes almost impossible, to make the necessary reforms in the department.
That contract will come before the supes shortly after the budget process is over, and Sup. Hillary Ronen, who is on the Budget Committee, told me tonight that she is not voting for it.
I suspect a lot of her colleagues my feel the same way: If the POA won't accept contract changes that allow for necessary reforms (including making it easier to get rid of racist, violent, murderous cops) the deal that the mayor cut with the POA will be defeated.
But back to the hearing:
Walton asked the chief how many of the Obama Justice Department's 272 recommendations for reform have been implemented. Scott said the department had finished 69.
"There are a lot of officers making good money who are working against the recommendations or not following them," Walton said. If the department has accomplished only 25 percent of the needed reforms, he said, then the department should get only 25 percent of the money it wants for overtime and new academy classes.
Scott said that the cuts the supes are talking about might lead to layoffs of officers. "If we have layoffs," Walton said, "why can't we layoff racist, murderous cops who have a history of racial profiling?"
The overall discussion went to the critical question: How may armed police officers does the city need – and how much of the work that we now assign to people who are trained as warriors should be done by people who are trained as social workers, medical professionals, and civilian administrators?
How deeply should the city defund the police?
Scott argued that cuts to the number of sworn officers would endanger public safety. In fact, he told the supes that their proposals might make their own districts less safe.
But Walton said that the data shows more police doesn't make communities more safe.
Fewer noted that the police are just one part of the overall system of public safety. She said that the question of funding police or funding other safety services was "a false choice."
The money that is taken away from the cops will go to other programs that are more likely to prevent crime, she said.
In one of the more bizarre moment in the hearing, Ronen asked the chief why it was necessary to have such vast overpolicing of demonstrations. "I see sometimes a dozen demonstrators and for more police surrounding them," she said.
The chief's response: We wouldn't need so many cops on the ground if we had helicopters.
The city, for very good reasons, has banned police helicopters since the 1960s.
Ronen pressed the chief. The School Board has voted to remove police officers from the schools. The Budget and Legislative Analyst has said that there are as many as 300 sworn officers doing work that civilians can do. The new Mental Health SF program will replace police officers with paramedics and psychologists for the 20,000 annual calls involving people facing mental-health issues on the streets.
"So we can reduce the number of officers significantly," she said.
In the past six months, Ronen said, "the whole world has erupted after the death of George Floyd. "It's not just the city but the entire world is saying that something is fundamentally broken about the way the US does policing.
"The [mayor's proposed] 2.6 percent cut in the police budget is a slap in the face" to that movement. "It's about a system that is rotten to the core, that was developed out of slavery to police Black bodies. We must rise to the moment and not give lip service to this movement."
Fewer proposed that all of the next four Police Academy classes be cancelled. "Why should we bank on the academies when we don't know how many police officers we are going to need?" she asked.
She said that the dramatic culture shift needed in the department "is not happening."
She asked why the department can't change its shift schedules to use existing resources better. The answer: That requires a "meet and confer" with the POA.
Which takes us back to the POA contract.
The mayor has signed off on a deal that give the cops nice raises with absolutely no concessions on discipline, use of force, shift rules, or any of the other factors that are essential to reforming and reframing policing in this city.
If the supes reject that contract, the mayor will have to go back to the negotiating table – and this time, maybe she'll insist on some real changes.
Chief Bill Scott
Hillary Ronen
Mandelman
Rafael Mandelman
Sandra Lee Fewer
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Specially Crafted: the Canyon Wren
in Animals, Articles
by Canyon Ministries September 15, 2021, 7:39 am 54 Views
[Originally published as God's Sweet Songster: The Canyon Wren]
Rushing water permeates the canyon air with its soothing white noise. Gently, the dark curtain of night slides aside and stars commence their gradual retreat. The first rays of the sun act like Midas, turning the highest rock turrets to brilliant gold.
I'm captivated by a sweet, cascading song of the canyon wren. One hearing and I hold my breath waiting for it to repeat its mellifluous trill. Indeed, one of its six sub-species (Catherpes mexicanus meliphonus, found only in northern Mexico) bears the name meliphonus, identifying its sound as sweet as honey.
Naturalist Ralph Hoffmann wrote that the canyon wren "pours out a cascade of sweet liquid notes like the spray of a waterfall in sunshine" (Birds of the Pacific States, Houghton Mifflin, 1927).
The song begins with notes of a staccato nature (tee-tee-tee-tee).
Then double notes (tew-tew-tew-tew) compose a slow, descending pitch.
The song ends with a few raspy sounds.
The song embodies the wildness of its home terrain and sticks with those blessed enough to hear its notes.
The canyon wren's coloring includes a dark rusty back and light rusty tail with black hatches. Its throat is white and its head crowned with gray. It measures about six inches in length and feeds on insects and spiders in the rock crevices within the canyons and boulder fields.
The canyon wren's territory ranges throughout the North American West from southern British Columbia to the southern tip of Mexico. It usually makes its nest in rock crevices or among rock piles. When intruders come its direction, it bounces around from side to side before resuming to probe for food in the rock crevices.
Its white eggs (normally four to six in number) have light reddish-brown dots. The mother sits on the eggs for twelve to eighteen days in a nest both parents have built. When the offspring have hatched, both parents participate in feeding them during the two weeks or so they remain nestlings. The male uses his song to defend its nesting territory.
God created the canyon wren with a spine joining the skull higher than most other birds. Its skull is also flattened in such a fashion it gives the canyon wren the ability to thrust its bill into tight rock crevices without bumping its head.
Its low center of gravity, the size of its feet, and sharp claws allow it wonderful maneuverability on vertical rock surfaces.
The Creator also gave it the ability to collect all the water it needs from its prey—therefore, no one has observed it drinking water.
But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; . . .
Who among all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this? Job 12:7, 9 ESV
by Dr. Bill Barrick
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A user posted a question about a common problem—in his rendering he was getting white speckled lines around the edges of walls and the ceiling.
After examining his model, we discovered he had walls made of a single face, rather than thick walls, with dimension. Single face walls can work but they often leak light through the corners where two walls meet.
If you have light leaking through, then stretch out the walls to make them thick, or add additional faces behind them.
If the geometry is rectangular and perpendicular, there is usually not a problem. But if any of it is at an angle, then light can slip through.
Here is another rendering of the model after adding faces behind the walls and above the ceiling.


This is the moment some of you have been waiting for my review of the reimagined Twilight. I'm not even going to lie, I love the Twilight books but I hated the movies. So when I heard that Stephenie Meyer was releasing a new gender swapped version of Twilight to celebrate the 10th anniversary, I was like YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
The gender swapped roles actually worked for me. I love Edythe and Beau. What I don't love is the misspelling of a character's name. It is either Edith or Edythe, please pick one and roll with it. While two of the supporting characters stayed the same, the rest were gender swapped and it was a bit confusing at first but you can figure it out.
The flow went fine until the ending. Then BOOM out of nowhere the book ends how it did with no warning. I was not expecting that. It took me almost a day to recover from this hangover. I wallowed, cried, screamed, and cried some more. I don't think an ending to a book has ever made me run the gauntlet of emotions before.
I give this story a 4/5 Platypires. The misspelling of the names and some of the character's dialogue took me out of the story. I will recommend the story to the diehard Twilight fans.


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Q: Use CASE WHEN statement with Sql I used this query
SELECT nvl(round(sum(PAP.QTY_PLAN_ANPLN) / 1000), 0) PRODUCTION
FROM PPC_ANNUAL_PLANS PAP
WHERE PAP.MAAST_ASSET_ID IN( '35390','35392')

Replace where clause with this code
PAP.MAAST_ASSET_ID in (CASE
        WHEN 'DRI' = 'RMP'
            THEN  '2242'

        WHEN 'DRI' = 'DRI'
            THEN  '35390,35392'

        WHEN 'DRI' = 'SMP'
            THEN  '2241'
   END)

Oracle throw this error

ORA-01722: invalid number

What is the solution to this problem?

A: Use OR in the where condition, like this:
where
 dri = 'DRI' AND MAAST_ASSET_ID in (200,300)
OR
 dri = 'SMP' AND MAAST_ASSET_ID in (222,333)
OR
 dri = 'RMP' AND MAAST_ASSET_ID in (555,777,888)

if you insist on using CASE expressions, then it certainly can be done in this way:
where
 1 = case
    when dri = 'DRI' AND MAAST_ASSET_ID in (200,300) THEN 1
    when dri = 'SMP' AND MAAST_ASSET_ID in (222,333) THEN 1
    when dri = 'RMP' AND MAAST_ASSET_ID in (555,777,888) THEN 1
END

but the second condition may kill your database performance for large tables ==> Oracle is able to optimize the first query, but can't do it for the second condition, and it will always use a full table scan on the table in this case.

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Corn vs. Bean Plant Growth
By Julie Christensen
How to Grow Corn in the Back Yard
Sweet Corn Planting Timetable
How to Plant Ambrosia Corn
Do Peas Grow Faster Than Corn?
How to Grow Floriani Red Flint
Both corn (Zea mays) and beans (Phaseolus) thrive in the summer vegetable garden, but the comparisons end there. Corn, like tomatoes, tastes delicious when picked fresh from the garden, but demands a lot of care. Homegrown beans taste similar to those found in the grocery store, but are more adaptable, especially for the gardener with limited space. Corn and beans even have different germination and growth patterns, which is not surprising since the two are not even distantly related.
Growing Needs
Both corn and beans grow best in warm conditions and full sun. Corn is a heavy feeder and needs frequent nitrogen applications to produce full, heavy ears. Beans, on the other hand, can fix nitrogen in the soil and rarely need additional fertilizer. Corn depletes the soil of nutrients, while beans build the soil. Many gardeners plant beans in a garden location either immediately before or immediately after planting corn there. Both beans and corn need consistent moisture. Because corn is wind pollinated, it is best planted in blocks with at least four rows. Beans are self-pollinating and don't have any special planting requirements.
Bean seeds range in size from 1/4-inch to 1 inch, depending on the variety, and come in many colors, including black, white, speckled, red or brown. These kidney-shaped seeds have a hard outer shell and remain viable for up to five years. They germinate within eight to 10 days at soil temperatures between 70 to 80 degrees F. They don't germinate well when the soil temperature is below 60 degrees F. Corn seeds are usually about 1/4-inch in size. These white or yellow kernels are sometimes dyed pink to indicate they've been treated with fungicide. Corn seeds can be saved for up to two years. The seeds germinate in four to seven days when the soil temperature is between 65 and 85 degrees F. They won't germinate in cold soils. Super-sweet hybrid varieties take longer to germinate, according to Cornell University Home Gardening website.
Both beans and corn grow quickly in ideal conditions. Bush beans grow 2 to 3 feet tall by midsummer, while pole beans can grow 5 feet or more. The old adage, "Knee-high by the 4th of July," describes corn's rate of growth. Corn plants grow more slowly than bean plants, but reach 8 to 10 feet tall by late summer.
Bean plants produce tender, young pods within 58 to 90 days, depending on the variety. Green beans mature quickly, while shell beans need a longer growing season. Snap bean plants produce approximately three to five pounds of beans per 10 feet of row, according to the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. Bush beans produce a lot of beans within a few weeks and then slow production, making them an ideal choice if you want to can or freeze beans. Pole beans produce fewer beans spread out through the growing season and are suited for fresh eating. Corn plants need 79 to 90 days to harvest and each stalk produces only one or two ears. The first ear is usually larger than the second ear, which matures later. Corn is best picked in the "milk stage." During this stage, which lasts less than a week, the kernels are plump and firm. Pricked or opened kernels exude a milky juice.
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture: Sweet Corn
Cornell University Home Gardening: Corn
University of Illinois Extension: Beans
Cornell University Home Gardening: Bush Beans
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture: Beans
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Alphabetical List of Crops with Botanical Name and Crop Code
The Garden Primer; Barbara Damrosch
Julie Christensen is a food writer, caterer, and mom-chef. She's the creator of MarmaladeMom.org, dedicated to family fun and delicious food, and released a book titled "More Than Pot Roast: Fast, Fresh Slow Cooker Recipes."
What Nutrients Does a Bean Plant Need?
How to Plant Vermont Cranberry Beans
How to Germinate Zucchini
Most Heat-Tolerant Vegetables
Sugar Daddy Pea Plants
How to Grow Corn in Planters
How to Grow Lupini
Bean Seeds Rotting
Sister Planting for Gardens
1 What Nutrients Does a Bean Plant Need?
2 How to Plant Vermont Cranberry Beans
3 How to Germinate Zucchini
4 Most Heat-Tolerant Vegetables


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A 64-year-old Orange County man was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and DUI on April 29. He posted bond and left Seminole County Jail without saying a word to members of the media who had gathered at the jail. He got into an SUV and waited for his day in court.
The accident happened in February. According to media reports, Terry Dinkins, of Winter Park, Fla., was traveling south on S.R. 436 around 2:30 a.m. About that time, Dinkins crossed the centerline at the intersection of Lake Howell. The vehicle he was driving slammed head-on into a gray Nissan that was traveling in the northbound direction. Several vehicles had swerved to avoid Dinkins prior to the collision.
The driver of the vehicle that was hit, Brandi Cole, 39, was killed instantly. The passenger, Sylvia Barajas, 32, was transported to Winter Park Hospital. She later died from her injuries.
The women were best friends and mothers and had been spending some time together away from their children. Cole was the mother of four children. Barajas left behind three children. Cole was an apartment manager, and worked hard to provide for her family, according to people who knew her. Barajas managed a Big Lots, a discount department store.
Dinkins suffered a concussion during the accident and was disoriented when law enforcement officials tried to interview him. He was not aware that he had killed two women. He was taken to Winter Park Hospital and treated for minor injuries that he suffered in the accident.
Dinkins told law enforcement officials that he had been drinking the night of the accident. A breath test was not administered on the day of the accident, but samples of blood were drawn from Dinkins at the hospital. The blood was shipped to a lab for analysis. Law enforcement officials said at the time of the accident that speed was not a factor.
After the accident, family members of the victims pleaded for charges to be brought against Dinkins and wanted to know why it was taking so long to file charges in the case. Law enforcement officials say it took time for the lab to process the blood samples.


HOW SERENA LOST WIMBLEDON BUT WON FOR ALL THE MOMS!
Serena Williams is a lesson in the varieties of strength. There is absolute strength, explosive strength, sustained strength. All of which she has, to one extent or another. And then there is the out-of-category strength it took to return to the top of her profession at 36 years old with a baby on her shoulder and scars on her belly and in her lungs from the childbirth ordeal that almost killed her.
Nothing against Angelique Kerber, who is a great champion, but Kerber was playing just one opponent in the Wimbledon final. Williams was playing against a lot of them, including time and nature. In the end, time and nature won, but didn't Williams give them a run for their money?
It was only her fourth tournament back. There hasn't even been a full change of seasons since Alexis Olympia was born in September, followed by weeks of medical complications, to which Williams was startlingly defenseless despite all of her wealth and winning. In dealing with them she demonstrated a more commonplace kind of strength, one that doesn't make her world class but rather is shared by innumerable women.
It's a brand shared in particular by black women in America, who are three to four times more likely to suffer from life-threatening childbirth complications than white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control. One speculative reason for this is something called allostasis, which is the body's response to withering lifelong stressors and challenges. Another is that "doctors aren't listening to us, just to be quite frank," Williams said in an interview with the BBC this spring.
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Australian Current Affairs
Australian public to endure eight month election campaign
Posted by Craig Hill ⋅ January 31, 2013 ⋅ 4 Comments
Filed Under Australia, Election, Julia Gillard, National Press Club, Political campaign, Politics, Tony Abbott
If day one of the election campaign is anything to go by, it's going to be a long seven months until the September poll.
As many commentators lamented yesterday, the announcement by Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday has kick-started a campaign which is likely to be driven more by personality than policy.
At least Tony Abbott found time to reiterate his views on opposition to the carbon tax, saying he would be prepared to go to a double dissolution election should he be made Prime Minister and the senate refuse to rescind the legislation.
The carbon tax remains a very real difference between the two parties.
The intense debate which occurred in the lead up to its implementation last year has been reduced to a simmer as the impact, touted by many on the Opposition side as catastrophic, has been underwhelming.
That's not to say the carbon tax should be disregarded as an issue – undoubtedly it remains a major distraction for business and individuals.
More to the core of the message about the carbon tax will be cost of living expenses.
While it was heartening to see policy on the agenda, conversation remains fixed on the political motivation for Ms Gillard to name the election date more the seven months out from polling day.
It will ward off the tedious speculation regarding the date, which is a big tick. Yet it also creates a flux in regard to legislation.
Each and every decision made between now and election date will be judged more intently on its political outcome, rather than what is best for the public.
Running the full election cycle is one promise Julia Gillard has kept. Despite an extremely challenging parliament, where the independents have incredible power, the prime minister has implemented many policies which some said couldn't be achieved.
She has also been forced to renege on promises she made to the public.
Politics is as much about popularity as it is policy, and this election will be fought by two leaders who have high disapproval ratings.
That's going to be a major turn-off for many given the length of the campaign.
Source: The Courier (Ballarat) "Public will be campaign veterans when polling day arrives"
PM's long shot on poll (smh.com.au)
Costings pressure mounts after Gillard sets election date (abc.net.au)
Abbott won't rush into costings release (news.smh.com.au)
Australian political leaders off and running (craighill.net)
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#CarlJung, Language, Leopold Stein
Language and Archetypes by L. Stein
Date: December 3, 2019Author: Mr. Purrington
Contact with Jung: Essays on the influence of his work and personality
Any attempt to assess the value of Jung's work by one who has used his ideas in his own professional life, and to a considerable extent based his professional outlook upon them, must consist in a revelation of the points at which Jung's discoveries converged upon and illuminated certain professional questions, which ultimately can, of course, be traced back to personal problems.
Any appraisal, therefore, is bound to be fundamentally a subjective one, perhaps more obviously so in the case of one who, like myself, approached psychology from a distance and, originally, in the interests of a search for knowledge in a sphere which did not seem to be purely psychological.
As a student of comparative philology, my interests centred on the phonetic and semantic laws governing the changes in language in space and time, and on an attempt to discover the reasons for these changes.
Philology can only establish correspondences between linguistic patterns and draw conclusions as to the relationship between them.
It cannot and does not mean to derive from them any universal laws.
Physiological studies of normal and abnormal cases also failed to provide a satisfactory answer.
It seemed, then, that the key to the problem must lie in psychology.
A study of academic and experimental psychology brought me no nearer to the solution.
There followed an intensive study of the writings of St. Ignatius of Loyola, based on personal experience of his Spiritual Exercises.
Their procedure consists, to some extent, in the reexperiencing and balancing of both the sufferings and joys of Christ and other contrasting :figures, such as Christ and Lucifer.
In meditation, it is stipulated, both the body and the mind must experience as vividly as possible the various emotional attitudes; inner and outer vision must come into play.
In this way I arrived at a first idea of what consciousness is.
It also brought home to me the necessity for a psychosomatic approach to the human problem, and the conviction of there being no hard-and-fast division between physical (outer) reality and psychic (inner) reality; they are two aspects of one and the same entity which we tend to experience separately.
What St. Ignatius expresses in the Christian framework, Jung made more real to me through his concept of archetypes, their dynamism, and his emphasis on the need for the integration of opposed patterns in order to produce a new whole.
I had already, as a speech therapist, come to understand the basic pattern of stammering, that is, the rhythmical reiteration of syllables, as a regression to the primeval pattern of babbling, which is the result of the integration of the two yet more primitive emotional patterns of action, viz. sucking and crying.
Jung's concept of the integration of opposites enabled me to recognize babbling-this combination of sucking, an expression of tender love, and crying, an expression of aggression -as a successful union of opposites.
If babbling is valued as a reaffirmation of this union by both patient and therapist, it leads to further development in the sense of reaching higher levels of integration (Stein, 1949).
The symbolism of the spiral enabled me to take over into the psychological field what I had learned from the writings of J. Hughlings Jackson.
The very theme of the union of love and aggression (female and male) was also the key to my real understanding of archetypes, particularly through their expression in mythological motifs.
I was especially impressed by the story of the relationship between Aphrodite and Ares, the archetypal images of love and aggression, which, significantly, led to the birth of Harmonia.
The first syllable of the girl's name is based on the root ar, 'to join', which also appears as the first syllable of the word 'articulate'.
On the basis of the symbolism of 'harmony', I constructed a space-time framework for the evolution and integration of language as a symbolic process.
The more I have studied Jung's work, the more I have come to see that the essence of his greatness lies in this concept of archetypes with their contrasting and complementary meanings.
The 'existence' or 'reality' of these entities is, be it noted .not deduced from psychological data. Rather, they are, like Newton's gravity, 'invented' and stipulated as agents responsible for the observed phenomena.
Jung himself, while claiming for analytical psychology the status of an empirical science, does not seem to appreciate the fact that the existence of his archetypes need not be proved,
since it is the inquirer himself who puts them there so that the job can be done (Stein, 1958).
Curiously enough (or not so curiously), research carried out independently by communication theorists and linguists has revealed that linguistic patterns are 'binary coded' ; that is, they
convey meaning in so far as the complementary or contrasting aspect, characteristic of the archetypes, is inherent in them.
What we are nowadays concerned with is not so much the actual linguistic form as what it is that people are trying to say and how they are trying to convey it.
This is in direct line with Jung's attitude to psychological phenomena.
A concept of my own, directly inspired by that of Jung's archetypes, and as yet by no means fully investigated, may help to explain the collective character of language ( as distinct from that of any particular national language) and hence account for language behaviour in terms of 'factors', that is, innate patterns of action or archetypes.
Verbal statements made under the guidance of archetypal images are truly operational, inasmuch as they involve activities which the recipient of the communication, notably the patient, can carry out without having been explicitly told or taught.
In the linguistic system used by the partners in true communication, certain archetypal entities are encoded and decoded.
The code contains themes into which the archetypes are metamorphosed or transformed.
One such theme known to linguists as the 'phoneme' (the minimum feature of the linguistic system by which one thing that may be said is distinguished from another which might have been said) (Gleason, 1955) is analogous to the mythologem. According to Trubetzkoy (1936) and Martinet (1949), the phonemes can be accounted for by a primary theoretical entity called the 'archephoneme'.
This can realize itself in two linguistic patterns which fulfil a complementary, contrasting function; or the two opposites can remain fused or be 'neutralized'.
Here we find a link with analytical psychology, which operates with archetypes characterized by their bipolarity.
The investigation of certain language disorders has led me to amalgamate the linguistic and the analytical concepts into one.
For the phenomenological aspect of language, or what is being said about primary existent things and how it is said, Plato, and Aristotle after him, used the term rhema (from ereo, 'I say'; it refers to actual form and structure).
The ancient Indian linguists distinguished the observable form from a kind of prototype called sphota, which literally means 'a bursting', 'a splitting open', 'that from which the
meaning bursts forth'.
It is the 'eternal sound' or 'abiding word' conveying the meaning (Brough, 1951).
As a substratum of expression or pre-linguistic event it is not observable or describable; it is a theoretical entity which I have named archerhememe (Stein, 1963)..
Thus my two loves, analytical psychology and linguistics, have joined together through the ubiquity of the archetype which, since Jung 'invented' it, has insinuated itself into divers fields. ~L. Stein, Contact with Jung, Pages 75-78
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The plan, submitted today to the California Public Utilities Commission, would include as many as 250 new charging ports at 40 elementary schools and another 120 ports at more than two dozen state park or beach sites.
By bringing EV charging to Southern California schools and recreation areas, we are addressing barriers to EV adoption and helping the state meet its climate and air quality goals. We are partnering with our local communities and organizations to help more people drive electric and breathe clean air.


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Fluid Hormones
By Anita Hardon
In The Social Lives of Medicines, my co-authors and I argued that the efficacy of pharmaceuticals is multifaceted, consisting of material as well as social/meaning efficacies. While material efficacy is located in a drug's pharmaceutical content, its meaning effects are related to culturally specific expectations of the drug's effects. The latter—acknowledged by medical researchers and practitioners as "placebo effects"—are not attributed to a drug's material content. Social efficacy, we argued, involves the relational context in which medicines are used, for example by a mother treating a child with cough syrup. The cough syrup not only suppresses the cough; it also calms the child and projects to neighbors and family members the provision of good care. In emphasizing the sociality of medicines, we sought to understand how efficacy is shaped by "common social experiences in the context of social relations" (Whyte, van der Geest and Hardon 2002: 169).
Emilia Sanabria, in her earlier work (2009) as well as in this monograph, has criticized this conceptualization of efficacy, arguing that it leaves the materiality of pharmaceuticals under-theorized. She states that her book critically engages with our approach "from the perspective of its tendency to take the object for granted, and to not attend to the absorption, dissolution, or enmeshment of the things into bodies in which they become efficacious" (Sanabria 2016: 40). Inspired by Tim Ingold's call (2012) for social scientists to study the properties of things and how they change as they move, not only through space and time but also through the body, "sustained thanks to the continual taking in of materials from its surroundings, and in turn, the discharge into them, in the processes of respiration and metabolism" (Ingold 2012: 438)—Sanabria approaches bodies as porous and plastic, in the sense that they both "receive and give form" (Sanabria 2016: 40), and shows how the properties of drugs are tinkered with by users, doctors and pharmacists, producing multiple efficacies.
Sex hormones are good things to think with. In Brazil as well as elsewhere, they are widely used and prescribed to regulate fertility. Anthropologists have shown how the properties of sex hormones are tinkered with by consumers around the world for all kinds of off-label purposes, including delaying menstruation, inducing abortion, enhancing skin and growing breasts. Consumers adjust dosages and administration forms, while situated notions of efficacy travel by word of mouth. For example, in Indonesia, Nurul Ilmi Idrus and I observed how male-to-female transgenders use contraceptive pills and injectable hormones to "feminize" their bodies using large quantities of contraceptive pills alongside hormonal injections. Each of our informants balanced side-effects (headaches, nausea and lack of libido) with desirable efficacies (Hardon and Idrus 2014). Science and technology scholar Nelly Oudshoorn (1996) has shown how these user practices have influenced reproductive research, which aims to develop a "cafeteria" of hormonal methods involving multiple routes of entering the body (through vaginas, as implants, and as injections in addition to the oral route).
Sanabria's ethnography suggests that Brazil is the epicenter of innovation in the field of hormonal drugs. Here, leading gynecologists and reproductive scientists have been at the forefront of experimentation, attentive to a wide range of user desires. Different mixes of hormones are prescribed by gynecologists and produced by so-called "manipulation pharmacists" to achieve specific kinds of sexual and reproductive selves, while pharmaceutical companies are producing contraceptives with a wide range of properties including suppressing menstruation and relief from acne. Sanabria shows how doctors emphasize the benefits of sex hormones—enabling women to stay young and sexually active—while discounting side-effects such as headaches and weight gain.
While medical anthropologists have widely studied the use of sex hormones and STS scholars have investigated their making, I have yet to come across a single monograph that combines the two, showing how the efficacies of sex hormones are continuously articulated and re-articulated through intertwined and situated processes of consumption, manufacturing, selling and prescribing. I am fortunate to have recently elaborated this approach with Emilia Sanabria in a forthcoming review, in which we call on anthropologists to examine pharmaceuticals as things that enter bodies, disintegrate and flow back into environments, while being reflexive about how we mobilize biomedical models and ecological understandings and for what ends (see Hardon and Sanabria, forthcoming 2017).
Anita Hardon is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, where she also serves as the Co-Director for the Institute for Advanced Studies. She has published widely on the anthropology of pharmaceuticals; immunization; new sexual and reproductive technologies; and AIDS therapeutics. Since 2012, she has directed "Chemical Youth," a multi-sited comparative ethnography which aims to understand what chemical and pharmaceutical substances, and not only illicit narcotics, 'do' for youths.
Hardon A., and N.I. Idrus (2014). "On Coba and Cocok: Youth-led Drug Experimentation in Eastern Indonesia." Anthropology of Medicines 21(2): 217-29.
Hardon, A., and E. Sanabria (2017). "Fluid Drugs: Revisiting the Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals." Annual Review of Anthropology.
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Washington, DC, is a city of museums. Beyond the vast assortment of divisions and galleries at the Smithsonian Institute and the many political memorials, there are also smaller museums throughout the city. For instance, if you head to Dupont Circle, you can visit the National Museum of American Jewish Military History (NMAJMH).
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We can totally get behind selfies like this: On Wednesday, Cameron Diaz posted a fresh-faced pic of herself to her Instagram feed. She looks absolutely radiant, and the reason might be what's in her arms: a copy of her about-to-be-released nutrition book, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body.
The makeup-free pics are all part of the down-to-earth actress's healthy living message, which she promotes in The Body Book: She urges women to move often, stop fearing hunger, and most importantly, love their bodies. We couldn't agree more!
MORE: Zoe Saldana: "Women Aren't Wimpy!"


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The CAQ's New Website Against Barrette's Parking Fees
Coalition Avenir Québec has launched an online campaign aiming to persuade Gaétan Barrette to put an end to the unfair and abusive parking rates at the hospitals. The party's new website: www.lesticketsdebarrette.com, was created for aggrieved citizens to run the Minister's electronic inbox with the details of their parking expense.
After receiving thousands of calls, emails and social media messages, the CAQ's health critic and member for Lévis, François Paradis, sees this measure as "giving Gaétan Barrette a taste of his own medicine", through a signed petition and the details of events on the field. The CAQ's internet campaign allows the public to email the Minister directly about the costly bills.
"Upon my speeches at the National Assembly, a great number of you called, wrote and informed about your concerns and anger, which are legitimate. It is known that parking rates in hospitals are excessive: 12 hospitals in Quebec, 9 out which are in Montreal, charge at least $15 per day. This unfounded practice affects all Quebecers, but especially the elders, the chronically-ill and individuals with reduced mobility. Instead of helping these people, who are in need for care several times every week, by providing affordable parking in proximity, the Liberal party stands idle as the hospitals exploit them. I want all Quebecers to give the Minister an account of what they have to pay. I want him to understand that his parking fees constitute a barrier to healthcare access", stated François Paradis, while inviting Quebecers to visit www.lesticketsdebarrette.com.
MNA Paradis, repeats that his political party has advanced many proposals to put an end to these abusive fees; measures such as the first two hours free, and a daily maximum rate ranging between 7 to 10 dollars (at facilities where the daily maximum rate is higher than these amounts). François Paradis also demands reduced rates for patients who attend facilities on a regular basis. "I am convinced that Quebecers will support our efforts. Health Minister Gaétan Barrette needs to realize that the patients, and their families, are not attending hospitals for fun, but out of necessity. Make him reconsider: Send your bill to Barrette!" concluded the member for Lévis.
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A judge has ordered the left-wing political party Esquerra Unida to pay €30,000 to Santiago Calatrava because of "insulting and degrading" website.
Santiago Calatrava has won a victory over Esquerra Unida, a Spanish left-wing political party, in court, as a judge has ordered the party's Valencia branch to pay €30,000.
These damages are to be paid because of a website the party created, called "Calatravatelaclava," or "Calatrava bleeds you dry." The architect was asking for €600,000 in damages.
The site went up in 2012 and was meant to target the City of Arts and Sciences, a project that went from €300 million to over €1 billion during construction, according to The Guardian. The complex includes an opera house, a concert hall, a planetarium, and science museum, and was completed in 2005.
It has had multiple structural problems since its construction; in December, the concert hall was fenced off after high winds blew parts of the mosaic off the building. Calatravatelaclava was created to point out flaws in Calatrava's projects, but focused on the Valencia complex in particular.
Other buildings designed by Calatrava have also shown structural problems; for example, the Palacio de Congresos project in Oviedo, Spain.
The judge ruled that the actual information on the Calatravatelaclava site was true and not problematic, but that the name was "insulting and degrading."
The Guardian reports: "the judge said the name suggested that Calatrava 'does not act with the necessary professionalism and honour, but rather schemes, betrays and deceives.' The €30,000 would be 'symbolic reparations for the pain caused' by the site, which he ordered to be shut down within 20 days."
The original website has been taken down; however, another site, called "Calatrava no nos calla," or "Calatrava won't silence us" was launched by Esquerra Unida on Friday, May 16. Ignacio Blanco, has said that this is legal according to the terms of the sentence, and he says that the party will appeal the decision.